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30 Best Blogging Tips – Take Your Blog from Zero to Hero

Incredible Blogging Tips – Take Your Blog from Zero to Hero

You are new to Blogging.
Or you already have a blog, but not sure how to make money out of it.
Or maybe you are making decent money online but want to take your blog to the next level.
I could help you!
If you want to take your blog from Zero to Hero, I have some incredible blogging tips for you.
All the blogging tips mentioned here come from 7 years of my blogging experience so make sure to read carefully and implement them for best results.
I have divided this guide into 3 sections: Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced bloggers. You can read this guide according to your needs.
Shall we begin?
Beginners
Intermediate
Advanced
  1. Before starting out, think about how to monetize your blog
  2. Stand out from the crowd
  3. Write in-depth articles
  4. Write lots of posts… for others
  5. Build some authority
  6. It’s useless to focus on SEO when you are just starting out
  7. Connect with the influencers
  8. Focus on just #1 website traffic source
  9. Monetize your blog from day 1
  10. Build an email list before you even begin
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Blogging Tips For Beginners

These blogging tips are for new bloggers (newbies)

1. Before Starting Out, Think About How To Monetize Your Blog

One of the biggest mistakes most beginners make while starting a blog is they create content first, try few ways to increase their traffic and then they find ways to monetize their blog.
Let me be honest. If you follow the same path, you will eventually fail to build a blog that makes money. Why?
Without finding ways to monetize your blog before you even begin, you will hardly make any money online.
Begin with the end in mind. Always!
Analyze your top competitors and find out how they are monetizing their sites. Find out their traffic generation sources, how they are captivating their readers to buy their stuff and repeat the same.
You don’t always have to reinvent the wheel. Spend time in carefully understand your competitors and you will find smart ways to monetize your blog.
➜ Suggested Reading: 7 Best Ways To Monetize A Blog!
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2. Stand Out From The Crowd

You are not a Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga or Barak Obama to let people remember you.
There are literally a gazillion of blogs out there, and 99% of them are pure junk. There’s just too much competition going out there online.
It’s really hard to build a successful blog that makes money in 2016 because of heavy competition. If you are offering the same advice everyone else is offering, why would anyone follow you and buy what you recommend?
Observe any highly profitable blogger such as Darren Rowse, Pat Flynn, Seth Godin, Derek Halpern; you will notice that they have built million dollar blogs by focusing on one thing: standing out from the rest of their competitors.
  • If everyone else is writing short posts in your industry, create in-depth and gigantic posts. You will stand out.
  • If everyone else is creating blog posts, do videos or podcasts. You will surely stand out.
  • If everyone else in your industry is using AdSense to monetize their blogs, try email marketing! You will stand out.
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3. Write in-depth Articles

Did you know that articles with over 2,000+ words always rank well in Google?
Gone are the days where you can simply increase your overall search traffic by posting daily with short articles of 500 words. Now the short articles won’t give you an edge.
They simply don’t help you in getting better search rankings.
Google wants to give the BEST information to its users, and it’s giving more importance to the sites that are publishing in-depth and evergreen articles.
So when you are just starting out, instead of writing 10 short articles in a month, write just 2 in-depth articles. It can really help you in the long run.
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4. Write Lots of Posts… For Others

One of the common complaints I hear from new bloggers is that “I’m not getting enough traffic.”
Well, how do you get more traffic if you are writing just for your own blog?
Write for other blogs, do guest blogging and increase your online reach. Build some quality links and increase your overall domain authority.
That’s how you get traffic. That’s how you improve your overall search rankings for any keyword you are targeting for.
Don’t make a mistake of writing just for your own blogs. That’s a biggest blogging mistake anyone can make especially in the beginning.
➜ Suggested Reading: Effective Guest Blogging Tips
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5. Build Some Authority

In online, people simply don’t buy from strangers.
They only buy from those whom they trust or already have connections with. It all boils down to one thing: trust and authority.
Without building authority, trying to increase your blog traffic is just a waste of time. Even if you bring a lot of traffic, you will surely struggle to make sales online.
That’s the reason why you should start focusing on growing your online authority from day one. Here are few quick tips to build authority online.
  • Don’t recommend the products or services you personally don’t use. NEVER promote a product just for the sake of money. If you focus on your audience, they will take care of your business. It’s as simple as that.
  • Get testimonials from the experts. Do interviews with them. Ask them to tell few nice things about your content or site. It will all add up in the long run.
  • Write guest posts for top blogs and showcase the portfolio on your blog’s home page. If people see your guest posts landing on top blogs, they think you have some skills, so they don’t hesitate to read your stuff.
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6. It’s Useless To Focus on SEO When You Are Just Starting Out

SEO is a HUGE ocean.
If you are just starting out, focusing on SEO to increase your traffic is a waste of time. Why?
You might get penalized by keyword stuffing or quickly building bad backlinks. You never know what SEO mistakes you are making unless you gain some basic SEO skills.
That’s the reason why you should forget about SEO in the beginning and just focus on writing engaging content for your readers.
SEO is all about quality backlinks and proper keyword research. Unless you know those two factors very well, focusing on SEO doesn’t give you any good results.
Quick Note: Even if you don’t focus on SEO at all in the beginning, make sure to learn the SEO basics. That way you can nurture your SEO skills to use them later to bring more traffic from search engines to your blogs.
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7. Connect With The Influencers

Having connections with the influencers and top bloggers in your industry can help you with the following things.
  • It can help you leverage their blog traffic
  • It can help you increase your sales (whenever they name drop you)
  • It can help you boost your expertise
And the above 3 factors are enough to build a highly successful blog really quickly.
Always find ways to network with the influencers in your field. Instead of seeking their help, think about how you can offer them help for free.
And always get in touch with them either via social media or email. Email outreach is really essential to take your blog from zero to hero.
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8. Focus On Just #1 Website Traffic Source

