Hey Spiders,

This is a one-stop update on our 60 Days Blogging Challenge.

What can you expect to achieve or generate in next 60 Days:

• Your personal niche blog.
• Deep knowledge in Content development, Writing skills, SEO and Social media marketing.
• Boost in self confidence.
• A potential product to earn at least 500$ per month after 180 days.

What will you need to start the challenge:

• 1-2 hours of free time daily.
• A dedicated will to progress daily.
• Buy a domain and a hosting service ( details explained below )
• A internet connection, your laptop and a cup of hot coffee 🙂 .

Here is what you can expect to do in next 60 Days:

• Setup work in first 10 Days
• Content development, Writing & Social Marketing Strategies to Digest in next Day 11-50
  ( In this phase you will be writing 25-30 articles )
• Finishing work from Day 51-60

How to make full use of this page and 60 Days Challenge:

• Visit this page every single day.
• Follow the steps laid out to setup your blog.
• While you are on article writing stage, digest the articles being listed here to sharpen your understanding and skills.
• Like our Facebook page and  join our Facebook group to keep updated with the latest changes.
• Reach us out at any moment you feel that you can’t follow whats going on.
• Comment down below for any queries.

 

DAY 1-10 – SETUP STAGE

Day 1

• First of all we formed the idea for our Blog.
• Our first child blog is based on what we could write about easily – Tea.
• We accumulated 25 keywords on which we will focus our articles on.
• To have a detailed insight on how to form idea and select keywords –
  Read : How to form an Idea for your Blog

Day 2

• We bought domain Teaddicted.com from Namecheap.
• A yearly web hosting shared server plan was bought from A2Hosting.
• The nameservers from Namecheap was pointed towards A2Hosting server.
• After that we installed WordPress in our server.
• The blog was ready to be customized.
• Detailed guide on buying domain, server and installing WordPress –
  Read : How to select a domain, buy a server and install WordPress on your Blog.

Day 3

• We installed Genessis Framework + Cookd Pro theme on our blog. It costed us around 78$.

We installed these necessary plugins

• Google analytics
• Yoast Seo
• All in one wp migration
• Akismet Anti-Spam
• Wp Super Cache
• Broken Link Checker
• Contact Form 7
• Flamingo
• EWWW Image Optimizer

For detailed guide on How to select a theme and install plugins –

Day 4

• We started customizing our theme.
• We designed and uploaded our new logo.
• 5 pages: Home, About, Contact, Posts and Privacy Policy pages were added.
• Header, footer and body element were customized for a clean look.
• For detailed guide on how to add elements to your blog –
  Read: How to customize your theme and add essential elements to your Blog

Day 5

• Get Ready to take a tour of our new blog Teaadicted.com – The Tour

Day 6

• We made our facebook page, instagram account, and pinterest account.

 

To know more:

Day 7

• We installed Yoast SEO plugin.
• We opened our Google search console account.
• We linked Yoast to Google search console and optimized our website configuration to boost SEO presence.

Read the full guide: Kickstart your SEO

Day 8

• We published our very first article on Teaddicted.com.
• We gave out a detailed guide on how to write your first article.
• Optimize the article to get organic search hits form google using Yoast SEO Panel.

Day 9

• We provided detailed strategy on How to write content daily

Day 10

• We opened up our Mailchimp account and made a mailing list.
• We installed Sumo me plugin.
• We setup Sumo me and connected it with Mailchimp to make our first newsletter popup service active for collecting email id’s from interested visitors.

DAY 11-50 – SKILL DEVELOPMENT STAGE

SEO Tweaks: Tips & Tricks

• Several non generic SEO Tweaks: Tips and Tricks are given here to boost your SEO. This was listed from our own experience. You may not find most of them anywhere else.

Go Social: Facebook Tips

• Invaluable tips to grow your Facebook page and increase your reach are laid out here.

Go Social: Instagram Tips

• Detailed tips to grow your Instagram account and increase your followers are laid out here.

11 Powerful Tips to Create Tempting Headline

• Headline is the brand ambassador for your article.
• You need to make it look good and stuff enough words for your readers to read the whole article.

How to earn money by Sleeping on the Island of Affiliate Marketing

• In blogging, Affiliate marketing is the best way to earn passive income.
• Here you will get to know what is affiliate marketing and how to start implementing the tactics
  to earn from it.

The Truth about Blogging, Marathon & Success

• It’s a food for thought for you blogging career.
• We explained why to treat blogging as a marathon and not like a race.

11 free Blogging Tools that will make you Insanely Productive

• Make sure to grab each tool to automate your most of the daily mundane process in blogging.

4 Powerful Tips for rewriting Articles in an Awesome way

• During article writing phase, most of you will be tempted to rewrite articles.
• This list covers the best process for rewriting articles which is tailored by our own experiences.

How to make Awesome Featured Images for your Article

• Featured images are the face for your article.
• You need to make it look attractive and definitive enough for readers to start reading your article.

