Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.

Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.

From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.

So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.

Here’s how:

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.

After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.

2. Pictures speaks a thousand words

To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.

After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs

In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.

5. Make it interactive

As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.

You can even place an area for comments or for some feedback. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.

Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.
Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.

As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.

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Because I had limited Internet Access for the past week, I only noticed this mail yesterday. I had a shock when I went over to the Wordpress Blog Sites I maintained. Most of them showed only a blank page.

Luckily, Joel included the link to the solution. In no time, all my sites are back up running as normal.

I highly recommend everyone to upgrade their Wordpress blog sites to the latest version to prevent such thing from occurring to them.

And I wonder….. when was the last time, I received such alert email from the hosting company.

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A successful Blogger, Alvin, of Gather Success, shared his unpleasant experiences for using free web hosting and other free tools when he was starting out in his recent post. For some unknown reasons, his free accounts were suspended. He had to go through a series of trouble to re-work his internet business.

I highly recommend people to read his post on this experience here.

I also have my bad experiences in using the free tools and resources for the Internet Business. One of commonly used tools was a link cloaking program or tools to make an URL short.

I started using free pinurl.com to shorten my link url and affiliate links. I have posted the shortened url in many sites and drove quite a fair amount of traffic to various sites.

After a few months, without any warning, pinurl.com was shutdown. And worse, I only realized this much later.

All those past effort for driving traffic are now down into the drain. The impact of lost potential traffic is only one of the consequences. I have to go to the individual postings to edit the link to a workable one. Much time and energy was wasted doing so. I could have put these time and energy into other aspects of my Internet Business.

Another problem I faced was that, not all postings can be changed. Imagine what would anybody think when he or she clicked on a link and to find that the link was not workable.

From then onwards, I only used the link forwarder in my web hosting to cloak the affiliate link. At least, I need not have to worry that, one day the free tools would be shut down and all my time and effort gone to waste.

Using reliable tools is essential for the success of any Internet Business. This is one aspect that any Internet Marketer cannot afford not to invest in. Using free tools or resource runs the danger of being shut down any time. When that happens, much energy and time was wasted.

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I have worked with a number of Wordpress Blogs for both personal and community. I have installed many useful plugins for these blogs. I could not imagine why anyone would not believe in plugins.

The followings are some reasons why I find plugin is a MUST for all Wordpress Blogs.

Mostly Free
Most of the plugins out there are free. We do not need to pay a single cent to install these plugins onto our Wordpress Blog. Of course, we can opt to give a small donation to the creator of these plugins.

Easy to Use
Wordpress has made it so easy to search, install and upgrade plugins. In fact, we can easily do all these three within the Wordpress Administration.

We just need to click on “Add New” under the plugins subsection. From there, We can easily search for the plug-in we want. After we found the plug-in we want, we just need a few more mouse click and we have installed the plugin. No downloading or uploading of the installation files.

Upgrading the plugins is even easier. Wordpress will automatically tell us when there is a newer version of the plug-in. We just need to go to the installed plugins page, click on the automatic upgrade.

Added Features with Widgets
Wordpress on it own only provides the blogging functions. We can easily add features and expand the capabilities with Widgets came with the plugins.

Event Calendars and Photo Gallery are examples of such plugins.

Event Calendars plug-in is very useful tool for community event organizer blog. Any upcoming events can be posted on to the blog. The plug-in provides Widgets to show upcoming events and events calendar. These widgets help to draw participants to these events.

There are many photo gallery plugs-in available. These photo gallery plugins not only allow us to organize the photos. These also provide Widgets for random pictures or the latest pictures.

Enhance Readers’ Interest
The widgets came with the plugins can also help to enhance readers’ interest.

A picture is more attractive to the reader than words. The random pictures or latest pictures widget from can help to generate interest from readers to check out other posts or items in the blog.

Another useful plugin is the related articles plugin. It automatically adds links to posts with are related to the current one being read by the reader. This continues to attract the reader to read more post in the blog.

Save Time
Some plugs-in are designed to help us save time. The most typical one is the spam filter plugins. Imagine the time saved by not having to go through tons and tons of spam comments and find the genuine ones.

Another one is the Tag suggestions plug-in. It will search the local tags and the internet, to suggest keywords tags relevant to the post.

