BLOG DESIGN JOURNAL

Some people use blogs just for fun or simply because it’s their hobby and don’t know yet the financial benefits that can be achieved by doing it. Blogging is one of the most effective and efficient techniques to make money online.

If you love to write, and love to express your ideas or thoughts or just anything you want to share through writing then, this means making money online might be good for you. But wait, blogging is not as easy as you are thinking. Just like any other methods used to make money online, it requires skills, patience, enthusiasm, and hard work.

How to make money from blogs business? Blogs are one of the powerful tools in advertising industry. Therefore, it’s not impossible for your blogs to feature any kind of ads for any of your purpose. So, if you are good in making blogs, then, making money online with your blogs is never really far from reality. Read the rest of this entry →

Blogging is one of the most popular and profitable forms of internet marketing on the web right now. It’s one of the fastest ways to promote yourself to others and create followers and buyers within a particular niche, but there is no way you can make any niche blog a success without significant amounts of traffic. So what are some of the fastest ways to get traffic to any blog? There are a few quick things you can do that will help instantly increase visitors and help make your blog
popular and profitable.
The first method is social bookmarking. Creating a web presence in social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace will help create back links to increase SEO and will also provide an alternative pathway for people to find and visit your blog. If you are looking for a fast and easy way to get your blog indexed and trafficked by numerous visitors from social networking sites, a great place to start would be socialmarker. This one handy little website will instantly ping your blog content to all the major social networking websites and give your site an edge in search engine rankings and back link traffic.
Another great method for blog traffic is to submit your blog and RSS feed to blog directories. Blog directories act as an additional network of traffic by generating back links for search engine optimization and creating an additional path for visitors to be lead to your blog. People searching around a specific niche will often go through blog directories in the hopes of finding compelling and worthwhile content that will answer questions and give them an interesting source of information on a particular topic. The most common and highest traffic blog directories you should upload your blog to are blog catalog, blog hub and blogging fusion.
A final method for generating traffic to a blog would be to sign up for a membership at a traffic website such as trafficswarm. The way these sites work is they offer incentives for visitors to go to each others sites by offering credits for visiting a particular site. For each credit, you get one visitor to any choice of your websites. So it is essentially a giant traffic exchange in which people earn credits by visiting other websites. Certainly not the best source of traffic available, but it is cheap and there is plenty of traffic to go around on
sites like these, especially if you sign up for a monthly membership plan, which guarantees you 5000 credits per month. I think just about any blog could benefit from additional 5000 visitors this month, don’t you?
Other than that, it pays to be mindful of keywords. If you generate tons of traffic, but are not leading your visitors in on relevant buying keywords, you will not realize any ROI from your hard work and energy creating the content or back links. Just be sure to remember you are not only getting traffic, but also the right kind of traffic to any website you happen to create.

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While other people don’t think much of the many benefits of automated blogs, others do. Having a blog can take some time to build up; however if you do not have a whole lot of time in your day to sit down and add and research topics to your blog daily or even weekly, there is a great tool called the automated blog.

Time, an essential part of life, gets to be saved with automated blogs. Cut some time in doing research using the auto-blogs.

These blogs will help you get more readers and earn more bucks too. The average person who knows not that much about computers gets to use these programs with ease. Tutorials are made available to help you use the product for the first time.

Automated blogs are also great to use in making your blogs SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. An SEO-friendly blog helps you gain the top spot in search engine rankings. Read the rest of this entry →

In my blog post I’ve written on Enhance your blogging skills with WordPress Plug-ins. Today I’m going to explain about advance hacks & wordpress plug-in for powering your blogging.

We all know that WordPress is best CMS for blogging, if you have bit technical skills to tweaked with coding & R& D for trying new plug-ins, then blog post is must read for you. Let’s start with WordPress Plug-in & Hacks:

Wordbook – WordBook is provides you to facility of posting your blog posts in to your Face Book Wall. These blog posts will be showing on Boxes tab of your recent blog post.

Broken Link Checker – This plug-in let you know broking links of your blog. You can monitor links in your blog post, pages and other custom fields. It also notifies redirected links.
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A blog, believe it or not, when properly prepared creates content, and quite often is put very fast in the top ten of Google. Why it is so, try reading the following contribution to enlighten yourself:

A blog of domestic implements from a few features, allow search engines to crawl the content very quickly. The result was the fastest I have ever witnessed, added a new post within 20 seconds (including the top 10 ranking) for relevant phrases. How can this come about?

