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Articles on Blogging and Business Blogging from Blog-Maniac.com
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Top 10 Tips for Creating a Blog
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.
How To Avoid Blog Burnout
Blogging is a time consuming process. Bloggers are also extremely passionate about what they do. But there's only so much time in the day and only so much abuse a body can take. So how do you avoid becoming a burned-out business blogger?
Article Marketing For Bloggers - 4 Tips To Build Traffic For Your Blog
Traditionally, article marketing has been used by authors who are promoting their books or information products. Lately, I’ve noticed a growing trend of bloggers using article marketing to grow the traffic to their blog and you should too.
Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogging?
Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day. According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs - fake blogs that are created by robots in order to foster link farms, attempted search engine optimization, or drive traffic through to advertising or affiliate sites.
4 Ways to Profit From The Hidden Revenue In Your Blog
Most webmasters and online business owners know that a blog can bring you additional revenue from advertising, and more traffic from search engines. Then there's the additional benefit of having a great way to spark productive dialogue between you and your prospects. But did you know that your blog itself may be worth thousand of dollars to you in its present form?
Top 10 Blog Writing Tips
Most of the "rules" about writing for ezines and newsletters apply to writing posts for your blog, but there are some important differences. Keep these 10 tips in mind and you'll be publishing great blog content that attracts prospects and clients in your niche market.
How to Read Blogs Using Free RSS Readers
In my quest for true mobility I've explored reading blogs using numerous different RSS readers. That's the techie name for a blog reader. Personally I use Bloglines to read all my blogs or feeds as they are known. I like it because it's free, I can access it from any computer in the world... yes even in Mongolia... it's unbelievably easy to use, and has a refreshingly clean interface.
Use Blogs and RSS Feeds to get your New Sites and Pages Indexed Fast
Imagine yourself an old-time bank robber appearing at the bank's back door only to find it wide open and a welcome sign attached. Wow! How much easier can it get? ...no risks, and nothing to keep you from making a quick getaway with lots of cash. RSS feeds and blogs are exactly that... an open door to search engines like Yahoo! They costs you nothing and present a no-risk invitation for quick results!
Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines
Your favorite thing about having a blog may soon be this - they naturally attract search engine traffic. Blogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages.
Why You Need to Blog and use RSS Feeds
Blogs and RSS feeds are a sure-fire way to get your website off the dirt roads of cyberspace and onto the Internet superhighway! RSS feeds and blogs are interesting ways to spruce them up a bit - to keep things interesting and changing. Believe me, interest is a key element in drawing people back time and time again.
Blog for Business: Is It Right for Your Company?
If you haven’t yet looked at blogging as a potential marketing tool for your business, now’s the time. Last spring, I wrote to all my customers to suggest that it was time for them to start letting at least their salespeople write blogs for their customers and prospects. It sounds radical to many managers, but there’s no denying the power of authentic communication when it comes to building loyalty between people - and clearly your customers are people first.
Brain of a Blogger
As blogging skyrockets in popularity, we should be asked: Is blogging is good for the brain? Here two physician-learning specialists offer their view.
Business Blogging for Search Engine Traffic
As more and more blogs go commercial, more and more folks want to know how and why they should blog for business. While there are any number of reasons, one of the most compelling is this: search engines seem to love blogs.
So what is it about blogs that those little spiders love so much?
Here's a little secret: search engines crave content.
Okay, so maybe that's not such a secret. But to look at many websites you would think it is.
Blogger Secrets: Things You Probably Didn't Know
Blogging is a pretty popular activity online these days. It's a great way to connect with your audience on the Web and create a sense of community.
There are many ways to start your own weblog but one of the easiest is with a free service called "Blogger." Owned by Google, it's a feature-rich service that makes it simple to start a blog of your own.
If you think blogging is just about typing text, think again. There are many fun things you can do once you're up and running withyour very own blog.
Blogging For Fun & Profits
Unless you've been under a rock for the last year, you've heard the term "blog" once or twice.
To most people, a "blog" simply represents a glorified online "diary" where geeks, computer nerds, and lonely teenagers record their thoughts in cyber-space.
However, many people don't realize that "blogs" are quietly revolutionizing the way companies and customers interact about everything from existing products to new ideas and improvements in customer service.
In short, "blog" style communication has come of age and anyone with an online business better sit up and take notice fast!
The Rise of Business Blogging
Despite its long history of innovation and track record for producing one product marketing success after another, by the turn of the century Microsoft had developed a negative reputation.
In 1998 the Department of Justice initiated a protracted public relations and legal war that branded the company and its top brass as bullying monopolists. By the time the case was settled in late 2001, the Microsoft brand was beaten and battered.
Three years after the case was settled, however, Microsoft has completed a sweeping organizational and image overhaul. It now is perceived as friendlier, more open and trustworthy.
How To Profit From Your Home Business Blog
A blog is a simple tool which all affiliate marketers should be utilising to explode their affiliate sales.
I set up my blog in about 15 minutes at http://www.blogger.com it’s a completely free service, and it’s really easy to set-up. I followed directions on an excellent article on getting a new website listed in Google in 48hrs check it out here,. I just followed the advice in the article and got started with no problems in no time.
