The Ultimate e-Book Guide: How to Write an eBook?

Writing is an art and when it come to write an e-book, even the great writers can fail. Writing e-books take time, efforts, dedication, knowledge, skills of writing and promotional skills. Many get confused. Which is the correct one. ebook or e-book.

Well the correct one is e-book.

The same goes for email. Or should I say e-mail. Yes last one is the correct word.

Does e-books fascinate you?

I think most people are fascinated and want to know more.

Self published e-books are actually even better than the printed version. E-books started about the same time as the Internet started with it.

The Ultimate e-Book Guide: How to Write an eBook?

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Do you know the history of the e-book.?

You do?

Good thats great, but let me tell those who don't know about it.

It was invented in the year 1971. The man who invented e-book received an amount of $100 000 000 for his time spent on the computer.

It was in Illinois at the Materials Lab, yes their university. On the  Xerox Sigma-5 mainframe. His name was Michael Hart.

But don't just assume wow that's a lot of money. He tried very hard to worthy of this money. He created the idea of e-books.

His words were "the greatest value created by computers would not be computing, but would be the storage, retrieval, and searching of what was stored in our libraries."

This was the start of a project known as Project Gutenberg.

This project now makes more than 50 000 e-books ready for free use.

Now after all this time it is very easy creating an e-book.

Just open your word processor, write transport digest your preferred format. And make it available for people.

Whether it is writers, marketers, bloggers, businesses. Yes let's face it, anyone that wants to read your content.

But to make sure of success you have to remember quality.

If it isn't quality then don't even try it. So lets deal with a questions you may have.

Is it ideal to write an e-book?

First thing to consider is it narrow enough.

The idea of e-books is a shortened version of a subject. It should be focused on one main thing.

That makes an e-book ideal. Creating an e-book that covers everything isn't as effective, unless you cant give the shortened version.

When you write an ebook it also help you to learn how to organize a research paper.

The idea of an e-book is a time limit.

Is the e-book favored for longer times. 

As with most things in life. Things change and some become irrelevant.

• Will your e-book last that long?
• What about a topic that will stay for a longer period of time?

The good news about e-books is it can be updated as times changes.

But it is good to remember that changes should be kept to a bare minimum.

Not a complete change.

This way you can get new interest in your e-book.

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An example is if you have an e-book that you share if people subscribe to your posts, it is an effective and eye catching idea to say your e-book is updated as people may have been hesitant on subscribing because of an outdated version of your free e-book.

Do you have enough content material?

As I said earlier it is important to remember that an e-book shouldn't be too long. But there is the flip side to this.

Nothing worse than a very short e-book. So do you have enough material for your chosen topic?

What about a new fresh perspective, nothing quite ever competes with that.

Example say you want to write an e-book about Amazon.

It is pretty basic to most people.

We know that. But you have to find ways to make reading this e-book interesting.

So what can help you?

Helpful factors.

• Remember to use words that is powerful to encourage conversion.
• Remember there is a difference between fiction and non fiction.
• Always a great idea to use keywords and remember to optimize e-book descriptions.
• Make sure you know about the pros and cons of your e-book when comparing with other authors.
• Do you know how to make your description in HTML stand out.
• Be careful of giving away too much of your e-book description. Don't spoil it. It is meant to be a teaser that makes readers want to read.
• If you can answer all this. You are ready to start your new e-book. Even if you have never written an e-book before.

But remember that you alone will know what you want to write about.

You alone know what to say as well and only you will know how much details you want to give.

Before starting to write.

Think about it, you don't want to start with no words.

As mentioned before an e-book shouldn't be to long, but also not to short. So how long is an e-book then? I guess it depends on your given topic.

Can range from 20 to 150 pages. Whether it is fiction vs non fiction.

Remember your audience.

Is the idea a quick e-book or will a longer e-book be acceptable.

Also where will you publish your e-book.

Only you have these answers.

If the idea is to use your e-book on your website.

Then you can make it as long as you prefer. You can use your own price or make it available for free.

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But if you want to use Amazon, as an example. It means it cant be given away for free.

Yes you will have to charge for your e-book.

This also means you have to consider the length of your e-book. If this is your preferred method it may be fine.

After all, you worked hard on your e-book. But for someone who wants to buy an e-book they consider the quality and length of your e-book.

For readers it about this one thing. If I can get the e-book for $4.99 and I can get the same type of e-book elsewhere for $0.99.

Then why pay more?

Many readers don't care about how long it took you, how hard it was. For them it is about the time they are spending and what they get in return for it.

