How to Blog on Blogger

Check Your Links

Some links go dead - stone cold.

I just found one of mine posted on a number of sites that is no longer in effect because the affiliate program terminated at the begining of the month.

Now I have a job to do tomorrow. I will need to replace those because nothing is as discouraging as clicking a dead-end link (well - some things are, but not in linkdom).

Keep your links fresh and it will reflect care and relevance in your blogging.

Look at the Dream Factory, my main site, to see how I try to integrate the content of my blogs into posts.

Linking and Cross-Linking

One of the great advantages to blogging is that, by using hyperlinks, you can create indexing and organization that flows with your thinking and enables your readers to do more research without having to learn your filing system.

It also enables you to find interesting articles that you might otherwise lose. By linking to thse in your own posts, you create a trail that you can follow back to the source.

Something to Say

The bottom line of blogging is having something to say and saying it. Some considerastions for successful self-expression through blogging include, but are not limited to:

1. Say it well - clearly and simply with descriptive language.
2. Say it as briefly as possible.
3. Say it more than once in different ways if you really want to get the message across.
4. Say it with words that get attention and traffic.
5. Say it in an attractive and readable setting.
6. Say it somewhere that is easy to find - Make sure people can remember or find your site.
   

It occured to me yesterdat that I could post more regularly in all my blogs if I were not so determined to be wordy in each of them. So here you go - a little bite of bytes.

You can do it too.

Build Income through Your Site with Affiliate Marketing

Read my blog: AFFILIATE BUZZ. Affiliate marketing is essentially driving traffic from your site to that of a business that pays you a commission if your referral generates a sale. It is tracked through an ID that is embedded in the code of the link you place on your site to refer your readers.

Here are some examples you can join easily:

Welcome New Affiliates:

Health and Wellness Affiliate

I just joined this one and you can too!

Here is a new affiliate of mine. I think it can help you to. Just click the link to start making some pretty impressive commissions just by referring your friends. It's free to start up and you get your own web site.

Your source for hundreds of potential affililiates

Link Share

Getting Hits

How do we drive traffic to our sites?

Let me answer that with some tentative, inexpensive, and basic tricks that you can do right now. For massive traffic, a careful strategy that employs tools will come later. Try these now.

• E-mail all your friends with a hyperlink to your site and an invitation to join.
• Accept comments and trackbacks.
• Visit other sites and blogs and comment on and quote from them. Leave them trackbacks and comments.
• Leave your hyperlink for your site everywhere you participate on the Internet.
• Print cheap business cards with your link.
• Employ the labels available at the bottom of your posts on most servers.
• Participate in web-based forums, posting your link.
• Use hot words and titles and comment on current events in your field of interest.
• Post regularly - unlike this blog that has been a bit inactive until now, most of mine have regular postings and fresh material.
• Join services like Technorati.
• Consider starting or participating in a blogroll.
• Learn what these terms mean that I am tossing out. I will write more about them later.
• Read this book:
  • Jeremy Wright: Blog M arketing

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If you are going to get serious about blogging, there are some simple non-offensive methods for creating a small (or large if you generate lots of traffic) income for your activity. It may even pay for your hobby.

One of the ways people are consistently earning pennies is through Goodgle AdSense. These simple ads are targeted, tasteful, easy to configure, and very available.

It is worth investigation.

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• Jeremy Wright: Blog Marketing

Wright, whose personal blog, Ensight provides some of the latest and most compelling information in the blogging industry (and for him, it is an industry), has written one of the most comprehensive introductions to the subject of business blogging. The principles transfer well to te area of ministry as well. Some apply; some don't. Do your own sorting.

The Ooze Annual Blog Tools Roundup is sort of old, but is a good introduction to the subject of blogging. Just keep in mind that some of the information is out of date.

At the risk of putting myself out of busisness before I get started, let me recomend a blog for bloggers and thoses whoare tmepted with the prospect of dangling their feet in the blog bog.

Bloggers Blog is more than just an online journal. It connects numerous sources through links that can give an aspriring online journaler a wealth of information and instruction. You will find solid website referrals and book recomendations including one of my favorites on the subject: Blog Marketing. The parent site is WritersWriteInc.com .

Some of the things you'll need to be learning about is syndication, often associated with terms like feeds, RSS, XML, and subscriptions.

One source for learning is Blogger.com itself, our host. When you log-in you will find a number of helpful articles and blogs on blogging.

All of the services have them. Avail yourself of them.

I will be using this blog to write hints for navigating what to many is a new world.

It is OK to clog through it , plod, or whatever your preference is.

It is a mistake-free zone.

Enjoy the ride and see my feeble attempts in my profile and at the Dream Factory.