Aren´t You Blogging Yet? (Begginer´s Guide)

By Liliana E. González

@LilianaElena

Blogging is popular all over the world. There are no rules when it comes to blogging. Bloggers have the freedom to express themselves in any way they want. A blog is basically an online journal wherein you can digitally pen down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures etc. Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3's on your blogs.

Basically a blog contains these features:

title- which allows you to label your post
body- this is the content of your post
trackback- other sites can be linked back to your blog
permanent link- every article that you write has a URL
comments- this allow readers to post comments on your blog.

One of the advantages of blogging, is that it is made of only a few templates. Unlike, other websites that is made up of numerous individual pages. This make it easier for blog users to create new pages, because it already has a fix setting that include: slots for title, body of the post, category, etc.

This is especially useful for first time users, since they can start blogging right away. They can chose from a number of templates that blogging websites provide.

Anyone who wants to start a blog can do so by becoming a member of a blogging website like Blogger.com or Wordpress.com which are free by the way.

Blogging is not just limited to personal usage. There are a lot of blogs that follow a theme such as: sports, politics, philosophy, social commentary, etc. These blogs espouse on their specific themes. This way blogging becomes a medium in which people can share their knowledge and opinions about a variety of themes and topics.

Some bloggers even use their blogs as a means to advertise. Some authors advertise their books on their blogs. While other bloggers, use their blogs to shed light to currents issues, events, news and catastrophes.

Nowadays in education, blogs also play an important part. Professors use blogging to document the lessons that they have discussed and taught.

A lot of entrepreneurs benefit from blogging by promoting their businesses on their blogs, with millions and millions of people logging onto the net everyday, blogging has become a lucrative move. Some bloggers who run online businesses promote their merchandise online. While others profit through advertisement.

But by far, the most popular blog type is the one that takes the form of a personal journal. This is the kind that is usually used by first time bloggers. Individuals who want to document the daily struggle of their everyday lives, poems, rants, opinions, find that blogging offers them a medium in which to express themselves.

Blogs varying in topics, themes, and set-ups, can be found in blog directories. First time users who want to get an idea of what the blogging world is all about can browse through a number of blogs using these directories. This way they'd get an idea of what these blogging communities are like.

There are numerous blogging websites to choose from in the net. This give first time users the option of joining a blogging community that appeals to their interests.

Just search any blogging directory and you'd get a listing of a lot of blogging sites that are available on the net. It's easy to search a blogging directory, because it is organized according to category. This way you would get exactly what you are after. Blogging is really for everyone. It is fun, simple and easy.

5 Steps To A Successful Internet Business

By Liliana E. González

@LilianaElena

1. Find something you feel is a good business opportunity. With a traditional business you must deal with inventory, storage, packing, shipping, complaints, returns, phone calls, emails, checks and credit cards just to name a few! Affiliate programs are THE ABSOLUTE BEST business opportunities out there because the ONLY thing you need to do to run your internet business is to market your affiliate link. Once someone has clicked on your affiliate link your only job is getting the next person to click on it.

2. Get your own webpage. A webpage is like a store front. It projects respect to your business and who you are. Think about it. Do you feel the same about buying from a vendor on the street as you do about buying from a person in a store? They’re both vendors, but the store gives you a certain feeling about the person you are buying from that a street vendor just can’t give you! Your webpage dose not have to be fancy. If you only have a brief description of what your webpage is about along with individual descriptions of your product or products people will respect that. If it is affiliate programs you have decided upon, simply put a BRIEF description of what is being offered along with your affiliate link. Do not disclose too much in your description because people might THINK they know what it is all about and not click on your link. You want to let your affiliate website do all the selling for you. These sites are professionally designed to maximize the number of people who buy or join so a brief description, just enough to spike their curiosity, is sufficient.

3. Get your own Blog and make a post as often as you can. A Blog, is a great way to establish yourself as an authority figure on whatever subject you decide. As people return to read your articles, they will eventually come to view you as an authority on whatever your Blog is about. They will eventually develop confidence in what you are saying, and will begin to trust you. As a result some people will check out your webpage to see what you have to offer them, and people tend to buy more from people they know and trust. Their confidence in you will be an additional factor that will compel people to buy from you.

