Why Bloging »

by Corey Geer

Does your business need a blog? A blog is a Web log, an online journal. Blogs started out as online diaries, in which diarists shared their everyday lives with the world. From their beginnings as a weird Web fad in 1998, blogs have moved on, and are well on the way to becoming a standard business tool.

Why? Because in February 2003 Google.com bought Pyra Labs, the company which owns the Blogger weblogging tool. Blogger.com, one of the main sites providing blog software and hosting, boasted a million hosted web logs in early 2003.

Google.com’s interest in blogs indicates that blogs are mainstream. A blog help your business in many ways, depending on whether you create a private or a public blog. Blogs are so useful that you’ll want to create both.

Your business’s private, internal blog

by Corey Geer

StevePavlina.com was launched 19 months ago. 12 months ago it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day. I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it?

This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). I’ll even share some specifics. If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.

Do you actually want to monetize your blog?

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

by Mel Miller

Blogs are one of the most powerful online marketing techniques. This is because allow you to get higher search engine positions, attract search engine spiders faster and let you fill your sales pages with targeted visitors.

You are also able to benefit from blogs by participating in other people’s blogs. In return you can get instant traffic through anchor text, which is the key to getting ranked.

Then, over time, you can gain high-quality backlinks and search engine spiders flooding to your website.

One of the downsides of posting comments is that it can take up valuable time which could be used more effectively in other areas of your business.

Instant Blog links provides a solution that allows you to submit your comments, with your link inside, to all of your favorite blogs in a fraction of the time.

by Angel

What do people blog for? Is it for fun, fame, fortune… for the good of the online community? I’ll tell you why I blog - it’s because I want to make money. I want to be like John Chow, Shoemoney, Pro Blogger - all those guys. I want to do what they do because every day they tell me that I can do it.

These pro bloggers are making money by telling us how to make money. I’ve been visiting these blogs for several months but it’s only now that I’ve taken the initiative to move from passively reading the achievements of pro bloggers to trying to emulate those achievements.

I consider myself a second level blogger. What I mean by that is that I am taking the information provided by the top level bloggers and making it apply to me. I am putting what they tell me to the test to try and make money.

by Corey Geer

It seems everyone these days is talking about blogging. Everywhere I go, I find articles and forums devoted to this craze. I also have heard from many moms who are trying to figure out what a blog is and how they can use one to their benefit.

The term "blog" is short for "weblog", which just means an online journal or "log". You can jot down personal thoughts and notes, post articles you’ve written or keep track of interesting websites you find. The sky is the limit, it seems, when it comes to blogging. A blog is something entirely of your own creation and you can use it to share your thoughts with the world, well….with anyone you can get to read it anyway.