Information for the Marketer

If you have a blog or are planning on beginning one soon, then you
obviously want it to do as well as possible. It should go without
saying that you need to update your blog regularly – at least three
or four times a week. However, there are a handful of other things
you should do as well. Five tips to make your blog better are
writing articles, submitting your blog to digg.com and similar
sites, pinging your blog, including the link to your blog in your
signature on forums, and including the link on social networking
sites.

One of the best ways to promote your blog is by writing articles
about the topic and submitting the articles to article sites such
as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com. You can even just cut and
paste an actual blog and submit it to your blog. Just put a link to
one of your blogs in the signature box below the article.

The second tip to make your blog better is to visit dig.com and add
the URL to the site. This will draw in more visitors and will get
you a ton of hits if your blog post is good enough to be selected
as one of the feature stories. There are other sites like digg.com
that you can visit as well.

Every time you post a new blog, you should ping your blog. There
are many great services on the Web that will ping your blog. All
you have to do is enter the URL and the service will do the rest of
the work.

The fourth of the five tips to make your blog better is to belong
to forums that are in the same niche as your blog. Then make good
posts on the forum and include a link to your blog in your
signature on the blog.

Finally, the last tip to make your blog better is to create
profiles on a number of social networking sites and then include
links to your blog. This will allow even more people to see your
blog. Some of the best social networking sites are MySpace,
FaceBook, and Squidoo.

Too often people create a good blog but they don’t do a few easy
things that will make their blog more popular. Five tips to make
your blog better are writing articles, submitting the blog to
dig.com and similar sites, pinging your blog, including the link in
your signature on forums, and including the link on social
networking sites.

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 Writing a blog is a great way to make money and it’s agreat way to build your list too. You can also sell yourown products and/or sell affiliate products from your blog. However,for any of these things to actually work, you first need to gettraffic to your blog. Three ways to drive traffic to your blog are to write articles, digg your blog, and post on forums. The first way to drive traffic to your blog is to write articles.The best place to submit articles is ezinearticles.com. This siteis also the strictest so make sure you follow all their rules. Itwill take just a few days to get your article approved but once you get 10 or more articles live on the site you’ll become a “platinum”member and then your articles should get accepted in about a day or so. What you want to do is write articles that are related toyour blog’s information. Then put a link to your blog in thesignature box below the article. The next way to get more readers to your blog is to digg it. Thismeans that you submit each blog you write to digg.com. This is avery easy process. It takes you about 30 seconds to sign-up. Thenyou complete the sign-up process by checking your email andclicking the link that digg sends you. Then all you need to do isclick on “Submit New” at the top of the page. Then plug in the urlto the individual blog post and then you’re all set. The third way to drive more traffic to your blog is by participating in forums that are related to your blog. Now, there are a couple of different ways to promote your blog on these forums. The first way is to put a link to your blog in your signature. That way the link to your blog appears every single time you make a post. The second way to use forums to your blog is to read the posts and find an interesting topic or question. Then go back and write a post about that topic, then return to the forum and post a reply that you covered this exact topic on your blog. Then refer them to the link in your sig. or post the direct link in the reply. These are just three of the ways to drive traffic to your blog. However you must insure that your blog is set up correctly so that it will attract the search engines that ultimately bring the traffic to your blog. I have bought a couple of products from Mike Paetzold, who for those that do not know him is in my opinion one of the leading experts on blogging! For example I purchased his “7 tips to make your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Friendly” As a direct result taking action the traffic sent to this blog increased dramatically thus increasing my chances of making a sale. http://www.paulconway.biz     

 Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s.  It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page.

  What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun.  As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential.

  Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool.   
1.Blogging is simple.  The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging.  No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse.  It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product.  If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise. 
2. Blogging is authentic.  In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims.  However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising.  Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience.  You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product. 
3. Blogging is free.  Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free.   Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up.  Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business.  
4. Blogging builds credibility.  As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs.  As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs.  As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site. 
5. Blogging builds your market.  Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts.  Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is.  But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base.


That is why it is so important that you Blog is set up correctly. If you need help in this the just click on the link opposite and Mr Mike Paetzold the Bloggers expert will give you a hand.

 There is so much information out there regarding the use of blogs in helping you to grow your business. I myself have been using blogs for sometime in helping me to attain my business goals.

 Did you know that if your blog is not set up correctly to make it more search engine friendly then there is a very good chance that it may never get indexed by Google, MSN or any of the other search engines! Your hard work would have been in vain.


 When I looked into how to set up my blog correctly I came across such terms as perma link structure, Google site maps, Technorati tags and many more unfamiliar terms. I was told that you must make sure these are all set up to ensure a quick response from the search engines.


 I searched around for this information and managed to articles that related to the information that I needed. However a lot of these articles were written with the programmer in mind. I am no programmer so could not follow the instructions.


 Fortunately I am a member of Affiliate Funnel if you want to know more about what they do just click on the link in the side panel and have a look. One of the benefits of A.F. is that they have a free seminar every Saturday Night. I made the great decision to listen to one of these seminar’s where a talk was given my Mr Mike Paetzold a well know WordPress Expert.


 He explained amongst other things all the information that I had been looking for previously. I subsequently got his 7 tips to making your wordpress blog search engine friendly and have seen Great results in the increased amount of traffic I get to my blog!


 If you are of the same mind as me then click on the link in the side panel and have a look at his offer. You will not be disappointed.

 Wishing you every success with your business
 Paul Conway