Posted by admin on Jan 28, 2009 in
Content,
development Well now that we have taken all the steps to where we need to be I am going to start talking about various topics that are important to developing your blogs once they get off the ground. We need to keep up with our blogs so that they don’t die off and our efforst can reap some rewards. So today I’m going to talk about how to oursource your writing so you can focus on other things.
Outsourcing Saves a TON of Time
Outsourcing is the act of paying someone else to do work for you. It’s a simple concept and it saves you a lot of time but it does cost you money. However, if you find a quality person to do your writing or other activities then you will get plenty of quality for your money. In the long run it is always well worth it to spend a few extra dollars for your content because if you buy low quality content you will ust have to spend your time going through and editing it and fixing any errors it may contain. That is really annoying since you basically paid someone for a rough draft of an article. I’m a person that never likes to waste any time so for me I always try to spend a little more if it means not having to edit the article later.
Now that we know what outsourcing essentially means we can find places to get the people to write our articles. There are many places you can go to oursource your writing but one of my favorite places to find writers is the WarriorForum because there are many skilled and experienced writers there that can really help you out. They may cost a little bit more but they are so much better then other writers I have hired. It’s pretty easy to find people there that are available to write content for you. If you scroll down and go to the Warriors For Hire section you can see many offers for content creation. After taking a quick look at the current offers I’d say the average price per article is around $5 but some threads have articles at $3 per and as high as $10 per article. I think that’s a pretty good representation of what you will find there. My suggestion is find one person who you feel will do the best for you, purchase a few articles to see what quality you get and if you like it stick with this person long term. It’s always best to get long term agreements because it builds a relationship and often saves you money.
You don’t have to outsource your article writing but if you are feeling like you are getting too busy to write for your blogs then I suggest you do it. Also, if you start developing multiple blogs at once it becomes quite tiresome to write posts for each one and it is often easier to just outsource it while you work on other things. Whether you outsource or not is up to your but I tell you it will help you out and probably will make you more productive! That’s all for today so I’ll see you guys tomorrow.
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Posted by admin on Jan 26, 2009 in
Content Over the past few days we have discussed various ways to promote your website. Today however we are just going to discuss something that I have discovered that cna be really helpful. Recently I have discovered that using the forums that I have been posting on actually allow me to come up with new article ideas. I just want to share with you this information.
Using Forums to Get Article Ideas
The vast amount of knowledge that is on most forums is pretty impressive. Every minute new information is being posted for everyone to see and sometimes this can lead to new ideas for your own websites. Lately I have been seeing that using these ideas I can actually create articles for either my site or to submit to article directories. Some days I just can’t think of what to talk about but when I go to forums I can see what people are discussing. If there is a certain need that I am able to solve then that is one thing I can write about. If there are questions about a topic then that is another thing that I can target. It’s all about answering people’s needs.
Most of the time if a forum full of dedicated followers in a niche will have similar problems or questions. If some have questions then more then likely others will also have questions. That is perfect because we can answer these questions by using our blogs. One thing that I’ve heard stressed a lot is that you should always be trying to solve people’s needs. So if you know of a need make sure you capitalize on that and answer it! It really is the perfect opportunity to use your knowledge to help other people out.
The next time you see someone on a forum ask a question then just jot it down on Notepad for later use. That’s how I do it so that whenever I’m short of ideas I cna just open up my list and pick one to talk about for that particular day. It’s a great method if you are having trouble with ideas and it could be very beneficial to your blog. See you guys tomorrow.
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Posted by admin on Jan 17, 2009 in
Content,
development Hey guys, I’m back today to explain why we need to make sure that we keep updating our blog. We’ve learned how to update our blog and how to write the articles to put onto our blog and now I today I want to discuss why it is important to keep our blogs updated.
Google Loves Fresh Content
The basis of today is the fact that Google absoultely loves fresh content. The whole basis of a blog is the fact that your are constantly updating your site with new information and articles and this attracts those spiders like crazy. It’s critical that you get spidered by Google, and other search engines, because without them then you won’t get indexed and thus won’t see results from all your hard work. At this point our number one goal is to get indexed on the major search engines, that is Google and Yahoo. If you don’t ever get inndexed then you won’t get any traffic, or at least not as much as you can if you get in the search engine results which is our primary objective.
