What about that Blog…pretty exciting, huh?
There you are live on the net for everyone to read. I must
admit I felt a twinge of embarrassment when I realized how
visible I could become.
As I said in an earlier article, make good use of your
blog. You control the publication here. You are the one who
approves the submissions. Turn your Blog posts into emails
to your list and into articles if there's enough meat on
them. Post your emails on your Blog.
Your next step is to begin to post all of your articles,
one by one, to your Blog. Don't worry about formatting or
fonts or anything like that for now. Just get the content
posted. Newsletter and Ezine editors will begin to pick up
your articles from your Blog and your Blog traffic will
grow, very slowly but steadily.
And put a hit counter on your blog-you'll want to be able
to measure the traffic.
Go to your Help menu, select the Help Center, scroll down
the page to Advanced Use and choose Add-ons. At the top of
that menu will be "Hit Counter and Statistics" which takes
you to a page of hit counters.
I use "Bravenet"-it's free and they provide a
comprehensive array of stats about you Blog visitors. Go to
their site and grab the code to attach to your blog. Just
copy it to the clipboard. Then go to your Blog and open the
Dashboard, select Layout and then "Add a Page Element".
Now Find the link for 'HTML/Javascript' and click on the
'Add to Blog' link to access the text field. Then just
paste the code into the content box, enter "Hit Counter" in
the title box and "Save Changes". The hit counter will now
show up at the top of your Blog page.
That's it…you're live with your very own Blog. Just keep
on posting…every day is best! Keep on Winning
Regards
Jim
Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".
Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/
Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Critical Steps to Online Success-Publish a Blog
Why on earth would anyone want to publish a Blog? you
might ask.
Well, some people do it because they have an urge to
communicate their thoughts to the world…and that's a fine
thing to do…it's nice to read what other ordinary people
are thinking rather than the often slanted views of the
popular press.
But we are in business, you and I. We want to publish a
Blog for two reasons.
The first is let out readers get some insight into who we
are…to get to know us…people are more likely to do business
with people they feel comfortable with and trust. The
second reason is that we want to create another outlet for
our article writing.
Turn your Blog posts into emails to your list and into
articles if there's enough meat on them. Post your emails
on your Blog. Post your Newsletter to your Blog.
And always, always, post your articles on your blog. You
can even sell your products from your Blog. You see how
it's going round and round here-one hand washes the other-
and your web presence grows.
The easiest way to start a blog is to go to Blogger.com
and register. It takes about 5 minutes once you select a
name and a template for your site. Go to the Dashboard and
select the Templates tab to find a template you like. You
can edit the fonts etc.
Now select the Settings tab and work through each of the
tabs there to set up your defaults. You'll find the Help
menu is quite comprehensive.
That's it…your blog is live on the web and now you need to
get some cont in there.
Keep on Winning
Regards
Jim
Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".
Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/
Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/
might ask.
Well, some people do it because they have an urge to
communicate their thoughts to the world…and that's a fine
thing to do…it's nice to read what other ordinary people
are thinking rather than the often slanted views of the
popular press.
But we are in business, you and I. We want to publish a
Blog for two reasons.
The first is let out readers get some insight into who we
are…to get to know us…people are more likely to do business
with people they feel comfortable with and trust. The
second reason is that we want to create another outlet for
our article writing.
Turn your Blog posts into emails to your list and into
articles if there's enough meat on them. Post your emails
on your Blog. Post your Newsletter to your Blog.
And always, always, post your articles on your blog. You
can even sell your products from your Blog. You see how
it's going round and round here-one hand washes the other-
and your web presence grows.
The easiest way to start a blog is to go to Blogger.com
and register. It takes about 5 minutes once you select a
name and a template for your site. Go to the Dashboard and
select the Templates tab to find a template you like. You
can edit the fonts etc.
Now select the Settings tab and work through each of the
tabs there to set up your defaults. You'll find the Help
menu is quite comprehensive.
