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How Do You Know If Your Blog is Making A difference?

Blogging has been in existence and today, you hardly find a person in a family of let say 4 siblings who doesn’t blog. This in essence showed the extent at which blogging has reached. A lot of people has made cool money with blogging, why some were frustrated out of blogging and some still in the rhythm of it.

Today, I sat with my system and this wonderful post title dropped in my mind. I believe tuning your post title toward keywords is very important, but there should be one or twice in time when you write out of inspiration….lol. Am not talking about spiritual aspect here, but I what I mean is that there are some post title you get as a result of your thought.

Moreover, I think from my experience in blogging it’s good most time to write outside keywords. Today many bloggers don’t know what blogging is. Some believe blogging is about:
1 Making money
2 Reputations
Fine, both the stated points are attached to blogging but they are not what make blogging what it is. To my own understanding, blogging is actually meant for writers because it’s a platform where you show- case your writing skills with great contents.

And this is where I’ll stress more about my topic “How do you know if your blog is making a difference”. Till today, some people still believe blogging is all about packing articles on a blog and getting traffic.

Some few weeks ago, I was researching on some matters when I stumbled on a material that I guy wrote on his blog. It was a question he asked his readers and he appealed with them to reply him through the comment box. The question was “is my blog making difference”. This guy really wants to know how he has been affecting people’s life, blog and their progress.

I believe this is how every bloggers should be thinking, not thinking only about our pockets or how to make money. Google wrote a sentence one that, that before you write a post… think about your readers and visitors.

Before we start, if you have not subscribe to our blog then you are missing a lot. But you can always subscribe here now before we start today’s discussion.

Therefore today, I will be discussing on the topic “How do you know if your blog is making a difference”. Just sit tight and let’s roll together.

People’s Comments

This is a very important point of this post, because even within our mind as a blogger we know if our post touches our reader from their comments. I will say this is in two versions, because people will never comment on your post if it doesn’t make a difference to them. Several times we have experience this kind of situation when you post and just like 3 persons comment on it, and probably on another post we have like 70 or there about comments on it.

It shouldn’t be a surprise because I know one new blogger who complained of having 30 posts without a comment. We need to give our best when writing our post. We should research in details before publishing our post, and writing posts that are interactive is also an added advantage. Try to teach from your post, not just passing information across.

How Much Subscribers do you have?

A lot of factors contribute to this point, because for someone to have 20,000 subscribers is not a joke, and for those who is still having 10… you can get there. Having a huge number of subscribers show how difference your blog has make in your readers life. Either they came to your blog and they were able to get solutions, love your first approach, your blog design, and of all.. the high quality content you produce on the blog may be the reason why they subscribed.

Though some subscribed because of free giveaways. That is the more reason why bloggers should imbibed the idea of giveaways. To be candid, the number of your subscribers is the product of how much difference your blog has made.

Busy Contact us page/domain emails

I believe lindaikeji, problogger and some renowned bloggers can testify, and are very good example of this point. Most pro bloggers who has in their night burned several sticks of candle and those who know the rudiments of success in blogging deals with contact us page more than comment box. Just ask me why?

The reason been that big companies uses the contact us page to get to them for advertisement or any sort of business transaction, therefore they get many contacts from big companies. I think the same case is applicable to having a domain email, because you keep getting offers.

My advice for those coming behind is that you can always get there, all you need is patience and know the behind the scene of blogging as I use to call it. If you don’t know that we have behind the scenes to blogging, then as me through the comment box and I’ll tell you.

Followers on social Medias:

Let me tell you this secret, people don’t follow you because of your fine face… they only follow you because of your fine and high quality service your render, probably through your contents or your activities from your blog. How people respond to you on social as a blogger is a very good method to measure how much difference your blog has made.

Liveofofo and nairaland are very good example of this, because you find them everywhere on social networking. Therefore try and be active, post quality contents and share it on social Medias like Facebook , twitter and the rest.

