Did you know that Blogger is actually limiting your ability to get visitors to your blog?

That’s right. Although it’s free and provides a great service, there is one thing that Blogger could do for you to make it even better. But, as they don’t do that, you’re about to learn how to do it yourself.

Buried deep within the Blogger settings is an option called “Notify Weblogs.com”, which is described as “Weblogs.com is a blog update notification service that many individuals and services use to track blog changes.”

(Note: this update notification service normally called “pinging” - Blogger “pings” Weblogs.com with the update to your site).

This is one way your blog is promoted each time you create a new post - Weblogs.com lists your post’s title, the time it was updated, and a link back to your blog. In return, there is a chance that the search engines find that link and then find your blog. Once they find your blog, they’ll start to index all the pages and list them somewhere in the search engines.

Notice I said “there is a chance…”. Go visit Weblogs.com and take a look at the time that the first post was submitted, and the time of the last one was submitted. If you’re lucky, there are about 5 minutes between the two of them.

Which means you’re post will be listed for 5 minutes, and then it’ll drop off the bottom of the list.

That’s not long for the search engines to find your link, is it?

So how can you improve the odds?

Simple - submit to more sites like Weblogs.com. There are dozens (at the time I write this, about 50-60) well-known sites like Weblogs.com that list blog entries submitted to them.

50-60. And yet Blogger only submits to one of them.

So how can you submit your blog URL to the other 50-69 sites?

Simple. Each time you update your blog, visit http://www.pingoat.com or http://www.pingomatic.com, and enter the name and URL of your blog in the form. Then select the sites that you want to be informed of your update. Pingoat and Pingomatic will then contact those sites on your behalf (and for free) to let them know about your updates.

That’s it.

Start doing that on a regular basis, and you’ll start to see more traffic to your blog.

You’ve optimized your website why not your blog.

Picture it this way.

Each new post to your blog is fresh and new. I know you know this - search engines like fresh content.

It’s called feeding the spider.

In this case the food is the new fresh content. What’s more appealing fresh fish or fish that’s been lying around for a while? See my point? Fresh fish is always better, who’d stick around smelly old fish anyway?

The same with search engines, they like fresh content that’s updated often.

Even you return to a blog because of the new fresh content. Update your content often. The search engines like the fresh new content.

So, put a keyword or keyphrase in the title of each post and a few scattered out through your post and you now have optimized your content.

The search engines will love you for it!

Internal linking plays a part too. I’ve done this myself and the results are the search engine spider crawls my site everyday.

This is a tip that is so simple and cost you nothing but more free traffic to your site.

Wayne Hurlbert from Blog Business World says,

“Blogs are optimized using the same techniques as static websites. Keep in mind that a blog is simply another website. What works in the search engines for other sites will also work for optimizing a blog”.

Great piece of advice.

The reward for the fresh content (food for the spider), the search engine spider will frequent your site more often.

Now don’t forget to link to your main site with your rich keyword or keyword phrase. Many new bloggers just starting out forget to do this.

If your site is theme based, your blog page or the many pages you have on your blog can boost your PR (page rank), so by starting to blog it will benefit you in the way of more FREE traffic.

I’ve only scratched the surface on blog seo but you can see it is another strategy in marketing you can’t afford to neglect.

Believe me, everybody and his brother are talking about blog seo. The reason why? It WORKS!

To your blogging success,

So what is this “blog factor”? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday. Some are informative and some are just downright a waste of your time. And while we hear a lot about blogging these days, what is blogging *really*? Blogging in its simplest term is like an online journal but much, much more powerful. Blogs (short for Web log) is a place where surfers can get up to the minute information on a topic or voyeur into someone’s life. Some blogs are nothing more than a daily glimpse into someone’s life, while others are so sophisticated, it’s hard to tell them apart from an online news service.

