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10 Essential Blogging Tools by John Jantsch Copyright 2006 John Jantsch So, you finally decided to take the blog leap. You've heard all about the marketing and search benefits so you stepped up to the plate and signed up for a TypePad, MovableType or WordPress blog software package and now you're a blogger. Okay, now what? Add the ten essential blogging tools listed below and you will also be well on your way to creating and promoting a blog that is a powerful marketing tool. I'll explain the use of the tool and offer some suggestions, including the tools I use on my own blogs including the DuctTapeMarketing blog. Feed reader The best way to learn about blogs and blogging is to read, or at least scan, lots of blogs. One of the wonders of blogs is that you can have every new post from every blog you want to read delivered to your desktop or to online location via RSS, so you can easily read and scan the posts of many blogs in a very short time. Newsgator is a good online c...

Social Bookmarking - The Ultimate Viral Marketing by Matt DeAngelis Social Bookmarking could be one of the best things that ever happened to websites and blogs. Basically Social Bookmarketing sites allow users to create a set of content bookmarks. These bookmarks are organized by tags, which are (usually) arbitrary words or phrases the user can assign to content. This gives the user a way to classify, rank and organize content using tags. The most popular Social Bookmarking Site is del.ici.ous, which has millions of users. Social Bookmarking sites have an intrinsic advantage over search engines and other bots -- people choose what to bookmark rather than relying on a program to categorize and qualify content. There is an implied quality in something that someone has taken the time to select. Social Bookmarkers read other people's bookmarks and add them to their own if they like them. There are also RSS feeds so people can see what others are tagging, which I think is really coo...

Secrets to Successful Blogging by Anthony Yap Blogs have become very successful and popular lately, and SEO consultants say that they can be very profitable if they are managed and marketed the right way. Generating profits from a blog doesn't require selling anything. Profits can be from ad placements, banners, or contextual advertising. The best blogs draw the attention of a large audience and keep them coming back for more. There are many types of blogs available. The most common types are: - Professional blogs : These blogs are focused on discussions about professions, job aspects and career building - Personal blogs : These blogs take the form of an online diary and contains thoughts, poems, experiences, and other personal matters - Topical blogs : These blogs focus on a certain topic or niche, discussing specific aspects of the chosen subject - Business blogs : As its name suggests, these are discussions about business and/or stock market Other types of blogs include but ...

What Is Search Engine Optimization? by Adrijus Rudaitis If you build it, will they come? "If you build it, they will come," is the famous quote from the movie Field of Dreams. However, as all too many webmasters and business owners have discovered, just building a website is no guarantee of receiving visitors. Visit Google.com and type in a few keywords like "real estate". You will be immediately presented with thousands of results organized in a ranking that takes up several pages (by 10 in each page). How many of those results are you going to glance through? The first 100, which would be 10 pages? Probably not. The first 30, or 3 pages is more likely. Some surfers won't even go past the first 5 results. This means that just because a website is listed in the search engines it doesn't mean that it will be found. What is search engine optimization? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Website by ranking ...

Hidden Ways to Get into Google by Kim Roach Everyone is concerned about their Google rankings. An algorithm change or an update can leave many a webmaster in tears. However, I often like to sneak in through the back door. So today I'm going to reveal to you some of my Google secrets. After you look closely, you will find that there is much more to Google than meets the eye and I want you to take advantage of every resource. So, let's look behind the scenes into Google's lab. Google Base Google Base was launched in November of 2005. Google base describes itself as "a place where you can add all types of information that we'll host and make searchable online". Now, if that isn't a webmaster's dream, I don't know what is. Your item could be almost anything: your products, research papers, articles, or press releases. You can describe all of your items so that you can zone in on your targeted visitor. In addition, your items may also get included in t...

