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SEO-Blogging-Creates-FREE-LEADS!
December 6, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
SEO Blogging can create insane results if you know how to piece everything together and get in Google. There are many people have have a personal blog. However, most of them really don’t understand seo blogging and don’t have constant traffic and sales. Marketing your online business can grow exponentially when you understand seo blogging and it’s principals. SEO blogging is important but so is the blog itself. In today’s world of online marketing, it isn’t enough to simply build an attractive website offering for sale a valued product or service. As you generate more and more people with your seo blogging tactics you want advice and affirmation about the choices they make with you. Seo blogging will get the traffic, blogging will sell your products and services.Swiss Marketing ToolSEO blogging used effectively will get you on Google but what are you writing about. An effective blog will serve you, its master, for several purposes. You must set up yourself as an “expert” in the industry you are promoting. You can write, buy, or trade it, but NEVER duplicate it. The burnging question is if you are doing something that nobody else can do?An effective blog is critical before you learn SEO Blogging. It is one thing to market it is a totally different thing to market effectiveley. SEO blogging will create results if you have it set up correctly. OK, So It Is an EndorsementWordpress theme is the most effective SEO friendly blog site available. The format is fairly easy to use for even newbies and there is plenty of support all over the net for support and training. Learning seo blogging tricks to increase traffic is a blast. Here we go. Blog on Point – Critical For Good SEO Blogging ResultsSeo blogging can seem intricate in the beginning but is actually fairly basic stuff. Make sure your content is relevant. It must not waiver and get off course.When your making a new post, make sure it’s error-free content and interesting for people to read. SEO blogging needs to be grammar correct. Casual talk-to-you tone is also acceptable tone. Just make sure it’s understandable and they can recognize it. It’s not a good practice to use social media writing style like LOL or BRB when seo blogging.The more concise you are when seo blogging the better. Include in your post copy 3-5 anchor text links that provide explanation and or direction on other areas of the blog or your primary business site. SEO blogging can certainly be tricky. Make sure you choose anchor text wisely. Don’t use something like “click here” or that is what Google will index you under. You’ll notice below my anchor text will read “SEO Blogging” and that is what needs to be clicked and also what Google reads. SEO blogging tags need to be researched. Always include tags so any blog surfers can identify your subject. SEO blogging need targeted tags that deliver traffic. Try using social media sites when putting together your master online marketing plan. That’s true seo blogging power. SEO blogging is a marketing miracle if you know how.SEO Blogging is an extremely powerful method when used correctly. If you would like more information and how you can drive insane amounts of traffic to your mlm or direct sales online business click here SEO BLOGGING SUCCESS SECRETSFill Out The Form Below Right NowTo Get Access To Your Free Training!
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What Kind Of Blog Should You Start?
November 20, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
You might have just decided to start your own blog. But what kind of blog should you create to both fit your needs and interest others? Here, we provide a list of types of blogs you could start. After you choose which type of blog you want, you can search the free Wordpress themes at Theme Fury to pick out a theme that fits your blog.
Personal: You can create a personal blog that is a lot like having an online diary. This is the most common type of blog. Users of personal blogs write about life and observations. Only a few personal blogs become popular in the mainstream public since they are typically reserved for friends and family to view.
Topics: Blogs could focus on one particular topic where opinions and news are given on only that subject. It can range from anything from political issues to travel, fashion, education, niche, music, art, real estate, trends, photography, home & family, sports or more.
Business: Corporate blogs are rising in popularity. They are written for business purposes to add another outlet of communication for those involved. The main drive behind these blogs is to increase marketing, branding and public-relations efforts of the business.
Media: Some blogs only post in certain media that focus less on writing. For example, some only post videos in something called a vlog, while others only post their photography and some post their sketches and artwork.
This list of blog types will help get you started on what kind of blog you should start. Don’t settle for a common theme when you begin building your blog. Look through free wordpress themes at Themefury.com to choose one that will make your blog look best.
