Road2blogging’s Wednesday Links

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So, another set of meaty resources for you to get your hands on, to become better bloggers – well, hopefully .  I’m going for Wednesday link love, not because I’ve changed my mind, but because I’m writing this at 5am on Wednesday morning, and thought it was a little too late to post up for yesterday.

Even though I had a few technical issues earlier last week, I’ve still managed to keep updated with my RSS feeds and blogs I visit regularly – although I have been a little shy with comments on other blogs as I’ve simply not had time.

So, enough of the babble and onto this weeks great reads:

How to Build a Newsletter List – Ok, so this isn’t a post, but a very good video of what you should be doing when you’re creating a list and how much potential revenue you could make from a newsletter list.  This is one area that Road2blogging does lack and I’m currently looking into what the hell I’m going to write about in my email list, as I currently have a blog series of newbie blogsteps.  It’s one to think about, but check out the link and sign up for the next few videos – yes, you do need to sign up to a list (to which Layne is probably as cautious as me), but I’ve learnt a lot from Frank Kern.

Starting a Flagship Blog (series) – Courtney Tuttle really inspires me at the moment and it is really quite freaky how he seems to put up a post on a subject that I’m thinking about at the time (do you ever get that?).  I’ve been a big follower of Court through his Keyword Sniper series and just think this guy has a huge amount of information to pass on.  Courtney looks into creating a flagship blog in your portfolio (mine is this one) and as I read the Flagship blog post I just kept ‘ticking the boxes’ (I find myself doing that a lot too) and realised that road2blogging is probably my true flagship blogs amongst my other keyword sniper (or adsense niche blogs) that I currently have in my portfolio.  If you’re following the newbie blogstep series on road2blogging, then the keyword sniper series is a must.

Using Persuasion Tactics to improve conversions on your blog – Trying to persuade people to sign up to my RSS, or click through to a sponsor has been quite hard to do for me; but, it’s probably because I’ve just not been headed in the right direction, or I haven’t been testing all of the different things I’ve been doing.  Dosh Dosh’s article has helped me realise that I will need to consciously evaluate and change the way that I persuade visitors to do what I want when they visit road2blogging.com.

5 quick and easy SEO tips for bloggers – SEO isn’t my strong point, but I’m hopefully getting to grips with it through developing my niche blogs.  Patrick over at Blog storm produces a quick post on optimising SEO for bloggers.  These tips sure helped me think of a few things that I’m not quite doing right now that I should – I quickly fixed that .

How long does it take to rank in google, how many hours? – Aaron Wall always impresses me with his posts on SEO and because I’ve been writing a massive amount of content lately for some niche blogs I just had to be curious and read this post.  Now, it doesn’t answer all of the questions of the title, but it does get you into thinking the amount of work that actually goes into attracting search engine traffic to a new site.  The information wasn’t new, but the comments section is worth a read.  Oh, and don’t forget to check out Aaron’s SEO book too.

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