Blogging Strategies

Search Engine Optimization Advice For Bloggers

2008-12-16T08:02:00.000-08:00

There are many ways to optimize your blog for the search engines. In most cases they can be optimized the same way you would a website. Below are a few ways to get your blog a lot of search engine traffic.

1. Make sure the keyword you are targeting is in the title of the blog and also in the address.

2. Your description for your blog should use your main keywords at least two or three times.

3. Use RSS feeds. Sign up for Yahoo, MSN and Google.

4. Social bookmarking has become very popular in terms of getting your blog visited. Bookmarking and tagging will get you more relevant traffic. You get to name your own keywords instead of letting the search engines decide which ones to use. Technorati is a must if you are going to use social bookmarking.

Get creative. Get your message out there any way you can. There are many, many more ways to use SEO to make your blog more papular to attract more visitors and more shoppers. Start putting some effort into your SEO and you will start seeing a difference.

Make Money Blogging

2008-12-10T09:39:00.000-08:00

Don't let the blogging craze leave you in the dust. Jump on the gravy train and start blogging for profit.

Sell ad space. If you are providing valuable content you can sell ad space on your blog to make money. Some large corporations are on the lookout for blogs with a good following. You can allow others to place banner ads, classified ads, solo ads and sponsor ads to generate income. Google Adsense is a very popular way to make money from ads. You will get paid every time someone clicks on a Google Adsense ad.

Joint venture marketing is also a powerful marketing strategy. When you enter a joint venture you are promoting or endorsing certain products. You will then split the profits made. If you have a good following, a lot of people will want to JV with you.

You can also use affiliate marketing to monetize your blog. You can find a product through places like Commission Junction or Clickbank that relates to your blog and you can recommend to your readers that product. You will receive a commission on each product sold through your blog.

Ebooks are another way to use your blog to make money. Your blog content can be converted into an ebook which you can then market for extra money.

There are many ways to make money blogging. The first step is to get your blog set up, decide which method of monetization you are going to use and then get going. It's fun and easy to be a blogger and even more fun to make money while doing it.

Social Sites For More Traffic

2008-07-13T09:00:00.001-07:00

If you want to be successful in your internet marketing you know the most important thing you need is customers. You want people to come by your site and see your products and read your posts. The more traffic you get, the better chance you will have to make money. Using social sites is a good way to get more traffic to your site.

Most social sites rank well with the search engines and are hit by millions of people every day. Therefore, this is a good way to reach many people. In order to truly benefit from your social sites, you need to work hard to get people to come to it. You can't let it just stagnate and hope you will get some visitors.

Regular updating of your content is one of the main things you will want to do. Also, add friends on the site so that you will have a list to send messages to anytime you want.

Making posts on other people's sites will broaden the chances of them visiting your site and commenting.

Never spam a social site. People are very hip to this now and can spot a spammer right away. Sincerely enjoy and use your social site and you will build many contacts and friendships.

Choose a site that is in your niche and that you can relate to. Use good content to build your page and use the old 'meet and greet". Before you know it you will have lots of new friends and lots of potential customers.

Marilyn Roberts

The Blog Community - Hi! Neighbors

2008-07-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

As your blog starts to grow with interesting and frequent content, you will find yourself getting more known in the blogging community. You can use a script for tracking your traffic to see where you are getting your visitors from. If a lot of the visitors are coming from a particular blog, it is likely they linked to you from their page or maybe mentioned you in a post. Then you can visit them and leave a comment.

If your blog cannot track traffic, you can visit other blogs and make comments linking back to your blog. Make sure you have a legitimate post that offers something to the conversation.

Eventually you will build up a lot of friends that are interested in your niche. If you are running short on creative posts for your blog, you can write about what someone else has posted on their blog or even interview another blog owner.

The blog community is growing ever larger every day. Join in, be a good neighbor, and you will see your traffic stats rise and your friendships grow.

Marilyn Roberts

Make Your Blog Interesting And Attractive

2007-11-01T12:23:00.000-07:00

Not everyone is articulate and sometimes it is hard to convey your message in an interesting and expressive way. Below are a few tips to make your blog posts more effective and acceptable to a global audience.

