Do you want to start a new online business? Do you know about blogs? Blogs are one of the best – cheap ways to get publicity for your business just in days. Its very easy and really cheap. You only need a niche, some content, and webhosting (or just can use some free blog hosting like blogger.com)

Ok, blogs.. blogs.. do you know that you can start it today? And that you can get huge traffic for this blog?

You can start your online business in just minutes by creating blogs. A blog is an instant advertise solution for your own – online business. You can create it today and start adding new content to it (called “entries” or “posts”). When you create a new post for your blog, most “blog scripts” ping major “ping services” for you at the same time that you post the entry. Ping Is a free service to “send your blog entry notice” to search engines and lot of websites that use this service to know when a new blog is online, or just when a blog is updated. WordPress or Blogger (and more providers) ping your blog after you post a new entry.

Every day, thousands of new “webmasters” create new blogs, and use this blogs to get real income, using for example Google Adsense. Do you know that lot of “bloggers” earn thousands of dollars every month with blogs? Just search Google, you will find lot of articles and comments about bloggers` incomes!

You can start your blog / online business today:

1) You need to create the blog, you can use www.blogger.com as free blog hosting, or just get a new hosting in some good Hosting Provider and install your own Blog, using WodPress for example, get latest version (2.0.4) here: www.wordpress.org . If you selected last option, you will need a domain name, you can get one for low price, go to Godaddy (www.godaddy.com) domain names starting from $5.95. If you don’t want to spend money, just select blogger.com, its free, and you will get a new “subdomain blog” like (yourblognam.blogspot.com) Remember, blogger.com is owned by Google, so you will get indexed faster

2) Select the name for your blog, and most important, select your Niche. Don’t create a new “general blog” where you will post info about internet business, webhosting, domain names, and more, if you select a niche, your blog will get “visitors” that only want to read this niche, and also, you will get more targeted and relevant Google Adsense ads in your blog.

3) Get content to post, just go to some Article Directory, and find the best articles, take it and post to your blog. Remember, don’t delete any info, or copyright of this article, you can take it only if you don’t modify it. I prefer write own content, to avoid that people read always the same info, and also the “Duplicate Content Penalty” that Google and other may apply if find that your site Is 100% similar to others.

4) After you created your blog, posted some fresh content and designed it (or just use some template, its most common) you need to “monetize it”. Its very easy, you only need to go to Google Adsense (www.google.com/adsense/) and join for a free account. Be sure of enter your correct info, because if you are new “adsenser”, Google will check your blog and after it will decide: Approve / Reject (only one day) After Google approved it, you just need to go to Google Adsense Home Page, login and copy & paste your Adsense Code where you want that Ads be displayed.

5) Promoting Your Blog: After all above points, you need to promote your blog, just submit it to all niche-related or general blog directories. They will send you a lot of real traffic. You also can submit your RSS feeds to all RSS directory found. Submit your blog to Google, Yahoo and MSN. Contact more bloggers about your niche and offer link exchange, post in other blogs and forums related and use your link in your signature and much more. Just use your mind, you can get lot of visitors free day after day to your blog, and with more visits, more Adsense income

Remember: you will need to post every two / three days a new post to get more fresh content, be original, write it, don’t just copy & paste. After two weeks you will see that your blog was approved in most “Blog directories” where you submitted it, that people is visiting your blog and sometimes they post comments or send feedback, and most important you will see like your Google Adsense Stats get impressions, clicks and $$$

Blogs are only one way to get online revenue, there are many other ways. If you want to see latest articles and resources for online business, just go to my own blog http://www.waysofmakemoney.com and you will find lot of fresh content about Online Business and also updated list of directories, rss directories, and more great tools for your business. You also can join to my Free Newsletter to get latest info directly to your email every week.

Good Luck!!!



