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Amongst online marketers, there definitely tends to be a blog camp and a website camp and for speed of getting online, the voice over the tannoy is definitely “get a blog.”

But why ?

First of all, I need to make this ultra clear … a blog IS a website. It’s a “dynamic” website and today’s blogs enable you to have pages to promote events, products and services and in fact, it can sometimes be difficult to tell some blogs and websites apart.

For those of you who may not know what a blog is, it’s short for web log, and is a frequently updated website consisting of blog posts, or entries (more often than not, dated entries) that are arranged in reverse chronological order. So when a reader comes to your blog, they see your most recent article or post first.

The advantage of a blog is that blogs allows you to post written text, audio and video and have it online within minutes, unlike traditional static websites which can take hours to update and cost you each time – unless you’re familiar with building or editing web sites.

Some months ago, I put up a new website for one of my new services. I was using a template (something I rarely do) and, it came with very clear step-by-step instructions. I hit some snags, which I eventually resolved, but the one thing that drove me crazy was sitting at my PC for hours writing content for the site since I couldn’t upload it to the server without ensuring everything pre written.

For me, this is the one of the biggest advantages of having a blog … you get the site up, write your first post (I always recommend 5 to start with though) and you are ready to do business online and invite the search engines to come visit you.

This brings me to another Big plus of having a blog …

Optimizing Your Site For The Search Engines is Much Easier With a Blog.

I don’t care what you’ve been told. If you know nothing about search engine optimization, it takes longer for the search engine spiders to visit your blog to index it and, you have to be a little more knowledgeable about SEO.

Conversely, each time you publish a blog post, you do what is called “pinging” the update services. In other words, you automatically notify the search engines (sometimes indirectly) that there is new content on your site so “come and take a look!” This gives the search engines occasion to come and visit your site to index it.

Also, blogs show up 10 times more often in organic searches than static websites do.

On a tight budget?

Then a blog is something you should definitely consider. Blogs are cheaper to build than static websites and even if you get your neighbor to build you a site for free, you will still need a budget to maintain the site and keep the site updated. Also, there is no “pinging” with static websites so you have to do much more of what is called “on page” and “off page” search engine optimization than is necessary with a blog if you want your site to show up in the natural search engine results.

And don’t think just because you paid thousands of dollars to have a website built that you’re going to get people flocking to your site.

In fact, I’m going to dare say that most designers have no clue whatsoever about search engine optimization. Their strategy is to make your site look good … “build it and they will come.” And, I’m not exaggerating here … I had one designer tell me this! But, I’m not using that example as a generalization … just do a Google search for web designers and take a look at their offerings and you’ll find that most of them will sell on “look good” rather than “get found.”

One more benefit (though there are many more) … bloggers establish credibility much faster than static website owners because blogs by their very nature build a stronger and more vibrant knowledge base and following of readers due to the frequently updated content. Sure you can do this by adding articles to your static site but it comes down to ease – it’s easier to add new posts and pages to a blog than it is to a website.

So, should you never build a website?

The answer is that you should combine the two. If you have an existing website, don’t go and tear it down – unless it really is badly built and making you no money – add a blog to it instead.

If you don’t have a website and you’re just beginning online, I highly recommend a blog first and then build mini websites (websites with 1-10 pages) to sell your products and services.

If you use a blog software like the one I use for my blogs, you really do get the best of both worlds because not only can you add pages, you can write a page and save it as a sales letter template, giving you an instant sales page for the product or service you want to promote.

The power of doing it this way is that you’re not creating mini sites in isolation making it harder to get search engine recognition. This page now benefits because you can “deep” link back to this page from the blog, increasing it’s search engine potential.

I’m biased towards blogs because I’ve experienced much better results with them and, I’ve worked with clients who have had real difficulty getting traffic to a website, build them a blog and they start getting traffic. It’s no wonder even the top Internet Marketers are using blogs to promote their new products now a days … that powerful, but beyond the scope of this article.

To get you started with your own blog, you can get free instant access to my Jump Start Blogging guide when you visit http://www.jumpstartyourblog.com. I also show you how to get your first 100 subscribers and make your first $1000 with your blog.

