The Roadmap To Become A Blogger Report!

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There is a brand new blogging business website online with the name BecomeABlogger.com packed with free video tutorials created for you by Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick.

Here are the names of 10 free videos you’ll like:
Video 1 – Why You Should Use WordPress
Video 2 – How To Get Your Own Domain Name
Video 3 – How To Get A Web Host
Video 4 – How To Install WordPress
Video 5 – How To Upload Files To Your Webhost Using FTP
Video 6 – Choosing A WordPress Theme For Your New Blog
Video 7 – How To Install And Use WordPress Plugins
Video 8 – How To Create Your First Blog Post And Blog Page
Video 9 – What RSS Is And Why You Need It
Video 10 – How To Use Feedburner For Supercharging Your RSS Capabilities

Also at the website don’t forget to claim Your FREE Copy Of a new book “The Roadmap To Become A Blogger”! Inside the roadmap you’ll discover plenty of useful information including:

- 5 essential milestones for a successful blog;
- What the “X-Factor” for successful blogging is and why you’ll fail without it;
- How to use social media to boost traffic to your blog and so on and so forth;
- How to ethically exploit the biggest wave in technology since the invention of the telephone;
- 7.4 million reasons why your blog will fail, unless you know how to take advantage of the intersection of two huge Internet trends;
- How a new way of using video, images and a blog turned a penniless actor into an Internet Superstar!
- 13 secret strategies to attract traffic to your blog like bees to a beehive, turn your competitors green with envy and provide you with multiple streams of passive income. And much MUCH MORE…

The roadmap is not just another report on blogging. It melds together what Yaro and Gideon learned and implemented over the past fours years to create an entire business based on the blog alone, with some brand new techniques that combine the power of social media and multimedia to take any blog to the next level.

Gideon Shalwick, the video wizard behind the Becomeablogger.com site, injected his unique understanding of multimedia (video, audio, online radio and tv) and social media (facebook, myspace, twitter, etc) into this report.

Keep in mind that also on December 4t, 2008 a NEW PREMIUM COACHING course on how to Become A Blogger Premium is going to be released. And If you like learning through step-by-step video training, you believe in the ideas that Yaro and Gideon teach in the Roadmap and want to learn directly from them how to implement them on your blog (or create a new blog), then you are an ideal candidate for their coaching program!

Claim Your FREE Copy Of The Roadmap To BecomeA Blogger Report Right Here Right Now!

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Interview With Yaro Starak About Comments to Your Blog!

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Today we have an interview with Yaro Starak. O.K., you might ask “Who is this guy?”. Yaro Starak is a young entrepreneur from Brisbane, Australia (sometimes he lives in Toronto, Canada). He is a 29 year old male – with big hair who is presently blog about Internet marketing, blogging, entrepreneurship and self development at
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com

According to Yaro, he has been blogging since late 2005 and make over $10,000 a month from Enterepreneurs-Journey.com blog and over $30,000 a month from his online business in total – which by the way, is based entirely on his blog. Yaro has created, managed and sold several different Internet businesses since 1998 and currently teaches people how to make a full time income from blogging part time through his Blog Mastermind mentoring program. If you want the long story about Yaro (with pictures and his comments!) you can read his five-page bio at http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/yaro-starak-timeline/

All right, no more questions about Yaro? Let’s start the interview.

- Yaro, the focus of this interview is something all bloggers love – comments. Unfortunately most blogs, especially new blogs, receive very few real comments from real people (everyone gets spam comments though). Yaro, what is your point of view on why is it some blogs have a ton of comments while other blogs never receive any?

- Let me set something straight right now. If your blog has no traffic you will not receive
any comments. It makes sense of course, but some people don’t see the connection between these two elements. If no one is reading your blog then no one will leave comments either. Simply posting great articles to your blog is not enough – you have to *market* your blog to bring people to it.

- Sure, it makes sense – no comments = no traffic = nobody is reading your blog, right?

- Correct, understand if you don’t receive any comments to your blog it’s probably not that your content is bad or people don’t like you, it’s because you simply don’t have enough traffic. If on the other hand you do have some traffic, yet no one replies to your posts, there are ways to stimulate comments.

- Yaro, do you have some tips for our readers on how to stimulate comments?

- Yes, I sure do. And here are some of them. First of all, write articles that reference or focus on other bloggers. You will get their attention that way and there’s a good chance they will come to your blog and leave a comment as a result. Then, ask your readers a question at the end of your articles. Also, try to write about topics that stimulate conversation, such as current events (think politics, news, entertainment, marketing). Don’t be afraid to be controversial with your writing. Have a strong opinion and others with strong opinions will reply to argue or agree with you. Always be patient. Sometimes you just have to wait until the first person leaves a comment which opens the floodgates.

- Yaro, what do you think do you need to reply to all the comments, or just let them go?

- I am convinced you just have to reply to any comment and I can tell you why. A while ago I stopped actively responding to comments on my blog unless I was asked a direct question. I really had no excuse for not doing it, I was just lazy and working on other writing projects. Consequently the average number of comments on my blog entries dropped A LOT. I noticed the regular commentators stopped commenting as frequently and most conversations on my blog ended very quickly. This is really tragic for a blog and I’ll tell you why – it reduces your “Social Proof“.

- What is “Social Proof” by the way?

- Social Proof is when humans take action or make a decision based on seeing other humans doing it first. It’s sort of like an implied recommendation – if other people do it, it must be good. It’s like when you see a bunch of people all looking up at something in the sky at the same time. You can’t help but turn your head skywards and see what all the fuss is about. When first time visitors to your blog see other people making lots of comments they are more likely to decide there is something valuable at your blog and bookmark or subscribe to it and may even make a comment. This is good for blog traffic. This is social proof in action. I was very conscious of always taking part in comment conversations at my blog and consequently my readership was growing in leaps and bounds. I stopped and I noticed I hit a wall and my blog didn’t grow quite as well as it was.

I know a blogger who has a rule – she responds to every single comment made to her blog. Consequently she has developed a fantastic community around her blog and her traffic has
skyrocketed in a short period of time. Remember, comments on your blog are very important, take the time to respond to them.

P.S.: If you have a question for Yaro or need advice about blogging or business please ask in the forums (click the link below). If you have a problem or question about a product or service you have purchased from Yaro, please send an email to the address below:
http://replytoyaro.com

Thank you!
Michael B & Yaro Starak

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