Beginners Guide to Blogging
Posted on October 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
A blog is basically an online journal wherein you can digitally pen down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures etc. Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3’s on your blogs.
Instead of writing texts, some bloggers choose to make their blogs more audio friendly, by using spoken word entries. This is called audio blogging.
Basically a blog contains these features:
Read More..>>DIY SEO Part 3, Advertising
Posted on October 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
We have dealt with the tags so the search engines should be happy when they find you, now you have to shove your site in a few places that get indexed on a daily basis.
This ensures that your website will get indexed by google, yahoo and alike as quickly as possible. These next 4 steps are free and necessary for the continued growth of your internet business.
The first site we want to visit is http://craigslist.org
When you get to the site you will want to find the small biz ads section and find the relevant area for you. If you don’t live in the USA or England then please use the area closest to you.
Business Blogs and Their Benefits
Posted on October 27, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Blog is a medium for self-expression on web. Blogs are in the form of few paragraph entries. Blogs are created by both individual and companies, which are in the form of personal and commercial blogs. It provides an option to make the articles interactive in the form of comments. Wiki is another type of blog which is similar to web page with contribution from more then one people.
Business blog helps companies or an individual to reach out to new audiences. If you have any information to share with people then blogs are the best and easiest way to publish it online and share it with your customers.
Read More..>>To Blog or Not to Blog: Are Blogs Becoming More Popular than Forums, Newsletters and E-zines?
Posted on October 24, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Blogging is hot, and seems to be becoming hotter each month. Although blogging originally was dismissed, by many successful publishers and other online “gurus”, the truth is that now, a few years after the “blogging trend” began, there are actually more blogs and more bloggers online than ever before. Blogging, obviously, is “here to stay”!
Actually first documented in 1997, Web logs initially used the abbreviated version: wee-blog, with a Web log editor referred to as a blogger. Since then, all types of Web logs (blogs) and blogging software have emerged, giving rise to this lucrative and dynamic market.
Read More..>>10 Top Reasons to Create a Blog for Your Business
Posted on October 22, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
I postponed creating a blog for my business because I
thought there was no marketing value in it and the ones I’d
seen were primarily news blogs or personal blogs. Well,
that was some time ago for now many businesses are creating
blogs to attract more visitors and make more sales.
What is a Blog?
This is a small or large online journal that allows the
author to frequently write on topics of personal interest
or of interest to his/her visitors. The writing style is
usually informal. Visitors can instantly add their comments
to the end of the authors writings or posts. The posts are
in chronological order ie day, month and year. Topics may
include commentary on the Internet, brief philosophical
discussions, or social issues plus links to other sites the
author favors.
Blog the New World, Blog It Right
Posted on October 22, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Blogging is a free service on the World Wide Web. My 62 year old mother has a Blog. Those of you, who think having your own Blog or Weblog, are beyond your capabilities on the computer, you may have a surprise coming.
You don’t have to know HTML (code that web pages are written in) to be apart of the fastest growing section of the internet. Blogging is an online journal of your experiences, likes, dislikes and views that can only come from your perspective. The internet is fast becoming one big online commercial and Blogs are a refreshing reminder of the intent of the original builders of the universal web.
Read More..>>13 Steps to Successful Blogging
Posted on October 19, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.
1) Where to start?
Read More..>>Top 10 Tips for Bloggers
Posted on October 17, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Tips for creating a blog.
There are no hard and fast rules on how to blog. Having said that, bloggers will likely increase their exposure by following some simple blog guidelines.
1.) Stay on topic.
Opinions are generally accepted but the content of the items in the blog should all relate to a general theme. Unless you have an uncanny knack for wit, humor or cynicism, the majority of your readers will be interested in the content that relates to a specific defined theme or loosely defined area of interest. Most readers won’t care that you eat Cheerios for breakfast. They may, however, be interested in the fact that vinegar takes out stains and that toilet paper rolls make great wreaths. Define a topic and stick to it. This will ensure that you create a loyal following of interested readers.
Blog Internet Advertising Made Easy
Posted on October 17, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Seriously pursuing blog Internet advertising income is easy can dramatically increase virtually any blogger’s revenue and has in the past made the life of many a blogger much more profitable.
Read More..>>Blog Wars: Attack Of The Splogs
Posted on October 14, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
The engines, namely Google, are striking back at sploggers and their malevolent creations, the splogs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog
According to media reports Google has taken measures to impede those attempting to use its Blogger service to create and maintain fake blogs. http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2005/10/24/
google_trying_captcha_to_obstruct_sploggers/index.php
Blogger’s official corporate blog mentioned the “spamalanche” that has search engines, blog search engines and net advertisers in a tizzy. http://buzz.blogger.com/
They are now working together to eliminate the economic incentive for splogs by identifying them at their source - by domain - and not indexing them.
Can CAPTCHA Stop The Spamalanche?
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