Doshsale is the latest venture from the new zlist blogger Anthony Feint. Being described as a resource centre for bloggers where you can purchase reviews, adverts and various other marketing methods to increase you blog or website ranking. DoshSale, Although being new has great potential if it recieves the attention it needs. I checked it this morning and noticed it has already recieved a listing from BlogAboutYourBlog for a $30 review which is $20 lower than the blogs normal review price.

DoshSale is a great resource for all your blogging needs including;

• Reviews, textlinks, banners - blog advertising
• Templates and wordpress coding
• content creation
• Blog Hosting

Whats more is, DoshSale includes an affiliate program allowing you to earn up to 50% commission. If your looking to list a service then you can now post for free using the code free06 which is valid for one week only.

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Blogging as a novice is hard work, your right at the bottom and whats facing you is a long time consuming climb to the top. However saying that it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible, here I’m going to layout some simple points that can get you on the right track to a successful blog.

BlogMeFamous is my second web development and promotions blog but one i am more excited about because i now know what not do to…

What not to do when starting your first blog;

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• Do not start blogging to make money

Now I’m not saying that new blogs will not make any money i’m simply saying that if the only thing on your mind is making money then you are going to sacrifice time that could be spent into building content on searching for the latest monetizing techniques. Don’t try to start near the end and give yourself time to enjoy the journey from a new blog to a hopefully successful one.

How can you avoid this?

• Blog about a niche you know and love

First there must come content, content is easy to create if you are blogging in a niche that you know about and more importantly one inwhich you like. There’s nothing worse than blogging about a topic you have no enthusiasm for, so sit down and ask yourself a question, do i see myself still writing on a blog about X in three or even six months time? - if the answers no then reconsider your blog topics.

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• Do not monetize your website to soon

While this point can be tied into my first mistake listed the two are different, The first mistake i ever made when i started blogging was a mindset and with that came the monetizing of the blog to early. It was in my mind to make money so i filled the blog with adverts to emulate todays top bloggers sites as i foolishly thought, to be a success in the blogging world i need to setup a blog exactly how the A- Listers had done.

When is the right time to monetize your website?

• Monetize when you have a loyal userbase and a steady flow of traffic

Perhaps your blogging for a hobby and you have no desire to make money from your blog, thats great but if you do plan on creating a successful money making blog then ideally you should wait until you have a steady flow of visitors - 300-500 uniques a day and a loyal subscription base. This means that people are already visiting your site for the content and will continue to do so even if you have adverts and when a new visitor comes to your blog they will simply join the crowd as a blog with activity is an even more attractive read.

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• Avoid guest blogging until you have content

Alright it sounds like a simple enough mistake ‘Not To Do’ but when i first started out blogging i was so convinced that i had to get the visitors first, i am not 100% sure on why but i think it had something to do with the thought of creating content and how, if i already had the visitors my content would be read by more people. Well i managed to get a spot on one of the latest blogs heading to the top, harpzon and although the visitor numbers coming from Harpzon where not as high as i expected, the visitors just didn’t stay.

When is the right time to guest blog?

• Make sure you have content and a small community

Guestblogging is a rewarding way to gain respect and visitors, it’s a great way to entice people to your blog but there are some guidelines to follow so if your considering guestblogging i urge you to take a look at my Guidelines for a Novice Blogger post as it explains certain aspects in more detail. At least have a subscription base and at least twenty posts before jumping into guest blogging.

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• Do not publish six blog posts in one day

The excitement of starting a new blog can be encouraging but stop and think about your content. Posting six articles a day is alright if you can continue to keep the quality up and frequency consistent as users will begin to expect the near impossible from you and your blog.

How many articles should i publish?

• An amount that you feel comfortable with creating not only today but tomorrow

To achieve this set out a maximum post frequency and stick by it. At the moment I’ve agreed not to post more than three articles a day and trying to at least get one out per day. What this means is that any additional content created is scheduled for the next day leaving your blog to continuously have great content without you struggling to post more than what you can comfortably create. Remember a blog is a subscription service it’s meant to be read daily don’t try and make it into a content website that never get’s updated.

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• Try not to focus on Search Engine Optimization alone

SEO is important but it’s important not to make it your only focus, doing so will degrade content and leave your blog without the stabilizers it needs to get going. Remember to write for your visitors and not the search engines. Focusing to much on SEO is like to harm the quality of the content that you write.

When should i focus on SEO?

• The first thing to do is establish a blog

SEO should always be in your mind but once your blog is growing with a steady userbase then it is time to start implementing techniques to receive higher search engine rankings.

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Five Guidelines to Guest Blogging for a Novice…

As a new blogger you will want to start thinking about increasing your traffic and starting to monetize your website. This guide is setout to ensure that if you want to go into guest blogging that you do it at the right time to benefit you and your blog as guest blogging for a novice blogger should be beneficial to both parties.

Why Guest Blog?

If your guest blogging on the right blog your post can provide enormous streams of traffic. Not to mention that this traffic is targetted so your more than likely to gain a few extra subscribers, comments and what will eventually become loyal users. Posting about a topic on someone else’s blog that your blog is related to ensures that this new stream of traffic has purpose and is genuinely interested in reading your other content.

And now the Guidelines;

• When guest blogging make sure that you are blogging on a website that has a substantially lower Alexa rank than your own and is popular in your chosen niche.

The purpose of guest blogging for a novice blogger is to increase your traffic, gain backlinks and create relationships with fellow bloggers and readers. To achieve this you need to ensure that the blog you are going to guest post on is more popular than your own so that it benefits both parties.

• Create relative high quality content that will invite the user to read your own blog

Creating content is not always easy but with the vast amount of resources available on the internet topic searching is no longer a hassle plus starting out im sure your head is absolutely crammed with ideas on what to write about. Just make sure that it relates to the blog your guest posting on and your own and making sure that the content you post is quite lengthy and contains some questions about the articles content which will invite the user to check out other posts on your own blog.

• Do not guest blog until you have content!

The first mistake i made was jumping into guest blogging too fast. Three days after my blog was launched i wrote an article on a high traffic industry leading blog only to loose all benefits that it would of brought to my blog (i’ll write an informative post about this soon.) It’s not something i would like to see repeated especially after you’ve created such great content for the guest post. So please atleast wait until your blog has around 20-30 posts and you are going strong with atleast one post per day. If you don’t the users will come but are unlikely to return.

• Ensure that your guest blog post has your name stamped on it along with a link to your website before the article

This is something that will need to be negotiated with the owner of the blog inwhich your guest blogging on but to ensure that you recieve credit plus traffic then it’s important to be linked and your name mentioned at the start of the post, otherwise the post is going to be overlooked and a visitor may assume it was written by the blog owner.

Here is an example of how it should be done from problogger.net

You will notice the acknowledgement of the guestblogger at the top of the page under the title, after the acknowledgement the content starts, pretty basic but an area on a post that is worth fighting for.

And finally,

• Prepare to sacrifice content for guest blogging

We are not going to discuss wether giving up content is worth a guestblogging post on another website, thats a whole other discussion on it’s own. Rather we are focusing on giving up content to increase our userbase as, when we guest blog the content created is no longer suitable for your own blog use due to duplicate content issues with search engines. This one benefits the guest blog owner while the blog post acknowledgement benefits you.

To conclude it’s important for a new blogger to ensure that they have enough quality content to back up their blog for the expected users coming through and to ensure that the quality of the post they are using reflects your blogs ideals.

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