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How to Use Referral Traffic: This Is the Way to Make Your Blog Grow

October 21, 2017 by Janice Wald 24 Comments

Are you trying to get referral traffic?

Have you ever tried to use referral traffic?

Guest author Emenike Emmanuel will explain 7 ways to use referral traffic to massively grow your blog.

How To Use Referral Traffic To Grow Your Blog

If there’s one thing that matters a great deal to a blogger as far as their blogging career is concerned, it’s how to get huge traffic.

Unfortunately, many amateur bloggers suck at that. They have spent many years in the game but growing beyond 100 page views per day has been too hard a journey.

I know what it feels like because I have been there, but what some of us don’t realize is that with over 2 million blog posts being published every single passing day, as revealed by MarketingProfs, it’s now obvious that for you to get tons of traffic to your blog, you must start thinking beyond the scope of what you were taught before now.

You need a proven system for generating recurring traffic that’s guaranteed to work. One such technique is REFERRAL TRAFFIC.

By the end of this post, you will learn how to use referral traffic to grow your blog.

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How to Make the Perfect Content in 6 Simple Ways Now and Always

October 17, 2017 by Janice Wald 27 Comments

The third quarter of the year recently ended.

Did you check to see which blog posts are in contention for the best-performer of the year?

For the last quarter, my top performing article is an expert interview about article writing. The post has received more than double the other page views for the quarter.

Clearly, there is interest in article writing ideas.

That post actually explained how to find ideas for article writing. Today’s guest author Jennifer Scott shares 6 additional tips. Most of these were not shared in the expert interview.

How to Generate Ideal Article Writing Ideas for Your Blog

by Jennifer Scott

Most writers at some point will end up having a bit of trouble keeping up with their flow of producing great, relevant content. If you are struggling with this at the moment, then why not try one of the methods below to help get you back into creating quality content for your blog that your audience will want to read?

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Google Maps Widget: How to Be a More Unique Blogger with This Free Plugin, 17 Tips

October 12, 2017 by Janice Wald 16 Comments

Are you a travel blogger?

Are you a lifestyle blogger who blogs about exotic locations?

Are you a restaurant reviewer?

Are you a news and current events blogger?

Then WordPress’s Google Maps Widget is for you.

The first three bloggers need to show the place they are describing. The news blogger needs to show the place the news event occurred.

All four bloggers could benefit from having maps on their sites.

How to get a map?

Simple! Use the free Google Maps Widget plugin.

This post will explain other advantages of the plugin and how to use the plugin for your WordPress site.

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How to Make Money from Virily and 6 More Sites That Pay You

October 8, 2017 by Janice Wald 46 Comments

Are you familiar with revenue sharing sites like Virily?

If you are interested in making money online, you should be.

I asked my blogging friend Debby if she had heard that the unthinkable happened:

Niume stopped paying its writers for page views.

She indicated she had heard and then wrote two words which haunted me: “Now what?”

This post will answer that question.

Niume was not the only revenue sharing site in town!

This post will describe Virily, explain how you can be paid for your writing at that website, and then offer six more revenue sharing sites where you can make money writing.

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Blogging Problems: What to Do When Your Blog Is Offline, 11 Activities

October 7, 2017 by Janice Wald 35 Comments

What to Do When Your Blog Is Offline: 11 Activities

by Ryan Biddulph

Panic.

Frayed nerves.

Fingernails terrorized, worn down to the cuticles.

The old me flipped out when my blog went offline.

Whether a hack-a-fest targeted my blog or the culprit was scheduled maintenance, I feared….loss. I’d lose traffic, profits, comments and my online reputation if my blog went down for more than 5 minutes. Or so I thought.

The modern-day me laughs at that old fool. I have since learned that when your blog is offline it can be a fabulous blessing.

My blog is offline now at least 24 hours due to scheduled maintenance. I am as calm as a Buddhist monk after 15 glasses of warm milk.

If you are as nervous as a gazelle who mistakenly wandered into a lion pride when your blog goes down, engage in these 11 activities to feel good about the planned – or unplanned – downtime.

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ShortPixel Plugin Review: 22 Ways This Wonderful Free Plugin Will Help You

October 5, 2017 by Janice Wald 20 Comments

Are you aware a slow-loading site could seriously ruin your chances of getting search engine traffic to your blog or website?

You know you need graphics to capture the interest of potential visitors.

Are you aware this amounts to 65% of the population? It’s true. Most of the population consists of visual learners who learn by looking at pictures.

However, if you have pictures, they slow the loading speed of your site. These are the consequences:

Google won’t show your website to their search engine users.
People trying to access your site will hit the back arrow and go elsewhere due to impatience waiting for your site to load.
This will tell Google, even more, you have an undesirable site and again your visibility in the popular search engine will drop.

ShortPixel is your solution. This freemium WordPress plugin will make sure your site loading time isn’t affected by your website graphics.

This article will give you more information about ShortPixel, explain why it’s the right image compressor plugin for you, and offer a tutorial describing how to use this plugin.

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How to Never Run Out of Blog Post Ideas: 45 Experts Share Secrets

October 1, 2017 by Janice Wald 71 Comments

Blindsighted.

That’s how I felt when my daughter asked me if I feared running out of blog post ideas.

My answer: Not so far.

As I enter my fourth year of blogging, I am preparing for the worst: running out of blog post topics.

Like a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter, I gathered 25 blog post ideas to make sure my readers and I avoid Writers’ Block.

Is that enough?

I create new content six times a month. At that rate, I’d be out of blog post ideas in just over four months.

Why not ask the experts for their hacks?

I gathered 45 bloggers of various experience levels. In all their years of blogging, how did they safeguard against running out of blog post ideas?

They will offer so many ideas in this post, you will never run out of blog post ideas again.

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Blog Writers: How to Be Unique on the Web, 5 Tips

September 26, 2017 by Janice Wald 37 Comments

Blog Writers: You know with millions of blogs on the internet, the competition for readership is fierce.

You also know that in order to beat that competition you need to make your blog stand out.

Recently, I published You Need to Find Your Voice: How to Improve Your Writing Persona. Did you feel that post was over-the-top?

Reaction to the post was so mixed, the issue of how to make your blog stand out actually became controversial.

The guest author who wrote the post finds success in the blogging world by being so unique she writes from the point of view of a dog.

Consider these comments: “It’s a pretty great feeling to feel as though you can just be yourself and that you don’t have to pretend to be something you’re not. All too often people think they have to pretend – but NOPE. People like REAL!”

If you agree with this commenter, this post is for you. Today’s guest author Nelma Lumme explains how to stand out in the crowded internet by being a unique blogger without changing your persona.

Follow Nelma’s 5 tips for being one of the unique blog writers, and you can stand out and still be yourself.

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31 Best Free Time Management Tools: How to Be More Productive

September 24, 2017 by Janice Wald 31 Comments

Someone recently observed, “We are all time poor.”

Can you relate? I can.

That’s why I use the time management tools in this article.

I’ve used them, love them, and am recommending them to you.

In addition, this article will post testimonials so you can see how much other people believe these apps and websites are genuinely the best time management tools available today.

These free productivity tools are grouped by their functions:

Tools and websites which will help you save time with your