1. RemarkableBlogging.com is not meant for the “techie” person.
2. RemarkableBlogging.com is not an A to Z guide on blogging.
3. RemarkableBlogging.com is not for the pro blogger although you should become one soon.

RemarkableBlogging.com is for YOU if..

you are interested in any of these topics: Get Content Ideas I Receive Free Traffic I Monetize Your Blog

you want to learn how to make a lot of new friends (fast) via your blog and by blogging

you are eager to discover new things about blogging

What you should expect to receive from this blog:

*** A ton of SMART tips, tricks and strategies on How to Find Content Ideas, Get Free Traffic & Monetize Your Blog like Nobody Else

You won’t want to miss a single post, so click here to sign-up for e-mail blog updates (100% FREE)

And make sure you remember the name – RemarkableBlogging.com

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Mondays – How to Get Content Ideas

Wednesdays – How to Receive Free Traffic

Fridays – How to Monetize Your Blog

P.P.S. Click here to read WHY RemarkableBlogging.com was born! While most of the things might surprise you, there’s something which will definitely shock you..

Today I have an alternative to that called back-linking. This is a fast & easy to implement trick.

All you need is a web site of your own. Yes, if you have a site, you can add your blog URL to it. The only requirement would be that both urls are in the same niche or sub-niche because you don’t want to have a link on a cat-related site going to a dog-related blog.

Know what I mean?

This is an often misunderstood tactic which most bloggers and site owners rarely apply to their sites.

Here’s why you’d want to add the blog url to your current site:

1. Blogs are tracked in real-time. As I publish this post, blog search engines like technorati get notified about this blog entry. This means your new entries get linked to instantly.

2. Blogs are much easier and more often updated than regular web sites. That’s not a secret anymore. You don’t have to create a new page for each and every new article you write. You simply write the post and publish it. WordPress will take care of this all by itself. Your increase in content will boost your visibility and get you more links.

3. Blogs get linked by other blogs, period. If you run a regular web site that isn’t a blog, you will have a harder time getting links from bloggers because we mostly read and follow other blogs which have up-to-date content, and rarely link to stand alone sites.

Your mission right now is to implement this tip. If you already have a back-link to your blog url on your site, congratulations!

Here is other related information and external links targeting back-linking topics:

Backlinks – What Are They?

Backlinks: Don’t Believe Most of What You Have Been Told

15 Link Building Tips for New Websites

Why that site with 50 backlinks beats your site with 1000 backlinks.

Link Building Tip: Build Backlinks to Internal Pages Too

Whatever questions, comments or suggestions you might have, feel free to post them in the “Comments” field at the bottom of this post.

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While most traffic getting strategies and tactics are dull and boring, there are a few who are quite fun to implement. And one of them is exposed in today’s tip.

Before I tell you about it, let me share with you a key aspect about getting traffic online:

*** this should not be a goal in itself. In fact, if you network with other people, and when you publish great content on your blog, the traffic floods in, all by itself.

Here’s the service which makes things easier – 43 things dot com.

you can join 43 Things and write a list of ’43 things’ you want to achieve (include your blog url in the list too).

If you did not hear about this yet, you can now learn more:

43 Things is the world’s most popular online goal setting community. It’s free and fun. All you need is to create your account at 43 things dot com.

Here are some of its cool benefits:

1. List your goals. What do you want to do with your life? 43 things helps you figure it out.
2. Record your progress. Ask questions and talk with like-minded people.
3. Cheer people on the site who inspire you (hint – they may cheer you back)

If you want to get more blog traffic, all you have to do is this:

A. create an account with your real name as the user name (this is needed for branding purpose and to expose your name out there as you have to be visible, or you’ll get little traffic and results)

B. when you create your profile, make sure you take advantage of all its options. There are fields where you can include your blog/site url – that’s how you’re going to be visible to anyone viewing your profile (it’s smart you write a short description about yourself in the “About me” option.

C. be pro active on this site on a regular basis. If you expect a flood of traffic by posting just a few times, you’re doing yourself a disservice. You better try something else.