If you don't give what they want.

You wont make sales on your e-book.

This is just something to keep in mind when you want to write your own e-book.

Choosing your topic.

Thats the wonderful thing about e-books. You can choose from most if not every topic. It is up to you. Yes, you're personal choice.

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Your own stuff in writing.

If it a topic that you know about. You have enough experience to write about it.

Then why not?

You have the knowledge, You share the knowledge.

What about a topic like How to master keywords research in just 7 days, By Gary Smith. Now Gary knows that some courses are done via video or a webinar.

But what does Gary use? PDF, So with this in mind it is an effective e-book.

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Why did Gaurav consider using e-book?

• Students eager to learn can work at their own pace
• Convenient times is always great for students, unlike a webinar.
• Lots of screen shots can be used to help explaining and any given examples.
• The format used is easily used by almost everyone.
• Not forgetting that Gary used keyword research, which he shared with his audience, in such a way that they can benefit from it. 

Or what do you do when there is already so many e-books about your area of expertise that your e-book wont even make any impact anywhere.

Then write about things you feel very passionate about.

Using someone else's stuff.

Now this a very dangerous area. Very tricky indeed.

Thats where words like plagiarism and copyright infringement comes in.

So don't consider this way. It is not advisable.

You can also use online plagiarism checker for college students for this.

The idea is when you want to use someone else's work. You want to make it yours.

Meaning you want to add more details. That you know the e-book can benefit from.

If the idea is to to generate leads then why not give away your e-book?

People love free stuff.

Free is such a good word to your audience.

But you have to remember that you have to promote your e-book.

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If you consider this free e-book give away on your website. You have to promote it.

So here is a few things you need to consider.

• Building your mailing list.
• If you want to generate leads this is an effective way. When email is used in marketing your site. It gives higher ROI than you would find in any other marketing channels.

And how does it work?

Just give away something that is free.

But you want their email address in return. Its direct. Its personal. Its effective.

Give away that e-book of yours.

After doing research Hubspot found that e-mails that offered something free had 2 times better responses than e-mails that offered webinars.

Which means you want your Call to action rate to improve. You just offer a free e-book.

Demonstrating and building your authority

If you are thinking about doing this. An e-book can help you build  can help you in your preferred field. Especially if you are still working on getting stature.

Yes I know you can use Twitter ot your blog. But it wont last as long in social media changes.

But as we talked earlier your e-book should be able to stand the test of time. So your readers can always go back and use it as reference.

Which is why your e-book must have the best quality. So don't think about a fast and quick e-book.

Selling e-book.

You may do it just for the thrill of having your e-book sold. Or seeing your own page on Amazon. Many consider this a career.

Yes it is admitted that the publishing barrier is so low.

Many have successful stories from e-book writing. It can be that you just use Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing or any other platform and BAM you are a bestseller.

But not just that. A millionaire one week later. But if it was that easy.

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Don't get confused. Doing this as a career takes very hard work, diligence, work, talent, lots of patience, perseverance and much more.

But if you want to write a few helpful e-books and make it available then that  low barrier is your friend.

So what platform should be used in publishing your e-book?

If you think about Amazon. Then why not? If you are going to use all your energy and time in creating a great e-book.

Then why not make sure it is available on the biggest sites for best selling e-books.

But if you feel you want to do it yourself. You can do that too.

Is it good to consider using an external platform. Yes, why not. Just be prepared to promote your e-book.

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Now what format should be used for your e-book?

There is many different formats for e-books. If you want to make sure it isn't only readable on computer it means you have to think of a variety of formats.

MS Word - It can be a good format. But doesn't mean you should. It can be seen as a backup? But Not really ideal.

PDF - PDF can be seen as a more convenient way for your readers. It is effective in design. So it is a better option

ePub - Now this is where we start using words like premium format. As it is XML-based. It can be used on more devices, like Kindle Fire, Apple iBooks, ePub via Kindle Direct Publishing, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader and more.

Mobi -  It was made by a French company named MobiPocket, but when Amazon bought the company the format was moved to Amazon's Kindle.

This was a few examples of e-book formats that is available.

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Using e-book tool building

As we all know programs are released and improved to make the process of creating an e-book easier. But in honesty it is already easy.

You only need a few to make your e-book. Examples like Microsoft word, Calibre, Sigil, Kindle previewer, Scrivener.

Using Microsoft Word

If you want to write an e-book then it is without any doubt admitted that great features for building content. All that is needed is use the correct format.

Just the click of a few buttons and you are done.

But if you want ePub format? That is where Calibre comes in.

