Rod Larrivee's Blog

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 Blogger technology.

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 journalers 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 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.
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 or a word or phrase related to the Max International Business.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: Your Name’s Home Business Blog or Your Name’s Work at Home Journal or something like that… Be creative! Now enter your blog address. Again, I suggest using your first and last name combined OR or a word or phrase related to the Max International Business. 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.YOURBLOGGERUSERNAME.blogspot.com

Next, complete the word verification field by typing the characters you see in the picture above the field.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 that you have your blog setup, it’s time to make a post to it. OK, here’s the format for your article:

Enter the Post Title First.(POST CONTENT GOES HERE)

After your post enter:About the Author
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To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: (Don’t use these words exactly, get creative, make something up to encourage your readers to click on your link below.ENTER A KEY WORD PHRASE HERE Highlight the above keyword phrase, click on the hyperlink button, then enter your web site address.  This will make the keyword phrase clickable, and direct those who click on it to your web site.Copyright © Your Full Name Here
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Labels - Now enter a keyword, or keywords that best describe your post, including the main keyword in your title

Click on Publish Post
Congratulations! 

You’ve just published your post on your own blog! Now, every time you have new content 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 posts. 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. 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!Let’s move to the next step of promoting your blog…

IMPORTANT: To make your blog work for you, you *MUST* add fresh and original content on a regular basis. You can start making posts every day or two about your own online marketing experiences and/or you can update your blog with fresh articles. If you do not know what to write about, use Home Business Article Niche Club.  They will provide you with 30 articles a month that you can modify and post to your Blog.
Congratulations again!

© 2008, Rod Larrivee 

 

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