This is a guest post by Tara Alley who is a freelance writer and spends her time promoting CoffeeHomeDirect. Tara, through this post is sharing tips that will help us to face the situation when you really want to blog something but aren’t able to do so due to writers block. I am sure these tips will be helpful for you.

We’ve all been there.  Your last post was 12 days ago.  Your e-mail inbox is flooded, and your readers are getting anxious.  But you, you’ve got zero inspiration and no motivation.  Excellent combo!

No, not really.  Okay, but the good news is that sometimes, sometimes some of the most awesome blogs stem from a mind that’s running on empty.

It sounds crazy, right?  Sure.  But, if you think about it, if you don’t have an idea, then that means that whatever you do manage to come up with is going to be entirely, completely new.  Forget the repetitive nature that so often accompanies well established blogs.

You may be a tad bit off topic, maybe just bizarre, but chances are, if you’ve got a good set of readers, they’re going to, at the very least, enjoy seeing this new side of you.  So, stop running from the computer and hiding from WordPress. You’ve got a blog to write!  With or without inspiration!  That’s coming, trust me.

In case you’re dreading something super painful, I’ve got some step-by-steps to walk you through this.

1. Go For A New Topic

Obviously, you’re burnt out.  If you just can’t blog about another way to make eco-friendly-whole-wheat banana-bread cookies or the latest way to increase your business productivity by ten-fold, then this is your golden opportunity to make a little side step.  It doesn’t have to be drastic, but it does have to be different.

You can go for something in the same field, but perhaps change up your tone.  This can make for something really fun and exciting.  Post it as a guest blogger and adopt an entirely new voice if that makes it easier.  Or, go for a new topic completely.   If you blog about real-estate trends four days a week, surprise your readers with your latest favorite restaurant or the newest coffee shop that got you excited.  You will probably discover that a break from the norm is not only refreshing for you, but for your readers too.

2. Get Out And Write Somewhere New

Chances are good that you have a place you usually post from.  Whether that’s at your home desk, your office, or a laptop on the couch, you may just need a change of scenery.  Head for somewhere where there’s some life happening.  Go hit up a trendy gathering spot or maybe an outside park if you’re living where the weather permits.

3. Do An Interview

Convinced you’ll never be able to come up with something on your own?  Find someone else in your field and do a low-key interview.  You’ll likely be excited about what they have to say and often, you’ll find renewed inspiration to once again dig a little deeper into your particular subject.  It’s invigorating to be around others with similar passions, so don’t let the opportunity pass you by.

4. Seek Out Real-Time Options

Go type your subject (food, technology, writing, etc.) into Twitter and see what’s the buzz.  You should be able to find something that gives you a new perspective, or maybe even irritates you enough you come up with an argument.  Take every advantage of the new real-time searches available.  You’ll be current and you’ll keep your readers current.

5. Put Yourself In Your Readers’ Shoes

What do you imagine they enjoy seeing the most from you?  If you were them, what would you want to read next?  You can also be totally honest with them and write an entire blog post on your admitted lack of inspiration.  Ask them what they’re excited or perplexed about lately.  I’d be willing to bet that their comments will be enough to get you going on the next post around.

6. When All Else Fails, TAKE A BREAK

If you try everything you can think of and everything everyone else can think of with no success, then you should definitely take a break.  Posting uninspired post after uninspired post will do little more than upset you and possibly drive away some readers.  Write a post saying “Stay Tuned” and then escape into a world where blogging doesn’t exist and your mind has a chance to restore a little bit.  Then get back at it with a vengeance when the next moment of brilliance comes upon you!

I am sure that these tips will really help you out from the situation when your mind is stuck at a point and is not spitting any new ideas. If you’ve got something more to add or say then do comment below. I would love to hear you.

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Tara Alley is a freelance writer living in sunny Orange County, CA, striving to live a healthy lifestyle and share her efforts and tips with others. When not baking or writing, she also spends her time promoting coffee makers for Coffee Home Direct. You can reach her at: tara[at]gmail[dot]com and follow her on Twitter @hopesiempre.

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This is a guest post by Febap Liew from Blogxic.com who is today telling us about measuring your true value in this blogosphere.

In terms of blogging and having your own internet business online, providing valuable information and content is inevitably very important when it comes to building your personal credibility and of course expanding the tracks of your blog and internet business exposure.

However, have you ever come to wonder how you are able to provide such content? How others could write life-changing articles that could possibly challenge the test of time? No it is not by running through endless books or informational sources to gather points, sum it all up and present it to readers.

