By Jakob Jelling
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What exactly is a blog? Technically speaking it is a journal or a newsletter which is regularly updated and can be used by any one. In simple language it can be just stated as an online journal. It is the short form of weblog. The one thing about the blog is that they generally reflect the personality of the author or the website creator. The updating of the blog is termed as blogging and the person who keeps it is known as blogger. But the main question is how to create a blog? And the answer is not very tough. There are several options for which you can opt for.
The first and the easiest is the websites. There are many websites which offers you with the opportunity of creating your own blog. The charges of these websites are very nominal or in many cases free. Therefore there is all the more reason for you to create your own blog. The process of creating and uploading the blog is known as blog hosting. The performance of these websites is quite good. They post very little advertisements on your blog and in some cases even nothing.
The second option which you can go for is live journal. It is meant to be suitable for those who use user friendly vocabulary. This is more popular with the people who are not interested in learning web publishing. They don’t go for large audiences rather than target smaller and younger crowd. Live journal also provides you with facility such as locking so that only desired person can read your journal.
Another option is to launch your blog as a part of your existing website. The very easy and fast way is to create a HTNL document and add it on your website. This method is very easy for making changes. But it is always advisable to use advanced tools so that your journal looks attracting. And it will also help you to make changes easily.
Bloxsom is one tool which is available these days in the market. The very amazing part of it is that it can automatically create blog for you in desired format, thereby saving both your time as well as money. The best point about this software is that it’s really very easy to use it. What you have to do is to just write text lines for each blog entry and than you just have to put it into the bloxsom folder and the rest all will be handled by it. If you doesn’t like the final output than you can change the individual lines instead of going through each and every line again.
The software is compatible with every web hosting account which uses PERL and CGI programs. A UNIX shell account can really prove handy here but it’s not compulsory, you can also go for other ones.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Blogging for profits
This is the first in a series of articles completely focused on blogging for profits - your business profits. This blogging for profits series is presented at Steve Reports. While Steve Reports has some appearances of a website, it is actually business profits building content presented and published using blog technology.
I will use Steve Reports as the primary example of blogging for profits since it is achieving most of what I am recommending in this series and I it is one of my sites where I am building targeted traffic.
I assume everyone knows what a blog is, but it is important to cover one very important attribute of blogs which is RSS. RSS stands for really simple syndication. Think of a press release or a news wire. Information is written and electronically published by news services. The description of the technology is not important. What is important is that when you publish information on a blog that is properly configured, RSS readers around the world instantly display that content. If you are a subscriber to Steve Reports either by registering here or though one of the many blogs when I publish an article, it is available to you at lightning speed. It is also available to people doing searching for information on a topic I have written about. My content is more available than general information found on a web site because the search engines pick up on my topic keyword optimization. You will find that my articles are written first for the search engines because if they don’t find me neither will your target audience. This is a very important point that most people in business never fully appreciate.
This process that I am beginning to describe may be the most valuable search engine optimization tool in the market today. Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are visiting sites publishing content (articles, press releases, etc.) very frequently. This means that when you feed the search engines relevant content, your site will be found by targeted visitors.
There is no downside! None! Done right, there is no limit to the business profit building opportunities using web sites based on blog technology.
In the next article, I will summarize the building blocks you must have in place to get started plus a lot more. Do not miss a single article. Register today for updates by email using the form at the top right hand corner of this site.About the author
Steve Pohlit,Business Consultant Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved. This article may be freely published with all links and author reference intact
I will use Steve Reports as the primary example of blogging for profits since it is achieving most of what I am recommending in this series and I it is one of my sites where I am building targeted traffic.
I assume everyone knows what a blog is, but it is important to cover one very important attribute of blogs which is RSS. RSS stands for really simple syndication. Think of a press release or a news wire. Information is written and electronically published by news services. The description of the technology is not important. What is important is that when you publish information on a blog that is properly configured, RSS readers around the world instantly display that content. If you are a subscriber to Steve Reports either by registering here or though one of the many blogs when I publish an article, it is available to you at lightning speed. It is also available to people doing searching for information on a topic I have written about. My content is more available than general information found on a web site because the search engines pick up on my topic keyword optimization. You will find that my articles are written first for the search engines because if they don’t find me neither will your target audience. This is a very important point that most people in business never fully appreciate.
This process that I am beginning to describe may be the most valuable search engine optimization tool in the market today. Google, Yahoo, MSN and others are visiting sites publishing content (articles, press releases, etc.) very frequently. This means that when you feed the search engines relevant content, your site will be found by targeted visitors.
There is no downside! None! Done right, there is no limit to the business profit building opportunities using web sites based on blog technology.
In the next article, I will summarize the building blocks you must have in place to get started plus a lot more. Do not miss a single article. Register today for updates by email using the form at the top right hand corner of this site.About the author
Steve Pohlit,Business Consultant Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved. This article may be freely published with all links and author reference intact
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