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Making Money With Blogs
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
One way to start making money online is through blogging. An important thing to consider is that many online money making plans are most effective when combined with some sort of website. One simple way of doing this is by creating your own personal blog. A blog is basically a website based around a definite subject matter and most importantly it is regularly updated. There are numerous programs, such as Blogger.com , that can be accessed to assist you in your blog design, and once completed your site may become active within hours. These programs will help with layout, but most likely won’t be too helpful in planning the content so I will try to give you a few helpful hints that will boost your money making potential.
Firstly, your site may be a way to start making money using Google Adsense. In which case, you will need to fill it with invaluable content based around particular keywords. You may wish to base the content of your site on something of which you have personal experience and preferably even a degree of expertise. Once your blog has been completed it will need to be submitted to Google for their acceptance or decline.
Many people hope to make money by joining affiliate programs, but this can be done much more successfully if you promote your affiliated products on your blog. You can do this by adding persuasive articles, banners or less intrusive links to your page. Which ever way you decide to advertise these products, you must remember that the quality and quantity of your content will give better results than a page full of unexplained links and banners. Once your audience clicks on your affiliate links and purchases the products you will begin to make money on commissions.
Another interesting option is to use your blog to promote and sell your own ideas or products. You might have a list of great fishing spots or some excellent family recipes that you can sell on your blog. Just remember that on the internet, information is a popular seller. If this seems like the option for you, remember to include high quality content and persuasive text that will make people want to buy your product. Once again I tell you… Pictures and decorative writing will not make your product sell! You must portray yourself as an authority on your chosen topic.
Now one of the most important things that you need to know is how to get visitors to your site. If no-one sees it, then no-one will be clicking or buying anything on your blog and you will not make any money from all your hard work. You need to find ways of getting people to take notice of your site. One very easy advertising strategy is through word of mouth. You can introduce your blog to everyone you know, whether it be family, friends or colleagues. These people can than show their social circle and so on and so forth. You can also choose to place links to your blog on message boards, forums and other online discussions where there may be visitors from your target audience. This allows people to click on your link and visit your sight immediately.
There are also some directory approaches for you to advertise your blog. You can submit your blog to a blog directory, which can be found via an internet search engine. Alternatively, you have the slightly more difficult option of writing an informative article with a link to your blog. Once you have completed the article, you then submit it to an article directory, such as GoArtilces.com.
Assuming you consider some of these helpful hints, you should be able to make money through your own personal blog. For more money making programs visit http://instantsqueezepagegenerator.com/displaysp.php?m=5024&s=3386
Hood River Real Estate Agent Uses Business Blog for Philanthropy
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
“Blogs give companies the ability to conduct an online dialogue with their audience in a way that is significantly different from most current written business communications methods”, notes John Cass, author of Strategies for Corporate Blogging and a research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) and President of the Boston AMA. Used best, blogs communicate with business guests as friends, garnering trust for the content in a business blog is a result of exceptional content and fair intent. Copper West Properties, a Hood River Oregon real estate agency, uses their real estate blog to share market trends, insight into current mortgage information and even as a way to further philanthropic goals.
Maui Meyer, Copper West Properties owner and broker, recently participated in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, a cause important to him for many reasons including the loss of family to cancer. Meyer incorporated his donation goals in his real estate blog as well as his other business blogs, (Meyer also runs 2 local restaurants, Sixth Street Bistro and Celilo) as well as his personal blog.
The results were phenomenal, Meyer and his Hood River Rotary team of 15 (Meyer walked with fellow Rotary members and his son Nathaniel) raised $14,641. Meyers’ efforts garnering $5626, more than 1/3 of the donations. Meyer also kept his blog readers informed of progress, sharing information about intent and performance for his goal
“People want to donate their time and money to causes important to them,” says Meyer, “removing obstacles to that involvement can by key to contribution”.
The Relay for Life blog post referenced a quick sign up and donation form. The post in his business blog allowed visitors outside of Meyer’s personal friends to see his philanthropic goal of raising money for the American Cancer Society and a simple way to donate.
Busy professionals and families alike are beginning to have more interaction with technology and using that technology to achieve, not only business, but personal objectives.
