Since very long time I have been planning to write an ebook series titled “Become A Problogger”. Finally I finished the part 1 of the series. You can download part 1 from here: Become A Problogger

You will find so many bloggers in the blogosphere who write about “How They Make 6 Figure Income”, but rarely share their key secrets and strategy. You will read about their fancy life style, expensive cars, vacations, etc.

Some of these might be inspirational especially for the newcomers. However, they rarely add any value to bloggers. They make good money by selling the dream of making a fortune online. At the end of the day they make more money, while majority of the bloggers can not exceed 50$ per month.

My mission is to make things upside down in the blogosphere. Money comes in the second place for me. I want to add value to people’s life, and free them to achieve their dreams.

I dreamed of leaving my full time job to become a problogger in 2006. After two years of hardworking and dedication, I made my dream come true in 2008.

You might be in a very similar situation. If you really work hard and dedicate yourself, you can also make your dreams come true. Dreams are hard to follow, but don’t let anyone tear them away.

If you’re considering starting your own blog, and aren’t sure how to go about it, “Become a Problogger” ebook series was written for you. You might be a newcomer to blogging, and have no idea how to begin, which tools to use, or how to promote your blog in the blogosphere.

You might already have some experience with a hosted WordPress blog, or maybe a blog on another platform, but now you want to take the next step to a professional blog. Maybe you even have a self-hosted WordPress blog, but you aren’t quite sure what to write about. “Become a Problogger” ebook series is for you.

You will find valuable information about A-Z blogging concepts, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for blogs, Affiliate Marketing tips, Social Bookmarking, and more in the series.

I want to make “Become A Problogger” series even better by providing you with more and greater coverage of blogging. If you like what you are getting on the series, if you want more of it, and if you believe that “Become A Problogger” series is providing a vital service, please give me a hand and help me spread the word. With your contribution, the series will become more popular, thus will add more value to bloggers.

I hope you enjoy the series.

Social Bookmarking is a powerful way of promoting your blog. Yet it takes significant amount of time to submit your posts to each and every social bookmarking site. Until I found SocialMarker, I also spent a lot of time while submitting my blog posts to social bookmarking sites.

Today it takes 15-20 minutes to submit my articles to more than 45 social bookmarking site. The good thing is those social bookmarking sites are categorized as all, best, bookmarking, news, and dofollow.

Most probably you already know that when you submit your posts to a dofollow site or blog, you got backlinks which helps your blog ranked better in the search engine results. So if you are looking for free and organic SEO growth, submit your blog posts to dofollow social bookmarking sites regularly.

Social bookmarking submission with SocialMarker is very easy. At first you need to enter bookmark details as title, link (URL), and tags (seperated by tags). Then select the social bookmarking sites you would like to submit your article.

It helps you spread a link on 47 of the best social bookmarking sites including Digg, StumbleUpon in 15-20 minutes.

• You get a lot of backlinks by using SocialMarker
• You increase your traffic
• Your posts get indexed in Google immediately

The best part is, SocialMarker is still free. Spend 15-20 minutes everyday, and enjoy ever increasing free traffic with it!

What is Blogging Zoom ?

Probably you have never heard of Blogging Zoom before. It is a social bookmarking site like Digg, Plugim, and many more. It was launched in Public Beta on 1st of November, 2007. What makes Blogging Zoom so special is that after you submit your blog entries, you are promised to get better search engine placement.

Blogging Zoom is a place where bloggers can share content that they and other bloggers have written. Blogging Zoom is the perfect place to go for people that are tired of the mainstream media and content. The users of Blogging Zoom determine which content is valuable and which content isn’t. ‘Zooming’ or voting positively for a post or article will give it more exposure and with enough Zooms, your content will hit the front page to be showcased to the masses.

I have never seen such a promise before from another social bookmarking site. It is too early to comment, but if Blogging Zoom keeps its promise, it will eventually become the most popular social bookmarking site in blogosphere.

Personally i use Stumble and Digg quite often. Stumble works well for my blog, drives good traffic. Digg is neither working for everyday bloggers, nor helping on SEO of blog posts.

Blogging Zoom can help bloggers on SEO, and it is completely open for blogs. Access of any website is not allowed. The service is free and people can either submit their own posts or their favorite posts around the blogosphere.

For your easy guidance, i signed up with Blogging Zoom yesterday. My first submission have been zoomed by 7 times since yesterday. I got some decent traffic from Blogging Zoom on the first day. From their blog, i learnt that i will be gaining better search engine rankings by sticking to tips herebelow:

Killing it on the Blogging Zoom

• There are some users who are getting 100 unique visitors via direct results of search engine traffic. These submissions were written with keywords in mind.
  

