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I have a diet blog i just started, i have about 3 posts, someone said i should start promoting i now. I thought i should wait until i had at least 10 posts and feedback from a few people in various forums before I promote it so maybe in 2 weeks. What do you think?

Amber
If people Like your content they will bookmark and return to you another day, so dont put off untill tomorrow what you can do today.
And in the mean time you should log in to your account and copy and paste these extra Ping services to give youself an added advantage.
1 Login
2 Go to settings
3 Go to writing
4 Go to the end and you will see update services
5 Copy and paste the following and save

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http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

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Amber I can only give you 10 links per Answer, if you want 100 or so more, contact me through yahoo answers, the more you have the better
I hopethis helps you Amber

I’m looking to spike my journalistic career and thought that a blog might be a good idea. But I also know that there are ways to set up a paypal account attached to the blog for payment to read it or donate. I guess I was inspired by the movie Julia and Julie and I want to do it on my own. Any ideas on how to get started?

First of all you need a hosting account for the blog. Mine is at InspiroHost for under 5 bucks a month and they set up everything for me including the Wordpress blog and all the addons I needed. I’m sure they can set up a donation option for you but email them before to make sure. They also took the time to give me a one-on-one tutorial to get me started. Oh and they register domains too.

I am about to start a blog. Along with many other hopeful’s, I hope to eventually make money off it. I noticed a lot of sites do not allow you to make money of google ad sense and things like that. What are some sites I can start my blog on that will allow this since it seems to be the most profitable way to make money off a blog?

I recommend and personally use:
http://www.hostmonsterplus.com

They allow me to put any legal content on my website that I want, including advertisements.

They have unlimited space and transfer.
They give you a free domain for life.
1 click installers for different blogging softwares (and other software), with step by step walkthroughs to setup your blog how you want.
They have php and mysql – Which you will need for a blog.
You can also add as many domains (.com, .net, …) as you like so you can have many different sites for 1 hosting price.
They also give you free $50 Google Advertising Credits for advertising your site.

I’ve been using them very happily for about 4 years now.

If you go with them and have any trouble making your site feel free to PM me, I have a lot of experience there.

Whatever you choose, the best luck to you.

I’m a little confused in the sense that i don’t really know exactly what a blog is supposed to be. Is it a page where someone can update mini essays on whats happening in their life, or about a subject of their choice? Or is a blog actually a whole new page in itself, which has its own subject and information on it? Also, are there any sites which will allow me to create my own blog(s) for free?

http://www.masternewmedia.org/independent_publishing/blogging-how-to-blog/guide-to-publishing-first-blog-20071104.htm

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Blog

http://www.tumblr.net/
Tumblelogs are a refreshingly new and simple way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create. To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks. You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.

http://www.livejournal.com/
LiveJournal is an online journal service with an emphasis on user interaction. A basic, fully-functional account is free, while paid accounts receive access to premium features. You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

http://www.redanyway.com/
Redanyway provides a social way to follow a blog. It provides a friends’ and followers’ widget which you can sport on your personal blog/site. This enables your friends or readers to directly add your blog to follow or add you to their friends list right from your blog.

http://www.ipernity.com/
With Ipernity you can:- Publish whatever you like : blog, photos, videos, audios- Customize your own Ipernity page (like at Myspace)- Share what you want with people who matter to you or with the whole world- Create a powerful page with only the stuff that matters to you

http://www.webon.com/
Make the site you’ve always wanted now, instantly build, publish & share. Create interactive, stylish & ad-free pages, with Webon’s powerful site creation platform.

http://blogger.com/
Create a blog in 3 easy steps:
Create an account
Name your blog
Choose a template

http://wordpress.com/
WordPress.com is an easy and powerful way to start blogging.

http://www.plurk.com/
Plurk is a social journal for your life that lets you publish and share your thoughts. Share your life easily with friends, family and fans.

http://www.vox.com/
Vox is a new personal blogging service. It’s all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about.
Control exactly who gets to see each of your posts and photos.
See all the posts from your friends and family on one page.
Bring in content from other web services you already use (Amazon, YouTube, more).

http://www.soup.io/
Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events.
Make your personal remix of the web: When you see something cool online, just click a button to add it to your Soup.
Soup can aggregate everything you create online into one place, in your own style, at your own address.

