Blogging 101

[Boogie]

This is a thread dedicated to blogging and my advice thereof. It is a work in progress and will be updated periodically (like a blog!) so keep that in mind.

This thread will be edited and will appear on my blog as a 'how to' guide in the future once i'm pretty much done here. Feel free to ask questions as you'd like.

Why start a blog?

Blogging is a great idea for a few simple reasons. The primary reason being that if you do it right, blogs are text based.

Search engines love text. It doesnt take a genius to see that by writing an entry and describing a news article, a product, a girl in a photoset, or just about anything else, you are creating search engine food.

Secondly, because it gives you a 'voice'. Tired of trying to convince someone to try a product in a line or two under a banner ad? Blogging allows you to have entry after entry, paragraph after paragraph, of things to say. When you incorporate a blog into your hub and people find it, they find 'you'. Its easier for them to learn about you (or your webmaster persona) and earn trust and trust makes sales, pure and simple.

Thirdly, its an alternative traffic source. Link list traffic is incredible, TGP traffic not so much, but your two primary sources of traffic for blogging are very valuable as well. The first source being, of course, the search engines. The second source being other blogs. Once a reader is established as enjoying reading blog entries, they are highly valuable indeed. They're a surfer that isnt just pouring through your site looking for thumbnails they are surfers who like to read your text. Love to read your text... may only be there simply FOR YOUR TEXT.

Finally, blogging continues to be the new 'buzzword' in this industry and all others. More and more searches for the term are being done each day. "MILF BLOG, PORN BLOG, SEX BLOG, DATING BLOG" and more and more searches appear on your favorite search anylizing tools each day as surfers plug in this keyword and apply the word 'blog' to it. Where will your sites be when they perform that search?

As always, if you use this guide we hope that you'll be so kind as to link back to my blog when creating your own.