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All-about-blogging

By Randy R on July 1, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

All about blogging

Blogging can bring in a lot of money in your pockets. But many people don’t succeed in this, since they are impatient. You should be having the patience in you – to wait and see the results. Money may not be coming the very first month of your blogging. Depending on your skills, it will take some time. First of all, you should make a plan of what you are going to achieve. Your target should be something achievable. Its good to dream big, but don’t target big – start targeting things that you would be easily achieving.

You can start with one blog, and then go on increasing the count when you get used to it. Your first blog should be easy for you to update many times a day. And for updating a blog many times a day, you should be an expert in that field. Think a bit – you will be surely an expert in something. Some people blog – even about blogging. That’s because they are experts in blogging. Just like that, there will be some topic about which you would be easily making a lot of posts each day.

As mentioned above it’s important to select a niche about which you would be able to publish many posts per day. After you find such a niche, create a blog about it and start blogging. If you don’t have any funds with you to register and host a domain name, then you can go with a free sub domain under wordpress or blogspot. After a month, you should be with at least 50 posts. But this is not at all mandatory. It’s up to you, to decide the number of posts. But if you are gonna start it the best way, then go for – 50 articles per month. The more, the better. By this time, your site will be indexed in Google. You can promote the site using your own tricks and methods. And once, you have posts in your blog, you can start bringing traffic to it. I hope you know how to do that.

Once you get traffic in your first blog, you can slowly go on increasing the number of blogs that you update daily. The new blogs that you create will also be getting traffic, if you put a link to those blogs from your first blog. And if you are thinking of making some money out of these blogs, then you can start selling ad space, banners and links on your blog. A blog with traffic can make a lot of money. So, that’s it about blogging, if you are serious about making money online through blogging, then go for it.

All-about-name-suggestion-tools

By Randy R on June 28, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

All about name suggestion tools

Finding names to register is not an easy task. The process may take days and even months. If you are in such a situation, then you may seek the help of name suggestion tools. You won’t be having to pay any fee for using such services offered by nameboy.com, makewords.com etc. All you have to do is – just enter the keyword that you are targeting – and the site will give you different combination of words that you wanted to search. They will even tell you whether those names are available for you to register or not.

I normally register many domain names in one go. And finding names for my websites was one of the toughest thing for me in the domain registration process. But it was only until I came to know about name suggestion tools. I use a lot of name suggestion tools. Each have their own advantages and disadvantages. All the name suggestion tools that I have came across till now offer their services free of charge. Honestly, these tools have helped me save a lot of my precious time which otherwise I would have wasted for no reason.

These name suggestion tools can sometimes do miracles. Who knows, sometimes they can come up with some real cool names that are available to be registered. These tools have helped me to register domain names that got high page rank from the very first Google update. Some name suggestions sites will help you search for random names which are brandable! Should I tell you anything about a brandable domain name? Hey, take the case of Google – it’s a brandable one. And now it has become a noun – people started using it for the word “search engine”. So, if you want to register a quality domain name then you should be surely trying your luck with a domain name suggestion tool.

All-about-SEO

By Randy R on June 25, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

All about SEO

SEO or search engine optimization is something you can do on your own. Learning to SEO your sites is easy and you’ll start doing it better once you gain more expertise in the field. But before you start doing SEO, you should be learning the basics. You should be learning what it means to optimize a site for search engines. You should also understand how a search engine finds and indexes a site from the millions of new sites that are created each day. And after you learn the basic things such as those which are mentioned above, you may learn the different types of methods that can be adopted to do SEO on your websites.

Why should we do SEO our sites? Google is the search engine that most of the webmasters target. So, from here on, we’ll be using the word “google” for search engines. We are doing SEO in order to rank our sites high in Google. But before ranking them, we should at least, try to index the sites in Google.

Google index sites when they come to know about a new site. But how will they come to know about a new site. Google’s crawler search for sites from one link to the other. This way, they go on looking for new sites from one site to the other. So, if you want to index your newly created website, then at least one indexed site should be linking to your website. This way, it’ll finally reach your site when it crawls the site in which your link is there. So, the key in indexing a site is to get a link to your site in other sites that are already indexed.