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Using Calibre

If you want to save as an ePub format. Then Calibre is ideal. It is free to download so its more convenient. It can convert Word docs to ePub.

All you need to do is use your Word document in Calibre, as a book then you can simply convert to ePub format.

You can edit your ePub. But not viewed as user friendly.

Which brings in Sigil.

Using Sigil

Its free. If you want to edit ePubs you will find its very easy.

If you did as mentioned before. (Converted your word doc to ePub using Calibre) Now you can open it with Sigil. It allows you to edit HTML.

You also get the advantage of split screen. With this feature you can see HTML and your text at the same time.

Convenient, isn't it?

Once you find you are happy with your ePub.

You can make it ready to be available to readers.

Either direct or what you choose as your distributing platform. But if you have a mobi file in mind.

Using Kindle previewer

It is actually neat. You can preview your e-book on different Kindle platforms before you upload.

Just open your ePub ot will be changed to a mobi file.

So it means you have an extra platform for your readers. This tool is free.

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Scrivener.

Now this is a different way of handling e-books.

Theres a course available to train on using it. Entire posts get made with Scrivener. It gives you word targets.

Also you can see word counts at a quick glance.

But this isn't free software. If you use the trail version there is a few that gives the usual 30 day trial.

But a word of advice.

Even though your ePub may look  good in one format. It may look awful in another format.

So if you know HTML you are at an advantage.

So if you are someone that doesn't know HTML you should consider your book formatting being done professionally.

Using Photoshop

Remember that readers do judge a book by it's covers. So the fact is.

You need a great cover to make your e-book much more attractive to readers.

If you know how to use Photoshop. You can make awesome covers.

Canva

If you find that you are challenged in graphic designing.

You will adore using Canva. There is a variety of things that makes Canva great. it is free and has tons of templates.

Headers for Twitter, Covers for Facebook, infographics e-mail headers and lots more.

Also, there is lots of graphics that is free. But there is images that does cost, but even those aren't expensive.

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But if you are still wondering you can consider a professional cover. It is cost effective and lots of times it is already made.

But it also means the cover is exclusive.

So if someone buys it. No one else has the right to use it.

Distribution of your e-book.

If you are thinking of using PDF format then you have the benefit of using it on your site directly or by e-mail.

But of you are thinking of more formats then there is a few options available.

Dropbox may not be ideal but it works.

Because every file has its own link. This way you can just provide the link to your readers.

Whether it is used by e-mail,  social media or your site. But there is down side with Dropbox.

Many readers find it difficult to load it onto their device, So you should give instructions beforehand on this.

Using e-mail to Kindle

With Kindle you can e-mail an e-book. All that is need for readers is to attach their preferred format(ePub , mobi) and send it to Kindle on the e-mail address given by Amazon.

Now to promoting your e-book

To see any results you have to promote your e-book.

No matter who you are, if you don't promote, you wont get readers for your e-book. So now there is a few options on promoting your e-book

Social Media is a very effective way of letting people know about your e=book. But don't just do it once.

Do it many times.

You can also market by e-mail.  Let your subscribers know about the e-book.

Use your e-mail list to spread the word.

Consider Facebook ads. Truth is Facebook does have lots of potential.  As it is your goal you will find it will generate leads.

Then there is Twitter ads. But make sure what you want before you pay any money.

Edit your e-book.
You have to realize there is nothing worse than typos or bad grammar. So make sure you edit your e-book before publishing it.

There is the option of doing it yourself. If you know you are good in writing and editing.

But if you aren't sure you can use a professional editor. But make sure to look around before hiring an editor.

Last thoughts:

There is no wrong or right way for writing an e-book. Nor is there an perfect way to publish your e-book.

The power is always in the publication.

What you write about and how you write. Your cover and your publish formats.

Your preferred platforms for publishing.

Yes it all plays a part. But the success depends on you.

This ultimate guide of ebook will help you to write and get your ebooks publish if you follow these tips.

If you still have any question, feel free to ask me via comments.

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Blogging: A Million Dollar deal

Here is a million-dollar deal that brings a whole lot to change to your life. This million-dollar deal is blogging.

I have been asked so many times how people can make million of dollars within a year or two and how people get so successful in their online business.

I have shared many articles about how you can be successful in blogging.

Today I am going to talk about the most asked question on eAskme, How to make a million-dollar within just one year, or how blogging is a million-dollar deal?

But before I go further, here are a few things that you need to understand.

 

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What is a Million Dollar deal?

