Today we’re going to talk about blog posting. We’ve talked before about how Max Pro co-creator Mike Antoni is a huge believer in blogging. We have a great blogging package that we sell by the way if you’re interested. But anyways, Mike believes that blogging is necessary for the success of your online business. He says it as a great way to build a loyal customer base and to drive traffic to your site.
But what we haven’t talked about before is the necessity of blog commenting. Commenting on other people’s blogs can be a great way to advertise your business opportunity and generate traffic for your site.
Here are some basic steps that you can follow to get you started:
1.) Establish a list of keywords to work from.
- You’re going to want to choose keywords that are home business oriented. Like work from home, build your own online business, etc…
2.) Plug your keywords into Google to generate a list of blogs for you to visit.
3.) Set a goal to visit at least 5 blogs a day
4.) Once at the blog read the posts and get a general feel for the blog. Make sure your biz opp would be welcome there.
5.) Create a signature that includes your website link in it and a brief blurb about your opportunity
6.) Thoughtfully respond to a blog post with an insightful comment. Don’t hard sell. Let your blog signature do the selling for you.
Keep at it and in no time you’ll have a variety of back links established that will generate traffic for you and your website!
Let’s talk a little bit about blogging. Max Pro system co-creator Mike Antoni is a die hard believer in blogging. He thinks it’s not only a fantastic way to drive traffic to your site but it’s also a great way to build up your list.
To drive traffic to your site you want to blog frequently. Blogs are updated and ranked more easily in Google then a regular website. So the more you update the better your ranking. You also want to make your blog posts as keyword rich as possible. This will also increase your ranking.
So remember to have a good set of keywords that your targeting before you start blogging.
In order to build a list off your blog what you want to do is offer a free giveaway that a potential customer would opt-in to receive. This can be something simple like a free report. Once the customer has opted in now you have the opportunity to relationship build with them which will increase your sales potential.
One further note; remember to choose a keyword rich URL for better Google rankings.
We bloggers and article writers need to conduct a campaign to identify keywords which are likely to deliver high quality, responsive visitors to our websites or blogs which will, in turn, convert into customers.
We will have a good return on our investment when we identify keywords, keyword opportunities, specific search phrases, variations of those keywords and even commonly used mis-spellings of keywords, that will result in changes in buying patterns and lead to changes in the focus of our blogs. Stay in tune for for upcoming information and training in this area.
This post is gonna be a little bit wordy, so I’ll just get right to it.
First off, Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. As far as search engines are concerned, the number of backlinks can determine the popularity or importance of any specific site or blog.
The number of backlinks pointing to your website is one of the highest determining factors in terms of where your site/blog will rank in search engines.
So here’s what you can do to get more backlinks and make your site/blog more relevant.
First determine the keywords for your site/blog. Find at least 5 great keywords that are extremely relevant to the point you’re trying to get across. If you’re niche is fishing, then use keywords like:
-Fishing tips
-Bait and tackle
-Fishing poles
-How to fish
-Rod and reel
I just thought of those off the top of my head and I barely EVER go fishing. So you can definitely think of something that goes hand in hand with your topic(s).
So if you’ve got your keywords down, it’s time to search for relevant blogs based on your keywords.
I’ve used programs like comment kahuna and comment hut and they’re good, but I like using the old fashioned approach with google’s blog search.
Save this link or just type it in, but either way it’s http://google.com/blogsearch
If that links not working, go to google.com then click on the more tab, followed by the ‘even more’ tab. You’ll then see the blog search on the very next page.
Okay, so you’re in there and you’re ready to use your keywords.
Here’s what you’re gonna do…
Take your keywords and put them in quotes in the blog search box.
Example: “fishing tips”
Doing this is going to bring up the most relevant and highest ranking blogs with the keyword fishing tips. Start going through all of these blogs.
**Important note here**
YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY READ ALL OF THESE POSTS.
Here’s why…
For one, you want to come across as intelligent and like you actually read the post.
And secondly, you’ll be placing your backlink into the comments.
So, if I were to leave a comment on a fishing tips blog, this is what I would do.
