Free Book: Make Money Blogging - Create a Blog for Profit

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1. There is a lot of potential to build an online presence today, especially with the rising popularity of blogging. A lot of people today are getting into blogging and figuring out that they can use it to do things like making money or promoting their business. There are a lot of things blogging can accomplish, and if you want to see how best to do it then go through the tips in this chapter.
2. Make sure that you do not have duplicate content. You can check for this by using the robots that are out there. If you do have content that is duplicated, the search engines will probably tag your site for spam, and you will not wind up getting the attention that you are looking for.
3. Make sure that you are productive with your blog. Do not allow yourself to waste your time watching television, or playing games when you could be doing things to make your blog bring in more visitors. When you are using a blog to make money, you are going to have to put the work hours into it.
4. Making frequent and interesting comments on the blogs of other people is a great way to increase exposure to your own. Google Reader has an excellent tool for keeping tabs on blogs that are related to your own. Comment on these regularly, every time you wish to say something.

5. Title your posts to draw your reader's attention. No one is going to read a post with a poorly constructed and boring title. The title, after all, is what draws the reader's eye to the post. Without a distinctive title the page would just be a long, boring piece of assorted words.
6. Give your readers the opportunity to subscribe to your blog and your RSS feed. When people can have good content delivered hot and fresh, you increase your value to them ten fold. Keep the subscribe button in an easy to find place and deliver good content regularly to dissuade readers from discontinuing.
7. Blogging is a great way to promote a product or web site, if you encourage comments and discussion, that is. Blogs are informal and easy to set up, which means you can add as many posts as you want to describe your product and even ask your readers for valuable feedback. So, if you are selling a product in a brick and mortar store or on a web site, you should set up blog to take advantage of the marketing opportunities that it creates.

8. In order to successfully run a blog, you need ideas. To help you get these ideas you should visit forums other forums and blogs. Also, a lot of the time the people who comment on your blog are great at generating new information that you might never have thought about before. To be relevant in today's blogging world, you need to constantly come up with fresh material that people want.
9. Make a mailing list. This can be essential to retaining and growing your audience. This is also a step that shouldn't be applied too early. You should wait until you start having a large number of regular readers. This can be essential if you are writing for a specific niche.
10. Use bold and italic formatting on the keywords you use in your blog. This is a practice that is not only helpful to search engine indexers; your readers will appreciate it, too. When your keywords are easy to read and they stand out, you will increase the possibility that your users will click on them. Remember that this should be your goal.
11. Before ever starting a blog, decide what you want from it. Would you like to gain recognition as an expert and create a reputation for yourself? Do you want to use your blog to make money? You may have different goals. You need to grasp your objectives, and proceed with your blog in a way that helps achieve them.
12. Keep track of what other bloggers are doing so that you can stay ahead of the game. It can only help to know what the blogging competition is up to. Other bloggers will also look at your blog to observe what you are doing.