A good way to blog December 5, 2006
Posted by Tzerwah in : Special Blog Income Generator, Guide to blogging , 4 comments Tag:blog blogger blogging feedburner google msn technorati trackbacks wordpress yahooBelow is what I know and think about blogging
Part 1: Starting and maintaining a blog
Over the years, there are as significant increase of blogger in the blogosphere. The last counted number June 2006 is around 44.1 millions and it is still increasing!
1. Find your niche and stick to it - blog about things that you are interested in or what are your passion. Are you a
good basketball player? Blog about your skills and how you learn them. how you train yourself. Ultimately, blog is about sharing.
2. Make sure that the niche is something that you like - if you are blogging about things that you are not interested in.Why blog? Life is already so miserable, people is chasing for paycheck everyday. Do something you like in your free time, if not you will quickly become frustrated and abandon your blog.
3. Do not expect to make money blogging - Many people think that blogging will make them millionaires overnight by using those get rich blogging program as promised from the internet. Only a small percentage of blogger are able to do that because they are full time blogger spent long hours in front of the internet to improve themselves.
Once you have decided that to be a blogger. You have to decide what blogging services you want to use. I would recommend that newbie to use blogger to get their feet wet before going more into it. The service is free, but the downside is that you could not have different categories and could not schedule your posts at a later date or time. You can go into the more complex blogging platform when you are ready
- Wordpress(My Favourite!)
- Livejournal
- Typepad
- Movable Type
Most of the people who uses the above blogging tools will normally registered their own domain name and webhost. So that they can edit and change whatever they want as it is their own blog with their own domain name.
Part 2: Make your blog findable
You have started writing some content on your blog. The next thing is to let others aware of your blog. As most of the blogging service have a feed function. If you do not know what is a feed. check out what is feeds?
Most blogger will also subscribe to feedburner. So make sure you head over there and register an account for yourself.
Next is to let the search engines know your blog existence so that the search engine spiders will start to crawl to your blog.
- Yahoo
- MSN
- Technorati
I have paste some links below which can help you to fasten the process of submitting your url to the search engine.
Is it faster then submitting your url manually one by one?
Next is to register for an account with technorati. It is an internet search engine which focus on blogs by keywords or links.The last update on June 2006. It is currently indexing over 45 millions blogs. Once you have registered for an account. You would need to claim your blog.
Enter keywords which best suits about the niche of your blog. You can now start tagging your post. In order to make full use of technorati service. I would recommend that you create a technorati tag by using KeoTag’s Tagger Service
Key in your tags in step 1, Check the box on Technorati.Paste the html to the bottom of your post and you are done! Now all you have to do is to wait and see the magic of technorati.
Part 3: Generate traffic by having conversations!
At the beginning, i have said that blog about things you are interested in and now is to start a conversation with people who shared the same interest or niche with you.
1. Comment on their blog - Leaving a comment on people blog is the most easiest way to start a conversation.You also can go back to technorati and click on the tags that you have created and start a conversation with follow blogger by emailing them about what they think of your posting or articles.
2. Trackbacks - Most blogs allows trackbacks. Another great way to start a conversation between posts. If you are not sure about trackbacks, check out what is trackbacks?
3. Forums - Look for forums which suits your niche and talk to people in the forums. Exchange views or pointers with them. Create a signature at the bottom of your forum posting. If they are interested to know more. They would click your signature and go to your blog.But always rememeber to check the rules of the forums.Some of them did not allow signature posting.
This is what I feel about blogging. Feel free to comment on this posting.
People find information
Posted by Tzerwah in : Why Internet Marketing?, Is there real money to be made online?(Part 1 Affiliate, Is there real money to be made online( Part 2), Treat Internet Marketing as a business, Special Blog Income Generator, Targeted Traffic , add a comment Tag:blog blogging email ezine google+analytics internet+marketing marketing rss+feeds seo social viralThere is an increase in the number of people searching things on the internet. The way advertising is done have changed. Now, it is people searching for products while during the older days are products searching for people.
As there is an increase in the number of people sourcing for information on the internet. It will be a better way to market your products through internet. Your products will have a higher chance of being spotted.
In internet marketing, there are many ways to market your products as it is now people searching for information or products and the cost incurred is so much lower then traditional marketing(offline) methods.
Offline Marketing
- More time is wasted on creating campaigns
- More money is wasted on creating campaigns
- No way to analysis the campaigns whether it is a successful or not
- No way to know how many people have seen your campaigns and respond to you through your campaign
- No way to create a relationship with people who saw your campaigns (Lose Potential Customers!)
- Business not operated 24/7
- Small area of targeted customers
Online Marketing
- Much lesser time is spent on creating campaigns
- Able to analysis the response rate(Google Analytics)
- Able to create a better relationship with your customers
- It is run 24/7, without you physically there
- Larger area of target customers
- Much lesser money is spent on campaigns
There are still many more benefits and ways to make your business shine through Internet as a tool to market your products
- Email Marketing
- Viral Marketing
- Ezine Directories
- Forums
- Social Bookmaking( Blogging Tools)
- Blog Directories
- SEO
- RSS Feeds
Everyone got different ways and strategies to find traffic. Some prefer to get free traffic first by using ezines, forums social bookmarking while some prefer to use Google Adword first. Everything depends on how you want to play the traffic game. No matter what, stick to your game plan and I am sure you will find success.
Why blog not website? November 21, 2006
Posted by Tzerwah in : Why Internet Marketing?, Special Blog Income Generator , add a comment Tag:affiliate blog blogging ewen+chia google wordpressWell, intially I am actually thinking of setting up a website to provide information about internet marketing, affiliate products etc. I have ask around in forums. Some said that I should start a blog and a review website. As a newbie, I don’t think that I can handle 2 sites at the same time. So I will start with one first.
Some reasons why I start a blog:
- Google index blog very quickly and favors blogs a lot( I know it through Ewen Chia Secret Affiliate Weapon’s memebership Only database)
- I am not good at writing, in fact failed my English during the O’Levels. So I use blog to brush up my English so that I can start to write articles and submit to ezines, blog directories.
- I can write about whatever I like( Heh, is my own blog right?)
- Not as formal as a website.
- Fanstastic Wordpress plugins which can help me to get more traffic( e.g. Rss Feeds)
- Plugins which can make the blog more user friendly(e.g. Related post plugins)
- Execellent ways and features which can help you to get more traffic
- Many, Many more ( You have to find out yourself)
I know nothing about setting up a blog. I did not know anything about html and yet I can set up this blog in a day and fine tune it with some extra plugins. I am really proud of myself.
By the way, if you are interested to setup your blog or make your existing blog more traffic friendly. Maybe you would like to take a look at the Special Blog Income Generator(SBIG). It cut short my time to setup a blog so that I can concentrate working on other ways to get traffic to my blog.
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