There are several ways to make your blog one of the “hot” blogs online. Traditionally, those companies that have the largest star-power have had the most popular blogs, since everyone loves to read about celebrity or success. However, a great many smaller companies and individuals are developing large followings on the web. You can, too, with this simple lesson. Keep it Rich Keyword-rich, that is. Blogs are a great way to generate keyword-rich content, especially if you update your blogs … [Read more...]
Blog Marketing Ideas That Sell
January 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Once you develop a blog, you will want to use the best blog marketing strategies you can to sell your company. However, marketing blogs are different from personal blogs and blog marketing or advertising is very different than other forms of marketing. Make Your Blog a Customer Draw In order to make your blog a powerful marketing tool, you need to get your customers and clients to see it. That means that you will need to advertise and provide content that gets attention: •Make your blog … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back
November 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods: 1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice … [Read more...]
What makes a Blog different from a ‘regular website’?
October 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Let's assume that a ‘regular website’ is a static HTML site, it is the database driven content that really sets it apart. The lines between blogs and other types of websites are blurring as more business owners choose to build their site with a CMS. While many blogs are designed to look like a web journal, more and more are being designed to look like a regular website. … [Read more...]
Building Your List with Give Away Ventures
October 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
With the awareness of the importance of list building, comes a recent Internet Marketing trend which was started just a couple of years ago for the mutual benefits of all Internet Marketers and mailing list owners. This method is more recognized as a “starting a Give Away venture”. In a real sense, a Give Away event is much like a big time version of ad swaps. In a nutshell, a group of mailing list owners partner together and pool in their individual gifts in one limited-time event. Each … [Read more...]
Ad Swap Magic
October 1, 2008 By 1 Comment
Here is a little used technique you can implement to build your mailing list for no additional cost. I call it “using subscribers to make subscribers” like much in the context of “using money to make money”. This simple list building formula can be summed up in two words: ad swap. Generally, you trade advertisements with other eZine publishers, preferably of the same mailing list size or bigger. You broadcast the eZine publisher’s advertisement to your mailing list while the eZine … [Read more...]
Tips for Using Google Adsense
October 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Like anything else, you’ll get out of Google Adsense what you put into it. The following optimization tips can help you grow your Google Adsense dollars: Write interesting content and write every day. Have more than one site. The more sites you have, the more ads have the potential to get clicked. Set up channels and monitor your statistics across all sites. If one site is performing poorly, consider changing the content or the ad layout. Experiment! Change the ad layout and … [Read more...]
Other People’s Blogs
Companies are often surprised by the amount of time and effort it can take to produce one good blog. Blogging software makes the writing and publishing process easier, but responding to reader comments, finding time to write regularly, and creating links and multimedia components can take some time. For this reason, many companies place all their effort on creating their own blogs, sometimes to such an extent that they ignore other blogs in cyberspace. This is truly a mistake, since in many cases, … [Read more...]