5 Creative Blogging Tips

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I've been building a business online for several months now and one of the best ways to create interest in your business is to provide information about it for others who might be reviewing or researching your company (in my case, Carbon Copy Pro). But what's the best way to provide that information? Well, this article will look at blogging tips and techniques to help you build your business online, so sit back and get ready to discover five steps to successful blogging.

1 Getting Started - Blogging platforms.

There are a variety of different free blogging sites available to get you started at no cost with your own website. Here is a short list;

blogger
blogr
blogster
blog
blogamp
blogger.com
bloglines.com
blogspot.com
WordPress.com

If you have little or no money to get started building your business online, these are all adequate and you can build an audience across the various social networking sites using these free blogging platforms by adding your blog address to your profile page. However, if you want any real marketing power and you want to get found online when people search Google, MSN or Yahoo for information on your company, product or service, you will need to go with a self hosted blog and WordPress is the easiest to operate.

Installing WordPress is a lot easier these days than it used to be with several hosting providers offering a one click install from your admin panel (sounds confusing at first glance but believe me it isn't and sites like Bluehost.com offer video tutorials to take you through this step).

The advantage of a self hosting blog is search engine optimization, although don't be fooled; a well constructed, SEO optimized, keyword targeted blogger blog can get you onto the front page of Google as fast as a self hosted blog if not faster. Perhaps both options are worth your time and investment to grow your online business the right way?

2. What To Do Once You're Inside - Blogging plug-ins to help you make your mark

Once you have your WordPress site set up you will want to install a few plug-ins to help you manage the site and prevent unwanted visitors spamming your posts. Here is my list of top plugins to get you started;

SEO Smart Links - allows you to pre-configure the blog so that posts with specific words in them will automatically link to a url of your choice. This allows you to link a set of words like "online business opportunity" to your own website landing page as the post is added into your blog.

In addition, this plug-in allows you to link back to your own posts within the blog which is equally important in the eyes of Google. Internal linking and building good backlinks, coupled with unique site content, is the key to great search positioning over time. Set your blog up the right way to begin with and this will make life a lot easier.

Google xml sitemaps - make it easy for Google to navigate your site and they will come back for more, as simple as that. This plug-in automatically updates your site map and keeps things in good order without you having to worry about it. A must!

Askimet - the king (or queen) of spam capture. You will need to register with WordPress (its free) to activate this plug-in and once set you can leave it to do its duty, blocking spammers and keeping your site looking and feeling the way you want it to.

All In One SEO Pack - an updated version is now available for this plug-in and if you haven't seen this one its time you did. All in One SEO pack will provide all you need to rank well in search. It takes a little bit of work to get it into shape but once done you will not look back.

Sexy Bookmarks - Don't worry! This is far less risky than it seems. If you write something worth reading you want people to share it and this is the best social share plug-in available, hands down. Set this up to show at the end of all your posts to give people the option to share your great content!

Broken Link Checker - This one does what it says on the tin, as the saying goes. It sits in your admin area and monitors your blog posts to see if you have any broken links within any of the posts and if you do, it notifies you from within the admin area of your WordPress blog. This allows you to keep your site free from broken links and will help you in the eyes of the search engines.

Why is this useful? Because Google and the other search engines don't like a page with broken links in it and it will damage your page rank. Keep it tidy and keep Google happy and you'll benefit from increased traffic to your website.

3. What To Wear When Blogging - WordPress Theme Selection

This is the part a lot of people get wrong. Get it right and it can increase your readership tenfold. Get it wrong and your site will be like a spring board, as soon as someone lands on it, they'll bounce straight off. Theme selection is vital to building your internet business online by blogging.

Here are three of my favourite themes to give you an idea of where to start;

Blue Blix - a free WordPress theme which is bright and spacious and well laid out either in a two or three column style. Great for adding adsense too!

Talian - this is a great theme and one which you can customize to bring in adsense income as well as leads for your online business. This is how I have used it to provide information about carboncopypro [http://www.carboncopypro-business-review.com/2009/08/is-carbon-copy-pro-ready-to-tell-the-truth-or-not-about-claims-that-it%E2%80%99s-all-been-a-big-scam] while bringing in revenue through advertising on my site.

Flexibility - a marketers favourite. This theme allows you to add custom widgets, colours and styles and also to integrate an aweber newsletter sign up form very easily.