There are many reasons why we need to install plugins in our Wordpress Blog. The above are just some of the reasons. Unless we install the plugins in your blogs, we would not know what we missed.

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Today, there are an abundance of photo blogs, and there are even video blogs as well. Mobile blogging devices may well change the definition of blogging entirely by making it possible for bloggers to create new kinds of posts. Another element of the blogosphere that is starting to redefine blogging is the corporate blog. As more companies hire writers to keep blogs with the sole purpose of creating positive buzz about their brand, bloggers across the globe are arguing about whether these manufactured blogs are really worthy of the name. Between all of these different forces that are constantly expanding and reshaping the blogosphere, it is difficult to imagine that the definition of what is and is not a blog will ever remain fixed for very long.

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According to Wikipedia – “A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.”

In short, a blog simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order, latest post appear first. Most blogs are text, but there are also photo blogs and video blogs.

There are many types of blog. The most common one is personal blog. More and more private and community organizations are setting up corporate blogs for marketing, public relations or branding blogs.

To start blogging, you would need a platform, a web host and a domain. A blogging platform is a computer software program that allows you to write posts and to update your blog. Your platform is also what you use to design the look of your blog, from color scheme to font size. One common platform is Wordpress.

The web host is sort of like the virtual file cabinet where your blog is stored. Your computer communicates with the host when you upload or edit a post. There are free hosts, e.g. www.blogger.com and www.wordpress.com which allow you to host your blog without the need to pay a single cent. Of course, there are limitations compared to a paid webhosting.

The domain is the online address of your blog, and usually ends in ‘dot com’. You can easily register for a web domain and a webhosting at this site – Quick Blog from GoDaddy.com

Now, you know the knowledge of what a blog is, what a platform is and what a webhost and domains is. You have mastered the Fundamental 101 of blogging.

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Everyday, there are new visitors found the website through search engines, like Yahoo! or Google. Do note that there are:
No submission to Social Bookmarking Sites
Or any additional effort used to drive traffic to this site.

On top of using Wordpress as the engine behind the website, there are other contributing factors.

The main content for this website is to post upcoming courses and activities at the community centre. Links are provided to send readers to the main site for signing up these courses and activities. In fact, most of the content is copied from the course registration website.

Optimized using Plugins

There are many free plugins available out there for Wordpress. Most plugins optimize and enhance the power of the website.

With the recommendation from Atomic Blogging, we installed some very useful plugins on this site. One is Google Sitemap. It will automatically generate a site map and submit the map to search engines. Now the search engines are updated with the latest content from the site

Update Frequently

Most search engines like regularly updated sites and rank these sites higher. The reason is that this proves the website is alive and up-to-date.

There is at least 1 new post every week on average. This consistently feeds the search engines with new content, although most are repeated content, with little changes.

Tags and Keywords

Although most of the contents were “copied” from the main site, we put in the effort to identify the keywords in each post and use these keywords as tags.

Many do not realize that, this will help the search engines to identify the keywords in the post as well. And when people search for these keywords, the search engines will match the tags and the relevant post will be shown.

I had made the right choice for using the Wordpress as the engine behind this community centre youth group website. Regular posting, plugins and tag will help to bring in traffic through the search engines. I believe this success can be easily duplicated for any organization’s website.

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First it is free and most importantly it works. Before I installed Akismet on this blog, everyday, I had to delete tons of spam comments.

Since I get to know this tool from Atomic Blogging and install this, it has effectively removed hundreds of spam comments on this site. I just let it handle all the spam comments.

Few days ago, for some unknown reason, or maybe I just have this instinct and took a look at the list of spam comments. To my surprise, I found a genuine comment on this the list. Akismet is a wonderful tool, because once I approved the comment, this will be taken off the spam list.

In our daily life, there are many tools which help to make our life easier. And we have the tendency to take tools for granted. But we also have to accept the fact that, these are no such thing as 100% fool proof tools, no matter how effective these tools are.

Akismet is a wonderful tool for a blog to filter off spam. Like any other tools, this is no 100% fool proof. It may falsely identify a genuine comment as spam. Although the chance of such incident is very low, we have to periodically check our spam list to ensure that we do not miss out genuine comments.

I have approved that genuine comment to remove this from the spam list. Through this incident, I have to do my part to check periodically on the spam list, not only on the blogs, but also on my e-mails. I do not want to miss out any genuine comment or e-mail.

