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Are You Blogging?

The term Blog derives from the word Weblog. A Blog is a type of website or part of a website.

Blogs come in many different forms. They can be online journals, news feeds or provide commentary on what is happening in the world.

Blogs are usually maintained by an individual, and consist of text,images,video anything you would like to share with the world. Blogs can be used for staying in touch with family and friends. A lot of people when going traveling will create a Blog when they go to keep their family and friends updated on all they are doing and seeing. They can add all their photo’s and video and write a online diary of all their adventures.

So as you can see, Blogs can be a very useful form of communicating.

This leads me onto using Blogs for your business needs. You see the search engines LOVE Blogs. They are very friendly, and the search engines pick them up very easily.

With a static website, it is very difficult (unless you are a webmaster) to keep the site updated with constant content.

As we all know CONTENT IS KING.

However with a Blog, adding content has never been so easy. Trust me if I can do it, anybody can!

What To Blog About.

Your Blog can be pretty much about anything. Lets look at your hobbies or interests. Sport is a popular topic. Are you a keen golfer,or footballer (soccer). Or maybe you have interests in travel, cars or knitting. Entertainment news. People love people. We constantly want to know what everybody else is doing. Perez Hilton made entertainment blogging a art form.

These are all topics you will find all over the internet, that people just like you are blogging about. Blogs can also be monetized. More about that later.

As you can see. You can Blog about literally anything you like.

Blogging Platforms.

There are quite a few different Blogging platforms around, all of them are easy to use, and can be customized very easily. There are 3 main contenders. I have listed them below for you.

1. WordPress.com This is the Free version of WordPress.
2. WordPress.org This is the hosted version of WordPress.
3. Blogger.com This is Googles Blogging platform.

There are also thousands of themes for your Blog. The internet is literally strewn with them. this makes it very easy to customize your Blog, giving it that personal touch.

Internet Marketing And Blogs.

Blogging platforms when they first arrived were a gift from the gods for internet marketers. They made it so easy to build a online presence, and a dedicated group of followers.

Blogs can make you a very good living. Take a look at the likes of Darren Rowse, Yaro Starak and Matt Garrett . They are all very active Bloggers, but all use Blogging in different ways for their business.

Blogging can be used for affiliate marketing, CPA offers, MLM and a host of different uses.

Lets take Affiliate marketing as an example. You can go to somewhere like Clickbank , take a product from there and create a Blog around this product. You get paid a commission every time somebody clicks through your link and makes a purchase. Trust me people have and still are making serious money from this.

You can add Google adsense into the mix. This is where Google advertises other peoples ads on your Blog. If one of your visitors decides to click on that ad, you get paid.

CPA offers are also another good way of generating income. CPA basically were you put a banner on your Blog advertising a offer that requires at least a Email submit. They submit their Email, they get something for free, you get paid a commission. This can be anything from $1-$50.

So as you can see Blogging can be great fun, a great way to build your online business, and meet new people.

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What Would Be In Your Blogging Toolbox

Your blogging toolbox will consist of many things. These things will come and go, some you will keep, some you will throw.

The choice is yours, it’s your toolbox. It’s your Blog.

I am going to tell you whats in my Blog Toolbox. But before that I want to tell you how to start a blog. I know not everybody has a Blog. Well it’s about time you did.

Now I am sure you have some ideas already about your Blog. What it will look like, how you will interact with your readers. What you will post about, and how often.

I sense that you might not of thought that far ahead. Well now is the time to do so. In a minute we are going to talk about domain names. Now when buying your domain name you need to know what to buy. Therefore you need to know what to Blog about. It is not so straight forward to start a blog as you may have thought. Read the rest of this entry

What You Need To Know About Underground Traffic Blueprint

I recently purchased Jeremy Gislason’s and Simon Hodgkinson’s Underground Traffic Blueprint

I was blown away!

This is huge course of over 36 videos giving over 8 hours of pure content. Now don’t be put off by the amount of content hear.

It’s not hard to follow the content and while the techniques are somewhat complicated at times, they are explained well and the flow charts included, give you a step-by-step action plan, with more than enough proof and examples to keep you motivated.

What can you expect from the modules: Read the rest of this entry

I’m back. Where the hell have i been. Well i don’t really know to be quite honest.

Peter Carr,Alex Jeffreys

Let me go back to June. I went to George Browns Internet Millionaires Summit in London. I had a great couple of days there, met with some other Alex Jeffreys students and also Alex himself.  That’s us over on the left.

I actually took a lot away from this event, i learned a few things about myself and also internet marketing, more importantly about marketers themselves. They all have one thing in common, their burning desire to succeed.

So i was driving home on the Sunday night, full of promise, i had some ideas floating around in my head, i got home, did i right those ideas down, NO i didn’t. What a idiot. I had no plan.No Plan equals failure. Read the rest of this entry

1. ProBlogger This is the top blog in the Blogosphere, Learn from the master Darren Rowse.

2. BlogTactics If you want to learn about blog setup Matt Garrett is the master.

3. CopyBlogger Brian Clark’s Copy writing for online success. Read the rest of this entry

BUSINESS AND TIME MANAGEMENT

I want to talk about how i manage my business, and more importantly how i manage my time.

When we first started our coaching with Alex Jeffreys, one of the first things we were taught was to manage our time effectively. So how do i manage my business. Let me break it down for you. Read the rest of this entry

I have been sitting here thinking about everything i have been doing to get traffic to my blog. So i thought i would share it with you.

None of these methods are new, but they seem to be working.

Alex Jeffreys set  a competition about 1 month ago, to see who could get the most traffic to there blog by today June 7th.

Now there is no way that i have won or come anywhere near. But i have learned a lot about driving traffic. Read the rest of this entry

I have been looking into what it actually means to get to page 1 of Google. Increase in traffic, yes almost certain. Better visibility for your blog or website, yes again.

Now for some figures, this will amaze you. Well it did me anyway.

A resent study was carried out by Chitika to determine the actual value of  the #1 spot on page 1 of Google. Position 1 is worth double that of position 2, yes double. Read the rest of this entry

Yes it’s true.

I have made page 1 of Google for my post on the flexibility 2 theme for wordpress. Position 6 and 10.

Here is the proof Read the rest of this entry

Affiliate link Cloaking. Cloaking your affiliate links is very important for a couple of reasons.

#1 They look ugly. They are very long, look horrible.

#2 Some not very nice people will steal them, imagine you do all the hard work and then somebody comes along and adds their affiliate ID instead of yours, they get paid you don’t. Read the rest of this entry