Setting Up a Dynamic Blog

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At one time, creating a blog was, for me, an entirely intimidating task to even consider. The idea of using Word Press and setting up a website to display my blog, was also an overwhelming concept... until, that is, I learned blogging by way of a complete marketing system.

Incredibly, I am now learning how to exchange my blog with other like-minded bloggers in a cocktail of feeds similar in content. As well, this has come to be a highly viral process.

Now that I am motivated to not only participate in blogs, but to also create them, I am looking for what others have to offer in the way of developing effective blogging strategies. I will begin by exploring groups already here in the Warrior Forum, as well as, what other threads are posted

Please feel free to share your ideas here, and recommend what other forums/groups are also expanding upon in this same topic.

Two categories we might begin with, are...

1) How do we know when a blog is successful?

For example, one criteria might be the Alexa rating. That could be a discussion in and of itself... how to get Alexa ratings up.

2) How can we engage with other like-minded bloggers to pool our resources and, thereby, increase the exposure of our blogs?

For example, one strategy might be that of a blog feed cocktail and how to get a blend of multiple feeds increasing exposure for one's own blogs and that of others.

We can add to this list of ideas and explore each one by bringing strategies and blog content (from other posts) to here in the Warrior Forum.

Finally, most of all, I hope this thread will not only become a dynamic forum of ideas, but a genuine exchange built upon getting to know the real people behind the ideas shared.

And , that is all of us!

Thank you for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMhelper
    1) How do we know when a blog is successful?
    When you will see visitors are growing then You can call that a successful blog. There's no rating for successful blog without visitors.

    2) How can we engage with other like-minded bloggers to pool our resources and, thereby, increase the exposure of our blogs?

    Guest blogging would be one Idea that you can use. You have to write blog for other reputed blog in your niche and request other to write for you. This is how you can build a solid reputation for you blog.
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    • Profile picture of the author jonlomb
      Just a few recommendations here.

      Guest blogging can be a great thing to increase traffic to your blog.

      1) Make sure your own blog has a specific niche.
      2) When you reach out, you can approach bloggers with a larger niche than your own.
      3) Make sure the blog has decent monthly traffic of 10k visitors per month or more. The larger the blog, the more difficult it will be to get approval to write a guest post.
      4) Keep trying if at first you don't succeed. This is a long term strategy.
      5) As suggested by Neil Patel a superblogger who has written over 300 guest posts, search for these terms, (in quotes) when trying to find sites that may allow guest posts.

      “submission guidelines”
      “guest post guidelines”
      “accepting guest posts”
      “contribute an article”
      “submit content”
      “guest post”
      “want to write”
      “write for us”
      “add a post”
      “become a contributor”
      “guest post by”
      “submit your post”

      Google Neil Patel guest post and you will see a number of posts that have really helpful information for beginners and well as advanced guest posters. Do the same search for Jon Morrow guest post, and you will see even more results.

      Jon Morrow teaches a special course in guest blogging and is a top blogger as well. You
      are in very good company with information from either of these top bloggers.
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      • Profile picture of the author holdingtrue
        Thank you, jonlomb, for these tips; they are all ones I will try out. Also, I have read many of your posts in our mutual marketing system, Market Hive, and they are always so practical and helpful. Thank you, again!

        Also, do you have any thoughts about Slade556 's following comment from a previous post?

        "I don't believe in the Alexa rating, it's not useful at all. "
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by IMhelper View Post

      1) How do we know when a blog is successful?
      When you will see visitors are growing then You can call that a successful blog. T

      .
      That can be debated.

      I see many blogs that pull in major traffic but it is 'dead' traffic. To IMers, that means this traffic does not buy anything. (Thats NOT successful in my book )
      Even if you build or try to build a relationship with them.
      This could be a result of the Niche you are in or the source of traffic such as social media traffic.


      - Robert Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    Originally Posted by holdingtrue View Post

    1) How do we know when a blog is successful?

    For example, one criteria might be the Alexa rating. That could be a discussion in and of itself... how to get Alexa ratings up.
    I don't believe in the Alexa rating, it's not useful at all.
    The way to know a blog s successful is - from you end - the amount of traffic you're getting, returning visitors can also be a way of knowing if they like your blog enough to want to return, or - from the reader's point of view, seeing some sort of interaction (like blog comments or pingbacks) and see you update regularly.
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