Bloggers should leverage their blog posts, not as a form of self promotion, but as a forum for promotion and discussion of ideas important to their communities on and offline. Read other threads in the Copper West Properties blog, Copper West Insider
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The First Steps Before Beginning Your Business Blog
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Before beginning a blog for your business, I recommend you take a couple of steps first to ensure you will have a successful business blog. Even though a blog can be put together a lot quicker than a website, it’s important to have a plan for your blog. A blog with a clear plan, goals, and expectations it’s on the way to quick success. One of the first steps I suggest my clients take before beginning their blog is to get involved in the blogging community.
Getting involved with other blogs allows you to get a feel for blogging and an opportunity to see what works and doesn’t work on other blogs. Start off by finding a few blogs in your industry or niche by searching Technorati. You can then comment on these blogs and start building a relationship with the blog owner. When you develop your own blog hopefully they will link to your blog and help you drive traffic to your new blog.
Make sure to determine the goal of your blog and decide what type of material your blog will cover. For business blogs, I suggest you keep the goal to a business nature and create a separate personal blog for personal topics.
Decide who will write for your blog and come up with a preliminary list of topics. If you’re struggling for topic ideas you can check out one of my recent blog posts at www.bestbiz.typepad.com to get you started. The more planning you can do before launching the blog the better off you will be in the long run. Will you have a ghostwriter write posts? Will you have guest authors? Will you have one author or multiple authors?
It’s important to come up with a timeline of how often you are going to post to your blog. It’s easy to forget about your blog when life gets busy, but with a specified goal of the number of posts you are more likely to stick to it. There’s no set magic number of how many posts to make to your blog. When you’re first starting out it’s ok just to post once a month until you get used to posting. Of course the more you post the easier it is for the search engines to find your blog. Eventually it’s best to post 2-3 times per week. If you’re going out of town, you can write several posts in advance and then schedule your posts to your blog.
What’s the next step now… get involved in the blogging and social networking community and get your business out there in a big way!
Are you ready to start blogging, but don’t know how to set up your business blog in order to attract more clients? The answer is laid out step-by-step in my Blogging For Business System. You can get yours at www.BestBizBlogging.com.
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Web Hosting Guide: How to find the best web host for you – An Insiders Guide
November 16, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Determining the best web hosting company for you is critical to your web site’s success. Whether it is for business, e-commerce, a fan site or just a hobby, the host you choose plays a large factor on how well you’ll fare in the online world. In such a flooded market with so many different hosting companies and packages out there, how do you know who to trust with your site? You want a reliable company that will make sure your site is always available, you want a support department that actually exists and can help you quickly, but of course it needs to be affordable and fit into your budget, especially if your web site isn’t intended to generate any income.
Knowing your requirements is the first step in finding the best host for you. Try to determine how much disk space your site is going to require, how your site will deliver its content such as static pages like HTML or dynamic automated content via scripts like wordpress or Joomla, and of course how many visitors you are expecting to visit monthly to gauge how much bandwidth you will need. If you already have a website, you should know most of this information, if you are just creating your website and have no idea, don’t sweat it. If you are just starting out chances are you will need less then 500MB of disk space, and 5,000-10,000MB (5-10GB) of bandwidth should be sufficient for a starter. It you plan on running a personal blog or a message board, make sure the package you choose has access to a database, it’s best to pick a host that allows you at least three databases. Most hosting companies have a small basic package that should work well for the time being. If you plan to mass market your website or run a business or ecommerce site you may have a higher bandwidth requirement. Always check with potential web host’s to make sure you have growth potential. So if your website out grows your hosting package you can always move up to something with more room.
Next you are going to need to determine your budget. How much can you financially afford or are willing to spend on web hosting? Figure this out before you shop for a host, don’t let a host decide your budget for you. Remember, you want a reliable web host that gives your site good uptime but offers you support should you experience a problem. Running reliable and stable servers can be expensive and so can staffing a support department 24/7. So make sure you have a practical budget that takes this into account. Do not waste your hard earned money on hosts that offer you the world for a buck or two, it will only lead to heart ache. For a basic plan with 500MB – 2,000MB storage space and 5,000MB – 10,000MB bandwidth you should expect to pay around at minimum $6USD for a good host. However, hosts that sell their plans at this price are not necessarily a good host.
