Blogging Could Be Your Online Business
Yes you can. In the past, blogs were only used by people to record their daily stories and happenings in the virtual world for others to read, but with the internet’s propensity to be attracted to fresh content, blogs have taken an online business turn for the better.
Now, more and more people are making profit from cyberspace with the use of their blogs and the concept is quite simple. Fresh content is something that the internet likes a lot, and when you have a situation where you are updating your blog on a daily basis, you get ranked on Google, depending on the amount of keywords that you have on your blog. For example, if you were to be writing a travel blog, then inadvertently, there would be some similar keywords that appear in your blog that would coincide with people all over the world searching for tips on how to get the best travel deals or find out more about the countries they want to go to.
This is the critical element of the online home business that uses blogging as a platform, and when traffic is driven to your blog, you have the unique position of profiting from this very fact. When there is volume going to the blog, there is potential to make money from them. The interesting thing about this is that you have just found a way, inadvertently, to get a targeted list of people interested in a certain industry to your blog. This is where you can then make recommendations to services online.
Whether it is Google Adsense, affiliate links or even direct selling, you have the basic elements for your online home business. This is how things work. But of course, you need to know how to start a blog that is designed to make money and the internet is rife with blogging tips from commercial companies or websites that can help you do this. There is an art to making your blog into one that earns you money. Substantial amount of research will have to be done but more importantly, you also need to enjoy yourself in the process. Blogs are supposed to be fun, and the more personal and the more fun they seem, the better your gravity. Gravity in digital marketing terms is just how attractive your blog is to your target audience.
In the end of the day, a blog is a blog. People were making money from blogs a long time before the realisation that it had the potential to be enhanced in marketing and fiscal terms. Blogging is one of the ways that you can start up your own online business, and it is time you think about capitalising on the internet and content production as a means to open up a revenue stream for yourself. Writing blogs for money? It is surely a reality in this digital day and age.
Advantages of a blog
Almost everything that has advantages have disadvantages but when the advantages of a particular thing out weighs the disadvantages then it becomes insignificant, this is why I will not be discussing the disadvantages of a blog, because honestly I feel there is none. Well, except that the regular fresh content a blog requires can always make you feel on edge.
The advantages of a blog cannot be over-emphasized. The biggest advantage I see is that blogs give people, everyone alike, rich or poor an equal chance to be on the online world and write freely about their opinions, feelings and thoughts on different topics and subjects and actually have people worldwideread them!
Considering myself as an example. I love expressing myself, and writing gives me the opportunity to do that effectively. I have always wanted a medium where I could put my written contents and have a lot of people read it, so I wrote some articles on MLM and had it published in a local newspaper (Financial Standard Newspaper) in Nigeria. But you will agree with me that, that is limited. With a website I could address the world. But since I do not have a website design skill, it met I had to pay for the service and that presently could cost me N25, 000 or more ($170 or more) Wow! That’s some money. You could imagine how I felt when I realized I could achieve my dream using a blog without spending a dime!
Blogs are easy and inexpensive to set-up
To set up a blog can take as little as 10 minutes and it involves just three simple steps (choose your blogging software, register your account and start blogging).After creating your blog, all you are required to do is to provide as many fresh contents as you can on a regularly basis . You don’t have to spend a dime creating your blog because there are free versions available, but for a profitable blog, it is advised you use hosted Wordpress. A tutorial will be given in the nearest future on this blog on how to create hosted Wordpress blog. Hosted wordpress blog is server based and requires you get a domain name ($10 max.) and hosting service (could get for less than $10). You could get Alvin Phang’s book, Atomic Blogging 3.0 at http://tinyurl.com/n2pnvp it contains all you need to know about setting up a professional and profitable hosted Wordpress blog.
Blogs are Search Engine Friendly
This advantage of a blog is one of reasons I love blogs. Your posts and pages are automatically linked byblogs and that enables search engines spiders to find, crawl and index the blog. With relevant keywords in your blog Title, Meta tags, and the URL pages you could have your pages ranking higher in search engines. Meaning that when anyone type in your keywords into search engines, your page could be among the first few displayed list and that my friend, could relate to lots of free traffic to your blog!
Blogs attract more traffic for it fresh contents
Readers are attracted to blogs because of it fresh regular contents and if as a blogger you are passionateabout what you write about, and committed to providing fresh regular contents on it, thousands who are also passionate about that topic will on a regular basis visit your blog and if you keep updating it regularly with new contents, you will keep them coming.
Blogs creates room for online community
The in –built comment feed on blogs, enable readers to share their opinions about your pages and also startdiscussions on different topics.
When you have commentators who provide good information, suggestions and advice, you could create unique relevant content from it and most importantly keep your traffic as they will keep coming to get updates on different topics.