Since I posted my post on how to write articles two days ago I think that you should have posted at least 1 article onto your blog by now. At this point I want to instill a writing discipline that I have been trying to put onto myself and that is to make a post every day for your blog for the first 30 days. The results I’ve seen from this have been spectacular and I think it is the best way to get indexed fast and stay indexed. You don’t have to necessarily write a new post for your blog every single day for like a whole year, but for the first 30 days I would highly recommend it and then after that you can sort of back off a little bit. There’s an old saying, “Content is KING!” and that is certainly the best statement that sums this all up so go write some more articles!
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Posted by admin on Jan 16, 2009 in
Content,
development By now you should have at least 1 or 2 articles ready from yesterday, and if not then that’s okay just make sure that you do work on one to get up onto the blog. Since blogs are all about updating today we will talk about the simple process to get your articles onto your blogs. Before that though you must have an article ready, so if you do let’s get started, if not go write one! 
How to Update Your Blog
Updating your blog is really easy! There’s no messing with code or figuring things out, it’s simply copy and paste and enter some details and you’re ready to go! So first things first.
1. Open up your article in Notepad, or whatever you wrote it in.
2. Login to your blog dashboard.
3. Under Posts click on Add New.
4. At the top enter the title for your article, I usually like to put my keyword that I am targetting into the title because I feel it helps with on-page SEO.
5. Then go to your article and copy the whole thing then paste it into the body on the page.
6. Now for some minor details, enter a category for the article and a few keywords to associate with the article.
7. If you have the All-in-One-SEO Pack, which you really should, then scroll to the bottom and enter a title, description, and keywords to add more SEO benefits to your page.
8. (Optional) If you don’t want the post to be shown immidiately then go under Publish on the right hand side and click Edit and enter the time when you wish the article to be posted. This is especially helpful when you have several articles ready to go in advance.
That’s all there is to it! It is really simple and I think anyone that has come this far should easily be able to get their articles onto their blog to get it filled with some content. Content is king afterall so make sure you get a post or two up and then come back tomorrow for more information.
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Posted by admin on Jan 15, 2009 in
Content,
development Well today we get to the meat of our blogs that we have worked so hard over the past week and a half or so. We have put in lots of work setting everything up so that now we can just focus on one thing, and that one thing is writing the content for the site. Once we get the content on the site it will look like a real blog and people will actually want to visit it! So let’s check out how I go about writing my blog posts, and for this situation you can do this your own way, I just like doing it my way.
How I Write My Articles
First off for every article I choose which keyword I’m going to focus on and this will lead me to a topic to write about. After all that keyword research we did you should definitely have at least a few ideas for stuff to write about. Then I open up Notepad and start writing. I usually like to start with an introduction to just overview what I am going to be talking about and set up what the post is going to be about, you don’t have to do this but I like to just give a little step before I dive right into the discussion. Depending on the type of article I’m writing I will have around 2-3 paragraphs for just a normal article and if I really start writing like crazy then i may end up with 4-5 paragraphs but that’s only if I really get into the topic. Then I usually will type up a conclusion paragraph to just finish off my ideas and end on a high note. That is how I usually go about writing my articles.
You may however have a different approach and that is completely cool. Also one more thing is that if I don’t really know that much about my topic I will just pop the keyword phrase into Google and look for a good article onthe topic and do a little research. You don’t want to talk about stuff you don’t know so the more you can find out about the topic the better you will sound as an “authority” on your topic. If your readers trust you then you are much better off so don’t try and fake it because people will see right through most of the time.
Writing content is really not that hard but it does take time, so make sure to give yourself proper amount of time to devote to writing your articles. Once you practice you will get better and faster at writing these, like most of the other topics we have discussed it just takes time to get better. Maybe you’ll be a pro right away but I doubt that. Once you’re a pro then you’ll be making articles at about 1 per 15 or so minutes. So go and get starte on your content and I’ll be back tomorrow!
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