Best Blogging Tips for getting more benefit

If you are not blogging you should seriously consider setting up your own blog. Google and other search engines love blogs. You can make money blogging very fast if you know the insider secrets. But before I get into to sharing a few tips about how to make money blogging, consider the following statistics.

The fact is that blogging grew 68% in 2008. 346 million people read blogs and approximately 184 million people have their blog. 58% are over the age of 35, 42% are between the ages of 18-34, which means that these people are the ones who have expendable income and regularly shop online.

Also, you need to consider setting up accounts on social media sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter and using these accounts to point to your blog and set your blog up to point to your social media sites. WHY? Look at these statistics: 300 million are using Facebook and 50% of those are active users. Currently, Facebook reports daily growth of over 600,000 with women over 55 being the fastest growing segment. Most users are 35 years old or over (doubled in 2008). 70% of users are outside of the US and 65 million access Facebook via mobile phone!

TIP #1

The lesson here is the first tip: Go where the people are with money to spend and are already accustomed to buying online.

TIP #2

Target the largest segment, i.e. women over 55 and all of those over 35. If you really want to make money blogging, zero in on these segments.

TIP #3

Use a self-hosted WordPress Blog or better yet set up an account with WordPress Direct. Having a blog set up on your own hosting account allows you to use many tools, themes and plug-ins which will greatly improve traffic and give you much more flexibility. Here are a few bonus tips for making money blogging using WordPress:

1.  Consider changing your theme to the Flexibility Theme http://www.flexibilitytheme.com. You can download this amazing theme free at this site. They also have a paid theme called Flex squeeze which allows you to create your own squeeze pages or landing pages on the fly using WordPress.

2.  I highly recommend that you install the following plug-ins to your blog: Quick Meta Keywords, Broken Link Checker, Head Meta Description, All-In-One-SEO Pack, Landing Sites, Tweet suite. There are many more that I recommend in my Home Study Course. These are the bare minimum. For a step by step installation of your blog sign up for my Home Study course. (self-plug. Had to)

3.  Consider paying the monthly fee for a WordPress Direct Blog. It comes fully optimized for SEO and has tons of other features such as auto posting content and video’s just to name a couple.

4.  Once you set up your blog go to http://www.google.com/webmaster and sign up for the free webmaster tools.

5.  Sign up for a feed burner account for your RSS feeds.

6.  Go to http://www.freetrafficsystem.com and sign up for their free account.

7.  Go to http://www.bidvertiser.com and sign up for an account so you can get paid for advertising on your site.

TIP #4

Focus on Your Keywords and tags. Here are a few tools that are free:  http://google.com/sktool/# this helps you find keywords that you probably have overlooked using regular keyword tools. http://www.keywordindex.com.

TIP #5 

Add click bank affiliate products inside your blog posts such as this example ABOVE of my product. To do this you will need to install a html editor wordpress plugin to your blog.