5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article

• You don’t want your readers to come and go away on just reading first few lines of you article.
• You will become successful as a Blogger once you figure out how to keep readers engaged till the last line of your article.
• This article describes 5 amazizng insights on how to keep users engaged until the last line of your article.

10 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb

• Rewriting articles gives you an advantage to make it better than you found it.
• This list will provide you amazing ways to achieve it.

Content drives Traffic but Good Design retains it

• If Content is the King, then Design is the Queen.
• Know why good design is important for your articles and steps to implement it.

Our Look of the updated child blog :

 

 

So this was all for today. We want you people to like our Facebook page and share your progress or queries there.

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Today at Day 23 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge, we will learn why the design of your blog is important apart from your contents.

We have already written an article why you should concentrate on contents of your blog but apart from that the design of your blog should not be avoided.

There is a common quote that

 Content is King, But Design is Queen

King has all the power but Queen plays her role behind the door. You may not notice her but her role is as important as the King.

Similarly to make people engage with your contents you need good design. To make people stick to your website, subscribe your newsletter, comment on your post etc you need to focus on the design of your blog.

People may forget about your contents or even about your blog but they will remember about your design if they find it attractive and unique.

Reasons why you should focus on the design of your blog –

1.      Our eyes love simple, clean and beautifully organized elements –

A clean website will help your visitors to easily find the content they came looking for on your blog. Go and check out blogs of some the most famous bloggers like Neil Patel, you will surely be impressed by the way they layout their contents. They mainly focus on placing their information in a simple and organized way.

2.      Helps to engage with your contents –

No matter how good your contents are written, you will still lack user engagement if you haven’t organized them in a way that can be easily understood by your readers.
But if you have organized your contents in a good way

3.      Gives you a good Conversion Rate –

Since your readers are going to stay for a long time on your blog, chances of increasing conversion rate on your blog will definitely increase. By conversion we mean it can be anything i.e subscribing to the newsletter, signing up for course, clicking on ads, sell a product, etc.

4.      Make you stand out from the competition –

The design and UI of your blog can place you way ahead in of your competition and send you much ahead in the race.

5.     Decrease Bounce Rate of your Blog –

Bad design aggravates bounce rate of your blog. Improving design always helps to retain the traffic for a longer time thus helping to increase engagement and conversion rate.

6.     Boosts SEO of your website –

Google loves clean and fast designed websites. After contents, Google checks for responsiveness, speed and placement of your contents. These also play a very important role in deciding the rank of your website. The decrease of bounce rate also tends to improve SEO rank of your website over time.

So these were the 6 Reasons why you should focus on the design of your blog.

You can share your thoughts if we missed something by commenting down below or on our Facebook group to help us and others.

Give us a Vote Up down below to support us in our 60 Days Blogging Challenge.

This was all for today.We we will meet you tomorrow again for a new informative article.

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Read about: Day 23 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: 10 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb

Hey Spiders,
Today at Day 22 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge, we will learn 9 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb.

We know that publishing quality content regularly is a pain in the ass for everyone. Once in a while when our inner writer doesn’t feel like writing, it’s okay to go to our friend GOOGLE, find a great topic and article and REWRITE it.

If you don’t know the prime concept of rewriting follow : 4 Powerful Tips for Rewriting Articles in an Awesome way

Now the greatest privilege which we get while Rewriting is that you can focus on making the already written article more better than the original one. And trust us that is way easier than creating a original content.

We have outlined 9 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb

1) Change the headline

We call Headline the brand ambassador for your article.

There is a reason why it is so important for your Article.

We have already written a great deal about headlines here: 11 Powerful Tips to Create Tempting Headlines

Your title is something where you gain or lose a reader. You just get a few seconds to grab their attention.

Few important points which we stress on while writing an article:

• Title should encourage readers to keep reading
• Keep your headline limited to get the job done, and don’t be resistant to keep longer title if you need.
• Headline should be clear and engaging.
• It should be clear yet mysterious.
• Make it Personal, Try to use You or Your as much as possible.

Example: Let’s rewrite : 10 ways to be productive

• Are you ready to boost your productivity during work?
• Turn your productivity on using these simple 10 tips.
• What’s it worth to you to finally be productive?

2) Edit the introduction

Kick the boring introduction of the article out of the window.

Drop some engaging and crucial contents in the introduction or make it funny or an interesting strategy is
to drop the conclusion of the article at the start and explain the whole conclusion in the article.

3) Paraphrase some contents in the body

As we said in the last article : 5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article

You need to write clear and short sentences to deliver value fast to the users.

So Paraphrase contents to change them:

• Break a long sentence into two short sentences.
• And combine two unnecessary short sentence into one sentence.

Follow these two rules and soon you will have a upgraded content from the original one.

4) Reorder Paragraphs

To make your article smell unique you can opt to restructure the paragraphs until it all makes sense.

5) Additional details

You can add:

• Questions
• Stories
• Case Studies
• Product Suggestions
• Inspirational Quotes or Author Quotes
• Personal experience
• Testimonials
• Ask readers for suggestions, etc.

