posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 21

In the several instance that you have browsed the net you have probably come across a blog or two. Blogs refers to online journals where people express their feeling through writing. They represent personal opinions of authors about certain topics. Blogs allows people to share their ideas and interest with other people around the globe.

Blogs have become popular nowadays for a number of reasons. First, they are search engine friendly. As long as you are making posts regularly, search engines spider them and index them often. Search engines loves blogs because of the regularly updated, fresh content they present. Second, it’s the quickest way to build a website. People who want to build a website but do not know HTML and how to create a website can use blogs instead. You do not really need to create websites or any programming language. And third, blogging increase marketing reach dramatically.

Even if you are not much of a writer you can always try blogs. When you become consistent with your blogging you will soon realize why it is important for internet marketers. But setting up a blog does not mean that you will have a one hundred percent boost in your income. A blog won’t give you any new ways to make money except with the following ways:

1. Selling advertising space. You can sell text links or banners on your blog. If your blog have a high page rank then this strategy might work for you.

2. Offer affiliate ads. You can offer visitors links or banners to your affiliate products or services just like with a website.

3. The simplest way to get money through your blogs is by having Adsense or any other ads in your blog. Once people click on this ads, that the time you make money.

Keep in mind that your competitors are probably using blogs so you must use one as well. If your competitors are blogging then they are perhaps reaching customers easily and effectively. When you have a blog you can publish information about your business quickly while keeping pace with the growth in the market.

Simply put, blogs are useful social and communication tools. The market is getting smarter and more organized. People would want to talk to you and want to participate in the development of your products. Blogs can allow this because readers can submit their comments to the authot’s post if the author allows it.

Blogs will be around for the years to come so it may be a smart decision to start blogging now.

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About the Author

Viojieley Gurrobat loves readings books in her spare time. She writes stories and poems about anything under the sun.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 20

“Blogging” has exploded onto the national scene in the past few years, and has gotten to be so pervasive that the next presidential election is said to be partially in the hands of the well-known political bloggers. A blog (short for web log) is a website which is usually constructed as a set of entries set up in chronological or reverse-chronological order, with the most recent post at the top and older posts near the bottom. As the blog builds more and more content, older posts are usually archived by week, month, or year.

It’s not difficult to learn how to blog, and within a few minutes you can set up your own free, personal blog. If you want to know how to blog the best way to learn is to see for yourself. Go to one of the free blog hosting sites like blogger.com or livejournal.com to start your account; all you need to sign up is an email address. You can then decide what to call your blog and usually you have the option to choose from a number of different “templates.” These templates determine how your blog will appear to users, from the color of the backgrounds to the size and color of the text. Though you can tinker with the template and format of the page later, when first learning how to blog it’s usually best to pick the template you like the most and stick with it for the time being.

Once your blog is setup you can start posting, usually from your own page within your host’s website (Blogger calls this the “dashboard”). To type up a post, all you have to do is type in the text you want to appear on the blog into the provided text box and click “Post.” Your post will then be published on your blog; it’s as simple as that. Depending on your provider, you’ll probably be able to add hyperlinks to your blog as well as photos and sometimes even video.

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they’re learning how to blog is that they have no theme or general idea for their blog. Though it may seem fun to setup a webpage of whatever you want to post at the time, most people won’t want to read it. After all, why bother putting together a blog if nobody reads it? Many people, especially those learning how to blog for the first time, decide to setup personal blogs which work as online diaries. These can be especially helpful for people who are traveling or moving away, since they allow friends and family to know what you’re up to. Whatever you use your blog for, it won’t take long to setup, learn how to blog, and start posting away.

About the Author

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posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 19

Blogging has been the most popular thing in today’s world, more and more people even newbies are getting blogs as a way to express themselves and publish themselves. However, as a webmaster, you might want to make sure what you write will get found online. If you are using Wordpress as your blog script, it is important to know how to write in search engine friendly attitude. The reason why I am writing this article is that I still can’t find an article online, which really teaches people the right way to optimize your blog. This article will contain everything, and I do mean everything you need to do.