D. create several ‘goals’ list so that you become a more visible person, thus getting you more profile views (indirectly). I think it’s ok to include mentions to pages on your blog url within your list content for as long it’s targeted to your goal(s).

The 43 things FAQ page is a good helper by the way.

I plan to pay closer attention to this service and will play with it for awhile as it looks quite interesting and I can see its potential in terms of networking with other people, making friends and getting blog traffic

Just remember – getting traffic shouldn’t be an aim in itself.

In the next post (within 7 days) I’ll send an update to show my 43 things list/profile and share my results with you, just stay tuned.

Here are some external links about cool “43 things” topics:

43 Things and Getting Your Stuff Done

43 Things To Do When You Stop Watching Television

43 Things That Run my Website Business

The 43 Things

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I have some good and bad news.

The bad thing is that I got my account suspended by 43 things. Not by the owner, but my their users.

This is an open community where what you say is important and members are watching closely.

So if you include anything about self-promotion or self-branding in your ‘goals’ lists, you have a high chance to get your account suspended.

I have learned a good lesson. Before you start using a new service, carefully read their terms & rules.

Learn what you are allowed to do, and what you do not.

Self-promotion and getting traffic it doesn’t have to be our main GOAL. Promotion, in fact, is the end result of our writing and experience sharing effort.

If you want more traffic, focus on writing more content, or delivering more value via your blog or newsletter (list).

That’s it. That’s the big secret. And Gurus seem to label it in different forms. What a shame.

Now, for today’s tip, read further to discover why providing more value than other blogs and sites is crucial to getting more traffic at no cost via blogging.

For reasons you will understand in just a second, this could be the most important TIP you will ever read about how to receive free traffic.

This is how EXTRA content makes EXTRA money and gets more traffic:

the more you GIVE, the more you GET (money & traffic).

You have to give away stuff (e.g. advice, articles, tips, tools, scripts, ebooks, videos, audios, etc.)

When you give things to others, people will feel to give you similar stuff in return (as a reward).

That’s what blogging is all about. That’s why I keep creating new content on a regular basis.

I’m not going to impress you with what I know or what I’ve discovered. I want to share with you these things
because I enjoying doing it. And whenever I recommend a product or release a program, most readers will jump on my promotion because they trust me.

WHY?

Because I give away free top-notch content, and do it regularly.

Lesson learned today:

extra content makes extra money and gets more traffic.

Give away staff, and you get paid in return accordingly. Give more stuff away, and get more traffic as a reward.

Everybody is doing this mistake – we want to 100+ visitors per day to our blogs, yet we only publish one article per week.

This is not how the Universe works. You’ll be rewarded by the quality and quantity of how much you deliver to the others. Value is everything. The more you give, the more you receive, period.

Yeah, I know, that sounds common sense, yet most people are not leaving by it.

Here are some cool links about value of blogging and content writing:

Blogging is Dead (Long Live Value Blogging) @ CopyBlogger

Value Blogging: A New Model For Success? @ ProBlogger

5 More Ideas on Value Blogging @ Optempo

How to Write Good Paid Reviews @ BloggingfortheMoney

How to Become an Authority in Your Niche @ DoshDosh

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The answer is not a strict rule. I don’t have a secret recipe that anybody could apply on any type of blog. There’s no such thing. Yet I have a good strategy which proves to be very powerful when you use it wisely.

FACT: you could publish every day and still get less traffic than folks publishing once per week.

To be honest, the frequency of blog posting is NOT a guarantee that you’ll get quality traffic.

If you want to get no-cost quality and targeted traffic you have to follow these aspects:

1. publish frequently. What I mean with this is that if you set to a bi-weekly publishing schedule, stick to it.
2. give link love. In almost all the postings which I write I make sure to include links to other blogs and postings. This ensures I provide further resources for readers to check out, plus I get the attention of other bloggers and blog readers on other people’s blogs, thus getting more back-link traffic.
3. create two niche-targeted blogs on the same domain. One in the domain root, and one in a sub-domain.

I could use this strategy as follows:

RemarkableBlogging.com as the main blog, and RemarkableBlogging.com/blog as the second blog.

