Blogs are a prosperous generator of massive earnings and blogs are extremely simple to put together and keep up. Envision having a life where you're continuously paid to write about anything that you enjoy, anytime you desire, wherever you happen to be. The incredible ductility of blogging hands you an easy way to just sit down, decompress and take a holiday when you please.
Here I am dealing only with the potential high pay off of a blog and setting up you personal blog at absolutely free! Sound good? Let's keep rolling!
First, you need to know how to get a blog completely free. You have a couple of ways to start:
1. Use your Own domain to host a niche market blog or ...
2. Choose a free hosted blog. Many newbies don't have a domain, or website, so first consider the blogs that are hosted for free. The two best places for a free blog someone hosts for you are: at www.blogger.com or the newer (and better!) www.wordpress.com. Almost anyone who has been marketing online for even a short time has heard of Wordpress, a free blog engine incredibly expandable, and highly robust.
Google created Blogger.com, so of course this means it will be indexed faster and show up in Google more readily. Wordpress.com, is the newer option and I am no expert in testing the speed of getting indexed by search engines. I believe Wordpress is a better choice because it has many more advanced features including trackbacks and categories along with incrdible plugins avaialble free. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later). With the automatic pinging and many Wordpress plug-ins, I am convinced their is no real difference you need to be concerned about. Pick the one you want. I use Wordpress.
How do you do it? Go to either Blogger.com (https://www.blogger.com/start) or Wordpress (http://wordpress.com/signup/) and sign up. What could be easier? Once you choose, spend a little time learning about the site by posting your first blog post about alomst anything you want (it really doesn't matter what). Maybe start with something about you and why you have this blog. By writing an posting your first blog post, you will get the feel for how the site features work, and how to use the templates. Just do it, you can't hurt anything.
Like everything, blogging has its own unique language, so here are a few simple terms you'll want to be familiar with:
1) Pinging - On the web there are aggregators or collectors of info about blogs being updated. Pinging is the action you or your blog takes to notify the aggregators you just completed an update. This is the single feature that makes possible the creation of targeted traffic almost immediately to your blog.
2) Trackback - This is link that is used you post in your blog something about someone else's blog post of a related item. It will cause your blog post to appear in their "trackback" section. This is unique to blogs by Wordpress.
3) Permalink - Permalink means permanent link, and is the URL (uniform resource locator) that can be used to send people directly to the post in your blog.
So, if you don't have a blog, just go to one of the sites above and get started. Play with the features included and get the feel of blogging. In the future, I will share with you some of the many ways to generate profit simply by consistently adding to your blog. Keep your visitors glued, and the keep coming back for more.
All search engines become the blogger's best friend. A well optimized blog will receive traffic once it gets indexed by the search engines. The more pages the blogger creates, the more traffic the blog gets. Here's how to optimize your blogs for the blog search engines.
First, make sure that you have the title of the blog post in the title tags. This is perhaps the most important factor that helps search engines identify the type of content on any particular web page. Choose something specific for the title. For example, choose a title like "How to bake green potatoes" instead of "Bake potatoes". This helps the page to rank higher in the search engines.
Second, use a static URL whenever you can. Most popular blogs like Wordpress or Typepad allows the blogger to enable an option where the URLs of the blog posts will become a static URL. Also, the keywords are included in the URLs, which make them more search engine friendly.
Don't worry too much about keyword density. Just write naturally but make sure that all content is unique. That means there must not be huge chunks of the blog post that has already been published somewhere else on the Internet. Unique and useful content almost always rank higher than duplicated content.
Third, ensure that your blog RSS feed has been setup properly. You can setup half feed or full feeds, depending on how you want your audience to access the content. Half feed means your RSS subscribers will get a portion of your blog posts and if they like to read more, they'll click through to your blog. If you allow full feeds, your audience can read the entire blog posts without having to visit your blog. Half feed is highly recommended.
The importance of having a valid RSS feed is that it can be submitted to many popular RSS search engines. These search engines are dedicated to indexing feeds and will help promote your blog and get you better rankings. RSS search engines provide an additional traffic source that most bloggers miss out on. So be sure to make a list of RSS search engines and submit your RSS feed.
In addition, you may also use a free service such as FeedBurner to burn your feeds so that subscribers can get updates in their email inbox without having to download additional software. This helps the blogger reach a wider audience.
Remember, there are many ways to promote a blog, and submitting your blogs (and the RSS feeds) to blog search engines and RSS search engines remain one of the most effective way to get free traffic.
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