Friendly permalink structure The first thing I do before creating any post is to change the permalink. Always do this before you post anything. The most friendly permalink structure should be what this site has, with the structure “domain.com/post-name”, eg. http://www.seo-study.com/instant-article-submitter-review/. I have seen a lot of people tend to use the date and month in the middle of the url, which is not a good thing, as the deeper you put your post in, the harder it gets found, unless you really have a good content.

If you have already used these formats and want to change to my suggested one, then the only thing you can do is to create redirection manually for each pages. Do not try editting htaccess because it won’t work. I have tried it but the next day you woke up, you will find htaccess being rewritten back to the default. It seems like Wordpress will automatically rewrite htaccess file. The only way you could do is to create “permanent redirection” for each page. For example, http://www.seo-study.com/2006/03/08/instant-article-submitter-review/, permanently redirect it to http://www.seo-study.com/instant-article-submitter-review/. It is important to choose permanent redirection instead of temporary as it is the one that is seo friendly. From my experience, using this method can successfully changed top ranking pages to point to the new url without losing any ranking. If you are already using the default structure, which is domain.com/?p=5, then simply no need worry. Just changed the structure and it will keep the old pages active instead of error page. Sooner, spiders will update your ranked pages with the new url.

Use suitable tags and structure Make sure every post you make, the title has h2 tag, instead of some other name created in css. If it has something like “post-title”, change it to “h2″ in the stylesheet. It is important to have h2 tagged titles in every post you make. Always choose a good title for your post. Try not to use the newspaper style of headline. If you are writing about advantages of playing tennis, simply call it “Advantages of Playing Tennis”, it’s strong enough itself. Always put bolds on the suitable wordings or sentences. Adding “li” tags can be a powerful way to make your post looks more orgnaized. Some Wordpress theme has h2 tags on some wordings that should not deserve, such as “Leave a comment” or “Category”. Always change them to smaller as they will not do any goods to you. Always put the correct links in your blog that can allow spiders to follow. Never hide your archives and categories links. Put them at the sidebar. It is important to realise that, without having a link to somewhere, search engine spiders will *never* know the existance.

Use optimized title The default title Wordpress uses is less friendly to be used as it puts the post title at last. It is better to move the title infront. You can download a plugin called optimal title, which allows you to put <?php optimal_title(); ?> on the title, which can show the title anywhere you want. You can use the format “Post Name” - “Site Name”, which is the most effective way. But do remember, don’t always change your mind after making the modification. If you change the format 5 times in a month, it is unlikely your posts will be indexed high and you will be wasting your time.

Install related post plugin This can be the most powerful thing to do. Always install this plugin, it is an effective way not only making your website looks more valuable and also a great way to improve page views. People who read your article will always want to read more, and at least 5 related articles link put aside or below the article should attract them to go ahead and read more. Try download the related plugin and change it to display 10 related articles instead of 5, if possible. This plugin can also help your post looks more valuable to spiders and making other related posts easier to be indexed too.

Link exchange with quality blog Never neglect the importance of outbound link in your blog. If your blog has already had some pagerank, you should probably find some link partners easily from forums and blogs. Always choose those with related content to be your partners. It will make your website seen more quality to spiders. If you are starting out and have no partners at all, it can take sometimes to search for the right partners. Always make friends in forums, post actively there. Leaving your blog’s url in signature of every post for many big forums can be a powerful and effective way to promote your blog. Some forums are popular enough that they have high pagerank on showthread.php file or others, it is a good way to increase your PR too!

Get rid of spamming comments and links We all know people can leave comments in every post, but how valuable are comments? I must admit, comments are extremely valuable. They can make your post rocks so high on a competitive keyword, but only if the content is good enough. Related comments can add more context to your post, in terms of the view from spiders. Having nice people leaving related words is a great way to improve the value of your article. However, there are spammers in the blogging world. Often times you will find people leaving stuff like “buy viagra, cigrattes, etc” in the comments and leave whole bunch of links to unrelated content. These should always be taken as a serious issue because they are killing your post! Do always filter new comments before approving it. There is a nice function in Wordpress that you can use to hold a post if it contains a particular word, or if it has x number of links. Simply go to Options -> Discussion, at the part where it says “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than…”, enter the number as 1. Now, if anyone places a link or more in the comment, the comment will automatically be put on hold. Below it is the Comment Blacklist feature, put in the words that you want to block to prevent undesirable wordings to appear in your blog. Another thing you could do is put the “rel=nofollow on” on some links that you do not want spiders to follow. <u>Do put this nofollow tag for those affiliate links on your site, if you have them.</u>

Top viewed posts plugin Another powerful method you can do is to install the top views plugin. This plugin can display the most popular posts in your blog, thus attracting more readers and improve your pageviews. I think you can change the default number to display, I usually will display the top 15 most viewed posts.