Really, there are so many ways to increase traffic to a website or blog. Social media, email list, guest posting, videos, content marketing, blog commenting, email outreach and the list goes on and on and on.
And everyone loves traffic. That’s why most beginners spend their time on being everywhere to get more traffic to their sites.
But that’s a surefire way to burn out. What happens when you spend most of your time on every traffic source under the sun and don’t get good results as you expect?
You will assume that driving traffic to a blog is hard, and you will eventually quit.
That’s why focus on just 1 traffic source at a time. Be it social media, content marketing or SEO. Focus on one traffic source, spend all your time on it and you will eventually become so good at it that you will see better results.
Try every traffic source for a month or two. Then, focus on another one and so on. That’s how your site traffic will grow in less than a year.
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9. Monetize Your Blog From Day 1

The best way to monetize your blog is to create content, drive traffic and then monetize that traffic, right?
Wrong!
Although blog monetization strategy differs from niche to niche, monetizing your blog from the beginning is often the most effective way to best define your target audience.
Once you clearly know what your target audience wants, you can create more laser focused content, drive more targeted visitors and attract more sales to your sites.
On the other hand, if you wait until you get a certain amount of traffic and then monetize, you may fail to grab the attention of right people.
What happens if you attract random website traffic?
You will struggle to make sales! So think about how to monetize your blog’s traffic from day one.
➜ Read these guides:
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10. Build An Email List Before You Even Begin

If you are reading blogging related articles for a while, you might already have heard about the importance of building an email list.
If you ask any successful blogger or marketer to share their biggest blogging mistake, 90% of them will say “I did not start list building from day 1.”
No, you shouldn’t build an email list from day one.
But you should rather consider doing it even before you launch a new blog.
Just imagine for a second, how great it would be to have at least 500 or 1000 email subscribers waiting for your first blog post?
That’s why you should consider growing your email list even before you even launch.
Here are few ways to do just that.
  • Email all your friends, blogging buddies, relatives about the launch of your new blog. Tell them, what you are going to blog about and ask them to subscribe to your email updates.
  • Conduct giveaways. They help you quickly boost your email subscribers.
  • Use social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Spread your message. Ask people to subscribe to your new blog. Tell them you will offer freebie once the blog goes live. Meanwhile, you can create an eBook, video or something else to offer it for free.
Quick Note: You can use GetResponse, MailChimp, etc. to start growing your email list. They both offer free trials and if you want to know which is the best email autoresponder to start building your email list, read this article.
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Blogging Tips for Intermediate Bloggers

These blogging tips are for those who already have a blog and blogging for more than 6 months.

11. Think Twice Before Launching Another Blog

"The man who chases two rabbits catches neither."
I personally saw so many of my blogging friends launching new blogs when their current blog is just started getting some momentum.
What happens when you focus on two blogs at a time? You can’t make profitable neither of them.
Unless and until you have build a blog so large that you don’t have to depend on it and once you start getting sales automatically without your interference, starting another blog is a waste of time.
This has been proven true in all the successful bloggers journeys from Pat Flynn to Darren Rowse to Neil Patel. They NEVER launched a new blog until their existing blog started growing on automation.
So, if you are craving to launch a new blog when your existing blog is just taking off, limit your temptations and focus on automation. Once it’s done, you can launch another blog. That’s how you build successful online business by focusing on ONE thing at a time.
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12. Build A Sales Funnel

Have you observed any profitable blog that’s making millions of dollars in sales every year such as Problogger.net, Social Triggers or Smart Passive Income?
All these highly profitable blogs have one thing in common: “sales funnel”.
In simpler terms, a sales funnel is what helps you convert normal website visitors into subscribers into buyers into loyal customers.
If your blog doesn’t have a sales funnel yet, you should build one right away.
Here are 3 simple steps to build an effective sales funnel.
Step 1: Define your ideal customer. You should know everything about him. His needs and wants, age, place, where he usually hangs out online to solve his needs. EVERYTHING!
Step 2: Figure out how to help him with your products or services. Here’s where affiliate marketing or own product launch comes into place. Remember, your “target customer” is the key. If you forget to fulfill his needs and wants, you can never be able to sell anything. It’s as simple as that.
Step 3: Educate your audience about the products you promote or create. Creating awareness about the products you recommend is the surest way to boost sales.
➜ Read these guides:
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13. Evaluate your Monetization Strategies

Tell me what’s your #1 source that’s helping you make more money from your blog? Is it AdSense? Selling ads? Affiliate marketing? Or something else?
Carefully reevaluate all your monetization strategies once. Find out if you can make “passive income” from your blog’s traffic.
If you are heavily depend on ONE monetization strategy (AdSense or affiliate marketing), find out one more way. You never know when your monetization source is going to hurt you so relying upon only one monetization strategy is never good.
My top tip here is to list out top 10 blogs in your field which are using multiple ways to make money from their traffic. Give a shot to all of them one by one to know which one works better for you to make more passive income every single month.
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14. Find And Fix your Website Issues

Are you struggling to boost your search engine traffic even if you are posting good content regularly? The problem might be, then, your website has some crawling, SEO or compatibility issues.
Google always gives top priority to the sites that are both search engine and user-friendly. If your site is not browser-friendly or having lengthy article titles or meta description, it can do some serious damage to your overall search traffic.
So make sure to use tools like SEMrush to find and fix all your website issues. SEMrush has an incredible feature called “Site Audit” where you can create a project with your own domain name to find all the issues your site has.
There are also so many free tools out there such as Plugin SEO, SEO site checkup, Broken Link Checker, etc. to find if your site has any problems related to SEO.
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15. Give #1 Priority To Growing Your Email List