This will be used mainly to attract Google and search engine traffic. Doing so you could publish even 10 posts per day and NOT annoy your regular readers and visitors.

This is wise especially if you’re providing free blog alerts (updates) by e-mail.

Nobody would like to get their inbox flooded with 10 e-mails per day from the same blog. That’s crazy.

Here’s what happens when you publish 10 posts (less or more) on the sub-domain blog.

You’ll be able to attract traffic quickly & easily from Google and other search engines, not to mention the big RSS and blog directories like Technorati, and dozen others.

It’s a known fact that each and every time you publish a new post, you get indexed in Google and each post could give you one, two more more loyal readers.

Do the math. 10 readers per day, that’s 300 per month. In a year you could have 3650 readers.

The problem of most bloggers is that you probably don’t have enough time for writing 10 postings, right?

Who tells you’d have to do this all by yourself?

You could hire others (outsource) to come up with new content on a regular basis, or get guest authors to publish red-hot content frequently. I love the second strategy because it’s no-cost and might work even better than the “outsourcing” thing.

Here’s why:

1. you’d have different type of authors with various writing styles and unique content ideas
2. you’d be able to grow your blog fast and keep readers happy

Here are some good posts targeting “posting frequency”:

Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore @ MPDailyFix

Does Blog Post Frequency Matter @ ProBlogger

Blog Post Frequency and SEO @ GettingMoreVisitors

Blog Posting Frequency: How Often Should You Post? @ AndrewPavelski

Blog Post Frequency @ Michael Talk

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If you’ve tried everything and seems nothing works, here is what you need to do.

Try pinging. If you’re thinking that’s old, think again. You’re probably not doing this the right way.

If you don’t know by now, pinging means when you notify blog & RSS directories each and every time you post a new blog article. This is done automatically by WordPress.

But are you taking full advantage of pinging?

Do you know there are more blog/RSS directories than you’re probably using now as we speak?

Do you know there is a right and a wrong way to do all this? (Hint – you have to avoid excessive pinging, or your blog could get banned from these services – so try this no-cost plugin!)

Do you know that each and every time you’re publishing a new blog post, it attracts these spiders and notify Google and Technorati (plus other sites) to visit your BLOG?

That means each and every time you publish new stuff on your blog, you have yet another chance to get more traffic.

The more often you publish, the higher your traffic.

The right way to ping is to use blog/RSS directories which are actually working, as 80% of them are dead already.

Here’s a list with the ones I’m currently using. Just cut & paste them in your WordPress Writing – SETTINGS.

You click on the “Writing” option and scroll till the bottom of that page – update your list with these links:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

Afterwards click on “SAVE Changes” and you’re almost done.

You’d want to update the list with new links and remove those who are not working from time to time.

The links above are the ones which I’m currently using. I had up to 60 blog/rss ping links, but removed most of them as they were not working (I know how to do that because I’m using this ping optimizer plugin)

If you want to take full advantage of pinging and get even more traffic you’d have to use WP to the maximum.

And the smartest way to do it is by enrolling in the WordPress Profit Maximizer CLUB!

Here are some external links related to “pinging” – check them out now:

Understanding Blog and Ping

How to Add the Best RSS Sites to Your WP Blog Ping List @ BlogTactics

How to Ping Your Blog @ eBiznet2u

One Click Multiple Blog Services Pinging Tools

Are You Pinging Your Blog Posts?

List of Ping Services

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Let’s see what others are thinking about Technorati. Could it be better than Google?

Let’s take the blogosphere pulse and find out, shall we?

First of all, let me share with you what Technorati is. The Google’s alternative for blogs (in a nutshell).

If you want to read wikipedia’s definition : “Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.[1] The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati or intellectuals.”

When you read Technorati’s “about” page you’ll quickly notice two major advantages:

1. you could get your blog indexed FAST in their huge database

2. you could receive a ton of free exposure just by being there and receiving links from other blogs

If you go even further you could talk with other bloggers listed on Technorati, make new friends, grow your readership and have fun.

Isn’t this enough, or what?

Not for me. So let’s find out even more.

Could Technorati help you get more traffic to your blog.

Could it be the hottest traffic strategy out there?

