BUSINESS, MARKETING, and MONEY

Do you have a business blog that seems to absorb all your efforts and still doesn't perform up to your expectations? Many folks start a blog with the desire to make money online but often are guilty of misdirecting their efforts leading to frustration and a lack of success.

If this sounds like you let's consider 5 points you may need to re-focus on to improve your results.

• Learn to give your readers with what it is they want or need. Many bloggers focus primarily making money and neglect the readers. Remember without readers THERE IS NO BLOG. Listen to their comments; in fact encourage them to leave comments. By responding and acting upon their concerns or needs you are creating an environment 'tailor made' for them. It was their input that guided the creation of this environment to begin with

• If you don't have anything to say in a post then don't post. Feeling compelled to post every day or even multiple times daily could lessen the quality of your content. Emphasize QUALITY over QUANTITY when posting to your blog. If you post good quality content your readers will be willing to wait a day for it as oppose to reading shallow and pointless ramblings. If this occurs too often you can kiss your readers good-bye and say hello to a decrease in your blog traffic.

• Be careful to not become 'anchored' to your blogging duties. A blog is born out of the passion the blogger has for the blogging material itself. By investing an over abundance of time to your blog you run the risk of burning out. Push back from time to time to re-energize. Fresh, invigorating, and insightful blog posts are what the readers want and it would be difficult to deliver this if you're overworked.

Business blogs are a fine balance between a blogger passionate about the topics they post on and a desire to make money online. It is important to remember you always need to put your reader's FIRST. Introducing any aspect of your marketing strategy should be secondary to this.

• Conduct a blog search for sites that offer content related to yours. By visiting these sites you can pick up new ideas not only for your content but also for the blog layout itself. Also don't be afraid to participate at these blogs by leaving a comment when appropriate. Leaving a comment that is useful, humorous, or insightful will catch the eyes of other participants. With a link back to your site in your signature file you can usually expect an increase in your blog traffic. Once again however your comments should appropriate!

• In addition to a blog search find forums and other online communities that contain niches within related to your blogging theme. Once again your participation and interaction at these sites can help you boost your blog traffic. This should be part of your overall marketing strategy due to the strength of networking.

Although a business blog is established for the purpose of making money online it is essential to remember the readers come first. They arrived at your site for the content not the merchandise. Your primary responsibility is to supply good quality content whether it's informative, humorous, or insightful. Always set aside your blog marketing efforts until your readers needs have been met first. Read More......

Blogging has been in existence for a long time now. Many have been blogging on different topics that are widely sort, but still have not been able to make a mark in the blogging world. Blog simply means putting down in writing issues or events or areas of interest to one that can attract readership from others. One sweet thing about blogging is that you write on events, things and issues or subjects that are of interest to you or that you are very conversant with. Blogging has made a lot of Internet users wealthy and very popular. The Internet of course has turned the world into a small global village. One can write and be read worldwide. Blogging is a very simple way of making good money on the Internet with ease. A lot of people started blogging with the intention of making money to increase their income, but a lot have been disappointed because their dreams did not come true. In a real world situation, making money has to be as a result of good planning and execution of plans. This is the same thing with blogging for money. To blog for money one has to be sure that he/she is actually doing the right thing and in the right order.
The essence of this article is to highlight the simple way to plan, execute and blog your way to wealth. There are a lot of bloggers today who have written very good articles that would have attracted a lot of readership and income, but this was not to be because some things were not done right. If you happen to fall in this category of people, don’t worry for the solution to your problem is here. The question then is “ How do we blog our way to wealth’?

Research and carve out a good niche: The first and most important thing to do before starting a blog is research. Some topics or areas may look interesting, but the question is do people want to read about them? When you want to market something, the first thing you do I to find out if there are people who actually need what you want to market. If you find out the niche market were people are ready and willing to come into and buy, then you go ahead and produce. In other way round, you are in production because there is a need to be filled. You can use search engines to find out if the area you want to write on is in demand or not. Through search engine rankings, you should be able to find out how eager people are to read information from that area. If your search shows that a lot of people want to read about your niche market area, then you are good to go.

Create Your Blog: When you are sure of the area you are going to blog about, then you go ahead and create your blog. There are a lot of sites that offer free blogging services, and most too that offer paid services. As a businessman you are, you will want to maximize your profit, then its advisable to go for a free blog. You can log on to www.blogger.com and register and create your blog. While creating your blog, make sure the area you want to blog about is reflected in your keyword. Your blog title also should align with your keywords. Make sure you choose a very good template that will be eye catchy. Optimize your blog very well so that you will not be missing anything. One good thing about www.blogger.com is that it is very easy and user friendly. Once you have finished setting up your blog, you are ready to start posting articles. Make sure that your articles are of good quality and actually discuss issues that revolve around your blog name. The truth is that your blog name and key words are the main things that attract viewers to your site. After your first post, try to always update your blog by writing and publishing intelligently.

