Andrea J. Lee

Written by Should You Get A Blog?


A blog is a type of website. It allowsrepparttar website owner to easily write messages that get posted torepparttar 108831 site automatically, often in a journal or diary-like style. A particularly appealing thing about blogs is that your readers can comment back to your posts fairly easily, and a continuous stream of fresh conversations result. (This is a good thing.)

Here are three reasons to consider getting a blog:

1.To Replace Your Ezine If you currently publish an ezine, you may wish to consider replacing it with a regularly published blog. This means using your blog to publish journal entries, and then when it comes time to communicate with your subscriber list, you excerpt some items from your blog, and send those out as your ezine. This saves you from creating special articles only for your ezine. In many cases it becomes easier for you to write in blog format (short and sweet) so you save time.

Readers enjoyrepparttar 108832 practical, "reporter-like" nature of blogs instead of ezines, and gradually come to feel that they are in conversation with you on a daily basis. You become part of their everyday circle of friends and associates, which leads to you becoming their natural resource onrepparttar 108833 topic of your expertise.

2. To Create a Quick and Dirty Learning Environment or e-Campus For those who offer TeleClasses or other programs that want to have a web page of learning resources, links, class notes and audio, etc., a blog can be a great way to bring together an e-Campus. If you offer a workshop, coaching/consulting, or even a software solution, and you want to instantly add value to your clients, create a "client/student resource page" using a blog. This becomes an environment thatrepparttar 108834 students can play in, study more, and soak up your materials. Your clients continue to benefit from your expertise even though you're not physically there; they do it at their pace, and at little cost to you.

"Creating Content: The Easy Way"

Written by Steve Shaw


There is little doubt that quality content has a number of real benefits for your web site, not least increasing levels of repeat visitors, and valuable revenue streams such as advertising andrepparttar sale of products or services related torepparttar 108830 content you provide.

The only difficulty is that creating such content can be costly, taking up valuable time and resources. This article examines different ways you can add content to your web site quickly, giving you maximum benefit forrepparttar 108831 minimum cost.

Syndicated Content Streams

Syndicated content is content provided by others for use on your web site. Certain sites provide 'content streams', where you can simply place a few lines of code on your web page, and forget about it. The content provider then regularly updatesrepparttar 108832 content it provides. The end result is that your site remains fresh and dynamic, at virtually no cost to you.

The content provider either charges a fee forrepparttar 108833 privilege of using their content, or they prefer to benefit through traffic, such as by placing a link adjacent to or withinrepparttar 108834 content. One provider at interestalert.com even offers to pay you for adding a news feed to your site.

Here are a few examples of some content providers you may wish to try:

1. http://www.1afm.com/free_content/ - provides a range of different content types such as news headlines or jokes.

2. http://submityourarticle.com/syndicate - a number of different content feeds you can add to your site, displaying articles relating to internet marketing and online business.

3. http://www.brainyquote.com - adds 'quote ofrepparttar 108835 day' to your web site, from a range of different topics and authors.

4. http://freesticky.com - an index of resources you can use to quickly add content to your site, with a wide range of content areas to choose from.

Free Reprint Articles

Free reprint articles are a type of syndicated content, and they are widely available.

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