If you are starting to site and hoping to use this as an income, then you will be full of questions. Here are some of those that I have seen and been asked the most!
Is blogging an income easy? - Yes and no! The actual blogging is simple and earning the money does not take that long, but you do need to put in the groundwork so that the website is prepared.
Will I be able to make an income straight away? - Sadly, plenty of bloggers think that as soon as you create a site you will be able to make an income. This is far from the case. Advertisers are not just giving away their marketing budgets, they want something in return and you need to provide that.
What are you selling when you site? - As a blogger, you are selling one, or both, of two things. First, exposure to your traffic. If you have hundreds of visitors per day and these are interested in the advertiser's product, then this is a good advertising opportunity. Also, plenty of advertisers are wanting to increase their search engine rankings, so if you have a good Page Rank, then that is another selling point.
What is Page Rank? - Page Rank is Google's measure of the number of websites that are pointing to your web site. The higher the ranking (from 0 to 10), the more web-sites you have linking to you and the more important they are. Therefore, the more vital you are.
What is Alexa Ranking? - This is a measure of the number of visitors that are arriving on your site. Various widgets sample visitors and from these work out how many people visit your website. The lower the number, the higher your sampled visitors levels are.
Does a high Page Rank give a load of traffic? - In the last week I have seen a website or Page Rank 5 with an Alexa Ranking of 7,200,000 ( I didn't realise it went that high!) and a Page Rank 2 site with an Alexa Ranking of round 700,000. So no, Page Rank is merely a measure of your inbound links.
How do I get a Page Rank? - Any links in to your web site that are not hidden, for instance with the rel="nofollow" tag, count. So article writing, guest blogging, a few weblog comments and sharing on site rolls could all increase the links in to your website. The higher the Page Rank on the site linking to you, the more you gain.
How do I increase traffic? - This is a big question! Writing articles will get several visitors and help you to increase your search engine optimisation, but you need to write plenty of fresh, unique content that is targeted to specific keywords and compliment this with inbound links to increase the search engine visitors.
Can paid blogging harm my site? - Never say never. In my view, as long as there are not too lots of paid posts and you are writing loads of content posts then the paid activities should just be a small part of your weblog and then the search engines should not punish you.
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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start My Blog . If you want to know more about starting a blog , you know where to look!
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