How Often Should I Blog?
Keeping people interested in your blog, whether it’s a business or a personal blog is the key to attracting a lot of regular visitors. Many blogs have run out of steam because their owners have lost interest. If the writer loses interest so does the visitor who will not come back. One of the main reasons is simply a lack of posts by the blogger. Regular, frequent posting, which will boost your blog’s ranking in search engines, is essential to the survival of any blog.
As a Blogger you might ask: How frequent should you post, how many entries in a week, one or more than one? But the biggest question is: How do I write consistently good posts? Let’s try and break this down.
How do you decide what’s frequent?
Frequent blog posting is producing enough to keep your readers interested. Obviously, visitors will not want to come back to a blog that hasn’t been updated in months. They want to see regular posting so that they know coming back won’t be a waste of time.
How many blog entries per week?
This is a fairly hard question to answer. It’s all down to the purpose of your blog. With a personal blog maybe once or twice a week, a hobby blog probably three or four would be better. A business blog will need at least two to keep threads active.
The point to remember is that quality counts every time. Posting just for the sake of posting can result in unimaginative and uninteresting posts. In other words – boring. Whatever you do ‘Think Quality’.
How do I create quality postings consistently?
It’s all about following a pattern of writing and maybe you’re not a natural writer and find this is difficult. Let me give you an outline to help.
Pick a topic that is interesting to you as well as your readers. Your interest and enthusiasm will show through in your writing. If it’s a personal blog write as though you were talking to your friends telling them what’s happened today. If it’s a business blog, plan your topic. Make notes first by way of headings and ideas so you’re treating it like a road map. You know where you want to start and where you want to finish. This should make your writing flow when you’re filling in the content, and it will stop you from shooting off in different directions and possibly losing your reader.
Unless you’re confident with your own knowledge of the topic make sure you do your research. Some of your readers may already know the subject and you don’t want them to think you’re just making it up. That’s a sure way of losing them.
In your planning stage pick out some keywords that are relevant to your blog. If you use keywords naturally throughout your post the search engines will rank your blog higher. Don’t flood your post with the same keyword or phrase, this will have a detrimental effect on the search engines and you’ll get nowhere. When writing your post don’t limit yourself to a particular amount of words. Let it flow and do what’s natural, but don’t get carried away you’re not writing a novel. Ideally 200 to 600 should see your post long enough to keep the reader interested but not too long for them to think you’re going on and on. If you find any part of the post is hard for you, just take a timeout and relax. You can always finish it a bit later. Remember don’t rush it. A good blog post should be enjoyed by both the writer and the reader. That way you’ll both want more.
Happy blogging and keep smiling.
Barry
Blogging for Fun and Profit
Hi Everyone,
I’ve got my blogging hat on today and for those of you who don’t know, Blog is short for ‘Web Log’ which means it’s a online diary.
The main function of a blog is to communicate your thoughts and ideas to others, and have some fun while you’re doing it. I know lots of people say they can’t write but it’s not as difficult as you may think. I was talking to a chap once and I said, “What’s your grammar like”? And he said, “She’s about 5 foot, makes nice cakes and nearly eighty”. No, no, no. Not ‘Grandma’, grammar, English, putting sentences together – Oooh, Shish!
Anyway, apart from that if you write as though you were telling a friend a story or explaining to your pal what you did yesterday you will be surprised what you can do.
Step by Step.
The very first thing you need is get your blog online. “What!!! – I can’t do that, mumble, bumble, grumble….”, Now hold on buddy, it’s really, really easy and I’m going to show you how, right here, right this minute, now, pronto as soon as I’ve stopped blabbering.
In ten minutes from now you can have your blog online and it won’t cost you a cent because it’s Free. That’s right, zippo, zilch, nada, nothing. How cool is that? 
One of the most popular blogs available is from WordPress and you can get a free WordPress account from: wordpress.com, just click here and be whisked away to the WordPress site.
1. Click on the Sign Up Now button.
2. Give yourself a user name. (Think about this first because it will be your blog address i.e., oliver(at)Wordpress.com or CumberlandHigh(at)Wordpress.com (example for a school blog)
3. Enter your email address
4. Agree to the legal gobble de gook
5. Select the button ‘Gimme a Blog’
6. Click next.
7. Then ‘Sign Up’.
Lastly
8. Slump back in your chair as you view your blog online in the big wide world.
As easy as falling off a blog … ‘err log …. Sorry.
