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Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article, you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.   1) Where to start?   You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home. I don't say that because I'm the owner, but a free blog host is very rewarding for a new blog.   Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to build an audience and buzz for your blog.   It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service, is in the case your blog doesn't become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog...

  There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, the ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings, and trackbacks. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:   1.) Create at least four keyword posts per day. Most of the top blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit (with literally tens of thousands of visitors per day) publish an average of 30 small 100-150 word posts per day according to "Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts" by http://TNL.net   2.) Submit to My Yahoo! When you submit your own RSS to My Yahoo it is indexed by Yahoo.   3.) Submit to Google's Reader. When you submit your own blog RSS to Google's Reader the Google Blog Search will index your site.   4.) Add a relevant link directory to your blog and trade links. Although it may take more time th...

A free blog is an excellent way of beginning your online empire. Costs are low and potential returns are high.   Getting started is easy. Just head over to www.blogger.com and set up your blog. Alternatively, if you want a more feature rich platform, consider getting your own domain and web hosting so you can take advantage of freeware like WordPress. Many people start with Blogger then move to WordPress once they grow in confidence,   Pick a topic you are really interested in and which has good keyword traffic (these are the words people use to search for things in search engines). DigitalPoint has a free keyword tool that is very easy to use. You can also check your keyword (or tag) out at Technorati to see how popular it is. In general, the most popular keywords are the most profitable.   Now, all you need to do is ensure you post something every day, then when the post is done tell the world that you have updated your blog. You do this by issuing a ‘ping’....