I was thinking about small businesses and how they are especially hit hard in a down economy. Here are five tips that you can do for free that will help continue your business building efforts even in a recession.

1) Get local with search

Make sure your company is listed in Google and Yahoo local directories. They are free and you can even link to your web site.

2) Get local in business/service directories

With directories like Angie’s List and CitySearch popping up, be sure your company is listed in the relevant local directories. Be sure to ask customers to write a recommendation for your company as well.

3) Build a local media list at smaller newspapers and start a relationship

Offer advice, take a reporter to lunch. Local media is easier to reach and if you are doing neat things with the community, be sure they know about it. Having an event for charity? Send a media advisory.

4) Remember your employees. PR isn’t all about outside relations

Make sure your employees are motivated and happy. You can reward them with small things like praise (employee of the month/quarter), pizza in the office for a job well done, etc.

5) Discover social media

Start a blog on WordPress and talk about your industry, not just the company. Give tips, advice, general observations. Sign up for Twitter, a microblogging site, and follow people that interest you and join the conversation. Create an account in LinkedIn and Facebook and reconnect with old friends and colleagues. You can even ask business questions in LinkedIn and answer others’ questions and be seen as an expert in your field.

6) Okay, I said five but here’s a bonus tip

Sign up for Help A Reporter.com’s newsletter and get PR queries from journalists looking for sources. But be sure if you answer, that your pitch is on target, short and sweet and do not send attachments. Include contact info in your email and links if needed.

Over the past year, WordPress has become the top blogging platform in the world, and many major internet companies (such as CNN, Yahoo, Sony, The New York Times, People Magazine, and eBay) have taken notice.   A quick browse around many of these companies websites show WordPress installations being used to manage portions of their websites.   At the same time, many bloggers are using a number of techniques to make significant income with their WordPress blogs.  Whether your blogging goal is to simply write a personal blog, transition to making a full time income online, or anywhere in between, the open source WordPress software has you covered free of charge.

Success With WordPress covers almost anything about WordPress with a “straight to the essential” style that I enjoyed. It starts with the very basics as such as installing or upgrading WordPress to very advanced concepts like using WordPress as a CMS or as an online shop. On each chapter, you’ll find a lot of very usefull tips that any WordPress user, even the very experimented ones, will have benefit.

The ebook contains usefull ready to use codes exemples: For exemple, a robots.txt file, an author page template, and a lot of code snippets that you just have to paste to your theme.

With the Success with WordPress eBook, you’ll learn a number of blogging techniques, advanced strategies for optimizing your WordPress blog for search engines, and of course how to properly market your WordPress blog for the most exposure.

Success with WordPress also covers WordPress SEO and blog monetization: Kyle, who earn 2000$ + with his blogs every month, provide great tips and techniques to increase your Adsense earnings, manage your affiliate links and a lot more. Since I read that tips and applied it on my blogs, my adsense earning increased up to 30%

A list of the topics covered in this eBook include:

A Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Installing WordPress via Fantastico
Finding a WordPress Friendly Webhost
WordPress Post-Install Checklist
Creating a WordPress Sitemap
Creating a Robots.txt File
Using Google Webmaster Tools

Building a Multi-Author WordPress Blog Setting Up Author Permissions
Adding Author Information To Your WordPress Blog
Building an Author Page

Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) How do I build my CMS?
Should I use a Content Management System?
Building a WordPress Forum

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tips designed specifically for WordPress WordPress Permalink Structure
WordPress Post Slug
Using the Post Meta Title
Using Images + Alt Tags
Emphasize Keywords
Using Anchor Text
Making Your Post Dates Stand Out
Standardizing your Backlinks
Using Breadcrumbs On Your Blog
Controlling Link Juice

Building a Niche Blog with WordPress What is a Niche Blog?
Niche Blogging Strategy
How to Locate a Niche?
How to find a niche domain?
Finding a WordPress Niche Theme?
Completing Your WordPress Niche Blog

The other topics covered in great detail in the Success with WordPress eBook include how to maximize CPC Income with Google AdSense and also a number of advanced Affiliate Marketing techniques designed specifically for WordPress users

Blog is short for weblog and it was originated as an online diary for internet users to share. Through out the years, blog has gone through numerous transformations and today it has become one of the best ways to make money online.

Then how do you make money with your blog?

1. Select a platform

You can choose bloggers or wordpress as your platform and both of them are free. Nowadays, there are a few free platforms that you can use. However, you can also host your blog on your server if you want more control over your blog. In that way, you can insert special scripts to make your blog more unique.

2. Choose your topic

You need to choose the right topic if you want to make money with your blog.

It is best that you choose the topic that you are passionate about.

Let’s look at it this way, when you have no interest in digital photography, will you learn it and share the tips with your readers? You might but you certainly won’t enjoy it.

Why torment yourself? There are so many topics for you to make money with.

3. Earn with advertisement

One of the easiest ways bloggers make money online by Google adsense.

