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by Seomul Evans

SEO experts know that one of the best ways to promote your business is to blog. Unfortunately, many business owners are under the impression that blogging takes a lot of time, or they have seen too many bloggers who start out with gusto only to abandon their blogs two or three months later. While both concerns are legitimate, there is no reason to let them keep you from starting your own blog. After all, business blogging is a great way to build a following and shorten the sales process.

Rare is the sales blogger who settles in a quiet room with a pencil and a pad of paper to write down his most profound ideas. Instead, most bloggers spend their time reading other blogs and interacting with others within their market niche. All this interaction makes it easier, not harder, to blog. Once you are in tune with what everyone else is thinking and writing, coming up with your own material is a breeze.

Here are 7 ways to quickly generate your own content.

1. Interviews. Find an expert in your market niche and see if she is willing to be interviewed via email. Read other interviews to glean interesting and timely questions, and then ask her those. Most experts are willing to be interviewed because they get some exposure out of the deal, too. And the whole process only takes about 15 minutes.

2. Guest Bloggers. Hunt down an expert in your field who has expertise in an area you lack and ask him to write an article for your blog. Not only will you increase your following by attracting your guest blogger s base, but you will end up ranking higher for keywords that would not normally generate a lot of traffic for you.

3. Rewrite. Read some of your old blog posts and find one whose lesson remains applicable to your situation today. You probably have additional insight now, so share that with your readers. Link to the old post and add your new insights. Thirty minutes later you have a new article!

4. Have a Contest. This provides a bonus post because you not only have to post information about the contest, but you also have to tell everyone who the winner was.

5. Ask a Good Question. A good question can ignite great conversation. Use Twitter to help build a following for your blog if you do not already have one. The great conversation generated by your question will ensure that your readers will stick around. Everyone likes to be asked for their opinion. Let your readers share theirs.

6. Use Lists. Lists are great article-writing tools because people are automatically attracted to bulleted or numbered content. Because it is easier to read and digest, readers are more likely to slow down for listed material than they are for material that is written in multiple paragraphs. If you have found a list that you like on someone else s blog, repost it on your blog using only the bulleted phrases and add a link to the original. Change the title of your post, of course, but always link back to the source.

7. Aggregator Blogging. Scan blogs within your market niche to find articles that you think would interest your readers. Publish one or two paragraphs from each article, link to the original, and add a sentence or two of your own to tell readers what you did or did not find helpful about the article. This is also a great way to start good conversations and build networks with other bloggers.

Do not forgo the opportunity to build links, network, and shorten the time it takes to make a sale simply because you think that business blogging is too time-consuming. Use what is already around you to make the process quick and painless, and you will see what a difference it will make for your business.

About the Author
Seomul Evans is a search engine optimization specialist for SEO 1 Services links:
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By Angela Booth

Do you blog? If your answer is “No”, start blogging today, because if you’re a freelance writer and your name doesn’t show up in Google, your credibility is zero. Here’s how to get the most from your blog.

There’s more to blogging than you think. Forget considering your blog an online journal: your blog is a professional tool.

I could spend hours talking about the benefits of blogs for writers (and often do), but here are four tips to make blogging work for you.

1. Establish Your Portfolio Blog: Your “Name” Blog

The first blog (yes, you should have more than one) you need to establish is your “name” blog. So if your name is Milly Emmeline Smythe (which I hope is a fictitious name; I’m not referring to a real person), your blog would be titled Milly Emmeline Smythe.

As soon as anyone types your name into Google, your name blog should appear.

Big tip: please forget creative, cute names. Google and the other search engines are software programs; they have no concept of cleverness. Your sole aim is for your name to show up as the first result in a search engine when a writing buyer types your name. If it does: instant credibility.

2. Use Social Media to Share Your Blog Posts

With millions of Web sites online, your blog needs links pointing to it so that people can find you.

The easiest way to get links is to use a couple of the many social media tools. Pick your favorites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… These tools can help you to get known via links, fast.

Another way to get known is to frequent forums.

3. Get Known on Forums Where You Can Get Hired

Stay away from writer’s forums. Your fellow writers, charming as they may be, can’t hire you. They may even harm your nascent career if you take their advice too much to heart. You’ll rarely find professional writers on writers’ forums: they’re too busy writing. However, you will find pro writers on forums for business owners, Webmasters and Internet marketers.

Adding a link to your “name” blog in your forum signature is an easy way of getting a link, and getting hired too. Capable freelance writers are in high demand on the Web.

4. Write About Your Favorite Topics (the Ones You Want to Get Hired to Write About)

New blogging writers tend to write about writing: it’s top of mind, and it’s what you know. However, it’s rarely the way to get hired to write.

Write about the topics you want to be hired to write about: parenting, business, technology…

Remember the search engines. Over time, your name should appear somewhere on the first page of the search results whenever someone enters search query terms like “writer”, “freelance” and “your topic.”

For example, if your pet topic is parenting skills, your name should appear whenever anyone types “writer parenting” into a search engine query field.

Use these tips to make blogging work for you to build your freelance writing career. There’s never been a better time to be a writer: you can make a great income, thanks to your blogs.

About the Author
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by Jeremy Long Chia Teik

The blog has now become a marketing tool for many marketers who want to sell their products or services online. It is phenomenal in effect and has brought various successful stories for marketers engaged in different marketing online activities.

Blogging has much to do with conversations. Your blog must attract readers and bring in the traffic. What is essential to achieving this goal is to pay much attention to your blog content. It can affect the outcome of your marketing campaign. Listed below are a list of tips for great content. It is by no means exhaustive.

