Online Success: 7 Blogging Mistakes To Avoid

By 1 Comment

Blogging is by far one of my favorite marketing activities for online success. It’s a great way for me to share the tons of information I’ve learned about online marketing.

Blogging is not hard, but there are some basic mistakes that are easy to make.

Here is a list of 7 blogging mistakes to avoid:

Mistake #1: Not making your articles attractive to the eye. Make sure your font is readable and your blog has a nice clean layout.

Online Success: Blog Mistakes

Mistake #2: Writing complex, paragraph-long sentences, especially if there is a hidden underlying meaning. Keep your sentences and paragraphs short, and use language that is easy for your target market to understand.

Your paragraphs should be 2-3 sentences long at most. Even if you end up with a paragraph break at a non-standard place, your blog will be easier on the eye and easier for your readers to read online.

Mistake #3: Not writing in a conversational style. You should pretend you are writing to one person, and one person only, your ideal reader. Write as if you are talking to them one-on-one. Be sure to express your opinion too.

Mistake #4: Not spell checking your articles before publishing them. Misspelled words are annoying to many people and will make you seem careless and uneducated.

Mistake #5: Writing for search engines, not humans. If you use keywords to get traffic from the search engines, make sure the article still reads well for humans, your ultimate customer. Getting search engine traffic doesn’t do you any good if your readers can’t follow your writing easily.

Mistake #6: Writing to make money, not because you like the topic. If you are passionate about your topic, it will come across in your writing and your readers will pick up on it.

Mistake #7: One-way dialogs. Try to engage your readers in discussion. Ask them to leave comments. Ask them what they think. Get them to think and share their thoughts.

That’s my quick list of 7 common blogging mistakes. I would love for you to share additional blogging mistakes to avoid for your online success.

Just leave a comment and share your tips and thoughts. In return, you’ll get some search engine love in the form of a link back to your website!

To Massive Online Success,

Karen

Karen_Sielski_Sig

Filed Under: Blog Success, Featured Tagged With: , ,

Online Article Marketing Super Tip: Submitting Your Articles For Maximum Effect

By Leave a Comment

I am a huge fan of online article marketing because it flat out works and gets me results each and every day on autopilot. But, there are ways you can implement online article marketing that will magnify your results 10 fold or more.

If you are going to take the time to write articles, you want to get the maximum results. Here are some great tips for you based on personal experience.

Online Article Marketing - EzineArticles.com

Let’s assume you’ve written some keyword rich articles, a topic we’ll cover in detail in a future post. Now what do you do with your online articles to get the most visibility and results.

If you are strapped for time and money, you can just submit your article to ezinearticles.com to get the most bang for your buck. ezinearticles.com currently gets over 15 million unique visitors a month. You only need a small fraction of those to get excellent results.

If you have a little bit more time, or you can afford a very inexpensive internet virtual assistant, you can submit your articles to the top 5 online article marketing directories.

Here are 5 of the top generic online article marketing sites, in order of traffic rank, with the best at the top:

1. Ezinearticles.com
2. Articlesbase.com
3. Goarticles.com
4. Articledashboard.com
5. Searchwarp.com

If you are writing about a particular niche, you may want to find article sites directly related to your niche and see what results you get submitting your articles.

As an FYI, I pay my internet virtual assistant less than $4 to submit an article to the top 5 article directories and have found the increased traffic and back links to my site well worth the cost.

Now, if you REALLY want to get results from your online article marketing, and have the budget and time for it, you can use a tool such as Unique Article Wizard to create hundreds of unique versions of your article and submit them to hundreds or thousands of online article marketing directories.

This last approach is absolutely KILLER! What kind of results can you get with it? I know someone that got 673 opt-ins in 2 months using this approach coupled with social bookmarking and online video marketing. And they will continue to get opt-ins even if they don’t do anything else. They are on the front page of google for over 100 niche phrases from submitting 45 articles using this method. Not bad, eh?

Yours in Massive Online Success,
Karen

Karen_Sielski_Sig

Filed Under: Featured, Grow Your Business Online, Online Article Marketing, Online Lead Generation Tagged With: , , ,

5 Surprising Split Testing Results For More Online Income

By 3 Comments

After mastering traffic generation, split testing is the next most important skill you should learn, master, and implement for massive online success. Split testing allows you to generate more opt-ins, more conversions, and more money with the same amount of traffic.