Why Blogs Matter

Google, the #1 search engine on the net, loves blogs. So much so that if you do it right Google will spider the heck out of your site. What does it mean to “spider”? Well spidering is when Google, or the like, searches your site’s content to establish ranking, and the more content you have (i.e. fresh content) the more Google will do its magic and push your site up the search engine. Another reason blogs matter is that they are interactive and, if you blog on your book’s topic, it will help to further your expert status on a particular issue. Because if you can get into a good blog that gets a lot of traffic, you can really start to gain some exposure for your book or newsletter.

What Would You Talk About?

This is the question we get asked most often. “If I start a blog, what on earth would I talk about?” Well if your ezine or newsletter is non-fiction it’s pretty easy to figure out what your topic would be, but if your book/newsletter is fiction it could get a bit tricky - but not impossible. This would give the reader a reason to return to the blog for an update. Getting readers to respond to your posts is a great way to gain interest and momentum for your blog and (more importantly) getting people to talk about it will grow your blog like nothing else!

How to Start a Blog

Starting a blog is super easy. All you have to do is register at a blog site (like http://www.wordpress.com or www.blogger.com) and get started. It’s that easy. The blog service will link to your site; you’ll need to ask your Webmaster to add a button to your home page so people can find your blog.

How to Blog Effectively

The best bloggers know that the more you add to your blog, the more traffic you’ll drive there. Some bloggers I know post daily, sometimes even multiple times a day while others post weekly. How much you post will probably depend on how much time you have to dedicate to this. The challenge will be that if you want to keep driving people to your blog, you’ll want fresh content. This doesn’t mean you have to create this all yourself, in fact you can invite people onto your blog and interview them, or you can just post a one paragraph “thought” on your topic. It doesn’t have to be complicated or long, it just has to be fresh. Also be innovative, as we discussed earlier, be different with your blog, have fun with it. It might seem complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, you’ll quickly become a blog expert!

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.

Think about how long it can take you to build a regular site, get the search engines to index it, get backlinks to improve your listings, and then start getting traffic. A blog like Wordpress can do all that “grunge” work for you automatically.

Number 2

Wordpress allows the use of Categories. Categories are a very powerful way to improve the structure of your site both for human visitors and for the search engines.

Let’s say the topic of your site is Widgets. You could create a Category for black widgets, one for orange widgets, and one for green widgets.

Now when you add posts to your blog, you can choose which of your categories your post belongs to. Now your blog will archive your past posts not only by their month and date, as Blogger does. But also by Category.

So if you have a visitor who is especially interested in green widgets, they can easily find all your posts on green widgets. They don’t have to go through your entire archives to find them. With a blog that has been around for awhile and has hundreds of posts, that would be pretty discouraging. Using Categories makes it very easy.

Categories are also very search engine friendly. When you use Categories in your blog, there is a link on every one of your pages to your categories. Think about this: would you rather be #1 in the search engines for March 2003, or for green widgets, one of the main keywords of your site?

By using the Category feature, you will eventually have hundreds of pages on your site with links to green widgets, black widgets, and orange widgets. All those backlinks to those keywords can result in much higher search engine rankings.

Another neat feature is that you can easily create an RSS feed for each of your categories. Then every time you post to your blog, it could be pinging the Blog/RSS directories for each feed!

Compare that to putting up a new page on a traditional website. Even if the search engines find your new page right away, it might be a month or two before it actually gets indexed and starts drawing traffic. It might be a long time before it enjoys a first page position for its keywords.

It’s almost amazing how easy all this is with a well-structured blog like Wordpress with Categories enabled!

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY FROM HOME..?
THEN BECOME A MONEY BLOGGER…!
“SIMPLE, EASY AND COSTLESS…!”

Many people lost many bucks in the past few years by joining or subscribing to various money making programs in some websites. These websites promised that they could earn many bucks a day just by doing some data entry job. To meet administrative expenses they asked them to pay some bucks as registration fees. But most of them did not get any work or was paid very less.

