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There’s no doubt blogging can be an awesome way to get more traffic charging full speed to your website.
The good news is that setting up a Blog for your website is surprisingly easy but there are a few caveats and things you need to change to ensure your blog is setup correctly to get maximum exposure in the search engines.
Let’s take a step back and define what a Blog actually is shall we?
A blog can be thought of as a simple, public online diary where you can write entries (posts) into the diary.
Being public, the posts can be viewed by anyone who happens to surf by your site, and hopefully you have lots and lots of people reading every post you make, and contributing to your Blog in the form of adding comments, looking at relevant links you add to your blog, watching audio and video, and hopefully linking to your blog from their website, if they happen to have one.
What is particularly attractive about Blogs?
===> The entire process of Blogging is very simple to do, mainly due to the great quality of Blog software available that you can install on your website.
Decent Blogging software provides all the functionality you need, the management of posts by yourself (and others), the categorization of posts (something that is essential) and even the process of telling other blogging websites every time you make a new post automatically.
Automatically telling other sites about your posts is a huge plus since it’s getting known on the Internet, without the need for you to be having to manually “submit” your blog in order for people to find out about it.
That’s got to be good right?
One of the most important things to ensure is that you don’t just use the Blog as a sales page (I recommend you leave the selling of your products and services to your actual sales page on your website).
Obviously you will want to talk about your products and services, and the benefits visitors will get in using them, but I believe it’s important not to have an all out sales pitch, as that will tend to turn off visitors who may be seeing your message for the first time.
We also recommend you talk about non-business stuff, information about you, the person, some of your interests, things you have found of interest on the Internet, etc.
When people read these personal posts, they get to know the real you, and form a relationship with a “real person” and not a nameless website, and this can only assist you in future sales with these people.
A Blog also allows (and in fact encourages) participation by visitors, who can post responses to your entries, and this is often a great way to stimulate interesting conversations.
Good Blogging software will allow you to remove spam responses (where visitors or programs “write” messages directing people to their site) as well as to moderate conversations that are in appropriate or off-topic.
One of the best reasons to use Blogs is to help you rank highly in the search engines. The search engines love Blogs, provided they are providing relevant and quality content.
To give you an idea of how important search engines see Blogs, Google bought one of the largest Blogging sites out there (blogger.com). Having a focused relevant site with interesting and useful content can only help you in your journey to find true search engine love.
If you have read any of the other articles on this blog, you’ve probably gathered that Anthony & I preach relevant useful content. Blogs are no different than other web traffic techniques, you need to ensure it’s relevant, and ensure your separate your posts into logical categories.
For example if you have a website about software development, you may make posts discussing programming generally, other posts about training for software developers, and more posts about a specific computer language like Java.
It’s vitally important that you don’t just lump all posts together for a number of reasons. Firstly, people coming to your Blog may have a specific interest in some of your posts (training for example) and may find it hard and frustrating to easily find all posts you have written on training if you have not clearly defined categories (and allowed posts to be searched/sorted by these categories).
Likewise the search engines may view your Blog as less relevant if you lump all your posts together than another Blog elsewhere that has posts clearly defined in categories. Search engines very much prefer categorization of information and reward websites that categorize correctly with high search engine rankings.
The most popular open source blogging package is WordPress.
WordPress is a free blogging package (yes nothing to pay!), and is extremely flexible and easy to use without sacrificing anything in power and flexibility. We use this package and recommend you do as well.
Because of its popularity many Web host’s have it available for installation on their websites for you with “one-click” installs.
So what should you write about in your Blog?
We’ve got no idea! 
(joking)… please read on..
Good question, here are a few ideas: -
- Your products (duh, obvious one here). Don’t do the hard sell here, remember here you are trying to generate a bit of interest about the product, perhaps from visitors to your Blog who know nothing about your products, think of it more as a pre-sale to entice them to click on the link when the sales page hopefully weaves it’s magic.
- Free valuable content – Found a decent product from a competitors website?, Found a free tool that made life easier for you, etc? Write a review and link to your competitors website. Focus on making your Blog interesting to read and of value to the reader. If you can think what the Blog looks like from the visitors perspective you are halfway there to making it work well.
