Online Money Making: Blogging
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts

Sunday, April 5, 2020

Content Writing Principles

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Content Writing Principles





You are here because you are a content writer or you are excited to know what is content writing. 

When you creating content, be your self. Always try to reflect a strong personality from your writings that makes your audience eager to read your articles more. If you have strong personal opinions that are not relevant to the topic or your target audience, just keep them away. Be neutral through your content.


If you are blogging about animals and your target audience is animal lovers, but you hate cats, you are not going to write about how much you hate cats. There will be many people who love cats more than any other animal. As a content writer, what you write must make your audience feel good.
 
Keep the flow smooth. Avoid sentences that are too long which make the reader confused or not understand the point you make at all. When you proofread and you find this type of sentences, break it down and make them understandable. Short sentences are more powerful and they stand out. To make your content more natural and more rhythmic, vary the length of sentences on a paragraph. 

The same thing applies to paragraphs. Don't write too much long paragraphs or a number of short paragraphs. Vary the length of every paragraph you write. If they are too long, readers will get bored and leave.


Don't use repetitions and the same words too often in your articles. Readers get bored when reading the same thing again and again. 

Write a balanced introduction, body and conclusion for your topic. You should always use headings and sub-headings to make the article more structured and to improve the SEO. You are writing content because you have something to bring out to the world. To do that right, you have to keep the reader read the article till the end. Make the content more interesting during the flow to keep them reading until the end.

Target your content to your target audience. Decide how much information they need. If it is not necessary to provide too much technical information, then avoid that. Good content writing is not concerned with the length of an article. Frame your content only to what is necessary and relevant to your target audience.


You don't need many words to bring a message to the world. Write to the point. Pay attention to the following sentence.

Environmental pollution is somewhat bad in this area.
I think now is the time to change.
 
These are not powerful sentences. The writer must have confidence in what he/she writing. This type of words makes the reader confused and ruin the point that you are going to prove. Question every word you write. Just remove all unnecessary words. Take a look at these.

Environmental pollution is bad in this area.
Now is the time to change.
 
Can you feel how powerful those sentences to the reader and how confident the writer about the point he/she makes without those unnecessary words? That is how quality content looks like. 

Always follow these principles in your content not only to develop quality content but to bring your personality out to the world.





Friday, April 3, 2020

Blogging - Make Money with Zero Investment

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Blogging - Make Money with Zero Investment


A blog is a diary-style informational website published on the world wide web. The information on a blog is published in reverse chronological order that the latest post is displayed at the top of the website. Unlike a real website, content in a blog is usually written in an informal manner.

Nowadays there are many platforms exist for bloggers to create their blogs such as Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla, Wix, Ghost, etc. Most of the platforms are free and sometimes charges may apply in some upgrades and customizations. The best thing is that you don't need coding experience to make a blog.


I personally prefer Blogger.com because it is 100% free, customizable and easy to use. As it is a product of Google, the only thing you should have to start blogging on blogger.com is a google account. After signing up you can create a number of blogs under a single blogger account. Blogger.com provides a dashboard for managing almost every aspect of the blogs we made.

The writing style of a blog is different from the other article writing styles. A blog post is usually a short piece of text written in a casual style that makes the reader feels it directly speaks to him. Your personal opinions can be used in a blog post and it always tries to solve a problem or assist them with an issue.

To be a successful blogger you have to write about something that you know a lot or something that very passionate about. Select a topic matches you. Do some research, gather more knowledge, and improve your content writing skills. You must write the content with confidence. With quality content, you will be able to get more traffic to your blog. 



Now the time is right to start making money from your blog. 

There are many ads networks that allow you to publish ads on your blog and make money for clicks your visitors make on those ads. I'm using Google AdSense since 2008 which is the best ads network I found, so I recommend you to start with Adsense.

Another way to earn money via a blog is Affiliate Marketing that you can promote other people's products on your blog and make a commission from sales trigger from your affiliate link. 

A blog is a good place to sell your own products too. If you have an idea to sell a product via your blog, write the content relevant to the product will make it easier to make more sales. As a beginner, some knowledge about basic content marketing strategies will work well for you in selling the product.


These are some of the most popular methods available to earn money using a blog. You will find more opportunities throughout this blog with the right knowledge that you must have in order to achieve your dreams.

Get More Organic Traffic to Your Blogs

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Get More Organic Traffic to Your Blogs


Implementing SEO strategies to drive more traffic to a blog is really challenging with the growing number of blogs, websites and many other contents in today's internet. Search engines improving their algorithms of ranking websites and their contents more frequently. You will have something new to learn every day about SEO. Let's start learning basic SEO strategies we can use in a blog for increased visibility. 


A blog post is written around keywords relevant to your content. They help your blog to appear in search results when someone searches for a similar topic or content in a search engine. You can add keywords to the title of the page and one or two keywords inside the content several times throughout your post closed to the beginning of some sentences. Avoid keyword stuffing which means adding too many keywords inside a single post. Make use of long-tail keywords which are phrases with multiple words. Make them more specific with what are you talking about or selling in your post. 

Use keywords carefully. Good keywords bring you thousands of visitors and bad keywords bring only a few or perhaps none at all.

As a blogger, there are two main things should be taken into consideration. Writing quality content, and getting traffic to your blog. When someone searches for your niche in a search engine, what it displays is the title. The title you add to your post has to specific and reflects its content. Limit the length of the title to not more than seventy letters to be optimized in search engines. Also, remember to add your keyword closer to the beginning of your title.


Metadata is used to describe your site information within the coding that search engines use to index your site. Meta tags tell the search engines what to display in the search result. Meta information is not displayed on the web page. It only exists in the HTML code that needs to edit in order to optimize in search engine results. 

Working around keywords, title and metadata, all comes under Search Engine Optimization (SEO). SEO is a never-ending process of learning that has a huge area to learn. Write original content in your blog to solve a specific problem of the target audience. When the reader is satisfied, there is a good possibility to get your article shared on social media by them. Also, unique and good quality content relevant to the title and keywords used will helps the blog to get ranked on search engines.

Use HTML Heading tags effectively. Usually, the "H1" tag is reserved for the title of a blog post. Make sure link for a post contains one or two necessary keywords. In Blogger.com you can use permalink option on the right side of your post edit view to make a custom link to your post.


Use these basic SEO techniques from the beginning to increase your visibility in search engine results. 

Quality Content + Traffic = Money