Customize your error 404 page Always remember to edit the error page. Often times when a post is deleted and there is new visitor coming, wordpress will bring the visitor to the 404 page. Now, you don’t want to miss any new visitor to know more about your site. One thing you can do, is to copy the index.php coding and paste it to the error page. This can let the visitor seeing your homepage instead of a blank page saying the page is not found. Alternatively, you can leave the correct link on the error page, asking the visitor to click on it to arrive on the correct page. Read more about customizing error 404 page. This can help your article looks more seo friendly.

Keeping a fast loading blog I often see a lot of bloggers putting all sorts of weird codes and frames inside a blog. Never do that, as it slows down the loading of a page and keeps visitors away. Internet users are mostly lazy people, I should say, they rather close the window and go and get a Subway, than sitting there waiting for something to be shown for 2 minutes. You should always make sure your blog has easy navigation for people to browse through the whole site. The default “Next” and “Previous” links are good enough, but you can try to change the anchor text to something like “Read more about %sitename%” and “Read old topics on %sitename%”.

Google sitemap for Wordpress It was quite a buzz last few years when Google announced that webmasters can use sitemap as a way to communicate with spiders to help getting their pages indexed. According to Google’s website, it states “The Sitemap Protocol allows you to inform search engine crawlers about URLs on your Web sites that are available for crawling. A Sitemap consists of a list of URLs and may also contain additional information about those URLs, such as when they were last modified, how frequently they change, etc.”. Fair enough that a sitemap should do some good to your blog. Learn how to generate a Google sitemaps and submit it to Google to help boosting your indexing power.

About the Author

CY Tang is a search engine profession, helping websites to get ranked higher with better search engine visibility. Visit his seo blog to read more articles of seo.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 18

Picking up tarpaulin products the intelligent way

: The regional newspapers and obtaining tarp covers

It could mean you come to find a black tarp or came tarp advertised in the district newspaper however simply on the basis that the merchandise is not being offered by a cover vendor or home and garden merchant you are reluctant to buy, The smartest phrase you that will ever be spoken regarding getting covers are “always check it out for yourself”. You see it might perhaps be that this cover item is actually new and untouched or nearly new, it might easily be the advertiser is offering it for reasons that are actually honest and understandable. It could possibly be an unwanted gift or somebody has just passed away, you see it is possible you may pass up the chance of acquiring a cover for practically nothing purely because you did not check out the information.

: Discover covers on The ebay auction website

Ebay is terrific for finding great cover deals, the great thing about ebay is that there tends to be a whole bunch of new cover products to bid for, so you see buying top condition canvas canopies or carport tarps for an amazingly low price is not unheard of on the ebay auction. Because I am a cover specialist I have acquired a lot of fantastic deals on ebay when purchasing cover goods and in turn retailed them my regular customers who were equally happy to buy such bargain covers in my store. The biggest tip for shopping for home and garden items on ebay is to leave your bid until the very last moments if the bidding session, by doing that very same thing I recently purchased a canvas canopy for 25% of the going market rate and made killing when I sold the item on [ just so you know the customer I sold it to also got the item for a great price ].

: If you are buying a product like a deck canopy ask for a cost reduction

My old dad used to say to me,” if you don’t ask you don’t get”, If you go into a dealers store that is providing covers and come to find a product like a eyelet or firewood cover that you wish to purchase then be sure you ask for a price drop. You will obviously be offered one of 2 answers when asking for a cost discount when buying a cover or home and garden related items, if the vendor is owned by one person then you have more chance of getting the answer you would want because the smaller home and garden dealers are a little more desperate to sell. The trick when asking a discount is to try and call the company owners bluff and certainly don’t act as if obtaining the cover or product is the paramount focus of your interest, be ready to walk towards the store exit with the goods still resting in the store. With any luck will hopefully push the odds of getting a discount in your favor as it is very likely that the smaller cover store owner will not wish to lose a sale and the item will shortly be yours.