TechCrunch.com guys think that Google might ‘ban’ Technorati tags..

“But what really matters here is what Google thinks, and whether they will take steps sometime soon to remove those results from the Google index. If that were to happen, Technorati’s traffic would plummet. And their lucrative traffic party would come to an end.”

Read the full story here – Technorati When will the Traffic Party End @ TechCrunch

T. L. Pakii Pierce admits..

“This is yet another way to drive relevancy into the blogosphere and it’s fantastic and filter it.”

Find more here – Technorati TAG! Your It! Information Clustering Among Social Networks @ BlogforFunandProfit

Dan @ TheWrongAdvices.com is negative about it..

“If your blog happens to be about Britney Spears or American Idol then you might be able to develop some consistant traffic but for most of us it looks like Technorati is a dead end.”

Read more about this now – 3 Steps To Getting Technorati Traffic – If You Want It @ TheWrongAdvices

Tinu @ FreeTrafficTip.com even wrote a free book about it and here’s a cool tip..

“12- Link out to the littler. If you have one link in technorati, link to people who have none. They love and need you more than someone who is ranked in the top one hundred, and they’re likely to link back.”

Read other quick tips here – Today Three Technorati Traffic Twist Tips @ FreeTrafficTip

I guess that Om Malik @ GigaOm.com got tired of it?

“So this is where I lose the plot – I tag my post, Technorati benefits, and despite all that, my tags help spammers who clog my RSS readers gain more readers. That’s absolutely rotten!”

Find the truth here – The Dark Side of Technorati Tags @ Gigaom

UPDATE – would you like to receive no-cost Technorati updates via twitter? Click here!

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I got inspired by 5 Ways to Imitate the 10 Most Popular Blogs so let’s start:

The top 10 blogs on technorati are probably receiving a ton of traffic otherwise they would not be at the top.

What makes them so popular… Why people link to these blogs very often…

Is there a secret recipe? Can anybody copy their model?

Let’s see…

Secret #1 - It’s in the Publishing FREQUENCY

Top 10 blogs get more traffic because they’re publishing more often.

Each and every time you publish a new post, Google and other RSS/Blog directories are notified thus sending
spiders to crawl your blog.

You also receive traffic from your (already build) RSS or list subscriber database.

Plus, not to forget about SEO traffic. Within hours after publishing new postings you could score high in Google and other SEs for long-tail key terms, thus bringing you (even more) traffic on autopilot. At no cost at all!

Just imagine that some blogs do quite a few postings per day, NOT per week! For example, caradvice.com bloggers do about 10 per day.

Secret #2 – It’s in the CONTENT

Most bloggers think that to make a blog successful would mean to publish content whenever and about whatever.

That’s totally false. You have to learn A to Z about your target audience.

Who’s your “ideal” prospect? Did you create his profile already?

Once you know who’s your prospect, you’ll be able to TALK specifically to his most pressing problems, needs and wants.

If you don’t know or don’t do this, there’s no wonder why making money online will see impossible.

I teach about creating your “ideal” prospect profile and your target audience 5 key elements in my blogging mentoring program, “Guaranteed Blog Profits”.

Sidebar – that’s why I did not publish anything on RB blog lately. I’ve been busy coaching my students on their way to make $300… $3,000… and even $30,000 per month with their blogs; and hope to coach you too asap.

Secret #3 – It’s in the BUZZ

Want more traffic? Then you have to talk about what’s hot in your niche. What is the trend, what’s the buzz?

Relate that to your niche topic subjects and you’re on the right track to getting more traffic.

You probably won’t make it in the TOP 10 blogs on technorati, but you’d definitely boost your traffic like never before.

UPDATE – because my schedule is tight and I’m (almost) booked coaching students in the 60-day INTENSIVE mentoring “Guaranteed Blog Profits”, I’ll stop publishing new content in the Monetize Your Blog section for awhile.

The thing is that my mentoring already contains everything you need to know to make real money with your blog, so it’s smart we focus on that.

I’ll continue the regular publishing for Get Content Ideas and Receive Free Traffic sections though. Plus, I’ll be doing some red-hot interviews with remarkable bloggers asap (so you learn from one of the best in the field and have fun) and crank some top priceless posts too.

