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5 Researched Reason Why Some Bloggers Refused to Guest Post

The questions most of the time is; should we just be a part of a building team, write for pity or what we’ve always wanted is to get backlink that’ll increase our page rank? I believe these are some of the questions most bloggers battled with in their minds, which eventually which eventually keep some of them away from guest posting.

On several occasions, I have reads blogs that wrote on how to increase one’s blog visibility with guest posting, but with all this campaign and emphasis, some bloggers still never find their strength in guest posting on other blogs.

In case you never noticed, I did and for a while I’ve been researching on some reasons while you as a person refuse to guest post. Be it top level blog or average blogs.

Now let’s answer these following questions in our minds.
 Are you contented with your daily page views?
 Do you think you’ve built enough relationship with other bloggers?
 Is your blog exposed to the level you want?
 Have you gotten the page rank you desire?

Each and every one of these questions is turned to have one or two effects on your blogging strategy. I believe no blogger is never okay with his/her daily page views because we all want millions of daily visitors on our blog.

So also when we talk about page rank; we all want to have PR 9 like Facebook and Google right? And some newbies aspire to be like Darren Rowse, the CEO of problogger.net.

Therefore, if we all aspire and desire all these, then why have we all chose the part of not guest posting? The following reasons why some bloggers refuse to guest post was actually fetch out from interviews, and discussion I had with both new bloggers and few bloggers that already gotten their legs thatched in blogging industry.

The belief of having fewer articles on their blogs

Actually, I busted into laughter when I interacted with the first blogger. He told me that he only had few article published on his blog then why should he started writing for others. Hmm! That was how I exclaim when he finished talking.

Then I realize that this is actually the key reason why some bloggers are still not guest posting. They believe with the few articles they have in their archive, they’ll be publishing it one after the other and this can reduce their times of sitting down and writing every time.

More grease to the elbow of a young man, Adetechblog. He had few post on his blog, and he never consider this first point as a way to pull him off from guest posting, because he knows the efficacy of guest posting. My advice for you is to start guest posting on top blogs today if you’ve not started. Because there is more to it than what you see.

Fear of Rejection

I do tell people that “you cannot know what you can do, unless you try them”. Trying and self-belief is one of the key to success in life. You don’t have to take up fear, all because you want to guest post. Though some bloggers, especially the newbies are willing to be a guest blogger, but they are scared because they might be rejected by the top bloggers, all because they are not sure of their competency when it comes to writing. You need to keep trying until you get there, and don’t forget that practice makes perfection. Therefore keep on writing.

Time Schedule

I met with some bloggers and they said most times they find it difficult to update their blog because of time factor, therefore I can’t just guest post. I believe with good planning strategy, things can be done effectively where by your work will not be affected by your blogging.

Then if we are to follow this point, then everybody should be busy. But we still have some people that create time, out of no time to do what they love. I personally have passion for writing and blogging; therefore I have my personal time table which I follow every day. I think you should implement that too.

Ignorance

I need to tell you that some people are totally ignorant of guest posting and also the benefit attached to it. Most especially those bloggers that are not in blogging niche.

I think people needs to be told about the benefits of guest posting, because we have loads of benefits and advantages that you stand to gain from guest posting. Especially when you guest post on top blogs in your niche and which have high page rank.

Some of the benefits of guest posting are:
Increase in daily traffic
Blog exposure
You’ll have more subscribers
Your backlink will increase
Then you’ll build a good relationship with top bloggers.

Lack of Direction

This point is also very vital in that most bloggers lack the direction on how to go about guest posting. I’m sure most blogs that does guest post have a page on their blog that gives the guideline on how you can go about guest posting.

Therefore, when you’ve gotten a top blog you’ll like to guest post for, read their likes and dislikes before you proceed in submitting your article to such blog. I believe I’m in line with the reasons why you decided not to guest post? Therefore, take it as a must today and start guest posting.

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How to Submit and Verify Your Blog With Bing webmaster Tool

For you to extend your tentacles and get your products heard across a wider range then you need to work more smartly and harder. The last article I posted here, I promised to bring to your door the very steps on how you can submit your blog to Bing. From research, on November 21, 2011 to be precise, yahoo search engine merges with Bing which was popular called Hotmail Search Engine.

