bloggingThis is a guest post by Katheryn on how blogging can help market you business. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

If you’re looking to market your business or your trade, you might want to reconsider spending thousands of dollars on a pricey marketing campaign. For a fraction of the cost, you could set up a blog to spread the word about your services. Setting up your own blog on the web is about as easy as making an account on eBay. Blogging can indeed help you market your business for free online.

Blogging Efficiency

This is a guest post by Adam on improving blogging efficiency. You can check out the guidelines for guest posting on our write for us page.

You can’t escape it.

No matter how passionate you are about your blog, if you’re looking to drive traffic and actually make money from the process, there will be things that feel like “work”.

Probably because it is.

But fear not, because you’re about to discover seven tools which free up your time to do what you love: create more quality content and thus improve overall blogging efficiency.

Apps

This is a guest post by Nadia. You can read the guidelines for guest posting at our write for us page.

With thousands of blogs strewn throughout the internet, it is fairly evident that several misconceptions remain about blogging and its money making potential. Many individuals enter the blogging world hoping to make an easy buck, underestimating just how much work successful and profitable blogging can be.

Blogging Tips

This is a guest post from Rahil. You can read the guidelines to guest posting on our write for us page.

A very common problem with the majority of mankind has always been the ‘impatience’, patience is a virtue, and it pays off in the longer run, everybody knows that but very few are able to put this rule into practice! We find logics in other’s action and we are quick to tell others that they are trying to bite more than what they can chew, however when it comes to our own actions, we try to grab any kind of opportunity with four hands, but because we have only two hands, it mostly results in injury, in form of stress or financial loss.

Business Blogging

This is a guest post by Susan. You can read the guidelines to guest posting to know more.

Website conversion rate is a measurement or a metric defined as the percentage of website visitors who complete a desired action. This metric helps you estimate how well your website is doing. The exact definition of website conversion rate depends on the type of website in question. For instance, in case of retail eCommerce websites, conversion rate is the numbers of visitors who make a purchase from the website as a percentage of total number of visitors. To increase the conversion rate of a website, business blogging is an amazing technique.

content delivery network

Do you see how fast my blog loads?

I have had the problem of slow loading for quite some time and was unable to figure out a solution to it. My Google Analytics report shocked me, when I saw about 60% bounce rate on my blog. The average time spent on my blog gave me a fair idea that the bounce could primarily be because of the slow load time. My blog took a pathetic 20 seconds to load.

Website Designing Elements

The first thing that attracts any visitor to your blog and keeps him engaged in your website is its design. There is no doubt to the fact that “Content is the King”. But at the same time, in order for your readers to stay at your blog, your blog’s design has to be reader friendly.

What is the definition of “reader friendly”? How can you make it reader friendly? I am sure these are normal questions, if you are new to blogging. Read on as I talk about essential elements in any design. At the same time, I would also recommend that you keep noting down things that you found attractive and user-friendly while you were browsing other websites.

Blog Pages

People take to blogging the moment they hear about one of those thousands of success stories of ordinary people becoming millionaires on the internet just by blogging. Most of these people have very little or, no knowledge about blogging and their blogs become a disaster.

Even more disappointing is the fact that there are thousands of blogs out there on the internet which do well in terms of their search engine rankings and pageranks. But these blogs offer little or, no reader experience.

What could be the problem with these blogs?

The problem is that they are not reader-optimized.

Blogging TipsSo, you’ve taken the plunge, jumped on the bandwagon, and started a blog! Good for you! The only trouble is, after a few weeks or months, you’re struggling to keep it up, it doesn’t seem to be working, and you’re getting frustrated and demotivated.

In the interests of making your blogging career a little easier, here are my top tips to make the process of starting and running a blog a little easier.

Engaging Readers

This is a Guest Post by Sarah Harris from Adiamor. Read how you too can guest post at dkspeaks, here.

With each passing year, more and more people have come to count on the internet to provide them with things in which to keep them occupied. But despite the growing number of visitors, many websites, be they blogs or business sites have a difficult time keeping and maintaining a steady readership. Thankfully, there are steps that can be taken in order to engage your readers or customers.