Commenting on blogs is often cited as being important for any website’s link-building efforts. However, the benefits of blog commenting vary depending on how you approach the process. Most people who are doing it solely to build links and drive traffic to their site leave quick, relatively thoughtless comments on blogs that do not have no-follow turned off. While this may bring your blog instant traffic and links, the long-term benefits of leaving thoughtful comments and building relationships with bloggers is far more valuable.
Blog Commenting for Relationship-Building
When you comment on a blog not just to drop links but to actually interact with the blogger and his/her readers, you build an ongoing relationship that will give you far more benefits in the long run. When you comment on blogs to actually start a valuable conversation, the blogger will be more inclined to take you seriously. Self-serving blog comments may give you visibility, traffic, and links but what about building relationships with other people online that will bring you long-term benefits? If a popular blogger endorses one of your sites or services in the future, it could provide you with far more value than a self-serving link.
The Way Most Marketers Approach Blog Commenting
Most blog commentators that are trying to build links will scan the article in question and leave a comment that is vaguely relevant to the topic at hand. Bloggers love comments and typically read every single one when moderating them. Bloggers will probably remember your company name and the content of your blog comments so in essence, leaving blog comments is an aspect of brand-building. Your blog comment will be seen by hundreds if not thousands of people over the life of the blog and if you are leaving comments that are borderline spam, what does that say about you and your brand image?
The best way to approach blog commenting is by treating it as if it were a part of your marketing campaign. Don’t just leave comments on blogs for the sake of link-building. You can reap far more benefit with thoughtful blog comments because you will be able to network with others and form valuable relationships that will assist you in expanding your business. Furthermore, your blog comments are like advertising for your company and spammy blog comments are only going to hurt your company’s image in the eyes of the hundreds of blog readers who come across them.
It’s obvious to bloggers when you leave generic comments that are there for the sake of driving traffic to your site or building links. Bloggers respect commentators who are actually trying to develop a personal connection and rapport with them. Consider altering your mindset about blog commenting because the benefits of putting more thought into your comments and connecting with bloggers will pay off in the future.
In conclusion, blog commenting should be considered a networking tactic rather than a link-building tactic. The long-term benefits of forging mutually valuable relationships with bloggers are far more promising than the immediate benefits link dropping may offer you. Link dropping may bring you some traffic but the people who read your thoughtless blog comments aren’t going to hold you in very high regard. Building a powerful reputation is an essential component of your success online.

Well for starters, it is FREE to have a blog. But why you have to choose to build a blog? Not a normal website. Let’s read why.

A blog is basically your own website that you can use for whatever purpose you like. To talk about current event or your favorite topics, or you can use it to market and promote stuff.

You may heard that sometime Internet marketers call it niche marketing. It is all the same. More recently, people have been realizing the benefits of using their blogs to create an opt-in list.

The money truly is in the list, trust me! From a general quality list, you should be able to gain ROI as high as 1000% or more. And the ROI will continue increasing because when you have a better relationship with your list, you will be able to gain more.

All you have to do is set up your blog to have an email address form on it. Then, you write a short, informative report on the topic of your niche and offer it to your readers for FREE in exchange for their email address.

Simple, but it is so effective. Your readers (and future customers for life!) will type in their first name and email address into your auto-responder form (look up auto-responder if you are not familiar with what it is) in order to download your free report.

You’ll harvest their email addresses, you have begun building your blog opt-in list!

Now you have so many opportunities to make money with your list once you have built a responsive one. Remember, your list does NOT have to be huge in order to make you a recurring income that you can live very comfortably off of.

It is all about the relationship you create/build with your list and the quality of the material that you give them (and also sell them).An opt-in list is a vital and valuable asset for any business, especially online ones.

A blog is just a great tool for you to use to build your list. It’s free, it gets picked up easily by the search engines, it’s a wide used platform that you can find additional functionality easily and it looks professional!

To be able to build a list for FREE that can earn you literally millions of dollars is quite an incredible phenomenon and we should all be grateful for this great opportunity.