Moneytizing your Blog: If you want to blog your way to wealth, that means you are ready to make money. A good product does not sell itself. You have to make the availability of the product known. This calls for advert placement on your site. There are a lot of companies that are willing and ready to place adverts in your blog. The adverts have to relate to your blog title and keywords. These adverts are what generate money to you as a blogger. For instance you can get adverts from google by cutting and pasting google adsence in your site. It’s as simple as registering with google adsence and after the approval your adsence HTML code will be given to you and you cut and paste. Another very good way of moneytizing your blog is by registering and participating in affiliate programmes. Place the banners for the programmes you want to promote in your site and you are paid anytime somebody registers through your blogsite. To place banner codes, go to your dashboard, click on add gadget, then choose HTML in the options available and paste your code. Another very important thing to do is to make sure that your blog settings are optimized to give access to search engines and always remember to enable your show back links.

Getting Content Articles: Creating a wonderful bog will not fetch you any money if you that have content articles that can attract the right advert and also the right traffic that needs to generate clicks and subsequent pay to your blog. It is very essential to have quality content in your blog. It is not necessarily the number of articles you have in your blog that matter, but the quality of the article. If it is going to take you a whole week to generate content article, go ahead and do that because that’s the secret to generating quality traffic. It is also of importance because it will make your site easily noticed by search engines and web crawlers. Make sure your keywords always appear in your articles because that is the lead that also drives traffic to your site. Some people are lazy and may not have the energy to write articles. The good news is that there are a lot sites in the Internet that write articles for people for a token. When you have prepared a content article, then go to your dashboard click on post and publish your article. Once in a while it is always good to write a review about your previous articles and paste in your blog too.

Driving Traffic to Your Blog: Now you have created a successful blog with relevant ads from different firms and probably with different good banners from affiliate programmes. The major work now lies on how to drive traffic to your site. It is not all about driving traffic, but quality traffic that can generate interest and possible clicks that will earn you money. Most traffic to websites comes from search engines. It is very important to register with as many as possible to enable them drive traffic to your site. There are also so many sites that help you circulate your articles on the web free of charge. One of the successful one is www.pingomatic.com . You go to the site and register your blog URL with them and they will ping your articles to different directories. It is always fast to drive traffic to your site too by submitting your articles to different directories and this increases your back links. You can query google for such sites that you can post your articles for circulation in return to quality traffic to your site. Another good method to drive traffic to your site is by writing press releases There are also a lot of sites that offer free press releases on the internet. You can also get good traffic by joining and posting your articles in forums. When you joining forums make sure you put your link to your signature and anytime you make a contribution in the forum your URL link appears. Another good method to drive traffic to your site is to always visit other sites and make a comment. When you make a comment you drop your link.

This article is meant to help everybody who has been blogging in the past without
Generating income and for new people who have interest in blogging as a means of
Raising residual income. Feel very free to leave your comment after going through
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Generating more traffic to your website
One of the most frequent questions thrown around the Internet by aspiring web masters is "How do I get more visitors to my site?"

1) There is a lot of confusion among new web designers and developers regarding 'Search Engine Optimisation' techniques, some still believe that adding a few keywords
in your meta tags is enough to bring your site to the top of Google's results. Obviously for the more seasoned web designers we know this is just not the case. For more details go to: www.the20seotools.com.So the purpose of this article is to give the newer designers a bit of information on the best methods of generating good traffic to your website through proven SEO techniques.

Produce good content

Would you visit a website for nothing? No you wouldn't and nor will your potential visitors. People will only be interested in your site if there is something that interests them i.e. information, free ware, blogs, services etc.

Keywords

2) Lets settle one myth right now. Adding your keywords in the meta tags of your site is NOT going to get you up the ladder. One way of helping your site is to choose the relevant keywords for your site, and reference them in your pages content in the and the title tags. For can visit to: www.offline-promotion.com.There are a lot of sites out there that offer keyword research and the best ones for your site and industry.

Build links

Get web masters of similar sites to link back to your website. Link building this is probably the most important aspect of SEO. People linking to your website tells the search engines that your site is more important, so more links you manage you gather to your website the better the search engines will rank you.

Article Writing

One of the easiest method of developing links is article writing.