Do not be fooled by marketing gimmicks, flashy web sites or statements made on a web site! The biggest problem in the hosting industry today is the UNLIMITED sales pitch. No host worth their salt is going to offer you up unlimited everything. It’s not possible. Web servers are simply “heavy-duty” computers that use RAM and Hard drives just like your home PC or laptop. When is the last time you bought a computer with an “UNLIMITED” hard drive? As for bandwidth, sure, it could be unlimited, but only if you have unlimited money. Hosts that offer unlimited disk space and bandwidth generally “oversell” their servers. This means they can pile hundreds of customers on one server. They sell the same storage space and bandwidth they sold you, to other customers as well. What they offer you is not dedicated only to you, but to everyone. If you try to start using that unlimited space and store 25GB of files or use that unlimited Bandwidth using over 200GB a month, you will soon find your site shut for “abuse”. You see, a huge secret in the hosting rules is the TOS known as the terms of service. Some hosts will state unlimited on their sites and in the TOS they declare unlimited as 500MB or something similar. They may also limit you to what you can store on your site, saying you are only allowed to have html files. No images, videos, or anything. Sure you can upload these files and use them, but if you use that disk space and bandwidth they will shut you down and claim abuse because you uploaded files that were not allowed. Unlimited hosts have a lot of dirty tricks like this up their sleeves always stipulated in their TOS.
Look for a host that is upfront about your limits. For a personal website, small business or hobby site 1000MB (1GB) is plenty of disk space and you should be more then fine with 10,000MB (10GB) of bandwidth. As your site becomes more popular you will use more bandwidth and when the time comes you can upgrade your package to include more bandwidth. All hosts include a control panel where you can track your disk and bandwidth usage so you know what you are actually using.
Okay so we got your requirements, your budget and what hosts to look out for. Now it’s time to actually find your potential hosting company. You may have a web companies in mind, which is great. If not ask around with friends and family to see if they can recommend anyone or someone to avoid. Do a Google or yahoo search if you are up to it, you will find hundreds of thousands of potential web hosts. Generally in the top results on Google are “Hosting review sites” they can provide you with helpful information in narrowing down hosts, but always take the reviews with a grain of salt. These sites are often paid to post certain kinds of reviews by the hosts themselves or they are linked to affiliate systems where they get paid if you sign up with a particular host. However you find your possible hosts is up to you.
Once you have a list of web hosts you are interested in, it’s time to research them and evaluate them. First make sure they offer a package that meets your budget. Then contact the hosting company, email the sales department or submit a sales ticket in their customer support panels this should be easy to find. Let them know you are a potential client, and you are interested in their services. Ask them any questions that may be on your mind, or to clarify what exactly their hosting packages include, ask about their uptime, response time to support tickets and so on. If all else fails simply ask them that if you out-grew your plan, if you could easily upgrade to a bigger one. Generally the answer should be yes, but what you are actually testing here is their response time. You want to see how long it takes for a host to respond to your inquiry. This is a good test to tell how fast their support could be. Also try to submit a support ticket, you should be able to email support@hostingcompaniesname.com or enter a support ticket via their website. Sometimes they will reply to sales tickets faster to get a new customer then reply to current customers needing support. So always check this out. When you submit a support ticket be honest and just say you are a potential client and wanted to test out the support response time. Try this at different times of the day and night to see if they truly offer ‘round the clock support, this may be important should your site crash at 1AM.
Next do a Google search on them, enter the companies name and then add review to the end (example: hostingcompaniesname.com review) this should pull up at least a few reviews that should help you know what you are getting into with this company. Remember always take reviews with a grain of salt. Even very reputable companies will have a bad or negative review. Try to find as many reviews as you can.
Check out their guarantees, many hosting companies offer a 15, 30 or even 45 day satisfaction guarantee. This means you can try them out for that amount of time. If you don’t like them, you can get a full refund and find a new host! Always make sure to find and read the fine print on these offers to make sure there are no catches that could bilk you out of a refund should you not like their service. Also make a note to find out whether or not a host has an uptime guarantee, this will give you a rough guide on how much downtime you could expect from a hosting company, this means how often your site *may* be inaccessible. Industry standard is generally 99.9% this means your website *could* be down for as long as 45 minutes in a month. Be wary of hosts that say their uptime is 100% as it’s a fact of technology that something will at some point fail and need to be repaired or replaced. Avoid any host that offers a 95% uptime guarantee because 95% means your site could be down for as much as 30hours a month! This is not acceptable it today’s standards.