http://www.zemanta.com/
Pleasure: it’s fun to see your words paired with great links and pix.
Content: Pictures, Links, Articles and Tags.
Convenience: no more trolling the web for content for your posts.
Traffic: links to recent blog posts frequently result in return traffic.

http://www.jimdo.com/
Jimdo is really easy to create web-pages, just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want…and show your swifty Jimdo free page to your friends

http://www.blogupp.com/
What makes BlogUpp! different?
No signup. No email and privacy exposure
No ad submission and no efforts
No animation and annoying ads
Multilanguage support
Cheat-proof and fair sharing
WordPress platform and alike friendly
Targeted readers reach
Welcome bonus for everyone
Best de facto exchange ratio (10:9)

http://www.blogperfume.com/
collect all the useful Wordpress themes, plugins, and blogging resources for pro-bloggers. Makes Bloggers life a lot easier.

http://youare.com/
Fast, fun, and in 140 characters: share everything you do throughout the day using text, video and images.
Filter updates received. Real life friends, co-workers, family….
Import content from YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious.

http://www.wibiya.com/
Create a blog community using Facebook Connect
Gain traffic from Facebook through your members news feed
Engage readers and raise pageviews with applications such as post navigator and blog search
Track your traffic growth through simple analytics tools
Share your tweets with your readers in real time

http://www.kontain.com/
Upload photos & videos anytime.
Connect & share with anyone.
Post from anywhere.
Kontain is determined to be:
So gorgeous your friends will move to it.
So fast you have to use it.
So addictive, you cannot stop using it.

http://www.penzu.com/
Penzu is a free online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. You can keep your thoughts and ideas to yourself and share only if you want to!

http://multiply.com/
Multiply gives you an easy way to share all kinds of digital media, including photos, blogs, videos, music and more, all in one convenient place: your own personal web site. With Multiply, you can share and discuss your stuff with everyone in your "social network," and also be alerted whenever they have something new.

http://www.scrapblog.com/
If you love sharing photos, you’ll love Scrapblog. With Scrapblog, you can easily create stunning multimedia scrapbooks featuring your photos, videos, audio and a bunch of creative elements. We made Scrapblog drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and share them online or turn them into high-quality photo books and DVDs. Best of all, it’s free and there’s nothing to download.

http://www.blogr.com/
blogr is a web service that provides you space to store and share your photos, videos, audios and blog-entries in just a few clicks.

http://wearehunted.com/
Hunted gives the latest music news from around the globe. It’s aggregate social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.

http://hypem.com/
The Hype Machine tracks a variety of MP3 blogs. If a post contains MP3 links, it adds those links to its database and displays them on the front page.

http://sonific.com/
With Sonific you can find the music you like, create your playlists, make your widgets, grab the code and add it to your profile page, site, blog or photo album.

http://www.moonk.com/
Quickly and easily enhance your profiles and blogs. With Moonk you can create a slideshow from your favorite pictures; a videoshow from your best videos; and a jukebox from your greatest music hits. These players can then be integrated into pages like MySpace, Hi5, Friendster, Yahoo360, and Blogger or used for your own personal website.

http://www.blogr.com/
blogr is a web service that provides you space to store and share your photos, videos, audios and blog-entries in just a few clicks.

http://www.monkiri.com/
Monkiri is a user friendly Firefox/IE addon that enables a web user to capture and share interesting web pages or part of a web page with others. Monkiri lets you grab any part of the web page and instantly publish it either on your Monikri blog, or send it to Blogger/Wordpress blogs.

http://www.typepad.com/
TypePad is the premier blogging service for professionals, hosting many of the world’s most popular blogs and small business websites. TypePad’s ease of use enables you to create a blog in minutes.

http://www.lijit.com/
Lijit allows you to easily create your own search engine, which searches your blog, blogroll, bookmarks, photos, and more. By offering the Lijit Search Wijit on your blog, readers can search all of YOU and receive amazingly relevant results. In turn, Lijit gives you detailed statistics about the searches performed, such that you can better understand and serve your reader community.

http://www.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is your friendly, free, and terrifically easy tool for creating tumblelogs.
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.

http://www.blogr.com/
blogr is a web service that provides you space to store and share your photos, videos, audios and blog-entries in just a few clicks.

