Some Blogging Tips To Help Your Internet Home Business
Having an active blog is one of the most important things you can do to drive traffic to your Internet home business. However, many home based business owners struggle with just exactly what to blog about.
Everyone who writes on a regular basis experience writers block so here are a few ideas if your stuck and are ub=nsre what to write about.
Blogging Tip 1. Product Reviews
Look out for products in your business niche that you can test and review. Give an honest, balanced review looking at both sides of the product, the disadvantages as well as the advantages, and your readers will be more likely to trust your recommendation.
Remember, blogging is part of a trust building and brand building exercise to your business. So giving honest reviews will pay dividends in the long run, even if you put some people off buying the product you are reviewing.
Writing product and book reviews can be a great way to monetise your blog. Use an affiliate link to takes the reader from your blog to the product sales page.
Blogging Tip 2. Book Reviews
Get into the habit of reading books about your industry and writing reviews about them for your blog. Sign up to Amazon.com, and post an affiliate link to the book you are reviewing on your blog.
As with product reviews, be sure to include a negative as well as positive so as to build trust with the readers.
Blogging Tip 3. Website Reviews
Go ahead, give some of your competitors the oxygen of publicity by reviewing their websites and online business models. Sure, some of your traffic will disappear to their websites, but on the other hand you will attract more traffic to your blog, and you will build up your reputation for expertise in your field.
Also, researching other people’s websites will give you something extra to talk about and some great ideas to improve your own website and business model!
Blogging Tip 4. Lists
Lists are very popular on the blogosphere. Be sure to include list posts as part of your blog mix. A good list post will yield dividends for months or even years to come as people link to it or talk about it on forums and other social networking sites.
Blogging Tip 5. Instructions
Instruction posts give detailed information about how to do something or other related to your business. Instruction posts are especially useful ways to train your readers to get to know about your products and how they work. You will be addressing the readers as if they were already uses of your products, but of course many of them will not yet have become customers. This is a great way to suggest to the readers value of becoming customers without directly selling to them.
You can extend detailed instructions over two or three posts. You can mix in other types of blog posts between your instruction posts if you wish, but be sure to link each instruction is post to the next and the previous one in the sequence.
Blogging Tip 6. Quick Tips
Quick tips are an especially valuable former blog post. The beauty of them is that they are short and sweet. So you can post them in between your longer posts to provide some variety.
A quick tip type of post should not be any more than 150 words long, and some can be much shorter than that. Get into the habit of thinking up quick tips, or one-point snippets of information that you composed on your blog in just a couple of minutes.
Quick tips are a great way to keep your blog alive when you don’t have the time or inspiration to write a longer blog post.
Blogging Tip 7. Interviews
Interview someone in your niche and then published interview on your blog. A good interview will bring several benefits to your blog. Not only will it provide valuable unique content but it will also build your credibility as an expert in your field and help you build traffic to your blog.
Blogging Tip 8. Guest Blogging
Finally, invite other people to post articles on your blog. This is a great way to keep your blog alive, and to populate it with unique content on many different topics and in a variety of different styles.
Offer to provide some publicity and a link back to the website of the guest blogger.
Armed with these tips, you should never be short of something to blog about .
January 24, 2010
Posted in: Training
2 Responses
Hello John
This is a great article and I’m sure that many people will find it useful the tips that you give are both useful and interesting some of which I have not seen before.
The idea of tip number seven interview is very good not sure if you mean a video interview or a transcript of an interview perhaps you could elaborate at a later date. Work From Home Based Business Ideas
Hi John
Some great tips here on what to blog about and with these ideas nobody should ever run out of things to blog about and keep their blogs active.
Michelle Jayes / Online Income Opportunities
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