So what is a Blog? Well a blog can be summed up as this: A frequently and instantly updated website focused around an industry, topic or personality. A blog can be considered an online diary of sorts with your daily/weekly entries being called posts. There are two cool things about blogs:
1) You can have visitors post comments to yours
2) You can update your blog instantly from anywhere in the world with just an Internet connection giving you much more flexibility over the traditional website. I bet you are wondering now how a blog works? Will its very simple really. Lets take blogger.com which is owned by Google for example. If you have an account already(if not you can set one up very quickly) just sign in, find your blogs name, click on new post, put in your title, web page link and what you want to say and finally click publish post. Its that easy. Your post is automatically published to you blog for the world to see. Blogs can be a great tool for your online or offline business. Blogs provide fresh content regularly, an informal voice (your voice) which your visitors can not only respond to but get to know and they can also be a source of revenue via outgoing links and adsense. Blogs are great if you are on a shoe-string budget. You can run your business from one using outgoing links. You can generate revenue by posting ads and products on your blogs. Your blog can be submitted to search engines such as Google and Yahoo. The best part is that you can do all of this for free! Blogs are becoming more and more popular not only with people but with search engines as well. Search engines like blogs because they are updated frequently, they are usually interlinked, are better organized and built structurally. A blog is something you should seriously consider. Not only can they link to your site( if you have one) but they can link to your affiliate products sites and thus generate revenue. So go out and get your blog started today. Make sure you keep it updated at least weekly and put some adsense links up. Its all free! |
