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Saurabh asked:


If you want to build an online business, you must have a blog. Blogging has become the way that people find out who you are and what you do, so it is non-negotiable. After you blog for a month or to, it will become a daily activity that you can actually look forward to for the help www.bloggers-guide-to-profit.com. My blog is my home on the internet, and I am always ready to share the information I have with my readers.

There are really only two choices for your blogging platform. I use both of them, mainly because I maintain so many blogs. Type pad is an easy way to set up your blog within an hour or so, and it is hosted by Type pad. There are about two hundred different themes to choose from, or you can easily upload your own. I always recommend Type pad as a blogging platform to people you need to set up a blog quickly, without any need for specialized features.

For those who want more flexibility with their blogs, Wordpress is the way to go. There are plug-ins that make it possible to turn your blog into a search engine optimization machine, allow you to easily upload audio and video, and do more things than you ever imagined, even with a traditional website. Wordpress blogs require more technology knowledge to be set up and maintained, but you may find that you would rather learn some new things in order to have a site that is capable of so much more.

More and more people are now using blogs instead of websites, because the search engines love the fresh new content. You will be able to build your online business with your blog, and people will be able to find you easily when searching for your keywords on Google or any of the other search engines.

How blogs can hurt:

1. One small step. Negative posts can be fatal.

Blogging can open you up for many legal, liability and employment questions, problems or crises. Last year, Jim C. came to me after he had posted a rather nasty post on his Top Ten Worst Retailers in the World blog for the help www.feed-reader-links.com. His company did business with two of those retailers and as nosy or highly sensitive corporate personnel found out about his lambaste it caused a rift at the company. According to Jim, “This year for other reasons I was let go. It was not the economy. I crossed the line.”

2. Pictures tell a thousand stories.

Larry seemed to pipe up at work a lot about things that bothered him. So he decided to publish a seemingly anonymous blog. As a techy he posted hundreds of comments on political ideas, people he thought should be impeached and railed against what he considered bad taste and fashion. He did this anonymously under a lot of different names. But when he decided to take pictures at the year end Christmas party and publish captions that offended nearly everyone, he was, well, suspended without pay forever (fired).

Jinger Jarrett asked:


A blog is an important communication tool for business. You can use your blog to distribute information to your potential customers, as well as build a relationship.

So how do you build a blog?

There are several ways that you can do it, but it all depends on how much time you want to spend on configuring your blog, as well as the types of customizations you want to do to your blog.

Below are several places where you can either get a blog, or get the scripts to build your blog.

Blogger – http://www.blogger.com – This is by far the easiest of all the blogs to build. It takes about 30 seconds to create a blog, and you don’t need to know HTML. If you decide that you want to customize your blog, it does have an extensive knowledge base, and you can quickly learn how to add to the template to make it your own. It’s also very search engine friendly.

Word Press – http://www.wordpress.org – Word Press is one of the most popular blog scripts on the internet. It has tons of features, and it’s search engine friendly. Some of the most popular blogs on the internet use this system for blogging. Some examples of features include plugins that allow you to create an mp3 player on your site so that you can use for podcasting. Other features include: technorati tags, photos, sitemaps, and an extensive collection of templates so that you can use to change the look and feel of your blog.

The code is light and fast, and it is search engine friendly.

Nucleus CMS – http://www.nucleuscms.org – This is the system that I use for my main blog. It has a few features that Word Press doesn’t have, like the ability to create an ezine from your posts and send them as email. You can use a cron job to automate the process, and you can send out your ezine when you want it to go out. This is especially helpful if you want to build a list of subscribers.

It’s allowed me to combine two tasks: blogging and ezine creation.

There’s an extensive collection of plugins you can use to customize your blog, as well as a theme system. The only drawback here is the lack of themes. However, new themes are being designed, and it’s pretty easy to design your own, or customize one of the theme available.

Code is search engine friendly, and you can use plugins to create a Google Sitemap, add keywords, as well as technorati tags. You can also create multiple blogs from one installation.

