When you make comments on other blogs, really get into the content you are talking about in the current discussion going on with those blogs. Darren says too many bloggers are lazy and simply “copy and paste” other blog content and never take the time to share quality feedback and contribution to other blogs.

Make a real effort to give back to the conversations and in turn you will get more people going to visit your site.

The first thing is to discover whether their site is indexed with the search engines, then take a look at the HTML source code underneath their site to make sure the headline tag, the description, the keyword and keyword phrases is fully included in the code. Next, I wanted to make sure they had a Google local business Places registration and if so, that it is fully filled out.

Of course I received many questions and was more than happy to answer them. One of the most pressing questions is what is the best way to get to the highest rank in the search engines. Answer: backlinks.

I will go over the techniques I use to get legitimate backlinks to my sites.

What I love about this event is you can meet so many other bloggers who have the same passion as you regarding blogging online. The trade show is a must see. There are several hundred booths that cover everything from podcasting, SEO, blog platforms, social media, website templates, article writing, and so on.

Check out this event this year if you can.

We are an online society, and it has taken on the world stage. I truly believe that in order to survive into the future, you need an online presence. Often, in my seminars, I even intruct my students to reserve their own name with a domain name company. You can always use it in the future.

Branding plays a key in the success of your business and personal success. If you brand your name, or your businesss, a blog can do that.

If you have not had any writing experience, I suggest you brush up on writing skills. When you start a blog, you become a publisher. When you become a publisher, you are responsible to write consistently.

I am often asked by bloggers, “what can I write about?” You should look everywhere around you. What is happening in your industry? What is happening on TV that pertains to your industry. What humorous things are happening in your industry. What kind of tips and tricks can you reveal to yuor audience. There is literally unlimited amount of things to write about in your blog.

Remember that your blog is an extension of you and your experiences and dreams and hopes. Share this with your audience and your will get a following and soon, paying customers.

As with any marketing website, you always should have a call to action, a way to guide the visitor to opt in to a newsletter, or sign up for a trial membership or click on an affiliate link to a product or service that your readers would be interested in.

The “call to action” is the oldest, but most effective way of marketing your business. Since you are online and have a blog to complement your marketing efforts, every effort should be made to tell the visitor what to do.

A simple thing like asking people to make a comment on your blog, will dramatically increase  your blog comment count.  If you position your newsletter opt in box to the upper right or upper left column will increase your opt in rate. Better yet, putting the opt in box all the way up in the header will make even more opt ins’ happen.

Facebook currently has over 500 million users online around the world. There are approximately over 100 registered users of Twitter and there are over 126 million blogs in the world.

Just with the Facebook and Twitter use alone, you have many possibilities of getting people to come to your blog to visit and become your “followers.” Now it can be a challenge if you are attempting to attract a local following to your business physical location, but that doesn’t have to stop you there.

When I teach people how to blog for their business, I also tell them that once the blog goes online, it becomes “worldwide.” This is something that should get your creative juices flowing with making digital products in the form of info products to sell to your “following” outside your local area.

Just think, if you owned a golf equipment shop. You originally intended on putting up a blog to get an online presence and to drive people, through local search of your blog, to visit your physical location. Well now you can think of serving two types of customers, the local market and the rest of the world!

This marketing of both the local and worldwide audience presents an opportunity to get the attention of everyone who visits your blog from being referred from Facebook or Twitter. With the blog software out there now, you can enable your Facebook visitors to go to your blog, your blog visitors to go to Facebook, and Twitter to do the same. Now at first, people coming in from these social media sites would not be “targeted,” in other words, it will have no value to your business. But eventually, there will be the type of people that will be interested in your product or service. These people will become your recurring visitors and eventually become cash paying customers.

So, although social media is a valuable resource to get customers, remember that, since the internet is always changing, what could be popular today may not be as popular or effective a year from now. Be ready to change when the trends to market your business change.

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But in order to successfully market your blog, you must have a plan to implement. For example, start with the purpose of your blog. If your blog is about golf, then give the best golf tips in your blog posts. Promote your blog to golf forums, groups, country clubs, golf equipment stores, write golf articles and submit to article directories, get on sports related blogs, in other words, scour every known source for putting your blog out there. You will find that sooner than later, your visitor count will go through the roof.

And it does not stop there, you have to keep on promoting your blog for the meximum exposure. Once you have hundreds of blog posts up and several years of your blog domain online, you secure a long term high page rank with the search engines.

Blog marketing is a culmination of doing several things consistently and persistently. If you have a solid plan, you can’t help but be a success.

The key way to get your video the most views is to be “cute” or show dumb situations that humans often portray, animals, babies, music, and contraversial topics. Videos can get just about any subject matter “famous,” but it is the unique content that gets the most attention from the view public.

How often do you get an email from a friend or family that has a link to a funny video or a video that makes you cry? Would you believe that a video, that is being made by a teenage girl showing how to put on make up is getting millions of views per month? You would never thought that something like that gets viewed often! Better yet, there is a video of an Asian girl that runs for about 3 to 4 minutes that just shows her staring at the video camera doing absolutely nothing, getting hundreds of views per day! Crazy!

Video for business is very important. It can’t be “boring.” It has to grab the viewer and capture their interest of the product or service you are providing. Make sure you can find some entertainment value in your video without coming across silly. 

Video will forever go “viral” on the internet and many people will be referring the link to see your video on that video host site or they will “embed” the video code on some other blog or website.

Video gives your business strong count for search engine page rank. So make sure video is a big part of your online marketing campaign.