Friday, October 28, 2005

Where to Host Your Blog

Free Blog Hosting Service

You can either host your blog on a free blog hosting service. The advantage of this is that you don't have to pay for a hosting fee. The disadvantage is that you have limited control of your blog like you are limited to what advertisement you can place and you are limited to the blogging software provided by the service.

Paid Web Hosting

Or you can pay for a web hosting service. The advantages of this is that you have complete control on how you will format your blog or what blogging software you will use. You can also choose what advertisements to place.

The disadvantage is that you incur a cost for the hosting and the domain name.

Tips on Increasing Blog Traffic

To increase blog traffic you should create a search engine friendly blog. Here are some of the things you can do to achieve this.

1. You must use the appropriate meta tags so that the search engine's spider can classify your blog accurately.

2. Keyword density - you must use your keywords frequently within the body of your articles or blog to assist the search engine's robot to discover the topic of your article or the theme of your blog.

3. Link popularity - This simply means that the more websites or blogs link to you, the higher will be your ranking in the search engine listings. This can be achieve by consistently providing good content. If your blog has good content other blogs / websites will find it useful and they will automatically link to you.

References:

http://www.searchengines.com/metadescription.html
http://www.searchengines.com/themes.html
http://www.searchengines.com/linkpopularity1.html

Blog Ideas

Knowing what people do when they visit websites can also help you find a theme for your blog.

People visit websites for the following reasons:

1. For educational purposes like learning a new skill.

2. For information - like facts about a product, service, or place.

3. News.

4. To be entertained.

5. To interact or communicate. (very common especially with blogs)

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Revenue Sources for Pure Online Publishing

If you are going to engage in a pure online publishing business, these will be your sources of revenue:

1. CPC (cost per click) - advertisers pay you each time a visitor clicks on an ad.
2. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) - advertisers pay you per one thousand visitors who goes to your website.
3. Ad Space rental - You can rent your ad spaces to advertisers for a fixed monthly fee or by the number of days their ads will be displayed.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

10 Rules for Blogging Success

These are the lessons I learned in my three weeks of blogging.

1. Every article is a potential money maker so always give your best when writing one.

2. Write about the most searched topics or most interesting topics.

3. One new article equals several new impressions.

4. Wait for the affiliate to display the correct ads before promoting an article.

5. Concentrate first on content and traffic. The earnings will take care of itself.

6. Not everyone you invite will visit your blog but take care of those who do. Do your best to turn them into frequent visitors.

7. Build related blogs.

8. Link related blogs together.

9. Every blog is like a plant. If you nurture them, one day they will grow into a tree.

10. Always have blogging goals and achieve them.