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		<title>7 ways to Create blog Content</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lots of blogging tip related sites has talked about ways to Create a blog&#8217;s content. some will also teach you &#8220;<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/how-to-write-killer-and-irresistible-blog-content/" target="_blank">The killer ways</a>&#8220;  =D but I want to give information -The elie palima Style!  that&#8217;s why I have decided to Cover The different ways that you can use to Generate Content for your blog.<span id="more-923"></span></p>
<h4>1. Create the Content yourself</h4>
<p>so far, This content Generation Strategy is What I Highly recommend. There&#8217;s nothing more Greater than a Content written by the real blog owner. The only downside of creating the content yourself is that it takes work and time.</p>
<h4>2. Hire someone to do it for you</h4>
<p>Bill gates became the richest man in the world and probably one of the most successful. But you know what? He couldn&#8217;t have done it without the help of his employees. The fact here is He didn&#8217;t became the richest man because he did it all alone. He hired someone for help! &#8211; this gave him the time to relax, sit all day and make lots of money while doing it.</p>
<p>Time is as important as money is. The more you hire someone do the work for you, the more time that you&#8217;ll save. you get to relax by hiring someone to do the work for you. The only downside of outsourcing is of course, it cost you money.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in hiring writers or any other outsourcing services<br />
here are Recommended places to look:</p>
<p>Taskus.com<br />
elance.com<br />
Odesk.com</p>
<h4>3. Ask Readers to Write For you</h4>
<p>another cool way to Generate content is to ask for a Guest post. Readers Love it when they Get to write on their favorite blog. The only downside of accepting guest post is the post&#8217;s quality. Some Guest posters would submit junk content. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s best to review the content first before you even accept a Guest post.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myblogguest.com" target="_blank">Myblogguest</a> is a serviceable forum by anne smarty that&#8217;s aimed to finding bloggers who are interested to Guest blog and blog owners needing for new and unique Content for their blogs. Check the site out if you&#8217;re looking for guest posters.</p>
<h4>4.Use an Auto blogging Software</h4>
<p><strong>WARNING:</strong> don&#8217;t use this strategy on your MAIN BLOG. Instead, I recommend you to create a new blog which is more focused on auto blogging. The Reason behind this is because <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Auto blogging</a> softwares would just make your site look like a huge spam site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot">WP robot</a> is a wordpress plugin I recommend you use for your auto blogging needs. What auto blogging softwares does is it Scrapes up Content from other website&#8217;s RSS feed especially Article directories like articlesbase.com</p>
<p>which in return, will give the blog owner New but duplicate content &#8211; AUTOMATICALLY. There had been lots of success stories from people who uses <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">autoblogging</a> as one of their income source. When done correctly, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/wprobot';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Auto blogging</a> may just become one of your best money maker. The only downside of this however is yes. Auto blogs look like Spam/scam/junk sites. :-)</p>
<h4>5.PLR (private label rights) articles</h4>
<p>another way to get content for a blog is by using PLR (private label rights) articles. You can find them anywhere. Heck. I&#8217;ll give you a whole bunch of them right now! (<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/subscriber/eLie-palima-PLR-articles.zip">click here to download</a>)</p>
<p>These are Articles that you can use anywhere and place your name as the author like on your blog. Ideally, I much prefer to use them when I&#8217;m submitting articles to the top article directories.</p>
<p>the downside of using PLR content is the Duplicate content case. Google Frowns when he sees a duplicate content. A good solution for this is to Re-write the articles or Hire someone to re-write the articles for you.</p>
<p>If you want more <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/plrarticles" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/plrarticles';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">PLR articles</a>, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/plrarticles" target="_blank"> Content Whole salers</a> dot com is a good site that I find to be a good PLR article source.</p>
<h4>6.Trade articles with other blogs</h4>
<p>look for one of your old posts and ask a blogger who blogs on the same niche like you and ask him to trade articles with you. It&#8217;s a win-win situation since both blogs would have new fresh content.</p>
<h4>7. Re-publish your old posts</h4>
<p>There&#8217;s a cool feature on wordpress where you have the ability to edit the post&#8217;s date. with that option, you can either choose to publish your article on the future or make one of your posts look older and certainly – Republish old articles.</p>
<p>To Republish one of your old articles, Just login to your wordpress dashboard&gt;&gt;&gt;click on posts &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; look for one of your old article &gt;&gt;&gt; click edit&gt;&gt;&gt; and on the post edit screen, you&#8217;ll be able to see the publish option menu:</p>
<p><a href="../wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Republish.png"><img title="Republish" src="../wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Republish.png" alt="republish old post on wordpress menu" width="441" height="318" /></a></p>
