5. The popularity of blog is gaining momentum globally with
each passing month. A recent survey conducted by
Comscore.com shows the following findings:
6. 1) 50 million of the population in the USA visited blog sites
in the first quarter of 2005
7. 2) This indicates an increase of about 45% compared to
First Quarter of 2004.
8. 3) An average blog visitor spends 23 hours per week online
while an average Internet user spends only 13 hours
online.
9. 4) Blog visitors are 11% more likely than the average
Internet users to have incomes of $75,000 or more.
10. 5) Blog visitors are 30% more likely to buy products or
services online.
11. Anybody thinking of starting an online venture, would be
silly not to recognise the importance of blogging being one
of the best tools of Internet marketing.
12. Blogging is a perfect way for the average person to make
money online without going through all the troubles and
frustration of learning how to set up a website and be an
efficient internet marketer.
13.
14. Niche market basically is a market with a significant
amount of interest online that does not encounter the
same competition as in other regular products. You can
easily create a niche market based on any topics including
even your own hobbies, e.g. gardening, guitar, tropical
fish, D.I.Y etc. As long as the topic is being searched for
online, you would have a great opportunity of making
some profit through adding ads to your blog and making
some effort in promoting your targeted affiliate programs
and products.
15. Many internet marketing newbies opt for blogs to set up
their niche markets because as beginners, they can very
easily add pages, images, banners, downloads, ebooks etc
to their blogs. Unlike the regular websites, they do not
need to worry about having to understand HTML (the
website design language)!
16. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of
the best Internet marketing methods that is free because
you could create your blog almost immediately at no cost
compared to the setting up of a conventional website.
17. Putting information in your blog to help establishing your
presence in the Web is now a growing phenomenon.
Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to
enhance the visibility of your products and services.
18.
19. The more content you add to your blog, the more traffic
you get. And you can add these materials almost on a
daily basis.
20. You could get high ranking search engine placement for
many internet marketing terms just by designing your
posts around certain targeted keywords. This
phenomenon is more prominent when handling niche
markets due to the lack of competition. Free articles could
be easily obtained from many article directories in the
web and posted to your blogs for the benefits of your
visitors.
21.
22. What are the main differences between a blog and a
website then? You may ask.
23. Most websites are relatively permanent with only
occasional updating. With blogs, you could post any new
content almost on daily basis. Also, websites are usually
less personal as far as their relationship with the visitors is
concerned.
24. How do you start your first step to set up a blog? There are
many host services providers you could join. Among the
most popular are Blogger.com and LiveJournal.com. You
could start with Blogger.com which many newbies find
serving their needs just perfectly.
25. With Blogger.com, posting your web content is like a
breezy walk in the park. Photographs of your produces
etc, along with any text, could be uploaded to your blog
right away with just a few clicks of your mouse.
26. Another facility you could use is Audioblogger that
enables audio posting to your current blog site with any
phone at any time from any place. It is not only effective
but also easy and fun. You call a given number, record a
post, then your blog is updated with an audioblogger icon
and a link to your recorded audio. Your message in your
own voice is instantly posted! The beautiful part of it all is
the fact that this is totally free of charge!