Posts Tagged ‘blog’
Written by JMarsden92 on 15 April 2010
Years ago I laughed at my sister when I heard about Blogging initially. After I thought about it, and realized that it isn’t as I thought it was I got a blog. My sister, and mother both blog, and I tell you that my sister is very good at what she does. I only wish that she would have been more guiding in the beginning, and now. I didn’t get their permission, so I won’t put their links here at this point.
I have been noticing more, and more the different types of blogs that are coming out. I started this blog because it was to be a blog on everything. Then I found that I had a lot of Disney information, so I started DisneyContestBlog. After that I got GameBlogs4U going because my daughter, and I are very experienced in video games. My wife, and I both put together ReviewsBlog4U to be the central housing of all of the reviews we do. My wife has a standard mom blog (MomsBlogs4U). We don’t do shameless lists of links because that isn’t a blog in my book.
These were great ideas, but I am noticing more blogs being started for the sole purpose of making money. There are vacation rental blogs, medical blogs, and now I am noticing a jump in people doing a carinsurancelist blog. I am not going to blog just to make money. I have seen many blogs that are overwhelmed with links, and buttons to something they are trying to promote. Ours will not be that way. Yes, we promote each other, but very little promotion of product. Sometimes blogging helps me relieve stress, or just get something off my mind.
Do you have a blog, and what was your inspiration?
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Written by JMarsden92 on 12 March 2010
I am taking some time away from my continual search for jobs. I have tried many variations of admin job searching in the classifieds of my local newspapers website. I must take a breather, and try to help everyone that wants to know more about blogging, and how to get started.
My blogs may not be as good as others, but I have noticed that you can never be as good as someone else on the internet. Everyone does things their own way, and that puts everyone on a level playing field. I have compiled some usefull information that may help others that are looking for help in getting their blog running.
Get a Self-Hosted blog. (WordPress seems to be the easiest to operate, and move in the future.)
WordPress actually is easy enough to install, and use that the standard person with a very good speed ISP can actually run WordPress from their own computer. I don’t recommend this because of the bandwidth that will be used in serving the site. In my case I have a Comcast Business Class Service, and my bandwidth is huge. Some of my blogs are hosted through Surpass Hosting. Check them out. They have very good prices.
Purchase a Domain Name.
Domain names are what bring you traffic. Find a domain name that will work into your “Niche”, and search engines. Example… My DisneyContestBlog site brings in traffic just from searches like “Disney Contest”, “Disney Blog”, and “Contest Blog”. My wife has MomsBlogs4U which gets searches from “Moms Blog”, and “Mom Blog”. I put another domain up strictly for reviews. Can you guess the name? ReviewsBlog4U. The domain name means a lot so think about your name before you start.
Join Social Networking sites.
I recommend joining sites that will create friends, and help you with publishing your information to the outside world. Sites that are almost “Musts” are: Twitter, BlogCatalog, and FaceBook, and EntreCard. If you are a mom, then search the web for “Mom Blog Groups”, and do searches for groups that will help you.
Blog as much as possible.
When you first start you want to publish as much as possible. It takes time for your site to be searchable. This also establishes yourself with your future audience. People will get to read, and if they are interested, then they will return.
Submit to search engines.
When you first setup your site I recommend getting into the Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Developer, and a few other sites. These sites will help you get necessary keys that go into your WordPress installation so that search engines can grab your xml files. If everything is working right, and you have been doing good work then a search of the internet will hopefully find your site in the best positioning of sites.
Setup Feedburner.
Feedburner is a way to monitor who is a subscriber to your RSS feed. RSS feeds are just like people viewing your site. People can download RSS feeds for while they are “Offline”, but they are still viewing your site.
I will put up another helpful setup of information in the next week. In that informational I will go further into monetizing, and how to establish contact with PR reps, and companies. I will continue on helping. If you want to get a little further quicker, then you can join our newly running forums at MyBlogsHome Forums. Join, and post your questions, or whatever you want. We will be doing some advertising, and some other things that will help the members in gaining some traffic, and readers.
Tags: blog, Blogging, domain, monetize, money, niche, self hosted, Wordpress
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Written by JMarsden92 on 07 July 2009
While I am in no way a PROFESSIONAL at this I have learned a lot of valuable information over the past few months. In that information I have learned that blogging is a PERMANENT record of how you feel. Within a short time of making a blog post your post makes its way into search engine cache files. What that means is that even if your blog goes down that the information is still out there for all to see.
Think of a blog like you would think of steel buildings. If it isn’t built correct from the ground up, then it will more than likely fail.
If you are new to blogging, or still have a sub standard blog name, then consider getting a domain name, and sometimes you may even want to get to work with someone that does hosting of blogs, kinda like I am running at MyBlogsHome.Com.
What I have learned is that when you have a problem with a company you need to try to resolve the matter on a civil level. What a company doesn’t want to see is bad publicity, but they also realize that some people are out for whatever FREE that they can get.
I have also learned that each person blogs in their own manner. Because something works for one blogger doesn’t mean it will work for another blogger.
I have been straight forward with each, and every company that I have contacted about blogging, and reviewing. I do all of the PR work for my wife on MomsBlogs4U.Com as well. We have gotten some really nice contacts in the process. We would like to get into reviewing some bigger things, but it all takes time. Make up a email that you can send out when you think of a company that you want to communicate with. Let them know your pagerank, unique visitors, and pageviews. Give them as much information as possible. The more you show, the more likely you are to get picked up.
Note… Google Adsense is nice if you have GREAT traffic. Don’t publicize that you want people to click on your ads. This is like theft. Advertisers pay good money for those ads, and if you are clicking them for “The Click Of It” then you are stealing their money.
Each blogger knows that there is no right, or wrong way to blog, or have their site. Most bloggers, like myself, watch what is going on, and make small changes over time to their format until it is exactly what their readers, and PR companies want.
I have a site called DisneyContestBlog.Com. I knew fully that Disney more than likely wouldn’t do anything with my site. Well, Disney isn’t just Disney. There are other companies out there that make items with Disney on them. Those companies are the ones that I have contacted, as they stand to gain some ground with my site. See… blogging is in the eye of the beholder.
Reviewing… Some companies will not give product without the understanding that the product must be returned. I have understood those terms, and even worked it that I will deal with that for the 1st time, but once the PR company can see what I can do they need to evaluate if I am in fact an asset.
Video reviews mean a lot. Even though some people don’t want to sit, and watch a video review you will find a good portion will, as they can see a person using an item, rather than just writing about it. This also shows them physically how something performs.
Contests / Giveaways can make your traffic. Bringing people to my site for the first 2 months wasn’t costly, but it did have a cost. I got some goods given to me, and I ran contests. Those 2 months are what brought my reader base to what can only be the start of something good.
I put up another blog strictly for video gaming. I have been posting information on GameBlogs4U.Com that I haven’t found any decent sources for as of yet. In the future video game companies, and such may want to work with me.
Basically each of our blogs has a unique niche. If you have to many things going on, then you can confuse people.
Hopefully this helps those that are looking into blogging.
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