Are you already blogging?

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Permalink Reply by Lesley Morrissey on April 16, 2009 at 6:09pm

I set up and deliver blogs for clients on dedicated Wordpress websites (not the Wordpress blog site) and use them to build lists to market to.

Armand Morin and Michel Fortin are my favourite bloggers.

My key tips:

1. Focus your blogs on your keywords and check you have a 2% keyword density using this website.

2. Tweet your blog URL to get it out across the web and use social bookmarking sites (like Technorati, Digg, Propeller), Microblogging sites (like Twitter and laconi) and news sites (Newswire),

3. Don't waffle - give people good quality information and they'll keep coming back.

Lesley

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Permalink Reply by Alice Elliott on April 16, 2009 at 7:33pm

Hi Lesley, welcome to Women Speak.

Thank you for your response to my blogging forum. It's good to find someone who also understands about the importance of blogging and how valuable it is towards making businesses more visible and informative.

Here's some of my key tips:

1. Go to feedburner.com or feedblitz.com and get your blog's RSS URL or feed. Get the code for the RSS chicklit button and new post updates by email subscription link and put them into a text widget placed at the top of your sidebar. Use your RSS to feed your new posts all over the social networking sites and search engine reader pages to expose your blog to a wider audience.

2. Don't forget to use tags and categories at the end of your posts, and use the plugin for SEO (search engine optimisation) to provide enough for the internet spiders to work on.

3. Comment on other blogs by contributing to the conversation, build up your reputation and use your link to drive traffic back to your blog. Encourage your readers to add their comments to by asking them questions or leader statements, and respond to their feedback. This all adds new material to your pages and helps with SEO and spider activity.

4. Make sure your headlines are full of your keywords, as these become the permalinks for the posts' separate pages, and spiders search the headlines first, as so do your readers when selecting from a search engine reader page or other blog post title list.

5. Don't make your posts too long, otherwise they may be deemed as articles and get treated differently. Readers expect short, concise and fast moving posts, full of relevance and value, and by providing a proper focus with a link to your website or special landing page you could start to see a difference in your business's success.

Alice

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Permalink Reply by Lesley Morrissey on April 17, 2009 at 7:11am

Hi Alice

I use Onlywire.com and Ping.fm to send the blogs around the web, but I'll look at your recommendations too, thanks.

Lesley

Alice Elliott said:

Hi Lesley, welcome to Women Speak.

Thank you for your response to my blogging forum. It's good to find someone who also understands about the importance of blogging and how valuable it is towards making businesses more visible and informative.

Here's some of my key tips:

1. Go to feedburner.com or feedblitz.com and get your blog's RSS URL or feed. Get the code for the RSS chicklit button and new post updates by email subscription link and put them into a text widget placed at the top of your sidebar. Use your RSS to feed your new posts all over the social networking sites and search engine reader pages to expose your blog to a wider audience.

2. Don't forget to use tags and categories at the end of your posts, and use the plugin for SEO (search engine optimisation) to provide enough for the internet spiders to work on.

3. Comment on other blogs by contributing to the conversation, build up your reputation and use your link to drive traffic back to your blog. Encourage your readers to add their comments to by asking them questions or leader statements, and respond to their feedback. This all adds new material to your pages and helps with SEO and spider activity.

4. Make sure your headlines are full of your keywords, as these become the permalinks for the posts' separate pages, and spiders search the headlines first, as so do your readers when selecting from a search engine reader page or other blog post title list.

5. Don't make your posts too long, otherwise they may be deemed as articles and get treated differently. Readers expect short, concise and fast moving posts, full of relevance and value, and by providing a proper focus with a link to your website or special landing page you could start to see a difference in your business's success.

Alice

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Bennett Wilson on April 27, 2009 at 2:46pm

Would love to blog but no ide how to!

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Permalink Reply by Alice Elliott on April 27, 2009 at 2:57pm

Hi Dawn

Well, you're just in luck! I'm holding a teleseminar on blogging on Thursday 14 May and I'm also writing a series of blogging packages to help people set up a blog in easy-to-understand language and instructions. Visit all these links, join up to my teleseminar and when I've finished writing my packages you will be able to buy them on-line. You are also very welcome to email me any questions you have during your blogging experiences!

Alice

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Permalink Reply by Georgina Firth on May 5, 2009 at 10:13am

Hi everyone - am new just signed up today and it's already proving useful!
Here's something that might work alongside your blogging tips very well. The Business Blogging Academy holds the hands of people (CEOs right through to receptionists) in the process of setting up a blog, getting it networked and getting it populated. This could be a handy tie in to the half day workshop I run.
www.thebusinessbloggingacademy.com

George

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Permalink Reply by Georgina Firth on May 5, 2009 at 10:15am

Dawn Bennett Wilson said:

Would love to blog but no ide how to!

I might be able to help you with that. In fact, if we get enough, perhaps we could do a special session for the womens peer network?? What do you think?
Could involve some of the other experts on here and make a day of it. ..... there's a fantastic network here already - which from the looks of it would be supportive and help you get some two way conversations going on your blog.

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Permalink Reply by Marte Cliff on May 6, 2009 at 7:50pm

I blog all over the place - for myself and for a client. The only problem with it is that with 6 blog sites, I sometimes run out of time to keep up with all of them. Have to do other client work on time!

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