Blogging For Profit

[BibiLiew]

Blogging For Profit
Copyright 2005 Bibi Liew


I recommended that you get a Blog and link back and forth to
your website. Combining a blog and a website is an effective
way of generating traffic.

What is a Blog? A Blog, or a Web Log, is an online diary
where you can post your thoughts and keep it as a private
journal or you can place it where your readers can get
together and place entries. When blog first came, it was
adopted by teenagers and later by adults to write about
their daily lives. Then writers and journalist entered the
blog world writing about books and investigative reports.
But, there's a few people invented "Business Blog".

Suddenly blogs started appearing on business websites all
over the Internet after people discover search engine like
Google and Yahoo were displaying blogs. The impact was huge.
As a result, people starting creating blogs hopping to get
more prospective customers to visit their websites.

1. User Friendly

Blogs are easy to update and are automatically formatted as
you upload them. The easiest way to get started is to create
a free account in http://www.blogger.com. Blogger is part of
Google and it offer dozens of templates which you can
customize by changing layouts and colors. It allows you to
publish your blog without the need to know about HTML or
FrontPage and FTP etc... All you need to do is write your
own content.

2. Create Discussions & Write Honest Reviews

Having your own business blog allows you to create
discussion about the program or products that you are
selling and list any updates to your regular website. You
need to know your products and preferable use it yourself so
that you can write honest review about it. What better way
to promote a product and get people to believe it's great
than to say you use it too? In other words, it enables you
to interact with your prospects. Blogs have a comment
function which allows your customers and prospects to post
their thoughts and opinions. As a result, your potential
customers will have more trust and confidence in your
products or services.

3. Increase Search Engine Ranking

Search engines love blogs because they are frequently
updated with fresh new content. Compared to new sites,
active blogs are indexed quicker by many search engines.
After the blog is indexed, the pages you have linked to the
blog will also get indexed. The more frequently you update
your site, the more frequently your blog will get indexed,
and this helps to boost your search engine rankings. If you
make regular postings to your blog, you can be sure the
search engine will visit your blog again and again.

4. RSS Feed

Most blogging service providers have RSS (Real Simple
Syndication) built-in. Readers can even subscribe to RSS
which notifies them your new posting in your blog. This
allow others to publish your feed on their sites and gain
more free exposure and traffic to your site.


About The Author:
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Bibi Liew is the owner and webmaster of http://www.ebusiness-insights.com
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[talkfreelance]

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

[parsig]

Thats pretty interesting... insightful even

[noob_0001]

Would it be better to place an informational site up as a blog instead of a regular site?

[MarketJunction]

Originally Posted by noob_0001

Would it be better to place an informational site up as a blog instead of a regular site?

It could be. It really depends on many factors. A blog is a simple way to set up an organized website that search engines will love. Because it is a "blog", you will find a greater ability to generate linking for it.

Pick a domain name, set up the blog and go at it.

[noob_0001]

Originally Posted by MarketJunction

It could be. It really depends on many factors. A blog is a simple way to set up an organized website that search engines will love. Because it is a "blog", you will find a greater ability to generate linking for it.

Pick a domain name, set up the blog and go at it.

Thanks very much for the info.