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5 Tips on Running a Sports Blog - DailyBlogTips

5 Tips on Running a Sports Blog - DailyBlogTips

5 Tips on Running a Sports Blog

Posted: 11 Mar 2016 05:25 AM PST

These days anyone with a laptop and internet access can start their own sports blog meaning it can be very hard to make yours a successful one. But that doesn't mean you should shelf your dream for fear of failing. By following our tips below you'll be well on your way to owning and running a successful blog.

1: Find Yourself a Unique Angle

Since there are so many sports blogs out there, it means you have to work that bit harder to ensure you gain a loyal following. One of the easiest ways of gaining a higher readership is by developing your blog to have a unique aspect to it that will make people want to read it and set you apart from your competitors. This could be featuring exclusive content and guest posts, hosting a weekly podcast or perhaps a quirky writing style. For inspiration, look at the top blogs in your niche. This Top 50 list of football blogs for example explains what makes each blog unique and popular with their readership. Research these top blogs and use them plan your own successful niche.

2: Post Frequently

It can be disheartening when you first start a blog. In the first week you post three beautifully written articles, your best work, and yet you get a disappointing number of views. It's at this point that many will give up their sports blog dream, but don't! Readers appreciate up-to-date information and news, and by posting daily articles you will not only reach new readers but begin to build yourself a regular following. Most blog platforms, such as WordPress, have a scheduling tool meaning that even if you can't get online every day your blog can still post daily content.

3: Use Social Media Correctly

Social media is an amazing tool that can allow you to reach readers worldwide, however using social media isn't as simple as spamming links to your blog. Instead, when tweeting out an article carefully choose the correct, relevant Twitter handles and hashtags to include and remember to engage with others. Post links to other news articles and get involved with other bloggers and readers. Bloggers tend to build a community that is happy to promote each other so you should make the most of this. Live tweeting during important sports events is particularly useful as avid fans have strong opinions and are often looking to discuss matches and events as they unfold – so it's a great opportunity to engage with potential new readers.

4: Make your Posts Visually Appealing

People love to see a photograph or video in a blog post – it just adds another dimension to keep readers interested. Get into the habit of adding at least one of these to every post, but make sure you source these correctly or use one of the many free images available online. Videos are particularly advantageous to a sports blog as you can include interviews with players and replays of matches.

5: Don't Focus on Making Money

Yes, it is true that you can make money from blogging, but this shouldn't be your sole purpose for starting your blog. Instead establish your blog and readership first and then start implementing ways to make money. Some popular ways to make money on your sports blog include selling tickets and merchandise (especially if your blog is focused on one team), through contextual advertising such as Google AdSense or collaborations with relevant brands within your niche.

Over to you

Are you thinking about starting your own sports blog? Or are you already running one? Let us know your additional tips in the comments below.

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6 Common Blogging Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Posted: 10 Mar 2016 09:12 AM PST

When you decide to start blogging, it’s easy to shoot from the hip to launch your first blog. There are, however, blogging tips you need to be aware of to be successful, especially if you plan to monetise your blog. Here are the most common blogging mistakes and a remedy for fixing them:

1. Blogging every day
When you start writing, you’ll be fuelled up and full of ideas that you want to get ‘out there’. You’re likely, though, to burn out quickly and any followers will quickly drop off disappointed at your dried-up blog. To overcome this, set yourself a blogging schedule that fits in with your daily schedule and other commitments. Evenly space your posts so you’ve a steady content flow that’ll reassure your audience and encourage return visits.

2. Being mis-informed about search engine optimisation (SEO)
It’s a myth to believe that, if your blog’s full of links and keywords, you’ll get to the top of Google and attract masses of traffic. Today’s Google uses a whole host of very complex super-intelligent algorithms to rank web content and detect attempts to use ‘keyword stuffing’ and ‘link spamming’ techniques that lead to poor user-experience. Preferable is writing accurate and well-written content over 300 words, with maximum 10% keywords. Focus on the blog’s benefit to the user and you’ll be rewarded by Google.

3. Thinking all you need to do is write
Some bloggers mistakenly believe that all they have to do is write and publish to gain their audience. We live, however, in a competitive marketing world where promoting your blog on social media is as important as writing it. Use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube, amongst others, to promote your content. You’ll attract a bigger following than just relying on SEO to bring traffic.

4. Believing that money comes easy from a blog
Bloggers talk about making money easily and quickly from their blog as a full-time career, whereas this is an involved and time-consuming process, being much more than setting up a free website and publishing a few blog posts. To successfully monetise your blog, you’ll need to employ a variety of techniques including pay-per-click advertising, sponsored content, and affiliate links.If you use affiliate marketing, join an official affiliate program and work the affiliate products/services you’re selling into your text. This is an art form and needs time and energy to succeed.

5. Classing words as the most important feature of a blog
While what you write will form the biggest part of your blog, a big block of words can be rather off-putting. Your audience will appreciate it more if your text is broken up with videos and images that add value to your words. As for the text itself, use a variety of styles including short sentences, single words and bulleted lists.

