Are you ready to start blogging?That's right! By the end of today you'll be publishing your own blog using Google's own Blogger technology.What is a blog?Here's a direct description from the Blogger website: "A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember. Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, while others command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands. Professional and amateur journalists use blogs to publish breaking news, while personal journalers reveal inner thoughts.The blogging experience is about not only putting your thoughts on the web, but hearing back from and connecting with other like-minded folks."Why publish a blog?Publishing a blog allows you to instantly create new content-rich web pages. These new pages can be linked to from the home page of your current website and/or promoted separately. By creating additional content-rich website pages and promoting them from your home page or through other means, you'll be accomplishing two important things:1) You'll provide more value for your website visitors. This increases the "stickiness" of your website making people stick around longer and ultimately trust you more. On the Internet, trust translate to profits!2) Search engines LOVE fresh content created through blogs. By publishing your own blog and adding fresh content to it on a regular basis, you'll attract the attention of the major search engines who will list your website in their directories for FREE. That's right! As soon as you have pages of your blog in the search engines, you'll start attracting free qualified traffic to your site without paying a dime for it. Remember, Google Adwords? Imagine running a large and comprehensive Google Adwords campaign without paying anything for it... That's exactly what you can accomplish by publishing your own blog!Are you ready to get started? Come on... it's EASY, it's FREE and it's FUN! ;-)In fact, you'll have your own blog setup in 3 easy steps.Let's get started...Click here to visit the Blogger website.Once you arrive and look things over, click the "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW" arrow.Next, you'll arrive at the "Create an account" page. Complete the 5 simple fields on that page.TIP: For your user name, I suggest using your first and last name combined OR the characters of your domain name without the .com, .net, .org, etc.Check the "Terms of Service" box and click on the "CONTINUE" arrow.The next page is the "Name your blog" page. Enter a title Example: FLCFMEnterprises.com's Home Business Blog or Fred Melchiore's Work at Home Journal or something like that... Be creative! ;-)Now enter your blog address. Again, I suggest using the characters of your domain name without the .com, .net, .org, etc. If the name is taken, try the characters of your first and last name combined or anything else you want to be your blog address. Whatever name you decide upon will create your blog URL such as: www.YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME.blogspot.comNext, complete the word verification field by typing the characters you see in the picture above the field.NOTE: Ignore the "Advanced Setup" option for now. The advanced setup option allows you to add your blog files directly to your Host4Profit hosting account. I strongly advise you against using the advanced setup option at this time (unless you are already extremely comfortable with uploading files to your hosting account). Later, I will provide step-by-step instructions for transferring your blog to your hosting account. But, for right now, let's just get your blog setup and running properly using Blogger's free hosting.Click the "CONTINUE" arrow.Next, you'll arrive at the "Choose a template" page. This page allows you to choose a custom look for your blog. Take a look at the designs available and select one by marking the selection circle inside the blog template image. You can easily change the template later, or even create your own custom template design once your blog is set up.Once you've selected your blog template, click the "CONTINUE" arrow.Congratulations! Your blog has been created! :-)Now it's time to start adding content...In order to get your blog off to a fast and profitable start, you can publish 19 of my own home business articles (with your affiliate link in them) on your blog today. This will instantly give you 19 new pages of expert content leading your blog traffic back to your Plug-In Profit Site sales page.As soon as you get some initial content added to your blog, I'll show you how to ping your blog so it gets spidered by the search engines which will start attracting 100% FREE targeted traffic to your blog pages!The process of adding these 19 articles to your blog should take you less than 1 hour to complete... More importantly, once you've completed this step, you will have created an asset that has the potential to bring you free targeted traffic and ongoing profits for the rest of your life.Here's what you need to do now:Click here to login to your Blogger account.Next, click the "New Post" icon.A new page will open up with a large text entry field. Next, click the "Edit Html" button near the top-right of the data entry field. NOTE: It is VERY important to use the "Edit Html" feature! Otherwise, your article will not be automatically formatted correctly. You will use this "Edit Html" screen to enter 1 article at a time and post it to your blog.Click here to open up a new window with the article #1: "Advertising Your Home Business on a Budget". NOTE: Whenever there is a link or bold statement within the article, you will notice some strange looking HTML code. This is done purposefully so DON'T change