Drupal – http://www.drupal.org – This is really a content management system, instead of a blogging system, and instead of just creating a blog, you can create a community of blogs, or a complete community, including forums, group meetings, and more. The code is very search engine friendly.

There is a rich text editor so that you can code your posts.

Regardless of what system you choose to create your blog, choose a system that you feel comfortable with. You can quickly and easily use blogs to build relationships with your customers, as well as distribute your content. By building and writing a blog, you can demonstrate your expertise on your topic, while building relationships with your customers and readers too.

Ultimately, blogging can become one of the best tools you can use to market yourself and your business, and it’s free to implement.

Vojin Stanic asked:


A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are another way to spread your message and get people to see your content.

Blogging and traffic go together, and it is easy to create a blog to drive traffic to your website or any other online web page. Each time a blog is updated, an RSS feed goes out and “pings” search engines, so it’s an excellent way to stay at the top of search results. Blogs are content-rich and usually focused on one specific  theme, which makes them easier for the search engine spiders to find.

It is important to update a blog frequently so as to get good traffic or regular readership. This will ultimately lead the blog to be enlisted with search engines and might also become a good source of your additional income. You can try “pay per click” advertisements, which pay you anywhere between a few pennies to a few dollars every time someone clicks on an ad.  There are several choices including the extremely popular Google AdSense, Kanoodle BrightAds, Chitika and the Yahoo! Publisher Network. These ads are easy to signup for and you can run them on most blogs.

Writing blogs can be time consuming and can take time to succeed. Building credibility and trust takes time. So don’t expect that, if and when you launch a blog, that it will be an overnight success. Blogging is a form of publishing and most publications that do succeed generally take a long time to build up a sustainable readership.

One thing seems to be for sure. Blogs are here and if you are not reading them or publishing one, you are soon going to be in the minority of people who use the Internet. If you decide to start a blog, there are many free services to help you get started. Some of the most common ones include Blogger, Drupal, and Wordpress.

Joshua Watson asked:


Fortunately creating a website doesn’t require a lot of knowledge, free time or money for that matter. Nowadays having a site won’t cost more than a few dollars per month and that really depends on the hosting provider you choose. More affordable hosting plans can start at only $4 month whilst other more complex solutions could literally reach the hundreds of dollars. Beginners won’t have to worry about this given that in most cases a basic hosting package offers all the necessary features required to host a site.

When thinking of creating a website there are a few questions each individual should ask before venturing on. Knowing exactly what is pretended and how to achieve those goals is the most important step to be taken before initiating a project. The internet presents many extremely flexible solutions that could all provide the results pretended but the problem is that some require basic knowledge whilst others don’t.

The first way in which an individual could create a website is by coding it himself with the aid of an HTML editor. This might seem rather complex but the truth is that HTML is a programming language extremely easy to use and perfectly suited for creating basic internet sites. Please not that this solution is only suited for simple sites which consist mostly of static content.

Advantages

- Easy to dominate

- Full control over every aspect of the site

- Good learning experience

- Well documented on the internet, information widely available

Disadvantages

- Only suited for very simple sites, more complex sites require good skills

- Not suited for dynamic content sites

- Requires some learning

- Long time to develop

The best solution for someone lacking basic programming knowledge is the use of a CMS. A content management system (CMS) is used to manage the content of a site. Instead of creating a bunch of static HTML pages a user can install a CMS and have it organize, store, and display the content efficiently. Individuals are only required to create the actual content and publish it.

Advantages

- Most CMS are extremely easy to use

- Robust, many features on offer

- Saves time

- Tolls that help in the creations and publishing of content

- Many CMS to choose from

- Most are Free

- No programming knowledge required

Disadvantages

- Some CMS are complex

- Might seem overwhelming at first

Wordpress is one of the most popular and widely used CMS on the internet. Although the initial project anticipated the development of a stable blogging platform, that notion has changed considerably over the years. Today Wordpress is an extremely easy to use, robust CMS that can be utilized in many projects be it to create a simple blog or a complex site. The advantages of using Wordpress are considerable.

