Blogging Mastery Guide

Blogging Mastery guide

5 Easy Blogging Tips 5 Top Qualities Of A Successful Blogger

Affiliate Marketing In Blogging

5 Ways To Earn From Blogging

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5 Easy Blogging Tips

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5 Top Qualities Of A Successful Blogger

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Blogger Or Wordpress

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6 Tips To Harness Blogging

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Affiliate Marketing In Blogging

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All About Blogging Traffic

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Are You Blogging For Fun Or To Make Money?

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Video Blogging And Visitor Interaction

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Using Guest Bloggers

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5 Ways To Make Blogging More Effective

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5 easy blogging tips

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any bloggers find it difficult to blog regularly.

On the other hand, other bloggers find it easy to blog every day.

As you are aware, for your blogging to be effective, you will need to add fresh content to your blog on a regular basis.

This article presents five tips that you can use to make blogging easy.

Write your blog content in advance and save it so that it’s ready to be posted everyday.

When you have time to write, try to write enough blog content that will be enough for several days or for the whole week.

You can write and save your blog posts on your blog, and all you have to do is to publish the posts every day.

This means that on those days when you do not have the time to write, you can still post fresh content on your blog using the blog posts you would have saved.

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Blog about different things related to your niche. Think about any information relating to your niche which your website visitors will be interested in seeing on your blog.

Identify the sub-niches in your niche and write about those as well. You should never run out of ideas on what to blog about.

Invite your blog visitors to leave some comments relating to your posts and your niche.

This is an easy way of getting unique content on your website.

The more interaction you allow on your blog, the more content you will have on your blog.

Research and look for the key questions and issues that people in your niche are interested in, and provide information that addresses those questions on your blog.

Look in the relevant forums for the hot topics that people are asking, and provide answers to these questions on your blog.

This will make your blog useful to your visitors because it will have information which your visitors are looking for. This gives you a wide range of topics that you can blog about.

Use PLR content, customize it and make it unique and break it into blog posts. It is essential that you make the PLR content very unique otherwise you will be penalized for duplicate content.

Using PLR content as a starting point for your blog posts means that you will be able to create blog content easily and quickly.

Use these 5 tips outlined above to make blogging easy. The more you blog, the more traffic you drive to your website.

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5 TOP QUALIFIES OF A SUCCESSFUL BLOGGER

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f you want to own a blog that drives volumes of traffic to

your website, there are certain qualities that you should have.

Outlined in this article are the qualities which you must have if you want to be a successful blogger.

A serious blogger is hardworking.

As you know, you need to write content for your blog regularly.

This means that you will need to do some writing, which requires some effort.

You cannot generate huge volumes of traffic to your blog and website if you are lazy and are not prepared to spend some time writing your content.

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If you have some funds, you can hire a ghostwriter to write your blog content.

One way or another, some effort or resources are required to prepare your blog content.

A successful blogger is resourceful and full of ideas.

It is important for your blog to be captivating, useful and interesting so that you have regular visitors as well as new visitors.

You must therefore think about ways of making your blog unique and appealing to your visitors.

Think about the needs and interests of people in your niche and identify what your visitors would like to see on your blog.

A successful blogger looks for all the opportunities to make money from the blog. There are many ways through which you can make money on your blog.

You can sell your own products and services, you can sell affiliate products and you can sell some advertising space.

If your blog gets high volume of traffic, you can make a lot of money with your blog.

A serious blogger looks for ways to drive traffic to the website.

You can exchange traffic with other blogs and websites in the same niche.

This is particularly effective if these websites have high popularity rank as this will in turn help to increase your blog and website ranking.

A successful blogger never gives up. It takes time and effort to drive traffic to your blog or website and start making some sales.

Consistent blogging is therefore essential.

Never give up.

If you have these 5 qualities discussed above, you can be a successful blogger, generate high volumes of traffic and make huge online profits.

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BLOGGER OR WORDPRESS?

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he 2 main hosted blog types are Blogger and Wordpress.

You will find that whenever a discussion about where it is best to host your blog, if you are not hosting it yourself, that these two are rated the highest.

So which is better?

Ultimately, both services will offer you a strong and solid base to blog from, but there are a couple of distinct differences between Blogger and Wordpress.

1. Wordpress Wordpress hosted services are not designed to be used for commercial purposes.

Nevertheless, most people do.

