The Essential Traffic Blog - Everyone 'Must' have One!

The web is impersonal. That is a problem! That problem can be overcome.

There are two things that can overcome this, one is your welcome letter which we will get to later in the blog, the other is your own personal Traffic Blog.

You will find me referring to the setting up your own blog thing quite often through-out my blog and in my newsletter. If I am actually am in contact you because you are in my team, you have heard this question, "Have you Set up Your own Blog Yet?" and you will keep hearing it until you finally do it! If you are a member of my team I know you are nodding your head and laughing right now because I stress this as being one of the most important things you will ever do on the internet.

Why am I so insistant? It's important. This is your first connection to your team to show them that you are organized and professional and you know what you are doing and how to do it and you are wanting to share this! This is you branding 'you'. Sales people do not sell products, they sell themselves.

A blog is permanent and you as you grow as an on-line marketer your blog will grow with you. It is a reflection of you and your knowledge and your personality and your view points and it makes you Personal! You are no longer an advertisement and a username. You are now a person, an associate, a team leader, a coach and a friend and this will be mirrored throughout your blog.

I feel the creation of the Traffic Master actually defines the moment in my own on-line career when I went from being a hack marketer to being an on-line marketing professional. When people join into my endeavors and are wanting advice the first thing I tell them, write a traffic blog and get into the social groups. The two go hand in hand in developing an on-line identity. How can we represent a business when we have not even taken the steps to represent ourselves. We are selling ourselves, our business follows natrually.

Don't fill your blog full of fluff and filler unless this is how you see yourself... are you full of fluff and filler? Do you walk around carrying around shiny blinky distracting signs? Do you dress in all colors of the rainbow? Represent this blog as you would represent yourself at a professional business meeting or an interview. You are the expert. You do not show up in a clown suit...not unless of course you are in fact applying for the clown job.

As you go through each post in my blog feel free to add a page to your own blog and make it your own with your own links to the resources. It can be as in depth or as simple as your like. Don't worry if it seems a little rough at first. You have a lifetime to smooth out the wrinkles. Be sure to print off a copy of your first blog and store it away. It is nice keepsake for you to keep to view as you progress as you go along. If you are like me you will be revising and updating and tweaking your blog on a regular basis. In a couple years you will impress yourself by just how far you have come! Even if you think you are pretty good now!

For a good example of simple squidoo traffic page visit:
http://www.squidoo.com/infopreneuring

Step by Step:

1. Open Blogger in a new tab. (left click - new tab)
2. Set up a blog criteria. Name, Title, Topic, Colors all that fun stuff
3. Write your first post. Explaining why setting up a traffic blog is so important or whatever advice or traffic secrets you would like to talk about.
4. Blogs are in chronological order you have to keep in mind how you date your articles. If you want to keep a flow in your posts or leave room to insert post you may want to date them with some space in between. Personally I started out doing that but in the end just started posting randomly. My newsletter is however in the proper order!
5. Submit this Blog to BlogSearchEngine.com note: your submission goes through a moderator so you will not be able to post instantly. Just save your post (once) and check back in a day. It should be listed.Write down your passwords. You will need them to edit your blog.
6. Continue posting and complete your blog or simply set up a few pages every day.

I will go over how to use Blogging directories, RSS feeds, Social Bookmarking, Pinging and other methods of blog promotion in the future. For now we are just covering the basics.

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