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[ # ] Blog Marketing: How Easy Is It?
April 28th, 2008 under Blog Marketing

Blog marketing is one of the latest trends of marketing online that you are going to find. Blogs which are also known as web logs are very popular in this day and age. You can make a blog on any particular subject that you want and then publish it for the world to read.

If you are just beginning in internet marketing, you are going to find that starting a blog is very easy to do. Anyone can sign up for a free blog, and then proceed to market basically anything that they want to. Because blogs are free to have and make, this makes blog marketing even better. Where as if you have a website, and are wanting to market things that way, you would have to pay for your domain, pay for your hosting of the domain, and then know some HTML or hire a website designer.

Search engines love blogs, and are always pretty fast to index them. Getting yours out there for the world to see is not going to be hard. There is this cool tool that you can use every time you update your blog that is known as pinging. Pinging your blog after every entry that you make will let everyone know that your blog has a new entry and updated.

Depending on your overall goal with blog marketing, you can update your blog as frequently as you like. Which could be daily or weekly. Whichever you choose, just be consistent with it. If you start out updating daily, stick with it. This way your blog readers will know that they can check your blog daily for new postings.

If you are wondering exactly what you can market in a blog, you can market whatever you want to. However, it is best to stay within one market in your blog. If you have several different things that you would like to promote, and none of them really fit together well, you can create a blog for each market. Remember that if the markets are not related, do not mix them on your blog. For example, if you have a blog on vacuum cleaners, you will not want to also mix in television sets on the same blog. This is because both vacuum cleaners and televisions sets are two different markets. But, you could mix vacuum cleaners and handheld mini dust busters. Make sense?

There so many things that you can market in your blog. Whether you want to sell your own products and services or someone else’s and make a commission off of what you sell. The sky is the limit when it comes to marketing. Affiliate links work great in blogs as well. Signing up to sell other people’s products and then marketing them in your blog is a great idea.

If you are considering having both a blog and a website that will work if you have enough information to cover in both. Linking them both together is a great idea if you do decide to have both. You can always use the website to hold your main information and products, and the blog to promote them and discuss any issues regularly.

Wondering about hosting? If you have a website, you can either host your blog on the same server you use for your site, or you can leave it where it is. The choice is ultimately up to you, either way you can have successful blogs that will begin to bring in revenue to you.

Getting links to your blog is a good way to gain new readers. Another great tool you can use is the RSS feeds. When you use the RSS feeds, it allows people to publish your blog on their site, and in return it gets you more visitors.

Blog marketing can be pretty effective if it is done right. However, you cant just set up a blog and expect people to find it. Get your blog out there and make it known to others just as you would a website. Exchanging links with others will help, so will article marketing using your blog.

Blog marketing is easy and anyone that wants to can do it. Getting your blog out there and known will be your biggest challenge, but just know that the harder you work at it, it will pay off. Find sites that are related to the market you are promoting, but not in direct competition and ask for link exchanges.

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  • Read the Comments

    [ # 6996 ] Comment from UK Web Design [May 1, 2008, 3:28 pm]

    Some great ideas for blog marketing here. Another is to comment on other blogs to get your brand and name out there, as well as submitting your content to various social media sites.

    [ # 7004 ] Comment from Izrada Stranica [May 10, 2008, 11:35 am]

    Nice post, I agree with you. It’s not a rocket science, it’s just a hard and of course smart work :)

    [ # 7019 ] Comment from space codes [May 20, 2008, 4:02 am]

    Those are really good tips. Its really sad to see that many people create blogs but don’t know how to utilize it.

    [ # 7023 ] Comment from zohai [May 20, 2008, 2:55 pm]

    Is blog marketing that effective? I’m pretty sure they just treat it like another ad. But if you do review of that product it might attract more audience right?

    [ # 7030 ] Comment from Make Money Paypal [May 22, 2008, 9:33 am]

    totally agree with it
    internet marketing is getting famous nowadays and many teenager use it to earn some extra pocket money also!

    [ # 7039 ] Comment from Larry [May 27, 2008, 12:14 pm]

    I have found that blogging is a great way to get back links for your site. You can also use social bookmarking to help promote your blog!

    [ # 7044 ] Comment from Bill [May 27, 2008, 8:34 pm]

    Hey I’m new to the blog marketing as well. Thanks for the lengthy and good read. Pinging is very useful for blogs as it takes care of some of the marketing for you.

    Keep up the good work!

