Archive for October, 2011

Building A Blog Free Blogs On The Internet

October 18, 2011 - 12:00 am Comments Off

Blogs are everywhere these days and with them being ranked high in search engines interest continues to be at an all-time high. Free blogs are where most people start to get their feet wet. The two best options are WordPress and Blogger with Blogger being Google’s free option. Both are great ways to get your first blog on the Internet. Let us look at the pros and cons of both platforms for the free blog user.

WordPress is a blogging platform that is easy to (more…)

What Are Backlinks And How To Use Them

October 15, 2011 - 12:00 am Comments Off

Backlinks are a valuable tool for bloggers and website owners. Basically, a backlink is a link from one site to another.

Why is this important? First, backlinks drive traffic to your site or blog with every person who clicks the link.

Second, backlinks help improve your search engine ratings. The higher your search engine rating, the more people will find you. Most search engines rate pages based on relevance. Backlinks show that whoever linked your page found your content useful enough to show other people.

How do you get backlinks? The first thing to do (more…)

Using Twitter To Get Views On Your Blog

October 12, 2011 - 12:00 am Comments Off

Twitter is arguably the most famous site on the internet today and if you are able to make networking connections on the famous social site you will be able to increase traffic into your blog. Twitter allows one tweet to able to be shared to almost millions of people instantly if it has amazing content. Learn how to incorporate Twitter into your marketing plan when you are trying to increase traffic. Learn the basics of Twitter and realize that this is the best way to finally have people read your (more…)

What Can Social Media Do For A Blog

October 10, 2011 - 12:00 am Comments Off

Social media is arguably the best way for a blog to prosper because millions of people all over the world are on a social network like Twitter or Facebook and it is no surprise that companies have definitely taken notice. Everyday the traffic to these two websites are near millions and if you are able to grab traffic from their sites, it can definitely increase the popularity of your blog. If you are really trying to make your blog (more…)