Check: How to Submit and Verify Your Blog On Google webmaster Tool

Bing later developed a webmaster tool like that of Google webmaster tool and once you submit you blog to Bing webmaster, then you’ve taken another greater step to getting your blog’s visibility cleared.

I need to let you know that many bloggers especially the newbies aren’t aware of this Bing webmaster. Therefore it’s a privilege for you to have come to this blog this very day.

Check: How to Submit and Verify Your Blog On Alexa

What Are You Stand to Gain When You submits Your Blog to Webmasters (Google & Bing)?

1. Well targeted traffic

2. Your blog will be visible to search engines

3. You blog get indexed in both search engines (Google & yahoo).

Today I will be sharing with you today how you can easily get your blog indexed on Bing and Yahoo search engines by submitting your blog to Bing webmaster.

How to Submit Your Blog to Bing and Yahoo Search Engines

1. You need to sign up for Hotmail ID, because most people don’t have one.

2. After signing up, you log in to Bing webmaster too with the Hotmail

3. Enter your website’s URL in the box that shows click on “ADD” button.

4. Now enter your blog or website information as required and click “SAVE” button This is just the first step to submitting your blog to Bing search engines. The later part is how to verify you blog with Bing webmaster tool.

How to Verify Your Blog Ownership

After you have successfully submitted your blog to Bing webmaster tool, three options was given to verify that you’re the owner of the blog. So as a blogger with blogspot, you’ll go for the second option where it requires of you to add Bing Meta tag to your blog template. And this can be done if you are patient enough to follow the steps below.

1. Go to your blog Dashboard >> Template >> Edit HTML

1 2. Press CTRL+F to bring out the search box, then search for the <head>tag and paste the Meta tag code from the Bing verification page in your template. Now save your blog template.

2 3. Now go back to Bing webmaster tool page and click on Verify button.

Now after you have done the necessary submission, it might take days before it’ll start showing your blog impression data.

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An Examplenary Ways of How to drive Turns of Traffic to Your Blog

In this evolutionary advancement in blogging, those who could not force their way out of the down below are really behind. Many things have change, and not even with the frequent upgrade and changes in this search engine algorithm. Therefore, it will really speak well if we all can have different sources of traffic which are genuine; I’m not talking about pseudo means here.

And with this way of generating traffic which am about to share with you, in fact your visitors will still keep looking for you even if your website disappeared from the search engine. Funny right? I’m talking about reliable ways here, which most bloggers and internet marketers are not too serious with. However, contrary to what some people belief, I’ll be so happy to inform you that SEO is not the only way to get traffic, though it’s the most recommendable by Google but there are other means that are also channeled through SEO.

Therefore, I’ll advise you to site tight because I’m about to take you on a ride to the journey of real and reliable traffic making.

Guest Posting

Guest posting which some people also called guest blogging has been so lately been a very good source of traffic. When you are blessed with the spirit of writing; like I use to say and you were able to get a good blog with high page rank to write for.

This issue of getting a high page ranked blog is essential because of some benefits you’ll get, that are more than just traffic. Talking about strong backlink, reputation and also your page rank will also shoot up. Popular site are always getting a steady flow of visitors, even if they stop posting articles.

Yesterday, I conversed with a fellow blogger that owns a blog with nothing less than 25,000 page views per day. I asked him that it’s been a while that he posted, and he told me that he is shot of ideas to post on his blog, but he now has visitors of like 40,000 page views.
What I’m I saying in essence is that, he has worked very hard and has posted articles as a guest blogger on several blogs in his niche and now he is reaping the labor even when he decided not to post for a while. Therefore, my advice for you is to start guest posting today if you have not started.

The use of Technorati

It seems as if Technorati is not too common to some bloggers, or probably let me say people finds the platform very difficult to navigate like I did when I first signed up. Having your blog listed on Technorati is a plus for you. Just ask me why? Because this site works by ranking blogs according to their authority, therefore this will activate the inert potential in you to work very hard.

They have rules anyway, so you have to stick to their terms and conditions. Nevertheless, such sites like this which are mostly blog directories help you to mix with other blogs, whereby you comment on their blogs and at the end of the day you get a quality backlink and more traffic.

