Blog Tips and Strategies

10 Tips On Promoting Your New Blog

2008-10-27T04:20:00.000-07:00

One great way of getting more traffic and more importantly, making the traffic come back to your site over and over again, is by having your own blog.

The term, ‘Blog‘, is becoming more and more popular, and these days most online companies have a blog.

How can you promote your blog? Once you get your blog known, if you have good enough content, then it will promote itself, thats the amazing thing with blogs.

Heres some quick tips to help promote your blog.

1. Allow your blog readers to subscribe to your own RSS feed. Subscribe with Feedburner. Feedburner allows blog owners and podcasters the ability to manage their RSS feeds and track usage of their subscribers.

2. Always set your blog to ping ‘update services’. What is that? If you use the Wordpress software, here is a great explanation, http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services.

3. Take full advantage of Technorati. For a full explanation of what Technorati is and how it works, take a look here, http://www.technorati.com/about/tour.html.

4. Use the power of social netwroking sites, such as digg.com, reddit.com and del.icio.us . If you write a great article, submit it to these sites, if they get picked up by them, you will see a massive increase in traffic to your blog.

5. When writing a post, always make sure you link to as many related sites and blogs. Many blogs have a ‘trackback’ feature enabled which can see what other blogs, like yours, are sending visitors to their blogs. They then usually link back to your blog automatically for free.

6. Get your blogs web address in as many places as possible. Use forums, and put your blogs address in your signature.

7. Submit your blog to as many blog directories as possible, such as blogcatalog.com

8. Link to your blog from your websites homepage, and also in the footer of every other page on your website.

9. Get tips from 2 pro bloggers, such as problogger.net and shoemoney.com

10. Finally, and most important, write great content that is relevant to your website, and you will then find your readers will do your promoting for you.

Google Adsense Strategies and Tips

2008-10-26T04:51:00.000-07:00

Adsense is beginning to make a huge impact on the affiliate marketing industry today. Because of this, weak affiliate merchants have the tendency to die faster than ever and ad networks will be losing their customers quickly.

If you are in a losing rather than winning in the affiliate program you are currently promoting, maybe it is about time to consider going into the Adsense marketing and start earning some real cash.

Google is readily providing well written and highly relevant ads that are closely chosen to match the content on your pages. You do not have to look for them yourselves as the search engine will be the doing the searching for you from other people’s source.

You also don't have to spend time in choosing different kind of ads for different pages. Google makes it very easy for you, with no codes to mess around for different affiliate programs.

You will be able to concentrate on providing good and quality content, as the search engines will be the ones finding the best ads in which to put your pages on.

You are still allowed to add Adsense ads even if you already have affiliate links on your site. It is prohibited, however, to imitate the look and feel of the Google ads for your affiliate links. One of the things you can do, however, is to utilize Google's custom palette to customize your Google ads, making them to appear a part of the web page itself. The idea here is to match background and links to match the theme of your site. People on the internet today are trained to click on a link that is blue, and if your Google ads have the same theme as your web page, it makes the Google ads appear to be a portion of your "content."

You can also filter up to 200 URLs. This gives you a chance to block ads for the sites that do not meet your guidelines, and also block competitors. Remember that it is unavoidable that Adsense may be competing for some space on web sites that all other revenues are sharing.

Owners of small sites are allowed to plug a bit of a code into their sites and instantly have relevant text ads that appeal to your visitors appear instantly on your pages. If you own many sites, you only need to apply once. Then ,you are issued a unique "publisher ID", which can be used on any site you currently own. A small snippet of Javascript is placed on your site in the location you wish the ads to appear in, and generally speaking, the ads from Goggle will appear in minutes. This ends the hassle of having to apply to many affiliate programs, and keeping track of many different URL's and user ID's and passwords.

As Google ads are very easy to customize, and can be placed anywhere on your site you wish, you can experiment with placement, colors, and themes. Many tricks are available to the resourceful webmaster, including adding images in conjunction with your Google ads to make them more noticeable.

The payment rates can vary extremely. The payment you will be receiving per click depends on how much advertisers are paying per click to advertise with the use of the AdWords. Advertisers can pay as little as 5 cents and as high as $10-12, sometimes even more than that too. Some savvy lawyers are currently paying as high as $75 for advertising the keyword mesothelioma! And you, as the ad publisher, are earning a share of that money generated.

