Blogging
How to Syndicate your Blog on Facebook
Aug 22nd
Hi Everyone
OK, so you you have your Blog all dressed up with the very latest, wonderful – mind blowing content, but ALAS… hardly any visitors are knocking on your Blog door. Does this sound familiar ?
Do you think, perhaps what you need, is to get your Blog BLASTED out there in front of the the MASSES!
The MASSES in this case, are that FRENZY of information hungry people that exist on planet FACEBOOK!
FACEBOOK as we know it, houses around half a BILLION people – half of which will log on at least once a day..
Think of how wonderful it would be if our Facebook friends could help us to get traffic to our Blog.
Enter – Networked Blogs..or as I call it – the extremely Viral SPIRAL!
Networked Blogs is a Blog Syndication Application that can be simply applied to your Facebook account by doing a few simple steps.
Here we go:
1) Log in to your Facebook account
2) In the search bar at the top – enter the words “Networked Blogs”, this will bring up the Networked Blogs page, at the top of that page is a button that says “Register a Blog” – simply click on that.
3) On the next page, is a simple registration form which will allow you to fill in the Blog Title, the Web address of your Blog’s home page, some descriptive words to describe your Blog’s Niche and a detailed description etc.
OK, so now you have registered your Blog, what do you do now?.
Well, firstly, before our next step, you could start following other syndicated Blogs. You are prompted to do this by Networked Blogs. I would highly recommend that you do this as Facebook is all about building relationships – why not start by building relationships with other Blog owners? and sharing what you do – with them.
This will lead to comments on your Blog, and if you oblige and comment on their Blog, this will help build those valuable back-links you need to increase your Google rankings, for your Blog.
BUT… I’m digressing – What we want is a fairly instant FLOOD of traffic to our Blog and this is how we do it.
If you look at the top right of the Networked Blogs page, just under THEIR search box, you will see a link that says “syndication”
What SYNDICATION will allow you to do is, to create a fully automated (or manual) wave of Viral Blog posts throughout Facebook, and this in my mind is by far and away the single most VALUABLE part of Network Blogs, as it allows us to:
Syndicate each Blog post to:
1) Our personal Wall
2) Our Fan Pages
3) Our Groups
4) Our Twitter accounts…
Thus putting each and every post that we post on our blogs, in front of THOUSANDS & THOUSANDS of people.
So how does it do this ?
Lets say, you have 2,000 friends, 1 Fan Page and a Group. Plus a Twitter account.
On your personal wall, as your automated post appears from Networked Blogs, firstly all of your 2000 friends will see it on their “Newsfeed”.
Some of your friends will “like it” or even comment on it. This will show up on “their own wall’s Newsfeed” – so even more people will see their “like” or comment and click to enquire what it is exactly that their friend is “liking or “commenting on, thus producing even more traffic to your Blog.
It will show up on your Fan page and/or your Group page, your Fans & Group members will also see your posts. Some will “like” or comment (or both) and their friends will also be able to see, what it is you are “liking” or commenting on.
It will also show up on your Twitter account as a Tweet, so if people like this Tweet, they may also check out your Blog and may possibly re-Tweet your Tweet to their followers as well.
As you can see, the Syndication of you Blog on Networked Blogs will have a truly “Viral” effect thus bringing you many more hungry followers & subscribers to your blog – All for FREE!.
Also something else I really like about Network Blogs is that you can “Invite” your Facebook friends (up to 16 per 24hrs) – to check out your Blog. you do this by going to you own Network Blog’s – Blog Page. Our’s is http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/keiths_money_making_tips/ yours will be the same but with your own Blog’s Title instead of ours – then click “Invite people to follow”.
You can also add a Network Widget to your Blog to show your own followers, why not follow this Blog
I hope you have enjoyed this Tip, I would appreciate any comments you may have, it would be great to hear from you.
Keith
Is your BLOG Dead or just SNOOZING? – No Comment!
Aug 19th
Is your BLOG asleep, or has it PASSED on to that great Blogspot in the sky?
A dead blog is one that doesn’t receive much traffic or comments… So are you actively promoting it by getting traffic to it and encouraging comments?
Comments (as of course, is traffic) are extremely important, to give your blog a “looked at” look. Blogs without comments tend to look like no one visits them.
It’s a bit like when you visit the shopping mall and you see a shop that doesn’t have any customers. Human nature is such, that people tend to avoid the store as no one else seems interested, whereby for all we know, it could be a brilliant store.
Social proof drives traffic to our Blogs, Websites & Videos – if other people appear to “like” them, then more people are drawn towards them as they appear to register as “OK” .
We do this in all walks of life and your BLOG is no exception.
So how do we get comments by the bucket load ?
Firstly, I would suggest you actively comment on other blogs in your niche. The higher up in the google rankings, the blogs you choose to comment on are – the higher quality the backlink is to your site. But this post is not about backlinks, its about getting comments, however backlinks are a valuable by-product of getting comments.
1) Organise a comment group, through Facebook – create a special page for FANS with blogs in your niche who all want comments on their blogs.. SWAP Comments on each others blogs.