The use of Social Media

Let me start like this; I believe you will never want to underestimate the power of social media? It’s a question and I believe all bloggers and internet marketers will response with a YES, because they know the importance and the good things they’ve gotten from using social media.

Don’t think I should start mentioning names here, because the most popular among all Facebook has add a lot to the chart of most people. It’s very certain that you get a lot huge traffic on social networking by being more active on more sites like twitter, LinkedIn etc. and every time you create a new article, you stand the chance of linking those posts to social networking, where by you get traffic by your followers and fans.

And most times when your articles are worth liking and retweeting, they definitely do that. Retweeting posts is one of the secret of getting traffic on twitter, especially when you have followers that has many followers. It exposes your link to larger audiences which in turn generate a steady traffic on your blog and when visitors saw that you have a quality content, they become a reader by subscribing to your blog.

The Use of StumbleUpon

I’m a great fan of stumble upon, because I have generated a lot of traffic form this site. Some few months ago, there was an interactive forum on which I shared how I got a lot of traffic on stumble upon.

There is not more shortcut to getting traffic from stumble upon but the only shortcut which many people refuses to follow is that you need to sign up an account, the update your profile account and steady sharing of your post on it. I think I’ll advice you to get sharing widgets that has stumble upon in inclusive, so it can be very easy to share to the site.

The Use of High Quality Content

Nevertheless, I can’t but talk about the use of high quality content. Looking at the listed means of get tones of traffic, we’ll see that without quality contents, people will just skim and scan your blog and will never come again.

This is still the best way to get huge traffic, no matter how many times you share on Facebook, or stumble upon, and also you should have it in mind that search engines love contents that provide solutions.

Therefore, make this a habit… it’s not bad. I believe sharing my experience on how I got tones of traffic from these traffic generating sites, that you are convinced that SEO is not the only source to generating traffic? And also that quality content is still the king.

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How to Build A successful Blog In 10 Proven Steps

Putting up a blog is a thing that can be done in less than 10 minutes, but building and creating a successful blog is what people find very difficult to do. Building a successful blog takes two to tangle. What I mean is that you can never single-handily build a successful blog. Guess you want to ask me how and why? This implies that blogging itself requires engaging others, building relationships.

When we talk about a successful blog, it’s not literally means making money. Though money making has been the sole reason why so many people venture into blogging, but I think money is a last resort after you might have put some things in other. When you do these things, then money comes in. Today I will be discussing about things you need to know before you can build a successful blog.

1.Planning

There is a phrase that says “He, who fails to plan, is planning to fail. Looking at this phrase I believe you know that in whatever thing, either business, building of house, think of anything as well as building a successful blog, planning comes first. I think someone should ask a question that why should I plan? Planning is very essential in every facet of life, in that it makes you to know the right steps to take.

Planning in blogging makes you have a good survey of the market you are trying to enter, either profitable or not. Looking from how blogs are been made every day, it’s not or just to create any blog without surveying a good niche on which you can build your blog, but to know the right niche which will be generally accepted by your targeted audience. Therefore, for you to build a successful blog, planning ahead should be the first in which it prepares you ahead of any challenge.

2.Choosing a Domain
If you won’t get me wrong, many people have made mistakes right from the start of choosing a domain name for their blog. Aside Good contents which is now the king, having a user friendly name also go a long way in building a successful blog.

Recommendation has been given on those who decide to use a domain name that has hyphens like your-blogspace.com, yourblog732.com. This kind of domain names are always taking longer times to stick to people’s memory and so also SEO wise, it’s not advisable.

3.Build reputation

I believe this is a very important aspect of building a successful blog. A lot of people rushed their way into getting traffic first, and at the end of the day it wasn’t pleasant. I am a typical example of this. Building reputation is the first priority to building a successful blog.

Also read:How to become a better blogger

Make your blog known through social Medias, share your good content on forums, get a good twitter account and tweets good contents. These are places where you can start to build a successful blog.

4.Good relationships

I see this point as a very good medium for new bloggers to learn. There are lots of pro bloggers out there, who are willing to help and I’m very sure they have stuffs to share.

Good relationships starts from you visiting their blogs are commenting and probably following them and Ask questions .

