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Your First Blog Post – What To Write

Dec 4, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

You're ready to make your very first blog post but not quite sure what to say? Maybe you figure since blogging seems to be so casual you can post whatever your heart desires and not be overly concerned. If nothing more it will at least get the ball rolling for you.

Well actually you could post whatever you want. On the other hand you may be serious about doing something constructive with it like building a list of loyal subscriber's who share a common interest.

The point here is if you have a definite direction or purpose for your new blog you should treat your first post much like an introduction to a new friend.

Here are 4 key elements you will want to include in your first blog post.

1) Introduce Yourself

Here's your opportunity to give your readers a little insight into who you are. Share with them your interest, business experience, other personal experiences that may be of interest to them and relevant to the theme of your site. Inform your readers of any family or pets you may have and of what importance they may have to you and why. Share pictures if you've got them. After all one picture is worth a thousand words. Your readers will appreciate this.

You want your readers to become familiar with you while also gaining their trust.

2) What is Your Reason for Blogging

Now you'll want your readers to know and understand your purpose or motivation for blogging. Make your intentions clear as to what nagging questions, dilemmas, or passions you plan to address. You want them to feel the anger, frustrations, passions, or enthusiasm you feel and the commitment you have to your blogging efforts.

3) What you Will be Blogging About

Your readers will want to know what to expect when they visit your site. What direction you'll be taking on the stated theme and how you intend to address the issues of this subject matter. Will this just be an online ranting station or do you intend to take a more constructive, tactical and problem solving approach in addressing the topic at hand.

4) Encourage Comments

You immediately want to foster an atmosphere of community and involvement for your readers. Commenting and reader participation is a major factor in the growth and popularity of blogging. Build upon this by encouraging comments, disagreements, or criticisms from visitors and making it easy for them to do so. Make available your contact information (any of which is comfortable to you) but make it clear you are accessible to them.

Be sure to clearly state your comment policy so as to keep this area under control and constructive for both the blog owner and its readers.

Realizing that your first blog post is an introduction to your readers and including these 4 key elements in your initial post will give you a solid start for your new blog.

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Dear Diary, Dear World ? All About Blogging

Nov 13, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

The Internet has changed the way we live, breathe, and even write ? in fact, it is mainly due to the blogging phenomenon that we receive headlines, change them, and even get the latest buzz on issues newspapers and popular media will not dare tackle. Blogging has become so common, it has prompted dictionary makers to create new terms. For instance, each article on a blog is called a ?post,? ?entry,? or ?blog post.? A person who blogs is called a ?blogger.?

But what is blogging, and why is it so popular?

Blogging refers to the activity of updating one?s blog. What is a blog? A blog is a web log, or an Internet-based publication which contains articles about a variety of topics. Blogs are either run on dedicated hosting services, or they can be run on any ordinary web hosting service using scripts meant for blogs.

Blogs often focus on a particular subject. They can tackle movie reviews, political issues, important local news, or one?s personal opinion. Most blogs serve as online diaries, and will contain personal images, artwork, and writing.

Blog posts will contain the following elements.

? A title ? Some personal bloggers have modified this, and have added subtitles to add ?meat? to their entries. They may indicate the music they are currently listening to, their current mood, and the subject of their post. Journalistic bloggers will often link their title to similar articles available online.

? The body ? This is the main content of the blog. It can be a fictional entry, in the case of story or novel blogs; or a non-fiction entry, in the case of other blogs, such as news blogs or diaries.

? A permalink ? this is the link to the individual blog entry, which other bloggers can use if they would like to link or refer to the article.

? The date ? this is simply the date, time, and sometimes place in which the entry was first posted.

Some blogs may also contain the following.

? A comments section ? this enables readers to make comments or react to the blog entry. This is also a useful way by which other bloggers can make themselves, and their blogs, known.

? The tags ? this is the section where bloggers list the categories under which their current article falls. For instance, a post on ?Saving the Whales? can be categorized under ?environment,? ?whales,? and ?ecology.?

? Trackback ? Also known as pingback, this is a list of links of other sites that refer to the article or post.

There are many different kinds of blogs available, depending on the topic they tackle. A few types include the following

? Personal ? These blogs focus on personal experiences, and feature an online diary, usually with images or artwork. Some photoblogs fall under this category, where bloggers post pictures instead of writing about their experiences.

? Paid ? Some bloggers are paid to blog their career experiences, or the latest news about a company.

? Socio-cultural ? Some blogs are devoted to socio-cultural experiences, and can allow people of other cultures a glimpse into the quirks and specialties that make other cultures unique.

? Science ? Some scientists have taken to blogging about their research findings, or to share laboratory techniques. Such a method, however, has been met with derision in the science community, since it overrides the traditional peer-based review of research.

