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Have you ever asked yourself this question: “How often should I post?”
You probably have, maybe you came to the right conclusion, maybe you didn’t. In this post we are going to get through a couple of points which could change your way of writing blog posts and how many.
Quality over Quantity
Would you rather read 70 short and very bad articles each week, from a blog or 7 kick-ass articles each week?
Now not everybody can produce 7 kick-ass articles each week, and some articles are better than others.
In general you should find a balance where you feel you can provide value to people and still produce more than 3 articles each week. The length of the post doesn’t matter, but don’t publish an unfinished article. You need to get every single point written, before you hit publish.
You just need to think of it, how you would like yourself to have it. If you can publish 14 kick-ass articles each week, I think that you should stay with a maximum of 7-9 articles each week. Of course depending on your niche, but in most niches 7-9 kick ass articles will be just fine.
If you can produce those 14 kick-ass articles then I recommend you to write 4 guest posts each week and then schedule some of next week’s articles. If you are capable of doing that, you really are cool. I should be the first to admit, that I can’t do that.
I am not creative enough to come up with 14 different topics, maybe if I tried I could, but then I would easily get burned out, but again, if you can do that, then go for it. To publish 4 guest articles each week, really is powerful. You will be able to get something from those articles, you send to the blog owners.
So try to find a balance where you will not get burned out, or where the quality of what you write will drop. I think 6-8 posts is just fine. That is how I am writing, weekly.
It’s Up To You
That’s the truth. You decide how many times you want to post each week. The more frequent you post the better it is for building traffic and a better Google Rank, but what do readers really want?
Nobody can read 1000 words everyday if it is boring posts, if your posts are good then publish 1000 word articles each day, but you will at some point find it hard if readers skip your blog posts, because you simply post to many articles.
So finding the balance between you and your readers is probably what you need to do. You can try and explore what other people in your niche are doing. How frequent do they post to their blog?
Do you think by slowing a bit, down they would get more comments? Or do they need to post more frequent?
There is no exact “formula” you can rely on, it is completely different from every niche. Some niches just want loads of information, news etc (like the tech niche), while other niches are aiming for more story telling and so on – more experience based than news based.
So it depends on your niche, how often you should post.
How to Increase Your Productivity in 8 Easy Steps
Productivity is one of the biggest problems for me nowadays (and for others). I am the worst time manager ever. Last night I ended up writing no blog posts, but hell lots of tweeting. That isn’t waste of time, but just a sign that I can’t manage my time, that well.
I think lots of bloggers and twitter-ers are pretty bad to manage their time – while sitting in front of their computer. We might go tweeting, instead of blogging. As I did. Or they find other distractions, if they don’t want to write a blog post.
I don’t think it is smart to force yourself writing blog posts, but if you have a brilliant idea, but you just don’t want to write it. You should start writing it. I have collected some tools I use and methods/techniques I use, to be productive.
Everybody Isn’t Perfect and That Affects Your Blog
We are all not perfect as well, nothing is perfect…
Definition of perfect: Perfect is a non-existing thing that people try to find or live up to. No one can be perfect because everyone has faults of some sort. If anything ever was perfect that should be (for the believers) the person who maybe died on a cross 2000 years ago.
This in other words means that you are allowed not to be perfect. No one expects you to be perfect.
I know that I suck at stuff. Other people are really bad at some other stuff, we all have our strengths and our weaknesses. I should be the first to admit that my English grammar isn’t the best, especially my punctuation. I am aware of that, I know there is something I can work with.
Do you have that as well? Now that we know everyone isn’t perfect, then what aren’t you perfect at? There probably
is something blogging related. Share with us, if you share it with us – then you’ve already done the first thing.
Which is to be aware of your imperfectness. Though sometimes you can’t do a single thing about your imperfectness, but when you can, just try to improve. Of course you do not need to try to be perfect, because that is unreachable. You can always try to improve your imperfectness, but you can never be perfect.
Not Good at Writing?
This reminds me of an email I got a couple days ago. It was a sales email, I read it anyway. It said something like this “I’m not much of a writer, so I’m now using this automated blogging system.” I was just thinking, do you really wanna give that sh*t to your readers?
If you can’t write good, then just write your best. Do never do anything automated. It really is a stupid thing to do. The content have probably been published before you published it and it probably isn’t better than your own content.
