7 Mistakes You Must Avoid in Writing a Guest Post

Can you name the most effective way to drive more traffic to your blog and increase your blog subscribers? It is guest posting. If you can do it correctly, you will be able to increase your blog popularity easily. But, most bloggers do the same mistakes over and over. Those mistakes make their guest posting effort ineffective.

In order to get the best result from your guest post, avoid these 7 mistakes when writing your guest post:

1. Outdated content. When you write a guest post, make sure that you give fresh information in your guest post. Sharing outdated information will bring failure in your guest post. If you want to engage your readers, give relevant and latest information in your guest post.

2. Write to low traffic blog. The purpose of guest posting is to attract more traffic to your blog. The only way to do it easily is to write a guest post to a high traffic blog. Choose your blog carefully. Find a high traffic blog in your niche and write a guest post to that blog. It will be more difficult to get accepted by high traffic blog, but you’ll get better result.

3. Writing medium to low quality content as a guest post. Most people will tend to write low or medium quality content as a guest post. As a result, their content gets rejected by the host blogger. Even though it is accepted, it won’t generate as much buzz if you write mediocre content as a guest post. Remember that the purpose of guest posting is to attract more traffic to your blog and introduce your name to the general blogging community. Therefore, you need to write the best content for your guest post.

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4 Things That Could Damage Your Business

Starting a small business is exciting and scary, whatever type of business you decide to start there is always a chance that your business will not succeed, and as the business owner it is your job to minimize these risks.

So whilst you are trying to keep your business running I would recommend you also keep an eye on the things that happen every day that could ruin your business before you even start. Often these things cannot be prevented, but knowing what they are at least means you can plan for the worst.

Theft

What if somebody broke into your shop one night? Fair enough you are probably insured for losses (right?) but in reality you would probably have to pay an excess, and on top of that, there are some things insurance can’t replace, such as any customer data on your PC. Insurance payouts also take time to come through.

Criminal activity is rare in most places, but it can easily ruin a small business when it does happen. Making back-ups of data and having a comprehensive and fast acting insurance policy can make all the difference.

Competition

You might be doing just fine at the moment, but what if another competitor open just up the road? How would your business cope? There is nothing you can do to prevent this from happening, but having a plan and an idea of whether you could cope is a good idea.

You should consistently come back to this question and use it to keep your business as innovative and competitive as it can be – if a keen entrepreneur sees your business making mistakes or lagging they are likely to swoop in and out compete you.

Disaster

Just like criminal activity, small disasters are rare but can be devastating. As a minimum you should be insured against fire and flood, but also ensuring that you have the relevant fire safety equipment and that your members of staff are trained to handle fires and other hazards will help to prevent disaster or minimize the damage caused.

Technology

Finally, how does new technology affect your business? If you are selling computers or cell phones you are probably pretty up to date anyway, you have to be. But even if you are selling clothes or sports gear you should constantly be aware of new technology. Technology is rapidly becoming a mainstay for marketing opportunities and being behind the times just gives your competitors – online and off – the opportunity to out compete you and take away your custom.

This post was written by Alex from the firesafetystore - thanks for reading.

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Black Friday Only Opens the Opportunity Doors for Retail Shops

Although highly anticipated Black Friday is already a few days old, this is just the beginning of a massive income season for most retail stores.  Black Friday marks the first day of shopping for the festive season and honestly, I feel that it is only the start of really good things for retail stores over the next month or so.

This in turn has an excellent effect on a lot of websites, and website owners need to have methods in place in order to be able to sustain the amount of traffic they’re likely to receive on the day. I have seen the traffic of a client of mine almost double since the start of November, and I think it’s going to fly after Black Friday. Retail stores should be seeing amazing increases in traffic, but there is some stuff that they need to focus on daily to get the most out of the holiday season.

Check what’s trending and get the most out of it

Something you need to do going into the holiday season is check what’s hot on the market right now. See what kinds of things are selling fast at other places and make sure you have enough stock to last you up until Christmas day. This will give you the edge over the competition when they run out of the product. If your company is based online then it’s time to start checking social networks to see what people are talking about, then optimize your site with relevant call to actions to get people to go to the appropriate pages on your site.

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Maximizing the Benefits of Google Plus to Your Website

When Google+ was first launched, people thought that it will compete with Facebook. But later on, many people enjoy the benefits from both social network. While Facebook has groups and pages for business purposes, Google+ also launched Google+ pages as its counterpart. Utilize Google Plus and let your business prosper. Here are some of the features you can take advantage of along with recommended tips.

• Google+ button can improve your search engine result pages ranking.

Add the +1 button to your websites to attract more user interaction. Clicking the +1 button for a specific post of website is like giving upvotes, synonymous to liking or digging a particular post.

This feature has a great impact to organic search results. If you want to get the most out of it, simply add the HTML codes to your website or install a plugin that will generate the +1 button on your desired site location.

According to SEO experts and practitioners, Google +1 is the new ranking signal not to mention that it is associated with Google.

• Get reports from Google +

It would be better to track down the number of +1 your pages or posts are getting. To get timely reports, check your Google Webmaster Tools account. It has a reporting area where you can see Google +1 Button activity on your website.

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