10 Reasons to Put RSS on Your Site!

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Titus_Hoskins]Titus Hoskins

RSS and Blogs are the topics of the moment. Seems
like everyone is talking about it. Granted, there
is too much hype about RSS and Blogs.

But where there's hype - there's interest!

And with good reason, those who don't take
full advantage of it will be left behind.

If you need convincing - here are 10 reasons
why you should put RSS on your site:

1. It's easy and fast! Not to mention Free! You
can use a free service like eBlogger and publish
your Blog and RSS feed within minutes. You can even
place or publish your Blog/RSS Feed on your own site
without knowing 'html' or 'xml'. It's all done for you!

Repeat - it's simple to use and very convenient.
Publishing your blog is only a few clicks away.
(If you need help - just use the link at the end of
this article.)

2. Syndicate Your Content. RSS stands for 'really
simple syndication' and it's just another way of
passing along your information. With the popularity
of 'MyYahoo' and the 'Firefox' browser (which has a
built-in RSS feed reader) - syndicating your
content has gotten even simpler.

The next version of Windows is reportly scheduled
to have a RSS feature. If this happens - RSS will
explode.

3. Get Your Content Indexed. Using blogs to publish
your content is a neat way of side stepping the regular
indexing procedure. It gets your content indexed very
quickly in most of the search engines.

Search Engines are constantly on the lookout for
'fresh content' - these 'link rich' blogs are a good
source of this content. Because blogs are on specific
topics - they have a concentrated source of good
quality informational material to serve up!

4. Instant Contact. Blogs give you instant contact
with your readers or viewers. We live in an 'instant'
society - we want everything five minutes ago. Blogs
provide this instant gratification. Readers or viewers
using MyYahoo have an instant link to your information
or postings.

RSS Feeds will instantly spread your information to
all interested parties - bringing in targeted traffic.

5. Building Your List. People who pick up your RSS
feed or add you to their MyYahoo site - become your
subscribers. You are really building your contact list.
Have a popular blog or RSS Feed and you can build a
large targeted contact list very quickly.

It might not replace your old opt-in email list - but
it can be a lucrative addition to it! Take advantage of
all those targeted contacts.

6. Link Building. Blogs are link heavens! Build your
links thru blogs. All these links will boost your link
popularity and increase your search engine rankings.

Plus, by giving viewers/readers a way of adding your
RSS Feed creates targeted links to your site. This
reason alone is why your site should have RSS!

7. Viewer/Subscriber Feedback. Instant feedback from
your subscribers or viewers is easy with blogs. Creating
trust and credibility is so much easier when there is
immediate communication between the two parties.

8. Keyword Content Building. Blogs are especially
good for building 'keyword targeted content' for your
site. All these links will boost your keyword rankings
in the search engines. Google places a high value on
'anchor text' and blogs are a good place to put all
those links.

You can also start different blogs targeted at
'specific related keywords' covering the major topics
of your site. Again, search engines love related
keyword linking so you can boost your site's rankings
by using blogs.

9. Monetize Your Content. Blogs are an excellent way
of monetizing your content. Blog sites like Eblogger
(owned by Google) even encourages you to use the
'adsense code' in your blogs. If you have a
popular blog - this may bring in extra income.

Plus, publishing your ezine or newsletter in a blog
can bring in revenue for months if not years to come.
All those affiliate links and product promotions
get indexed by the search engines and become
accessible to a wider audience, i.e. market.

10. Because Everyone Else is Doing It! Might sound
a bit 'Jonesish' but you do have to keep up with
what other web sites are doing. To remain competitive -
you MUST put RSS on your site.

Sites without the 'AddtoMyYahoo' link or the 'xml'
button will be the exception rather than the rule
in just a few years - if not months. It's simply
another way of getting your information 'out there'.
It's an opportunity and advantage that you cannot
afford to miss.

Proceed without RSS at your own risk!

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What You Should Know About Seo for Bloggers

What You Should Know About Seo for Bloggers

by James Colt

Genuinely valuable blogs are able to generate traffic to themselves as well as to other blogs and websites that they are linked to.

Blog content is usually focused on a subject the blog creator finds fascinating. Very often the blog subject, or niche, is narrowly focused. The narrow focus of a blog can lead to large volumes of content devoted to a single subject. If the blog creator understands the idea of keyword focused content, and the high value of keyword focused content, a blog may be produced that is great for
search engine optimization(SEO).

The search engine owners and operators love keyword focused content. Why? Because they want the people who use their search engine service to get what they want, that is, to get what they search for.

Ideally, the searcher types in a keyword or a keyword phrase, and, then they get a full page of authentically valuable and useful results for the topic they are interested in.

Now, if a blogger is interested in making money online with the help of a blog or many blogs, then, the cash seeking blogger needs to very good at SEO. The reason this is so, is that the online business blogger will be working against competition who already know how to get what they want from the search engines, that is, they will know how to get ranked on the first page of the search results.