(1) Content must be of value and informational  You can write on any topic that is relevant to your niche. The posts must be informational and should provide value to your readers. The content must be interesting and satisfying to readers. If readers are satisfied with the content, they will return to your blog for more information.

(2) Content should be unique  One of the important tips for great content is that it should be unique, besides being of value and informational. Content that captures the interest and satisfies your readers will surely bring about a loyal readership. Readers will return for more. New readers will be added through time.

(3) Blog should be updated  It is intrinsically the nature of blogging that your blog be updated regularly with new posts. New posts are what readers are expecting to see when they return to your blog. They will be delighted to find new refreshing material. Even the spiders of Google will be pleased to know that your blog is being updated regularly with fresh and new content.

(4) Build your reputation  Whatever you are posting in your blog matters a lot to your reputation as the provider of quality content. With links pointing back to you, your blog will experience an increase in traffic, which will in turn raise your ranking. Always ensure that your content is of quality as this will boost your reputation.

(5) Build up your credibility  Building up your credibility as an author is one of the tips for great content. Readers will respect you as the expert in your field. They will come back to you should they need help.You are perceived as the best author who can help them with your knowledge.

(6) Provide mind-provoking content  Content that provides for interaction will help generate traffic for your blog. Mind-provoking content that encourages debate and discussions is a good food for thought. Readers can participate and contribute their views thus paving the way for better interaction, which eventually will lead to increase in visibility for your blog.

Content for your blog is important to your readers. The posts must delight them with great content, and only then will your readers respect you for what you have provided them with.

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by Randall White

A blog is a bit like an online journal, although it can be written by various people, or by just one individual. It’s written on a website in chronological order, although usually appearing in reverse order. Blog or ‘blogging’ are also used as verbs to imply an action - in other words, the action of making a comment on a blog somewhere.

The word ‘blog’ comes from Jorn Barger’s word ‘weblog’ and reportedly sprung into being when Peter Merholz divided it into the two words ‘we blog’ on his website for a laugh.

When lots of folks interact using a blog, they are typically discussing a particular subject of interest for them. Consequently, if someone wants to know what’s the best pink gadget to buy for his boat, others will write in with their comment on how that particular gadget worked - or didn’t work. Blogs are ideal for discovering what other folk’s experiences have been with anything you can conceive.

If someone is knowledgeable on some topic with plenty of experience that other people can benefit from, then he might start up a blog about it and offer advice. They might in addition offer links to other sites that promote products applicable to the area of competence. Also he may offer links to other articles or other blogs regarding the same subject.

Blogs utilize both images and text, but some blogs emphasize art (artblog), videos (vlog), images (photoblog) and audio, that is, podcasting or MP3. Blogs can be long or short, but those that are very short are referred to as micro-blogging. Blogs are typically updated frequently and the technology utilized today permits people who understand very little about it to become competent bloggers with just a tiny learning curve.

In the early days of blogging, bloggers referred to themselves diarists, journalers, or even escribitionists. An article or comment placed on a blog is called a post, a blog post or an entry. Old blogs on a topic are sometimes referred to as ‘archives’ and may be maintained on a different page or pages that can be accessed via a hyperlink. There are occassionally a variety of links - like the index at the end of a book and they are located on the right or left of the blogging page.

The beauty of blogging is that people who have the same interests can all join together and talk about, getting to know each other (so to speak) at the same time.

About the Author

The author, Randall White, often writes on topics such as What is Blogging? For more great articles, videos, and products, go ahead and check out Blogging for Fun and Profit

By Kristine Wirth

If you have a blog, you need traffic. Period. Regardless of how great you may think your blog is, if no one can find it you’re dead in the water. Watching day by day go by without so much as a nibble.

That’s where backlinks come into play. Backlinks are links that come from other sites and point to your blog posts. The more sites you have linking to you, the more likely you will receive traffic and the more likely that search engines will rank you higher in their search engine results pages.

Here are 5 make or break tactics to get those much-needed backlinks pointing to your blog.

1. Use Wordpress. If you aren’t using Wordpress as your blogging platform of choice you’re missing out on a whole world of traffic. It’s important to note that you should be using Wordpress on your own server rather than using simply Wordpress.com. Having Wordpress on your own server opens up a world of options to you that Wordpress.com doesn’t offer.
2. Create Linkbait. At first glance linkbait sounds like a bad thing. However, it’s nothing more than making a blog post that gets people’s attention. This could be something useful, something controversial, or something fun. Whichever you choose, make it interesting enough to get people to link to you.
3. Submit Your Blog. Submit your linkbait to places like StumbleUpon, Propeller and Digg.
4. Claim Your Blog. Be sure you sign up to Technorati and claim your own blog.
5. Submit Your Post to Social Bookmarking Sites. One quick and easy way to do this instead of visiting each individual social bookmarking site is to sign up to OnlyWire which will allow you to bookmark in multiple places online with one click of your mouse.

These are just five ways to get links back to your blog. There are multiple more ways but even these five ways will put your blog leaps and bounds over your competition.

It’s not difficult by any means to use the tactics above but it will take a little time. Carve out a portion of your day and spend some time submitting those great blog posts of yours. Before you know it, you’ll start to get noticed and nothing is more important than getting noticed online.

About the author
You can find more killer free tips as well as applications to generate backlinks quickly at KristineWirth.com. Taken from over 11 years of experience online, Kristine’s once privately held information is now made available for free on her site.