Webmasters and affiliate marketers alike are interested in one thing, traffic. Relevant traffic is the blood of the internet and without it no sells, no ads, no internet! But what are the best methods to actually drive relevant traffic to your site? The methods are endless and the amount of traffic you can get through free tactics is pretty amazing. Here are a few of the top methods.

1- Article marketing is king of free traffic building. Easy and fun, if you like writing then this should be your main advertising method, if you can write and release an article every few days to EzineArticles and other article directories you can keep a reasonable amount of traffic coming into your site. For more details go to: www.yourarticlecash.com A good paid submission service to try is Isnare, its anywhere from $2-$.50 per submission deepening on how many credits you buy at a time.

2- Although I love free methods of traffic production I really have to give PPC credit where it deserves it. PPC through Google is really worth the price and when used properly with a good site it can turn a good 3-5% conversion rate, sometimes more. Use article marketing first then move to PPC!

3- Another method is forum participation with signatures and blogging. Find a good forum that is relevant to your website and get involved in the discussions. This is an excellent way to build links and get some traffic. Another way is build Blogs, lots of them, put RSS feeds on all of them that update daily and link them to your site.

4- Another new method is video marketing. Youtube is a huge social website where simple, creative, relevant video can get you thousands of back links and millions of views. For this you can visit to: www.internet-copycatting.com this method is a little more difficult to pull off and requires some video editing ability as well as a creative plot. Stupid videos seem to get a lot of traffic so if your website is a funny site then YouTube is prime. But YouTube can be very beneficial to affiliate sites as well.

Traffic is key! These methods will help you build traffic, guaranteed. But whether these methods turn into sells is up to your website. Website copywriting is key but that’s for another article. There are plenty of online programs that help you build traffic and give you many other tips and tricks, and a few who give you a free website. If you need help finding affiliate programs or help staying away from online scams give my website a look. Nicholas Vernon is a top reviewer of programs that help you make money online. He is 21 and makes a full time income from the comfort of his couch!

Yes, rightfully and certainly, you can make money blogging. Realistically, the most you can make is a few hundred dollars a month that cannot be discovered on trees or jeered at. Nowadays, the Blogosphere, a social network of bloggers, have provided more options and means wherein you can maximize your making potential by blogging.Do you desire to gain money blogging? Then, choose an ideal blog site that will cater to your requirements for a blog, sign up, make a blog and release it right away! Blogging sites allow you to build blogs according to your tastes. Others have HTML and link choices. Others have tailor-make guides where you can change your blog page’s color and design. In between signing up and creating a blog, though, you must know what study to blog about. Your content is an essential consideration, so take your time conceiving before jumping into the fray. If you must know, the subject will be the controlling factor how much money you can make with the blog you’re going to make.Attempt to look for themes or matters that give more from per click among others. Check out Google AdWords and AdSense to know how much each clicks on a subject costs. Google AdSense then permits you to place ads on your blog. Once a user happens to open your blog and click on the advertisement, you will earn money on it. Just that!There is also the BlogAds.com services wherein permits you to gain control over the advertizements appearing on your blog. This service is not based on a pay-per-click system, implying it will  you to make money blogging regardless of the number of clicks on the adverts. This is because BlogAds compensate companies for the space of their ads for a certain period. Their sign up choices are free and after linking up, you can then determine what your campaigning prices you will charge. Once your providing is declared to companies, therefore, they will contact you for an ad space on your web logs. Google, in the meantime, will place any ad that has keywords associated to your blog. Any which way, you are guaranteed to gain.Different ways to fix earning from your blogging activities is to become an associate partner to some other company. There is a popular associate program, which offers commission to its partners for every click on the advertizement, set on their site/blog. You will also get a share from the sale of their product made in your blog. There are plenty of affiliate programs with various commission percentages. Others even offer profit sharing. If you are blogging for a specific cause, you still can take advantage of it in a good way. You can gain money blogging for a cause. You can ask people to give donations for a specific campaign, though most of it will go to you. You can utilize the PayPal donation button and put on your web site. There is likewise Amazon with its reward system that sets up a donation button for you.Are you picking up good ideas already? Well, here is one you will unquestionably enjoy, how about making money through blogging about unique merchandise and then offering them up for sale at the same time in your blog site?There are individuals who would gladly expend for merchandise that are custom-made, different and completely out of this existence! Edit your blog headline into a catchy one, create your very own logotype and then offer up these kinds of items with your logo in it. It will be a sort of brand tag.There are online companies that allow you to pattern your own items and those that allow you to custom design your logo, too. You will see how it will promote your blog once individuals start wearing and using your items with your logo attached in it.Do not just concentrate on one way of money  earning opportunity. You can even mix these methods and make more. As the blogosphere develops, evolves and takes with it lots of net users, so as earning chances increase by blogging. Just think, you will enjoy blogging as a hobby and gain in the outset, too!