I believe with these structured points, you will agree with me that the difference your blog is making or has made is a product of what I’ve just discussed. Please if you have any addition and observation, the comment box is very free for you to use.
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How to increase your Blog Alexa rank in 8 Cripsy Ways

Alexa ranks on blogs can be used as a means of attracting advertisers and sponsors to a blog. When your alexa rank is high, it speaks a lot more about your blog. For those who thought alexa rank has anything to do with search engine ranking, that’s not true. Most of our bloggers now days are more concerned about their ranking with alexa, because everybody wants to increase their alexa ranking.

So how can I increase my alexa rank?

This is a question which we’re going to find justice to as we proceed. It was also confirmed that even some bloggers with high page rank on Google and with the number of visitors they have, still find it very difficult to get their way round the rudiments about increasing their alexa rank.

Without much ado, Alexa from my own perspective is regarded as a web information industry/company, in that they help rank websites and lots of blogs based on their generated traffic, be it daily, monthly or annually. So also they observe other factors which probably only they could say.

Alexa has been in existence for so many years now and they are so far the best ranking company online, among so many industries that ranks. Looking at them from a very good angle of viewing, alexa is very important because most advertisers use her calculative figures to measure websites popularity and traffic, and most time it’s unimportant because alexa is not always right in some cases. However, it’s still very good to have a good alexa rank, as we all know the benefit aspect of it on the aspect of promoting our goods and services. Here are some discovered techniques in which you can increase your blog alexa rank.

Submit your blog to Alexa

It’s very good to submit you blog to alexa rank, since it makes it very easy for them to access and regulate you blog or website in a better way.

Update your blog frequently

I think even without the issue of alexa ranking, search engine even loves you to frequently update your blog. So also its alexa, they love seeing fresh and high quality contents on your blog every time. And major 5-8times a week isn’t a bad time to update your blog, as it also enhances your chance of gaining more traffic. Install Alexa Toolbar
Alexa gives more plights to visit that come to a blog that has uses browsers that has their toolbar installed.

Actually I saw this and I’ve heard it over and over again, so this is not just something that I framed up myself. When you install the alexa toolbar on your browser, make sure you enter your blog through the browser and after few days go back and check your alexa rank and you’ll be surprised that it would have increased.

Also tell friends and family, with your visitors to install alexa toolbar on their browsers and set your blog on their homepage. Well this doesn’t look realistic, but it has a part it takes in the increase of your alexa rank. Therefore you too can Download Alexa Toolbar here.

Use alexa Widget on your blog

You hardly see a blogger who doesn’t use this alexa widget, because everybody wants to market and show how their blog is doing in blogging industry. And this is where advertisers see how your traffic and reputation are increasing. Putting this alexa widget on your blog helps to increase you blog ranking.

Link Building

If you cultivate the habit of building links back to your blog, then your blog alexa rank will definitely shoot up. And this can be attained by blog commenting and guest blogging. Try as much as possible to comment on higher blog which in turn will give you back backlinks and also make it an habit to guest post.

Post High Quality Content

This has actually been for a long time, and high quality contents are ruling. Posting quality contents on your blog will really go a long way in promoting your blog’s reputation. It will definitely turn your blog visitors to readers, you know what I mean now?*wink* and thus increases you blog page view, because more people will be referred to your blog. Not only alexa does appreciate quality content, search engines also love it.

Write about Alexa on your Blog

I believe everybody wants visibility, even those established blogs and websites. When you write about then and you link back to alexa.com, then this will definitely increase your blog rank also in response to theirs.

Ask for Visitors to review your blog on Alexa

People only act when they are told most times. Ask for review about your blog on alexa. Make sure you are not shy to ask for review form people that visit your blogs, in that this will lead to an increase in your blog alexa ranking.

write a review of our blog on alexa

Conclusively, I believe with the listed point above, increasing your blog alexa rank shouldn’t be a thing of concern again. Please if you have an additional points, observation that you think others should benefit from, kindly use our comment box to do such a thing. Thanks.
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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.