And after you have indexed your site, you can start doing SEO related works on your site to rank it higher in Google. But what does it mean to rank it higher in Google. Suppose your site is related to “selling Iphones”. And if your site is getting in the first page of the search results related to the keywords that you are targeting like “buy iphones”, “iphone store” etc, then your site is said to be highly ranked one, in Google.

all-about-whois-checkers

By Randy R on June 22, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

All about whois checkers

Have you ever thought of knowing who owns a particular site? A whois checker will allow to know the details about the registrant, registrar etc of any domain name that you wish to check with it. This is a good way to contact website owners when you are planning to buy websites. By using whois checkers you’ll able to find the email address of the owner of the site. You’ll be getting this service from many whois sites out there. Almost every whois sites offer these services free of charge.

The features found in one whois checker may vary from the other. Some whois checkers will allow you to search whois information of email ids as well. So, whois checkers are not just for checking the registrant details of just websites. Some even provided ip whois checking facility. For that just enter the ip address that you want to check. And if there are sites hosted with that ip address, then the whois checker will be displaying the sites that are hosted with that ip address.

If you want to be anonymous and don’t want to allow whois checkers to display your address and other details, then you may opt for adding a whois filter while registering a domain name. Namecheap, provides this service free of charge when you register a domain name with them. They will ask you to enter your name, address and other such details but these details won’t be shown publicly through whois checkers if you are opting the above service. Instead of that, some other details will be shown – and when someone replies to the email address that is shown in the whois details, you’ll still be getting those emails to your original email id.

Why should we use an whois checker? Webmasters usually use these kinda tools when they plan to buy a promising site. Suppose you are planning to buy abc.com – what would be the first step that you’ll be taking? How will you be able to get in touch with the person whois currently owning it. It’s a pretty difficult task without using an whois checker.

Benefit-of-hiring-a-designer

By Randy R on June 19, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Benefits of hiring a designer

Are you bored using those free themes for your wordpress blogs? If so, its time for your to hire a WP designer who would be designing a unique WP theme based on your requirements. This will make your blog stand out from the crowd. Not just that, it’ll even increase the number of visitors to your site.

Getting a brand new theme for your blog can do a lot to your online business. This may even make others contact you for getting more information regarding the theme. If you are planning to give them your unique theme, then you may ask them a fee for the same. This way, by hiring a good designer you won’t be at lose.

But before you hire a designer you should be discussing certain things with him. You should be asking him to show demos of the themes that he have created in the past. This will make you know more about the skills of that particular designer. You should also ask, the time frame for getting the whole theme designed for you. Then you can start telling more about your project like what all features you would be needing etc. You can even ask his own views on the same. Sometimes, he would be having some better ideas for testing in your blog. Since, they would have designed themes for many, they’ll having an edge over us. So, it’s always a good idea to ask their views regarding the theme that has to be designed.

Depending on the niche of your blog, a good designer may come up with some cool designs for you to choose from. And if you don’t like the samples that he have designed, you may ask him to come up with a new one. There is nothing wrong in that. It’s your right to ask for it – there is no use to pay for something that you don’t like. A good designer will be patient and will be cooperative. So, these are some of the things that you should be keeping in your mind, if you are planning to hire someone to design your favorite blog.

Attracting Traffic to Your Blog

By Randy Roedl on June 18, 2010 in Traffic, wordpress

Traffic is the only parameter which is used to determine the success
and popularity of any blog. If a blog has very high regular traffic, then
there is no doubt that it is booming and is very popular with its
visitors. It is very vital to understand that advertisers flock for placing
their ads on blogs with high traffic, and they do not mid to pay as high
as $4000 per week to be placed on such blogs with immense
popularity.

By now you might have already understood that in order to achieve
good profits through your blog, it is very crucial to attract high traffic.
In fact it would be very apt to say that increased traffic is the stepping
stone to your goal of earning money through your blog.

In this article, we aim to discuss some very basic yet very important
methods and strategies to attract high traffic to your blog.

Add posts regularly. It would not be an exaggeration to say that adding posts on a regular
basis is the golden mantra of the blogging world. Adding regular blog
posts helps a lot in maintaining the continued interest of your visitors
to your blog. If your audience knows that they have something great
to look for everyday on your blog, they will unfailingly visit your site
regularly.

