Mike's Blog Marketing Tips

If you, like many others, are having trouble driving in some traffic and are looking for a surefire way to get it in, then take a look at WordPress SEO. If you haven’t heard of WordPress before, you must have been stranded on a desert island somewhere! It is one of the world leaders for blogging. Are you wondering why? Besides the fact it’s simple to use, it also offers you the ability for you to optimize your website for all the search engines. However, you have to be fully aware of the dynamics that go into optimizing your WordPress blog before you can see any results. Used correctly, the optimization WordPress offers can dramatically increase the traffic to your site. In this article we will explore various tips that will help you get the most out of your site.

Many people resist things they don’t understand and that’s how I felt about WordPress for many years.  As I become more familiar with it and saw what it could do for my marketing, I became a convert.

WordPress Is Search Engine Friendly

Search engines love WordPress and there’s a good reason for that.The WordPress developers worked with the search engines to ensure that WordPress would be easily crawled and indexed.Search engines are able to easily crawl and index your blog’s content because of that.Then be sure to write some original content.

Pinging Your Blog

Pinging is by far one of the best features of a WordPress because it tells a web blog tracking system that your blog has been updated.  These pinging services are like search engine spiders for blogs.  It’s one of the fastest ways to tell the world that you’ve got new content.Find as many pinging services as you can because the more your blog is broadcast, the more visitors you’ll get.The URLs of the pinging services can be entered in the WordPress Settings – Writing – Update Services box.  Read more... (454 words, 16 images, estimated 1:49 mins reading time)

While bloggers have countless choices when it comes to the software they use, WordPress tends to be the one that many finally decide on. So what makes the WordPress CMS so different? Perhaps the most notable difference is how intuitive WordPress is when it comes to creating your site. Simple to employ, it creates professional work every time. But one of the biggest benefits that you achieve by using WordPress is that it gives you an upper edge over the others when driving traffic to your site. The kind of features that come bundled in WordPress are enough to boost your search engine rankings, which can only be done if you are able to utilize the full potential of WordPress SEO. But in order to receive the most benefits from the SEO abilities of WordPress, you’ll need to ensure that your settings are correct. In order to get top rankings with major search engines, such as Google, you need to make getting these details right a priority. In this text, we examine the particulars of employing WordPress SEO most effectively, since organic visitors are so important, especially as they do not cost anything.  Read more... (674 words, 16 images, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)

Write as though you’re speaking to one person

• Picture yourself as though you’re writing your article to a single person. This makes you appear more personable and will help keep your readers interested in what you write about.

Make good use of white space within what you write

• Plenty of white space will make your article appear more professional. Also, breaking up long paragraphs into short 2-4 sentence paragraph will help keep your skim readers interested in your article and will make your article much easier to read.

Double and triple check your articles for errors

• It’s imperative that you make sure you check your grammar, check for misspellings and the like. Remember, it’s your credibility you’re building and it only takes one missed mistake to ruin it for you.

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Article marketing and internet marketing are not one and the same. Internet marketing is the broad concept that encompasses quite a few concepts within the it. Article marketing is just one of the many facets of web promotion. No internet marketing campaign is complete without some form of article marketing, the two just go hand in hand. Using articles as a means to market yourself or a product or service is a vital component of any complete internet marketing solution.

There are many ways you can use in an effort to get your name noticed. The problem for most (myself included) is that many of the available forms of marketing online require you to spend money. After all, advertising, for the most part, isn’t free. Advertising with articles, on the other hand, is generally free. People have been using this unique form of marketing for quite some time, long before ecommerce became the big thing. When speaking of ecommerce and internet marketing, article marketing is one of the best ways of getting your information out there and creating back links to your site, blog, or affiliate products.  Read more... (400 words, 16 images, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

If you’ve visited any online marketing forum, it’s likely you seen quite a few people using article marketing, as well as other forms of internet marketing to generate opt in sign ups for their lists, traffic to their sites, not to mention, generating revenue for themselves through signature ads, affiliate marketing or even selling their own products. And while its true putting together an cogent article is a very important part of beginning an effective article marketing campaign, if you’re like me, doing so doesn’t come easy. With that in mind, here’s 4 tips I use that can help you step up your article marketing campaign

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Regardless of what you may have heard about affiliate marketing, it’s very unlikely for everyone to make 5,000 – 10,000 dollars a month, as there is simply quite a bit competition. Also, no money will fall into your hands without you doing anything for it.