it. Once you Copy & Paste this article (exactly as it appears) into your blog, the code will convert to clickable links and bold text where appropriate which is EXACTLY what you want. I've already done the all the "hard" work for you so you don't have to make these code conversions yourself! ;-)Highlight & Copy the complete article including the resource box which is the "About The Author" section AND the additional "NOTE: "at the end of the article. The additional "NOTE:" at the end of the article should be posted with your blog entry. This will create a viral marketing effect for your blog and cause some website owners to republish your Plug-In Profit Site affiliate links on THEIR website! :-)Once you've highlighted and copied the entire article, resource box and final note on that page, go back to your Blogger post creation screen and Paste the complete text into the field provided.Once the full article and resource box is pasted into the field, click the "Publish Post" button at the end of the page.At this point, you have the option to view your blog or simply move on and continue adding articles. If you decide to view your blog first, click the (in a new window) link.Give yourself a pat on the back... Congratulations! You now have a blog full of valuable content. Now it's time to tell people about it! :-)Before we get into the action of marketing your blog, let me share with you the philosophy of why blogging and publishing content online is so important and profitable...First, most people surfing the Internet are looking for information. In other words, most people are not actively seeking to buy a product. And nearly everyone expects to get the information they are seeking for free...Speaking specifically about the marketplace of people who are "interested" in having a home business and/or making money online, most of these people want to find good information about the subject FIRST.Therefore, becoming a provider of trustworthy information about home businesses, work at home opportunities and online money making ideas positions you as the source for what people are actually looking for in the first place.Then, when people find your information and get engaged in the articles, they will naturally find the links that point to your Plug-In Profit Site sales page and visit them. Now, they have already been pre-sold and have more trust in the link to your Plug-In Profit Site sales page because they have already benefited by reading the free information provided in the article on your blog! ;-)Also, blogs are the most search engine friendly Internet publishing tool in existence. This means that the pages of your blog can start being indexed by the search engines almost immediately and some of the your blog content pages will start showing up in the FREE listings of the search engines when people search for various key words. Therefore, adding quality content to your blog on a regular basis can generate free targeted traffic to your website potentially forever.Now we're getting into some extremely powerful FREE Internet marketing techniques... These techniques take more time and effort to implement than paid advertising, but they are completely FREE and they do work.OK, let's get to work... You want to start by "pinging" your blog to get the automated traffic machine started.First, click here to visit the Ping-o-Matic website.Once you get to the Ping-o-Matic website, type in the name of your blog in the first field.In the second field, type in the complete URL of your Blogger blog. Example: http://www.YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME.blogspot.com NOTE: Replace YOUR~BLOGGER~USERNAME with your actual Blogger username! This is very, very important!!!Next, select (check) ALL available "SERVICES TO PING".Now, click the "Submit Pings" button.A status report will appear on the next page indicating the status of your blog pings.What this does is notify a bunch of blog listing services about YOUR blog. Now they will send spiders over to your blog to index the content and link it to their network! :-)Congratulations! You've completed the first important step in marketing your new blog. Now, anytime you update the content of your blog by adding new articles, publishing your thoughts, etc., re-visit the Ping-o-Matic website and ping your blog! Look back at the trail you've blazed today. You are a blog publisher now! Congratulations! :-)Oh, and by the way... Do you realize that you can add anything you want to your new blog whenever you want? It's true!You can add more articles to your blog anytime you want using the same simple steps applied above. You might add your own articles or you could just add your own thoughts, ideas and experiences (like an online diary of your Internet marketing journey). With a blog, the publishing possibilities are only limited by your own imagination...In the coming days, I will outline some additional ways to use your blog and I'll show you how to incorporate it into your actual website home page. You can follow where I lead or you can chart your own course. The choice is yours. The point to realize is that, as a blog publisher, you've just unlocked a HUGE window of opportunity for yourself! :-)EXTRA CREDIT: If you want to MAXIMIZE the profit potential of your blog, I invite you to read and follow the steps in Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian in his ground-breaking special report: "Blog Profit Ideas Exposed"! You can grab a copy of Dr. Mani's mind expanding eBook at this website. Congratulations again, Your Friend and ColleagueFred Melchiore, FLCFMEnterprises 663 Lockhaven CourtNewark, Delaware 19702

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