Thesis - a paid for premium theme but one which is SEO optimized and packs a powerful punch online to give your marketing ambitions some real weight behind them.

Personally, I like a minimalistic theme, bright, spacious and easy to navigate as well as read. Whatever theme you go for be sure to go for one which can be modified to add your own widgets, header photos, a newsletter opt-in form and adsense to make it unique, personalised and profitable at the same time.

4. What To Say And Who To Make It Pay - (How Successful bloggers build their business)

There are three simple ways that bloggers make money online and if you're intending to build a carboncopypro business or any other online business by blogging then cashflow is essential to your success. Here is a short list of how successful bloggers make money from their site;

They sell products by reviewing them on the blog
They sell advertising space on the site
They sell knowledge to their readers through a newsletter

What each of these income streams needs is traffic, ongoing traffic from a trusted source and there is no better way to continue to drive traffic to your website than through an email list. This is not so much new traffic but re-using what you have over and over again. Provide value and quality information to your list and they will continue to return to your site, increasing its overall traffic value and providing you with more opportunities to make sales from your readership.

Add an opt-in form to your blog to encourage readers to leave their email and contact details in return for ongoing coaching or information on your business, whether that's carboncopypro or any other online business you decide to build. So get out there and start to put that news letter together!

5. The Final Frontier - Online Promotion

Finally, when you have your site set up and ready to go and you have written a great article to launch it you'll want to get the word out about your website and tell the world all about your online business through your blog. Here's a short list of places to promote your blog to. Add a link to your website when you set up a profile on each of these social networking and bookmarking sites and you will soon see your page rank and traffic start to climb.

Google notebooks
Hubpages.com
articleonramp.com
EzineArticles.com
gather.com
squidoo.com
digitaljournal.com
fanpop.com
oondi.com
ever.com
facebook pages
slashdot.org
mister-wong.de
delicious.com
reddit.com
mixx.com
digg.com

Have fun blogging your way to success online and before you know it your online business will start to provide you with the kind of income you deserve and the freedom you desire!

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Blogging for business – how to make money online

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Blogging for business is something every business, whether small or large, doing, is to improve its productivity to generate better income and exposure. Blogs are essential for the start an online business and assistance helps you to create traffic and customers attract. Here are a few tips that you can use so that your blogging is done properly.

#1

Increase your search engine optimization success to indemnify. This is very important because search engines love new content map. So, you choose the right keywords increase your chances of people out there. To do some keyword research and select some low competition keywords, you can use in your blog posts for more exposure in search engines like Google. Make sure that your blogs are relevant and bombard itself with too much information, because this can confuse visitors. Market itself as also by putting up advertising and others. Be creative and smart, if you are blog posts.

# 2

Blogging for business requires the use of other links to your blogs. This is great because you give additional reviews to your viewer which is advantageous for them, and they know that you have to share a lot of good information. You link up with other bloggers also helps in improving your working connections and can help to build better future relationship. Note, however, that you want to link from site poor to another. Always ensure that you offer high quality content and therefore make sure to link the sites you provide is also of great value, top quality content.

# 3

The next thing to remember is the new blogs everyday as it builds the interest of viewers and visitors. You are forced to come every day to see what is offered by you. In addition to this fact, it builds a rapport between your visitors and you how to communicate with them and answer their questions. And this is SO important if you want to run a successful blog online. Connect with your readers. They can information that benefited them you will be and they can also help you, because you know what they like about your blog and what changes they to want to see.

These 3 tips about blogging for business are very important because they ensure that your business is always all the success you want.

This will do not however only the work for you. You need to you to do so, as your blog, make money to educate machine.
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HOW TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE

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In recent times the quest for a successful business by professional entrepreneur has been on high trail and has science been reviled by many experts in their various profession. Putting these great ideas of there’s into different medium either books, seminal, workshops, this has been made so easy that you can get this ideas through e-book, as software, and also the world wide web diaries also know as blogs. This has been enabled due to the invention of technology. And many of which has become a great success and a very huge advantage to the enter world, the likes of Microsoft, Google, Blogger, Adsense, Clickbank, EBay and so many more to be named. But in attaining success in your business there are so many criteria that need to be reviewed, be it a small or big  business enterprise, you have to make a proper study on the WHAT, WHERE, HOW, TO WHOM AND WHY your pieces of information or that great idea of yours would blow in the BIG market. If you haven’t been able to identify that, then you should start thinking about it and I kindly ask that you take a little time to read this little idea of mine which was of great help to my aunt in starting up her little poultry business which I happen to run more than half of all the duties involved.



