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Career Blogging: Blogging for Cash

Careers
Suzanne Bucciarelli asked:


Want to Work at Home? There are many ways to make money online working from home. Career blogging is one of those ways. Career bloggers are in high demand. Businesses realize the many benefits of a company blog. These companies are willing to pay you to blog, usually on a contract basis. In addition, there are numerous sites that pay you to host links and ads on your own blog or to provide a review of the site on your blog.

Getting Started as a Career Blogger

First you will need to create your own blog. This will serve as your portfolio or blogging resume. Two popular blog sites are blogger.com and wordpress.com. First you need to decide what to blog about. Since you will be blogging for businesses, you could show off your business-sense in your blog. If you are a marketer, you could blog about sales and marketing. Blog about a topic you are very familiar with or an expert in. If there’s a particular niche that you want to blog about for hire, show your expertise on the subject in your own blog.

Getting Your First Blogging Jobs

Now that you have your blog, you need to get hired. Use your About or Profile on your blog to advertise your availability as a career blogger. You can also Google blogger job or blogging jobs and browse the search results. You’ll likely find dozens of search results for blogging jobs. Other resources for finding blogging jobs are Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and HotJobs.com. Just submit your resume and contact info to be contacted by companies looking for professional bloggers.

Get Paid To Blog

The following sites pay you to put links/ads in your blog or to place a site/product review for the company in your blog.

Bloggerwave.com

An opportunity awaiting all bloggers! Give your valuable feedback to advertisers with respect to their web sites, products, services, and companies and get paid for it.

blogitive.com

* Earn money with every posting

* Get paid weekly via Paypal

* No advertising required, just your opinions

* Only post the stories that interest you

* Create multiple blogs to earn more

* Does not conflict with ad campaigns on your site

PayPerPost.com

Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers.

BuzzByBlog.com

BuzzByBlog pays you to place ads on your website or blog. Just register as a blogger, receive offers, write, and get paid. They allow you to decide the minimum amount you will accept per entry, make counter-offers, and easy blog acceptance.

BloggingAds.com

Pays you to post an ad on your blog. Blogging Ads provides the ads and the money … you just place the ad on your blog. You must have a paypal account.

Blogsvertise.com

Get paid to write a review for advertisers in your blogs. Reviews in blogs create a buzz about a site or product and you’ll be getting paid to create this buzz in your blog.

CREAMaid.com

Place a widget on your blog and an ad and get paid via Paypal within 24 hours.

InBlogAds.com

With InBlogAds you can buy simple, direct HTML links on blogs. Increase both your traffic and natural search engine rankings. Get Bloggers to review your products or website. Generate buzz and get some links all in the same time.

ReviewMe.com

This new company was launched on Nov.9! They pay between $20.00-$200.00 for a review! Submit your blog. Once you are accpeted and receive an offer, you must write a post with a minimum of 200 words. You can receive payment by check or paypal. They pay on the first of every month. This is the highest paying company!

LoudLaunch.com

Earn more with your blog. Get paid to independently review LoudLaunch Campaign Releases. You’ve earned your audience, now be compensated for your opinion.

Smorty.com

Get paid for blogging. Write your opinion about peoples products, services and websites on your blog. Get paid weekly. No advertising, just write your opinions

* Earn top $ with every opinion post

* Select the subjects that interest you

* Post in multiple blogs to earn more

* Build interesting, unique content in your Blog

* Get paid weekly by PayPal

PayU2Blog.com

Make money blogging. Earn quick money by completing easy assignments in your blog. They pay you to mention products, services and companies, on your blog.

WeblogsInc.com

Apply to blog for one of their 90 blogs or suggest a blog topic and maybe they’ll start a new blog! WIN bloggers are paid to blog as little or as much as they like, are unfiltered, and can shift from blog to blog within the network. Their only requirements are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover. Talk to their editorial team if you’re interested!

CreativeWeblogging.com

Get paid to blog with Creative Weblogging! They are one of the largest blog networks, with over 90 blogs in five languages.They will help grow your online reputation, establish you as a thought leader — and pay you, too.

CreativeWeblogging.com Compensation Package:

* Monthly compensation: $225 (US) — paid via PayPal or Moneybookers

* 7 to 10 posts per week are required.

