If you spend a ton of time online you likely run across websites, articles, recipes, and more that you want to come back to again at some point. A great way to be able to do so is to bookmark the site. These days there are a variety of ways that you can "bookmark" your favorite places on the web, and all the great sites, articles and other things that you want to "store" for a later time.

Social Bookmarking is also good for online businesses.

Social bookmarking, it's just one of the various social media sites that has helped so many small business owners with their marketing efforts. Social bookmarking like other forms of social media is a great way to market your small business for free. So, if you're a small business owner YOU should definitely be utilizing social bookmarking.

Although it can take some time to truly benefit from social bookmarking, which allows you to save your favorite links for anything and everything you find online and then share those links with others. Your aim as a small business owner would be to share links from your own site, services and promotions to be quickly and easily found by others. You would also aim to have others bookmark your endeavors, your promotional blog posts and anything that points back to your site.

Your aim is to begin to create a following, so that over time they repeatedly look to your social bookmarks to find what they need in your area of expertise.

Why not try out social bookmarking for yourself? Try out Digg and Delicious to get started.

To learn more about social bookmarking : Unlocking the Secrets To Social Bookmarking

Blog Energizer is finally here!

Today is a very good day for blogs and bloggers everywhere. Lynette Chandler has finally opened up Blog Energizer to the public and you can sign up for your free account right now.

Lynette has been giving away great resources leading up to this highly anticipated launch. I can't wait to take advantage of the great ideas and information to improve my blogs.

Blog Energizer is a unique resource that gives members valuable opportunities to fill their blogs with content, drive traffic and more.

With a basic account (it doesn't cost a thing) at Blog Energizer, you get access to:

- Freebies you can give away on your blog
- Blogs that are looking for guest bloggers.
- Bloggers who might just want to write for your blog.
- Podcasts that are actively looking for people to interview.
- Traffic boosting ideas for your blog - and more.

In minutes you'll be ready to fill your blog with all kinds of great stuff.

Don't wait go now to Blog Energizer and sign up.

Money might just be a click away

If you already spend a fair amount of time blogging, money may come to you literally as soon as you ask for it. Once you have an established blog with a regular readership, it is easy to turn a profit through advertising. By hosting sponsored links or banners, you can see income from your hobby almost overnight. Even if you did not start your blog intending to turn a profit, making supplementary income from your blog may be easier than you think.

Of course, even for people who have spent months or years blogging, money from advertising revenue may not add up to a large sum. The amount of money that you can make as a blogger depends on a lot of different factors, but perhaps the most important element of the equation is the topic of your blog. If your blog is on a subject that appeals to a demographic that advertisers have a strong desire to reach, you will be more likely to be able to turn a large profit on your blog than if your blog is on a fairly obscure subject that does not draw the kind of audience that advertisers need to appeal to. Of course, the only way to find out where you fall on this spectrum is to try hosting some ads. If you are already blogging, you have nothing to lose.

As great resource for making money with a blog is Blogging to the Bank 2.0

One guy who uses blogging to his advantage is Rob Benwell. Last year he dished the dirt on the tips and tricks to making a fortune using blogging. But as time passes the old systems become obsolete and new techniques are required. This is where his brand new, fresh off the press blogging to the bank 2 system comes into play.

For those who don't know Rob Benwell, he's the story:
Back in 2005 he was struggleing to make any profit online, had dropped out of college and was getting deep into debt. He was trying all the techniques the gurus tell you and wasn't getting anywhere fast. All of that went in the bin and he started using his own techniques and started making more and more money using simple blogs. In early 2006 he shared this with the world and had a great ebook called blogging to the bank. Tons of people got rich from using these techniques. He then spoke at Online Marketing Legend Yanik Silver's underground Seminar where he revealed even more of his underground strategies.

But as I said earlier, the techniques used in that ebook are now showing there age. Some of them are not even working in the slightest! This is where blogging to the bank 2 comes into play.

It's full of great new techniques that work online right now! Everything's explained in plain English with all the fluff cut out.

Blogging To The Bank 2 teaches you Robs new step by step blueprint to creating highly profitable long term niche blogs using the newest optimization techniques. There's even a section on advanced Search Engine Optimization. Most people think SEO is difficult but Rob explains this nice and simply so even the blogging newbie will understand it.

Blogging To The Bank 2 is a breath of fresh air and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to make easy money online. Click below for more information about this system

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Blogging and promoting it with Web 2.0 marketing, one beginner’s discovery.

Blogging and promoting it with Web 2.0 marketing, one beginner’s discovery.

It’s all over the internet you can quickly start making money on the internet, just start a blog. Now you can’t just blog about anything and expect it to get read, get subscribers or make money. You need to pick a topic and a niche within that topic and give it a catchy (memorable) blog name. So you go to blogger.com, cause we want to start out with the least amount of expenses as possible (free is good), to register and get started.

Now you need do some blog postings. Writing an article doesn’t just mean putting down thoughts into words then typing and writing it. You have to capture the interest of your readers and get them to keep on reading. To send your message across you have to get the attention of the reader and have a firm grasp of their interest and pique their curiosity.

The main ingredient in baking up an article is a large dose of creativity. While creativity may come natural to many people, some others have to work a little harder. Putting words into images in the readers mind is an art. A clear and crisp depiction requires a certain flair that only creativity can provide. The way an article gets entwined word for word, sentence by sentence then paragraph by paragraph into a whole article develops the essence of the article. You can get help with article writing Click Here!

So now you’ve started and are on your way, do you just sit back and let SEO do its work? I wouldn’t.

So where do we go next, how to we get people to our blog? Now is the time to start integrating some Web 2.0 Marketing.

It is finally starting to click with me, what needs to be done and the steps that need to be taken.

Step One:
1. Have you set up/picked the social networks you would like to work with. There are many to choose from and to try and participate in them all would be time consuming. So I recommend you pick a few (include at least one of the top web 2.0 networks and social networks (digg, mixx, stumbleupon, twitter, myspace, facebook and many others) and go from there.

2. Write the best article you can muster, no direct sales pitches here, on whatever topic relates to your blogging world, post it and then we start having some fun.

3. Submit your article to Digg, Mixx, stumbleupon or whatever platforms you have chosen.

4. Let people know you have posted to your blog through twitter, myspace, facebook whatever social networks you have decided to use.

5. Repeat steps 1 thru 4…….

In the end it all comes down to the friend of a friend of a friend theory. Well go with 90% of your subscribers, readers and ultimately your customers at some point were referred or found you through your “friend” network and if they stay you are bound to get more of those referrals.

Let’s get out there and make some FRIENDS.

How to ......

A few weeks ago I participated in Mommyfest and blog party (which was alot of fun and helpful). During Mommyfest participated in a contest where I listened to a guest speaker interview and entered a comment. Well I ended up winning a prize. I won a free ebook from Just Add Sweat. I picked out an ebook on How to Start a Recipe Blog for fun and profit. I really couldn't be more happy with my choice. This book starts from the beginning of initial concept, to picking a niche topic, to setting up a blog and so on. It was really a great ebook and since that is my secret passion (well collecting cookbooks is), this is my next blog I hope to start getting under way. This book has really given me some good tips and ideas. This information also come with a blogging calendar with useful blogging ideas by month, an audio interview, resources for articles and artwork, and much more useful information.
If you have any interest in starting a recipe blog this is the place to go to get started, you will find a great resource to help you throughout the process. I would always be willing to help anyway I can along your journey too.
Again that link is How to start a recipe blog

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