Does Your Internet Home Business Have a Blog?

By William Preston

When it comes to running an internet home business, it is vital you do anything you can to separate yourself from the rest of the competition. There are a number of things you can do to better yourself and your business, but having a blog connected to your site can do a lot for you.

One problem that can be hard to get around when running an internet business is getting stuck labeled as just another small business owner. The last thing you want to do is hide behind your business name and never connect with visitors and customers. That is just one of the many benefits to having a blog.

When you have a blog, you have the ability to get out and interact with visitors away from your business. You can open up and show people your true side as oppose to them just thinking of you as another entrepreneur running a business. Over time, you will gain the respect you deserve and the trust that you want.

Another advantage to having a blog for your internet home business is the ability to listen to what other people have. While it is your blog and you have the power to lead the conversations, you can also sit back and read what kinds of ideas and thoughts other people have. You will find that many people have questions on certain ideas, which allows you to find the answers and present them in your next blog posting.

When posting yourself, you can show people that you know what you are talking about. If you are going to have a blog for your internet business, you want to make sure to post at least once a day. Any less than this is just a waste of time. The more you post, the more you will find people coming back to read what else you have to say.

Lastly, having a blog allows you to throw in information about specials or new products you will be selling. The great thing about having a blog is that you can get away from being a small business owner. But this does not mean you cannot still promote your business from time to time. Every once in awhile drop a posting about a special you are running or details on a new product that you feel will greatly benefit people.

There is no question that having a blog connected to your internet home business is becoming a must. More and more people are creating blogs for obvious reasons as you can benefit greatly from having one for your business.

William Preston http://www.howmakemoneyweb.com

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All About the Traffic Blog

By Steven Lam

Traffic only means that the content is not that good. However, there are also instances wherein a great blog does not have enough traffic. The key in getting traffic is to come up with a strategy and make everyone notice your blog. There are a few things that you need to consider with regards to generating traffic to your blog and these are not that different from planning a regular Web site.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is your target audience and where exactly you are generating your blog's traffic.

The Content

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  The content of your blog is very important. It is the reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your blog interesting and learn to master the ideas included in your blog. The content should also be relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out what your audience wants and if what you are writing satisfy them.
  


• The content is especially important if you are planning sales from your blog. Firstly, you must become a trust-worthy and credible source of information before people try the product. Blogs are excellent medium for sales since they allow you to connect and converse through the use of the content. You must realize that without a great content, your blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against others.
  


• In order to gain audience for your content, remember not to publish infrequently. Additionally, do not criticize others if you do not have facts to support your claim and references for those facts. If you criticize, do it in an objective non-personal manner. What you can do is to publish often and make sure that the entry you are about to publish is meaningful and of high-value. Lastly, be yourself to help your audience relate to you but do not reveal any private information.

The Ping

• Some bloggers take the extra mile just to ping and do not solely rely on the blog software pings. The blog software pings' job is to update the servers for the purpose of announcing your content updates. Search engines and blog directories then checks these update servers for the latest updates; this is the reason why your blog's content gets into search engines quickly.


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  Pings make blogs excellent search engine optimization tools. There are even instances where it only takes a day before your content gets into search engines. However, your blog's content will only take hours to a few days to get into most search engines, on average.


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  When starting a blog, always check the instructions included. There might be section wherein you can turn on the blog software ping automatically, which activates on the background. By doing so, whenever you publish content in your blog, it will instantly transmit ping updates.


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  RSS feeds are also important. Not only will you be able to publish your content within a short duration but also replicate your content through the use of your RSS feed. Nowadays, the flow of your content is real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content to a wider audience.

There are several ways to promote your blog. However, keep in mind that there is no strategy for quick money when it comes to profitable blogging. It requires dedication, time, a strategy for the content and patience before the cash starts flowing in.

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Build Traffic and Brand Awareness by Buying Blog Reviews

By Shane Hester

If you do business online, then you undoubtedly know the power that bloggers have. They can influence sales with just a few keystrokes, sometimes starting a global trend almost effortlessly.

If you've ever wondered how to use that power to your business' advantage, you're not alone. Businesses around the world use blogging in some way to increase their exposure and their sales. Many businesses have their own blogs, while others simply read blogs as a way of conducting market research.

One of the most controversial uses of blogs in business is buying blog reviews. The concept is simple enough: good reviews on other people's blogs means positive increases in your business. To gain some credibility and a loyal following, some businesses pay for bloggers to write glowing reviews about them.

Paying for blog reviews is not only about building brand recognition and exposure. It's also about gaining links and dominating the search engine results for your particular keywords.

Is buying blog reviews ethical? It depends on who you ask and how you go about it. If you are purchasing links to your site outright, you will be flagged and penalized by the search engines. This is a prohibited practice that can have extremely negative implications for you. However, if you are experiencing challenges in building brand awareness or in getting honest opinions from consumers, buying blog reviews may give you the break that you need.

Think of blog reviews as a type of market research. By asking a blogger to use your website or product and review it honestly, you can gain valuable insight for a much lower cost than that of conducting an actual market research study.

If you decide to buy blog reviews, it pays to know how to go about it discreetly. Although you may have the best of intentions for buying blog reviews, your customers (or potential customers) may be turned off by the knowledge that you have paid for reviews.

There are several blog review services out there that cater to businesses looking to buy blog reviews. They can get you in touch with bloggers who are willing to write reviews. However, this should be approached with some caution. The reviews resulting from these transactions will most likely sport a disclaimer at the bottom saying that the blogger was paid for their services.

Another option is to approach bloggers directly. Find a blog in a niche that complements your own, and ask the author for their honest opinion of your site or service. Often, bloggers are more than happy to review your product if you send them a sample or demo.

However you choose to buy blog reviews, encourage the blogger to write naturally. Don't provide them with a script or with instructions that don't allow much personal interpretation. If the paid review looks and feels like a paid review, the chances are that it won't have the effect you had hoped for. Aim for an organic feel and let the blogger express their honest opinion about your site or product.

While it remains a controversial and oft-maligned practice, buying blog reviews can genuinely give your business a boost when it is most needed. It's not easy to break through the noise and build your brand online. Buying a few reviews can grow your brand awareness to the point that you start getting unsolicited reviews. That is the ultimate payoff for your hard work.

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Get More Traffic For Your Blog

By Robert Paterson

Many people would like to get more traffic for their blog. But how can this be achieved? Here is a method that has worked for me.

There are absolutely tons of gurus and "experts" on the internet nowadays, telling you about this technique or that technique of SEO, or about some software that will explode your website traffic figures to make you a billionaire by next Tuesday, without you having to lift a finger. It seems to me that most of their methods are just wishful thinking or made-up stuff. It is also very interesting that most of them involve some cash outlay by you, which cash goes into the pockets of the guru.

I have found a way of generating a steady stream of traffic to your blog. This method will almost certainly not give instant results, but it will give solid results in terms of increased traffic over a reasonably short period of time.

And the beauty of it is, you will not have to lay out so much as a single penny. Not to me, not to anyone.

This is how it works. First you start a blog on one of the free blogging platforms, such as wordpress.com or blogger.com. Add some AdSense and maybe a few affiliate links. These can be fairly unobtrusive, they do not have to jump out into the reader's face. In fact it is probably better if they do not. Once you have your blog set up, post one article per day on the blog for a month. At the end of the month, you will have a blog that has about 30 posts, and you will be getting a modest but steady stream of visitors.

In the second month, post one article every week. Then in the following three months, post an article on the blog each month. After this time, your traffic should be flowing in at a constant rate, and it will thereafter run on autopilot. Check the blog stats occasionally. If it starts to dip, just post another article and the traffic will rise again. You can even bring up the traffic by adding a comment in your name as a kind of update on one of your own posts!