WRITE BUSINESS, SALES,MARKETING AND OPERATION PLANS:


Talking about the importance of plan writing, each an every firm either small, medium or big enterprise must have and maintain a blueprint which is annually edited, these should contain your downfall, success and even the future plans. In helping your company succeed, investors and employees need to know what the future plans of your company holds, this will help them(investors, employees, management) know when to fit in their ideas and suggestions.



MEET WITH PROFESSIONALS IN YOUR BUSINESS LINE:


Before meeting with people who are in the same business you run or have in mind, you must have a well scheduled plans of yours, having in mind that leaders who lacks plans and vision for their business don’t get to gain peoples interest. Keep in mind that your main reason for scheduling the meeting is for you to acquire knowledge and exchange ideas, so you must be confident about yourself with out being rude. Have an open minded condition and lastly be flexible.



REVISE YOUR PLANS:


Before you finally carry out your project take out time to review your plans once more and kindly ask for a professional revise.


MEET WITH FELLOW WORKERS;


Schedule a company meeting involving every one in the company and interact on how the management plans to solve problems arising and copy to each one of them the company’s business plans, requesting for suggestions and ideas. This tip works for a business that’s has already been established because it goes to tell that proper consideration is being put in place for the development of your company.



BE CLOSE TO YOUR CUSTOMERS:


Continue to instill confidence and trust in your customers, be quick to inform you customers about the company situations of thing, avoid being deceitful knowing that success also depends on the trust your consumers put on your product or services. So always make provision to solve matters that arise, if you cannot do that at that point in time promise to go on a research and keep to your promise.


VISIT THE TAX AUTHORITY:

Do not go against the laws of the land, so contact the tax office to discuss and work out your taxation bill with respect to the level of your company. I know if it were possible most of use won’t like to pay our tax, sincerely I won’t but you just have to fulfill your civic right which is for the up building of your country.



CLOSE EVERY UNIT OF UNNECESSARY EXPENSES:

First contact your bank to get to know the level of income and expenses and the total returns before you cut cost. You can go one to reduce your work labor if you find out that there are some workers that are not necessarily needed, but doing so in accordance with the labor laws of the nation. This will help in buying more financial time and a proper oversee of the labor force with you are hiring.


 In all I have been able to list 7 point that has proven to work so well. This points are not limited as there are variety of ideas, suggestions, innovation and lot more that you can bring in to that business of yours always holding on to the spirit of a young intellect full of high power innovation that must come to reality, with God behind.

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SEO Elite review top 10 no-no on Google

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So, you want to be in the Google Top Ten? Then this Seo Elite Review on the Top Ten things to avoid when designing and optimizing your website will ensure your website gets maximum exposure without incurring penalties. Seo Elite Experts Worldwide have graciously contributed to this Google top ten article and at this time agree that the following list of optimization no-no's are valid at the time of writing.

Seo Elite Review To Title Tag Stuffing

Stuffing the title tag within your website code is possibly one of the quickest way to drop out of the Google top ten. Titles such as "Keyword Stuffing, Stuffing Keywords, keyword stuffing's, keyword stuff" is simply not going to cut it in the eyes of Google, and with so many word repetitions is almost a guarantee of getting a Google demotion. This tends to happen when Google's 'secret police' suddenly throw up a red flag against your website's structure and demote or in the worst case scenarios, totally ban your website for such practices. Our Seo Elite reviewers continually find this type of practice being utilized to try and influence the search engine algorithms. Seo Elite Advice - Title tag stuffing is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review of Image Alt Tags

There seems to be a prevalence these days to using the alt (alternative text) tag on images. Repeat a keyword phrase more than once within this alternative text and on more than three to four images in total for a page, and it is in our view a sure fire way to drop out of the Google top ten search results. For maximum benefits using the alt tag, the seo elite reviewers agreed to choose the initial four images within a page and add not only targeted keyword phrases but to take into account the new LSI algorithms. Seo Elite Advice - Image Alt Tag Stuffing is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Keyword Stuffing Within Website Content

