Eight blogging tip:

Tt’s time to submit your blog to some blog directories like Blogcatalog.com, Bloglines.com or all-blogs.net. These are only a few there are many others that you can submit to also. Just do a quick search for “blog directory” and you will get a complete list. Contact me Steven Yap for details.

You can also submit your blog to traditional search engines such as AltaVista, MSN and traditional directories such as DMOZ. Directories (particularly DMOZ) will help you increase your relevance with Google.

It’s good to submit to as many blog, RSS directories and search engines as possible. This is a simple but repetitive process
that can be done by hand or with a submission service or software.

Nine blogging tip:

I want to share with you another way that you can get more traffic to your blog.

It’s by submitting articles to article directories such as EzineArticles.com or Goarticles.com. It is the same process
as submitting articles to promote your website. The only  difference is you that you will need to include the address
of your blog in the resource box, so that readers who like your articles can click through to read your blog.

You can also submit to many more directories by using an article submission service or software that will submit your
article to several directories at the same time.

Ten blogging tip:

Another good way to get traffic to your blog is to join forums that are on the same subject as yours.

Being a frequent participant on forums can not only increase the traffic to your blog it can also provide you with links
back to your blog, which will help your search engine ranking. Not to mention the fact that it can increase your chances of
being seen as an expert, plus help you sell more of your products and make you new friends too.

Forums very often have a signature box that appears on all of the posts  that you make. In your signature file you can
add you blog address and a brief advertisement to entice readers to click through to your blog.

To find a list of forums that are related to your topic just do a quick search like this, forum + “your topic”. For instance
if you are looking for dog related forums your search term  would be (forum + “dog”). This will return a full list of
dog forums that you can pick from.

Elevent blogging tip:

One of the easiest ways to get income from your blog.

If you want to increase the revenue from you blog you can do this by adding Adsense ads to it. These are ads that are put
on your blog by Goggle and you get paid every time someone clicks them.

You just apply to Google for an Adsense account  (www.google.com/adsense) and they give you a small piece of
code to add to your blog and the ads show up automatically.

If you are using Blogger they already have an adsense option in the dashboard settings under template. So all you have to
do pick the type of ad to show.

With Wordpress and some other blog software you can find  Adsense ready templates (often free) that you can use to
easily incorporate the ads into your blog. Just do a search for; blog template + “adsense” and you will find some great options.

Twelve blogging tip:

Another good way to get income from your blog is to promote affiliate programs from it.

This means that whenever one of your readers buys one of the products that you are advertising from your blog you will
receive a commission from the sale.

Promoting affiliate programs is the next best thing to having your own product to sell. There are many places to find
products to promote. Two of the top affiliate market places are Clickbank and Commission Junction. Clickbank has a huge variety of digital products with a higher commission rate while Commission Junction carries more physical goods.

Another great place to look is at Associateprograms.com http://www.associateprograms.com/directory/ it is an affiliate
program directory.

Thirteen blogging tip:

Today’s tip is about getting readers to come back.

Even when your blog is up and running and you have good steady traffic to it, do not think that your readers will just keep on coming back to your blog if you do not post regularly.

Steven Yap Blog readers can be very fickle and the best way to keep them is to give them new things to read so that they will keep
coming back.

The next thing you can do is find a way to keep in touch with them. You can do this by adding a contact from to your blog,
so that you can capture their email address so that you can send them a little note to let them know that you have added
a new post.

There are different ways the you can do this, but one of the easiest is to use an autoresponder service like
Getresponse.com or Aweber.com that will allow you to assign your blog feed to an autoresponder which will send out
a message every time you post to your blog.

I hope your blogging efforts are progressing nicely.

Fourteen blogging tip:

Let’s talk about video blogging.

Video is everywhere these days so why not use it on your blog.

With all of the tools available it has never been easier to add video to your existing blog or create a complete video
blog. Vlogs are increasing in popularity very quickly and it is a great new way to share your thoughts with your
visitors. Plus increase the value of your blog.

It’s pretty simple to add video to your blog once you have created one. All you have to do is upload it to a video hosting service like Youtube or Metacafe and use the code that hey provide to embed the video on your blog. Most video hosting
services have easy to follow instructions.

If you don’t have your own videos you can also share videos  reated by other people on your blog. Just be sure to keep
the videos on topic with your content.

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