WordPress has a great tutorial to help you get going, but I’ll be back with more Blogging goodies soon.
Keep Smiling
Barry
Blogging
Hi Everyone,
With the sun glimmering through the lace curtains and the smell of fresh polish in the air. The silence gently broken by the ticking of the clock, and its’ deep but gentle chime sounding the hour. Pen poised above a clean white sheet of paper the young lady thought carefully and then began to write: Dear Diary……
I mean…WOW, fast forward 90 years or so. That was Blogging in the first instance. Thoughts put on paper to be read by every one and maybe no one. Although I must admit if you don’t get people to your Blog that bit might still be the same.
It was all about communicating your thoughts and ideas to others. From chalk stone on cave walls to squeaky nibs on rough parchment, and now to nimble fingers on a keyboard. Writing fine words was only for the educated and chosen few, but now its every man and his Blog (Ooops, sorry I couldn’t resist that).
“Good Heavens”, exclaimed Ma. “Our Jacks got a job with his jacket on”.
That’s progress.
Seriously though, Blogging is the way to get your thoughts across. You can have a personal blog, dear Diary and all that, you can have a work blog, club blog, school blog, family blog, I hate my lousy neighbour blog, or even a make mucho lovely money blog,
(Now you’re talking).
This is such a fantastic subject I think I’ll explore this some more. I’m going to go away and then bounce back with another instalment. Is that ok? Just nod yes and I’ll be back.
Keep Smiling,
Barry
Web Site Traffic – I've Heard of That | web traffic
Picture this:
You have a very lonely web site, because the only visitor this week was your Mom. You’ve spoken to loads of friends and they all think your product’s fantastic, and they were blown away when you said you’d pay them 60% of every sale they made. Trouble is they ain’t made any, and neither have you.
Ok Buddy, you can sit there in that quiet office listening to the clock: tick…tock…tick…tock, or you can even check your PayPal account for the hundredth time today just in case the ‘You’ve got funds’ email didn’t get through. OR:
C’mon buddy wake up, get your brain into gear. Start shouting and screaming, ANYTHING to get that crazy head working.
You’ve got a great product Right? A fantastic web site? You’ve even got folks wanting to sell the product (your Affiliates), but you’ve no sales. Why?
I’ll tell you why: No one knows how to sell it. You don’t know how to sell it. No one knows how to get Traffic. You and your AFFILIATES need TRAINING. Is it difficult? Heck no!
Ha! I feel better now I’ve got that off my chest. 
Listen up: You pay the guy to cut your hair; you pay the guy to clean your car. So why not pay the guy to do your Affiliate Training? Cost a fortune? – No way!
Let me ask you some questions:
Do you want more traffic?
Do you want more sales?
Do you want more profits?
Do you want your Traffic and Affiliate Training to be done by someone else?
If you answered No, you ain’t got a pulse!
Here’s another:
Do you want me to shut the heck up and tell you where to get your AFFILIATE & TRAFFIC TRAINING?
Ha! – Now I’ve got your attention.
The best Affiliate Training in the world is coming soon to your computer.
P.S. It’s so cheap; you’ll think your pockets are sewn up!
All the Best
Barry
Web Traffic
No matter what you sell in this world whether it’s a Rolls Royce car or a Widget you need buyers to see your product
On the subject of widgets, (don’t you think that was a cool way of changing the topic?) anyway, I mean, everyone talks about widgets. Have you ever seen a widget? No, I haven’t either. Mind you, maybe you could make something, anything, call it a Widget. And ‘WOW’ everyone in the world will want one …wont they?
Ok, back to reality. You need buyers for your product, and on the internet they are more affectionately known as TRAFFIC, or to be more precise, ‘Web Traffic’. We also refer to them as ‘VISITORS’, but for the purpose of this post we’re going to call your buyers ‘TRAFFIC’. That’s a bit of a cold term but what the heck.
Now we’ve got that sorted, let’s talk about your Traffic. There are two types. The first is untargeted traffic which is anyone who has a computer connected to the Web, a bit of searching savvy and a pulse! The other type is ‘Targeted Traffic’, now these are ‘the ones’, the lovely people who want to buy, the spenders, the doers, owners of credit cards, people who don’t have their pockets sewn up, the Holy Grail. Sorry, I got a bit carried away. As I was saying, these are the people you want. They are the Crème de la Crème of ‘Web Traffic’.
