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Flexibility... Part Deaux

The fact that blogs can be used by anyone from an old woman
obsessed with her furry pals, to a thirteen year-old boy who feels so misunderstood that he can only communicate his real thoughts through lousy poems is actually an encouraging fact for those who are looking for a moneymaking opportunity. It shows just how flexible blogs are when it comes to them being money making tools.

No matter what topic you want to address, you can use a
blog to do so. They are infinitely effective.

That effectiveness stretches past topic selection, as well.

It extends to the nature of the content on the page. You can use a blog as an ancillary marketing tool for a business--as a means of engaging customers.

You can use it as a sales platform, for announcing your products and offers.

You can use it as an information hub or a means of
pre-selling affiliate products.

Flexibility

Blogs don’t just help boost traffic numbers. They also bring real potential for the purpose of increasing conversion rates. That’s because they offer tremendous flexibility.

In some circles, blogs have received a bad rap. People
lambaste the blogging world and label them as little more than virtual homes for those people who want to write about their pet cats or teenagers, who feel a need to share their angst-ridden poetry.

It’s true that there are thousands of personal blogs that
don’t have any real financial potential. The blog world
has more than it’s share of personal, family, and yes, even
cat blogs.

A tip about Content

• Write the content with user participation

  It wouldn’t make any sense if you just write excellent articles explaining about the technical wizardry you have or the super piece of code you developed, if a reader does not enjoy it. It’s more like watching TV - you prefer a reality show to a News channel(at least many of us). So write articles that will participate users, or at least strike their thinking pattern and provoke them to write about it on their blog. It works if you hit the right note!

Directories for your Blog

We’ve discussed traditional website directories as a source
of back links, but that’s only the beginning of the
directory strategy for blogs. That’s because there are
many great directories that only feature blogs. Some also
feature search capacities, which make them great
secondary traffic streams, as well.

You can check the appendix of this e-book for a great list
of blog-only directories. Signing up for inclusion usually
only takes a moment and getting in the right directory will
provide you with a potentially valuable back link and
additional direct traffic.

Another look at backlinking...

Here are a couple of more ways to generate traffic through backlinks:

First, supply great content. This is probably the best way
to handle this aspect of traffic encouragement. Organic,
natural links back to your site will be read as votes of
confidence by the search engines.

Second, swap links with others. Although running a massive
link exchange campaign can be difficult and cumbersome,
there is no reason to overlook quality link exchanges with
like-minded blogs.

In the world of blogging; back links are a little easier to
come by than they are with static sites. There are a few
reasons for that. Bloggers tend to try to cultivate a
sense of community and are more willing to link to one
another without concern than are webmasters from
traditional sites. Additionally, blogging software and
tools like BlogRolling make it incredibly easy for one
blogger to link to another.

The massive link totals a blog can produce compared to a
traditional site is astonishing. Word travels fast in the
blogging world, and even a relatively new blog might find
hundreds of links pointing in it's direction without a great
deal of effort. It’s no wonder blogs tend to make it
towards the top of the search engine results so regularly.

Backlinking: and why it's important

Linking fuels search engine results. Search engines rely
on automated means of assessing the relative merits of
individual pages and sites, and one metric that they all use in making those determinations is the number of links pointing to the page or site.

If millions of people are linking somewhere, the search
engines assume the site must be valuable and they reward it
accordingly. If a site doesn’t have a single link pointing
in it’s direction, then it will be more than hard-pressed to be able to move it’s way into any meaningful search results.

 

Maximizing your Blog Content

You have heard that content is key...  and this is true.  In order to get your blog backlinked and made popular, you need to have good content.  The best thing to do is pick a topic that you know others are going to want to hear about.

Then you want to let everyone you know see what you are writing about so they will tell their friends.  Start with these methods, and work your way up to the more complex areas of blogging.

Remember, all publicity is good publicity, and all traffic is good traffic.  No matter where you are getting it.   So take your time and make sure you are using good grammar.  That is most important because people just don't want to read something that is not correctly put together.  Just use your head and you will be fine.

Content for your Blog can Make All the Difference!

Good content can make all of the difference in the world.
If you have good material in your blog, you are far more
likely to generate a substantial readership. Once people find insightful or informative posts, they’re more likely to come back again.

They are also more likely to become advocates for your blog, linking to it and recommending it to others. Their
voluntary linking to your blog will encourage a direct
traffic flow while simultaneously improving your
performance on the search engines (more about that in a
little bit). That’s one reason why interesting, engaging
content is often referred to as “link bait.”

It’s beyond the scope of this article to detail everything
that goes into good content and engaging web writing. As
such, all bloggers are advised to research the matter in
greater detail.

Looking into the Nuances of Syndication

Let’s think about all of this in terms of another analogy:
You are a columnist for your local small-town newspaper
that has a circulation of 1,000 people. You write a great
piece every Friday afternoon, and everyone in town reads
it. All 1,000 people. That’s great, but your exposure is
capped.

Now, imagine that you syndicate your column with a major
newspaper chain. Suddenly, everyone from the New York Times to every Podunk paper in the country is publishing your article.

You go from 1,000 loyal readers to 1,000,000 overnight.
That’s syndication. That’s what an RSS feed can do for you.
Think of how that kind of exposure could inflate that very
important traffic component of the profit equation!

Specifics of Blogs/RSS Feeds Relationship

Blogs and RSS feeds work well together. They can go hand
in hand. Theoretically, you could rig any website with an
outgoing RSS feed, but the strategy works a lot better with
a blog. There are a few reasons for that.

First, RSS feeds only tend to be picked up if they are
providing something new or timely. They’re appreciated as
a means of providing and organizing new information. You
won’t win any RSS feed popularity contests if your feed
consists of nothing more than the recitation of an
unchanging page from a static site.

Second, the commonly used blogging platforms allow you to
create RSS feeds automatically. You don’t have to program
special coding of any sort. In most cases, you don’t even
have to try--the platform creates the feed automatically.

Third, the RSS feed reader model, as previously mentioned,
exists because people want an organized way of tracking and
reading their favored informational and news providing sites.

That’s the very essence of most blogs. RSS logic just doesn’t adhere quite as well to a static site.