Internet Home Business Blog

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is personal in nature, it is best to consider the minds of your readers. You have to write on topics of interest them.

Most people write blogs due to their own personal motives.  People love to be “heard” (or read) and love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a moment. Hence, it is very important to take an approach that everybody can understand and appreciate.  Some times its not necessary that your target audience relate to what you have to say but they should at least understand it.

2. Pictures speak a thousand words

To make your blog worth viewing by your readers, consider inserting images and/or videos.  This does not necessarily mean you have to place pictures and videos of yourself but why not use pictures of the theme or topic that you are writing about.  Search video content sites like YouTube and picture sites like BigStockphoto and you are sure to find a photo or video that fits your topic.  

Really any photograph or video will do as long as it does not insult the target audience who will read your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

With your blog you are free to write anything you want but remember it is also important to write about things that are beneficial to your audience.  If your audience visits your blog multiple times and finds nothing of to benefit them, then you will find that your audience retention will decrease with each post.  There is nothing wrong with providing entertainment but make sure it is balanced with constructive and beneficial content.

After all, your blog is a tool for providing information, so be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Keep your blogs simple

To keep your blog readable, don’t use highly technical and complicated words.

Unless your blog is a science discourse or political dialogue, stick to simple facts, short blogs and please stay away from words like extemporaneous.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than a detailed survey of each site word for word. Remember keeping it simple, will help to keep your blogs interesting and effective.

5. Make it interactive

Always strive to make your blog interactive. You can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.

Also take time to solicit comments or feedback from your readers for your post. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of your readers. The comments that you receive from your audience can be used to create future post, emails and even products.

Do you desire to boost the response, traffic and retention of your blog? You could be missing the 5 Basic Steps To Get Major Traffic To Your Blog… Discover the Basic Steps by clicking here…

Bookmark To

To continue where I left off from part 1 where I talk about a few low cost ways to increase traffic generation to your website, I now want to talk about how to drive traffic by using your time.

Here are a few suggestions:

Press Releases - You can do unlimited press releases online.  Prior to the release of your product or service you can submit a release to several sites getting the buzz out. 2-3 hours

Blogs - Blogs are frequently updated ‘web journals’ that are maintained by people who specialize in something. Blogs talk about and openly discuss specialized themes like making money online - or stay at home moms online. 1-2 hours

Article Marketing - In its simplest form, this is advertising where you can write short, unique, relevant articles related to whatever you want to talk about: making money online, how to make money online, the 7 dangers of marketing online, etc. 30mins – 1 hour.

Forums - On line forums are basically online discussion groups or chat rooms or bulletin boards that have a following with various people. Forums can be a great way to brand yourself as an expert in a subject, or build credibility with people who frequent a particular forum. The key to success is making a great contribution  and building online relationships with the other people who are part of the forum that you join. Takes some time - but can be well worth it 1 – 2 hours

Video Marketing - Marketing yourself online with video.   Have you heard of YouTube?  Enough said. 2 – 3 hours

Free Online Classifieds - There are a ton of free online classified areas on the internet. Typically, you get what you pay for. You have to post in a lot of them to get any kind of result.  2-3 hours

Craig’s List - Craig’s list is a network of online urban communities featuring free online classified advertisement in a endless number of areas including jobs offers and biz ops. There are classifieds from several hundred cities on Craig’s List worldwide. It has been said that they get about 9 billion page views each month - and about 25 million Americans use it each month. You can target by area or by city.  2 – 3 hours.

Squidoo - Squidoo is kind of like a wiki, only when you create a page (called a lens) you are the only one who can edit it.Then you split the profits from the money made by that page . You can use it to create almost any kind of page. 1 – 2 hours 

Social Networking - Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision. It is very popular online because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other internet users and develop friendships and business relationships, too. possibly even contacting them. Sites like Face Book and MySpace fit into the social network category. 1 – 2 hours

To find out more about how to make drive massive internet traffic to your site without blowing your budget, click here for my Internet Traffic Generation Basics ebook

Bookmark To

There are many self-proclaimed “gurus” out there that claim you do not need much money for traffic generation to your website. This often leads new marketers into believing they can make a fortune online with only a twenty dollar investment.

(more…)

Bookmark To