BlogPing

BlogPing is a protocol that implements any popular blog system. It serves primarily two things:

1. Blogs to notify each other (They were linked)

2. Notify search engines (Google Hello, I have published a new page)

Especially with the integration of Google Sitemaps that go on WordPress with a click of the hand, you need a search engine’s new content page to look once more. Sitemap opens directly to crawl a new page. Read the rest of this entry →

Many clients come to me and ask whether they should host a blog on their own server or setup a free blog via WordPress, Blogspot or other platforms. Since this question has been asked time and time again, I have decided to write a blog post on the topic. I literally receive 5-10 inquiries per week about such, and this will hopefully put the issue to rest once and for all.

Please find the benefits of each scenario below:

Hosting on WordPress.com
1) Hosting a blog on WordPress.com offers a free and easy way to setup a blog/website and instantly get things rolling.
2) There is no cost associated with free blog platforms, which makes them appealing to the masses.
3) Plugins and themes can be swapped very easily, no FTP connections required. This is also the case with most self-hosted blogs, but not always.

Self-Hosting a Blog
1) Site access is taken to an entirely different level and all aspects of the blog can be modified.
2) A wide variety of more custom plugins can be utilized.
3) In regards to SEO, hosting a blog on your own server is the absolute most important thing to do. The goal is to build strength/traffic to your own server/domain not blogspot.com or WordPress.com. This will ensure future sustainability and profitability.
4) In being able to fully customize a blog, advertisers (banner ads) are easier to acquire, thus making the blog more profitable in the end.

I hope this compare and contrast has been helpful. Be sure to check out my articles on Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing to get a better understanding of online advertising in general. 

Until next time, 

Sincerely,
Aaron Schoenberger
The Brainchild Group

The Brainchild Group is a Los Angeles SEO Company specializing in Corporate SEO, Restaurant SEO, Automotive SEO, E-Commerce Website SEO, Law Firm SEO and SEO for a host of other businesses.

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We have, as you all might have seen, chosen WordPress as our blogging platform for our internet marketing business and that is for some very good reasons. Below is a (somewhat  subjective) review and reasons behind our choice.  Fist off some Advantages and Disadvantages.

Advantages

WordPress is FREE

WordPress has tons of plugins that will help you optimize your blog according to your needs and requirements

WordPress is very easy to install and use

WordPress has thousands of followers and developers that continously imrpove and delvelop plugins, tools and software

Disadvantages

We have some difficulties using the editor, so we use a free html editor called NVU (Click HERE to check NVU) – make the post there and copy it into the WordPress “Add New Post” editor

A lot of spamboots and automatic comment poster “attack” WordPress blog posts

Except for that we haven’t found any weaknesses or disadvantages so far.

Plugins:
Plugins are small softwares that is developed by either WordPress OR webdesigners like you and me, in order to complete and optimize WordPress.  There are literally thousands of plugins developed, soe not so good and some truly amazing.  Below is a couple of examples of plugins just to give you an idea of what it really is:

Plugin 1: http://tweetmeme.com/about/retweet_buttonTweetMeme – this FREE plugin puts a small button on every blog post which enables your visitors to easily share YOUR blog post link to all their Twitter followers. HIGHLY reccomended (check it in the upper right hand corner of this post)

Plugin 2: MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate – this $97 plugin enables you to manage ALL your affiliate links, create your own link names etc etc.

We’ll cover some really good, both free and paid, plugins in later posts, but we just like to mention specifically that there are some excellent plugins for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) that will drive free traffic to your website/blog.

Software:
In the blogging world there are constant need for different softwares, and for WordPress (and other blog platforms) there are a lot of good ones developed. Again, just to give you an idea of what we’re talking about, here is an example:

Artisteer – this software enables you to MAKE your OWN WordPress themes (soon also Blogger/Blogspot) without knowing any html codes.  You can set the width of your blog, colors, header, footer……you name it – you can do it with Artisteer.  An excellent software if you’re setting up and managing many blogs.

We’ll of course cover Artisteer and other softwares more detailed in later posts.

Conclusion:
WordPress is in our eyes the ultimate blog platform for your internet marketing and business.  It has ALL the features and tweks we’re looking for and it continues to develop and improve day by day.  Before you chose your blogging platform, you definately have to evaluate WordPress and see if it’s suitable for you.

Thanks for taking time to read this review, and whatever choice you make – we wish you all the best in your business endeavours.

PS! Comments and suggestions are HIGHLY welcomed

Yours Respectfully

Tom Hammerborg

http://qualitynetworkers.com

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Tom Hammerborg is a passionate Internet marketer and specializes in affiliate marketing, health and personal development. He is also the founder of QualityNetworkers.com

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