While some people claim to be professional bloggers, most of us are simply blogging in hopes of expanding our small portal on the Web. Nearly all blogs begin with nothing more than an idea and a dream, and depending on how much time you put into them, they grow into much larger platforms, which can be seen as avenues for launching a career or two down the road.

During this often long profess, nearly all of us make mistakes, including the bloggers who are now running some of the largest blogs on the web. They realized their mistakes and tried to overcome these hurdles by not repeating their mistakes. This is one of the reasons they are where they are today.

There are a few key points in blogging that you need to understand, as I have outlined.

1. Never Become too Personal – A blog is supposed to have a clear focus, one that has been defined from the start. If you feel that you want to blog in a more personal manner, start a “lifestream” or tumblog-styled blog, or use Twitter to stream your messages.
2. Always Remain Impartial – While some blogs have a reputation of taking sides on issues due to their writers’ stances, it is a good idea to have a moderate stance in order to garner respect from a wider audience.
3. No Matter What You Do, Don’t Change URLs – This is one of the biggest mistakes nearly everyone makes, whether it is going from a Blogger “domain” to your own domain. Honestly, it isn’t worth the hassle, and you can generally purchase domains and hosting at extremely reasonable prices.
4. Control Your Inflated Ego – Not all “professional” bloggers inflate their ego publicly, but there are many that feel they have control over the market (some do, though), although most don’t. One of the main ways you can ruin your brand is posting constantly about topics unrelated to your blog.
5. Don’t Simply Post Links – Sometimes it can be ideal to create posts that center around links, but honestly try to give something back to your readers. If all your posts contain a quote and a link to another article, you can rest assured that I probably won’t be returning to your site.

There are many other ways that professional bloggers can quickly tarnish the image of their blog, but keeping a few of these main points in your mind while you grow, you won’t have to worry about these happening to you.

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However, there is one aspect of this process I left out and feel should be written about further. When one goes to market yourself, it isn’t a “let’s tell everyone about our product today” and be done with it, but a continual process—once you start a blog, you can’t stop marketing.

Why Many Bloggers Fail at “Marketing”

Marketing to some is the same as it was ten or fifteen years ago. At the core it is the same – the more work you put into the promotion of your blog, the more return you will see. The aspect many fail to see is that simply having your name spread around won’t cut it any more.

As many bloggers promote their website, services, or products, they often resort to tactics such as giveaways and other odd promotions, which result in a quick boost in traffic, but in the long-term, the results won’t be as solid as if they had taken a more strategic approach to building out their blog.

Another main reason bloggers fail is due to their fear. When bloggers start to promote their website, they often (but not always) realize that there is a lot more to promoting their blog than they first realize. In other words, it isn’t just about getting links pointing to your site, but about creating an impact around those links.

Once bloggers realize that their “quick” tactics aren’t working, they give up and resort to other methods of driving traffic or bringing in revenue. These often leave a lasting impact on the readers, leaving them wondering whether the blogger behind the blog is actually just looking to leech off any real visitors he or she has left.

There is, however, a fairly definitive way all bloggers can effectively market their blog, and that is the long-term approach, which I explain below.

A Long-Term Approach that Works

Taking blogging seriously should be your main goal. By creating a strategic, long-term approach to blogging, you ensure that both you and your site will remain open to new ideas and your readers will also see this evolution.

There is one concept behind how you market your blog: never stop, whether you see success or failure. As long as you are marketing your blog, you will see some kind of return on your time investment.

Leaving comments and interacting is still the biggest way that you can draw in new traffic, thus marketing yourself by growing your reach. You need to provide value to other blogs, and you’ll see a positive return. Included in leaving comments is building your social presence – Facebook and Twitter are currently the hottest places where you can begin.

The second most effective way to market yourself over the long-term is simply to create new content, then promote it. By doing this, you’ll ensure that others see what your potential is, and there’s a good chance they’ll link back to it or share it through their social platforms (which may very well be Twitter).

Conclusion

No matter whether you write on your own blog or as apart of a blog network (or for a larger website), you can use these approaches to help you better market yourself and your work.

I can’t emphasize enough how you can’t give up when it comes to blog promotion – you never want to quickly dump a lot of links into a social networking site and hope to instantly see thousands of new visitors. It is the gradual approach that will pay off in the end.

