Blogger Series: Daniel Scocco from DailyBlogTips.com
Daniel Scocco has content and plenty of blogging content. DailyBlogTips.com is one of the original blogging websites for bloggers that is still around today. Everything a blogger needs to know about or even is thinking about Daniel has written about it. His audience is as passionate and driven as Daniel. As I am writing this, Daniel just published an article and literally in 10 minutes has received over 11 comments on that one article. DailyBlogTips.com is among the 100 most popular marketing blogs in the world (according to AdvertisingAge)! Clearly, Daniel knows what he is doing. Lucky for us, we were able to grab him for an interview and tap into his brilliance.
Q: When was Daily Blog Tips founded?
Daniel: I started the blog back in 2006.
Q: Tell us a little bit more about Daily Blog Tips? Why did you start it?
Daniel: I started building my first websites and blogs in 2005. Initially it was just a hobby, as I doubted very much that people would end up visiting them….
After a while the traffic started picking up, though. One of my sites started getting over 500 visitors per day. That got me surprised and excited at the same time. In 2006 and I decided to quit my full time job to dedicate all my time to my blogs and websites. I also wanted to share the tips and tricks I was learning along the way, and that is when Daily Blog Tips was created.
Q: Blogs have become more influential every year, do you see this continuing and why?
Daniel: Yes I believe this trend will keep going, for several reasons. First of all more and more people are discovering blogs every year. Second, they are realizing that writing a personal diary where you talk about your cats and dogs is not the only thing you can so with a blog. In other words, blogs are just a type of website. The content that you put inside them is up to you. It can be a personal diary but it can also be highly influential tech news like the guys from TechCrunch do.
Finally, the user generated content as a whole is getting more and more established on the Internet, and blogs are part of that.
Q: What is your favorite blogging platform?
Daniel: Definitely WordPress. It is open source, easy to use, fast, and reliable. What else could you ask?
Q: You literally run a massive website, do you have any help?
Daniel: On Daily Blog Tips I pretty much do all the work. Writing content is the bulk of it, though, and I have a lot of fun publishing posts there and interacting with the readers. So it doesn’t feel like work at all.
Q: Any tools you can suggest?
Daniel: Some that I use regularly: Google Webmaster Tools, Aweber, Google Analytics and Gmail.
Q: How can people find you?
Daniel: I also have an account on all major social networking sites, but I rarely update my profile there or interact with other people. It would consume far too much time.
Q: Any helpful tips for beginners?
Daniel: If you are just getting started with your blog, focus on creating outstanding content (stuff people will read and want to share with their friends) and on promoting that content to as many people as possible.
Once you reach a good amount of traffic (i.e., over 1,000 daily uniques) you can start thinking about monetization and other aspects.
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