2) Simply – ask for comments. Use your wall in Facebook or your Twitter account to post – What do you think of this? I would love your opinion, please post your comment on my Blog
3) Go on to DIGG look for a front page story in your niche and be the first to post a comment linking back to you. If you are at or near the top in the comments list, more people will bother to read your comment – what you do is first comment on the story, then sign off with a question relating to your blog post – and ask for a comment, it’s as simple as that, ask for comments and some people will.
Here’s an example: This Digg front page story today is about eBay, from the Huffington Post – it is currently being DUGG on DIGG with 261 DIGGS and 67 comments, hence it’s front page position today. I have simply added a comment and linked back to this site. Now they don’t allow HTML but they do allow a website URL, which is click-able if you include the http://www.
4) You can BUY comments on Fiverr. I make no secret what I think about this site – to be able to outsource things for $5 is absolutely brilliant – to get comments for $5 is a great idea, once people see OTHER people commenting on your blog, this will draw comments from other people.
There you have it – get the comments coming, make your blog look like it’s alive, even give it a makeover if it’s looking a bit STALE… use the tecniques we have spoken about in previous posts to start getting targeted traffic to your blog. Your blog is your own piece of Internet Real Estate, look after it – Monetise it properly, keep the content FRESH & Interesting and your Blog will be your online friend and Money Machine for years to come….
In case you didn’t know, my first ever book – 10 Killer Ways to Make Money from Home – is just out and the best part is – it’s FREE, check out the form at the top right of this post to get your own copy, I just need your name & email to send it to you and to keep you up to date with MORE Money Making ideas…I promise, I will keep your detaills private
Have a great day… don’t forget to leave a comment below this post
Keith
How to get ANY website Highly Ranked on GOOGLE, without being an SEO expert…
Aug 13th
The main problem people have with regards to making money online, is quite simply – they don’t ever get enough TRAFFIC to their Websites – not enough people ever get to see their offers, hence they always experience mediocre results… perhaps, a handful of sales here and there.
It’s no use having a wonderful Website, with a wonderful offer, at a wonderful price if hardly anyone gets to see it.
A lot of website owners spend a lot of time adding good content to their sites (which is good), to make them interesting and attractive to viewers, but spend virtually NO time at all ,getting the most important component – TRAFFIC..
We are kind of led to believe that site OPTIMISATION (SEO) is best left to the “experts” and would be too time – consuming, too technical or too expensive if we attempted to do it ourselves…
I first realised that this was all a bit of a HOAX really – There are some very good site optimisation experts out there, but unless you have money to burn, you can do a good job yourself without getting caught up in the technical side of it.
I knew very little about getting traffic at first – I still knew a great deal more though than the guy who was building my Websites. In fact, his knowledge of getting traffic was solely – FREE web submissions.
This is where you submit your site to a handful of online search engines for free in the hope that your site gets enough coverage to EARN some real,sort of web presence.
We have never had so many ways to get our Websites seen and bombarded with traffic, than we have today. You do not need to pay an SEO expert hundreds, if not thousands of Pounds or Dollars to do this.
Ok, lets take this step by step:
Our aim is to get our site seen by the MASSES, which would mean, greater numbers viewing our site, this should mean MORE people will end up doing something, i.e joining our Opt – In list or directly BUYING our products.
OK, how can we do this, obviously the list of ideas on getting more traffic can be huge and couldn’t all be covered in this one article but here is a LINKED strategy which can be used to good effect and could quite easily get you on the front page of Google for your specific Keywords related to your Website & Niche.
Keywords can be singular or they can contain several words – this is not Double Dutch, this is just how it is – A Keyword that contains four words is still a keyword, it is not know as “keywords”, it is just known as a long tail keyword. i.e “Make Money From Home” is a long tail keyword, containing four words.
Why do we have long tail keywords? simply because short tail keywords such as “Make Money” are highly sought after keywords, and the competition is vast, hence the chances of you getting to page 1 on Google with a short tail keyword are fairly limited – not impossible but fairly limited.
Trish Mullen did an excellent video on how to choose the right keywords for your domain name (website address).
Ok, so lets assume you have gone on to Google and you have searched for their Keyword tool, appropriately known as the “Google Keyword Tool” , you add your keywords or phrases you think are suitable for your niche, and the tool will show you how many online searches Google has received for your particular keywords, lets say you are using our example keywords -”Make Money From Home” – today I can see, this keyword had 15,000 searches in the last month, now this article is not intended as a step by step guide on how to find acceptable keywords – we cetainly don’t have the space here to do this, but with a little research, you can learn how to do this. For the purposes of today’s article, we shall accept, “Make money From Home” as our chosen longtail keyword.
OK, so next we choose our keyword rich domain for our Website (if you don’t already have one) – now, don’t you think, it should contain the phrase “Make Money From Home”,perhaps within the title ? – Sure, OK, lets see what is available today on GoDaddy.
