 Hello
Readers,
In this issue, I briefly take the helm from Garrett to introduce some great
articles on blogging.
Just in case you’re not up on the latest trends on the Web, the word
“blog” is short for “web log.” Blogs are everywhere these
days, and their topics are as numerous and varied as the bloggers (blog authors)
who write them.
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When submitting is it best only to submit the index page or is it advisable to
submit 3 or 4 sub links as well?
Chris
Questions?
Answers?
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A blog is a daily journal that appears on a Web page. Blogs are ideal creative
outlets for everyone from teenage diarists to frustrated unpublished authors.
All you need is a site, some writing talent, and something to say every day.
Why start a blog on your own site? Well, blogs are a great way to increase
your Web traffic. People love fresh content, and if you add daily entries for
your “public,” your site will stay fresh and its traffic will increase.
You can also boost your ranks with search engines with a well-crafted blog.
Link to other sites relevant to your daily entries, and you may find that your
rank increases (a caveat - search rank formulas are constantly changing, so don’t
depend on this result). It’s a better way to boost your rank via links than
creating link farms (those can get you banned from search engines completely).
If you want to get started in blogs, read more about them and including how
to start your own in today’s article by Biz Stone.
Some authors manage to make money from their blogs, but so far, making money
with blogs has been elusive for most. Yet fresh content truly drives traffic,
and blogs are full of fresh content. There must be a way to exploit the popularity
of blogs commercially - Meg Hourihan muses on some of the possibilities in her
article.
I hope you enjoy the issue. Happy blogging!
Jackie
 Rock,
Paper, Stone: The Biz Stone Guide to Independent Publishing
By Biz Stone
Do you dream of being published? Perhaps you just want to get some things (maybe
a lot of things) off your chest. Blogging may be the answer. Read Biz Stone's
introduction to blogging and add some personality to your site. Build a repository
for those unwritten pearls of wisdoms. Click
Here
 Blogging
for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger
By Meg Hourihan
Blogging for free is well known and widespread, but making money with blogs
is a little harder - yet the potential is definitely there. Take a look at Meg
Hourihan's peek at the commercial and promotional possibilities of blogging. The
future is wide open for talented bloggers! Click
Here
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Free Statistics Trackers for Your Website
By Michael Low
Contributing Writer
As some of you probably now know, WebTrends Live no longer offer the free
Personal Edition of their statistics tracker. Affected are hundreds of thousands
of websites that still use the free WebTrends Live Personal Edition to keep track
of their site statistics such as the number of daily visits and pageviews.
Many webmasters are probably oblivious of this change and still display the WebTrends
Live code on their site. Some are left clueless as to which other free statistics
trackers offer comparable tracking that WebTrends Live Personal Edition once provided.
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By Joshua Rose
Are you missing out on important sales because you are not paying attention
to your site statistics? There's a wealth of information here that can boost your
sales.
Some years ago, I had a conversation with a friend who had developed a very
successful offline business. When I asked him what accounted for his success,
the very first thing he said was, 'I made it a practise to be in the right place
at the right time. And it was never an accident.'
He went on to explain that he purposely made an effort to *accidentally*> bump
into his prospects at lunch, or run into them at social functions. I often learned
were they were, he said, and I learned when they were receptive. I was always
amazed at how few of my competitors bothered with this.
The exact same thing holds true on the internet. Do you know where your prospects
are? And do you know when they are most receptive to act on your offer?
The goal is to send your offer when it is most likely to be read and acted
upon. You certainly don't want your ezine sitting unopened in someone's inbox,
collecting both dust AND more and more email competition.
You want to maximize the possibility that your prospects are at their computers
(or soon will be) when you send out your offer or newsletter. But how in the world
could you possibly know this?
Read the rest of this
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