Today’s post shares some great blogs you might want to consider reading if you’re someone who wants to make money on the internet.  Staying abreast of news in the industry and linking yourself to these blogs by way of commenting and pingbacks can also help your SEO.

5 Blogs to Read Today

1. TechCrunch:  Just voted the most powerful and influential man in social media, TechCrunch “profiles and reviews” internet stuff keeping you informed and is run by Michael Arrington.
2. ProBlogger: Anyone who blogs needs to follow Darren Rowse, one of the most successful professional bloggers online who teaches you how to monetize your blog.
3. DoshDosh:  Like money? Enough said.
4. SEOMOZ: While the service isn’t free, reading the blog is and you can find very valuable information here with a daily dose of SEO.
5. Sean Rasmussen:  I’d be remiss if I didn’t plug my co-author. Sean is inspirational and his motivation is contagious!

Subscribing to a few valuable blogs and getting posts delivered to your e-mail every day is a great way to continually educate and motivate yourself for your craft! Don’t forget to subscribe to SeanSEO.com while you’re at it and get your regular dose of internet marketing tips.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Time management is an essential skill for entrepreneurs who find themselves being pulled in many directions at once. Besides using a task management timer as we recently suggested here at SeanSEO.com, there are other things you can do as well in order to increase your productivity. Problogger talks about how batch processing helps him and that’s something you can do with your various tasks to stay on target and reach your goals.

Here are a few time management tips:

• Emailing is something most people do throughout the day but instead of checking email every minute or two and giving it a chance to take you away from the task you’re working on, turn off your auto-notification sound or alert and check it hourly instead. When you’re in the middle of a task, don’t be tempted to check it in the middle.

• Sometimes it’s better to be invisible for a bit! Instant messaging and Skype are great but can be very disruptive. Turn them off or stay invisible other than in short periods of time per day so you aren’t constantly interrupted by those who want to chat you up.

Here’s a big one:

Use Social Networking as a Reward

If you use microblogging tools like Plurk and Twitter, only stop in periodically during the day. Save socializing (even if it’s productive socializing) for after you’ve completed a task to reward yourself. For instance, if you’ve submitted to article directories, go on Twitter and Plurk to buzz your articles after you’ve done them and take that time to spend a few minutes surfing the blogosphere or chatting with your friends.

Having a productive lifestyle does take discipline and you occasionally need to hide from online friends and force yourself to work before you can play.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you’re trying to make money blogging, pinging your posts is a great practice. Free services like Ping-o-matic, Technorati and Pingoat are free services you can sign up to that let you let the world know you’ve updated your blog. Pinging literally ‘pings’ online services to say, “Hey, new content over here!”

Don’t Forget Tagging

If you tag your blog posts with relevant categories or keywords, people looking for information in cyberspace can find you based on those particular keywords. There are a lot of different social bookmarking and social networking tools you can use to help promote your blog.

Blog Marketing Checklist

Here are a few tips to help you optimize your blogging efforts:

1. Do I have a catchy title? