By now, everyone in the world, except maybe a grand-mother here and there, knows about blogs.
But, most people still do not realize that blogs can be a great source of income.
Rob Benwell is only 24 years old and he has already made several million bucks with blogs. Early in 2006 he shared his secrets with the world in his highly successful Blogging To The Bank ebook and has made making money online a whole lot easier for everyone.
He sold over 20,000 copies of his first book and the 2007 2.0 update. He is now releasing his third version of Blogging to the Bank helping to wet our appetites and keep the cash rolling in.
I got this book as soon as I could and it covers quite a lot of new information and techniques to adapt your blog to the new demands of the major search engines. Many of the techniques in the old book are now dated and don’t work so well. This is why Blogging To The Bank 2010 is a godsend.
Also this guy doesn’t consider himself to be a “guru”, he’s just a normal guy who wants to help the little guys out. I find this a nice change as he doesn’t talk “down” to you like most of the other guys do. He explains everything in a nice simple manor so everyone can understand.
Saying that when he “goes off on one” it may take a few reads until you get it but when you do it’s just shear genius. Some of the topics in my opinion could have been covered a little more, then others went into great detail. You also get his 5 Blogging To The Bank 2010 Commandments For 2010 that you must follow to give you blogs the greatest success in 2009 and keep them future proofed. This should be printed out and put on the wall of every online marketer without a doubt! His book starts off with market research (so that you are making the most of your time) to building your Blogging To The Bank 2010 empire. Everything is covered in this new program that helps bloggers with today’s online issues regarding making the all mighty search engines happy.
My Opinion: if you are out there in the world of blogging and want to make some extra money the easy way, then I highly recommend “Blogging To The Bank 2010 2010“.
Why work harder than you need to as the new techniques are there ready for you to simply implement.
3 Great Sites That Can Draw Free Site visitors to Your Site – “Social Networking Spider Web” – Tip 14
Do you wish to get your messages out on the web, so your articles and ideas might be discovered and shared by a large audience? Do you wish to get the message out about your services or products? Do you want to improve your presence on the internet, model your self and enhance traffic to what you are promoting? Good! Listed here are 3 sites that will assist you to in constructing your Social Networking Spider Web and drive visitors to your business.
Most Advertising individuals generate many various kinds of marketing materials for their promotional efforts. These may include materials like brochures, presentations, or white papers that you give to your customers and prospects. There’s now another approach to use all the “documents” you generate and get some free, targeted visitors back to your website. You should utilize these sites to rapidly and easily turn practically any file-including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel-into a Web document and share it with the world.
Through the use of these sites you are making your written works available to people on the Web and mobile devices, and most importantly, fueling the conversations taking place around them. They are on-line communities and marketplaces to seek out and share documents.
Listed here are the three websites you want to check out:
1. scribd.com
2. docstoc.com
3. slideshare.com
So what is so great about these three websites?
1. For those of us on a tight advertising and marketing budget, they’re free to use. They are also easy to use which is great. There are some websites on the market which are a real pain to use. I was on one social networking site the other day and it took me nearly fifteen minutes to figure out how to post a video.
2. The key engines like Google crawl these sites. A number of the Powerpoint presentations that I posted to scribd.com the other day were on Google’s first page search results within a day. You can even outline keywords and typically create one way links to your website/blog, thereby rising visitors even more.
3. You’ll be able to upload almost any sort of file or document you want. They are going to be automaically converteded into a PDF file and are almost immediately available for viewing and downloading by viewers (if you mark them public). This is almost like publishing an article to an article listing except for all the completely different file types allowed.
Take into consideration the potential site visitors you may obtain. Not only will individuals read your documents, but they may also download and share them with their other friends. You will now have folks helping to you promote your business. You might even start to get individuals who have never heard of you visiting your web site or calling you!
The bottom line!! – these websites show you how to create a viral advertising and marketing machine and grow your small business!
And final of all…..
4. All of these websites provide monitoring instruments so you can view the downloads and see which documents are the most well-liked!
So all in all, these sites provide an extremely efficient way for getting focused traffic and are not only an excellent low cost search engine optimization tactic, they’re complimentary. Now do you may see why I love them so much and needed to share them with you?
Cheers!
Mark
P.S. Need Help building Your Social Networking Spider Web? Drop me an email – mark@markvschwartz.com
How to use “Social Bookmarking” to Build a “Social Networking Spider Web” – Tip 02B
This topic is on how to get a lot of sites to link back to your website or blog and to create a lot of targeted traffic by using “social bookmarking” to create a “social networking spider web”! The first part of this post on Social Bookmarking is at http://markvschwartz.com/121/using-social-bookmarking-to-getting-traffic-02/
Social bookmarking is very popular with marketers in every business, hobby or personal niche. Social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and Technorati let users to add links to sites they like and make those links public so that other visitors can grab those links and add them to their own lists. This makes your URLs (website links) go viral.
Social bookmarking sites are a great way to get traffic to your own websites and blogs. What you do is bookmark your sites and then hope others will share the links. On some social bookmarking sites like Digg, viewers can vote for your entries and make them even more popular.
If enough people vote for your particular link (that has an article or blog posting associated with it), it might make it to the front page of that bookmarking site. A front-page listing can yield thousands of visitors a day to your site. However, because of the very nature of social bookmarking sites, if you want to get tons of traffic from the bookmarking sites, you need to make sure that the links you submit are interesting – and not just your sales pitch page.
Take a look at current events to use as a source of information to write about – and then bookmark. For example – let’s say your blog is in the interior design niche and you have a site on high end interior design. A simple how-to site may not get shared a lot.
But let’s say you read an article about using simple products from Ikea or KMart for making high-end interior design work on a limited budget. With this type of topic you’d have a pretty decent shot at having a lot of home owners or interior designers share your links with others.
If your blog tends to be less newsworthy and more general, then you don’t need to worry about how many people vote for your story or share your links. In this situation, just concentrate on using the social bookmarking sites to build backlinks to your sites, which will increase your search engine popularity.
Concentrate on bookmarking the index page (home or main page) of each of your sites first.
The key to social bookmarking is to become a participant in a community that shares interesting information. Create a good, personal profile that tells a little about you. Make sure to add some photos, and if the site offers it, start building a friends or fans list.
Be careful not to add too many links each day. Don’t go crazy and add 100 links a day. Try to keep it to 10 or less per day and you will be okay.
After you’ve been a participant for a few weeks, you might be able to get away with up to 50 per day. And…. make sure to keep bookmarking stories on other websites and vote for a few of the popular stories that made it onto the first page. This will help to make your profile look a lot more legitimate in the eyes of the community.
Cheers!
Mark
P.S. Need Help building Your Social Networking Spider Web? Drop me an email – mark@markvschwartz.com
Having a blog is the center piece in building your own social networking spiderweb. After all, we need to have something to drive all your web traffic to. This is a Detailed video that shows you how to set up a WordPress Blog.
If you have always been challenged in how to create your own WP blog, this video shows you every step. I also made a powerpoint slide version of this with the same name, but I called it Step 13p (hey, people learn in different ways).
It really is easy to set up your own WordPress blog using a tool called Fantastico, provided by your hosting company. Have fun!
Cheers!
Mark
P.S. Need Help building Your Social Networking Spider Web? Drop me an email – mark@markvschwartz.com
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Do you wish to get your messages out on the web, so your articles and ideas might be discovered and shared by a large audience? Do you wish to get the message out about your services or products? Do you want to improve your presence on the internet, model your self and enhance traffic to what you are promoting? Good! Listed here are 3 sites that will assist you to in constructing your Social Networking Spider Web and drive visitors to your business.
