(Web blog) 5 One Minute Tips for Promoting Your Blog
No commentsBy Jinger Jarrett
One of the best things about building a blog as your website is that blogs tend to rank higher in the search engines, and for some reason, they just seem easier to promote.
Before you start getting traffic to your blog though, you need to do a few things to promote it. The traffic will build on itself, and you’ll continue to get traffic even after you stop promoting it.
1. Put your blog in your email signature.
When you set up your email client, why not add a signature? Every time you send out an email, your signature will be “attached” to your message. Just make sure you write something catchy so others take the time to click through.
2. Set up a sitemap.
A sitemap is an index of all of the links of your blog. Blog software like Wordpress will create your sitemap automatically with the right plugin. The plugin generates your sitemap for you automatically.
All you have to do is add your sitemap to your Google and Yahoo accounts, and they’ll index it for you. The beauty of sitemaps is that once you submit your sitemap, your marketing is hands free. Every time you post, your sitemap updates, and the search engines are notified to index your new pages.
3. Tag your posts.
Not every blogging client will allow you to tag your posts. Some will though, and there’s even code you can use for your posts to add tags. Tags help the blog and RSS directories like Technorati to index your posts better. Just make sure you choose the appropriate tags for your post. Adding unrelated tags won’t drive targeted traffic to your site.
4. Ping your blog.
A ping lets the major blog and RSS directories know you have updated your blog. With Wordpress, you add the ping services you want to notify and Wordpress will do the rest. With other blogs it’s possible to use a ping service. Services like Pingoat and Pingomatic allow you to ping your blog manually. This works really well especially if you use a free blog service.
5. Add some badges to your blog.
Regardless of what blogging script or service you use, most will allow you to add blocks of code to your blog. Add a couple of badges from high ranking websites to help you get more traffic. Services like My Blog Log and Technorati rank very high in the search engines, and they can easily bring you traffic by helping you build a following.
Each of these tips separately will take you about a minute to do, and they can easily get you traffic. So what are you waiting for?
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Be Smart To Make Money Fast
By John Hubert
Everyone dreams of being able to make money fast through the internet, however just how easy is such a thing really?
The answer is, not that easy, at least, not from the perspective of a person who is a novice to making money through the internet. The reason for this is due to the many misconceptions that there are surrounding just how exactly the online money making business works.
To start with, you’ll need to set up a website or a blog of some form, and put in a fair amount of effort to get that blog ranked well within the various search engines, in particular Google will of course be your main focus. Without having a site that’s ranked well within the search engines, you won’t be receiving free traffic, and thus your site will be a lot harder to monetize. Ranking a website takes time in itself, and isn’t a quick process, therefore the whole illusion of being able to make money fast through a site is a false one.
Then once your site is set up, you have other issues to worry about. For example, just how well does your site compare to other sites in your niche? Why will people visit your site compared to another one covering the same topic? What do you offer your visitors that’s different? These are all questions you’ll need to ask yourself I you hope to make any money online, as all too often people think that the processes involved are somehow easy, or straight forward, which of course they’re not.
So once your website is setup, and you’ve got it ranked within the search engine results under a competitive keyword term, how do you then go on to make money? Well you could use some form of advertising, such as adsense, or rather you could market an affiliate product directly (the later of which is often the more lucrative). Once you get targeted traffic to your site that’s ready to commit to actions, you’re going to be more likely to profit from your website visits.
All in all, the whole process of setting up a site, getting it ranked, and advertising a good product or service that sells, can take many months to setup. Hardly a way to make money fast is it? But then again, there is no way to make money fast that is long term, at least not from a non-established business. That’s why you need to be smart about the whole internet marketing game. If you want to make money blogging for example, then put in the necessary time and effort that will see your blog rank well, and become popular. If you want an easy ride to financial freedom, then unfortunately such a thing just doesn’t exist.
So the purpose of this article is to educate you, the reader, that whilst you can make money fast, it’s only through hard work and determination that it’s done, and only after repeated learning from your mistakes, can you hope to ever turn your online ventures into a successful business.
The author, John Hubert, runs a page explaining the myth of being able to make money fast through the internet. He also has written a tutorial explaining ways of blogging online to make money.
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