Advantages

- Extremely easy to use

- Enormous community ready help if any problem arises

- Many free plugins to add extra functionalities

- Unbelievable amount of free Themes to chose from

Disadvantages

- Initially intended as a blogging platform, other CMS might offer better solutions for sites

- Creating a complex site requires a lot of technical experience

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system especially created for publishing content on the internet. A more robust solution, Joomla could be considered a multifaceted, feature rich software package best suited for complex sites. The reason for this is that not only can an individual create a simple website with the aid of this CMS but they can also develop a large scale portal or community site with extreme ease. With Joomla the possibilities are endless.

Advantages

- Free to use

- Very well documented

- Good community of users ready to help

- Extremely flexible

- Possibilities are endless

Disadvantages

- Beginners will struggle seeing as Joomla is a rather complex CMS

- Some extensions are expensive

As you can see creating a site isn’t very hard, all that is needed is the right tools. The resources provided free of charge on the internet are more than sufficient for any individual to start putting together a site. All you have to do is chose the best solutions and build the site.

Titus Hoskins asked:


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No matter how hard some people try to mystify SEO, it is not as complicated as many would lead you to believe. Despite all the techno jargon that many in the field will throw at you: SERPs, SEM, PageRank, Keyword Density, Vertical Search, Algorithms… SEO is really simple to do if you understand some basic concepts and follow some easy steps.

Search Engine Optimization is getting your content listed in all the top positions in Google, Yahoo and MSN for your targeted keywords. When someone does a keyword search in a search engine for your particular subject or niche – you want your site or content to be at the top of the list.

Here are 10 SEO tactics that have worked and are working for me at this moment in time.

1. Quality Content is and always will be your number one factor for getting high rankings and keeping them. You must understand search engines are simply businesses who supply a product like any other company. That product is information. They must offer quality results to anyone using their service to solve a problem, answer a question or to buy a product. The more relevant, the more targeted the search solution they return, the higher the overall quality of their product and the more popular their search engine will become. Providing quality content is vital for SEO success.

2. Keywords are your number one tools for achieving high rankings. You must understand keywords and how they work on the web. You must know how many searches are made each day for your chosen keywords. Sites like Wordtracker and Seobook will give you a rudimentary number of searches. Design your pages around your targeted keywords and don’t forget to do some deep-linking to these pages on your site. Find and build backlinks to these interior keyword pages and not just to your home page or domain URL. Picking keywords with medium to low competition has worked out well for me. So too has using the more targeted and higher converting “long-tail” keywords been very beneficial for me.

3. Onpage Factors and site design will play a major role in the spidering and indexing of your site/content. Make sure all your pages are SEO friendly, made sure all your pages can be reached from your homepage and no pages should be no more than three levels away from it – keeping a sitemap listing all your major pages makes the search engines happy. Make sure you have all your meta tags such as title, description, keywords… are all optimized. (Title = around 65 characters, Description = around 160 characters) Remember, your title and description should not only be keyword targeted but these are the first contact/impression anyone will see of your site – make sure you use them to draw and entice interested visitors to your site and content. Also make sure your title and URL are keyword matched for maximum effect. Having your major keyword in your Domain Name also helps, using a pike | to separate different elements of your title has helped my rankings, so too does having your keyword in the first and last 25 words on your pages.

4. Google will send you the most qualified traffic so concentrate the majority of your SEO efforts on Google. Don’t ignore Yahoo! or MSN but Google is king of search so give it the respect it deserves. With its new browser, Google’s influence will only grow stronger so you must optimize your pages for Google. Use Google’s Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics to fine-tune your pages/content for Google. I also use Google Alerts to keep up on my niche keywords and for comment link-building on the newly created pages Google is indexing.

