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Retail stores are coming to see the value of blogging, “Go Blogging For Customers”, a report in Forbes says.

The rules for blogging in the report, which include “stick to the basics, be natural, and appeal to the search engines” apply to any blogger.

If you’re a freelance blogger, take a fresh look at the retailers in your city. Now might be the time to suggest a blog to them.

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Jason McCabe Calacanis’s “Email with a journalist..” exchange is an excellent primer on how to make money blogging:

> > 1) Quite simply: CAN blogging be business? If so, can it be a money-
> > maker in its own right for a lot of people, or just for a few, like
> > yourself?

Blogging is already a business. Our company, Weblogs, Inc., is an eight figure a year business.

Gawker Media, Rafat Ali’s PaidContent.org, Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch, John Battelle’s Federated Media, and Boingboing.net are all significant media business today.

> > 2) how does one make it a business. Ie, how did YOU make it one.

Advertising.

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Want to increase the traffic to your blog? The easiest way is by choosing keywords which are entered into the search engine query boxes by the people you want to attract.

Easy, right? Well…

Yes and no. If you choose keywords which are highly competitive, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. You won’t rank (get found) for those keywords for years, if ever.

“Choosing Keywords and Key Phrases for SEO” is an excellent post on how to choose keywords. Keep this in mind -

Choose Keywords and Key Phrases that are Unique:
When using keyword generators and online keyword search tools, a highly recommended process, be sure that you do not select the most popular keywords from the top of the list. Instead, it is better to focus on keywords that are used less frequently. Why? You are ensuring a higher listing in search engines whenever the unique phrasing is used because there may be less competition and you will be getting the targeted traffic you want.

Put some thought into your keywords, especially if you want traffic NOW. I’ve found that I get 99 per cent of my blog’s traffic from Google, and 80 per cent of that is for unique keywords.

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