Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Myspace, Facebook and many other Social Blogging sites are being used by millions of people for different reasons. My question to you is, why would you not want to leverage that power and opportunity? Most of you already have either a Myspace or Facebook site or both. What could you do for your blog if you leveraged the traffic you received from either of them.
This is not a new idea, and actually one that I am trying out myself. Many professional bloggers are using this as one method to generate traffic to their site. Twitter provides users with the ability to tell the world what they are doing on the fly. Using Twitter has provided me with the ability to get my blogs out to many more people than I would have originally in a shorter time frame.
Don’t let the obvious marketing tools pass you by because you think they won’t work. Try it and see for yourself.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Everyone has their own reasons to create a blog so I won’t talk about the topics or any of that crap here. Well I will say one thing. If you plan to make money with your blog, try to make the topic of conversation around one niche. I think there are a lot of people out there that are missing out on the opportunities that true blogging, not the myspace and facebook blogging, can provide you. So how do you do it?
Well the first thing is to have your own hosting account somewhere. Some examples are GoDaddy.com, Dreamhost.com, Bravenet.com etc… There are a lot of different companies around that will provide good deals on hosting and registering, but you need to find what best works for you. I would make sure your hosting company has built in FTP program so you don’t have to buy an FTP Client. However an FTP Client is much better and sometimes easier to use. If you have any questions about anything in this post, leave us a comment.
The second part would be to register a site name (example.com). Most hosting companies have this feature on their site, but you can also use Register.com. Then after your hosting account is setup and you have the FTP all ready to go you need to install Wordpress (or which ever data management system you prefer) by going to Wordpress.org/download. Simply follow their simple install guide and you will be all setup and ready to go.
Not happy with the default WP theme? You can go to a number of sites to find WP themes, however I have a few that I use myself. BlogohBlog.com and Themes.Wordpress.net. If you still can’t find something you like and want to create your own theme, you can try this theme generator site. After finding the theme you like, download it and upload it to your wp-content/themes/ folder with the ftp client you chose. Then login to your wordpress account and go to Design and choose that theme. Its that simple. Basic setup is complete.
In the next post in this series we will cover the things you can do to monetize your site and how you to setup your very own RSS Feed. Other topics we will cover is setting up your WP plugins, Twitter, posting and more.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Something I have been thinking a lot about lately is how to create full time blog results without full time availability to do so. For many bloggers out there, blogging can become a full time job. I know some bloggers have “guest bloggers” that help post on their sites but we don’t all have that luxury. So how do you manage to populate your blog with a large amount of content on a regular basis?
The best advice I was ever given about this was from Cybercoder. He told me to write at least one post a day and make sure its relevant to your sites content, don’t over do it (it doesn’t have to be an essay), and maintain that rhythm. Overtime your site will grow within the search engines and you will gradually see the outcomes.
I believe this to be true, however, blogging to me is more than just writing a post everyday. There is all the background work involved these days. You almost have to belong to a blogging community like MyBlogLog. There is also the theory about needing to comment on other blogs in your niche to help drive traffic to your site. These are only a couple things that are almost mandatory to have a successful blog these days. If you put in the true effort, you will find yourself spending 10 or more hours a week doing just that.
So I say to all those that are doing this and more… Good job. And to those aspiring to do so… Good Luck!!!
-TheYoungGuy
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