Monday, July 7th, 2008
Reading through some forums recently, I noticed a trend. There are a lot of people out there that have started blogging recently or months ago and are struggling with getting their name out there. Well to you all, I offer the same advice I have in the past in my post about social networks.
Become active in your niche community. That is key to your blogs growth. There are many other methods you can take that may not take as much effort, but trust me when you don’t prove yourself as credible, the visitors you do receive will not become readers. One good tip I can give you to help promote yourself and your blog is to join a social networking site like Facebook or Myspace and interact heavily like I have done with my new myspace site.
Its important to transform your visitors into readers. Read other blogs in your niche and comment on their blogs. Build relationships and backlinks. Nothing is stonger than having your link on someone elses site. So think about it, what sites do you visit daily and what are you getting in return for visiting those sites?
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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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Monday, June 9th, 2008
I have officially launched my own Myspace page for all of my sites. You will find my videos that I have created around blogging and other tips to generating better blogs. You may also see that I have created my own official Youtube channel as well.
The links for both are on the right sidebar of the page. But i will post them here for you as well.
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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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