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Blogging For Dummies The Complete Guide

October 14, 2009 By Ron 10 Comments

Now that you’re starting your own blog as an affiliate or for your own online business, you’ll need to figure out–‘what am I blogging for?’

What do I want to achieve with blogging.blogging for dummies

Blogging For Dummies Everything You Ever Wanted To Ask About Blogging But Were To Afraid To Ask…

This will help you to decide which entries you will include in your blog posts, as well as how successful the blog will be. Here are some reasons for blogging that you’ll want to keep in mind, as well as a few ways to attract more people to your posts.

The second is extremely important for you as an affiliate marketer and what level of success you will experience with your new blog.

Finding The Best Topics And Niche For Blogging

First, you’ll need to select a specific audience (niche). You can choose your readers based on the things you are skilled at writing about. For instance, if you’re a chef, you can start blogging about your new restaurant, so that all the ‘foodies’ can find out exactly what types of dishes you’re offering.

You should also include pictures of some of the best dishes at your restaurant in order to draw more customers.

If you’re writing a blog that includes information about personal finance, you should make sure that you include tips on how families can save money every day. Visual aids like charts and graphs are also helpful for these types of blogs, since they will help people to understand how to organize a family or company budget. Read more on finding hot blog topics.

Getting Your Blog Listed

If you’re blogging for your company, or to market a new business that you’re starting such as your affiliate career, you should also make sure that your blog is listed in as many online directories as possible. This will make it much easier for people to find your blog.

It is also a good idea to add features to your blog that will allow readers to leave comments on your blog. This way, you’ll know what people really think about the material that you’re posting. The comments may also give you feedback on how to word the entries, so that they will be easier for understand.

Using You Blogging To Promote Your Own Business

The logos that you’ve selected for your company should also be included on your blog, and you can make these links active so that people can be directed to your company’s website. You should also add the link to your blog on the signature of your email.

This will let your friends and family know what you’re blogging for, and it’s a great free way to get some promotion for your blog so that advertisers and fellow readers can read and comment on your material.

You can also check out free blogging sites like WordPress or Blogger.com in order to find out what you should be blogging for. This way, you’ll know which subjects have already been taken or even what topics are really hot.

The more original your content is, the easier it will be for you to attract readers to your site. We have created a complete series of blogging for dummies tutorials that you really need to use and learn from, just go to our Blogging category. For those that are also into affiliate marketing then you can also use our posts on affiliate marketing for dummies.

Make sure you post your questions or comments to the blog so our team can answer your questions fast.

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  1. Michael Hockman says

    October 16, 2009 at 5:51 am

    This is my first blog! LOL!
    My name is Mike and I own Gutterdogs. It started out just cleaning gutters. Now we are a premium power washing company also!

    Reply
  2. AffiliateX says

    October 16, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Hey Mike

    Thanks for the post if you need to ask any questions please don’t hesitate. I know what it was like when I first started out, it can be a very big place the internet and with so much information flying around it can get very confusing especially when it comes to Blogs.

    Reply
  3. AffiliateX says

    October 16, 2009 at 9:57 am

    Hi Erin

    Glad you liked the article hope it gave you some ideas…

    Reply
  4. Michael Hockman says

    October 16, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Yea I’m learning too!

    Reply
  5. Michael Hockman says

    October 16, 2009 at 10:18 am

    I want to know how blogging can help others and help my website.

    Reply
  6. Michael Hockman says

    October 16, 2009 at 10:25 am

    I think what ive figured out in last 3 months equals something that takes longer in school!

    I made a mistake in the thousands.

    Because of that I’m figuring out how to do better for free!

    Reply
  7. AffiliateX says

    October 16, 2009 at 11:33 am

    If you want to help others with your blog/website you need to be adding firstly quality content that helps those people in your niche and it should really be free information. By doing this you will find that people start adding their own comments to your blog which is very important for marketing.

    And if you are adding quality content you will find that other sites start to link to your content giving you a huge following of sites which can count as one way back links also good for marketing your site.

    You are also on the right track by offering a free competition on your site this can help you build a mailing list of clients. I also notice that you have Youtube Videos this is also a good way to pick up links make sure your website link is in the profile of your Youtube page and also in the description of your Youtube Video.

    Reply
  8. Michael Hockman says

    October 16, 2009 at 10:34 am

    This is all new to me blogging. I hope this counts!

    Everytime i move forward its a big place.

    Reply
  9. Tax Crisis Institute says

    October 16, 2010 at 6:15 am

    These are definitely good tips, but they aren’t that specific. If you want to get your blog post listed then you should be sure to bold, title, and comment about your keywords. Also, makes sure to use alt tags with your images and use your keyword at least 3-5 times.

    Reply
    • AffiliateX says

      October 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm

      Yes this is a good tactic you can use, however many people simply do not understand what they need to do to optimize there post or pages. I guy by the name of Daniel Tan has released a fantastic plugin for wordpress which we use on this site called SEOPressor that does all of this for you, simply follow the instructions and you have a fully optimized seo ready wordpress post or page.

      Reply

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