You get a choice of themes and plugins.

You can map your domain to the site for a fee, giving you the appearance of hosting it yourself.

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Wordpress host is almost identical to hosting it yourself, other than the obvious bonus of not actually needing to look after your install.

But its disadvantages include being at the mercy of a third party site, and needing to pay for additional services.

These are still cost less than buying hosting and setting the blog up yourself.

2. Blogger Blogger is owned by Google, and is designed around ease of use.

You can forward your domain name to your blogger link or host at a given free like yourblogname.blogspot.com.

Unlike Wordpress, Blogger does not use plugins but allows you to use your own theme within certain limits.

A huge community has been built around Blogger.

However unlike Wordpress, they allow commercial based blogs as well as noncommercial. This means they are more prone to spam.

In conclusion. If you really cannot host your own blog at your own site, play with both Wordpress and Blogger.

Because ultimately, the main difference will be between which one your more comfortable with.

And that is the one you should use.

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f you really want to succeed in internet marketing and

increase your online profits through blogging, then you need to follow these tips that will help you to make your blogging a success.

Several factors determine how powerful your blogging can be in improving your search engine position.

Blogs get picked up by search engines quickly, but you need to make sure that your blog is optimized for search engines.

First, your blog title and URL structure must be just right! Your URL must be search engine friendly and user friendly.

Your blog URL must be short and concise. It is also important for the name of your blog URL to be related to your online business niche.

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Blog Every Day! This is the most important tip.

Powerful blogs that attract large volumes of traffic and bring results are those that are updated regularly.

Search engines will pick up the new content and this will increase your ranking on search engines.

Categorize the content on your blog, making sure that you use your keywords, as this will increase the search engine ranking of your blog and website.

If your website blog is about starting a home business, you can have categories like home business opportunities, home business tips for success, secrets for making money online and make money online examples.

Be creative and have interesting categories for your blog. Using various keywords for your niche improves your search engine ranking for all these keywords.

You must tag your content. If you want your blog posts to get high visibility and exposure, it is important that you tag your content.

You can do this by using pre-installed plug-ins in your blog script.

Ping every time you add new content to your site.

Whenever you add new blog posts, ping your blog to alert search engines that you have added new content on your site.

Submit your blog to blog directories and niche directories.

This will help you to get traffic directed from these directories and also create one way links to your site from these directories. All this increase your search engine position.

Use the tips outlined above to boost the power of your blogging and improve your position on search engines.

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Affiliate Marketing In Blogging

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ffiliate marketing is one way in which bloggers utilize

their blog to generate revenue.

The amount of revenue generated by a blog featuring affiliate marketing links may vary significantly depending on the amount of traffic the blog receives as well as the compensation offered for the affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing essentially entails creating a link on the blog to another company’s website.

The other company then compensates the blog owner according to a previously agreed upon contract.

This compensation may be awarded in a number of different ways.

The blog owner may be compensated each time the advertisement is served.

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Each time a unique website visitor clicks through the advertisement.

Or when a blog visitor performs a desired action such as making a purchase or registering with the website.

This article will discuss some aspects of affiliate marketing which bloggers should understand.

Including selecting opportunities carefully, maximizing the income potential for these opportunities and understanding the requirements associated with these affiliate marketing opportunities.

Selecting Affiliate Marketing Opportunities There is a wide variety of affiliate marketing opportunities available. Many different companies and websites offer affiliate marketing opportunities.

In most cases the blog owner simply needs to submit the website address of his blog along with some other basic information for approval.

The company is not likely to reject the application unless the content of the website is deemed to be objectionable or otherwise in conflict of interest with the company’s goals.

Although getting approved to display affiliate links on your website is a rather simple process, this does not mean blog owners should select these affiliate marketing opportunities without discretion.

It is a far better idea to carefully select affiliate marketing opportunities with companies who are of interest to the target audience of the blog.

A well-focused blog that is reaching a specific target audience should seek to display marketing links directing website traffic to companies which complement the blog without acting as direct competition to the blog.

This helps to ensure the blog visitors will not only be interested in the affiliate marketing links and therefore more likely to click on the links.

As well as ensuring the blog visitors do not find the affiliate marketing links to be bothersome.

