The True Mastery Of Blogging
I remember the days when I used to think about being number 1 in Google search engine what a joy that would do for me, my business, family, and the people I could help along the way. I really enjoyed watching many blogs grow. For instance John Chow blog is one of the greatest successful blogs out there right now, and who can forget Shoemoney. From scratch these guys built a huge name for themselves, and trust from there readers. This shows you a true fact in life. The fact is you can draw more bees with honey than you ever will with vinegar. All these guys did was brand themselves, and posted about things that either made sense or helped readers who was looking for what they are talking about. Right now the job economy is down, and most of us online are either work at home entrepreneurs or searching for the opportunity/ideas to make tons of money online.
Understanding
Just like I said before making a name for yourself is actually a good thing to become successful anywhere, such as online or offline it doesn’t matter. A good name goes a far way. It just takes time in building your name unless some big event is happening then you will want to be in the limelight of exposure. The two gentlemen above who I describe didn’t only build a business from trust and branding, but they got in when the getting was good. Blogging isn’t old, but the idea of blogging has aged a little bit, and timing was on there side.
Follow Before You Can Lead
While it is true to be unique and come up with your own ideas. I think it makes sense to learn what others are doing to succeed which is what most of us are doing now. Working with what is provided to us at the time is what we need right now. Innovation comes along after you have done the work so don’t feel bad if you haven’t came up with something new to go along with the blogging platform. We have tons of talents buried in our minds so take it one day at a time.
Post Often As You Can
This is one of those things I have as a blogger which is why I’m not a master blogger at the time. Blogging is define mainly by people posting the latest updates on different subjects or ideas. If you don’t post more you will loose readers, and some may unsubscribe from you RSS reader. So it would be very important for you to post twice a week at least, yes, this is definitely a need in my personal category. + Google will see your latest post, and there’s a possibility this may increase your rankings. Remember, although anchored links rule Google still looks at the content you are providing for your readers which could result in increments. Choose the route of being unique and you be impressed with the positive feedback you will get, creation ownz.
Building Relationships = Possible Links(Don’t Be Shy)
Sometimes meeting new people is hard, I mean really hard because you don’t know how people react on your approach, but actually if you know what to do it really is easy. For instance, people come onto my blog and comment, and mostly everyone is very kind-heart individuals. These people that are really easy going, and the type I wouldn’t mind doing business with, such as trading links with them if they have a descent blog, or other ventures if the timing is right. Understanding your readers, and them understanding you will consult in a accurate relationship. Keep a open mind on there opinions on each subject, and reply to each question with ease.
As you can see the mastery of blogging isn’t much of a hassle to overcome. It could be a lot more to you here than what I have posted above or lesser. All depends on what are your goals, and what you call becoming a master blogger. What do you guys think on the subject?
Til Then My Friends,
Jermaine Pleas
Bing or shall I say Bingahoo! Vs Google
Okay, I have been looking into more news coming in about the new search engine Bing by Microsoft for a month now, and have looked into the features, and I must say it is a great search engine, and provides a better experience than the regular old MSN search engine that Microsoft provided, but in a way it still feels similar. Why does it feel similar? The difference is the new generation web 2.0 integration Bing provides to the search like Twitter. This matters to many people, and a superb move by Microsoft’s Bing. You see, everybody is on Twitter so why not give a person a reason to use your search engine implementing a Twitter experience. I think Microsoft is really starting to understand the social networking community, and now have created somewhat of a better experience.
So what does all this means to you as a work at home entrepreneur. Not many bloggers say this, but it matters a lot to the marketer no matter how you feel the realization is none of us wants to loose out on this grand opportunity to be listed in the Bing search engine. What about my position in Google, and all my visitors that visits my blog through Google? Will I loose them to Bing after all my hard work to position my blog search engine organic results in Google? Believe it or not this have been on many internet marketers minds, and possibilities are endless on the internet. This could be very possible a new beginning in the making. The best thing you could do just in case this happens is to get your readers to subscribe to your RSS reader if you are receiving a huge amount of traffic this will be a smart move.
Honestly, I’m surprised MSN, or Yahoo wasn’t the leader in the beginning due to the fact of the marketing power these two have in their hands. How in the world can you not be #1…..this is an obvious suggestion for any company, but the lack of marketing ideas could be the problem. Convincing individuals to use your search engine isn’t hard, but with uniqueness, and friendly-viral marketing planing you can never go wrong. Think about it , Bing is now commercializing their search engine all over the television now which gets to many Googleholics very quickly to convert over. That’s exactly what they meant when they talked about cutting into Google’s users. Commercializing is in a nutshell, but creative commercializing is better.
Not to mention Yahoo has decided to join Bing on this battle for the #1 search engine’s spot. Yahoo wants in too. Forthcoming Bingahoo! Put these two together and you have a powerhouse waiting to explode. Not too long ago Yahoo had turned down a huge multi-billion dollar buyout deal by Microsoft, but now they have come to terms that they could share the profits, and let Bing’s Microsoft search engine engineers take control, and use Bing’s cutting edge technology to update Yahoo’s technology for the best search engine results. While this is all still in premature stage I think we all should gear up by continuing to link build, and provide more content for our users. Google is a really powerful tool at this time we have learned to adapt to its ways, and could stay that way for a very long time, but remember not to put all your eggs in a bag.