<p>Set the date on whatever date it is today or any future date you want the content to be published and&#8230; BOOM! New Content published. :-)
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		<title>15 best blogging advice for those who wants to use blogging for profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elie</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My Top 15 Best blogging advice for bloggers who wants or is already using blogging for profit. follow the tips written here to become a blogging legend! =P</p>
<h4>1. Be passionate about what you are / will be blogging about</h4>
<p>blogging is not a job. blogging is a hobby and the reason why we do hobbies is because we enjoy doing it. no matter <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/how-to-pick-a-niche-and-check-if-its-profitable/" target="_blank">how profitable your blog niche</a> could be – if you do not love what you are doing, there is a big chance that you will not stick to it. if you are going to blog about a topic, make sure that it’s something that you really like to talk about.</p>
<h4><strong>2. Get your own Domain name</strong></h4>
<p>while you can <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/how-to-start-a-blog-and-make-money-blogging/" target="_blank">start a blog</a> using free platforms like blogger.com, I would always recommend to get your own domain name(s). the reason for this is for the blog’s branding and flexibility. these are two core factors to look at if you really want to make lots of money from a blog.</p>
<p>the only downside of getting your own domain is it costs money. but luckily, there’s a cool Site named <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/bluehost" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/bluehost';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">bluehost</a> who gives out a <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/bluehost" target="_blank">FREE DOMAIN NAME FOREVER</a> (just pay for hosting).</p>
<h4>3. Have a Posting frequency! update your blog</h4>
<p>one of the main benefits of having a blog is the ability of the blog owner to update his blog whenever he wants. Search engines loves website that’s frequently updating. one of the best advice I could give you is to decide how often you want to update your blog – have a posting frequency.</p>
<p>do you want to write a post once a week? twice a month? once a year? it’s your choice. ideally, I would suggest that you update your blog daily if you want to make the most out of your blog. doing this would also help to avoid ‘confusion’ of your blog readers.</p>
<h4>4. Treat your blog like a regular business</h4>
<p>like on any other regular business, we spend time and work hard to Market our products and get people to ‘buy’ from us which afterwards makes us money. The same Goes to blogging and owning a blog. in order for it to be successful, we need to learn how to ‘brand it’ <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/my-best-so-far-blog-marketing-tips-ever/" target="_blank">market it heavily</a>. Treat it like a regular business and not – “just a blog”</p>
<h4>5. Monetize your blog with multiple sources</h4>
<p>“do not put your eggs in one basket” is a very popular way to explain this. The more you monetize your blog, the bigger chance that you’ll make lots of money from it. Check out my <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/recommended-blog-money-makers/" target="_blank">recommended blog money maker list</a> to see the different ways I monetize my site.</p>
<h4>6. Be Friendly</h4>
<p>“you will never make money online – ALONE.” this is one phrase that Has been stuck in my head for many months when I first started my blogging ventures. if you really want to make blogging profitable, you must also make it a habit to Build your connections and relationship with the people around your network. such as, making friends with other bloggers, Replying on comments and emails, Visiting other blogs and leaving a comment, retweet their posts, etc… <a href="http://agentdeepak.com/guest-posting-just-became-more-profitable/" target="_blank">there</a> <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/announcing-the-retweet-club/" target="_blank">are</a> <a href="http://myblog2day.com/3-effective-blog-marketing-strategies-that-i-use.php" target="_blank">lots</a> <a href="http://www.chrisg.com/10-reasons-commenting-is-good-for-bloggers/" target="_blank">of</a> <a href="http://www.d3so.com/the-secrets-to-blog-commenting.php" target="_blank">ways</a> <a href="http://www.shoutmeloud.com/join-retweet-club-for-bloggers.html" target="_blank">to</a> <a href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/linking-love/10121/" target="_blank">do</a> <a href="http://andbreak.com/2010/06/how-to-analyze-your-blog-neighbors/" target="_blank">it</a>.</p>
<h4>7. Have basic HTML knowledge</h4>
<p>a basic knowledge about HTML could get very handy at some point in your blogging career. you don’t have to be an “expert” in the topic but I would always recommend you to learn a ‘little’ from it. if you have no basic knowledge about html, <a href="http://w3schools.com" target="_blank">w3schools.com</a> is one site that I found to be the best source of information to learn html and different areas regarding web development.</p>
<h4>8. Learn SEO</h4>
<p>Search engines is one of the biggest <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/how-to-really-increase-blog-traffic/" target="_blank">traffic source of blogs</a>. and I can’t imagine a blogger who is – blogging without any single knowledge about SEO. again, you don’t have to be an ‘expert’ I Just want you to Have basic knowledge about the topic.</p>
