Blogs and RSS Boost Your Online Business, Rankings, Traffic and Sales.Written by Richard Weberg
Blogs and RSS Boost Your Online Business, Rankings, Traffic and Sales.Blogs for Advertising? Yes! Blogs and RSS boost your online business, rankings, traffic and sales. We all sometimes ignore trends in advertising on internet until masses are allready doing it. That is why I felt compelled to right this article and hopefully help others to understand that Blogs are a very powerful advertising method and you do not want to ignore this trend, You will regret it! A blog is a frequent, online publication of comments, web links and news. It is an online Enzine of sorts. People maintained blogs long before term was coined, but trend gained momentum with automated published systems, most notably is blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger alone. I only realized myself how powerful Blog advertising was, after I submitted an article to one Blog, yes just one Blog. What happened next amazed me! Within one week my new site wich I used in my byline in Blog was not only indexed, but every single page was indexed and I had over 200 other sites pointing links to my site! All from one Blog posting. See websites need content and Blogs are a great source for content, and search engines LOVE blogs! I really need to say that again, search engines love Blogs! Want your site indexed? Want hundreds maybe even thousands of incoming links all pointing to your site? Here are reasons you should not ignore Blog advertising. Remember when all search engines were free, and simply submitting your web sites got you listed quickly? Gone. Then it wa FFA pages, they brought in a ton of free traffic, built links to your site, and added to your mailing list like crazy. Tried one lately? Safelists were an online goldmine for a while... until bottom less email accounts were introduced.
| | Listening Strategically Written by Robert F. Abbott
Usually, we're most interested in communicating outwardly; getting our messages out to others. But finding ways to hear what's going on around us can be just as important.Let's start by identifying three different types of listening we do. The first type - informal listening - comes naturally, as in listening to another person. I take in what you have to say, and how you say it. A second type, competitive intelligence, is a systematic process for monitoring sources and gathering information. That information is aggregated, processed to bring out important points, and distributed to others who can use it to make decisions. In this article, we look at a third type, a less rigorous approach to competitive intelligence, one that falls somewhere between simple listening and formal competitive intelligence. Call it strategic listening, a relatively simple way to stay on top of issues that affect your organization. Let's start with objectives, which we normally do when looking at something strategically. Ask two key questions, "Why are we doing this?" and "What will we do with information we gather?" The first question focuses our efforts by putting them into context of our overall goals. The second question, "What will we do with information we gather?" relates to more immediate issues. It helps us articulate how we will use material, and that in turn, affects way we see our objectives.
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