I know that all of this works, because I have done it myself. This is not a made-up thing, it is a proven method.

Experience seems to indicate that the blog should be focussed, that is, that the articles should all be on pretty much the same subject or topic. This is often described as "blogging to a niche". People say that you should do this so your readers are clear on what the blog is about, but that is not the reason at all. Your readers do not mind one way or the other. The reason for the focus is so that the SEARCH ENGINES know what the blog is about, because search engines LOVE categories. So if you are interested in a lot of different things, why then, start a lot of different blogs!

When I tried this method out the first time, at the end of the first month the blog was getting around 300 visitors a day. Now if you have AdSense, you will get roughly 1 in 10 visitors clicking on an ad, each one generating an income of about 10c a click for you, giving you $3 a day or $90 a month. Now that may not sound like very much, but remember that this is for an initial cash outlay of absolutely nothing. And once the blog reaches the autopilot stage, you are getting cash for doing nothing at all. Leaving you free to do what you want. Maybe start another blog?

Now, I am not going to try to sell you an ebook, or even give you an ebook worth $97 absolutely FREE, in return for you adding yourself to my mailing list so I can send you a whole string of pointless emails that try to sell you something you do not want. Once you have tried the method above, you will be able to write your own ebook. So leave the gurus and "experts" to it. They cannot even agree among themselves. The biggest secret, which is really no secret, is that you need to have patience, and experiment, experiment, EXPERIMENT!

Robert Paterson writes on many and varied subjects, he enjoys giving helpful advice, and is a useful person to have on your pub quiz team. For more tips, ideas, help, advice, and information, click on http://website-traffic-building.blogspot.com or http://phe-about-blogging.blogspot.com

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Blogging - What's New?

By Pat Marcello

The question I'm most often asked by my coaching clients about blogging is, "What am I going to write?" And because of this block in their thinking, they often shy away from having a blog at all.

Yet, blogs are the best way to communicate with your list. And... they're also awesome ways to get traffic.to your money site--the place where you make money. It can be your own website or an affiliate site. It really doesn't matter. An effective use of blogging for business is a very smart investment of your time and effort.

You see, search engines love blogs because blogs have RSS feeds. These feeds convert your blog posts into plain text, and is why when you subscribe to an RSS feed, you need a feed reader. Without one, the blog content looks like a jumbled mess of letters. There are no images, no code, and no formatting. Feeds are just pure words.

Search engine spiders love feeds because they aren't fettered by the limitations of the human eye. Spiders can breeze over the jumbled text very quickly and understand what the feed means. So, if you use the right keywords in your post, the spider will see them, and quickly learn what your post is about. This gives you a leg up with search. In fact, if you post with your keyword in mind, while keeping your posts readable and enjoyable, you can rank almost instantly in Google.

So, back to, "What is there to write?"

Blogging ideas are all around us. Surf the web for your niche and find interesting sites. Interview the site owners and use the interviews as blog posts. Record the interviews on a bridgeline like The Basement Ventures at TheBasementVentures.com, where you can get an .mp3 of your interview and just embed it into your blog.

Make a video with your web cam or flip cam. Or, you can report something cool that you find in the news and put your slant on it. This is very easy to do because there's a very powerful way to get news about your niche, and it comes straight from Google.

All you have to do is to set up a news "Alert" at Google, and you can have items mailed to any email address you wish. Then, you just take those stories and turn them in to blog posts. Rewrite the information in the news item and bang! You have a blog post, and depending on your niche, this could be every single day.

The first thing to do is to go to Google News at http://news.Google.com. In the left-hand sidebar, you'll see a hyperlink that says, "News Alerts." On that page, you just type in a general keyword for your niche, and Google will deliver the alerts to your inbox. You can have them as they occur, daily, or weekly. However, if your niche is very busy--say sports, for example--you could get a ton of email! So, set the alert, and if you need to go back and change the frequency of the messages you receive, you can do that whenever you want.

This is a great way to get your blog posts started! Find an interesting news story and describe what happened and add your thoughts about the situation. And here's the cool thing: If you post to your blog every day, you'll get tons of subscribers coming to you for up-to-date information. In the case of medicine or health and wellness, for example, this could be very desirable, and there are many niches where this could apply.

But don't allow not knowing what to write stop you from having a blog! Google Alerts is a great way to keep those creative juices flowing and for you to keep on blogging. So, set up your alert today and see how easy it is to make your blog a success!

Pat Marcello is an SEO, Blogging, and Social Marketing specialist and the content manager at Tellman Knudson's Overcome Everything, Inc. She loves to work with the people on her own list and her coaching clients about Internet marketing, especially blogging. Check out the generous package of information on blogging, delivered via video, articles, mindmaps, audios, etc. when you become a lifetime member of Blogging4Boomers at http://Blogging4Boomers.com

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How to Build Sustainable Traffic to Your Blog Through Comments

By Oussama Messaoud

Blogging is all about socializing. A blog that doesn't generate interest and initiate discussions on the topics it covers, cannot claim to be a very successful blog. This main characteristic of blogs is achieved through the comments that readers post as a reaction to a published article.

Comments can bring complementary information on a matter and express a different point of view. It can also bring you traffic. In my blog readings, I often come across posts that are giving tips about getting more traffic/exposure. One thing that everyone agrees on and keep on coming as a great way to drive visitors to your blog, is commenting on others'. In fact, it's a very efficient (and free) way. Here is how you can get the most out of it:

(1) Look for blogs that you find interesting. You are more likely to have something to say about things that interest you. We are not talking about commenting just for the sake of leaving a link. That would be more like spamming, and people won't be eager to visit your blog if they don't find your comment interesting. Ideally you will teach them something in the comment already and they will be willing to visit your blog to learn more, because they will see you as an expert in that particular field.

(2) Leave comments whenever you think you have a point, even if you think it's not of a great value. As long as it's relevant to the topic, it may be of a help for another reader. Again, never comment just for the sake of commenting. It would bring the opposite effect.

(3) Try to write on blogs that deal with the same topic as yours. That would bring targeted visitors to your blog that are more likely to become loyal readers and ensure a regular and stable traffic in the future. I don't exclude the option of writing on blogs that talk about different things than you. It can bring short term traffic, and you may want that. I am just saying that the first option brings a more long-term traffic.

(4) Be involved in discussions. Don't just leave one comment and run. People may not want to visit your blog when they first see your comment, but when they read your name several times, they get familiar with it and will be more curious to see what you have to say in your own blog.

You get visitors, keep them :

The above mentioned tips can indeed help you increase traffic to your blog if done on a regular basis.

However, if you want to keep people coming to your blog again and again, subscribing to your feed, being involved and link to you, then you will have to make sure you write consistent and regular quality articles. Otherwise, readers will come once, twice and then never come back if they don't find what adds value to them. Quality content provided frequently is the key tip for a loyal readership.

Get yourself a strict planning of posting, share it with your readers and abide to it. Letting people know what you are planning to cover in your next posts, will make them want to be part of it. But again, the choice of the subjects is crucial, and the content of the articles once published is what determines if your readers would come for more or not.

Wrapping it up

As a summary, commenting on others' blogs can be a great way of driving traffic to your own, if you respect certain rules and do it in a clean and sustainable way. Nevertheless, you should keep in my mind that once a visitor is on your blog, the hardest part starts: keeping him/her there and interesting him/her to come back again and again. At the end, it's long-term traffic that a blogger needs and that requires you to service your readers with the best content you can provide.

Oussama MESSAOUD is a young part-time blogger, writing about ways to make money online, ad networks, affiliate programs and traffic generation. Read more of him on http://messaoud.info/en

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2 Easy Ways to Help You Survive Retirement - How to Make Money Blogging

By Neels Theron

How to make money blogging? Hey, many of us over 45 may seem old and on the verge of toppling over from the perspective of the youthful Web 2.0-ers, but some of us do actually know how to earn money on the internet!

