As usual when I decide to test something out, I jump in ‘boots and all’ – at the moment it is twitter.

As you would have reader yesterday, I decided to create StandOutBlogger a twitter of it’s own @standoutblogger. That was two days ago, and today I already have over 750 people following me – and by the morning I am guessing I will crack the 1000! I’m testing a heap of different strategies not only for gaining followers but also for converting them to viewers and readers.

I have a whole heap of ideas running through my head on how to capitalise on Twitter and a few of them are already paying off!

Not only that, but I will be working with one of my best friends Cody (who just happens to be starting a Twitter for my church – City Church), and I am going to be working with him create a massively influencial church twitter account – with some pretty large goals. So you are not just getting one case twitter case study, but two. And with each account having different goals you will get a fantastic overview on how to use twitter for any type of website.

So if you are interested in learning more about Twitter make sure you subscribe to StandOutBlogger so you don’t miss any of my sure to be amazing tips :D

Just a quick one today to say that StandOutBlogger.com now has it’s very own official twitter page!

So go ahead and follow @standoutblogger :D

Up until now I have been using my personal twitter account for SOB as well and it was starting to get messy, so I went out and created one just for StandOutBlogger .

PLUS…

It gives me the chance to really test how effective twitter really is, and for the month of may I will be focusing on how to use Twitter to improve your blog. I’m going all out with twitter this month and I am aiming for over 10,000 followers by June!  – And I would love my committed readers to be the first to follow!

You Follow Me = I Follow You!

If you are nice enough to follow @standoutblogger, then I definately want to return the favour, so once you have started to follow me, post your twitter account in the comments and I will follow you too!

:D

Have you ever noticed how bogged down we get in blogging sometimes?

We need to get our latest post finished then we need to promote it, reply to comments, look at new ways on monetizing our traffic… The list always seems endless.

But I want to tell you something that might shock you:

Some Things Are More Important Than Blogging!

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7 Traits Of A Successful Blogger

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This ebook has been in the works for the last couple of months as I have watched many blogs come and go but a select few stay and really make something of themselves. They have become successful bloggers!

I decided to take a look at these ‘successful’ blogs, to see what make them tick. And I found that they all had some very similar traits – 7 traits that were the reason for their success.

7 Traits Of A Successful Blogger

In this 15 page report I take an indepth look into each of the following 7 traits as well as providing you with some great advice on how to impliment these in your own blog.

If you would like a copy of this free ebook, all you have to do is sign up to my free blogger newsletter, where you will receive updates on the latest posts on StandOutBlogger.com as well as some very specific subscriber only content to help you grow you blog!

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About a year ago I bought an amazing little piece of software called Micro Niche Finder that I use almost daily to find new niche blog and post topics that have a heap of searches but very little competition. I thought it was about time to show you the benefits of this powerful tool – and in doing so, give a few of you the chance to capitalise of a fantastic niche for a new blog!

Free Niche Analysis: CAKES

Now you may be thinking, “Why ‘Cakes’?” – Well “Why not?”

It is all about finding a niche and post titles that aren’t to overcrowded, where it doens’t take too much effort to get your posts onto the front page of Google. I have a habit of typing random words into Micro Niche Finder and it just so happens that ‘cakes’ could be a nice little money spinner if you created a WordPress blog and start writing articles for some of the key phrases I have found!

It’s All About ‘Longtail Key Phrases’!

Obviously keywords such as ‘cakes’ would have millions of pages of competition and companies would be paying $1,000′s to SEO companies to get first page listings, but these are not the keywords we are looking for. I mean, check out the competition!

There is no way that I would want to be competing against that many websites! So I head to the other end of the table and look at longtail terms that have little competition but a nice amount of traffic.

What I Look For!

Micro Niche Finder has some awesome ways to check how good a phrase will be to target for SEO. I have guidelines and limits for each of these to help me find the best phrases!

Search Count

This is what lets us know how popular a phrase is searched. For example you will notice above that ‘cakes’ is search 165,000 times a month on Google!
Now the chances of ranking in the top 10 for this term is near impossible, however the aim is to look for: read this entry »