Instead, I believe the amount of worth you deliver depends heavily on how you measure your personal self-worth and value.

Note that when I meant self-worth and value, I do not mean how much you are ‘financially’ amounted to but how significant are you when it comes in believing yourself and what you can ultimately achieve when you give out.

It is only true that blogging can at times seems like a very stressful activity to comply especially when we tend to compare ourselves with other bloggers out there with the similar niche.

You have a blog that started out within the same time as they do but you noticed them reaching far greater success as compared to yours. You begin to question yourself. You start to have doubts in your ability as well as capability of managing a blog.

Questions Like:

“What is it that they are doing and I am not?”
“Why are they getting a heaps amount of subscribers and comments where else I am struggling even to achieve 10?”
“How are they even possible reached such an impressive rank whereby they started out within the same time as I do?”

Very often time, I believe many bloggers are inclined to be caught up in the ‘number game’ when it comes to blogging. Admit it, who doesn’t? Who won’t be prone of improving the numbers within their Google Analytics, Alexa, Site meter and comparatively other metric tools available?

More often, you are constantly checking on its readings and stats. All in all that you have come to believe that the better the number gets, the more convinced you are that you are eventually doing something right. As soon as you found out a discouraging “lump” on the scale, you quickly began to question about your self-ability, that you are most probably not doing ‘enough’, that you should put more effort in writing very highly packed keyword content based articles.

You work your nuts out, just so you could improve such numerical stats. You ‘abandoned’ the attempt of having to connect with the rest of your fellow bloggers.

“A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.”
– T. Boone Pickens

Therefore, maybe it is time for you to step-back and re-evaluate. Shouldn’t blogging be fun and rewarding at the same time?  Shouldn’t blogging be an activity where you get to speak your mind, educate people based on your expertise and connect with the rest of the similar minds alike?

Therefore, how can you truly measure your “worth” and eventually the value of your blog?

By how you rank? By the numbers of subscribers you obtained? By the amount of comments you received?

No. It is the ability for you to immerse yourself in writing rich content and focus on writing what will be worth reading. A drive that will be able to articulate your voice and belief strongly across this platform – whether you are heard by 10 or 10,000 people. Numbers does not matter anymore as numbers will eventually be just numbers. They will without doubt not be able to associate your self-worth and value as a blogger and certainly not for your blog as well.

However, do not for a second think of even trashing the numbers. There are many benefits you can possibly obtain when it comes to determining your site’s performance and how to properly market them. What I am emphasizing is that you should never measure your worth against these numbers. Spend your time planning on meaningful words and contents instead of catching up with the numeric.

Ultimately, your true value as a blogger is based on consequential context that at the end of the day may change the way how people think. – 1 person or more. Does the number even matters? Let me know by commenting below.

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This is a guest post by Karan Singhal who provides SEO services at Trafficke and today is sharing 5 killer ways for writing title for your posts that will attract more people to read it.

If you want people reading your content, you need to pull them in. And the only way to do this is using your post title. By choosing your words carefully and picking phrases that drive people to click and read more, you’ll be much more successful as a blogger.

All of your hard hours working and writing content can be wasted in a second if you don’t know how to present it to new visitors. A visitor will NEVER read your content unless they’ve been pulled in by the title. If you can’t do this, then the first thing you need to improve on as a blogger is your title writing.

Your post title is the first (and often, only) thing that a visitor sees when he/she is browsing your blog. If you want to turn that visitor into a real dedicated reader, you’re going to need to write a magnetic title. Remember, it’s your only chance to capture someone’s attention, so use it wisely.

If you want people to share and link to your content, you want them to read it. If they don’t read it, they won’t turn into subscribers, ad-clickers, or customers. They’ll just leave your blog. That’s the problem with blogging. It’s just too easy to lose the valuable assets that you worked your “you-know-what” off to get, even with amazingly helpful content.

Why?

The average internet user has the attention span of what? 2 seconds? Within those 2 seconds, (or so) if you want to keep visitors on your website, you need to get them hooked.

It’s very similar to reading a book, for me. I love reading. But when it’s time to start a new book, I just can’t. But if I’m motivated enough to keep reading, I might just get hooked on the actual content present in the book, and not just the title. But that’s an “if”. You don’t want an “if” on your blog. You want to be sure that on first glance, a visitor feels inclined to read more.

