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Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that Define Your Blog Growth

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On this blog I’ve talked about building a successful blog, writing a popular blog post and various other blog marketing related articles.

Its good to know and learn about the various aspects of blogging and the techniques that you should follow to grow.

But, do you really know how your efforts are transitioning into results?

What are you measuring and what they mean to your success?

Bloggers often just rely on Page Views to define their blog’s growth. This is not complete and will not give you actual results.

Meaning, there are 10 different things you might be doing on your blog.

For example, you do content marketing, social media promotions, list building. These three aspects have different measurement criteria and they all need to be tracked and measured accordingly.

Take any digital marketing campaign and you will find three of the most important focus areas.

Reach. Engagement. Conversion.

The following focus areas will help you to Measure and determine if you are blogging efforts are really paying off.
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How to Write Popular Blog Posts in 6 Easy Steps

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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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9 Email Marketing Best Practices for New Bloggers

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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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10 Tips to Increase Blog Engagement Through Comments

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Blog engagement is an essential aspect for bloggers who are looking to build a community around their blog. Commenting and engagement was very popular or is still popular with forums.

However, that does not mean that you cannot get readers to engage on blogs. It takes a little more effort to get readers to comment on blogs.

But with the right set of strategies implemented you can get a whole load of comments on your blog. I am a big fan of bloggers who get loads of comments on their blogs, blogs like Vipercill.com, Adriennesmith.net, quicksprout.com to name a few.

If you are one of those bloggers who wants to get loads of comments, struggling to get any comments or simply trying to build a community, this post is for you.

Its time to get those comments that you have been wanting for so long.
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5 Tricks to Writing Blog Posts in Record Time

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Ever been in a situation where you sit down to write and nothing pops in your head?

Having a writers block?

Don’t know what to write about anymore or may be you feel that you have exhausted all avenues of topics to focus on.

After blogging for some time it can get to you. You might start realizing that there is nothing more left to talk about.

It happened to me too and it will happen to you as well unless you plan well ahead.

It used to take me forever to complete a post and have it published. But over time after reading tons of posts on article writing, essay writing from expert writers and authors, I learned.

Today on an average I take about 2 hour to write a post, that includes spell check, grammar check and publish.

While you can still find errors on my post they are mostly due to oversight. With my hectic work schedule and blogging parallely, its quite hard to do everything perfectly.

At least I try my best to offer best for my readers. How do I do this is what this post is about. If you follow this strategy for a while and get used to it, you will be able to deliver posts much quicker, and that’s why I call it writing a blog post in record time.
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5 Steps to Generating High Quality Leads

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One of the most important lessons I learned as a blogger is about building a list. You might have heard the following phrase.

The money is in the list.

That is true, only if you have a high quality list.

List building is a blogger’s way of referring to lead generation. Once you are able to Generating Leads and understand the nitty-gritty of lead generation or list building you are sure to start making a lot of money.

Its the very first part of the sales process.

I’ve seen many bloggers who build huge lists but do not convert the leads generated into customers.

Most bloggers learn the skill of marketing using their blogs, and build a list. What they don’t learn how to generate leads that are healthy and not just leads for the sake of growing it.

It does not matter how big your email list is, the high quality of the leads in your list is what matters.

In this post I will be talking to you about 5 simple steps to generate a healthy and high quality list. You list might not be big but you can at least be sure that they are highly targeted and high converting.
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