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What is a Blog?

I have been getting quite a few emails from Plug in Profit site owners and my own newsletter and list subscribers asking what exactly a blog is.

And I’m so dumb I thought everybody knew.

I know Stone has some info on it in his 30 days to Success but I fear that new members are so overwhelmed with info in the early days that anything they do actually read about blogs and blogging is goes straight over of their heads.

Some of my newsletter subscribers are logging online for the first time, so this will help them out too.

I will try to explain from an Internet Marketers point of view, what a blog is and what it’s uses are in the simplest way I can.

I started blogging a couple of years ago and today most of my sites are now blogs. The reason I love blogging is because a blog has so much more functionality than a normal run of the mill website.

The search engines also list a blog page much, much quicker than a normal webpage and tend to rank it’s pages higher. There are many reasons why this is so which are too complex to go into for the scope of this article.

In plain English, with a blog it is much easier to add content and web marketing tools to your site than it would be with a normal html site.

In it’s simplest form, a blog is a tool to add content to your website. The main control panel of a wordpress blog below shows the “write post” panel. I have laid out in steps 1-5 how you would post a new page to your website.

1.Write in Your Blog Post title - (Check the image above for point 1.) This will be the title of the new page or post on your site. It is good to use important keywords in the title. The title of each blog post will play an important factor in your search engine ranking.

2. Write out your post info - This is the content of your page. This can be text, images, videos, audio, anything that can be added to a regular webpage.

3. Format Your Text and Add Content - Highlight your writing with bold text, italics. Add links or images etc etc. This all can be done by pressing the square buttons.

4. Choose the category where your post will appear - Pick a category which is relevant to your post. You can easily add more categories by clicking the “Add” button, if one doesn’t suit your current post topic. There is another panel on the Wordpress blog for adding different categories.

5. Send Your Post to the WWW - Click the publish button to publish to the web.

That’s it! That’s how easy it is to add content when you have a blog. Wordpress, from what I have experienced is the best option and it is free to download.

Now, moving on from just adding content, a Wordpress blog has 100s of plugins that you can add to improve all aspects of your websites functioning, from adding content automatically (See Autoblog Income below), improving search engine ranking, automatically posting to social bookmark sites. etc. etc. etc. The majority of plugins are free of charge just like Wordpress.

One of my plugins submits each post I make to 24 Social bookmark sites automatically and another automatically changes keyword phrases on my blog pages into my affiliate and website links.

You can add unique content to your blog or your can copy and paste articles from Ezine Articles straight to your blog.

Most blogs are usually theme based, like this one. I use this for the purposes of training my team BUT I could add content on any topic known to man and draw in visitors from the search engines. Most of the guys making $1000s from Google Adsense are doing exactly that - across 100s and sometimes 1000s of blogs.

In fact, setting up a blog in a niche you are interested in is very effective because niches have much less competiton than the Internet Marketing/Home business market.

Hopefully, you have found this article helpful. Now, take this basic info, find out more about it and launch your own blog soon. Take action today, and just get writing.

For more info on installing a Wordpress blog at your own server check out:
Autoblog Income and Wordpress Installation Video

If you know anyone that would find this tutorial helpful please send them here.

 

Tags: wordpress, blog, blogging, tutorials, nichemarketing, wordpress plugins

 

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