Maximizing Affiliate Marketing Opportunities Once blog owners have selected affiliate marketing opportunities it is time to consider how they can maximize the profit generated by these links.

There are a couple of critical factors which blog owners should carefully consider to help maximize their profit from affiliate marketing.

This includes regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the affiliate links and promoting the blog to maximize traffic.

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Blog owners who incorporate affiliate marketing into their blog should regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the affiliate links.

This can be done by comparing the percentage of blog visitors who click on the affiliate links to the overall blog traffic.

A blog which has high traffic but a relatively small percentage of visitors who click on the affiliate links should consider making changes to attempt to entice more blog visitors to click on the links.

These changes can involve the aesthetics, size or location of the advertisements.

Making only one change at a time is recommended because it makes it easier for the blog owner to evaluate which changes are most beneficial.

Blog owners can also help to maximize the profit from their affiliate marketing opportunities by doing self-promotion to drive additional website to the blog.

This will likely be beneficial because higher website traffic will generally translate to greater profit from affiliate marketing.

Additionally, the blog owner may want to occasionally mention companies for which they are an affiliate to generate interest in the advertisements on the website.

Understanding Affiliate Marketing Requirements Finally, blog owners should pay careful attention to the affiliate marketing agreements they enter.

This is important because some companies may place restrictions on the usage of a link to their website.

This may include restrictions such as avoiding objectionable content, not including links or advertisements for direct competitors or restrictions on the appearance of the affiliate links.

Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in the blog losing affiliate privileges and the blog owner being denied compensation.

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All about blogging traffic

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o blog survives without traffic.

More so, less traffic only means that the content is not that good.

However, there are also instances where in a great blog does not have enough traffic. The key in getting traffic is to come up with a strategy and make everyone notice your blog.

There are a few things that you need to consider with regards to generating traffic to your blog and these are not that different from planning a regular Web site.

The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is your target audience and where exactly you are generating your blog’s traffic.

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The Content The content of your blog is very important. It is the reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your blog interesting and learn to master the ideas included in your blog.

The content should also be relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out what your audience wants and if what you are writing satisfy them.

The content is especially important if you are planning sales from your blog.

Firstly, you must become a trust-worthy and credible source of information before people try the product.

Blogs are excellent medium for sales since they allow you to connect and converse through the use of the content.

You must realize that without a great content, your blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against others.

In order to gain audience for your content, remember not to publish infrequently.

Additionally, do not criticize others if you do not have facts to support your claim and references for those facts.

If you criticize, do it in an objective non-personal manner.

What you can do is to publish often and make sure that the entry you are about to publish is meaningful and of high-value.

Lastly, be yourself to help your audience relate to you but do not reveal any private information.

The Ping Some bloggers take the extra mile just to ping and do not solely rely on the blog software pings.

The blog software pings’ job is to update the servers for the purpose of announcing your content updates.

Search engines and blog directories then checks these update servers for the latest updates.

This is the reason why your blog’s content gets into search engines quickly.

Pings make blogs excellent search engine optimization tools.

There are even instances where it only takes a day before your content gets into search engines.

However, your blog’s content will only take hours to a few days to get into most search engines, on average.

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When starting a blog, always check the instructions included.

There might be section wherein you can turn on the blog software ping automatically.

This activates on the background. By doing so, whenever you publish content in your blog, it will instantly transmit ping updates.

RSS feeds are also important. Not only will you be able to publish your content within a short duration but also replicate your content through the use of your RSS feed.

Nowadays, the flow of your content is real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content to a wider audience.

There are several ways to promote your blog.

However, keep in mind that there is no strategy for quick money when it comes to profitable blogging.

It requires dedication, time, a strategy for the content and patience before the cash starts flowing in.

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Are You Blogging For Fun Or To Make Money?

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eople think that since blogging is easy and fun, one can

make money with the blog without any effort.

Although it is true that anyone who is hard working and determined to succeed in making money online can earn a good income through blogging, many bloggers fail to achieve this.

Many people who are starting in internet marketing think that in order to make a lot of money on the internet through blogging.

All they need to do is to set up a blog, add content to it on a regular basis and start to get money!

You will need to do more than this if you want to make money with your blog.

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Outlined below are the key steps that you will need to follow to successfully make money with your blog.

