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Basics of Blogging

Tricia — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:37:13 +0000

Do you have lots of ideas that you would like to share to other people? Do you have comments about certain issues that you want to share to others? Do you have new information that you want others to learn? Do you love to write articles that you want many people to read? If your answer to one or all of these is yes then blogging is for you.

What is blogging?

Generally, blogging is described as a way of writing about something that you want other people to read over the internet. It’s one way of expressing your thoughts and feelings for other people to know.

But blogging can take on a lot of meaning depending on who is doing it.

What is blogging for many young people?

For most teenagers and the young, it is one way to socialize in the net. It is their venue to connect with the people their age, with the people who share the same interests. One example is that there are social networking sites that allow their members to write bogs. To keep your friends on coming back, just keep writing interesting blogs that will catch their attention.

What is blogging for people interested in academics and studying?

For professors, scholars and students, it is a way for them to share and brainstorm new ideas about topics like the newest development in the search for the cure for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or for the latest techniques in in the field of mechanical science or robotics. By writing blogs, they can present their researches for possible comments and suggestions. They can also reach people who are otherwise uninterested in academic stuff and would rather surf the internet than read theses and dissertations.

What is blogging for entrepreneurs?

Blogging is a way for them to get more web traffic and advertise their products. Some entrepreneurs create their own blogs where they can post promotional gimmicks, testimonials and reviews. Thos into newbie marketing buy ad spaces in other blogs to reach possible customers. There are some who sponsor blogs for promotion.

There are others who consider blogging as their main source of income. These are the people whom entrepreneurs go to for promotion of their products if they cannot or do not want to create their own blogs. Businesses look for blogs with niche topics that are directly related or in some way associated with their products.It’s one rule of SEO For example, people selling cellular phones or computers look for blogs that talk about different gadgets. They get to be exposed to their target market.

Some bloggers write blogs to create niche blogs so they can attract advertisers. They can just simply write about a certain topic and offer ad spaces for products related to what they write. There are some who write something and then mention a product name which is linked to that product’s own website. They can also offer to write good reviews for certain products and get paid for doing it.

Check your intentions if you are planning to have your own blog. Ask yourself why you want to have a blog and then tailor fit your blog according to your intentions. You have the option of having several blogs to answer your different needs. There is no rule that says that you have to be confined in just one area only. There are a lot of possibilities that go along with blogging. You just have to explore blogging and benefit from it.

Link Bait Page – How To Get A Ton Of Links

Tricia — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:33:13 +0000

How you can make a great link bait page?

Link baiting is to tickle the interest of your viewers or readers to dig more deeper and to be curious about your site. Link bait is one strategy to increase traffic of your site.

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Here are some ideas for you to know what to do to create a great link bait:

Informational hooks or Resource hooks

Because of your information, a lot of them flock into your site as a resource for what they find interesting. That way you are able to build link baiting. So being informative is one thing you should develop if you want to hook the people into your site through the informative strategy, this will likely encourage a lot of bloggers to link their sites to yours.

News hooks

Offering people what they need to know as of the moment is one link baiting strategy that is effective. Of course with a news hot in the market, people will definitely find it interesting and stimulating..

Humor hooks

People love to tell others what makes them happy and puts a smile on their face. If you make a page that has jokes or funny pictures and cartoons, it is most likely that you will get links from places. A good idea is also to place the URL of your site on the bottom right of your pictures or cartoons.
Contrary hooks

Titles such as Why is wrong? can be a good contrary hook. This rise in emotional curiosity could lead to good link bait. Creating a page, which criticizes an idea or thought or is contrary to popular belief could cause curiosity among the viewers
Attack hooks

It is thus advised that you stay away from attack hooks unless absolutely necessary. They could make you suffer more. However, you must keep in mind that attack hooks are not the best hooks for link bait. Basically, you can be ruder in your language with respect to your page. Attack hooks as the name suggests, strongly attacks against the views of another person or entity. These hooks take contrary hooks to another level.
Execution of Link Bait

By way of doing this you are improving the reach of your website. If other links to you, you should as well link to others. But it is also advisable that you also link your site to others sites as well. All the mentioned links above are said to be effective tools in gaining or getting link baits.

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WP_Posts database crashed – HELP!

Tricia — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:52:23 +0000

If you see this post a few times it’s because I really need help and I’m posting it on three of my blogs – sorry for the repeat, but if you can help, please do!

I need some help fixing my husbands blog – Guitar Licks. Today when he visited the site (while I was still sleeping) the blog had error messages stating that the WP_posts database had crashed.

