Want to Start a Blog For Your Family Tree? Here’s How Anyone Can Set One Up

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Do you want to start a blog that showcases your family tree for everyone to read? If you have, then you’re in luck. Here are some pointers and other tips to help you get your blog rolling. This way, you can set up, write, and build an audience about a topic you hold near and dear to your heart: your family. [Read more…]

5 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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You finally started the blog you’ve talked about for years. Personal websites can be a great source of income, once you get some eyes on your content. It doesn’t matter how great your content is if nobody is reading. 

A few years ago, back in the glory days, building an audience for a blog was really easy. All you had to do was create a Facebook page, spend a little bit of money on ads, and spam your content in tons of groups. Those days are gone. Now, you really have to work to keep your readers engaged, but it’s completely feasible. We have a few tips to help you start attracting fans to your site. [Read more…]

Wix vs Squarespace 2020 – Things You Must Know

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Website builders simplify the process of putting websites together. This is invaluable for those who aren’t technically skilled enough to either build their website completely from scratch or with the help of a template compatible with a content management system (CMS). This approach requires you to take care of getting a hosting provider among many other things. Bloggers especially can benefit from using a website builder. Using a website builder means that they can focus on the task of blogging, instead of having to worry about the technical aspects of building and maintaining a website.  [Read more…]

Is Working from Home as a Blogger a Good Fit?

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With the pandemic creating more remote workers than ever before, many people who would otherwise be sitting in an office away from home are finding the change alluring. Aspiring bloggers are thinking that maybe this is the best time to finally start that blog they’ve been dreaming of. Before you jump ship and hand in your resignation, it’s best to weigh the pros and cons. Listed below are a few things to consider.  [Read more…]

The Good Old Days – 5 Ways To Use Nostalgia Marketing In Ecommerce

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You may have noticed a boom in childhood pictures on social media. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people became more nostalgic than ever. In marketing terms, there’s always been a place for nostalgia. Remembering the past makes us feel good during hard times. Even teenagers and people in their twenties feel nostalgia for books, films, food, and products that defined their childhoods. [Read more…]

How to Start a Popular Blog for Real Estate Agents

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Many buyers and sellers take time researching and selecting a real estate agent online to represent them in purchasing or selling their home. This is where a real estate agent’s blogs come into play. Blogs help buyers and sellers get to know agents better and help answer questions about the market, the process of buying or selling a home, and more. It’s important to connect with buyers and sellers through blog posts. Here are some steps on how to start a popular blog. [Read more…]

3 Easy Things To Boost Your Site Traffic Today

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Write great content

You’d be surprised how many forget this one. They choose a platform, they load it up with a million plugins, they advertise to their existing social media circles, but when it comes to writing they miss the mark completely. What is great content? This is material which engages your audience. It is researched, highly structured content posted once a week or more that meets people’s needs head on with solutions. It produces a response (in their sharing) to their questions because it’s entertaining but also informative. Pick a niche, and then research ways i.e. read other blogs and construct a way to say what they are saying, but in your own voice. DO NOT REINVENT THE WHEEL.

Promote properly

I previously mentioned promotion as a way to grow your traffic. But here’s the thing about promotion: too much will kill your success before it gains traction. Many of you, including myself, have probably done the following when starting out: start blog, tweet 100 times a day, get on Facebook and beg people to ”like”, then auction your soul to the Devil when that doesn’t work out. This is not only painful, it’s unnecessary. The best promotion tactics, by far, are the ones which never get talked about. For instance, writing great content often produces a series. Conversion of these articles into PDF format and sharing with eBook directories and free document sites like Scribd or Helium is a great way to bump the odds in your favor. Angering your readers by over-promotion is an avoidable situation, so don’t do it!

Engage your audience

If someone, say a family member or friend, asked you a poignant question which gave you pause, would you ignore them? OF COURSE NOT! You’d jump right on the bullet train to Intelligentsia (sorry, bad puns abound in my world) and figure out a worthwhile reply to their query. So why is it when you post on your site, the only thing you see is the occasional greeting from Grandma? The ‘gurus’ bread and butter is no longer figuring out how to get traffic, it’s merely conversing (read:engagement) about all the traffic they get, thereby getting more. It’s a topic which spews dividends every time it is brought up. Simply put: present a question in your great content, then engage with your audience’s feedback. This method can be accelerated if you use forums to become an expert on your niche and use your blog URL as a signature in your profile.

Tools I Like, Tools I Loathe

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Like most bloggers, I use a variety of tools and applications to get things done.

But while many of the tools that I use have me enthralled and singing their praises, others leave me frustrated and seeking a better solution, only to be dismayed that none seem to be available.

The problem is that, as with most things in life, the best solution is not always the most popular one (Ex： VHS beat Beta). Sometimes we get brilliant answers to difficult problems and other times we’re left with something a bit more frustrating.

In honor of that, I’ve decided to highlight some of the tools that I use daily and love, as well as some of the ones that I’m hoping to find replacements for.

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