Are You On The Cutting Edge Of Blogging?

Although blogging has been around for some time now the use of marketing and advertising in blogs is really catching on throughout the world wide web.

There are an estimated 70 million blogs worldwide and while these are blogs about any subject you could possibly imagine wouldn't it be great if you could capture 1% of those readers attention and get them to visit your blog?

Technorati.com estimates that there are about 900,000 blog posts every day which equates to 10.4 posts per second and that number is growing as you read this article.

With what I just mentioned in the last two paragraphs is it any wonder why marketers and webmasters are flocking in droves to establish marketing blogs to attract new customers to their websites in the hopes of converting them into customers for their products or services.

Big Corporations such as General Motors, Boeing, and Google on the blogging scene this really does appear to be a no brainer. How do you make your blog stand out as an original worth reading amongst all the others? Here are a few tips to get you started:

1) Make your blog an original by posting content that is written or edited by you. Real people crave original content not rehashed news that they heard on the radio or saw in the paper yesterday.

2) Use a blog exchange service as a way of driving traffic to your blog. There are free services as well as paid services. One of my favorite low-cost blog/website traffic services is www.ProClickEstate.com

3) Exchange blog or website links with other blog owners whose blog content compliments your own.

4) Drive offline traffic online by using word of mouth as well as business cards.

5) Make your blog stand out by using audio and/or video on your blog and in your blog posts. Multi- media applications will keep your readers coming back and prove that you take your blog seriously.

These 5 strategies should get you started if you have not already began blogging. Keep your blog strategy simple and your content real & valuable. You will be growing your brand recognition as well as a contact list of loyal and valuable readers at the same time which is the bottom line to any successful marketer.

Always market like a professional!

Copywrite 2006 Mark Brown