<p>Luckily, There is this SEO book (<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/subscriber/SEO_MadeEasy.zip" target="_blank">click here to download</a>) which teaches you everything you need to know about Search engine optimization. the book is 100% free and it’s very Easy to understand. frankly, I almost felt like an ‘seo expert’ after reading the whole book. :-)</p>
<h4>9. Get a mentor or a coach</h4>
<p>Manny Pacquiao wouldn’t have been the pound 4 pound king if it wasn’t for Freddie roach and Michael Jordan wouldn’t have been the greatest basketball player of all time if he wasn’t inspired with Dr. J’s basketball moves. All Champions have mentors. I advice you to get one too.</p>
<h4>10. Do not spend money like water</h4>
<p>One of the biggest mistake you can make when your blog is already making money is the point where you Spend all your blog’s earnings and you’re left with $0. this is a  VERY wrong way to go. if you really want to make lot’s of money online (even offline) the First thing you need to do is to Learn how to budget your money – RESPONSIBLY. have a budget and know what you can and cannot afford.</p>
<h4>11. Always make room for improvement</h4>
<p>you are never too big to stop learning. you should always make room for growth. That’s why it’s also good to take certain classes like online courses and ebooks which would further improve your knowledge about what you are blogging about and most importantly – Internet marketing. but again, you should still take in consideration point 10 and know what you can and what you cannot afford.</p>
<h4>12. Have Goals for your blog</h4>
<p>success first comes with a goal. that’s why I advice you to list down some of the goals you would like your blog to achieve. ideally, it’s much better to set goals for your blog that’s easy to achieve or ‘doable’ at the moment. ie: 1,000 visitors per day, 1,000 subscribers, 5,000 <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">twitter</a> followers, 1 ad spot sold per month, etc.. (based on your blog’s level)</p>
<p>after you’ve achieve these ‘doable goals’ you can then higher them based on what you can do. Remember to always put a “time limit” to your goals. do you want to achieve these in 3 months time? by the end of the month? next year? you decide.</p>
<h4>13. never give up</h4>
<p>some times you’ll feel that <a href="http://www.incomediary.com/why-your-blog-sucks/" target="_blank">your</a> <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/10-reasons-why-your-blog-sucks/" target="_blank">blog</a> <a href="http://performancing.com/41-reasons-why-your-blog-probably-sucks/" target="_blank">sucks</a>. but if there is a will, there is a way. if there is no will, then certainly &#8211; there is no way. When you really want something in your life, the whole world conspires together with you to achieve that goal. When you Quit, You lose! – that’s the difference between winners and losers.</p>
<p>the same also applies to your blog.  when you lose your ‘will’ to achieve the goals, then certainly there’s no way your blog will ever be successful which brings us to point #14.</p>
<h4>14. know when to Quit</h4>
<p>My philosophy on quitting is very simple. if you don’t enjoy what you’re doing anymore… just quit!</p>
<p>if creating content for your blog just seems to be a lot like a job for you or if Checking your blog’s comments is not the first thing that you like to do in the morning… <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/01/should-i-quit-blogging/" target="_blank">Just</a> <a href="http://www.johnchow.com/when-should-you-call-it-quits/" target="_blank">quit</a> <a href="http://www.melvinblog.com/2010/03/making-money-online-quitting-school/" target="_blank">Blogging</a>.</p>
<h4>15. don’t be afraid to take risks</h4>
<p>one thing that will make you stand out from all your competitors is the fact that you are willing to accept certain risk. taking risk is one thing that Most people especially in the real world are mostly afraid of. they are afraid to make mistakes – you shouldn’t. why? mistakes makes us stronger.</p>
<p>it is the mistake that makes us do the right thing. that’s why my advice for you is to LEARN from this mistakes like 32 year old Thomas Edison who made a thousand mistake before he could even invent the light bulb.</p>
<p>The same also applies to blogging. there will come a point when you’ll need to try out something new for your blog like experimenting on getting other traffic sources, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/advertise" target="_blank">advertising</a>, Hiring someone for seo work, Creating a new ebook, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/aweber" target="_blank">Getting an Aweber account</a> and Frankly, Stuffs that will make you LOSE MONEY.</p>
<p>things like these would definitely take your time and money. but when done properly, Certainly it will make you LOADS of money. Never be afraid to take risks and Try something new – <a href="http://www.carlocab.com/32-things/" target="_blank">Learn from your mistakes</a>.
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are times when you&#8217;ll need to create videos like screen-cast for your blog. One thing that you should keep in mind while creating videos is that you need to make the first 7 seconds of your video interesting enough to keep your viewers watching. and one way to do that is by creating cool Video intros.</p>
<p>alex from <a href="http://braproductions.net" target="_blank"> braproductions.net</a> is a guy that I find from youtube who creates video tutorials on making cool Video intros. and today I would like to share with you one of his useful video tutorials.<br />
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="640" height="385" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mONINs3sMSk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mONINs3sMSk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>you can checkout more of video editing tutorials by checking out <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/braproductions" target="_blank">braproduction&#8217;s youtube channel</a>.
