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How to Start a Blog In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to find a niche topic to blog about and how to select a domain name and blog hosting client. If you haven’t read the first two parts to this series, please go back and read them now if you do not currently have a domain name or hosting client. Get started with Wordpress Now I want to discuss how to transfer your domain from the Godaddy.com site to the HostGator.com site (the same concepts can be used for any domain...

How to start a blog In my last article I discussed how to find a niche topic to blog about. It’s important that we find a niche to blog about before we create a blog. Having a plan, even if it’s just an outline of a plan, will save tons of aggravation and ultimately set you apart from the thousands of others that are starting new blogs every day. domain name and domain hosting In this article, I’m going to discuss how to establish a domain name for your blog and also how to establish web...

Tips on keywords Learn how to find keywords Keywords, keyword phrases, and keyword search are are topics of concern, especially when writing relevant content for an article or other web content. It is important to use relevant keywords or keyword phrases in order to attract high traffic from the search engines and earn the writer some recognition as well as some adsense money. I’m “learning the ropes” as I go. Admittedly, keywords and keyword phrasing have been a major concern of mine and...

Ethics I’m writing this hub on Ethics as it relates to Search Engine Optimization because I need my readers to understand MY version of what is right and wrong, or morally acceptable to do business online. I’m also writing this because I was recently in a forum discussion that turned heated when one of the participants continued to suggest that my methods of search engine marketing were unethical because I wouldn’t endorse his suggestion for a community wide code of ethics under threat of...

Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog but it’s a new year and a new me. 2010 was a very busy year for me as I attempted to grow my online income to replace my offline income. I didn’t quite achieve that goal but I’m getting pretty close. I can visualize a time, hopefully this year, where I will derive the majority of my income from my work online. It really is work and it takes many hours, sometimes 16 hour days, to complete all the goals I set as well as maintain my...

Do You Really Understand Email Marketing And How It Can Help You Grow Your Business? I recently stumbled on an article that challenged what I thought I knew about email marketing. The article suggested that our (small business

In order to sell anything from your blog you have to have traffic. You need eyes on your material or you stand no chance at earning anything from your hard work. One of the biggest mistakes newbie bloggers make is thinking that all they need to do is write a post and people will come find them. Sadly, that is not the case. Recent studies have shown that at the end of 2009 there were approximately 109 million websites and over 25 billion web pages on the internet. So, finding a blog post...

There are elements you can add to your blogs to make them stand out and also drive traffic back to your content. Of course, driving traffic is only going to help if you have decent enough content for a visitor to stay and read and possibly make a purchase, if that’s what your blog is geared towards. The number one element you can add to your blog to drive traffic is video. Making your own video would be ideal but there are tons of already made videos that you can borrow from places such as...