There are a few reasons why I love PayPerPost, one of the main reason is their pay bloggers to blog. That’s just like earning money while doing what you like to do. I know PayPerPost from a well established blogger who recommended PayPerPost to me. PayPerPost specialties’ are in blog ads. The sign up process are so simple, after sign up, I submitted my blog and get approved in a very short time.

With PayPerPost, I have made a few more new friends online thru PayPerPost neighborhood, It is just amazing that there are many blogger around the world that shares the same interest as me.
Honestly I love to blog, apart from making some money, I can know those products and services offered by advertisers, and share with my family and friends. This is means that I’m helping advertisers to create buzz and branding advertisers’ products and services.
Apart from buzz and branding, blog advertising can help to drive traffic to my blog, improve search engines ranking to increase organic traffic from search engines and get valuable feedback from bloggers so that you can understand your audiences and customers.
I am a father living with my lovely wife, couple of sweet daughter and a handsome son, and I make a living only from the internet and my laptop, all the earning from PayPer
Post will make my life better today and the coming days.

Overall I like this site and I am not just saying that because I am writing this post but because they do have a lot more opportunities coming ahead.

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A sitemap of a website is similar to the table of contents of a book.  Sitemaps are important because it guides web surfers to the particular part of the website they have a point of interest in. With it they would save time following links and get right to the point instead.

Sitemaps are also where search engines look at if somebody is looking for a particular keyword or phrase. If you have a site map, you can most likely be searched.

Creating a sitemap, now with software technology surging in, is relatively easier than before.  You need not be a programming guru to be one. All need is a notepad, a program editor, and some patience. Here’s how you do it:

Create the listing on a notepad.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a notepad. Any word processing program will do. First off, make sure to type in all the parts and pieces of your website. Include all pages and all links you have. Create it as if you listing the contents of your book. Make a draft first. You’re sure no to miss something out this way.

Create a new page for your sitemap.

You can insert the sitemap on your website on one of its pages or you can create an entirely different page for it. Using your notepad, incorporate all tags necessary to it to make another webpage. Open up your website creator program and tag your sitemap using it. If you have created your website on your own, this will be easy for you.

Create a link for the sitemap.

You won’t be able to view the sitemap if you won’t put a link for it, of course. Create the link on the front page of your website so that visitors can view it right away and be directed appropriately.

Check your work.

It is important to validate the functionality of the links you created on the sitemap. Test each and every one in there and if you get an error, be sure to fix it accurately. Run through every single page to make sure that all are accounted for.

Upload your work.

Place the sitemap now on your live browser and double check it. It should function as smoothly as the dry run. Error should be minimal at this stage since you already have verified it locally.

The steps provided herewith is the manual way of creating a sitemap. These days, if you search hard enough on the web, you will find online programs that will do all these work for you. All you have to do it type in the URL or the link of your website and they will create the sitemap with click of a button.

Of course that method is generic. All of you who have created their sitemap that way will have an end product that is all the same, plus there’s that possibility that something else will be inserted in there too. Then again, the process is less taxing and way, way simpler.

But if you want a more personalized output, and you are pretty good with computers and programming yourself, better make one of your own.  And since you made your website anyway, creating sitemap is just like creating any other page on the website. Other than you’ll know for sure the links are accurate, you can organize the links the way you prefer it to be. Major parts of the site are emphasized compared to less significant. This is important especially if you are selling products or offering services online.

Sitemap is vital to a website. People search the web a lot for something. If your website has what that particular person is looking for, and your sitemap reports it, then you have a new customer looking at your items.  Not only that, they will see some other things up for sale that they might be interested in as well.

Sitemaps, be it generated by a program automatically or you made it yourself, presents the same purpose. That is to lead your visitors to where they’re likely headed, and for you to be seen on the World Wide Web through search spiders.  So with these, make sure your website has a sitemap of its own, lets make one.

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IZEA, Inc is formerly known as PayPerPost,Inc. A Social media marketing pioneer in Social Media Marketing services. It announced it changing corporate name to organize the multiple properties its has developed within the fast-changing world of social media. IZEA offers a wide variety of Social Media Marketing services, from blog posts, blog sponsorships and blog ads.

Two of the most Social Media Marketing that IZEA offers are PayPerPost and SocialSpark.

What is PayPerPost(PPP)?

PayPerPost(PPP) is a website which helps content creators such as bloggers, videographers, podcasters and photographers find advertisers willing to sponsor specific content. The advertisers create opportunities (”opps”) that describe the content they are looking for (e.g. feedback, reviews, buzz, creative or video). The bloggers then choose opportunities in their area of interest.

Once the blogger has written a blog post or posted a video that matches the requirements, PPP then reviews the post against its requirements (e.g. topic, tone, length) and PPP terms of service (e.g. disclosure required, no adult content), and handles payment.

What is SocialSpark?