- Personal posts – Not related at all to your products, may be related to your life, on holidays somewhere? Cute little “human interest” stories. I’m talking about the type of stuff that visitors can relate to, and can bring out the real you. For example, on one of our Blogs , we discuss our personal experiences about diet and exercise. This has nothing at all to do with our products but we’re sure a lot of visitors will be able to relate to the battle to beat the bulge. Normally this “intermixing” of content would be a definite “no-no” because it would have the effect of diluting the importance of your website, but this isn’t your main website, and it’s not on your sales pages, it’s on your Blog. We got lots of emails from other blogs from visitors where they took the time to write me about some of these personal stories and many ended up buying products from us at a later date.
- What about Video and Audio? Absolutely! Although it’s a growing area, the vast majority of Blogs out there don’t use audio and video and in our opinion this is a mistake because they are missing out on a lot of traffic!
I hope you have now realized the power of using and maintaining a Blog, it can be the ultimate web site promotion with the result being increased web site traffic.
You are also welcome to leave any comments below.
Cheers,
Anthony & Tim
Hi everyone,
Early this morning we opened the doors to the Marketing Assassin’s Ninja Den.
The “Ninja Den” is aimed at assisting you make a pile of cash online by following proven step by step web traffic and marketing strategies.
We suggest you rush to the main page because the DOORS WILL CLOSE on 18 June @ midnight (eastern US time).
DOORS CLOSED 18th JUNE @ MIDNIGHT
It’s a special new offer that is for 60 hours only.
Find out more here.
There is nothing we know of on the internet that comes to the value of what we have put together.
There’s also some neat free stuff available.
If you are ready to take action to become more successful online, you better visit the Ninja Den.
Remember though, we are closing the doors on June 18th midnight!
Cheers,
Anthony & Tim
Tim & I would like to invite you to visit our new Web Traffic & Marketing (W T & M) forum.
Visit the forum at www.webtrafficandmarketing.com
It’s FREE to register!
This forum has come about to try and help you and others build a successful online business.
Tim and I are both internet marketers and spend a lot of our time teaching, educating and helping others to discover the amazing opportunities available on the internet today.
We decided in February of 2010 that one the best ways we can help a lot of people is to provide a FREE forum so that you and others can ask their questions, get genuine helpful answers and assist others.
One of the lessons we quickly learned online was this..
” You can’t do this alone folks!”
You must build relationships with others and share your knowledge, experience, passions and ideas.
We urge you to be an active forum member, don’t be afraid to ask any questions, (no matter how silly you may think the question is) and even more importantly, share you experiences with others.
So once again welcome, please make the most of this forum because if you do, you the have greatly increased your chances of being very successful as an online marketer.
Cheers,
Tim & Anthony
Reader Comments
RSS. What a brainchild!!
Blogging is indeed a great way to increase traffic to any website or other blogs. What people fail to understand though, is that blog posts and comments should be informative, educational, and of high quality. If the comments left on blogs are three word comments and provide no sort of value to others, they leave much to be desired. Blogging consists of two parts, having your own blog to market your product and allow people to participate and participating in other blogs by either leaving comments or making a guest post.
Beginners should can benefit quite a bit from the proper use of blogs.
There tons of ways to increase web traffic. I always recommend that people combine an assortment of free and paid traffic generating sources in order to maximize results.
Starting up in business can be fraught with difficulties if you have only a basic knowledge of where to start, you might not have the starting blocks in place but there are people waiting to take you under their wings and help you along the road to success.
Wow guys, had to close the doors huh? Business must be good – which is great.
I just wish I could find more time to sift through all the gems that are buried within the forum pages.
Just a bit of feedback for you – I love the emails you send out which talk about a topic recently discussed on the forum. This is great as it brings things to my attention that I would probably normally miss.
Maybe you could choose any topics that were very popular or topical over the past week and list the top 5 or so allowing us to pick and choose what’s relevant and/or interesting. If what I’m suggesting is too much work then I apologise but I’m sure it would be helpful to many.
Oh, and putting a link to the forum in the email was a great move too.
Anyway, keep up the good work and see you in the forum.
Just a bit of feedback for you – I love the emails you send out which talk about a topic recently discussed on the forum. This is great as it brings things to my attention that I would probably normally miss.
Alacks
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