* Traffic bonuses for aggressively growing traffic are available, up to $50 per month additional.

* Access to their vibrant community discussion group with 80+ bloggers, where you can share tips and network.

* They take care of all the technology, with an advanced blogging platform.

* They also provide marketing support.

* Virtual shares program: blog with them for a year and you can earn virtual shares in the company.

BloggerParty.com

Welcome. Join the party, where people from around the world join together to share their thoughts, ideas, rants, daily journals, reviews, and lives with each other each and every day. Write about what you want, when you want, meet people, and have fun. Plus, make some money doing it, too.

b5media.com/b5media-music-channel/

b5media is looking for writers to cover a wide range of genres, geographic locations, bands and interests. They’re also looking to cover specific bands who are newsworthy and blogworthy such as U2, the Beatles and Justin Timberlake. How to apply: Fill out a blogger application at: b5media.com/jobs. Please be sure to include any URLs of your writing samples.



Arthur
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Earning Income Through Blogging

Blogs, RSS and Podcasting

One of the best ways to earn money is by providing your own information product. Most people who have spent researching about possible Internet businesses would have encountered this type of business scheme at one point or another.

If you spend any time researching how to make money online you will no doubt come across hundreds of websites selling you the promise of riches if you buy their product or service. If you learn how other people make money online, I mean really study how its done and ask a lot of questions, there is no reason in the world you cannot make money on the internet as well.

Blogs which are easy to set up and even easier to maintain and you have a make money online idea that has taken the World Wide Web by storm. Affiliate programs, the most effective and easy way to make money online that you’ll find. This method is aimed at online auctions but there are other ways to make money on the internet including building your own website but that is a whole subject in itself.

It is simple, those who fail profiting from their Internet business fail to educate themselves with the required knowledge needed to make real money online. The numbers of ways in which you can use materials from Private Label Articles to make money online are almost as varied and infinite as the Internet itself. Bottom line: You CAN make money online if you are the type of person who is a self-starter and motivated to work toward your goals even when the going gets tough.

The perfect method to make money online is with other peoples products. You can make money through a sales page on a blog or a website. If you do not know how to make a blog or website then you still have the option of advertising on google adwords. If you have a website then the first thing that you should do is increase your website traffic, because you will have more chances of sales or adsense clicks, being visited by more people and more chances to earn money online.

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Small Business Blog Marketing - 5 Essential Tips

Marketing and Advertising

If you own a small business, chances are that you are probably quite familiar with the “feast or famine” cycle that most small business owners go through, where there’s either too much work going on for you to manage it successfully, or not enough business coming in through the door.

If your business seems to be affected by the “feast or famine” cycle, then I want to show you an easy, smart, simple, quick and inexpensive way to start alleviating this condition.

It’s called blogging.

Basically, you start a business blog, then write about your business and publish the information online through your blog.

Let me explain why this is a very smart thing to do, and how it can help you ride the ups and downs of small business economic cycles.

First of all, starting a business blog is simpler, quicker, cheaper and easier to do than setting up a small business web site. In a moment, I’ll share with you some valuable blog marketing tips you will want to know about when starting a business blog.

Secondly, by adding regular content to your blog that educates people about the benefits of your business, products and services, you will not only create more trust and authority with potential customers online when they visit your business blog, but you will also increase visibility and exposure for your business in your particular niche market.

So … how will this help you successfully manage the “feast or famine” cycles that most small business owners experience?

Well, in times of “feast”, you can simply refer people to relevant articles you have made on your blog that provide them with the information they are looking for. Every business owner is familiar with the often frustrating experience of having their valuable time taken up with the usual explanations of how, why, what, when and where certain aspects of their business are done. Rather than spend 30-45 minutes or more repeating the same thing over and over again to luke-warm prospects, why not write an article about it and post it to your blog? Then, the next time someone asks you to explain this very same thing, rather than waste an hour of your or your staff’s time, just ask them for their email address and email them a link to your blog page where you have posted this information. Your prospect can then research the subject in their own time and call you back when they are ready to move to the next step.

