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One of the most important aspects of blogging is funneling traffic, good traffic to your site, because you can also have bad traffic which will do nothing but bug you down. Also you have to work on keeping them coming with proper engagement. WHY do you desire traffic? 1. Traffic translates to more views 2 More views if well managed leads to more revenue. Web traffic can be split into four main types, mainly: 1. Direct Traffic These comes from people that are already aware about your brand and visit your site directly by typing your site name into their web browser 2. Referral Traffic This is the traffic that comes to your site through external links from other web pages. 3. Organic Traffic These come to you through online searches which is aided through Search engine optimization. 4. Social Traffic People visiting your site through links on social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and others. 5. Paid Traffic These are made up of AdWords, Remarketing and others. So ...

I started my first blog several years ago with very little information and understanding of the workings of a blog and how not to fail at it. Armed with the little Knowledge i was able to garner, as my patience would permit me, i jumped into it with all enthusiasm. I posted one or two scrawny articles and kept checking my revenue. Of course it did not come and i started to get discouraged. The above is a personal testimony which unfortunately a lot of bloggers can relate to. Below are some of the salient reasons why people (bloggers and online writers) fail to make money online.     1. Not Taking Action People sometimes wait indefinitely before starting their online business. They read, buy products, subscribe to newsletters but still are hesitant to start working on what they have chosen to do. For some it could be the fear of failing that keeps them back or just plain old laziness. The more you delay, the more time that you could have used to build up and learn ...

The main reason why you are writing the blog post at all is because you want people to read it because you think (or know) that you have something to share with them that will enlighten them and help them to solve a problem. People have a short attention span when they read online. They come to your page, check the layout and scan through your content. If they like it, they stick around. If not they are gone-to where they will get what they are looking for.   Bottom line- your post must make an immediate impression if you want to have any meaningful share of web traffic. Let's go 1. Make sure you address a specific problem   People come to your blog because they are looking for information which gives knowledge and they lack that knowledge. You  MUST  make sure you provide it. Remember, information is power and people want power, at least, I do! Don't let people go through your content and come away feeling that they wasted their time. Like i wrote in another post,...

Having an awesome design and great content is not all you need to have a successful blog. From information gathered-what you've seen, read, big money can be made from blogging and so you jump in, however, you need to do more, much more Below are five things to do to start out right in your quest for a successful blog. Happy blogging. 1. Choosing Your Niche Working with a popular niche indicates that there is big audience available for that niche, hungry for whatever information you throw at them and most important of all, there is money to be made. Not that you cannot succeed following your passion, but more often than not, the bloggers that do well do so with blogs that they are passionate about in a popular niche 2. Provide a solution Offer what people want and not what you want them to want. Yes you can write great content, unique and well composed but hey, if it does not proffer a solution or quench a yearning, it will not do well. You ha...