When you visit his site it loads with the WP theme and sidebars, but there’s error messages at the top and a “post cannot be found” message where current posts should be listed on the index page.

Some of the errors state:

ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD FULLTEXT `yarpp_title` ( `post_title`)

ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD FULLTEXT `yarpp_content` ( `post_content`)

So I’m assuming this error has something to do with the Yet another related post plugin that I’m using on most of my blogs. This blog is using the plugin version 2.16 and is using WP 2.62.

In the Yet another related posts plugin admin area there was a message that said:

YARPP’s “consider titles” and “consider bodies” relatedness criteria require your wp_posts table to use the MyISAM storage engine, but the table seems to be using the engine. These two options have been disabled.
To restore these features, please update your wp_posts table by executing the following SQL directive: ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ENGINE = MyISAM; . No data will be erased by altering the table’s engine, although there are performance implications.
If, despite this check, you are sure that wp_posts is using the MyISAM engine, press this magic button:

I clicked on the “magic button” as the plugin seems to be working just fine in all of my other blogs and I ended up with even more errors!

Help!

I’ve looked at the WP database for this blog and the WP_posts table says “in use” and I can’t browse it. I also can’t use the backup plugin in Guitar licks – it’s there and functioning but just hung when I tried to do a back up.

I’ve backed up the whole database using PHPmyAdmin so I have a copy in case something goes terribley wrong. Now I just need to know how to fix it.

Should I just place a check mark on WP_posts and then click the repair function at the bottom of the structure screen in PHPmyAdmin and see if that repairs the problem?

I’m nervous about attempting to fix this as I’ve never had to try to repair a database error before. Any help would be appreciated.

Push button site creation software, content and more at PLRpro

Tricia — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:25:07 +0000

If you have a blog or perhaps more than one blog or website you know it takes time to create a site, promote it and maintain it. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was some way that you could create a new website at the push of a button? Guess what … there is!

The doors to PLRpro are opening again today at 9:00 a.m.. If you’ve been waiting for your chance to join this fantastic PLR content site here’s your chance!

Note: that time above was wrong. It was supposed to be 9:00 pm PST but I think it will be more like 11 PM. Sorry.

When I first joined PLRpro there were offering the following:

440 articles across 11 niches (40 articles in each niche)
Full keyword research in each niche
Affiliate lists for each niche
Header Graphics for each niche
5 Website Templates each month
Articles done in 8 languages
50 PR4 sites that you can get links from to get your sites indexed and crawled

In addition to the above I also joined because they were creating a new system, Project Green Button, which would make it easy to create HTML and eventually Wordpress Websites within minutes. You know … at the push of a button …

“Imagine A “Push Button” System That Automates 95% Of Site Creation, Content Creation and Traffic Generation… Now Open Your Eyes, That “Push Button” System Is Here…”

I’ve had a chance to use the Project Green Button or PGB software and I’m impressed. Right now this software is in Phase One and with PGB you’ll be able to

Site Creation – Automatically building HTML sites that are fully structured and ready to go with perfect onpage optimization in just 3 minutes (you can do it in under 60 seconds but you have to type fast…) that requires zero technical knowledge.
Content Management – 440 articles each month across 11 niches
Site Templates – 25 beautiful templates as the initial “bank of templates” from which you can draw upon to build your niche sites
Adsense Monetization – Stage one of PGB introduces the core monetization method behind building an income online… Adsense. Stage two will add additional monetization such as Kontera, Clickbank, eBay and Amazon.
Full Silo Keyword Search – Each and every niche has all of this already done for you so you don’t need to go search for the next greatest keyword…just look for, and find an ideal keyword for maximum traffic and speed. The keyword research for each niche is done in an easily laid out Excel sheet that you can quickly glance at and find perfectly targeted long tail keywords to start generating traffic in as little as 5 days.
10,000 strong blog network – This networks makes it easy to get one way backlinks via PLRpro’s Article Marketing Automation system. As a Member of PLRpro you’ll get access to this system completely free of charge.
RSS Feed Submission module
Social bookmarking poster module
PGB desktop command center. You simply install the PGB software on you computer and from there you can access the site building software and traffic related modules.
$0-6000 a month training plan – If you follow the system that the guys at PLRpro have put together you should be able to make between $2000 and $6000 every month.

There are many additional features that are available right now too many to tell you about in this article! Product reviews, the ability to drag and drop YouTube videos into your articles, aided rewriting of your articles to make them unique, weekly live training and more! Plus Project Green Button isn’t finished! There will be a second and third phase which will add even more modules that will assist in the building of site and generating traffic.

They could easily charge double or triple what they are charging for membership.

