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Profitable Blogging: The Start Up Guide for Business Bloggers.
Not for the Occasional Blogger
Release Date: June 2011
May 18, 2011
May 17, 2011
How to Improve Blog Traffic: Choose Targeted Keywords
How to Improve Blog Traffic Tutorial: Keyword Researching
What are Keywords?
Keywords are words or phrases people search for on search engine sites (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing). These words or phrases (keywords) are what you need to know so you can create titles and links to target specific traffic to your blog. The more targeted your blog is to what people are searching for, the more likely you are to generate traffic.
Choose Targeted Keywords.
Choosing targeted keywords for your blog is very important. Many of my students/clients don't like the idea of identifying keywords. They say.. " It takes to much time" ; "There are too many words to choose from!" and they go on and on.
Well I don't have any easy answer to how to choose or select keywords for your blog, but I do highly recommend you locate at least 10 good keywords that describe your blog. The 10 keywords you choose will be used to describe your site, used as links to a page on your blog, used in your post titles and in the body of your post.
Below is a video that demonstrates how to select targeted keywords to improve blog traffic.
How To Choose Which Keywords To Target For Search Engine Optimization
Action Steps:
Will take about 45 minutes - 1 hour to complete.
- Choose 10 keywords that best describe your blog.
- Write/ type those keywords - place them in a place you can easy reference back to.
- Leave a comment below on how you plan to use these keywords
- Share this post with someone who you believe might be interested in keyword research to improve blog traffic
That's All Folks!
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May 09, 2011
How to Set up a RSS Feed for Your Blog
One of the most effective ways to improve traffic to your blog: is to distribute your content as a RSS feed. When you create a feed for your blog – a simple, one-time process anyone can do – you triple its effectiveness and desirability.
What's a RSS?
RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
Ideally, you want people to depend on your regular posts as a useful and enjoyable part of their daily routine. One of the strongest tips I can give you: Think of them reading your posts when you write, like a newspaper sent to them digital to their email box.
Your reader wants...
Fast, easily read content that is punchy and to the point. You have only a few seconds to really capture his attention before he skips over you and moves on to the next item in his RSS feed reader. Think of this – and you’ll be less inclined to ramble, go off on tangents – or skip writing posts for days at a time altogether.
If you’ve forgotten how to create an RSS feed, or never bothered to learn – now is the time!
Below is a Video Tutorial of How to Set Up a RSS Feed.
Happy RSS feeding,
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April 26, 2011
Free Report to Help Your Business Manage Social Media
Filled with tips, tutorials and a check lists to assist you in learning how to manage the most popular social media platform in the world.
By popular demand I’m releasing a brand new guide for creative entrepreneurs. Grab your copy of Doing Business on Facebook now. Doing Business on Facebook provides you with basic marketing lessons to help you mangage social media in your business, a social media marketing action plan, plus a step by step check list that can help you engage and connect with consumers.
Inside this guide, I dissect every step of setting up your Facebook profile, and fan page. Doing Business on Facebook is the newest start up guide – part of the School of Creative Business long running series of free downloadable reports. I’m very excited and proud to assemble these insights and publish them at no charge to help you grow your creative business.
Click on link below to download guide:
Doing Business on Facebook
December 24, 2010
A Gift: Free Creative Business Resources
Merry Christmas Greeting From Alease watch Free Creative Business Resources video here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSvgeoUX998
Here are my most favorite free things I’ve used in my creative business. They are to surely assist you also in your business.
- Roboform ( http://www.roboform.com) – Easy and Secure password manager. Remembers passwords, logs you into web sites and fills forms with one-click
- Zamzaris (http://www.zamzar.com) – dedicated to helping you transform your songs, videos, images and documents into different formats
- Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts) – monitor keywords that people are searching
- Traffic Travis (http://www.traffictravis.com) – search engine optimization software with a twist. Find keywords, analyze backlinks, see where a Web site ranks for hundreds of search terms
- Podbean (http://www.podbean.com) - easy and powerful way to start podcasting
- Gimp (http://www.gimp.org) – an image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
- Stock.xchng (http://www.sxc.hu) – gain access to hundreds of thousands of high-quality, hand-picked stock photos and graphics
- JingProject (http://www.techsmith.com/jing) - Add visuals to your online conversations, captures anything on you see on your computer screen, as an image or short video, and lets you share it instantly
- Wufoo (http://wufoo.com ) – helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
- Weebly (http://www.weebly.com )– easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, and artistic portfolios
- Google Voice (http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html) – Use one number to manage all your phones; your Google Voice number is tied to you, not to a particular device or location.
Enjoy & Merry Christmas.
Taking Average and Making it Fabulous!
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October 29, 2010
Help for the Creative Unfocused
It can be just down right hard to focus on what you need to do in this life of distractions.
Working, marketing you business, tending to your family or just living life.
But Leo Babauta has written an ebook that shares advice on finding simplicity in this Age of Distraction and finding the focus you need to create, to work on what’s important, to reflect, to find peace.
It sounds GREAT, right! And guess what, this doggone ebook is FREE! 126 pages of outstanding content.
You can pick up a copy here.
Taking Average and Making it Fabulous!
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September 25, 2010
The Square Way to Capture a Sell
Have you sold items at a craft fair and wasn't able to make change for a 20 dollar bill? Or you just forgot about having cash (I did this at my first craft fair)?
But I bet you had your cell phone. I never leave home without mine. Now the guys at SquareUp.com have created a device - The Square Card Reader to solve the absent mind, like myself.
Listen creative folks - You can start accepting cash and card payments with the Square. No contracts, monthly fees, or hidden costs. Youcan effortlessly manage the money you take with ease with your iPhone. This is aamazing - a must have tool for the creative business owner. Get this - all of your receipts can be organized neatly electronically. To read more about the Square - click here.
Watch the Video below to see the Square in action!
If you think this is a good idea- like I do, leave a comment.
*Note: I'm not making a dime on endorsing this product. I just wanted to share with you a very cool tool that could be used in your creative business.
See Ya ,
Taking Average and Making it Fabulous!
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Alease
An Educator, Creative Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, and Mixed Media Artist
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