Attempting to raise keyword density percentages by continually repeating keyword phrases within the content of your website will have a two fold effect. Firstly it will affect the flow of words to be read on the page by your visitors, and more times than not will just be a visual turn off. secondly it will drop your website like a stone from the Google top ten, even possibly sending your site back to the Google black hole. I personally find that a keyword density of between 1.5 and 2 percent is sufficient to beat your competitors in keyword density. Seo Elite Advice - Too High a Keyword Density is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Comment Tag Stuffing

Comment Tags are used to include design notes in the background source code when creating a website page. Comment tags are supposed to be used only for adding instructions or reminders to your html code; previously, these tags were used to artificially increase the keyword phrase count / proximity for targeted keyword phrases.

There was some time ago arguments that this comment tag stuffing technique worked, but it has always been a "Black Hat" SEO technique which could result in a drop out of the google top ten. These days this type of seo technique will not help your website, if anything it will either be ignored completely by Google or produce a negative search engine placement result. Seo Elite Advice - Comment tag stuffing is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Hidden Text

Text that is hidden from the view of website visitors by blending in the same colour text as the background colour was once, a very long time ago, a viable asset to building your website, these days it is generally regarded as the quickest way to see your website plummet out of the Google top ten and into oblivion. Seo Elite Advice - Hidden text is a resounding No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Reciprocal Linking

Linking to other websites has long been an effective way of gaining links back into your website. Reciprocal linking is where you have to give a link back in return for the privilege of linking to other websites. This in itself is a valid seo strategy, however, we have found that using this method exclusively to return links to your website can and does have a negative effect on being in the Google top ten search results. It is far better and more productive to use this strategy leniently, mixing in other methods of gaining one way back links into your website. Such strategies as article submission, directory submission and good old fashioned begging and pleading for a back link is more advantageous. Seo Elite Advice - Reciprocal linking on it's own is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To IP Addresses

Interlinking various website addresses (url's) together that reside on one server (IP address) has long been a strategy used by webmasters to either attempt to get their websites indexed earlier or as a cheap way of getting back links into a site. Money of course plays a part as many people cannot afford the expense of more than one hosting account, especially when first starting out on their internet adventure. We have found that this type of strategy is totally worthless and will in no way help your website gain anything other than a swift exit from the Google top ten. Seo Elite Advice - Using one IP address for several websites and then interlinking them is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Buying Site Wide Links

Buying Links from websites is a quick way of getting your website noticed on the world wide web, however, buying site wide links such as footer or sidebar links across a website with over 100 pages has been found to be another way of dropping out of the google top ten. Currently it is unclear as to how the Google algorithms work out such a strategy and our Seo Elite Advice - Buying site wide links is a No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Link Relevance

Relevancy seems to be the 'buzz' word abounding the internet at this time, especially within the seo community. Gaining links back to your website solely from irrelevant web pages will not assist you in either getting your website to the Google top ten or even keeping it within the holy grail of search positions.

An example would be similar to this ... Mr. Jones has a website relevant to 'bread making', Mr. Jones in his wisdom sets about gaining links back to his site from all and sundry. he finds that his back link count is increasing exponentially, however, all of these links are from off topic sites such a car mechanics, hairdressers, dog kennels etc. This scenario is one that will definitely in the long term not assist with his Google ranking. if anything Mr. Jones now finds himself in the depths of page 40 on Google with little or no prospect of ever gaining those Google top ten positions. Seo Elite Advice - Getting all your links from irrelevant websites is a definite No-No !

Seo Elite Review To Link Anchor Text

Anchor text is widely used by webmasters to add relevancy to their link text on websites. This can and does increase the keyword relevancy of any website wishing to rank well for a chosen keyword phrase. The major drawback to this type of strategy comes when the same link anchor text is used repeatedly across a large number of websites. We would suggest that you mix and match different keyword phrases into your anchor text links. This is again where the word relevancy comes into play and is far more advantageous to getting those Google top ten positions. Seo Elite Advice - using the same keyword phrase repeatedly in your anchor text is a No-No !

This article is by no means the final installment on ranking your website in the Google top ten, since search engine algorithms and resources are continuously evolving and refining. However, it is our intention to keep you informed of the most relevant information, we hope you have enjoyed our seo elite review of Google top ten no-no's and that the information contained within assists you in gaining those top positions within the Google search results.

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