I’ll like you to comment and share this post to some other people who you also think will benefit from this article as you have right now. There is a word that says “There is love in sharing”, so I wouldn’t want it to be that you’ll only benefit from this, why others wished to. So please share, like, tweet, and make this post go viral. Thanks

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How to Increase Your Blog Visibility In Your Niche

I sat down today; thinking of what I can give to my readers. I just realize the word the word “visibility” keep coming to my head. The word keeps ringing in my head and I thought penning something down will definite be a good option. I kept still and the word rang again in my head in a new pattern. Blog visibility, in this competitive industry, there should be a way out.

Also Read:How do you Know If your Blog is Making a difference?

Everybody wants to be famous isn’t it? And I doubt if there is someone out there who doesn’t want his/her voice to be heard. We all want to be respected and reckoned with and this is such a great belief and good thing, if from our heart we really wanted and dared to be famous in our niche. Getting your blog seen in the blogging industry is quite difficult, with a lot of new blogs coming up, and with the pro waking stronger every day. Which means nobody wants to be left behind.

Believe me, even in the midst of this cumbersome situation, you can still show people what you’ve got, and that you deserve to be recon with. Though the game of gaining a clear visibility in your niche can’t just be easy, especially when we have a lot of people dicing through the game. But relax, there are million ways in which you can increase your blog visibility and also activate it. Today, I will be sharing in few points what you can do to activate you blog visibility in its niche. Therefore, sit tight, tighten your belt and learn how to increase your blog visibility.

Writing Guest post on Pro blogs in your Niche

Guess you won’t want to believe that this is the first time I will be writing about guest blogging. I’ve heard about guest posting several times, but never had the chance to experience it. I gave a chance and I experienced ×5 increase of my daily traffic. If I’m not wrong, I sure guest posting started long time ago, but I’ve not really given time since I started blogging 2011.

Guest posting is a great innovation by the bloggers of our time. It entails writing of a quality great contents and publishing it on other people’s blogs in your area of specialization. Most especially blogs with high page ranking. Honestly, I tasted it once and confirmed that if you really want to increase your blog visibility in your niche, guest posting should be one of your focus.

I will advise you to guest post on top blogs rather than small blogs, because posting on small blogs won’t get you to where you wants to reach. Creativity and SEO optimization is the sole of your article been accepted by top blogs. Let your content add values, solve problems and then you are good to go. You should take your time to source for materials and write a quality and unique article.

Reasonable Commenting

I noticed on several occasions when I commented with passion, the blog owners have to come back and reply my comment. I’ve found out lately that if you comment reasonably and with passion on top blogs them you’ve taken the first step to your blog visibility. I have found out that it’s easier for you to get noticed when you are frequent on the comment list of a pro blog.

I experienced this sometimes ago, when I featured on a blog comment list for couple of weeks, a visitor challenged me and said am too frequent. People notice your activities everywhere, so make an impact. For you to get top blogs, you will have to research to find authority blogs In your niche and make a list of like 20 of them, exactly what I did. Read and leave a commendable comment before you leave. With this strategy of blog comment, you’ll get your blog visible in less than a month.

Build Good Relationship

Building a perfect relationship with top bloggers in your niche is one of the area in which you can get your blog noticed in blogosphere. I used to tell people that you can’t make it alone, even the pro bloggers we know today have to lean on some pros then in their own time.

Thanks to Mr Ezegio joseph who gave me hope of blogging again. He gave me the reason to keep going and forever I’m indebted to him. Connecting top bloggers in your niche is a crucial step to getting your blog’s voice heard out there. You need to connect and learn from those established bloggers in your niche for you to build authority for your blog.

Definitely am talking about the new era in which we are, seriously, you can’t just get to the top alone. I have tried getting on alone once and failed, so I won’t advice you to try such. So retweet their tweets, like their pages and posts and don’t be afraid to switch a conversation with them like I did and I’m benefiting from it now.

