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I have talked about “mixed” media being very important to the success of your blog and adding video to your blog being part of that “mixed media”. The Flip Mino camcorder combines remarkable video quality in a pocket-sized package that’s designable. Free Shipping Order Here!

I can personally attest to video camera The Flip being one of the greatest little gadgets for adding video to your site.  It is the size of a deck of cards, weighs next to nothing, it is SUPER easy to use, records in high definition, and loading the recorded video to your site could not at all be easier.  You “flip” out the USB plug, plug it in to your USB port and start importing!

Videos can be imported on any computer because the software you need to import is IN the video camera! And…one of the best parts, you can upload straight to YouTube once you import if you have no edits to the video!

The software it comes with the camera includes editing tools that allow you to cut out parts of your video you dont want included as well as combining your videos in to  one video if you record in a few different sessions.  I have been very pleased with my purchase and always have a quality video camera on hand for recording whatever comes up because it is so small and light.  “The Flip” video camera is a great addition to your bag of tricks to including mixed media on your blog and allowing people to get to know you alot better by recording yourself and adding it to your blogs.  People will keep coming back to your blog when they really feel they can connect with you.  Happy blogging and get yourself “A Flip”!  , it is currently on special and the model pictured is just over $100.  When you read the reviews, which there are currently 62 of, 49 people of the 62 gave this product FIVE STARS!

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When you are new to Twitter, some of the “twitter lingo” may be a bit confusing and hard to keep up with.  Here are some quick tips on “twitter lingo” to help you out.

• @username + your message – directs your tweet to that person and also shows in their “replies” tab.
  Example: @Printerbees – Thanks for the printing coupon!

• D username + your message – a “direct tweet” that sends the  person a private message that does not show in the public time line.
  Example:  @RyanSecrest – what do you think about Paula possibly not returning to American Idol?
• RT @+username – “retweet”, if someone posts something you like and want to share with the people who are following you, give credit to the person to posted it by putting a RT (retweet) before the @username.
  Example: RT@Pdiddy “The future belongs to those who prepare for it TODAY!!!” -Malcolm X… A little inspiration for everyone’s Friday!!!

• #followfriday – Follow friday is the day when you recommenced other people on Twitter to your followers.  If you think the people who are following you will like someone you are following recommend them on “Follow Fridays”
  Example: @nadinebogs #followfriday  or I recommend @nadinebogs because I like her updates #followfriday , you can also add several users in one tweet or when you “ReTweet” something.
  
• #topic  “hashtags” -  This is a way to “tag” your twitter update on a specific subject.  Makes it easier for followers and non followers to search it on the Twitter home page or in the trending topics area.
• Nudge username – haven’t heard from one of your friends in a while…nudge them by typing nudge username
  Example:  nudge Oprah

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Lesson one:

GET A BLOG!!! I know I sound like a broken record if you have read my free report on “Profitable Blogging“, but I wouldn’t keep mentioning it if it weren’t so important.

If you haven’t read the free report (no strings attached!),  you must read the report, it includes greater detail about why blogging is imperative to your success with ranking on Google.  Make sure when you get your blog, to use your own domain name and to do the hosting through HostGators so you can take advantage of the tutorials on setting up your word press blog step-by-step.  They have a super user friendly interface and you will be glad you chose them.

Lesson Two:

Blog!  Your blog will do you absolutely no good, if you don’t actually blog on it.  If you don’t feel it is something you can keep up with, hire someone to blog for you.  Blogging is really what will help your rankings and is the fastest and easiest way to accomplish “getting found on Google”.  One of the things that Google “spiders’’ look for as they crawl the Internet is new/fresh content.
Blogging = new and fresh that is also the most current.

Lesson Three:

When you blog, make sure that you use the keywords you wish to rank for in your blog AND that they link either to a page on your blog/website or to another blog post to create internal links in your website.  This is also called “deep linking”
Let me give you an example:

In the PrinterBees blog, when you see posts for Keller Williams Business cards and the words Keller Williams business cards in the blog post, those words link directly to the Keller Williams business card page on our website.  If you think of Google like the largest librarian on the planet and this librarian is in charge of making sure things are organized properly in this huge library, The Internet.  This link to your main web pages will hold more weight because the key word is in the link. In this blog post, I have created three “key word links” to the PrinterBees, Keller Williams business card page that ARE MY KEYWORD.  When Google crawls this page AND finds these links which include my keywords, it is another hint about where to index the site and it’s relevance to the person who has typed in “Keller Williams Business Cards”.  At the time of this post, PrinterBees is listed on page 1 in the number 8 position.

This is a lot to work on and take in, there are more lessons coming on the simple things you can do to improve your rankings.  Stay tuned, visit frequently or subscribe to the RSS to make sure you catch the next lesson.

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• There are lots of techniques and a bit of a science to getting your website found on Google.  I am going to do my best to explain some of the most simple and basic things to increase rankings.  If the information I have given you here doesn’t do the trick, it is best to hire a professional. Hiring an SEO Company that knows what to do and NOT do will help you. You must follow Google’s rules if you want to play in their “sand box”.

