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Part Two Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

Why to start with a blog?
You have no spam filters on RSS and the RSS feed follows the subscriber to their new job, email does not. Interaction, your readers can comment on your post and potential clients can build a relationship with your company through interaction as well. With a blog you can share your content easily. Blogs have a very good social media and SEO performance

What to publish in your blog?
You can publish a podcast, testimonial videos, photos, your product presentations, eBooks and your news releases. Simply everything what builds your credibility with your potential clients!

Where to publish and to promote my content?

In Part Three I will give you a massive list of social sites and an awesome tool where you can spread the word about your blog. Stay tuned and subscribe to my blog via RSS to get more great posts like this one.

Your comments and ideas are welcome!

Part Three

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Get Wired with Video Blogging

More than as it’s appealing effect to the people who sees it and who sympathizes with its content, video blogs are treated as a phenomena. Mainstream entertainment is wired with video blogging. You’re the director of your own video. Popularly called vlogs (short term for video blog), usually it contains scenes of everyday life.

Not just an outlet for media response, vlogs can also be profitable. According to some experts, by creating a video advertising sensible products and linking it up with various web directories, fast income is a possibility.

Youtube can be a very typical example of a resource for the numerous vlogs being done today. A lot of people posts their videos either sensible or of no sense in the least. You could learn from it or you could trash it. It is a media-friendly digital file anyone could author and direct anytime, anywhere, anyhow.

What should be the content of my vlog?

Essentially, everything you can think of. A mixture of humor, downfalls, heartaches, struggles, and life’s simple pleasures. You could feature anything -your favorite food, an MTV you proudly taped, vices, poor sleeping habits, health problems-ANYTHING. This issue is inevitable.

Majority of the experimental vlogs signifies a liberated take of documented short videos of gatherings or events like birthdays, graduations, weddings, etc. It doesn’t have to be a crowd-pleaser; it just has to be real.

How can you start my own video blog?

Gather up a camcorder or a mobile phone. Put the lens in front of something that you think would be interesting and would catch your viewer’s attention like your face or your neighbor’s bathing habits. Then start recording. The time will depend on how you would visualize your vlog’s appeal and resolution to the masses. Be in control.

When is the right time to start?

After you’ve assembled the right equipments, make a go for it. Take it any way you want. Record it as you delight. Anytime is the best time. Just be sure viewers end up understanding what you’ve wired.

Here are three easy steps for beginners and first timers on how to put up a vlog.

A. Visualize – of how your vlog would look like. Think of the means. Think of the filling. Think on how it would start and how it would end. If you have no idea on how a vlog really looks like, browse your way through the internet RIGHT NOW!

B. Design – after streaming the content of your videotape into the computer, its best that you find a suitable and familiar blog site.

C. Upload – post your vlog on your favorite website. And voila! You’re very own video blog. Finally, a tiny space amongst millions! Easy isn’t it?

An amateur vlog is always welcome, no one will sue you for showing your butt-crack. But don’t just go with the basics. Make your vlog more appealing by advertising creative words people would search for.

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Let People Search For You and Find Your Blog

By V. Divya Sai in Blogs & Podcasts

Having a famous blog does not always mean that your name is equally famous too.

Considering Google and Yahoo as the current leaders in search engine technology, if you search your blog‟s name and your own name in these search engines, your blog may not necessarily be displayed in the top 10 results in both the cases.

Why Not? For you and for those who know, you are the author of your blog, your name may be seen as an important keyword for your blog. But for search engines and other millions of users, your name may or may not be considered as a keyword for your blog.

What has to be done? So to tell everybody that you are the owner of your blog, make these changes/additions in your blog:

1. Use your name as the “author name” in your blog in the correct format (e.g. John Smith instead of J.Smith), which will be displayed below all your posts, as “Posted by John Smith on 5th October”. By this method you will increase the density of your name in the blog, and visitors will start recognizing you as the author of the blog.
2. While commenting too, make sure that your name is being shown as the commentator‟s name, which is linked to your blog. Again this will increase the density of your name, and visitors (especially those who are active and frequently comment on your blog) will recognize and even use your name in their comments while addressing/conversing with you.
3. Link your name with your blog, from different web pages (do-follow blogs) and forums.

And more importantly tell the search engines that you are the author of your blog:

1. The above methods are applicable in this section too.
2. While adding the meta-tags to your blog, make sure your name is included in both meta-keywords and meta-description.
3. Write an About US page, with a brief description about you, a picture of yourself and if possible a video too.

An important strategy you MUST NOT miss in the 3rd point is the title of your “About US” page. Although in most of the blogs, including some professional blogs, you will see the title as “About Us – Blog Title”, but this is a big mistake according to search engine optimization techniques (if you want to connect the author with the blog). So the best title for your blog‟s „about us‟ page must include your name in it, for e.g. “John Smith Author At – Blog Title” This technique ensures a better connection between you and your blog, as words in titles are given maximum attention by Search Engines. Depending on the popularity of your blog, your “About Us” page will reach the top 10 results within a week or two, with your name as the keyword.

So the best title for your blog‟s „about us‟ page must include your name in it, for e.g. “John Smith Author At – Blog Title” This technique ensures a better connection between you and your blog, as words in titles are given maximum attention by Search Engines. Depending on the popularity of your blog, your „About Us‟ page will reach the top 10 results within a week or two, with your name as the keyword.

Get in to the Image Results too: This is not a big deal once you have optimized the title. Simply in the same web page, put your own image. But make sure to include your name both in the „alt tag‟ and in the image file name. Example:
The blog administered by me – BloggerStop.Net is being displayed at the First position in both Google and Yahoo searches for the key words “V Divya Sai”, and that’s my name.

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