A Blog Broadway..Alan Thomason

Learn a few blogging techniques to optimize your page and drive traffic to your site.

By Allen Thomason

Copyright (c) 2007 Allen Thomason

Blogging, sometimes known as an online diary, is very hot these days. If you haven’t heard of blogging before now, you probably haven’t been on the Internet in the past few years. People all over the world are taking advantage of it, and so should you. Why? Blogging can be extremely beneficial for your Roadmap To Riches business.

You may have thought that blogging was just a fun recreational thing to do to get to know people and connect. However, in the past year or so, online businesses have taken blogging to another level. Actually, blogging is one of the fastest, easiest, and least expensive ways to get indexed in the search engines.

If you know anything about blogs, they are basically like a mini website that you create with your own information. You can post information about you, about your business, and actually anything else that you want. You can add testimonials, reviews, articles, etc. Your blog is a great place to let people know more about the business you run and the product/service you are promoting.

Are you ready to get blogging? The first place to start is to find a free blog site such as blogger.com. There are many different places to blog, but this one is the easiest to start with, and you aren’t losing any money, as it is completely free. This site will show you step by step how to set up your blog which is great if you haven’t ever set one up.

Blogging is one of the best ways to generate traffic to your site for the product or service you are promoting. With blogger, you can add back links that point to your other websites. Not only does this generate more traffic for you, but also you will rank better with the keywords you are using. You must be sure to set up the keywords correctly in the links and to the pages you want them to link to.

Another great thing about blogging is that you can set up Google Adsense or affiliate links in there as well.

You will want to post information to your blog at least once per week preferably more now that your blog is all set up. The one thing you don’t want to forget, however is to ping it after you update your blog, so the search engines are updated as well. Think about it – the search engines will crawl your blog for new content, and your Roadmap To Riches blog will be listed among the top. You can see how well this blogging is for a business. So get busy blogging today and see your success grow.

Allen Thomason is an accomplished and established internet marketer. To find out how to expand your online knowledge and learn more about Internet Marketing, Advertising, and Proven Marketing Tactics visit http://www.TheProfitCombination.com.