In fact, many of us have quite a serious incentive to know what's going for what in the world of Internet Marketing, for the simple reason that we ARE nearly keeling over, and we NEED to make a fast - and lasting - buck to provide for our upcoming retirement...

To be more precise: we need a consistent, secure, low-maintenance - even automated - source of income that will outlast us in our twilight years.

Well, if you have a couple of years left till retirement and you know how to make money blogging, it's entirely possible to provide for a comfortable supplemental retirement income, or to even enhance it significantly!

Here are two important methods to consider:

1. Start blogging for AdSense dollars

Start a niche site using one of the blogging programs available, such as WordPress. The advantage of using something like WordPress is that it's free, you can install it on your domain within minutes, and there are Adsense ready templates available to add ads automatically to your blog.

If you do some research, you will find many, many profitable topics to write about. Try doing product reviews for items that are in great demand. These will always attract lots of advertising for your AdSense income.

If you post and promote your articles regularly for a year or two, you will receive a steadily growing income that will eventually require very little maintenance, and that can sustain you for a long time, while you happily go on your world cruises!

Don't know how to blog? You will find lots of info on the web to make it quite easy to teach yourself blogging! Before you know it, you will be an expert on how to make money blogging.

2. Start an opt in email list

While a blogging site with AdSense income can provide a really good long term passive income, it is always good to spread your risks, especially when it comes to retirement! One of the best retirement assets you could build up is probably an opt in email list, or a double opt in leads list, as it is also called.

The idea behind this method is that you will have a ready market at your (arthritic!?) fingertips for a long time to come. Once you have a good list of say a couple of thousand leads, you can market affiliate products to them as often as you need to supplement your retirement income.

How does it work? A very effective way to build an opt in email list is to set up a squeeze page on your site. This can be done within a few minutes if you use one of the many available templates specially prepared for this purpose. The squeeze page captures the contact details of your visitors, mostly by offering them some kind of bonus in return.

You also need to set up an autoresponder follow-up system which sends out information and offers at regular intervals - all of this can be fully automated to leave you the freedom of enjoying your walks or books or the visits from the grandchildren!

Now, just settle in and drive traffic to your squeeze page and see your list grow over time!

If you stick it out diligently for a couple of years, you will be surprised at the income stream you have at your disposal for those lazy years ahead! Who knows, once you discover how to make money blogging, retiring may not seem like such an inviting prospect after all...

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Increase Blog Traffic

By Mohit Chawla

Submitting articles is a very effective way of bringing traffic to your blog. But it takes a little bit of time. If you want to submit articles to these article sites you have to be a good writer. You can't submit useless material. Whenever, you submit article, these sites provide you a box or space in which you can write about yourself and about your site along with this you can also provide link to your blog there.

Your job is over here and you have to just wait and watch. People visit these article sites, where you have submitted your article, in two ways. First is through Google search and some of them directly access these sites. So, when they read your article they will also see author's biography box where you have provided information about yourself and your site along with a link to your site. They can access your sites through this link. Not only this, Some people may find your article so useful that they copy it and paste on their own sites but they also have to copy and paste that magical box i.e author's biography box where you have provided link to your blog.

The visitors have to do this because of the copyright laws according to which they cannot modify your material and also they have include author's biography box. Now, when they copy paste your article along with your blog info and link they are improving your ranking in Google search and also other people may visit their site and they will see your blog's link and can visit your blog and hence a chain reaction will start. So, look at the power of your one article and imagine if you will make it your routine what!. But you have to be patient. So start this from today.

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What is a Blog? My Views

By Maverick Augustine

What is a blog? Now many of us start it for many different reasons....But how many of us truly knows what a blog is and how to create and maintain a successful blog? I'm no blogging guru or some blog marketer. Just like you, I'm just an individual who got into blogging & taken it on as a hobby,to blog about things that catches my attention & intrigues my mind.

Not to mention there are millions of articles out there that teaches us how to create a blog & get traffic to it...And having read so many of them, it has truely tired me out.Each day, millions are creating a new blog around the world...But there are millions as well who give-up blogging each day...Why so? Has blogging lost its true essence?

There are also many so called experts and gurus who have claimed to have made lots of money through blogging....But seriously, how many of them are speaking the truth or as a matter of fact aren't creating a computer written article to get people to sign up for their advertising programmes. I've also come across many new to the blogging world,and trying to find out what this whole blogging hype is about and how they can create a successful blog, hence the reason for me to create this Blogging post.

What is a Blog?

-Blogs (or Weblogs) are basically online journals or diaries which are great for sharing information and ideas. A blog is a personal diary. A pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

As well as text, blogs often contain audio, music, images and video.

They're also really easy to make, so you can have one even if you aren't very technical. Anything can be posted instantly to a blog.

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog.

What Makes A Great Blog?

When reading a blog what is it people are looking for? Is it content? Is it the unique story a writer has to tell? Or, is it a combination of things?

Some people look for writing content. Others look for graphics and then some people like to go to blogs because,they can find their entertainment in video content.

Writers are in general unique by them self. Every writer has their own style when they write their own original content. At the end it is always the choice of the visitor. When they like your entertainment they will return.

If a question is raised in a specific topic, more then likely visitors return just to see if there is an answer posted. So,no matter what is presented a great blog is great when the visitor likes it.

There is no one way to write a great blog post. The best blogwriters have all found their own voice, their own techniques.You'll do that too, but you won't succeed right away.

The reader should be at the center of everything: the topics you choose,the way you write, what you include and what you don't.Forget that, and you've made a huge mistake.

Put yourself into your writing. Let your voice speak through. Speak to the readers. Write as if you're talking to them.

Sure, they're not talking back, but only for the moment. Soon they will. So talk as if you've got their ear, and as if they're listening but just chomping at the bit,waiting for their chance to respond.

Another thing I did was to go to my local library and borrow some great books on blogging and soon i was off on my own little blogging journey. Life is a lesson, each day is a learning experience.

Hope witting this post has given those out there a little information to help u in your own blogging journey.

Have fun blogging guys. ~Cheers~

Do Visit My Blog At: http://spiritus-maverick.blogspot.com/

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What is a Blog? My Views

By Maverick Augustine

What is a blog? Now many of us start it for many different reasons....But how many of us truly knows what a blog is and how to create and maintain a successful blog? I'm no blogging guru or some blog marketer. Just like you, I'm just an individual who got into blogging & taken it on as a hobby,to blog about things that catches my attention & intrigues my mind.

Not to mention there are millions of articles out there that teaches us how to create a blog & get traffic to it...And having read so many of them, it has truely tired me out.Each day, millions are creating a new blog around the world...But there are millions as well who give-up blogging each day...Why so? Has blogging lost its true essence?

There are also many so called experts and gurus who have claimed to have made lots of money through blogging....But seriously, how many of them are speaking the truth or as a matter of fact aren't creating a computer written article to get people to sign up for their advertising programmes. I've also come across many new to the blogging world,and trying to find out what this whole blogging hype is about and how they can create a successful blog, hence the reason for me to create this Blogging post.

What is a Blog?

-Blogs (or Weblogs) are basically online journals or diaries which are great for sharing information and ideas. A blog is a personal diary. A pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world.

As well as text, blogs often contain audio, music, images and video.

They're also really easy to make, so you can have one even if you aren't very technical. Anything can be posted instantly to a blog.

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs, house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. While not a legitimate type of blog, one used for the sole purpose of spamming is known as a Splog.

What Makes A Great Blog?

When reading a blog what is it people are looking for? Is it content? Is it the unique story a writer has to tell? Or, is it a combination of things?

Some people look for writing content. Others look for graphics and then some people like to go to blogs because,they can find their entertainment in video content.

