As a business owner, You’ll not want to miss out on the additional revenue you can generate by using blogs to add revenue streams to your business . Displaying Adsense ads, affiliate banners and links, and developing another source of traffic to your core business are just a few of the benefits associated with blogging. Once you have a large consistant flow of readers, selling advertising space might become a viable option. This will of course depend on your marketing skills and your ability to provide quality and useful content.
Setting up a new blog with WordPress is pretty simple and I’m going to assume you’ve already registered a new domain related to your blog. As well as having a web host that uses cPanel. Using Fantastico to upload and install your new blog is really a no brainer. It will do just about everything for you and gives pretty clear cut instructions to customize the look and feel of your new blog using available Themes and Plug-Ins. I want to add that WordPress Blogs are free and you can set-up as many as you choose. Each should have its own domain or sub domain.
Some things to consider before you begin the blog set up process:
1. What will you name your blog?
2. What will its purpose be?
3. When and how often will I update my blog?
4. How will you use it to enhance your core business?
5. Will it be seperate from your business or will it be its own business?
6. How will you announce your new blog to the world?
Many affiliate marketers use blogs as their only method of promotion rather than using conventional websites because of the ease and simplicity to update and add content without having to get into text editors and ftp programs. Their blogs are’ their business.
Once your blog is set up and you’ve decided on a name, what your target niche will be, and will it be a stand alone project or an addition to your core business you’ll want to get the word out.
Social Bookmarking sites are an effective strategy for bloggers. You can reach a wide variety of bloggers and attract an avid readership to your new blog. I’ve put a small list below as well as an ebook that lists many other SocialBookmarking sites.
1. tagtooga.com
2. del.icio.us
3. furl.net
4. simpy.com
5. blogmarks.net
6. shadows.com
7. spurl.net
8. netvouz.net
9. lightninghotprofits.com/SocialBookmarkRolodex.pdf
10. lightninghotprofits.com/176BlogTraffic.pdf (This contains 176 Blog Directories you can submit your blog to.)
The sites above will hasten your attracting Googles spyders to your new blog and will get you indexed faster than normal. I don’t need to say how important that will be in getting targeted traffic to your blog. But I guess I just did.
You will of course want to submit your blog to the Top 10 Search engines. Doing this every 30 days or so will certainly be beneficial to a solid marketing plan.
Don’t forget to consider placing some sort of contextual advertising on your main blog page. Whether it be in the form of adsense, yahoo, 7search, etc. These can bring you much needed revenue in the begining growing over time.
Whatever you decide to do with your blog I hope I’ve supplied you with some food for thought as well as some tools for you to get started. The Social Bookmark sites, blog directories and the Top 10 Search engine submissions will almost guarantee attracting readers to your blog and if you supply them with relevant and unique content, word of mouth can most assuredly spread like wildfire.
There are many steps to creating a successful travel blog, and some steps are more difficult than others. Personality is key in becoming a successful travel blogger, and your personality needs to come out through your online blog. So, the first step to creating a successful travel blog is to establish your unique persona. There are some ways to give your blog some life, the first way being using your real name on posts, throughout your website, and on social networking sites. This way, your readers are more likely to connect with you and your blog.
After establishing your blog persona, you should make sure it’s easy for readers to contact you by making your contact information easily available throughout your site. It is also helpful to give people different ways to contact you, whether it be through e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter, social networking sites keep people involved in your day. If you plan on being unable to access your computer or the internet for a period of time, let your readers know! You can use the Wordpress plugin WP-ContactForm or an out of office reply on your travel email account… Continue reading
Hitting the actual top of the blogs world involves lots of commitment from you which includes posting consistently, getting your market engaged in your blog, understanding when to express your opinion and being able to market yourself on line.These will be four of the “must do things” in order to obtain acknowledgement in the blogosphere but there are other elements of blogging which any time utilized, should really elevate your on-line brand and enable you to create those much sought after qualified prospects for your main business.We have posted five Multi level markeing blog site strategies which are often not addressed and just simply make sense when you analyze them. It really is about your voice and understand it properly, the belief aspect you’re after with your audience will follow rapidly which indicates prospects and income in your pocket.MLM Web Log Secrets1. Chat directly to your target market. What we indicate by this is your core target audience. Of course you’ll certainly have passing website visitors visiting your weblog however the “bread and butter” would be your mainstay audience. Help make them feel exclusive and while they will… Continue reading
So, how much traffic are you driving to your blog?… Now, in order to have a blog that produces a massive amount of traffic for your business and then turning that traffic into a massive amount of traffic, you need to promote it.
1. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
In order for the major search engines to know that your blog exists, you need to get it indexed by adding your RSS feed to your search engine accounts.
Install the All in One SEO Pack plugin and use it to add title, description and keywords for your blog, posts and pages.
In your back office, change the permalink settings for your blog posts from the url that includes the number to the one that includes the blog post title.
Where relevant, link your posts to your other blog posts as well as the other sites in your niche.
2. Blog Communities
Submit your blog to good blog communities. Google will index your blog as these communities have good search engine rankings. And you will start getting followers.
3. Blog Directories
Submit your blog to blog directories in the relevant category(ies). This is very powerful, it’s like being listed in the yellow… Continue reading
