Part 1: Why You Should Blog for Business
[Image] “Blogs Will Change Your Business”
…proclaims BusinessWeek. So, are you blogging for more business and higher quality customers?
Yes, blogs and blogging are today’s big trends online that are capturing hordes of new free web site traffic. Take back control of your web site traffic from the search engines using the fastest, easiest way to get targeted traffic delivered straight to your site.
Many website and blog owners feel that blogs and blogging is the superior method to drive traffic instead of the old methods of swapping links, article writing for directory submissions, paying for Google-Adwords or other pay-per click search engines and spending hours on a constant quest for SEO or search engine optimization.
However, I feel a well-rounded, multi-pronged traffic-driving strategy is best. If you are not familiar with a blog, it is simply a frequent, chronological publication of thoughts, web links and information. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the web. It’s a kind of hybrid diary or guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
There are millions of blogs today and growing. Blogs have surpassed e-zines and articles in terms of popularity. Blogs are where people get the real scoop on what’s going on in today’s internet world. Blogs are not only popular with individuals and internet marketers, blogging is going mainstream with small and large businesses.
Online markets have discovered that search engine spiders love blogs. They love the fresh content that is posted on a regular basis – which gets indexed and highly ranked on the top search engines like Google and Yahoo.
Blogging Help Recommendations
Do You Feel This is Over Your Head and Need Help?
If this blogging business is all new to you and you feel that you need some help getting started, here are my recommended resources, many of them I use myself:
Step 1: You should host your blog with your own domain name and hosting company.
# Get your domain name at www.GoDaddy.com
They are the largest registrar of domain names. TIP: Make sure to get the Private Registration Service for privacy and select auto-renewal to make sure your domain name does not expire and someone else buys your name out from under you.
# I use the hosting service, HostGator. I’ve been very happy with this hosting service and you can’t beat the $10 monthly fee for what you get, namely, good and reliable service, the option to have multiple blogs/websites for no additional cost and lots of free tools to use with your blog or website.
Step 2: If you want to hire a programmer to install your blog and set it up, you can hire talented coders for very reasonable fees at RentACoder. Click on the link in the “Software Buyer” box on the homepage. I use this service all the time and I really like the work of one particular coder. If you want to know who I use after you open an account, email me
Step 3: Choose a blog theme that fits the business image you want to present. Many attractive and easy-to-navigate themes are free at the sites I listed above. Hire a coder to install and customize the theme and configure the WP plugins that you want.
Step 4: How to use your blog to get business. I have two recommended instruction guides:
Guide #1 teaches small business owners 11 specific strategies for getting massive website traffic. The instructors are two guys that generate over 8 million web visitors a month to their own websites. Learn more here
Guide #2 gives step-by-step instructions on how to quickly and correctly optimize your blog for local results. Not as many strategies are taught as in the first guide but this course will still help you get local traffic for your business if your customers are strictly in a local, geographic area. Learn more here
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