Writers are in general unique by them self. Every writer has their own style when they write their own original content. At the end it is always the choice of the visitor. When they like your entertainment they will return.

If a question is raised in a specific topic, more then likely visitors return just to see if there is an answer posted. So,no matter what is presented a great blog is great when the visitor likes it.

There is no one way to write a great blog post. The best blogwriters have all found their own voice, their own techniques.You'll do that too, but you won't succeed right away.

The reader should be at the center of everything: the topics you choose,the way you write, what you include and what you don't.Forget that, and you've made a huge mistake.

Put yourself into your writing. Let your voice speak through. Speak to the readers. Write as if you're talking to them.

Sure, they're not talking back, but only for the moment. Soon they will. So talk as if you've got their ear, and as if they're listening but just chomping at the bit,waiting for their chance to respond.

Another thing I did was to go to my local library and borrow some great books on blogging and soon i was off on my own little blogging journey. Life is a lesson, each day is a learning experience.

Hope witting this post has given those out there a little information to help u in your own blogging journey.

Have fun blogging guys. ~Cheers~

Do Visit My Blog At: http://spiritus-maverick.blogspot.com/

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8 Tips to Create a Blog Post That Gets Your Reader's Attention

By Mark Mccullagh

The biggest challenges facing most bloggers is not only creating content on a regular basis, but also writing posts that will actually get read by your target audience.

Have you ever landed on a blog and found yourself looking at a huge amount of text that looked like one big sentence? My guess is that you didn't bother to read that post.

Here are 8 helpful tips to write blog posts that get attention:

1. Perform keyword research but don't overuse your keywords.

Make a list of the keyword phrases that have the most search volume in your niche and write posts relevant to those keywords.

Include the keyword phrase you have selected in your headline and in the first sentence. Use variations of the keyword in the rest of the post and write naturally, avoiding repetition.

2. Use headlines that are catchy and arouse curiosity.

Your headline is the most important part of your post and is the most crucial single factor that will determine whether your post will get read.

It is a good idea to copy headlines that catch your eye and create a swipe file that you can use as a reference.

Your headline should appeal to the emotions of your reader, which leads us to the next point:

3. Know your reader.

This point is illustrated wonderfully by internet marketing expert Eben Pagan who said that when you write, try to picture your reader at home alone, sitting in front of their computer.

• What is this person thinking about?
• What are their problems, frustrations, fears, and needs?
• What solutions can you offer them?

There is a conversation already going on inside your readers' mind, try to enter into it by:

4. Writing to your reader as an individual.

Imagine that the person is sitting beside you and you are having a conversation. Simply record this conversation.

Or, think about how you would address a good friend if you were sending them an email offering advice or telling them about something that you thought was really cool.

5. Be clear and concise.

Most people read posts by quickly scanning so it is important to cut all unnecessary words and get to the point as fast and obviously as you can.

The important issue here is to proofread your posts with a fine-tooth comb. Always try to look for the briefest and most direct way to get your message across.

6. Make your posts easy to read with formatting techniques.

• make your sentences and paragraphs shorter


• use bullet points and numbered lists


• break up the text with graphics


• bold important points

7. Check your spelling and grammar.

Your credibility is at stake and nothing makes a poorer impression than spelling mistakes and poor grammar.

Remember that your writing is a reflection of you and this will directly affect your readers' opinion of you.

8. Use lots of links.

Providing your readers with additional resources will add to your credibility and authority in your niche.

Linking to other sites will also help you build a network within your niche as these sites will often end up linking to you as well.

The whole purpose of blogging is to have your posts read.

I hope that you find these tips helpful and I invite you to share any tips that you have found effective.

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Presidential Convention Blogger Tent?

By Lance Winslow

Apparently, Google is going to set up a huge tent outside the democrat convention in Denver for bloggers who will be blogging about the event. Perhaps, you are unaware that there are some 500 dedicated bloggers who helped Senator Barrack Obama with his rise to Stardom. Well, these bloggers, many of them are still at it attempting to get the word out and get Obama elected. Google realizes that they want to be involved in the race to show their technological and Internet prowess.

The Republicans have about 200 dedicated bloggers out there, not as many as the democrats, but a respectable number of fully dedicated individuals. These bloggers are actually certified with credentials from the national parties. Each of the credentialed bloggers has a vast amount of knowledge of current political events.

So, what will these "big Google Tents" have in the way of accommodations? Well, they will have high-speed Internet access, electricity, food, couches, beverages, smoothies, and HD TV of all the news media. Cost, $100 for entry and a work station to blog away on. And these are not little tents, we are talking some 8,000 square feet or so.

For those who do not have the respect for the Blogosphere or do not understand what it is all about or why it matters, soon they will see just why it may be the bloggers that swing this election. Both the Republicans and the Democrats are counting on their bloggers to make a difference. Will it be enough, can they make a difference? We shall see, but one thing for sure, either way they are making history.

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How Web 2.0 Benefits Your Home Business

By Koua Her

This are no more excuses for those of you who are not utilizing Web 2.0 to build your home business. The reason I say that is because your biggest competitors are already way ahead of you.

At the very least you should have a blog set up to add fresh content to your website on a consistent basis. These do not even have to be article masterpieces in either.

Some of the best blog articles are only 200-250 words long. You do not need to use a lot of filler words either because if you identify a problem and solve it you can easily do that in three to four paragraphs.

Search engines love blog articles and you need to be taking those and using them to build your home business. One way to do that is to social bookmark all of your blog post.

I would hope that you are set up with a WordPress blog! You should also have the plug-in for social bookmarking and the social directories are installed and ready to go.

When you make a blog post you just click on the drop down menu and quickly bookmark those blog posts to some of your favorite directories. You also might want to consider utilizing onlywire.com as another method of quickly bookmarking to multiple directories with one click.

Web 2.0 is more than just blogging however. This is where you get your visitors involved in the process.

You allow them to watch videos and listen to audio. You let them add comments, which increases your fresh content naturally. You add polls to your blog and let them vote.

If you have a good blog people will enjoy participating and will want to subscribe to your RSS feed. This is a great way to automatically keep them notified every time you make an update or add a new article.

All of these things benefit your home business because all of the credibility that your building, both for yourself personally and for your business.

There are many ways to make money on the Internet today, but people are searching for things to get involved in. They want more than a business opportunity. They want someone to work with them.

In summary, this is really how Web 2.0 benefits your home business more than anything. It allows you to become a person that they want to work with, and in turn allows you to build your business by working with them.

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Business Blogging is Big Business!

By Julie-Ann Amos

Blogging is big business right now, everyone has a blog from the big guys at Microsoft to next-door's angry teenager. It's quick, it's easy and it's a great marketing tool for a business.

Business blogging can be used to keep customers and visitors up to date on what's going on in a business, what's coming up, general chit-chat that doesn't fit anywhere else on the company site but might be interesting. It also brings a personal feel to the site when it's done right.

No matter how corporate and professional the web site may be, business blogging should be kept on a conversational level. It's an informal contact that can be used to communicate and to sell at the same time. Keep up with comments made from visitors and reply to them if necessary - it shows that their comments are valued and they'll likely return.

It doesn't always have to be the guy in IT who does the blog just because it's a technical thing. Anyone can write it, it's the person who knows what they are talking about on that particular subject that makes the blog work.

Link to other blogs and articles of interest around the web if it's appropriate to. Linking is a big feature of blogs and it can encourage return links. Use trackbacking, if possible, a form of notifier between blogs to say they've been commented on. This kind of networking can provide both valuable visitors and some good links to feed the search engines with.

Linking the blog to an RSS feed is a good idea too, as it will automatically tell interested parties when it's updated, to save them having to keep checking back. They may even forget to occasionally, so a gentle prod will bring them back to keep up with the news.

