How to attract traffic to your site through good titles
September 5, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Blogging, Google, Leadership Skills, Writing skills
Blogging has become real huge now and I have seen many companies publishing their ads through blogs rather than printing postures, may be that this way its more economical and can reach wider audience too at the same time. But what really attracts a person to the blog, is it a title or the body of the article or simply through a suggestion. Most of the times it happens and even few of us might have experienced that we read articles based on their titles, if the title sounds interesting than it can lure your readers into reading further. Some of you, who are new to blogs, might not even know that your titles or the keywords are the prime most important things that will direct a position of your site in search engines. If you have attractive title with widely used keywords in it then surely it is going to push your site at the top most pages of the search engines but for that you need to come up or rather know the key words which your audience would be searching over the net.
So before you head out to write your blogs, the first and foremost is to decide upon an attractive title for your blogs. You must have quite noticed when you search something over internet there is more probability of you finding the pages with exactly the same words that you typed in search engines the reason being, the site members have researched well as to what their audience would search, identifying such keywords is not difficult and with the help of Google adwords keyword tool you can find all the keywords which are searched the most.
You can only build your brand over your blogging

networks once you gain your readers support and that will gradually happen as they start liking your topics and the content you have written. Make use of google tools and research the words that the users are most likely to type in search engines, if you belong to a particular niche say writing only about management then search for words which people would search. Remember, while you put in the keywords, think of the words that you as a reader would be keying in to search for the topics that would give you an idea.
The search volume for the keywords will help you find the volume of the key words which are searched on Internet on a monthly basis, if you have few lots of words then go for the once which are rated highest in the adwords tool. Keep in mind that even a single word in your title here and there would cause a lot of changes in your rankings, in my research I have found that the titles which starts from “how to”, “how is”, etc. are the most searched upon compared to normal sentences and its but obvious when people would search to find the procedure for something they are going to type “how to”. So research well for the titles you are going to put in and get good search engine rankings.
Why online businesses fail?
September 1, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Freelancing
Everybody starts business with the aim of making profits and not all of them succeed in their first endeavors, for some business may be a dream and they achieve their dreams while for some its just an idea which they try if they are successful in it. I have in my experiences noticed one aspect for the people who succeed in whatever they do, is it a sheer hard work or the luck factor that works? You might well say it’s the combination of both, but I would say its 100% on the work that you put in to achieve your goals. According to me, sometimes it’s just the peer pressure that drags you in this game of online business. Your partner makes his business online so do you feel the urge to do the same although you might have nil knowledge about it but you still do it but it is not going to be successful unless you make any efforts to do SEO for your site or join some social networks or get some interaction going with people, no one is going to come to your site like that. You have to have full knowledge of the field you are entering in to, once you are starting your blogging business there are few things the bloggers keep in mind like updating the page of its fresh content on a daily basis, joining social networks, commenting on the sites, replying to the comments, etc.
Success occurs only when a person has given 100% percent to it, if you set up everything, hold the online staff, kept the best of products in your online business store but unless you advertise your products who will come to your online store. Its fact that you can reach much wider audience through online store but its not going to make any point if you cant reach out to people. Here are few of the things or reasons that might be an add on factors which will lead to business failure:
- Some people try making money out of something they are totally unaware about, as I mentioned earlier too, people see if someone is doing and making good money out of it then why not I also do the same even if he has no knowledge about it. When you do something without any ground knowledge or research, you are surely going to fail in your endeavor. If you are serious of making money through it then give your best attempts and make sure you know how to play the game.

- Businesses are developed on some planning, and that planning and creativity needs lots of passion and interaction amongst the team players, if you lag in this than you stand nowhere in the competition. To be good and best at things you have to create that passion and money will pour in automatically.
- Have a determined nature to achieve what you want to achieve in life, be confident in whatever field you may want to excel but do it whole heartedly. Stay by your decisions and don’t change them often, if you are having hard time then have patience and troubles will get solved automatically. If you want success then you will have to overcome the stepping-stone to the path of success, nothing comes easy, give your hard work and yield the fruits later.
- Grab the best of knowledge you can to start with your online business, don’t leave a stone unturned to start with your business, if you are truly determined to make it big in this niche then you will have to search the path yourself. Having base knowledge about the field you are working in is important especially when you are just starting the business, as you progress ahead you will gain more knowledge.
You have to be a fighter if you truly want to achieve success in life, if you feel something is going wrong then take steady steps to improve upon it without further delays, which can worsen the situation. Believe in yourself and excel ahead.
Making Your FIRST IMPRESSION, Be Careful!
August 6, 2009 by Chris
Filed under Leadership Skills
How many of us duly pay attention to your first meetings with business colleagues, a long distant friend or a relative or going out for your first date? Some may be excited to meet someone after a long time, yet some might want to win a contract from a multinational company and yet some might want to marry a person they are dating for the first time. These people might hardly know, that whatever they speak or do or their actions are going to have a deep effect in further endeavors with the people they are meeting for the very first time, is this something they call as “Impressions”, if you are thinking alike like me, then you got it right. Your first impressions are only the means you can make your life for better, don’t we often see people trying their level best to set up everything right in their first meetings for something important to happen in their life and when they truly succeed in that, its all thanks to the first impressions that they made.
