Hey there! Welcome to your 9th serving of the Blogopreneur Blog Marketing eCourse! We’ve covered a lot of ground over the past two weeks huh! Today, what I am going to show you are just some little tweaks that you can add to your blog so that you can go from “good” to “wonderful”!

Little things matter.

Let’s get started

What is today all about? What I want to address today is the more “human” aspect of blogging. You see, many of us “technology evangelists” get so caught up with all the optimizing and tweaking of the code in the back end, that we forgot that we are eventually writing for HUMANs to read!

Seriously.

As far as creating a website (or blog) is concerned, I think web usability and creating a good user experience is just as important as all the marketing and promotion. If you have a blog with a font size of 6 points, don’t expect your readers to come back!

» Read more: Blogspreneur Blog Marketing eCourse Part 9

Hey there, and welcome to your 8th serving of the Blogopreneur Blog Marketing eCourse!

Wow! You’ve come a long way! We started with absolutely no knowledge of blogs and blog marketing, we talked about terminology, planning, setting up WordPress, promoting your blog, writing content… and today, is the day it all ties in – how are you going to make money from your blog?

We may argue that it is so much easier to update blogs compared to websites – we do not need to handle all the messy FTP stuff, or learn complex HTML editors.. but at the end of the day, I must admit blogging still does require effort. Even if it means it is half an hour a day, it will all add up to over 3 hours a week, or and 12 hours a month. We need to justify the time spent.

So. How do you make money from blogs?

» Read more: Blogspreneur Blog Marketing eCourse Part 8

The essence of Blog Marketing

After you are done with optimizing your blog HTML and content, the next step to take is to get the word out and let the world know about your blog! This is what blog marketing is about, and the key to do this is really simple, and I can sum it in 4 words.

Get relevant incoming links.

Yeah, as simple as that.

So how do you go around getting relevant incoming links, you’d ask? This is what we are going to learn today. Here goes!

Blog Marketing Tip #1 – Submit Your Site to Google, Yahoo and MSN

Ultimately, you want your website to be in the directories of these search engines, so if you are starting up, you can get yourself indexed by these search engines in two ways.

1. Get an already indexed page to link to you
2. Submit yourself to the search engines

» Read more: Blogspreneur Blog Marketing eCourse Part 7