Look for additional or bonus features. Some hosting companies offer extra’s like a free website builder tool, one click script installation for many useful programs like bulletin boards, word press, and many other things. Keep an eye out for extra’s like $25 or $50 worth of free advertising credits on sites like Google’s adwords or facebook advertising.
See whether or not the company backups your website. Should their server fail or hard drive crash, your site is gone! If they have backups at least you know in an event of a disaster they will have a backup of your site for you. On this note, always make sure you backup your own website. I cannot stress enough on how important it is to backup your own website. Never rely on anyone else to do it for you. Some companies may claim they do this for you then when a disaster hits, they don’t have your backup and your site is gone. Or should you happen to wake up one to find your website and your host has disappear or gone out of business, you will have minimal downtime because you have your site backed up. This is a MUST for EVERY web site owner. Having the hosting company do it for you is only an added benefit and the third backup just in case.
If you follow these steps, use a little common sense and understand that no one can offer you unlimited anything, especially for a few bucks a month, you are well on your way to finding a good, solid host that will serve you well for years to come.
Cameron Coish
http://www.2AMNetwork.com
Search Engine Optimization for Blogs
Whether it’s a corporate blog, a news-type blog, or even a personal blog, optimizing your blog for the search engines is a must. There are some simple changes that you can make to WordPress and Moveable Type that will make your blog more search engine friendly and make the search engines beg for more (more post and content, that is!).
Optimizing a blog is just like optimizing any other website. The content and pages (posts) must be unique, they must be search engine friendly, and it needs links from other websites. If it’s a new blog, then you first need to make sure the blog software you’re using is set up so that it takes advantage of all of the possible optimization features. Then, announce it to the world, work on getting some links to it, and start making posts.
WordPress Optimization
If you’re using WordPress for your blog software, it’s important to make sure that your site is search engine friendly, meaning that it can easily be spidered by the search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it’s important to have good title tags and meta tags. Keep in mind that blog software usually uses the title of your post as the title tag, so include keywords in your titles as much as possible. It’s important to set up your blog’s software so that the URLs don’t contain a lot of variables. Instead, use URLs that include the post title or post name in them. For example, if you’re using WordPress you’ll need to set the permalinks so that it uses %postname% in the URL. You can also set up a specific category for the post archives, and you might consider using a keyword that’s related to your blog instead of the default, which is typically the word “archive”. Fintan Darragh of www.dech.co.uk has a great blog post called “Ultimate WordPress SEO Tips” (http://www.dech.co.uk/2005/11/ultimate-WordPress-seo-tips/). Mr. Darragh talks about permalink optimization and says, “The goal: stick more keywords up into the URL and remove the faff which nobody uses, to make the URL search engine and people attractive. Having keywords in your URL is an absolute must, especially when it’s as easy as WordPress makes it.” He also goes on to talk about getting rid of useless tags like the month, day, and year, as well as one important detail: whatever you do stick with the site structure you choose—otherwise you might end up with a lot of useless links to your site. Other tips that Mr. Darragh mentions are optimizing your page titles and your post titles–and installing a few plugins that are useful such as the “Related Posts Plugin” and the “Technorati Tag Generator”.
There are several other places where you can get specific tips about setting up WordPress in a search engine friendly manner, including: * SEO at Aleeya Dot Net – http://www.aleeya.net/category/WordPress/seo/ * The Best WordPress SEO Possible – http://WordPress.org/support/topic/49168 * Search Engine Optimization for WordPress – http://codex.WordPress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress * Search Engine Optimization for Blogs – http://www.blog-maniac.com/blog-seo.htm * DYI Search Engine Optimization – http://lorelle.WordPress.com/2006/01/15/dyi-search-engine-optimization/ One of the best tutorials out there is one called “DYI Search Engine Optimization” by Lorelle VanFossen. Specifically, Lorelle (lorelle.WordPress.com) has some great tips, including how to optimize your code, develop strong intrasite links, write with strong keyword usage, use categories and tags, and how to use ping services. Lorelle says that “the goal is to help search engine crawlers move through your website collecting information to be stored in the search engine’s database. The key to your blog’s data making it successfully into a search engine’s database is to: 1) Make sure there are no road blocks in the path of a search engine crawler. 2) Make sure the crawler can move through your blog, examining all your web pages. 3) Provide adequate keywords and key phrases which clearly help categorize your content. 4) Provide clearly labeled tags and categories recognized by tagging service crawlers and many search engines today. 5) Take advantage of pinging services.” There are several WordPress Plugins available that will help you take advantage of internal linking (like the Related Posts Plugin) which will link to other posts in your blog that are on the same topic.