The regularity of a blog is important, therefore it needs to be thought out before setting it up to make sure there will be things to say. Try to set a regular sort of time for postings. Daily, every three days, every week, it doesn't really matter as long as it is regularly updated - that is the point of a blog.

The search engines will read the blog and will like it for being kept up to date. So, make sure to get a few keywords in there without going overboard and it will know the content is relevant to the site, helping keep it's spiders busy and listing positions as high as possible.

If a business blog should not work out for any reason, collect pertinent posts for a news archive and close the blog gracefully over a period of time rather than immediately, making sure to inform regular users.

And finally, enjoy it! People will know if the blog is enthusiastic or if it's being done as a chore - guess which one they will prefer to read.

Julie-Ann Amos is a professional writer and business consultant. She has over 14 books published in many countries. She runs Exquisite Writing, a large freelance writing agency that produces a wide variety of articles, web pages, website contents, books and ebooks as well as daily/weekly/monthly blogging services for an international client base. Topic experts available for a wide range of subject areas, such as blogging.

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Build Your Email List by Using Your Blog

By Jonathan Hook

Every blog marketer knows the importance of having a list. It can't be stressed enough. The bigger the list, the more business potential you have at your fingertips. It is essential that you know how to use your blog to build your email list exponentially to keep that potential alive and flourishing. So how do you do that?

The most obvious and basic thing you can do to encourage sign ups is to provide genuinely helpful and unique content. If you do nothing else, practice this essential consistently to ensure return readers and interested opt-ins.

If you are providing a blog that people are considering valuable, they will be easily encouraged to share and forward your newsletter to others. Naturally, your newsletter should have an opt-in box for the recipients to easily register with. This step presents the opportunity to double your list of email addresses. Think about that - double, with very little effort. All you're doing is asking your readers to share. If they're enjoying your writing, they'll be happy to oblige.

Should you find that you're not getting as many referrals as you'd hoped from doing the above, try a little motivation.

Offer an incentive to those who help you increase your number of registrants. It doesn't have to be costly, though you could offer cash payable through PayPal. People are often pleased to receive a free report about a subject they're interested in that pertains to your business.

If you really want to thrill and excite them into helping you, offer to write a blog post about them. Every person who brings you X number of new sign ups will have their business highlighted on your blog.

You may already be offering a free report on your blog site to entice new sign ups. If so, don't forget to explain that the email address being entered will be added to your list. People don't like feeling that they've been tricked onto a list. Honesty may lose you an address or two, but will win you an integrity that will take you much farther.

Along the same vein, give your readers a feeling of being in control by segmenting your lists according to subject matter. Readers can then sign up only for the topics they're interested in.

Why not try something that survey sites use? Offer a contest ballot each time a reader gets a referral to join your list. The prize could be anything mentioned above, or something else your loyal supporters deem worth winning.

Another benefit to the personal touch is that your readers will feel part of a fold that has the inside track to success. It creates a team atmosphere that will in turn create motivation to help build your list. When this happens, you have people on board that feel rewarded and really want to help. The more interested and involved your opt-ins are, the better your list and therefore the selling potential within it.

Tons of people are using their blogs to implement subscriptions, as well as increase their numbers and keep everyone happy that they signed up in the first place. Have fun with the process and enjoy the interactions with your faithful readers, and the subsequent increase in sales.

Once you learn how to use your blog to build your email list, you'll wish you'd started using the strategy sooner. It's easy, and only involves a little work. The return you'll get on the time spent will be more than worth it.

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Relying on Blogs - Cost-Free Internet Marketing Method

By Jimmy Chuang

It's been years since blogging has been practiced. But it's just recently that it has been considered as one of the addicting fads.

Knowledgeable advertisers have found out that blogging is an ideal and cost-free Web advertising system.

Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

1. Let your clientele and patrons be abreast of your site's changes. New items you're putting out and associate sites might be promoted through the web log.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Voice out your beliefs, recommendations and appraisals regarding particular services or items that are involved in your industry. Being published is easy through web logging.

4. Add links that would result in more linkbacks, which would then increase your rank for search engines. By publishing excellently written content on your site, you can succeed at this. By adding links for affiliates on the blog, you'll generate more money.

5. Gather feedback via the capacity of web logs to get comments coming from the blog's audience. You may get data and improvement for your commodities and your services using these comments from them.

6. Simply interact with other web loggers. When they realize that your blog has good content, these people will add you to their list of favorites and they'll immediately linkback to your own blog.

How does one create blogs? The following are some means for you to benefit from this entertaining method of promoting your Web Company.

Either you load a blogging software or let a blogging hosting service do it for you. Host services such as LiveJournal and Blogger.com are the most popular in this field. Those hosts will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog.

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Powerful Reasons to Blog

By Jeremy Long Chia Teik

Blogging is the in-thing on the web. It is phenomenal and overwhelming in effect. What makes blogging so powerful? Why does people go blogging, be it having fun or doing their online marketing business? Why are they striving towards blogging for dollars?

Interestingly, the blog provides you with many opportunities for various activities that you can think of. Your blog may be just purely personal or it may be used for marketing purposes. There are indeed many powerful reasons for you to blog.

(1) A valuable opening platform for writers

The blog is indeed an opening opportunity for aspiring writers, especially those who have the flair and interest in writing. After each post that they have made on their blogs, they can convert that post into an article and submit to various article directories. Good and well-written articles get featured on these article directories. They may also be searched for and used by various publishers. Such writers will attain the status of expert author and achieve credibility, respect and value for their written and published articles.

(2) Opportunity to learn much more

Every blogger needs to learn from others. Your blog should have the option for readers to post their comments, that is to say, the comment box is a valuable learning source. Comments can be both positive and negative, but still you would have to adopt an open mind. Turn negative feedback into learning opportunities. You will be amazed how much more brilliant ideas can spring from adopting this mindset. The opportunity to learn much more from other bloggers is one of the many powerful reasons for you to blog.

(3) Make more friends

It is a well known fact that blogging is fun. You will get to experience the joy of getting to know more new friends from all over the world. Friendship will grow with time. The world shrinks through blogging. You can exchange ideas, views, and conduct discussions with those who share the same interest as you. That said, you can actually form a community of bloggers with similar interest. It will be a warm and beneficial world of your own!

(4) Blogging opens and powers up your connections

This is a very powerful reason to blog. Making use of your blog, you are able to reach millions of people all over the world. There are many social bookmarking sites on the web, for instance, MySpace, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg, Friendster, just to name a few. The potential number of friends you can get through these sites is unlimited. It is a great and effective way of enlarging your connections. Just be interactive, make your contributions, and importantly, use your voice through your blog. This is the intrinsic characteristic of blogging.

(5) The blog is a powerful marketing medium

Online marketing produces best results through the blog. Blog marketing is increasingly used by online marketers for various reasons. The blog provides traffic to your business. More importantly, it will be the targeted audience. A vital reason to blog concerns the all-important opportunity for you to build customer relationship. With posts of good advice and expert information in your blog constantly updated, the marketing battle is half won especially when you have secured good rapport with your customers.

(6) The blog is a hot favorite for search engines

By now, it is obvious that the blog is indeed the blue-eyed boy of search engines. You cannot run away from this fact. Your blog must be specially optimized for their spiders. You have got to make these spiders fall in love with your blog, if you want to sit at the No 1 spot of Google! If everything goes well, you will receive increased visibility for your blog, and needless to say, increase in traffic follows.

In conclusion, blogging introduces you to the world. It is beautiful out there. All you need is just a blog and your voice. You will enjoy. Are not the reasons listed above powerful enough for you to blog? Yes or Yes? Say YES! Have fun!

