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Reasons I like Successful-blog.com and what Other Bloggers need to learn from Liz

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It may look like that I am trying to butter up Liz, but honestly, that’s not the reason I am writing this post. I felt like writing on this topic yesterday; when I was doing some research for one of my clients that required surfing through the blogosphere. After some hours of surfing, I felt utterly and totally aghast by the amount of SE optimization and monetization going on at these blogs. There was an insane focus on the keywords, and some evidently desperate attempts at cashing in on each and every visitor who lands at the blog. The thing is, I’ve always preferred blogs over any other type of websites when it comes to reading, mainly because the quality of content, the variety, and most importantly the personal touch even if it is biased, but sadly, all of these characteristics are vanishing, and blogosphere is getting tainted by all sorts of malpractices.

Thankfully, there are some veteran bloggers like Liz who have managed to avoid being a part of this frenzy. Their blogs continue to educate and at times entertain the readers, instead of serving as bait for people searching at Google, to lure them into clicking on one of those ads.

Following are some reasons why I like Liz blog. Remember that I might be an average writer, but I am a hell of a reader, and if this blog has managed to make me come back and go through the posts every once in a while, there must be something right about this blog and its content. In other words, this post is not just a flatter; I am writing this while hoping that some other bloggers will also go through these points and opt to change their priorities.

Posts are not influenced and drenched with keywords:

One of the worst outcomes of bloggers getting aware of the SE optimization is the obsession with the keywords. I have seen reasonable bloggers turning their blog into a spam fest by trying to write posts targeting some keywords or key phrase. That’s certainly not the case with successful-blog, where the posts are not heavily infused with keywords. A big majority of posts were jotted down solely because the writers (Liz, in particular) felt like writing on the topic, and that is what a blogger should be doing.

Something to take home:

When the bloggers write on a topic that’s close to their heart, chances are that the readers will be able to relate, and there will find many points to take home. A big majority of bloggers are writing on topics which are in demand, even if they don’t know jack about it, or even when they have nothing to add. As a result, the readers can’t help but feel dismayed after reading the posts, which are more like a hodgepodge.

Lessons for All and Sundry:

The blog doesn’t cater to a particular niche, the lessons in most of these posts at successful-blog.com are meant for everybody, from students to Internet Marketers, and small business owners to social media experts. If you are looking to be more successful, and a little more productive, in almost any walk of life, you will surely find a lot of doable advice that actually works. The

No emphasis on Making Money:

How many popular blogs do you see nowadays with the posts having no ads whatsoever? I have seen many bloggers starting with a good intention, developing a thriving community and then losing the plot altogether, and deciding that helping out others is not enough. What follows is a drastic makeover, with the blog transforming from a helpful resource to a money-making machine. It’s quite the opposite at successful-blog.com, so much that sometimes I feel that Liz is letting go some easy bucks by not monetizing it sufficiently well, but maybe that’s the reason this Blog continues to stay unpolluted, serving as one of the very few resorts for a quality-content starved readers like me.

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How Three Tips from a Babysitter Helped me Establish a Successful SEO Agency

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We learn some of the best lessons in our lifetime when we are young. Not only that, but most of the times life throws invaluable lessons at us when we are least expecting. But surprisingly, some of those lessons stay with us and keep helping for a long time to come. The reason for the childhood lessons being more effective as compared to those we have in the later stages of our lives, is probably the willingness to listen and to learn from others as compared to how flexible we are, once we grow old.

Coming back to our topic, the tips I was talking about actually came from a babysitter who did pretty well in landing herself job after job as a caretaker, always getting calls and referrals from parents who were looking for a nanny. These tips were meant for someone else who was looking for some babysitting jobs (and getting none), but somehow, these tips got stuck in my mind, and years later, when I founded a small SEO agency, I ended up using these tips to boost my clientele.

Let me share those simple yet very effective tips with you guys …

Tip # 1:

Getting your first clients is going to be the most difficult part, mainly because you don’t have the experience or confidence to help you. If that’s the case, you should try doing some short babysitting gigs for free. Even better, you should assist or go along with an experienced nanny or babysitter in your neighborhood to get some experience. And that’s what I did when I first started my SEO agency. Before I started my own business, I had actually worked as an SEO expert in a well-known company, but I couldn’t share that work for some reasons (was bound by some sort of a NDA), and it was practically impossible to grab some projects without having anything to boast in my portfolio. So I acted upon the advice and accepted some projects for free (or dirt cheap prices). Needless to say, it didn’t took me long in convincing those clients to start giving me work at normal rates, not only that, but I was able to generate an impressive portfolio without wasting any time.