Again, getting advertisements from Google is free. You just register with Google, set up your account following the step by step guide and paste the code on your blog. So, when readers click on the advertisements, you will start to make money with your blog.

However, you need to make sure that the advertisements are related to your blog. Does it make sense if your blog is about learning digital photography and the advertisements are about second-hand car?

One of the ways to get targeted ads is by publishing keyword for specific blog post. It is easier for Google to send related ads if you have the right keywords in your posts.

4. Drive readers

If you want to make money with your blog, you need to drive readers to your blog.

How do you do that then?

Since you are writing your blog post, why not write articles about your blog too?

Try to write a 300-500 words of informative article and submits it to article directories daily. After some time, you will start to get readers to your blog and if they need more information, they will click the advertisements and you will make extra money online.

Tips for Making Money From Writing Your Bolgs:

1. What you need:
A computer, an internet connection and a bit more than basic literacy is all you need to start blogging. However, among a sea of blogs on the net, only a handful are read, respected and talked about.

2. Decide on a topic to write:
“More than specialisation it is important to have a certain passion. Successful bloggers write on a niche topic and stick to that,” says Kiruba Shankar, a professional blogger from Delhi and the founder of Business Blogging. He has his blog at http://www.kiruba.com. His firm advises companies on using blogs to promote their business.

3. Hosting your blog:
You can either use a blog-hosting service like blogspot, wordpress and livejournal or buy your own domain name. I says, “Having your own URL is the best as it shows that you are a professional and also helps in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) activities”

4. Designing your blog:
“Your blog should be easy to navigate, have a clutter free interface, and no deadlinks,” says Sharma. Shankar recommends taking specialised help if you are blogging seriously.

5. Content is king:
Content remains the first and the last mantra of a successful blogger. “Write good content which is unique, or provides a value-add if you are saying similar things,” says Aggarwal. Aaman Lamba, publisher, desicritics.org, warns against being a doppleblogger.

6. Keywords:
Use search-engine friendly keywords. Ensure that the titles of the posts are search engine-friendly. Try to be more specific and gauge what category of readers you are targeting and what keywords they are likely to use.

7. Subscribe to RSS:
Subscribing to really simple syndication (RSS) ensures that others can read your content in their mail whenever there is a new post without having to visit your blog.

8. Link to other bloggers:
If you find interesting content on any other blog, you can provide a link to it, hoping that they would link back to you. Inbound links improve your Google PR.

9. Direct advertising:
Blog owners who write on a particular niche can approach companies selling similar products or services for ads. For example, Venkat sells ad space to corporate as a part of video podcasts on his blog.

10. Sharing Your Blogs:
Your Blog contents must be shared with other Blog Websites such as Blogger, Blog.co.in, Bukisa.com, Blogcatalog and Share with Your Friend’s Email Address. It increases Trafic Rank of Blogs and Get More Money from your Blogs.

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We all need to apply effective affiliate marketing strategies to succeed in becoming super affiliates. There are many products out there that claim to teach you powerful affiliate marketing tips and methods to earn bigger commissions; but before you invest on any resources, you must be aware of 3 vital affiliate marketing tips for maximum success.

In this article, I’m going to be revealing to you for FREE, the three things you must do to succeed in your affiliate marketing business. This means that if you do these things, you will succeed in your business; but if you don’t do them, your chances of success are small.

Here they are:

Affiliate Marketing Tip # 1: Build Your Own Website

The number one mistake most affiliates make is that they don’t build their own website. They promote the affiliate links they are given directly. That is a likely path to failure.

It is important to build your own website. Be it for review purposes or just a squeeze page. You have more chances to succeed on the long term with your website than without your own website.

Even if you don’t have the funds to invest in a website, create a blog using blogger.com or wordpress.com.

Affiliate Marketing Tip # 2: Promote Continuously

I’ve come across a lot of affiliate marketers who sign up to an affiliate program and just leave it without promoting. If you are like that, you can never make money as an affiliate.

Affiliate marketing, just like other forms of making money online, requires constant promotion. You have to regularly promote your affiliate campaigns using the methods you know if you want to establish a lasting affiliate business.

Affiliate Marketing Tip # 3: Build Your List

If you’re not new to Internet marketing, you would have heard the statement “The Money Is In The List”. It’s very true. If you have a responsive opt in email list, your affiliate marketing campaigns will surely succeed.

An opt-in list is a database of names and email addresses of people that have asked for more information from you. Their details are filed in an autoresponder.

When you have such a list, all you need to do is to send emails to them promoting relevant offers. You no longer need to spend money on promotion. This is what the big Internet marketers do. They have their own loyal list of subscribers they can turn to over and over again. Reliable autoresponders include aweber.com and getresponse.com.

Make sure you start building your own opt in email list to increase your chances of making a “killing” with your affiliate marketing campaigns. Following these affiliate marketing tips will increase your chances of affiliate marketing success tenfold.