Hands down, search traffic is the best traffic source anyone can use to build a profitable blog that makes money. But there’s one issue with getting more traffic from search engines: it usually takes a lot of time (especially if you’ve a new website). Here’s where long tail SEO comes into play. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve a new blog or an authority site, you can use long tail keywords to generate more organic traffic to your sites really fast. Do you know why? Long tail keywords have low competition and easier to rank for. In this post, we’ll talk about how to find long tail keywords and ..read more

Bloggers are trained to create optimized content that will rank them on Google organic search. In particular, they need to rank on any of the top three positions for their target keyword. The most recent study at AWR Cloud reveals that the click-through rates for the first three positions in search engine result pages are 29.3%, 14.39%, and 9.79%. If your site ranks on any of the three positions for your keyword, then attracting visitors to your blog from SERPs shouldn't be much of a problem! The question now is this: If you're not in the top three, does it mean that there's no hope for your b ..read more

Many social media marketers are generally confused about what the term “Engagement rate” means. Engagement rate refers to the number of people engaging with your content on social media measured against the number of people who could be engaging with your content. Since most businesses such as yours typically market on different social networks, the engagement rates on different social networks may vary. For example, your Facebook and LinkedIn engagement rates may be polar opposites, but your engagement rate on social media on the whole may be low. However, irrespective of the social media pla ..read more

Do you know there is a common criticism of blogging tips coaches? People complain they all recommend the same strategies. Often, I have heard, “They never have anything new to say.”  A reader of mine predicted that if I offered unique blogging tips, my blog would stand out and my readership would grow. This list will offer you blogging tips that deviate from the same old rhetoric. Although they may vary from the mainstream, these 10 blogging tips are just as effective if not more. Tip 1: Use a spreadsheet to blog. You might wonder why this is needed. Bloggers use a spreadsheet for a ..read more

The one thing all bloggers desire most is an engaged audience who will give them a positive outcome and feedback for their business. The way you extract that reaction is by blogging, right? Not necessarily. In order to call yourself a ‘blogger’ you have to have content that is constantly appearing and fresh. While doing so is crucial on your website each and every week, this also has to happen on the websites of other related blogging sites. However, a lot of business websites that are producing content simply don’t have the time to create honest material that appears elsewhere. Sometimes ther ..read more

When newbies such as yourself decide to build their blog, you must exercise due diligence by researching for the best blogging platforms to use. After deliberation, it won't come to a surprise if you lean toward using WordPress. The sheer fact that Basic Blog Tips also runs on WordPress is an indication of how good of a platform WordPress is! Not to mention, there are 76 million websites running on WordPress. Therefore, the platform must be the best choice to build your blog on! However, it's possible that you're not comfortable using WordPress. Even after testing the platform countl ..read more

Web hosting users usually belong to two distinct categories. Those who are worried about possible hacker attacks and are continuously looking to improve their website security level, and those who do not care about it, until they get hacked. Beyond all the advice, choosing a professional and reliable hosting provider always remains the main rule to follow. Regardless of the category you fall into, you should take a look at the following tips to protect your website against hackers. 1. Password Selection Many web hosting providers allow the user to autonomously choose the passwords for mul ..read more

There are a few bloggers like Neil Patel, Pat Flynn, Darren Rowse who get a ton of traffic and links to their blog posts whenever they publish. And there are majority of others who struggle a lot to bring even a hundred visitors to read their content. Have you ever wondered why? The reason is: their content promotion tactics. People who get a ton of traffic implement the right content promotion strategies. Without a doubt, creating content that naturally attracts links is always the key to get more traffic and sales. So how do you create link-worthy content in 2018 and beyond? In this detailed ..read more

I have produced a lot of content over the years. While I do my best to make most of it as much as I can, that isn't always possible. Sometimes a topic has a specific shelf life, sometimes it is more timely and other times it just outgrows its usefulness as things in the industry change. Given how long I have been working in this field, there is quite a lot of old content that is now more or less useless. Every content creator knows the frustration of this element of creative tasks. No matter what you do, some things just aren't going to be helpful to readers years down the line. Thankfully, co ..read more

Do you want to capture more leads from your blog? When running a blog, one of your goals should be to convert as much traffic as you can into leads. Capturing more leads will help increase revenue as you will have an audience to promote your courses, services and products to. You can also take advantage of leads and increase traffic as you can share your latest blog posts. This will especially increase repeat traffic which only makes up 20% of daily visits (80% are new). When people visit your blog again, it begins the nurturing process and they begin to trust you. Hence, they will be more lik ..read more