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So you are a Senior citizen, a Baby boomer!  What are you doing with your time now?  You Need to Blog.  Blogs can be in demand and very fruitful tool if applied correctly. Waht you doing with your time and knowledge now?  Benefitting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual marketing of a product or service, you let them find you.  Here are the 14 most necessary steps for Seniors Citizens need to know about blogging.

1) Where do you start?  When in doubt so a Google Search

You should begin your blogging mission with a free blog hosting service such as Google Blogger.  It’s a free blog host and can be fulfilling for a young blogger.  Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging at once without having any advance knowledge of internet protocals or code to slow you down. You don’t have to program a thing.  If you took high school typing, you can blog.  A blog will allow you to build an audience of readers and can create a buzz for your blog.  A free blog hosting site allows you to concentrate on your message and not the internal upkeep of the blog on your own website. The most beneficial benefit of beginning with a free blog service, is in the case your blog doesn’t become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog is that they are organized in chronological order, your latest entry is displayed first. When your blog traffic grows greatly and you are ready to upgrade to your own domain then you can simply make your last blog entry the announcement of your “move”.  Simply add a last entry stating that your blog has “moved” and type the new blog URL address. We will cover that issue when you really want to get serious as a blogger How and where do you direct visitors to your new blog site, how to keep your following, without a major inconvenience to anyone. Upgrade as you need to…but only when you need to!  For Now type in Google.com/accounts and click on Blogger.  



2) Niche or What are you going to blog about?

A niche is a targeted product, service, or topic. You should first choose on a product, service, or topic which interest you. Choose an area which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis. You can use keyword research services like Google or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics. It does NOT matter if your topic is popular, as long as there is a audience for your topic.   and the topic is precisely focused then your blog should be successful. Anything can be considered a niche as long as it has a target audience no matter how large or how small the audience is. A blog about your cat can be a niche or a blog about the species of the cat family can be a larger niche market, if there are people who are interested in hearing about your cat or the species of the cat family, then you have a niche…you can even choose to build your audience for a market which an audience does not exist, but first you must build your blog.

3) Update Daily (nothing less)

This step is a must and not a suggestion. Updating your blog daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it more appealing to search engines. Not updating your blog on an occasional holiday or one day here and there is understandable to most, but missing days at a time or weeks is unacceptable and will most likely result in your blog being unsuccessful. To keep your blog traffic and retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog daily with multiple entries. Though, I am seeing a growing trend of successful blogs that are not being updated daily, but they are successful and have a stable audience who continue to visit their blog daily.  Regardless, these blogs are still updated weekly with multiple entries.  Until you have a steady audience you should try to update your blog everyday with at least 3 or more daily entries. The best way to accomplish this is to set aside 1-2 hours a day for tending to your blog and adding new entries. It may even be wise to schedule a set time which you dedicate to your blog each day. Give yourself work hours and treat your blog as a job, what happens if you don’t come to work for days or weeks…you lose money or worse you get fired! Same applies here…if you don’t update your blog for days or weeks you’ll lose visitors.

It’s no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs, and remember, the goal is to increase your senior years casg flow. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories. You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and Blogdigger. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates. Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or ZapContent.com.

Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others. The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the “About the Author” passage. What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the “About the Author” passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. The search engines is bound to find your blog in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.



5) Track Your Blog

How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn’t mean your blog isn’t growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors. I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what “you” have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors. So add your address to your signature on your email, post to other people’s blogs, online forums, in your attempt to recieve return traffic.  

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com or Active Meter will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.



6) Listen to Your Audience – respond to what they say.

When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog. If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.



7) Multiple blogs – that means you can have “more than” one blog

Use multiple blogging accounts (free) to attract more people. This means you should have a blog with JournalHome.com and others. The more blog accounts the better (be sure to read and adhere to the Terms of Service for each site). You can copy/paste from 1 blog to all others. Having different blog accounts is like having a publication in different newspapers. This enables you to attract more visitors and this also increases the chance that 1 of your blogs will be in the search engine results for your focused keywords.