The reasons behind selling a domain or entire website/blog vary between owners, but generally it is either due to a time constraint or simply because you have moved onto other projects and need the cash. In some ways, it is much like having a business acquired by someone else, although you are in full control of who you are selling your “company” to.

Several mistakes are made when it comes to selling websites that you should be aware of and try to avoid. These mistakes will rob you of additional revenue and may also cause some people to turn down the offer.

1. A Website Without Fresh Content – If you decide to sell your website, make sure you continue to produce new content on the website, up until the day the website is transferred to the new owner (or even longer). This ensures that the new owner doesn’t have to fill the gaping void created by the sale.
2. Unreasonable Prices – Websites with a thousand visitors monthly shouldn’t be priced absurdly high. Price them what they are worth and what the new owner can possibly make from the purchase.
3. Hiding any Information – If you were spending a thousand dollars monthly in advertising, you must disclose this to the new owner, as this information is important in the long-term success of the website. If the advertising campaign(s) are stopped, the traffic levels may also drop.
4. Additional Insight – Time and time again, website owners don’t disclose all the little details that really matter. For example, if you rank well for specific term that send thousands of visitors to your site daily, this is valuable information for the new (or prospective) website owners.
5. Platform Your Website Has Been Built Upon – If you use WordPress or Drupal, it is important to disclose this information. A new buyer may not be as interested in the purchase if you are using an unknown platform.

Conclusion

Have you ever sold a website? What do you think of these tips? Please share your response below.

They were created in order for individuals to stay in contact with those who they have not talked to in a while, but many feel they have developed into more of a social tool to help get in touch with customers. No matter what the original purpose and where they are headed, we’ll be talking about how you can properly utilize all of the services – or should you be?

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Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of the social networking sites. While there are millions of members, you can’t really get in touch with them quite like a blog and the smaller sites, which give you better access to a dedicated community. In my opinion, the larger social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) do more for personal communication between people you already know and trust offline than those online.

That isn’t to say that Facebook isn’t creating some powerful tools for businesses and brands, but there will always be a larger focus on those truly personal facets of our lives.

Starting Small and Branching Out

Some will tell you to join as many social networking sites as you possibly can when you start a blog. I’ll tell you to join between one and three, get your feet wet, and see how each works for you.

The problem with joining multiple sites at a time is that you don’t (and can’t) really learn how each works and what is involved in staying “up-to-date” with the service. As new features are introduced, it may become a challenge to properly integrate them into your daily routine.

1. Join Twitter and see how it works. Right now, it is the most popular service, at least in terms of what you can get out if it.
2. See what others are doing to promote themselves, especially within your own niche. Check out what other niche “leaders” are doing.
3. Communicate with others and really engage yourself in the conversation. You Don’t have to be well-known to really be noticed. You just need to be different and unique.

Once you have joined at least one of the popular sites and you have accumulated quite a number of followers/friends, it is time to branch out further.

When the Going Gets Tough

Problems quite often arise as you branch yourself out. IF you were spending half an hour each day updating your Twitter page, communicating and replying to others, then you’ll have to increase that time with each service you join. It’s all about how you go about managing your profiles online. Let’s say you start with a Twitter profile, then join Facebook with a page, you’ll then either need to “manually” post new links or “automatically” post new links.

Obviously, there are downsides to each method. On the “automatic” side, you’ll essentially only gain new friends who are already fans of your site, or people who don’t want to use Twitter and instead have opted to use Facebook. Alternatively, if you use a “manual” approach to updating, you may see more of a following develop due to the fact that you’ll be creating multiple communities.

With multiple communities, there will be more challenges, but nothing that is too difficult. Blogging is stressful at times, but it’s all about how you manage yourself online and how you are able to conduct yourself during the challenging times.

Quick Tips for Twitter, Facebook, and Other Services

I’ve previously covered some of these tips in a post titled “How to Get the Most Out of Every Social Networking Service,” but this time around, I’ll be looking at some of the specifics of how to maximize your time spent on these services.