6) Glitter with images

Glitter and decorate your article with few infographics and images.

Place plenty of white space around image for our eyes to embrace it.

Note: People always stop and gaze at image for some time, so use this weapon wisely.

7) Stuff Keywords

This is very important. Your focus keywords should be stuffed all over the article to maintain the 1% density.

For a detailed guide on SEO read :

Day 7 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: Kickstart Your SEO

Day 8 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: Publishing Your First Article

Day 11 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: SEO Tweaks – Tips & Tricks

8) Use thesaurus

Use powerful synonyms to replace some words in your article.

You can replace a group of words for a synonym.

This lightens up the clutter and makes your reader feel satisfied with the smart content.

9) Pinpoint with bullets

Take the pain of identifying boring or long paragraphs and break them into short and concise bullet points.

Your readers will surely love the short and crisp information served to them

10) Play with sentence openers

Open your subheadings or maybe introductions with stories or questions. This helps the readers to bring the concentration back to the article.

So these were the 9 Amazing Ways to make your Rewritten Article a Bomb.

You can share your thoughts if we missed something by commenting down below or on our Facebook group to help us and others.

Give us a Vote Up down below to support us in our 60 Days Blogging Challenge.

This was all for today.We we will meet you tomorrow again for a new informative article.

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Read about: Day 21 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: 5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article

Hey Spiders,
Today at Day 21 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge, we are rebounding again at the heart of your Blog – CONTENT.

We keep coming back to this area of blogging to ensure that you never forget the number 1 rule of Blogging: “Content is the KING”.

We know that publishing quality content regularly is a pain in the ass for everyone.

But all the pain goes all in vain when you fail to appeal your readers to read the whole article. This is the area where most Bloggers struggle for their whole writing career.

So today we have outlined 5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article

1) Understanding your readers

Screen readers are different than Book readers.

Screen readers usually want to:

• Come in
• Read the part they want
• Get out

and all this happens in a matter of 10 sec to 1 minute of time frame.

1) Readers are actually Scanners

A good Blogger knows and accepts that 80% of the readers actually read 20% of the whole article and leave.

Most article writers write a ton of bullshit at the start and end of the article and slowly lay down the main point of the article after writing 50% of the article. This practice works great for Books but not for articles.

Readers follow a pyramid pattern of reading where they first read the top two sentences and then cut the focus of reading way down.

So make sure to give the best points or content of the article at the beginning instead of at the end.

2) Know about the F shaped reading pattern

As research by Jakob Nielsen,

Readers tend to read in F shaped pattern.

• At first the reader reads across horizontally (like thе top line оf thе F)

• Next, thеу go down а bit аnd read асrоѕѕ for a bit shorter distance (like thе 2nd, shorter line оf F)

• At last, they swipe down the left side of the webpage (like thе F’s tail )

for detailed analysis visit Jakob Nielsen’s article.

To make your article attractive, stuff important information at the left side of the article.

Transform important information into

• Bulleted points
• Headings or
• Overlay the information over a stunning image

Do the same for 4-5 lines of the article. Give the most amount of time and focus to craft this area.

3) Readers just love white space

If your text is crammed and jammed up without spaces and line breakers, chances are your readers will

• Arrive
• Feel claustrophobic
• Leave and visit other website which is easier to follow and read.

If we take reference to Neil Patel’s blog, his every line has a line break between them.

No doubt that he’s a blogging genius.

4) Readers love images and graphics

Give your readers a break from the text and gift their eyes with attractive and relevant images or infographics or charts.

Insights show that people spend a lot of time gazing images and graphics when reading an article.

So use it like a weapon to keep your readers engaged.

5) Keep your sentences short and clear

Readers love clear vocabulary and short sentences.

Always remember to keep it Simple and Straightforward.

Janice (Ginny) Redish wrote in her one of the book called Letting Go оf thе Words: Writing Web Content thаt Works (Interactive Technologies) :-

Get rid оf unnecessary words, keep thе sentences short, аnd get tо уоur point quickly!

This is a priceless advice. More words are not equal to more conversions. Clear аnd meaningful words equal to more conversions.

Your readers come hunting for value, so your motto should be to give them your value in a straightforward way.

So these were the 5 Amazing Insights to make your readers Glued to the Article.

You can create your own success formula with a mix and match of these and share them with us on our Facebook group to help us and others.

 

This was all for today.We we will meet you tomorrow again for a new informative article.

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Read about: Day 20 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: How to make awesome Featured Images for your Article

Hey Spiders,
Today on Day 20th of 60 Days Blogging Challenge we are going to talk about one more important aspects of blogging: How to make awesome featured images for your article and why it is important.

Most of the time I visit or click an article on social media just because of the attractive image displayed along with it. Do you also relate to this situation? I guess the answer is Yes right?

Images are interactive, it will seek the attention of people even before they read your description. They alone can convey everything about your article.

Whenever you share an article on any social media, the moment you enter the URL of the article it will automatically scrape the featured image of your article. If your article doesn’t include any featured image then it will show the first image that you included in your article.

