Learning How to Use a WordPress Blog For Your Business

People blog everyday. Internet marketers blog for money almost 60% of their time online. It is pretty obvious that blogging has become a part of everyday life and people are seeing the opportunity to use this leisure activity for money. But blogging for profit requires knowledge and skills on how to use the blog of your choice. For example, if we are to look at WordPress, many bloggers do not know how to make money out of their WordPress blogs or WordPress web sites because they do not have the knowledge of all features that are available to them. In order to be able to succeed in earning profits through blogging, the first thing you need to do is to learn how to use it to its full potential.

Why is this important? Should not learning about your niche, product, and other internet marketing lessons come first? Well, no matter how much you have gained in terms of knowledge on internet marketing and blogging, you will never succeed if you do not know how to use your blog properly. Many people make this mistake when using WordPress and/or other web platforms, which is why it is important to download a WordPress home study course or watch a WordPress video tutorial before anything else. The money will just come flowing into your account once people see that your blog is one of the most interesting reads on the World Wide Web. Bloggers want millions of readers from all over the world to read their blog, so if you want to be a part of this and actually make that dream come true, start developing a strategic internet marketing plan that will help you earn money through WordPress.

But with so many WordPress tutorial products being sold in the market, how will a blogger or a web designer with no experience and no knowledge on blogging for profit be able to succeed? Though you will find more useful information from the chosen product you have decided to buy online, here are some tips to help you get started:

• Research and make a list of the top WordPress tutorial products that you think will help you understand perfectly how to use WordPress and most importantly how to make money out of it. The search engines are there at a click of a button so start searching now!
• Look for the product that uses the simplest language in explaining what WordPress is all about and how to use it. This is very important because these products care about how difficult learning WordPress can be, so if you are a beginner, this tip is going to come really handy for you.

Do not just settle for the WordPress guide. See if the author offers updates on video or print and subscribe to those updates either through e-mail or RSS feeds. Blogging, though a virtual activity, changes with the times so it is important that you know the latest techniques before other bloggers do.
By Z. MacKinnon   |  Source

Choosing a 'Great' Blog Name

If you are keen to set up a new blog you are probably already aware of the most difficult part of the process... deciding what to call your blog.

At worst, a bad name will put people off ever going to your blog, while a great name will mean people are more likely to engage with you and revisit your site again and again and again.

I come across all sorts of blog names in my search travels that you may, or may not, find inspiring:

• some unusual "Alcatraz Gardens",
• some funny "Chook Minder's Quill",
• some clever "Paris (im) perfect",
• some self-deprecating "Dear Stupid Blog",
• some nonsensical "Flibbertygibbet",
• some straightforward, "Memoirs of a Food and Travel Addict",
• and some rather snappy, "The Pop Cop".

We have all heard some good advice for choosing a name that is unique, creative, descriptive and memorable. Which is your favourite blog name? I think the most successful name of the above examples is "Paris (Im)perfect", short and attention-grabbing but has some meaning to it beyond the obvious.

Put simply, I think the common factor of the greatest blog names are those that give me, a new reader, an instant insight into the person behind the blog before I have even visited the blog.

Chris G. points out that naming a blog with the SEO formulaic domain name of "keyword+blog" is in the long term a disingenuous strategy, people don't search for 'anything blog' unless they are looking for your blog already and, let's face it, you are not going to come across as all that likable if you are only after search rankings.

Google is also onto the old keyword domain stratagem, saying that they will reduce the ranking power they once had over other domain names.

Also don't think you can get around having a domain name that is search engine optimised with keyword laden terms and then having a different blog name on the page itself. Having a different blog name to your domain name is confusing for searchers who only remember one or the other.

Instead, put SEO on the backbench and build a blog name as a brand name. Aaron Wall from SEO book has long since noticed that Google likes strong brands. A great blog name has character. And with a good brand comes loyal regular readership and ultimately steady reliable advertising revenue. Most of all have fun choosing a name that reflects what you are about not just what you want to rank for (everything in good balance though).

The advice of an SEO hero for the blog naming process: put yourself in the position of someone who has never visited your site, would you go there based just on the blog name and would you be able to go back there easily should you like what you find?

If Alexander had a blog what would he have named it in order to put it on the path to victory?

By Freddy Naged   |  Source