Blogging For Dollars
In the years since it began, blogging has become more than a fad. Its not just teenagers and geeks that blog now.
If your serious about making money online, you should start a blog. Blog is the acronym for “web log”. In the beginning they were a place for people to share information with others that had similar interests.
When you get serious about making money online, you realize the need to blog. Blogs make it easy to provide vast amounts of content, and information for your sites visitors. This in turn increases your visibility on the web.
One of the factors that make blogs appealing is the cost of setting one up. Frankly, most blogs are free. If you have a Google account, just use the Google Blogger. For nothing out of pocket you will get unlimited storage for your content.
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.
Blogs are sometimes included in search engine results in a few days. In a few cases, withing a few hours. The quicker you can get listed, the sooner people being to visit your site, and the quicker you begin to earn money online.
Text is all search engines know. You can include all the graphics you want, but they wont get you listed. All the search engines understand is text.
Increasing your visibility in the serps, brings more visitors to your site. Some people have blogs without websites. Others use their blogs to compliment their websites. Blogs can promote affiliate programs or Adsense or any other income stream.
The really savvy business owner uses the blog for keyword marketing, and to drive traffic to sales pages, or squeeze pages to collect email addresses. The words in the blog give your overall site higher visability.
One account I know uses his blog to keep his clients up to date on new money strategies and tax planning. Their regular readership gives him the opportunity to offer them other services like credit repair and book keeping services.
Blogs allow you to post information that you would want to keep track of anyway, in a format that is accessible to others. The more visible your site is, the more visitors you will have. The more information you offer, the more visible you become. Its like automatic traffic generation.
The more keywords you include in your articles, again, the higher you rank in the serps. You can publish keyword rich articles to your blog. You can add your favorite links and then email the owners of those sites and ask them to link back to you. Do you see how this process is almost automatic?
There isn’t much of a limit on what you can do with a blog. You can even add forms to collect email addresses and revue products.
You have the choice to accept comments on your blog. Comments need to be moderated because a great many will be spam, but they also provide a unique opportunity to allow others to help grow your blog. Comments are a feature that makes your blog interactive, keeping your readers involved.
What a great idea blogs are for the new business owner. Free to start, and fun and easy to administer.
As we said earlier, Google’s Blogger platform is completely free to anyone with a Google account. It can be hosted either on Googles servers, or on your own hosting account. If you are new the idea of earning money online, and want to try your hand at blogging, this is a great way to start.
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