Article Title:
Blogging Tips And Tools
Author: Arthur Luff
As a business owner, You'll not want to miss out on the
additional revenue you can generate by using blogs to
add
revenue streams to your business . Displaying Adsense
ads,
affiliate banners and links, and developing another
source of
traffic to your core business are just a few of the
benefits
associated with blogging. Once you have a large
consistant flow
of readers, selling advertising space might become a
viable
option. This will of course depend on your marketing
skills and
your ability to provide quality and useful content.
Setting up a new blog with Wordpress is pretty simple
and I'm
going to assume you've already registered a new domain
related
to your blog. As well as having a web host that uses
cPanel.
Using Fantastico to upload and install your new blog is
really
a no brainer. It will do just about everything for you
and
gives pretty clear cut instructions to customize the
look and
feel of your new blog using available Themes and
Plug-Ins. I
want to add that Wordpress Blogs are free and you can
set-up as
many as you choose. Each should have its own domain or
sub
domain.
Some things to consider before you begin the blog set up
process.
1. What will you name your blog?
2. What will its purpose be?
3. When and how often will I update my blog?
4. How will you use it to enhance your core business?
5. Will it be seperate from your business or will it be
its own
business?
6. How will you announce your new blog to the world?
Many affiliate
marketers use blogs as their only method of promotion rather than using
conventional websites because of the ease and simplicity to update and
add content without
having to get into text editors and ftp programs. Their blogs are' their
business.
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Once your blog is set up and you've decided on a
name, what
your target niche will be, and will it be a stand alone
project
or an addition to your core business you'll want to get
the word
out.
Social Bookmarking sites are an effective strategy
for
bloggers. You can reach a wide variety of bloggers and
attract
an avid readership to your new blog. I've put a small
list
below as well as an ebook that lists many other
SocialBookmarking sites.
1. http://tagtooga.com
2. http://del.icio.us
3. http://furl.net
4. http://simpy.com
5. blogmarks.net
6. http://shadows.com
7. http://spurl.net
8. http://netvouz.net
9. http://lightninghotprofits.com/SocialBookmarkRolodex.pdf
10. http://lightninghotprofits.com/176BlogTraffic.pdf
(This
contains 176 Blog Directories you can submit your blog
to.)
The sites above will hasten your attracting Googles
spyders to
your new blog and will get you indexed faster than
normal. I
don't need to say how important that will be in getting
targeted traffic to your blog. But I guess I just did.
You will of course want to submit your blog to the Top
10
Search engines. Doing this every 30 days or so will
certainly
be beneficial to a solid marketing plan.
Don't forget to
consider placing some sort of contextual advertising on your main blog
page. Whether it be in the form
of adsense, yahoo, 7search, etc. These can bring you much needed revenue
in the begining growing over time.
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Whatever you decide to do with your blog I hope I've
supplied
you with some food for thought as well as some tools for
you to
get started. The Social Bookmark sites, blog directories
and the
Top 10 Search engine submissions will almost guarantee
attracting readers to your blog and if you supply them
with
relevant and unique content, word of mouth can most
assuredly
spread like wildfire.
Good Luck with your new blog! and Happy Blogging!
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