Now you can imagine the power of a good featured image of your article as it’s the first element everyone is going to see whenever you share the article on any social media handle.

Articles with images get more views compared to articles having no images. Instead of an adding a good featured image for your article also include some images related to your contents in between the articles. This increases the interest of people in your article while reading it. Many people just avoid reading long articles having only texts. So if you want people to stay longer on your blog and read your article until the end and that too with interest then don’t forget to include images.

How important images are –

There are many examples of this

1. You must have seen accounts on Instagram having good images always have a large number of followers. Instagram is all about images.
2. When you buy something online, you only see the images of the product. You always ignore the products having unattractive images. This is obvious as the online product gets judged by the quality and attractiveness of the image since the image is the only medium of communication for the product.

How to make awesome Featured Images for your article –

Now I will give you some tips on how to make a perfect featured image for your article.

1. Include short description of your article –
   Try to include a short description of what your article is all about. You can even use an image to show a detailed guide to your article. Add important points that your article is going to contain.
   Note: You have seen images of Pinterest. They contain a whole lot of infographic images that will alone deliver the idea about the whole topic.
2. Don’t forget to use your headline of the article –
   This is almost the common thing that any featured image contains. Almost everyone uses a featured image with the headline of their article written over it in a beautiful font and design.
   For this, you can use a background image related your article and write the headline of the article on it using some nice fonts and colour.
   Make sure that your headline is readable. So always use fonts that are easy to read in the first go and contrasting colours to make the headline of the article stand out.
3. Don’t forget to use the name of your blog or logo as a watermark on the image –
   Always add the name of your blog or logo anywhere in the image. The best way is to use it in the footer of the image. This will help people to know about your blog even if they see your featured image somewhere apart from your article.
   This will also make sure that no one can use the exactly the same featured image of your article on their blog. ( Unless they crop or paint over it :p )
4. Don’t use images that are not related to your article –
   Don’t use images that are not relevant to the topic. As I told you earlier that people may judge your article on the basis of its featured image.
5. Use readable fonts and attractive and eye soothing colours –
   The task of picking good fonts is very difficult and also important for your blog. A good looking font will change the whole outlook of your featured image. Try to use some font which will look readable as well as clean on your image. Don’t clutter your image, make it simple so that it catches the eye of people.
   Nice colours attract everyone and affect their mood, so choose it very wisely.
   Note: Use fonts and colours according to the group of people you are targeting for your blog and even which will suit the design of your blog.
6. Use an image that connects to the people –
   Including an image that connects with the people always get more attention. Emotional marketing is the best form of marketing you can perform. Most products are being marketed using this strategy.
   For example – If you are writing an article on motivation, you can include images of someone who is happy and energized. Happy and smiling faces always induces good vibes and positivity in people who see them.One example from my own life – I was writing answers on Quora for a long time but my answers were not getting enough views. One particular day I answered a question that was emotionally attached to people and that answer managed to receive views way higher than any of my answers.

   

7. You can also use your own images –
   You have seen many bloggers using their own image in their article. They write some relevant quotes according to the contents on the image and use it for their article.
   Doing this can help you in self-branding. Self-branding proves to be very helpful if you are planning to pursue blogging as a long-term career. It also helps to create trust among your readers because people always want to see the face behind the contents they are reading.

From where you can get images –

Always include good quality images for your featured image. There are many online sources that provide you free images. Some of them are like –

1. Freepik
2. Pixabay
3. Unsplash
4. Realistic shots
5. StockSnap.io

Note : All sites have their own terms and licenses. Don’t forget to read it before using their images on your blog.

Don’t use images downloaded from these sites directly. You can edit it using photoshop and add contents on the image to change it according to your article. It may happen that someone also might be using the same image in their article.

Tools you can use to make Featured image of your article-

1. Photoshop –
   Photoshop is the most common tool used for image editing world wide.
   The most simple way you can do is edit the downloaded image and add headline of your article according to your article.
2. Canva –
   If you don’t know how to use photoshop then this simple graphic design tool will be your friend. Canva is an amazing tool that can help you to make blog article images, infographics, visuals for the web and ad graphics easily.

So today we discussed 7 tips on how to make awesome featured images for your article.

This was all for today.We we will meet you tomorrow again for a new informative article.

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Read about: Day 19 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: 4 Powerful Tips for Rewriting Articles in an Awesome way

Hey Spiders,
Today on Day 19 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge we are going to talk about one of the most important aspects of blogging: Copywriting or Rewriting articles.

Is Rewriting Articles ethical?

No matter how good you are as a content creator, you will need to research and need to write on ideas and content which has already been written by someone. But there is no reason to feel guilty about this fact. There is no logic in reinventing the wheel or re-researching an article which has already been researched.

On Day 2 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge, we already declared that you will need to create at least 25 good quality articles to start earning 500$ per month from your blog. So for doing that, you will need to copywrite or need to practice rewriting articles at some point of time.