Other plugins that might be helpful are plugins that automatically generate a Google Sitemap file as well as plugins that help you categorize the site such as the WordPress Subdomain Plugin (http://www.webguerrilla.com/WordPress-subdomain-plugin/).
Movable Type Optimization If you’re using Movable Type for your blog software, then it’s also important to make sure that your site is search engine friendly and can be spidered by the search engine spiders. Just like optimizing a website, it’s important to have good title tags and meta tags. Keep in mind that blog software usually uses the title of your post as the title tag, so include keywords in your titles as much as possible. Miles Evans (http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310Movable TypeSEO.html) says that “Movable Type is optimized quite well out of the box, but there are a few quick tricks to easily providing the spiders with some dynamic content.” He goes on to say that you need to optimize your template. “For my main home page and category index pages I hardcode most of my meta data. Your meta tags will be at the top of the template within the tag. You can get fancy on your index pages but I cannot really see why. Optimize these two templates by hand for whatever keywords you are targeting site wide.” Mr. Evans also has another article titled, “Best Movable Type Plugins” (http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060310BestMovable TypePlugins.html) that talks about his favorite plugins that help him get great search engine rankings. His favorite Movable Type Plugins for SEO are Dashify, MTPaginate, MT Blogroll, MT InlineEditor, MT-Textile, BigPAPI, as well as Ajaxify (a set of plugins that adds several ajax/javascript widgets into the Movable Type interface), CheckLinks, FormatList v1.0, and Better File Uploader for uploading files. Nicholas Carvan (http://www.nicholascaravan.com) has a great article about Movable Type optimization called “Optimizing your Movable Type blog for Google” (http://www.nicholascarvan.com/blog/optimizing_your_Movable Type_blog_for_google.html). In it he talks about PageRank (and how it relates to your internal linking on your blog), having keywords in your URL (which is important for all blog optimization) and blogrolling. He defines the term blogrolling very well, saying, “Blogrolling: Inbound links are gold, but in Google’s eyes, not all links are equal. In particular, Google isn’t wild about links contained within JavaScript – apparently they can index them, but that doesn’t mean they always want to.”
Once you’ve set up and configured your blog’s software, it’s important to make sure that you leave it alone—if you change your page URLs then any links that you’ve received from other bloggers may not be valid anymore. If you need to change your site’s structure (perhaps you’ve been blogging already and wish to use the tips from this article to optimize your blog), then you might want to take a look at the Objection Redirection WordPress Plugin(http://WordPress-plugins.biggnuts.com/objection-redirection-WordPress-plugin/) if you’re using WordPress. The Objection Redirection Plugin gives you a simple interface to redirect users (and search engine bots) to the proper page, especially if you’ve changed your site’s structure.
Start Blogging The best thing you can do is to start blogging. Go ahead and post to your heart’s content and write, write, write about your topic. The more content you can provide the better—and it seems as if adding content on a regular basis really helps, as well. Feel free to link out to other blog posts that are related to the topic you’re writing about. For example, before you publish a post, go on over to your favorite blog search engine and find another recent post on the same subject—and link to the post. Linking out to other bloggers will get their attention, and hopefully they’ll end up linking to you as well. If other bloggers have trackbacks turned on then their blog will link back to your post. Some trackbacks are moderated, so it might take some time before your link shows up on the other blog. And some bloggers have trackbacks turned off, so a link back to your site might take some manual intervention. Categorize your posts as much as possible, and feel free to add categories as you blog—it will help the internal linking structure of your site, and help the search engines and users find on-topic posts.