In this article, I’m going to share with you some very powerful information. I’m going to give you 5 split testing tips that you can use to increase your income right away!

Split Testing For Online Success
Tip 1: Try lengthing your guarantee to increase your sales page conversions. But don’t just look at your sales conversion number, also look at your return rate. Here’s why.

Increasing your guarantee to 365 days may increase your conversions 5%, but it can also reduce your return rate 38%. Whoa! That’s huge.

Tip 2: Use an Amazon style buy button. It can increase conversions by 14%. People are used to buying in Amazon so it will seem comfortable and secure to them if you use a similar button. And make it big.

Tip 3: Provide many buying opportunities in your sales page, not just one. Place the first buy button or link after the first testimonial. This has been shown to increase conversions 31%! Another good location is under the guarantee, in the order box, and in the PS at the very bottom of the page.

Tip 4: On your order page, dispaly an image of your product at the top of the page. This can increase conversions 15% as well as decrease order cart abandonment rates drastically.

Tip 5: Don’t forget about your customers after the sales. Create a follow up autoresponder series. In these messages, teach them how to use the product.

Tell them what to do. Send success stories. Request testimonials. Include how-to videos. Most returns are becaues the user didn’t use the product, not because it isn’t a good product.

This is extremely valuable information that can make a huge difference in your online income. But don’t just take my word for it. Be sure to validate this information with your product. Do your own split testing with your sales funnel. You will be amazed at the results and your increased income.

To your massive online success,
Karen

Filed Under: Featured, Online Lead Generation Tagged With: ,

Online Success Mindset: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs

By 1 Comment

Do you sometimes get doubts about your online success? Do you think there is too much competition for you to succeed?

Watch this powerful video about overcoming limitations and then I have a few questions for you…

Now let me ask you

What do you think your limitations are?
Are your goals too small?
Do you truly believe in what you are doing?
What do you think you can accomplish?

Put on your blinders and just go for it! Online success is simple if you have the right mindset, get the right knowledge, and follow a proven plan of action.

I Believe In Your Success,
Karen
Karen_Sielski_Sig

Filed Under: Featured, Online Success Mindset Tagged With:

15 Fun Facebook Facts

By Leave a Comment

Facebook is now the 2nd most popular website in the world, right behind Google, and has bumped Yahoo! down to the #3 spot. The magnitude and scope of Facebook is mind boggling. Read these fun Facebook facts and you’ll understand why Facebook should be an integral part of your online success strategy.

15 fun facts about Facebook

(and a mind boggling bonus stat):

1. Facebook has more than 300 million active users

2. 50% of active users log on to Facebook daily

Fun Facebook Facts

3. The fastest growing demographic is 35 years and older

4. The average Facebook user has 130 friends

5. There are more than 40 million status updates daily

6. Users spend more than 6 billion minutes on Facebook each day

7. More than 10 million users become fans of Pages each day

8. Each month, over 2 billion photos are uploaded

9. More than 14 million videos are uploaded each month

10. Each week over 2 billion pieces of content are shared

11. Over 3 million events are created each month

12. There are over 45 million active user groups on the site

13. About 70% of users are outside the United States

14. There are more than 350,000 active Facebook applications

15. More than 65 million users access Facebook from their mobile devices

And a bonus stat, the most surprising since Twitter is all the buzz these days. Every 10 days Facebook grows the size of twitter. Wow!

So is you want to be successful growing your business online, don’t ignore Facebook. In fact, you can even make it your core social media strategy.

Just be sure to use it responsibly and don’t be a spammer, there are already more than enough of them out there, and they don’t make money anyway.

Also, if you are going to market with Facebook, don’t abuse the terms of service or your account will get shutdown in a heartbeat. Use fan pages for marketing, not your profile.

First and foremost, remember Facebook is a social community. Be social and remember to build relationships first, then market.

To Your Facebook Success,

Karen

Karen_Sielski_Sig

Filed Under: Featured, Social Networking Tagged With: , ,
« Older Posts
Newer Posts »