…….. Whatever the heck you want to use it for.

If you want to bring your business online, set up a blog.

If you want to write funny stories, build a blog.

If you want to start a fight with a politician, get your blog set up.

If you want to make money from home blogging, well why don’t you set up a blog.

If your getting married and want your gift registry online, do it on a blog.

If you want to make money from home, start building a blog right now.

Want to do some affiliate marketing, how about doing it on a blog.

If you want to capture names and email address of your visitors, use your blog as a squeeze page.

If you want to have a store online selling your Ebay stuff, set up a blog with your store on it. You get the point, I hope.

What a blog is used for exactly is whatever the individual behind that blog wants to do. You, in essence can set up an Internet journal wherein you are able to digitally write down your opinions, thoughts, feelings and/or just about  anything that you want people to read.

Occasionally, you’ll even come across bloggers who, instead of writing texts, make their blogs more audio friendly, by using audio entries or ipod casts. This is called audio blogging.

Here’s some places I found where you can get free stuff and a thing or two:

• How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger (problogger.net)
• Affiliate Marketing For Beginners-Online Home Based Business (affiliatestartingline.com)
• How To Make Squeeze Pages 101 (johnchow.com)
• Submitting Quality Article Content Equals Good Search Engine Traffic (ronmedlin.com)

In layman’s terms, what is a blog used for depends totally on you and what you want to accomplish. You still here? You should be setting your blog up

• Mr. and Mrs. is your perfect WordPress wedding template for a personal wedding site.  Beautifully crafted to add your wedding stories, your wedding schedules, reservations and contact form.  The Mr. and Mrs. theme comes in 4 soft color schemes to choose from and is very customizable. Price $59.

• SLR Lounge WP Theme Online Big Photoblog offers up a Free SLR Lounge Wordpress Wedding Theme. This one  is great if you have a little bit of techie skill. Not as customizable but still a beautiful wordpress wedding template. Price Free.

All the other templates that I found on the net were leading me to suspended accounts and hacked sites. I hope you can use these and congratulations to all the lovely brides to be. Remember, if you download a free wordpress wedding theme, not to change the footer info. If you purchase one, however, you probably can alter that info. Make sure you read the terms of service.

Two beautiful themes that you I hope can use as your wordpress wedding template. One free and one not.

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There’s a lot to learn. Why not learn from someone who dominates web traffic. Most of the questions that people email me are are getting more traffic to their blogs. With search engine optimization, article marketing, social bookmarking, pay per click marketing and Goggle and their algorithms and so on. I understand the frustration. I too would love to have 1,000,000 hits a day to my site. It’s a process that I continually worked on. And you should too.

Here’s a video that I found that really simplifies one method that you can use to get internet web site traffic to your blog. We can’t make money blogging, if we don’t increase traffic to blog. We need to get folks to see all of this content that we are pumping out.

This video is by one of my favorite internet marketers, John Reese. In this video, he is trying to sell you on Traffic Secrets. Never mind that, Traffic Secrets 2.0 isn’t even out yet. Just listen to the message behind the sell. It’s powerful.

Internet Marketing – Internet Web Site Traffic Video For Your Blog

www.trafficsecrets.com is down for maintenance.  Get internet web site traffic to your blog.

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Okay,  so you’ve got your blog up. It looks all pretty and you’ve begun pumping out some nice quality content for your readers. You’ve got your your autoresponder all geared up and ready to go. You’ve stuck in a few advertisements hoping to get some clicks and make money blogging.  After what seems like an eternity you take a lookie look at your traffic stats.

WHAT THE #$@^%^@! “No traffic!”

Scratching your head you begin to realize that in order to get folks to click on those ads or even read your blog site content, you’ve got to get some blog traffic.

Who knew? Don’t get frustrated. Increasing traffic to your blog is one of the most difficult and time consuming things us bloggers have to do. However, if you are using WP as you blogging platform, there’s lots of little widgets and a particular wordpres plugin you can use to make this task a whole lot easier.

If you haven’t see my post about some of the best wordpress plugins, then hop over and take a read. I’m testing out a simple free blogging tool that allows me to get more traffic to my blog.  Ironically, it’s called the Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin...at least that’s what Jeff Johnson calls it.

