Why It Took Me So Long To Blog

Written by Linda J Bruton


When I saw my first blog, I wasn't impressed.

The first blogs I ever read were embarrassing tales of teenage angst better left private, political diatribes from bothrepparttar rabid right andrepparttar 124636 rabid left, and jargon-filled tech rags that made my eyes glaze over

And yet everyone was talking about blogs and that I would soon be left behind if I didn't have one. But they never gave me a simple explanation of how it would benefit me. They talked about RSS - you know,repparttar 124637 obligatory "real simple syndication" - followed by a long, boring, techie article filled with jargon that wasn't simple at all. They talked about syndicating my site, but not how that would benefit my business.

No one ever told me, "Hey, fool, listen up! How would you like a 3 or 4 line text link to your site on thousands of other sites getting you tons of traffic and backlinks uprepparttar 124638 ying-yang on allrepparttar 124639 SE's?"

If they had, trust me. I'd have been blogging my heart out!

Eventually I did start a blog simply because it was getting harder and harder to get my ezine delivered. This particular ezine delivers tips to network marketers. Now if you've had any experience with spam filters, you know that any email withrepparttar 124640 "M" word (MLM) orrepparttar 124641 "N" word (network marketing) practically lights uprepparttar 124642 scoreboard! I even tried using "M*L*M" or "net*work mark@eting." But that got old real fast. Trying to sound like a halfway intelligent professional while writing like a first grader on their first day of school just didn't cut it. I was starting to confuse even myself!

So I decided to start a blog, and then just email my list withrepparttar 124643 link torepparttar 124644 article every week. Not only has that greatly increasedrepparttar 124645 day to day traffic to my site, but I discovered a couple of interesting benefits alongrepparttar 124646 way.

One big bonus was how easy it was to publish to my site. Doing thingsrepparttar 124647 old way, I wrote and delivered my ezine. Then I convertedrepparttar 124648 article to html and FTP'd it up to my site. Then I had to download and update my article archive page. Then I had to download and update my sitemap. Then I would download my index page and add a little blurb aboutrepparttar 124649 new article to get it indexed faster. All told, several hours of mind-numbingly boring work.

How To Find The Top Keywords Relating To Your Theme

Written by Jeff Schuman


Have you ever wondered what people are searching for online? More specifically have you ever wondered what people are searching for as it relates torepparttar theme of your website?

Let's say you have a website built aroundrepparttar 124635 theme of music downloads. Here are 2 easy ways to get a list of keywords you can use to build your home page and then build more pages around each specific word.

1. Do a search by typing in music downloads here: http://www.pixelfast.com/overture

As of November 2004repparttar 124636 keyword phrase" music downloads was searched 1,068,310 times. We can also see that "free music downloads" was searched 1,169,992 times.

As you look downrepparttar 124637 list you will find all kinds of combinations of keyword phrases withrepparttar 124638 words "music downloads" included in them.

You can build specifc web pages centered around each keyword phrase. You will find that lesser searched keywords have less competition and therefore will be easier for you to make it torepparttar 124639 top of a search engine and generate free traffic.

For examplerepparttar 124640 keyword phrase " free mp3 music download" was searched 22,360 times. This would be a great keyword phrase to target in comparison torepparttar 124641 more generic phrase "music downloads."

2. Take a look at what people are willing to pay for a keyword here:

http://www.team-schuman.com/7searchkeywordtool

When typing in "music download" it brings uprepparttar 124642 keyword, number of searches, andrepparttar 124643 top 5 bids. It also brings up a complete list of possible keyword phrases and what people are paying for them. You can use this information to find affiliate products relating to each specific keyword phrase and then build additional web pages relating to each specific one. You can add these keywords to your home page and then join 7Search as an affiliate and add pay per click text to your pages.

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