Now … if, in your blog you have set up a way for people to opt-in to a database (e.g. a newsletter subscription form, or special report), then you have already taken a vital step towards ensuring that your business can survive in times of famine. When work slows to a trickle, you can contact your list subscribers with a special offer, or send them information about products or services they may want to consider at that point in time.

By incorporating small business blog marketing into your regular business activities, you will be providing genuine service to those you cannot service immediately, as well as creating a prospecting pipeline for leaner times.

5 Essential Small Business Blog Marketing Tips

Small Business Blog Marketing Tip #1 - Host Your Business Blog On Your Own Domain

Although many small businesses set up their business blog on blogging platforms that offer free hosting, this can be a costly mistake in the long run. It also indicates that the business owner is not aware of what a valuable business asset a blog can be. By setting up a blog on your own domain, you are ensuring that all traffic, content and links pointing back to your content pages are growing the value of your web property and not someone else’s, and also that they won’t suddenly disappear if, for, example, you decide to take your business to the next level and change blogging platforms or change hosting providers.

Small Business Blog Marketing Tip #2 - Set Up Your Business Blog Using A WordPress Blog

WordPress provides an ideal business blogging platform (hosted on your own domain, of course). Wordpress is free, and supports an active community of plugin developers and professional designers who have created thousands of plugins that can add incredible functionality and powerful features to your blog, as well as thousands of professional themes you can use to completely change the look and feel of your blog. Best of all, most WordPress themes and plugins can be downloaded at no cost, and customized for your own business use in many instances.

Small Business Blog Marketing Tip #3 - Automate Your Business Blog Marketing SEO And Search Engine Indexing Functions

Although a WordPress blog is quite easy to install and set up, the default installation is fairly basic and lacks most of the functionality you need to ensure that your content is automatically optimized for ranking better than your competition in the search engines, as well as getting quickly indexed and added to the search results of all the major search engines and blog directories. This is by no means a “negative”, as WordPress allows you to quickly add all of this functionality by simply installing and activating certain plugins. All you need to do is spend a little time learning which plugins work best together to help automate your blog.

Small Business Blog Marketing Tip #4 - Add New Content Regularly To Your Business Blog

Every small business owner I have ever met carries an amazing amount of information in their head about their business, their industry, expert tips on buying, installing and using their products and services, benefits and features, comparison data about competitor products and services, etc … In short, there is no shortage of material to provide potential new customers with. Many small businesses, however, don’t fully understand how much leverage they can create for their business by turning this information into short informative articles, announcements, interesting posts, news releases, answers to frequently asked questions, etc … that can attract the attention of people searching online for solutions you can help deliver, educate and engage prospective customers, and funnel visitors into a process that delivers not only great value and service every step of the way, but that can ultimately lead to new customers and new sales for your business.

Having a simple plan to add 1-2 articles per week to your business blog can lead to amazing results. As I have just stated, there is no shortage of information when it comes to thinking of things to write about your business. If you commit to investing as little as 20 - 30 minutes a day to business blog marketing activities, you can transform your business quite rapidly.

Divide your business blogging time as follows:

- Spend 40% of your time researching topics to write about. Start an ideas file and add to it every day - even just the title of a blog post will do.
- Spend 40% of your time writing your article. Open up a simple notepad text file and just write on a topic the same way as you would if you were explaining something to a prospect one-on-one. Keep the style conversational, use your own voice and don’t worry about editing anything until you finish writing at least 500 - 700 words (4-5 short paragraphs)
- Spend 20% of your time editing and proofing what you have written, then publish it. You can always easily edit your post later if you need to add, modify or delete sections of your post.

Using the above time schedule, if you invest just 20 minutes a day, five days a week into publishing a business blog, you will spend a total of 40 minutes researching (e.g. reading other blogs for topics and ideas), 40 minutes writing your post(s), and 20 minutes editing and proofing your post. This is enough time to add one or three new posts every week or so, and start growing your business online. Keep this commitment for one whole month to get the blogging habit and do this for three months before evaluating your performance and your results. I guarantee you will be more than pleasantly surprised!

Small Business Blog Marketing Tip #5 - Use Your Business Blog Performance Data To Improve Your Business Results

As a small business blog marketer, your goal is to deliver content that will attract new visitors to your site, engage and build trust with your readers, and then direct them to areas of your site where they can either get more information about the benefits of using your products and services, contact you for the next step, or place an order once they have made a decision to buy.

