Because there are now billions of websites and blogs competing for attention it can be quite a challenge to make your blog visible. To get your blog noticed by your ideal visitor, first you have to get it noticed by the search engines.

The leading driver of web traffic is the search engine Google and so you need to please Google. The other major search engines, Yahoo and Bing, tend to copy Google so if you please one you please them all.

Now, actually only a few people in the world (and they are the high powered Google executives) really know how Google’s search engine decides to rate and rank blogs but, for the rest of us, here are a few pointers that definitely help to get your blog noticed.

It all really starts with keywords.  When you first have an idea for a blog you need to visualise your target audience and to ask yourself the question ‘what does my ideal visitor type into Google search that would ideally lead them to my blog?’ For example, if your blog was all about ice skating techniques, your ideal visitor might type in the keyword ‘how do i learn to skate’.  If that’s the sort of person you want to attract to your blog you want to set up your blog like this:

• Your domain name should be descriptive and should convey to Google just what your blog is about. In our example, ‘iceskatingtechniques.com’ would be a good and better domain than ‘iceskating.com’, which is probably too general and would have more competition.
• Your blog title should be explicit and should contain your keyword. This is the text that appears when the search results are displayed and so it should be phrased to attract the visitor to click on to the home page of your blog. ‘Ice Skating Techniques – Learn How To Skate Like A Star!’ would be a good title.
• You should have regular blog posts with titles like ‘How Do I Learn To Skate?’ and ‘Learn Skating’ and ‘Advanced Ice Skating Tips’ – all the phrases that a rookie skater (and your ideal visitor) would type into Google search.

That’s just the start. Then you’ve got to get inbound links to your blog. If other websites or blogs contain a link to your blog with the keywords ‘How Do I Learn To Skate?’ and ‘Learn Skating’ and ‘Advanced Ice Skating Tips’, pointing to your appropriate post, then Google treats that as a recommendation and begins to take notice.

I’ll deal with the question of getting inbound links next week. Stay tuned!

This is what’s happening with web design. If you want to learn how to build your own website it’s no longer just a question of ‘HTML For Dummies’. The technology for building and display web sites is getting more and more complex by the day.

Beginners who start out by trying to teach themselves web design find that they have to master several complex coding languages: not only HTML but also CSS, Javascript and PHP to name but a few. And if they do manage to pull it all together and throw up a webpage they risk it looking seriously amateurish.  It’s a tough world for budding web designers these days!

So, what can you do if you want to create your own website? Why, use WordPress of course!

Seriously – as web design has become progressively more complex, so WordPress has become correspondingly more sophisticated and powerful and easier and easier to use.

WordPress lets you create your own web presence without needing to know any coding languages. All the background work has been done for you by some of the smartest programmers in the world, and best of all, it’s free! Every new version that is released contains ever more enhancements and the number of useful plugins (which enhance the functionality even more) grows daily.

I’ve done a couple of tutorials to show you how to get started. Look over to the top right of this page to see what’s there for you to download.

But, I do know that many visitors to this blog want to find a way to create an income online and I know that many people actually do this, quite successfully.

So, how do you break into the world of making money online?

Here’s some good news. You need the right training, from experts who know exactly what they are talking about and who provide all the backup and support you need while you’re learning. Those experts are my friends Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey and their course is called Commission Blueprint 2.0.

I could spout on all day about what’s in this product but the easiest way for you to find out is to download this free 50-page ebook which contains extracts from the course. The material in this ebook contains tips and techniques that you can use immediately to begin making money.

And you know what? All you’ve got to do is click on this link and it’s yours. You don’t have to give an email. You don’t have to pay anything. I’m just giving it away to say ‘thank you’ for visiting my blog and because I’m a really nice person

Seriously, I can genuinely recommend this course because it is SO good. It’s comprehensive, up to date, easy to follow and – best of all – written by two guys who have actually done what they’re teaching. I know, because I’m one of their pupils!

Find out more at Commission Blueprint v2.

Enjoy!

We all know that finances are getting tough and to a lot of people every penny counts. This is my way of spreading the word that getting onto the Internet need not be difficult or expensive.

This WordPress tutorial shows you how to create a blog on your own domain. This could be a traditional blog – or it could be a blog that looks and behaves like a traditional website. These days you can do it either way with WordPress.

If you want to create a web presence for any type of business or commercial venture, there is absolutely no easier and cheaper way of doing it than creating a WordPress blog on your own domain.

My $7 tutorial, written in clear plain English, will take you step-by-step through the process. I hold your hand, showing you what to do (and what not to do!) to create a blog that fits your requirements.

Click here to >> Create A Blog << with my $7 WordPress Tutorial!

There are many reasons why you might want to create a blog, but whatever you want to say and no matter what your personal style, you know you want to create something special.

WordPress now has so many options that it is easy to create a unique web presence without having to know anything at all about the code behind the scenes.

Many of the top-level Internet names now use WordPress as their favored blogging medium – think Apple, Harvard Law School, Wall Street Journal Magazine, America.gov, Sony Playstation, etc. etc.  Why don’t you join this illustrious company?

Building a WordPress blog is not nearly as difficult as it first seems: in fact, once you get into it, it’s embarrassingly easy.  There’s no need to be a coder or a programmer or a web designer. The only basic skill you need is to be able to type, but you can even do that with one finger, if you like.

All the clever background stuff has been done for you by the WordPress programmers and you can have access to all of it FOR FREE! There’s absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t create your own blog, starting right now. Download one of my tutorials to find out just how to get started.

• Create a blog on your own domain
• Create a blog for free on wordpress.com

Thousands of people have used my WordPress tutorials and given them rave reviews. Why not get started on YOUR blog today?