Business Blogging: Where Do I Start?
The new hot commodity is a blog for your small business so you've decided you must have one.
Before you begin think about it long term. Where do you think
the blog is headed? What is the objective? Do you want it to be found by the search engines for specific terms? How often
will you post? Who will the audience be? What will it look like
a year from now? Five years from now?
How to Get Started Blogging in 5 Minutes or Less
I put off starting a blog for a long time because I thought it would be hard. I thought it would be technical. I thought I'd have to install scripts and tear my hair out getting them to work.
At that point, most of what I'd read about blogs and RSS was just so much geek-speak.
Was I ever wrong!
When I finally got the courage to give it a go, I went to blogger.com and signed up for an account. To my amazement, I had a blog set up in about 5 minutes. My first post was uploaded to my site about 10 minutes later.
Should Bloggers be Helping Google Fix Their PageRank System?
By now, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a new tag that will supposedly combat comment spam. The new tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to links. When added to links in comment tags, the search engines will ignore them.
How to Build a Niche Site With a Blog
Building niche sites is all the rage these days.
The basic strategy is very simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on.
Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. Once you have your articles, upload them to your site. Monitize your site with affiliate links and Adsense.
For this kind of niche site to be effective and make money, it is imperative that you get free traffic, and a lot of it. And that's exactly where a blog can be your best friend.
Why Wordpress is Now My Blog Software of Choice
The more I use Wordpress, the more I love it. It has 2 very important features that Blogger doesn't yet support.
Number 1, you can set up Wordpress to automatically ping all the RSS and blog feed directories every time you make a post.
This is a very powerful feature if you want your blog to get a lot of traffic right away. On top of that, you'll be quickly developing backlinks to your blog almost automatically.
How To Make Money With Blogs And RSS
Are you confused about blogs And RSS? Guess what? You're not alone. Most people are, even if they don't want to admit it.
Well, it's time to clear up that confusion. It's time you learned about the awesome potential of blogs and RSS. And once you discover how simple and easy it really is, you're going to kick yourself for not trying to profit from this technology sooner!
First of all, what's a blog? Well, According to the dictionary, a blog is:
"A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links."
Why Should I Use Blogs And RSS Feeds?
Blogs and RSS feeds are great marketing tools! Now, if you're like me, you're probably scratching your head and saying, "Wonderful, but what in the world is a blog, and what the heck does an RSS feed?" Let's make it quick and simple.
A blog is basically a journal or diary that is kept online. It changes every day as you add new content. An RSS feed is a little more involved.
RSS (usually referred to as Really Simple Syndication) is a means to publish regular updates to web content. The content itself is known as the feed.
6 Ways That Blogging Can Save You Money
Even though I've had several personal blogs for years, I've only been officially business blogging since 2003.
So in going back over expenses for the last quarter, you can imagine my shock when I realized that my overall business costs were down about 19%. What saved me so much money? Surprisingly, blogging.
How can you save money with your blog? It's pretty simple, so I'll be brief.
Why It Took Me So Long To Blog
When I saw my first blog, I wasn't impressed.
The first blogs I ever read were embarrassing tales of teenage angst better left private, political diatribes from both the rabid right and the rabid left, and jargon-filled tech rags that made my eyes glaze over.
And yet everyone was talking about blogs and that I would soon be left behind if I didn't have one. But they never gave me a simple explanation of how it would benefit me.
3 Overlooked Ways to Get Hundreds of Links and Prospects to Your Blog
Did you know that there are free ways that you can get links back to your blog overnight? That after a few days they can number in the hundreds? No matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll face the issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site. What most people don't know is that there are literally hundreds of ways to get free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked ways to get additional traffic to your site using a blog.
Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings?
It's been all over the SEO-student rumor mill for weeks now, and has finally made it into my Inbox - in droves.
The new get-traffic-quick scheme for search engine results has arrived - flooding ping notification sites with update announcements, even though your blog hasn't been updated.
The question is does this- or some variation of it work? If not, where did this idea come from?
Okay, bad news first.
Pinging sites like Yahoo and Syndic8 every half-hour for several days or weeks, to notify of updates when they haven't been made, does nothing but clog up the system. It's called spam-pinging and it has been around since 2002.
If you haven't updated your blog, or you're pinging updates of a site that isn't even a blog (or RSS feed, where applicable), in the long run it's just going to make it harder to get listed at these sites.
7 Questions To Ask Yourself BEFORE Starting A Business Blog
Blogging is the latest buzzword in online marketing and PR.
But with so many marketers jumping on the blogging
bandwagon, few people are giving a thought to whether blogs
are really up their alley, or taking the time to consider
the best ways of going about it.
If you are planning to start a business blog, ask yourself
these questions before you take the final plunge.
Business Blogging - 5 Tips to Help You Barrel Through Writer’s Block
It’s inevitable. Everyone hits the wall. Whether you’ve been blogging ten weeks, ten minutes, or ten months, eventually you’ll find yourself with absolutely nothing to say.
