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Four Unique Sources of Inspiration for Your Blog

When blogging, we can sometimes get stuck on a post or a topic and completely have a mind blank regarding what we wanted to write and how we wanted to write it. Too much of this form of ‘blogger’s block’ can actually really hurt our blog in the long run; readers on the internet can quickly get bored if their favorite blogs aren’t updated enough, and so they’ll focus their attention on something else.

So how will we find inspiration? There’s the usual things you can do, like brainstorming and so on, but sometimes even these can be too conventional to inspire us. Instead, I want to suggest five unique ways we can find inspiration for our next round of blog posts.

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Mobilize Your Blog Promotion Using QR Code Generators

mobile-subscribeMobile marketing is getting more and more popular as market share of the smart phones continues to grow. Whether you are into the whole aspect of using your Android based device or iPhone for browsing the web or not – you shouldn’t ignore the opportunity. While there are many ways to make your WordPress blog mobile ready – today I want to talk about marketing it using what is becoming one of the more popular options – QR Codes.

I don’t claim to be the expert when it comes to using mobile marketing as I’m just getting started with the process and quite frankly don’t have enough stats to show for it but as a blogger and Internet Marketer I just can’t ignore the possibility of getting more traffic and readers. What’s even more – I have read quite a few articles and guides on the topic over last few days and noticed some missed opportunities.

In this post I will share my own idea for a very simple marketing using QR Codes and also free QR code generators you can use absolutely FREE (my favorite price)!

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Why your blog needs a personality

Some people believe in blogging formally. Now for blogs, like ones reporting on things like politics, economics etc. that can sometimes be alright. However if your blog is about almost anything else, you need to give it a personality, or it just won’t take off.

Formal blogs are dull to read. Work is formal, and you work to gain more informal time, right? So the last thing you want to be doing is writing a formal blog, as not only will you be bored writing it, but it will be boring reading it.

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9 Essential Principles of Blog Design

In recent years, blogs have become a popular way for people to share their interests and lives with others; whether they feel like sharing what they had for lunch or reviewing a movie they just watched, there is sure to be an audience who reads it. But a blog is more than just words. In order to truly be successful, the blog should also practice good design.

Consistency
Consistency is something that cannot be dismissed. If the blogger has chosen to go with a certain font for the text, then they should not change it from entry to entry. Not only does this appear unattractive, but should the blog be for a company, it can show lack of professionalism.

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Don’t Worry if Your Blog Sucks – Here are 3 Tips to a Better Blog

If you think your blog sucks, it probably does since you are your own worst critic. There is however no real shame though, because many bloggers started a new blog not knowing how it was going to turn out years down the road. Even the great John Chow started his blog as a personal blog without any intentions of making money. And as they say, “the rest is history.”

You may currently be at a crossroad where you are making an important decision on how you can bring your blog to the next level of success. You probably have made some big mistakes before on your blog and are perhaps wiser now; hopefully. But if not, here are 3 things to consider making improvements to your blog to make it better.

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Improve Yourself for Effective Blogging

One of the greatest struggles that I had in blogging is gaining traffic from a less targeted niche. My blog is a religious blog and I really do not know if how many people are interested in discussing such things.

When my blog is already 3 months old, the traffic still ranges from 10 to 15 visitors a day, and most of those visitors came from my own clicks.

I thought my blog will never make it to top, and it will continue to have a small size audience especially that its niche is all about Christian living and religion to which I believe is not a popular niche.

But after a year of blogging in this niche, my blog is slowly coping up where most of my visitors came from raw searches over Google and Yahoo. And now, my blog is one of the top most Christian blogs in the Philippines (based on Topblogs.com).

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