Have something to say about today’s tip? Share your feedback with us all

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WHY?

Because I lose money when I teach this as it takes away most of my time.

The only way for you to get to learn it is if you join Lazy Blogging dot Com and wait for the mentoring program release.

Here’s what I’m talking about.

I firstly learned this from Alex Mandossian. The strategy is simple and it’s called – repurposing content.

Let me further explain:

I wrote this BLOG post which you’re reading now. The feed directories and search engines will bring me just a few targeted visitors. This is a limited strategy in itself. While the traffic from Google lasts longer and is viral, I hate to just receive a few new visits per day.

That’s why I take this further.

I take this very same post which you’re reading now, and turn it into a stand alone article.

I’d have to just tweak it a little.

For e.g. I could change its title, and the first paragraph, or some key phrases, here and there, etc. You get the point. The thing is that I’ll create a “new” article to avoid search engine duplication.

Moreover, I make sure to send this article to EzineArticles.com for more blog traffic increase.

I don’t stop here. I take one step further.

I turn the article into an mp3 call and send it to free podcasting directories and audio content sites.

I could even take that text, expand just a bit and turn it into a stand alone 2-3 page PDF report.

Or, I could turn the blog post into VIDEO tutorial format and broadcast it on YouTube and dozen other video content directories.

Sky’s the limit. I’d do anything of this, and more. Just for the sake of blog traffic increase.

That’s the Blog Traffic Increase Formula I Do Not Recommend To My Competitors.

Hope you know see how important and EASY it really is to gather maximum traffic by writing just one blog post.

You can change the text in itself, or repurpose the content format.

This is just one aspect of the overall formula I’m using in my business. Maybe in upcoming posts I’ll reveal more about this.

If you’re already using this strategy or want to start doing it right away, let me know.

I’m interested to hear your feedback.

I want to change that with this article, so hope you’re going to enjoy it as much as I did writing it…

I’d love you refer it to ALL your friends, talk about it on your blog and comment on it.

1. Write longer posts – one of the best blog post secrets

World-wide known fact: bloggers writing shorter post have little to no chances to get their content linked by other bloggers. WHY? Because when you write lengthier posts, you increase your chances to get more traffic via other blogs.

Most folks prefer longer versus shorter posts, so give them what they want.

2. Attach your blog URL in your e-mail SIG file

You’re probably using e-mails on a daily basis, so why not take advantage of it?

It’s SMART you ALWAYS include a short, descriptive and enticing signature file at the end of all your messages – says something controversial about your blog, or tell folks NOT to click your url.

You’ll notice (by experimenting) this little “trick” is a great way to boost your clicks and get more traffic to your blog.

3. Use the story-telling technique & connect “FAST”

Each and every time you’re using a (real) story about you and your experience related to a product, service or problem, you’ve “instantly” connected with your target audience like nobody else.

Tell more stories and you’ll build yourself a large database of raving fans, not only readers.

WHY? Because people love stories; we’re conditioned to leave our “buying resistance” down. I’d pick telling a cool story over delivering hype each and every time when writing a new blog post.

4. Forget copy-paste content, create VALUE

Gurus teach us how to trick Google, or fool readers by repeating what everybody else said. Forget about that! Our aim is to serve our blog readers and clients with real VALUE-ADDED content (tips, tricks & information that really helps, not only gives the facts).

Content is KING; VALUE is the king of the kings. Or, should I say “the QUEEN?

5. Be laser beam FOCUSED

Always target your message to your target audience, or you’ll fail blogging even before starting. I can’t emphasize this enough.

Who’s your “ideal” prospect (e.g. blog visitor, reader and client)?

How is he/she looking like? Where does he/she live? What he/she does for a living?

Did you (really) think about this? Did you create your “ideal” prospect PROFILE?

For example, my “ideal” prospect profile (for this blog) is mainly formed with these characteristics:

Adults (both female and male) located in the US (Canada and UK) who want to blog like nobody else and make a living online via blogging. They work from home, and blogging is their passion.