If you are having trouble writing good content, then sit down and edit and add something here and there, make it more appealing and add more meat. You just need to practice then, take your time. Edit it a few times, till you have a stunning article.
Therefore be more satisfied and if you keep editing on every single post, then you will also be better to write the articles, without having to edit them. So that’s just practice.
What to Do About it?
You need to analyze what the problem is. What you can improve on, and we are talking about the imperfection of your blog writing, especially. You can also use this to see what you can improve on in other topics. But I have written this post so you will be able to improve your blog.
You should be able to see your own imperfection, if not then ask another person. But please, tell me that you know, there’s something you can work on? Something you can improve on. When you have analyzed the problem, then you can easily see how you can improve.
Practice, practice and practice.
You just need to admit that you can improve. If it is a big thing then you should try to improve as soon as possible, but if it isn’t a big problem then why not screw it? Is it worth it to use 5 hours to improve something that really isn’t so urgent?
What can you improve on?
How to Guest Post the Tactical Way
I have talked a bit about guest posting before, in this post we are going to talk about how you can write guest posts a tactical way. Let’s jump right to the meat.
You are writing guest posts to get known, to get traffic, to get readers. Just to get more popularity. I know that guest posting is a so good tool when you are trying to build your audience. It can build up traffic, credibility.
I think you should try to publish as many guest posts as you can. Just be sure not to burn out, you should always know your limits. If you are comfortable writing 1 blog post each day, then do that. If you like 1 post every second day, then go for that.
The thing is that you shouldn’t write too much, so eventually later on you will burn out. The first priority should be your blog and marketing your blog that is definitely #1. Then you can when you have written today’s blog post, then you can go for the guest post or anything else after that.
Remember content is what drives a blog.
This was a bit of a sidetrack, but I just wanted to make sure you shouldn’t go out and market your blog, without writing the content. So when you have written your blog post then write the guest post.
When Writing a Blog Post
The first thing when writing a guest post is: you should look at the blog you are about to guest post on, look at his content. How long is it, what are the topics (then you know what fits his readers) and then try to “copy” those thing.
When you do that, you s
hould write an article that fits the blog, it should definitely be quality. Give away your best articles, that is what you should do when you write a guest post. Quality, quality and quality.
So the only thing is not the post. You need a bioline. These are important, that is the lines where your blog link is. It should be an appealing and descriptive text of you and your blog. Much like an elevator pitch.
It might be a good idea to talk with the guy, before submitting the post. Talk to him and ask if it is okay if you send him an guest article? And if he says, yeah sure. Cool then you’re in his little club. After some hours when you have written the post, give it to him. Be sure you have proof read it. It really is important. That everything is good here.
The Day After the Blog Post
Now this is when we start getting more tactical. You already know the kind of stuff he is producing, what kind of content.
The last cause, “what kind of content” is important.
Because after you published the article, people will stream on to your blog and they will read more of your content because they liked it so much.
And you want to satisfy them, they want some good content. Therefore you do need your next blog article to consist of nothing but quality. The same way that your guest post was. Not only the quality way, but also the “kind of content” alike. So they if his content is quite techy, then your next blog post should also be techy.
Then people will subscribe, the days after the blog post you should keep doing this a few days after. Then you will be able to gain some readers from that guest post, instead of just traffic for a couple of days.
Take care, just study the audience you are about to post for, before posting.
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Learn How You Should Improve Yourself
Yesterday when I was trying to fall a sleep after I had chatted for, too long, with some bloggers then I thought. “How Can I Improve Myself Online?”
I figured out that I could improve, lots of things. The first thing I did was that I noted it on my iPod Touch, so that I was able to remember it today, when I woke up today I checked my iPod Touch and then I wrote my “schedule” for today. What I needed to do, and how, now these things is done.
I have made some changes on my email list and I really think that I have done the right things. I have removed the report completely from my email list and I will start to write some more quality content to the subscribers in the hope of new and better relationships.
So if you aren’t subscribed then you should subscribe now, I feel like this is going to be big. So subscribe, my biggest recommendation, for you today!
What Can You Do?
I think you should do the same. Brainstorm, what can you do better? When you get the result, then do it. Instead of just knowing it. You really should take action. Action is a key when you are doing anything online.
It could mean a lot to your business, to make some major changes. I have done some changes, you know here and there. I think if everybody did stuff like this every month, then they will be much more successful, because they will be able to improve a blog much better. Because they sit down and just think of some problems. “What Do I Want to Improve?”