I’ve been a PLRpro member since August – when they last opened their doors to new members. I must say that I’m impressed with the content, the resources and the level of service.

I’m impressed, not just because of the quality they bring to the table in regards to PLR Content, but also because of the additional education and material that they provide for free. In fact, something you’ll probably want to checkout before you join PLRPro is their http://www.ninetydaychallenge.net site which takes a user from start to finish, and they offer that for free.

I’ve used the new Project Green Button system to create a few sites and it works. It works well! I’m pleased with the sites I’ve created, I’m pleased with the quality of the PLR content and I’m excited about Project Green Button.

Now, as I said at the beginning of this article PLRpro is opening it’s doors this morning and it will likely only be for a short time as there are only 262 spots to fill. That’s it. When those 262 memberships are taken the doors will be closed again and likely won’t open again until sometime in 2009.

So if all that I’ve written above sounds like it might be something you’re interested in please go and check out the PLRpro website today.

Search Engine Optimization For Your Blog

Tricia — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:58:00 +0000

Blog Search Engine Optimization

Any blog owner who wishes to get traffic without constant promotion and marketing will have to use some form of search engine optimization. Search engine optimization can be a highly debated topic however, most experts seem to agree that the best way to optimize search engines is for you to have one-way inbound links or an established reciprocal and you need to ensure you make use of keyphrases on your pages.

During the initial step a search engine will perform, it will bring up information from the keywords that are entered in. You will need to find out which keywords you should use to bring in the highest amount of traffic and then you can begin optimization. There are several ways to do this, for instance, you can purchase software such as; ’Atomic Blogging System’; ’Blogger Generator’ or ’Keyword Explosion’ to help you maximize your efforts and make it much easier to do.

You will need to track all the returns you receive for each Keyword Overture Inventory search. Your next step will be to analyze the site or page supply for your keywords. You can do this by searching for each of the returned keywords on Google. Not only will you want to record the search return data in terms of numbers, but you will also want to look at the top competitors for those keywords and where they rank. Optimal keywords for search engine optimization purposes will have high search counts, low site returns, and show competition in the top slots.

The next step will be to perform more optimization by using an onpage search engine. You can do this by using your selected keywords as titles and headers on different pages of your blog. You will then want to fill those pages will good information about the keyword in question; additionally, you will want to optimize it for a keyword density of 1.5%.

The last step in your search engine optimization campaign is to perform offpage optimization. This can be done by adding links to directories that have specific keywords already in the link title. You can also join link swap programs and swap with other high-quality blogs.

Hubpages: Making Money At Home

Tricia — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:05:01 +0000

Hubpages can be a great tool in the internet marketers arsenal. Lets look at how you can make make money at home with hubpages. Hubpages is similar to Squidoo, but is currently looking like a better bet for making money on a long term basis.

Hubpages provides authors with a number of money making options. The key to making money on hubpages is writing useful content. If you just add PLR and generic sales pitches you will get nowhere on hubpages. Making money on hubpages is straightforward :so long as you play by the rules.

You need to actually add content that’s useful to people. Your best chance of ranking for that content in Google is via hubpages. The site enjoys great authority with Google – probably because of the quality of content. Hubs aren’t just articles though. Adding images and videos will make your hub more interesting, and its easy too. You can also add RSS and news feeds which are useful for keeping your hub continually updating.

Hubpages keep their content quality high through a number of mechanisms. They penalise duplicate content. There is a vibrant community who will actively flag spammers and their hubs.

There are three ways to make money at home with hubpages. Directly through their revenue sharing programs and via promoting your own sites.

The revenue sharing is 60/40 in your favour. You need to register for Adsense, Amazon and eBay in order to benefit from this.

In addition you can promote your own sites. But make sure you read the Hubpages TOS and stick to them. You can only have 2 out-going links to the same “self-serving” site. You must run Adsense on any hub which has self-serving links.

The third way to make money at home with hubpages is by signing up affiliates. If an author signs up with your affiliate tracker (called a url tracker at hubpages) you will get 10% of their earnings (from hubpages.com share, this doesn’t affect their income).

Six Effective Ways To Generate Traffic For Your Website

Tricia — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:53:03 +0000

Web traffic, as the maxim goes, is the fuel of every web undertaking. Let us discuss 6 tried and tested tactics that will help you get the traffic that your web endeavor will need:

1. Search engine marketing (SEM)

It cannot be denied that eighty percent of the number of visitors that you will be able to generate for your homepage will directed by the search engines. That being said, it is absolutely important that your pages will be formatted for easy classification by the leading search engines on the internet. This can be done via proper keyword research and usage. By seeking out attractive keywords appropriate to the topic of your website, you can attract the attention of search engine spiders and effectively compete for a good position in search engine results pages.

