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How to Promote Your New Blog

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Promoting a new blog site is not as easy as creating a blog. A blog can be created in a day but promoting it takes hard work. Promoting a blog requires dedication and consistency.

The challenges many new bloggers face is how to promote their blog. In this article I will be pointing out some ways you can follow to get your blog discovered by many.

Write interesting content:

Your content is what makes people to return to your site. Anybody can enter your site from anywhere but the value of your content will be the magnet that will draw the person back to your site.

You must not follow what others are doing, follow your passion, write based on the topic you are most interested about and have better knowledge on.

A friend of mine was a relationship councilor on facebook. Her work was to advice people based on the problem they are facing in their relationships. Gradually she started gaining more followers, people started sending questions in her message inbox on facebook and she will publish it on her wall with the answers she gave.

People started following her page and her audience grew to over 10,000 daily readers. What she did was to create a blog and started publishing those relationship questions and answers on her blog and sends the link to her facebook page.

When her followers click on the link it will redirect them to her blog page. Gradually her followers started coming to her blog through direct referral, they no longer wait for her to send the link on facebook.

This was how my friend utilized the value of her content to launch a successful blog. Her blog is not like a tech blog that requires keyword to rank on search engine.

She gained lots of followers with her content. Those that read her blog always come back for more. She did not use facebook ads to promote her blog or buy traffic; it was people that visit her blogs that promoted the blog through sharing the post and telling their friends about such blog.

The fastest way to promote your blog is through writing interesting contents that can make those that visit your site to return.

Share your content on social media:

Another fastest way to promote your blog is through sharing it on social media. Social media like Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn etc are effective tool you can use to promote your blog post. As a new blogger you can start with the first two, facebook and twitter.

You can use facebook to give your blog the required exposure you need. Create a facebook fan page and ask your friends to like your new page.

Whenever you create a new blog post, share it on your facebook page and those who liked your page will see it and once they click, it will direct them to your blog, from that way people can start to discover your blog and the value of your content.

To share your post on twitter you must create a twitter account. Whenever you share your post on twitter your entire followers will see it and this is a good way of driving traffic to your site. You can run a twitter campaign if you have the budget and your blog post will be promoted on twitter feeds.

Action word:

Action word is my choice of word; it simply means telling your readers at the end of each post to feel free to share your blog post on the social media.

“Feel free to share this blog post with your friends on facebook, Twitter and other social media”

Not all your friends will do it, but those who find the post helpful will share it. If a reasonable amount of your readers should share your blog post across the social media, the growth of your blog will be quick.

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Profitable Blog Niche in Nigeria

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Starting up a blog is very easy but finding the best blog niche for your blog is quite hard. Many new bloggers have asked this question in most of the bloggers forum in Nigeria. The question is what the best blog Niche in Nigeria?

Nigeria is so big that any Niche you blog about you will still find readers. In this post I will explain different blog niche and their comparative advantage and you can choose the best niche for yourself based on your likes and what you can write about.

Being frank to you, blogging is about what you know, there is no way you can blog on topic you don’t have any idea about. You can only write on topics you know very well.

For instance asking a medical Doctor to start a blog on fashion or SEO tips; the best blog niche for a medical doctor is health. He can write more freely on health niche than any other niche. So choose a niche that best suits your expertise.

Profitable Blog Niche in Nigeria to Make money online

NEWS

News blog is common in Nigeria; majority of blogs in Nigeria is about political news, celebrity news and gossip. News blog is easy because Nigeria loves to read about the trending topic about their celebrities or about what’s happening in government.

Blogging about current news can get you more readers but the problem you may encounter is low cost per click (CPC) if you are using Google Adsense. If you are a new blogger, it may interest you to know that the cost per click for news is very low.

Why many news bloggers succeed is because of high page views. When your site is receiving high quality traffic and page views your earnings will increase.

As a news blogger the major thing you have to avoid is duplicate content. People tends to copy news from others blog than rewriting it in their own words and styles.

When you copy another blog post to your blog, it becomes a duplicate content, and Google frowns at it. The area you will face major issue is when you want to apply for Google Adsense.

Google will definitely reject your application because of duplicate content. If you want to start a news blog you must be able to rewrite the story in your own words and come up with different title to make it different from others. The good thing about news blog is that you must find something to blog about.

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RELATIONSHIP

Relationship blog is very profitable. You can use semrush or Google keyword planner to search for high paying keyword and write about it. Many people are searching for the best tips for their marriage and relationship.

Single girls and couples in Nigeria are looking for the best relationship advice in order to make their marriage and relationship work. Starting a blog on relationship is very nice.