Promoting Your Blog Whenever you make a post in your blog, your blog software will attempt to ping certain sites to let them know that you just updated your blog. There are many blog ping services out there, including Ping-O-Matic and Pingoat. Your blog software can be configured to ping sites automatically, and I’ve posted a list for WordPress of ping services on by blog (http://www.corporatewebsitemarketing.info/cwm/WordPress-ping-list). If your blog is new or you would like to get some more links, you can submit your blog to blog directories as well as other sites that will list your blog (don’t forget to submit to DMOZ.org, Yahoo! Directory, and the Best of the Web Blog Directory). About.com has a great article about promoting a blog (http://weblogs.about.com/cs/blogpromotions/a/promoteblog.htm) and even Biz Stone has great tutorial about promoting your blog (http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1060). Lastly, don’t forget to turn on your blog’s RSS feed. And if you’re looking to promote your RSS feed, try searching your favorite search engine for “promote rss” to find a lot of good tutorials.
Promoting your blog is just like promoting a website—you need good spiderable content, links to your content, and you need to set up your blog software to take advantage of all the great features. There are also plugins that will help make blogging easier for all of us.
Bill Hartzer manages the Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing team at Vizion Interactive, a leading search engine optimization company, social media marketing, and web design firm based in the Dallas, Texas area.
6 Free Ways To Generate A Steady Stream Of Traffic To Your Blog
November 11, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Blogs have become a world-wide phenomenon that has, literally, been turned into an art form. With programs like Blogger and Wordpress, setting up your own blog is super easy, but getting traffic to it can be a little more difficult. However, there are a few things that you can do to get visitors to your blog.
Articles:
Since a blog revolves around content, it’s always a good idea to balance your more personal posts with informative articles. For example, if you have a personal blog focused on your weight lost journey, compose an article about the health benefits of living a healthier lifestyle, then post it on your blog and allow others to reprint it (with your resource box and link of course) to gain incoming links. Another bonus of articles is that they can work to bring you organic traffic and win you higher ratings in the search engines.
Fresh Content:
One of the most important things you can do to keep a steady flow of traffic going to your blog, is to update it on a regular basis. Ideally, it’s best if you update your blog at least 2 or 3 times a week, and even better if you can do it daily. There are a couple of advantages to this; one is that you will gain a following of readers who will continually return to your blog, and two is that you will be feeding the search engines, thus, maintaining your ranking.
Building Relationships:
Relationship building is a promotional method all its own, the simple reason being, is that by establishing yourself as an expert in the eyes of your readers, you will win their trust. The trust of your readers is a powerful tool, one that should not be taken advantage of. Your visitors go to you in search of answers to their questions, and they value your opinion and recommendations, which means that they are more likely to click your affiliate links and buy from you rather than the competition.
Blog Pinging:
This method can be used whenever you update your blog, and should become a part of your blogging routine. There are multiple ping directories. All you have to do is visit their website, type in the name of your blog and the URL, then hit ping. The purpose of pinging is that every time you do this, the directory will ping all of the blog directories in its listing to let them know that your blog has been updated.
Feed Burner:
By installing a simple, and free, piece of HTML code onto your blog, your readers can subscribe and have new blog posts emailed to them. This is a great notification system, and will let your readers know that they can go to your blog to read new entries.
Blog Roll:
This is a very easy option to use, and is already built into Wordpress. You simply add the URL’s you want, publish them to your site, and they will then show up under the heading “Blog Roll” on the side of your blog. The way to make this work for traffic is to treat it like a link exchange. Simply contact other blog owners and let them know that you have added their blog to your blog roll, and ask for a link in return.
Blog promotion can be done in the same way that you would advertise your website, and the free options are just as good, if not better, than paid. However, if you want to see results you will need to promote your blog on a regular basis, and understand that it will take time and effort to establish it.