WHY THIS IS CRUCIAL (not an option!):

Once you know the basics about your target audience and stick with your “ideal” prospect profile, you’ll be able to keep your content and blog posts targeted to their needs, wants, problems and frustrations.

6. Sell an EXTRA Freebie

I call this an ethical bribe. You don’t really “sell” it. You rather sell the concept. Why people should join your blog list, just for the sake of getting “free updates”?

It’s not enough anymore. Everybody is offering that.

Figure it out what your “idea” prospect really wants and needs (visit forums, run surveys and ask your readers directly)

Package YOUR solution as a freebie and offer it as an added incentive when folks join your list. I do this with most, if not ALL my blogs. It boosts traffic and conversion ratio like nothing else.

The PDF you see on the right side (did you notice the cover at the top?) is a freebie. Here’s how InvesBlog is doing it.

Here are some cool icons & buttons “freebies”.

7. Put the VIRAL spin on your Freebies

Let other people give away your incentive. Whether it’s a PDF, video tutorial, MP3 call, eCourse, software tool, whatever, make sure you include a link, or mention your name, and blog url.

This brings more traffic to your blog and exposure for your business. It’s long-term and has viral effect – that means you can’t stop getting traffic even if you’d want to.

There’s only one requirement – specify directly this “YOU HAVE FREE GIVEAWAY RIGHTS, SEND THIS GIFT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS…”, or something like this. When you do so, folks will be more inclined to refer your freebie to others.

8. Turn yourself into a professional GUEST blogger

Did you ever think to write for other TOP famous blogs and tap in into their already-established database of “huge and growing” traffic & readers?

Guest blogging? It’s not that hard. Anybody could do it.

While it takes time, it’s well worth it and fun.

It takes some practice and you’ll get better at it with each new (guest) post.

Obviously the content you create needs to be original, not some re-cycled stuff or “duplicate” content that you just cut & paste from your blog. That’s the rule.

9. Use FORUMS while others struggle with non-effective promotions

A proven strategy since the earliest days of the Internet is to be as helpful and proactive in niche-targeted forums. People will notice that you are offering yourself up to others, and will be more determined to see what else you have to offer.

When you craft yourself a cool SIG file (see TIP #2) and attach it to your posts, you’ll start getting (a lot more) TARGETED clicks & traffic to your blog.

Just one forum post could bring you a “lifetime” customer and raving fan. Keep this in mind!

First make sure you learn the basics of forum marketing, and its ins and outs.

10. NETWORK with other like-minded people

This is perhaps the most often overlooked strategy for getting traffic and readers.

Stop pestering other bloggers for links, it rarely works anymore. Find a way to help them with something; give first, and ask after.

Just think about this – there are real people behind all these blogs, not robots – and they respond to good will just like people do offline.

A short e-mail thanking someone for their article, or a 3-line useful comment on someone’s blog will do wonders. That’s the first step of starting a relationship.

You can do it with almost any blogger out there, especially with the new (stars).

A (real) strong relationship with just one blogger could make you one day famous, wealthy, or both.

You never know it.

11. Write as often as you can

Yeah, the frequency of your writing determines the traffic you get, the connections you make, the links you refer to in your posts, and the overall blog success.

This is common sense, right? Then why not all the bloggers are doing it?

Hint – it’s because of lack of focus, laziness, or both. You decide if this is something worth stopping you.

Now, when I say “Write as often as you can” it doesn’t necessarily mean you should write at random. You have to stick with a schedule and usually the TOP blogs publish daily (often several times per day).

This is not a rule, but you could probably get yourself a TEAM of writers and build a nice network of blogs that publish daily, or on a “strict” schedule and receive more traffic and exposure than they could handle.

12. Spice up “your” writing style

Sometimes your readers will get bored over the “same” voice, or writing style. Even you could face this, and you don’t even know it.

Well, you have your own style, so probably there’s not much you could do about it.

Modeling other bloggers’ writing styles is an interesting concept, but that would not work as fast or as good as you’d want to.

What about you bring in a few “guest” writers to add some nice flavor to your blog?

Part 2 will be published next week, stay tuned!