SocialSpark is the latest release from IZEA. It’s open to bloggers and advertisers alike. SocialSpark is exactly what the word means– it’s social. It was created for bloggers and advertisers alike, to share ideas, create ideas, listen, and be listened to. You can create a profile and make friends- even with advertisers! You can send and receive messages, share and write non-sponsored opps called “sparks” to get the word out! You converse, hash out ideas, and enjoy the refreshments with others. I love SocialSpark for this, and especially for bridging the gap that had existed between blogger and advertiser.

SocialSpark is still a very new. It’s not quite full grown, and is still budding. There are some bugs to be worked out and of course there are tweaks needed to make it more friendly (better clickability and better linking). But I think these will all be resolved. And judging by the incredible support by the people at IZEA and the community in general, I think SocialSpark will absolutely shine in the near future. If you are interested in joining, I highly recommend it.

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Today’s blog traffic tip is a technique you can apply to your blog, and if implemented well, will achieve the following:

- Make your blog a destination point
- Increase your blog’s “stickiness”
- Bring traffic to your blog regardless of how (in)frequently you update
- Consistently attract incoming links

Best of all, you only need to implement this technique once for it to work well. If you do it twice, or thrice, your blog will be well on it’s way to becoming a superstar in the blogosphere.

Sounds like a miracle technique doesn’t it? Well read on to find out what I am talking about…

THE HOOK

If you are at all interested in pop music you will be aware of what is known as the “hook”. The hook is the element of a song that is just so catchy it makes you want to hear the song over and over again. It forces people who otherwise should not be singing to sing along while listening to the track. The hook is angerously powerful.

In terms of blogging the hook has the same characteristics that it has in music. A hook brings readers to your blog over and over again. It’s addictive, fun, or valuable and unique.

HOOK VS PILLAR

So what’s the difference between a “hook” and a “pillar”, the technique I talked about in previous articles and the core concept behind my course, http://www.BlogTrafficSchool.com?

A pillar is generally easier to produce and most successful bloggers will produce multiple pillars each month, some each week or even every day. A hook on the other hand is something so compelling and unique that you are lucky if you pull it off more than once a year.

You could think of a hook as a pillar on steroids. It has all the same characteristics but everything is magnified with a hook. It takes more work to pull off a successful hook, but the rewards are significant when done right.

Still confused?

Essentially a hook is something, and it can be a blog article, but often it’s a piece of software or a digital download, that provides tremendous value. The idea is this one resource brings in traffic to your blog because it helps a lot of people.

Word of mouth spreads a hook all over the place, with hundreds of bloggers linking to it, and people sending emails to tell their friends about it. A good hook comes up in conversation as the accepted way to get something done - as the best solution to a problem.

HOOK EXAMPLES

The professional blogging site, Performancing.com, released a plug-in for the Firefox Internet browser that allowed bloggers to post articles directly from their browser without logging into their blog software. This one piece of software is unique and very valuable to the whole blogging community and therefore was a hook for the Performancing blog.

The team behind Performancing no doubt worked hard to get the software designed right, it would not have been created over night. Their hard work paid off and when their plug-in was released they enjoyed a huge flow of traffic, exposure and incoming links. I still read blogs that mention the performancing plug-in when they first discover it. This demonstrates the long, ongoing traffic creating effect of pulling off a successful hook.

Performancing has gone on to release many more great tools for bloggers, including Performancing Metrics, a statistics tracking service for blogs, the Performancing Exchange, a place where bloggers and blog employers can advertise blogging jobs, and the latest, Performancing Partners, an advertising system designed to help connect blog publishers with advertisers.

All these services are hooks - they are not easy to set-up, provide tremendous value, leverage community and make Performancing a destination blog.

COMMUNITY BASED HOOKS

I’ve talked about the importance of building community at your blog in previous newsletters. Another form of a hook is a forum where all the fans of a hobby congregate and talk or trade. If that forum is hosted as part of your blog, then it is a hook, bringing people back to your site every day.

A forum or a chat room, a classifieds section, or a bulletin board, are all community services that can make your blog into a destination point and help your traffic grow without you directly creating the content - the community does the work for you.

It’s not by any means easy to build a successful forum or community service. It takes a while to gain traction - it’s about as hard as it is to  build traffic to a blog, so if you decide to go down the path of building a forum adjacent to your blog as a hook strategy, be prepared for some hard work.

Try this article to get you started with your forum building:

How to Build a Popular Forum Community in 5 Steps
http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/41/building-a-forum-community/

DON’T BE DISCOURAGED

Remember a hook is a challenging technique to implement well. Most sites that have good hooks are the result of a team, or special talents. To build software or create a resource that is truly unique takes resources, timing, strategy and a good dosage of luck too.

In my career online I have created maybe one or two truly successful hooks. One was a forum(MTGParadise.com) that people started trading cards at so they kept coming back to trade, the other is my blog Entrepreneurs-Journey.com, which has the hook of my entire back catalogue of articles to help people build an Internet business. Both these two hooks took at least a year to build up to the point where I could really call them a hook.

Building a hook takes time. Keep at it for the long haul but make sure you see HOW the hook will work, don’t just assume it will work. You need to see the psychological pull, the addiction or fun or value that your service or content or resource provides. If you don’t have that, it won’t work.

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