Guess you won’t be surprise if at the long run you posts were seen by 52,000 followers on twitter when eventually they return they favor you’ve been given them. I believe all these things are simple things which we find unnoticed but necessary. Therefore get your blog visibility increased by building a wonderful relationship with authority blogs in your area.

Give Freebies(Giveaways)

Though not all bloggers engages in this but for the few that are doing this, they can definitely testify to the goodness. Though just ordinary giveaway prices won’t give you what you want, but a convincing and valuable giveaways will definitely sprout up your dream. Am talking about may be software tool that are very scare in your niche, quality e-book, attractive packages etc. endeavor not to copy other bloggers in what they are giving out.

The best thing to do is to find out what your readers would be crazy about; I mean what you give as a free gift. For example, some pro bloggers give out word press Premium genesis template to their readers and also I saw a case where some bloggers were giving out Nexus 7 smartphones. All these are very attractive giveaways which will definitely increase the visibility of your blog.

I’ll be dropping my pen at this time to take my dinner, but before I leave I want you to know that increasing your blog visibility is not an easy task, you need to take the bull by the horn and never give up. All the points stated above are all what you can achieve if you can take your time to apply them in the journey of your blogging. Therefore make sure you share this article with your friends and followers on twitter and Facebook. Thanks.

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5 Revealed Secrets of Using Social Media

Social media has been a great fortune for most people lately, especially online marketers. It’s was discovered few months ago that the rate at which people visit social media sites, especially the youths was confirmed to be more than the way they’ve always visited porno sites.
Though many of them took the great advantage of this to show case their gifts, why other benefited also on the negative side.

Few weeks ago, I listened to the news when one young girl called Laura committed suicide, after her friends mocked her on Facebook. Using social media has been a great reward for some people especially the bloggers and internet marketers, because they make a lot of money using the social Medias. Lately I took my time to research and was able to gather some 5 revealed secrets of using social Medias.

Reputation

Some people have use the advantage of been a social media addict builds a name for themselves. There are lots of people one Facebook which only have the job of building reputation, by maybe tweeting people’s tweet and some decided to be liker on Facebook.

I think in this aspect of reputation, a lot of bloggers have tracked their way in building names for their blog. Taking about their likes of problogger, Nairaland. All these guys took to building their name from social media right from the onset.

Marketing
Internet marketers and most companies are typical example. Some affiliated site took social media has their main channel for sharing their links which eventually is also what we all known as marketing. Lately when I visited Facebook, I saw that some advertisements are rolling in and out on the left flank of Facebook.

Such companies know the effectiveness of marketing their product on social Medias. Due to the cause of intense increase in technology lately, many corporate enterprises, IT companies has voted for social media has a very good platform to show case their product.

Job Search

Sometimes ago, I posted an article on how to use LinkedIn to get your dream job. In the recent years, many companies and establishments prefers to get their vacancies out to the social Medias, because they know that’s where people can hear the voice of their companies.

Facebook also is not left out, because some job blogs uses Facebook to pass out information about the latest job vacancies.

Boosting Traffic

Exactly what I’m talking about, all bloggers and online marketers know that they can’t underestimate the power of social media networks in the boosting of their blog traffic.

Some very good examples of social media bookmarking site with high page rank are: Reddit, stumble upon, delicious. From the statistics of my traffic last month, I realize that social media took the second place of the traffic in take after Google. It’s definitely one for the best medium to boost your blog traffic within a limited time.

Track competitors

This is one of the points everybody will like to pay attention to, because we all want to outsmart our pro right? It is very important to keep an eye on our competitors, as we all know what’s going on in blogging these days.

Using social media will definitely provide valuable data for keyword research, where to get blogs that are related to yours and also marketing insight. Therefore if your competitors are using some social media marketing techniques that really works for them, I think the best thing to do is to do the same thing i.e. the same method, but use them better.

In conclusion, I believe having taking your time to read this post, I think I have unveiled the secrets which you need to know in using social media. The ball is now in your court to choose how to utilized the now revealed secrets of using social medias.
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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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