The quickest way to reach a competitive SEO level is to obtain and use SEO software. There is software available that has been produced by individuals with years of successful SEO experience. Even a novice blogger can tap in to this expertise and score some first page ranks for keywords related to their blogs. A relatively short learning curve can be easily transcended by a highly motivated money blogger!

Go with proven winners and get the software, otherwise, you may never know how to accomplish the following:

Get on the first page of search engine results for at least one keyword.

Even better get on the first page of Google's search results for more than one of your keywords.

Even better still, get on the first page for several keywords as often as you want.

Monitor what your competition is doing, in order to stay on top, that is, on the first page for searches.

The ability to act fast, consistently, and often.

Get software designed for SEO, software proven to be effective, and software that will remain effective by means of necessary changes and upgrades.

You will never know how much targeted traffic your blogs could receive unless you give SEO software a trial for a minimum of a week. The good news is that trial periods of longer than a week are offered by one of the greatest SEO packages available in the world!

Still not willing to try SEO software? Please consider the following capabilities and the great difficulty or even impossibility of achieving them without SEO software:

Find out why the top ranked blogs are currently ranked where they are.

Learn what changes you need to make to your blogs in order to outrank your competition.

Get top search engine ranking on Google, Yahoo,and MSN.

Achieve multiple first page listings on Google!

Uncover intimate details about your competition and why they're ranking highly.
Then, discover what is critically important in order to outrank them.

Instantly see who's linking to whom, and why.

See things about your competition that, until now, only Google knows!

See formerly hidden information because you have the "smarts" to acquire
and use powerful SEO software.)

Take what you learn and improve upon it to outrank your competition!

Get thousands of blogs and websites to link to your blogs.

Find the most high quality, high page rank blogs that Google absolutely loves and get a link from them.

Search engine rankings will skyrocket just from the links you get.

Easily submit your blogs to link directories using an automated link directory tool!

Search for super successful blog owners who may be willing to promote you.

Monitor exactly where your blogs rank in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista) for an unlimited number of keywords and an unlimited number of blogs.

See rises and falls in your rankings over a period of time by viewing an
SEO software generated rankings graphs.

View your blog's top search engine ranking for a specific keyword, as well as
the number of positions you have risen or dropped in a period of 1 day, 1 week, or 1 month.

Immediately see which blogs Google gives the most importance to.

Find out which links from certain blogs are guaranteed to shoot you to the top of the search engines.

Learn and practice what the world's smartest online marketers use for SEO.

Discover which SEO software geniuses have released their best money-making tricks, tips, and strategies.

Use these tips, tricks, and strategies within days in your own businesses!

I hope by now you are ready to take your SEO and business to the highest level,
which is only possible with software assistance!

Best of luck and success!

James E Colt

10 Blog Traffic Tips

10 Blog Traffic Tips by Gary Neame

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers.

Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips:

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice.

This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight.

The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum.

Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new.

This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed. You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new.

Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily memorable domain name.

People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL.

Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs.

You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry.

What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger.

The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about.

To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike
in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it.

You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to ArticleBase.com. This is another tip that doesn't bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to ArticleBase.com.

Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter. How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box".

You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I've listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won't stay or bother to come back.

Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

Warmly,
Gary Neame

3 Tips to Increase Traffic to Your Blog Starting Today

Blogging has become the most popular thing to do online. Millions and millions of people have a blog set up online but no one is ever going to see it if they don't know the right way to drive traffic to it. Here are some proven methods to increase traffic to your blog.

Tip #1 - Make a commitment.

Yes, you must be committed to writing in your blog on a regular basis. Make regular blog posts and have conversations with your readers. If someone asks a question the answer it. This will create more traffic for your blog.

Tip #2 - Comment on Other Blogs in Your Niche.

Yes, this does work. If you have read blogs that are in the same niche as you are in then comment on their posts and leave a link back to your blog. Not only can you comment on peoples blogs but you can give tips. If you read a post and know another good way to do something then post it in the comment.

Tip #3 – Linking

Make sure to put links in your blog posts. In each post that you make include a link back to your site. Don't over do it, but put in a few links back to your site or even to another blog that you own. I have over 100 blogs and I make blog posts on a main blog and many times reference another of my blogs in a post on my main blog. This way you will increase links to your blog and your website.

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How to Make Money Blogging in 2009 - 11 Tips for Making it Your Most Lucrative Year Ever

Social media marketing is all the rage right now. Facebook is sexy, Twitter is fast and easy, and MySpace - well, you're nobody without a MySpace page. So where does that leave good old blogging? A has been. But, not so fast. Blogging is still one of the best ways to make money online.
If you want to make money blogging in 2009, the following 11 blogging tips offer some sage advice on how to go about it.