I still see a lot of people spending most of their time on Facebook to grow their fan page likes or Twitter followers or Google+ circles.
None of them really counts. Then, what really matters in growing a profitable blog?
It’s your email list.
See, Facebook can take down your page if you violate their rules because you don’t own Facebook. Twitter can block your profile if you violate their rules. Same goes with other platforms such as Google+, Instagram, etc.
But it’s not the same case with your email list.
YOU are the owner of your email list. No one can take down your email list. You have the full control and authority over your list. And that’s why you should be spending most of your time growing your email subscribers not Facebook or Twitter followers.
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16. Learn To Write For Readers, Not Google

One of the biggest reasons most bloggers don’t make enough money or sales even if they get massive traffic to their sites is because they lack of loyal audience.
If you write and optimize your blog’s content for Google crawlers, you will surely get more search engine traffic. But you will often fail to capture loyal readers by writing keyword rich contents.
So make sure to entice your blog audience with your writing style. Let them crave for your new posts. Let them leave lots of comments on your content every time you publish something new. Let them share it all over the social media sites just because of your writing style or content.
The more value you add to your readers with your content, the better results you will get in terms of more sales and revenue.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t be optimizing your content for Google at all but make sure to give more priority to your audience first.
➜ Read these 2 guides:
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17. Start Growing Your Presence on Social Media

Whether you know it or not, social media is the new SEO.
Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. can help you in 3 incredible ways.
  1. They help you quickly boost your blog traffic. Create viral headlines. They always bring you instant traffic from social media sites.
  2. Use social media sites to build connections with the influencers.
  3. You can build your own tribe using your Facebook fan pages, groups or Twitter chats.
The pro tip here is NOT to spend all of your time on all the social media sites at once. Don’t grow your presence across Twitter, Google+, Instagram or Facebook all at once. You can never focus 100% of your energy or time if you do so.
The best way to build audience across these platforms is to conquer one after the other. Once you start getting more comments and shares on your Facebook posts, move on to Twitter and connect with the influencers. Once you conquer Twitter, you can move on to the other. Now, you get the idea!
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18. Conduct Interviews with the Influencers

Conducting interviews with other bloggers in your field helps you in two ways.
The first benefit is it can help you build strong relationships with the influencers in your industry, and the next benefit is they can increase your blog's exposure really quickly.
Although connecting with the influencers to conduct interviews on your blog is hard but always possible even if you have zero connections.
Here are few quick tips to connect and conduct the interview with the top bloggers in your field.
  • Read all their previous interviews. Make notes. Don’t repeat the questions.
  • Don’t ask too many questions. As a rule of thumb, 5 to 10 questions are enough to make a compelling interview.
  • Most top bloggers are extremely busy. They usually don’t respond to all the emails that get into their inbox. So take time to follow them up again.
  • Learn to write magnetic emails. Email outreach is one of the most effective ways to build connections with anyone online.
  • Build prior relationships with the influencers. Leave comments, write guest posts, buy their products and do anything that provides a way for you to connect with them.
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19. Trust is The Currency Online

If you are struggling to increase your online sales, it might be because you are doing “interruption marketing” not “permission marketing”.
You need to have people’s permission to make more sales. You can do that only if you have their trust. Therefore, trust is the new currency online.
If you are wondering how to build trust with the new audience, try implementing the following strategies.
  • Add social proof. Ask your readers to give testimonials about your blog or your products. If you showcase them on your blog’s landing pages, they will boost your conversions.
  • If you have landed on top blogs or major online portals with your guest posts, display them in logo format. This is the surest yet simple way to build trust among your audience really quickly.
  • Frequently interact with your audience and existing customers. Know their frustrations and try to solve them with your blog’s content, product or services.
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20. Master The Art of Email Outreach

Did you know the most successful bloggers like Pat Flynn, Neil Patel, Brian Clark, Jon Morrow makes majority of their income from their email lists?
They all know how effective email marketing is. More than that, they also know how to write captivating emails that sell.
They all have used emails to build connections with the influencers in the marketing field. They all know how to get better and faster responses with emails.
If you want to be a profitable blogger just like them, you need to learn the art of email outreach. It is the most effective way to build strong connections with the authority bloggers and also to get better results with your blog's traffic, sales and links.
Here are 3 simple ways to master this art.
  1. Write and send emails to at least one person a day. Every single day. Don’t expect any response. Try to add value with your emails. Tell them thanks for their content or product or the value they add to the blogging world. It all counts.
  2. Write clickable email subject lines. Make them crisp, sweet and short.
  3. Always keep your emails really short. Don’t use long paragraphs. Cut the crap and don’t tell your stories. No one really has time to read long and boring emails. The best way to get a response to your emails is keep them short.
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Blogging Tips for Advanced Bloggers

These blogging tips are for those who are running a blog for more than one year and already making some money (or) struggling to make money from their blogs.

21. Don’t put all your Eggs in one Basket

If you are an advanced blogger who is blogging for a long time, you don’t have to invest all your time, money and efforts into only ONE of your blogs.
Diversify your income sources.
Diversify your traffic sources.
Find new ways to bring both traffic and sales to your blog(s).
You never know when Google is going to penalize you.
You never know what happens after 5 years in your niche.
So the smart move you can make today is to brainstorm all the ideas for making more money and building a solid email list who are eager to buy your products.
Automate the stuff (along with your content creation strategy) and work as less as possible on your current blog to build a new stream of business.
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22. Building an Email List is Not Enough

99.9% of the marketers and bloggers say “the money is in the list.”
Is it really in the list?
Seriously, building an email list is NOT enough.
You have to sell. You have to create engagement. You need to build trust. You have to find ways to sell your email list.
It can be anything from products to services to promoting affiliate products.
But the problem with most bloggers who build email lists is that they don’t make much money.
Do you know why?
They don’t create awareness about the products or services they promote to their audience.
What happens when you try to sell to someone who doesn’t know anything about your products?
Well, they DON'T buy!
They don’t even respond to your emails.
That’s why I said, building an email list is not enough.
You should look for ways to educate your subscribers, help them more and then find ways to make money from the list.
Only then, you can do justification to your email list.
Create an email autoresponder that automatically sends emails to the new subscribers.
Make sure it has meaty emails that are filled with great content, not promotional related stuff.
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23. More Website Traffic is NOT equal to More Sales

