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10 Benefits Of Being A Blogger
I have been a blogger since September 2004
but only began to take it seriously this year. My blogging journey
began when I stumbled upon a company owned by Google named Blogger.com
that offered free tools to build a website.
In fact Blogger provides you with free
several templates which you can customize in addition to a domain name
hosted on their server. You can host your blog on your domain if you
like to. Here are some benefits I found while blogging:
1) Easy to manage. A blog can be set up by
even a novice in no time. All you have to do is post and publish.
Blogging can get as simple as that or even more complex.
2) Easy to update. Blogs can be updated
weekly or daily instead of sometimes monthly for a static website. Even
adding a few paragraphs a day can be done in no time and can be
beneficial to your search rankings.
3) Get spidered quickly. Search engine
spiders crawl blogs with greater frequency than static webpages. I have
had webpages that took over eight months to be indexed in Google where
as Yahoo sometimes index my blogs in weeks sometimes days.
4) If you write articles then you can post
all of them on your blog in addition to free reprint content that is
widely available everwhere. The more content you have the better.
5) You can get your website indexed quicker.
An article or a piece of news about your website with an optimize
anchor link will send the spiders your way in no time.
6) Sell advertising space. If you have a
popular blog then you can create a revenue stream by selling ad space.
Blogads is one of several places where you can sell your ad space to
major companies.
7) Similar to offering ad space, you can add
to your blog to monetize your
content. What I love about Blogger is that once you plug in the Adsense code into your main template, a new
page is created and
is automatically displayed when you
make a post.
8) Review your affiliate products. If you
have a blog that is in a niche then you can find affiliate programs for
that niche and do reviews of them for a commission. Every time someone
purchases the product or service through your link you make money.
9) It is still early to catch on. Blogs and
RSS feeds are used by the minority of internet users which makes it
excellent for you to start blogging right now. Less than 10% of the
Americans which is the biggest online market use this emerging trend.
10) Can be syndicated. An easy way for your
readers to stay in touch with updates is to add your blog to their My
Yahoo and My MSN. They can see the latest information and how long ago
it was added.
11) Yes a bonus! Savvy marketers know that
if you add your blogs to My Yahoo you can have it indexed in no time by
Yahoo. You can use these two websites to inform blog directories
thatyou have updated your content.
a) http://WWW.Ping-o-matic.com
b) http://WWW.Rssfeedpromoter.com
So with all those benefits in mind there is
no reason you should not start your own blog. So when do you decide to
go blogging?
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