Blogging is a long journey. There are many bloggers who do not persist and they stop blogging because they do not see results immediately. But if you persist, then there are huge rewards waiting for you after these initial hurdles. If your blog has 1,000 genuine followers who look forward to new posts, then you should consider yourself a blogging success. If you reach that position, your blogging journey will become unstoppable. You will find yourself on a positive spiral, and your blog’s value will go up exponentially as the months and years pass by. On this blogging journey, you can change your blog’s design, hire new writers, add premium plugins, and change the focus of your blog. But there is one thing you will never be able to change – your domain name. Your domain name is your brand, and changing a brand name is not an easy process. Your domain name will also define what you can do with your brand. Generic Domain Names vs. Keyword Domain … [Read more...] about How To Pick A Great Domain Name For Your Blog
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SEO So Simple A Child Can Do It: In 5 Easy Steps
As it turns out, I’m not the only SEO professional in the family. At 14, my daughter Chloe started creating a passive income stream, enviable to most teenagers, of up to $1,100 per month. She did it with only a few ingredients: a WordPress blog, a Google AdSense account and some basic SEO knowledge. Like many young teenagers at the time (which was about 10 years ago), she was obsessed with the Nickelodeon-owned “virtual pet” website Neopets.com. So, like any enterprising young internet entrepreneur, she started a fan site, at NeopetsFanatic.com, and monetized it. She researched profitable keyword niches like game cheats, avatars, neopoints and so on. Then she developed content around those niches. After that, she started building buzz and links, leveraging the angle that here’s a kid doing SEO. It doesn’t take very many bloggers picking up on that before you get traction in the Google results. Pretty soon, she was getting enough visitors to make consistent … [Read more...] about SEO So Simple A Child Can Do It: In 5 Easy Steps