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ONE If Blog post then Facebook post TWO If Instagram photo then Blog post THREE If Tumblr post then Blogger post FOUR If YouTube video then blog post FIVE If blog post then Tweet   IFTTT If This, Then That IFTTT.com  is one of the most useful tools on the net!  If you would like to save time, you need to utilize IFTTT.com.  The site allows you to create recipes in order to automate the promotion of you website. Who wants to log in and out of each of their social media accounts every time they publish a new post.  This can be especially time consuming when you have multiple blogs.  Create a free account to save yourself time and to ensure that your content is promoted sufficiently.

PingFarm.com Tumblr.com StumbleUpon.com Digg.com Linkedin.com Plus.Google.com Pinterest.com Facebook.com Keith Everett does a great job explaining how to promote your Blog for free!!

Search Engine Optimization SEO is simply promoting a website in order to increase the number of visitors the site generates from search engines.  Without Google, Yahoo, etc. your blog would be very difficult to find.  Search engines open you up to the world.  Here are 5 tips to help you with SEO: 1. Keywords - Your keywords should be included in your title, page header and your content. 2. Links - Link back to your own page(s).  Take your viewers to your archives. 3. Content - If you do not have high quality content, you will not be effective at SEO. 4. Build your reputation and your blog network using forums. 5. Link to .edu domains.  .edu sites are given heavy weight by the search engines.

The Wall Street Journal recently posted a great article on fashion blogging.  Author, Elizabeth Holmes, covers the ways fashion bloggers can maximize their profits. "Affiliate programs, used by many online retailers, blogs and media sites for a decade or more, are gaining new ground for bloggers as they expand to social media platforms like Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter." How can you convince people to purchase the products on your site?  What are you informing them about the product that other bloggers are failing to inform them? Check out the article! http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-style-bloggers-earn-sales-commissions-one-click-at-a-time-1423693911

Elephant in the Room I you are impatient, quit now.  It is the honest truth.  Building a blog is synonymous with building a business.  Similar to having a baby, the first year will be the most difficult.  The first year requires the most care and support.  Many may have been aware of this when they decided to create their blog yet there are few that actually consider this before calling it quits. The Burn Out You will burn out.  It happens to the best of us.  You will start off very excited about your net blog, and the adrenaline will lead you to write high quality posts on a consistent basis.  Pace yourself my friend.  That hard work will catch up with you and you will crash.  When you crash you probably will not have much to show for the 6 months, or so, of hard work that you put in and like many bloggers around the world, you will give up. Overcome After the burn out session, you will ask yourself what you did wrong.  Was everyone lying about the amount of money they claimed