Blogging, Your Free Online Marketing Method

It's been many, many years since blogging first started.

It was thought to be nothing more than another one of those passing internet fads that wouldn't last out the year.

It ended up being considered as one of the most addicting internet "fads" that spawned a whole lot of new internet marketing products. It has become way more than just an outlet for peoples emotions where they can blurt out whatever bugs them or whatever makes them feel elated. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of the best Internet marketing methods that won't cost you a cent.

What exactly is blogging? Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services.

Here are just a few ways to boost your internet advertising via blogging:

1. Keeps your clients or customers abreast of changes to your website.

2. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

3. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web.

4. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

5. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more extra income.

6. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services through with the feedback from your readers.

7. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog?

One option would be to load a blogging software on your website, set it up and customize it to your needs. A second option, and one that is used by millions of bloggers is to signup with one of the blog hosting service such as LiveJournal, Blogger or Wordpress.

Those hosts will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog and are used by blogging worldwide.

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Business Community Review

Internet Advertising

Scott Colley has a new website at GoodVibeBiz, that accentuates the positive aspects of business.  This website is a place where people can post a review of any business they choose. It is designed to help spread the good word about new internet businesses.

If you have a company that you would like to review, just go to his site and fill out a form where you can let people know what you think.  This benefits the business community and webmasters who would like free internet advertising. Word of mouth advertising is fantastic.

Clients submit business reviews, ask their customers to give their testimonials and everybody benefits. It’s a win, win situation.  More traffic for your website and more qualified prospects for your business.

Google likes the GoodVib Biz

GoodVib Biz has been ranked number one by Google site for search term 'business review community.' It is starting to get a lot of attention from prominent businesses and will continue to grow.

Internet Advertising

According to Scott Colley, “Advertising in today's market is like herding 50 cats in a field. You're never sure what works best. This site gets people what they need in advertising -  'page one Google search results' and it's FREE, so the price is right!”
 
Benefits of GoodVib Biz

Scott Colley says, “When you look for the good, you tend to find it.  I really do try to live my life finding the good in people and events, so it's been a natural extension to every aspect of my business.”

”Too many negative sites dominate our eyeballs on the Internet every day. Some of my clients get 'jammed' by one bad review from that one 'never happy' customer.  This site's focus is getting folks to speak up about the good they encounter in businesses daily.”

Don’t waste any time. Get over to GoodVib Biz and start listing your Internet businesses now!

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Keyword Case Study for WordPress

Keyword strategies are so important to the success of your website business that they just cannot be overlooked. Although word of mouth adverstising is golden and frankly much easier than doing keyword research, using a good keyword strategy is mandatory. This article will go over some keyword strategy insights gained from a case study done over a four month time frame.

My previous article on keyword strategies for WordPress covered blogging tips and the question of where exactly in your posts do you want to see your keywords. While that strategy is the number one strategy you should use, you also should consider what happens to your website as a whole when you start adding good content on a regular basis.

The excel chart below (please click on it to enlarge it and read it well) explains an interesting thing that happened to www.coolchecks.net as a result of posting content to the blog a regular basis.

Many hosting companies provide website owners with a way to measure their traffic through a program called the Cpanel. Cpanel lets the webmaster control a lot of things on a website, but the thing I like best is the daily reports it can give you about your website traffic.

For my four-month case study, using the Cpanel web stats, I charted the results of the traffic I received from the keyword phrase “cheap checks.” This phrase is important to the site because the site sells bank checks.

When I charted the results I could see a dramatic increase in hits during the month of October, for the keyword phrase “cheap checks.” I had only changed a few words on the home page of this site to try to boost the rankings for “cheap checks" and I posted to the web blog on a regular basis.

My monthly hits to the site with that keyword increased by 1273! So how did that translate into real progress financially? There was an increase in revenue from the site of $601.38.

Examining the results from the chart above brought me to wonder about another statistic that I could easily pull from the Cpanel. I wanted to know how many search phrases were used during each month.

The chart below will show you the total number of keyword phrases used to bring people to my site over a four-month period of time.

You will notice a steady increase in keyword phrases. During October, there were 1299 keyword phrases people used to get to get to my site, while in July there were only 685. It appears that the number of keyword phrases almost doubled over four months.

There are several blogging tips you can learn from this keyword case study.

• Adding content on a regular basis can dramatically improve website traffic.
• The increase in traffic improves your keyword search results so you are ranked higher for the keyword you optimized for.
• More traffic means more revenue.
• Cpanel statistics are awesome and should be watched carefully.
• One keyword phrase that you rank well for can affect the other keyword phrases and bootstrap them to higher search result positions.

When you are developing your website business, don’t overlook the importance of a good keyword strategy and the power that it has to improve your financial condition.