4. Put Cost-Per-Click(CPC) advertising such as Google AdSense on your website. Having Cost-Per-Click advertising on your website is a way to earn additional income that can be VERY substantial. Most people who visit your website will not buy from you. If people are going to leave your website, wouldn’t you rather them leave through a link on your website that will pay you money every time someone clicks on it? Google makes putting their AdSense on your website E-A-S-Y! The ads are relevant to the content of your website. Google can even put its AdSense on your Blog as we’ll.

5. Write and submit articles to article submission sites. This is the most important advice you need to know. This is how you will get FREE advertising! People are searching the internet for free information. When you submit your articles online, the search engines will eventually find them and will spider every word. When people do a search using keywords or phrases that are in your articles, they will turn up in the search results, so be sure to insert highly searched for keywords and phrases into your articles! You will need to include at the bottom of all your articles your bio. Your bio will contain a brief description about who you are along with a link to your website. The more articles you write and submit, the higher the chances are of your articles keywords and phrases showing up on search results. The more links you have pointing back to your website, the higher your websites page rank with the search engines will be, meaning the higher up on the search results will your article turn up, so don’t stop writing and submitting articles!

Having a successful internet business is simply a matter of understanding how things work, and applying that knowledge. It dose not take any special skill or any great intelligence. If you follow these five steps, you cannot fail. The most important thing, as with anything in life, is PERSISTENCE.

PLR Packages Can Help You in Your Online Business

By Liliana E. González

@LilianaElena

PLR stands for Private Label Rights. PLR give you the right to change the product in any way you like and even claim it as your own. It comes in the form of articles, software, websites, graphics, PDF reports, audio and video presentations, and eBooks. What is so special about PLR is it is a "ghost written" product, which you can brand with your own business, your name, your websites, etc.

Your Rights to Use PLR

PLR comes in various forms; it also comes with a variety of publication and resale rights. These rights are usually spelled out very succinctly a document within the PLR archive. Most authors prohibit resale on any auction site. Some authors require you to sell the PLR package for a specific price, or allow only personal use, other packages will allow the purchaser PLR rights, but the product cannot be sold with the source files, providing only resale rights to the purchaser. Almost all authors require you to include the original rights document in any package your resell. It is very important to pay close attention to the permitted rights of the products you sell, to avoid licensing conflicts with the authors.

Unrestricted PLR:

Unrestricted PLR, also called Master PLR, is “ghost written” content and software that carry the most liberal permission of all types of PLR. You can do virtually anything you want with Unrestricted PLR packages. You can create branded, viral content with the Unrestricted PLR Reports, give the eBook away for free on your site to build your email list, sell it on eBay, or use it as a platform to create compelling content for your blog, e-zine, and website.

Targeted Niche Products

The great thing about PLR reports is that it comes in a wide number of varieties and flavors, that allows you to find the exact product that will fit almost any webmasters need. Most PLR is written in a format that answers important questions of a web visitor who has an interest in this niche. In this way it attracts targeted traffic to your website, and provides "sticky content" that keeps visitors coming back.

You are probably starting to see the great potential that this content can do for your online business, whatever the business niche that you are pursuing, you can easily find a PLR product that can help you in your online business. Even if you do not currently have a website, and want to start creating Virtual Real Estate (VRE) on the web, a PLR package available can greatly enhance your business. Get in the eCommerce Game today with PLR products, articles, and ebooks!

See Internet Marketing Expert Article Pack with Private Label Rights

Blogs vs. Websites: What’s The Big Difference?

Online journals, better known as blogs, are becoming more and more popular. When the Internet was first getting started, users rushed to build personal web sites. Web sites are still very popular among web users, but many are now turning to blogs. What’s the difference? This article will examine the main similarities and differences between a Weblog and a website.

While blogs and website are intended to be different, there are a couple of similarities in blogs and sites. Mainly, they are both found on the Internet using a URL or a web address. Both also must have some sort of host to keep the information online. Another similarity of the two is that they both can be maintained by virtually anyone from individuals to companies. Both Weblog and websites can also contain information, pictures, link and keywords, as well. These two types of sites will target readers.

