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Blogging & RSS Information12 Reasons Why You Need A Blog
by:
Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian
"Why Should I Blog? I Just Don't Get It"
This post on a popular discussion forum set me thinking - and I came up with 12 reasons you should blog.
Read them and get started on your blog. Or better still, go get your diary up and running and THEN move back and see this :)
#1 - You Do Not Need To Cognize HTML
One of the biggest hurdles many a hopeful website creators face is they don't cognize to design a webpage. Blogs overcome this - all you do is type into a box, and the diary code mechanically
converts it into a webpage and publishes it on the Earth Wide Web for anyone to see.
#2 - You Are 'Forced' To Support Your Content Fresh
Blogs are au fond online diaries. It doesn't do sense to write in your diary every month or two. Similarly, running a diary itself 'forces' you to update it often. And refreshing your diary often does it much useful to readers and consumers - and by extension, to search engines who are in the business of presenting *their* clients with valuable resources.
#3 - Your Diary Is Mechanically
Optimized For Search Engines
Search engines love fresh content. But that's not the only way blogs are powerful tools to rating high. Indeed, most blogs are structured to offer a high degree of search engine optimization.
All sections of your diary are connected together. The terms used as link 'anchors' are keyword-optimized. Categories can be created to host themed content. Navigating through your diary is intuitive. Archives can be customized, and generate hundreds of pages of content that act as 'search engine spider bait'.
#4 - You Get A Built-In Linking Structure
With really few exceptions, most blogs are structured to be a tightly integrated network of links - to different sections of your blog! It's quite easy for a traveller
to get 'lost' inside
your blog... without ever deed it.
Calendars link to posts on specific dates. 'Recent Post' listings point to your freshest content. Archives connect all your earlier posts. Search boxes let browsers look for certain kinds of content. And it all happens automatically, without you defrayal hours on creating a link structure or sitemap!
#5 - You Generate Multiple Content-Rich Pages
Every post you do on your diary is content. And by showing intelligence
setting up your archiving preferences, you can turn each post into many a some forms of content, each on a page of its own. Diary on a regular basis
for a few months, and you could end up having a 100+ page website - all filled with relevant, keyword-optimized, themed content!
#6 - You Can Keyword-Optimize Your Diary Extensively
All parts of your blog's example can be customized. And a really powerful way to do it is by inserting relevant keywords. It's a do-it-once job that wish give you current
benefits for as the life of your blog. You can include keywords in your diary title, description, diary post headings, trackback links, comment invitations, archive titles, and category names.
#7 - You Create An Online Community
If your diary is on a specific theme, you can build a loyal audience
and develop an online community. You can even as take it a notch higher by attachment it in with a forum or membership site. Ask for comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback, or invite reader participation. Pretty soon, your diary wish be growing organically - even as if you don't write a lot!
#8 - You Initiate Conversations With Readers
Of course, the 1st step is yours - to initiate a dialog with readers. You could do it with your diary post, asking a question or by invitatory comments and interaction. Your diary wish be see by an audience that's already interested in your subject or theme. This language wish be valuable
to you, the diary owner.
#9 - Your 'Inbound Link' Process - Trackbacks
Blogging is simply about distributed conversations online. Links are an integral part of such an informal network. Trackbacks are a kind of diary technology that do it possible - and simple! Your diary wish benefit from the incoming links a trackback wish bring, and you'll as well get extra traffic from different sources.
#10 - You Can Syndicate Your Content Easily
Getting readers for your content is good. Deed your content out wherever
many a much readers can see it is GREAT! Syndication (via RSS feeds) is built in to most blogging platforms, giving you a quick and easy way to get a wide audience
for your diary posts.
#11 - You're Creating Stuff Search Engines LOVE
Search engines exist to offer their audience a compilation of the better resources on a subject or keyword. Your diary is the answer to a search engine's prayers! By projected to a theme and presenting the content in an organized, structured, intuitively connected pattern, your diary wish be appealing to search engines in a way only a really professionally planned and designed website can ever hope to be.
#12 - You Get 'Alternate' Traffic Sources
Remember what we saw simply about blogs being connected and networked together? Bloggers like to share opinions with others. And once
they 'talk' simply about you, they are going to point to your site, or a post on your blog, to show their readers what they mean. They become 'alternate' traffic sources - for YOU!
Other tools like diary rolls, furls, favorite bloggers and much can driving fitful - but sometimes big floods - of traffic your way. And better of all, it's effortless and price you nothing!
Not yet convinced? Well, then mayhap blogging isn't quite your cup of tea. But if you trust me, try it - you simply power be pleasantly surprised.
Just simply about the Author
Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian is author of 'Blog Profit Ideas Exposed - 33 Route To Profit From Blogs" - http://www.BlogProfits.com - and 'How To Profit From RSS Feeds" - http://www.RSS-Marketing.com and publishes 8 some 'niche' blogs and has been news on marketing with blogs and RSS feeds since 2001.
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