Tip # 2:

Ask the parents for whom you have babysat to refer you to their friends, if not, ask them to write a couple of lines and use it in your broachers (of course after getting their consent). In online world, these are known as testimonials. The point is, when you have done your best and the client is happy with your work; don’t just stop at getting the payment and departing. Tell them that you are looking for more work, and ask them to refer your services to their contacts. In my case, one of the most consistent sources of orders so far has been the customers referred by my clients.

Tip # 3:

Lastly, make sure that you are putting your best foot forward, regardless of the compensation you will be getting for the job. Remember that both in babysitting, as well as Internet Marketing, your client’s needs are usually of recurring nature, and satisfying one client means that you’ve booked them for a long time to come. Every time they are looking for someone to take care of their child or website, you will be the first person that comes to their mind. And so, probably the best way to market your business is to perform in a way that causes your clients to have a high opinion of you.

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Ingredients to Make your Blog the One-Stop Shop for your Target Readers

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If you are running a blog and relying solely on unique visitors coming from the Search Engines, and that too for a small set of keywords, then sorry to break it to you, but you (and your blog) are not standing on solid grounds. Mainly because a small shuffle in the rankings can send your blog tumbling back to starting point, and you’ll have to start from the scratch. Therefore, you should be aiming for a loyal readership from the day one. You have got to have some readers, who will be coming back to your blog on regular basis, reading your posts, sharing their opinions, sharing the good ones with their contacts at social profiles, and when needed, coming up with the guest contributions. But assembling this kind of readership is not easy. It is one thing to get someone to visit your blog for once (by the virtues of SEO or PPC) it’s another thing to convert these random visitors into regular readers. Your blog has got to have the following ingredients to provide your readers with a perfect mix that will make them bookmark and keep coming back to your website.

Updated Information:

Regardless of the theme or subject of your blog, you have got to keep your readers posted with all the developments or occurrences in your target market. Keeping you blog up to date doesn’t only mean posting news, instead you need to discuss these changes or developments, be it a sports blog, technology blog, SEO blog, politics blog, business blog, or a blog about blogging itself. Any blog that doesn’t cover the recent happenings or doesn’t stay on the ball will fail to convince the readers that this is a domain worth bookmarking.

Food for thought:

Keeping your readers updated with the recent developments is not the only requisite, instead you should be able to scrutinize all of these developments and help your readers understand by providing them with some food for thought, something to take home, for example how they can use a new technology, some marketing strategy, some upcoming trend, and the likes. There are hundreds of blogs out there doing nothing but rewriting the news. At the end of the day, it is the blog that goes one step ahead that gets the nod of approval from readers.

Humor:

Humor can make the most boring topics a lot easier to bear, and it is one of the easiest ways to hold on to your readers, but for some unknown reasons, very few bloggers dare to be amusing in their writings. The thing is that you don’t need to be Louis Harding or Erma Bombek, all you need to do is to relax and write in an informal way. Almost all of us have this inbuilt ability to crack a joke every now and then, when we are hanging out with our friends, so you can assume that you are writing for your friends, and not some critics (or search engines), chances are that you will find yourself coming up with some good tongue in cheek humor every now and then.

Personal touch:

A blogger is not a reporter or a journalist; in fact they are quite the opposite of each other. While people expect journalists or reporters to keep their personal likes and dislikes, or experiences away from the news or featured stories, blogs are meant to be a place where real people can talk about the real stuff with their own take on the matter. So, it is advised that you add that personal touch into your writings to help people related.

Controversy:

If you feel your blog is getting monotonous, and turning more into a dud with little or no activity, you can always resort to a little controversy. By controversy, I don’t mean delving into sensitive topics and hurting others’ feeling to make them speak, instead you can try and debunk some popular notion or myths, remember that we are talking about thoughtful write-up and not just trolling. For example, an SEO blogger can try to debunk a popular myth, or a tech blogger can confer some popular brand or gadget, or maybe a blogger taking on the fellow bloggers for some unethical practices getting common in blogosphere.

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Five Fabrications which are Common in Internet Marketing and Weight Loss Programs

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Internet is a Godsend for people looking for any kind of information. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration if we say that, there’s not a single topic which is not extensively covered at the World Wide Web. If you are good at googling, you can get a hang of almost any skill or subject under the sun. But the goodness ends here, and the list of downsides start … the first and the foremost being the amount of gibberish getting published on the Internet. It’s easy for the knowledgeable guys to distinguish claptrap from the authentic information, but someone with no prior knowledge or experience of the subject is bound to be vulnerable, no wonder many end up going astray and choosing the wrong track, especially when they are seeing all sorts of promises and huge claims coming from the so-called experts.