6. Failing to engage with your audience
A blog is communication and today’s users are very used to the Internet being a conversational place. If you write a blog and open it up to comments but don’t interact by replying to audience comments, they’ll feel neglected and may disappear so check for comments on both your blog and social media pages and make sure you reply personally to every single one!

Follow these tips and your blogging mistakes will be minimised.

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How To Train Yourself To Identify Business Opportunities

Posted: 03 Sep 2015 04:58 AM PDT

Entrepreneurs are those that find and recognize good business opportunities. The question is, how do you train yourself to identify opportunities that will earn you money?

The reality of the matter is that this is tricky even for the most experienced entrepreneurs. Even if you do your due diligence, there is still the chance that things won’t work out for you and you’ll have to move onto new ventures.

We’ll be getting into a process that you can use to find potential opportunities in a moment, but let’s start with a few general considerations you should be thinking about before we get into the meat of the matter.

How To Recognize Good Business Opportunities

When it comes to online business, there are really only a few things you need to be thinking about. With a physical brick-and-mortar store, you have to be thinking about location. With online business, location is online.

With a retail location, you have to be thinking about pricing and competitiveness. With online business, Ramit Sethi says price is a mere triviality if you do your research and offer a product that people are gung-ho for.

But there are still some things you should be taking a look at. A good online business opportunity is one where:

  • The product or the service solves a problem. It’s important to build a business around real pain points that people are experiencing. This goes back to Sethi’s point.
  • You have the resources you need to get started. With online business, you don’t necessarily have to spend a lot of money to get up and running, but it’s still a good idea to take a look at the assets available to you, including finances, resources, and connections. Obviously, the more you have to leverage, the faster and easier it will be to legitimize your business.
  • There is an opportunity to work with others. Finding a partner isn’t easy, but it is worthwhile. If you have the opportunity to work with someone that complements your skills and experience, it is far more likely to be a worthwhile pursuit.
  • The timing is right. When it comes right down to it, this is an ineffable quality of a good business opportunity. For things to work out, a lot of things have to line up, including how much time you can dedicate to your business, what the market is asking for, and so on.

4 Steps You Can Follow To Find New Opportunities

I know that most of you are here because you want to figure out how to build your affiliate businesses. From here on out, we’ll be taking a look at a few steps you can take to find viable niches, but you certainly can apply these steps to find other prospects as well.

Also keep in mind that there are other ways of finding niches that make sense for you. Keyword research is a prime example. However, the process I’m about to outline – as suggested by Brian Dean – works pretty well too.

Step #1 – Go To Quantcast Top Sites & Generate A List Of Ideas

On Quantcast Top Sites, you can see what some of the most popular niches on the internet are.

You can more or less skip over the big brands that are dominating the top of the list, but as you go further and further down the rankings, you’ll see more niche results.

As you continue to explore the top sites, you’ll begin to figure out what people are passionate about, and come up with potential business ideas.

Go through the results, make a list of your best ideas and keywords, and move on to the next step.

Step #2 – Go To Quora & Enter Your Keywords

Quora is a Q&A site where a variety of niche related questions are right at your fingertips.

When you plug your ideas and keywords into Quora, you’ll see the kinds of questions that are being asked on the term you entered. It might even give you some ideas on how to niche down even further.

For example, if you enter the keyword “knitting” into the results, you’ll see that one of the questions is: “Are there any knitting boards”. Knitting boards would obviously be a very specific niche.

That example might be too broad, or it might even be too specific. It really depends on the niche. However, I think you can see how this would allow you to find the kinds of things people are already talking about.

Step #3 – Go To The ClickBank Marketplace & Determine Whether Or Not You’ve Found A Viable Niche

The ClickBank marketplace allows you to find affiliate products in a variety of different niches. Whether or not you choose to promote one of the products listed here is up to you, but for now we’re still in the research phase.

Either browse through the existing categories, or run a search to find offers related to your chosen topic(s).

Look for popular products in your chosen niche. This is a good way to find out whether or not you’ve come across a worthwhile affiliate niche.

Also keep in mind that competition is generally a good thing when it comes to online business, as it validates that there is a real market out there.

Step #4 – Repeat Steps 1 Through 3

Did you identify a great business opportunity? Don’t rush this process, because you might not find a profitable niche the first time through.

There’s something to be said for taking fast action – and I would encourage you to do that – but you don’t want to rush into things without some idea of what to expect.

Of course, if you do your due diligence and still don’t hit it out of the park, don’t get too discouraged. The key is learn from your mistakes and keep trying.

Conclusion

Do you have a better idea of how to identify good business opportunities now?

Although the process outlined above is pretty scientific, this really isn’t a science. You could do everything in your power to research an opportunity, and still come up with nothing. Conversely, you could start something on a whim that catches on.

The good news is that you get better every time. By the time you’ve started and scrapped multiple projects, you’ll be able to get up and running so fast that you won’t even be concerned with past failures.
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