It’s his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic to your blog from the search engines. Version 2.0 was just released and it is easier to use, and more powerful than ever. All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Check it out:
Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin.

Have No Fear:  If you already have a WP blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic. And if you don’t have a blog… Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret “push a button” technology that even the newest of newbies could use. Seriously, this thing Rocks!

The great thing about this brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin Version 2.0 is that it is…

It couldn’t be easier to use and it’s…

100% free and Installs in minutes. You heard me right.

Check it out:
Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin

I promise it will save you some time. Let me know  your thoughts on this wordpres plugin. I want to know if it works for you like it has for me.

Is your blogging business really a business? Or is it something that your doing for fun? Whatever your case is, sometimes you need a little inspiration and/or motivation to continue posting and pumping out fresh content for you blog. Well, I just found a great post written by fellow blogger Darren Rowse of Copyblogger.com. It is a true eye opener for those looking to make a full time income via blogging cash.

Darren is one of those people who I absolutely look up to when it comes to modeling a successful blog. He consistently provides valuable resources to help those struggling in the blogoshpere..

Read the article now by clicking this link——— Copyblogger.com

Don’t forget to come back and share your thoughts..

A great one! Let’s have some fun with it! Here’s how most people tell you to do it:

• Get a free Blogger blog
• Put some content on it
• ad some Adsense ads
• promote
• promote
• promote

Now, let me tell what doing the above did for me. It made me about $37 in adsense earnings. I bet you can’t guess how long it took me to earn that $37.

If you can guess the correct answer to the above question, I’ll build you a blog for free. No strings attached.

I wanted to make money online without money. I wanted to make some fast money online. I wanted to make money with my blog. So I bought a $97 E-book and dove in head first believing what the author told me. I really thought that I could do it. Well, I did make money online without money.

Can you guess how long it took?

Remember I said it’s very comprehensive. What I suggest you do is bookmark Brian Clark’s page and visit often. Take one step at a time. Building website traffic is not something that will happen overnight. It takes time and patience. If you’ve got the money to pay someone to do it for you, then by all means – go for it. If not like me and a little bit short on cash (hey, no one ever said I was rolling in the dough), use this guide to attract links and increase web traffic like a it’s your library.

Visit one of my favorite blogs now and read the ultimate guide to attract links and increase blog traffic.

Copyblogger.com

Make sure you come back here to let me know what you think!

Below are my two favorite cheap blog hosting services. So if you’re looking to save a few dollars to get yourself started, you can’t beat these offers. I’ll, also, explain the difference in both hosting services.

Number *1

If you haven’t heard of Hostgator, then you must be living under a rock. Here’s a list of some of what they offer:

. Unlimited Domains
. Unlimited Subdomains
. Unlimited Bandwidth
. Unlimited Disk Space, and
. Unlimited Databases

Hostgator has been my favorite for 3 years. They offer top-notch and reliable service that can’t be matched.  Okay, let me inform you that you can get started for just 1 cent. That’s right. I don’t know how long this special is going to last.  You can get the hosting you need from the most reliable hosting site for only 1 cent! Here’s how:

1-Click here to visit Hostgator.com

2-Look for the “Web Hosting” Link  (just to the right of “Home”, at the top of the page)

3-Select the “Baby” Package for $7.95 + $2.00  for dedicated IP (the package comes this way)

4- Go through the order steps, (adding your domain etc.) and when they ask  for a Coupon code, enter: 1cent

Number #2

The runner up, IMHO, is IX Web hosting. This service is yet another reliable inexpensive web host service. Here’s what sets them apart from Hostgator:

You get 15 different IP address’s with your Unlimited Pro package that still comes under 8 bucks a month! This an excellent deal if you blog because search engines love when your backlinks and the sort come from different domains. WHOA!

If you plan on having multiple different blogs or doing any type of niche marketing, then I’d suggest you go with IX. You can’t beat that with a damn baseball bat.

Now if you are just creating a bunch of sites and need unlimited bandwidth and domains, then HostGator will serve your needs well. I use the Baby Croc edition,  I have multiple sites and have never had an issue. Choose the best cheap blog hosting service for your needs and let me know how it works for you.