5.Get a Facebook Fan Page

Don’t ever underestimate the power of social Medias. Few months ago, I made a research and I found out that 640 million people uses Facebook. Huh! Yea, exactly how I felt when I got the information. Just imagining you doing a business with such a huge figure or exposing your market reach to just half of this population? Social media lately has been a very good platform to showcase your talents.

Also to build a very good link, get more traffic that you imagine and get good customers for your products. It’s good to know when you have a reasonable number of people following you on social media, either on Facebook or twitter. This really shows that your good work is really moving forward. If on the other hand everything is OK then you can use social media to gain more exposure and natural links.

6.Keyword research

This is a very crucial aspect of blogging you need to know, if you want to build a successful blog. I believe you know what SEO is all about? Search engine optimization. For you to have a great competing article, it needs to be optimized for search engine, and this is where keyword research comes in. Keywords are particular words or phrases that people search for on Google.

For instance now, “blogging” people search for this word almost every minute, because everybody wants to know about blogging. So you need to be eye-opened when choosing your blog posts, especially this time that competition has risen so high. So any blog post you wish to write, you need to research well with the use of Google keyword tool and see the availability of a good keyword to make up your post.

Making use of a long tail keyword is the best for the newbies, in other to avoid the competition in the Google search queries. For you to choose a very nice long tail keyword to use.

Let’s take an example: If what you want to write on is make money, which is also your keyword, then to have a good long tail keyword, you can use “how to make money online” or “how to make money with your blog”.

7.Quality Content

It was back then when quality contents were not that cogent. It’s not that are not important, but traffic was kind of rated. But today when the all-mighty Google has shifted their music band, then we need to follow suit. Content is really rated so high this day, because they believe provision of solution should be the priority.

During the course of my research, I found a piece by Google which stated that as an internet marketer; what you need to consider first are your readers/visitor. However, writing compelling contents is the fast way to build a successful blog, because nobody wants a blog that cannot provide solution, which is what everybody wants.

8.Be SEO Mindful

Search engine optimization is one of the key factors of building a successful blog. It’s a way of bringing traffic to your sites by improving your search engine ranking. I think you need to take a very good time to build your successful blog around here.

I never said other points are null, but only trying to make you realize that SEO is a very important aspect of building successful blog. And optimization spreads in a variety of ways and you need to know some basic principles of SEO

1. We have optimization of your blog for effective ranking.
2. Optimization of your blog for mobile view.
3. Optimization of your images

9.Social Media Marketing

Taking the pain to share and market your blog on social media. You can’t just underestimate the power of social media in building a successful blog.

Lately, it was estimated that social media has taking the shot of internet and even it surpasses any other searches on the web. Therefore promoting your blog on the social media is really one of the best ways to build a successful blog.

Also Read: How to get 20000 free Twitter Followers

10.Blog Commenting

Blog commenting has recently contributed to the building of a successful blog. I’m a practical example of this last point. I tested this commenting for just a month, and I saw a tremendous increase in my blog traffic and reputation.

I believe you’ll agree with me that for you to build a successful blog, none of these above point should be left behind. However, additional points and observation is highly welcome.
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How to fix 404 Error page by redirecting it to Homepage [Case Study]

Dealing with 404 error page which is mostly known by (Page not found) is very common in blogging, and quiet some numbers of blogs have written articles about it but not with a practical experience of how to fix it. I decided to make this piece on it because a reader requested for it, and am very sure that there are still some newbies who needs the updated version of the article like the one you are reading.

According to research (Wikipedia), The Error 404 page or page not found was discovered as a HTTP standard response code indicating that you’ve not been able to communicate with the server or the serve wasn’t able to find your request. A non-existing page on a blog will definitely result to 404 error page and also a broken link, which eventually give a first timer a bad impression about you blog. Therefore, it is very important to learn about linking your posts very good and also the kinds of link you allowed on you blog.

However, the best solution to this kind of problem is to redirect your blog 404 error page to your blog homepage, or any other pages of your choice. This can actually be dealt with by the addition of a simple JavaScript code to your blog. Below are the procedures given on how to fix your 404 error page by redirecting it to your homepage or any other page of your choice.