• Look around for services that track the benefits of each service. In deciding the services that can reap the most benefits, you want to find one that can convert visitors into readers, and readers into customers.
• Research each service in-depth before joining, and don’t be afraid to join a service just to ask others using the service what benefits they’ve seen as users of the service.
• Vary the time you spend on each service. When getting started, you want to see how much time it takes to really become acquainted with each service. Depending on your approach, you might want to spend more or less time with each, depending on where you want your overall focus to be.
• Time away from the sites. One of the problems with Twitter and other sites is that you need a constant Internet connection. Leaving your Twitter page not updated for more than a day at a time can tell your followers that you really aren’t dedicated. You need a way to stay in contact with your community at all times and at all costs.

What Are You Looking For?

Setting out to develop yourself online, you have to consider a few major ideas. These key points will either help you grow online, or they will set you back quite a few steps in your efforts.

First of all, you have to understand the main results you want to see from social networking sites. Mixx, Digg, Delicious, and other sites have been around for some time, while others may be newer, only beginning since the mainstream popularity of Twitter emerged earlier this year.

Some would say that developing a large base of followers and friends across the many social networks is key, while others would rather have a more focused network. In some cases, you can have 100,000 Twitter followers who spread less than 10% of your ideas, while you can have 10,000 “friends” on other sites like Digg, Mixx, etc., who spread 50% or more of your ideas, but you are more involved on Twitter than all of the other sites combined.

I would say that new bloggers should be looking for traffic on these sites, as it will result in some immediate exposure, while well-developed bloggers should focus further on creating a community around their site – the traffic will come soon thereafter.

Secondly, you have to put a price on your time. How much time are you willing to invest in Twitter and other sites, compared with the time you spend updating and managing your blog? If you are only able or willing to invest ten minutes into your Twitter page, invest that much time.

On the other hand, if you don’t see the results you want after providing an hour of your time into Twitter each day, you are either doing something wrong or you just aren’t seeing the results that others have seen with similar efforts.

Finally, you have to analyze your long-term goals. Where do you see your blog in a month, six months, or a year from now? Do you want to see it ranked within the “Top 100″ blogs within your particular niche, or do you want it to remain extremely focused and barely known?

This is one of the most serious points to consider in this discussion, and if there is one thing you take form this post, this is it. The success of your blog is dependent on how well you are able to illustrate your ability to connect with others and spread what you know.

The main idea behind blogs is to connect yourself with others. If you are simply re-posting ideas from other blogs, covering news, as well as topics others have covered plenty of times in the past, readers will quickly leave, only returning when they see that you have ideas of your own, rather than shared ideas from others.

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This post is less about where to find fresh content, but rather than how you can really improve on others’ ideas when you may not have as much content to write about. In other words, you’re going through “writer’s” or “blogger’s block.”

News Posts

There are plenty of topics I could write about each day that reference blogging, but it would really drain the blog in quality. It would be somewhat difficult to provide my own insight into many of these topics, as they have been written about countless times on other blogs.

If you run a news blog, it is great to share the most popular stories, but you also must have some fresh ideas to bring to the table.

However, if you run a more general blog, which also includes original, more in-depth posts, you must invite your own insight into the news stories. Follow some of these useful tips for providing more quality.

• Provide some background on the topics.
• Add your own experience and insight into what may arrive in the future.
• If you are covering a new service, create a tutorial that shows how the service works/operates, and how it can really help others.

Older Posts

Let’s say you discover some posts others have written about. Nearly everything that could have been written about has been written about. This often makes it challenging to create your own content, but you can still “borrow” content from others for use on your own blog. Now, there is no “copying and pasting,” but you are providing your take on the story/post.

The reason this works is as follows:

• Readers like seeing your own take on posts.
• You can challenge your readers to think differently, think like you, and you will persuade them to think along the same lines as you.
• These posts can inspire you to create something that rivals them in terms of quality, and you will still be able to get ahead.
• Each blog is unique – at some point or another, you may need to cover these topics.

Be Completely Unique

Innovation can also help inspire you to change your posts. If new technologies are released, they may lead to more posts, especially if you cover computer or Internet-related fields (as many of us do).

Being yourself is also included within this overall topic. When you focus on creating new content, you also have to include points that you wouldn’t normally include within, say, a news post.

Often, the return for unique content takes a long time to really see, but in the long-term, having unique content can really drive traffic higher, and when traffic drives sales, you’ll be able to really benefit.

Conclusion

What other ways can you think of to stop regurgitating content? Please share them with the community by leaving a comment below.

However, a majority of those who try to go down this road fail for one main reason: they have no trust. Having your name online is one thing, but having your name attached to a powerful brand is another.