A million dollar deal is one work that will make you get one million dollars, although there is no specific time in how much time you get one million dollars.

The very first thing you need to get a million-dollar is that you really want that and have the passion and dedication to be a millionaire.

Blogging A Million Dollar Deal:

Yes, you heard me right.

I am saying blogging is a million-dollar deal, and it is not just my words; it has already been proved by thousands of professional bloggers worldwide.

Blogging is one of the major parts of the promotion of any product or service these days.

If you have a product or service to sell, then blogging is your best friend.

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Not only to sell or promote things, but also blogging is a great way to promote your ideas and spread it.

One of the biggest things is that your blogging can bring you hundreds of opportunities to convert it to a million-dollar deal and generate circular revenue every month or year.

That means you will set up a process and make your blog a brand that will help you generate money throughout your life.

How blogging is a million dollar deal?

I have already shared a few guides to help you to make money blogging and turn you from a hobby blogger to a professional blogger.

 

Blogging is not just for individuals, but now it is a widely recommended part of any online business.

 

You can monetize your blog or blogging habit with various techniques such as Advertisements, selling products or services, running promotions, affiliate marketing, sponsored reviews, etc.

There are thousands of professional blogs which are earning more than tens of millions every month.

 

There are blogs on every topic, such as politics, celebrity gossip, sports, technology, health & fitness, insurance, science, fiction, etc.

 

You can monetize any for your topic by doing quick research and finding the most profitable blog niche to monetize your blogging habit.

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How to enter into a million dollar blogging club:

If you want to enter into the club of million-dollar blogging club bloggers, then your first focus should be on branding your blog by providing quality content and promoting it.

Your blogging will bring you a million-dollar deal.

As you enter into the club of million dollars blogging, you will have endless opportunities to become the most competitive brand in this virtual world.

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1) Passion and Commitment:

Passion and commitment to blogging are really necessary to get success in this step.

You should trust what you are doing and plan according to your goals.

Work without being lazy and focus on quality and deliver the best to your readers, as this will ensure them that you are good and build trust.

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2) Quality and Promotion:

The quality of a blog alone can't do anything if you cant promote your blog and its content.

 

Promotion usually takes 80% of the time of a blogger.

 

You must plan your blog promotion in a step-by-step manner and stick to your plan.

 

You can use online tools and social media platforms to increase your blog presence and also use sharing buttons on your blog to give your readers the opportunity to share what they like or love to read on your blog.

3) Analyze and Improve:

After every month, analyze your efforts and see how good or bad your plan worked. Learn from your blogging mistakes.

 

Next time, stay away from the same mistakes.

 

Improvement is really necessary to make your blog an established brand.

4) Monetization:

Everyone wants money, and blogging is one of the best choices to make money online.

 

If you have a blog, why not make money out of it.

 

There are plenty of opportunities to make money blogging that will land you to get a million-dollar deal blogging.

 

You can use ads, promote services or products, write professional reviews, write sponsored posts, write ebooks and sell them, run courses, do Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, etc.

What can you do with one million Dollar Deal?

One million dollars is a good amount that can change your life forever. Thousands of people make millions of dollars every year, every month, or day.

 

So it is not impossible to make one million dollars or get a deal that brings you one million into your pocket.

 

All you need is to establish a system or create a process that will lead you to generate endless million-dollar deal opportunities.

You can buy a house, and you can enjoy a premium vacation, you can buy a luxury car, and you can invest and get profits.

 

In short, you can do anything when you know that you have set up a process that brings you money every time.

 

Here you can learn to blog online.

Conclusion:

I hope this guide helps you understand why Blogging is a million-dollar deal?

 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please ask me via comments.

 

If there is anything that you think I have missed, then do suggest me.

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11 Principles for Blogging Success

It's very easy to start a blog but it can be very difficult to make it successful.

No, I am not talking about success just because of number of posts published or number of comments.

Those are not always evidence of a successful blog. For your blog to be considered successful it should be profitable.

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In most cases, profitable means it's making a lot more money than the time and effort you put into it.

True - it can take time to make a blog successful, but it can happen, especially if you follow and apply the right principles to your blogging.

This article looks at 11 of such principles.

1. Start with the End in Mind

Yes, ‘Start with the end in mind”!

I first read this from Stephen R. Covey, the author of the extremely popular "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."

How very true, especially if you want to succeed in blogging.

Starting with the end in mind is very important in blogging as it helps you know where you want to go, even before you start.

It also helps you know what you want to achieve as a blogger, in the early stages and on the long term.

Knowing what you want to achieve will help you come up with the right steps you are going to take, to reach your goal.