Anyone with common sense should never commit such mistakes again. Never pay to get paid. Never fall in such traps. Making money online in the above cases requires as much as hard work that you put on making money offline. Never forget this fact. Don’t forget the experience of millions: IF SOMETHING SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THEN SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THAT OFFER..!

But that does not mean you cannot make money online. You can earn online in proportion to your knowledge, skills and hard work. The beauty of the Internet is that even if you don’t have knowledge or skills about something, you can quickly develop them free of cost through the Internet…!!

How much Money you will make from a Blog depends on the Content and the Topic of the blog and the number of visitors to your blog. For example, If you write about Sports and Movies, you may get a lot of traffic. But, your income potential will be minimum. Writing about Online Money Making and Mortgages have wider scope. If you write about online money making and mortgages, you will make good money even if you have a less traffic. If you write about a topic no one is interested in, you will neither attract traffic nor make money…

So find out the topics you are interested in. You can refer many Websites and find many articles relating to the topics you want to include in your Blog. Focus on the topics that have income potential. Create a frequently updated Useful Blog. Add More Articles to your Blog. Put Relevant Ads(Eg: Google Adsense) in it. Promote your Blog. You will earn Decent Income…!

Millions of small business persons make money. None of them comes out in public and says ‘I make X amount of money’ because of personal, private and social reasons. Does this mean there is no money in business? Will you start a business only if all others confirm that they make certain amount of money? The fundamental principles of an online business and offline business are the same…

Tens of Thousands of Bloggers make money. What does it matter where you live in? The Internet has broken all man made geographical borders. We must change our attitude of thinking in terms of ‘South’ and ‘North’. Unless your blog is about non-regional interests, you can’t attract more traffic. So Think Globally…

So Learn the Business process and work hard. Find Relevant and Wider-Scope Topics that you can write well. Work Hard using your Skill and Knowledge. Update your Blog Regularly. Want Money, Then Place relevant Links, Ads or Banners in it. You will get a lot of Traffic. You will also make a lot of money… “IF THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY…!”

“Why Should I Blog? I Simply Don’t Get It”

12 powerful reasons you should blog.

Read them and get started on your blog. Or better still, go get your blog up and running and THEN come back and read this

#1 - You Do Not Need To Know HTML

One of the biggest hurdles many hopeful website creators face is they don’t know to design a webpage. Blogs overcome this - all you do is type into a box, and the blog software automatically converts it into a webpage and publishes it on the World Wide Web for anyone to see.

#2 - You Are ‘Forced’ To Keep Your Content Fresh

Blogs are essentially online diaries. It doesn’t make sense to write in your diary every month or two. Similarly, running a blog itself ‘forces’ you to update it often. And refreshing your blog often makes it more useful to readers and consumers - and by extension, to search engines who are in the business of presenting *their* clients with valuable resources.

#3 - Your Blog Is AUTOMATICALLY Optimized For Search Engines

Search engines love fresh content. But that’s not the only way blogs are powerful tools to rank high. Indeed, most blogs are structured to offer a high degree of search engine optimization.

All sections of your blog are linked together. The terms used as link ‘anchors’ are keyword-optimized. Categories can be created to host themed content. Navigating through your blog is intuitive. Archives can be customized, and generate hundreds of pages of content that act as ’search engine spider bait’.

#4 - You Get A Built-In Linking Structure

With very few exceptions, most blogs are structured to be a tightly integrated network of links - to other sections of your blog! It’s quite easy for a visitor to get ‘lost’ within your blog… without ever leaving it.

Calendars link to posts on specific dates. ‘Recent Post’ listings point to your freshest content. Archives connect all your earlier posts. Search boxes let browsers look for certain kinds of content. And it all happens automatically, without you spending hours on creating a link structure or sitemap!

#5 - You Generate Multiple Content-Rich Pages

Every post you make on your blog is content. And by intelligently setting up your archiving preferences, you can turn each post into many different forms of content, each on a page of its own. Blog regularly for a few months, and you could end up having a 100+ page website - all filled with relevant, keyword-optimized, themed content!