With that in mind, you’ll find some high level tips below that will help you make money with affiliate marketing programs on the internet.

Google

Even though the days of free traffic aren’t completely over, they are surely fading away fast. You can choose to work hard creating webpages that score well in the search engines like Google and Yahoo, although it can be difficult to do. By spending money on for clicks on Google, you’ll have the best three positions on the search engines that matter the most. If you hope to generate web traffic from Yahoo, all you have to to do is be at the top of Google.  Read more... (322 words, 16 images, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

I just wanted to thank those of us who consider me an expert. But truth is, I’m hardly the expert. I’ve not made one single dime off any online endeavor, including this blog, I’ve taken part in. It’s a fact that 98% of all the people who jump into online marketing fail. And I feel it’s important for you to know, I’m not in the 2% that makes it work.

As some of you who follow my wife’s blog already know, due to a number of reasons, we moved from Santee, California to Chamberlain, South Dakota, my wife’s hometown. Luckily, we were able to get into low income housing and we get by on food stamps, energy assistance and my wife’s unemployment insurance. I tell you this, not because I seek your pity, but because I think it’s important for you to know the truth.  Read more... (325 words, 16 images, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)

For many of us, writing an article just feels like it’s too much work or takes too much time. Not only that, many of us also fear all the work they’ve put into their articles goes to waste because no one reads them anyway. Or so they think. And then there’s those of us who feel reading articles is too much work or takes up a lot of time. In my opinion, there are inherent flaws in both likes of thinking.

Articles and blog posts are supposed to be read. And when articles and blog posts aren’t getting read, then and only then does writing an article or a blog post become a waste of time and energy. I receive comments from time to time asking for marketing tips that take less time than writing articles. And I have none. This is because all types of marketing, free or paid, require your time. And, to my knowledge, there’s no getting around that.  Read more... (581 words, 16 images, estimated 2:19 mins reading time)

Believe it or not, you can start building a list simply by writing articles.

Simply type and send your articles on whatever your topic of expertise is to popular article directories where editors and readers of electronic publishing are looking for the information that you can provide.

Taking advantage of viral marketing efforts on article writing can be rewarding, if done well. In a real sense, this is actually proving their worth and demonstrates their knowledge of their business through the articles you write.

So, how can this method in effect build your mailing list? The answer: the resource box to attach to your articles. In your resource box (also known as bio box), including a brief detail about you and your business site together with its URL.  Read more... (309 words, 16 images, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

Now, while I do have a Twitter account, I’ll admit I’m not really that big on it, nor do I spend hours “twittering” away. Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. But for those of you who do or for those of you new to Twitter, here’s a short presentation on making your Twitter experience easier and more gratifying. (Note: You can enlarge my player by toggling the little do-hickey on the lower right hand side.)

I figure I’m about 99.9% done with now with my EC drop pages. You can now drop 300 EC in a relatively short period of time. In an effort to be original, I chose to use each blog’s banner, as opposed to the title of the blog in text. Not only that, each banner links directly to its respective blog, so those of you on my list get some link love from me, for what it’s worth. I also did that in order to ensure that there’s no excuse, even using my EC drop tool, for not visiting any of the blogs on my list. I made these pages for people, like myself, who don’t always have the required 2-3 hour time commitment it takes to drop on 300 blogs. This tool, and other like them, give you the time you need to drive traffic to all of your blogs more efficiently with Entrecard.  Read more... (701 words, 16 images, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

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