Archive for November, 2006
by Gobala Krishnan
What is the fundamental difference between a blogger and an Internet marketer? Is there any difference at all to begin with?
Since I had nothing better to do today, I decided to take the risk of being flamed by hate mail by telling you exactly where the line is drawn. While these are examples from the extreme ends of the online publishing spectrum, I believe you’ll see my point by the end of this article.
Nowadays, almost every Internet marketer I know has a blog. However, none of them like to be called a blogger. Most bloggers on the other hand think they’re Internet marketers. Those poor misguided souls.
Here’s what fundamentally different between a blogger and a real Internet marketer making a living online:
1) Living on Search Engine Traffic
by bas
By every so often, most bloggers have heard the announcement that the Big 3 search engines - Google, Yahoo, and MSN - have united in support of a Fourth World music tag that will supposedly combat comment circular. The Fourth World music tag is a nofollow attribute that can be added to joins. When added to fastenings in comment tags, the search engines will ignore them.
An excellent powwow* of this further tag and how it works can be found at Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050118-204728
Google announced the rookie tag in a 1/18/2005 post to their confess blog: http://www.google.com/googleblog/
And Microsoft added their support to the greenhorn tag in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/18/nofollow_tags.aspx
by Ralph Ruckman
If you have ever wanted to earn money through blogging but found hardly any success at it, then you probably should straighten up in your chair and read what I got to say. Now for starters you probably heard that you could just start a blog, write about something you know, slap some Adsense and some Affiliate links on it and you are off to earning some money. Come on, you and I both know that your earnings (if any) are not substantial. I am willing to bet that you have not even been paid your first Adsense check yet. Now before I come off sounding like a “rude” guy, let me explain to you something of importance to me.
by Mark Flavin
We all know that blogs have emerged as powerful marketing weapons in this, the digital age. Blogs fare well in search engine results, hence, a blog that promotes our main business website or affiliate links are sure to garner a lot of traffic composed of highly interested folks.
This fact alone has led to the emergence of many marketing tactics revolving around the most efficient utilization of blogs as advertising tools. We have the blog and ping method, for example, which alerts users of blog directories as well as search engine spiders every time a new entry is published. We have the tag and ping strategy, which makes good use of tags - what many people have labeled as user-driven keywords - to gain better position for the blogs as well as win the attention of the right kind of internet users. We have the blog linking technique, which maximizes the interconnectivity that web logs possess and milks the same for every ounce of its worth.
by Mark Flavin
Alright, so you don’t have any digital products to offer, you don’t have any tangible goods to sell, you don’t have any special skills you can lease out, you don’t have any useful resources you can offer…
All you have is a blog.
Yes, a blog!
An online journal which is originally meant to serve like a diary, only, it’s a diary that is published on the internet and every person in the world, from North America to Tibet, can have access to whatever you will publish on its pages.
Now the challenge: how can you earn by using your blog, and JUST your blog?
If your answer is you can’t, then you’re lacking faith, my friend.