OK, enough on why you need to write great titles, let’s get on to how:

<= 5 Tips For Writing Titles That Make A Visitor Want More =>

1. Take Some Time To Think

Before you even think about the wording of your title, you’re going to need to sit down and relax. Think about what you want a visitor to get from reading your article, even before you write it. Also take some time to think about the general structure of your future title. Will it ask a question? Will it answer one? Will it use powerful and clever wording to win over your visitors? These are a few questions to ask yourself before you get into actually writing title.

One problem that most bloggers have is taking time to write their title. They believe that the title is a one-second job. I disagree. The title should be the part of your post where you place the most actual thought – after all, the words in the title are the most important words in your entire content.

Thinking before you start wording let’s you effectively come up with good ideas for your title.

2. Use Powerful, Bold Words

Little differences mean everything on your title. By switching words like “powerful” to more exciting words like “killer”, you are attracting the eyes of even the hardest visitors to pull in.

Here’s a few words that will really make your titles magnetic:

• stellar
• skyrocket
• serious
• secrets
• ultimate
• free

Using words like the ones above makes your post look bolder and more useful to potential subscribers. These powerful words make you want to click through and read more. Think about it. If a post title is exciting, chances are you’ll click through and read more.

Plus words like these help you really express what you mean. It’s much harder to explain what you mean to your readers if you aren’t actually talking to them. By using strong wording, you are really explaining what your post means and what it will provide for readers, effectively pulling in even more traffic to it.

3. Answer A Question

A great way to get your visitors to read on is to answer a question that they may have in the title itself. This may sound like a bad idea, but it isn’t. It shows readers that your article will really help them.

How?

If a question that they have is answered before they even look at an excerpt, you’ve got them hooked, powerful words or not. If your title answers a question, that means your actual post will answer MANY questions, and will therefore be more of a help to anybody who reads it.

4. Be Clever

One of the best content-writing strategies out there is to be clever and stay away from sounding like a dictionary. Doing this in your title helps you attract the attention of people who are looking for more than just answers – most people, especially on the internet.

One little example of being clever is instead of writing – “guest posting is powerful”, write – “a single guest post, written and placed correctly, has the potential to rake in hundreds of subscribers for your blog”. See how I even provided more information for readers? The same principle can and should put into your titles.

Being clever also helps you explain things. One way of being clever in your content is using comparisons. You can easily use comparisons that leave a visitor hanging in your title: For example, a  title using this strategy is “How Your Blog Is Like An Animal“. A reader who comes across a title like that will be confused and most likely will want to read more.

5. Write Your Title After You Write Your Post

This is more of an experimental strategy, but I can tell you from experience that it works. (at least for me, because I’m special )

Have you ever given a thought to writing your post body first and coming up with its support later? Doing this helps you write titles that more accurately reflect your content.

If you decide to take the “conventional” approach and come up with a title before you even write a word of real content, you are writing title as one person and finishing up your post as another. (writing is a life-changing experience :-O) This might lead your title to “lie” to your readers about what your content actually delivers, even if it’s accidental.

That’s my two cents on writing titles.

Combined, these “secret” (powerful word right there) strategies will turn an uninterested visitor into a dedicated reader that might be willing to do more, maybe even subscribe.

But remember, don’t overdo your titles: you might just end up looking like you tried too hard. (which of course, you did, but don’t show that weakness to your traffic )

Thanks for reading! Remember how easy it is to share content with other people? Why don’t you try out that ability on this post!

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This is a guest post by Karan Singhal who provides SEO services at Trafficke who is today telling us how to create a good personal brand by giving your voice to the content.

As a blogger, your job is to write useful and helpful content for your readers. You want to provide as much as possible for them, in hope that they’ll become more than just “regular” visitors.

But did you know that your voice and personal brand is the part of your content that does this?

This is a little confusing, let me explain a bit.

Your visitors came to your website looking for information by you. No matter what, if they turn to your blog for information, they are accepting that the information will be written by you. So don’t be afraid of being yourself in your content.

It builds your personal brand as a blogger and makes your content more captivating and attractive to your readers. All of this will help increase traffic, readership, backlinks, and more importantly, it will improve your internet reputation – all of the improvements you need done to your life as a blogger.

Building A Personal Brand With Voice

Your voice is you. And so is your personal brand.

If you didn’t already know, your personal brand is your reputation as a blogger, as an expert in your niche.

It’s not about how you look, it’s not about how you comb your hair, (that would be weird, lol) It’s about your knowledge in the topic you are blogging about and how you use that knowledge to effectively write helpful content.

