I have been
a blogger since September 2004 but only began to take
it seriously this year. My blogging journey began when
I stumbled upon a company owned by Google named Blogger.com
that offered free tools to build a website.
In fact Blogger provides you with free several templates
which you can customize in addition to a domain name
hosted on their server. You can host your blog on your
domain if you like to. Here are some benefits I found
while blogging:
1) Easy to manage. A blog can be set up by even a novice
in no time. All you have to do is post and publish.
Blogging can get as simple as that or even more complex.
2) Easy to update. Blogs can be updated weekly or daily
instead of sometimes monthly for a static website. Even
adding a few paragraphs a day can be done in no time
and can be beneficial to your search rankings.
3) Get spidered quickly. Search engine spiders crawl
blogs with greater frequency than static web pages.
I have had web pages that took over eight months to
be indexed in Google where as Yahoo sometimes index
my blogs in weeks sometimes days.
4) If you write articles then you can post all of them
on your blog in addition to free reprint content that
is widely available everywhere. The more content you
have the better.
5) You can get your website indexed quicker. An article
or a piece of news about your website with an optimize
anchor link will send the spiders your way in no time.
6) Sell advertising space. If you have a popular blog
then you can create a revenue stream by selling ad space.
Blogads is one of several places where you can sell
your ad space to major companies.
7) Similar to offering ad space, you can add Adsense
to your blog to monetize your content. What I love about
Blogger is that once you plug in the Adsense code into
your main template, a new page is created and Adsense
is automatically displayed when you make a post.
8) Review your affiliate products. If you have a blog
that is in a niche then you can find affiliate programs
for that niche and do reviews of them for a commission.
Every time someone purchases the product or service
through your link you make money.
9) It is still early to catch on. Blogs and RSS feeds
are used by the minority of internet users which makes
it excellent for you to start blogging right now. Less
than 10% of the Americans which is the biggest online
market use this emerging trend.
10) Can be syndicated. An easy way for your readers
to stay in touch with updates is to add your blog to
their My Yahoo and My MSN. They can see the latest information
and how long ago it was added.
11) Yes a bonus! Savvy marketers know that if you add
your blogs to My Yahoo you can have it indexed in no
time by Yahoo. You can use these two websites to inform
blog directories that
you have updated your content.
a) http://www.ping-o-matic.com/
b) http://www.rssfeedpromoter.com/
So with all those benefits in mind there is no reason
you should not start your own blog. So when do you decide
to go blogging?
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