: Getting covers from competitions

This is the longest shot but it may definitely produce the ultimate bargain when trying to obtain a cover, I personally have not been lucky enough to obtain home and garden goods in this manner however I do know someone who is a competition fan and I have actually picked up a flatbed tarp this person was awarded and subsequently sold it in my store. This individual revealed to me that by making use of the web it is pretty simple to track down competitions for products you particularly require. What you do is type in search terms like “prize cover” or “cover competition” and a number of cover competitions will be displayed before your very eyes.

We hear all the time that anything is possible so just because you do not know how you could possibly buy a gazebo cover or light dome canopy doesn’t mean it is thoroughly unlikely.

About the Author

John Guage runs a great website on the subject of tarps and how to find the best deals. For details and terrific tips, go to: http://buytarps.net

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 17

Choosing which blogging platform to use is one of the most important decisions that you can make as a blogger. The right platform can make blogging a breeze, and the wrong platform can make blogging a chore. Because the program that you use to blog with is such a powerful part of your blogging experience, it is well worth putting in the time to find a platform that provides your ideal balance between a user-friendly interface and a flexible framework that allows you to make your blog look and feel unique. Finding the right platform isn’t always easy, but with a little bit of contemplation and a little bit of research, you will be on your way to finding the perfect blogging platform.

Deciding what your priorities are in terms of ease of use versus customization. Most highly customizable blogging platforms, like moveable type, are a bit more difficult to use than very automated platforms like wordpress. If you are new to blogs and to internet technology, you might want to sacrifice the ability to create a custom background design or to integrate a unique font into your template in order to find a program that will be easy for you to use. On the other hand, if you are a veteran web designer with knowledge of html or javascript, you will probably find the limitations of a user-friendly platform to be frustrating.

There is no such thing as a blogging platform that is objectively the best platform, because every blogger has unique needs. The blogging movement is very much about individuality, so it makes plenty of sense that there would be many different platforms available that are designed to meet the needs of different kinds of individuals undertaking different kinds of projects. This diversity is a good thing, because it means that you will almost certainly be able to find a program that suits your level of technical aptitude.

However, the fact that no two bloggers need the same thing from a blogging platform can make your search for the right platform a bit tricky. When you are reading reviews of different platforms, try to keep your priorities in mind and do your best to take into account the position that the reviewer is coming from. For example, a negative review written by an accomplished software designer who complains that a popular platform is too limited may tell you that the platform in question is ideal for a beginning blogger. There is no such thing as the perfect platform for everybody, so instead of looking for the “best” platform, look for the best platform for your specific criteria.

About the Author

“Jim Hoffman is giving away free memberships to his Internet Marketing CPR ‘private site’. To get your own username and password, visit http://internetMarketingCPR.com while charter memberships last.”

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 16

So what is this “blog factor”? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday. Some are informative and some are just downright a waste of your time. And while we hear a lot about blogging these days, what is blogging *really*?

Blogging in its simplest term is like an online journal but much, much more powerful. Blogs (short for Web log) is a place where surfers can get up to the minute information on a topic or voyeur into someone’s life. Some blogs are nothing more than a daily glimpse into someone’s life, while others are so sophisticated, it’s hard to tell them apart from an online news service.

Why Blogs Matter Google, the #1 search engine on the net, loves blogs. So much so that if you do it right Google will spider the heck out of your site. What does it mean to “spider”? Well spidering is when Google, or the like, searches your sites content to establish ranking, the more content you have (i.e. fresh content) the more Google will do its magic and push your site up the search engine. Another reason blogs matter is that they are interactive and, if you blog on your books topic, it will help to further your expert status on a particular issue.

When we plan “Virtual Tours” for our authors, we include as many blogs as we can into a tour. Why? Because if you can get into a good blog that’s seeing a lot of traffic, you can really start to gain some exposure for your book.

