The Business Blogging Guide

Drive Traffic Through Social Networking

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:09:00 +0000

Social networking is a modern way to connect with your friends that’s fairly fast and very easy. It can be compared to the backyard fence where housewives used to meet chat and talk about the new products they were using, share a recipe, gossip, or just kill some time. Product reputations grew by...

How to Use Backlinks to Grow your Blog

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:11:00 +0000

What do you know about link building process? Why bother with link building? What link building services can do for a website? The answers are quite simple. Link building is a process of creating inbound links to either a blog or webpage. In fact, it is one of the most effective and important...

Search Engine Marketing Tricks

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:39:00 +0000

If you are a business owner you need your company's website or blog to rank on top of all major SERPs (search engine results pages) for the major search terms important to your business. To achieve this goal it is important that you understand various search engine optimization tricks that can...

Unselfish Self Promotion

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:34:00 +0000

As a blogger or even business person you need to promote yourself. Many people think it is embarrassing to promote themselves but if you want to make a living as a blogger or business person you must promote yourself. No one else is going to do it for you. There is, however, a way to do it. By...

Make Money Writing Mom Blogging Articles

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:23:00 +0000

Do you have a blog and would you like to earn $25 for each article you write from a Mom's perspective? The Mom Bloggers Club is looking for Moms who would like to write for their weekly newsletter. Mom blogging is very popular now and many stay at home moms are making a living setting up blogs to...

How I Doubled My Adsense Earnings Overnight

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:00:00 +0000

After reading that title you probably think I am trying to sell something or it is a scams. Actually, it is the honest truth. It's not a trick and it happened because of some modifications I did to my blog. I noticed the jump in Adsense earnings within hours of this simple tweak and it continues to...

How to Install a Blogger Template

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Installing a template for Blogger isn't all that hard. There is one problem that I see that WordPress would be better for when it comes to changing templates. Blogger does not retain all of the widget/gadget info and you have to manually back up the contents before you change over to a new...

Why Blogger is Better than WordPress

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:01:00 +0000

Made you look! This post is not to convince you that Blogger is better than WordPress. I am not going to convince you of that because if you have found this post you are probably mad and wonder why someone in their right mind would even think that. You have already made up your mind about Blogger...

How to Create a Static Homepage in Blogger

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:03:00 +0000

The last time I wrote about how to create a static homepage in Blogger I said that it couldn't be done. I have learned a thing or two over the least few months and have found a way to make it appear that your blog really does have a static homepage. I am finding that I love Blogger more and more....

10 Steps to Start a Blog the Right Way

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:00:00 +0000

When starting a blog for the first time you will want to do a bit of research to make sure to avoid some common mistakes - mistakes I made when I was new that I cannot correct now. I came up with these 10 steps to give you a basic outline of what I think you need to start a blog. You could just go...

Create Scrolling Ads or Blogroll

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:00:00 +0000

On a blog or website you need to find ways to group like things together to save valuable space that you might want to use for showcasing other important things like an article list or recent posts. Using the HTML tag <marquee> will let you combine similar units like Ads or text links and...

Blogger vs WordPress

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Blogs are setup everyday by individuals wanting to share their life with friends, family and people they meet online; by business owners wanting to promote their business website; by people wanting to make money online with a blog; or for a hundred and one other reasons. Deciding that you want a...

Free Blog Headers & Installation Instructions

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Free Blog Header Images If you want to change the header on your Blogger blog but you don't know how to use Photoshop or some similar program to create a custom header, you can just download a free header graphic online and then upload it to Blogger under the Layout tab. Remember, when you are...

FREE Blogger Business Templates

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:00:00 +0000

If you have been reading this blog for awhile you will know that my business blog system of choice is Blogger. While I have owned WordPress blogs I do not like some of the features, mainly the ones that limit how to rearrange Widgets/Gadgets easily. I know that WP offers tons of great plug-ins that...

Business Blogging Guide Redesign

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:00:00 +0000

You may have noticed that I decided to redesign the Business Blogging Guide (once again). I found this template and just loved the clean look of it. I really wanted the tabbed navigation (top right) to get things like archives, categories, and recent posts out of the way and compact into one...

Free Banner Advertising

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:23:00 +0000

I stumbled across this website last night called Refresh Link. They allow you to upload your banner ad for your site FREE of charge. You can link the banner ad to your site and also put a keyword or keyword phrase that you want people to see when they hover over it. This site kind of reminded me...

Pimp Your Blog!

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Sometimes all your blog needs is a little boast or "pimping" to give it more of a professional look. At most of my readers know I am a Blogger blogging freak. I have used WordPress and love the features and plug-ins but I gravitated to Blogger because of the ease of moving the gadgets around on a...

Google PR Updates Today

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:14:00 +0000

Today Google updated the PR (Page Rank) rating for blogs and websites. What is PR and why do you want it? Here is a great explanation from the WebWorkshop.net: PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page,...

Why Google Penalizes Social Traffic

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:07:00 +0000

I think I finally figured out why Google penalizes social traffic. Of course, Google doesn't stop paying you because you get clicks from other blogs, websites, or Twitter but you might not make as much as if they came from search engine traffic. I have been testing out Grizzly's theory as he...

Do you REALLY need to buy a domain name for your blog

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Is it really necessary to buy a domain name for your blog? When I started this blog the URL or domain name came from the blogging service I use which is Blogger.com They give you a .blogspot.com address. So, under businessbloggingguide.com the real address is...

Why would you sell your blog?

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:00:00 +0000

This week I got an offer to sell the Business Blogging Guide but I turned it down. I thought about it but they only wanted the content and not the entire package. I spent a lot of time creating this site and coming up with good solid content and I have really only just begun. Would you sell your...

Is Your Adsense Profit Lower These Days?

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:41:00 +0000

Is Your Adsense Profit Lower These Days? This could be why! My Friend, Zipporah, at Champagne Living, sent me this article to read from Jensense.com. The article is about Google Adsense and Smart pricing. If you have more than one blog or website and are using Google Adsense on all of them you...

"Butt Ugly" Blogs Do Make Money

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:46:00 +0000

While I am still perplexed as to what I call the "rhyme or reason" of why some blogs make money I have seen some "butt ugly" blogs doing extremely well. I have been a web designer for quite a long time and while I don't actively create websites anymore I love creating graphics, fixing fonts, and...

Solve a Problem or Answer a Question

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:30:00 +0000

In previous posts I talked about how to pick your blog's topic, keyword or keyword phrase, and then decide whether your blog will be social or search engine optimized. Now we come to the topic of content. Of course you have heard, "content is king". It is true but it works with all of the other...

Make Money Online with your Business Blog: Search Engine Optimized Blogging

sweetiessweeps@gmail.com (Sweetie) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:41:00 +0000

I previously talked about How to Pick Your Blog Topic and Social Blogging. This article is about creating a blog that is search engine optimized. In my blog experiment I found that when I picked a keyword phrase that people would search for and then optimize my blog properly for that word that...