1. Log into your dashboard.

2. Go to settings, then to search preferences

3. Custom page not found (under Errors and redirections)

4. Click on the edit, and then paste the code below into the box and then save changes

Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist. You will be redirected to homepage shortly.
<script type = “text/javascript”>
//Blogger 404 Redirect v1.0 by Olubayode(yourblogcoach.blogspot.com)
JN_redirect = setTimeout(function() {
location.pathname= “/“
}, 5000);
</script>

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE THE REDIRECTION CODE

I. You can change the message at the top (i.e. Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist. You will be redirected to homepage shortly) to your desire statement.

II. The delay in milliseconds is the 5000 in the code. Therefore, you can change the 5000 to any value of your choice. (Note: when you change the value to zero, it simply means your 404 error page will be redirect to your homepage or your desired page without delay.

III. If you wish to redirect you blog 404 error page to another page instead of the home page, then replace the pathname to and “/” to the page.

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How to Attract Quality Links to Your Website

Links had been in long for, but people don’t really pay much attention because all they needed was traffic and backlinks. It has been confirmed now that links make your blog stronger than what you know of search engine and the web. Links can be internal or external; both are very good at SEO and back linking that is the more reason why bloggers of these days are so obsessed with getting links. Some even went ahead buying, why others could get theirs naturally by following the SEO prescribed rules.

Also read: Detrimental effect of Link exchange

A blogger friend once shared his own story concerning the issue of getting links in a crooked way. He said at first it was perfect and was getting traffic from targeted ends, but when algorithm updates caught with him, he had his page rank dropped from 6 to 3. Learning from this story above, I believe we wouldn’t want to learn in a hard way like the young man and which is why we need to sit tight and let’s get started. The question now is how do you start driving links to your blog and in what way can it be done.

Also Read:5 advantages of Interlinking your blog posts

Getting the right Links by request

In getting the right links, most internet geek and bloggers have chosen to always go for email requests which are like most common among them. There hasn’t been any good effect from this as most of them get irrelevant links from other websites.

And just imagine when you own a food blog and most of the links that come to your site are from sport and Info Tech blog, you can see it’s annoying. And definitely the webmaster wouldn’t bother to check your site’s niche and it would just add those links to your already made links which eventually won’t add any advantage. That is the more reason why you need the right links from right blogs with similar niche to yours.

Is your blog qualified?

This is a question that should sound so deep in many bloggers, because in other for you to get a quality links back to your blog, you need something different and which has to do with your blog articles. The more you write good article and people comment, the more the good and relevant links.

Most bloggers don’t like to give their juicy links out just anyhow, but if you prove so worth with what you offered by your article, a reasonable blog owner won’t hesitate to link back to your site because he knows his/her readers will definitely benefit from your site too; and therefore it is so paramount for them to look out for a good articles from wonderful blogs before giving out links.

Build a Good relationship

A fellow blogger once said that life on web is just exactly as life in real world .you need to make friends and build relationship with other bloggers better than you before you can gain from them.

I remember sometimes when I had little issues with my first blog, I met a man named Joseph Efoghor. The first thing he told me was to build good relationship with those ahead of me, likewise am telling you now because this is the only way to build your reputation.

Do you think you can just approach a pro blogger requesting for link exchanges when you never had a personal encounters with the fellow. We all know it’s very annoying doing that, therefore if you’ve never start having good rapport with bloggers ahead of you, then you need to start today.

Create a post to get Links

Getting links is not by mouth or idleness; you need to take a bold step. Creating a post to get links is as simple as what you can imagine. You don’t necessarily need to be too hard in your actions requesting for link from other blogs, you can always make your link known by writing wonderful articles and putting your links in you posts.

Definitely other readers will believe you want to share a bit of your good contents and eventually when they see that your posts are very good for their own visitors, you’ll automatically get your natural links because the referring party possibly gave their readers. Therefore, it is also necessary to have links on your post which are related to the recent article you just posted (interlinking of your posts).

Do-follow Comment Box

It’s no secret again; bloggers want something in exchange for the links they are giving you. Earlier this week, a reader commented on one of my posts and he suggested I should have a do follow comment box. The question that came to my mind was, what is really special about this do follow comment box, but when I did my research then I knew it’s worth it.

Because with the do follow comment box, links can easily be shared, as they also want links back from your blog if they give you theirs. So it’s trade by barter.

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