Don’t Give Up When You’ve Finished Writing

This is a guest post by John Burnside from MoneyIn15Minutes.co.uk

There is no feeling like finishing a post, you’ve spat all your words out onto the page and are ready to send it off to the world-wide web waiting for it to be judged by the discerning reader.

The greatest temptation of all at that point is to just publish that post and go downstairs to make a cup of tea (or vodka, whatever is your poison) but this is the very way to put people off reading your posts because without all the trimmings; your post is nowhere near meeting its true potential.

Here is a list of things that I do after the post is written to make it a more attractive proposition to the audience:

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5 Ways to Leverage LinkedIn for Blog Traffic

This is a guest post by Mustafa Syed from 100WebHosting.com

Traffic is the lifeblood of any blog. We all know it’s hard to survive without it in the blogosphere.

But let’s face it – as a blogger you don’t just need traffic, you need laser targeted traffic. You need readers that are actually interested in reading your content. Visitors that you can turn into subscribers.

So how do you go about getting this traffic? What do you do get more interested readers?

There are many ways to get exposure to your blog, but one way that stands out from the rest is LinkedIn. As a blogger if you’re not tapping into this powerful social network, you’re leaving some serious traffic on the table.

LinkedIn is where the professional crowd hangs out. It’s THE place to network with other bloggers and reach out to your target audience.

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The Key to Becoming a Rockstar Blogger – Getting Accepted to Your Niches Inner Circle

This is a guest post by Susie Brown from FastUpFront.com.

Who is it that decides who will be the most popular bloggers and who will be left banging their head against the keyboard?

You might think that it is the “people,” or you might even think that Google and the other search engines are the ones who decide who the most popular bloggers will be.  Although the search engines and the people do hold a lot of influence, most bloggers who have worked their way up to the Rockstar level got there in a way that might come as a surprise.

Most great bloggers got appointed to their positions of fame by other bloggers, namely the inner circle of bloggers for that niche.

Now, I know that you may not be interested in returning to the high-school social scene where everything was about being more popular.  The pursuit of being popular and accepted by “the group” mandated all types of conformities.

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How To Build A Community Around Yourself And Your Blog

This is a guest post by Jane who shares content marketing strategies at her blog Problogging Success.

Blogging is all about sharing. You share what interests you, what you want to tell your potential customers, your products, hooks etc.

And your sharing mission will go in vain if no one gets your message. Do you know what I mean? Imagine yourself playing a rocking music which is really amazing on a stage in front of no audience. A blog without community is just like that.

You put your most important, and valuable content out there but if there’s no one who reads it, shares it and comments on it, then what’s the use? The whole purpose of blogging goes void.

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3 Tips To Make Twitter The #1 Source of Traffic for Your Blog

This is a guest post by Luca Filigheddu from Twimbow.com.

Gaining Twitter followers is, in my experience, way easier than gaining RSS readers or, in general, regular and engaged readers. For this reason, making Twitter an important source of traffic for your blog is becoming more and more strategical for every blogger.

How to achieve that when you are starting from scratch? How to leverage Twitter in order to grow your audience?

Today, I would love to share with you three simple tips to make this happen as quick as possible.

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