Short & Concise – or you will loose your audience

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic.  Stay keyword-focused.



9) Digital Art – it’s easy not to blend in videos, pictures, audio, etc.

Try to include non-advertising graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries. Not too much. Once a week is fine. Graphics can sometimes bring your blog to life. Of course, the content of the blog is the most important aspect and you do not want to overshadow your content with graphics, but displaying graphics can add a bit of spice to the blog. Be choosy about your graphics and make sure they fit your entry topic. You should add content with the graphic, at least a caption. Original graphics, photos, pictures, and art is recommended.

10) Keep it Personal – We live in a Reality world

A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write with a more personal style and use first-person narratives. Do not write any of your entries as sales letters, instead share product reviews and personal endeavors.



11) Interact With Your Visitors

You now have the traffic you deserve. You should begin interacting with your visitors. Create a regular theme such as: “Monday Money Tip” or “Picture of the Week” which entices your readers to look forward to each week.

Give your readers advance notice about a product, service, or topic which you are going to review and then talk about later. If the President was scheduled to give a speech then in your blog you should state that you “will discuss the speech and give your opinion after the speech airs. Comments will be appreciated”.

Try your best to find exclusive information that not many have. Do not disclose any confidential or secret information which is deemed illegal or can potentially get you into trouble, but try to get the scoop before everyone else does. Such as: If your blog was about Paris Hilton (the socialite) and you had a blog entry about “Paris Hilton Getting Married” then it would be interesting to your readers if you had a actual picture of Paris Hilton engagement ring. Give your best effort to dig and search the internet for exclusive information and you will possibly come up with something useful. Your readers will appreciate this and they show their admiration through word-of-mouth referrals. Imagine how many readers will tell their friends, family, and others about information they only can find at your blog.

12) Make Money – the idea is to add additional cash-flow.

Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog traffic is increasing then it is time for you to start thinking about turning your traffic into profit. You should use contextual advertising, like Google Adsense or Chitika. Contextual advertising is usually text links which use the content of your blog to publish targeted ads on your blog. The payout is usually based on a pay-per-click model, meaning for ever click an ad receives you are paid a small percentage of the profits. In addition to contextual advertising it is good to also use graphical advertising such as: BlogAds.com, Amazon.com, MammaMedia, or General Sponsored Advertising.



13) You’re a Professional – you will know when you are!

You’re a professional now! What are you still doing with that free blog hosting service? It is time to upgrade to a domain hosted solution. You’ll need to get a web host and choose a domain name (Godaddy.com) for your blog then check its your chosen Blog Name availability. Select the blogging software you wish to use, such as: WordPress.org, MovableType.org, TypePad, etc. When you have your new blog domain setup and ready for traffic then it is time for you to announce your move on all your previous blog accounts. Your last entry to the blog should be a “move” announcement. The title should be “Moved” and the blog entry should state something like “I have a new home for my blog, please bookmark and follow the link: http://www.YourNewBlogDomainName.com”. This way all returning visitors and new readers should not have any problem finding your new blog domain.  Plus, search engines can easily index and crawl your new blog, since your old blog should already be popular with the search engines.

At the level of a professional blogger you may want to team up with 1 or more other bloggers, these can be your close friends that have encouraged you all along.  This could create a more interesting and more powerful blog. The old saying “two heads is better than one”, more authors could mean additional advertising and exposure because each author will have a vested interest in the blog. The idea of a “team blogging” is to make your profitable and rewarding for all authors, while continuing to target the blog topic and keeping the blog interesting for your readers and visitors.



!4) It’s the most important one.  Get Started Now!

Adopting these blogging formulas should make your blogging experience much more rewarding and satisfying. There is no guarantee that your blog will ever become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer to adding some . Making income online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. As well, acquiring popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, commitment, and perseverance you will be rewarded with all the complete satisfaction of blogging.

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