I quoted this from Blogging Zoom Blog for you to understand what is a submission with keywords in mind :

A great example of a submission that pulled insane amount of search traffic is this one made by Dax: Manny Ramirez On Jay Leno. If you look at the description that was used you won’t be surprised that it ranked really well for any search related to Manny’s appearance on Jay Leno:

Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno? Everyone knows that Manny Ramirez has always been shy with the media, but he apparently made an appearance on Jay Leno last night and looked like the mayor of Boston.

For those of you that have always been curious about Manny but haven’t heard him speak that much, his appearance on Leno should satisfy your curiosity. He talks about his love for cars, the curse of the bambino and some other very interesting things.

I personally never expected to see Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno, not in a million years!

You’ll notice that this description has ‘Manny Ramirez’ in it three times, but still flows well and doesn’t seem spammish at all. You will also notice that ‘Manny Ramirez on Jay Leno’ appears a few times in this description, but Dax found a way to make it still sound great. This submission brought around 1,000 searches from Google and pushed a good percentage of that traffic to the post submitted.

• Adding more tags can also help your submissions to get ranked for more keywords. Just think about the way people might search your submissions. Be innovative, there can be hundreds of ways people might search for your content.
• Make Blogging Zoom friends to be zoomed. Don’t quit Blogging Zoom right after you submit your content. Zoom other submissions, and comment on other user’s submissions. Sooner or later you will rock Blogging Zoom!
• Titles are very important. Make them as original as possible. Here are the most popular ones so far in Blogging Zoom:
  • StumbleUpon – The “Super Stumble” Traffic Tip
  • Blogging Zoom Bringing The Man Down
  • Money-Hungry Kumiko Acts Like Blogging is a Business | Pajama Professional
  • 35 Guaranteed Ways to Increase Your RSS Subscribers
  • Attention Websmasters – Do you socialize? Want to make it easier?
  • 5 technology disasters, horrors and tragedies
  • The Life of a Black Hatter

The headlines of the submissions are both original and innovative. If the headline is not catchy, then the submission has no chance. If you are not good at writing good headlines, then i suggest you to read 10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work is an article on CopyBlogger that can help you how to write great headlines.

Conclusion

All in all, I am glad to see that finally there is a social bookmarking site which can drive targeted traffic to our blogs coming directly from search engine results. I am quite sure Blogging Zoom will rock, and we will be seeing a lot more of it around the Internet very soon. I just wanted to remind you that you may be one of the very first ones to get in if you sign up now!

Myspace, Web 2.0, blogs, social bookmarking, Facebook, etc. Those were the things that were supposed to bring us lots of targeted web traffic. Some people took advantage of those and a few of them made a killing.

But if you didn’t, there’s a new “thing” on the Internet, and you might do better trying this one out instead. It’s called “Squidoo” and is the brainchild of a prolific “non-guru” marketer Seth Godin.

Squidoo is a service that allows you to create your own web pages for free, and on those pages you can tie-together collection of RSS feeds, favorite sites and even promote your
own products or books.

Missed out on Myspace and other “trends” that you thought were not important? Don’t do the same with this one.

Squidoo helps you create a landing page for your website or blog. Please take a look at Squidoo page for my blog, Search For Blogging: www.squidoo.com/searchforblogging

You are free to customize your Squidoo page. You can insert your RSS feeds, update your profile, add some YouTube videos, and a lot more. It takes 10-20 minutes to create a lens (a Squidoo page is called lens)

Okay, so you made a lens. And you probably hope someone other than your hamster will see it. What to do next?

1. Email it. To your friends, your mom, your boss. Don’t be shy about bragging, you deserve a little limelight!
2. Blog it. Post your lens to your blog. Send a note to someone you admire who runs a blog on your topic, and ask them to check out your lens. Sincere flattery gets you everywhere.
3. Link it. Link to the lens on your Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, Flickr profile, eBay auctions, email signature. Create your own little traffic network and get discovered in more places. Wouldn’t you like to get found more online?
4. Group it! Find a Group that’s busy talking about your topic and request to join. Get friendly, get relevant, get feedback, get found.
5. Compete. Stop by the Lens of the Day Group for inspiration from winning lenses. And if your lens is up to snuff, enter it in the contest

And subscribe to my RSS feeds, because i deserved it