Internet Marketing Blog

If you are Blogging as part of your internet marketing strategy, you know it can take a bit of time and effort to do. Here are some tips to make it easier and more effective as well. Post In Advance If you’re worried that you don’t have time to keep up with a blog, get ahead of [...]

Many internet marketers dabble in several areas to be able to make some income online and Blog Flipping is one potential avenue you could stroll on down. If you’re interested in website flipping (building a website and then selling it for profit) selling blogs is a great way to go. There’s a market for blogs out [...]

Getting traffic to your website is only part of the battle when it comes to good SEO. Once you’ve got a visitor, you need to grab them, and hold on. You’ve got to make it both compelling and easy for them to navigate the pages. Why Site Navigation Is Important Once a visitor finds your site and [...]

So you are ready to start your own blog. What type of Blogging Platform is the easiest to use and optimise for search engine rankings? The two most popular platforms are Blogger and WordPress. While each of them provides the same thing, a blog with posts that are easily updated, there are some key differences between [...]

Is there a real difference between creating a free WordPress Blog and one that uses paid hosting? The answer is definitely yes. The biggest differences will be what you can do with your site and while your site may start off small, expandability is important and with a self-hosted site, you have many more options [...]

Perhaps one of the most important questions to ask yourself when selecting a WordPress Theme is how much time and effort you wish to spend customising it to fit your needs. There are free themes and premium themes and you can also have a customised theme done as well. If you are very comfortable working with [...]

Here at SeanSEO.com we get our fair share of spam!  Thankfully, we have Askimet. Askimet is a plug-in for WordPress that’s free to use and simply requires you activate it using your API.  If you don’t know how to find your WordPress API, go to your global dashboard and you’ll find it easily. Askimet doesn’t stop [...]

The more links you have pointing at your money making websites, the better.  Why not utilise some free services to give yourself some link love and positively impact your SEO?  There are loads of ways to use free services to your advantage and today’s post will give you some great linking strategy ideas. Write blog posts [...]

Spam on your blog means a few things. On a positive note, people are finding you and that’s a good thing. It doesn’t sound like such a good thing when it becomes a pain to manage but one thing is for sure, your blog is valuable enough to make spammers want to utilise your site. They’ll post trackback spam and bogus comments filled with hyperlinks to their adult websites. You can’t let it go on but there are things you can do.

But what is an internet marketer to do?

If you are using Wordpress for your blog, consider using the Askimet plug-in.  This will catch a big portion of your spam and save you considerably on moderating time.  You can also set your your comments as moderated only which will stop the spam before it’s published. You can quickly view the comments and manually approve the ones you want to let through. You can set up some blogs so that commenters are approved automatically after they have one approved comment but be careful about this because some crafty spammers can take advantage of this loophole and post one useful comment only to come back later and try to post spam on your site. You might need to de-approve some commenters.

All in all, you want to be choosy about who is allowed to link to your site because association with certain kinds of sites can bring your own search engine ranking down. The good news is that search engines seem to be finding your site and people think it’s valuable enough to try and capitalise on your success!

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There are loads of reasons to blog and plenty of free blog options out there. Whether you choose to do a free blog or host your own or do a combination of the two is up to you. Today’s post explores the pros and cons of each option. I choose to do a combination of these things for my own purposes mostly because in my early online days, I didn’t realise the benefits of having my own blog on my own domain and didn’t realise just how inexpensive it could be to do it on my own and be able to have just what I wanted.

The pros of free blogs include that there are no costs and that they usually have an easy interface or template for you to use so you don’t have to be at all technical to figure out how to use them.

On the con side, you have no control and they can be very simple so they may not have all the functionality you’re looking for.

With a free blog, there may be some advertising that you cannot control. With a blog on your own domain, you have much more earning potential and power over the layout of the site.

How Much Does Having Your Own blog cost?

You can typically get a domain registered for $10 or less for a one year period and hosting is often less than $10 a month when you want a basic package that hosts a blog. Wordpress is the most popular and most versatile option and you can install it for free. Your own host might even have Wordpress built into your hosting control panel making it that much easier to get up and running quickly.

Benefits of Blogging

In terms of money making potential, blogs can definitely help you. Not only do they do great in search engines because of being continuously updated but they create viral marketing for you because people will link to you in their blogroll and on their site as well. Whether you’re planning to blog for profit or add a blog to your existing site to enhance search engine optimization, you can definitely benefit. If you’re not yet blogging or not yet using this to your full advantage, it’s definitely worth looking into.