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Online With Your Blog
by Chuck And Nita Hoskins
Guiding You To Success
Blogging has been around for several years now, and is more than a fad. Its not
only the realm of pimply faced teenagers and internet addicts. If you seriously
want to earn money online, you need to be blogging. Blog is the abbreviated
version of "web log". They were originally used as a type of online diary for
people who wanted to record their thoughts for posterity sake, and share
information with friends and the world in general. They are still used in that
way but many in the business community see blogs as a way of developing true
"content oriented" websites. These websites would not only help the business
earn money online, but also provide true content and value for people reading
them.
The other major reason blogs have become popular with businesses of all kinds,
is that they are free to implement. Googles "blogger" site is free for anyone
with a google account. They provide what amounts to unlimited storage space for
all your thoughts, as well as a place to advertise without any cost.
Savvy internet marketers earn money online by getting as many hits on their
sites as possible. Blogger blogs are indexed in search engines very quickly
compared to standard page sites. The rapid indexing allows you to show up in
search engine results pages (serps) far quicker than the standard method of
search engine submission. Many blogger blogs are indexed within a few days. I
have actually seen some indexed with a few hours and the faster you site show up
in the SERPS the faster you can start to earn money online.
Search engines love text. Pretty pictures and graphics are great, but the search
engine spiders read text, they live for text. To the crawlers text is
everything, and text is something blogs provide in abundance. Pumping up your
visibility in the search engine rankings gets you more hits, and blogs have
plenty of "just plain words" for the search engines to read.
Now this isn't to say that you should run just a blog without a website. You can
go that route, and many successful entrepreneurs earn money online with just a
blog that promotes affiliate programs, or Google adsense or other chosen
income
streams. But the really savvy business owner uses the blog for keyword
marketing, and to drive traffic to sales pages, or squeeze pages (more about
that in another article). The words in the blog give your overall site higher
visability.
You can use blogs as one accountant I know does and keep your customers and
clients informed of accounting strategies, which in turn keeps them reading the
blog, and keeps them linking to his sales page where he also provides other
services like tax prep, bookkeeping, credit repair, etc.
You can use a blog to organize your own thoughts in a format that is accessible
to you anywhere in the world. If your planning to earn money online, then you
need to keep track of your business objectives. A blog is the perfect format for
this. And as long as your writing about your business, it might as well be
online and accessible so that others can read about your business also. The more
information you provide, the more visible your site becomes. Its like
automatic
advertising in a format that search engines love.
You can publish your own well written articles, rich in keywords, to your blog.
Include links to your favorite sites, and then ask those sites to include links
back to you. This also increases your exposure, visibility and page rank.
There really isn't any limitation on what you can do in a blog as opposed to
what you can do on a standard page website. Your blog can include information
collection forms, revues of products that you would like to recommend (or
discourage).
You can allow others to post to your blog. This is an extremely powerful feature
(although these comments have to be moderated to make sure they are not just
spam, and that they stay on topic. This is so powerful because others provide
you with content. People who earn money online talk about content being king,
and it is. The more and better your content, the more visibility you will have.
Blogs are ideal for the new online business owner. They are set up easily, they
are free, they are fun and easy to use and administrate. Programs like WordPress
are free. A nice option if you have your own hosting account and want more
control. Other platforms like Google's Blogger are free and are hosted either on
Googles system, or on yours. If your new to the idea of blogging, and want to
try to earn money online, I suggest going the Google Blogger route simply
because you dont have to provide hosting if you don't want to. So it can be a
competely free way to get started.
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