It doesn’t matter if you carry a bad look in your 6th meeting with a person but you have to look stunning and be at your very best in your speech the 1st time, it’s a business rule or ethics you could say that does all the crafting. People don’t just say the great saying, “First Impression Is the Last Impression”, for the heck of it, it truly carries a weight, in fact a lots of weight when it comes to business communications or persuading your customer in buying your products or (take a wild guess) in blogging business (Blogging, does that surprise you?) blogging business is growing by the day, each day hundreds of blogs networks are launched world wide, there is so much competition around so don’t you feel the urge to be the best amongst the all and eat the pie. If your answer is yes to this, then the foremost things as I always say, create that first impression. There are varied methods you can follow to create ever lasting best impressions in front of your audience, if they don’t like your site at first, they shall never come back, so do your best to give them the best that they deserve.
- Design is the most important factors in your website; make your site look clutter free by not putting bigger fonts or pictures that will look ugly, make it look like a professional site.
- Blogging sites are meant to have ads, but don’t over do it so as to make it look full of ads, you can use the side bars, the top and bottom bars to put in your advertisements at the most.
- Write the best information you have, on your site also by using your creativity, attract your audience.
- Writing is just not the end thing for blogs, putting in some good pictures will help your readers take interest and might attract the attention of the site passer bys.
- Give the best hosting to your site and efficient running, put fresh content each day with loads of ideas and knowledge to share.
- Before setting out, you can do a trial check by asking your family or friends about the site and take inputs from them and change it accordingly.
The world of internet is so different from the real world still we keep doing things to make our lives for better, just to put that first impression in front of your takers. Some might not be serious especially with the reason that no one can see them for real over the net but your work is being seen by everybody globally. You might take internet for granted but remember this virtual world will help get you physical real money. So give your best for the first impressions!
Effective Writing Skills – Pro Blogging Style
Effective Writing Skills – Pro Blogging Style Will Make You Successful
Each day hundreds and thousands of books are published world wide, some are written by well known authors and some are from the new struggling writers. I have seen many cases in which a writer is just a first time writer and his very first book was a great success, what do you think, what separates them with other lots of writers who are struggling even after their 10th book? Is it writing skills or their individual talents? I feel it’s the combination of both, for how long we will keep talking about destiny and our so called luck factor. To make it to A-listers of writers, I feel an individual obviously needs a good set of skills plus a passion to write something unique, not copied from somewhere.
Like other skills, even writing is one skill and you can expertise in it with writing practice, there were a few times where I was hung in the midst of writing for finding the words which I dint quite know at that time but my efforts and willingness to learn and then implement them in my writings made it a huge success. The people with natural talents, I give hats off to them but for new writers who are planning to make it big in writing as a author, I had advice not to give up till you drop! Meaning that you go on and on till the time you feel your resources are at the fullest. It doesn’t take much of the efforts to write, although it takes time to hone your skill set but practice will make you perfect as the time moves on.
There are many a strugglers in the world of blogging, even after trying their best they are not able to pull in audience into their networks, the reason, poor writing skills! Although for blogging, the written content is the criterion, I had still advice people to sharpen their skills in knowledge and then implement them in written words, once when you have knowledge you can somehow emerge in to creative stuff. Everybody makes mistakes; even big authors might have made mistakes in gulping down few grammatical words, so what! Does that stop them from publishing their books? Of course, NO, because they are well known writers and sometimes there are printing errors too.
Learning by itself is an ART; you can develop your writing skills in your own art factory where you can collect different books or learn more about grammar and than go on to sharpen your skill set, even born writers need to do some home work before heading out. I advice my young fellow writers to concentrate hard on what they are writing and please do not compare your work with other writers, as individual is born to be unique and so you cannot have same writings. Give your best shot and emerge yourself out from the self made mould that is obstructing you from achieving your targets.
Be in love with your writing so that whole day you keep writing and one day you shall emerge as an established writer of all times. Learn from your minor mistakes and become perfect in them and get set to conquer the world with your magical words, given below are some of the things I had like to advice you on improving your writing skills:
- Write fluently; don’t stop in the middle of your writing that might distract you from what you were writing naturally. You can edit your work later.
- Write whatever comes to your mind at first go, you never know that might be one of the tools that will take you to successful ladder.
- Make use of words that you find fancy, those might just be the words that can make you famous for your thoughts on that.
- Study the art of writing creatively.
- Comparison is the worst things you can do to yourself as writer that may ruin your whole career altogether, so stop comparing and write your inner thoughts.
- Invest more in physical books then internet reference material; enjoy the joys of holding your favorite book in a total isolation.
- You can highlight some famous quotes, some short story you found interesting in the reference books.
The first few pages you write might be a complete waste, but these are just a few obstacles for your journey to pleasant world of good writing so all the best and get going and remember no one is a born writer, develop that skill in yourself if you really want to be a WRITER, all the best!!!