? Political or News ? Some blogs focus on the latest news, and can even offer political opinions on certain subjects.

Blogging is definitely here to stay, and it can influence cultures and headlines through the widely popular medium of the Internet. Have you tried blogging yet?

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The 5 Big Secrets To Make Your Blog Successful And Profitable

Oct 3, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Blogging eBook Review

There has been an explosion of blogs and easy to use blogging sites like , , and which allow you to easily setup a quality blog for free.
Blogging has been around for a couple of years now and it is really taking the internet by storm. Many people use blogs to share information and record their thoughts and lives, while a handful of people use them as a free way to make money and generate a large monthly income.
One guy who uses this to his advantage is Rob Benwell. Last year he dished the dirt on the tips and tricks to making money and generating a monthly income from blogging. But as time passes the old systems do not work as effectively and new methods and techniques are needed. This is why he has written version 2 which is hot off the press with his updated secrets of blogging.
For those who know who Rob Benwell like me, you have probably made a small fortune already using his secret of blogging.
For those who do not, here is his story:
When he started blogging in 2005 he was finding it difficult to make any substantial profit online, he had dropped out of college and was going deeper and deeper into debt. Sure, he was using all the tips, tricks, and techniques the gurus tell you and was not getting any results quickly enough. Then all of that changed when he abandoned all of those other techniques and began building and using his own techniques. Finally, he began to make more and more money using free, simple, and easy to use blogs. In early 2006 he shared all of this information with the world. He compiled all his tips, tricks, secrets, and techniques into a great eBook. These never before revealed secrets of blogging took my blogs to the next level of income generation. Many people began using and profiting from using these secrets and techniques, including me. He then spoke at Online Marketing Legend Yanik Silvers underground Seminar where he revealed even more of his blogging secrets.
Like I said before, the secrets and techniques used in that eBook are now showing there age. This is because Google, Yahoo, and other search engines are changing the rules all the time on how to have your blog or website rank highly on the internet, some of his older techniques do not work well anymore. This is where his new updated version of his eBook will give you the secrets of blogging successfully and profitably today.
It is full of great brand new tips, tricks, and techniques that work online today! He explained all of his secrets of blogging in plain English without all the filler that none of us have time for. I managed to get an advanced release copy of the eBook for much more than what it actually sells for and it has been worth every penny! I got it in the afternoon and by the evening I was creating new profitable blogs. Within a couple of hours of them being active I had made a nice little profit.
You are taught an his new, easy step by step plan to creating highly profitable long term niche blogs using the newest of search engine optimization techniques. There is even a section on advanced Search Engine Optimization or SEO as we call it in the blogging world. Most people think SEO is difficult but this book explains it very nicely and puts it in simple terms so even the blogging newbie will understand it.
This Blogging eBook without a doubt the best one I have ever read and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to make money online using a blog they can easily setup for free. For more information about this system please visit my site. I have lots of other FREE information there you may find useful as well.

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Promoting Your Blog

Sep 30, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Whether this income is earned through an AdSense campaign, paid advertisements, affiliate marketing or some other type of revenue generating source one of the key elements to maximizing this profit is by driving greater traffic to the blog. This is because the more visitors the blog receives the more opportunities there are for the blogger to have visitors click through the advertisements in the blog. There are a few basic techniques which bloggers can rely on to promote their blog and increase traffic to their blog. This article will cover a few of these key concepts including participating in relevant message boards, optimizing the blog for search engines and keeping the blog interesting to visitors.

Active Participation in Message Boards

Participation in message boards which relate to the blog topic is actually one very simple way for blog owners to drive traffic to their blog. However, one caveat to using this type of promotion for the blog is to avoid violating the rules of the message board. This is important because some message boards have strict regulations regarding the inclusion of links to other websites on the message board. Failure to follow these guidelines may result in the blogger being banned from the message board and may also cause other message board users to not think highly of the blog owner.

Another careful consideration for the blog owner is to avoid posting the web address to his blog in a way which will be considered spam by other message board users. This is important because other message board users are likely to not visit the blog if they believe the blog owner is simply spamming the message board. This can be avoided by including the link to the blog in the signature and ensuring the posts made on the message board are informative and of interest to the other message board users. Building a reputation as a useful contributor to the message board will be beneficial to enticing other users of the message board to visit the blog.

Optimizing Your Blog

Search engine optimization is another factor which blog owners should also carefully consider. Optimizing the blog for search engines can be beneficial because improved search engine rankings often lead to increased blog traffic. Depending on the amount of competition on the blog subject rising to the top of the search engine rankings may not always be easy. Blog owners who have a blog with a very popular subject may face stiff competition for search engine rankings from other blogs and websites which may have the means to hire professionals in the search engine optimization industry to assist them in achieving high rankings. However, there are some steps the blogger can take to attempt to boost rankings. Some of these steps include researching and using relevant keywords naturally throughout the blog postings, incorporating these keywords into the title, META and image tags and avoiding black hat optimizing techniques which could result in the blog being penalized by search engines.

