Blogging “Cheat Sheet”
1. Open a Blogger account at www.blogger.com
2. Set up your blog
3. Optimize your blog for the search engines
4. Link from your blog to a relevant sales page
5. Tell Google about your blog. Go to
www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and
submit your blog’s URL
6. “Ping” your blog to the top blog directories and
search engines. Go to www.pingomatic.com and
paste in your blog’s URL
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Blogging “Cheat Sheet”
7. Create an “RSS feed” to promote your blog
8. Tell Google every time you udpate your blog – and increase
your ranking in Google
Go to: www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps and open a
Google Sitemaps account, and submit your blog’s feed
URL
9. Generate automatic Yahoo content for your blog
Go to: http://news.yahoo.com/rss and click on “create your
own RSS news feeds.” Add the feed to your blog by
following the directions at Feedburner
(www.feedburner.com)
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Blogging “Cheat Sheet”
10. Use “Blog This” to blog new articles in seconds
Download the google toolbar at:
www.google.com/toolbar and enable the “Blog This” function
to allow you to blog quickly and easily about the topics
you find on the web.
11. Give subscribers a dynamic sreensaver with your blog’s
latest headlines
Go to: http://screensaver.msn.com
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