Add quality content. You might have heard the saying ‘Content is King’. It is literally true in
the blogging industry. People only like to be loyal to blogging sites
which provide them with very high quality information on the niche. It
is highly recommended that you add only quality and relevant posts to
your blog as it will add to the confidence of your visitors on your blog
and you.

Include keywords and key phrases in the content. Search engines play a very important role in determining the success
of any blog. If your blog appears on the first page of the search
engine, then you can be assured to continuing traffic to your blog. And
to achieve a good page rank on search engines, your constant
endeavor should be to weave your articles around the key words or
phrases. Content with key words and phrases will help you in
achieving a higher page rank, which in turn will lead to increased
traffic.

Promote your blog as frequently as possible. This is another strategy which no blogger who wants to make it big
can afford to ignore. Promoting your blog with the help of backlinks is
the most effective way of pulling quality traffic to your blog. There are
several other methods of promoting one’s site as well, and one should
not let go of any potential opportunity to promote one’s blog, including
promotion through word of mouth.

All the above discussed methods can help considerably in increasing
the traffic to your blog. However, to beat your competition and to
reach your goal of a successful blogger, you should always be open to
new ideas and strategies which can give you an edge over other
bloggers.

Blog-Commenting

By Randy R on June 16, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Blog Commenting

Have you seen the comments section in blogs? Okay, did you ever posted a comment using those forms? If not just try to do it once. You’ll then understand what we are going to tell you here.

Most of the blogs that you’ll find online would be allowing you to give a link to your website as well. This is a good way of getting an easy backlink to your site. Blog commenting is something even experienced webmasters still use. If you haven’t tried it till now, then it’s just your ignorance about things that you can do to increase the number of backlinks to your site.

Some blogs will be moderating comments and hence you won’t see your comments in those sites if you post irrelevant comments. So, before you post a comment, make sure you read the post from top to bottom. Doing so, you would be surely learning something new. And this will help you to write fresh content in your sites as well. But don’t go for copy pasting – write on your own.

Posting a relevant comment has some other benefits as well. When you post an informative comment, people will be getting a better impression about you. And this will prompt them to visit your website in return.

So, what do you think now? Will you be posting irrelevant or relevant comments? When you do things the right way, there will be always some other benefits that you’ll be getting indirectly about which you might have never been thought of.

Blog commenting can bring in a lot of one way, quality backlinks if you post comments in relevant blogs that matches the niche that you are targeting. For example, if your site is related with football, then comment in blogs related to sports and not on business blogs. And ya, don’t forget to include your website url in the space provided to do the same – I know you won’t forget that 🙂

Do-you-want-to-be-an-Internet-Marketer

By Randy R on June 13, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Do you want to be an Internet Marketer?

An Internet Marketer is one who creates websites and sells products online. For that, it is not necessary to create our own products. We can sell products that are made by others as well. But what’s in it for them? Actually we’ll be just driving sales to the sales page of the product – and if anyone orders the product from there, we’ll be getting commission that would have already been mentioned in the merchants website.

So, what we’ll be doing is that – we’ll be finding quality products that would be easy to sell without much efforts. There are millions of products our there. From those products, select the ones which you think – would be worth the time and efforts that we’ll be putting on it. Before you plan to promote a product, make sure you’ll be getting good commissions after the sales. Also, make sure that the payment will be guaranteed or not. There are a lot of affiliate sites – like CJ, clickbank etc-these are sites, where you will find some great products to promote in your sites.

The benefit of promoting products found in sites like CJ and others is that – we’ll be surely getting paid if we make a sale. That’s because we are not dealing directly with clients. We are dealing with these big companies and hence we can be assured that we’ll be getting payment at the end of the month.

But the main thing is to drive sales. And for that you should be having some kind of platform. Creating a website is the best option in front of you. It won’t take much time – you can even create a WP blog and then start promoting the products. After the site is ready, you should select products to promote in the sites. Create a lot of sites and each should be for promoting a different kind of product. In the site, you should be reviewing it as if you have already bought the product and satisfied with it. At the end of the review you can put a link which will be allowing others to go and buy the product from the authors site.

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