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Blogging for MLM Success Part 2 of 3 –How To Setup an Effective Blog

Author: Brenda Gagne

After reading Blogging for MLM Success Part 1 you are now aware of the essential reasons why you need to have an effective blog. Yet, how precisely do you do it? You don’t want to create a blog just for the sake of having a blog. This can really hurt any previous effort you have done to brand yourself on the internet. If you set up a blog that isn’t high quality, this will leave a unenthusiastic impression in the viewers’ mind. Once this impression is made, the requirement on your part to change it will be significant. It takes about 7-13 seconds to make a first impression with your blog, so keep this in mind while you are creatingyours.

Creating a MLM successful blog can be accomplished a few different ways. The first way, and clearly the easiest, is to pay someone to create it for you. There are expert website designers who make their living creating blogs. The amount you will have to pay, and the quality of the website can be distinctly different. So if you decideto go this direction, I would do some research first. Betternetworker.com is a great place to go for references. Even if you do pay someone to form your blog, you will need to take some time later to figure out how the site actually works so you are able to sustain it. Other people prefer to set up their blog on their own because it doesn’t involve any out of pocket expense. This option is more lengthy because there is a learning aspect involved. When developing a blog on your own, you first need to decide whether to use a free hosted blog, or to pay for a self-hosting blog. These two options are not the same and will give you different results.

Typically when choosing between paying for something or getting it for free, most people would choose the free side. Now when it comes to blogs, you have to think of your desired outcome. If you want to have a personal website for your friends and family to keep tabs on you, then the free version would suit you just fine. However, if your goal is to build a blog for MLM success, then this positively isn’t the case. What you’re looking for is a self-hosted blog. A free blog will not give you the customization you need to brand yourself online. Additionally with a free blog, you are not the owner of your content. Your site is managed by the hosting company, and your stuff belongs to them. If for any reason they feel you have not followed their policies, then your blog may be taken down without warning, and everything will be lost. I personally know someone who this happened to, and I do not wish this upon you.

for a company to host it for you.. Now this expense is very cheap and usually under $9 a month. The two companies that I would recommend for hosting are GoDaddy or Host Gator. These both have simple installation setup for a Wordpress blog. I say Wordpress, because this is the most useful blogging platform out there. If you’re going to do it right, you want to use the one with the most options, and the greatest support. However, note that Wordpress has two different options. Wordpress.com is the free site, and Wordpress.org is the self-hosted site.

It’s detail time! If you are determined to start blogging for MLM success, then you now have the awareness to move forward. Yet, like I said, it can be complicated if you do not have somewhere to go for assistance. I created my entire blog on my own. Before makingit, I had never even attempted to create a site in my life. I had to learn some simple html and css (which I did by searching Google) to create the look I wanted, it took quite a few hours because I’m a perfectionist. However, I had the benefit of using a training webinar that was over 1.5 hours of specific steps on exactly how to setup a self-hosted Wordpress blog for optimum success.
So, if you are serious about blogging for MLM success, I would like to help you out. I will give you the same exact training I used for free. Simply visit my Blog and fill in the form. You will be taken directly to the training. No strings attached. This information is extremely valuable, and yours if you choose to take action. However if you have not yet read Part 1 of Blogging for MLM Success – Why and How Does a Blog Work, then you need to read this first.

Blogging for MLM Success Part 3 of 3 � How To Get Traffic To Your Blog

Author: Brenda Gagne

Alright, we’ve made it to part 3. In part 1 we talked about what a successful blog is, and how it works. In part 2 we discussed the specific steps to take when creating a blog, and I gave you some specific tools for you to get going. So currently you have your blog up and running, it looks great – now what?

I am going to use an analogy for this article. Think of the internet as the entire ocean. Directly in the middle of the ocean is your blog island. No one even knows its there. Here lies the problem. You have to produce tools for visitors to get to your island. This is the most imperative step in blogging. Your blog could be the most organized, cleanest, and most visual blog online, but if you have no traffic to it, all your time and expense creating it has been useless.
Obviously when writing a successful blog post, the first thing you must to do is write a specific article or post. People will overlook this part at first. Their goal is to just start writing. However, when writing an article, you need to double check that it is point specific and well written. Do not feel the need to be a marvelous writer by any means. You just need to have a well defined point to your post, and stay on topic. The more specific your posts are, the more traffic you will receive. This is an important point.

Let’s go back to our ocean analogy. Now some travelers have been to your island. They either left with an excellent impression, or it left none impression at all. You certainly want your blog to be the first part of that equation. What is the first thing a tourist will talk about when they get home? Their island experience. When reading your blog, if people like what they read, they will send others there. This is the traffic you are striving for. To get your blog to go viral, your blog content needs to be appealing for people to inform others about it. Otherwise you are wastign your time; spending your days trying to get traffic that will never come back.

Social media allows your blog to go viral in many different ways. The first way is with “word of mouth” advertising. People will repost your blog on social media sites if they are fond of the content. It helps promote themselves and you at the same time. So make sure you have sharing buttons for at least Facebook, Twitter, and Digg below your article. Social media also allows you to create bridges to your island blog. Being active on social media platforms allows you to brand yourself and your blog to make distribution of your blog simple. Having a link to your blog in your profile allows someone another means to find out more about you. If they like what you have to say in a social discussion forum, then they will head over to your blog to learn more. Another way social media can help is with bookmarking sites. Posting your blog post on a bookmarking site can get your blog seen to more people than social media alone. There are many plugins that will give you this bookmarking option.

The last significant way to achieve visitors to your blog is organically. In our island analogy, this is where your island is located on a world map. When people look for for your island, it shows up! You want the articles in your blog to be ranking high on the search engines for the greatest visibility. This is by far the best technique to get blog traffic because the work you did in the past will last in cyberspace forever without anymore work on your part. When writing an article, you need to concentrate on specific keywords that you are trying to target. Keyword research is very significant when trying to rank organically. This topic is too vast to get into detail now, however further details will be coming in another article. Beside keyword research, the other best way to help your blog be seen by the search engines is to put in a few SEO plugins, and by far the finest one to date is the All In One SEO plugin.

If you stick to these steps, and stay consistent, your blog will receive concentrated traffic daily. Your visitors will enjoy what they see and inform others. More people visiting your blog in turn will raise the amount of leads you receive for your business. In turn, upping the amount of customers and distributors you bring in. It is this full circle that will help you begin blogging for MLM success.
Blogging for MLM Success-Part 1 talks about Why and How blogs work. Part 2 discusses the specific ways to setup a blog and includes a special step by step blog setup training. If you want to create massive traffic to your blog, it is critical you understand the fundamentals of blogging. If you want to learn more ways to effectively market your business online visit MLM Pay Raise right now.

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