How do you get these fantastic buyers?
Before I answer that, let me ask you another question. Do you like Audio & Video? Just nod ‘Yes’. OK then, go order the beer and sandwiches because I’m going to treat you to a FREE Audio which will reveal the secrets of getting those elusive buyers.
Wahoo, whistle, fanfare, drum roll …. OK settle down. Keep your cool guys, we’re nearly there.
Keep Smiling,
Barry
Training for Traffic | web traffic
Gary Wilson decided he needed a fantastic Web Site because he thought he’d made the best darn comfortable sofa in the land. He’d spent a fortune getting all the best materials, and hours and hours crafting the most luxurious, eye appealing, downright comfortable sofa you could ever wish to own.
So Gary spent another chunk of money on a superdooper web site. It had everything, the entire buzz and razzmatazz and a top notch shopping cart to boot. It really looked the ‘bees’ knees’.
To top it all, Gary’s friends, who’d been watching him, because Gary was ‘the cleverest dude they knew’, said ‘Gary, you’ve got dozens of friends so we’ll all go out and sell the sofas for you’.
Gary thought he’d died and gone to heaven
Poor Gary
The days turned to weeks and the weeks to months and the tumbleweed blew through his office. (Well not quite, I put that in for effect!). But I think you’re getting my drift, he didn’t get any sales. Gary wasn’t selling; in fact no-one was selling. He had no traffic.
In the local bar he sat sipping his beer, he could only afford a small one, and he told his sorry tale to the barman. Now, Barmen are really wise fellows who are all sent from heaven to put ‘Sorry for themselves Jerks’ back on track. The Barman said, ‘You’ve been trained to make great sofas and if you’ve trained your salespeople properly why haven’t they got any sales’? ‘I haven’t trained them’, exclaimed a rather sheepish Gary’, who suddenly realised he’d been hit over the head with a forty ton hammer, along with three dollars for the beer.
Epilogue – Before You Cringe.
Ok, Ok before you run off and grab a bucket to douse me with water; I’m only trying to make a point. Gary knew his stuff, and his friends (salespeople) were lovely folks but he didn’t TRAIN them ‘How to sell Sofas’, and he didn’t know how to get traffic.
No matter what product you’re selling, you MUST TRAIN your salespeople (Affiliates) how to sell your products. AFFILIATE TRAINING FOR TRAFFIC has to be top of your agenda, without training you have no sales, and without sales you have nothing.
Your Web Site sales people are your Virtual Army of Affiliates and I’m going to show you a training system, a system so easy it made Gary fall off his bar stool
As Always – Keep Smiling,
Barry
Affiliate Training | web traffic
I have spent countless hours and money (Ouch my head hurts with that one) trying to find the best ways for making an Online business work. One thing came out very clear, you need training. Preferably by someone whose been there, done that, and come out the other end with more money than they went in with.
Not only do you need training but the people who will sell your products (your Affiliates) need training as well.
Think Outside the Box – This One is Different
If you already have a web site selling a product, you already know that you need traffic and maybe you’re into SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay Per Click), Keywords and lots of other bells, whistles, widgets, gadgets and add-ons. But now I want you to Think Outside the Box!
Think Training, no, not just training you to sell your product but training other people to sell your product for you.
Let me explain: A guy once asked for my help because he’d had lots of customer complaints about poor service and he went on to say that he used to spend an awful lot of money on training but then the staff left and he considered it a waste of money. So he stopped training and the complaints went up. “I can’t win’, he moaned.
He was really saying that if he trained people they became better and left, and if he didn’t train them they couldn’t do the job and stayed. He lost all round.
The Easy Peasy Solution.
Train them, Reward them and they Stay. Your sales increase, your profits increase and the rewards are paid out of extra profits. It becomes Self Funding. A Win – Win situation.
Let’s Go One Better.
If you had an army of salespeople trained and selling your product and you only paid them on results, would you be happy? Ok, stop blowing your cheeks out; of course you’d be happy.
In your online business your salespeople are your Affiliates. This is your Virtual army. And I’m going to show you an outstanding Affiliate Training course that will answer your problems.
Oh! And did I say it was cheap? – Well it is
Be prepared to be happy – very happy.