Despite of this incident, I still agreed that Akismet is a must-have tools to filter off spam comments on a blog.

Find out how you can filter off spam comments on your blog here.

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I learned from him about the basic steps on setting up a profitable blog:

Finding Hot Profitable Niches

Before even start blogging, it is to find a niche market

• where there are people would are searching information on
• where there are products readily available to sell

In this process, we need to research the keywords the people used to look for information in this market.

Setting Up a Blog

There are free blogging hosting out there. But it is recommended to buy a domain and a hosting plan. There are constrains in those free hosting sites, and most do not allow a business blog. On top of these, we can have many sites hosted on a single hosting plan. This means that we can have lead page or even providing hosting to other sites with only a single plan. There are many suitable hosting plans in this link.

Once we get the domain and hosting plan done, it is to go to the actual work of setting up a blog. Wordpress is the recommended by most internet marketers. There are many widgets and plug-in available to optimize the blog for performance. The best part is, most of these are free.

Monetize from the Blog

There are many ways to make money using a blog. The general methods are as follows:

• Pay-Per-Click
• Pay-Per-Sale
• Pay-Per-Lead
• Pay-Per-Play
• Pay-Per-Review

Building Up Content and Traffic

The success of a blog would depend largely on the content in the blog and the amount of traffic driven to it. As such, it will be a daily work to post keywords loaded and relevant articles frequently and drive Traffic to the Blog.

This is the summary of the basic steps on how to create a profitable blog and make money online. There are still much more to find out on each individual step.

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No matter which category you fall into, I’d like to share some concepts with you that might make all the difference in the world to your future success. In fact, you just might learn from this article the one thing that helps you start earning real money.

It really all comes down these two mistakes that beginner’s make:

1. Promoting to many products at once (lack of focus), and..
2. Giving up too soon.

These two mistakes are related, and are actually self-reinforcing. It sounds obvious enough, but let me explain exactly how this scenario plays out.

Lack of Focus:

Experienced affiliate marketers do have the ability to promote several products, sometimes far afield from each other, at the same time. The reason they can do this is because they’d already learned and applied certain fundamental skills, and have developed a system for themselves which works to bring in sales consistently.

As a beginner, however, you’re still learning what works and what doesn’t. For that reason alone, you need a clearly defined testing ground – and this means limiting your promotion to just one product when you first start out.

Just imagine for a moment if you were in a laboratory. You’re working with a new chemical and need to determine its boiling point, solubility, molecular weight and so on.

Would it be quicker and easier for you to accomplish this by working with just that one chemical, or by juggling multiple, other chemicals all at the same time…starting one experiment and then rushing over to another one midway through?

Obviously, it would be easier to work with just the one chemical, right?

Well, the same is true for marketing. Just like the variables in your lab experiment, you’ve also got variables in every product promotion you undertake. The variables include things like traffic generation, conversion rates, advertising response rates and so on.

So, how much data do you want to juggle? Do you want to keep track of, say, Google Adwords performance for ONE e-book…or for a dozen of them spread across more than one niche?

This is where a lot beginners get themselves into a rut. They try to juggle all of this information at once, get overwhelmed by it and simply give up.

Giving Up Too Soon:

Ok, so, information overload hits, and you throw your hands in the air in surrender.

There’s no need to despair!

You can turn the situation around completely if you’ll just make a commitment to do the following three things:

1. Pick ONE niche market
2. Pick ONE product from that market
3. Use just that one niche product as your testing ground, in order to solidify your skills as an affiliate marketer.

You see, its a lot like learning to ride a bicycle as a kid. You start off with a tricycle, then move up to regular bike with training wheels and from there onto riding any bike you choose.

The same is true for learning how to promote products as an affiliate.

*Learn how to generate traffic on just one product
*Learn how to capture subscribers to your opt-in list for just one product
*Learn how to write advertisements and promotional copy for just one product
*Learn how to track your advertising links and conversion rates for just that one product….

….and THEN, you’ll be able to turn around and apply that knowledge to additional products, in different niches.

The key is to get some real results established in one place, and only then start building on that incrementally.

If you’ll follow even just this one simple rule, I promise you’ll see an increase in your commissions – and you can drop that ‘newbie’ label for the title of: Successful Affiliate Marketer!

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