Let’s assume you have a blog you write at on a regular basis. This blog has been active for more than a year and has gained several thousand subscribers and daily visitors during this period. Anyone who has subscribed to your blog already trusts you. They visited your blog, read your content, and expect to see more of what you have to say.

The problem comes when bloggers (and anyone online) introduces a product without the credentials to back themselves up. It’s been dozen countless times in the past, but is still a regular occurrence today. They can still become successful, but it is more about the copy that inspires them to purchase the product or continue reading.

Building Trust and Authority

There are several keys to building trust online. These principles can be used offline, but the online aspects are fairly specific.

1. Share, and Be Willing to Share – On the Internet, and elsewhere, you must realize that as a whole, there is one large community. Others want their content shared, and you want your own content shared, too.
2. Take Action – If someone asks you to send them a link, if someone asks you a question, etc. through email or a comment, never give them a reply that says “I’ll get back to you later.” This tells them that you don’t think they’re worth your time, and this isn’t good for building trust.
3. Be Positive – Nothing says that you don’t want to grow your business than when you are negative about any drastic changes hat need to be made. Even though you may keep many of these to yourself when building your blog, you still have to realize that change is generally positive.
4. Don’t Push – Pushing products to your readers in the early days of your first blog can drastically reduce your trust? What background do you have that will persuade your readers to purchase your products or from your affiliate links?
5. Be Professional, 99% of the Time – When readers discover your blog for the first time, they don’t want to see ads. Having ads plastered all over your site makes it look like a dump, and this is never a good sight for first-time readers. It makes them leave, and never want to return.
6. Be Personal at least 10% of the Time – Although I just said that you need to be professional 99% of the time, you can still be personal the other 10%, as you can both be personal and professional at the same time. Just don’t make yourself appear so personal that you aren’t still professional.
7. Honesty Matters – Readers can generally tell when you aren’t being honest. Promoting others’ products can be difficult, and the process of promoting your own product can also be difficult when you think it is sub-par.
8. The Process Takes Time – You’ll never gain trust overnight, so don’t expect it to arrive in the same manner that email does.

Trust Equals Sales

Some will say that with enough traffic, you’ll see some sales. However, you can have a fraction of the traffic, but have the required trust, and you’ll be able to see the same number of sales. It is all about persuasion and perception. As long as your readers understand that you stand near the top, they will continually return, and continue “buying into” your prodcuts.

It works for small and large companies, and it can work for your blog. Solve the problems your readers have, and they will return for more solutions. It’s a cycle that has been proven to work, and it’ll work on your blog, too.

Not everyone will get to this point, but it’s surely worth a short, isn’t it? If you have a blog, you’ve already taken quite a few chances, investing both your time and money into something that often results in zero rewards unless you put in hard work and dedication.

In this post, we’ll be looking at some of the best tops to help you secure the blogging/writing job you always dreamed about, and how you can rest assured that you’ll get it.

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Focus on What You Want to Accomplish

Many of the writing jobs online are only temporary, or are given a treatment similar to “temporary.” Some bloggers want to take a break from their blog for a period, so they’ll hire someone to take over the writing position, or other bloggers want additional help managing their blog.

As long as you know what you are getting yourself into, there is no reason why you shouldn’t get the job. If you expect to make a full-time income from a part-time writing position, then you don’t really understand what blogging is all about.

When you find a job post asking for a blogger, read through the description, and determine what has to be done to properly qualify for the position. Realize that there are other people also vying for the position, and that leads us onto the second tip.

Be First, Not Second or Third

Generally, job positions run on a first come, first fulfilled basis. After this, employers go down the list to determine who will be a better candidate for the job. You don’t want to be late, or your intended position will be taken by someone else. The same idea works online. When an employer looks for a new blogger, they’ll post an ad and from the emails/applications received, they’ll determine which person is best qualified.

Being first doesn’t mean that you say “first” like all the first comments on popular blogs and videos. It means that you really show you can prove that you’ll be beneficial to the individual or company, rather than just another obnoxious web user.

Prove that You’re Able to Work

While you might think blogging is an easy task, you have to realize there is much more to blogging than simply writing and replying to comments. You often have to reply to comments, provide support, answer phone calls, fix code that isn’t working properly, and the list goes on from here.

