Help me launch a blog - share your experience.

by KDLmark

Posted: 9 years ago 17 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hi,

I´ve started writing articles for my blog in order to have some content ready on launch day, and with that date closing in on me, I have several questions I am hoping someone here can help me with. The reason I have gotten this far is solely because of the warrior forum, which is WHY I keep making threads. Thank you all for your efforts! Know that I sincerely appreciate them.

Article Series

My first point of action is to launch an article series. I was wondering if any fellow warriors here have experience with the subject?

I have 10 articles that are good to go. How do I proceed to extract the most value out of these? They are SEO-Optimised.

Should I publish them all at once, and use a plugin to link between all of them? If no, why?If yes, why?, and what kind of plugins do you recommend?

Can these articles published on site, simultaneously live side by side with an auto-responder drip-feeding weekly newsletters? If no - why?

Reason for question above. I want content on site to provide value, regardless of newsletter signups or organic traffic to site via search. I still want an incentive for people signing up. As of right now, my article series is the only one that can be put to use in an auto-responder service.

I am confused how I should organize the series. Mainly because of the titles. Do I give the series a specific name, and each article a new title? Can someone provide me with a great example of a well-done article series?

Social Media-driven content.

I plan to have synergy between the blog and social media. This in order to engage followers and readers by actively asking for their contribution.

For those with experience in writing content that evolves solely on their followers / readers contribution - how did you do it?

I´d like to read up on the subject. Do you have any useful articles / case studies you think is worth a read?

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yogyogi 9 years ago

post them 1 in every 3 days. Then after 1 month get 10 more article and post them 1 in every 3 days. Continue like this. Because google also sees how many links are made in a given time. Building too much links can be marked as spam.
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KDLmark 9 years ago

Thank yo for your input, yogyogi!

As I want to fill the blog with content, good content that is - won´t Google recognize this over spam?
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- suggs 9 years ago
  
  IMO you need to have at least 10 solid articles on your site for the launch date, then add regular content after (As much as you can without compromising the quality of what you're writing). The reason i say this is if you only have one article and attract any visitors at all, they MIGHT think the site is too bare and not take it seriously!
  
  The best advice i can give you is stick at it, even when it looks to be pointless STICK at it!
  
  I have a blog thats getting over 2k visits per day (I hadn't updated it for quite some time until recently), I remember id try and do at least one post per day or as a bare minimum one every other day, Along with spending a bit of time mingling with like minded people.
  
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KDLmark 9 years ago

Great advice, suggs! Thanks! I´ve worried about what readers "might" think when arriving at a pretty much blank blog.
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- olayinka00 9 years ago
  
  You can post 2 per week for start and later start writing to retain you blog readers.
  
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vishwa 9 years ago

First of all you will have to focus on your site content which will attract visitors to your site which will convert to a regular reader of your blog. You also have to focus on your site design as well. Make your site easy and properly navigational So users can browse your site easily. Also just interlink your blog posts.
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stealthtargeting

9 years ago

Originally Posted by KDLmark

Should I publish them all at once, and use a plugin to link between all of them? If no, why?If yes, why?, and what kind of plugins do you recommend?

Can these articles published on site, simultaneously live side by side with an auto-responder drip-feeding weekly newsletters? If no - why?

I am confused how I should organize the series. Mainly because of the titles. Do I give the series a specific name, and each article a new title? Can someone provide me with a great example of a well-done article series?

Social Media-driven content.

I plan to have synergy between the blog and social media. This in order to engage followers and readers by actively asking for their contribution.

For those with experience in writing content that evolves solely on their followers / readers contribution - how did you do it?

I´d like to read up on the subject. Do you have any useful articles / case studies you think is worth a read?

