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Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 5Chapter One – Getting Started ............................................................................................ 6How to begin ................................................................................................................... 6Chapter Two – Types of Blogs ........................................................................................... 7Blogging in the 21
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century ............................................................................................ 7Corporate blogging ..................................................................................................... 8Features of Blogging ....................................................................................................... 9Posting Structure ......................................................................................................... 9Interactivity ................................................................................................................. 9The archive feature ................................................................................................... 10Comparing blogs to websites ........................................................................................ 10Keeping your blog up to date .................................................................................... 11Software ........................................................................................................................ 11Hosted blogs.............................................................................................................. 11Self-hosted blogs ....................................................................................................... 12Popular blogging programs/platforms .......................................................................... 12Blogger ...................................................................................................................... 12LiveJournal ............................................................................................................... 12Textpattern ................................................................................................................ 12Typepad (hosted)/ Moveable Type (self-hosted) ...................................................... 13Wordpress ................................................................................................................. 13Choosing your blogging platform ................................................................................. 14Chapter Three – Your Topic ............................................................................................. 15Be Creative................................................................................................................ 15Use Popular Ideas ..................................................................................................... 16Keeping your blog updated ....................................................................................... 17Chapter 4- Researching Your Blog ................................................................................... 18Free keyword research tools ......................................................................................... 18Overture keyword suggestion tool ............................................................................ 18GoodKeywords ......................................................................................................... 19Google's keyword tool .............................................................................................. 19Other free keyword research tools ............................................................................ 19Paid keyword research tools ......................................................................................... 20Keyword Elite ........................................................................................................... 20Wordtracker .............................................................................................................. 20Chapter 5 – Creating Your Blog ....................................................................................... 21How to use Blogger ...................................................................................................... 21Collecting information .................................................................................................. 22Managing your email list with autoresponders ............................................................. 22Why use an autoresponder? ...................................................................................... 23Chapter 6 - Keep the Content Coming .............................................................................. 24Create your own content ............................................................................................... 24
3Use free content ............................................................................................................ 24Purchase content ........................................................................................................... 25Chapter 7 – Start the Money Coming ............................................................................... 26Donations ...................................................................................................................... 26Google Adsense ............................................................................................................ 26Sell advertising space .................................................................................................... 26Keep track of all your visitors ................................................................................... 27Google Analytics ...................................................................................................... 27Awstats ...................................................................................................................... 27Web statistics information ........................................................................................ 28Other information on web statistics .......................................................................... 28Advantages of affiliate programs .................................................................................. 29How to choose an affiliate program .......................................................................... 29Don’t forget to sign up for paid blogging ................................................................. 30Paid blogging assignments ........................................................................................ 30Can you really make money from blogging? ............................................................ 31Sell your own product ................................................................................................... 31Create your own Cafepress shop............................................................................... 31Chapter 8- Bringing in the Traffic .................................................................................... 32How to use backlinks and anchor text .......................................................................... 32What is Pinging? ........................................................................................................... 32RSS Explained .............................................................................................................. 33What you need to create your own RSS feed ........................................................... 33The importance of Feedburner .................................................................................. 34Blog directories ............................................................................................................. 34Things to do before submitting to a blog directory................................................... 35Using blog rings for promotion..................................................................................... 36What is Tagging ............................................................................................................ 36The key to tagging .................................................................................................... 36Tagging and bookmarking, how to get started.......................................................... 36Technorati ..................................................................................................................... 37Tagging with keywords............................................................................................. 38Using search engines for your blog .............................................................................. 38Article marketing .......................................................................................................... 38Submitting to article directories ................................................................................ 38Link exchanges or traffic exchanges explained ............................................................ 39Understanding blog traffic exchanges .......................................................................... 39Earning credit with traffic exchanges ....................................................................... 40How forums can increase blog traffic ........................................................................... 41Chapter 9 – Promoting and Marketing.............................................................................. 42More ways to market your blog .................................................................................... 42Make your content available ......................................................................................... 42Placing ads to promote products ................................................................................... 43How to get banner ads................................................................................................... 43Editing templates to place ads....................................................................................... 44Contextual Ads.............................................................................................................. 44
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