Monday, November 9, 2009

How Do Blogs Work - How Can I Start My First Blog

By Carole V Lancaster

Blog marketing is one of the latest trends of marketing online that you are going to find. Blogs which are also known as web logs are very popular in this day and age. You can make a blog on any particular subject that you want and then publish it for the world to read.

If you're just starting in online marketing, you're going to find that beginning a blog is easy to do. Anybody can join up to a free blog, and then proceed to market essentially anything that they need to. Because blogs are free to have and make, this makes blog promoting even better. Where as if you've got a web site, and are needing to market things that way, you would pay for your domain, pay for your hosting of the domain, and then know some HTML or hire a site designer.

Search engines love blogs, and are always pretty fast to index them. Getting yours out there for the world to see isn't going to be hard. There's this cool tool that you may use each time you update your blog that is often known as pinging. Pinging your blog after each entry that you make will let everybody know that your blog has a new entry and updated. Depending on your general goal with blog selling, you can update your blog as often as you like. Which may be daily or weekly. Whichever you select, just be consistent with it. If you start out updating daily, keep it going. This way your blog readers will know that they can take a look at your blog daily for new postings.

If you are curious precisely what you can market in a blog, you can market whatever you need to. it's best to remain inside one market in your blog. If you have many different things that you want to market, and not one of them truly fit together well, you can make a blog for each market. Remember that if the markets aren't related, don't mix them on your blog. As an example, if you've got a blog on vacuum cleaners, you won't need to also mix in TV sets on the same blog. The reason is because both vacuum cleaners and TVs sets are 2 different markets. you might mix vacuum cleaners and hand held mini dust busters. Make sense?

There so many things that you can market in your blog. Whether you want to sell your own products and services or someone else's and make a commission off of what you sell. The sky is the limit when it comes to marketing. Affiliate links work great in blogs as well. Signing up to sell other people's products and then marketing them in your blog is a great idea.

If you are considering having both a blog and a website that will work if you have enough information to cover in both. Linking them both together is a great idea if you do decide to have both. You can always use the website to hold your main information and products, and the blog to promote them and discuss any issues regularly.

Wondering about hosting? If you have a website, you can either host your blog on the same server you use for your site, or you can leave it where it is. The choice is ultimately up to you, either way you can have successful blogs that will begin to bring in revenue to you. Getting links to your blog is a good way to gain new readers. Another great tool you can use is the RSS feeds. When you use the RSS feeds, it allows people to publish your blog on their site, and in return it gets you more visitors.

Blog marketing can be pretty effective if it is done right. However, you cant just set up a blog and expect people to find it. Get your blog out there and make it known to others just as you would a website. Exchanging links with others will help, so will article marketing using your blog. Blog marketing is easy and anyone that wants to can do it. Getting your blog out there and known will be your biggest challenge, but just know that the harder you work at it, it will pay off. Find sites that are related to the market you are promoting, but not in direct competition and ask for link exchanges.

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