Hi there, i have the feeling that you would need some grid that keeps your articles+ keywords very neat and organized...i did blogmarketing a while ago, today i setup 1-2 every 3-4 months...i use them as tunneling websites, reviewing a product that i promote as an affiliate....

back when i started i used/still using 2 nice tools that helped me getting organized with my articles and keywords: "KEYWORD ORGANIZER" (www.keywordorganizer.org) + "KEYWORD RESEARCHER"

with those i was able to setup posts pretty easy and precisely...maybe they can help you getting organized the long term...?

also some blogpost to facebook automation should get you started with automated rss streams... you can go to odesk to hire a freelance coder that can setup this stream in a way where you can for example copy only the header title and put something like: "YOUR TITLE" is online now! read the full article on my blog: www.yourblog. com ?

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discrat

9 years ago

Originally Posted by KDLmark

I have 10 articles that are good to go. How do I proceed to extract the most value out of these? They are SEO-Optimised.

Should I publish them all at once, and use a plugin to link between all of them? If no, why?If yes, why?, and what kind of plugins do you recommend?

No. Do not publish them all at once. Space them out. Let the Google bots get used to coming to your Site every week.

So publish one then Ping it and then later in the week publish another one and Ping it.

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KingServers01 9 years ago

You will have to first prepare a good collection of articles written by you. Once you have prepared that you can start publishing on your blog. Also to advertise your blog, use social media like Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Linkedin to promote your articles. You can aslo share your articles in social bookmarking website.
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ptcrefko 9 years ago

One quality blog content per month is enough for me, and spend the rest of it promoting. I prefer quality over quantity. Always remember the 80/20% rule, 80% promoting and 20% content.

By the way, I don't do any SEO.
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KDLmark

9 years ago

You guys rock! Thank you all for your contributions. Lots of interesting stuff that hadnt crossed my mind yet.

Discrat, you said something about pinging articles. How does that work?

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Graham Maddison

9 years ago

Originally Posted by KDLmark

You guys rock! Thank you all for your contributions. Lots of interesting stuff that hadnt crossed my mind yet.

Discrat, you said something about pinging articles. How does that work?

Once you have added content to your blog/site .. just go to pingomatic

Ping-o-Matic!

enter your website name and url ..select all and hit the ping button ..done

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talfighel 9 years ago

Your goal is to get as many articles on your site as possible. You can even write 2-4 per day and do this consistently.

Then after 30 days, look at your results and if you are getting organic traffic on the search engines. If you are, keep adding content if you wish.
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tyronne78 9 years ago

I'll give you one good tip I learned from expert blogger Derek Halpern. Spend 80 percent of your time promoting your content and the other 20 percent creating it.
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jgant 9 years ago

I wouldn't over think it.

Create five articles that can go viral. Even if one goes viral, you're good to go.

Then use Facebook ads to promote the viral content to get some traffic and interest.

Don't wait for visitors to come.... go out and get them.

Build a list with the traffic and keep sending your subscribers back to your site as you publish new content.
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Corey Taylor 9 years ago

Start with 1 article per day. Stay active cause it can be pretty boring.

In 2 months you're gonna have 60 articles.
G00gle will start sending you traffic cause you will start gaining some "algorithm" respect...

Important things you should take care of:

* Keyword Research - don't write about things no one cares about
* Clean theme - clean and modern can work, avoid too many images if you want to place ads someday so the ads can be the ones the eye would catch
* Social Signals - Create almost everything. Your subscribers might use everything so there's no reason to be bored to be everywhere especially when it's free.
* Quality - The most important thing. Period. Make them come back, make them want more.
* Be an expert in your field - Same with quality.
* Help them vist you back - Email marketing is IMPORTANT. Nothing beats the subscription of the emails.

Also, focus on one goal and work on it. Don't be bored. Don't procrastinate.

Good luck
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Randall Magwood 9 years ago

I've written alot of articles (and still do). I personally post 1 blog post to my blog everyday (500+ words long). It works for me, i drive my email leads to my blog and to my article site..... but lately i've been just leading new opt-in leads to my blog - although some still visit the article content site. But however often you update your blog, make sure you have a solid plan on driving people to your blog - and making money from it.
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