…….. 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

Read on to get your free wordpres plugin today!

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.

Photo courtesy of Michael

Want to learn how to start a blog but now sure where or how? Blogging is a lucrative source of income for some and blogs are hands-down the easiest to set up and maintain. Imagine a life where you are compensated for writing on stuff that interests you, whenever you want, wherever you are.

The mere flexibilityof blogging makes it simple for you to just kick back, relax and go on a holiday if you feel like it.

In this article, we’re going to go over  how to start a blog of our own at no cost! Curious? Read on!

First, we need to get a blog. There are several different options – host a blog on your own domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s discuss the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at www.blogger.com or the newer (and more effective) www.wordpress.com. If you have a pulse, you must have heard of Wordpress. Wordpress is a free blog engine that is robust and boundlessly expandable.

Blogger.com is really owned by Google, so it will be discovered on Google’s search engine faster and you’ll be indexed faster. Wordpress.com, however, is a comparatively newer option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. Nonetheless, Wordpress is significantly more superior in the sense that it has more advanced features such as trackbacks and indisputably more customizable. With wordpress you’ll be able to change any and everything concerning your blog; giving you to opportunity to effectively make money with a blog. I mean, ultimately, that’s what it boils down to more about this later).

So, the first step to start a blog is to go to Wordpress or Blogger.com. Then, acquaint yourself by putting up your first post on your blog and messing around around with the options and templates.{Yes, I’m partial to Wordpress:}

**Note: Don’t spend too much time with the techie stuff. Just pick a topic that interest you and get something up.

Here are a few basic “blog-related” words to assist you along the way:

1)    Permalink – Permalink stands for permanent link, which is a URL (uniform resource locator) that leads to an individual post that you make in your blog.
2)    Trackback – When you post about someone else’s blog post elsewhere, your post will show up in their “trackback” section. This feature, however, is not available with a Blogger.com account.
3)    Pinging – Blogging appears to be paired with pinging just about every time either one is brought up nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your web log  or blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the freshest post of your blog on their website. This is also a useful method to pulling in traffic, which we shall discuss later.

For now, I’ll  leave you to trying out your new blog and the features that come included with it. In the near future, we’ll discuss the many ways we can gain profit from a blog, as well as tips on how to publish posts that keep visitors glued to your blog and keep coming back for more!

Please feel free to ask questions about how to start a blog.