I have been saying this again and again. When you learn to blog , never get entangled with a free web host. However, questions keep arising about this subject despite my cautious reminder. As a result, here are my personal opinion for those of you who still want to test out  a free web host. Remember, the risk is all yours and don’t come back to me when you are f****d! Sorry…

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Ok, what are some of the points you might want to search for in choosing a free web host? The standards for selecting free web host along with a commercial web hosting solution are somewhat different although they do overlap. Since How To Blog For Newbies provides folks who could be hunting for either ofthese kinds of hosting, I will cover each of thesesuccessively. Should you be only considering one of thesechoices, you may simply skip to thesuitable section. I’ve written these portions to become as independant from the other as you possibly can.

Getting a Free Web Host

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As you learn how to set up a business blog, I will show you some of my personal insights. Business blogging is usually a different ball game to blogging for profit which, subsequently, is entirely different to a social blog. The type of blog you maintain will establish the voice, design, and identity of your blog along with the work you probably will set into marketing it.

Business blogs must be professional and even appear to be it. Regular posting on topics that your potential audience will genuinely like can promote you for an specialist within your discipline. A blog are able to keepthe queue of contact between you and potential prospects open. It allows you to publish relevant, keyword rich postings that encourage new traffic and improve yourcustomer base.

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How To Set Up A Blog

How to set up a blog?

Unfortunately, many people do not know where to start. We hear so much about what a blog can do for our business and yet, it seems like only a privilege few can afford to hire IT programmers to set it up for them. What’s next?

The problem is most people use the internet only for surfing and sending emails. A blog is a totally different creature. Some may suggest that you engage a free blog like WordPress.com and Blogger.com. However, please bear in mind that you don’t own blogs that you set up in such platform. The autonomy belongs to the host and you can practically forget about having your own advertisements, affiliates and other money making plugins that you can install in your own blog site.

The fact is, not many of us are technical savvy enough to set up our very own blog site. It used to be, when you want to have your own website, you need to know programming languages such as HTML, Dreamweaver and PHP. Many people has actually failed to start when they thought about all the time and resources that need to be invested. Some may even give up thoroughly.

Those who managed to learn up Dreamweaver for example may not necessary be able to get their blog found in Google and Yahoo. You see, setting up a blog site is not just about putting in place some colorful frames and contents. Without doing Search Engine Optimization, your blog can never be found in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc).

However, all is not lost. With the current technology, you can actually learn starting up a blog and get it running within 10  minutes. Take immediate action now because knowing how to set up a blog would open up a whole new money making opportunities for you in the internet.

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It would be great if you could find out how many people were frequenting your blog daily. How would you like it if you can do the following all for free:

a. Which pages your visitors were viewing?

b. How long they spent reading each page?

c. How many returning visitors vs new ones?

You know, all you need is just a Google account. Just go to www.google.com/analytics and sign in. Once logged in, Google will give you a simple Java Script to include on your site. If you are using WordPress, you would just need a suitable plugin to put in the site code and your analytic would be up for business within 24 hours.

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No matter what you call them, be it social media marketing, social networking or microblogging, they are tools for publicity that you can’t go without nowadays.

As a makerter, you will be known as old school if you declare that you don’t need Twitter or Facebook in any of your campaign. As a blogger, you are inadvertently a technopreneur and as such, engaging in social networking is a necessary evil. However, there are different strategies when you communicate in different Social Medias.

In this post, I will try to explain some general strategies on how to micro-blog in Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. You just have to figure out the details yourself though.

Twitter

In general, the game is to express your message within the scope of 140 characters. You can choose to tweet using the customize Twitter site or you could resort to using Twitter desktop like Tweetdeck, Seeismic or Hootsuite.

Until now, the majorities of people engaging in Twitter are trying to garner as many followers as possible. Somehow, the number of followers displayed under your profile speaks volume of your ‘influence’ in the Tweetzone. ‘Superstars’ like Guy Kawasaki for example has in excess of 223,000 followers (and following 246,000).

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Bloggers should expect to witness an exhilarating 2010. Trends that have been evolving over the course of the past years are creating new opportunities for blog owners as well as e-marketers.

Source: koreatimes.co.kr

Blogging communities are inevitably linked to the real world. The economy doldrums that spans for the last 10 years; from the collapse of the dot coms, the currency crises to the current financial mismanagement have all helped to shape a new world order. Both these man-made and natural disasters give leverage to the strength of Social Medias like Twitter, Facebook. By the time you are reading this, a dozen new ones should have been hatched. What we are talking here are global real time conversation and mass word-of-mouth at the speed of a click.

With those events unfolding, as well as with the advances with new science and technology, what follows are 10 scorching trends that affect all areas of blog marketing, from advertising to branding and everything in between.

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At this point of your blog business, I’m sure you already have your own Twitter account. Many so called ‘gurus’ should have put in a lot of tips on how to use this microblogging tool to promote your articles and pages.

Apart from all the tricks so rampantly circulating in the web, you may be just wasting your time using Twitter to self-sabotage your own blog. Try going through these mis-steps and see whether they sound familiar to you.

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I dare say, all search engine uses page factors as a critical component in its ranking algorithm no matter how they are changed throughout. These factors will weigh heavily on which page your blog will appear in Google, for instance. Let’s go through them:

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This should not be my topic for the day. Only two days ago, I was bragging in Twitter that I would be coming out with my first Video Blog using Camtasia and boy, was I excited. But as fate has it, I encountered some problems while trying to upload the file to Youtube. Anyway, the experiment can wait and you would probably gain more by reading my blogging tips, for now.

Please reflect on your website for a moment. Have you been following How To Blog and Blogging Tips for some time? If you are like me, whom have just started a blog not too long ago, chances are you are an unknown rookie. Do your audience naturally associate your subject with a generic name?

Generic name is defined as name of a successful (and usually the first) product, used commonly by people to name an entire category or class of products. Amplifier, camera, notebook and computer are some great examples of what were once exclusive brand names but now refer to all brands under their respective category of products. Generic names cannot be owned by anyone, not even by the firm who first introduced them.

Source : www.searchenginejournal.com

Let’s take ‘camera’ as an example. Anyone interested in a camera would naturally think of Canon, Nikon, Olympus. Is your name or company easily identifiable with the product?

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Tricking Google or Yahoo to rank your pages higher than they deserved is called spamdexing, or simply spam. There are a host of spam techniques and they can easily get your blog or website banned from search engines. Trust me, you don’t want this to happen because once your site is blacklisted, it’s no easy task to regain back the trust of the big G and the rest of the SEs.

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