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Success
Posted on August 4th, 2010 No commentsI was teaching the blog class in San Francisco last week and my friend Kate started laughing! I asked her what she was laughing about and she said “Come here! Look at this!”
When I looked at what she was pointing at, it was her Alexa Ranking. It was 2.2 million. She hadn’t put a word of content on her blog in two months, but the way we had set it up, it had risen from 22 million to 2.6 million in just 2 months. She was thrilled.
What makes this even better is Kate considers herself a neophyte when it comes to technology and the Internet. She has simply followed my directions and she has achieved a success level that very few bloggers ever do. And her blog was launched in April. Not bad for a neophyte!
I received a comment from a friend Laurie in Ajijic who I had helped with her real estate blog back in March while visiting there. She was ecstatic because her blog had reached 757,000 ranking on Alexa in just 4 months. That is truly amazing! Especially since only two of my 28 blogs have crested the 1 million mark.
It might help she’s only working on one blog, but it is a great accomplishment to have achieved such success so rapidly.
If you’re not sure why rankings are so important, you’ll find the higher your ranking the more likely people will find you when using the major search engines. It’s important to track your rankings. The smaller the number the higher you’ll climb in the page rankings.
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Keep up Your Blog
Posted on July 21st, 2010 No commentsIt is a challenge for some to think of what to say when blogging every week. What I have found is there is inspiration all around me. When I am driving I watch what is going on around me. When I stand in line at the grocer store (which is rare) I notice how people act, listen to conversations they have, their body language and most especially what children are doing.
I was so surprised to see a mother and daughter at Trader Joe’s today. The girl couldn’t have been more than four years old and as the mother was shopping the girl was watching a cartoon on her mother’s iphone. Yikes! Even to tots are addicted to technology!
Simple things can make for interesting reading, when you present them in an interesting light!
I find the most interesting blogs to read are about every day stories, occurrences, insights, impressions and enlightened experiences. You can take any experience and have the result be meaningful to nearly any topic.
Some might not make the stretch of the mother and daughter shopping at Trader Joe’s apply to a blog about blogs, but there is always a way to look at an experience and see how it can be meaningful.
Once you start writing once a week, you’ll find you begin to notice things automatically. Make a list of things that interest you during the week and keep the list hand. Eventually you’ll have more to write about than you will be able to keep up with. It’s a simple process of training yourself to think in terms of remembering what you see and turning it into an applicable post.
Blogify Your Business
Blogging to Boost Your Business
Sharyn Abbott
I am a professional speaker, author of 7 books and founder of Elite Leads which has guided entrepreneurs since 1991 to more success with less time and effort..
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