Posts Tagged ‘Blog’

3 of Blogging’s biggest myths

We have all received the emails from the spammers that promise you get rich quick schemes on the internet. We have seen all the tacky web pages promising you that if you buy this cd it will give you all the tools needed to conquer the internet and get rich quick. The only one getting rich off these schemes is the person selling the cd. In this blog post I will reveal 3 of the webs biggest myths.

Myth 1: Blog Marketing is Easy

This is one of the biggest myth’s of all,and gets harder everyday. The internet gets more and more crowded and the success stories are fewer and fewer. One thing that I have learned is that internet or blog marketing is not easy. It take alot of time and hard work and many hours in front of a computer while your life passes you by. I know first hand the ups and downs of internet marketing and I can tell you it is not easy. It is simple to register a url and get a blog online, but marketing it and promoting it is not easy. There are many blogs in my niche that are full of fluff but no substance and yet they are still successful. The reason is that they put a lot of work into promoting and paying for advertising to drive traffic to there Blogs. Blog Marketing is easy is a myth.

Myth 2: Anyone Can get Rich and Make Money Online with a blog or website

This has very little truth to it unless you call selling something on ebay as making money online and even then the waters are very crowded. The only people making money off of ebay these days is ebay. Making money running a website is  very hard for a veteran blogger or internet expert, let alone a first timer. A few first timers stumble into a niche that has not been attemped but that in itself is like hitting the lottery these days. You can make some money online if you have a 10,000 or less Alexa ranked site but that is not a easy task to accomplish. All the scammers out there with the I make $5000 a day posting links for google on my site are just that scams. Barnum Bailey once said theres a sucker born every minute. Anyone can make money online is a total myth.

Myth 3: It’s Too Late to Start a Successful Blog

The old saying is very true the early bird gets the worm.

Don’t you wish you were the blogger who started Digg or Myspace ? Of course you do, it is every bloggers dream to start a new site that becomes a household name. Well that dream can still be achieved all it takes is timing and luck and a lot of hardwork. It is never too late to jump into the blogging world with a idea and grow it into the next big niche. The internet is here to stay and the competition is fierce,but not impossible. If you are stumped about how or what to blog about then look at the successful blogs that you admire and give them some competition in the same niche. Improve upon what they started and give the world some choices, for every myspace there is a facebook. Its to late too start a successful blog is a huge myth.

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Write good Content and the search engines will reward you

“Content is King” – you have probably heard this saying with regards to search engine optimization. Your website content is a representation of your business and your personality. Your content on your blog determines whether you’ll get more traffic and links and.

Why do you write new content? Because you want to attract a lot more readers to your site or blog, and secondly, because you probaly want to get some more links to your website.

Creating new content simply to obtain links cuts both ways. This tactic can work sometimes;but sometimes it can totally fail. Some will appreciate your content,very few people will link. Content created for search engine optimization purposes only can often seem artificial and may not bring you a link you were looking for. Yes, it can help the website ranking for a while but it won’t be a long lasting success in my experience.

Adding new content just because you have to and not because you want to build a quality site is the downfall of most startup blogs and websites.

A post with some good content will favor the search engine rankings while bad content will hurt it.

The big secret is to write to attract more readers and not links. More readers, more chances to get links. Write quality content for your visitors and you’ll be rewarded. Many will return and some will link.

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Top 5 tips for promoting blogs: keyword optimization, update blogs, RSS feeds, social bookmarks, blog sitemap

You’ve set up a well designed blogs, you’ve written great posts, your post images are on point, so why aren’t you getting more valuable traffic?  Many people make make the mistake of not promoting blogs they’ve created.  Promoting blogs is a must for reaching a large audience and receiving substantial valuable web traffic. Several free promotion options exist for promoting blogs, using the following blog tips will help you compete successfully for traffic with millions of other blogs.

While many techniques exist to help ensure your success in blogging, the following details our top 5 tips for promoting blogs.

1. OPTIMIZATION keyword optimization & page optimization

It is imperative to use search engine optimization techniques to ensure your posts and pages are indexed by search engines. Keyword and page optimization helps search engines like Google find you, search engines are one of the most reliable sources of web traffic. Make sure you use long tail keywords in your blog posts, the ones that Web surfers are likely to enter in the search engine search tabs.

2. UPDATE Keep your blog updated

Blogs are much like those CNN news sites where readers expect them to be valuable and constantly updated. Internet users visit blogs because of contents. For them to go on visiting these blogs, they should experience this feeling of having been informed while enjoying the blog at the same time. Your blog needs to give the news first if it is a news site, if it is a content site then it must give the most content and the hard to find content. The early bird gets the worm. Other blog owners will come to your site for articles everyday and ideas to feed there own blogs.

3. RSS generate an RSS feed for your blog

Generating a feed can give your regular and random readers a chance to subscribe to the rss feed.  Having your latest blog contents delivered right into their computer saves them from having to go to your blog. WordPress automatically generates RSS feeds, but you can go to Feedburner.com if you need some additional feed options.

4. GET SOCIAL social bookmarking

While you bookmark your favorite pages, make sure you include the ones that you own. Social bookmarking each entry that you make, at the same time you are giving your pages an increased chance to be spotted by a significant number of Internet users. It is also one way of creating backlinks, which helps in your search engine rankings.

5. SITEMAP create a blog sitemap

This one is a must do step because using XML Sitemap plugin we can ensure that we have a form of control what content Google finds on our blog.

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