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Traffic is the most important ingredient that every blogger needs in order to generate lot’s of money from his website. a blog that makes lot’s of money and receives a decent amount of traffic is a successful blog. While following the <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/my-best-so-far-blog-marketing-tips-ever/" target="_blank">best blog marketing tips</a> may solve your traffic-problem, there are still dozens of ways that you can increase your blog’s traffic.</p>
<p>There are a lot of e-books and courses out there that are suppose to teach you ways on how to increase your blog’s traffic. Some also say that they can teach you how to generate ‘floods of visitors’ coming to your site. but the truth is – none of them works 100% and to tell you honestly, most of the time they’ll only give you lot’s of confusion.</p>
<p>I’m here not to give you ‘floods’ or ‘swarms’ of traffic. but instead, I’m here to give you the ways to generate traffic to your blog that will afterwards give you the solid ideas on how you can <strong>increase your blog’s traffic</strong>.</p>
<h4>Two Methods to increase blog traffic</h4>
<p>There are two methods to increase your blog traffic &#8211; Paid traffic and Free Traffic. both of them are good. however there’s a lot of difference between them.</p>
<p><strong>1. The Paid Traffic Method &#8211; </strong>is probably the most easiest and sure fire way to go if you want to instantly increase your blog traffic. The only downside of paying for traffic is of course – it costs you money.</p>
<p><strong>2. The Free Traffic Method &#8211; </strong>is what most blog owners use to increase their blog’s traffic. The best part about it is that it doesn’t costs you any money at all. The only downside of this is that of course, it costs you Time and would definitely require a little bit of hard work and effort in your part.</p>
<h4>11 Ways to increase blog Traffic using the Paid Method<strong> </strong></h4>
<p><strong>1. Advertise with Google</strong> – this one is a no-brainer. if you want targeted Traffic advertise with search engines! make it more even better by advertising on the most popular search engines of all – Google.</p>
<p><strong>2. Advertise with <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook-movie" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook-movie';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Facebook</a> –</strong> Facebook is exploding with traffic. some days, it even beats the traffic of Google. now, it Beats Google’s advertising by Giving advertisers more targeted traffic! what’s great about facebook’s advertising is that you can target people based on their age, Gender, interest and even target them on their birthdays! if you’re looking for a way to generate lots of REALLY targeted blog traffic, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Facebook</a> is the best way to go.</p>
<p><strong>3. Pay Blog Directories to feature your blog –</strong> blog directories like blog catalog receives over 45 million visitors a day. you can get a cut from their traffic by adding your blog to their directory and paying them to Feature your blog based on the category that you want. these are what most <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/31dtbabb" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/31dtbabb';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Probloggers</a> do to increase their blog traffic.</p>
<p><strong>4. Pay a blogger to Review your blog –</strong> look for bloggers that are RELATED to your niche and Steal some of their readers by asking them for a Sponsored review.</p>
<p><strong>5. Buy an Ad-spot from a blog related to your niche – </strong>do you know some High traffic blogs that is related to your niche? <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/advertise" target="_blank">buy an ad-spot</a> on their blog and get more referral Traffic.</p>
<p><strong>6. Buy Junk traffic –</strong> if you’re just looking to increase your alexa rankings, junk traffic could sometimes be the answer to your problem. Their cheap, easy to implement and effectively increase your blog traffic!</p>
<p>The Guys over at Visitorboost offers a service like this. <strong>Warning:</strong> don’t depend on junk traffic too much. use this only if you want to improve your alexa rank.</p>
<p><strong>7. Advertise Offline</strong> – Pay someone to Feature you on the most popular newspaper or magazine in your country. you can also pay Radio stations to make a radio commercial for you. or if you really want to make it big time, Get your website on a T.V. commercial. some more ideas are giving away stickers of the logo of your site, getting your website on some billboard and many more! advertising offline to increase your blog’s traffic is practically endless. you just need to be creative.</p>
<p><strong>8. Pay for SEO –</strong> search engine traffic is what every website needs. the higher you rank on Search engines, the more traffic you’ll get. <strong> </strong>The Easiest way to get High Rankings on search engines like google is by paying Someone to do the SEO work for you. it saves you time and a lot of hard work.</p>
<p><strong>9. Make use of Redirects –</strong> Very easy. buy a domain name and create a 301 redirect to your blog. if you do this with a popular domain, it can also be an effective way to increase your blog traffic.</p>
<p><strong>10. Pay Someone to Tweet your website</strong> – look for someone who has a lot of twitter followers or Facebook fans (80,000 people maybe more than enough) get him to tweet your blog by paying him to mention you on one of their tweets or facebook updates. most of the time, 20% of their followers will checkout your blog.</p>
