Have you ever dreamed of creating your own blogging course? Actually creating your own e-course is much more easier than you might imagine. All you need is to find a topic that you can educate interested people, and then write the lessons. You can use an email autoresponder service like Aweber to create your own e-course.

• Find a topic that you are experienced enough to teach people about.
• Announce the course using social media and your blog.
• Create a sign up form for interested people.
• Write 10 or 15 lessons about the topic.
• Use Aweber to schedule the lessons so that they are automatically sent even if you are offline. One lesson per week is ideal.
• Send the lessons to the subscribers.
• Create a platform where you can answer the questions  (this could be your blog!)
• That’s all!

Facebook continues to grow. Chances are you have already seen quite a lot of discussions of how marketers should be using it to connect with potential customers. For the bloggers who are running Facebook pages, there is now a quick way to add visitors and fans as your email subscribers.

If you are using Aweber for your email marketing campaigns, it is just a piece of cake to add an opt-in form to your Facebook page (do not confuse it with your profile page though!).  All you need is to add an application to your page that lets you insert HTML. Then you can paste in sign-up form HTML just like you would on any other blog or web page.

There is a nice tutorial where you can find a step by step guide on how to add an opt-in form to your Facebook page. You may check out the tutorial.

Yaro Starak has published a special video + text transcript so as to promote reopening of Become A Blogger blog mentoring course. The video is a good representation of Impact Marketing. You may watch the
the video by clicking on this link: Impact Marketing

You can find such videos inside the Become A Blogger Premium members area. If you are new to blogging, Becaome a Problogger could be a good place to start learning how to blog. Applying impact marketing techniques are essential for having a high traffic blog. So if you want to learn how to create a high traffic blog, then you may enroll Yaro’s course.

When you become a problogger, you will find yourself in the middle of a never ending war. The purpose of the war is to gain top 10 rankings at Google. Some probloggers even hire SEO experts to win the war. Some of them use their own SEO techniques. I personally prefer IBP to optimize my blog for high rankings on Google. IBP Top 10 Optimizer is a SEO system that analyzes the blogs that now have a high ranking for your major keywords.

The idea is simple yet brilliant. Since these pages have a top ten ranking, the pages must have all the best settings. With IBP, researching the top ranked blogs is very simple. The software investigates the blogs that now have a top ten ranking in the search engine of your preference and compares them with your blog.

IBP tells you the way in which the pages have got that ranking and how you have got to change your pages and the links to your blog to get an equivalent ranking. IBP helped me get more buyers and more sales with increased search engine rankings.

Watch this video, and download your trial version. You will be delighted to see how IBP can easily monitor your blog’s SEO performance over 300 criterias.

Have you noticed an inflated number on your Feedburner counter lately? Don’t worry. It is not a technical problem. Feedburner has recently started to count your FriendFeed subscribers. Previously it was counting your normal RSS subscribers and Aweber opt in subscribers. All in all it has started to count normal RSS subscribers, Aweber opt-in, and FriendFeed subscribers.

Probably this change will increase the  gap between the most popular bloggers and normal bloggers in terms of social proof. Most of the bloggers still take the number of RSS subscribers as the key element when deciding about a blog’s performance. As popular bloggers have quite a lot of  subscribers in FriendFeed (if they use it since very long time), their FeedBurner counters will also increase a lot.

This change also explains why all of a sudden John Chow joined FriendFeed. He regularly adds new subscribers these days. The idea is simple: once you subscribe a member, he or she will probably subscribe back.

So if you are also obsessed about the number of your RSS subscribers, do the same. Join FriendFeed, and subscribe to as many users as possible. In the end you will be able to increase the number of your RSS subscribers.

While doing so, don’t forget to subscribe me: http://friendfeed.com/merkal2005