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The “Vanity Plate” for your Website

You have heard of Vanity Plates for your car, what if I told you that now you can have a EMOJI url for your website!Click To Tweet

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Yep, that’s right – The Purple Teacup Co has a “The purple heart cup dot website” URL.  Now, why would you want something like that?

  1.  It’s cool
  2. It’s a way to stand out
  3. With URLs getting longer, this is a great way to shorten it!
  4. It’s fun

So, how do you get a super cool, fun way to stand out, emoji URL – simply – go here 

Once you decide and pick your fancy smancy new URL – where can you send it?  Literally anywhere on the internet – you could have it go to your own website, a Facebook page or group, a campsite, you could even send it o a link to a profile on your Instagram or Pinterest.  As long as it has a URL – you can forward it there!


Then, you want to set up the Domain Forwarding.  I recommend adding “masked forwarding” so that it doesn’t get all “yucky” on the way through the internet (are you likely all the technical words I am using in this article).

So, go, and make a fun little emoji URL – and I would love to see it – come and join us in the Bloggers Bistro on Facebook.  Lots of great free training, just like this one!

So, you have decided to be a Blogging Influencer, but don’t know what to do?

Hey, so you have decided to try your hand at being a blogging influencer – but not sure where to start? Here are some simple tips to get you going.

1) First of all, choose a domain name that is somehow related to the business you are in or related to your personality. For example, if you are looking for a domain name for your essential oil business, you might want to try using a name like www.oilsbyjane.com or www.usingessentialoils.com. It is important to use a real domain name. Your visitors will not take your business seriously if you use a free domain name like www.tripod.com/essentialoils, or www.angelfire.com/essentialoils. A lot of the good domain names are already spoken for, but if you are patient enough, you will search and find one that is still available. If you think that you will need more than one domain name, get that one now too, as thousands of names are taken up each day. Do a search under Google using the names that you are thinking about. You will find some very reasonably priced domain registrars. The cheapest one that I have found so far is at SiteGround They are a full-service operation offering web hosting and domains.  There is some other great info here.

2) You will need a hosting service for your domain name. The hosting service allows your domain name and all of its content to be viewed on the internet. This is easy to handle. You have basically two choices here. You can pay for the hosting service or get it for free. I highly recommend the paid version.  Simply, no company is going to give you something for free, so either you or your readers are going to be seeing a LOT of advertising.  Overall, I recommend Siteground (see above). Their hosting packages include everything you need with no weird add-ons.

3) Once you have your domain name and hosting service taken care of, you will probably need a way of uploading your web content to your site. I recommend WordPress.  There are other builders out there, and while WordPress isn’t always the easiest – it is going to give you the most bang for your proverbial buck.  There are hundreds of free themes that you can use to get you started.

4) Your using essentialoils site probably needs a little more customizing. Look at other sites on the internet for comparison and see what could be improved visually on your site. Does it need any flashy graphics? There are many free graphics available on the internet – just do a search with google. Once you are happy with the way your website looks.  Make sure you are backing up your site as you go along because there are few things worse than customizing a website and if something bad happens to your computer or hard drive, losing the web content forever.

5) At this point, you probably already have uploaded your website and have it online. Now you need to drive visitors to your site. One popular way of bringing traffic to your site is to use a free link exchange or free link trading service. For the free link exchange service, you just sign up and put a little bit of code on your website (this allows other website banners to be viewed on your site and vice versa). The free link trading service is very simple also. You simply add another pillowís link to your links page and vice versa. This trading of links increases the popularity of your site greatly with the search engines. One of the most important things you can do to gain traffic is to get listed with the major search engines. Go to each search engine, or use a free service like www.AddMe.com and add your website there.

6) Please be advised that is illegal to Spam on the internet or via e-mail. Spamming is sending unwanted e-mails or putting internet advertising material, or internet material in general where it should not be. That being said, another method of marketing and promoting your site is to add your site to casino and gambling message boards and free for all links pages. Please check to see if it is ok to post your info there first, and in which category, and anywhere else before posting there. If you ìSpamî, you risk losing your internet service provider, and possibly your web host with all of your web content. Itís just not worth the trouble.

7) Another way of promoting your website is to create content that you get a lot of questions about so that you can share the links with people who keep asking you the same question.  Win / Win – the person gets the answer, and you get traffic to your blog!

While this is a really simple starting point for your blog – if you would like more information, please join us in our FREE online community.

Niche Blogs And Why They Make Such An Excellent Affiliate Marketing Tool

Blogs or more specifically… Niche Blogs are simply blogs that are topically focused and target a specific market and/or niche.

More importantly, though, these blogs contain targeted information that your target market is searching for.

This is KEY.

As an affiliate marketer, we are always told that information, whether its an article, review, ebook, e-course, report, mp3 or podcast, is a key Pre-Selling tool before your potential customer decides to buy what it is that your offering.

This is where Niche Blogs come into play because of there many capabilities and functions.

The biggest advantage Blogs have is they give you the ability to syndicate your content and/or information through a technology called RSS(Real Simple Syndication).

The types of content you are able to syndicate are as follows:

– Articles
– Product Reviews
– eBooks
– eCourses
– Special Reports
– Mp3 Files
– Steaming Video(A.K.A Pod Casting)

Are you starting to see the advantages to blogs or more importantly, having a network of affiliate Niche Blogs?

I hope so.

Also, with your blog comes an RSS Feed that your potential visitors can subscribe to.

What does this mean for you?

Simple. Whenever you post to your affiliate Niche Blog or network of Niche Blogs guess who will INSTANTLY receive that post?

That’s right, whoever subscribes to your RSS Feed.

