The Blog Mill

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Is your blog gathering dust instead of generating high traffic? It’s a common problem for bloggers. Their blogs are good and their postings are interesting, but no one is coming to visit and they want to know how to increase traffic. This is actually easier than it seems once you know how. In this article, we will go over 8 specific methods of increasing traffic. These are guaranteed methods to draw more visitors to your blog. Read the rest of this entry »

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Congratulations, you have decided to join the online community. Maybe, just to air your view points or to venture into an online marketing business.

But, how to get started? There two main ways to venture forth. Either by blog or by website, the choice is up to you.

But, first we need to define the difference between a blog and website.  A website is a internet application that contains web pages, images, videos and other digital assets. It is hosted on the World Wide Web.  Whereas, a blog is part of website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order. It is sometimes known as an online journal.

I will discuss the pros and cons of both. The choice is yours.

First, I will cover blogging.

If you have little or no computer knowledge and even less money. Blogging is the way to go. You can get a free blog from blogger.com or wordpress.com. These are the two more popular choices. They will host and maintain your blog for you. You can customize your blog from their selection of templates. Just write and post and you have your blog. You can post your own content, advertise your own goods and services. Also, you can advertise goods and services of others as an affiliate.

A blog will allow communications between visitor and writer where they can exchanges opinions on certain issues. Whereas, in a website, a visitor can only read and not offer comments or suggestions to the writer or other visitors.

The cons to blogging is that you have write many articles to get your business going. However, you can hire a ghost writer to write articles for you. Later, when the blog becomes very successful, you may want to upgrade which will cost money.

Second, I will cover using a website.

A website allows you to have complete control over your content and is the fastest way to advertise.
However, there are cost involved with setting up a website. You will need hosting, a domain name and maybe a custom built website. Or you may decide to build your own site. A user friendly program for creating your own website is Microsoft Frontpages. Last, you will need a Autoresponder.

A disadvantage of building your own website is that you are responsible for taking care of any problems that may arise.

Also, you may need to consider whether you need a website in the first place. Maybe a blog is all you need for the present time. Can you explain to someone else the advantages that you will have with a website and what it will do for you?

Whether you decide to use a blog or website, you cannot just sit back and relax. You have to market it and build traffic. You have to promote it. If your goal is internet marketing, you will never make any money if you just submit it to a few search engines and do nothing else. Traffic or having visitors go to your site is a major component that makes your blog or website valuable.

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The Internet is a great way to leverage your resources. Did you know that you can use your content in many different ways? You don’t have to waste time constantly creating new content when you can use content you have already created, and implement them in various different ways.

Here are 3 little-used ways to profit from your blog’s content:

1) Use them for freelancing projects

You can make lots of money through freelancing. Simply bid for a project at freelancing sites like elance.com or guru.com. If the topic you will be writing about relates to your blog content, you can simply use some of it and reprint it. After all, it is your content and you can do whatever you want with it. You own it!

2) Submit them to article directories

Submitting articles to article directories is one of the best ways to get free traffic and exposure for an online business. If you own an online store or offer a useful service online, you can simply use your blog’s content as articles for article directories, and when people read your articles, they will click through to your link. This is one of the top ways to get absolutely free traffic.

3) Create ebooks

I’m sure this idea will get you excited; you can use articles and compile them into a collection in an ebook. This is an easy way to create an information product. Ebooks sell like crazy over the Internet so you’d want to consider this great way to make money online!

Don’t leave your content alone on your blog. Use them in creative ways to leverage your work for even more profits…

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Blidgets, a tool similar to web widgets enables each blog users into embedding them into their web site as long as it is customizable with additional html codes.  Now the big difference is although web widget delivers one type of functionality to the blog user, a blidget delivers mutiple functionalities.

Blidget comes in a form of a box, usually a lot bigger then the traditional web widget.  With a scroll bar delivered for users to scroll up and down the blidget itself without moving the page, the box also provides additional functionalities as well Read the rest of this entry »

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Using SEO is a great way to get traffic to one’s blog. It can seem like a nightmare when one tries to learn SEO from scratch, but after a while, SEO becomes as easy as a few simple daily tasks. The basics of SEO tell us we need to build links, but how many do we need? The amount of links needed to bring a site to the top of search engines depends on the competition of the phrases one targets.

One can simply dominate low Competition key phrases with ease through a bit of link building and anchor text optimization. To accomplish this, one must first start with research. Research is the key to any project on the net. Many Read the rest of this entry »

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