Blog Choices

There are a number of good choices when it comes to blog platforms. Two of the most popular are Wordpress and Blogger.com blogs. You also could use Typepad or Drupal. Whatever your choice for blogging, you should have your own domain for your blog. That gives you the freedom to post whatever you want and to control the content.

A blog should be original content. The search engines rate blogs higher with good original content over blogs that simply re-post articles or snippets from other sources.

If you've been a blogger for very long you probably find that you prepare your blog posts in bunches. You might write 5 or 10 blogs posts in one day. Some folks will then go to the trouble of logging onto their blog each day to post an article. That can burn you out on blogging quickly. It is better to use a blog automator. A blog automator is a software tool that lets you load all your articles or blog posts to a queue, select the schedule for posting and select the blog to post to. Folks who post to blogs for a living, or to generate extra income, use blog automators.

Two blog secrets you should keep in mind are that it's important to post original content and to post regularly, at least a couple times each week. Those are two secrets to successful blogging no matter which blog platform you use.

How To Bring Traffic to Your Site

Getting folks to visit your site is a basic requirement if you hope to make good money, or if you want to build-up a readership or a list. It's not that you want just any visitor, but rather you want to get visitors with an interest in your topic or product. There are a number of techniques that a good webmaster will use to create a web site that draws strong traffic. One technique is that of using a blog with your web site.

Placing a blog on your domain in conjunction with your web site is one of the "must do" techniques that professional webmasters use to help generate traffic. It is very easy to sign-up for a free blog at blogger.com  The trick is to then go into the advanced set-up features to host that blog on your own domain. That is actually easy to do. It can be done by just filling out a half dozen fields with the info to point to your domain.

Many webmasters place the blog on the homepage and then create the rest of the site behind that blog. That's a great technique. It's easy to do and the search engines seem to like the constantly updated content of the blog on the homepage. It's important to update the blog regularly and to place your original content on the blog. Try not to simply post articles from the various article directories.

Since most webmasters either have someone write their original content or they do that themselves by creating 5, 10 or more blog posts in one sitting, they then use a blog posting automator to spread out the postings over time. There are a couple good tools on the market for that. If you've ever blogged you know how tiring it can be to have to log-on to your blog each day or every few days and post content. It is much easier to load all the content to a queue, select the posting schedule and then let the blog automator do the posting for you. It's a huge relief and important for keeping your blog fresh.

The bottom line is that using a blog that is hosted on your domain is one important technique for every web site that wants to attract traffic to sell a product or to build up a list of readers or customers.

Blogging and Google AdSense - with Joel Comm

Are you thinking of adding Google AdSense to your blog?  That once was a very lucrative way to generate revenue from visitors to your site.  With the advent of Content bidding in AdWords back in mid 2005, it got much harder to make good money from AdSense revenues.

If you're thinking about adding Google AdSense to your blog then watch this video.  Joel is an expert on AdSense.  He's usually much more enthusiastic than many on the value of AdSense.  (This video is from early 2007)

Give us your comments on this. Do you use Google AdSense on your blog? If so, do you make good money from it?  We'd like to read your comments.

Adding Google adSense to a Blogger Blog

Adding Google Adsense to your Blogger.com blog is one way to monetize traffic. Some folks have aksed us what the term "monetize traffic" means.  Traffic is the term used to describe the flow of visitirs to your site. Monetize means making money from. Monetize traffic means making money from the visitors to your blog.

Here's a video describing the process of adding Adsense to your Blogger blog.

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Adding Adsense To Your Blogger blog

Here's another tutorial showing you how to add Adsense to your blog. The audio is a bit weak so you'll have to tuen up your sound to hear this well...

Adding Adsense to Your Wordpress Blog

One way to monetize the traffic to your blog is to add Google Adsense to your blog. Wordpress has a plug-in for that. This video shows you how to install one of the Adsense plug-ins for Wordpress to your blog.

Be sure to check the terms of service where you are hosting your blog. Some hosts do not allow Adsense on Wrodpress blogs. If you host the Wordpress blog on your own domain that won't be a problem.

Review: How to Put Adsense on Your Wordpress Blog

The Blog Automator works with your Wordpress blog to make automated posting a cinch.

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Why You Need To Host Your Own Blog

You can easily start blogging by using Wordpress or Blogger.com blogs.  Both are relatively easy to set-up and free.

The real power from blogging comes from hosting your own blog. Tie it into you personal website domain or into your business domain. It is actaully very easy to set-up Blogger.com on a subdirectory on your own website. Contact us at support (at) theblogautomator.net if you'd like the instructions for that.

Own Your Blog or Else! Easy WordPress Install

Once you've set-up your own hosted blog then use The Blog Automator to ease the task of posting. URL = theblogautomator.net