“People pay you not page views.”
Always remember to focus on the people and gaining their trust instead of getting more traffic.
Yes, I agree that more website traffic is good.
But...
... what’s the point of getting a million page views a month and not making any sales?
So remember to focus on defining your target audience.
Find out what they truly want.
Figure out their needs and wants and provide solutions either by offering your services or recommending others products.
Take a look at this article where I have provided various solutions to a BIGGEST problem in blogging.
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24. SEO is Not Exactly What You Think

SEO is all about giving top notch priority to your blog audience, not keyword stuffing.
If you are blogging for a while, you already know the fact that you need more links to make your content rank well in search engines.
Think of SEO as a long-term strategy (a marathon, not sprint).
You won’t get massive search results overnight unless you have unlimited budget or great domain authority.
SEO is social.
Social media is the new SEO.
To get more out of SEO, you need to persuade your audience to share your blog posts on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. It’s not easy.
It takes time, consistent efforts and lots of trial and errors.
But once you get the initial traction, you will start getting more search rankings with the help of boost in your social shares.
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25. Make Writing Your Regular Habit

Great bloggers are great writers.
Great writers create content that sells.
They know how to write powerful content that attracts the attention of anyone.
90% of the bloggers fail to get traction with their blogs just because they lack copywriting skills.
Again, I’m not saying that you should be a prolific writer to create captivating content.
All you need is to care about your audience.
You need to have a burning desire to write magical words.
How can you create content that sells then?
The simple tip is: write EVERY single day.
It doesn’t matter what day of the week is.
It doesn’t matter whether you are using a laptop or paper.
Just write every day.
That’s the only way you can improve your writing skills.
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26. Take Your Social Media Efforts to the Next Level

One of the fastest ways to get more exposure and increase your website sales is to harness the power of social media.
It's the quickest way to go viral online if done right.
Gangnam style, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga - all became famous because of social media.
They all have millions of followers, and their net worth is over billion dollars.
That's the POWER of social media sites.
If you are not yet using it properly, this is the time to do it right.
Instead of focusing on all the social media sites at once, focus on ONE source at a time.
Give a try to Facebook.
Try all the strategies to get more attention (create memes, Infographics, try Facebook ads, create compelling headlines, connect with the influencers, etc.).
Then move on to Twitter.
Repeat the same.
➜ Suggested Reading: How To Effectively Use Google+ For Blog Promotion?
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27. Start Events/Webinars

Did you know the #1 list building strategy that has highest conversion rates?
It is creating webinars.
Jon Morrow, Neil Patel, Pat Flynn - every successful writer and marketer is using webinars just because of their conversion rates.
So give a try to creating webinars around the topics that solve your audience problems.
Try to tie up with the influencers in your niche.
Do interviews with them.
Ask people to join your list to watch your webinar recordings.
You can also consider using Google+ hangouts to you build and grow your lists.
Likewise, conducting or attending blogging related events can also be a huge help.
Not only you will find like minded people to connect but events will also help you grow your online business.
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28. Automate Everything

When I say automate everything, it doesn't mean you should start creating blog posts using automated tools.
It means hiring someone to write your posts, seeking SEO help from others, increasing your sales by hiring a marketer, etc.
We all know blogging means doing a lot of things from creating content to posting on social media to increase SEO traffic to boosting your sales.
If your blog starts generating money, you can spend up to 50% on hiring others to automate your blogging needs.
That way you can save a lot of time, and you can use that time to make more money online.
That's what every successful marketer do to grow their businesses online.
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29. Update Yourself with New Information

Did you know the BIGGEST mistake most bloggers make?
It’s rehashing content.
Why should anyone read your stuff if you are repeating what everyone else is saying?
To create a profitable blog that makes money and adds value to others, you need to research a lot.
Read often.
Write more.
Be creative.
And create problem-solving content that’s useful for your target audience.
To do that, you need to gain more knowledge.
Read books.
Watch TED talks.
Go through the answers on Quora (it’s a great platform for intellectuals).
Create Google Alerts for your targeted topics to get updates about the latest and trending news.
My Image Optimization guide is a good example of problem-solving content. Have a look here.
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30. Don’t Give Up Just Yet