2. Article marketing.

Compose articles relevant to the topic of your online business. Include a resource box talking about yourself or your business, and more importantly, including a URL leading to your website. Publish this article and bio box to established article directories like eZinearticles.com and ideamarketers.com. Commit to this daily and soon enough you’d have hundreds of back links leading to your website.

3. Yahoo Answers.

Yahoo Answers is one of the best ways that will allow your website get listed in search engines in a matter of hours. Just look for open questions relevant to the topic of your business, answer them to the best of your abilities, and mention your URL when required to state your source. Yahoo Answers will fetch direct traffic and it will build for you important back links from what Google sees as an authority website.

4. Blogging.

Google, Yahoo, MSN and the big search engines absolutely adore blogs. By maintaining a blog and regularly updating the same with posts that contain your website’s link, you will be able to generate more back links for your homepage and you’ll be guaranteed that it will be easy for search engines to categorize and present your web pages.

5. YouTube marketing.

Transform your text-based content into a simple video and publish the same over at YouTube to immediately garner the attention of a battalion of internet users who frequent that popular cyber hangout. And don’t forget, Google has a love affair with YouTube videos!

6. Press releases.

Countless internet and print publishers are always looking for noteworthy information to republish. They scrutinize newswires where various people submit newsworthy articles. By writing a factual and interesting piece about your website and submitting the same to an established web PR service like prweb.com, you’d be able to move your online enterpriseto gather a lot of visitors.

Writing articles online and easy tips on article writing

Tricia — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:48:02 +0000

Anyone can turn their hand to writing online articles and it is great for beginners who are not sure how they are going to set up their online empire.

Articles are very useful as they can help you make money and gain backlinks to your websites. The simplest of these is to set up a website that is built up around a tight niche. To give you an example I know that you should select “bargain health insurance” instead of the huge niche keyword of “insurance“. It would be quite hard to get lots of visitors using the top keywords, in this case Insurance, but by using less popular keywords you can get traffic to your site from people who are searching for information on the internet using phrases as their search terms. So here are some easy tips on article writing with Adsense income in mind.

Stick to one subject

When you are building an Adsense or potential money making web site you must keep it on one subject. Adsense web sites that try to capture visitors from a wide range of subjects will distract a visitor and ultimately they will not get very high click through rates. The main rule to follow is only write about one topic on your site whether that be dog training, gardening or some other subject.

How to write an article

When you write an article, you will be writing about just one aspect of your niche. You should ensure that the article is well written and has a good flow of ideas from start to finish. To do this I find a lot of keywords that say almost the same thing. So if I had a website on saucepans I could chose to write about cast iron saucepans as the topic for one article. My special keywords would be.

Cast iron saucepans

Antique cast iron saucepans

Cast iron pots

Cooking with cast iron

Using cast iron saucepans,

Etc.

I’m sure that you can see how all of these keywords could work together in an article. If you spend time collecting keywords that work together the article will almost write itself.

Write a natural looking resource box

If you are writing articles to promote your website, many of your articles will be submitted to an article directory. One of the top tips on article writing is to write a good resource box that follows the article without a break. What many people do not realize is that the resource box is not shown as a separate item. It is part of the main content when the submitted article is displayed on an article submission website. So make the content flow on from the last paragraph. Just put in one or two links to your website so that people who read or use your articles on their own sites end up visiting your website for more information on the topic.

How to Blog for Profit

Tricia — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:58 +0000

Besides being a good communication tool, blogging is also a great way to make money. If you’re new to blogging and yet want to start quickly, there are several business models you can try for maximum results in a short time. This article discusses the three most popular methods.

The first method is get paid to blog or paid blogging. Create your first blog and start adding some decent articles to it. When your blog is at least three months old you can sign up with one or more of the paid blogging networks, and once your blog is accepted you’ll be able to see what “opportunities” are available. These networks are filled with advertisers looking for blogger who can help them spread the word, and they are willing to pay. Accept the opportunity, write about it on your blog, and you get paid.

The second method is WordPress and AdSense and it requires a little more technical know-how. You need to build a WordPress blog on a specific niche topic (gardening, biking, fancy cars), and start writing some good content on it. Then, get links from other blogs by leaving relevant comments on blog posts, promote your RSS feed and get listed in several search engines and directories. The objective is to get traffic that is interested in your topic and those that will also likely be interested in investigating the ads on your site as well so that you can make some money.