5. Link Building is still the most effective way to boost your search rankings. Make sure you get backlinks from relevant sites related to your niche market and make sure the ‘anchor text’ is related to your keywords but don’t ignore the text and overall quality of the content linking to you. The anchor text is the underlined/clickable portion of a link. Don’t forget linking is a two-way street, make sure you link out to high quality, high ranked relevant sites in your niche.

6. Article Marketing is a well established method of getting quality backlinks and it still works. Writing short 500 – 700 word informative helpful articles with your backlinks in the resource box is still very effective for getting targeted traffic and backlinks. Longer articles have also worked for me and I use an extensive network of distribution including SubmitYourArticle, Isnare, Thephantomwriters… plus other major online sites. Don’t forget the whole element of blogging and RSS feeds in your article distribution. And always remember you’re also using these articles to pre-sale your content or products. Don’t forget to leverage sites like Squidoo, Hubpages… to increase your rankings and traffic.

7. Onsite Traffic Hubs have worked extremely well for me. These traffic hubs are whole sections of your site devoted to one sub-division of your major theme. For example, if you have a site on Gifts, then wedding gifts could be a separate section. This would be fully fleshed out with extensive pages covering everything dealing with wedding gifts – a self-contained keyword rich portion of your site on wedding gifts. Works similar as a sub-domain but I prefer using a directory to divide it up, such as yourdomain/wedding_gifts. (Most experts suggest always using a hyphen in your urls but underscores have worked fine for me.) Search engines love these keyword/content rich hubs but keep in mind you’re creating content to first satisfy your visitors.

8. WordPress blog software is extremely effective for SEO purposes. WordPress software is easy to install on your site even if you have no experience with installing server-side scripts. Besides search engines love these highly SEO friendly blogs with their well structured content and keyword tagging. I have at least one of these on all my sites to draw in the search engines and get my content indexed and ranked. I also use Blogger (owned by Google), Bloglines and other free blogs to help distribute my content.

9. Social Bookmark/Media Sites are becoming very important on the web. These include a whole range of social sites like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter… media news sites like Digg, SlashDot, Technorati… you must get your content into this whole mix if you want to take full SEO advantage of Web 2.0 sites. You should be joining these sites and using them. It’s time consuming but it will keep you in the swing of things. One simple thing you must do is to put social bookmark buttons on all your pages so that your visitors can easily bookmark your content for you. You can use a WordPress plug-in or I like using a simple free site/service from Addthis.com which gives me a simple button to put on all my content.

10. Masterplan! Many webmasters and site owners forget to develop or have an overall masterplan/strategy when it comes to SEO. You must have an understanding of what SEO is and what it can do for you and your site. More importantly, you just don’t want SEO – you want effective SEO. In order to achieve effective SEO you must have three things: Relevance, Authority and Conversions.

First, your content/site must be relevant to the topic or niche area you’re pursuing – your content must fit in and be related to all the other sites in your niche. That’s why closely themed sites do so well in the search engines, they give only relevant content to what’s been searched for or discussed.

Second, your content/site must be perceived as an authority site on your subject or niche. Establish this authority position and the search engines will love you and your content. One way is to develop this authority, besides offering superior content, is to form links/partnerships with other perceived authority sites in your field. Always strive to make your site an authority site – tops in your niche – the one site everyone has to check before drawing or forming a conclusion.

Third, conversions should be your main goal of any SEO efforts because you want to convert your targeted traffic into site members, subscribers, buyers or just repeat visitors. If you’re into online marketing, conversions will be the most important element of the whole SEO process because you want buyers, not just visitors coming to your site.

Most of all, you must convince yourself Search Engine Optimization is not difficult, nor is it the equivalent of the online bogeyman as many would like you to believe. Used effectively, SEO can give you the targeted traffic you’re seeking, just follow some of the outlined steps/tactics listed above and you will have SEO working for you and your site in no time at all.