Setting up a simple information system that tracks where visitors to your blog are coming from, what keywords and phrases they are typing into search engines and other sites to find you, how long they stay on your blog when they visit and which pages they visit the most when they are browsing through your blog can all provide valuable information that you can then use to improve your business, deliver better customer service … even uncover a demand for new products and services.

I hope you have found this information useful and I wish you great business blogging success. For more information on how to start your own business blog, including step-by-step video tutorials on installing and using WordPress, automating your business blog marketing, setting up an information system to monitor your business blog performance and growing your business online faster with a blog, watch the video below or go here: Starting A Business Blog

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7 Things You Need To Do To Optimize Your Blog For The Search Engines

Blogging
Turn Blogs To Cash asked:


Optimizing your blog for the search engines is crucial and very important! There are so many different blogs out there on the net that you’ll quickly sink to the bottom if you don’t optimize. Follow these seven tips below and you’ll be well on your way to high rankings.

#1 - Create the Right Permalink Structure

The permalinks Wordpress uses by default are not search engine friendly. You can make this simple change by inserting %postname% instead of the default that is already there. This will successfully create URL’s that include your post name which should include your targeted keywords.

#2 - Install All in One SEO Plugin

This is a must-have plugin which allows you to specify a title, description, and the keywords for the search engines. It can really help you boost up and reach the top of the listings, whereas the standard WP installation can fall short.

#3 - Install Related Posts Plugin

Search engines love it when they get content pages that are interlinked. It also works very well for the search engines. It will automatically include links to other posts that are similar. Very convenient!

#4 - Research your Keywords

When people search, they search by keyword. It is vital that you know what these keywords are if you want to rank at the top of the search engines. Your posts should be centered around these keywords.

#5 - Include Your Keywords in the Title

In the title of your blog you need to include your main keyword. Also, include your main keyword and select others in the titles of your posts and sprinkle throughout your pages.

#6 - Make Your Blog Easy to Navigate

Easy navigation is essential for your guests and the search engines as it makes it easier for the guests. That means including your blog’s categories, recent posts (to make sure they get indexed) and pages. Easy navigation is also part of choosing a good design.

#7 - Expand the Ping List

When you make a new blog post Wordpress will “ping” the blog search engines. This alerts them that content on your site has changed and ready for guests to view. This can help you get indexed fast so you can start making money even faster. Do a Google search to find an expanded ping list you can include in your wp-admin so you make sure you get as many of these sites to update you as possible.

Using these seven plugins will make your job of ranking highly in the search engines easier than ever. If you’re new to blogging with Wordpress then these terms may seem incredibly strange to you right now. As you study them and go over them a couple times, put them into action and it will start to feel like second nature!



Ella
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What Is PPC And How Did It Start?

Marketing and Advertising

The advertising world involves people who have things to sell and people who give the space to sell things. Yet, in the past, the former set lost out somewhat because they would have to pay for advertising space even if it didn’t result in them getting any hits. Fortunately, there was an answer. Upon first hearing about it, you might wonder what is PPC - pay per click advertising. But soon you’ll see just how much good it did in its area. Refer how to make quick money for articles on online marketing.

First off, PPC is pay per click advertising, and it stands far above other methods in which you would have to pay for all ads you used, regardless of whether they actually got you customers. This meant that you’d likely be throwing out a lot of money, as without a lot of people looking in the first place, almost nobody would be giving you any money.

There were various factors that determined the amount you would have to pay, but in general, after dealing with this system for a while, people were pushing for something different. Thankfully, when pay per click advertising came about, it revolutionized things a lot. It was a good value and you were able to place ads right where you wanted them.

It seems we first started to see these trends when Google AdSense was released by the home company in 1999. Google was already becoming a recognized and growing name at that point in terms of their search engine capabilities, so it was only natural they extended themselves even further. Now advertisers could work with good keywords.

Besides offering improved selling terms this program also made it so that people could get matched up with websites and ad locations that are relevant to the types of thing they were selling. There was no price to pay up front - rather, they would be as they went, and only for the amount of people who actually clicked to look at the product they were selling.