1. Practice - To become a successful blogger you must practice, and then practice some more. Over time your posts will become more of a reflection of your attitude and style and offer a more cohesive message to your readers. The old adage "practice makes perfect" is especially true when you are trying to hone your craft of being a blogger. After awhile you can look back on your earlier posts and see the spiral of your amateur blogging posts consistently becoming more of your own self-development and growth as an interesting and articulate writer. Write often, write daily, practice, practice, practice.

2. Good Vocabulary - Not everyone is skilled in using correct vocabulary but it is a necessary skill when aspiring to become a blogger respected by the blogging community and by your readers. You do not have to use big words or saturate your writing with obscure and too technical terms but you need to show that you are articulate and can talk about your subject with not only your expertise but also using correct terminology. You can connect with your audience while still using good vocabulary skills and gaining respect overall for your ability to communicate effectively.

3. Spelling and Grammar Skills - A lot of people do not realize how important these two skills are when trying to establish your name on the internet. There are a lot of ebooks, reports, and even sales pages that are riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes. A lot of blogs are also full of these errors. Even if your blog is more of a personal journal just for family and friends, you need to show your respect for your audience by trying to make your posts as correct as possible and to keep them as error free as possible. People tend to take a person's writing as a reflection of the person and you want your reflection to shine, to stand out, to be reprinted on other people's sites and to garner respect for your abilities as a writer and blogger.

You may consider yourself just a blogger but you are on your way to becoming a writer. A lot of practice, good vocabulary and good spelling and grammar skills are qualities you want to strive for as you continue to grow as a blogger and a writer.

Marilyn Roberts

Writer's Block in Blogging?

2007-09-28T06:54:00.000-07:00

We all get it at one time or another, blogger's block. Maybe it's because we have written so many articles and blog posts that we are out of ideas for any more. You could also just be bored with your blog niche and can't think of anything else to say and have just lost interest.

There are some ways to get back on track and start blogging again. Remember, adding content to your blog is your best traffic magnet. I have listed some ways below that may inspire you to sit at your keyboard and get started.

1. Instead of just writing another article, consider adding some pictures to your blog or some videos. Play around with it. You might find you will get a lot of comments about your pictures and this could renew your interest in your niche.

2. Research and write about something in your niche that is offbeat or never before thought of pertaining to your niche. I bet you would come up with some longtail keywords that most people haven't even considered. For example, say your niche is about "blogging". Research the many different people that blog such as clowns, line dancers, princesses, etc. Here's a title: "Blogging Clowns?" Make it fun, make it different.

3. Visit other blogs and see what everyone is talking about. Don't be shy! Make some comments. You might get some feedback that you can put on your blog.

4. Read the newspapers and watch the news on TV. Some of the most unlikely things may boost your creative imagination and provide you with a good blog post.

5. Fall in love with your niche again. Treat your subject as if you knew nothing about it. Research it to death. Read articles. Visit forums. If you do this for a couple of weeks or a month, then you will probably learn a lot that you didn't already know and will be well on your way to becoming an expert in your particular niche.

Don't give up! A blogging block can be overcome. Don't consider it a chore. Consider it a challenge. Before you shuffle your blog to the side and start a new one, put every effort into your old one. Those efforts will be rewarded with a new spark of interest and a feeling of accomplishment instead of failure.

So dig our your axe and chop down that block. Start blogging!

Marilyn Roberts

RSS Feeds and Your Blog

2007-08-09T06:52:00.000-07:00

As blogging is attracting the attention of many marketers, the different ways to promote blogs is increasing. Using RSS feeds is one way to get your blog noticed.

Most blogs have an RSS button. This is so that anyone can get updates each time you post to your blog.

You can make it easy for anyone to subscribe to your updates by putting an RSS btton on every post page.

If you do not know how to use the RSS feeds you can go to Feed Burner or Feed Blitz who give instructions about how to get your blog's feed burned and presented in an easy to subscribe to form.

Blog RSS feeds are a good way to get your posts out to people interested in your niche topic. People can even receive your RSS feed by email, which makes it very convenient for them.

Don't neglect this very important part of blog marketing. RSS feeds need to be a part of your blog marketing campaign to maximize your blog's exposure.