White Hat vs. Black Hat SEO Internet Marketing Tip of the Day : Black Hat SEO may get you up in the rankings quickly through deceiving the search engines, but White Hat SEO, though it may take longer, will keep you there once you get there. Black hat SEO can cause sudden banning of your web site! Stick to White Hat search engine optimization! Content is King in staying Number 1! Regards, Michael Kralj

Strategic Online Internet Marketing Internet marketing is a lot like Offline marketing, but it opens up a whole new can of worms. The same thought process goes in, I need to market so people know about my product or business. With marketing my product, people will buy it and I will make money. This is true online, but the methods to drive people to your Online Web Site is different. Offline, people see brochures and call to find out more information. People come to your website to find information. You can market your website and drive traffic, but if your site does not look up to par, and you dont market your website in terms of its own content to finalize the deal, all your marketing efforts will be lost. A starting point for marketing online , is getting people to find you. How do they find you? Well here are some methods: - Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN Search. You come up number one on a competitive search, and you are bound to get inquiries. - Ezines : Online newsle...

Affiliate Marketing Programs "Where is all the help I'm supposed to get. I have been buying ezine and classified ad builders and signing up for Echecks and Virtual credit cards. In the meantime I have no business and no ads set up. When does all this happen? Let's go here. I spent all day on this. I'm running out of time." I kid you not, this is the sum total of an actual email that hit my inbox this week. Not only did I not know this person from Adam, this was the first and only email I had ever received from her and to this day, I have no idea what she's talking about. Presumably, she signed up for one of the affiliate programs I promote from my site and was asking, in her own inimitable style, for my help. Although I am always ready and willing to help anyone I can, this is most definitely NOT the way to go about asking for it. Needless to say, I let her know what I thought of her approach in NO uncertain terms. The attitude displayed in this person's e...

Strategic Internet Marketing Have you ever been lost in the woods - wondering around aimlessly, not knowing where to go or what to do next? Most online marketers are lost in the woods of the internet. So if you want to get out of the woods and be an online marketer, you better start thinking strategically! That is, you need to practice strategic internet marketing techniques. You're probably asking, what are strategic internet marketing techniques? Let me start by telling you what it is not! Strategic internet marketing is not buying 100,000 guaranteed hits. It is not aimlessly placing banner ads all over the internet. It is not about using free classified ads and it is certainly not about depending on surfing for traffic sites. Strategic internet marketing is simply about having an advertising PLAN that utilizes proven marketing tactics to get high converting results. Every promotion must have a purpose and it is critical to track the results of each and every advertisement. Track...

Effective Internet Marketing Anyone who owns a website knows the importance of internet marketing tools. You may have a terrific idea for a website with an excellent product or service, superb design, content and functionality but if you do not use the right tactics, your site may not attract the all important highly targeted traffic. Getting a lot of traffic into a site has very little to do with the site itself but with how the webmaster or site owner advertises it. With hundreds of competing sites, you must employ the most effective internet marketing tools that will truly deliver results. There are different internet marketing tools that you can use. All these techniques and methods aim at increasing your website traffic. You must find a way for web surfers to find your site. To do this, you must put yourself in the shoes of your prospective visitors and future clients and see the internet through their eyes. Where do they usually go whenever they are looking up something on the w...

Internet Marketing in a Nutshell The internet is a place where people often throw darts into the darkness hoping that someday, somehow they'll hit a bulls eye. Most people nurture a mistaken notion that huge amount of traffic can eventuate good business without paying any attention to what sort of people are coming to the website. This is the worst sort of Internet Marketing. No matter how revolutionary your product or service is, unless it is backed by a well-thought-out Internet Marketing strategy, it is as good as being non-existent. You have got to be as sure as any of the conventional brick and mortar businesses. Breaking the great wall of non-presence is the biggest challenge one faces while trying to set up an online business. When you set up your online shop, you don't know them and they don't know you. You need to make your presence felt; you need to set up an identity for yourself that tells your visitors that you are not an unemployed weirdo trying to dupe visito...

Top Internet Marketing Techniques The Internet offers many means of affordable marketing, often with full-color imagery to go along with text. And multimedia components add some spice to the mix and increase online visitors and purchases. Here are some top Internet marketing techniques to help increase your sales and income. This is explained in more detail at http://www.ampleadvice.com. 1. DIRECTORY - Create your own directory on a specific industry topic, placing your own ad or banner along the top. Then invite others to add their website links via a link exchange program, listing themselves in your directory. This will result in lots of free advertising for you as your directory expands with links across the World Wide Web. Enter "link exchange software" into your favorite search engine for help with setup. 2. TEACH A COURSE - Write out a simple step-by-step instructional class in your area of expertise. Then break it up into smaller segments and set them up in an autoresp...