Sunday, July 23, 2006

MAKING MONEY WITH BLOGS, Day 7

Unleashing The Awesome Marketing Power Of Blogs With RSS And Pings

By now, you know what blogs are, how they work, how easy it is to create them, and how varied their applications can be. You have been equipped with the basics that would allow you to compete in the Internet marketing field, armed with your trustworthy web log.

Well, being competitive and being dominating are two different things, dear friend. Read on, as we’re going to discuss a super strategy that will boost your commercial campaign.

Have you heard about the fantastic Blog/RSS combo? RSS is an abbreviation for Real Simple Syndication. To put it simply, it’s like email, but your feeds would be delivered straight to the recipient’s desktop. This has eliminated the danger of spam. Before RSS, Internet marketers who have establish their own mailing lists were always afraid that their messages, which are carrying their offers, fail to reach the target reader because they are filtered out as spam. That ceased to be a problem with the advent of RSS, as messages don’t have to pass through a filtering system. Slowly, but most definitely surely, RSS is becoming the industry standard in electronic message delivery.

But what has this got to do with blogs, you might ask?

A lot!

You see, blogs can generate their own RSS feeds. These feeds are the messages that you could deliver to your recipients. Your blog entries can automatically become your RSS messages, saving you a whole lot of time and financial resources, and providing for you some stable traffic.

But that’s not all, of course. Here is the mighty Blog/RSS combo that could get your website indexed in a matter of days! The steps below are for those who are using blogs to promote their main website.

1. Download Wordpress (www.wordpress.org) and an RSS feed generator.

2. Set up the Wordpress software according to the configurations found at Top 10 Tricks For Wordpress to allow your blog entries to be generated as RSS feeds.

3. Set up an account with my.yahoo.com and my.msn.com . Yahoo and MSN, of course, are one of the leading search engines today.

4. Publish good quality entries for your blog. Include links to your main website, or you could even use your affiliate links.

5. Generate these entries as RSS feeds and send them to your MyYahoo and MyMSN accounts.

6. Go to www.pingomatic.com . One of the tools available there is a pinger that you could use to inform the search engines that new content has been added to your blog.

7. Ping the search engines.

8. The search engine spiders would thereafter prioritize your blog whenever a relevant search is
made.

9. Repeat the process.

10. Watch your page rank rise!

The beauty of this strategy is that the search engine spiders would always be made aware that your blog is being constantly updated. Search engines like that. This is why the search engine spiders would give a particular preference to your blog every time a search is made that is related to the subject of your web log. And since your blog contains links to your site or to the affiliate program you’re enrolled in, and since these links are unilateral, the activity in your site would increase and so will its value when it comes to search engine positioning.

The result? Your site will be indexed in a matter of a few days!

This is just one of the many strategies you could learn from Top 10 Tricks For Wordpress Do check itout and discover a world of potent tactics that could spell the difference between success and failure in this type of marketing campaign.

Blogs are relatively new tools in Internet marketing. Though they are popularly used in this day and age, not that many people are aware of their commercial worth. So hop aboard the blogging bandwagon, dear friend, and experience all the benefits it could bring to your business.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home