100 Awesome Articles to Get You Fired Up and Motivated About Blogging

These are articles I’ve read recently that I found particularly valuable. They are all from blogs I read regularly. As someone who writes a blog, I know it is also essential to read a lot of blogs. I get questions from professionals and business owners about how to get started blogging, and this is always one of the first things I say: read blogs!

This is the number one way to learn what works, what doesn’t and what YOU want to write about. I recommend anyone interested in blogging should spend a month or so just reading other blogs. Subscribe, comment, spend some real time. Do this specifically in the space you want to occupy. For example, if you want to write a blog about real estate in your particular market area, search people up and find out who’s already doing that. Subscribe to their blog, comment them, read plenty of articles. Take note of the design of their sites. Who is hosting these sites? What things do you like, dislike, and what can you improve upon?

Spending time reading and interacting on other blogs will help you develop your own blogging voice, and your own blogging voice is one of the most essential elements to any successful blog. For my own personal space, I obviously read a lot about blogging itself, and I wanted to take one post and really link up a lot of my favorite fellow bloggers, and share with you some articles I’ve read recently that I think will motivate, educate and/or inspire you. Some of these are great, educational posts. Some are motivational, and some are great resources to help you get started and be successful with blogging and social networking for your business. This list will direct you to some really rockin ideas about how to get awesome results from your blogging and social networking. It’s guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing! Take time, do the work. Get started right now!

1. How Twitter Made My Website Better
2. How to make money using the Internet
3. The Number 1 Way To Make Money Online
4. What is a Blog?
5. How to Write Your “About Me” Page
6. How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs
7. How I Make $40,000 a Month From a Blog
8. How Much Is A Domain Name Worth?
9. The Art Of Link Baiting
10. My Top 10 Best Wordpress Plugins
11. Why RSS Is Bad
12. A Step-By-Step Blog Launch Plan and Roadmap
13. How Long Does It Take To Start Making Money Online?
14. The Secret To Attracting More Comments On Your Blog
15. Which Is More Secure
16. How To Never Run Out of Content For Your Blog Again
17. How to Set Up A Blog (For the Long Run)
18. How to Sell from Your Blog (The Ultra-Basics)
19. Why Blog Marketing is Cheap Marketing
20. The Top 10 Ways to NOT Launch a Blog
21. How to Begin Blogging When You Don’t Know Where to Start
22. Create a Blog Pack to Get Blog Traffic and Increase Subscriptions
23. Do You Reward Your Visitors?
24. Using Stats to Improve Your Traffic
25. What’s Your Google Disaster Plan?
26. How I Doubled My Blog Traffic in 2 Months
27. 5 Easy Traffic Building Tips
28. To the people who told me that I will never make it in Life
29. Reasons why to become a Self Made Millionaire
30. Tell People What You Want Them to Do for You
31. What You Don
32. How to Become an Authority in Your Niche: Eight Content Development Tactics
33. 6 Fool-Proof Steps to Make More Money With Your Website
34. Creating a Definitive Blueprint for a Profitable Blog: A Community Ebook Idea
35. Samantha Ettus interviews
36. Make Money Blogging (series)
37. Thoughts on writing timeless blog posts and post bylines
38. Top 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
39. How one blog comment can bring you 230+ unique visitors
40. How Gary Vaynerchuk built a multi-million dollar empire around a video blog
41. How To Get Repeat Visitors To Your Website
42. Never Trust a Silent Customer
43. How to Get Customers to Beg for Your Business Card?
44. Stuck With A Zero Marketing Budget?
45. How To Double Your Sales (Over And Over Again)
46. How To Stop Regretting The Past And Start Building Your Future
47. How To Make Time When There Is No Time
48. Three Simple Cheats To Free Up Five Hours This Week
49. What People Trying To Make Money Online Blogging Don’t Get
50. My Top 10 Worst Ideas To Make Money
51. The Three Ds That Will Make or Break Your Blogging Career – Desire
52. ‘Hustling’ to Get What You Want
53. 25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog
54. The One True Cause of Rapidfire Growth
55. Please God, I Want To Be A Salesman At Verizon Wireless
56. Which Came First? Your Black Card or Your Book?
57. The Shortest “How To Make Millions” Blog Post Ever Written…
58. Entrepreneurship: What To Do When You’re Scared Sh*tless
59. How We Killed Social Media
60. How to Make Money From Your Blog
61. How to Make Lots of Money During a Recession
62. How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
63. Stages Of Buyer Awareness
64. Applying Scarcity And Urgency
65. Telling Compelling Stories
66. The Power Of Niche Marketing
67. Biggest Mistakes Writers Make
68. Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting
69. 10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands
70. FOLLOW FAIL: The Top 10 Reasons I Will Not Follow You in Return on Twitter
71. HOW TO: Use Social Media for Enterprise Business
72. FACEBOOK FAIL: How to Use Facebook Privacy Settings and Avoid Disaster
73. HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles
74. Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand
75. Top 10 WordPress Plugins to Promote Your Social Media Profiles
76. 20 of the Best SEO Plugins for WordPress
77. 30+ Tools to Turn Wordpress into a Personal Hub
78. 3 Ways to Make More Money Blogging
79. 7 Tools For Blogging On Your Phone
80. Top 10 Free E-books For Bloggers
81. 40+ Free Blog Hosts
82. 30+ WordPress Plugins To Get More Blog Readers
83. Winning on the uphills
84. The difference between strangers and friends
85. Find your voice
86. Two ways to build trust
87. You matter
88. Harvesting
89. Understanding The New Advertising Environment [i.e. Social Networks, Blogs, SEO]
90. Content for Your Business Blog
91. Can I Manage My Own Free Business Blog?
92. Online, Only Blogs Establish Brand!
93. 5 Things To Know Before Setting Up Your Business Blog
94. How Blogging Markets Your Business
95. Successful business blogging in just one step
96. Use Twitter to Lay Groundwork for Your Business Blog
97. Small Business Blogging Part 1: Finding Your Niche
98. Blogging is Good for Your Business
99. Get Your Small Business Involved in Social Media
100. Most Popular Social Networking Sites for Business

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