Don’t you love it when people ask you these questions!

I do try to answer as best I can but without knowing the person or their blog speciality it is difficult to give a helpful answer.

Unless you’re one of the blog gurus who have been blogging for many years then I suppose the answer has to be “no”.

But don’t let that put you off, you can make a tidy living from your blog but it comes with a price. You need to put a lot of time and effort in, the old saying, “write it and they will come” is a fallacy.

The magic word is traffic. You need to drive traffic to your blog. Sure, regular posts will attract the search engines over time but you need to grab your marketing with both hands and promote yourself in the right places. See my previous posts on marketing in places like LinkedIn and Twitter to drive traffic. Read More

Thank you to all the people who have e-mailed me and commented on my websites about my first Twitter article. Here is a link to it, if you would like to read it again:
http://patsutton.com/index.php/archives/154

I am so pleased that you all found it so useful. With that in mind I have decided to write a sequel by way of your questions answered, hope you find it just as useful?

Here are some of the questions you have asked me:

1. What do I tweet about?
It is important not to be self serving. If you want people to follow you and to re-tweet you then the magic word is “quality”.
As an example: A gardening company would tweet about the best way to keep your grass nice and green or the easiest way to grow marrows…get the drift? Of-course, don’t forget to include where the tweet has come from. If you have a long website name then shorten it at “bitly.com”. If you are promoting a blog or website, try asking a question or excite them by announcing something new happening; you will find that more people will click through if they are curious. Read More