If you don't know where you are going, you certainly won't get there, would you?

Same applies to blogging.

You should have a goal in mind before you get started.

I know it can be hard to have an exact goal when you start, especially trying to make it elaborate.

So in the beginning don’t worry too much about making your goal or goals elaborate. Just have some kind of goal to strive towards. It can all become a lot clearer as you go along.

And even more importantly, knowing where you are going and what you want to achieve will keep you motivated to keep going, until you succeed.

2. Know What You Need to Do to Achieve the Success You Desire

Knowing where you want to go and what you want to achieve, even before starting will help you put together a plan of action.

Yes, it's not enough to know where you want to go and what you want to achieve.

You need to know exactly what to do and how to do them, to achieve the success you desire as a blogger.

It pays to have a clear program of action, detailing what steps you need to take, on a daily or consistent basis, to achieve your goals.

This includes putting together your plan for the next couple years for your blog, as well as what your monthly, weekly and daily activities will be.

Of course you don’t have to be extremely detailed, but it pays to put down as much information as you can.

You can adjust and improve things as you go along, but it’s very important to start the process.

Even if you have been blogging for a long time but haven’t done this or stopped doing this along the way, it’s not too late to start now.

If you do this, you will be surprised how much easier things will be for you, moving forward.

3. Make Sure Your Blog Solves a Problem or Satisfies a Need

Ask yourself…

• What problem(s) does my blog solve?
• What urge, desire or need does it satisfy?
• Are the articles I write helping anyone?
• Do they cover the problems people have?

If you are not happy with the answers you get, then it will be hard to make your blog successful.

That’s unless of course you are blogging just for the fun of it and don't care about making it successful.

If you care about making it successful, then it absolutely should solve a problem or satisfy a need, urge or desire.

If it doesn't, you will end up wasting your time working on a blog that doesn’t help anyone, least of all you.

Why would anyone read your articles or take your blog seriously if it doesn't help them solve a problem or satisfy their needs?

For example, a very comprehensive article I recently wrote on Kingged solves a problem for women looking for business ideas to start.

All (or most) of the articles you spend time to write should do the same.

Even if it is just to entertain readers, your articles should be useful if you want your blog to be successful.

4. Make Sure You Are Building an Email List of Blog Visitors

It's a good principle to do all you can to get return visitors to your blog.

And one of the best ways to do that is to get as many of your visitors subscribed to your email list.

This is because it's very hard to get a visitor to return to your blog otherwise.

In fact, it's said that most visitors to your blog won’t ever return, no matter how awesome your content is.

But by getting visitors on your email list, you can always email them again when you have new content or even have something to sell or promote.

And unlike other forms of traffic, you can always rely on traffic from your email list.

5. Have a Plan in Place for Getting Search Engine Traffic

You can't ignore search engine traffic these days, as a blogger.

Google is still King and you absolutely still need search engine traffic.

Yes, it can be volatile but it's worth working towards, especially because it can bring crazy amount of highly targeted traffic to your blog… when it eventually starts working.

Yes, it takes time to work and start seeing results with search traffic, but the time will pass anyhow, right?

And it's not too hard to get search engine traffic, if you have that as part of your plan.

6. Have a Plan in Place for Getting Social Media Traffic

Even though social media traffic isn't as powerful as search engine traffic, it shouldn't be ignored if you want to succeed with your blog.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the others are not going anywhere anytime soon. They will continue to bring massive traffic to blogs around the world.

In fact, they are getting even more popular with billions of active users every single day.

It starts with sharing your articles on the popular social media platforms of course but getting active on some of them is also important.

I don’t recommend getting active and spending too much time on all the popular social media platforms though.

Instead, pick one or two that work best for your target audience and focus on getting the best results from them.

7. Write Your Articles to Offer the Best Solution to Readers' Problems

People want to read articles that not only offers solutions to their problems but the best solutions.

There's no point writing an article that confuses the readers with multiple options to solving their problems.

Instead, do the hard work for your readers in your articles.

Research or even test out the various solutions to the particular problem(s) and provide them with the best solution(s).

In fact, put yourself in the place of your readers and ask yourself...

Does this article provide you with the best solution(s) to the problems you have?

If it doesn’t, then you haven’t provided them any value.

Instead you have ended up wasting their time reading the article (and as a result ended up wasting your time for writing the article).

You don't want readers to waste even more time contemplating the multiple options you have given them.

8. Share and Promote Every Single Article You Write

Why spend the time to write an article if you don't do anything else to promote it?