So do a monthly “what can I do better”-thing, with yourself and your business.
You could also ask someone else “What do you think I could do better?”
If you think everything is perfect, then ask someone else. Not everybody know how they can improve. So they have to ask someone else. If they are honest with you, they will always be able to think of something you can improve.
You shouldn’t, of course, just go change what they’re saying, you should look honest at what he/she is saying, if they are right, then do the change. If not, then don’t change anything. Really be critical, here.
Sometimes it will help if you ask two or more persons and then they will tell you, because if they are telling you the same thing, then they’re probably right. I think that this is a key point, if you ask them and get their opinion, of course their honest opinion, then you will be able to change something.
Try do it and take your time, thinking of it, It is important that you are not making any hasty changes. Think them through, before taking action. – If you still can’t find any bad things about your blog, post a comment and I will happily do a case study for you.
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How to Construct Interviews That Rocks
This is a follow-up post to the previous post I wrote the “12 Types of Blog Posts”-post. In this post I am going to explain how to make a good interview, which will be shared and commented a lot.
An interview is not just an interview, with another person. When you are publishing interview on your blog you should do a lot of work before shooting the interview with the person. You should try to get as many opinion from the person you’re interviewing, because everybody want to know about their opinions.
Preparation For The Interview
As when you are shooting a video you need to be prepared. You can’t just get some questions right away. And you shouldn’t only prepare questions, there is much more you should prepare.
Research the Person
Changes are that you know the person you’re going to invite, but even if you do then you should do some research. Just what he does and what he likes etc, if he/she has a blog then it should be no problem.
Just be sure that you know who this person is in general, if you normally are using explicit language on your blog, but this person isn’t then I think you should cut of all the explicit of the interview. The person may feel bad about using explicit words in your interview and may find it hard to tolerate stuff like that. So just cut that off.
Just be prepared, who is this person and why do you want to interview him?
Prepare a Couple of Questions
Questions, questions, questions. That is what an interview is all about. You need to have some question prepared, it can take lots of time if not are familiar with interviews, but it is pretty easy, when you have done the research of the person.
Try to ask the person some questions that you would like to know about him, try to ask new things instead of things he already have been asked before. Then the person will also be more likely to link to it, if it is new, you know? If all this stuff is new instead of the old stuff. You are asking him new things, while everybody else is asking a cook blogger how he cook, or something like that.
So ask new questions, instead of the same “routine questions.”
When you have your list of questions, ask the person you want to interview if they would like them, so they can prepare for the interview as well.
Types of Questions
Changes are that your audience would not know the person you are interviewing, so I think that it is really necessary, that you ask for a short introduction, just shoot the question “Can you tell a bit about yourself?” – that would work. If it is a blogger then the person would tell them where they can find their blog.
As I said before then you need to stand out from the crowd with your interview. Ask new and inspiring questions, instead of the same old boring stuff, if you are interviewing a problogger then you should ask over 95% blogging questions, it is okay to have some off-topic questions.
Also try to be funny, prepare some funny questions, the funniest questions is almost always the off-topic questions.
So try to shoot a couple of off-topic questions, because they are probably the funniest questions you can ask and it can give some opinions and reveal stuff about their private life.
Types of Interview
There is three types of interviews. Maybe more, but these are those I know about.
- Text Interviews
- Voice Interviews
- Video Interviews
The first one “text interviews” is just an interview, where you send the questions to the person and then he/she is emailing the answers back to you. Probably the easiest way to make an interview
The second, “voice interviews” could be you calling the person on Skype and then recording from there.
The third will be the same, but just Skype with webcam.
The second and the third would give you much more credibility, then you actually have talked to for an example Tony Robbins or a person like that.
I hope this blog post inspired you to start interviewing some people. So what is your take? Any way you want to share, how do you construct your interviews? Please let us know in the comments, much appreciated!
12 Types of Blog Posts
I hope I can give you some new insights in blogging, new ways to write is good, it challenge you as a writer, but your readers will also like the variation. So just try to write some new blog posts, than the same old blog posts all the time.
1. Instructional posts
In this kind of post you are telling the reader how to do something. These kind of articles are often quite big on Digg, they are also called “How-to”-articles.
2. Informational posts
This kind of post is a post which is telling the reader a method or a general thing, almost always a problem which they are making clear of, but not giving a concrete solution.
