Most every e-mail client these days offers you the ability to create a
signature file. Even free e-mail accounts, such as Yahoo or Hotmail,
allow you to create a signature file. Exactly the same as on an online
message board or forum, this signature file is attached to each and
every message you send out from your e-mail account. Think of all
the people you send e-mail to each day and all of the possible new
blog readers you can gain from this one simple signature file.
If you attach a link to your blog in every e-mail message you send out
people will invariably click on it whether it has to do with what you e-
mailed them about or not. People are very curious creatures and they
want to know what’s up with other people and what they are thinking.
Your blog allows them into your brain a bit, so they will click on the
link to your blog and look it over.
These e-mail contacts may be potential blog readers who you would
not have reached with online advertising in any other way. Using
signature files allows you to easily reach a large variety of people yet
not spend more than the couple minutes it takes to initially set up the
signature file itself. And, if you have a good quality blog then it is
entirely possible these new readers will pass along your link to all the
people they know as well.
If you have multiple blogs and multiple e-mail accounts you can put
links to all of your blogs in the signature files of each e-mail account or
your can put one link per account. Try to think what will generate you
the most traffic to the specific blogs you choose. You should always
take the time to promote your own blogs and your own sites through
your other blogs and sites; even if they are not directly related to each
other. Your goal for any blog or website should always be to have the
most visitors possible and you can do this through promoting your
sites wherever you can both online and off.
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogger. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Meat of Your Messages
For the meat of your messages, or the actual content, I have to first
suggest that you stick to writing your own blog posts. Some bloggers
do purchase large batches of articles written on a single topic, and
then post them to their blog each day as if they had written them
themselves. There are a few flaws with doing it this way. You will
never get good quality content unless you pay a decent price for it,
which sort of defeats the purpose of having a blog you want to make
money with. And, you just plain cannot connect with your readers and
give your blog that personal feel it needs to have if you are just
posting pre-written articles to it. Writing decent content really and
truly does not take a lot of time, but it is well worth the effort for the
returns you will receive. Even if you post less often than you would
like, or with shorter posts, that is still better than an impersonal blog
of cheap purchased content.
Your blog message posts do not need to be long. Trying to aim for
posts which are about 300-400 words is probably ideal. Even a simple
paragraph or two every few days is enough writing if that is all the
time or writing ability you have. The most important thing is that you
post regularly and try to engage your readers with your writing style
and content. Make your readers want to come back and “visit” with
you each and every day! Even if all you can muster on a given day is
what is going on in your life and why you haven’t posted anything on
the topic of your blog that day or week.
So, what do you write? An example of good content would be a
product review. If you have a blog on horses you might want to do a
review on the new hoof cleaner you just bought. By mentioning a
specific product you will find that AdSense gives your blog ads which
are similar to the product you are reviewing. This helps you to get
clicks because the ads blend in to your content and if they are
positioned in the right place on your blog can look like personal
product recommendations from you. Other horse lovers will read your
post and then either click on a link to go buy the same hoof cleaner
you mentioned, or they will use your Google for Search box and buy
one through that. Either option will result in income for you from
Google. Simple.
Other good content is anything which educates or entertains your
reader. If you have a blog on horses you might want to talk about
their care, their health, or even their personality. You might want to
entertain your readers with stories of your personal horses or a review
of the best horse movie you have seen. Think of your blog like
television. Some programs educate while others simply entertain.
Either type of show serves its purpose, and both have advertising that
goes along with their content. All television stations offer a variety of
programming so that they can appeal to the largest viewing audience
as possible. And, we as viewers put up with the ads because we know
that without them we would not have our favorite shows available to
watch.
Another way you can get good content for your blog is allow people
with a similar blog topic, or website owners offering similar goods and
services, to “guest” blog on your blog. This allows you to have great
and relevant content on your blog which you did not have to take the
time to personally write. You can also offer to guest blog on their
blogs in exchange for a link back to your own blog.
If you really cannot write or have little interest in writing your blog,
then you can always hire someone to do your blog posts for you.
However, if you do choose to go this route you will want to find
someone who writes well, with English as their native language if you
have an English blog, and someone who is very knowledgeable about
the topic of your blog. You will want to work closely with them to
make sure that they care about your blog and your readers as you do.
Read what they post on your blog each day and decide if that is what
you want your blog to be about.
Finding freelance writers who want to blog for you is not hard to do.
There are several websites where you can post a “writer wanted”
message and come up with suitable candidates to post to your blog on
a regular basis.
suggest that you stick to writing your own blog posts. Some bloggers
do purchase large batches of articles written on a single topic, and
then post them to their blog each day as if they had written them
themselves. There are a few flaws with doing it this way. You will
never get good quality content unless you pay a decent price for it,
which sort of defeats the purpose of having a blog you want to make
money with. And, you just plain cannot connect with your readers and
give your blog that personal feel it needs to have if you are just
posting pre-written articles to it. Writing decent content really and
truly does not take a lot of time, but it is well worth the effort for the
returns you will receive. Even if you post less often than you would
like, or with shorter posts, that is still better than an impersonal blog
of cheap purchased content.
