Blogging contests are a great way to gain traffic and links to your blog. If you write a great article, then you’ll attract as many people to read it as possible, who might not otherwise read your blog. Daily Blog Tips recently ran a tutorial contest, and these are my own personal votes in order of preference.

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Hopefully you read my previous tips in Part 1, so here are my next set of 7 tips. Most of these ideas are based on what I’ve learnt myself or what I’ve learnt from reading other people’s blogs. The tips are not rocket science, but they go a long way to helping you run a successful blog in any niche.

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Paid blogging is an area of the web that has been a massive growth area in the last couple of years. Blogging has been a massive growth area in itself, and its no surprise that people wanted to make money from doing it. If you’re not familiar with blogging, we’d best start off with a definition. Thanks to elise.com, here’s a pretty good definition of what blogging means nowadays:

Blogging is easy, almost instant, publishing of content to a website, where every entry is preserved in a database and is therefore categorizeable and searchable. Content can be photographs, recipes, restaurant reviews, or anything digitally storable on a computer that you can categorize.

Paid blogging is the process of deriving money from writing blog-based articles, stories and reviews.

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There are probably hundreds of new blogs popping up every day, but many start off on the wrong foot. Here are some of my tips on what you should do as soon as you set up a Wordpress blog for the first time.

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