Jeffrey A Solochek, I asked:


Most of the products I’m seeing these days are products that are aimed at people who desire to make money online. Very rarely do you see a product like how to plant the perfect rose garden or how to remodel your kitchen. The products that are prevalent are products like How to Make Money from MySpace or YouTube. How to take advantage of Web 2.0. These marketers are making most of their money from people like you and I that are trying to find out how we can make money on the net. I have always tried to pass on information about saving money, business and marketing without any sugar coating and without leading you off in all these other directions.

If you are looking to buy these products that these marketers are offering and to be able to resell them then I have a great site for you where you can get all of this product with resale rights and your cost will be only less than $10 per month. I had just received an email today from a marketer who was selling this book on how to take advantage of making money with the site YouTube. She was selling this ebook for $27. Before buying I decided to log into this reselling4profit site and see if this was one of the downloads. Sure enough, one of the new products that was just recently added was a book on selling on YouTube

Yesterday I had decided to create a new version of my NoSugarCoating Newz site using Wordpress. I figure since all these so called marketing experts are mainly telling you how this Wordpress is great for taking advantage of Web 2.0 so I finally said why not and I have installed a copy of Wordpress. Without going off in another direction here on this reselling4profit site there was an ebook on the top plugins for a Wordpress site. I have been spending a lot of time looking at all the plugins and themes but it is a lot easier to just go with the recommendations of one of these marketers on what is working best for them.

I have found so many things on this membership site that have save me thousands of dollars. I wish I would have had a site like this to get products from before I was spending all this money on products 10 years ago. This site will save you a literal fortune. If you have found this information helpful I would love to hear back from you.

Cory Threlfall asked:


st challenge the newbie blogger faces when deciding to start a blog is which blogging service to start with.

I know this for a fact when I first started out with blogging. It seemed new blogging services were popping out of everywhere leaving me very fustrated as to which one I should use.

I did my research as to which ones were the most popular among the online communities on the internet and came up with this list.

This will save you the fustration I went through when deciding which blogging service to go with and don’t worry the list isn’t HUGE!

These are the most popular blogging services used by hobbie bloggers and business professionals.

So with that said, here’s the list of the BEST blogging services newbie bloggers should get started with:

1) Blogger – http://www.blogger.com

2) Type Pad – http://www.typepad.com

3) Word Press – http://www.wordpress.com

4) Moveable Type – http://www.moveabletype.org

5) Live Journal – http://www.livejournal.com

6) MSN Spaces – http://spaces.live.com

See I told you the list wasn’t going to be HUGE.

You will find if you decide to do your own research on blogging services that these are the most recommended and used by bloggers world wide.

Now, my recommendation to you for a blogging service to get started with are either Blogger.com and Wordpress.com.

These two blogging services are the most used blogging services on the web today by hobbiests and business professionals.

The difference between the two is Blogger.com is a web based blogging service and requires no domain name or hosting service where as Wordpress though it offers a web based service like Blogger.com it’s stand alone content management system software gives you full control at all times. Choosing this route means you’ll need to purchase a domain name and hosting service.

I personally use Wordpresses stand alone CMS because of it’s many capabilities and multi-uses. I won’t get into Wordpress here because that’s a book within itself.

The question you need to ask yourself before choosing which blogging service to go with is… “which is going to offer me the most for the purposes of my blog?”.

All these services above have there own unique CMS systems, Themes and Plugins to make your blogging experience as easy as possible.

My suggestion is for you to visit each of the listed blogging services above, read what they have to offer and then choose the most qualified blogging service.

The list is small so put some time aside and really go through them throughly because you don’t want to go through all the trouble of setting your blog up and then decide that the blogging service you chose was the wrong one.

I’ve been there and it’s a pain in the butt to have to start all over again with a different blogging service.

After that it’s up to you on what you wish to publish on it and how you choose to monetize your blog.

I hope this article helped and the best of luck with your blog.