Are you starting to see the many benefits of having a Niche Blog and incorporating it into your affiliate marketing mix?

Only you can answer that.

Another great thing about Blogs, in general, is that search engines love them and everytime you post to your Niche Blog it “Pings” the search engines and other RSS Directories you’ve submitted to letting them know that there’s new fresh content for them to come and index.

The more you post, the more pages that will be produced, which means… more for the search engines to index, which means… more traffic to your Niche Blog.

The best way to take advantage of your new source of traffic and maximize your Niche Blog profits is to modify your blog template and add Google Adsense and your affiliate programs marketing materials to it.

By doing this, every time you post to your Niche Blog your marketing message will always be there and Google Adsense will display targeted ads related to your content.

Now, I can’t go into a lot of detail on how to modify blog templates in this article simply because that’s an article within itself and then some.  If you want to learn more about blogging – you can join our free Facebook Community here.

All I really wanted to get across to you is the advantages to having your own Niche Blog as part of your affiliate marketing mix to help market your affiliate programs to your target audience.

Blogs are here to stay so we might as well take advantage of them in any way that we can.

Are you interested in starting a Niche Blog? Coming soon – we will help you build the blog that is right for you! Make sure to join our community, and we will help you build a better blog!  Ready to start now, here are some tips!

 

Blog Optimization for Great Search Engine Results – A Must!

Here are 5 tips for GREAT blog optimization for amazing SEO results!

If you are interested in trying to make money from your blog, you probably want to know how you can best optimize your blog for great search engine results.  After all, most people stumble upon blogs when doing a search for something.  If you use these optimization tips effectively, it could be YOUR blog people are directed to.  So, check these tips out and experiment with your own blog.  Note what has the best results and stay with it.  Change the other things around a bit until you get the results out of them that you want.

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Many experts say that the best way to optimize your blog is to keep everything very simple.  You can choose one quality content topic and make it your base.  From there, you can use variations of the topic in order to keep everything going.  This may seem like a broad and useless tip, but once you get into blogging more and more, you understand how important it is.

Put More Out There

If you are trying to get more of a presence on search engines, be sure that you have something to show.  The more content you have, the more likely you are to show up on a search engine.  Bigger sites always do better than smaller sites. It is simply a numbers game.  Search engines will see your site in a different manner, depending on how much content you have.  The more content you have, the more there is a chance that someone will stumble onto your site.

Ask Search Engines for Help

Few people know that you can actually submit your site to search engines.  Submit your site’s URL and ask to be put into the index.  This can take a while, but if they do list you in the index, you will see a larger increase in traffic.  Beware, however, of a service that asks for money in exchange for getting your site into search engines. These can be a little misleading at times.  There are ways to do this without needing to pay anyone at all.

Keyword Pay

A great idea for optimization is to identify and use the most popular keywords.  By doing this, you are essentially targeting the keywords that people most often search for.  When you do this, you have an edge over the competition.  When you know exactly what the people are looking for, you can give them just that.  Simply create articles that use these keywords once you have a list.  By creating these articles, you are putting yourself out there to be found.  Your blog just might pop up on their screen when someone does a search for those keywords.  Be careful not to use the keyword so much that your article does not make sense, however.

Daily Updates

If you really want the best optimization, you should update your blog daily.  The more you update it, the more often search engines will index your blog.  Therefore, you will want to be sure your blog is always fresh.  Adding new information is the best way to update your blog.  The more new information you have, the better off you will be!  Just be sure that when you do update, it is for a good reason.  You should always remember that content can have a purpose, but it should always be quality content.  If you compromise content, you are only allowing yourself to strip the creativity from your project.  If you are happy with doing that, by all means, go ahead.  However, as a writer, you have a certain responsibility to web surfers. Unless you want everything on the web to be useless, do your part!

Use these tips to help optimize your blog and get the most from search engines.  The more you post and use these tips, the more results you will see.  If you earn your living from the number of clicks your blog or your ads get, this will essentially mean more money for you.  Experiment with them to see what works best for you and your blog.  Put these tips to use today and watch your results rise!

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3 Steps to Write Blog Posts in Under 10 Minutes

Are you looking for tips on how to write blog posts quickly?

One of the challenges most bloggers have is writing blog posts quickly enough to keep up with trends and keep the content fresh on their blogs.  Many bloggers are not trained writers, so having a simple system is important in their workflow.  Here are 3 simple steps to help keep the new posts coming.

1.  Come up with your topic.  You will need to refine this into your title, but keep it clear and focused.  You are going to want to write (on average) 300-700 words on this topic.

2.  Now, write down 3-5 main points for that article.  These are important, as they will frame your article and basically create each of the 3-5 paragraphs.

3.  Write out each paragraph.  Make sure to write approximately 100-200 words on each main point.  You may need to go back and create an opening and closing paragraph based on what your topic is.  But by doing all of that, you should have a nice quick blog post to send out into the wild.

Another great ways to create a blog post quickly:

Do a “numbered post” like the one here.  “5 Top things” “3 Ways to…”  Again – super easy.  Create an opening and closing dialogue, then the points in between, and you are good to go!

It is important to write blog posts regularly.  You want to hit a minimum of 40-50 blog posts before Google really starts to recognize you.  It is always recommended that you try and be consistent with your blogging, so at the beginning look at adding between one to two blog posts a week.  Once you hit the magic forty, you can slow down and always remember to keep promoting posts that you have already written!  People need to read what you wrote.

Hope this helps!

Hey, come and check out our Facebook page and give us a like! We love to know what people are looking to learn in WordPress world! Our group, The Bloggers Bistro is filled with an amazing group of Female Entrepreneurs learning how to blog to promote their business, their passions and their voices!