The only domain I can see today worth considering is freemakemoneyfromhome.com, I always prefer a .com as even if you choose a .co.uk etc, people seem to automatically type in .com.
Now again – this is an example only, this is purely to emphasise the importance of having a keyword rich domain, so Google picks it up and hopefully ranks it nearer the front in the Google rankings, now imagine if your domain was something like makemoneywithhildabloggs.com, although it has the keyword “Make Money”, in the domain, this is a very competitive keyword and it would take a lot of SEO to get this baby to the forefront on Google.
As I said, this in not an article on Keywords…
OK, so now we have our keyword rich domain.. how do we get our website to hopefully appear on page 1 at Google?
What I would do is Take a Keyword rich title like, “How to MAKE MONEY FROM HOME – wearing nothing but your underwear” for example and I would write an article on this subject and place it on my Blog or Website. Then I would send the same article to Ezine Articles. with of course, a link back to my Website, plus dont forget to include a link in your bio (author) box.
Now Google, loves this site – not only because it is probably the BEST Article site on the Internet, but because it has so many varied, quality articles, and Google loves quality content. This is a very POWERFUL link to your site, getting articles published here will really do wonders for getting more TRAFFIC to YOU..
You can also send your article to hundreds of other FREE article sites – this is very time consuming, however there are automated ways of doing this.
OK, so we now have, a keyword rich domain name for our website. we have a Keyword rich article, on our Website or Blog – the same Keyword rich article published by Ezine Articles…. and now! We make a FREE 30 second video explaining our article on Animoto with, wait for it – the same keyword rich title as our article, linking back to our Website or Blog
We then upload this video to YouTube and there we have it.
This way of getting your Website seen by hundreds, if not thousands of people has not cost you anything, except a little time
Can you see what we are doing here – we are forming a circle of keyword rich ways, all linked together to rank your Website or Blog higher in the Google rankings, Google loves content rich Websites, by using quality content, linked to good keywords and supported by keyword rich titled videos (Google loves video), you are making it almost IMPOSSIBLE to not get higher rankings.. who knows, your Website could soon be sitting on Page 1 of Google.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s tip - I could probably write a whole book just on this subject alone, but it gives you an outline of how to get more traffic to your site.
I will be back tomorrow, don’t forget – if you have a money making tip of your own, you would like to share with people, please send it here
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All the best
Keith
How to make a TON of Money from writing a KILLER Blog!
Aug 1st
Do you remember when a blog was just a WEBLOG?… when it was a daily account of the life & times of, eh – YOU?
Ah,then good old Web 2.0 came along (new & advanced Internet technologies, being distributed by new & interactive ways – i.e through social networks & other content shareable methods).
NOW – all of a sudden BLOGGING just got SEXY!
People love to blog, and blogging can equal = BIG BUCKS.
Some marketers are making huge amounts of money from BLOGS…
Now we have the era of the new SUPER BLOG… a typical super blog will be, UPDATED daily with interesting & useful content ,carry interesting videos either with you in it to personalise your blog more, or just video that enhances the quality of content on your site, you can also add your FACEBOOK feeds (i.e feeds from your wall showing either your Facebook posts (or your friends posts).
You can now add plugins which will enable even your TWITTER posts to be shown, just about anything and everything can now be placed on your blog to make it an interesting & enjoyable experience for your readers.
Make your blog WORTH coming back to each day….
OK, I promised you a TON of money from your blog, so here, in short is a formula for blogging SUCCESS….
Step 1
- Make your content so IRRESISTABLE that people will be BEGGING you for MORE!
- Give people something NEW – each and every day
- Write about subjects that people actually WANT to read about
- Encourage interactivity (is that a real word ? ) i.e encourage people to RESPOND and/or SHARE your content
Step 2
- GRAB your blog visitor’s, name & email address via your opt in form – this way you can continue to build a relationship with them, and offer them your products
- Use Google Adsense ads to your blog and be paid for your visitors clicks on those ads
- Use Clickbank affiliate product ads and receive 50% commission or more on products purchased through those links
- Place links from your blog to your OWN Websites & increase traffic to them
- Create a seperate page on your blog for your BEST offer or product
- Create links within your posts directing the reader back to YOUR website.
- Organise competitions in return for your reader’s email address – offer them your very best product as a prize…
Their are hundreds of ways of making money from blogs… too many to list them all here but you get the general idea…
So what are you waiting for… I recommend you choose a blog from WordPress, with WordPress you can add plugins (functionality) and WordPress have thousands of different themes you can add, to make your blog look very professional.
Also, more importantly – if you make your blog through WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com, you can host the blog with your own hosting company and use your own domain, instead of a domain name that you will never own, with the WordPress name in it.
This is so important if you are serious about blogging..
If your blog is successful and you are able to drive to drive thousands of hungry visitors daily – you may eventually want to SELL your blog..
Check out Flippa and see the sort of money, websites and blogs can be sold for…
Most of all, Blogging is FUN… you can have great times keeping readers entertained and making money along the way
Have a good day
I will be back with another money making tip tomorrow
Keith
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