Debajyoti Das asked:


How to Start Blogging – Steps for becoming a Blogger

1) Find your Niche – Now when I saw this Tip, I didn’t even knew what’s a niche. What it means to me is your interests. For Eg. -My Blog Realtrix is about Internet & Web and Computing Stuff. Similarly you should find your Interest about what you are going to Blog about. Some Ideas I think you can be blogging about are Blogging, Computing, Tech, Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Music, Bollywood, Parental, Personal & Education.

2) Find which Blogging SW you are going to Use – The are many. The most Popular is WordPress & Blogger. Lets be straight Wordpress is much better than Blogger. BUT is better as it not 100% free. Hence, Blogger is the Best Option. I am using Blogger as Its highly Customizable. Also Blogger is a part of Google Services.

3) How to Start & what to write – Before making your own blog see what other Bloggers are doing and writing about on the same topic you are going to write about. Then make a list of Stuff they are not Writing about but you think should be written about. Now you know what to write about in your Blog.

Tip : If you are a regular reader you might have seen that I use Images for every Post I write. So you can start collecting Photos for your Blog Post in advance.

4) Starting Your Blog – Check Out the Video here to know how to Get a Free Blog at Blogger.Com. Set Up the Blog there following the Video Tips. Read : How to Create a BlogSpot Blog for Free ? – Video Guide For Beginners

5) Search Engine Optimization – This is very Important when Starting a Blog… See Below “Tips for New Bloggers”

6) What Template to Choose and Where to find Them – Your blog Template, I think is one of the Factors which will keep bringing back Visitors. I means think it this way if you see a very Nice Looking Blog … Don’t you try to remember it and Go back to See what’s new going On there ??

Best Tips for New Bloggers

Do you want to increase traffic to your blog? Well, here are some ready tips to make a move in the world of success blogging. Get started with the following tips that make your task easy. Some of the Easiest Ways to Improve your Blog, SEO and its Traffic/Visitors.



Make a habit of posting regularly in the blog.

Choose a proper template for your Blog. You don’t expect people to like it if you have a cooking theme in a Technology blog.

Write a topic and post it in different sections and thereby create a series. This increases the curiosity of the web visitors who turn to the blog for the interesting follow-ups.

Optimize your blog to make it load Faster so that new visitor don’t get annoyed to sit idle while your blog page loads.

Try to blog out breaking news first. It increases the popularity and creates an authentic image in the web community.

Use right keywords in the body content. The placement of the keywords in accurate density proves to be search engine friendly.

It is very important to encourage comments of web visitors in your blog. Highlight the most relevant comments on the blog. Try to build a cordial relation with the web visitors so that they visit your blog over and over again.

Submit your blog in blog directories and the RSS feed in RSS directories respectively.

It will be fruitful if you use the Ping-O-Matic service. Enter your blog name and its URL and select the directories according to choice. Any updates in your blog are automatically updated in the directories. The web visitors in these directories will able to access your contents.

While designing your blog it necessary to make an email subscription button and form. This proves to be very user friendly.

Try to comment on other blogs. This will introduce your blog in the blogger community.

List your favorite blogs in the blog rolls. You must also try to list your blog in other blogs.

It is highly important to add your blog’s URL to your email signature and any profiles other social networking sites. This will also introduce your blog in the web community.

It is essential to use Digg, Stumble and other social bookmarking sites for your blog. Once you send a post in the aggregators, it will reach millions in no time.

Write on related topics. Post related Articles in a row. This helps in stirring up the interest of the web visitors.

Show the topmost posts in the your blog which received great popularity. This will bear evidence of your blog’s authenticity and significance.

It is mandatory to add “previous” and “next” post buttons. This helps the user to quickly and easily navigate through the Blog.

Try to build up inbound links in your blog. This will help the web visitors to access other important pages in your blog and thus enhance traffic flow.

Rework on the previous Old posts. Try to check out every detail in your post and make it exciting.

Track your Visitors. See where they Come From, Searching for What. When they leave. etc.

Use photos in your post.

Make a Translation Widget In your Blog to help foreign visitors read what you have written.

Utilize your Online time when Not Blogging.Find Important Things to Do when Not Blogging.



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