To Make Money Blogging in 2009, Get Back to Basics

Blogging Tip #1:
Create a Posting Schedule. It makes it easier for readers to follow you; indeed, look forward to your posts. If your schedule is erratic, it will take you that much longer - if ever - to build up a loyal following:
Posting Schedule Tip: Try to do so at least once a week.

Blogging Tip #2:
Post from Experience. Did you know that information is the best selling product on the web? And, much of it is written in a "how to" format by authors who've experienced it first-hand. So share your experiences with readers using the first person (ie, "I"). Readers will come to know, like and trust the info you provide. And, that will make it much easier for you to sell to them (which is the ultimate goal, after all). It will also build up your credibility as an authority in your niche.

Blogging Tip #3:

Choose a Niche. Speaking of niche - choose a niche and stick to it. It's where the money is. There's so much info on the web that it's impossible to be everything to everybody. So, clearly define your niche and always post with their wants and needs in mind.

Blogging Tip #4:
Interact with Other Popular Blogs in Your Niche. The most effective way to do this is by commenting on other popular blogs in your niche. Make your posts relevant. Don't just post to post. This is pointless and is a waste of time. Use the space to leave helpful, relevant feedback.

Blogging Tip #5:
Use Good Grammar. I don't care how good your post is, if it's poorly written, you will lose credibility. Never underestimate the power of good writing.

Blogging Tip #6:
Get a Clean Design. You don't have to be a web designer to have an effective blog. After all, readers come for your information. If design is not your forte, don't sweat it. Just use a clean design that's easy to navigate. A clean, simple design is like a little black dress - it's classy - timeless.

Blogging Tip #7:
Get Plugins. Plugins are things like "most relevant posts", "most recent posts", etc. They encourage readers to hang around longer. The longer a visitor stays on your blog, the more likely it is they will buy from you - whether right now or at some time in the future.

Blogging Tip #8:
Blog with SEO in Mind. What I mean by this is, center each post around a keyword phrase. And, the writing doesn't have to be bad to "force a phrase," just keep SEO in mind when you blog. Many bloggers forget this. They tend to think in terms of articles or web content when they think of SEO. But, the concepts apply to blogging as well.

Blogging Tip #9:
Don't Forget to Market Your Blog. Don't stop at posting. Get mileage out of your posts. Employ "sexy marketing", ie, social bookmarking and networking. Tweet them on Twitter, post them to Facebook and MySpace, stumble them on StumbleUpon, etc.
Social bookmarking and networking tip: These are time-consuming marketing strategies because you have to interact with these communities to make this type of marketing effective. So just keep this in mind when you start with them.

Blogging Tip #10:
Personalize Your Blog. Be you; inject some of your personality.

Blogging Tip #11:
Don't Give Up. Blogging is more time consuming than many think when they first start. This is why there are so many dead blogs on the web. But remember, success is a marathon, not a sprint. So don't give up.

If you keep these blogging tips in mind as you head into 2009, it could be your must successful year ever as a blogger.

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19 Reasons To Have Your Own Blog

Are you debating whether to create your own blog? If so, you can advance your decision making process by reviewing the following important reasons for creating and maintaining a blog.

1. Enhance your professional standing, and authority, as a contributor in your area of interest.

2. Enhances your ability to tap into the remarkably interesting and creative world of Web 2.0.

3. Makes it easier and faster to learn about and keep up with your friend's interests, hobbies, goals, aspirations, and involvements.

4. Gives you more freedom to promote and emphasize your uniqueness in the way you want to.

5. To increase your personal cash flow. Is anybody out there making too much money?

6. You can make your unique outlook, advice, and opinions readily available to your visitors.

7. Use your blog to support your website. It's now possible to get a blog up and running in less than hour.

8. Expands your ability to find and then communicate with many other interesting and creative people.

9. You will be able to start a forum where your visitors with common interests and concerns can find and help one another. This is one way of making your blog "sticky". Visitors to a sticky blog are more likely to stay longer and to return.

10. You are further empowered to earn prestige, admiration, and advancement in your areas of interest.

11. You can post your own articles and those of others.

12. You can create blog pages to creatively and imaginatively present your favorite subjects.

13. Allows you to offer ebooks, mini-courses, software, white papers, and other special reports in downloadable forms.

14. You can host pages on your blog or even build entire sites for "technology challenged" friends and associates.

15. By providing a syndication feed from your blog, you can deliver messages and updates without having someone's e-mail address.

16. Adding audio and video content can be very attractive, entertaining, and as well as informative.

17. You can build and share a well ordered history of your ideas, your art, and your music.

18. By offering free guidance and/or a newsletter you can gain friends, fans, and business contacts.

19. You will learn why almost everyone with a blog asks themselves, why build just a blog?...when I could almost as easily build a web business?"

In closing; this list is just a sampling of the possibilities., I realize that the points are just touched on. However, I hope you found it thought provoking and maybe it can inspire you to make choices that advance you in life.

James Colt is an experienced Personal Trainer (ACE), Personal Coach, and Marketing Consultant.