That's it…your blog is live on the web and now you need to
get some cont in there.
Keep on Winning
Regards
Jim
Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".
Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/
Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/
Critical Steps to Online Success--Submit your articles to 5 or 6 Article Directories.
Let me tell you…submitting your articles to article
directories can be quite the time consuming experience. But
it has to be done because that's how you get your exposure
to the readers.
After all...no readers, no list!
It probably takes 5 to 10 minutes per article, but after a
while you develop an assembly line mind set and you just
roll through it. You quickly learn the quirks of each of
the directories you are listing with.
Ezine Articles has the most stringent requirements but
gives you better reader response, by far, than any of the
other directories and very detailed article performance
stats.
http://ezinearticles.com is the URL.
If you are strapped for time you could choose to just list
with this one directory. I estimate you get 5 to 10 times
the readership from Ezine Articles than from any of the
others. But you can double your exposure by submitting to
another 5 directories and it takes less time and mental
output to submit an article than it does to write one.
A few of the bigger directories are:
Ezine Articles
Go Articles
Article Dashboard
Article Alley
Article Base
Easy Articles
Typically all of the directories want you to submit
articles between approximately 250 words and 1250 to 1500
words in length. Your text should be created in a text
editor, not in MS word because the Word formatting and
quotation marks can destroy your articles appearance on
download.
Most want you to wrap your text at around 65 characters
per line but Article Dashboard does not accept articles
with hard line breaks.
A good text editor can help immensely here-you'll need
something more powerful that MS Notepad if you don't want
to be counting each line. Lots of the directories won't
accept hard returns at the end of lines anyway.
You need to supply a personal profile or a "resource box"
as it is called which is appended at the end of the
article. This should contain your contact information
(email and website) a brief sentence about who you are if
you like and a link to your opt-in box with the offer of a
free gift.
You can do something like mine (see below) or you can just
search through some of the articles on this site and you'll
get the idea.
Keep on Winning
Regards
Jim
Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".
Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/
Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/
directories can be quite the time consuming experience. But
it has to be done because that's how you get your exposure
to the readers.
After all...no readers, no list!
It probably takes 5 to 10 minutes per article, but after a
while you develop an assembly line mind set and you just
roll through it. You quickly learn the quirks of each of
the directories you are listing with.
Ezine Articles has the most stringent requirements but
gives you better reader response, by far, than any of the
other directories and very detailed article performance
stats.
http://ezinearticles.com is the URL.
If you are strapped for time you could choose to just list
with this one directory. I estimate you get 5 to 10 times
the readership from Ezine Articles than from any of the
others. But you can double your exposure by submitting to
another 5 directories and it takes less time and mental
output to submit an article than it does to write one.
A few of the bigger directories are:
Ezine Articles
Go Articles
Article Dashboard
Article Alley
Article Base
Easy Articles
Typically all of the directories want you to submit
articles between approximately 250 words and 1250 to 1500
words in length. Your text should be created in a text
editor, not in MS word because the Word formatting and
quotation marks can destroy your articles appearance on
download.
Most want you to wrap your text at around 65 characters
per line but Article Dashboard does not accept articles
with hard line breaks.
A good text editor can help immensely here-you'll need
something more powerful that MS Notepad if you don't want
to be counting each line. Lots of the directories won't
accept hard returns at the end of lines anyway.
You need to supply a personal profile or a "resource box"
as it is called which is appended at the end of the
article. This should contain your contact information
(email and website) a brief sentence about who you are if
you like and a link to your opt-in box with the offer of a
free gift.
You can do something like mine (see below) or you can just
search through some of the articles on this site and you'll
get the idea.
Keep on Winning
Regards
Jim
Do you want to learn how you can get off to a quick start
in Internet Marketing? Then read my fast start guide "3
Surefire Ways to Make Money Online".
Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/
Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
internationally in how to build successful Home Based
Businesses Online.
You can visit his website at:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/
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