Most people find rewriting articles easier than original content creation (For me it’s just the opposite). The right way to rewrite articles is to first write whatever you know on the decided topic, then research and add the points and details which you missed out and publish the article.

But if the topic is completely a mystery to you then you are left with no option other than to start rewriting from scratch. Today I will list some helpful tips on How to perfectly rewrite your article quickly in a way that will improve your writing skills too.

What not to do when Rewriting articles

Some people just copy the whole article and then rearrange the words of each sentence in a way that it seems unique but the content and structure of the article remains exactly the same as the mother article.

For example:

Original sentence: “Rewriting is the easiest job a blogger can do.”

Rewritten sentence: “Rewriting is the simplest task a blogger can perform.”

This does injustice to the original writer of the article along with your writing skills too.

Though this is an eligible case of rewriting an article, this method is not recommended by us, unless there is no other possible way out.

If you still want to follow this method, you can choose popular online rewriting services such as Spinbot. These services produce 95% correct rewritten text of the article you submit. But for the final submission, you need to proofread the article, check for any grammatical mistakes using Grammarly and add necessary focus keywords at appropriate places to maintain at least 1% density of your chosen SEO focus keyword.

For ProofReading, you can also consider using ProofReading Tool.
SpinBot + ProofReading is an epic combination to produce rewritten articles in minutes.. ( Complete SEO guide was provided at Day 11 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge .

What to Do when Rewriting articles

Rewrite the idea not the words: 

When you are rewriting an article, the core rule is to copy the idea and not how and what words have been used to write the article. You should go through the whole article, understand the idea being delivered, come back to your writing area and create content from scratch. If you aren’t that great at memorizing stuff, you can always create the whole article paragraph by paragraph.

Rewrite paragraph by paragraph and not sentence by sentence

If you try to recreate the article sentence by sentence, the probability is that you will end up reusing the word and structure of the original sentence. This process is also way slower than paragraph by paragraph method.

While rewriting, read the whole paragraph at once and then recreate it. Our mind will be more prone to using our own words to deliver the idea in the simplest manner. This is the same as writing an examination paper.

Place the original paragraph below your article

Rewriting articles is practiced to recreate articles fast. One of the methods which I usually follow is to place the original paragraph below my writing area for quick reference of the idea or to check that my content doesn’t appear copied and after the process, I delete the paragraph and paste the next paragraph to be rewritten. This method stops me to break the flow of writing by preventing me to switch browser tabs and search for the paragraph being copied.

Changes are good

If you in doubt that the idea being copied is not that great and you have a better understanding than the original one, then go ahead and change it. You should let your original voice reach the world.

In any case, you think that you can add more value to the original article then do it. At the end, you will produce a great and upgraded article than the original one.

So today we discussed 4 powerful tips for rewriting articles in an awesome way.

This was all for today.We we will meet you tomorrow again in a new informative post.

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Read about: Day 18 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: 11 Free Blogging Tools that will make you Insanely Productive

 

Hey Spiders,
How are you doing today?

I hope you are charged up for today’s post. Because today at Day 18 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge we are going to give you something which everyone loves the most. Yes, you heard it right. We are going to give you 11 free blogging tools that will make you insanely productive.

1. Google

Yes, we all already use it and you have to agree on giving it the number one free tool which we use to get other free tools :p. Google gives us free access to its keyword planner to select SEO related keywords for your article.

2. CoShedule Headline Analyzer

This is the number one tool which we use almost daily to analyze our headlines. It analyzes your headline in terms of emotional words, power words, common and uncommon words and provides a score out of it. Usually, we aim to score 70+ without much thinking, but if you play around with it for a while, ideas can pop and you can score a 90+ score and rock your article with a lot of traffic.

Headlines are the brand ambassador of your articles. You need to give it a makeover to get the maximum traffic for your blog. Make it a habit to analyze your headlines before you start writing your article.

Read Now: 11 Powerful Tips to Create Tempting Headlines

3. Facebook Invite All extension

This badass plugin saves a lot of time by inviting all your Facebook friends to your facebook page in one go.

For Google chrome users only : Invite All Facebook

4. Buffer

This is the all in one plugin you can use to schedule your social media posts. It’s a semi-automated app where you can schedule all your posts in one go and when the time of posting arrives you will need to click a button to schedule your posts. Though the process is not fully automated, it still reduces your workload of posting daily.

Facebook also allows you to schedule your posts on your facebook page.

In the free plan, you can attach 3 social media accounts expect Pinterest.

5. Buzz Sumo

This website tracks what is trending on social media. You can use this to get ideas for writing new posts, get an idea of your headline and can analyze what actually works and what doesn’t.

6. Canva

This tool allows you to create exceptional looking images for free. You can use it to make a featured image for your blogs, Instagram posts, facebook posts etc.

A lot of content is available for free and if you want more options you have the choice to buy premium images and clip art.

7. Spyfu

It is one the best free tools to analyze SEO keywords and get all the data needed for optimum selection. Free features are limited but very valuable too.

The premium plan starts from 7$ a month.

