Free SEO blog software and training

If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of.

Blogging is a great way to get the word out to consumers about your product or service, and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale.

If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you.

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology.

However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons.

Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging.

The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it.

To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that you will need is a large readership. The higher your traffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.

However, cultivating the regular visitors that you will need in order to make a profit isn't easy. As more and more blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a wonderful writing style is no longer enough to get attention. You need to be able to market your blog effectively.

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts and almost no time marketing their project. To be certain, updating as often as you can is a great way to keep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog search engines like Technorati, and once your readers know that you update frequently they will return to your site on a regular basis.

However, it does not matter how often you update if nobody is reading your page, so don't skimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to your site.

To make your dreams of blogging for profit a reality, try decreasing your number of posts and using some of that time to draw new visitors by setting up link exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in the blog community, and following other established modes of winning traffic.

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a really great idea for a blog, success is not going to happen overnight.

Building the kind of readership that blogging for profit requires takes time, and in all likelihood it will be at least several months before you are able to turn much of a profit.

Try to stay committed to your blogging project during this initial rough period. To stay motivated, set goals for how often you will update and how many readers you want to attract, and then reward yourself for sticking with your plan.

Another key to having a successful blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure.

It can be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you are just learning about the exciting possibilities of blogging technology, but if you want your blog to succeed you need to stay focused.

Write up a plan for how often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.

A lot of blogging software is specifically designed to be simple to use, but even the least intimidating blogging program can feel very overwhelming to somebody who has not spent a lot of time learning the ins and outs of different kinds of software.

Particularly for newer bloggers, learning how to use the interface of blogging software is the most difficult part of blogging.

If you are somebody who feels comfortable expressing themselves in another medium, it may prove to be well worth your time and effort to learn blogging software, but that doesn't mean that the task will be easy.

The main thing that will help you find success as you learn how to use a new kind of blogging software is to try and take things slowly.

Many people get so excited about learning to blog that they try to rush into the thick of it and start exploring the most complicated features of a program right away.

This can lead to getting confused and feeling frustrated, and all too many potential bloggers burn out during this stage of the process.

If you take your time learning the basics of your blog software program before you move on to more advanced techniques, you will be more likely to retain what you have learned, and to keep feeling positive about your ability to understand the world of
blogging.

Another great way eliminate confusion and possible frustration when it comes to blogs is to learn from the best in the game...

For example, Jeff Johnson, the SEO "go to" guy, is hosting a new live "get more traffic to your websites" webinar for you and 249 other marketers. Plus he's giving away...

Absolutely free Traffic-Getting Technology -- Jeff is giving away the very same Highly Customized Search-Engine-Magnet Software he uses every single day in his business to build search engine friendly traffic-getting websites.

It's a special Wordpress blog, it's 100% free, installs in minutes, and it's yours to keep even if you don't attend his free "get more traffic" training webinar.

Head on over and download the SEO blog theme right now. It's free!

Who the hell is Jeff Johnson?

Great question!

At John Reese's Traffic Secrets seminar Jeff Johnson was that "blog and ping" guy... the one who blew everyone away with his detailed overview of "blog and ping", "money sites", and "feeder sites"... Jeff's short presentation at John's event soon became part of internet marketing legend!

And "Top Underground Internet Marketer of the Year" is what Yanik Silver called him... Jeff also won the best speaker award at Yanik's first "Underground Online Seminar".

Plus Brad Fallon of Stompernet says "When Jeff Johnson talk about SEO, I listen."

Mike Filsaime goes on to say "I recommend getting involved in anything Jeff ever touches. He is cutting edge and there are not too many people I would endorse these days when it comes to SEO. Jeff is top dog in my book."

And the list goes on and on but I think that pretty much answers the question "who the hell is Jeff Johnson".

So let's get back to that free live training webinar and the absolutely free Traffic-Getting Technology Jeff is giving you.

Like I said; the webinar is free and Jeff's going to be answering "any and all" questions you have about getting more traffic to your blog or websites... talk to Jeff Johnson live and in person... all or free.

And Jeff's going to show you some of the very same white-hat techniques he's trained his staff to use to take dozens of brand new blogs and websites from 0 to 500 or more unique targeted visitors a day in less than two weeks... all on auto-pilot and all with an "endless supply" of free content.

Plus, you'll get the very same Highly Customized Search-Engine-Magnet Software Jeff uses every single day in his business to build search engine friendly traffic-getting websites that bring in thousands of highly-targeted unique visitors every single day on auto-pilot.

It's really cool.

And the Search-Engine-Magnet Wordpress Software is yours absolutely free.

Head on over and download the SEO blog right now. It's free!

And once you download the software Jeff Johnson is going to show you exactly how to use it to grab free search engine traffic, more customers and make more money.

Plus... if you are one of the first 250 people to download the free software Jeff will personally teach you how to use it to grab more free search engine traffic every single day.

Head on over and download the software right now. It's free!

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Web 2.0 and Media Marketing: Flock, the Social Browser

In his recent new free version of "Authority Black Book", Jack Humphrey give a good description about what really is Web 2.0 and when Social Marketing came into scene.

"Generally speaking, if people can submit links to content, submit content, make comments and vote good/ bad content up/down thus affecting the amount of traffic that content can generate, it’s Web 2.0.

As a marketer, being aware of the best places to show up and how they work will bring you traffic. More traffic than you ever got without social marketing in many cases.

Being linked to by a lot of authority sites in their own right, your site climbs the rankings in the engines as well. It gets spidered more often and more deeply than if you were, say, focusing your efforts on article syndication alone."

Nice said, Jack. But what exactly is Web 2.0?

To make it short, Web 2.0 are a bunch of websites that are centralized around the idea of users controlling the site, not a 3-rd party company. Such Web 2.0 sites includes applications like podcasting, vlogging, social bookmarking, social networking, blogging, wikis, community sites, RSS feeds, etcetera.

You recognized brand names like WordPress, Blogger, MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Propeller, Sphinn, Technorati, YouTube, FreeIQ, Wikipedia, ... just to name only a very SMALL part of the game.

Social Marketing is also known as Social Media or Social Media Marketing.

The main idea is that people find ways to interact and share content, opinions, insight, experiences, perspectives, media files.

Social marketing websites allows you to attract and influence a market by leveraging a different kind of marketing system as opposed to traditional online marketing.

As a business owner, all you need to do is to get into your niche market, understand it's needs, create a network of people with needs to be satisfied, and influence them using powerful triggers like scarcity, controversy, actionable content...

Some people says that Web 2.0 traffic is worthless. Other people says that it makes them a fortune in record time.

In the last few month I take the time and experience the new Web 2.0 strategies. And through the next posts, I will try to share my own experience.

But first, let me tell you about an amazing new social browser called Flock.

It's developed by Marc Andreessen, the co-author of Netscape, and he says that Flock is a social browser that's designed to work seamlessly with some social networking sites.

I just started to play with this new browser and I found that Flock integrates blog, news aggregation, and social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, and others.

According to their website:

"Flock and Mozilla share both source code and a mission to preserve choice and innovation on the Internet.Flock is proud to be a part of the Mozilla ecosystem, and we give back 100% of what we change or fix in the core. Flock has not 'forked' the Firefox code base, nor will we."

I use Flock and I'm ended up to love it! Most of the plugins from Firefox install into it. The same happens to all my Firefox bookmarks transferred over to Flock on the install and it keeps bookmarked all my social networking sites and feeds. There are still some "bugs", but on the overall, you should give it a try.

Talk to you next time about new social marketing strategies...

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