Writing Good Blogs

Written by Jesse S. Somer


There’s a lot of blogs out there onrepparttar Web, most of which don’t entice one to go back regularly to read updates. What is missing from these on-line journals that would essentially make them ‘good’ blogs? Well,repparttar 118648 answers in life usually come down to simplicities. So let’s look atrepparttar 118649 problem like we were children. Children don’t complicate life with miscellaneous information, and when they speak they tell you straight torepparttar 118650 point exactly how they feel and think about a subject.

First of all, we should askrepparttar 118651 questions,” Why do blogs exist? And what are they here for?” Well, in an ideal world ‘good’ blogs would help people connect, sharing knowledge and feelings about issues in life. As they are journals written by individuals we would hope that they’d be readable and open to comment by all other people, not just a select group of friends. The key is speaking in a way that is understandable byrepparttar 118652 masses, get rid of acronyms and local slang that only few will comprehend. Keeprepparttar 118653 sentences grammatically simple and generally short and concise.

Try to write in your blog as often as possible because if people enjoy reading your thoughts and ideas they’ll want to communicate or at least be filled in regularly on ‘your world’. Ask questions, comment on other blogs of similar content, start communities with others you’ve never met, based on your interests. Keep focused; if your blog is about thoughts on war and peace, keep your thoughts onrepparttar 118654 latest movie and how hungry you are for somewhere else. The idea is to incite intelligent communication so that in time our collective stockpile of knowledge and wisdom will gradually grow like a tree in fertile soil.

Understanding Google AdWords

Written by S. Housley


Google AdWords Unlike many search engines Google, to its credit, clearly denotes search listings that are paid placement. In fact, Google AdWords appear in a separate section downrepparttar left side ofrepparttar 118647 screen.

Google AdWords provide an inexpensive advertising venue for businesses to advertise products or services to a targeted audience. Advertisers haverepparttar 118648 ability to control their budget, target their advertising based on keywords. Advertisers are also free to determinerepparttar 118649 ad contents.

Google AdWords allow for nearly instant traffic, which can be turned on and off. Traffic results can be measured, providing information on what is successful, what isn't and what needs to be changed. AdWords can be found that work by running a test campaign.

Benefits to AdWords Advertisers bid on keywords,repparttar 118650 more an advertiser is willing to payrepparttar 118651 higherrepparttar 118652 likelihoodrepparttar 118653 ad will appear higher in position inrepparttar 118654 list of ads served. Google, invariably wanting to makerepparttar 118655 most from advertisers, determines placement based on a combination of click through rate, bid amount and budget. Of course, in order to maximize revenue and please searchers Google does have guidelines for ads served and all ads must receive a minimum percentage click through or they are removed.

AdWord Guidelines Clearly and accurately describerepparttar 118656 website, this is torepparttar 118657 advertiser and searchers benefit. Ultimately,repparttar 118658 more qualifiedrepparttar 118659 visitor who clicksrepparttar 118660 ad,repparttar 118661 higherrepparttar 118662 likelihoodrepparttar 118663 clicker will convert into a sale. By providing clear and accurate information, searchers who clickrepparttar 118664 ad are qualified leads, which tend to convert more consistently than unqualified leads. The most effective advertising communicates a clear message to a targeted audience.

Avoid excessive capitalization, superlatives and lavish exclamation marks inrepparttar 118665 ad. By doing this you are not only servingrepparttar 118666 visitor you are filtering unwanted clicks from non-buyers. Due to space limitations your ad message will need to be concise. Select keywords that are relevant to your product, service or content. Call to action phrases are not allowed (i.e. you cannot use phrases like "click here" in your ad copy.) There are also no pop-ups.

Steps for AdWord Campaign

1.) Open an account

2.) Target language and country - This is very important because if your product or service can not be exported you do not want to pay to advertise in those countries for which your product or service can not be sold.

3.) Create Ad Group - design an ad, select keywords, determine maximum cost per click that you are willing to spend and define bid amounts.

Title The title tag is generallyrepparttar 118667 most important part ofrepparttar 118668 ad be sure to use a short phrase that getsrepparttar 118669 attention of your target audience. An underutilized feature at Google allows you to put a question mark inrepparttar 118670 title,repparttar 118671 term searched on automatically replacesrepparttar 118672 question mark inrepparttar 118673 title of your ad.

Define max click - Google will suggest a cost per click, butrepparttar 118674 recommendation does not need to be adhered to. Arguments have been heard that #1 position does not always mean increased sales; sometimes a second position will filter useless clicks and provide targeted traffic with a higher conversion ration. The rule of thumb is positions 1-3 garnerrepparttar 118675 most traffic and best results. Increasing either your maximum cost-per-click orrepparttar 118676 ads click through rate will generally improverepparttar 118677 ad's position.

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