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Improve Your Blog Traffic to Maximize Earnings

By Jeevan Jhon

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the best way to bring targeted traffic into your blog.These days most of the traffic comes from major search engines like Google, Yahoo & MSN. So by optimizing your site for these search engines , you can maximize your earnings from blogging. There are lot of techniques that can improve your search engine visibility.

1. By exchanging Links

Link exchanges is the best way of improving your blogs search engine rankings.Link exchange is to be done with blogs of with similar contents and interests .When Other blogs links to your sites, they acts as a your referrers in the search engines .As we know When some one refers ,the fame will shoot up than self promotion .And same will happen here to increase your page rank and search engine traffic. For link exchanges you can contact other bloggers through their emails or can participate in active webmaster forums

2. Write keyword rich blogs

When writing your blog content care should be taken for Writing truly informative and keyword-rich articles. The articles you write in blog should be checked for similar copies using sites like copyscape.com to avoid copycats. But remember, don't stuff articles full with your keywords that will make a boring experience for readers.

3. Use an attractive domain name

What will make your visitors remember your blog but with a very easy-to-recall short domain name. Registering your domain name is not free so when you select a domain name be creative . The same holds for those who uses the free blog softwares like blogger and wordpress.

4. Organize your site and providing sitemap

Providing sitemaps for your blog can help search engines in finding your contents and to index them . Similarly easy to navigate menu's and interface makes the visitors to explore your blog more.

5.Submit RSS feeds

Use feed managing and social bookmarking websites to increase the popularity of your blog posts.

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How to Write Great Blog Content Quickly - 2 Shortcuts to Get More Blog Readers Fast

By Ian Hollander

In this article we are going to take a quick look at how you can write great blog content quickly. The simple truth is that for most of us, creating copious amounts of killer content on our blog sites is often tedious, time consuming and frustrating. Writers block often feels more like the creative equivalent of the great wall of china, and high stepping these hurdles sometimes feels like more effort than it's really worth. (which is why something like 98% of blogs will NEVER make $100 online) I say with the proper amount of philosophical fuel you can create tons of content quickly without having to break a creative cognitive sweat, and I'm going to share with you too elegant and easy ways to do it! Read on..:-)

Shortcut #1: Use great free blogging tools

One of the best ways to build a great readership quickly is to have lots of content, right? The easiest way to do this, especially if you maintain many sites like we do, is to use free tools to help you get there. Flock, for example, is one of MY favorite blogging tools, it's a FREE browser that doubles as a GREAT way to interact with content you find on the web that would be helpful to your own blogs readers. Simply right click, and post great content, pictures and more STRAIGHT to your blog with properly formatted links back to the original content source! Dead simple and a hyper fast way of marking up and creating killer content quick!

Shortcut #2: Plug and Play Content Creation

It's no secret that some of the very best blogs are simple, useful and "list" driven. What does this mean? Simple! Lots and lots of lists! 5 ways to do this. 7 ways to do that. 3 tips for something else. The beauty of these sorts of sites is that not only can you sort of interplay and overview LOTS of topics quickly, people (and search engines) love these sort of bulleted blurbs that are short, sweet and easy to read. I simply create a master list of "power" words, and plug in an article a day, per niche in this simple format, often giving the very same topics a FRESH spin simply by changing the way in which they are presented to my readers! Very easy, and effortlessly efficient as well..:-)

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Blog Profits - How to Create a Traffic Sucking, Money Cranking Blog

By Fabian Tan

Undoubtedly, blogging is one way to create massive amounts of cash online. But you've got to do it right to see a steady amount of traffic and also make some cool profits.

Here are the steps to create a traffic sucking, money cranking blog:

Step 1 - Find Your Topic

Step 2 - Create Content

Step 3 - Set Up Plug-Ins

Step 4 - Drive Traffic

That's it, 4 simple steps to the money zone with blogs. Here are the details:

Step 1 - Find Your Topic

Find a topic you like and is profitable. Use keyword tools like Wordtracker or Google's Keyword Suggestion Tool to check out the search popularity of topics. Wordtracker's paid version has a special KEI (keyword effectiveness index) that compares demand (searches) with supply (search results).

Step 2 - Create Content

Create content for your blog. You can either write it by yourself if you know the topic well or you can hire a professional from places like Elance or Get A Freelancer to get the job done. Post content regularly to your blog.

Step 3 - Set Up Plug-Ins

If you use Wordpress, you can install plug-ins that will make your traffic generation tasks easier. Search Google for recommended Wordpress plug-ins or top Wordpress plug-ins and install them in your control panel.

Step 4 - Drive Traffic

Drive traffic to your blog using various strategies like tag and ping (pinging your blog using a service such as Pingomatic), search engine optimization, article marketing and social bookmarking. These 4 strategies alone will drive a massive flood of visitors to your blog!

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How Blogging Makes Building High Traffic Easier to Do

By David J Ogden

A nice looking blog is not going to get the job done. What is going to get the job done is combining blogging with other marketing methods to build high traffic more quickly. Let's take a little closer at how your blog can make building high traffic easier to do.

The basics of Internet marketing and in getting traffic have always been about getting back links. A back link is where your website address is on somebody else's website, or where your blog URL is on somebody else's website or blog.

Some of that you can control and other ways you need some help. It all starts with writing a good article and getting it posted in your blog the right way. For this you might want to study up a little bit on search engine optimization, but targeting the right keywords in your blog post is one of the keys to this.

The next thing you want to be sure and do is social bookmark every blog post. You can quickly do this by joining Onlywire and the social directories they include. You should also bookmark your blog posts to some of the major social directories such as Stumbleupon, Digg, and Propeller.

Another thing you can do is post comments in other people's blogs and include a link back to your own website or blog. These can serve search engine bait, as well as again give you a back link where people can find your site from.

Posting in discussion forums is another way to do this. Include a link in your signature file back to your website and to your blog. You are not only going to increase your traffic, but you are also going to increase the quality of your traffic doing these sorts of things.

Today allowing customers to get involved in the blogging process is a great way to get repeat traffic. Invite them to leave comments about your blog articles. Be sure in reply to their comments and let them know to you have done so. This is a way to get them coming back on a consistent basis.

Other things you can do include adding audio and video to your site, which makes it more interesting, allowing them to vote in polls or surveys, and even allowing them to add blog articles themselves.

Blogging definitely makes building high traffic easier because there are so many ways you can go about getting people to come to your blog and getting them to come back.

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Business Blogs - Why Starting a Blog Will Increase Your Credibility and Visibility on the Internet

By Connie Ragen Green

Blogging to build your business has been a hot topic of discussion for several years now. If you want to increase your credibility and visibility online, starting a blog is the best way to do this. Blogging allows you to get your information out to others, while also giving your readers a way to connect with you and to be part of the conversation.

When you first start to blog it may seem like you are writing to yourself. Everyone goes through this for a month or so at the very beginning. But if you define your target audience and use your keywords in your blog post titles and blog domain name, readers will begin to find you and you will see the results very quickly after that.

Make sure that you have a form on your blog where readers can leave their name and email address. This will help you to build your list and give you the opportunity to contact them away from your blog. Depending on your type of business, you will want to promote other products and services that will be of interest to your readers.

Post to your blog regularly. I recommend posting every day for the first one to two months. This will give your blog lots of good content and be a great resource for anyone who finds you through a search of any kind. The more content you have on your blog, the higher it will rank in the search engines. Every time you make a new post you have created a new page. The search engines will crawl your blog and make it appear more relevant for your keyword phrases.

Choose your categories wisely. Think about your business and the topics that you will want to cover to share your information with others. Make a list of these topics and add them to your category list. A new visitor to your blog will be able to click on the category link and see all of the posts you have written in that category. That is convenient for you and for your readers. If you are writing an eBook, categories will help you to organize your chapters.