With a blog, information that is entered on the site is generally updated very frequently depending on the writer. Sometimes blog writers even update several times a day. Usually with a website, information is not updated regularly. Websites generally contain information about something that does not change often. When a website is updated, usually the entire page is altered. With a blog, just one entry at a time is updated. After a website has been changed, that information is gone and cannot be seen again by the reader. On a blog, new entries are added, but the old ones are not deleted from the site. Instead, they are stamped with the date and time that they were created, given a title and indexed on that blog page. It makes it easy for a blog reader to go to a certain blog page and read past entries without having to search.

Another main difference between a blog and a website is that a website is generally a little harder to maintain and oftentimes requires a solid understanding of the way the Internet works. With a blog, almost anyone can easily and quickly update a blog. It does not require any special working knowledge of the Internet. In addition, there are many sites that offer blog features and most of the time these can be used for free.

Blogs also encourage people to communicate with each other much more so than with a website. A websites primary function is to provide some sort of information to a reader. While there may be a place to leave a comment or an email address for writing that is not why that site was created. Blogs are used for communication. Writers may choose to make their site private, but most choose to publish their blogs making them public to any one who wishes to read. Most blog hosting sites offer options to add to the site so readers and the writer can leave comments to each other on the site. In addition, there are entire web communities built just for blogs. Blogs encourage those who have similar thoughts, interests or even businesses to share their blog site so readers can find them easily. Blogs offer guest tracking, keyword tracking, hit counters, comment areas, and even tag boards for both the reader and the writer to use.

Blogging is extremely popular right now. As more people begin sharing their thoughts with others, there are more blogs created each day. Blogging gives writers, journalists, professionals, moms, dads and even teenagers an instant way to publish their thoughts on a regular basis. For those who enjoy writing, blogs give a unique opportunity to practice writing skills and experiment with what others want to read. Businesses use blogs to show off their expertise and knowledge in their fields, whereas websites do not always get this type of message out to the readers.

Blogging and websites do have some similarities. They are both found on the Internet and contain information. However, blogs give a writer the unique opportunity to communicate with their reader and update their entries on a frequent basis. Anyone who tries blogging will love the instant gratification of getting their opinions and thoughts out on the Internet right away and getting instant feedback from readers that visit their site.

Can I Really Build My Own Website?

By Liliana E. González

@LilianaElena

Creating a website is not that complicated, if we compare it to the education of other technical skills. Most people tend to give up and run, as soon as they hear the word “programming” and “technical”. They think it`s a great deal or a big hassle to actually acquire a whole computer “language”. HTML is a computer language, it is a set of "commands" or instructions you give to the computer to display the information in a certain way. It is used to build websites, is actually pretty simple to understand, as long as we have the interest in learning new things.

What is the meaning of HTML?

HTML is the acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. To keep it simple, just think of it as a language that the computer understands. For example, as humans, we were taught different languages; i.e. HTML as a language, is mostly and specifically used to create a website. The web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, will then decipher and interpret the code or rather, language(HTML), and display it in a way we can understand it, just like in a basic webpage.

Coding.

Coding the HTML language might be a bit tough for some people, so we can actually purchase programmes, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, or even Expression Web 2 from Microsoft (formerly Frontpage) . These programmes are solely created to help individuals in designing professional webpages or websites.

Furthermore, one could also gain access to online web-builders, website builders that are inbuilt and can be directly controlled from the net. There is one that I use and recommend called Website Tonight.

How does Website Tonight work?

1.- Pick a Design.-Choose from 14 page layouts that put your site in the best light… each page can have a different layout.

2.- Make it Yours.- Fine-tune your color scheme or change the color of any site element to create that perfect look. Choose out images from the photo gallery or upload your own images. Format your content with bullets, numbering, hyperlinks… even input and edit your own HTML. Add videos, music, pre-designed Flash animations, RSS feeds, widgets and much more.

3.- Publish it.- Preview your site with one click to view and navigate before you publish to the Web. Publish your Web site with one click – you’re live on the Web. Optimize for search engines with Google Webmaster Tools.

So, you could start and build one right away, get your Website Tonight right now!