How to Build and “Own” Your Own Blog Website

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Would you want to “own” your own blog website? The good news is it’s a very simple exercise and takes either one of two routes depending on the type of blog you want.

1. For a personal blog.

Where you want to simply sit at your key board and write a burp to what’s on your mind. This takes nothing more than finding a free blogger site to sign up for an account, then follow their instructions and away you go.

2. For the more serious blogger.

The second route: This is for those who are interested in promoting them selves or their business.
This will take time, effort and a little expense in buying a domain name, finding a web-host and setting up this way. To do it properly you have 3 options;

A. Decide to get a professional to set one up for you. The easy but expensive way as you will always depend on outside sources for further help, as you will know little of the workings behind the scenes.

B. Learn the ropes using all the free material on the Internet, such as YouTube for training videos. To progress you will need a trail and error approach. This is the cheapest method but most time consuming as you step through the maze of irrelevant material. You just need to learn to ask the right questions in your search browser to get what you want.

C. Learn through video that various training membership sites offer. These take you by the hand in a step by step process. They teach you the recommended resources, what to do and how to use them for the best blogging results.

So make a decision on which path you will take to owning your own blog.

How To Use Social Networking To Advertise Your Blog

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Do you know what the main purpose of a social networking website is?

If you are a keen internet user, it’s more likely that you do. For those of you who don’t know, social networking websites are a place to meet and talk with other internet users. If you are an internet user who enjoys using the world wide web to meet new people, there is a good chance that you already belong to a social networking website. Another advantage is that scores of people employ these networking sites to market their own online blog, as a source of free advertising!

Why would you want to advertise your own blog? Well, the whole purpose of a blog is to document your thoughts, views, and opinions on a particular topic, issue, or subject. But why bother if no one actually reads your blog? Well, there is a point. Because it has other purposes in addition to giving information to the cyber world about your opinions. You can use it to generate cash! By signing up to programs such as Google AdSense for example or many other affiliate programs you can get your blog to work for you. If you are blogging to make money then you will definitely need to market it.

A simple method that many people use to showcase their blogs is to let the search engine to provide traffic to their blog. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that look at the content on your website. That content is then used to rank your website with specific keywords. So, if your blog is on the subject of Organic ice cream in Florida, then you stand a decent possibility of ranking highly when searches are made for Florida made Organic ice cream. The trouble is you can not rely on ranking highly in search engines alone. This is why you are advised against relying solely on the search engines, to promote your blog. So once more if you are using social networking sites and you enjoy chatting online then the online community are a ready audience. The individuals that you talk to in your community are most likely the individuals that you should initially target. Social networking websites tend to link like minded people with shared interests and pastimes, these are individuals who will almost certainly want to take a look at your blog and hence are called, a targeted group! However, they will not be able to read it if you do not tell them about it.

So how do you do this? Well there are a few different ways to promote your blog. You can always put a link on the profile page or community profile of your blog. This gives other members of the community the choice to visit your blog or not. Another method is to inform your online friends of your blog through private messages also called ‘pm’s’. Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. It must be said that sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog, generally tends to be more effective than just placing a link on your profile page.

If you are already a member of a social networking site then great, if not then you need to consider joining one. If you are not already a member, but would like to become one, you will need to find a social networking website to join.

Start by searching on the internet for popular sites. In your search, you will likely find a number of popular network sites, such as, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, and MySpace, plus many more. Before becoming a member of one of these networking sites, you may want to first examine the website to ensure that it is everything that you want it to be. As you can easily see, there are a number of different ways that you can go about promoting your blog on social networking websites. You never know, but, in addition to promoting your blog, you may also make new friends along the way.

8 Must Follow Off Page SEO Strategies

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Your blog will not succeed unless you have employed some effective strategies to grab organic traffic to your blog. SEO is a must do thing for every blogger, a blog can’t become a successful blog without search engine traffic hence it is required to optimize your blog for search engines. In this post I will share 8 off page SEO strategies which you should use for your blog.

Here are 8 must follow off page strategies:

Social Networking and Bookmarking:

Social Media is a best platform for your blog’s promotion. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest etc are the best way to grab traffic as well as to grab a link to your blog. You should have social sharing buttons on your blog, so that readers can share your posts with others. This will boost your blog’s traffic.

Not only social networking site but social bookmarking sites like digg, reditt, stumbleupon etc are also very useful for your blog’s off page SEO. You will get immense traffic from these sites as well as a quality backlink which will increase your blog’s Google page rank.

Web Directory Submission:

Web directory submission helps you to increase your blog’s Alexa ranking, Google pagerank and your blog’s traffic too. Some blog directories like yahoo directory, dmoz.org, technocrati etc will give quality backlinks to your blog which is very useful for your blog’s ranking. These directories will give you enough traffic the thing you should keep in mind is that you should submit your blog with proper tag to get more exposure from these directories.

Start Guest Posting:

Guest posting is the most effective and the popular strategy among the all off page SEO strategies. By Guest posting you will get enough traffic as well as quality backlinks for your blog. There are numerous blogs inviting guest authors to write guest post. You can choose blog according to your niche with higher rankings, this will gonna help you to increase your blog’s ranking by grabbing dofollow backlink for your blog.

Forum Posting:

Join some forums related to your niche and start participating in those forums. Show your experience and knowledge by answering other member’s queries. This will build your strong web presence and authoritative character. Many forums are there which allow you to post your link with your replies, this will give a backlink to increase your blog’s ranking. You can also attract members of forums by posting some valuable replies to their thread. This will also boost your blog’s traffic.

Blog Commenting:

It is the easiest way to grab backlinks for your blog. Commenting on your niche related blogs is an effective strategy to increase your blog’s ranking as well as your blog’s traffic. Commenting on do follow blog will give a backlink, It is the best way to increase backlinks for free.

Link Baiting:

Link baiting is also an effective off page SEO strategy. The key to link baiting is quality articles. Whenever you write a quality post then people will love to talk about your article and they will provide a backlink for your post. The quality of article matters most hence you have to write interesting and valuable posts that attract others, this make them to share your post with their readers. This will increase your blog’s rankinkg.

Article Directory Submission:

Article directories such as EzineArticles.com etc are the way to market your blog posts in the online arena. Article directories offer you quality backlinks which help you to increase your blog’s ranking. These directories also ensure the flow of traffic to your blog.

Video Marketing:

Video marketing is in the trend now days. Bloggers are using videos to make their posts (especially tutorial) easier to understand, they promote their videos to grab some extra traffic to their blog. You can also use video marketing for off page optimization of your blogs, there are many sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe etc on which you can promote your video posts. By these sites you can get massive traffic to your blog with a backlink.