#6 - You Can Keyword-Optimize Your Blog Extensively

All parts of your blog’s template can be customized. And a very powerful way to do it is by inserting relevant keywords. It’s a do-it-once job that will give you ongoing benefits for as the life of your blog. You can include keywords in your blog title, description, blog post headings, trackback links, comment invitations, archive titles, and category names.

#7 - You Create An Online Community

If your blog is on a specific theme, you can build a loyal readership and develop an online community. You can even take it a notch higher by tying it in with a forum or membership site. Ask for comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback, or invite reader participation. Pretty soon, your blog will be growing organically - even if you don’t write a lot!

#8 - You Initiate Conversations With Readers

Of course, the first step is yours - to initiate a dialog with readers. You could do it with your blog post, asking a question or by inviting comments and interaction. Your blog will be read by an audience that’s already interested in your subject or theme. This conversation will be priceless to you, the blog owner.

#9 - Your ‘Inbound Link’ Process - Trackbacks

Blogging is about distributed conversations online. Links are an integral part of such an informal network. Trackbacks are a kind of blog technology that make it possible - and simple! Your blog will benefit from the inbound links a trackback will bring, and you’ll also get extra traffic from other sources.

#10 - You Can Syndicate Your Content Easily

Getting readers for your content is good. Getting your content out where many more readers can see it is GREAT! Syndication (via RSS feeds) is built in to most blogging platforms, giving you a quick and easy way to get a wide readership for your blog posts.

#11 - You’re Creating Stuff Search Engines LOVE

Search engines exist to offer their audience a compilation of the best resources on a subject or keyword. Your blog is the answer to a search engine’s prayers! By sticking to a theme and presenting the content in an organized, structured, intuitively connected pattern, your blog will be appealing to search engines in a way only a very professionally planned and designed website can ever hope to be.

#12 - You Get ‘Alternate’ Traffic Sources

Remember what we saw about blogs being linked and networked together? Bloggers like to share opinions with others. And when they ‘talk’ about you, they are going to point to your site, or a post on your blog, to show their readers what they mean. They become ‘alternate’ traffic sources - for YOU!

Other tools like blog rolls, furls, favorite bloggers and more can drive sporadic - but sometimes big floods - of traffic your way. And best of all, it’s effortless and costs you nothing!

Not yet convinced? Well, then maybe blogging isn’t quite your cup of tea. But if you trust me, try it - you just might be pleasantly surprised.

By now I think most people in the world know about blogs.
       
What most don’t know as there is a great income to be made as well for free.
                           
Rob Benwell is only a mere 22 years old and has already made a fortune using this method. Early last year he sharing his secrets with the world in his highly successful Blogging To The Bank ebook and has made making money online a whole lot easier for everyone.
                           
Just over a year after the success of his first book he is now releasing his second helping to wet our appetites and keep the fat bucks rolling in.
                           
This book covers quite a lot of new information and techniques to adapt your blog to the new demands of the major search engines. Many of the techniques in the old book are now dated and don’t work so well. This is why Blogging To The Bank 2.0 is a godsend.
                           
Also this guy doesn’t consider himself to be a guru, he’s just a normal guy who wants to help the little guys out. I find this a nice change as he doesn’t talk down to you like most of the other guys do. He explains everything in a nice simple manor so everyone can understand.
                           
Saying that when he goes off on one it may take a few reads until you get it but when you do it’s just shear genius.  You also get his 5 blogging commandments that you must follow to give you blogs the greatest success. This should be printed out and put on the wall of every online marketer without a doubt! His book starts off with market research (so that you are making the most of your time) to building your blogging empire. Everything is covered in this new outing that helps bloggers with todays online issues regarding making the all mighty search engines happy.
                           
Final Verdict: if you are out there in the blogging world and want to make money the easy way then I highly recommend Blogging To The Bank 2.0.
                           
Why work harder than you need to as the new techniques are there ready for you to simply implement.
                            
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