With the millions of blog content getting published daily nowadays, it's hard to succeed without doing some form of promotion yourself.

Yes, there are currently millions of articles published every single day.

That's a staggering number of articles.

Of course many of them are very high quality articles but only a tiny percentage will be successful, no matter how well written they are.

To help your articles, you should make it a principle to promote every single article, even if just sharing on social media and emailing it to your list.

The more you do to promote your articles, the better chance they have of succeeding.

9. Continually Improve Your Blogging Knowledge and Skills

No matter how much you already know and can do as a blogger, there's always room for improvement.

And with the ever-changing nature of things on the Internet these days, learning and continually improving your skills is very important.

What you learned last year could be stale tomorrow but you can't know that if you are not constantly learning and improving yourself.

Thankfully it's not that hard to keep your pulse on the latest blogging trends.

Just visiting other blogs in your niche to learn what others are doing can be a good starting point.

10. Network and Build a Relationship with Other Like-minded Bloggers

Even though you can succeed building and running your blog all by yourself, you need other bloggers to help you achieve a lot more.

That's why networking with other like-minded bloggers is a very good principle to blogging success.

Thankfully it's not that hard to network or even build a good relationship with other bloggers.

It's as simple of taking time to visit and engage with other bloggers on their blogs and social media pages, when you can.

The more you do this, the more familiarity and friendship you build with such bloggers.

And before you know it, you have dozens or even hundreds of bloggers you can call friends.

You can learn from such bloggers and even form long and profitable business relationships that help you blog long term.

11. Rinse and Repeat on a Daily Basis

At the end of the day it's the repeated actions that make you successful!

Doing something once will give you results, yes, but it won't be enough.

Doing more of it, again and again and again is where success lies.

Take raindrops for example...

Just few or even a couple hundred rain drops won't make much impact enough to be called "rain".

The Native American author, actor, poet, musician and political activist, John Trudell, put it succinctly when he said:

"... when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm"

Same with your various activities while blogging.

If you want to truly build a successful blog that will stand the test of time, you need to rinse and repeat the various activities on a daily or consistent basis.

It’s in the consistency of your actions that your blogging success lies, long term.

Author Bio:

Joy Healey lives in the beautiful city of Norwich (UK). She has two grand-daughters and three grand-dogs. Her hobbies are reading and line-dancing.

Because of poor pension planning Joy is still working as a computer programmer and is building an online business, part-time, “Blogging After Dark”

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ViralTag Review: Social Media Posting Tool for Visual Content

I have already talked about social media tools to automate the social sharing process. Today I will speak of social media tools call ViralTag. I am using this tool now, and its a great tool to use to share on social networks.

Social media tools help you automate the social sharing process and save time.

If you like visual content, then you know that others also want visual content of your site, and Viraltag allows you to share the visual content of your website with social networks.

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ViralTag offers free service for three social-media profiles Twitter, Facebook, and tumblr.

You can schedule up to 200 posts/month. So today, you will see how ViralTag works and review of ViralTag.

ViralTag review and features:

You can start using viraltag free plan.

You can add three social networks. Viraltag helps you share on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook Profile and Page, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

The best thing about this tool is that it allows you to add images and share them on social profiles.

I like the feature to upload multiple pictures from the web or computer and easily schedule them.

• Click here to open ViralTag 

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• Enter the email id and password to create a free account.

• Now you will see accounts, click on "connect to connect it with your social account.

Upload and queue:

You can easily upload so many images with just one click and schedule them.

You can add a unique description to images or can use the same description.

It helps you put your social media profiles on autopilot.

You can also see various categories that show visual content, and you can use it to find ideas.

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Viraltag also allows you to set time to share images, which is useful if you want to share pictures at some particular time.

You can use gif images as on twitter gif images attract more retweets and get you more followers. GIFboom helps you to create .gif images.

Overall experience and Conclusion:

ViralTag is an excellent addon to a list of social media tools. "Visual content" makes it unique and valuable.

You can also use their extension for Safari and Chrome to add a new post from anywhere on the web.

Using Viraltag is a good experience for me.

You can schedule bulk images, and it is suitable for Pinterest, and gif images is useful for twitter.

Do share if you are already using ViralTag. Also, share any social media tool to share visual content?

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Why Your Blog is Dying? & How to Save it

Are you a blogger who is waiting for a heart attack?

Yes you are, because your blog is dying. And you are complaining about it.

Every day when I open my email or Facebook inbox, what I see is lot of people begging me to help them to improve their blogging because their blog is dying.