Blogs have built-in RSS Feed
RSS which means Really Simple Syndication syndicate recent posts and deliver them to various blog searchengines and when your readers subscribe to your RSS Feed it automatically delivers your recent posts to their inbox.
Some advantages of a blog from an organizational perspective are as follows:
Blogs enable companies to keep their customers informed on a regular basis. They could post news about new products, policies and opportunities available and have it in front of their customers in a matter of minutes instead of having to send newsletter weekly or monthly.
That helps organizations to develop stronger relationships with their customers and build trust since they caneasily interact with them and get feedbacks.
Companies could drive traffic from their blog to their websites. Blogging also showcase the organization as professionals in what they do and they could build brand loyalty.
There are definitely other advantages of a blog, but these are the main ones I came up with. Now should you build a website or create a blog? To help you make the decision visit my blog again and read my next post, Static website vs. Blog. I will discuss more specifically the advantages of a blog over Static website.
Advantages of a blog
Almost everything that has advantages have disadvantages but when the advantages of a particular thing out weighs the disadvantages then it becomes insignificant, this is why I will not be discussing the disadvantages of a blog, because honestly I feel there is none. Well, except that the regular fresh content a blog requires can always make you feel on edge.
The advantages of a blog cannot be over-emphasized. The biggest advantage I see is that blogs give people, everyone alike, rich or poor an equal chance to be on the online world and write freely about their opinions, feelings and thoughts on different topics and subjects and actually have people worldwideread them!
Considering myself as an example. I love expressing myself, and writing gives me the opportunity to do that effectively. I have always wanted a medium where I could put my written contents and have a lot of people read it, so I wrote some articles on MLM and had it published in a local newspaper (Financial Standard Newspaper) in Nigeria. But you will agree with me that, that is limited. With a website I could address the world. But since I do not have a website design skill, it met I had to pay for the service and that presently could cost me N25, 000 or more ($170 or more) Wow! That’s some money. You could imagine how I felt when I realized I could achieve my dream using a blog without spending a dime!
Blogs are easy and inexpensive to set-up
To set up a blog can take as little as 10 minutes and it involves just three simple steps (choose your blogging software, register your account and start blogging).After creating your blog, all you are required to do is to provide as many fresh contents as you can on a regularly basis . You don’t have to spend a dime creating your blog because there are free versions available, but for a profitable blog, it is advised you use hosted Wordpress. A tutorial will be given in the nearest future on this blog on how to create hosted Wordpress blog. Hosted wordpress blog is server based and requires you get a domain name ($10 max.) and hosting service (could get for less than $10). You could get Alvin Phang’s book, Atomic Blogging 3.0 at http://tinyurl.com/n2pnvp it contains all you need to know about setting up a professional and profitable hosted Wordpress blog.
Blogs are Search Engine Friendly
This advantage of a blog is one of reasons I love blogs. Your posts and pages are automatically linked byblogs and that enables search engines spiders to find, crawl and index the blog. With relevant keywords in your blog Title, Meta tags, and the URL pages you could have your pages ranking higher in search engines. Meaning that when anyone type in your keywords into search engines, your page could be among the first few displayed list and that my friend, could relate to lots of free traffic to your blog!
Blogs attract more traffic for it fresh contents
Readers are attracted to blogs because of it fresh regular contents and if as a blogger you are passionateabout what you write about, and committed to providing fresh regular contents on it, thousands who are also passionate about that topic will on a regular basis visit your blog and if you keep updating it regularly with new contents, you will keep them coming.
Blogs creates room for online community
The in –built comment feed on blogs, enable readers to share their opinions about your pages and also startdiscussions on different topics.
When you have commentators who provide good information, suggestions and advice, you could create unique relevant content from it and most importantly keep your traffic as they will keep coming to get updates on different topics.
Blogs have built-in RSS Feed
RSS which means Really Simple Syndication syndicate recent posts and deliver them to various blog searchengines and when your readers subscribe to your RSS Feed it automatically delivers your recent posts to their inbox.
Some advantages of a blog from an organizational perspective are as follows:
Blogs enable companies to keep their customers informed on a regular basis. They could post news about new products, policies and opportunities available and have it in front of their customers in a matter of minutes instead of having to send newsletter weekly or monthly.
That helps organizations to develop stronger relationships with their customers and build trust since they caneasily interact with them and get feedbacks.
Companies could drive traffic from their blog to their websites. Blogging also showcase the organization as professionals in what they do and they could build brand loyalty.
There are definitely other advantages of a blog, but these are the main ones I came up with. Now should you build a website or create a blog? To help you make the decision visit my blog again and read my next post, Static website vs. Blog. I will discuss more specifically the advantages of a blog over Static website.
