Using a blog as a way to make money really makes sense when you look at all of the advantages of blogging in general.
What is a Blog?
A blog is a weblog. It is basically a way to give (and receive) continuing data easily, whether the information is a personal journal, to promote an idea, sell products or to market your business
Blog to be heard.
Blogging has provided a world wide format for any one and every one to express opinions, ideas and products.
- You can write a book, publish it, market it, and sell it right from your blog.
- Promote your ideas. You can write about anything you want to say.
- Promote your favorite fund raising projects.
- You can create social change.
- Blogging has endless possibilities.
Blogs are SEO Friendly.
Blogs are easily optimized for the search engines (SEO). Both readers and search engines love new content. Your new content makes you an authority to your visitors and brings frequent visits from the search engines looking to update their indexes. For example: the search engine Google scans all new web content to update the Google index.
- Blogs using category features make it easy for the search engines to understand your content.
- Blogs are link magnets. Most blogs will freely link to each other, by referral, comments, blogrolls and guest posts. The search engines love to links, they will give a high index to sites that others like.
- Blogs create an active community. Your community will spread the word of your blog through their blogs. Trackback and social media of your community call more search engine attention to your blog.
Blogs are a Content Management System. With your blog you can add new data at any time with out using a webmaster. You can add content, audio and video with out having to learn the code that runs your blog.
Blogs are marketing tools.
What a simple way to market. Blogs are interactive. You can give easily give and receive information to and from your current and potential customers. Actually any company that has not set up a blog is behind the times. (What a great idea “Professional Blog Management”…..putting up and running blogs for local businesses.)
Blog to promote products and services.
85% of the time consumers look on line for information before a major purchase. You can tap into that 85% and give them the reasons to buy a product or service from you. 360,985,492 people use the internet. That breaks down to 250,000,000 all over the world in 1 small tiny miny eany weany day. (Wiki Answers) And that breaks down to a lot of potential customers.
How to have a blog?
I have reviewed the major blog platforms, Blogger, Typepad, WordPress.com and WordPress.Org. I have chosen WordPress.Org because it is free, open source and WordPress gives you the freedom and ability to blog about anything you want. Now I am getting ahead of my self here. We will be looking at how you can get your own WordPress Blog. Back to the business at hand…..
Take a tour of blogs. Do a google search on blogs, type in – blogs about dogs – blogs about shoes – blogs about blogs, etc. Now look at how they are making money. Are they using ads? selling products? selling e-books?
To your success!
Sheila
P.S. Why blog to make money? because it works. You have the freedom to do what you want, sell what you want, control your blog content and get the SEO attention you need.
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Sheila, I love your blog. I hope you are doing well with it. It always looks so great.
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Great Post and Great Information, Thank you
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Online business is a great way to make money on the internet. It should not be difficult to operate and does not have to cost you a lot. But, be awarded that creating your own business on the net could be risky – the web contains more scam than real business opportunities. If you are interested in a program, do a Google search and verify what peoples think about your choise.
If you are a newbie, you will be certainly attract by etraining, ebook and quick rich web site. The web offer so much information that it’s almost impossible for you to be focused on you goal. Promoting existing programs is by far the most easy business you can build. There is no need to create and maintain your own website and there is no learning curve.
But be patient, building a strong business can takes time, but if you want a residual income, it’s important to create your own customer list.
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Good luck
Marion Gaudet
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