Work At Home Based Business Blog

That is Web 2.0. Are you apart of it? Blogging, social networking, social bookmarking etc.?

Blogging has to be one of the easiest things to do especially when there are free sites to do it on. Blogger.com is extremely user-friendly and super easy peasy. You can literally have a blog created in just five minutes. As a matter of fact, that’s what Blogger.com states. You don’t have to be HTML savvy…just know how to type in the box provided and when you’re done click on the publish button.

Because blogging is so easy, there are thousands of business-type blogs created each day, but there are also thousands of abandoned business-type blogs that haven’t been updated in months or years. Why? Simply because it takes time and commitment. I understand unforeseen circumstances can work its way into your family life and my family is my number one priority and I would drop my business in a heartbeat. If this scenario doesn’t pertain to you, then there’s no excuse.

Now we know blogs can drive traffic to your business and more people are creating blogs for this purpose, but if you’re going to be half committed then blogging is going to be useless to you and your business. Do you half commit to your business? What you put in is what you will reap in rewards. Do nothing and you will make pennies, if that.

Instead of jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon with the likes of social networking and blogging, know your limitations and what you can handle. Find your target market, find your niche and be consistent. Spreading yourself too thin isn’t beneficial in any way and it does more harm than good.

Don’t get caught up with Web 2.0 if you can’t commit to its responsibilites. Time, consistency and commitment is what will drive your business to the next level.  When you’re ready, social networking and blogging will still be there waiting for you, ready to take you into its web.

You can network with Sophia at http://www.WorkAtHomeSpace.com/forum or find her blogging at http://HealthyPerspectives.blogspot.com

Back in my last post here that I entitled Link to Your Success, I talked about some extra ways of obtaining good, strong keyword anchored backlinks for your sites. Well in this instalment, I’m going to follow that on with another useful way of obtaining links directly for your blogs as well as helping their SERPs ranking at the same time.

Most bloggers have heard of Digg, or the many clones that are available to submit your posts to in order to boost traffic. Such sites that emulate Digg are driven by software that comes from pligg.com and are known as “pligg” sites. I’ll tell you a little more about pligg in a moment. But how many bloggers know that by submitting posts to some of the lesser well known social bookmarking sites can actually benefit your blog more?

Some, like Blogging Zoom are getting big and more popular, but are still very useful for building links and boosting SERPs authority for individual blog posts. They do that by publishing your submitted posts on their main page after your post gets a certain number of votes from othe rmembers of the site. With Blogging Zoom that number is currently 15. So if you join a site like that, it pays to make friends!

But that idea can be followed on to the next level by the smart Internet Marketer. How?

Build your own social pligg site!

Yes, if you have your own web host, then you can build your own pligg site, publicise it and attract new members to build the site from the ground up. Pligg.com provide the software free of charge, so its just a case of downloading it, creating a new MySQL database in your cPanel, following their instructions and uploading the files to your server. You can also download a free template if you don’t like the original and with some cosmetic tweaking, you can have your very own, Google friendly social site up and running within a few hours.

The benefits of running your own pligg site are obvious - you can submit all your own posts to it and build up lots of links to your blogs as well as boost their SERPs rankings. In the early stages, you can set the number of votes to 5 to get your posts onto the front page fast, so their links carry with them any Page Rank your new site has.

A timely tip is to buy an expired domain that already comes with some Page Rank and established links to ensure it keeps it. You, of course can promote your new pligg site and get it more backlinks to further establish its authority quickly.

As you may have guessed by now, I have done exactly what I have been telling you about, so that the information is coming straight from the horse’s mouth! Yep, I built my own pligg site called TheFB and you can easily register for free and then submit blog posts to it directly from the site.

TheFB can be found by clicking on this link: TheFB

TheFB is a PR2 site at present, which I am building links for to improve its ranking over time. So feel free to sign up and make use of this valuable link building resource and get in on the ground floor. It takes only 5 votes to get your post to the front page at TheFB, so what have you got to lose?

And much to gain!

Terry Didcott
Owner of The Honest Way Forum