Home Building Blog Journal Article

SEO and Marketing with MSN

Blog Building for the Remodeling and Home Building World

Search Engine Optimization Success

Why MSN Search Optimization Ranking is important.

Being directly involved in the understanding home building and remodeling success forums and blogs is a primary focus for myself. The goal of this article however is to help those looking to improve search engine optimization rankings as well as a primary focus on finding success with blog ranking and show why MSN rankings are important in search engine optimization.

The Blog world for the real estate market real estate market and the home building industry has really taken off and is now an established effective tool for sales and marketing. This is becoming a predominant success force even in the smaller home remodeling industry. The demand for being included in this blog world may be a very significant item for your growth in these fields. Stressed heavily is the high rankings needed on Google and Yahoo commonly known as the power players or the two main forces in rankings on the web. For blogs in the Home Building and real-estate areas I am stressing leaning more in the direction of MSN.

In the Home Building and Home Remodeling areas after researching many blogs (List of resources is after this article ) the evidence strongly is leaning toward successful blog effectiveness being better with MSN!

Why is the MSN Search Engine optimization so important?

MSN has taken a remarkable stride in its search engine optimization by targeting the younger generation including the beginning web site developers. The Microsoft Corporation has a potential marketing power that is starting to take effect. How? One prevailing way is when they included MSN Search into the home version of Windows XP. So those who have purchased a new computer (Younger Couples) are often searching via the MSN Search Engine option.

Who builds and buys homes? Younger Couples! They most likely purposes a computer recently including a Windows XP home package with MSN included.

Now that we have concluded to include MSN at the top of our search engine success strategies, the focus of this article is how to get top optimization with the search engine optimization force of MSN.

There are many elements to cover which will take Time, Understanding, and Planning To Do It, To Do It, To Do It, Right Job!

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What Can Help Us Shed Light and Find Success at Proper Search Engine Optimization?

When planning optimization for search engines and especially your MSN search rankings, consider placing heavy emphasis on using page success techniques. Similar to the Yahoo search engine, MSN appears to favor on page content. This means if you have good content your rankings will improve. Keywords and keyword density is important in your quest of improvement and building your MSN Search Engine Rankings.

Paying close attention to your choice of URLs, page titles, and web site descriptions all appear to be very important when desiring understanding of building high search engine optimizations.

Incoming link anchor text is also something to pay close attention to . Building a keyword rich anchor text provides a solid foundation for your search engine results. Good anchor text building will pay off with all the major search engines. Mixing up the anchor text is good for your success as over use of any one keyword phrase may cause suspicion and lower your rankings. Splitting your anchor text between a few phrases will help to provide you success in your search engine placement for more than one search term. This Variety may benefit you and even give you success including extra traffic from areas you did not expect!

MSN KEY IS KEYWORDS

Include Forums and Blogs

Forums and Blogs are also credited on MSN and if you choose to add a blog to your site this inclusion will add to your success of search engine optimization. Keywords are important to MSN so be sure to explore the best ways for your keyword placement techniques and you will find success. While the use of keywords on your pages is important remember it is of equal importance to use your keywords on your page title and in your website URL.