But do you know that I can`t help them.

You may ask Why?

Because, the only person who can help you to be a successful blogger is you.

Why Your Blog is Dying? & How to Save it.

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If your blog is dying, then what should be your first priority?

Well, you should find the reasons why your blog is dying and try to fix them before it is too late.

Today I am going to uncover all the reasons which is killing your blog.

1) Your prime focus is money:

The big issue with most of the bloggers, who quit the blogging industry, is that they are too much focused about making money online, but not focused about the actions.

I know that you have started a blog to make money online, but if you force your blog to make money from day one then you will kill it with your own expectation.

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Let me make it simple for you.

You can’t expect your blog to make money from day one until you are Neil Patel. Neil has done lot of hard work and it took him years to reach at the level of ultimate success.

For example; Assume there is a 3 years kid who is going to the school for the first time. He is just learning how to pronounce alphabets. Now if his parents start pushing him to learn sentences from day one, that means they are putting extra burden on him and one day this burden will either make him sick or may even take his life.

Same thing happen with blogging. If you are doing the same that means you are killing your own blog.

How to fix this:
Always focus on actions. When your actions go big you will gain big rewards.

2) Write for the sake of writing:

Have you done any research before writing articles on your blog?

No.

Why?

Because it takes time to do research and you think that research is just waste of time.

Lol :)

Let me introduce you with the basic of blogging.

Stop acting like machine. Your readers are humans and they want the human touch.

When you writing without caring about what your readers want from your blog or what can attract the more readers to your blog, you actually introducing a big turn off on your blog.

Your readers will feel dullness in your blog and will never visit again.

No readers mean any success.

No one can stop your blog from dying if you are not generating content which attracts and engage readers.

How to fix this:

• Research every topic before writing


• Write for readers


• Make it attractive


• Storytelling is the best way.

3) Ignoring SEO:

Do you even know what is SEO?

Lol, it`s search engine optimization.

Everyday I meet many people who do not know what is SEO or search engine optimization.

SEO means optimizing your blog according to the search engine ranking factors.

There is no doubt that every SEO strategy takes time to bring good results. But if you are simply ignoring it that means you are ignoring the huge amount of traffic and lead opportunities.

How to fix this:

1. Do research


2. Find LSI and long term keywords


3. Check competition


4. Use proper url format


5. Use proper heading tags


6. Maintain keyword density.


7. Generate backlinks etc.

Also optimize your blog design and work on improving the site speed.

4) No promotion:

Are you a lazy person?

There are people who start blog to make money online and even write posts but never invest time on promoting the content on various networks.

Do you think that you will visit in the dream of every single person and introduce him with your blog?

Or

Do you think that people just get an inner feeling about your blog existence?

Stop being lazy.

No one knows about your blog until you promote it.

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Every day thousands of blog take birth in blogosphere. Without promotion your blog can’t even get a single visit.

If you don`t get traffic that means you will not earn anything and one day you will put your own blog in sandbox.

You not only have to promote it among your friends and family but also utilize all the social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr etc.

• The more people know about your blog, the more traffic your blog will get.


• The more traffic you get the more social shares your blog get.


• The more shares you get again more traffic you get.

So you see it works as a circle.

So stop killing your blog with your laziness and start promoting it.

5) Copy content:

This is the horror show.

Stop copying content from other blogs or publications.

If you are doing so that means one day you will penalized by DMCA and Google.

In worse case, Google will sandbox your blog and it will never show in Google search results.

Google will also ban you from using Google Adsense on your blog.

This will cause the death of your blog.

How to avoid that:
Never copy content from other sites.

Use content theft checker tools to check if copy content is available on your blog or not.

Fix it before it is too late.

6) Penalized by Google;

Is your blog suffering from huge drop in traffic and search ranking?

That means Google has hit your blog with one of it`s updates.

Why Google did that?

Because Google fins something on your blog which is not acceptable, such as:

1.  Copycontent


2.  Black hat SEO


3.  Poor backlink profiles


4.  No user engagement


5.  Malicious codes

How to fix that:
I always want you to do SEO, but never overdo it and never use black hat techniques.

Focus on user engagement. Write compelling content and make the readers engage without blog by allowing them to comment and share your blog posts.

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7) Loose Interest:

Blogging is your passion or just a job?

If it is your passion then you will never get bored, but if you are doing it like a job that means sooner or later you will lose interest in it.

How to fix this:

The only way is to take the necessary step when staring a new blog.

Always choose the niche of your own interest. Look for your passion and then check if that is monetize able or not.

