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Welcome to part 2 of “Why Every Artist Needs a Blog”, a series showing how a successful blog can help you sell more art.

Now that you have successfully published your artist blog and have tested your dedication to frequent blog posting, it’s time to get your blog exposure on the web. Using blog-specific online marketing techniques, you can promote your blog to a target audience and build quality traffic to it – for free.

7 Steps to Build Traffic to your Artist Blog

1. Submit to Blog Directories

A list of the top 35 blog directories with direct links to submission pages and inclusion requirements is available at The ARTrepreneur. Keep in mind that the process of submitting to directories is always long and tedious, but will absolutely prove its return on the time investment, especially considering that it’s free online promotion for your blog.
Create a record of submission document for your blog to keep track of submission dates, member registration information, etc. Many of the better blog directory sites require a reciprocal link or tracking script to get listed, so work with your technical support person to place a reciprocal link on the page… Continue reading

Article by Thanate Tan

Recently, a new type of activity has caught people’s attention. Blogging, because this was the activity we were talking about, has become a passion for some, an obsession for many and a vice for others. This latter category will be the object of analysis of this article.Also known under the name of blogaholic, the person which has become addicted to his/her blog and has read many of the other blogs available on the internet has several specific features. These features have been individuated by no others than the blogaholics themselves, in a more or less ironic manner.

In what follows the readers will find a list with the most common features of a blogaholic. The main characteristic of those that have been captured by the virtual space is that they spend more time writing about their on their blog than they actually live. They hear news about their friends only by reading their blogs and talk to them only by posting comments on the above mentioned blogs. Following the same line, the blogaholic does not answer the phone, letting his/her parents know about his/her condition only by means of the articles posted… Continue reading

Article by Timothy Clemens

Chances are that if you’re reading this you have either started blogging or are going to begin very soon. You might be blogging just for fun and heard that you can make a little money from your blog or your sole intent could be to make money from your blog.

I’ll give several methods of making money with your blog which are free to you except that you have to devote your time to the blogging and the work needed to implement the techniques.

How To Make Money From Your Blog

There are several ways to profit from your blogging efforts and I’ll provide some here and there are probably others that I haven’t thought of or that haven’t been explored yet. You could come up with something unique on your own.

* Google Adsense – Sign up for a free account with Google and place ads on your blog

* Affiliate Marketing – Promote other people’s products on your blog and earn a commission from them

* Advertising – When your blog has a good following, sell ad space to companies

* Blog for others – There are websites and companies that hire… Continue reading

Article by Chris Bruzzi

Seo Importance in Blog Advertising

Having a blog on the Internet that gives people somegood informaton doenst do a lot of good if peopledon’t know that its there.

If you want people to be able to find your blog,something that is important is that you have goodSearch Engine Optimization, or SEO.

Whenever you put one or more words into a search barto look for something, the SEO of a website is whathelps bring up those websites.

For example, if your blog is about Harry Potter, youare going to want to be sure that your blog includespopular terms such as Harry Pottter, JK Rowling, andother things that are related to Harry Potter.

Think about the things that people look for when theyare interested in Harry Potter, and the kinds ofthings that come up when you search.

Its always a good idea to use your own experiencewhen you are optimizing your blog for searching.

Think about what has worked, what has’nt worked, anduse them for your own blog SEO. This way, when someoneputs one of the terms that you put in your blog into asearch engine it will be one of the sites that comesup.

Of course, there are… Continue reading

Article by John Smith

Most of you are familiar with blogs; blogs have given corporate communication a level. Getting involved in corporate conversation is of great importance as its existence is mandatory for the success of your business. The possibilities that blogging methods like blog marketing offers are limitless.

How can blogs be beneficial for your business?How should ones blog look like?

Many questions like these arise in your mind. This article is to help you get answers to these questions and help you understand the worth of blogging for your business. It can bring in new customers for you while maintaining a strong relation with old customers. Many companies and organizations are reaching high levels of success with the help of blogging, like doing blog marketing.

Time to get back to basics of corporate business, the reason for going back is not because you are illiterate about your business but because I know blogging can help you make your business more successful and viable. Following are the fundamental requirements for a business:

* Honest & Decent ideas* Great product * Visibility* Skilled and professional team members who are willing to put their effort for the success of the… Continue reading