Till Then My Friends 
Buying Old Domains To Work At Home! It Works Or Hurts?
I have noticed that if you fiddle around online you might bump into some great things. Of course, many people who work at home probably have taken advantage of this tactic already, but it’s still effective today. Buying new domains can be a drag if you don’t know what name you want to choose right away so you quickly think up such a name then register it through some shared web host. Today, I took this old domain registering dilemma serious, and decided to look further into this matter. What I’ve learned is that old domains can be a great value for your SEO efforts.
*EXAMPLE*
Say that I want to target a competitive niche, but I need to register a domain name. So I take the initiative to think about a nifty name. The niche that I’m targeting is “baby food”. While thinking very hard I still haven’t come up with a name. So, I decide to look for a old expired domain name that at least contains those two keywords. After looking very hard for a old related domain I find a great domain that fits my criteria “thebestbabyfood.com”. I notice that this domain has a little value attached to it so I look in deeper, and this is what I find:
Pagerank
The pagerank isn’t high at all. Although it’s just a PR2 that means it has value in it. Even though Google will favor a website for it’s keyword with a PR0 it doesn’t alter the fact Google is shading this domain in green.
Keywords
The keywords of the domain could be possibly linking to other websites with the same keywords which means all you have to do is continue using those keywords for your backlink strategy((this is why I said search for a old domain with the keywords you want to rank for because more likely the ex-owner could have been using the keywords of the domain name to link from different websites)). For old domains you still can use a backlink tool and check the anchored links that are linking to that domain. The theory is Google favors old domains in a particular target niche which are ranked higher than new domains.
Check The Google SERP
Old domains with value often has indexed search engine pages which is A+ for you. All you have to do is type in the full domain name inside the Google search engine and view how many pages have been indexed for that domain name. A very good old domain with value has over 10,000 pages indexed already which means this domain is just waiting to be used for a useful purpose.
Age
Just like I said before, Google loves old age so let’s look at the age of the domain. If the domain is over 2 years old then you are in good shape. Add content to this domain which would more likely be a blog.
So what is the purpose to buy old domains for? To get inside the search engines quicker for your keywords because it works. I always stressed on starting a free blogger.com blog because Google obviously favors there own network, and the blogger network has been around for a couple years now, and SEO is pretty much easier with their platform. What do you guys and girls think on this “Old Domain” matter?
You Don’t Need A Google Pagerank 10 Blog To Rank #1 On Google Search Engine
Okay, having a blog that has a high Google ranking is really cool, but it doesn’t “have to be” a PR 6,7,8,9,10 in order to be #1 for your keywords. For instance, my blog ranks for my keyword not #1 yet, but can possibly be in time and I don’t have a high Google pagerank which pageranks 3 at the time. The thing is I created this blog at the beginning of January 2009 of 4 months, and I’m seeing progress already. If you want to know how I did this just read my blog post. Gurus claim that it takes years in order to get to the top of Google search engine to rank for your keywords, but they are totally “WRONG”! All it takes is dedication and what I call, “The Will To Build”. Why do I say pageranking is really not a big deal? I study many websites and blogs, although I’m not a expert I have noticed many blogs and websites ranking really high for:
- Misspelled, and incorrect punctuation, like me at times
- Google pageranks around #2
- Outdated Information On Blog
- A review “website” that doesn’t help at all.
- The Blog/Website have no design, but plain like mines
You can’t blame these individuals for ranking so high in Google search engine all they had was “The Will To Build”. No need for a high Google pagerank for them to get on page #1 for Google Search Engine. All it took was a little SEO, and link building which I explain here in my blog.
However, in many cases having a high Google page rank can be very beneficial to your business in Google search engine. Say that you have a Blog that has a pagerank of #7, you can manopolize on your blog post efforts very well, and rank in the search engine. It’s amazing because Google ranks blog post for the targeted keyword pretty fast for blogs that has a nice pagerank without any kind of backlinks from the blog post other than the main blog itself you can rank for any kind of keyword in a matter of weeks of posting is awesome for your business. That’s why I stress on many of my other blogs to try an get a really high Google Pagerank on your URL name at least, for instance, www.yourname.com, then you could post about anything, and rank really high for that post on Google for that keyword. I would say it will possibly rank for that targeted keyword within days of posting if the Google SERP(search engine results pages) are around 20,000,000 – 75,000,000 indexed pages. The important thing for you to do is to rank for the keyword in Google SERP don’t worry that it’s not number #1 at the moment. After your post has started to rank for the keyword that is when you should start building anchored link text backlinks for that post.
Remember, you don’t have to register a www.yourname.com, and it don’t have to be your name. It could be something totally different. I tell people to use their name for URL because your name has value and means something just like big businesses like Mazda, Toyota, Macy’s, Wal-Mart are part names and are branded so use it. You don’t have to sign up for hosting for a blog neither because you can register a free blog at blogger.com or Wordpress.com. I pay for my domains because I could do anything I want with it from the inside like uploading templates which I rarely do at the time, but if you want to register a domain I can show you some plugins that I use for myself. Have any more suggestions? Don’t be shy leave a comment.
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