Name: Bait and tackle
Hey, that’s a great article! (type here, whatever interested you the most about the article) ect. ect. ect.
So you see what I did there.
Most blogs are gonna want you to place your name in there. So use one of your keywords as your name. This will increase your comments relevancy.
Next, in your actual comment, be relevant to what the writer has actually posted.
Finally, when placing your name at the bottom, do it like this:
I suggest copying that code and saving it somewhere on your machine. Just make sure when you use it for yourself, you place your actual website and keyword in the appropriate places.
Leave all of your comments with that general idea and you’re sure to increase not only your search engine ranks, but your daily traffic as well.
Alright ya’ll. I’m getting outa here! Friday’s team meeting is coming up soon, so I’ll talk with you all later!
Hi! This is Larry the resident Max Pro article writer. In my two years of both hobby and marketing article writing, I have learned some simple but important lessons. What you write and how you write, speaks volumes to your reading audience. Expertise in any subject area can work wonders when you write articles with good content that can be syndicated. These articles will result in genuine interest from a very targeted audience and will also lead to links back from websites and blogs that contain similar content. Over time, these articles will define your expertise in that subject area. This will build confidence with prospective customers and a level of trust.
I would like to introduce myself, but first I would like to thank everyone here at MaxPro for the opportunity to work with them. It truly is a blessing to work and learn from the best of the best!
My name is Chaz and for many years I’ve been providing sales, marketing and financial support in different career fields. Now, I’m part of the family here at Max Pro providing our affiliates with the tools and support needed to maintain a successful business.
All you newbie’s in the MaxPro System look no further!
All the information you need to keep your business high and mighty is right here in the MaxPro community.
There’s loads of training material! We have a content library filled with videos that teach you how to create Blogs, Articles, Ezine Articles, Video Marketing, Network Marketing, and much more. We are here to provide you with excellent service and a wonderful business experience.
You can contact anyone of us at IIP Support if you have any questions. That’s what we’re here for!
- Chaz, Marketing
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Part 2 to the first post I made recently. I know it’s taken me longer than I hoped to write this, but here it is!
In the last post I talked about how Reading and Writing will help you not only overcome writer’s block, but also make you a better writer overall. And this isn’t just with Blogging, but with any type of writing.
I really can’t reiterate how important this is.. but I’ll try.
Read and Write. Write and Read. And Save.
That’s all. Just keep reading other people’s Blogs for ideas (and read anything in general) and keep writing. Even if you feel it’s not that great, write it anyway. Keep a Word file or Notepad file of ideas and posts you don’t wanna publish that you’ve written to combat Writer’s block. You’ll have a collection of random ideas and rough drafts. And once in awhile, go through these files and you may discover future post ideas as well!
Patronize Don’t Plagiarize.
Another tip to get through Writer’s Block is to read other blog posts, articles, forum posts, stories, etc and take their idea and base your post on it. Don’t rip off other posts! No no no. But you can take the topic, write it in your own words, add your own thoughts, ideas and stories, and post it.
This method can also teach you more about certain topics, and even writing techniques, that you can slowly (or quickly if you’d like) incorporate into your own Blogging. It’s a good way to get around blocks and get around times when you have no idea what to Blog about anymore. (Hint- Sometimes you just run out of steam and feel clueless about what to post. Good news is, once you push through it, you’ll find it easy to post again for quite awhile!)
You can even sometimes approach other Bloggers and ask them (via comment or email) if you can repost their post on your blog. They’ll usually say yes. You can even copy 2-3 paragraphs of their article (crediting them of course) and write something like, “To continue reading, visit John Doe’s excellent Blog post ‘Example Here’” providing a link back to his Blog. That way, you have a Blog post! And links between your two blogs!
Some Other Tricks.
Just believe in yourself. Read, Write, Save, Incorporate Ideas By Others, and Do It. Don’t let a few moments or days of frustration lead to letting your Blog die, and perhaps your business as well.
Writer’s Block does fade away. It truly does. Just believe it fades, and half the battle is already won!
Look forward to future posts from me about Writing Techniques and Tips in General.