More Blog Marketing Techniques

2007-07-11T11:01:00.000-07:00

I believe that the more you see and read about something, the better chance it will have to sink in. So if you see me repeating something it is because you need to see it over and over again until it is firmly embedded in your mindset.

One good marketing technique is to post any news you hear about the subject of your blog. People love news and your readers will appreciate that you are up to date and current on the events happening in the market you are blogging about. Try to have the most current news and your readers will start to come back more and more often. Remember, your readers are possibly your future customers.

You can also have contests on your blog. People love contests! They like to win things. You can make the prize you are giving away relevant to what you are promoting on your blog. This can develop a good readership for your blog.

Make sure all of your blog posts are original. Using content that has been copied from someone else is not something you want to do. Even if you have their permission, this will be seen as duplicate content by Google and possibly your visitors have already read it elsewhere and you will lose some credibility. Even if you own the rights to the content, use it sparingly and try to mostly post your original content.

Well, those are my tips for today. If you want to really get into making money from your blogging, then get Blogging to the Bank and start building your blogging empire.

Blogging And Search Engine Optimization

2007-06-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

In order to get the most effective free advertising for your blog, you will need to show up well in the various search engines for relevant search terms.

Making your blog content friendly to the search engine spiders will ensure that you will get noticed. Adding good, relevant content regularly will get your blog spidered more frequently.

One reason why blogs are so popular with the search engines is because they are updated frequently offering fresh new content.

Using a descriptive title will help increase your rankings as search engines give more focus to the headlines and title. Using highly targeted keyword phrases to describe your content will increase the spider focus.

Including your keywords in the body of your content is also important, but do not overuse them until your content makes no sense. Use good judgement and make the body of your content people friendly as well as spider friendly.

Use keyword tools to help in your research for the right combination that will suit your content. There are many keyword tools available such as Google, Wordtracker, and Overture.

Take your time when setting up your blog. Do your research and write good, quality content and you will receive a lot of traffic from the spiders and the public.

More Blog Marketing Strategies

2007-06-22T10:34:00.000-07:00

Everyone wants more traffic, readers and sales for their blog. Allowing RSS feeds from your blog can be a fantastic tool in your marketing campaign. RSS feeds will have your blog ending up all over the internet with links back to your blog. The people that subscribe to your RSS feeds can then put your posts on their blogs or posts.

Submitting a sitemap to Google is very important as this will let Google know how often you are updating your blog and will automatically know of any changes you make to it. This way your new pages will get indexed faster and into the search results quicker. If you do not know how to do this just go to Google and they will be glad to help you with your sitemap.

You can have contests on your blog that will keep your readers coming back. This can be fun and everyone loves to win things. Check out some of the contests that other bloggers are running to get a feel for how to set yours up.

Blog Advantages

2007-06-08T05:11:00.000-07:00

Blogging has become one of the world's largest communication activities since the invention of the telephone. It brings together whole communities and allows for the fast and daily exchange of information within them. In fact, they have become so influential that lists of bloggers include politicians, news agencies, celebrities and a host of other influential people. And one of the best things that bloggers can do is to make money blogging. You couldn't ask for a bigger marketing audience than the blogging community.

Blog sites have been sprouting up almost as fast as regular web sites and any internet user can take advantage of it for a mere registration. There is absolutely no fee involved. All you have to do is sign up and give a valid email address. This is even easier than signing up to sell over a shopping web site because you don't have to provide any credit card or bank details. So while no money is spent on creating it, there are endless possibilities for making money from your blogging.

When signing onto a blog site, one basically signs onto a larger community. Interests may vary but if you are on the same service, you are basically part of the same group. This is an advantage because you can start selling items to the community that you are a part of and there is a level of trust; enough so that buying and selling becomes a possibility. The other great thing about a blog is that it is on the internet and a blog site can be accessed by anyone who knows the right web address. So one can start to make money blogging just by letting other people know what blog address to surf.

Unlike shopping or auction sites, a blog is basically out in the open and the people running the blogs are the users themselves. There are no limits as to what you can do with a blog site to advertise products and services.

Blogging With Adsense

2007-05-30T09:33:00.000-07:00

While most of you may have a blog just for personal usage, there are a number of ways to make money through your blog. One of these opportunities is made possible by using the Google service known as Adsense. Blogging with Adsense works by allowing advertising on your blog. What Google offers is an opportunity for bloggers to display their content or ads on blogs and the owners of those blogs can make money doing so.