Keeping Your Blog Interesting

Finally, one of the simplest ways a blog owner can help to drive traffic to his blog is by regularly updating the blog and keeping it interesting. This is important because a blog which is interesting is much more likely to not only maintain blog traffic but also generate new traffic. This is because readers who are interested in the posts on the blog are not only likely to keep coming back to the blog but are also likely to recommend the blog to other members of the target audience. This type of word of mouth advertising can be very beneficial because those who have an interest in the content of a particular blog also typically have friends who would also be interested in the blog. Once one blog owner recommends a blog to one or more friends, these new blog visitors are also likely to recommend the blog to others if they find it to be interesting, useful or otherwise worthwhile.

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8 Tips to Live to Your Blog

Aug 18, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

They have written lots of articles talking about whether it is possible that your blog can reach as high an income as a halfway decent salary. Yes you can live in your blog, though not always achieved. It depends on many factors such as quality, utility to report to users, the dissemination or luck that you have to get traffic. Once you have all these factors, you can try to monetize your site.

1. The first thing is to get a high page rank: Either meter are valid. The number of rank must be at least below a million is recommended to monetize your blog.

2. Invest in your blog: It's time to go without releasing the pocket and tool free. We're not telling you to leave a fortune but it bet on tools for better and better status.

3. Add advertising: There are many formats of banners (skyscrapers, rectangles, mega banner) and payment (CPM, CPC, etc).

4. Sell links or sponsorships: If you will not be so visible that you can put advertising links to companies or sponsorship thereof. The latter are more personalized.

5. Have your own domain: With it you will get more presence, professionalism and reliability. Having a Domain is a way to appear more professional. I wrote in another post how to get a good domain.

6. Hosting's and accommodation: Thanks to your blog they will be visible at all times, so it is advisable to get a hosting professional. Arrival of users depends on the files or content in your blog.

7. Manage your contacts: Make lists of your contacts to keep them controlled and above all looking for ways to interact with them, for example, you can write posts that have a lot of feedback and do not forget to always answer their messages. If you have many followers or contacts there are programs that automatically respond to your messages.

8. Sell your own products. It is more difficult but possible. If you do not want to get outside advertising and you have something to offer to your audience in addition to your posts you can find a way to sell your products. It is easy in blogs fashion because they can sell their shirts, for example. Or if you have a related blog with some education courses or you can sell books. Is more complicated than introducing advertising because you will always find a product related to what you say in your blog, but if you find the form can be a good opportunity.

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4 Tips For Attracting New Blog Readers

Jul 10, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Blogging has made it easy for anyone to publish content online. Regular, fresh content is important for anyone looking to increase their online visibility, but this content is useless without an active readership. Here are some tips on how to increase yours?

1). Increase Your Syndication
Make sure to keep up to date with the more popular bookmarking and directory hotspots and use TrackBack URLs so you can tell how far your new content has spread and identify any new active readers.

2). Comment on the Blogs of Others
Joining the discussion on the blogs of others is a great way to attract attention, increase engagement and create new readership. Be careful not to create the impression that you are just hunting for links, but rather add some value to the conversation and ultimately try and create the same activity in your blog?s comment sections if they aren?t already a place for conversation.

3). Promote Your URLs
Promote your blog URL as well as your RSS feed URL. Use your blog address when commenting on the blogs of others, feature it on your email signature, on all your social media profiles and everywhere else available. Encourage RSS subscriptions by including the link in your newsletters and all other communications.

4). Optimise Each Post
This might sound like a given, but you?d be surprised as to how many optimisation and syndication opportunities are overlooked. Create a checklist of steps towards better optimisation and syndication. High quality content with great optimisation will make your blog easier to find, and harder to resist for returning visitors.

Follow these tips and blogging will be one of the most powerful tools to boost your online presence.

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How To Make A Blog And Lots Of Money

Jun 13, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Before your blog can become successful you first need something to make your blog successful. So I'm going to go over finding products to promote before we get into the actual process of setting up a blog. If you plan on selling your own products you can skip to the blog set up steps.

To find a product to promote, go to and look at there affiliate products. Whatever your interested in or think will generate money, if the product has a high gravity rating(potential for sales, the higher the better) choose that as your product to promote. After you've selected a product it's time to find good keywords to promote it.

One of the best places to go for keyword research is Google Adwords. When you do a search at Google Adwords for keywords, they show you all of the top keywords that people are paying money for. After you've searched for your subject and found good keywords, select 10 of them(at a minimum), were going to use them later on to help with your blog. Once you've got your keywords selected it's time to setup your blog.

