You have decided to take the plunge and set up a business blog. Your only thought, as you click the button that makes the blog an official one, is what could possibly your blog's purpose.There are many good reasons for establishing a business blog. Today,...
Link trading benefits
One of the most difficult areas to improve your site is getting more incoming links.You need to make link exchanges, with other blogs and traditional websites, to help yourself. Trades are good for everyone!Those incoming links, or backlinks as they...
Analyzing your visitor counter logs
Your visitor counter logs provide valuable insights, into how well your blog is doing, in attracting and retaining traffic.Whether you use a free counter like OneStat, Extreme Tracking, Sitemeter, or a paid version, their numbers and charts are important....
Blogs: An extra way to market
Your business requires marketing.If there is no marketing of your products and services, your sales slump. That is not healthy for your company's bottom line. A lack of sales does not pay the bills.Okay, you know that already. It's easier said than done,...
Three quick ways to more visitors in one week
You just started a new blog. Perhaps you've had a blog on the go for awhile. In both cases, you likely feel the need for more visitors to your blog.If you think not enough people are reading your blog, you need to increase your visitor traffic levels....
Blogs as publicity: getting your voice heard
Is your blog getting your business any free publicity?In the past, the road to free publicity was heavily dependent upon having your company press releases turned into news articles. While the press release is still a tremendous promotional idea, which...
Blog marketing helps the bottom line
A business blog has been added to your company's marketing tool box. How can it possibly help you with marketing your business?First of all, you must realize that marketing is a long term process. Marketing doesn't just pop up out of nowhere one fine...
Blogs as brand names
You are all familiar with brand names.Everywhere in our lives we are confronted by the Nike swish, the Pepsi ball, and everything about the auto industry.People wear brand names on their clothing. They proudly announce the purchases of their favourite...
Sometimes you have to take a chance
In business, planning is very important.A company needs to have an action plan in place to map out its future.The same is mainly true for people. We need to have some idea what we ar doing on a daily basis. There is an entire industry built up on such...
Free Business Ideas
Jeremy Wright over at his tremendous Ensight blog, offers some great free money making ideas.Jeremy offers a LAN party idea, for gamers to get together, and do whatever it is that gamers do. I am guessing they game. The LAN party idea is sound though.Jeremy...
Feedster RSS added to this blog
Hi everyone.I just added a Feedster RSS link to the home page of this blog. The Feedster button is found between the links section and the blog archives.For those of you who aren't fully up on RSS feeds. RSS stands for either Rich Site Summary or Really...
Blog content: your blog type
What type of business blog are you writing?You could one of the online journal bloggers, who keeps a daily online diary of your daily business and home activities. Your company and personal lives may be so entwined, as there may not be a discernable...
Search engine optimization: keywords in content
You want your business blog to rise to the top, of the Google searches, for your chosen keywords, right?If you aren't sure what a keyword is, it's simply a word or phrase someone would enter into Google's (or any other search engine) search box. For...
Building relationships helps marketing and sales
I have written here before about the need to build relationships with existing and potential customers and clients.People are far more likely to purchase products and services from people they know, than from people they don't know from...well...Adam.Some...
Blogging tips from Trudy Schuett
If you read Part One of Trudy Schuett's great blogging how-to Why Writers Hate Blogs, you'll want to catch the second installment called Blogging School is in Session.Blog expert Trudy Schuett continues her tremendous step by step techniques to creating...
Business blogs and your independence
I'll bet you never thought of it this way.A business blog helps your business declare its independence.Because of the ease of writing and publishing a blog on the internet, the blogger is no longer in a dependent state. Their company webmaster, or the...
Blogging now taught at University
Signs are everywhere that blogs have become a mainstream method of internet communications.A sure indication, that blogs are now a recognized activity, is universities taking them seriously.That day has arrived!Blogging has now reached the hallowed halls...
Finding blog topics
You just sat down at your keyboard.You opened up your blogging software or host.Facing you is a blank white posting area. It's staring back at you, like it's taunting you.You don't have a topic. You lack any sort of ideas to present to your eager visitors.What...
Writing tips for your business blog
There are two things that are hard about creating a business blog.One is deciding on a topic for your latest posting masterpiece.The other problem is writing about it.Most people are aware of the more personalized online diary or journal type of blog....
CNN takes business blogging mainstream
It had to happen some time.Media giant CNN, the ubiquitous news source for the world, has declared business blogs as standard operating procedure for cutting edge companies.In other words, CNN's, official stamp of approval has made blogging for business...
Keep those visitors coming back for more
Which came first? The visitor or the repeat visitor?While it's easy to say the visitor came to your blog first, things are a bit more complicated than that.What brought the visitor to your site in the first place?If you have been listing your site in...
Guest blogging: What is it?
A mild tempest in a teapot has broken out over guest blogging, or guest posting, as some people call it.Guest blogging is being invited, or perhaps volunteering, to write a post on someone else's blog. The topic of the guest posting can either be decided...
Google: Is your blog indexed?
Google is the most important and most used search engine. Other search engines, including AOL Search, Yahoo, and others, use Google's listings as well.Is your blog indexed in Google's listings?The first thing to do is find out.Go to http://www.google.com...
JoeAnt Directory: Getting listed
There are a number of important internet directories out there.You want your blog or web site listed in them.Today, we'll look at the important JoeAnt Directory.You'll want to get your site or blog listed in JoeAnt for a number of reasons.Every directory...
Blogs deserve places in search engines
Ranking high in the search engine results is essential for the visiblity of web sites. Being ranked Number One, for your most important keywords, is the Holy Grail for most web sites. Blogs are no exception.Fortunately for blogs, they are almost custom...
Site visitor counters
It's 11:00 PM.Do you know where your blog's visitors are?Are you certain that anyone ever surfs over to your blog at all?If you aren't sure, whether or not anyone other than your mother, is reading your blog, it's time to get a site visitor counter.There...
Get your internet articles published: Some hints
A friend of mine, who happens to be a very good writer, asked me how he could get his articles published on various internet sites.He had written an a great article on growing roses. The material was well researched, the facts were checked, and the piece...
Great article on the importance of blogs
Are you searching for a tremendously informative, and well written, article on the importance to having a business blog?Have a peek at blogging expert Trudy Schuett's special guest column on Writer Online. In the first installment of a three part series...
Pinging your blog
When you update your blog, don't forget to ping it!What in the world is pinging?Pinging is one of those many wonderful internet words. It refers to letting the various blog aggregators know that you have updated. Pinging merely means letting everyone...
Link trading: A good idea
Your business blog needs readers. It's rather pointless to write a business blog about marketing, public relations, customer service, personnel management, internet technology, finance, or search engine optimization, and have no one read it. While maintainng...
Networking tips for your business
Networking is all about meeting with people and building trusting relationships. Whether done online or in person, making contacts will help you, and help your business networking partners.Before you begin your networking campaign, be sure to set out...
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