3. Reviews posts
You probably know this kind of post. All those affiliate products which are being sold by reviews. It is a post where you’re reviewing a product. Normally the article includes an affiliate link.
4. Lists posts
These posts are really popular, list posts are my all time favorite posts type. The article is often shared by many people and they are relatively easy to write.
5. Interviews posts
Something I should do more often. I love writing the questions and afterwards ask people the questions, they are also shared by many people, because people like the interaction between two people. Interviews also gives your readers another opinion than your opinion all the time.
If you write a blog about politics and you are totally liberalist, then interview a socialist – you would also be able to start a heavy debate, doing that.
6. Case studies posts
I just started doing case studies on DaneBlogger, the first case study will be published soon.
A case study is an example. You can walk your readers through a problem on another site (the type of case study I’m doing) or if you just watched a person who treated a dog very bad, then tell how you should react if the dog was misbehaving in this way.
So you tell about a problem and then come up with solutions, or just how you can improve a particular thing.
7. Profiles posts
Instead of focusing on a dog, you could focus on a person, a brand instead. So the same as case studies just about a person.
8. Links posts
This is an easy way to write a blog post. If you read a blog post and you feel inspired then you should write a blog post and tell your point of view, but only if you feel inspired. Don’t just fire off some bad stuff. Only share good blog posts.
Share the posts you could be writing on your own blog.
9. Comparison posts
This is a very funny way, to do write a blog post. You can make a list. Pro vs. cons.
The blog post here, could compare two or more products – and then make pro vs. cons on every product. Then write a conclusion on which product you would choose.
10. Rants posts
Rant posts are funny to write, even more funny to read. It is just where say what’s on your mind, and just like it is. You shouldn’t hide anything.
11. Research posts
Research posts can take time and you need to consider the sources you take from. Try to include some statistics in the blog posts. They are fun to read.
12. Prediction posts
I think almost everybody who reads DaneBlogger have done a post like this. The title could be “What Will Happen in 2010?” or “What Would Happened in 2009?” something like that.
I hope this inspired you to write some new stuff on your blog. It really is important that you vary your post types, your readers would like it too. Unless they are totally conservative.
Does Article Marketing Work? I Just Increased My Income by 66.69% With Three Articles
Guest post by Britt Malka
Often, it’s not easy to measure how much impact article marketing really has.
You’ve probably seen an increase in your traffic, but did it affect the bottom line of your bank account at the end of the month?
Last year, I decided to participate in the Hundred Articles in Hundred Days event that started January 1st, and I’m only a little behind schedule. Out of the articles I’ve written so far, three of them pointed to a specific page in the resource box.
Allow me to go more into details here, so you really will be able to see, just how powerful article marketing is.
A while ago, I purchased the Mini-Site Formula, and I decided to test it. So I followed the instructions, and build a page which I chose to put only eBay ads on.
What really intrigued me about this product was that there were no hype about it. If you could make about $3 per day, you’ve reached your goal. Then you could make a new site that made $3 per day, and after a while, you would make real good money.
A few videos points to the site, but I haven’t really been advertising for it in any way. Even so, this site made me money each month. Not a lot, but some, and for being a site, I almost never write on, I’m pretty satisfied. Last month I received 28 euro ($39), and it’s been around those numbers every month.
The site is made up as a blog, where I have written 19 short posts.
When I submitted three of my articles to Ezine Articles, I pointed to one specific blog post in three of them, and not only did I see a spike in the traffic. I could also measure an increase in the gains, I’ve made so far (the month’s not finished yet).
I went from 28,01 euro last month to 46,69 this month, and since eBay not shows you gain for the last two days, I can make much more than that, before the end of January.
That’s a huge increase of 66.69%.
Or more than $9 per article, if you like.
Would you think it’s worth your time to write articles, if you knew that each of them would bring in at least $9 already the first month?
One of the advantages with articles is that they stay online. The $9 I gained more per article was just this month’s result. I expect that to be much higher next month.
So, I’m pretty happy that I decided to join the Hundred Articles in Hundred Days challenge, because that was the motivation I needed to get started writing a serious amount of articles. After all – one article a day? How hard can that be?
You’ll see, it’s fun, especially when the money starts pouring in.
Britt Malka is from Denmark, she knows how to write, in a very good and attractive way. She is big in Denmark, really a writing-expert. So take notes, folks.