What Would You Talk About? This is the question we get asked most often. “If I start a blog, what on earth would I talk about?” Well if your book is non-fiction it’s pretty easy to figure out what your topic would be, but if your book is fiction it could get a bit tricky - but not impossible.

An author I work with has a series of books starring one character - a private detective. I recommended that he “blog” this character, meaning that the character (not the author) would have the blog. It could be the character’s diary or adventures and stories - a glimpse into the life of a private detective. This would give the reader (and fans of this character) a reason to return to the blog for an update on this ongoing adventure or story.

In another instance, I work with an author who wrote a fiction book about right and wrong with a new age/spirituality spin. I advised him to blog on issues related to that - right and wrong in our society and his own personal “spin” on these issues. Some of his blogs might be controversial but that’s okay, you want to create your own “voice,” your own take on a certain issue and if that opinion is controversial, all the better for exposure and for getting people to interact on your blog. Getting readers to respond to your posts is a great way to gain interest and momentum for your blog and (more importantly) getting people to talk about it will grow your blog like nothing else!

How to Start a Blog Starting a blog is super easy. All you have to do is register at a blog site (like www.blogger.com) and get started. It’s that easy. The blog service will link to your site; you’ll need to ask your Webmaster to add a button to your home page so people can find your blog.

How to Blog Effectively The best bloggers know that the more you add to your blog, the more traffic you’ll drive there. Some bloggers I know post daily, sometimes even multiple times a day while others post weekly. How much you post will probably depend on how much time you have to dedicate to this, the challenge will be that if you want to keep driving people to your blog, you’ll want fresh content.

This doesn’t mean you have to create this all yourself, in fact you can invite people onto your blog and interview them, or you can just post a one paragraph “thought” on your topic. It doesn’t have to be complicated or long, it just has to be fresh. Also be innovative, as we discussed earlier, be different with your blog, have fun with it. It might seem complicated at first but once you get the hang of it, you’ll quickly become a blog expert!

About the Author

Penny C. Sansevieri is a book publicist who turns authors into success stories. Get her free author marketing newsletter and insider tips at http://www.amarketingexpert.com

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 15

I recently came to a decision that I must have my blog for the articles that I submit to directories. I was thinking about the bloggers and some how concluded that bloggers are little different to regular visitors to websites. I wanted the bloggers to read my articles. Secondly I was wondering about what value the search engines give to a back link from a article directory compared to a blog. So I decided to try and find out.

I chose blogger as I thought that google will crawl it faster. Then my problem was to make one blog with different categories or many blogs for different subjects. I decided to do later. Here is what I have done. I divided my articles in different subjects and created blogs dedicated to those subjects. These are the blogs created after this exercise. Inspiration - www.articlesoninspiration.blogspot.com , love- www.articlesonlove.blogspot.com , dating - www.successdating.blogspot.com Now my next step is to get these blogs listed on various search engines and directories. I also wish to tag every entry, though I am not still sure about the benefits of tagging, compared to the efforts I will be putting in doing that. My major problem is to how to get a good page rank for these blogs and I am still not sure about how to do that.

Blogging has become huge and gives an opportunity to everyone to put his/her thoughts online for the world. Blogs give great freedom of expression and the informal nature of blogs makes them fun. That is blogging. My other blogs are - holidays- www.holidaystocelebrate.blogspot.com , career - www.improvingcareerandwork.blogspot.com , marriage - www.onmarriageandrelationships.blogspot.com and relaxed life - www.relaxedliving.blogspot.com I am still a very novice blogger and do not understand the technology much. My only objective is to put my writing for the blog visiting community and learning more about blogging. Everyday thousands of new blogs are getting added to the web. The main attraction for creating a blog is the simplicity. A blog takes about five minutes to create and one can upload one’s thoughts online in no time. This increase in numbers makes it more difficult to get noticed. If a blog succeeds to attract visitors that would be admirable.

