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Stpehen Lawes teaches people how to create a blog for fun or business, and then get traffic to it.

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Taking Care of the Day to Day Stuff

As you work through the logistics of how to create a blog you need to consider how you will balance your time. You need to spend time writing articles. Articles are what ultimately build traffic for your site. You want to have good articles written on a consistent basis so that people who have visited your site have a reason to come back. You need to build links to your site so that it shows up on Search Engines. This is the primary way that you will attract new visitors. If you are adding niche sites to your blogging business you need to spend time doing keyword research and doing site development. You may need to consider what your strengths are and then start getting some help in areas that you can’t get to.

One suggestion would be to hire someone to help write articles. You might consider trying to hire some college students to write articles. College students usually need to make money, are pretty good writers, and are computer savvy. You should be able to find someone to do a little research and write you a 300 - 400 word article. Have them write the article, and then do a quick rewrite of the same article (a rewrite would be going through the article and changing words and phrases so that you basically have two articles on the same topic). A reasonable rate for this would be between 8 and 10 dollars. So you get an article for your site and an article to publish for eight bucks. For a small investment you can get a steady stream of articles.

Allocate your time so that you are writing articles, building links, and developing sites. All three are important. Perhaps the best ratio would be 50 percent article writing, 30 percent link building, and 20 percent site development. Avoid the temptation to waste time checking you stats. I limit my visits to statcounter, and then I am trying to see if there are some keyword ideas popping up that I need to be capitalizing on.

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