Your blog message posts do not need to be long. Trying to aim for
posts which are about 300-400 words is probably ideal. Even a simple
paragraph or two every few days is enough writing if that is all the
time or writing ability you have. The most important thing is that you
post regularly and try to engage your readers with your writing style
and content. Make your readers want to come back and “visit” with
you each and every day! Even if all you can muster on a given day is
what is going on in your life and why you haven’t posted anything on
the topic of your blog that day or week.
So, what do you write? An example of good content would be a
product review. If you have a blog on horses you might want to do a
review on the new hoof cleaner you just bought. By mentioning a
specific product you will find that AdSense gives your blog ads which
are similar to the product you are reviewing. This helps you to get
clicks because the ads blend in to your content and if they are
positioned in the right place on your blog can look like personal
product recommendations from you. Other horse lovers will read your
post and then either click on a link to go buy the same hoof cleaner
you mentioned, or they will use your Google for Search box and buy
one through that. Either option will result in income for you from
Google. Simple.
Other good content is anything which educates or entertains your
reader. If you have a blog on horses you might want to talk about
their care, their health, or even their personality. You might want to
entertain your readers with stories of your personal horses or a review
of the best horse movie you have seen. Think of your blog like
television. Some programs educate while others simply entertain.
Either type of show serves its purpose, and both have advertising that
goes along with their content. All television stations offer a variety of
programming so that they can appeal to the largest viewing audience
as possible. And, we as viewers put up with the ads because we know
that without them we would not have our favorite shows available to
watch.
Another way you can get good content for your blog is allow people
with a similar blog topic, or website owners offering similar goods and
services, to “guest” blog on your blog. This allows you to have great
and relevant content on your blog which you did not have to take the
time to personally write. You can also offer to guest blog on their
blogs in exchange for a link back to your own blog.
If you really cannot write or have little interest in writing your blog,
then you can always hire someone to do your blog posts for you.
However, if you do choose to go this route you will want to find
someone who writes well, with English as their native language if you
have an English blog, and someone who is very knowledgeable about
the topic of your blog. You will want to work closely with them to
make sure that they care about your blog and your readers as you do.
Read what they post on your blog each day and decide if that is what
you want your blog to be about.
Finding freelance writers who want to blog for you is not hard to do.
There are several websites where you can post a “writer wanted”
message and come up with suitable candidates to post to your blog on
a regular basis.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Blogger Settings
The “Settings” tab in Blogger allows you to control the Basic Settings,
Publishing, Formatting, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, E-mail and
Permissions on your blog. It is here where you can change the title of your blog, make a description of your blog and make most other changes which surround the way
your blog acts for both you and your visitors.
You will want to make sure to enter a description here for your blog
that is very heavy in keywords. If your blog is about goats, then you
need to make sure your description talks about goats, hooves, milking,
farming, etc… Use anything and everything you can think of to load
your description with keywords. This will help your ranking with the
search engines and your AdSense ads to optimize their best. Take full
advantage of your blog’s description field.
Publishing, Formatting, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, E-mail and
Permissions on your blog. It is here where you can change the title of your blog, make a description of your blog and make most other changes which surround the way
your blog acts for both you and your visitors.
You will want to make sure to enter a description here for your blog
that is very heavy in keywords. If your blog is about goats, then you
need to make sure your description talks about goats, hooves, milking,
farming, etc… Use anything and everything you can think of to load
your description with keywords. This will help your ranking with the
search engines and your AdSense ads to optimize their best. Take full
advantage of your blog’s description field.
Congratulations - You Now Have a Blog on Blogger!
With the completion of those three simple steps, you now have a blog
of your very own!
By clicking on the orange “Start Posting” button you will be taken to
the “Posting” tab in your Blogger Dashboard.
of your very own!
By clicking on the orange “Start Posting” button you will be taken to
the “Posting” tab in your Blogger Dashboard.
What Exactly is a Blog? A Bit of Blogging History
As the internet grew to become what it is today, many webmasters
discovered that web surfers wanted to know which websites had
recently been updated and which had new information on them. Web
surfers were looking for new and exciting information and didn’t want
to have to go check websites themselves to see if they had been
updated recently. They wanted somewhere they could go and see just
what was new.
Some smart programmers started posting logs on their own websites
which told the web surfers which websites had recent updates or new
information on them. These weblogs, as they were called at that time,
were like an informal directory of “what’s new” online. These weblogs,
and the technology which powered them, eventually grew and changed
to become the blogs of today.
A blog is simply a website which is written in a friendly news format
which is frequently updated. Rather than be a listing of new or
updated websites, blogs became to be new, always changing, websites
in themselves.
A blog takes the same role online as your local television daily news
program or newspaper do in their respective media types. Blogs are
somewhere you go when you want new and interesting information on
any given topic.
A blog is a website which is always being updated with up to date
information. A blog serves the sole purpose of educating and
entertaining people. Just like a good daily news program, or local
newspaper, good blogs provide you with a nice balance of education
and entertainment. A good blog is one which has a lot of content,
teaches you something new and entertains you a bit in the process.
