How To Start A Successful Blog For Business: 10 Tips To Success
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Hi Friend and Fellow Entrepreneur
If you are marketing online you want to build a successful blog….the fact is blogging gets you noticed
So the question is How To Start A Successful Blog
this blog post will go through some important points to help you get started with building a successful blog for your business and how you can simplify the whole process with a empower network blog.
Successful Blog Tip 1.: Make A Plan
One of the most important keys to making anything successful is to have a plan. You need to know what you want to achieve from your blog. As a business you are building a blog to attract traffic, get more leads for your business and build a list, and convert more sales.
Successful Blog Tip 2.: Professional Clean Blog Theme
A simple clean blog theme works best. Make sure the Colors that make the blog easy to read on the readers eyes. A professional WordPress theme is the best theme to use as the search engines love wordpress.
Note: This empower network blog which was created by successful blogger who have made 7 figures online with their blog. This blog theme and colors has been researched, tried and tested to get the best results as a theme. Take the time to look at this theme and colors for ideas.
Successful Blog Tip 3.: Organize Your Blog
To organize your blog put your posts into categories based on the content and topics. this makes your site easy to use for the visitor.
Successful Blog Tip 4.: HomePage Tabs and Sidebar Widgets
Here are some homepage essentials you should have:
- Tab linking to the About Me page
- Tab with a Contact Page
- Tab with your company review and bonuses
- A Search box in the sidebar
- A Widget with recent posts (this also help with indexing by search engines and links straight to your posts.)
- Tag & category clouds
- Social media buttons and share buttons
- RSS feed subscription boxes. Themeaning of RSS is Really Simple Syndication and it is a way for people to read your blog without actually visiting your site. They can view the blog entries through sites such as bloglines.com and feedster.com and you will pick up regular readers.
Note: With a empower network blog these main buttons and tabs are setup for you.
Successful Blog Tip 5.: Use Tags
When you are writing your blog post ensure you put in tags. What the tags do is make it easy to navigate a blog and helps visitor find what they are looking for and show up at the bottom of your posts.
Successful Blog Tip 6: Use Images and Videos
If you blog only has text this is boring to the visitor. Use images and videos in your blog posts to catch peoples attention and keep them on your site.
Successful Blog Tip 7: Plugins
There are a number of plugins you will need to install to help you start a successful blog. These include: All In One SEO,Google XML Sitemap Generator, WP super cache, Pinging plugins etc. You can do a search on google and find many posts on the best plugins for your blog website. WordPress provides a number of free plugins which is another great thing about using a wordpress blog.
Note: The empower network blog is a wordpress blog that has setup for you all the important plugins to help your blog rank in the search engines and run effectively. So to start your successful blog…this is all done for you
Successful Blog Tip 8: Choosing a Domain Name and a Hosting Company
Choosing a domain name for your blog is important and should be empowering and say something about your blog.
Note: The empower network blog domain name is www.empowernetwork.com and you provide your own sub domain name. For example my domain uses my name – www.empowernetwork.com/ellenagius but you can use whatever you choose. The words empower will suit any business.
Also choosing a aged domain name can help you rank quicker in the search engines with your blog. Again the great thing about a empower network blog is that the domain name is over 5 years old.
Successful Blog Tip 9: Compelling Content
Write compelling content and use a powerful headline to attract the attention of your audience. Use keyword research to use in your content and make sure you first paragraph is compelling to draw the reader to read the rest of your post. Provide quality content and provide your readers with something useful.
Also make your content easy to read. Bolding is different from writing a professional article. Bold, italicize or highlight important words and phrases. Use lists, images and subheadings to break up text and use simple words and short paragraphs. It is best to talk to your readers in a more personal rather than business-like manner.
Successful Blog Tip 10: Install Google Analytics
To track your visitors to your blog and the success of your different post and areas of traffic you are receiving it is important to install google analytics. This is free and simple to do. Simply go to Google analytics and register an account. The you can setup a code to put on your website
Bonus Tip: Learn SEO
SEO will increase traffic to your blog by improving search engine rankings. It involves onpage and offpage strategies. This is something you would need to learn or outsource.
Note: the empower network blog provides you with a SEO score plugin that sits in your dashboard when you are writing content to help you with applying SEO to your blog posts.
Your Choices for Starting a Successful Blog
So basically You have 2 choices you can set it up yourself and spend months to build authority to your blog and get it ranked in the search engines or have someone else do it for you. Someone who is successful in blogging and knows how to start a successful blog.
This is what you get with a empower network blog.
The empower network viral blogging platformThis include fast hosting that makes your blog very fast loading. There is nothing for you to do other than start blogging..which you can do within minutes and it is optimized for you with many of the tools you need for starting a successful blog for business. Shortens the learning curve and your time to get your blog ranked in the search engines.
You will receive a email confirmation and your own blog on the empowernetwork domain that is already an accepted authority site in the search engines.
The fact is that if you were to start your own blog it would take years to develop the kind of authority that you get with a Empower Network blog. Basically you get to rank faster for your blog posts and targeted keywords than virtually any other blog can.
Empower Network Authority Blog
What Next?
I remember when I decided to buy the empower network blog…at the time I had over 100 crappy websites getting no traffic and simply costing me money for all the domain names and hosting I had…I had to look at what I was doing…
I received a email from a marketing mentor and listened to the video and thought to myself..am I going to this again ..spend more money…I remember looking at that button and I said to myself I got to click that link and buy because if I don’t I will not get the result I am wanting with building a successful blog website..
I remember putting in my CC details and buying the empower network blog….And I never would have guessed that I would be building a blog that is getting leads everyday and being ranked in the search engines…
If you don’t want a authority blog that can rank in the search engines and increase your website traffic then don’t buy…take the time and build your own. These tips will help
If you do want a easy way to start a successful blog that can rank in the search engines and get traffic…here are your next steps ….
Step 2...if you honestly do not like it you can cancel at any time
Step 3. Open the email you will receive from the empower network to login to your blog dashboard and start blogging
Step 4. Open the email I will send you with team bonuses and get on our training site with step by step instructions to help you with blogging.
To your successful blog