Blog Success Affiliate Program

If you are into blogging, then chances are that you’ve heard of the Blog Success Affiliate Program.  But what’s all the hype about.

Well, let me just say that blogging for profit is not something that you can start today and be making MAD CASH tomorrow. There are many aspects to getting your blog to become profitable. However, it is very possible to make money from home blogging.  And if there is anyone that can teach you how, then Jack Humphrey is the top man that can teach you how to make blog profits.

I learned almost everything I know about blogging from Jack Humphrey. I stalk him like an eagle stalks it’s prey and Jack welcomes it. That’s the one thing I really like about him. He almost insists that his students use the exact methods that he spends thousands of dollars on for free.

Make Money From Home Blogging will provide you with the basics steps like; how to build your blog using wordpress, how to change a header, how to find keywords, how to come up with a topic for your blog, etc..

Once you learn the basics, you may want to begin looking for an affiliate program to promote on your blog. IMHO, the blog success affiliate program is one of the best. I say that you learn the basics because Jack Humphrey’s program is not for the faint-hearted. This program is a Top-Notch-Professional-Blog-Training-Program. Hence, all the hype. What that means is, you have to be willing to invest the time and money or you’ll just be wasting your time.

Blog Success claims to be a program for beginners. I beg to differ. I was a member for over a year before I grasped all the information that was provided in this program. But I figured it all out. I had to get off my duff, stop absorbing the information and take the action required to begin seeing any kind of return on investment.

Guess who gave me the shove that I needed? You guessed it! Jack Humphrey himself. Thanks Jack!

Jack Humphrey recently conducted a case study interview with Rusty Moore. Rusty is one of Jack’s members and needless to say he has taken the ball and hasn’t stopped running with it.

Rusty Moore has been with Jack since May 2007. His site, FitnessBlackBook, gets around 3000 unique visitors per day. Just one of his pages makes him over $300 per month. Other pages and posts more or less than that.Rusty is one of Jack’s members and needless to say he has taken the ball and hasn’t stopped running with it.

Here’s a short interview with Jack and Rusty that outlines how he is doing with his blog, what has made the difference for him in building the blog, and his plans for future growth. This audio is must-hear interview for you, if you want to generate free traffic using a blog.  Click below to listen to Rusty’s interview before you jump into the Blog Success Affiliate Program.

Jack Humphrey and Rusty Moore Interview

Ordinary people, like you and me, sit at their computers until their fingers get sore and develop these worpress plugins for us in their own spare time with the hope of a donation or two. I consider them php-tech-heads. They are priceless and really do a great job of creating tools for us bloggers to keep our business in order. So don’t be afraid to go to give a contribution, if you think the

photo by iwannt’s

plugin makes your life easier. And trust me, some of them REALLY make like easier.

There are worpress plugins that can be used to get traffic, organize, update, ping, advertise, track statistics and a whole host of other things. I’m sure you will find at least 30 that you can use to make your blogging life simpler.

Here’s a list of my favorite plugins for worpress:

• Subcribe to comments by Mark Jaquith
• Lucy’s Link Love by Lucia Liljegren
• adsense manager by Martin Fitzpatrick
• dd-formmailer **I really like Matt.
• digitalfingerprint by Kirk Montgomery
• Askimet by Matt Mullenwg
• Do follow by Denis D. Bernady
• Snazzy Archives by Vladimir Prelovac
• All In One by Michel Torbert
• Digg This by Aviran Mordo
• Ping Optimizer by MaxBlogPress
• Simple Captcha by Zorex
• Postteaser by Weyhan Ng
• Simple Link Cloaker by Steve Johnson
• Google XML Sitemaps by Arne Brachold

Okay. I think that should be enough worpress plugins to get you started and on the road to a rich and static blog. Just remember what I told you about these php-tech-heads; most of them do this in their spare time for you and me to become money making bloggers.

It’s very simple to download these plugins with the latest version of wordpress. If you want to start a blog and have it optimized for success, go down the list and download each and every plugin worpress for your blog.

Questions? Don’t be afraid to ask.