About the Author

C.D.Mohatta writes on spirituality, motivation, management etc. You can send Ecards with messages written by him. Also download beautiful Screensavers with real videos. The third site, the author writes for is Fun Quizzes Cards.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 14

Increasing traffic to your blog is fundamental to your blog’s success on the Internet. As you’ll soon find, it isn’t all that hard to increase traffic to your blog, but it does take time.

The first and most important rule for increasing traffic to your blog is to post, post and then post some more. Posting new and unique content on a regular basis to your blog is crucial to success.

Another critical method for getting traffic to your blog in through by establishing links to your site on other people’s webpages. This servers two purposes for your blog. First, a link on someone else’s site can be clicked on thus bringing a visitor to your site. Secondly, links on other sites pointing to your site factor into the equations that Google, Yahoo and MSN use to determine the order in which sites are listed in searches conducted on their site. These types of links are referred to as “inbound” links.

When you try to develop inbound links it is important to make sure that the links are relevant. For example, if your blog is about cars then it doesn’t do a lot of good to have an inbound link from a website about vacation spots. Your goal is to get inbound links on sites similar to your blog or, at a minimum, sites that target the same type of people (age, gender, interest, etc.) as your blog.

To begin developing inbound links, do a search for other blogs that are relevant to your blog. If your blog is about cars then search “cars” in Blogger Search or Technorati (two of the bigger blog search engines). Browse through the results that you get and make a list of those that you think are well designed and interesting. In order to get a link on those blogs you will most likely have to give something in return and usually the easiest thing to give is a link to them. So from that list add a link on your blog for each of the blogs that you liked. Then, after doing so, email the owner of each of those site and write something along the lines of:

“Hello, my name is John and I write for Crazy Cars, a blog about cars. I’ve recently added a link to your site on my homepage because I feel that my readers are in a very similar demographic to that of your site. If you get a chance check my site out and if you like what you see please link back.

Thank you, John”

Remember that these blog owners don’t owe you anything for you linking to them, but often if you ask nice you’ll get a link back.

Another way to build inbound links to your blog is by submitting your blog to blog and web directories. These directories contain literally thousands of websites and very rarely will someone come to your site by clicking on a link in one of the directories. However, including you blog in these directories can in many case help your ranking in search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). Don’t spend too much time doing this but if you have a little free time they are worth looking into.

Finally, and maybe the biggest key to increasing blog traffic is to write interesting and excellent content. The most powerful way to get people to your blog is to write content that your readers want to read. This will not only make people want to come back but it will also make them want to tell others about your blog. Anyone can get someone to come to their blog once but getting someone to come back again and again, that is the key to increasing your blog traffic.

So post often, build links so people can find you and then make sure to keep it interesting. They’ll come…for now, work hard and be patient.

About the Author

Todd Emaus, Ann Arbor, MI, USA todd@equationventures.com More information on increasing your blog traffic and other blogging tips can be found at http://blog-traffic.blogspot.com

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 14

I never studied internet marketing home business at university prior to building my first web site. What results you get will determine the belief and attitude you will gain from that experience and depending if your belief home business grows your thinking potential will increase. Aesthetic intent quietly launched during home business my final week at the agency, and to the best of my knowledge is the first ever podcast by a canadian automotive manufacturer. Posted in the seo forum home business danny sullivan summed up an important aspect of link strategy well.

Do we have to hire portent to do the implementation after home business the playbook is done.

At this time i use the technorati tagging system because i have concerns about duplicate content and actually have home business the /tag/ folder disallowed in my robots.txt file. If you knew that this site would be putting cash in your pocket in home business just a few days time.

Although i am online since last 8 years, i started purchasing things home business frequently online since last 2-3 years only. She has been quoted, interviewed and profiled by cnn/fn, fox news, entrepreneur magazine, and other national and regional media outlets, and has contributed stories on the subject home business of online marketing to imarketing news, pr tactics, webfinance and hsmai marketing review, among many others.

Scott griffith, chairman and ceo of softlock.Scott griffith, chairman and make blog ceo of softlock. By tying home business the ads users see to their demonstrated.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 13

BLOGS… they seem to be the talk of the Internet
marketing world these days, and for good reason.

Not only do the Search Engines love them for there
Content Rich pages, you also have the ability to plug
your Blogs “Site Feed” into an RSS feed and then have
it syndicated to thousands of websites and directories
giving your content more exposure to your target
audience.

RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is a very Powerful
technology that has been around for quite some time
and when used correctly, can build an audience
overnight.

If you want a crash course on what RSS is, in more
depth, since the nature of this article is to show you
how to get your Blogs “Site Feed” listed in Yahoo! and
MSN, I’ve provided a link to a page full of articles on
RSS related issues. http://www.rss-
specifications.com/rss-articles.htm

Now, depending on where your Blog is hosted,
whether its through a free service like Blogger.com —
http://www.blogger.com or hosted on your websites
server you should have a “Site Feed URL” that has the
.XML extension.

This is your “Site Feed URL”.

You’ll usually locate it within your Settings area of Blog
control center.

Here’s what mine looks like as an example:
http://theiwe.blogspot.com/atom.xml

This URL is intended for a RSS News Reader, so
disregard its appearance.

Once you find your “Site Feed URL”, copy and paste it
into Notepad because you’ll need it for the next steps
coming ahead.

Now, what you need to do is go and set-up an My
Yahoo! and My MSN account.

I’ve provided the links for you below.

- My Yahoo! ==> http://my.yahoo.com

- My MSN ==> http://msn.com

It should only take you about 15-20 minutes at the
most.

If you already have accounts with My Yahoo! and My
MSN, read on.

This is assuming you already have your accounts set-
up, so your next step is to Login to your My Yahoo!
account.

When you login, you’ll be taken to your Yahoo! page
immediately.

What you want to do next is go look under the Yahoo!
search box to the left and click on the “Add Content”
link.

This will bring you to a new page.

From there, over to the right by the “Find” button you’ll
see an “Add RSS by URL” link, click on it.

A new window will open with a “Web Form”. Simply
copy and paste your “Site Feed URL” from Notepad into
the web form and click on the “Add” button.

Now, you should see your Blogs name infront of you.
Simply click on the yellow “Add To My Yahoo!” button
and your feed will be added.

The next thing you should see is your “Site Feed” with
your “Headlines”.

Click on one of them, it should take you to your Blog, to
the desired Headline you chose.

Your My Yahoo! page should Now have your Blogs “Site
Feed” Headlines listed at the bottom.

Scroll down to check. If you don’t see them, it
sometimes takes up to 24-48 hours for them to
appear, so just check back later.

Now that thats done, everytime you update your Blog
with NEW content, it’ll “Automatically” update on your
My Yahoo! page and everybody else’s pages who have
subscribe to your feed, plus, within 24-48 hours your
feed will get Spidered and Indexed by Yahoo!.

Talk about getting the word out in a HURRY with very
little effort on your part.

This is “Viral Marketing” at its Best in my mind.

And… it’s so simple to implement.

Okay.

Now it’s time to do the same to your My MSN account
as what you did above to your My Yahoo! page.

Here’s the link to go login(click on Sign In from main
page): http://www.msn.com

Once your login to your My MSN account you should
see an “Add Content” link under the MSN logo to your
left. Click on it.

A pop-up should now be displaying. Simply copy and
paste your “Site Feed URL” from your Notepad into the
web form provided and click the Search button(the
green button with the arrow).

You should now be looking at Check Box with your
Blogs name beside it. Check off your “Site Feed URL”
and then press the OK button at the bottom.

PRESTO! Like magic… your Blogs site feed has now
been added to your My MSN page which will then be
spidered in the next 24-48 hours and Indexed by MSN.

That’s the Power of BLOGS(Web-Logs) and RSS(Real
Simple Syndication)combined with two Internet giants.

The only thing you have to bring to the table IS, fresh,
quality content that your audience WANTS, and do it on
a regular basis.

I post my articles that I write on a weekly basis,
making my Blog called… The Internet Wonders Blog -
http://theiwe.blogspot.com - a search engine Magnet!

You can do the same because I just showed you HOW.

In conclusion, creating BLOGS and using RSS as a
vehicle to syndicate your Blogs content is a Sure-Fire
way to get your content spidered more frequently by
search engines and the exposure it deserves, which in
turn, will build you a large audience of buying
customers that TRUST you.