<p><strong>11. Hire someone to do all the Free traffic method for you</strong> – if you like to Get traffic using the free methods and you totally have no time to do it, why not Hire someone to do it for you? :-) the more you outsource, the more time you save! <strong>Remember:</strong> Time is gold. =D</p>
<h4>10 Ways To increase Blog Traffic using the Free Method</h4>
<p><strong>1. Guest Posting –</strong> I highly recommend this. submit a guest post to the top blogs that are related to your niche. do this once a week and pretty soon, you’ll see a huge traffic boost.</p>
<p><strong>2. Article Marketing –</strong> submit an article to popular article directories. it’ll increase your blog traffic and it’s also good for SEO.</p>
<p><strong>3. Youtube – </strong>Create an interesting or helpful video Related to what you are blogging about and upload it on youtube. of course, mention your website on the video and don’t forget to put your Link on the description box.</p>
<p><strong>4. Blog Commenting –</strong> List down the most popular blogs in your niche. Comment on the latest posts on their blog. if they have the top commentators plugin installed, Make sure you get yourself as a top commentator. it’ll also help a lot if you’re the very first person to comment on one of their posts. – of course, Avoid comment spam.</p>
<p><strong>5. Yahoo answers – </strong>sign up for yahoo answers and answer user’s question then add your blog’s url in the resource box. this is one of my best traffic source when I was just starting out.</p>
<p><strong>6. DIY SEO – </strong>Remember on the Paid method when I told you to outsource SEO? on the Free method, you have the choice to do it yourself. Build backlinks to your blog and rank high in google. if you have no idea about Search engine optimization, Checkout this <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/subscriber/SEO_MadeEasy.zip">SEO book</a>. it’ll help you out! :-)</p>
<p><strong>7. Forum Posting – </strong>join webmasters forums or simply a forum that’s related to what you are blogging about. be helpful in the forums by answering user’s questions and sharing your expertise. add more traffic to your blog by adding your blog’s url in your forum signatures.</p>
<p><strong>8. your Facebook and <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Twitter</a> accounts –</strong> create a facebook fanpage and <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">twitter</a> account. build up your account by getting lot’s of people following you. if you have lot’s of followers already, one tweet could generate lots of traffic to your site.</p>
<p><strong>9. Get on the frontpage of digg –</strong> people who gets on the front page of digg get’s over 100,000 people to their sites in a single day. if you’re looking for lots of free traffic, work your way up to the front page of digg.com by getting people to digg your articles.</p>
<p><strong>10. Get people to tweet your posts –</strong> add a “tweet this” button to every post of your page. you can easily do this with tweet meme plugin.<strong> </strong>if lots of people tweets your post, it will definitely increase your blog traffic.</p>
<h4>Bonus Tips to increase blog traffic</h4>
<p>like on any other successful blogs, the tips to increase your blog’s traffic as mentioned above is not enough to make your site a huge success. there are still added actions that you need to do if you’re trying to increase your blog’s traffic.</p>
<p><strong>1. Capture your Visitor’s email address</strong></p>
<p>one of the most common mistakes that websites and blog owners make is the fact that they don’t make an effort to capture their visitor’s email address. this is definitely a wrong move if you’re trying to heavily market your blog.</p>
<p>What you want is to keep visitors comming back to your site. and one way to do that is by Getting their email address. this is one thing that will not only help increase your blog’s traffic but this will also give you a huge advantage over your competion. <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/aweber" target="_blank">Aweber</a> is by far the best Email marketing tool that I highly recommend you use for this.</p>
<p><strong>Biggest tip here</strong>: take advantage of your newly found traffic sources by Capturing your visitor’s email address using the <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/aweber" target="_blank">best email marketing tool</a> around.</p>
<p><strong>2. Chase after <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The best Traffic source for any website</span></strong></p>
<p>There is no doubt that the given tips above are the best traffic source that you can use to increase your blog’s traffic. however, in my own personal opinion, there is no other traffic source that can be compared with <strong>Direct traffic</strong>.</p>
<p>Direct traffic are visitors who came to your site without first visiting a search engine, another site or using some marketing tactic. it’s the kind of traffic that gives you the ‘sign’ that visitors remember your site and quite frankly, this is the kind of traffic that I advice you to chase after. The trick on getting direct traffic is by far very Debatable. the easiest answer here is to – <strong>Get people remember your site</strong>.</p>
<p>Few ideas to get people to remember your site:</p>
<ol>
<li>get an easy to remember domain. (or if you have a domain that’s not very ‘memorable’ you can still buy another one by adding redirects to it.)</li>
<li>get your blog name, logo, or anything that will describe your site included in all your projects like ebooks, videos, etc..</li>
<li>get a consistent flow of traffic to your site.</li>
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<h4>Conclusion:</h4>
<p>increasing your blog’s traffic is easy. and there are lot’s of ways to do it. it’s important that you also take advantage of the traffic by <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/aweber" target="_blank">capturing the visitor’s email address</a> and chase after direct traffic by getting people to remember your blog.  by following the given tips above, you’ll surely will increase your blog’s traffic in no time.</p>