Most of the times, your passion will have monetizing potential.

These are the 7 most common reasons behind the death of 90% blogs.

When you start a blog, you have to take every step carefully. From choosing a domain name to promoting a blog, do everything in really professional way.

Remember: No one can write your story better than you.

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How to Win the Competition with Psychology?

Win the Competition with Psychology! Why? Do you know how to read a human mind? Well most of the people try to guess but still they don`t know the actual way to read human mind, how others think and what they actually do. The crucial thing about human psychology is that it changes person to person.

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As a blogger I always give importance to offer readers what they love to read and I analyze results to know what your readers want from my blog. Blogging is a competitive world and to be on top you need to understand how you can beat your competitors in good way.

To win competition with Psychology you need to understand two things, one what your readers want from your blog and second what your competitors are doing.

Both things have their own benefits. Where knowing psychology of your readers help you serve best content, psychology of your competitors help you to beat them in competition.

How to win the competition with Psychology

Now everyone want to stand on first position, but we know that not everyone can stand teh same time at same position.

When you enter into world of blogging and want to win competition, the best thing is to understand psychology.

Today I am going to share how you can win competition with psychology.

Understand your readership:

I always say that your focus should be on your readers rather than just search engine bots. Readers are the most valuable asset of any website, blog or online business. To understand what your readers want from your blog you can follow these steps.

1) Install Google Analytics and analyze behavior of users on your website or blog. You will understand how much time they spend on your site, which pages or articles they like to visit most and where they get engage.

Now as you know these things start writing posts that make your readers more interested.

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2) Analyze Comments:

There are various commenting systems. You can choose according to your need. Comments help readers to get engage with your blog.

Commenting also help you to analyze which type of article get more engagement. This way can write more on such topics and offer what your readers already want.

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3) More Visualization:

Add infographics and videos to your blog posts as this will attract more visitors and also generate more social shares for your website or blog.

People love to share what they love to see rather than just read. So give them something to remember. The more your users get engage the more you will understand their psychology.

You will know what they like to share and what they love to talk about.

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Understand your Competitors:

To win the competition with psychology you also need to understand the psychology of your competitors.

You can use tools like SEMRush or Google Keyword planner to analyze keywords to rank better in search results and also analyze which keywords are helping your competitors to rank.

You should write detailed pillar articles on keywords which you see bring more traffic easily, means keywords with good monthly search and low competition.

These are the few tips that I believe help you to understand and win the competition with Psychology. You can read my helpful posts to get more help. If you have any question feel free to ask me via comments.

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Secret List of Best 2.0 Sites to Create Free Blog for Backlinks

Haven`t I said it so many times that backlinks are of of the major factor when it comes to rank your website in search engines? Even after many changes in Google algorithms still backlinks are crucial factor to create a website rank better in search engines If you know SEO then you may already know that there are so many ways to optimize a website either offpage or onpage. SEOs have been trying multiple ways to optimize websites by doing on page and off page techniques.


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On page SEO factors includes Meta tags, Keyword Research, URL optimization,  Image optimization, content optimization, Robots.txt etc. Off page optimization means that you need to do optimization offside the website and it includes link building or you can say Backlinks. Directory submission, Article submission, Press release submission are few of the very common ways. But now a days there are so many things that you need to check before start building backlinks. For now only quality and relevant links are known as good links.

The restrictions on ways to create backlinks and latest Google algorithms cause the need of blogs which are created in really good way rather than directory submission. If you get a link back from a website with high domain authority in a really natural way then it gonna boost your website SEO.

Remember : Google is targeting Private Blog Networks. So make sure what you do, you do in a natural way.

How to make your backlinks look natural:

The easiest way to make your backlinks look natural is the link diversification. Link diversification is really necessary in order to make your backlinks look really natural. It is always recommended by various pro bloggers that you should get links from different resources.

Today I am going to share my Secret List of best web 2.0 websites to create free blogs easily. Then you can use these blogs to gain link backs to your actual website. It also saves money which you can pay to create blogs. let`s see the list on best web 2.0 sites to create free backlinks from high authority websites.

Sites                            PR    DA

Blog.com                             6      75
Beep.com                            5       72
blogger.com                        9       96
blurpalicious.com               2       61
en.sitew.com                       5       79
freewebsite-service.com     4       67
pen.io                                  5       71
page.tl                                 5       59
sites.google.com                 9      100
soup.io                                5       71
Tumblr.com                        8        98
wix.com                              8        92
webs.com                            7       89
zohosites.com                     6       59
wordpress.com                    9      100

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