Wii Promote: Free Promotion via Blogs

It's been a few years since blogging first emerged. But it's only recently that it's been considered as more than just a fad.

Many youngsters have turned to blogging to release their tension, a little online place where they can rant about whatever annoys them or makes them happy.

Clever marketers realised that blogging is one of the best methods of Internet marketing.

So, what  is a blog exactly? The word 'Blog' is simply a short version of the phrase "web log". 

Basically,  blogs are online journals. A blog can be set up quickly and easy ABSOLUTELY FREE 

and can be used just for a bit of fun or even for business purposes.

Blogging for your Internet business is a great way to market your products and services. Here are a few ways that your internet marketing will benefit from using a blog:

1. Keep your clients/customers up to date of changes to your website. You can promote new products and your affiliate links through your blog.

2. Publish your opinions, advice or reviews on specific products/services that are relavent to your business. 

3. Include articles that will fetch back-links, and links to your website that will subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This can be helped by putting well written articles in both your blog and your website.

4. Also,You should include other bloggers' affiliate links in your blog to help them earn extra income. In fact some people earn good incomes just from niche blogs with relevant affiliate links.

5. Collect responses on your blogs and accept comments from your blog readers.

 This will build fresh content without any effort on your part and you can learn and improve your products and services through your readers feedback.

6. Connect with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have some valuable points in your blog, they might even put your posts in their OWN favorites lists - that will automatically create backlinks to you in their blogs and further help your rankings and traffic.

So, how do you set up a blog? There are a few options you can use to take advantage of this fun and fairly easy way to advertise your Internet business.

Once you've got your blog up and running, you can promote it via the usual methods. 

A few examples are blog directories, engaging in relevant forums or writing and submitting articles.

Most blog software or providers have a function to provide an RSS feed of your blog posts, so you can submit your feed to RSS directories and to feed servers such as FeedBurner.com

But whatever else you do, remember to add the RSS feed as content to your personalized home pages at Google, my.yahoo.com and my.msn.com, it will help get your blog indexed/listed faster by search engines.

So now you know a bit more about the free advertising benefits of blogging, the next step is to take action - Happy blogging.

NEWBIE Opt-in List Building Strategy - 7 HOT Secrets

Do you want to learn how to develop a direct communication line with your web site visitors without spamming? Develop an opt-in list with a large subscribers' base. You will be able to send personalized emails to your subscribers who have expressed their willingness to receive informative as well as commercial offerings from you. However, you have to tread a fine line between annoying your visitors and making them volunteer the information you need. Knowing the right strategy and implementing it correctly will decide whether your offerings end up in spamboxes or inboxes. These seven steps will guide you in the right direction.

1. Decide what information you need to collect. Names and email addresses are the minimum. Do you need their home address, their gender, or their age group? Don't collect information that you don't have any plan to use. Don't collect information for any anticipated future use. You may get plenty of chances to collect those information from a revised list of prospects. Keep the information collection to the absolute minimum.

2. Publish a privacy policy and provide a link at the point in the web page where you collect users' information. Mention in bold letters that you don't sell their emails to others and practice the same. Your opt-in list is very valuable and don't sell it to others for a few bucks. Don't violate the trust of your visitors and ruin your reputation.

3. Provide instant incentives for subscribing to your offerings. Free e-books, report, software, video tutorials, etc. that interest to your target audience are very effective incentives. If you have a paid member's only area, you can provide time limited access to that section of your web site in exchange for their subscriptions.

4. Publish your past offerings in your website. Each offering should be in the form of a newsletter with quality contents that improve your readers' quality of life. Conclude your contents with your commercials that explain the benefits of products or services you are selling.

5. Set up a discussion board (forum) at your site and make it available to registered members only. The discussion board should focus on your target market. By scanning the posts and their threads, you will be able to identify problems your visitors are trying to solve. Do your research and find solutions to those problems, organize them and publish those solutions your newsletter.

6. Use Co-registration. This will build your list rapidly in a short amount of time. What is co-registration? It refers to the practice of referring subscriptions or leads for memberships with another registration process. There are several ways of doing this.

When a visitor signs up for a free subscription or other service, give them the chance on the thank-you page to opt-in to another offer. Another way is give the visitors to a website the opportunity to sign up for another opt-in list. These do not need to be your thank-you pages or websites. You need to partner up with another web marketer.

The goal here is to find other website owners who you can joint venture with you to offer your newsletter along with theirs. Do a search via your favorite search engine and directories for similar offers and contact the people to set up your joint venture.

Two additional secrets to this co-registration process. First, make sure you offer more value than the other party involved in your joint venture. Second, offer your leads you get from this process more value than you usually offer by giving them a huge giveaway only available to them.

7. Use Squidoo, a social media website, to create lenses. A lens is a web page on any idea. Provide a RSS feed of your website on your lens. Embellish your lens with YouTube videos and Flickr photos related to your target market. Squidoo splits its revenue with lens creators (or lensmasters). Sign up to donate all your revenue from Squidoo lenses to a non-religious charity. Call for action by announcing that subscribers are helping a charity by joining your list.

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