How It Works:

Adsense allows website publishers and blog owners to have their pages viewed by surfers who look for particular interests. Basically, it narrows everything down for you. The ads that will be placed on your blogs will contain interests of your visitors. This means that they are matched with blog visitor's needs. This service enables you to enhance your blog and will actually attract more users to your site according to their interests. Another great thing is that blogging with Adsense also means that you can provide the Google site search service on your blog for visitors to use. The money is earned through the Google ads that will be displayed in the search results pages that are generated.

What Kind of Money Are We Talking About?

Blogging with Adsense can make you $15 or $15,000! It all really depends on how many people are checking out your blog site and clicking the ads that Google has provided on your Adsense-ready site. So a blog site has to be pretty interesting or be filled with all sorts of information that people would find useful and relevant. Optimize the content on your blog so that it attracts more return users and visitors. Market it well through your network to attract new readers. Who knows, Google might soon be sending you a sizeable check in the mail.

Search Engine Optimization And Your Blog

2007-05-15T06:47:00.000-07:00

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The newest trend for online marketers is search engine optimization on your blog. Showing up first under relevant search terms in the various engines has become one of the most effective ways of getting free advertising.

Blogs with regular updates and with the newest and most accurate content make the spiders visit your blog often and they are always hungry for more. Make sure you give them more and they will love your blog and repay you with lots of free targeted traffic.

Use a descriptive title when posting. Headlines and titles are given more focus by search engines. Use highly targeted keyword phrases that will best describe the content you are writing about. Be creative and think of something the spiders don't often see.

Choose your words wisely. Use standard words and get directly to the point. Spiders have all kinds of algorithms but they do not have human intelligence. Don't make them guess about what you are trying to convey.

More Ways To Monetize Your Blog

2007-05-09T15:08:00.000-07:00

Although Google Adsense and affiliate programs through places like Commission Junction and Clickbank are good ways to get started making money from your blog, there are some other ways mentioned below that will offer other options to monetize your blog.

You can become an Amazon affiliate and earn commissions. As they are primarily in the book business, they are sure to have some books on your particular niche that you can promote on your blog. A lot of people would rather have an actual book than an e-book that they would have to download. You can also offer seasonal books for all of the holidays that don't necessarily relate to your blog but there is a lot of impulse buying around the holidays.

The Chitika, Inc. referral program is another way to make more money. With the referral commission program you can refer new publishers to Chitika's eMiniMalls service and earn 10% of what your referral earns. The referral makes the same revenue that they would normally and Chitika pays you for their efforts.

That is just two more ways to make money with your blog. There are many more out there. Start researching and keep adding more money making programs to your blog to build your online success.

Social Bookmarking And Your Blog

2007-04-30T09:13:00.000-07:00

Social bookmarking is saving bookmarks to a website or blog and then tagging them with your keywords. You need to sign up with a social bookmarking site putting your URL, your title, a short description, and your tags. You will be making a social connection with people interested in your topic.

How can social bookmarking benefit your blog? It is a great way to get back links to your blog. You can also get a lot of targeted traffic.

Use social bookmarking as just another step in the process of letting everyone know about your blog and to attract a lot of visitors.

Don't be left behind in this rapidly building marketing aspect of Internet marketing. Social bookmarking is here! Get on board now and meet your neighbors.

Making Money From Your Blog

2007-04-26T06:58:00.000-07:00

If you enjoy blogging there is no reason not to benefit financially from it.

There are many ways to make money from your blog. Some have been mentioned here before but should be reiterated again. The more often you read something the more likely you are to implement it. Read the list below and see if you are doing everything you should be doing to monetize your blog.

Opt In

Placing an Opt In box on your blog will give you the opportunity to follow up with people interested in your subject. Make sure you are providing good content in your emails and are not just using them as sales letters. People will come to look forward to your emails as you are giving them quality information. They will come to trust you and will be more likely to buy something from you in the future.

Classified Ads

Have you ever thought of placing a classified ad about your blog? This can bring in targeted traffic that you might otherwise miss. A popular place to place free or paid ads is USfreeads.com. You could also get a magazine on your topic and place a classifed ad in it. This will bring your blog to the attention of the offline community.

