10 Benefits of being a Blogger
by Nicholas Dixon
I have been a blogger since September 2004 but only began to
take it seriously this year. My blogging journey began when I
stumbled upon a company owned by Google named Blogger.com that
offered free tools to build a website.
In fact Blogger provides you with free several templates which
you can customize in addition to a domain name hosted on their
server. You can host your blog on your domain if you like to.
Here are some benefits I found while blogging:
1) Easy to manage. A blog can be set up by even a novice in no
time. All you have to do is post and publish. Blogging can get
as simple as that or even more complex.
2) Easy to update. Blogs can be updated weekly or daily instead
of sometimes monthly for a static website. Even adding a few
paragraphs a day can be done in no time and can be beneficial to
your search rankings.
3) Get spidered quickly. Search engine spiders crawl blogs with
greater frequency than static webpages. I have had webpages that
took over eight months to be indexed in Google where as Yahoo
sometimes index my blogs in weeks sometimes days.
4) If you write articles then you can post all of them on your
blog in addition to free reprint content that is widely
available everwhere. The more content you have the better.
5) You can get your website indexed quicker. An article or a
piece of news about your website with an optimize anchor link
will send the spiders your way in no time.
6) Sell advertising space. If you have a popular blog then you
can create a revenue stream by selling ad space. Blogads is one
of several places where you can sell your ad space to major
companies.
7) Similar to offering ad space, you can add Adsense to your
blog to monetize your content. What I love about Blogger is that
once you plug in the Adsense code into your main template, a new
page is created and Adsense is automatically displayed when you
make a post.
8) Review your affiliate products. If you have a blog that is in
a niche then you can find affiliate programs for that niche and
do reviews of them for a commission. Every time someone
purchases the product or service through your link you make
money.
9) It is still early to catch on. Blogs and RSS feeds are used
by the minority of internet users which makes it excellent for
you to start blogging right now. Less than 10% of the Americans
which is the biggest online market use this emerging trend.
10) Can be syndicated. An easy way for your readers to stay in
touch with updates is to add your blog to their My Yahoo and My
MSN. They can see the latest information and how long ago it was
added.
11) Yes a bonus! Savvy marketers know that if you add your blogs
to My Yahoo you can have it indexed in no time by Yahoo. You can
use these two websites to inform blog directories that you have
updated your content.
a) http://WWW.Ping-o-matic.com
b) http://WWW.Rssfeedpromoter.com
So with all those benefits in mind there is no reason you
should not start your own blog. So when do you decide to go
blogging?