Obviously it saves a lot of money to not have to pay for more than you need to. Yet website owners had their own reasons to appreciate the program, because they benefited a lot from the program as well. In putting ads in many places and bringing a lot of people to their sites, they managed to still make considerable profits from this process.

In fact, some people run their websites entirely with what they make through the program. Even websites like MySpace might not exist if it weren’t for how much they were helped by Google AdSense. It is a situation in which everyone wins and is able to get what they’re looking for without having to lose too much money while doing it.

PPC advertising offered people many new possibilities and gave them the terms they were looking for in terms of their advertising potential. Google AdSense is still running, and other services like it have come about since, so there are a lot of options. If you’re on either side of the advertising world, you might want to consider using this method.

Fore more information on making money from blogs checkout HowToMakeQuickMoneyToday.com.

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Blogging News – Submit your Articles and get information

Blogging
Blogging News asked:


Blogs are online journals where people express themselves through writing. Writing is the process by which one puts the words of a language on a format that others can read. Writing has only been a day in the year that humanity has existed. Talking and thinking are much easier than writing. These processes just out naturally like a river of consciousness, just sometimes, we have to do.

Bloggingnews.net is owned and operated by GPRICESHOP LLC., a US corporation, as a free informational site. They accept only articles which are blog oriented news, provided are reprinted with the permission of the original authors as a promotional tool for their own websites.

Blogging is the wave of the future. They Would Always Like You To Come Back For Up To Date News On Blogging As Well As Always Having The Most Up To Date Blogging News Available.

Anyone submitting an article (blogging oriented) to this site agrees to allow it to be published in electronic form on this website. Publishing of articles by bloggingnews.net is wholly at their discretion. You will be notified via email if your article is published on their site. This site will not publish any article they find to contain profanity, are abusive, rude, illegal, or is not relevant to the topics covered in the site. Some articles have been slightly altered from their original form. These alterations are in html formatting only and are applied to author’s code to make them compatible with W3C specifications.

For more details, please visit - http://www.bloggingnews.net



Gertrude
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Blogging News – Submit your Articles and get information

Blogging
Blogging News asked:


Blogs are online journals where people express themselves through writing. Writing is the process by which one puts the words of a language on a format that others can read. Writing has only been a day in the year that humanity has existed. Talking and thinking are much easier than writing. These processes just out naturally like a river of consciousness, just sometimes, we have to do.

Bloggingnews.net is owned and operated by GPRICESHOP LLC., a US corporation, as a free informational site. They accept only articles which are blog oriented news, provided are reprinted with the permission of the original authors as a promotional tool for their own websites.

Blogging is the wave of the future. They Would Always Like You To Come Back For Up To Date News On Blogging As Well As Always Having The Most Up To Date Blogging News Available.

Anyone submitting an article (blogging oriented) to this site agrees to allow it to be published in electronic form on this website. Publishing of articles by bloggingnews.net is wholly at their discretion. You will be notified via email if your article is published on their site. This site will not publish any article they find to contain profanity, are abusive, rude, illegal, or is not relevant to the topics covered in the site. Some articles have been slightly altered from their original form. These alterations are in html formatting only and are applied to author’s code to make them compatible with W3C specifications.

For more details, please visit - Bloggingnews



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Blogging News – get information

Blogging
Blogging News asked:


Blogs are online journals where people express themselves through writing. Writing is the process by which one puts the words of a language on a format that others can read. Writing has only been a day in the year that humanity has existed. Talking and thinking are much easier than writing. These processes just out naturally like a river of consciousness, just sometimes, we have to do.

Bloggingnews.net is owned and operated by GPRICESHOP LLC., a US corporation, as a free informational site. They accept only articles which are blog oriented news, provided are reprinted with the permission of the original authors as a promotional tool for their own websites.

Blogging is the wave of the future. They Would Always Like You To Come Back For Up To Date News On Blogging As Well As Always Having The Most Up To Date Blogging News Available.