How Article Marketing Can Benefit Your Blog
Article marketing has been around for awhile, still not many people are using it properly. Article marketing is a type of advertising for businesses (in this case blogs), the articles are made available for publication, typically on a article directory.
Every single article contains a “bio text” which includes a references and blog address. Your articles has to be well written, because if they aren’t then they will not be distributed on another page. A well written article will also have the potential of increasing your credibility level.
History of Article Marketing
Some people think that article marketing, is a quite new phenomenon, it isn’t. It was used long before Internet marketing was a big thing. It is actually used offline as well. A local business could provide useful content to a newspaper free of charge and in return the newspaper have to put the business owner’s contact detail on it.
Online Article Marketing
Now Internet marketing, is quite hip (think it’s first time I am using that word 
) article marketing has moved the way to be an online resource as well as offline resource.
Online it is more powerful, (when we’re talking about blog promotion) a local newspaper commercial wouldn’t do so much for you? Would it?
Online article marketing has taken over the world. Maybe not, but it’s close.
The website where a author (blogger) can publish their article, is called an article directory. An example of a article directory could be Ezine Articles, it is big but a good page rank. The reason why an article directory can keep it up, is because they get new content every day (which Google love) and that means traffic.
Which means that people are more likely to place their ad on the article directory’s site. It is quite a win-win situation. Nowadays articles whom are submitted to article directories are keyword optimized to target a particular niche, which means there’s lots of bullshit out there.
Many marketers love this way of building backlinks, somebody really benefit from it, they have submitted over 1000 articles, which is a lot, that is also a quite big bunch of backlinks.
Web 2.0
Article marketing has been much more popular as we get new sites all the time, this also means that the quality of these articles are really low, which actually gives us no reason for using them on our own site.
So this “sudden” popularity of article marketing, really has been bad for it.
When we are talking about web 2.0 I would like to mention the pages called “HubPages” and “Squidoo” they rank really good on Google, if you write some good content and point back to your blog then you really can get some good traffic and establish a readership in that way.
To use Squidoo is really a good way of distributing your articles, as this service really rank good.
Conclusion
It is hard to stand out from the crowd when we are talking about article marketing, because of the big popularity. But when you are publishing them, please make them absolutely stunning!
You need to make them really good, to give you more than a backlink.
New Stuff on DaneBlogger: Case Studies
From now on we are starting on something new here on DaneBlogger.
What we are starting with is case studies. I will do a case study for your blog for free, really, for free.
Your blog doesn’t need to be a blog about blogging. Actually I would appreciate if I get some other blogs than just blogging blog. I’d rather go for a cooking blog or something.
The only thing you need to be aware of, is that I’m going to review your blog. The review can be good and bad at same time. You will be aware of your rights and wrongs.
So when you are requesting a case study it will be focusing most on the wrongs, to tell the people what you really do wrong, so they can do that better. Of course you will also be told what you do right. But definitely the wrongs the most and how you can improve that.
What Exactly is a Case Study
I define a case study as a way for others to see how a blog could be improved. Much like a review for a blog, but just focusing on how to make the blog better, than it already is, that’s the short definition.
So that’s also how you could expect the case study to be. I will upload the case study, to a video sharing site, so it’s going to be video, so I can explain what I really mean and so on.
I have already gotten two blogs to be case studied, so I have some in my queue. I will not take blogs to case study, without the permission from the blog owner. I wouldn’t mind if someone case studied my blog, but I think others wouldn’t like that.
When You Submit a Case Study
When you submit a case study, should you either use the contact form, Twitter or Skype, to contact me. I have a few questions I’ll ask you.
Those are:
What are you traffic sources?
Example of an answer: 70% search engines, 20% referral, 10 % direct (this answer can be found in Google Analytics)
Would you like to make money from your blog?
Example of an answer: yes, $300 a month.
I don’t need to know how many visits you get, it’s okay if you include that. I wont mention the amount of traffic if you don’t like, but if you mention the amount, please tell me that I can’t tell it in “public”
You can tweet me @DaneBlogger, or use the contact form here, if you want my Skype just ask me on Twitter and you’ll get!
Have an awesome weekend!
Hello, I'm Mikkel Juhl, young blogger. I started blogging in 2007, let's say that I've been around for a while. I'm 14 years old, I have a passion for