http://www.hyplet.com/
Hyplets are FREE personal IDs and online Flyers, which you can easily add to emails and Web pages, allowing you to enhance your online presence and promote your content with a single click.

http://www.flixwagon.com/
With FlixWagon, you can broadcast live or keep videos for later, upload to your blog, and much more. All just a click away from the comfort of your mobile phone.

http://omgili.com/
Omgili is a search engine designed to index web-based discussion forums. Omgili’s unique algorithm analyzes forums not as a simple web page, but as an active discussion with a title, topic and replies.

http://www.tangler.com/
Tangler is an innovative group interaction and communication platform. It’s fun, interesting and really useful.

http://www.yuku.com/
Yuku is about communities, discussion, profiles, images and blogs – all in one place. You can sign up to Yuku and create a free account. Each Yuku user account can create up to five Profiles. And each account can build message boards, a blog or create a gallery.

http://zeeya.net/
Find old friends and stay in touch. Make new friends and academic connections, or perhaps even meet the love of your life. Create your own discussion groups and decide who can participate and who sees what, whether it be for common hobbies, a club, or your study group. Send your friends messages and stay up-to-date with the weekly newsletter. Share your personal interests, hobbies, and academic goals, and meet people with similar interests.

http://zohochat.com/
Often times, we need to collaborate with others to make decisions. Email, blog, forums
have asynchronous discussions. Conventional chat requires p

This would have to be a new blog. Something that you want to read about, but havent found online. This can be religious, fashion-based, etc. Im just getting some ideas for the blog i want to start- Thanks!

Blogs are like online diaries, but they have become so popular that cyberspace is now called the blogosphere. People don’t exchange links anymore, they just leave their links on each others blogs. Blog is short for weblog. It’s a log of what a person says, promotes or communicates online. It unfolds in chronological order, by date. Search engines love blogs more than conventional websites, because they are updated on an hourly, daily or weekly basis. Search engines are programmed to scan blogs for activity and unique content periodically; at least once a day. But if you post a lot, the search engines become wise and scan you blog more frequently. If you would like to learn to make money, come to my blog and read my daily posts. If you have any questions, just ask. I read my comments everyday. I will help you make money, with blogs, affiliate products, adsense and social networks for free

I’m an aspiring writer-of all literary trades (journalism, screen writing, satire, etc)-but I want to start a blog for some adult oriented, romantic fantasy literature. Anyone know how I can start a blog that will allow me to do this? I believe I’ll need a warning page before entrance, and I want it to come up on search engines.

From what I’ve seen tumblr.com seems liberal with what content they allow. Or there’s always asstr.org but they don’t have a blogging system, so you’d have post the html manually.

I’m often asked by beginners if they should build a website or a blog. My answer is always the same:

“Contrary to what you may have heard, a blog is a website.”

In fact, here’s how wikipedia defines a blog:

“A blog (a contraction of the term “web log”) is a web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.”

So you see, a blog is indeed a website.

Okay, now that I’ve cleared that up, let me explain why I prefer operating a blog site.

It really comes down to one word – simplicity. I’m technically handicapped, so I really need a simple platform from which to present my views and opinions, and conduct business.

And you just can’t beat the simplicity of a blog. In fact, today’s blogging software takes simplicity to a whole new level. To build a professional looking blog nowadays, it’s basically point and click, and you’re done!

It really is that simple.

When I decided to start my blog, I looked at the three most popular blogging platforms. Google’s Blogger, Wordpress and Typepad.

Typepad is a paid service with subscription plans starting at $4.95 per month. Blogger and Wordpress are both free services.

After reading information on all three services and doing some exhaustive research, I decided to go with Blogger. Why?

Again, it came down to simplicity. You just can’t beat the simplicity of Blogger’s platform. And Blogger’s boatload of free, easy-to-install features were also appealing to me.

Of course, that’s strictly a personal preference. And the last thing I want to do is sound like a commercial for Blogger. Perhaps you’ll find Wordpress or Typepad more to your liking.

Honestly, you can’t go wrong with any of the top services. You can build a professional looking blog with either of the three.

And that’s really the point, isn’t it?

So should you blog?

Well, that depends. If you’re opinionated like I am, have something to say and want to share your views and opinions with the world, then you’ll probably find a comfort level with a blog.