MSN is likely to reward up to triple the keyword density preferred by Google. To achieve search engine success optimization success involves finding the best balance between Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

If you are in the home building, real estate, or remodeling trade industry and looking to build your own website or blogging forum be sure to find ways to include your keywords into your Title Tags. MSN along with Google and Yahoo prefer a separate and Unique Title Tag fore every page on your website. Listing keyword after keyword after keyword will get you discounted for spam techniques so be sure to avoid this for your best search engine optimization.

Google gives little value to meta tags while Yahoo and MSN place solid value on the use meta tags. Provide unique meta tags for every page. A common mistake is using the same meta tags for all the web pages. Using four to five of the most important tags only may help your search engine optimization. If three keyword tags cover the topic this is better yet. The three to five keyword use has been considered and generally is the best practice.

This policy has had talk of changing due to the frequent use of larger search phrases. If you are aware of recent changes with the big three of Google, Yahoo, and MSN in regards to the number of tags recommended to use please let me know. Until this happens the three to five keyword range is recommended.

Remember the main Focus of MSN is your on page content. Do not Forget about your Off Page Optimization. When your off page content is in sync with your on page content this is when things fall into place and your search optimization becomes a success.

What is Off Page Content? Link Anchor text for incoming web sites should be here to ensure success. With MSN although link anchors are not as important as they are to Google, the link anchor text is more important to MSN than the links themselves. Keyword phrases included in your anchor text is more important than the keyword anchors themselves.

The Summary Of the Matter:

MSN will reward frequent keyword use if you are careful not to get carried away where you reach the level of spam. Paying close attention to your Page Titles, your Meta Tags, Page Descriptions, and your Keyword Density as well as using your keywords in your page URLs are all very important for your search engine optimization success.

In addition to this the use of keyword rich anchor text for incoming links is another search engine strategy that must be utilized correctly, and is a solid factor that will hold some weight for each of the big three as we mentioned of Google, Yahoo and MSN.

If you are in the Home Building or Home Remodeling field you may find more success when you apply your focus on finding the best optimization with MSN rather than Google or Yahoo. Younger couples are those who are building homes and remodeling and often browse with originally Windows XP packaging on their Home computers from Microsoft.

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The hottest marketing technique today is blogging. Why? you may wonder. What does blogging have to do with list building?
Blogs are very search engine friendly because search engine spiders don’t have to deal with java script or flash, or too many images, usually, and they don’t get hung up on the crawl. And besides that, a blog is constantly updating with fresh content. That’s what search engines love best.
So, what happens?
Your blog, which you’ve updated daily, winds up at the top of the search engines for a keyword you’ve used in every post you’ve made. That’s great because what gets clicked when someone searches? Usually the first few links.
If you’re one of those links, you’ll have a ton of traffic just going to your blog, where you talk about your niche and send people to your list building squeeze page at the end of every post, right? You’ll get all these people clicking to your blog, and if you set up your blog the right way, you’re also collecting names for list building there, too.
Putting a list building opt-in box at the top of your squeeze page is enormous! You really should do that, if you can. I’m not sure it’s possible with the managed blog sites, like Blogger, for instance, but you can surely do it, if you have a blog, like a WordPress blog, on your own server. It’s pretty simple to do. You just get the list building form code from your autoresponder, and it plug it into the blog template.
This is probably hard for some of you, but if you don’t know what you’re doing with that kind of stuff, hire somebody to do it for you. It won’t cost much to get a blog set-up and running, with your list building box at the top. Just don’t let anything stop you from setting up your blog. It’s a very good way to get list building traffic.
You may say, “I’m no writer. What would I put into a blog every day?”
Well… there are plenty of places to get content, too. You can go to the article directories—there are hundreds of them—and choose articles in your niche. Articles from free directories are all free to republish. Or, you can choose something in the news about your niche. Do a book review. Quote a couple of sentences from a magazine article and give your opinion on what was written. But content is all around you and most of it is free.
List building has many different facets, and what it all boils down to is getting people to come to your list building squeeze page and having them sign up for your list. Blogging is one great way to add people to your list, who like what you have to say. Set up a blog–anywhere, be it on your own server or at one of the services–and start blogging. Use keywords important to your niche, and watch your list grow!