Setup Blog

Before you setup blog, you want to be sure you are doing whatever is best to improve your blog ranking on the search engines. Blog ranking helps to optimize the blog by allowing the blog to get picked up by blog syndicate networks, thereby helping to generate web traffic for your blog as well.

We have covered the importance of doing proper keyword research using free keywords tools and using top search words in your blog title to help in optimizing your blog on the search engines. If you are concentrating on your MLM blog, you will realize the importance of having a marketing tool to promote your MLM businesses.

When you have just setup your blog and researched on optimizing your blog title to maximize your blog traffic, you will need to post an article everyday if possible or a minimum of 3 – 5 articles per week in order to get your blogs picked up by the search engines. Do take note that your blog post titles should also preferably have the top search words. This will also help to attract readers to your blog posts.

What are the ways then that you can optimize your blog title?

If you are doing an MLM blog, you might like to find the right ‘how to’ to attract people to read your blog, for example, how to get more money or how to lose weight if your MLM business is on a product that can help you to lose weight. By being able to provide solutions to the various problems, this is one of the best ways to optimize your blog post title as well as attract readers to your blog post. This is one sure way to get picked up by the various networks of blog syndicates and drive traffic to your MLM blog.

Besides covering the ‘how to’, you could also make use of names of celebrities or well-known personalities in your blog post title. Titles like “What Robert Kiyosaki Thinks of MLM” could be a good title because everyone wants to know what a billionaire like Robert Kiyosaki would think of MLM.

If you have a good blog post title, you could also make it attractive for people to return to your blog by breaking your article into two or more parts.

Or you could give people precise blog titles like “10 Easy Steps To Lose Weight” or “3 Most Important MLM Tools To Build Your Downline”. These are also good titles.

Remember to make use of the free keywords tools to research on the top search words and use these keywords in your title as well as sprinkle them in your article. A good article needs to be interesting and provide value to your readers. At the same time, if you are looking at bringing your blog up the search engines, you will need to use one primary keyword and a few secondary keywords in your articles in what is known as keyword density. However, please do not spam your articles with keywords.

To drive traffic to your blog, it is advisable to submit your articles to various article directories. This is a good way to drive traffic to your MLM sites, albeit a long-term traffic generation method.

Once you have setup blog and used the various keywords tools and top search words in your MLM blog, this will improve your ranking on the search engines. Blog like this that is optimized will be able to generate web traffic by being picked up by the blog syndicate networks and help you promote your MLM businesses.

Setup Blog

The second in a 3-part series on how to setup blog, we shall cover domain name searches in this section as this is one of the ways of blog optimization which will help to generate web traffic to your blog.

Once you have chosen your niche, which should be the very first step to setup blog,  and made sure that your niche should be something that you are familiar with and have a passion for, next would be to choose a good domain name or what is also known as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a web address.

If you are intending to brand yourself with your blog, it is better to purchase your own domain name.  Many people start off with free blogs at blogspot.com or wordpress.com.  However many have also faced huge problems when their blogs get shut down, which has happened.  Or what will happen if the company goes out of business and your blog is no longer in existence and you have already built up a loyal readership?  Purchasing your own domain name should prevent any problems in future.

Your domain name will last you a lifetime.  So make it something memorable and easy to remember.  It can be a combination of words, preferably not more than three and definitely something that makes sense.  Try to keep within twenty characters and do not use numbers or dashes.  Also you would want to avoid spam words such as ‘free’.

It is easier for someone to remember a domain like “SuccessToWealth.com”, a combination of three words rather than “LearnHowToCreateSuccessToWealth.com”.  Also if your domain is “Success2Wealth”, some people may key in “SuccessToWealth.com” and land on someone else’s site and you lose your traffic. “Success_To_Wealth.com” is not a good idea too as it can become a little complicated.

Besides the usual sites where you can search for and purchase domain names from, such as NameCheap.com and GoDaddy.com, you can search for expired domain names as well to help you save time on brainstorming your domain name by checking out makewords.com.  This is a very useful site that can save you quite a bit of your precious time as you can find some real domain name treasures over there.  It is also a site that I make use of all the time once I came across it and use it at every opportunity I get.

GoDaddy has certain coupons where you can get discounted rates.  You can find these promotional rates at godaddy.promo-code.net and applies to domain names as well as web hosting.

I would suggest not to go with companies, even well known names, offering ridiculously low rates for domain names like $1.99 in the first year because you will be jumping for joy in that first year.  However, in my personal experience, that was what I did and I was charged $12.99 in the second year which is still reasonable, but the price almost tripled in the third year to $34.95!  Gosh!  Don’t believe how they can rip you off just like that!

So now you have your niche and done your domain name searches.  Next will be to setup your blog and create content.  We all know that content is king.  At the same time, you will also want to look into blog optimization in order to be able to generate web traffic, build your list as well as acquire new visitors from search engines.

Setup Blog

Before you even start to setup blog, you need to set your main topic for your blog. Decided if it is going to be an MLM blog or a blog on pets or relationships, etc… Once you have decided your main topic, content is next keeping in mind various keywords tools that you can use to improve your blog ranking on the search engines. Blog ranking helps to generate web traffic as well.

When you start to setup your blog, you first need to decide which niche you want to concentrate on. This will set your main topic for you blog. Do your research and find what people are looking for. Remember that research is cash. Failure to do a proper research may end up with you having a blog that nobody is interested in.

When you do your keyword research, do pick something that you love to do. You must have an interest in the topic to keep yourself motivated to continuously blog about it. It is best to pick a topic that you have knowledge of. If you are in MLM, use that as your niche.

So how do you search for a good market online and what is considered a good niche? Use the various free keywords tools to do your research. Check out the number of people searching for a specific keyword from sites like freeadwordstool.com. Take a look also at additional keywords to give you an idea of what you can do.

At the same time, look at the competition that you will be facing for that keyword. You can check on this by taking a look at how many websites there are with that specific keyword on sites like google.com. As a general rule of the thumb, look for keywords with approximately 1,000 searches a month and less than 50,000 competitive sites for the exact keyword match.

There are various schools of though here but the above is one that I personally use. Using the right keywords can help move your blog up the search engines which is essential for traffic generation.

Doing your keyword research is key to your success. This will help you to optimize your blog by bringing it up the ranks of the search engines as well as generate traffic to your blog by attracting readers to your blog posts.

Once you have done your research and found your niche, then you may proceed to choose a good domain name for your blog. Check out my blog for more tips on how not to spend hours to brainstorm a good name for your blog.

So to setup blog, do proper research using free keywords tools available online. Whether it is an MLM blog or any other blog, once you have done the setup, work on improving your ranking on the search engines. Blog rankings, the higher it is, the better it will help to generate web traffic. This will go a long way in helping to optimize your blog.