8. Moz explorer

This is also another free tool to analyze SEO keywords and play around to check which keyword will work for you.

9. Grammarly

If you are a blogger and you are still not using it, you need to download the extension right now. It’s the best editing and proofreading tool we have ever used. You can either copy paste the text you want to edit or you can let the extension itself highlight the errors before you publish your post or send an email.

10. Mailchimp

It is one of the best free tools for sending emails and running email campaigns for your marketing campaign.

The UI is intuitive and the workflow is very user-friendly. They also have a mobile app which makes editing so simple, which doesn’t even require you to sit near your laptop. You can use several email templates available and track activities of every email sent and send future emails accordingly. You can automate every process to email in one go.

It has this insane functionality named A/B testing, where you can test which subject or email design or headlines works better for you.

Free plan gives 12000 emails and subscription up to 1000 members, which is more than enough for beginners.

11. SpinBot

This is for those people who don’t want to rewrite articles themselves. This tool rewrites the given text so that it doesn’t appear copied in google.

So this is the 11 free blogging tools that will make you insanely productive. If you haven’t started using it, it’s high time when you should start using these.

This was all for today, we will meet you tomorrow again in a new informative post.

Stay Positive and Keep Webbing.

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Read about: Day 17 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: The Truth about Blogging, Marathon and Success

Hey Spiders,
Its Day 17 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge and the challenge is getting too intense. As you and other regular bloggers may realize that posting an article every day is a heck of a task and doing the same task for 60 days is another level of extreme blogging.

We have seen people take 30 days Blogging Challenge, but we are the first one to undertake such a challenge.

Let me depict what thoughts have enlightened among us in these last 16 days:

You need to stop treating your life like a ‘RACE’ :

If you want to keep loving what you are doing and you really want to reach your goal at the end, STOP treating your daily life as a race. Instead, treat it like a MARATHON.

Racing is enjoyed for short time only for the adrenaline rush.
But in the long run, You will have to realize you cannot always run, you will need to slow down, enjoy the progress, embrace the motivation, remember why you started running the marathon and recover from the constant energy drain due to the running, and keep moving forward until the end line is reached.

One starts racing whenever they see someone attaining success fast i.e becoming a millionaire in their 19’s or 20’s or you see someone gaining 1 million followers in a year, etc.
But let me ask you something :

The early successful people had their one shot to success and they took it early so they are there at the peak point of their life.

Now tell me what would have happened if they had missed that shot?
Let me tell you what would have happened: They would still be successful though not early but success would have mated with them in their runway.

So what does this mean?
This means that there is no such thing as luck. If you are alive then you already are lucky enough because the probability of you coming to life was 1 in 3 billion and that’s the worst odds anyone could have got and still you are alive and literate enough to read this post.

Everyone has their shots of success lined up for them in different stages of life. But you get the shot only when you are in the right condition to withstand the pressure with appropriate skills. And if you never are in the right condition, you will keep missing your shots.

In order to able to take the shot, you always need to be ready mentally and energetically. Racing drains all the resources in one single go. Lost resources include self-confidence, motivation and will power.

So to get the epitome of success you need to keep running the marathon until success falls your way.

“Start slow, then gain pace, cross milestones, then again drop to slow, and then repeat till the end line is reached”
– Rahul Choudhary

If you are a blogger and if you haven’t yet earned from it then you will need to keep running the marathon until you reach your goal. You are not getting your shot to passive income because either you are not ready or the time isn’t right.

You will have to continuously keep blogging and hustling until your action collides with that shot of success. If you haven’t yet received a taste for success for a long while, then the good news is that you have already come through a long way of struggle and the shot to success is nearby :).

This was all for today, we will meet you tomorrow. Till Then

Stay Positive and Keep Webbing

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Read about: Day 16 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: How to earn money by sleeping on the island of Affiliate Marketing

Hey Spiders,

Today we reached on day 16 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge.

If you are new to the blogging world or have been there for a while but still haven’t made a handsome income through advertisements then this post is definitely for you.

Don’t get us wrong, advertisements are a great way to monetize your blog, but to level up higher you will seriously need to consider the advantages of affiliate marketing. Today we will give you an insight on How to earn money while sleeping on the island of Affiliate Marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a type of marketing in which you promote products and services of other companies by referring someone to buy it and whenever the person buys that product you earn a fixed commission on that.

To explain it better take the example of a salesman –

You have seen a salesman selling products by going door to door. Whenever you buy any product from them they get a fixed commission for every sale you make.

Affiliate marketing is almost same as a working of a salesman. The difference is that in Affiliate marketing you are doing it online. You are only promoting products and services of a particular company. You are just a means of communication between the consumer and the vendor.

People involved in Affiliate Marketing –

There are three types of people involved in affiliate marketing –

1. Advertisers
2. Publishers
3. Consumers

Now understand these people and how they work together.

Let X be the Advertiser, Y be the Publisher and Z be the consumer.

X runs an e-commerce website for selling shoes and wants to grow his business. So he joins an affiliate network as an advertiser.