Forums

If you participate in forums you can include your blog URL in your signature line. Most people will put their website URL but neglect to put their blog. Be sure you are contributing helpful advice and information when posting in the forums. Do not try to sell anything or spam the forum. These people could be future business associates or partners.

Those were just a few of the ways to make money from your blogging. If you enjoy blogging your enthusiasm and sincerity will come through in your posts.

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Marilyn Roberts

Article Marketing And Your Blog

2007-04-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

How can article marketing benefit your blog? It can bring targeted traffic to your blog and if you have quality content this could result in affiliate commissions or Absense clicks.

Your articles will be advertising for your blog when you have your articles printed in free article directories. You will also gain some backlinks which are vital to your search engine optimization. Search engines love popular blogs so the more articles you write the more backlinks you will get.

Can't write? Don't let this be a stumbling block to your article marketing. For a small cost, around $4 to $20 per article, you can have them written for you. Buying PLR articles is another cheaper way to get articles but they will not be original and you must rewrite them before submitting them to the article directories.

Use your author's bio in your articles to direct readers to your blog. If you are offering something free on your blog, be sure and mention it in your bio. This is your opportunity to create excitement and enticement to readers so they will visit your blog.

Start your article marketing right away and you will start getting a steady stream of visitors. Write compelling, quality content and those visitors will be back again.

Marilyn Roberts

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Monetizing Your Blog

2007-04-20T08:44:00.000-07:00

If you have been producing good quality, original content on your blog you are probably having some traffic visiting your blog regularly. Now you need to start turning that traffic into money.

One good way to start your monetizing is by using Google Adsense. This is the quickest, easiest way to get started. Once you sign up with Google Adsense and place their code on your site they will show ads relevant to your site's theme. So after your visitors have read your post they will have something else to do, click on one of the Google Adsense ads. You can check your Google Adsense account daily to see how much you made in clicks that day. This will likely change daily as Google Adsense uses different methods of figuring the amount each click receives.

You can also earn some income from your blog by recommending products to your readers. You will set up an affiliation with the company you are promoting and when someone clicks on the affiliate product and buys something you will earn a predetermined commission for each sale. If you have a lot of traffic coming to your site you can make a lot of money by linking to an affiliate product.

There are many ways to monetize your blog but these two methods are easy to start with and you should start making some money pretty quickly. It may be small to start but just keep adding good content and building your traffic and before you know it you will have a stream of income coming in regularly.

Blog Content Updating

2007-04-18T07:35:00.000-07:00

If you want to retain your readers you need to regularly update your blog. You need to always find fresh topics to write about.

If a blogger feels passionate about their topic it will be much easier to provide new content that is original and entertaining to visitors.

If you do not have strong feelings about the subject you are writing about it will come through in your writing. It will seem forced and unnatural.

Try to post something on your blog every day even if it is only a short comment on something you have heard or read about in the newspaper that is relating to your subject.

After awhile you may feel you have exhausted your brain and cannot think of anything else to write about. Don't despair. To get rejuvenated visit some other related blogs and see what is going on in your field of discussion. Comment on what others say on your own blog. You can also make insightful comments on other blogs that will help establish communication and a link with people of a like mindset.

You can also read local newspapers and online sites related to your particular niche. Sometimes it will only take one or two items to inspire you to write about it in your blog.

Post to your blog daily and this will keep the search engines spidering your blog frequently and you will therefore gain extra traffic.

Marilyn Roberts

Content For Your Blog

2007-04-15T08:23:00.000-07:00

A lot of people make blogs for their friends and family to read and comment on. If you have a passion that you want to share with the world you could set up a blog. Sometimes people just want to have their views voiced on certain topics.

Many people are now also using blogs as a means of making some income from the Internet. There are a variety of ways to do this such as adding Adsense to your blog, reviewing an affiliate product, or advertising your own product.

Content for your blog comes a lot easier if you are well versed in the particular subject of your blog. Your own personal viewpoint should come through as you talk and should give your blog a distinctive personality.

Developing a relationship with your readers will make your blog stand out and have people returning to see what you have to say next.

So, go ahead! Make your blog and tell your message. Someone will hear you and you might make a friend.

Marilyn Roberts