Go to and sign up for a free blog, or go to and download there software for installing a blog on a website if you have your own domain. You don't need your own domain to be successful with blogs, so if you don't have one don't worry about it. In the future if you decide that you want to take your blogging business to the next level you can get a domain. For now we'll just stick to the free ones.

After you've signed up for a blog, choose a template to design it around and start working on filling your blog with content. Use the keywords that you selected earlier for the subject titles of your post. And after you've submitted your post to your blog, submit those post to article directories. This will boost your search engine ranking and bring you lots of traffic.

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Successful Blogging Tips – 4 Quick Steps To Your Blogging Success

May 19, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Blog is short for weblog and it was originated as an online diary for internet users to share. Through out the years, blog has gone through numerous transformations and today it has become one of the best ways to make money online.

Then how do you make money with your blog?

Select a platform

You can choose bloggers or wordpress as your platform and both of them are free. Nowadays, there are a few free platforms that you can use. However, you can also host your blog on your server if you want more control over your blog. In that way, you can insert special scripts to make your blog more unique.

Choose your topic

You need to choose the right topic if you want to make money with your blog.

It is best that you choose the topic that you are passionate about.

Let's look at it this way, when you have no interest in digital photography, will you learn it and share the tips with your readers? You might but you certainly won't enjoy it.

Why torment yourself? There are so many topics for you to make money with.

Earn with advertisement

One of the easiest ways bloggers make money online by Google adsense.

Again, getting advertisements from Google is free. You just register with Google, set up your account following the step by step guide and paste the code on your blog. So, when readers click on the advertisements, you will start to make money with your blog.

However, you need to make sure that the advertisements are related to your blog. Does it make sense if your blog is about learning digital photography and the advertisements are about second-hand car?

One of the ways to get targeted ads is by publishing keyword for specific blog post. It is easier for Google to send related ads if you have the right keywords in your posts.

Drive readers

If you want to make money with your blog, you need to drive readers to your blog.

How do you do that then?

Since you are writing your blog post, why not write articles about your blog too?

Try to write a 300-500 words of informative article and submits it to article directories daily. After some time, you will start to get readers to your blog and if they need more information, they will click the advertisements and you will make extra money online.

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Blog Marketing And Home Businesses

Apr 5, 2021 by swampblog 0 Comments

Blog marketing is something that all blog owners do. They market their blog so that they can get readers, and make a profit from their blogs. Marketing their blog means to get it out there so that others that are interested in it can find it and read it. It is also a great way to sell things by using affiliate links and programs. Blog marketing can very well become a home business if that is something that you are interested in.

Having a home business by blog marketing would definitely entail that you have more than one blog. If this is something that you are considering, you will want to make a list of markets that your blogs can cover. You will find that your blogs will do best when you only have one market per blog. For example, if you have a blog about cats, you will not want to include anything on the blog about kitchen appliances. This is because the readers that read your blog and visit your blog to learn more about cats and what you have to say about them will not be interested in learning anything about kitchen appliances. Once you have overcome the relevancy issue, you will be ok. You can however, have a blog about pets, and then blog about all of the many pets that you want to include.

In order to make a living by blog marketing, you need to know every aspect of it. You need to know what needs to be done to get readers to your blog, how to write about the things that you are promoting and how to get it up in search engine rankings. Doing so will lead to successful blog marketing and making a home business income with it.

One big aspect of blog marketing is SEO. SEO is search engine optimization and it consists of optimizing your blog so that the search engines will find it and rank it as high as possible. Which also leads to more traffic and leads from your blog. If you do not have time to learn SEO, and apply it to all of your blogs, hiring someone to do this for you might be something that you want to consider. Especially if time is an issue.

Outsourcing much of your work is something that you will need to get used to if you plan on making a substantial amount of money with your blogs. You may want to hire bloggers or writers that can write the content for your blogs, and someone else that can leave comments on other blogs with a link back to yours. Spread out all of the duties on a spread sheet and decide how often each thing needs to be done for each blog. Doing so will help you to be more organized and know what you need to do when, as well as prioritize. Using a spread sheet will also help you to keep track of who is doing what, and keep you from asking more than one person to get one job done.

Blog marketing for a home business is not much different from any other home business. You are going to get out of it what you put into it. If you only put in a couple of hours a week into your blogs, you can not expect to make a full time income with them. However, being consistent and working on your blogs every chance that you get will pay off in the long run. You will also discover that there is no better feeling in the world than owning your own home business, and working for yourself.

Just remember to start small, and work hard. That is all you need to become successful at blog marketing and make the income that you are dreaming of. All of your hard work will pay off if you are persistent and keep it up.