Ask others to write guest posts for you. This gives you a break from blogging and makes your blog more interesting and informative to others. Many people will be glad to have the opportunity to write on your established blog to gain more exposure for themselves.

Blogging will enhance your current business or help you to build a new business online. I encourage you to get started right away so that you can reap the rewards of regular business blogging.

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Blogging For Your Business - 7 Tips on How to Blog to Build a Profitable Online Business

By Connie Ragen Green

Blogging will change the way you do business, whether your business is online or off. Once you set up your blog and become part on the conversation in the blogosphere, nothing will ever be the same. You will want to make sure you get off to a good start, so that your valuable time will make a difference in your business.

First, decide what kind of blogging you will be doing. Will you be promoting your business, expressing your opinions, or providing information for people who are interested in a specific topic? Once you know the purpose of your blog it will be easier to plan what to do next. Here are some ideas for setting up your blog so that you can gain visibility and credibility online, and build your business on the internet.

• Choose either Typepad or hosted WordPress as your blogging platform. This way you will own your blog and have control over its content and existence. The free blogging services provide no customer service and can delete your blog from their servers at any time. You do not want to lose your hard work and effort, so choose a hosted blogging platform to begin with.
• Define your target market and ideal client. Who are you trying to reach with your blog? What do these people want to learn from you? Make some notes and then just start blogging. Over time you will refine what you are writing about and who you want to reach. As you do this your blog become more relevant to the people you are reaching out to.
• Make a list of topics you will be writing about. These topics will become your categories on your blog. Choose your categories carefully, using your keyword phrases to guide you. This will help you to be found by the search engines for your keywords, and will also help people who come to your blog and want to find information on a particular topic.
• Post to your blog regularly. During the first month or so, post every day to your blog, even if you are only writing a few paragraphs. This will help to increase your blog's popularity as you begin to gain visibility online. You want to build up a strong foundation of valuable content for your readers.
• Become active in social networks to find new readers and get more ideas. Joining Facebook will allow you to syndicate your content through something called an RSS feed. RSS stands for really simple syndication.
• Read and comment on other blogs regularly. You can search for blogs on your topic at Technorati, the largest blog directory in the world. Becoming part of the conversation with other bloggers will help you to increase your standing in the blogosphere.
• Have fun with your blog! If you do not enjoy the blogging process there is no point in doing it. Once you get started you will find that your online business will flourish and you will be able to create exactly what you want online.

Consider these 7 tips as you begin to build your business through blogging. You will find that blogging is the fastest and easiest way to reach people who are interested in what you have to share with them.

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Tips For Finding Easy Blogging Software Online

By Colleen Slater

Is blogging easy? It can be with the correct guidance and the right blogging platform. People new to blogging are easily overwhelmed by the range of websites to create their blog on. This article will discuss two of the most popular free methods.

Firstly - Blogger

Simply by setting up an account you gain access to endless blogging possibilities. You are able to choose a design for your blog page at the very start and can start posting and have your post published in a matter of minutes. If you need to add an additional link to a second page or video feature, Blogger will show you how.

Blogger may be a simple, casual type of software, but it can really enhance your blog pages. It all depends on how you use it and what designs you choose for it. It offers numerous template choices. Some are fun, designed specifically for casual use. This kind of use would be recommended for a newsletter for friends and family (like a diary format). There are also basic types that are more suited for newspapers and commercial uses.

There is something for everyone at Blogger. One drawback though is that you can't install Wordpress plugins that make blogging so much easier

This brings me to probably the most common choice - WordPress blogging software. The beauty of Wordpress is that you can create a blog straight on wordpress itself, or you can create Wordpress on your own domain and webhosting provider.

While these two free blogging solutions are highly recommended, sometimes you need something a bit more innovative that is a number of blogging tools in one.

Firepow blogging software is the largest selection of blogging tools in one and is highly recommended for regular bloggers. Instantly save 30% on Firepow and get access to my exclusive Firepow bonuses to help you make money online. PLUS when you invest in Firepow at the site below you'll also qualify for free one on one email coaching and mentoring with me. Go to http://www.firepow-software-review.com for more information!

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How to Make a Blog - Simple Instructions

By Colleen Slater

We have all heard of blogs. Many of our employers, friends, or teachers use them. Most, people would love to make one but are not sure how to. The process is really very simple. You just go into a blog service that allows you to set them up.

Blog Services

One such place is Blogger. You can create free weblogs here with ease. You simply need to set up an account with a user name and password, select a template, change some settings if you like and start posting. Blogging really doesn't need to be harder than that.

There are a range of free templates at Blogger. The template will actually be the overall design or theme of your blog. It's a good idea to have an eye catching blog rather than a boring one. You can also add elements to the pages of your blog. This is where you can promote products or link to other websites in the sidebar and the footer of the site.

Creative Blog Ideas

This all depends largely on why you're blogging. If it's a personal blog or diary you can post photographs, updates of what's happening in your life etc, your pregnancy, your babies, whatever you feel like.

If you're creating a blog to make money from it you have the choice of being paid for ads that people click on from your blog such as AdSense ads by Google or else you can promote other people's products on there. You can post artwork, videos, papers, newsletters, whatever you decide.

The beauty of blogging is it's a quick and very easy way to alert the people in your life as to what is going on in your life, particularly for personal diary blogs. Professional ones consist of business facts, newsletters, the latest news and updates.

Weblogs are also used in many school systems. They are effective in posting announcements or for students to post papers. Newspapers use their blog pages to post additional facts and or articles. This is a great way for their readers to comment on the latest news.

Basically, blog pages can be whatever you design them to be. The choice, style and type are completely up to you.

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Corporate Blog - Do You Need One?

By Christopher Bibey

Do you want to establish your company online? If so, a corporate blog may be right for you. Over the past few years, corporate blogging has become more and more popular. There are many reasons for this, and you should realize that all of them can work to your advantage in one way or the next.

First things first, a corporate blog allows you to become an expert in your field. Instead of a static website that offers the same information day in and day out, a blog allows you to update with new content whenever you see fit. Over time, your audience will grow and you will eventually be seen as an expert no matter which industry you are in.

To go along with this, a corporate blog can help to increase business and profits. Once again, as you become known as an industry expert more people will turn to you for advice. While not always the case, it is safe to say that many of these people will eventually turn into clients.

But I don't know how to write: this is a common statement made by many who are interested in corporate blogging but are having a hard time getting started. Even if you are not the best writer, you can still take advantage of the benefits of a corporate blog. Your best option is to hire a freelance writer who is skilled and experienced in your industry. You can assign topics, while also asking the writer to produce content on particular aspects of your company. Although hiring a writer will cost a bit of money, it will pay off big time in the long run.

Corporate blogging is not going to die off anytime soon. More companies than ever before are getting involved, and if you are smart, you will do the same in the near future.

Hire a corporate blogging professional to assist with content creation, marketing, and much more.

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Like Blogging? This is How to Make Money by Blogging

By Chris M Dillon

If you like blogging, and are good at it, this is how to make money off it.

First off there are three options when it comes to blogging that you can use to make money.The first of these is simple writing articles for other marketers to use, they will usually throw you fifty bucks for every ten articles you do.

The second way to make money online is to writing articles for yourself. By using online publishing sites to upload your articles, you can sign the articles with you link from your web page that viewers will see when viewing your article. If this sounds like something you would be interested in or could do easily then the only catch is that the articles you write and the website you own should all be related in one way or another.

The third way to make money off blogging goes hand in hand with the second method. This method involves having a website devoted to a master blog that you will regularly post on as your main source of income. With this method it is best to change the number one blog on your site daily or every other day at the most and news stories are the easiest to do this with. After you get your site developed and are beginning to make money then all you need to do is to introduce click able links to your site that promote similar products for extra money so that when people view your site they also view your affiliate links, this gives you a chance to make more money yet, and this is also the more widely used method.