It really frustrates anyone who is blogging for several months or years and quitting just because of lack of sales or traffic.
I know you might have tried almost every single strategy to persuade your website visitors to buy your stuff.
But I suggest you NOT to quit.
Instead, read marketing and psychology related books.
I highly recommend Influence, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich books if you are starting out.
You will get plenty of ideas on how to sell without sounding like a sales guy.
Always remember why you started in the first place when you are thinking about quitting.
Motivate yourself to continue and focus on the next step, not on the final result.
You will surely get rewarding results in the long run for being persistent.
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DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Sydney Sydney is a slick business theme with a gorgeous fullscreen sliding (or static) header and nice touches like subtle animated text slide-ins and hover animations. This theme is a great option for businesses and offers plenty of customization options, including Google Fonts, unlimited color combinations, and sticky navigation. It’s super easy to set everything up using the WordPress Theme Customizer. The homepage uses “blocks,” which you can drag and drop and rearrange how you want it to look. You can also set parallax background images for any row of blocks, which is pretty cool. Like other contemporary themes, it’s responsive and translation-ready. Interested in Sydney? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Spirit Spirit is a high-end professional profile theme that features stunning imagery, clean typography and custom-built touches. Its ideals for personal trainers, yoga studios, wellness clinics, in fact, any business that focuses on healthy living. Spirit’s logical design helps you highlight your products and services with customizable CTAs, testimonials and pre-built pages. It also comes with lots of pre-built custom elements, like galleries and contact forms. It has a wonderful “coastal” color palette that is stunning, but you can change this up with your own collection of colors. It goes without saying that this theme is responsive and translation-ready (aren’t all themes these days?), and can be completely customized thanks to the Upfront theme platform the theme has been built on. Interested in Spirit? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Scribe Scribe is a beautiful artisanal theme for WordPress that is sophisticated and stylish. With Scribe, it’s all in the detail. Everything about this theme is custom from the stylish gallery to the font pairings, page templates, bold imagery, list layouts and textured backgrounds. This theme is ideal for small businesses that have an edge and want their online presence to match. Think Etsy-style shops that sell handcrafted jewelry, bookbinders, made-to-order leather bags and personalized stationary. Interested in Scribe? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Fixer From its colorful one-page layout to its wall-to-wall mega header slider and rainbow of colors, Fixer demands your attention – and is exactly the kind of bold online presence you need. This theme comes with all the standard features you need for your business and then some, including eye-catching CTAs, sliders, a sortable gallery, and custom page templates for your portfolio, blog, about and contact pages. But what I love most, though, is the easy to set up “Get a Quote” custom-built form – it looks really slick Other awesome features include the fact it’s translation-ready and responsive, and if you want to change up how this theme looks, it’s easy to add in full-width video, more sliders, fewer galleries, lots of images… This is a truly customizable theme only limited by your imagination. Interested in Fixer? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Zerif Lite With more than 100,000 active installs, Zerif Lite is one of the most popular free themes available for WordPress. And it’s easy to see why. Thanks to its minimalist design, versatile layout and plethora of customizations, this theme is easy to mould into whatever site you want. Built on BootStrap, it features a fullscreen header and support parallax backgrounds. It’s also compatible with WooCommerce, WPML for translation support, RTL (right to left). It also comes with the standard “must-haves” you would expect from any contemporary theme: it’s SEO-friendly, retina-ready and responsive. Interested in Zerif Lite? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Kale Whether you like this theme’s hipster namesake or not, there’s no denying this theme’s charm. Aesthetically, it’s gorgeous. The homepage features plenty of space to display posts but isn’t at all cluttered, making it perfect for bloggers, and in particular food bloggers (in case the demo images didn’t give it away!). Want to set up an online shop? Kale is a great choice. It supports WooCommerce, a super popular eCommerce plugin for WordPress, making it easy to sell your product (maybe a collection of recipes?) in no time. It’s responsive, of course, and when you look under the hood, it supports other important stuff, like SEO and RTL. Other cool features: built-in menus for displaying your social presence, multiple blog feed layouts, text and image logo options, sidebar size options (compact and default), banner/slider color overlay options, and more. Interested in Kale? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Spacious Minimalist multipurpose themes are a dime a dozen these days, but what I like about Spacious is that it sticks to the basics: it’s responsive, supports eCommerce (WooCommerce in particular), it’s translation-ready, and has a lovely sliding header. Spacious comes with a heap of customizations you can play around with, including four page layouts, two page templates, four blog display types, 13 widget areas, five custom widgets tailored for business websites, color options to match your branding, boxed and wide layouts, and light and dark skins. With the right images and content, this theme would be a great option for any business website. Interested in Spacious? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Writee Writee is a blogging theme, yes, but it makes its own rules. Borrowing from multipurpose themes, it features a large hero (slider, if you want) header, but also allows for a sidebar, which you don’t see all that often in themes these days. It comes with a heap of options for rich customizations, like a fullwidth or boxed header. It’s also translation-ready, which is super handy when most WordPress users speak English as a second language. There are also nice touches like custom widgets and, of course, you can use the Theme Customizer in the backend of WordPress to further customize the look and feel of your site. Other features: responsive and mobile-friendly. Oh, and check out the typography – it really helps make this theme stand out. Interested in Writee? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Illdy What I love about this BootStrap theme is the use of color. There isn’t a lot of color – a splash of yellow here, some purple there – but it’s used effectively to give this minimalist (there’s that word again!) theme some personality. Thanks to the Theme Customizer in WordPress, it’s super easy to customize this theme however you like – colors, hero images, tweaking sections, you name it. And also thanks to its one page layouts, it’s perfect for businesses, agencies and even personal websites. Like a lot of the free WordPress themes in this list, Illdy is compatible with WooCommerce and Font Awesome, and also supports popular plugins including Contact Form 7, Jetpack, and W3 Total Cache. Interested in Illdy? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Fluida Fluida is a modern and grid-based WordPress theme that is pretty darn nice! It’s a HTML5/CSS theme, it’s responsive and, thanks to its framework, comes with more than 100 Theme Customizer settings. Yep, that’s a lot of settings! The theme’s images have all been created using HTML5, CSS3 and icon fonts so it’s extremely fast to load. It’s also SEO, RTL and translation-ready, using microformats and Google readable Schema.org microdata. There are also 100+ social icons, three menus, six widget areas, eight page templates, and all post formats. For developers who want to further customize Fluida using a child theme, there’s clean code, either hookable or pluggable functions with clear descriptions and more than 25 action hooks. Interested in Fluida? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Parrot Parrot is a flexible tech-inspired business theme that’s perfect for helping you showcase your new product. Whether you’re preparing to release a new app, launching a new online service, or you just want to tell the world about a new WordPress plugin you’ve built, this themes includes everything you need to sell your stuff, including bold CTAs that are front-and-centre to help direct your visitors. Parrot’s clean navigation will ensure no visitor to your site is ever left scratching their head wondering where to find your products or services. Other fantastic features include pre-built pages for features and downloads, galleries, clean typography and full-width video. Interested in Parrot? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Panino Panino is a vibrant and colorful one-pager theme aimed at cafes and restaurants. It features a custom-built hand-crafted tabulated menu, which you can modify to suit your branding. If you have a constantly changing menu, making updates is a breeze – it only takes a minute to update your food and drinks. This theme comes with a custom-built image gallery and a cool lightbox for showing off your latest dishes or even photos of the inside of your restaurant – why not show off customers enjoying your food? The theme’s header is fully customizable, which is vital, of course, because first impressions count! Whether you want to set a single header image, a slider or even a video, you can do all of that with Panino. It’s also translation-ready and looks fantastic on mobile. Interested in Panino? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Edge Smart typography choices can really make a theme, and Edge is no exception. This gorgeous theme makes the most of free Google Fonts, in particular Lato and Playfair Display, a great sans serif/serif combination. Edge is easily customizable from the aptly named Theme Customizer in WordPress and is ideal for bloggers (with the sidebar) and businesses (without the sidebar and some homepage tweaking). It’s also responsive, mobile-friendly, and optimized for speed. Interested in Edge? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Anissa Another gorgeous WordPress theme that’s completely free. Seriously, the standard of themes in the WordPress.org repository has really lifted over the past couple of years! Anissa is a theme for bloggers, and particularly female bloggers with its (cliche, I hate to say it!) feminine styling and elegant typography. It features a customer image header with text and you can upload your own logo to match. This theme also has a featured post carousel, which allows you to choose the category you want to use and the number of posts to display. Other nice touches include an “About Me” widget that allows you to add a photo and social media link, and you can add social links to the header. Other important features worth noting: responsive design, mobile-friendly, WooCommerce compatible Interested in Anissa? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Brilliant This beautiful magazine and blogging theme for WordPress sure has style. Brilliant features a fixed width homepage where you can feature your latest blog posts. There’s also a customizable sidebar for displaying comments, categories, and recent posts. In fact, everything is customizable in this theme (as it should be!) thanks to the Theme Customizer in the WordPress admin, so you can change colors, the header, widgets in the footer and more to suit your branding and style. Yes, it’s a pretty simple theme, but if you’re looking for a no-nonsense theme to show off your words, and you’re not planning on opening an online store, then you can’t go wrong with this theme. Interested in Brilliant? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Optimizer I must admit, I got distracted looking at the preset templates for this theme. Dang, they’re gorgeous! But I digress… Optimizer is a fantastic multipurpose theme that comes with a whole lotta powerful features, including the ability to create a full blown site with drag and drop widgets, enabling you to add any type of content anywhere on your site without touching code. Customizations include: fullwidth and boxed layout options, image slider, easy logo upload, 600+ fonts, the ability to add custom CSS, and unlimited color options. It’s responsive, SEO-friendly, optimized for mobile, retina and translation-ready. This theme also supports WooCommerce, bbPress, MailChimp, and Contact Form 7. Interested in Optimizer? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Shop Isle With its stunning fullscreen header, Shop Isle is a bold eCommerce/BootStrap theme designed for WooCommerce stores. It’s pretty flexible, too – you can use it as a one page business site, and make customizations to take advantage of features like parallax. This theme also provides support for WPML for language translation, Photo Gallery grid, Contact Form 7, Meta Slider, SiteOrigin Page Builder and Jetpack. It’s also SEO friendly and responsive. Shop Isle is also easy to tweak using the Theme Customizer in WordPress, so you can update fonts, colors, logos, social links and the theme layout. Interested in Shop Isle? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Olsen Light Olsen is a straight up blogging theme for WordPress and features a traditional blog posts on the left and sidebar on the right design. It features all the usual trimmings you’ll find in contemporary themes: custom widgets, social networking icons, and translation support and SEO support. It’s also completely customizable from the Theme Customizer in WordPress, so you can update the header, menus, layout, footer, and colors. Interested in Olsen Light? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Teletype Teletype is a minimalist blogging theme built on BootStrap. It comes with a lovely masonry post layout and you can drag and drop to re-order sections on the homepage, which is pretty cool. Features includes the ability to completely customize the homepage, including fonts (Google Fonts), colors, the header image, background colors, logo, social media icons and more. You can also turn the sidebar on and off, depending on your design preference. This theme is also translation ready. Interested in Teletype? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Sensible WP Sensible WP is yet another responsive multipurpose theme. It’s pretty basic as far as multipurpose themes go and doesn’t offer WooCommerce support, so this theme is better suited to agencies and small businesses that don’t have plans to sell online. As far as customizations go, you can control all the usual tweaks in the Theme Customizer, including colors, fonts, logo, and more. This theme also comes with XML demo content, which is handy for those who don’t like setting up a skeleton website. It’s also SEO and translation-friendly. Interested in Sensible WP? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Eleganto Despite its name, Eleganto is neither graceful or stylish, but it does have a slick design suited for businesses. The homepage is easily customizable and features cool animations and a assymetrical parallax effects, which you don’t see very often. This theme is built on BootStrap and is responsive, SEO-friendly and translation-ready. Customizations include: unlimited color options, social links, parallax background effects, five portfolio animations, more than 100 theme options, custom background, sticky menu, left or/and right sidebars with five size options, slider, section carousel, testimonials carousel, blog section, and contact section with Contact Form 7 support. Eleganto is also WooCommerce compatible. Interested in Eleganto? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Luke + Sara Whether you’re a wedding photographer, an artist or just love getting creative, share your work and sell your services with Luke + Sara’s modern design, full-width videos (including video header), and stunning image galleries. This theme’s huge images steal the focus, thanks to Luke + Sara’s boxy image layouts, masonry portfolio, and mega sliders – all designed to show off your best work. If you’re a business owner and looking to sell your wares, don’t miss this theme’s pre-built pricing page and table that will give visitors your site a quick overview of your services and prices. Luke + Sara is also responsive and translation-ready. Interested in Luke + Sara? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Astrid This elegant WordPress theme is a delight to use thanks to its easy customization on the backend and stylish design on the front-end. Astrid features all the standard trimmings you would expect from any theme: customizable header, theme options via the Theme Customizer, and support for translations. The theme is also responsive, which is fairly standards for all new themes these days. Astrid features a lovely hard header and clear CTA on the homepage, which is ideal for business websites. It’s also WooCommerce compatible if you’re looking for a simple, minimalist store theme. Other nice touches: smooth scrolling and subtle animations. Interested in Astrid? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Hemingway I’m a big fan of Anders Norén’s themes minimalist WordPress themes and Hemingway is no exception. This simple theme is perfect for bloggers with its fullwidth header and standard blog posts on the left and sidebar on the right design. What I like about this theme is that, like Ernest Hemingway it’s namesake, it’s not trying to be flashy or over the top – the design shines through its economical design. Features include: responsive design, parallax scrolling, custom accent colors, custom logo, and widgets for Video, Flickr and Dribbble. there are also some nice page templates, and the code is translation-ready. Interested in Hemingway? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Hoffman Another Anders Norén design, Hoffman is a beautifully minimal one page WordPress theme for bloggers. It has a thoughtful responsive design and the use of icon fonts makes sure that Hoffman looks great on devices of all sizes – big and small. This theme supports the gallery, quote and video post formats, all presented in unique and impactful ways. Standard run-of-the-mill posts look great as well. It comes with built-in support for the Jetpack plugin’s infinite scroll function and tiled gallery. Hoffman includes five custom widgets for recent posts with thumbnails, recent comments with avatars, Flickr, Dribbble and video. You can also customize it further by changing the accent color, switching the background color or adding a background image. It also includes two page templates, support for post editor styles and support for theme translation. Included translations: Swedish/svenska. Interested in Hoffman? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Lovecraft And another Anders Norén-designed WordPress theme! Lovecraft is a beautiful two-column WordPress theme for bloggers. It features a two-column design with considered typography choices – it really is a joy to read. The big header image makes a striking first impression and is replaced with the post thumbnail on single posts and pages. Lovecraft has built-in support for Jetpacks Infinite Scroll function, which means that new posts will be loaded as soon as you reach the bottom of the page. You can also use the Jetpack Tiled Galleries function to display posts in a beautiful masonry grid. This theme is built to scale gracefully to any and all screen sizes – from a 27″ desktop display to a 3.5″ smartphone. The navigation and search form is hidden behind easy-to-access toggles on mobile. It also features editor styles, a full-width page template, three custom widgets and translation-ready code. Interested in Lovecraft? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Fukasawa Okay, one last Anders Norén-designed WordPress theme. Fukasawa is a minimal masonry blog theme for photographers and collectors. Fukasawa features a beautifully minimal layout that displays your posts, images and videos in a Pinterest-style grid. It’s perfect for sharing your content and, in particular, your images. There’s support for the image, video and gallery formats, and presents your galleries in a beautiful slideshow above your posts. Regular old posts look great as well. Like other Anders Norén themes, Fukasawa enables you to load new posts without reloading the page using Jetpack’s Infinite Scroll feature, and display your images in a beautiful grid with Jetpack Tiles Galleries. You can also change the accent color, upload your own logo and use the sidebar widget area (including five custom widgets) to give Fukasawa a personal touch. Interested in Fukasawa? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Gillie Gillie is an elegant business theme designed for YouTuber who want to grow their following. It includes all the key elements you need to share tutorials, course materials and make your passion a fully-fledged business. Build your user base with slider CTA overlays, testimonials, eye-catching imagery, free downloads and easy access to your channel. Scattered image placement, testimonials, and promotional text make your home page feel more like an invitation than a sales pitch. Expand your reach and create a new stream of income with a dedicated site for building your user base. There are pre-styled MarketPress and WooCommerce page layouts that enabled you to get a shop up and running without any customization, so you can start selling everything from downloadable sheet music to physical copies of your latest album. Interested in Gillie? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Issue This magazine-style design is ideal for taking your print publication to a digital audience. Issue will make it easy for your subscribers to find articles that match their interests thanks to its strong use of typography, image buttons and simple search, giving readers quick access to blog posts and articles. Issue includes space for advertisement strategically placed throughout the site. Run a special, promote a local business and generate additional income. The included contact page provides a simple way for users to get in touch. The big interactive Google map, built-in contact form and stylish social icons are both visually appealing and functional. Interested in Issue? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Make Make is a free open source builder theme that – according to its developers – has been refined over 5,198 times. Okay, that’s a lot of development time, but what makes it special? Its biggest feature is its intuitive Make Layout Engine, which is basically a page builder for WordPress. It’s designed to work like a native component of the WordPress page editor, so if you feel comfortable writing a post, it won’t be much of a learning curve getting used to building pages. You can take care of all customizations using the Theme Customizer in WordPress. Every detail, big or small, is yours to customize, including fonts, line height, spacing, even word spacing. Make is WooCommerce compatible, so if your plan is to build an online shop you won’t have any trouble selling physical products. If you want to sell digital goods, Make is compatible with Easy Digital Downloads. And if you want to add forms to your site, simply drop in Gravity Forms. This theme is also responsive, SEO-friendly and retina-ready. Interested in Make? DETAILSDEMODOWNLOAD Seriously, when did the standard of free themes in the WordPress Theme Directory suddenly get so good? This list is a collection of our favorites. If you have a favorite that we missed, share the link below in the comments! Raelene Morey: View a list of posts by this author. Rae is the managing editor at WPMU DEV. When she’s not picking apart other people’s words or working on websites, she enjoys brunch, biking and bushwalking. Fancy some more reading? READ ARTICLE WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT FOR INTERMEDIATE USERS: THEME DEVELOPMENT IN DETAIL READ ARTICLE WORDPRESS DEVELOPMENT FOR BEGINNERS: BUILDING THEMES READ ARTICLE 10 HOTTEST WEB DESIGN TRENDS YOU GOTTA KNOW FOR 2017 Or how about trying out our plugins and themes for free? Try (and keep) all WPMU DEV plugins, themes, services and full 24/7 support, free for an entire month - no catch! SPIRIT A professionally crafted, high-end portfolio theme with a fresh, natur LEARN MORE FIXER A flat and vibrant business theme for selling your services and standi LEARN MORE PANINO A friendly one-pager theme inspired by the delicious coffee, tasty foo LEARN MORE LUKE + SARA Let your images speak for themselves with Luke + Sara, a contemporary LEARN MORE 4 Responses Youri Regular Joe: Earn your WPMU DEV membership 51 pts: Hero points 7 pts: Rep. points LEVEL 0 Very useful post but I think you miss one of the best free themes with a pro version; GeneratePress. It’s super fast, clean code and for just $ 39,95 you can use it on unlimited sites with almost customizing every pixel. I use it on 45+ websites now :-) May 15, 2017, 5:19 pmMay 15, 2017, 5:19 pm: Link to comment Log in to Reply Click to visit Google Plus profile Click to visit Twitter profile Raelene Morey Author: Earn your WPMU DEV membership 9 pts: Hero points 644 pts: Rep. points LEVEL 6 Cool, I’ll check it out :) May 16, 2017, 2:36 amMay 16, 2017, 2:36 am: Link to comment Log in to Reply Tony Site Builder, Child of Zeus: Earn your WPMU DEV membership 242 pts: Hero points 233 pts: Rep. points LEVEL 4 I’ve recently had to look through themes for three completely different types of businesses. One site is for a café, another for custom jewelry, another for software. There are themes slightly targeted to these “vertical” applications. (Note the awesome evolution of WP here where blogging is now just a feature, not the primary application.) The more time I spend looking at themes the more I’m able to differentiate them based on immediate suitability for the application, ease of use, customizability without getting into code, and basic functionality. Some free themes are really just a tease for an up-sell. Others are so good that I feel like paying the developer, even for their free theme, just so they don’t lose interest in their work. My approach is to install a theme, spend about 30 minutes in the Customizer, and see what it takes to modify the home page, a single post page, and the various widgets and menus. If it’s not feeling good in 30 minutes then it gets uninstalled. And for me that’s really at the heart of all of this. I no longer look for great themes. I look for themes that serve the immediate purpose adequately. Theme developers get bored. They move on to the next fun project. They don’t want to look back and maintain what they’ve already created. WP changes frequently and developers are looking to create new themes, not to retrofit existing ones. So, as much fun as it is to look for great themes, the reality is that “good enough” is acceptable. We shouldn’t spend too much time looking for “great”, because we’re going to have to do this at least once per year if we’re going to keep a site fresh and functional. There is a never-ending stream of “high quality themes for 2014/15/16/17/+..”. It does help to look for consistent developers who produce a new good theme with each new WP update. In business terms, getting a completely new theme from a new developer is going to cost time=money. Developers come and go so (unfortunately) if you’re doing this for a living it probably makes good sense to align yourself with a single theme publisher where there is more than one developer. This helps to get the consistency of the vendor, not the individual. I’m really sorry WPMU DEV, but I recently spent a lot of time with Upfront/Parrot and was not impressed. This is at least the third time that I’ve given this parent theme an opportunity for a new site. It failed in many ways when editing individual pages, and was frustrating and inadequate to create a common multi-page site. I absolutely will not install Upfront or related child themes for at least another year. Perhaps by then you’ll have worked out the multitude of usability issues and overall inadequacies. Please don’t ask what the problems were. I started to document the issues in my 30 minute re-review but after spending 2+ hours with more note taking about problems than progress on a web page I decided my time needed to be redirected to current efforts rather than doing QA for someone else’s theme. And that’s precisely my point about theme selection and these frequent reviews of current themes. If you spend too much time fighting with a theme, chuck it and go for something else. Our task is to create websites, not to debug other people’s software. There are plenty of themes to choose from. Don’t waste time=money on themes that might look great and have a lot of nice features, but they’re a pain to use. Add that to your criteria for choosing a theme for your next project.