<p>How about you? what’s your most favorite traffic source? do you know any other best way to increase blog traffic? do you have any opinions about the post? share them by posting a comment below! :-)
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		<title>I just Created my first WordPress blog. What&#8217;s next?</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>have you just <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/how-to-start-a-blog-and-make-money" target="_blank">Started your first blog</a> and you keep on wondering what to do next? well, it’s one of the common problems new bloggers face for the first time they created their first wordpress blog. and for those who are just starting out their first blogging business, it takes them a whole book to learn these simple things.</p>
<p>That’s why I’ve written this posts. to provide a simple checklist for new bloggers who are just starting out their blogs. a checklist which if they’ve done everything written here, They can now just focus only on Generating content, marketing their blogs and of course – Make lot’s of money from it! =D</p>
<h4>Get a Google account</h4>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/accounts">Google accounts</a> is truly a god send for all internet marketers and bloggers. without this tool, the internet marketing lifestyle wouldn’t be so much easier. if you don’t have a google account yet, be sure to sign up for one.</p>
<p>here are the main reasons why you should sign up for a google account. Make sure you have these Google services installed in your google account:</p>
<p><strong>1. Burn your feed with </strong><strong><a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a> </strong></p>
<p>be sure you burn your blog’s RSS feed with feed burner. if you’re running a wordpress blog, your blog feed address by default is http://www.yourblogname.com/feed (change ‘yourblogname’ to the actual blog url.)</p>
<p>the reason why I’m telling you this is for feedburner. on the first time you’re going to sign up for a feedburner account, Feedburner will ask you about your blog-feed address. and that’s what you’re suppose to give to them.</p>
<p><strong>2. Set up your <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Google Analytics account</a></strong></p>
<p>Google analytics is by far the best web tracking tool available online and it’s probably one of my most favorite google products ever. it will track your site’s stats like the number of your website visitors, where your audience are from, your biggest traffic sources, top keywords that brings the most traffic to your site and quite frankly a whole lot of information regarding to the activity of your website.</p>
<p>Google analytics is not just a tracking tool. there are more Features in it that you should be able to discover by trying it out yourself. but if you’re just starting a blog, I don’t recommend you to focus in it too much. the reason behind this is because you can get addicted to checking out your blog’s stats too much and actually forgetting about your blog.</p>
<p><strong>3. <a href="http://gmail.com">Gmail</a></strong></p>
<p>Gmail is probably the best choice when it comes to Email accounts. it’s very easy to use! you can also promote more of your brand by <a href="http://micromediawebsites.com/blog/?p=267" target="_blank">creating a POP3 email account and integrating it with gmail</a>.</p>
<p><strong>4. <a href="http://google.com/webmasters">webmaster tools</a></strong></p>
<p>Google webmaster tools is mainly used by website owners for SEO purposes. Sign up on google’s webmaster tools, Add your website and Provide the <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/sitemap.xml">xml sitemap</a> of your site. (you can easily create an xml sitemap for your site by using a plugin called Google sitemap generator.)</p>
<p>you should also Set-up your Preferred domain using webmaster tools. I explained how to do it on one of my posts &#8211; “<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/6-seo-tips-to-create-a-search-engine-friendly-content/">6 Seo tips to create a search engine friendly blog</a>”</p>
<p><strong>5. <a href="http://google.com/adsense">adsense</a> (optional)</strong></p>
<p>if you want to make money online, you might find your success on Pay-per-click sites like the infamous Google adsense.</p>
<p>if you haven’t heard about adsense &#8211; What this program does is that it places Contextual ads relevant to what you’re blogging about. you make money each time one of your visitors clicks on these ‘ads’. so, if you’re looking for an easy way to start making money by blogging, google adsense is probably the easiest way to start.</p>
<h4>Create a Sitemap For your site</h4>
<p>Creating a sitemap for a site is probably the hardest thing to do specially if your blog already has hundreds of posts. But thanks to two wordpress plugins, Creating a sitemap for your wordpress blog has never been so much easier.</p>
<p>to create a sitemap for your site, install these two Plugins on your blog, follow the rest of their instructions and you’ll be good to go. (install Google xml sitemap first)</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/">google xml sitemap generator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/">DD sitemap gen</a></li>
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<h4>Get a Paypal account</h4>
<p>a <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/paypal" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/paypal';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">paypal</a> account is very important especially if you’re into making money online. Almost 80% of my online earnings are paid via paypal and 97% of the time, I make my purchases using paypal instead of my credit card. paypal in my opinion is by far the most Secure and easiest way to send or receive money online. and I just can’t imagine anyone trying to make money on the internet without having a single Verified paypal account.</p>
