Dallas Work at Home Moms

How would you like to drive a Chevy Malibu for a four weeks, have the gas paid for and all you have to do is blog about it.

If you live in the Dallas Ft. Worth area, are a woman, have a ton of Facebook friends, a blog and are willing to blog about your adventures in their Chevy Malibu, this contest could be for you.

It’s the Girlfriend Getaway contest. They are looking for five bloggers so, if you fit the above description then head on over to http://www.girlfriendgetawaydfw.com and enter.

Good luck!

Promoting Your Blog – 30 Minute a Day Blog Promotion Part 1 – Research
By M. Nielsen

Promoting your blog can seem like a task that can easily take up hours upon hours of your time every single day. Think about it! There are so many things you would like to do to promote your blog. This is only natural as every blogger wants his or her blog to be as successful as possible. On the other hand, there are only so many hours in a day. What’s the lesson here? The lesson is that you need to make the most of your time and ensure that you spend your time where it has the most value to you. The system I’ll show you will take less than 30 minutes a day to accomplish when you have set it up correctly. The focus of this article is the research you need to do to make your blog promotion work.

Step 1: Keyword Research

The first day you will focus on keyword research. You need to find “high traffic – low competition” keywords that are relevant to your niche. The tool I suggest you use is the Google External Keyword tool. The reason I suggest this tool is that it’s free and since Google rely on their advertisers to make money it’s a fair bet that it’s reasonably accurate. Look for keywords that get a good amount of searches, but have low competition in the green bar. Add those keywords to your list.

That’s keyword research at its very basics. There is plenty more you can learn about the topic so I can only encourage you to make further studies into this area. This step takes about 30 minutes by itself and is not something you should do every day. Doing it once a month should give you enough material for an entire months worth of blog posts.

Step 2: Content Research

Pick a keyword and do a search on EzineArticles, Google and Wikipedia for that keyword. You need to find 4 – 6 tips for your keyword. Don’t spend more than 5 minutes on this step. You need to make sure that the tips you find are tips you can elaborate on. If you don’t think there is anything more to be said about any given tip it’s probably not a good idea to use it for your blog writing. You need to be able to write 4 – 6 sentences that elaborate on each of the tips you find.

And if you want to know more about Promoting your blog you need to have a system in place. At his blog, http://www.netscribepro.com, M. Nielsen provides information on writing for the internet. Go there today to learn more about blogging and online writing in general.

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We’ve all heard the old expression, “It’s like trying to find a needle in the haystack”.  There are many great wahms out there that have great websites and wonder why they haven’t seen success.  I would think that the biggest reason is that one one knows it’s there.  There are an estimated 50 million websites out there and the internet is growing daily.

If you are new to the internet as many wahms are, no not new like you just got a computer but new that you are just beginning the journey of trying to make money online.  It’s very important that there are ways to find your website in the 50 million pieces of hay.

To do this you need to put the link or url to your site in places that people and search engines can find it.

Here are five quick ways to get your link out there for people and search engines to find you.

1.  You can use a traffic exchange program.  I like to use http://www.linkreferral.com This is a tedious but effective way to kick start your site.  You visit other peoples site and are put on a list so other can come and see yours.  While some of the experts would say this is a big waste of time, I would say it’s well worth the almost half an hour a day it takes to do it.  I started with Link Referral almost five years ago with one of my websites.  I was able to get my links out with exchanges, have customers and even build some lasting relationships with other wahms I found there.

2.  I just mentioned link exchanges in your first step.  A link exchange is when you agree with the other site to display a person’s website if they will display yours.  You can look down on our page here  where you will see our blog roll.  These are other blogs that have decided to enter this mutual relationship with us.

3. Message boards – Not only are they a great place to put your link.  Wahm message boards are a good place to learn from other wahms and network.  We have on here and welcome other work at home moms to join into the conversation and get to know other moms that are in working from home whether you work for a business or own your own.

4.  Facebook and other social networking is a great way to get the word out about your website.  I post my links on my page for my own business and for those of my wahm friends.  Most will do the same for you.

5.  Market your website in the signature of your personal email.  I like to send out funny but clean emails to my friends and family.  If they are good ones you know they will forward them onto their friends too.  So, there goes the link to your website on and on attached to the bottom of that email.  You just never know who might see it.

All of these things are pretty simple to get done.  I have found that you need to be promoting your business regularly for the best results.  It’s important to schedule in time to promote yourself at least a couple of times a week.