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Make a blog, and make it fun!  I’ve been concentrating so much on the money-making aspect that I’ve kind of ignored the other huge aspect: how to make a blog and have fun doing it!

Good morning all, it’s Gail again with a blog update and a guest author, Russell Stewart, telling us a little bit more about the overall aspect of blogging.  Sorry I’ve been kind of glossing it over, because if you don’t enjoy it, blogging will be an awful lot like work!

And after Russell gives us some insight on how to make a blog fun, I’ll give you an update on the latest of my blogging experiences, in the section called “Gail’s Blog Update” and it’s also exciting!

But in the meanwhile, please welcome Russell.

Make a Blog and Make it Fun

Blogging is an art of enjoyment, and web logging has reached phenomenal heights because of that aspect.

Even in the pretty recent past, creating websites was considered to be ‘geeks-and-professionals-only’ territory. However, it’s been streamlined so very much that a couple of simple click will get the job done.  Anyone and everyone can do it!  It’s now child’s play to make a blog.

With blogging came an onslaught of new opportunities for both business and pure enjoyment.  Interactivity, social networking and communication swept the internet.  And whoa! the introduction of RSS feeds contribute further to this, making it even easier to get the information you want.

Blogging is now also a way to make money,  You can do it via AdSense, affiliate marketing and actual products. Right now, most businesses maintain blogs to promote their specific industry and get visitors to their sites.

If you really want to express your thoughts freely, you should get a blog!  It’s something that anyone can do. It’s easy to choose a topic for your blog when you know what you want to say. Some blogs are open-ended, with just about any topic discussed among the writers and readers.  These can be considered “anything goes” and they can be quite fun to read.

Some would rather maintain specialized blogs. These blogs have posts relating to a single topic and this topic can be anything such as business, travel, computers, advertising etc. Such blogs are interesting only to those who are specifically looking for information on that field.

There are blogs which allow guest authors to contribute interesting write-ups (like the one you’re reading right now). General readers are also enticed to participate in blogging, to make it more lively and conversational.

Whether you write for money or for fun, whether you are a high-risk entrepreneur or stay-at-home mom, regardless of whether you do it a few hours a week or many hours a day – blogging is fun!  It’s the next generation in community involvement.

About the Author:
If you are looking for strange stories then take a look at this great site. packed with weird stuff from around the world, this blog will certainly entertain. Great reading when you are looking for something to make you smile and shows the lighter side of living.

Gail’s Blog Update

OK, I have an update on Dave’s and my great blog experiment (read more about it here and here).  I mentioned that we had some new blogs we were trying out and here’s the latest!

(By the way, if you’re wondering why I’m not mentioning the exact URLs of these blogs, it’s because I don’t want to artificially inflate the results by having people click from this site.  Never fear, when the blogs get to be three weeks old, I’ll release their names.)

OK, I created a blog on Tuesday, in an area I know less than nothing about.  But the numbers looked good, and I used the exciting blogging tool to get the information to the blog.  And I was bogged down yesterday morning when one of the steps ran into a problem (a free site I needed to spend 10 seconds on was down).  Anyway, the site was operational yesterday around lunch.

Today…drum roll…my brand new blog is sitting at spots number 2 and 3 in Google!!!!  Now that’s the keyword with the quotes, but even without the quotes I am still on page 1 of Google!  I’m writing this at about 9:30 AM, so it’s been less than 24 hours for me to reach Google page 1.

David’s blog that he did this weekend is still going very strong, spot number 1 in Google with the quotes, as well as spot number 10!  Without the quotes, he’s number 2.

And to make things even more exciting, the final two steps are underway for these three sites (my original, my new and Dave’s).  They take a little more time, but they should explode the blogs even more.

Talk about make a blog and make it fun!  It’s fun and exciting to see all this happen.  And it’s all due to this exciting blogging tool that we discovered.

Onward!  More blogs!

Hi folks, it’s Gail again. I made a post/page yesterday (August 11th) on a new tool David and I found on how to make money blogging. And I have an exciting update!

First, to recap: I found a tool last week, but never got around to looking at it until August 7th. On August 8th I decided to go ahead and try it. On August 9th, I put up a blog and made a couple of posts. On the morning of August 10th I was fully indexed in Google, and on August 11th I was on page 1 of google!

Update! Blogging News Flash!

David put up his blog late Saturday night (the 9th). It’s in a fairly competitive area, with over 5 million search results for his term.

So, here we were, checking our computers and David said, “Hey, I’m number 1 on Google!”. I went to Google and typed in his search term in quotes (specific search) and sure enough, he was number 1!

Then I thought a second and typed in his search term without the quotes. If you know about search engines, it means that they think you are the most relevant site for that term.

David’s brand new blog was in the number 2 spot without the quotes!!!! How’s that for a blog that’s just 3 days old?

This Really Works!

I wish I had found out about this much sooner — like six months ago would have been nice. But I just had to share it with you. You can check out more on this exciting blogging tool and see how it will work for you. I honestly wish I had found this sooner, but then again, I’m just thankful I did find it.

David and I both have a couple of new (as in created today) blogs in the pipeline, so I’ll give another update in a few days and let you know how that’s progressing.