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SEO Blogs & Wordpress
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Even our dear WordPress which so many search engine optimization professionals sincerely love and prefer as a blogging platform, is misinformed or at least, subject to making sweeping generalizations. This is the “banned” category: And here are some examples of blogs that are banned from WordPress.com (all of these fall under the general heading of “spam blogs”, or splogs, and we will be deleted as soon as we find them or they get reported): • Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it’s gone!• SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. WordPress.com is not meant for this type of activity.• Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (”Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people linking to their own products on Etsy do NOT fall into this category.• Warez blogs: Blogs that promote pirated copies of ebooks, software packages, music, movies, games, etcC’mon WordPress.com, just because some overzealous SEO noobs used (likely experimented and exploited) your free blog hosting service at wordpress.com doesn’t mean all SEO blogs are suspect and shady. With literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews we’ve done on SEO blogs over the past year, I think I have a fairly good sense about what most SEO bloggers are writing about and the vast majority are on the up and up. I suspect I wouldn’t need to look far to find a sinister “Politics” or “Personal” blog or two or two hundred on the WordPress.com service. That said, I’m not sure whether any of the 500 or so SEO blogs on our BIGLIST are hosted at Wordpress.com. Of course not, they were probably banned – LOL. The warning is, of course, directed towards blogs setup at WordPress.com and not blogs using the downloadable WordPress application. Regardless, WordPress is such a great piece of software, this just seems a bit over the top. So here’s my suggested alternative: SEO blogs: Blogs that provide tips, news and insights into how web site and blog owners can make it easier for search engines and users to find and interact with their sites resulting in improved traffic levels and repeat visits. With literally hundreds and hundreds of reviews we’ve done on SEO blogs over the past year, I think I have a fairly good sense about what most SEO bloggers are writing about and the vast majority are on the up and up. I suspect I wouldn’t need to look far to find a sinister “Politics” or “Personal” blog or two or two hundred on the WordPress.com service. That said, I’m not sure whether any of the 500 or so SEO blogs on our BIGLIST are hosted at Wordpress.com. Of course not, they were probably banned – LOL. Then they can make a statement against blogs in general that provide mis-information or violate published policies instead of making such a sweeping statement. What do you think? Am I too “glass half full” and idealistic in my characterization of SEO blogs?
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How To Blog â Get Started Today
November 8, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you have something to say and know how to put them into writing, then there is a high probability that you know how to blog. Blogging is simply the modern technology version of keeping a diary or a journal. And with the immense capacity it has for being accessible online, this platform for information sharing has been tapped on a wide scale business venture. Advertisers are now willing to pay weblog site that can become their medium for exposure. On this perspective, the need to learn how to blog for money comes into view.
The first step in blog creation is choosing a webhost provider. Livejournal, WordPress and Blogger are some sites offering free hosting that can be useful for blogs at the exploratory stage. Once you get the skill and know the different techniques in keeping a blog running and earning, a paid hosting service can be chosen. Paying for blog hosting will allow you more flexibility and options depending on your siteâs requirements.
At the initial stage of practicing how to blog, start with a personal blog about something that interests you. This is the best way for you to be able to create articles continuously with quality content. As you learn how to create posts for your blog, you will also eventually get acquainted with your own inclinations. A good blog can be maintained only with passion and sincerity, and people will easily get interested if you sincerely share about topics which you consider important. Writing for the sake of getting search hits through keywords can easily be detected and is a big turn off. Not only will you lose readers in this way, but your site will also most likely be cancelled for keyword spamming.
Knowing how to blog entails being responsible also for the physical appearance of your site. Make use of the right template structure and choose the appropriate colors and designs. Avoid using loud hues in order to capture the visitorâs attention. This tactic may be effective at first instance but can cause visual discomfort irritating enough to make the visitor leave your blog.
A good blog is like a good friend that needs to be appreciated. Actively introduce your blog to your friends and relatives. Encourage linking to your sites to gain additional exposure from each of the individualâs circle of internet connections. Join communities and respond by sharing useful information in several forums. Do not forget to attach your site link to your signature and make sure that you leave a good trace of your blogsite in your every internet move. Once you master the tricks in securing popularity and following, you will then be ready to create a site intended for marketing. You can start writing reviews for products you have used with the goal of securing paid advertisements in your blog.
Learning how to blog effectively to bring in the revenues is not a bad idea. Having a passive income with unlimited potential for growth is something everyone will appreciate. And considering that there is no need for a start up capital, you will definitely give it a shot.
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