1. Advertise on Your Blog Adding Google Adsense on your blog is one of the easiest ways to make money with your blog.

All you will need to do is to get a Google Adsense account and Google will place adverts that relate to your blog topic.

If your blog visitors visit any of these adverts on your blog, you can earn some money.

2. Create Your Own Products For Selling Or Offer Some Services.

You can sell your own products or services on your blog.

By blogging regularly, your blog get indexed on search engines, which drives traffic to your blog.

The more traffic you have, the more sales you make. It is important that you use your keywords in your blogs.

By adding keywords and phrases that relate to your niche to your blog posts, you increase your site's ranking on search engines.

This will drive traffic to your blog where people will buy your products or services.

Selling affiliate products is one of the best ways to make your blog profitable.

All you need to do is to pick the affiliate products or programs that relate to your niche and add your affiliate links on your blog.

By selling affiliate products on your blog, you can earn commissions of about 30%-70% on each product you sell on your website.

Although blogging is quite easy, you need to follow the tips outlined above so that you can start to make some money.

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Video Blogging And Visitor Interaction

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ant the world to know that you are the top grosser in

stock trading at the end of the day?

Or you want to announce that your Dalmatian has now eleven cute puppies?

Or you just want the world to witness your memorable marriage proposal to your boyfriend or girlfriend?

If you want, then video blogging is what you need.

So what is video blogging and why is it one of the hottest activities in the Internet?

Blog Basics To fully understand what video blogging is, let us first discuss what a blog is.

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Basically, it is an online journal where you can place your thoughts, ideas, opinions— In other words, anything that people want to know about a particular thing. It comes in different formats, styles, and settings; it depends on your preference.

You can post such blogs on a blogging site. This allows you to post blogs and at the same time customizing it according to your preference. One of the latest additions is video blogging.

What is Video Blogging?

Video blogging - also called vlogging - is posting of sequential videos to a certain website.

For instance, you want to post your weekly mountain climbing adventure with your friends.

You can do so using video blogging. In addition, bloggers uses video blogging to create their own mini-programs through RSS feed to deliver new episodes automatically.

You might ask why plenty of people now prefer video blogs rather than the regular blog.

One reason is that you can not express all in a regular blog. How will you translate in words your facial expression or the tone of your voice through words?

If you want to shout for joy, how can words interpret it? It is a matter of showing everybody the real you in video blog.

In addition, it is an excellent tool in delivering indescribable content. For instance, you watched the dramatic baseball game between two top teams in the league and you want to share it with your viewers.

With video blogging, you will be able to catch the action and deliver it to them and not just described it in words.

Video blogging can also serve as a bridge between your loved ones. Just imagine how your parents will be happy to see their first granddaughter or grandson in a video blog.

If you are an aspiring broadcast journalist, a video blog may be your perfect opportunity.

Creating Your Video Blog Creating a video blog is much different from a regular blog. In regular blogging, you just have to encode the words in a regular post.

But with video blogging, you need to gain access to a computer which can work with movie programs. In addition, you also need a camera that will shoot the video as well as snapping shots.

First thing to do is the creation of your digital video on your camera or digital camcorder.

There are indefinite ways of putting your video blog together. You do not need to be a professional to do it.

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After you have created the video, download it into your computer in preparation for formatting and compressing it.

You can now use the movie program for editing such as video clip changes, creating titles or subtitles, and even add music to your video.

Once it is completed, you will now be compressing it for uploading in your video blog.

As you compressed the video, make sure that you monitor the predicted file size. Ideal compression size is no more than 5 megabytes. If you can compress it to 1 megabyte, much better.

You do not have to worry about video quality; there is no video degradation between these ranges.

Once compression is completed, you are now ready to post it online.

You can join a video blogging community where you can post your blog. Just a reminder: make sure that you have read the terms carefully.

There are blogging communities that specify what video blogs they are accepting.

Let everybody know what you want to say, what you feel, or who you really are through video blogging.

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Using Guest Bloggers

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wners of a successful blog that has a large following

may sometimes have the need to use guest bloggers.

An example of when this practice may be a good idea is when the owner of a popular blog will be unavailable to post new blog entries for an extended period of time.

In this case the lack of blog updates may cause the blog to lose traffic so it would be prudent for the blog owner to make arrangements for a guest blogger or a series of guest bloggers to post new items during his absence.

