The Basics Of Blogging

  If you are an internet marketer then 9 times out of 10 you have some kind of blog. Blogs have become extremely  popular within the last two years due to the fact that they are very easy to create and maintain. Anyone can run a blog and the great thing is you can write about anything you want. The are a number of different ways to make money with your blogs as well, but we will get into that later.

One problem with blogs is that there are millions on them online now, meaning your going to have lots of other blogs to rank against. Lets say you create a post about some new product that you think is th coolest thing. After you write your review and search of it online, its nowhere to be found! Thats could be for several different reasons.

 Blogs that are very popular usually have a very high alexa ranking. Alexa is a website that keeps count of how many people visit websites. You should go check it out by clicking here. Another thing that popular blogs have is backlinks. Backlinks are just links to different websites and the more backlinks you have the more attention your blog will get from search engines. Many blogs have tens of thousands of backlinks.


Another thing that will increase your blog's chances of being ranked high is social marketing. Many people online have a facebook and myspace page, or a twitter account or some other sort of web 2.0 site. You can link all of these together with a site called ping.fm You can check that site out here. This website can help you out alot. All you have to do is join the sites it links to and ping your blog every time you create a new post.


These are just a few basics of blogging for you guys. We will go over the more advance stuff later.