If your results remain stagnant, it can help if you try and build simple and uncluttered pages so that the ads can catch the visitor’s eyes more. It sometimes pay to differ from the usual things that people are doing already. Google has many tutorials, including a "heat chart" which shows you where the best placement for ads are. You will need an account to access these tutorials. Sign up for an Adsense account at https://www.google.com/adsense/?sourceid=aso&subid=ww-et-awhome&hl=en_US. It is also a refreshing sight for your visitor once they see something different for a change.

It is still wise to look at other people’s information and format your Adsense in a like manner. A wise old business axiom is to "find a good business model, then copy it." Let others do the hard work for you, and learn from a successful site. Just think about it as doing yourself a favor by not having to work too hard to know what content to have. Look to sites that have high page rank, and carefully observe their layouts, their content, and placement of their ads. A little time spent doing research can put dollars in your pocket down the road.

Publishers have the option of choosing to have their ads displayed only on a certain site or sites. You can also have them displayed on a large network of sites if you so desire. Google now has the option to allow other people to advertise on your site. This only makes good sense. If you are marketing to a tightly defined niche, you can place your own ads, written by you, on site that allow this option. The choice is yours, depending on what you think will work best to your advantage.

It is important to note that you cannot choose certain topics only. If you do this, search engines will not place Adsense ads on your site and you will be missing out a great opportunity in making hundreds and even thousands of dollars cash.

Topics to be avoided includes gambling, firearms, ammunition, tobacco or drugs. If you are being offered more cash in exchange of doing Adsense with these kinds, it is just like signing your own termination paper.

With all the information that people need in your hands already, all you have to do is turn Google Adsense into your own cash cow. It all boils down to a win-win situation both for the content site owners and the webmasters or publishers.

Our website, http://www.for-the-record.biz, is a good source of information for the beginning marketer. We present a lot of content for those needing more information on a variety of subjects.

Memanfaatkan Layanan Submission Gratis

2008-10-26T02:44:00.000-07:00

Berikut inin cara mendaftarkan website lewat layanan submission gratis dari submit express:

Ikuti link www.submitexpress.com.
Setelah itu klik menu Free Tools > Free Submission.
Lalu ikuti petunjuk yang ada pada situs tersebut sampai selesai tanpa melakukan kesalahan.

Mendaftarkan Website atau Blog ke Search Engine

2008-10-26T02:41:00.000-07:00

Berikut ini cara mendaftarkan website Anda ke dalam Google:

Ikuti link http://www.Google.com/addurl.html
kemudian isikan form yang ada pada alamat tersebut. Pada kotak teks URL isikan URL dari website Anda. Harus memakai awalan “http://”, misalnya http://tipsAdsense.blogspot.com.
Ikuti semua petunjuk-petunjuk berikutnya.

Ada juga cara untuk mendaftarkan blog Anda ke Yahoo! Search engine dengan cara sebagai berikut:

Ikuti link https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit.
Setelah itu ketikkan URL website Anda.
Lalu submit URL.
Lalu Anda akan dibawa untuk sign in ke dalam account Yahoo!, jka Anda belum memilikinya, buatlah terlebih dahulu.
Setelah sign in barulah proses pendaftaran berhasil dilakukan.

Mencari Ide untuk Memilih Kata Kunci

2008-10-26T02:35:00.000-07:00

Setelah menentukan tema, selanjutnya Anda juga harus memilih kata kunci yang tepat. Factor yang berpengaruh pada sebuah kata kunci (keyword), antara lain:

Banyak dicari orang.
Sedikit website yang menggunakan.
Nilai atau harga (pay per click) yang tinggi.

Untuk mengetahui kata kunci yang paling tepat dan banyak dicari sekaligus jumlah website yang menggunakanny, Anda dapat memanfaatkan Google Keyword Tool. Berikut ini caranya:

Ikuti link Google Keyword Tool berikut ini; https://adwords.Google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.
Baca dan ikuti perintah dalam link di atas untuk mengetahui kata kunci yang paling tepat untuk blog Anda.

Memilih Tema Website/Blog Yang Tepat

2008-10-26T02:12:00.000-07:00

Pemilihan tema website atau blog yang tepat sangat penting jika Anda berniat untuk mengikuti program Google Adsense. Ada dua faktor dalam penentuan tema yang perlu Anda perhatikan, yaitu:

Memilih tema yang Anda senangi, seperti hobi atau keahlian Anda.
Memilih tema yang dapat memberikan keuntungan.