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Top Twenty New Useful Website Applications

An interesting array of new, useful websites have appeared on the Internet.  All these websites are designed to make your life easier in some regard.  Some of these new websites can be accessed from your mobile phone so that you can see this information from where ever you are.

The websites listed below are displayed according to their Alexa ranking, which is a measurement of how popular sites are and how much traffic they get. Google and Yahoo of course battle for the number one position worldwide, so that should give you some idea that the closer the website is to the number one position, the more popular they are. They are also listed by the topic they cover.

 

Alexa Rank		Useful Websites	Topic
161		www.multiply.com	Media Storage
199		www.pogo.com	Games
490		www.esnips.com	Media Storage
1,183		www.slate.com	Government Gossip
4,061		www.opentable.com	Dining
12,060		www.gasbuddy.com	Energy
22,513		www.imedix.com	Health
16,253		www.fitday.com	Health
31,436		www.annualcreditreport.com	Finance
35,711		www.glassdoor.com	Company Gossip
44,868		www.sproutbuilder.com	Media Creation
48,177		www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/	Government Gossip
56,660		www.nextbus.com	Transportation
73,063		www.fedspending.org	Government Gossip
92,030		www.billshrink.com	Finance
119,812		www.techmeme.com	Technology
199,644		www.zeer.com	Health
454,896		www.capzles.com	Media Storage
514,294		www.mizpee.com	Health

It's worth taking a look at some of these to see how they will help you in your daily life. One favorite is the www.opentable.com where you can book dining reservations. Their database comes complete with photos of the inside of the restaurant and price ranges for dinner.

The funniest site is www.mizpee.com that promises help in finding the nearest bathroom. You can access this from your mobile phone. The only problem is that it's just starting so the restrooms that it can locate are limited. In another ten years though, this database ought to be pretty well stocked.

The next time you are waiting for a bus to arrive, you may be lucky enough to discover your bus system is being tracked by a GPS system. Although this site, www.nextbus.com does not have all the states in the U.S. covered, it is a great idea and one I hope will blossom into all parts of the world.  Seems that one cold morning while waiting for a bus, I developed this sytem in my mind. Life is becoming easier with new technology! 

I mentioned the top twenty useful websites and only listed 19...what should number 20 be?

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Passionate Blogging Works

Have you ever wondered why some blogs become wildly successful while other blogs become ghost towns that no one visits?

In a recent interview on Breakfast Television, expert blogger John Chow was asked what is the biggest mistake that new bloggers make when they start blogging. His response was that it is a big mistake to start blogging just for the money. He recommends doing a blog just for fun.

When people start blogging just for the money, they neglect the passionate side of themselves. People like to read good content from others who are passionate about their topic. Choosing something to write about that you feel a lot of passion for basically makes the job, well, not a job. John said, “If you are passionate about it, it’s not really work, is it?”

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Blogging experts reveal their blogging tips

Learning To Blog Class Sessions

One of the fun things about going to BlogWorld Expo 2008 was listening to expert bloggers reveal their personal blogging tips and tell us how they make money with blogging.  Jim Krukal lead a question answer session with four very successful bloggers, Brian Clark, Zac Johnson , Darren Rowse  and for a brief time Jeremy Shoemaker.

Each guest was asked questions about what made their blog successful and what they recommended to others who are starting out a new blog.  They discussed issues such as which programs were making them the most money, whether Google Adsense was really Webmaster Welfare, and what topics are the best to blog about. They talked about how long it takes to establish a good blog and what to expect from your blog at the beginning.  All of them agreed that you need to have a passion for the topic you are going to be blogging about to avoid the dreaded "abandoned blog."
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Blogging News From BlogWorld Expo 2008

BlogWorld Expo 2008 was held last weekend, Sept. 19-21, 2008, in Las Vegas, U.S.A. More than 200 expert presenters in the field of blogging and internet businesses spoke at the 2nd annual Blogging Convention.

With so many great presentations, the hardest thing about attending the conference was being able to decide which speakers to listen to.

The conference started off with Richard Jalichandra of Technorati presenting the State of the Blogosphere.  Technorati.com allows users to submit their blogs and provides people with a system of tracking their blog popularity. Technorati has a list of the top 100 blogs according to user voting and community interaction. You can read the best blogs on a variety of topics.
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How to use Google Maps in a WordPress post

This article will help you learn how to use Google Maps in a WordPress post. The first thing you need to do is to log in to your Google account from the Google Maps link. Then you'll need to add addresses that have some meaning to you or your community of friends or business associates. This may take some time, but it's worth it to get a global picture of the sphere of your influence.

You can log all of your favorite addresses and then click on satellite view.  
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