    [ # 7046 ] Comment from golf travel bags [May 29, 2008, 10:34 am]

    It sounds so easy… But in fact, we still have to do many things with the blog and put some efforts. It’s not that easy for me since I’m just an idiot in this kind of marketing. :)

    [ # 7047 ] Comment from Money [May 30, 2008, 8:25 pm]

    This is a good read about blog marketing. Own blogs are very simple and you can even get them for free. They are easy to use too.

    [ # 7052 ] Comment from Stefan [June 2, 2008, 5:17 pm]

    Currently Iam trying do marketing my blog. Most with SEO but also with Social stuff but its hard for a beginner like me :(.

    [ # 7053 ] Comment from robee [June 4, 2008, 7:15 am]

    Thanks for the article. I have problem to promote my blog. I don’t know the best way to promote it.

    Now, may be I can practice.

    [ # 7058 ] Comment from Marmaris [June 8, 2008, 4:32 am]

    Actually i’m a new readers on this.. but it’s really good for me coz so much tips and great tools for me to refer… thanx and it’s a great info to grab it!

    [ # 7060 ] Comment from Newspaper articles [June 11, 2008, 3:33 pm]

    I think that a lot of people focus on marketing prematurely. It’s best to make sure you have a solid blog before attracting a bunch of unimpressed readers.

    [ # 7063 ] Comment from Amazing Blogger [June 17, 2008, 2:09 pm]

    I really don’t think that online marketing is as easy as you say it is. Exchanging links and rss directories is not enough. You have to do a lot more than this. But on the other hand it’s the amount of traffic you want to achieve. Maybe tips you’ve listed is really enough for a starter.

    [ # 7064 ] Comment from SEO India [June 17, 2008, 7:12 pm]

    Hi, your post is awesome….
    So, by putting blog to our site we can improve our ranking of our site. Nice post..

    [ # 7066 ] Comment from Free Blogger Templates [June 18, 2008, 4:31 am]

    I think it’s easier said than done. :) Unless you really like what you’re doing, I say making money online via marketing, seo, etc.. is hard.

    [ # 7067 ] Comment from Professional SEO Consultant UK [June 18, 2008, 9:29 am]

    You’re certainly right about blogs being indexed quickly by the search engines and being a great ‘tool’ for getting your message out on the Internet.

    However, you’re almost better not starting a blog unless you’re confident you can fulfill the needs of future readers. You need to be able to write or pay someone to do it for you.

    You ned to be very committted to it before starting. You need to be able to post frequently and supply content people will want to read (ahem… like your goodself :).

    [ # 7068 ] Comment from marco [June 19, 2008, 1:17 am]

    I’m also considering using a specialized copywriting softwared called Glyphius. Has anyone had any experience with this? It is supposed to use statistical analysis to optimize the wording of your advertising copy. I’d be interested in hearing any feedback, good or bad. Thanks

    [ # 7070 ] Comment from Internet Marketing Firm [June 24, 2008, 8:14 am]

    Although blog marketing is easy the benefits of it are almost unlimited. Through business blog marketing, you can draw your customers and potential customers into conversations, giving your company an interactive forum on the web.

    [ # 7075 ] Comment from Bluetooth [June 28, 2008, 11:52 am]

    Pinging, RSS Feeds and others are very important areas in blog marketing. The post is really very comprehensive and that’s infact true that search engines particularly Google loves to crawl blogs as compared to websites.

    [ # 7081 ] Comment from Tiny Tiger [July 3, 2008, 2:54 pm]

    Nice read. My only cause of concern with Blog marketting is how effective it actually is. Majority of blogs out there are very low…if that…with page ranking. Does posting on those kind of blogs with unranked / PR 0 even worth doing?

    [ # 7082 ] Comment from Dean [July 4, 2008, 3:36 am]

    I still find it amazing how big the blog has become, so easy to set up, catch is making it work for your business or make money. Plenty of success stories out there but wonder how many never made it.

    [ # 7086 ] Comment from Nikki [July 8, 2008, 12:37 pm]

    Brian, I read your article,and it helped me to realize things when trying to pursue the dream of my own successful internet business. Getting everything to run smoothly is difficult, but I would like too, if I may, share something on here that helped me with my business and that might help others reading your article. I have discovered the use of MuVar and it has proven to be successful.MuVar is an interesting multi-variate testing tool that lets you break down web pages into sections, create different versions for each of those sections and test how well they perform. It has been proven to work. Thanks for writing this blog!

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