Theme shops have changed the game, lifting the standard of themes you’ll find in the free repository with free versions of their products. And these free versions come complete with features you would have previously only found in premium themes like WooCommerce support and responsive design. Gone are the days when downloading a free theme meant settling for a subpar theme. Now you can – and should – expect a well-coded theme that’s completely customizable using the Theme Customizer. Here’s our list of the some of the best free WordPress themes you’ll find in the WordPress Theme Directory that have been developed by premium theme shops, plus a few released by independent theme developers. Flash Flash is a good-looking multipurpose theme with a minimalist aesthetic – ideal for business and corporate sites. It features multiple pre-built demos, which you can import in seconds using the ThemeGrill Demo Importer plugin. The theme also integrates with the Flash Toolkit ...
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10 Quickie Tips and Tricks To Massively Increase Your Blog Traffic

Blogging is not hard, keeping up is. You can write anything, it’s your blog but when it comes to traffic, the ball moves to your audience’s court. If you want your blog to be flooded with traffic, you need to get into action now. Here are some of the best actionable tips and tricks to drive huge traffic to your blog. If you think writing awesome content alone is important to get readers glued, let me tell you, your content will be called “ awesome ” only when people read it and that is why this post on how to get those people to read your blog is crucial. So read mindfully. When it comes to increasing blog traffic there are millions of creative ways to increase blog traffic . And I am here to show you some sure shot methods to get the ball rolling. At the end of each point, I will point out some awesome actionable tips which will help you double or triple your traffic. 1) Let Alexa bring you traffic: We all bloggers are well aware of Alexa. Alexa ranking is measured...
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