Tuesday, November 3, 2009

How Do Blogs Work - How Can I Start My First Blog

By Carole V Lancaster

Blog selling is one of the most recent trends of selling online that you're going to find. Blogs which are a. K. A web logs are seriously popular in this point in time. You can make a blog on any actual subject that you need and then publish it for the world to read.

If you are just beginning in internet marketing, you are going to find that starting a blog is very easy to do. Anyone can sign up for a free blog, and then proceed to market basically anything that they want to. Because blogs are free to have and make, this makes blog marketing even better. Where as if you have a website, and are wanting to market things that way, you would have to pay for your domain, pay for your hosting of the domain, and then know some HTML or hire a website designer.

Search engines love blogs, and are always pretty fast to index them. Getting yours out there for the world to see is not going to be hard. There is this cool tool that you can use every time you update your blog that is known as pinging. Pinging your blog after every entry that you make will let everyone know that your blog has a new entry and updated. Depending on your overall goal with blog marketing, you can update your blog as frequently as you like. Which could be daily or weekly. Whichever you choose, just be consistent with it. If you start out updating daily, stick with it. This way your blog readers will know that they can check your blog daily for new postings.

If you are wondering exactly what you can market in a blog, you can market whatever you want to. However, it is best to stay within one market in your blog. If you have several different things that you would like to promote, and none of them really fit together well, you can create a blog for each market. Remember that if the markets are not related, do not mix them on your blog. For example, if you have a blog on vacuum cleaners, you will not want to also mix in television sets on the same blog. This is because both vacuum cleaners and televisions sets are two different markets. But, you could mix vacuum cleaners and handheld mini dust busters. Make sense?

There so many things that you can market in your blog. Whether you need to sell your own goods and services or somebody else's and make a commission off what you sell. The sky's the limit when it comes to promoting. Affiliate links work well in blogs too. Enrolling to sell other people's products and then promoting them in your blog is a neat idea.

If you're considering having both a blog and a site which will work if you have enough info to cover in both. Linking them both together is a good idea if you do decide to have both. You can always use the internet site to hold your principal info and products, and the blog to plug them and discuss any issues frequently.

Wondering about hosting? If you have a domain, you may either host your blog on the same server you use for your website, or you can leave it where it is. The choice is finally up to you, either way you may have successful blogs that will start to bring in money to you. Getting links to your blog is a good way to gain new readers. Another great gizmo you may use is the RSS feeds. When you use the RSS feeds, it permits folks to make public your blog on their site, and in return it becomes you more visitors.

Blog promoting can be pretty effective if it is done properly. you cant just set up a blog and expect folk to find it. Get your blog out there and make it known to others just as you would a domain. Trading links with others will help, so will article promotion using your blog. Blog selling is straightforward and any one that wants to can do it. Getting your blog out there and known will be your largest challenge, but just know the harder you work at it, it'll pay off. Find sites that are related to the market you're pushing, but not in direct competition and ask for link exchanges.

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