A Good Time is Blog Time

So this is the dilemma, we all love to see comments on our blog posts. If you are saying you don’t then I don’t think you are being completely honest either with us or yourself. The reason is pretty obvious, blog comments mean attention, interaction with an audience and evidence that you are getting traffic to your blog.

The temptation then is to accept any old rubbish that is placed in your blog comments box and leave it in place. Looks good if every post you have published is showing multiples of comments; or does it? There are problems with allowing comment spam to sit on your blog posts.

The first obvious one is that they drown out the real comments by real people that are actually trying to interact with you and establish a sensible dialogue on the subject being discussed. Anyone visiting your blog and finding the comments filled up with comment spam are highly likely to assess you as someone who doesn’t care about their visitors or have a real interest in discussing the topic content. End result of that type of conclusion is that they leave your site never to return and all the hard work you put in getting them to read your post in the first place is completely wasted.

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There are many people on the Internet who claim to have expertise in SEO Search engine optimization. They range from self-proclaimed gurus, some of which, to be fair, that have taken the time to learn their trade, to people who may have only just started publishing on the Internet and actually have very little experience in promoting websites or blogs.

Many of the SEO techniques that actually work are available on the Internet totally free. You do of course have to find them and somehow you have to be able to sort the wheat from the chaff, and to focus in on the techniques that work versus the ones that are absolutely wrong. This process can be extraordinarily time consuming and burn up hours of your precious time.

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It happens to us all at some time, negative thinking starts to creep into your psyche. Perhaps you aren’t getting the success you were looking for quickly enough, the money isn’t coming in as fast as you would like, the traffic statistics don’t look good enough or you simply struggle to find ideas for a post. That’s when it starts, you begin to wonder if its worth the effort, or if anyone is actually interested in what you are writing about. You may even start to doubt that what you are writing is of a high enough quality.

What you need to know is that negative thinking causes self defeating behavior and before you know it those negative feelings can send you on a downward spiral that can paralyze your thought processes. If you let it get bad enough or let yourself sink deep enough into the negative thinking, then before you know it you will be adding yourself to a long list of failed Internet marketers.

So what can you do about it how can you stop that negative thinking and find a way of overcoming self defeating behavior of the type that ultimately results in you giving up on your dreams and ambitions.

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Google Buzz is the big story after its launch last week. If you choose to use it, then it links in automatically to other services such as Picasa, Google Reader, Twitter and Flickr. Lots of nice features and of course another option to place links back to your websites or blogs of interest. Although to be honest there are already plenty of options for doing that via the share icon below; which as I write is not currently offering Google Buzz. Pretty sure it won’t be long before it does though.

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In my last post we discussed various ways of  working from home and touched on the subject of direct sales. This is where you offer a product for sale yourself rather than through an affiliate relationship where in fact you are marketing a 3rd party product sale.

In order to be able to sell directly you will nearly always need a means of accepting online card payments if you are going to operate effectively. The vast majority of people who purchase online like to make online payments, it is a part of the whole convenience package that they are being offered. If having offered a product online, you then advise your customer that they need to make an offline payment you might find in a lot of cases that they will not proceed with the purchase.

I have to qualify that statement however by saying this is the case for the vast majority of products, but not all, and at the end of the day you will need to rationalise what is the best method of payment i.e. an offline payment option, offline combined with online,  or a combination of online payment options. To maximise your chances of making a sale it is a good idea to have at least 2 ways people can make a payment.

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The term working from home conjures up for many people an image of sitting at the kitchen table pushing leaflets into envelopes by the hundred and getting paid a pittance for the privilege.

But is working from home, stuffing envelopes? Not if you have a PC and access to the Internet, and that is very simply because of the exponential growth of the world wide web, the speed at which you can now access the Internet and the sheer volume of people that use the Internet both for access to information and to make purchases of pretty much every product imaginable. Companies like eBay and Amazon have paved the way to selling online and the trend for online shopping continues to grow exponentially.

Virtually every high street store now offers their products over the Internet and virtually every product that is offered is open to marketing by what are called affiliates. Simply having that computer available and access to the Internet gives you an opportunity to utilise the power of the Internet to create either a part or full time occupation. Becoming an affiliate is one of a number of ways for working from home and making money online.

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The basics of blogging really refers to exactly how do you go about starting a blog. If you have never created a blog before then this is not a silly question and actually does require at least some thought and oraganization of the process.

You need to be able to go from an initial idea for a blog through the physical actions of getting your blog into a material product that is published and accessible to your target audience on the Internet.

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Before we get started on this its probably a good idea to explain what viral marketing is and what viral marketing tools are available for use by everyone.

For a URL to go viral what you are looking for is for other Internet users to promote your URL on your behalf with no additional effort from yourself at an exponential rate.

One example would be to give away an ebook offering free information on your subject of choice. Included in the ebook would be links back to your chosen URL and you would make it very clear that you are happy for your ebook to be passed on to others. In truth that is the objective, to get the ebook given away to as many people as possible and as quickly and easily as possible.

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This was a really interesting video which I found on a Science, Culture and Knowledge blog. I think the guy speaking in this video is right in many ways as he describes how he thinks social media is potentially going to change the way the whole world does business.

You can see how his ideas could be applied with respect to data and electronic information (including music and video). Although I am not sure how it relates to physical products, other than perhaps sharing manufacturing information. But you can see how sharing and providing information or services for free has huge potential, particularly from an advertising perspective or by then offering further services that could potentially be offered at a price.

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