During the first week of blogging idol I saw a lot of the competition entries creating competitions for increasing their subscriber base; however I was inclined to do this at the time as I felt that I would take the competition at a different pace. However this week’s strategies have been just that. I have set up the first ever competition to be held on my website which is aimed at increasing my subscriber base, obviously we are not permitted to give away cash prizes so here is where I got creative. I was able to take prize ideas from the first week of blog

Now we are in the final week of Blogging Idol I am trying to pull out all the guns, however timing has been a really bad issue this week. With my two free eBooks running late they will only be released today giving only two days before the competition ends. However I shall be trying my hardest to pull in as many subscribers with these eBooks. Apart from writing quality content which is relevant to my website and informative to my audience I have not done much more this week. The usual tactics such as blog carnivals and blog commenting has been applied as wel

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Now if someone had asked me what a blog was a year ago my answer would not only lack the experience and knowledge that I have grasped over the last year but it would also portray a very different answer. One year ago my answer would have been something like this. That a blog is a web page or collection of pages where a user displays and shares information on there own personal life, tastes and interests. They may use the page to keep in contact with other friends or to create new friends with the same interests. However this would be the main use of a blog, targe

It is not enough anymore to just blog about the same subject a fellow blogger has and put your own spin on things. With the amount of bloggers increasing day by day minute by minute the amount of content which covers the same subject is increasing to, so stop writing the same as everyone else and cover something unique instead. Do you ever wonder why some blogs such as ProBlogger, Dailyblogtips and many more receive so much traffic and have become so popular? It’s not just because they were lucky enough to get in to the blogging market early enough to take advantage of th

I would like to say one thing before I start this article. This is not a definite guide to achieving a bounce rate of only 2.7% nor is it an article that will for certain help you to decrease your bounce rate it is just my own extract of what has happened to my blog during the last 2 months.