• Getting your website to page one of Google is like hitting PAYDIRT, IF the search term you rank for is a term people other than yourself are searching for.  I have heard more times than I can tell you, “my website comes up on page 1!”   Yes it comes up on page one, but only when you type in some “long tail search term like “online printing companies located in Dublin, CA”.   I am willing to bet that my printing company PrinterBees would come up somewhere on page one for this term without any effort.  Just a hunch as it would be the most “relevant result” for that search.

• “Long tail search terms” like stated won’t help your cause, and you don’t want to focus on a search term you will never stand a chance of ranking for like “printing”or “mortgage”, which is very generic and highly competitive.

• For my printing business, it would be crazy for us to think we could get the term “business cards” as a newer online business.   Because we print business cards for companies like Keller Williams, Century 21, ACN, Herbalife, Mona.vie and specialize in real estate printing or real estate marketing these would be good terms to focus on and not as competitive.  While they don’t have the traffic and the search volume that a term like “business cards” would have, it will help us gain popularity when we rank and improve our Google Ranking which will in turn help us rank for more popular terms moving forward.

• Because I really do want you to see that what I am explaining here really does work, I encourage you to “Google” the terms I have listed above so you can see that we really do rank on page one of those particular search terms.  At the time of writing this article, we are working on other terms to improve our rankings.  Those terms are “bookmark printing”, “print bookmarks”, “online printing’,  “business card printing”, “door hanger printing”, color flyer printing”, “hang tag printing”, “save the date magnets” and a few others that I can’t think of at the moment.  Feel free anytime to check our progress, I feel the best way to teach is to lead by example.

• A few words about Google and why Google matters so much to your success on the Internet.  Think of Google as a librarian, a really busy librarian!  This particular librarian sends you business….lots of business and you aren’t even required to pay a fee for all the business the librarian sends you!  It is all FREE!!!!   (Yes, you can do pay per click, but why when you get traffic for FREE)  We all use Google because we can pretty much always find what we are looking for when we “google” something, right?  Would you keep using Google if every time  you went to search for something, you didn’t find what you were looking for?  Not a chance!  So, if Google wants us to keep coming back, and they do…they have to consistently give us good and relative results or we will find a new “internet librarian” to help us.  The only way that Google can continue to give “googlers” accurate search results is if we, as website owners/webmasters do a good job of communicating to Google exactly what our websites are about and help Google to understand what categories our websites should be filed under.  If Google isn’t clear where your website should be indexed, it is most likely just sitting out there in cyberspace not accomplishing anything for you other than being printed on your business cards, fliers, banners, postcards or other printed materials you use to market your business.  Your marketing efforts in this day and age should include some sort of Internet marketing plan and if it doesn’t, you will be eventually left behind, sorry to say that, but it is true. The Internet has well over 2 BILLION searches done on it every month and if you think your services or business offerings aren’t being searched, you are definitely still living in the early 1990’s.

• This video produced by Google in late 2008 helps to explain how to “speak Google”, get ranked on Google and more importantly how NOT to spam the search engines and lower your rankings. Google wants you to succeed and they will give you very specific instructions if you just listen to what they have to say and more importantly FOLLOW THE RULES.

• Part Two coming soon, subscribe to the blog to make sure you don’t miss anything.  Either click the link or get wild and crazy and click on the orange icon in the address bar at the top of your browser so you learn how to subscribe to other websites you want to be kept up to date on.

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There are a few steps that need to happen before you actually begin blogging. They can all be completed within an hour.
The Step are written out and followed by images with instructions.

1. Identify a domain name – make sure to read the post about choosing a domain name. VERY important to have the RIGHT domain name.
2. Now that you own your domain name, you need to point it to a “domain name server” DNS server, so it is available on the internet, so you will need hosting.
   (see a video tutorial of how to register your domain name AND how to point your DNS servers)
3. Set up your hosting account. – Hostgators is by far the easiest and cheap too!   Once you register, you will receive an emiail with your log in address for your CPANEL so that you can log in and begin setting things up.  It will also provide the information regarding your DNS servers.
4. Log in to your CPANEL using the web address provided.
5. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and you will see an icon that says “fantastico”, click it
6. On the right  you will see a list of available services, click the one that says “WordPress” and the available Word Press services will come up on the right.
7. Click  New Installation. Create your user name and password for your blog.  It is a good idea to make your password strong, strong meaning a combination of numbers, letters and characters if possible.  Follow the steps that you are prompted to follow.  Make sure to have your user name and password emailed to you.
8. Log in to your blog using the link that you were advised to make sure and bookmark, which will take you to your blog “dashboard”.
9. Click “Create Post” and start blogging….and KEEP BLOGGING.  I know you probably don’t care for the look of your blog at this point, but don’t worry, we will fix that.  When you first launch your blog, you won’t have many visitors, so trust me, don’t worry about the look….JUST BLOG!
10. Go to the video section of the website to learn how customize by creating your template.

    Follow the step-by-step instruction WITH PICTURES TO GUIDE YOU Here….. Read the rest of this entry »

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