Are you ready to start blogging?
That's right! By the end of today you'll be publishing your own blog using Google's own Bloggertechnology.
What is a blog?
Here's a direct description from the Blogger website:
"A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalists reveal inner thoughts.
The blogging experience is about not only putting your thoughts on the web, but hearing back from and connecting with other like-minded folks."
Why publish a blog?
Publishing a blog allows you to instantly create new content-rich web pages. These new pages can be linked to from the home page of your current website (your uVme affiliate page) and/or promoted separately. By creating additional content-rich website pages and promoting them from your home page or through other means, you'll be accomplishing two important things:
1) You'll provide more value for your website visitors. This increases the "stickiness" of your website making people stick around longer and ultimately trust you more. On the Internet, trust translates to profits!
2) Search engines LOVE fresh content created through blogs. By publishing your own blog and adding fresh content to it on a regular basis, you'll attract the attention of the major search engines who will list your website in their directories for FREE. That's right! As soon as you have pages of your blog in the search engines, you'll start attracting free qualified traffic to your site without paying a dime for it. Have you heard of Google Adwords? Imagine running a large and comprehensive Google Adwords campaign without paying anything for it... That's exactly what you can accomplish by publishing your own blog!
Are you ready to get started?
Come on... it's EASY, it's FREE and it's FUN! ;-)
In fact, you'll have your own blog setup in 3 easy steps.
Let's get started...
Click here to visit the Blogger website.
Once you arrive and look things over, click the "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW" arrow.
Next, you'll arrive at the "Create an account" page. Complete the 5 simple fields on that page.
TIP: For your user name, I suggest using your first and last name combined OR the characters of your domain name without the .com, .net, .org, .ws etc.
Check the "Terms of Service" box and click on the "CONTINUE" arrow.
The next page is the "Name your blog" page. Enter a title Example: YourName's Home Business Blog or YourName's Work at Home Journal or something like that... Be creative! ;-)
Now enter your blog address. Again, I suggest using the characters of your domain name without the .com, .net, .org, .ws etc. If the name is taken, try the characters of your first and last name combined or anything else you want to be your blog address. Whatever name you decide upon will create your blog URL such as: www.YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME.blogspot.com
Next, complete the word verification field by typing the characters you see in the picture above the field.
NOTE: Ignore the "Advanced Setup" option for now. (unless you are already extremely comfortable with uploading files to your hosting account). But, for right now, let's just get your blog setup and running properly using Blogger's free hosting.
Click the "CONTINUE" arrow.
Next, you'll arrive at the "Choose a template" page. This page allows you to choose a custom look for your blog.
Take a look at the designs available and select one by marking the selection circle inside the blog template image. You can easily change the template later, or even create your own custom template design once your blog is set up.
Once you've selected your blog template, click the "CONTINUE" arrow.
Congratulations! Your blog has been created! :-)
Now it's time to add some content to your blog...
Now some of you love to write and will have no problem adding new information to your blog daily, and others will struggle. Or, maybe you’re like me and you just don’t have the time.
I use a service called Article Marketer to write articles for me. They write generic articles, and I spend a few minutes editing them to make them my own. This is a huge time saver and will get a ton of new content out there about uVme fast! Check out the link below to learn more.
http://www.articlemarketer.com/?a_aid=48d79176
NOTE: Not every post in you blog needs to be an article. You can simply talk about uVme and your progress, post questions, comments, etc... I like to update readers of my blog with the number of people I have in my downline from time to time.
As soon as you have your first article together, follow the simple steps below to publish it in your blog:
Click here to login to your Blogger account.
Next, click the "New Post" icon.
A new page will open up with a large text entry field.
Next, click the "Edit Html" button near the top-right of the data entry field.
NOTE: It is VERY important to use the "Edit Html" feature! Otherwise, your article will not be formatted correctly once it is published. You will use this "Edit Html" screen to enter one article at a time and post it to your blog.
Highlight & Copy the article from your text editor including the resource box which is the "About the Author" section.
Once you've highlighted and copied the entire article and resource box, go back to your Blogger post creation screen and Paste the complete text into the field provided.
Once the full article and resource box is pasted into the field, click the "Publish Post" button at the end of the page.
Congratulations!You've just published your article on your own blog! Now, every time you have new articles to post, simply repeat the process described above.
At this point, you have the option to view your blog or simply move on and continue adding articles. If you decide to view your blog first, click the (in a new window) link.
Give yourself a pat on the back.
You are a blog publisher now! :-)
Now it's time to tell people about your new blog.
Before we get into the action of marketing your blog, allow me to share with you the philosophy of why blogging and publishing content online is so important and profitable...
First, most people surfing the Internet are looking for information. In other words, most people are not actively seeking to buy a product. And nearly everyone expects to get the information they are seeking for free...
Speaking specifically about the marketplace of people who are "interested" in having a home business and/or making money online, most of these people want to find good information about the subject FIRST.
Therefore, becoming a provider of trustworthy information about home businesses, work at home opportunities and online money making ideas positions you as the source for what people are actually looking for in the first place.
Then, when people find your information and get engaged in the articles, they will naturally find the links that point to your uVme affiliate page and visit them. Now, they have already been pre-sold and have more trust in the link to your uVme affiliate page because they have already benefited by reading the free information provided in the article on your blog! ;-)
Also, blogs are the most search engine friendly Internet publishing tool in existence. This means that the pages of your blog can start being indexed by the search engines almost immediately and some of the your blog content pages will start showing up in the FREE listings of the search engines when people search for various key words. Therefore, adding quality content to your blog on a regular basis can generate free targeted traffic to your website potentially forever.
Now we're getting into some extremely powerful FREE Internet marketing techniques... These techniques take more time and effort to implement than paid advertising, but they are completely FREE and they do work.
OK, let's get to work...
You want to start by "pinging" your blog to get the automated traffic machine started.
First, click here to visit the Ping-o-Matic website.
Once you get to the Ping-o-Matic website, type in the name of your blog in the first field.
In the second field, type in the complete URL of your Blogger blog.
Example:http://www.YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME.blogspot.com
NOTE: Replace YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME with your actual Blogger username! This is very, very important!!!
Next, select (check) ALL available "SERVICES TO PING".
Now, click the "Submit Pings" button.
A status report will appear on the next page indicating the status of your blog pings.
What this does is notify a bunch of blog listing services about YOUR blog. Now they will send spiders over to your blog to index the content and link it to their network! :-)
Congratulations!
You've completed the first important step in marketing your new blog. Now, anytime you update the content of your blog by adding new articles, publishing your thoughts, etc., re-visit the Ping-o-Matic website and ping your blog!
P.S. I just started a new blog a couple days ago and already starting getting signups from it! Check it out
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