Acting upon any of this advice and misleading information can have some adverse effects on one’s health (if we are talking about a weight loss program) or online venture (in case of SEO methods). Being an SEO expert and someone who has studied weight loss and fitness topics quite extensively, I’d like to point out five glaring ambiguities that you must remember, to avoid wasting your time, resources, and even health by following up on some rubbish advice.

Overnight results:

When you see some weight loss plan promising results that seem too good to be true, you should know that they are actually too good to be true, same is the case with SEO methods (or services) claiming to take your website to the top in a matter of days. Both SEO and weight loss regimes will take quite some time before they start giving results, you might start seeing some results after some time, but you wouldn’t be reaching the ultimate destinations anytime soon, and anybody claiming to have a recipe for that, is most probably a scam.

Big rewards with little or no efforts:

Again, if little to no effort was needed, everybody would be walking with a perfectly tuned up body, or in case of SEO, everybody’s website would be ranking on top of the Google’s result. The reason we see only one website managing to get on the top amidst millions of results is because it has toiled harder than the remaining ones. There’s no chance that you can get to the top without putting your best foot forward, so when you look at someone standing on victory stand; spare some thought for years and years of training, and know that you will have to put up that much effort to get anywhere near the top.

Secret Methods:

Internet is full of so-called experts selling a “secret” method for losing excessive pounds in a couple of weeks, or beating your competition at SERPs in a jiffy. Remember, if anybody really has a method for that, he/she wouldn’t be selling it for peanuts; instead they’ll be making thousands by ranking on the top for some of those highly lucrative keywords. If they are really that smart, they’d be earning big, instead of wasting time in earning petty amounts?

Cheap Ones:

Do you know how those celebrities manage to get remarkable results when it comes to weight loss (or vice versa)? Not to take anything away, but that is partially because they have got some of the world’s best trainers and physicians working for them, and same goes for the websites managing to rank on the top for entire groups of highly searched keywords, while others struggle to rank for just one? That is because they have some of the best minds in the SEO eternity working for them. Needless to say, you can’t employ best experts or tools without spending hefty amounts. So you shouldn’t be looking for cheap ways when you are looking for real results. It’s not that extravagant spending can itself guarantee good results, but you must avoid staying tight-fisted if you are looking for sizable results.

Success Stories:

Probably the easiest way to lure wannabe entrepreneurs or overweight people is providing them with a “success story”. You might have read hundreds and thousands of stories about a guy earning thousands from their website on which they haven’t spent a lot of time or resources, or some lady losing 20 lbs. in a matter of weeks. Many succumb to these success stories and feel absolutely dejected when it doesn’t pay off. Remember that a big majority of these stories are made up, and a very few which are true can easily be a fluke, and you won’t necessarily be getting so lucky, the idea is to keep your expectations realistic instead of getting influenced by these success stories.

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Author’s Bio:

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Five Sayings from Olympic Athletes showing you how to reach the Top

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I’ve always been fascinated by the athletes participating in the Olympics … such dedicated beings, so focused, and so no-nonsense types, you look at them and you know they mean business. They’ve lived in the same world, and they’ve grown up with the same circumstances, in fact some of them have lived a more troubled life than the majority of us, and still they go on to achieve a lot more than what we can dream of achieving, a hell lot more.

To quote Sir M. Iqbal (a poet I’ll strongly recommend you all to read) …

Both live and fly the same skies

But Eagle lives in a different world from that of a vulture

How true is that, these athletes actually live in a different world from all of us, they dream differently, they breathe differently, they eat differently, they sleep differently, that’s precisely the reason why we see only one guy standing on the podium, only one winner who takes it all, while all of us will spend our lives thinking, how does it feel to be the best in what we do? But wait … we can still have an idea as to how does it feel, or more importantly, what does it take to get there, and that is to listen when they speak. And that is what I do every now and then, going through the sayings of these elite sportsmen … following are some really rich ones, that will impart a lot a lot of invaluable lessons, but only if you are ready to learn.

1. The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

The essential thing in life is not conquering, but fighting well … how true, how incredibly true … but what do we do? We fight miserably, lethargically, half-heartedly, yet we expect to be a winner every day, and in whatever we do? Remember, even if you are the best of the best athletes, there will be very few moments when you can stand still and wait for the life to hand you a medal, but what really matters is nothing but fighting, and that’s the life for you.

Oh, and that quote wasn’t from an athlete but Pierre Frédy, who is regarded as the founder of modern Olympics.

