Five Top Tips to Find Current Blog Content

In the world of sales it helps if you are selling something that people want to buy, and if you are a blog owner then you are in the world of sales.

The word sale does not necessarily mean that it has to have a financial jingle to it. On the contrary, by merely writing and publishing a story, for free, you are still selling. You are still desperately hoping someone will read it.

But how do you know what people want to buy? Here are five top tips for finding current content.

1. Google Zeitgeist

Google Zeitgeist is the home of all things trendy. Zeitgeist is the word used to describe, “What the world is talking about.”

Now the world is a big place and Google Zeitgeist does what it can to sort it’s billions of search enquiries into list formats such as The Fastest Rising and Fastest Fallingtopics.

At the end of 2011 the fastest falling search was Myspace and so to write an article about Myspace may not be the greatest of ideas, where writing something interesting about Rebecca Black may well pull forth more readers.

2. Google Insights for Search

Another gem from Google is Google Insights for Search. This little beauty allows you to filter searches by geographical area, categories, seasonality and lots, lots more.

I have recently noticed, that despite writing my blog from within the UK my audience is primarily from the United States. Google Insights for Search allows me to see what American web users are interested in thus allowing me to write material that they want to read.

3. Google Analytics

If you have been a blog owner for quite some time then you need some analytical software like Google Analytics. You should spend at least one day per month browsing the data on your own blog to see what articles are interesting to people and write more of the same.

Also look through your comments and see which articles are creating more input from your readers. Once again this is a great way of understanding what your readers are interested in.

4. Amazon Best Selling Books

The ebook is on the rise, but it is still print books that are the most popular form of reading material on the planet. Figuring out what type of fiction people are reading will help you come up with content ideas.

Currently the Amazon Best Selling section is being dominated by E. L. James and the Fifty Shades of Grey series. So there is a market for lonely housewives desperate for a little bit of bondage. Great if you have a bondage site and if not why not start one?

5. ClickBank Trends

ClickBank Trends is another research and analytical tool that can help you find everything that people are interested in. There is a section called “More Gravity Clickbank Products” that groups the most sought after products on the net. Search your own niche and see what is selling like a hot cake?

11 Blogging Lessons From The Daily Mail Traffic Growth

Daily Mail Bin Campaign (Day 169) (Photo credit: adamwilcox)

The Daily Mail is the most popular newspaper online. The website of the British newspaper even beats the New York Times website traffic.

Let’s take a look at the key ingredients for the success of The Daily Mail and what lessons bloggers can learn:

• Publish news that people want to read. People love celebrities, people care about themselves. You will see a lot of content featuring celebrities and different health concerns.

3 Reasons Why Blogging Will Boost Your Business!

Building your business can be a difficult task. You can put hundreds of hours of effort into the business, but if you still don't have important components, you will not be successful. Today business owners are realizing that blogging boosts business. Blogs are typically only seen as personal places to express yourself and your views. The truth is however the blogs are also great places to reach people about your business or your products. There are several ways to do this type of blogging.

The best way a business can use blogging to boost their business is by taking part in the blogs of others. You can easily create quality posts with your business in mind without needing to set up a blog of your own. Try finding blogs that pertain to the area of business you are in. This will help you get started. With millions of blogs out there, you should be able to find some with no problem. Choose to post on all of them, or choose the few that get the most activity. Then begin posting. When you do, you will see positive results come in. If you are still curious about how this can boost your business, check out these three reasons blogging boosts business.

Pro Blogger Darren Rowse on Taking Blogging From a Hobby to a Business

Few people are more highly regarded in the blogging-for-business world than Darren Rowse ofProBlogger.net. He has essentially set the blueprint for how to turn a blog into a business, and is one of the go-to sources for tips on how to do as much. He had a chat with WebProNews at BlogWorld last week, after speaking in one of the more popular keynotes at the event.  

Rowse discussed with us how people can get started blogging, and eventually turn their blogs into moneymakers. "You need a blog to start with, then really my first priority would be getting some useful content on there - some content that's actually going to solve some problems for people," he said. "So if you're blog's a how-to type blog, you want to start thinking 'what's a beginner in this topic need to know?' and start writing that type of content that you can be referring back to later, so that when you start promoting it, you've got content there that they'll find, that is engaging for them. So that is probably the first step, and then, it's about putting yourself out there, and trying to find some readers." 


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Using Social Media As A PR Tool For Your Business

If  you want to promote your product, brand or business you need to branch out from just using traditional public realtions tools such as press releases.

In the session “Search, PR, and the Social Butterfly” the focus  was how to use social media along with traditional PR tools.

Lisa Buyer, President & CEO of The Buyer Group, said social media is creating more opportunities for PR people and marketers, “it’s not killing PR.”

Customers are search and socially savvy. “Facebook is becoming a search engine,” said Buyer. With the Facebook and Bing integration, search is becoming more social.
The media is also search and socially savvy. More news outlets are using Facebook and Twitter.

Social media is influencing stories and news. 89% of reporters arre turning to blogs. 65% of journalists use social media. Google is used by 100% of journalists. Get  your content in Google.

“Social media provides a wealth of information for journalists,” Buyer said.

Optimize
Press releases
Blogs
Videoss
Images
Posts
Tweets

Use keywords in your tweet and titles.

Publicize via distribution and social media. PR strategy should be social via tweets, posts, status updates, blogs, and foursquare.

Have a content strategy and then break it down to daily, weekly and monthly updates.

Comments matter for all social media and your business. Comments can drive traffic to your blog. Integrate all your social tools…Facebook…Twitter…Foursquare, video. Add social media links to all press releases. Press releases need to be in HTML format.

Have sharing tools for company news, Twitter, Facebook etc.

SEO, PR and social media need to be BFFs.

Peter Liefer, President, Primeview, talked about a case study for a client where they took pictures of a product before launch and sent them to select bloggers to get a pre-buzz.

Target bloggers in your industry. Do a press release about an upcoming product to get exposure and credibility.

Hire influential bloggers to write about a press release. It builds a buzz and use social media. People can write comments about a product via social media. More comments more buzz.

Use all the social bookmarking sites to bookmark blog posts and press releases about the product.

Use a variety of Twitter accounts, Google indexes tweets immediately. Good way to get exposure for a product or brand. Distribute press releases via all social media.

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Keep Your Radar On for Emerging Trends

The Internet is changing at a stunning pace. Every day you have new products being launched, new memes spreading, new technologies appearing and so on. For some people this scenario is scary. For others, it is a blessing, because every new and upcoming trend represents a business opportunity.

The strategy of spotting emerging trends early on and launching websites to leverage them is very effective because if your website is among the first to talk about a certain topic, Google will start  seeing it as an authority, and you will be able to attract a lot of search engine traffic.

Secondly, it will be relatively easy to build links with such a site, because when bloggers and site owners start talking about the new trend, there are good chances that they will link to sites that  already have some information on the topic (i.e., you).

Top 10 great blogging services that host your blog for free

A blog is a website which is run by individual or multiple authors. On a blog site, a user can share his/her life experiences or their can be professional purpose. Now a days people are blogging just for the sake of money but their still are souls who consider it to be a passionate part of hobby.