For your blog to be successful you will want to make sure you
incorporate each of these three things into your own blog as well. The
most successful blogs on the internet do this and do it quite well.
Where a weblog used to be a list of new or changed websites, they
changed over time and exploded in popularity into today’s blogs.
Where a blog used to be something only a programmer had, blogging
now allows anyone, without any programming or HTML (hypertext
mark-up language) skills, to set up their own blog. The weblogs of
yesteryear paved the way to the blogs of today.
With the proliferation of free blog sites such as Google’s Blogger, it is
simple for anyone in the world to have their own blog. Blogger uses
templates and signing up for an account and starting your blog takes
all of about five minutes and you are up and on your way! If you can
e-mail and surf the web, then you can have your own blog. It really is
that easy. And, best of all - it is free!
Today’s blogs are maintained by both companies (large and small) as
well as individuals all over the world. In this day and age even your
grandmother could have her own blog if she wanted to. All she would
7
have to do is sign-up for a Blogger account and start typing about her
family, her hobbies, her pets, or whatever else she might want to talk
about. A family blog can be a great way for families who want to stay
in touch with each other.
A blog can simply be an online diary or notebook you use to publish
your thoughts. A blog can also be a more formal website used to
educate people about just about any topic you can think of. Your blog
can be as personal or professional as you want it to be.
Through the use of Blogger’s great templates you can adjust the look
and feel of your own blog to match the type of blog you wish to have.
You are also free to have more than one blog and can have the look
and feel of each separate blog vary depending on their individual
topics. And the best thing is that both a personal or professional blog
can have AdSense on it and make you some money!
Online there are currently blogs on topics ranging from workplace
politics, world politics, relationships, frugal living, sports, religion,
family life, children, family pets, and just about anything else in
between. Chances are if you have an interest in something then there
is a blog out there on the topic. However, if you search and can’t find
a blog on a topic which interests you then that can tell you that it
might be a great idea of a topic for starting your own blog and making
some extra money with it!
discovered that web surfers wanted to know which websites had
recently been updated and which had new information on them. Web
surfers were looking for new and exciting information and didn’t want
to have to go check websites themselves to see if they had been
updated recently. They wanted somewhere they could go and see just
what was new.
Some smart programmers started posting logs on their own websites
which told the web surfers which websites had recent updates or new
information on them. These weblogs, as they were called at that time,
were like an informal directory of “what’s new” online. These weblogs,
and the technology which powered them, eventually grew and changed
to become the blogs of today.
A blog is simply a website which is written in a friendly news format
which is frequently updated. Rather than be a listing of new or
updated websites, blogs became to be new, always changing, websites
in themselves.
A blog takes the same role online as your local television daily news
program or newspaper do in their respective media types. Blogs are
somewhere you go when you want new and interesting information on
any given topic.
A blog is a website which is always being updated with up to date
information. A blog serves the sole purpose of educating and
entertaining people. Just like a good daily news program, or local
newspaper, good blogs provide you with a nice balance of education
and entertainment. A good blog is one which has a lot of content,
teaches you something new and entertains you a bit in the process.
For your blog to be successful you will want to make sure you
incorporate each of these three things into your own blog as well. The
most successful blogs on the internet do this and do it quite well.
Where a weblog used to be a list of new or changed websites, they
changed over time and exploded in popularity into today’s blogs.
Where a blog used to be something only a programmer had, blogging
now allows anyone, without any programming or HTML (hypertext
mark-up language) skills, to set up their own blog. The weblogs of
yesteryear paved the way to the blogs of today.
With the proliferation of free blog sites such as Google’s Blogger, it is
simple for anyone in the world to have their own blog. Blogger uses
templates and signing up for an account and starting your blog takes
all of about five minutes and you are up and on your way! If you can
e-mail and surf the web, then you can have your own blog. It really is
that easy. And, best of all - it is free!
Today’s blogs are maintained by both companies (large and small) as
well as individuals all over the world. In this day and age even your
grandmother could have her own blog if she wanted to. All she would
7
have to do is sign-up for a Blogger account and start typing about her
family, her hobbies, her pets, or whatever else she might want to talk
about. A family blog can be a great way for families who want to stay
in touch with each other.
A blog can simply be an online diary or notebook you use to publish
your thoughts. A blog can also be a more formal website used to
educate people about just about any topic you can think of. Your blog
can be as personal or professional as you want it to be.
Through the use of Blogger’s great templates you can adjust the look
and feel of your own blog to match the type of blog you wish to have.
You are also free to have more than one blog and can have the look
and feel of each separate blog vary depending on their individual
topics. And the best thing is that both a personal or professional blog
can have AdSense on it and make you some money!
Online there are currently blogs on topics ranging from workplace
politics, world politics, relationships, frugal living, sports, religion,
family life, children, family pets, and just about anything else in
between. Chances are if you have an interest in something then there
is a blog out there on the topic. However, if you search and can’t find
a blog on a topic which interests you then that can tell you that it
might be a great idea of a topic for starting your own blog and making
some extra money with it!
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