I'm evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they're letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.
I'll let you know what I think once I've had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it's still free.
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Posted by Gino Napolitano on 2009-01-05.
Category: Blogging
If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of,
and that you want to share with other people, there
are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog
noticed.
One of those ways is something that you do everyday,
and that you may not even consider as a way to share
your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email
signature.
Chances are that you send out emails more times than
you can count during the day, Each time you send out
an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the
address of your blog in your email's signature.
It's always a good idea to write something catchy
like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest
chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of
blog you have.
The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement
in your signature for your blog is to make it short,
but eyecatching.
You want people to be interested enough to want to
click on it, but you also don't want to scare them
off.
Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to
give them just enough to be interested and take a
closer look at what it is that you are advertising.
Think about what it is that your blog is about. What
is really going to interest people abuot it and want
to visit? That is what you should include in your
signature, and that is what is going to get people to
go to your blog.
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Posted by Gino Napolitano on 2008-12-23.
Category: Blogging
You can make viral marketing work in many different ways. One way to make viral marketing work for you is to use social network sites. Sites such as MySpace and Facebook can be used in a number of different ways. You do not have to just use them to keep in touch with old and new friends. You can use these sites and their forums as a form of viral marketing.
Viral marketing is the art of getting others to spread the word about your product or idea. Imagine if you tell two friends about something and they tell two friends and so on. This used to be the gimmick used in a commercial on TV for shampoo, but it was really just talking about viral marketing long before the term was coined.
When you belong to a site like MySpace, you should use it as much as you can. If you have an idea or a website, you can link it to your MySpace page and people can visit you and then see your site. They may decide to visit your site. It is like free advertising for any product, service or idea that you have. You can use these sites in many different ways. The forums can be used to also draw attention to your page as well as yourself. You can then draw people to your website business and get those on MySpace to visit you.
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Posted by Gino Napolitano on 2008-12-22.
Category: Viral Marketing
The Internet plays a huge role in the lives of people on the entire planet; it is the fastest means to communicate with friends on the other side of the world and the richest source of information when you have to research for something. The latest trend and probably the most successful way of expressing oneself via the Internet is the blog. What does blogging actually mean? The whole concept revolves around the personal need to express feelings or thoughts, share opinions, spread news or simply have fun. A blog is actually a small individual web page more like a diary that you keep online; it receives regular updates and allows the use of links, photos, videos and extended documents.
Many people were attracted by the "blogging" phenomenon thanks to the great opportunity of making themselves heard by a specific targeted audience. Blogs are not complex web pages, it entirely depends on what the creator wants to share with the world. When you've got great pieces of news, funny links or a hobby to talk about, a blog may be just the right way to open up to an international "community". Most often, blogs attract more attention than large and well-designed web pages? How is it possible for blogging to have reached such a status?
First of all, blogs generally tackle with one issue of interest for the user; there is fresh and rich informational content, and extended friendly links to other sites or blogs in the domain. It has become common knowledge by now that blogs often receive more traffic than other web pages. Why? The answer lies within the very essence of a search engine structure: what a search engine likes most is fresh and high quality content. This is the main preeminence blogs and the blogging phenomenon has managed to achieve ahead of normal web pages.
If blogging started as the perfect diary online, it has now come to acquire different dimensions, of which the commercial one is the most well-developed. I'll give you an illustrative example here: let's say you like gardening, and you've also started your own home business of growing plants. A blog on flowers, plants and their peculiarities would meet the requirements of other people who share your hobby, but it would also function as a great promotion tool for the development of your business. Therefore, web marketing and the need to communicate happily meet within the very concept of "blogging".
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Posted by Gino Napolitano on 2008-12-21.
Category: Blogging