Anyone submitting an article (blogging oriented) to this site agrees to allow it to be published in electronic form on this website. Publishing of articles by bloggingnews.net is wholly at their discretion. You will be notified via email if your article is published on their site. This site will not publish any article they find to contain profanity, are abusive, rude, illegal, or is not relevant to the topics covered in the site. Some articles have been slightly altered from their original form. These alterations are in html formatting only and are applied to author’s code to make them compatible with W3C specifications.

For more details, please visit - http://www.bloggingnews.net



Maurice
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Advertising Using Blogs

Online Promotion
Douglas Smith asked:


Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature:  If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.  One of those ways is something that you do everyday, and that you may not even consider as a way to share

your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature.  Chances are that you send out emails more timese that you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email’s signature. It’s always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have.  The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement in your signature for your blog is to make it short,

but eyecatching.  You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don’t want to scare them off.  Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising.  Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people abuot it and want to visit That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.

Blogger Forums - A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog:  No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject.  It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.  There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries, where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog.  Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog, Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.  If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure.  When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy.  Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you’ll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the

Blogging Directories - Great Advertising Venues:  If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submited cover. Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there.  Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.  There are other blog directories on the Internet - these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make

new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily.  As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.

Blogging Traffic - Give And Take:  Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else ’s blog.  Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common. When you find something that you find truly

interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.  One of the best known blogs available is LiveJournal.  A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search

for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.  Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well.  When you are commenting on someone’s post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.  After you have commented on the person’s post, then you can say something like, ‘I really like horseback riding too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ and

then use it to link back to your journal.  But be sure that you sound sincere when you are

commenting, and don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic.  If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.

Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog:  Something that you will find, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.  There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn’t a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.  The nice thing about communities is that there isn’t

any limit as to how many communities that you can join.  For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.  As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps

they will check out your personal blog.  Something to remember is that you don’t want to write

a post tht is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.  Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post.  As with posting comments on someone else’s blog, you don’t want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won’t visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.

Email Groups - Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising:  Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues.  They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.  There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject.  These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.  Most of the time when you join a group, you are

encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself.  This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don’t overdo it.  Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.  If your blog covers different subjects, you can

advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well. Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There’s nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.  When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that

they leave.  If they know that you appreciate the time that they

took, they are more likely to come back again.

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ABOUT BLOGGING

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Therese prentice asked:


There is a new way to update friends and family on what is happening to your life. Using the internet, you can create a personal journal and share with people. This is called a web blog or blogging.

A blog is similar to a journal or diary where you can post your activities or thoughts on a regular basis.  Just like a diary this is solely maintained by you but the difference is that you can give access or allow people to read your blog or post comments on what you have written.

There are different types of blogs depending on the subject:

The most common type is a personal blog. Blogspot, WordPress and other blog sites make available spaces for personal blogs. Personal blogs are online diaries or journals. You can post anything on your blog including images and videos. People also make cultural blogs which cover topics about the arts, music, painting and culture in general. Most of these blogs are made for educational purposes. Niche blogs are also called topic blogs. These blogs focus on a specific subject like acne remedies, diet methods, etc. This type is usually created in support of a website which sells the product or service. Business related topics are covered by business blogs. This type of blog is used by people to update others about business and its environment. Good examples are the blogs about the stock market. Science blogs are made by those who want to inform others about a particular scientific field. Usually the blog is restricted since some information is sensitive or confidential. Blogs written by two or more people are called collaborative blogs. This type of blog is maintained by clubs or interest groups. Students have also found a use for blogging. This type of blog is similar to a cultural blog though the subject maybe about a particular course. When a discussion about certain topics is made though a blog this is called a forum blog. Using a blog for advertising purposes is called spam blog or splogs. This kind of blog advertises a product or service blatantly.

Anyone can make a blog especially that it is FREE. Let us discuss how to start a blog.

Choose a blog site service for which your blog will be published. You will then be asked to give your blog a title. Most blog site services allow you to choose a theme or style.  This will make your blog look interesting. There are blog site services that can make you set your publication for public or private view.  For private view blogs, only those given access usually through logins and passwords can read your postings. After making the aesthetics and access level for your site, you can publish your site. You can start posting to your blog.

Blogging has now become not only a hobby but has become an interaction point between people on a personal level. Business owners have found ways to use blogs to support their business as well.

Find a blog site service that you will be comfortable. Happy Blogging!



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