2. The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Again, Peggy Fleming has hit the nail on the head (and you can expect nothing less from a three time world champion). The take-home point is, if you are looking to be anywhere near the top, it is important to do what you love to do. Because you cannot excel at something you were not made for, let alone becoming a world-beater. So, as soon as you’ve discovered something you love doing, don’t look at others for the approval, just do it with all your heart, and the approval will come when you’ve become a “great” in doing that.

3. As long as Morceli is in the race, it is always a race for second place.

The next on our list is not one but two quotes, the first one (the aforementioned one) is by Venuste Niyongabo, and when you see such a quote coming from a guy who happens to be in the list of top ten fastest milers ever in the history of mankind, you should know that Morceli has got to be someone very special. So why not take a look at what was the approach that took Morceli to such heights, here you go …

I run to be known as the greatest runner, the greatest of all time. I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost in the 1992 Olympics. I have to win or die.

I really can’t think of anything to add, just read it again … I could not eat or sleep for a week after I lost, I have to win or die … No wonder, he won quite comprehensively in the following competitions.

4. When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening anymore.

Florence Griffin is dubbed as the “fastest woman of all time”, setting two world records that no one hasn’t even come close to beat. And the “someone” in this quote isn’t necessarily a person; it can very well be some statistics, past records, the beliefs, and the likes. You will get the “you can’t do it” message in a hundred different words, and a hundred different sources (the worse being your own self) but as long as you’ve got that whisper coming from your heart telling you that “you can”, you can simply stop listening to the naysayers.

5. I got a bronze medal and I can’t complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.

Another very important message coming from Debi Thomas i.e. when competing or striving to achieve a target, you must remember that getting the gold is not the only form of success, there are many times when you’ll fail to reach your targets, while missing by a small margin, when it happens, you must look at how far you’ve come and cherish your achievements, instead of sulking over the small distance you’ve failed to make.

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When the going gets tough — The Tough don‒t give a damn

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For quite some days, I’ve been caught in a writers’ block. Now, I am a web content writer and writing is my bread and butter. But despite the fact that I felt like writing, and I had quite some ideas to write on, and I felt pretty much capable to write, still I just kept failing at it, failing to put my pen to paper, just like a bird caught under a cast net, who knows and feels he can fly but fails miserably when trying to take off. And there I was, dawdling for weeks and hoping that all of a sudden, the “net” will disappear and I will be able to take to the air … How wrong was I and how wrong is everybody else who thinks procrastinating will somehow put an end to the predicament they are facing.

Problem with dilly-dallying and waiting for the right time is … it never arrives, the time just keeps flying by, and when you are aware that something needs to be done, the passing moments will just keep adding to the pressure, and the mounting pressure will make it even harder for you to do anything about it. And that is exactly what I was going through, and it’s not that it was the first time. In fact, the pressure cooker situations are quite frequent since my early years of education, the time when exams or final dates for assignments were fast approaching and I had spent all the time procrastinating and waiting for my geniuses to arrive (and I am still waiting …). These are the times when it gets tougher and tougher as the time pass, and getting depressed doesn’t help at all, you know that you’ve got to do something, but knowing that “I’ve got to act fast” only adds to the problem.

So what’s the best way to break the shackles, and to avoid giving in to the pressure?

To be honest, there’s a very easy way out. All you need is to follow two simple steps, first give a damn to the circumstances, and second get down and start doing something about it. Problem with getting bogged down by the circumstances is that you get stuck in the paradigm and get paralyzed. It transpires into a downward spiral and you start to fall short at everything, you fail to do a post on a topic when it’s hot, you can’t cash in on a trend or platform when it’s relatively new, you don’t get to pitch your product or services to some potential client you’ve stumbled upon, the opportunities keep slipping away and it gets even harder to come out of the trap, in spite the fact that most of the times, there’s no real trap, it’s all between the ears, a decoy that you shouldn’t even bother about in the first place.

The take-home point for this post is best described in the old adage …”when the going gets tough, the tough gets going” but what I was looking to add is to stop bothering about the tough goings as soon as you’ve got down to work, because if you do, the resulting panic will start consuming the much needed energy and time. So, from now on, when the devil throws the “cast net” by reminding you of the circumstances, you can simply dodge it by not giving a damn and continuing with your work.

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Author’s Bio:

Rahil of www.WeightLossTriumph.com is an Internet Marketing expert and a part time writer. We specializes in reviews of weight loss programs and diet plans. His blog is affiliated with merchants in the diet niche. Part of his marketing strategy involves featuring stories of people who have lost weight successfully and kept it off.