Write articles on a subject your are familiar with and submit the articles to a number of article submission websites with a link back to your site in the footer. By doing so you will not only share your link with the people that read your article, but anyone that uses your article for content on their site will keep the link in the article which will share out your link even further. A Google search will generate you enough sites to submit your articles to.

The most important aspect of article writing (apart from writing something worth reading) is to insert your link in the footer. This needs to be inserted as a hyperlink. Read More......

Starting your own internet business can be a little scary especially if you are not computer
savvy. Relax, it's not hard to do. Here is my list of 5 things you need to start an internet business:

A website

Whether you have your own product/service or you are an affiliate marketer, you need your own website. The free website you receive with your affiliate membership is basic and all affiliates have the same website. You need something different. Something that stands out. Where do you get a website?

* Global Domains International. GDI costs $10.00 per month and included in the price is a domain name, hosting, website builder, 10 email accounts. There is also an affiliate program available. The domain name you want may be readily available if you choose the .ws instead of .com, .net or .org. GDI has been around for 10 years and is a stable, reliable company.



* Godaddy.com is by far the most popular domain and hosting site. You can get a domain name with free hosting for as low as $6.99 per month. One disadvantage is that good domain names are already taken. Godaddy also has a reseller program that costs $99.99 per year.



* Yahoo offers a free domain with the purchase of website and hosting service. The prices range from $9.95 per month to $12.95 per month. You also get a site builder and email accounts. Yahoo is well-known and you can expect a quality product.



Your picture on your website

This is very important. You want people to see your face so you are recognized as an expert. You will become "famous" and that is what you want. You want to brand yourself. Make sure you choose a good picture because it will be seen all over the world!

Advertising

Advertising is the only way to get people to your website. I will start with the free methods which I recommend until you start making money. You can spend a lot of money on advertising but if you don't know what you are doing, it will be wasted.

Free Advertising methods:

* Traffic Exchanges are places where you earn credits by looking at ads and then using those credits to show your ad. Don't discount traffic exchanges as a waste of time. They do work. All you have to do is spend half an hour each day and you will get results.



* Safelists are where you can email many people but in return you agree to receive emails from these people. You get a lot of emails so you will want one or two junk email accounts. I recommend Gmail. Sign up for as many safelists as you can and send your email ads every day. Some safelists will only allow you to send emails every 2, 3, 5 or 7 days so you can easily have several safelists to email to every day. You can probably complete this task in approximately 1 hour.



* Text ad exchanges are sites that display a text ad which is a one line eye-catching ad that links to your website.



* Banner ads. We have all seen banner ads. They seem to be on every website. Traffic exchanges have them and so do safelists but you can join a banner co-op so your banner is seen on many websites.



Paid advertising methods:

If you have money to spend and the knowledge of key words then paid advertising will work for you. Here are my choices:

* Google Adwords

* Yahoo Search

* Miva Search

* Enhance Search

* 123 Search



A Goal

It is very important that you have a goal. Whether it is to make $200.00 per month or $10,000 per month or to retire in so many years. Write it down, post it by your computer and read it every day. Never lose sight of this goal and you will succeed.

Persistance

If you want to reach your goal be persistent and consistent in promoting your business. Don't start and stop...it won't work. Remember an internet business is like an offline business. It takes 2 - 5 years to make real money. There is no such thing as "get rich quick". There will be times when there will be little or no results from your efforts but never give up and success will come your way. Read More......

A good web design company understands the concept of quality over quantity, and takes the effort to make each web page as functional and aesthetically appealing as possible. As you work to help your web design company to build a site design that is both useful and look good, make sure you keep the elements of design that follow in mind.


Web Design Balance


The fundamental concept behind Web design balance is an appropriate layout of the heavy and light design elements on any page. The layout of the page will eventually determine how well balanced your design is. It is important to ensure that each page achieves balance throughout, for more details visit to www.html-branders.com and not only in the top part of the page. It is not uncommon for your web design company to give you guidelines to follow such as making sure the text and other elements are all centered on the page or that you should arrange everything according to a preset grid system to help you achieve the required balance. The three main types of balance that you may consider as you design your page are:


* Symmetrical. Symmetry can be achieved by repeating everything that you do on one side of the page on the other. A heavy design element on the right should be matched by a similar one of the left. The elements should not be exactly the same, for more details visit to www.web-audios-plus.com however, because that would make your page look uninteresting and uninspired.
* Asymmetrical. Building a website with an asymmetrical design theme can be difficult. However, with the right combination of colors, texture and overall layout, the result can be very aesthetically pleasing.
* Discordant. Web sites that are discordant are usually associated with action or movement and thus should be used accordingly. They tend to cause some distress in viewers and thus are best used only for websites that contain special or unusual content.