Each of these tasks may seem small when they are listed, but they all take time. Whether you will have to commute to this position or if you can stay at home, you will still be expected to do any of these tasks, and more, if asked.

Have a Good English Background

A vast majority of job requests will tell you that you must write in English, so be expected to do this. I’d suggest that you become fluent in English before you even begin to seek a position involving writing. If you don’t, you’ll be faced with rejection from a potential employer.

Included within having a good English background is knowing what good writing is. Having this ability will help you blog and write for this new job.

Have Something to Back Yourself Up

Many employers look for people who have the credentials to back up their claims. For the most part, if you write online, you should have some type of degree, as well as a blog or two to prove that you can manage a blog. Success isn’t everything, however.

Sending links to your website can sometimes be the wrong decision. Think about whether you want to send links to your Twitter or Facebook profiles. Most likely, the employer won’t find much information here other than what you are thinking about and conversations with your friends.

A portfolio or some type of professional website might work better in this case. You want to be abel to showcase your work without having to send links to all your previous work. LinkedIn might also work better if you held previous positions.

Separate Yourself from other Bloggers

All bloggers are somewhat alike, so you need to have something that separates yourself from the next person applying for the position. If you have a background in certain technologies (CSS, HTML, PHP, etc.) tell the potential employer this. You want to be able to prove yourself to them that you are the person for the job.

Within the application, you should include all this, and inform them about all your qualifications. Use the following as some starters:

• How well you communicate.
• What your main areas of expertise are.
• Positions you’ve previously held.
• Any formal education you’ve received.
• Your knowledge of blogging.

Know | Be Online

You’re seeking a blog-related job. Your main goal is to write daily for a blog or website, but you don’t know what SEO stands for, and you don’t know the difference between a subscriber and a follower. Ask your employer questions after you begin, and they’ll likely find it hard to believe that you found this position at all.

No matter where you are, what you are doing, it is a good idea to know the most common traffic, marketing, and blog building tips and acronyms out there. While you may have an off-line position, you may be routinely asked or expected to know these. After all, more and more people are connecting to the web from their mobile phones.

Be Professional

Professionalism is key when applying to a job. Employers don’t want someone who can’t even spell his or her name typing. Slow down at times to ensure you are writing without errors, and this will demonstrate that you are able to be proficient once you have been hired or selected for the job.

There are thousands of people seeking these types of jobs at any minute, so you also have to realize that someone at the other end won’t want to read a long story about your life. This ties in with being professional. Don’t drone on, and keep your message to the point.

Including a professional resume is also ideal, even though you are trying to find an online job. The various online sites, including your personal blog don’t always cut it. Employers want something they can print out for their records.

People often write articles about how these two are dead, and is often disputed, as there are still millions of people blogging, with new bloggers getting into the space every day.

Why Blogging is Not Dead

Blogging will continue to grow in popularity. I simply don’t see a reason why people will stop blogging, unless severe restrictions are set on everyone and what they are allowed to say online. This would be extremely hard to control, as it is hard enough to discover who writes and creates content online as it is. People will always have an opinion, and the only place they can share it other than on the web is through face-to-face communication, unless of course they are able to get a television deal or work in traditional media – newspapers and magazines.

By the time blogging reaches its height, new methods of communicating, as stated in another post, will emerge, and help move the market forward. Innovation and change will help move blogging forward, more than anything else. Blogging has become blurred in the past, but we now have a fairly precise definition of what it is.

One of the reasons people think blogging is dead is due to the fact that a good portion of the Internet-using population still hasn’t caught onto blogging or reading blogs. While somewhat true, as Internet usage continues to increase, more people will discover and subscribe to blogs.

RSS is still a technology that needs more promotion – only a small percentage of web users know how to properly utilize it and stay updated with their favorite sites.

The potential of blogging will continue to be unlimited. In developing markets, there will be untapped niches, and as new technologies are introduced, there will be a renewed demand for blogs that cover these topics

Why Podcasting is Not Dead

Podcasting is similar to RSS in how it is used. Typically created by independent publishers, it can be hard to find new, but innovative podcasts. Usually, they’ll be found on iTunes or their own sites, but often, they are hard to find.

For the reason that people think blogs aren’t professional, they also think podcasts can’t be, either. That statement couldn’t be further from the truth. Many television programs offer expanded content through podcasts, including full-length shows.

