Advanced Blogging

The book I read to research this post was Blogging by the Million, Selling by the Millions by Laura Maya which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. Some of you may remember a while back I did a post on social bookmarking  which was based on an ebook which was promoting a book you could buy. This is the book & although it's fairly short there's a lot of information covered. The book is basically about selling digital products which are things like mp3s, ebooks, web space, domain registration & affiliate marketing where you sell something on your web site & somebody sorts out delivery etc. I've some affiliate sites which are.

www.ebay.co

www.amazon.com

www.yahooshopping.com

Some resources are

www.befree.com

www.linkshare.com

I think the best ebook conversion is

adobe.com

Apart from things like a computer & broadband connection there is very little outlay. Another idea in the book is you can rent so much space on a server & sell it off in 20MB web site segments. There is a company called exabytes that will do it as an affiliate marketer. www.exabytes.com

Also although I don't think it's such a good idea there's selling forex & commodities etc

www.easy-forex.com

These are some ecommerce sites

zencart.com

paypal.com

A blog is a good idea as they are often free & can drive traffic to your main site. Some less well known ones are

vox.com

xanga.com

blog.com

Also often you can copy & paste from one site to another.

Apparently there's a search engine called baidu which is very big in china which I'm definately going to submit my blogs to. Did you know if you go to a foreign language site most browsers will translate it.

If you are interested in search engine optimization there's

seolite.com

Some blog catalogs are

www.blogcatalog.com

www.bloglisting.com

Here's a couple of article submission sites

www.articlerich.com

goarticles.com

A rather less well known social bookmarking site is

socialize-it.com

Finally some rather less well known social networking sites are

hi5.com

xanga.com

tagged.com

xing.com

I have only used a fraction of the sites in the book & if you are serious about promoting a web site or blog I would recommend it.