You have your blog business running now. You are the CEO of ****.com. What next?

OK, you have probably posted some contents into your website. In addition, you have also read HowToBlog.org on SEO, creating contents and understand the initial journey into entrepreneurship.

Let me give you a simple advise. Move away from your blog, and step out into the real world. Go near any retail business in your friendly neighborhood and start observing.

As all of you very well know, blogs were started as an extension of personal’s journal. For those of us who wish to monetize our blog soon, the blog business is a mirror image of brick and mortar retail business. Simply put, you supply contents (merchandise) and hopefully, readers (consumers) took notice and visit your blogsite.

Although we bloggers always live by the mantra “Content Is King”, the sad reality is, your blog will never go anywhere if all you do is just to post content to it. Of course if you have the stamina to last, you could let your blog grows organically via slow trickling traffic.

However, if you want your blog to be a business, you have to manage her like a business. I will share with you on the management tip that I focus on when running my websites. Bear in mind all the tips I am presenting to you can not be a standalone experience and they are all linked in one way or another.

Tip 1: Frequency In Posting Contents

When you have just started, at the stage where you have got your domain hosted, you could actually focus 80 % of your time into creating contents. If you want to see results as fast as possible, you should post and publish your content everyday for the next 2 weeks.

After 2 weeks or more, I have decreased the frequency of posting content and begin to focus my time with equal importance on SEOs and in the marketing of my blog.

Tip 2: Perform SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

There is no right time for doing SEO for your website. For rapid result, you could actually do some basic SEO on the html of your WordPress theme from the first day you downloaded your WordPress.

Subsequently, when posting your content, ping your url to pingler.com. Via pingler, you are announcing to the 91 search engines in pingler that you have updated your content. Remember this, Google and all search engine love bloggers who update their contents regularly.

Tip 3: Divide Your Time Wisely

If you are still holding a full time job like me, be fair with your employer. Always give all your effort into your day’s job when you are suppose to. After all, it’s your employer who has given you the resources to invest into the blog business.

As I am a part time blogger, I have only limited time left for managing my blog business after reaching home. The fact that I am staying in this beautiful island called Penang has actually contributed a lot to my ability in running my blogs effectively. As compared to other cities, the travelling distance in Penang is considerably shorter than KL for example. In addition, traffic jams are also less rampant here, rendering me enough quality time for my family and meaningful ventures.

Tip 4: Building Backlinks

Currently, I would post contents at twice or thrice a week, depending on my ability to churn out quality ideas on that particular day. On days I am not researching for contents, I would build backlinks for my blogs by submitting my articles to reputable article directories like EzineArticles.com and Articlebase.com. My advise to you is to concentrate only on 1 or 2 article directories for your link building campaign because, submitting articles takes up a lot of our time.

Apart from article directories, also submit your content’s URL link to social bookmarking sites like Digg.com and Reddit.com. Again, I only concentrate on two sites so that I could have more time for other important tasks.

Tip 5: Social Media Marketing

Now, I have got my blogs up, I will be spending more time on building my followers in Twitter. Engaging in social media marketing sites is a necessary evil when we build our blog traffics. Imagine building your retail of selling plastic ware in the corner of your town and not doing any advertising for it.

In our Word Press blog, there are plugins for installing tweet widgets. What we have to do is just to mingle with our fellow twitterers and try to garner as many followers as possible. Retweet what others have to say if you found their tweet to be of value.

Tip 6: Monetizing Your Blog

Now, this is tricky. The fact is, I haven’t really started to put AdSense or any other affiliates into HowToBlog.org. You see, search engine especially Google appreciate websites that aren’t there purely for monetizing purpose. As a result, if you want your website to rank favorably by Google, put aside the idea of monetizing your website too early.

Build your blog business until the traffic becomes more significant, then we’ll talk about the money part!/