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Quick Tips on Make Money Online From Blogging

By Alvin Phang

Everyone loves to make money online? But wouldn't it be nice to earn from blogging instead? Here are quick powerful tips on how you can make money online from blogging today!

Before we go into the details, I would like to share with you about how powerful blogs are as there are well over 115 millions online today and it's ever growing! The interesting is that many people do not released the potential of earning money through blogging.

Regardless what topic you may blog about there are always ways to make money for your blogging publishing efforts. One of the most popular way to make money from blogging is through Google Adsense.

Displaying ads on your blog is a great way to make money out of it. Do note that while writing on your blog, you want to ensure that you topics are interesting that web viewers would come back for more.

A blog which has interesting and quality content would attract people to also put ads on your blog. Earning money from selling banners on your blog is also another great way to make money from it.

Once you have a reasonable number of readers and regular visitors on your blog, you will be able to charge higher for your advertising spaces. A recommended start amount would be about US$30 a month for a simple box ad.

Another great idea you can monetized your blog even further is by adding banner ads on your blog site to sell affiliate products from Clickbank and Commission Junction. You can choose banners from advertiser's website that you want to appear on your blog to maximum the spaces you have on your blog site.

Do note when you are putting banners, it is always advisable to only put related banners to your topic that you are writing to get the best effect out of it.

In order to make your blog stand out from the rest, you would always want to generate unique original content. If you are copying ideas from others, you may split the readership of your blog with other bloggers online.

Learn to come up with unique and interesting topics in order to emerge on top of other bloggers. A great way to do this is be really honest in your articles and share what ever information you have to show them you know your stuff.

The benefits of having an original good content, your blog will have a higher chance of being placed on top of search engines too.

Another great way you can monetize your blog further is by first creating a newsletter on your blog by collecting subscribers. Once you have a base, you can also start selling ad spaces within your newsletter.

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Make Money With Niche Blogs

By Alison Wood

If you want to make money with niche blogs then you will find that a powerful piece of software which has just been released will be ideal for you. This software, EZ Niche Builder can help you quickly and easily build and deploy hundreds of blogs in any niche. Let's be clear here, these are not spammy little site replicators that leave massive footprints all over the internet which then get you de-indexed within a very short period of time, these are blogs which are going to be indexed and start earning you affiliate commissions.

EZ Niche Builder allows you complete control over the design and the look and feel of your site and allows you to plug in any or ALL of the following:

• Amazon
• Clickbank
• Ebay
• Your own Affiliate Products
• Adsense
• Yahoo
• CPA Offers

In addition you can use one of the four built-in News Feeds: Google, MSN, Yahoo or a Generic Feed of your own, to add continually updated, highly targeted content to every page.

Probably best of all though is that adding your own fresh content is as easy as uploading a plain text file with your article in it. This article will be automatically folded into the site without any further effort on your part. Of all the software available that can create niche stores, this is most likely the least complicated product to get sites up and running in any niche and to start to see affiliate payments rolling in.

EA Niche Builder is something that you should definitely explore if you aim is to make money with niche blogs. It one of the simplest, easiest ways to move forward and get a site up and running - on top of all that the personal support offered by Incansoft is second to none.

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How to Earn Money Blogging

By Alison Wood

Once you have a site up and running you can earn money blogging through a variety of means. Chief amongst these is AdSense, Clickbank and affiliate programs such as those of Amazon and Ebay.

In order to earn as much as possible the wisest idea is to get multiple sites live in a wide variety of niches. You will be amazed at how quickly the revenues from these sites can add up. Let's take some examples if you had 20 sites earning just a measly $1 dollar a day, this would add up to $600 per month. For 50 sites earning $1 dollar a day you are up to $1500 per month and for 100 sites again this rises to $3000 per month. That doesn't even take into account the fact that many of these sites will probably be earning far in advance of $1 a day through the collective power of Adsense, Amazon, Clickbank, Ebay and any other affiliate links you wish to promote. Let's say 50 sites, earning just $5 a month, that adds up to $7,500 per month. I will just say that again $7500 per month, that's $90,000 per year. Think maybe you could pay of some debts or give up working on that amount?

Yes but 50 sites I hear you say, that must be really difficult and a heck of a lot of work to build and maintain. Well that is where a new piece of software comes into play, that can make it childsplay to get these sites up and running, namely EZ Niche Builder. This software can create multiple sites for you in countless niches and you only pay a very low-one off price for the software and can them implement it as many times as you wish on as many sites as you can dream up. What's more this software come from Incansoft, who are not only geniuses in creating products that a person with limited technical knowledge can use, but have some of the nicest most approachable support people around.

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Blog For Fortune

By Ajit Airon

Thoughts of MONEY are everywhere. A father, mother, brother, sister friend or relative, whomsoever you talk --- you will find that MONEY is the basic subject which keeps on bothering everybody.

Leaving aside "What we need MONEY for", let us find out some convenient way to earn MONEY.

There is a popular saying-Where there is a will, there is a way. But how strong is the WILL? If you sincerely have a WILL for something then you have to think regularly about it. You have to devise ways to achieve it. You have to work hard for it. You don't have to loose patience but keep on trying for it-till you achieve it.

Have you ever heard of a person who just walked and got money or position and award or reward? Everybody has to work hard to achieve it.

So, in the present times of electronic age, everything has become easy. Even earning MONEY is also very easy. BUT you have to have a WILL to achieve it. The food will not jump into your mouth. You have to find it, pick it up and put in your mouth.

Whether you are a serving executive or a college graduate, whether you are a retired officer or a new mother(who has to pay full attention to her new baby), anybody can make money through trusted methods. You have to maintain patience and confidence. Your sincere labour will put you on the right way to earn a regular income.

There have been thousands of cases, all over the world. Lots of people tried to take a dip in the electronic ocean for earning MONEY but they had to loose money and time. After getting discouraged they finally stuck to their usual jobs. There have been number of cases when the persons could earn MONEY and improved their standard of living. I am sure you would wish to know the right way to approach so that your labour does not go waste.

Now I will tell you some established ways of earning handsome incomes:

1. Make a list of the subjects or items, which make you happy. It could be Games, sports, Bollywood, singing, acting, cooking, Auto repairs, Car mechanics, decorations of houses, Dress designing, facial make-ups, Jewellery designing, teaching any subject or any other subject of your taste.

2. Gather maximum information about your interested topic.

3. Put all the material in a systematic form so that you may talk about your subject as an EXPERT.

4. Organise a Computer with internet connection.

5. You need a site with your favoured name. Initially you may go for a blog with your chosen name.

6. The name of blog should indicate the material in your blog

7. Start loading small articles on different topics related to your site.

8. After placing some 15 articles, you need to publicize your Blog,

9. Write some articles and place it on EzineArticles.com. At the end of the article you must indicate the link for your Blog. It will help the interested viewers to visit your Blog. That way more and more people will start knowing you.

10. Meanwhile visit Google AdSense and get registered with them. You will get the Registration link from them which you will put on your Blog. Visitors to your site will start clicking the advertisements at your Blog and you will start earning.

11. You may visit www.Clickbank.com, and find out the products related to your subject. You can become Affiliate for those items. You may write blogs for those selected items. Include the Affiliate links, so that viewers visiting your site, if interested, may click those links and buy the material and enabling you to make money.

12. You may prepare Digital books which details your expertise. That EBook can be sold directly from your Blog site and help you in making money.

13. There are many locations where you can get more EBooks related to your subject. You can buy the selling rights and finally sell it from your Blog site.

You must be clear about one thing that you are open to world market. Your knowledge is surely required by lots of people and your sincere labour will be rightly rewarded. You can conveniently earn $1,000 per month, within a short span of 90 - 120 days.

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