Or so you think.
So what in the world do you do when you’re stumped?
If RSS is the Yahoo backdoor, is a Blog Google's? (Part 2)
Setting up Your Blog for the Best Chances to Be Included in Google - and Your Best Bet For Staying In
Here are the top 8 items you need to be concerned with to get your blog prepared to be recognized and listed well by Google. The 8th item will clarify one of the most important factors if you want to stay in.
If an RSS Feed is the Yahoo Backdoor, is a Blog Google's?
Though the answer is in a book I wrote this July, the question is still asked of me repeatedly. Why does it work for some sites and not others? And how come some blogs get indexed in a day and then are dropped, and others stay in Google indefinitely?
Well, let's take one question at a time. The answer to whether you can blog your way into Google search results is yes, sometimes in six weeks, often in 24 hours.
BlogKits BlogMatchTM Network: World’s First ‘Paid To Blog’ Network
Bloggers finally have a new way to make a buck with their weblogs. BlogKits.com has launched the BlogKits BlogMatch™ Network. The BlogKits BlogMatch™ Network is an opportunity for anyone who owns a blog to be matched with businesses, marketers and/or advertisers looking to partner with niche-filled, content specific, quality blogs.
Creating Multi Links with Blogs
In Part 2 of this series I outlined how I decided to create two blog sites using Google's own blogspot.com for the first one, and a new domain of my own called biz-blogs.com for a series of business oriented blogs.
Once I had things set up in this way, I began the process of entering posts for promoting specific products. This process may sound a bit contrived for those of you who think blogs should be spontaneous "top of mind" journals.
Multi Linking with Blogs vs Link Spamming
In this article I point out some of the pros and cons of using blogging as a method of "multi linking".
In this article I argue there is a difference between "multi linking" and "link spamming". I claim that "link spamming" is a shady practice* that should not be encouraged, while strategic "multi linking" with blogs is a legitimate tactic for enhancing a website's presence.
Can Blogs Be Useful Marketing Tools?
Blogs (web-logs) have become very popular. If you are not up to speed on what "blogs" are, just think of them as online journals.
The owner of the blog makes regular posts on whatever topics he/she chooses, and readers are free (or not) to make comments.
If you think blogging is symptomatic of a youth culture enamoured of brainless activites like "reality" TV shows, text messaging and endless cell phone chatting, you are only partially right.
How to Explode Blog Traffic
To be very frank there are quite a bit of so called tried and tested ways to increase you blog traffic, but these merely focus on increasing hits on your blog, but do not focus on the main reason why you want more traffic viz. to read what you write and keep coming back for more.
What are Blogs, and Why Your Business Should Use One
A few weeks ago I was involved in a very strange conversation with some pretty bright people. One publishes a widely circulated industry magazine, another was an industry consultant, and the last was the CEO of a major corporation in the same industry.
I'm not sure how the conversation evolved, but towards the end the consultant mentioned that another journal had done an excellent job syndicating their content through blogs and RSS feeds. The comment was quite unremarkable in and of itself. What happened next was not.
Blogs Explained
It seems like Blogs are everywhere these days. You can't seem to surf the Internet without seeing the word Blog somewhere. The intent of this article is to explain the basics what a Blog is and how you can use them to help promote your business and gain valuable information quicker that surfing the Internet.
The word Blog is short for web log. Basically a Blog is just an area set aside you to write articles that can easily be accessed with a special program called a RSS reader. In case you're wondering RSS stands for real simple syndication.
How to Write A Blog... And Survive
The question of the day is "Should you start a Blog?"
People all over the planet are blogging. Companies, CEOs, lawyers, journalists, stewardesses. Even dogs and babies.
Why? Because they can. It's that simple.
Blogging requires little or no learning curve. If you can type, speak into a phone, bark, chew, record a holiday movie, you can blog.
Blogs have taken publishing out of the domain of those who know HTML and designing, to make this powerful tool available to the rest of us.
Starting Your Own Blog
I was sitting in my local Internet Cafe yesterday, I like to get away from my "home office" from time to time and it's a great place to go for a cup of Espresso and to meet interesting people. The rather attractive lady sitting next to me was typing away furiously and, when she had finished, I asked her what she was writing - I'm interested in learning how other people use the Internet... some people call that being nosey!
It turns out she was a "Blogger" and she was updating her web site through a web browser. She was really interested in vegetarian cookery and she was adding a new restaurant review to her blog.
Is a Blog Right For Your Business?
Lemmings are cute, but dumb. If you tell them to jump off a cliff, they will. Just like the people who start blogs because everyone is doing it. Guess what happens after a little while? The blogs die.
In managing a list of many Web sites, most of which are blogs, I deleted countless sites from the list because the sites and blogs no longer existed. The people ran out of steam or had no reason to start them in the first place.
How do you know when a blog is right for your business? Learn why people start blogs, how they find their niche and how blogging tools can be used for more than blogs.
To Blog or Not to Blog: Are Blogs Becoming More Popular than Forums, Newsletters and E-zines?
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"!
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