<h4>Make your Blog Search engine friendly</h4>
<p>While having a Google friendly theme Like the Ultimate blogging theme could make your blog the most search engine friendly blog on the internet, There are still loads of ways that you can do to Improve your off-site optimization by following some of my <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/6-seo-tips-to-create-a-search-engine-friendly-content/">SEO tips to make your blog even more seo friendly</a>.</p>
<h4>Create Pages for your blog</h4>
<p>while Frequently creating blog posts to your blog is crucial, you should also take in consideration adding these simple pages on your blog’s nav-bar. if you still have no idea how to do it, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/pagesandnavbars/pagesandnavbars.html" target="_blank">Check out this video</a>. inside the video, I&#8217;ve talked about creating pages and navbar items using the <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/ultimatebloggingtheme" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/ultimatebloggingtheme';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">ultimate blogging theme</a> and wordpress menus. WordPress menus is a recently added feature by wordpress. if you want to learn more about using wordpress menus checkout this <a href="http://www.expand2web.com/blog/wordpress-30-custom-navigation-menus-video/" target="_blank">video tutorial by Don campbell</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>1. Create an About me page</strong></p>
<p>Readers would love to know a little information about you. it will generate trust and would also build relationship along the way – which is one of the whole point of blogging. to build connections!</p>
<p>on your about page, write something about yourself, about the blog, and basically anything that describes you and your blog.</p>
<p><strong>2. Contact Page</strong></p>
<p>let your readers know that you’re accessible. on your contact page, Provide ways to let people contact you.</p>
<p><strong>3. advertise page (optional)</strong></p>
<p>very Important if you like to sell private advertising on your blog. an advertise page makes it easy for potential advertisers to buy advertising spots on your blog. you can also make selling ad-spots on your blog a whole lot easier by installing useful plugins like OIO publisher which automates the process.</p>
<h4>Get a Customized Logo Design</h4>
<p>Getting a Customized Logo design for your blog is just as important as using a WordPress premium theme. both of them plays a major part on a blog’s branding. if you’re one of those ‘gifted artists’ who can crop good looking images on photoshop, then it’s a good idea to create a <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/logonerds" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/logonerds';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">logo design</a> for your blog.</p>
<p>However, if your like me – I suck at creating beautiful images. you can simply outsource it. The quickest, cheapest and easiest way to do this is through a service that the friends over at logonerds is offering. They create Brilliant logo design for a very affordable prize. if you’re looking to save a little bit of time and want a cool logo for your blog, <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/logonerds" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/logonerds';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">logo nerds</a> is a good choice to go. for under $40, you can get your own customized logo design.</p>
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		<title>Guerilla Blogging&#8230; Have you Heard of it??? it&#8217;s one of the best way to market and make money from your blog.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>elie</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This one is going to be short. Are you a Guerilla blogger??? have you ever heard of Guerilla Blogging???</p>
<p>if you haven’t heard about Guerilla blogging before, Then I *highly* recommend you to Checkout and implement what I’m about to show you right now.</p>
<p>Guerilla blogging is a Method More commonly used by Filipino bloggers. and I’m proud to say, most of them who uses this simple blogging technique had became quite successful. The “main” Idea behind Guerilla blogging is to Find HITLOD keywords (High traffic – low density keywords) and blog about it.</p>
<p>and although finding HITLOD keywords is “the main” point of Guerilla Blogging, There are still dozens of stuffs to learn from it. I won’t talk about it now because I want you to check it out for yourself! =D</p>
<p><strong>The Main Blog Marketing tip here:</strong></p>
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<h4><strong>“<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/Guerilla-blogger.pdf">GUERILLA BLOG! and Be a Guerilla Blogger RIGHT NOW! Click here to download the ebook</a></strong><strong>.” </strong></h4>
<p>Yeah!!! hoorah!!! =D</p></blockquote>
<p>Guerilla blogging “the book” btw, is written by my fellow “pinoy” kababayan bloggers. <a href="http://www.macuha.com">Marghil macuha</a> and <a href="http://www.zdiaz.com">Ziegfried diaz</a>. who are also known as, “guerilla bloggers” themselves. if you don’t know them yet, then you are living under a rock. just to make their introduction short, They are one of the most highly Respected bloggers here in the Philippines.</p>
<p><em>“This post is my <strong>Second entry</strong> to melvinblog’s best blog marketing tip </em><a href="http://www.melvinblog.com/2010/05/melvinblogs-blog-marketing-tip-contest/"><em>contest</em></a><em>. If you want to <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/my-best-so-far-blog-marketing-tips-ever/">checkout my First entry, click here</a>.” </em>