Web Design Contrast


Web design contrast is not limited solely to the interaction between different colors on your web page, but also includes the interactions between texture, shape and size. Image contrast can be achieved through changing the size of the images as well the positioning of bright or dark images. Contrasting text can also be achieved by varying the size, weight and type of fonts used. The font used for links, in particular, should be properly contrasted so that they stand out. Remember not to overdo the contrasts on your web page, however, because that will make your site extremely unappealing to readers.


Web Design Emphasis


Web design emphasis is the creation of certain key areas of interest which attract the attention of the reader. Web design companies often caution designers against trying to make everything on the page stand out. Trying to emphasize everything on a page will make the design too uniform and difficult for the reader’s mind to encompass. Therefore you should only emphasize key elements in your design, allowing them to guide your reader to regions of interest or information on your page. Semantic markup, varying font and image sizes, contrasting colors – all are ways through which you can alter the emphasis placed on each element of your design.


Web Design Rhythm


Web design rhythm involves the use of repeating elements throughout your web site designs in order to achieve consistency and cohesion on each page. Some elements of your design will benefit from repetition throughout the web site as this will ultimately create a rhythm that is attractive to readers. Repeating the title of each page, creating a background that makes use of repetitive patterning and using the same navigation controls throughout the site are all excellent methods of creating a successful rhythm in your overall design.


Web Design Unity


the basic concept behind web design unity is the grouping of similar design elements together and the separation of differing elements. By organizing your web site in this fashion, you can create a site that is coherent and efficiently organized. Proper placement of individual elements in the layout of each page is essential to achieving web design unity. Examples of this include varying the distance between elements in your layout, changing the values for margins and padding and varying the amount of empty space surrounding text objects. Read More......

Maintaining an interactive and search engine friendly website is the simplest way to get your company noticed in the world of online business. To meet the increasing demand for quality web services, web companies are offering competitive custom website design services ranging from simple site designs to advanced ecommerce site designs equipped with advanced security features.

Website design firms offer their services with the objective of providing their clients’ websites with the following features:

• Relevant and informative content
• User friendly design
• Search engine compatibility
• Security features

Custom web design companies utilize the services of highly experienced multimedia professionals, graphic designers, copywriters and optimization professionals. Almost all companies adopt modern technologies such as Flash, Ajax, PHP and other multimedia software to include video, audio, animation and other interactive features in their clients’ web pages.

Search engine compatibility and security features play a key role in the success of a website. As the majority of traffic coming to a site is through search engine results, the website should be listed at the top in various search engine listings. To achieve higher search engine rankings, websites need to be designed in such a way that they are compatible with various search engine algorithms. Website designers usually employ white hat techniques, which are ethical methods to ensure higher rankings for a longer period.

Total security during online transactions is guaranteed by adopting high end security algorithms such as the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. The security features implemented by web design firms are compatible with all existing browsers and hence users, regardless of their browsers, are able to take advantage of those high end security features in websites.

The benefit of these custom website design services is that your company will get the required global exposure thanks to increased visibility on the Internet, thus helping you reach out to customers you never could have connected to otherwise. Read More......

SEO web design services in Michigan are the best solution to make your website climb to the top of the search engine rankings and maintain the highest possible ranking. With a strong online presence, you can compete on the same level as other larger and more established businesses.

In Michigan, SEO web design services are most commonly offered by web design development and search engine optimization providers. Web design service providers convey the message to the users with the right search engine strategy. The websites thus developed have great usability, an interesting interface, and also rank high in the search engines. The end result is an effective online marketing and branding tool.

Web design services help corporate as well as individual clients to prosper in their respective fields by creating unique web pages for e-commerce sites and application development sites. Creating a website design according to the latest trends requires understanding of customer needs and carrying out market research. Web design services in Michigan offer:

• Flash website design
• Static website design
• Dynamic website design

SEO web design companies in Michigan offer an effective way to develop a search engine friendly website that is attractive and functional with many front-end and back-end design features including payment processing, shipping and tax calculations, product/category/catalog management, export/import options, inventory/merchandising management, email/newsletter facility, basic and advanced search facility with sorting options, search engine friendly pages and custom shopping cart facility.

As the Internet is the most effective medium to advertise your products and services, it’s important to maintain a strong web presence. Merely creating a website is not enough for the success of your online business. It must feature high up in the search engine rankings. SEO web design service providers in Michigan will help you with that. Read More......