By saying “I” in your content instead of just “you”, you are making your readers realize that a real person wrote your content. When I write for my blog, I make sure to make a joke and a smiley for good measure just to remind my visitors that I’m not a robot, that actually, I’m a person who’d like to get known as an expert.

Giving Your Content Some “Oomph” With Voice

Your visitors want information presented in a digestible way. And cold-hard content with no voice just isn’t gonna cut it. (See what I did there? No robot would talk like that. )

The internet is a place for people to find what they’re looking for within seconds. Don’t think for a minute that your visitors have the same attention span that you do. The truth is that they may, just not when they’re looking for answers to their questions.

So your visitors have short attention spans: what does that mean? It means that you need to make your content attractive from the beginning. And what better way to do this than the most natural one? Having voice in your content helps hook your traffic and turns visitors into dedicated readers.

It also makes it more interesting. How are your readers supposed to hold down your content if they aren’t interested in it. All that information that your post gives will only come out of a reader the way it came unless you can present it in a way that makes them want more.

How?

Exactly how do you add voice to your content? Just how do you prove to your readers that you’re human? Well, here’s how:

1. Make a joke – Nothing makes you look like a real person like a good-matured joke. Jokes also interest your readers and give them even more reasons to stay on your post to finish reading your content.
2. Say “I” – The simplest way to put voice in your content. No robot says “I”. But a person does.
3. Share your experiences – Your readers came to your blog looking for your experiences and your advice, not anyone Else’s. By providing your past experiences in your content, you’re not only making your content more personable, you are also giving your readers more of what they want and what they came to your site for in the first place.

A small guide, but I hope I’ve helped you. Bloggers often overlook their actual content, focusing on promoting rather than writing content that will promote itself. Voice is the aspect of writing that is forgotten the most, and I hope I’ve given you enough reasons not to make that mistake anymore.

Conclusion

Your voice is you. If you’re not you in your content, it won’t perform as good as you want it to, regardless of how useful the informational part of the content is. That’s why it’s important to try to be personable when you’re writing content.

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This is a guest post by Goran Zinic of InDigitalWorks.com that shares make money online tips and advice.

Creating a blog post to our blog seems sometimes hard stuff to do, especially if we want to capture our reader’s to post a comment on it.

Now, I want to share to you some of the effective ways on how to create a super commented post in our blog or as a guest post.

1. Share Your Best Informative Post

Sharing the best informative guest post could sometimes amaze your readers. Make it useful to them, that could sometimes change your reader’s beliefs in life.

It is also a great way to motivate the host of the blog to approve your guest post and build your authority through it.

2. Be Unique And Creative

Unique means not similar to others. So, share your information in a unique way and a creative manner. This post really works especially if you want to build your credibility in your field.

3. Share The Opposite Idea

Sometimes this thing works if you want to awaken the general ideas that your readers have. This thing could also encourage your readers to share their ideas about the topic. But make sure that you prove your opposite idea.

4. Be Controversial

I already did this thing and it really works in any niche. This strategy is like comparing of two or more ideas. You can also share the opposite ideas on each side.

The best example of this post is a guest post on SmartBloggerz entitled, “Content vs Markting! Which is King?“. Sounds interesting and controversial right? This post really earned a large quantity of comments here at SmartBloggerz.

5. Create An Eye Grabbing Title

An eye grabbing title could also awaken your reader’s bored thoughts. I also feel bored sometimes on reading many blog posts a day.

But sometimes, it would suddenly awaken when I see an encouraging title that most readers would love to read more about it.

One of its techniques is inserting a hype words in your post title phrase like, ultimate, super, kick ass, best, most, top and the likes.

6. Make Your Post Short And Concise

We sometimes feel bored of reading long posts, unless if it is worth reading the whole thing. So, sharing it in a brief and concise way is a good technique to make them read the whole post.

You can also try list post using bullets or numbered information because it is easy to absorb.

7. Ask Questions At The End Of Your Post

Asking questions to your readers would encourage them to also share their thoughts about the topic being covered.

You can also ask them a favor to comment into your post instead of asking questions.

8. Comment Your Own Post

I read John Chow’s “the secret to getting blog comments” ebook recently, and one of his tips is commenting your own post using alias. He said that, “this maybe a dishonest but in marketing, perception is everything and the perception is a blog without any comments on it is a dead blog”.

I was surprised because I already had this idea before and in fact, I already did this in my previous blog to capture my reader’s attention to also post comments via answering the first alias comment post. I never thought that John Chow also did these things.

In The End

I hope the tips above would benefit you. If you have some suggestions or queries regarding the topic, please post it in comment section.

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