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Finally!! My friend Yaro Starak has launched his Blog Mastermind. The long wait has been well worth it and I’m sure you will agree with me.
These are what you will get from Blog Mastermind:
How to use a blog to make a full time income working a couple of hours a day.
What Yaro Starak has done for the past 2.5 years of blogging to grow my blogs to the point where he is making a stable $4000-$6000 per month on the back of a few hours of writing each day.
10-part, 5-hour, Master-The-Mindset audio series strictly for members only), videos, case studies and e-lessons. He will be adding heaps more resources as the program continues.
Members also get direct access to Yaro, a personal blogging mentor, to ask questions, which he will respond to in audio recordings for all members to listen to.
If you don’t have a blog yet then I’ll make sure that you have one within the first two weeks of joining his program.If you do have a blog already then you are in a perfect situation to start taking action immediately and really grow a successful and profitable blog.
In the meantime, here’s a Free great resource he have made available in the lead-up to Blog Mastermind you can study now. If you found any of these resources valuable then I know you will love Blog Mastermind.
Please take action and sign up for this program if you really want to start earning money while blogging. You will miss out on the opportunity if you don’t start taking action.
You’ve put a lot of work into your blog, and you put more in every day. But without a steady stream of traffic, no one’s the wiser. Use these seven tips to get more traffic to your blog.
1. Do your SEO and keyword research homework.
Make sure the HTML of your site is search engine friendly. Here’s a basic search engine optimization checklist:
Do your post titles have appropriate keywords?
Do your anchor links have keywords in them? Using “here” as a link is a missed opportunity.
Does your domain name include a primary keyword?
2. Submit your site to the 1st and 2nd tier engines like Google, Yahoo, Dmoz, MSN and Looksmart, and to the blog directories.
Here’s a short list of sites that offer free blog listings:
This is a way for you to raise your hand to the blog trackers when you’ve posted new content. You can do it site by site at places like Technorati, or go to Ping-o-matic and mass-ping your blog to over 20 sites. Make sure your blog is set up to ping the appropriate sites every time you publish a post.
Make sure your blog has one and that it’s working. An RSS feed is a bit of XML that allows your blog to push content to RSS readers. That way people don’t have to visit your site to get your latest insights – they just open their RSS reader and read the news. If your blog is at Blogger.com, don’t worry about an RSS feed – its already been created for you. If you’re not at Blogger.com and your current blog doesn’t have RSS functionality, visit Feedcraft.com and sign up for their free service that will set up an RSS feed from any website (blog or not).
5. Swap links.
Make a list of relevant sites you’d love to link to your blog. Write them a short friendly note and offer to let them use a few of your posts as content on their site in exchange for a link back to your site. Also, link to their sites from within one of your posts.
Be sure to offer to exchange links in the links section of your blog. Most blog software programs offer this.
There are also sites that special in helping bloggers swap links. Web Log Empire is a large one. If you’re willing to pay for a link to your site, check out Text-Link-Ads.
6. Be part of the blogging community.
Go to other blog sites you admire. Contribute to their blogs in ways that add real value. Write good, thoughtful comments that are content rich. Give away what you know. Do it a lot – at least 3 posts a week. Over time you’ll become recognized as someone who has something worthwhile to say. As your reputation grows, people will seek out your blog. This is not an overnight process, but by paying your dues and building an audience you are positioning yourself to become a star.
By the way, if your site doesn’t have the functionality for visitors at add comments, Haloscan is a free service that will let them do so. It also allows for “trackbacking”, which is a way to manage pings.
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A blog is an important communication tool for business. You can use your blog to distribute information to your potential customers, as well as build a relationship.
So how do you build a blog?
There are several ways that you can do it, but it all depends on how much time you want to spend on configuring your blog, as well as the types of customizations you want to do to your blog.
Below are several places where you can either get a blog, or get the scripts to build your blog.
Blogger – http://www.blogger.com – This is by far the easiest of all the blogs to build. It takes about 30 seconds to create a blog, and you don’t need to know HTML. If you decide that you want to customize your blog, it does have an extensive knowledge base, and you can quickly learn how to add to the template to make it your own. It’s also very search engine friendly.
Word Press – http://www.wordpress.org – Word Press is one of the most popular blog scripts on the internet. It has tons of features, and it’s search engine friendly. Some of the most popular blogs on the internet use this system for blogging. Some examples of features include plugins that allow you to create an mp3 player on your site so that you can use for podcasting. Other features include: technorati tags, photos, sitemaps, and an extensive collection of templates so that you can use to change the look and feel of your blog.
The code is light and fast, and it is search engine friendly.
Nucleus CMS – http://www.nucleuscms.org – This is the system that I use for my main blog. It has a few features that Word Press doesn’t have, like the ability to create an ezine from your posts and send them as email. You can use a cron job to automate the process, and you can send out your ezine when you want it to go out. This is especially helpful if you want to build a list of subscribers.
It’s allowed me to combine two tasks: blogging and ezine creation.
There’s an extensive collection of plugins you can use to customize your blog, as well as a theme system. The only drawback here is the lack of themes. However, new themes are being designed, and it’s pretty easy to design your own, or customize one of the theme available.
Code is search engine friendly, and you can use plugins to create a Google Sitemap, add keywords, as well as technorati tags. You can also create multiple blogs from one installation.
Drupal – http://www.drupal.org – This is really a content management system, instead of a blogging system, and instead of just creating a blog, you can create a community of blogs, or a complete community, including forums, group meetings, and more. The code is very search engine friendly.
There is a rich text editor so that you can code your posts.
Regardless of what system you choose to create your blog, choose a system that you feel comfortable with. You can quickly and easily use blogs to build relationships with your customers, as well as distribute your content. By building and writing a blog, you can demonstrate your expertise on your topic, while building relationships with your customers and readers too.
Ultimately, blogging can become one of the best tools you can use to market yourself and your business, and it’s free to implement.
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