From the blogging perspective, podcasting can add great value to your site. You’ll have many more avenues to go down should you choose this method. There is no doubt that podcasting can be extremely profitable, resulting in returns of 80% or more if you optimize your workflow and are able to promote your podcast properly.

Conclusion

By no means are podcasting nor blogging dead. Instead, they will both continue to grow, no matter what others say. Yes, the leaders will maintain their relative position, but there will always be new markets that can be tapped into.

Blogging can help launch a platform for you and your brand. You’ll be able to expand into podcasting, video, and even print-based media should you want to evolve your brand to an even higher level.

In this post, I’ll be exploring the various ways to utilize each of these services, and how they fit into the overall picture of building your brand online in an efficient manner.

The Largest Social Networks

Facbeook and MySpace have been the largest social networks for the past several years. They haven’t necessarily been given the same hype factor as Twitter in recent times, but are still certainly competitors in the market. Usually, you wouldn’t think of these services as being a way to promote your website, but through Facebook Fan Pages and a regular MySpace profile, you can maintain good rankings for terms that relate to your site – these sties have been developed and are already highly ranked for many terms.

When you create a profile on any of these sites, you have to ensure that it is competitively designed (more so for MySpace than Facebook), so visitors know that it is actually you and not someone else simply acting as an impostor.

Once you have to created a profile, connect it to your blog through a system of automatic updates, as well as manual updates (such as questions posed to your readers, new information that the community has published, and other resources.

Posting content doesn’t end with automatic posting, as you may have read elsewhere. You have to involve your community and ensure that your friends receive all your updates.

Twitter

I am placing Twitter in its own category, because it is separate from the other social networks in how members interact with one another. Generally, other social networks focus on private conversations and do too much – photos, chat, video, etc., which can be useful if you are developing a complete profile online, but not for the purpose of sharing content – the pictures will be on your site.

For automatic publishing, Tweet This as well as Twitter Tools are great solutions, but you still have to develop a community. To do this, re-tweet others’ tweets, reply to people who are addressing you, and share tips that haven’t yet been placed on your blog.

In some ways, you can use Twitter as a private area, sharing tips with your followers, developing a small community that really adds value to your site. Promotion of posts can also be done through private messaging and if you run an e-commerce site, you can share coupon codes, links, and other information through your account/profile.

Other Sites

StumbleUpon, Digg, and other communities have been created to help share useful information with others. They can quickly draw in a few thousand visitors, but the traffic isn’t “as good” as through other, more natural methods.

On most sites, it isn’t too hard to submit content yourself, although there are algorithms in place that prevent you from submitting too much of your content. In the promotion of content, you must have a plan that will truly work to your benefit. You shouldn’t rely on others to promote your content, as there won’t be anyone to do this in the beginning stages of your site.

Often, you have to look at some of these smaller networking sites as blogs. They may or may not drive traffic to your site – it all depends on when and how the item is listed on the site. Some sites will drive a few visitors, while others will simply help create additional links back to your site.

Conclusion

Following a general outline like the one listed above will help you when it comes to promoting across various sites, like Twitter, Facebook, and all the smaller networking sites. Each has its own pros and cons, and some people would prefer to stay away from these sites. However, there really is no true way to avoid them anymore.

What method do you like to use to promote your posts?

Even though this study was conduced for e-commerce sites, it should (and does) apply to blogs. No matter how small or large your site, visitors expect to be able to access content, then get on their way. They shouldn’t have to wait more than ten seconds for a blog post to load, and this appears to be even longer when there is no response from the server initially.

Nearly 79 percent of online shoppers, including your own readers, will have a dissatisfying visit and nearly a third (27 percent) of visitors will never return to your site to purchase or read your content. These two figures alone should convince you to speed up your site and optimize the content. Brand loyalty and overall view quickly decrease, leaving your blog at a much lower position compared to blogs optimized for the modern web.

Another important area the study addressed was distraction. If someone is forced to wait for content to load on your site, they’ll just as quickly open a new tab, close your site’s tab/window, and browse to another site that offers the same content. You’ll lose the traffic and any ad revenue or affiliate profit from these visitors. In the overall scheme of things, this might not appear to matter, but multiply that one person by 27-79 percent, and you’ll quickly lose the needed sales to remain in operation and continue generating the good profits.

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