Y has a blog about shoes. He wants to earn some extra money and hence he joins an affiliate network program as a publisher.

Y joins X’s affiliate program and puts the banner of the X’s shoes on his blog by writing a article about it.

Z visited Y’s blog and loved the article. He decided to check X’s store.

Z visited X’s store and decide to purchase the shoes. He purchased the shoes.

X got a sale and Y got his commission for the sale.

 

How does affiliate marketing work?

The steps involved in Affiliate Marketing are –

1. The first step is that you need an online platform for that. You can use your blog, your personal website or even market through email from where you can reach out to people.
2. You have to contact the companies that offer an affiliate program. Almost every company’s website has a designated page about their affiliate programs.
   Choose companies whose product or service you’d like to recommend and then join their Affiliate Program.
3. Go to their website and sign up for their affiliate program by giving relevant details of the platform you will use to promote their products or services.
4. The company will take some time to approve it and once done you are ready to go.
   They will provide their own affiliate link to the particular product or service.
   Affiliate Link to the product is unique for you.
5. Next step is how you are going to use that link.
   You might do this by writing a post on your blog about the product or services. In between the post you include a special link to the product or services so that your readers can check it out for themselves. You can do this by adding a button or image to your post which will redirect it to the given link.
6. Now whenever any people click that link to view that product and decide to buy that product.
7. If the purchase is complete. You will earn a fixed commission on that product.

 

So this is how the affiliate marketing works.  Now you must be thinking how the affiliate programs track visitors who click on affiliate links.

This is known as Affiliate Tracking.

It’s a process of managing and tracking the information about the sales, conversions and clicks from affiliate websites.  It is done to track the performance of owner of affiliate networks in order to measure who are generating traffic and to give proper compensation and rewards to the participants of an affiliate marketing group.

There are many Affiliate Tracking Software available depending on different business purpose. It can manage your entire affiliate network program.

The affiliate tracking software keeps track of these programs –

1. CPC (Cost per Click)
2. CPA (Cost per acquisition)
3. CPM (Cost per impression)
4. CPS (Cost per sale)
5. CPI (Cost per Install)

 

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent by the website when you visit them through your browser.  It stores information like login or registration information, shopping cart information, visit duration, IP address, the affiliate ID from the link you clicked, date and time of visit etc on a visitor’s computer to track information about the visitor.

In affiliate marketing, cookies help affiliate programs to track visitors who click on affiliate links, conversions and calculate overall return on investment (ROI) of your affiliate marketing campaigns.

How Does Cookies Work?

Whenever someone visits your website and click on the affiliate link that you have used on your website referring to a product. A cookie will be sent to the visitor’s computer to track the information whether the visitor purchased that product or not.

If they will purchase that product affiliate marketing software will detect it and hence you will get a commission on that.

Each cookie has its expiration date. It may range from 1 day to 90 days depending on affiliate network program.

For example – Lifetime of cookies of Amazon affiliate Program is of 24 hrs whereas cookies of many hosting service provider companies have a lifetime of 90 days.

Cookies will be stored in the visitor’s computer for the specified days by the affiliate network program until and unless the visitor doesn’t clear their cookies in the web browser.

So if the visitor will buy the product through your affiliate link within that expiration date then only you will receive the commission.

Why you should go for Affiliate Marketing?

Now you must have understood that affiliate marketing can generate passive income for you.

It can make money for you while you sleep. You don’t have to go to door to door like a salesman to sell your product and get the commission on it.

It’s just a onetime setup and also simple to get started. You just have to write good contents by building your own website or campaign and it will generate money for you.

That’s why it is so awesome.

Even you are not limited in your area. Since everything is online anyone across the world can visit your website and use to affiliate link to buy products or services. For this, you just have to work on reaching a lot of people.

 

Important points you need to know about Affiliate Marketing –

1. If you are using an affiliate link on your website you have to mention it. This is the privacy policy of the affiliate programs.
2. Always use affiliate program of the products that are related to niche your blog.
   For example: If you have a blog related to tea then use affiliate link of only products related to it.

How to start and find an affiliate link for any product?

Affiliate Marketplace are the best place to start with. Its a hub for finding merchants. It connect advertiser with the publishers like you.

They are free to use. You can register and search for the affiliate program according to your niche products there.

Few Affiliate Marketplace you can join –

These are the few affiliate marketplace that you can join and select merchants according to your niche.

1. ShareASale
2. Impact Radius
3. CJ Affiliate
4. Clickbank

You can join Amazon affiliate program which is one of the most famous affiliate program. If you own a blog where you are providing reviews about any product, you can attach a button having affiliate link to the product.

For example – There are many youtubers who reviews products or services. You have seen them providing the link to each and every product under description section. This link is nothing but the affiliate link to the product.

Now at this point in time, you all have understood what affiliate marketing is and how it works.If you still have any query regarding it feel free to contact us or drop a comment below.

So this was all for today.
We will see you guys tomorrow in the next post. Till then

Stay Smart and Keep Webbing!