Also see the Posts- By Larry Category on this Blog for excellent Blogging related posts by our Article/Blog/Writing expert Larry Smith! And drop by to see any new posts we may have made each day and week!
There are three features in the blogging process that are very easy to learn and so important to efficiently and effectively operating a blog. These three items are Comments, Tagging and Categorizing.
Comments are one of the most exciting features of a blog and are very easy to understand. They are like talking to a friend. Readers can ask questions, give positive reviews, share ideas or say whatever is on their heart. Bloggers have the opportunity to visit other blogs in their niche, whether hobby or business niches, and leave positive comments or feedback with a link back to their blog and/or website. In the marketing arena this comment or feedback process falls under the category of social promotion, a free way of driving traffic to a site. To permit people to leave comments on a blog requires going to the blog admin panel and allow said action.
Tagging is a vital element of blogging that helps to keep track of blog entries and is a powerful tool in driving traffic to a site as well. Tagging simply is the use of key words or phrases in a blog entry. A coin collecting or numismatic blog entry would use terms like copper, nickel, silver, gold, platinum, circulated, uncirculated, pristine, premium, raw and certified. The more key words used the more effective the post will be in driving traffic as the blog becomes so much more accessible by the tagging process.
Categorizing is a form of tagging in the broadest sense. By the writer placing one or more categories at the beginning of a blog post, readers will know what that post is about. Using the coin collecting blog again, an article on the rare 1922 (missing D) Wheat Cent, would use one or more of these categories: Rare Coins, Rare US Coins, 20th Century Rare Coins, US Error Rarities, Wheat Cent Varieties, as well as many others. No post or article should be left with the uncategorized label and giving or placing a post with a category or creating new categories becomes second-handed after a while.
Go to your blog and see how easy it is use these blogging devices. Make your blog come alive and make sure you visit Max Pro again for all your blogging needs.
Specificity! This is the key fifty-cent term when it comes to writing blog posts. What is said needs to be directly related to the blog purpose or its overall theme(s) and written in a manner that all readers can understand the message.
Blog posts fall under several categories that will come under two major divisions of information. Formal notices tell the reading audience very specific info that is essential to becoming or continuing to be a part of the blog readership. These can include announcements of new services, new products, adding of a new page and promotional ventures to name a few. Instructional information also falls under this formal writing. Telling readers when and how to leave comments, how they can use archives or how to best purchase products is essential. All instructional articles are also primary examples of formal notices and on many blogs will make-up a majority of the overall content.
The second division of blog writings is informal. Informal information includes most of the interactive and fun writing. Whimsical, funny stories are a major part of this writing as is thought provoking questions relating to articles or to comments left by readers.
To write any blog post requires logging-in using the appropriate username and password. Once the blog is active, click on Posts and then a category like write or add a new post and the system then permits writing/editing posts of any size or kind. Bloggers write frequent posts to keep new information for the readers. When an article or post is completed, it is important to assign one or more categories of purpose so the reader can understand what the article is really about before taking time to read it. There is a Category button that is located on the page where post is being written. The writer creates new categories to cover the subject content being added. Blogs can have dozens of categories based on the volume and kinds of posts written. If the blog becomes inundated with information and readers have trouble finding articles or other important information, sign-in and use the Manage or the Manage the Site key and delete information that is either outdated or no longer has purpose on the blog.
Here are the simple steps discussed above on how to post on a blog:
1. Log in to Blog using your username and password.
2. Click the posts tab.
3. Click the Add New tab.
4. Start filling in the blanks.
5. Select or create a category, add tags or make other selections from the choices below the post.
6. After carefully checking spelling, grammar and punctuation, click Publish.
I am Larry Smith, proud husband of the office manager, Linda. We both left our professional careers more than nine years ago to join this great team. As a retired educator and pastor to children for more than forty years, it is my desire to assist our partners in meeting with success with building their home-based business and fulfilling their dreams. Currently I am working from about 9:00-1:00 Monday – Friday and utilizing my knowledge in blogging and article writing to help you. Your success is my goal!
