Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

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Congratulations you have completed your first post. Its time to share it with the world!

I have prepared this short video to explain how to promote your blog post with Social Bookmarking sites. You have seen and often overlooked the little icons at the bottom of blogs and web sites. Now you will find out what they are actually used for. I think you will be pleasantly surprised how effective they can be at promoting your blog.

Enjoy the video.

By the way, if you have any comments please leave them in the form below the post. I would love to hear your impressions of these videos. Are they helpful? Have I missed anything? Let me know.

How To Promote Your Blog Post Using Social Bookmarking Sites

If this huge list of bookmarking sites seem daunting to you, take a look at this site. It is an uptodate listing of the top 30 bookmarking sites.

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social30

Technorati Tags: Blogging, social bookmarks

Here is a short video that explains why we need to add hyperlinks to our posts and how to add them. Have a listen and enjoy.

Technorati Tags: blog, hyperlink

One of the very common questions I get when I speak to people who are new to internet marketing is “I guess I will need a web page”. After a short conversation, I usually convince them that they only need to set up a blog.

It has been interesting listening to the IM guru’s do their year end wrap up and forcast for next year. Everyone, Howie Schwartz, Jim Edwards, Perry Belcher, etc, are forecasting that blogs will continue to be hot into 2009.

Perry Belcher, of www.PerryBelcher.net, goes as far as to say that the blog is more relevant, in most cases, than a static website.

Here are the reason’s sited for using a blog:

1. Blogs are easy to setup and maintain. Static web pages are not.
2. Blogs cost = $0 + your time
3. Blogs encourage fresh content. There is nothing worse than a webpage with old outdated material on it.
4. The Web 2.0 movement on the internet is causing a shift from the classic website model to a more de-centralized model where the blog is one spoke in a multi-spoked strategy. The blog shares equal importance with social networking sites , social bookmarking sites, forum sites etc.
5. Finally, the search engines such as Google and Yahoo, are hungry for new content. Blogs by their very nature, encourage the creation of new content.

I have been setting up WordPress Blogs for my customers for some time now. They have had a great deal of success getting ranked by the search engines with their blogs.

Over the next several weeks I will be showing you the correct way to set up a WordPress blog and to manage it.