The third and most sophisticated method is affiliate marketing with WordPress blogs. Again, you set-up a good WordPress blog, but with this model the amount of content you publish is not as important as the “selling quality” of the content. Each post you write must pre-sell the web visitor and convince him to click on your affiliate links. When the visitor makes a purchase online after that, you get credited for the sale and earn commissions.

Many bloggers use a combination of Adsense and affiliate marketing on their blogs, and some use all three of the methods discussed above.

Ultimately, which model you choose depends on how much time and resources you can dedicate to creating and managing your blogs. Choose a model that requires little investment at first, although this may mean more of your time. When you get the hang of it, you can venture into other blogging models as well.

Blogging for Business

Tricia — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:00:01 +0000

Every single small business owner is an expert in their field. No matter what product or service you provide, your customers do business with you because you are the expert in that arena, and if you are not an expert, then they very quickly realize that and go somewhere else. People trust experts, and when making a decision about a purchase, they look to the expert to tell them what they need to know and to give them all of the information they need to make an informed decision.

For a small business owner who is just getting started, however, it may take some time and effort to establish yourself as an expert in your field. You may know what you need to know, you may have the information you need, you may do a superb job at what you do, but if your potential customers do not know that and cannot see it, then why would they choose to do business with you? You need to, essentially, place yourself out there in front of them and demonstrate your expertise. You need to build your reputation as an expert in your specific area, which will build the trust of your customers and potential customers.

An excellent tool to use when establishing yourself as an expert is blogging. A blog is essentially an online journal. You write about whatever you want, it’s easy and simple to use, and easy for people to read. This gives you a medium to communicate your expertise, as you can blog about what you know about your product or service and provide useful information for your readers.

For example, if your business is selling salt-water fish and aquariums, then you would want to set up a blog and write about the care of fish, how to set up an aquarium, what you will need to get started, what kind of fish are good to start out with, what fish and creatures dwell together well, and so on. Since your business is marine fish, you obviously know a lot about them and have a lot of information to share, and you can do this in a fun and interesting way, and in whatever style is you.

Another example, if your business is a car repair service, then you would want to write about not just car repair, but car maintenance, how to prevent common neglect and accidents, how to care for your car after repair, how to choose a good mechanic and what to look for in a repair shop. And the list can go on.

Setting up a blog is easy and inexpensive. There are numerous websites where you can sign up for free and create your own blog. They already have the tools that you need integrated into the website, ready for you to use – you can start blogging almost immediately! You can add photos to your blogs, you can allow readers to post comments, and most blogs have an option for your readers to subscribe to receive new blog posts via email or rss feeds. Google has a blog service that can be found at www.blogger.com. Another free one is at www.thoughts.com. For other options, just do a Google search for “free blog” or similar keywords. These sites will give you your own subdomain, such as www.yourblog.blogger.com, which links directly to your blog. You can then give this url out to your friends, customers, and include it in your marketing materials to direct people to your blog.

If you are not sure what to write about, or are afraid you will run out of topics, try some of these ideas:

Keep a paper and pen handy with you in your purse, by the phone, on the dash of your car, in your shirt pocket or wherever is convenient for you. You will find that as you go through a normal day, you may get ideas for blog topics. Write these down as you get them, then when you go to blog, you will already have a list of great topic ideas!

Ask your readers what they would like to know about. Invite them to email you questions. Some blog sites may have a tool where you can create a quick poll or a short survey. Use these to get feedback and to find out what your customers are interested in knowing about your subject.

Browse magazines on your subject. This may spark ideas and you may be able to build off what you’ve read.

Borrow from other experts. If you run across another blog, or website, or an article in a magazine that you really like and would like to feature in your blog, then get permission from the author and post the article on your blog. Most authors will be more than glad to let you use their article as long as you provide their information and a link back to them, but don’t forget to ask first.

Use your own experience. Do you have some entertaining stories from your experience in this field? Do not be afraid to throw in some fun and humor.

Blogging does not have to be tedious and boring, or take up huge amounts of time. If you are not a natural writer and feel like it’s too much of a job to sit there and write a long post, then don’t! Keep it short and simple, or whatever is your style. Remember that it is your blog, so let it reflect your personality.

If you find you simply do not have any time at all to do your blog, then hire someone else to do it. Perhaps you already have someone working for you who can take it on, or perhaps you know someone who would be interested. You can give them your topic ideas, or even use a voice recorder to record the posts for them to type out in the blog. Again, whatever works for you, your style and your business!

The world of blogging is a wonderful tool to use to keep in touch with your target customers and to establish trust as an expert. If you take the time to start, you will find it well worth the while and will learn a lot from it as well! You have information and expertise to share – a blog is a great medium to use to get it out there!

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