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Charles Dearing’s list of his favorite affiliate programs is supplemented in the comments by those of our experienced users.
Any blogger looking to add or ramp up affiliate income in the coming year would do well to look at this list and the advice Charles gives.


How to Set Up an Email Account that Uses Your Domain Name

Kashish hit a nerve with many readers with this post.
As you’ll know if you read post 7 above, having a legitimate email address is critical to being taken seriously online. This post—and the comments that follow—will help you set one up quickly and easily.

Our most popular post this year is one of our most recent! But it seems we all want to find innovative ways to use our quality content to expand our readership and online presence.
List of 5 cool things isn’t just about promotion—in it, she provides tips for finding new content ideas, researching your audience, and more. Is it another checklist you could print and use in the coming year?

•  ALREADY COVERED TOPICS

One more thing you should remember that don’t cover already written topics and articles. This will never help you in developing your blog’s authority and ranking. Covering unique content and new ideas will make your blog’s base solid in search engines eye.

The disadvantage of already covered topics would be, the blog which have covered those topics or relevant topics would have taken visitors on those keywords and articles and search engines are aware of those blogs and keep on giving new visitors to those old articles written on other blogs. The point is, try to bring new concepts and ideas even in the important topics, its your talent that how you write and grab readers interest with the quality of your writing.

•  SWITCHING BLOGGING DIRECTION

Blogging direction refers to the policy and strategy a blogger follows for his blog. If a blogger is writing a how-to blog related to lifestyle, then he must spend some time on thinking on high quality content. Once he starts making great content, he should continue to make such type of content; it won’t be good, if he switches to any particular sub-niche or even entirely new niche on the same blog.

When you pick up the niche and make content, then search engines relate your blog to that type of content and search terms, and give you visitors on those search terms. If you work on any particular niche and you have made authority in some areas of a niche in 2 years and after those 2 years you pick another sub-niche and start working on that sub-niche by stopping work on your main niche, it would be similar to start a new blog with a new approach. Work on the areas, which you have already covered, because your blog has identity related to those content topics.

For more explanation of this point, I would quote another example, let’s take the example of a good quality web hosting company which starts its business and work on its SEO, the company should focus on their high quality web hosting servers and services to provide good quality service if they are telling to the readers and visitors that they are best cheap hosting company for WordPress blog and they should not switch their focus suddenly on cloud packages in the services on their website and blog.

• SELECTING UNIMPRESSIVE NAME AND LOGO

Name of your blog and logo certainly play an essential role in the progress of the blog. If your blog’s name is not attractive and eye-catching then it would not impress readers and visitors at first sight. An attractive and cool name and logo of your blog would be the positive signs for your blog.

Think before choosing your blog name and finalize your logo with the help of professional graphics designer. Color scheme of your logo should be fascinating and should make a connection with the blog.

•  UN-MANAGED LAYOUT

A layout of your blog is a sign of your professionalism. If your layout has some missing spots and areas then it would show your lack of professionalism. A blog’s layout should be creative, beautiful, attractive and well managed to help visitors and readers to find and see the entire things offered by blogger. Professional bloggers have best and high quality hosting services for their WordPress blogs most of the times, so if you are spending money on theme and Best quality hosting then try to manage your blog layout as well.

• SHOWING HATRED AND NEGATIVITY

Your blog’s content or blog’s design should not show any type of hatred and jealousy to anyone in the world. You must avoid racism, negativity and all type of discriminations on your blog. This is one of the most important thing to remember in the avoid list for your blog.

•  HIGHLIGHTING SPECIFIC BLOGS MISTAKES

You should not highlight some specific blogs or bloggers in order to dishonor them in your blog’s content or banners. Everyone has its own views, style and patterns to follow. If you don’t agree with some competitor’s policies and working style, it does not mean that you should highlight him on your blog. You should be positive and be helpful for others. If you want to help anyone, write to him using his email or contact page very honestly and politely, and show him that you are a positive person and really want to help him.

Making someone’s mistakes a part of your content like making screenshots of others blog and adding to your articles to show readers mistakes of the others, won’t be a cool idea.