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Read about: Day 15 of 60 Days Blogging Challenge: 11 Powerful Tips to Create Tempting Headlines

Do you know headline of your article creates a huge impact on getting your readers to view your article?  A good headline will always help you to seek the reader’s attention. If you are still not giving attention in giving your article’s headline a makeover then you need to start NOW. The contents of your articles may be great but you will still not get any traffic due to the lack of a sleazy and tempting headline.

How will you make your own mark when 2 million blog posts are being published every day?  How will you lure people to click your article instead of others? Choosing a great tempting headline to lure people to visit your article is the answer to all these alarming issues.

Why Headlines are so important?

A headline is the first line in your article which is read by readers instead of your post. If they find it catchy then and only then they will click it for further reading.

On an average, people just read the headline and ignore the rest and only a few among them will be generous enough to read your whole article.

If your headline becomes successful in grabbing the reader’s attention your conversion rate will definitely increase.

So Spiders, follow some of these powerful tips to create your own Tempting Headlines and get rewarded with high traffic: –

1. Use long tail keywords –

   Long tail keywords are comparatively longer and specific than normal searched keywords. As a result it has less competition compared to small tail keywords.
   Generally, people are more likely to type small phrases in search engine than long phrases. So there are only a few specific peoples who are going to type a long phrase and hence probability of clicking these links will increase.

   For example:  If your article based on green color shirt for women appears under the keyword ‘shirt’, the probability of your article being read will be very less, but if your article appears under the keyword “green colour shirt for women” then your article will have high probability of being read.
   
   Search and collect many long tail keywords and then rearrange them to form a suitable headline for your post.
   Note : Don’t exceed your headline more than 70 characters as Google will truncate the title with ellipses (…).

2. First and last three words of your headline matters a lot –

   Always use your long tail keywords either at the first or last three words of your headline.
   Most of the time people scan the whole sentence rather than reading it whole.

   

3. Use clear yet mysterious headline –

   Try to write headline that will make people curious enough to click your link and as well as read your whole post till the end.
   The most common example of this is media. How media makes us curious by displaying a mysterious headline which forces us to watch their show to kill our curiosity.

4. Use numbers in your headlines –

   Using numbers in your headline draws more attention of readers and make them unique. There is strength and weight in numbers.

   As said by Buffer’s Courtney Seiter
   “Numbers work well in headlines because humans like predictability and dislike uncertainty,”

   For example – On reading this article’s headline you picture that you will be provided 11 powerful tips to create tempting headlines… You got a clear idea of what to expect from the post.
   But instead, if the headline would have been “Powerful tips to create tempting headlines”, the probability would have been that you would never be here reading this in the first place.

5. Ask Questions –

   Asking questions always increase the curiosity of people and results in engagement of the brain. Curiosity is something that a lot of people own and this will definitely help you to seek their attention. They will always want to know the answer to the question asked.

   You should also have faced a similar situation where you read a question but didn’t find the answer written. So probability would be that you would search the answer to the question yourself using any means available ( like searching on GOOGLE ) right?

   So try to include 5W’s in your headline –
   Who, What, When, Where and Why

6. Make sure your headline is unique –

   After getting your final headline make sure that it is unique. There may be chances that someone also used the same headline for their own article.
   So always search your headline in Google and you will get the list of used headlines in seconds. If you discover that your headline is already being used than rewrite it.

7. Use Capitalization technique-

   There are two ways for capitalizing titles: sentence case style and title case style.

   Sentence case style is a technique when you write a sentence by capitalizing only the first word and any proper nouns.
   ———-“This is a sentence case statement”
   
   Title case style is a technique when the first letter of each word is capitalized, such as:
   ———-“This Is A Title Case Statement”

   Choose your headline style according to your readers and stick to it for your whole blog.

8. Define about your article –

   This is the most important point to keep in mind. During selecting words for your headline by following above points don’t forget to clearly specify what your article is about. This should be your main motive towards writing your headline.
   Your title should overcome the objective of your article. Your readers should know what can be expected from your article before reading it.

9. Use power words like You/Your –

   Using of words like ‘You’ make readers think that you are directly talking to them.
   According to an article by Buffer –
   “This is evident in the viral headlines examined here. ‘You’ was the No. 5 most popular word, and we find ‘your’ in the Top 20 as well.”
   By using this word you are making sure that the article is for the readers and you are adding value for them through the article. It is important to write articles for the readers, not for the writers.

10. Include Emotional Words –

    Emotion drives action and hence increases engagement.

    For example, We always get attracted towards the emotional words like ‘Free’. Whenever we see this word our mind tends toward it to look further.
    Some of the examples of emotional adjective words are  –
    Free, Incredible , Essential etc

11. Use Headline Analyzer Tool and Scores Of 70 Or Higher

    Headline Analyzer Tool is a free tool that can analysis your headline quality and rate its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic, and SEO value.

So this was all for today.
We will see you guys tomorrow in the next post. Till then

Stay Smart and Keep Webbing!

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