You won’t complain of low cost per click if you use Google Keyword Planner to search for keywords. Nonetheless, relationship blogs don’t require you to update it every single day. But it’s good if you can be updating your blog regularly.

TECH/SEO TIPS

If you want a high profitable blog niche, choose tech. Many Nigeria undergraduate are always surfing the internet for tech news. Tech blog is a very profitable blog niche for beginner bloggers who want to make money online.

Also new bloggers are most likely to visit blogs that can teach newbie’s how to drive traffic to their website, improve search ranking and get Adsense approval. Starting a blog on this particular niche will give you more organic traffic than starting a news blog. Tech blog is very profitable niche because of its high paying keywords.

FINANCE

Finally, starting a blog on this finance niche will profit you more than news blog and relationship niche because advertisers are more willing to pay more on this particular niche than some other niche.

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How to Become a Successful Blogger

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There are people who have become financially free by blogging about their passion. Blogging can be quite challenging but if you are determined and willing to do your work without looking back, you will definitely eat the fruits of your labour.

Blogging has always helped people live the life they always dreamt of. In this blog post I will share with you those tips on how to become a successful blogger.

Take Blogging as Employment:

If you are serious about making six figures from your blog, then you have to take your blog as your job.

A blog that is updated once a week and the one that is updated daily will never compete in terms of content strength.

The more content you have in your blog the more avenue visitors can use to enter your blog.

Update your Site Regularly:

Sites that update their blog with fresh contents will always keep their reader coming back. Blogging is not want you do whenever you like; blogging is about following your schedule.

If you have schedule to be updating your site once weekly try and maintain it, if you can be updating it daily that’s great, keep to it.

For you to become successful with your blog you must be updating it regularly with fresh content that provides values.

Promotion:

When you create a new blog, you must take a step further in order to make it discoverable by people. When you create a new blog, it may take a bit longer for the search engines to start indexing your content.

Promoting it through social media, facebook advert and Google ads will help your site grow quicker.

Promotion is not only for new websites or blog; many established companies are still running sponsored post on facebook.

Your success as a blogger comes based on the level of authority your website have.

Respect Adsense Policy:

If you intend using Google Adsense to monetize your site, you must respect Google Adsense policy otherwise you will be kick out of Adsense program.

Google Adsense is the best advertising network and many bloggers are receiving six figures from Google Adsense.

If you want your partnership with Adsense to be cordial you must respect their policy and your account will be secured.

Provide Valuable Contents:

Valuable content are those content that solve the search query of the user.

If a user is searching on how to monetize a YouTube video, your content ought to explain to the user the process of getting a video monetized on YouTube.

If you want your site to have authority, keeping on providing lots of valuable content on your blog.

How you can provide a valuable content on your blog is by using Google keyword planner to find out what people are searching for on search engines.

If you find those keyword related to your blog niche, write a very detailed blog post so that any user who visit your site would love to come back again.

If you follow these five simple steps, you will definitely become a successful blogger in short distance time.

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How to Get Adsense Approval Fast

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Google Adsense is the best contextual advert network; the dream of every blogger is to get Adsense approval as soon as possible. Applying for Google Adsense may not be as tedious as people or some bloggers make it look. Getting Adsense approval in your blog requires you to do those things that comply with Google Adsense policy.

You cannot be doing those things Google said you should not do if you want to join Adsense program and expect them to accept you into Adsense. Google policy for Adsense is not hidden; you have to get yourself equipped with Adsense policies if you want to join the Adsense program.

To get yourself equipped with Adsense you have to spend your time reading about Google Adsense policies in their website. In this blog post I will be explaining to you things you have to do in your blog to get Adsense approval fast.

Design:

Give your site a proper design; don’t make your site look like a tailor store. If you cannot be able to design your website very well you can contact a web designer to give you a professional good looking website. If you are serious about making money online with your blog give your site a good look. Your website design is like a building that houses your interior furniture’s.

Original Content:

Google has made it very clear that for you to get into Adsense you must create/write original content in your blog. Adsense approval is not for copy and paste website. If the contents you have in your website is copied from other peoples blog, getting to Adsense will be like applying for America Green Card from your home country.

Write original contents that have the capacity of providing values to people search queries. Also have a good number of quality posts before applying for Adsense. You can apply when your site have up to twenty quality post not less than five hundred words on each post.

Navigation:

Creating pages in your menu bar will help your site users to navigate your blog easily and it help them to find your content without going through many stress locating your contents. Google made it very clear that you have to make your site easy for navigation.

Privacy Policy:

To stand a chance to participate in Adsense program you must create a privacy policy for your blog. Privacy policy will give Google the impression that you care about the privacy of your readers.

