Blogging in Affiliate Marketing

UPDATED!Customize your WordPress blog with essential plugins

A plugin is a small program written by a third party that can be integrated into an application for increased functionality. In a nutshell: plugins turn your blog from something ordinary into something sophisticated and optimized for maximum traffic. There are over 2,000 plugins available for Wordpress that allow you to do everything from managing spam, creating an events calendar, improving tags, viewing statistics…and much more. You can find the full list of available plugins at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ One of our favorite plugins: The All in One SEO pack Automatically helps you to avoid duplicate content found on typical Wordpress blogs. Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines Allows you to override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. Automatically generates META tags Allows you to fine tune ... read more »

Transform your run of the mill Blog into a designer sensation... In just 3 minutes!

In the previous lesson (How to Set Up a Blog) you got your blog up and running and made your first post. Now it’s time to work at individualizing the look of your blog to make it memorable and attractive. After all, the appearance of your blog will have a significant impact on the first impressions of visitors, and it also plays a role in your branding. Finding Themes Luckily for us, hundreds of designers have produced masses of Wordpress theme templates. A quick search on the web for ‘Wordpress themes’ reveals a number of excellent sites offering both free and paid options. If you are serious about your blog, then it’s worth paying for a high quality theme from the site Templatemonster.com. The selection is vast and the options are unique, extremely well designed and easy to install. Alternatively, there are plenty of free options available on sites such as: ... read more »

5 ways to monetize your blog

Want to make money from your blog? Of course you do! Here are five methods you can use to make money from your blog — some conventional, some not so conventional! ... read more »

Syndicating RSS feeds

What is RSS? How do you create an RSS feed from your blog? In this lesson we give you an overview of RSS, show you how to use FeedBurner with your site, and demonstrate how you can use your RSS feed to add content to a Squidoo page... easy as pie! ... read more »

How to write a blog post

In this lesson you will learn how to write and publish a blog post, and how to queue posts for automatic release in the future. The Title Your blog title is very important because it describes the post to the search engines and it is also the title that will appear in the SERPs. A good title is snappy and sparks interest, possibly with a controversial statement or question. For SEO purposes, it also helps to have the most important keywords at the front of your title. Here are a couple of examples of well-written blog titles: Best World of Warcraft Addons Is Amazon about to kill Paypal? Notice how each title contains two important keywords that not only catch the eye, but are also likely to be searched for by the target audience. The Post: A few tips Blog posts don't need to be long, something between 200 and 500 words is ideal. If nervous about writing, try reading ... read more »

More video lessons in Blogging in Affiliate Marketing »

Setting up a Word Press Blog

Introduction to Blogging

How to Make Money with a Blog

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