But whether you decide to blog or not, if you’re building a website as a “for- profit” enterprise, it’s important that you take it seriously and treat it like a business. Because that’s exactly what it is.

That means approaching your business with commitment and passion. It means paying close attention to the appearance and functionality of your site – making sure it’s user-friendly.

It also means following up with your customers, refreshing your content regularly and concentrating on getting plenty of backlinks to your site.

If you’re not prepared to do those things on a consistent basis, then you’re not ready for a website.

But if you do decide to make that commitment, I look forward to seeing you on the internet!

David Jackson
http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/should-you-blog-688418.html

There are lot of things that you can do with affiliate blog marketing. Purpose of affiliate blog marketing is get free traffic generation to your affiliate sites. There are many ways to get one. Affiliate blog marketing have become the near perfect platform for both generating free traffic to your affiliate program and monetizing that traffic. Modern blogs have the amount of plug-ins is huge and the flexibility of the platform is incredible. On the other hand, you can drive tons of traffic to your blog using some strategies: 1. Bookmarking your posts 2. Pinging your posts 3. Having a Podcast show and submitting it to the different podcast directories 4. Leaving useful comments on other people’s blog 5. Writing for other blogs in your niche 6. Using trackbacks 7. Publishing the interview in your blog 8. Having a weekly appointment with your readers And much more… Blogs today are used for… 1. PreSell Pages 2. Review Pages 3. Salesletters 4. Optin Pages 5. Membership Sites 6. Traffic Funnels 7. Articles 8. Press release 9. Sqeeze pages 10. Blogs Blogs are also used effectively in combination with paid advertising like PPC and banners as well as with video and podcasting. There is a good idea integrate your blog with Twitter immediately. Very good idea is using blogs in “Linkweels”- you can create a affiliate funnel where you are creating value and rank to those other sites, and then pushing it around the circle and down into your website. Very important are of affiliate blog marketing is affiliate blog are well-written keyword rich promotional articles. Why articles are the best promotional tool for your affiliate blog ? Because you will continually receive targeted visitors to your affiliate blog for the work you do once. It means that a single well-written keyword rich article that is related to the topic of your affiliate blog will continually bring targeted visitors to your affiliate blog after you’ve submitted it once to a high traffic article directory. There are lot of things that you can do with affiliate blog marketing but purpose of affiliate blog marketing is get free traffic generation to your affiliate sites.

Eugenijus Sakalauskas

Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and
best friend about your new blog but that’’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the
moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to
help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is
called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you
no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers.

Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to
teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very
practical tips or advice.

This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical
and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current
(it isn”t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight.

The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum.

Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same
time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing
here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if
they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new.

This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed. You don”t have to produce
one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new.

Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will
be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so
the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call
your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily
rememberable domain name.

People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world
(that’’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them
to spread the word and pass on your URL.

Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry
about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember
then you”ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller
articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of
reader for your blog is to comment on other people’’s blogs.

You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers
there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you
leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always
have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and
hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog
conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another
blogger’’s article you can do a trackback to their entry.

What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’’s sort of like
your blog telling someone else’’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks
often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another
blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the
attention of another blogger.

The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They
may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time
down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone
to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If
they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since
you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about.

To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always
respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that
summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to
collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to
a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike
in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of
new readers but it’’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’’s worth the effort. Go to Blog
Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it.

You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit
back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with
this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to ArticleBase.com. This is another tip that doesn”t bring in hundreds of
new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’’s worthwhile because you
simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your
pillar articles and submit it to ArticleBase.com.

Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their
website or in their newsletter. How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource
Box”.

You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two
sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your
article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large
newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all
of the techniques I”ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you
do everything above you may bring in readers but they won”t stay or bother to come back.

Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of
over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

Warmly,
Gary Neame

Gary Neame
http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/10-blog-traffic-tips-679289.html

Want to make people visit a blog and don’t know how. Also can you give me a good blogging site that people visit a lot. Do they visit your blog within the blog site or externally?? Thanks.

Most of the time people find your blog from search engines like yahoo, google, bing etc. You have to optimize your blog with meta tags and they are read from search engines spiders. Its called SEO and you can read more about it online. You can also post your blog on facebook and twitter and other sites like this and you will get some visitors too
Hope this helps!
Good Luck