About Us Page:

Create about us page for your blog and write what your blog is all about. Write about yourself too and what you intend to achieve with your blog.

Contact Us Page:

Create a contact us page for your blog so that users that come to your blog can easily reach you. You can create a professional email with your domain name or use contact form 7 to create contact form for wordpress site or blogger contact us form.

Domain Name:

Before you apply for Google Adsense make sure you have a top level domain for your blog. If you are using blogger blogspot, make sure you purchase a top level domain name from Godaddy.

Google has said that you cannot apply for Google Adsense with a sub domain name. Example of top level domain name is www.google.com/

Your article content:

Google does not approve site that have adult content, hacking or cracking tutorial, illegal drugs site etc may not be accepted into Adsense. Make sure you read about Google prohibited content in inside Adsense blog.

Traffic:

Avoid using bot to drag traffic to your site. You can get your traffic from search engine or social media.

Don’t use paid traffic on your site, because some site that offers to direct traffic to your site in exchange of money may be sending bot traffic to your blog.

But you can still use paid ads from facebook and twitter to promote your content. Just avoid site with low reputation and Google trust when running ads on your site.

Adverts:

If you have any adverts running in your site remove it before applying for Google Adsense. You can put the advert back when you get Adsense approval. Google does not want to see adverts on site applying for Adsense.

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Mistakes New Bloggers Make

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Blogging can be quite satisfying if you follow it in the right way. If you choose to be an online publisher and make income from it; then you have to avoid these deadliest mistakes new bloggers make.

Many people jump into blogging without taking their time to study the dos and don’ts of blogging especially when it comes to monetizing it through Google Adsense.

 First thing is for you to have the passion for blogging and the second part of it is having knowledge about what you want to go into.

There are a lot of materials to read online to guide you on the basics of blogging. I encourage you to find time and study it, in order to quip yourself on the journey you want to embark upon.

Blogging is like a journey, if you do it well, you will definitely make a fortune from it.

Common mistakes beginner blogger make.

Not starting up professionally from the beginning:

Am still surprise when I see young bloggers applying for Adsense with a sub domain i.e. blogspot.com.

Google Adsense has already made it clear that publishers that want to participate in their Adsense program should apply with top level domain like www.walyben.com.

But even at that many bloggers still blog with sub domain and still want to be seen as professionals.

Starting up professionally is not a bad idea, start by purchasing a custom domain name or by self hosted word press site.

 Don’t make the mistake of using a free sub domain if you still want to be seen as professional blogger.   

Avoid copying other website content:

As a new blogger, avoid this deadliest mistake some bloggers make. Copying other website blog post to your website will not only drag people away from your blog rather it will become a duplicate content for your blog especially when you want to apply for Google Adsense. Adsense rejects any site with duplicate content.

Don’t try to play on people’s intelligence, web visitors don’t visit only one website, once a new visitor comes to your blog and found that your content is the same with what he had read somewhere else, he will know and it can make your site look amateur and unprofessional.

Avoid copying blog post from other website to your blog. Develop your own writing skills and start providing valuable content to your visitors.

Multiple Niches:

This is another common mistake with new bloggers. Some new bloggers make the mistake of trying to blog on multiple niches beyond their scope.

Some bloggers create multiple categories in their blog site that they have little or no knowledge about.

It is important to blog on the topic you are conversant with not having multiple categories like health, finance, business, social media marketing, sports, world news, tech, relationship, lifestyle and travel on the same blog.

Blogs needs to be updated constantly, if you cannot update all categories you created, there is no need of creating them. But if you can, give it a try.

 As a beginner blogger, concentrate on the niche you are conversant with and when your site starts growing to a big company, you can hire writers and editors to man the different categories of your website.

Non regular update:

Don’t make the mistake of updating your website once in a month. Blogging requires effort and commitment.

The search engine will always favour any website that is updated frequently with lots of valuable contents.

Blogging is like a football if you play it with utmost seriousness, you will have higher chances of winning, but if you are recalcitrant and unserious your blog may not exceed one year and it’s gone.

You will get good result in blogging when you take it very serious and update your site regularly with valuable content.

Applying for Adsense when your site is not fully functional:

Don’t make the mistake of applying for Google Adsense when your site is still under construction or not fully functional.

Also don’t make the mistake of applying when your site has not started getting a reasonable amount of traffic.

If it’s only your family that visit your site, don’t make the mistake of applying for Adsense because even if your account is approved, you need enough traffic and page views to make money from Google Adsense.

I know you need money to maintain your site but don’t apply immediately you purchase a domain name.

Give your site a week or two to be fully functional and for search engine to index all the articles in your blog.

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