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Are you tired of spending money to buy traffic? Do you know how Google blog get 20 million readers in year 2011? Let’s look at data analysis for Google’s blog.

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In 2011, Google published 471 posts, which is 17 more than 2010. The company’s main blog saw 19,905,679 unique visitors between January 1 and December 31, 2011.

The post that saw the most traffic was one that recognized the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 with 1,731,280 unique page views. And this post was linked to from Google’s search portal, which helped draw increased traffic.

In contrast, on Twitter, @Google now has 4 million followers, with the most popular Tweets in 2011 including those on patents and Android, the Motorola acquisition, Larry and Sergey remembering Steve Jobs, Google Wallet, Google+ and Wael Ghonim.

There are few tips we learn here. (more…)

I have asked myself should I quit blogging 3 years ago. My answer is No.

This year I ask myself again. Answer still same is No. Many are stopping, but lots of them are doing better through out the years!

Look back my year 2011, it was a bad year. Blog lack of maintain, traffic dropping, earning drop too! This year I will pick up few days to improve my blogs.

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If you’re looking for easy ways to improve in 2012, here are few suggestions that we could work on.

1. Proactive Action

I should contract potential customer and sponsor proactively instead of waiting them to contact me.

Especially on review posts. I notice most of the sponsor willing to cooperate with us when we request in polite way.Of course they look at our traffic and authority too. (more…)

Observe and analyze a successful blog doesn’t mean to copy them. It is a way of learning.

Just like a baby doesn’t know how to speak. He need to observe how dad or mum speak in order to learn. When growing, he develop own style to speak, yet still in same language.

Now the question is HOW to analyze and benefit from a successful blog?

First, you need to identify which blog has success in your niche? If not sure, check their rank in technorati, google search position for keywords in your niche, or their Alexa ranking.

Analyze Top Blog in Your Niche

Observe aspect below by using the questions

• Content – What topic they cover? What topic they ignore? How is their writing style? How often they do posting?

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It is meaningless if we write blog everyday but no reader. Promote a blog post is like marketing for your article.

Many Blogger promote their blog in wrong way! See the title “Promote a Blog Post”. Yes, promote a post doesn’t mean to promote your domain name as a whole. Instead should promote “a” post that reader want the most.

8 Ways to Promote a Blog Post

I’m going to summarize what ProBlogger.net propose.

• Link Bait Other Bloggers – Propose an interesting post to other bloggers in that niche. They might write and link to it if it is worth.
• Social Messenging – Twitter, FaceBook messenging is famous and easiest way to share with friends. Don’t hesitate to share specific post that your friends interested to read.
• Social Bookmarking – Easiest way to get notice by others. But not too often, if not people might treat you as spam.
• Internal Links – Link back to previous post that your reader might not notice. It is another efficient way to keep reader stay in the blog longer. (more…)

Lists are powerful writing style with great effect for many years. Reader feel easier to understand and more valuable the article itself.

Just look at front page of social media (Digg, TweetMeme, Delicious) then you compare how many percentage is in list post style? I would say more than half!

Check out the screen shot of Delicious front page. The popular page was full of list post.

How to Write List Post ?

Basically 3 types of list post: Pure list post, extended list, and lists within post. (more…)