Every opinionated blogger looks forward to the day when they can launch their new blog. But starting from scratch to build it may be discouraging. At the beginning, the only reader you are likely to have is yourself.
Here are 10 easy tips for increasing your blog’s traffic:
1. Create Some Good Pillar Content

An important first step [...]

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Creating opt-in areas on a website sucks. It’s one of the few areas of blogging I actually loathe.
I don’t know about you, but I know it can be more than a task creating an opt-in box. Even with all the tools that come with Aweber and other email/autoresponder services, the forms never quite coming out [...]

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My assistant Jess is amazing. She’s hard-working, sharp as a tack, and not afraid to tell me when I’m being a complete douchebag. She tells me when I’m doing things I shouldn’t be wasting my time with, such as book keeping. Or spreadsheets. Or anything requiring a long attention span.
Folks, I’m horrible at a lot [...]

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About two weeks ago I blew out my knee playing soccer (futbol) and am waiting to get ACL reconstruction surgery. It’s amazing how much a knee injury affects your daily routine. When walking to the bathroom takes three times as long as it normally would, your daily routine changes (to say the least).
Thank goodness I’m [...]

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Seems like ever since Tim Ferris wrote “The 4 Hour Work Week”, virtual assistant operations have been opening by the second. It’s no secret that the world is getting smaller, and outsourcing seems to go hand-in-hand with globalization. But for just about everybody, this is uncharted territory.
So far, there haven’t been a ton of rules [...]

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In the world of blogging, the breakdown is very basic. There are experts and there are reporters. The two roles are not mutually exclusive since some people do perform them both. In the cases where this occurs, an expert reports rather than a reporter taking on the role of expert.
Guest post by Yaro Starak
This article [...]

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