Productivity Hacks

Ask any top blogger in the blogosphere and he/she will tell you that they all struggled with starting their blog, and every wannabe guru had a bag of tricks they were eager to sell.

Blogging has been around for a long time and has picked up over the last decade. Blogging is a highly competitive space as even journalists are stepping up and starting their blogs.

Its a great way to create and showcase your portfolio and skills on the social web. Its only a matter of time, when blogging is added to curriculum and employers ask you if you have a blog at your next interview.

If you haven’t started blogging yet? Its time you did.
Haven’t you heard of the saying “The best time to start a blog was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”.
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With this post I must agree that I myself break a few of the rules I’m stating. But, there is always an exception. Right?

Well.. If you look closely, I am standing out from the regular blog names.

Lets get to the post as to why its important that you make the best choice possible to choose your blog name.

There are hundreds of blogs that you can remember because of the brand built around it, but there are also hundreds of blogs that are.. you know..forgotten.

This is mainly because the blogger was an amateur or just did not have the time to not put in enough effort into picking a blog name.

There are seven key elements that you must consider while starting a new blog and picking out a blog name.

Readers should not have to figure out what the blog was about, but by simply reading the URL or name they should know what the blog is going to be about.

There is also the negative aspects that you need to consider. Over the last year I’ve noticed a lot of crazy domain names come out in an effort to master the niche market and fail because they did not consider what is outlined in this article.

You will also need to foresee any impact that your blog name might encounter and bring your earnings down. You do not want to lose out on an excellent revenue opportunity just because you were in a hurry and did not take the time to do your research.
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Of course, you are here reading this post because you want to write a blog post that people will read.

This is not the only process but there are various other blog structure as well.

However, as a marketing I prefer this flow and have achieved positive results.

What is the purpose behind you writing a blog post?

You want to educate the reader, market a product and may be you want them to buy something that your selling.

You want them to know about product that your promoting, and eventually like and buy.

The primary objective for me to write a blog post is pretty much the same, I want my readers to talk to me about their business and how I can help them make things easier with their blogs.

That is why I even offer consulting services for blog optimization.
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No one likes it when things go bad. Especially not when you have put in years of efforts and it all goes to waste.

It happened to me, it was 2 years ago when one of my top earning blog was hacked and my lack of knowledge about how to secure your blog cost me 1 years of blog work.

With my heart filled with pain having to loose the blog, readers and reputation I built, I closed down my blog. I did not let that keep me down, I started another blog, afraid of being hacked if I used the same blog.

This time I wanted to make sure that I never lose any of my blog work or let my efforts go in vain. I learned everything that I could about blog security.

I am prepared now, if you have a hacked websites,you have all the resources to Secure Your Blog get the site up and running in no time. While I take all these efforts to protect my blog and the efforts I’ve put into it, there are hackers out there still trying to destroy blogs all around the world.

Blogs both big and small are hacked all around the world, they spare no one. From my experience, its better to stay safe than sorry.

When top sites and business are being affected, Zappos Hacked, Facebook Hacked, I think you need to secure your blog as well.
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A few days back, I wrote a post titled “5 Tricks to Writing Blog Posts in Record Time” after the social engagement the post received, I decided to do one similar to write a popular blog post.

These articles are solely focused on writing high quality blog posts and popular ones. The information is derived from analyzing a set of popular posts from different set of blogs.

Even though they are not huge volume of data they do give us a glimpse into what are the success defining factors of the posts.

I hope the information that I share here will be sufficient for you to come up with the next popular blog post.
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Stepping up your blogging efforts to integrate email marketing into your business is vital to its marketing success.

It’s imperative that you understand the best practices of Email Marketing so that you do not make a mess of your marketing strategies.

Email marketing can be overwhelming if your a newbie blogger. Defining a clear goal and a plan to execute the goal will help you come up with a very effective strategy.

Before getting into Email Marketing there is quite a bit that you need to know to ensure that your email campaign is a success.

This is a good read be it your a new bloggers or a old one as long as you want to make sure your email efforts don’t go to waste.

Email marketing is more than just your blog posts being delivered to your readers via email. being able to provide qualitative information to subscribers and adding value with every email you send is what that will make you successful.

In order for you to achieve success with an email marketing campaign, you need to ensure that your email campaign is top notch.

Let me begin with the most important best practice first.
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