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		<title>3 Comment tips That you can do right now to Make your Blog Comments more Cool than others.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>after browsing through the comments from my last post, “<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/my-best-so-far-blog-marketing-tips-ever/">My best blog marketing tip</a>” I noticed that Most of you who commented still Haven’t done something to personalize your comments yet, like signing up for a gravatar account or even placing your website address on the comment form.</p>
<p>I highly appreciate the comment/feedbacks you gave there and I understand you’re supporting me for the contest. however, I thought about that there will also be a “slight” chance that the “contest judges” would think that your comments are fake. :-)</p>
<p>what we want is to “prove” to the sponsors and judges that you guys are “human”. now, you might be wondering how are we going to do that.. right? it’s simple. By making our blog comments even more Cool! :-)</p>
<blockquote><p>Disclaimer: I’m not doing this because I think your comments looks “lame” nor I want to make your comments  look “cool.”</p>
<p>I’m simply doing this since this tutorial is basically one of the most common important step you’re going to do eventually especially if you’re interested to <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/start-a-blog-and-make-money/">start a blog and make money</a> from blogs and I completely understand that most of my readers are new to blogging and I think this simple tutorial is also going to be one of the key factors to help you out and get you “ready”. ;-)</p></blockquote>
<p>With that said, here are the quick comment tips that you can do right now That&#8217;ll Gradually Make your blog Comment stand out from the rest. ;-)</p>
<h4>1. Always add a “Website” to the comment form</h4>
<p>Just because the form is asking for a “website” doesn’t mean that you should have a “website” to type in there. you can still put any links you want in it like a link to your <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook-movie" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook-movie';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Facebook</a>/multiply/friendster Profiles. to give you a more detailed explanation, here are some examples:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Facebook</a>:“http://www.facebook.com/eliepalima”</li>
<li>Multiply:“http://www.eliepalima.multiply.com”</li>
<li><a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">Twitter</a>: “http://www.<a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/twitter';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">twitter</a>.com/elie_palima”</li>
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<p><strong>Why do this? &#8211; </strong>not only that it will make your comment look more “cool” but it will also Give other blog-commenter and the site’s admin a better chance to get to know you and connect with you. which is also one of the main point on blog commenting. every time you’re going to comment on a blog, remember to always type in a “website url” for each comment you make.</p>
<h4>2. Get a Gravatar</h4>
<p><a href="http://gravatar.com">Gravatar</a> is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.</p>
<p>When you first make a comment on this blog, and you still haven’t signed up for a Gravatar account yet(it’s free to sign up btw) your blog comment “avatar” on this site would most likely look like this:<img style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; display: inline;" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/" alt="" width="69" height="69" /></p>
<p><img style="margin: 0px 0px 22px;" src="http://www.elie-palima.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/comment.JPG" alt="" width="598" height="153" /></p>
<p>However, if you’re already a Gravatar user, Your comments would most likely be lively by having your own photo/image as your avatar. This is a good thing especially when you’re promoting something like your website or product for example, Upload your own Photo and most likely People who’ll see your comment would most likely trust you since photos simply proves that “your human.” :-)</p>
<p>if you don’t have a gravatar account yet, I highly suggest you Sign up for one and upload your own photo or any image that will represent you. again, it’s 100% free and you’ll only need a valid email address to sign up.</p>
<h4>3. People loves to hear your opinion. Give it to them!</h4>
<p>The main point on adding a comment is all about letting other people know what you think by sharing your thoughts and opinion. Writing a simple Phrase like “wow. great post” is not enough and there’s also going to be a chance that your comment could be filtered as spam.</p>
<p>Don’t be afraid to share your opinions. COMMENT. ;-)</p>
<p>Remember, these are 3 tips that you can implement RIGHT NOW. so if you’re ready, please take your time to comment below this post. (I want to know how you did!) :D</p>
<p>Side note: I’m thinking about the people, who Posted a comment on “my best blog marketing tip ever” post who never had the chance to add their website url, Anyways, if you’re one of those guys, I’ll be contacting you pretty soon and ask you if it’s ok for you to post your <a href="http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook" style="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmouseover="self.status='http://www.elie-palima.com/facebook';return true;" onmouseout="self.status=''">facebook</a> profile as a website. :-D</p>
<p>again, <strong>Don’t forget to comment below and let the world see how you’ve done</strong>. ;-)
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