The blogger may also wish to announce the intention to use guest bloggers during this period of time to ensure loyal blog visitors are aware of the situation and that it is only temporary.

This article will discuss aspects of using guest bloggers such as advertising for guest bloggers, selecting guest bloggers and compensating guest bloggers.

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Advertising for Guest Bloggers There are a number of locations where a blog owner can advertise for guest bloggers.

Job boards specifically for bloggers or freelance writers are an excellent option for finding guest bloggers.

They are frequently visited by experienced bloggers searching for new opportunities to blog for compensation.

These bloggers may have specific experience with the subject matter of the blog or may simply be adept at creating interesting blogs on a variety of subjects. Job boards for freelance writers are another great option.

These writers may not necessarily have experience blogging but they may have other writing experience that is useful.

Blog owners should consider posting a detailed messaged specifying the type of work required and duration of the project and asking for clips from the writers which can be used to verify the writer’s skill level.

Blog owners may also wish to advertise for guest bloggers on message boards related to the subject of the blog.

Visitors of this blog may not necessarily have writing experience but will likely be quite knowledgeable about the subject of the blog and therefore be capable of producing interesting and insightful blogs.

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Selecting Guest Bloggers Selecting a guest blogger should be done carefully to ensure the guest blogger is reliable and capable of producing articulate, informative and interesting blog posts.

Blog owners who advertise for a guest blogger on job boards for bloggers and freelance writers should ask for clips demonstrating the writer’s ability to write blogs which are interesting and informative.

When advertising on a message board for a guest blogger, the blog owner might want to consider using the applicant’s previous posts to evaluate his writing ability and knowledge of the subject matter.

He should also consider the type of response the applicant’s message board postings typically elicit.

This is important because it is a good indication of the type of response the blogs will elicit.

Blog owners should also ask the applicants for references and should contact these references to obtain information about the bloggers work ethic and ability to complete projects.

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Compensating Guest Bloggers Blog owners should also carefully consider how they intend to compensate guest bloggers.

This can be done in the form of financial compensation or through allowing the guest blogger to post a brief biography with a link to his personal website or blog at the conclusion of the blog post.

The latter form of compensation is essentially free advertisement space for the guest blogger.

The blog owner may also wish to compensate the guest blogger with a combination of money and free advertising space.

Regardless of the method of compensation chosen the blog owner should discuss this with the guest blogger before work commences and should enter a written contract with the guest blogger which explicitly states the terms of the compensation to avoid disputes.

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5 Ways To Make Blogging More Effective And Earn More Money Online

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s you know, blogging is very effective in improving your

ranking, driving traffic to your website and increasing your sales.

However, many people do not maximize the benefits which they can get from blogging.

This article outlines essential tips that you can use to make blogging more effective, drive more traffic to your website and earn more money.

Blog Regularly This is a very important factor that determines how successful you can be in driving traffic to your website through blogging.

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You must blog at least once per day. Serious internet marketers who earn six figures online blog several times per day.

You must consistently add fresh, useful and captivating content on your website so that you can keep readers coming back for more.

By doing this, your internet business blog will rank high on search engines, which will increase traffic to your website.

The more you blog, the more you improve your visibility and ranking on search engines.

You can write your blog posts in advance and save them and then just make sure that you publish them on your blog everyday.

Invite people with websites and blogs that are related to your online business and that have high popularity rank (PR) to exchange links with you.

Links to websites with high PR on your blog will help you when Google index and rank your page.

The more high PR sites linked to you through your blog, the more chances of you getting high PR for your blog.

Monetize your blog and increase the chances of you earning money from your blog.

You can make money from your internet home business blog through affiliate programs.

What you need to do is to simply place affiliate products’ names in your blog posts and hyperlink them to direct readers to the product.

Every time someone clicks on the link and purchases a product, you make money!

You can use your blog to advertise your own products and as well as affiliate products.

You must know all your keywords and use them in your blog posts.

The secret to successful blogging is making sure that all your blog posts are rich with your keywords.

Don’t just write blog posts without including your keywords.

Keyword-rich blog posts will increase your site’s ranking for your online business niche or topic keywords.

Ping your blog with Pingomatic on a regular basis to ensure that new content is indexed by the search engines.

Use 5 ways outlined above to increase your online profits.

Start blogging for more profits today!