In this article I will show you some free and easy ways to use a blog to market your internet home business, and make some extra money with an online business.

What makes blogging so business effective?

The main reason is that blogging is free, everyone can use this method, all they need is a computer and an internet connection.

Another reason is that blogging is easy. there is nothing to learn here, all you have to know is the basics, copy, paste, insert an image etc. You can have as many blogs as you want, in any topic with no limits.

How to use a blog to market your internet home business?

Your blog can function as a website, the only difference that it is free, there is no hosting fee, however if you do have a website, make your blog an extension of your site and host it, or even better if you will make it your custom domain.

By hosting your blog on your website you receive all the traffic that comes to your blog and you gain more popularity.

Use your blog to add fresh content to your website, the search engines loves fresh content, keep you website dynamic by adding more pages, blog regularly and the search engines will index you faster. Remember that each post you ad to your blog is a new page on your website.

Like in article marketing a blog post is an article, you need to SEO it and make is search engine friendly.

First, have a keyword search, choose your keywords and phrases smartly and use them in your text. Use them in the title and at least in the first paragraph of the post.

Remember to use the keywords and phrases in you anchor text too.

Use the anchor text to link back to your website, to your home page or to a deep link in your website.

Design your blog and SEO it too. Use your keywords in the blog title and in the blog description.

Don't forget your sidebar, use the side bar as an advertising platform, put links on it to your website, to articles you wrote and to the affiliate programs you market and the products you sell. Most important is to put your opt-in form on the side bar, your visitor may want to read and hear more from you.

Another way to make money from your blog is to put AdSense on you blog, on the sidebar and on the main page, you can earn some good money from those adds when your blog become popular.

Once your blog is set, you need to help and push it a little, use pinging services to alert the RSS readers on a new post, allow your reader to sign up to the blog RSS feed, and offer an email alternative too.

Another way to help your blog is by submitting it to link directories and the social media marketing sites.

In conclusion, this is how you use a blog to market your internet home business, treat your blog as your website, update it on a regular basis, create backlinks from it to your main website and create backlinks to it, all these methods will help you increase your rank and blog popularity and therefor drive more traffic to it and to your website.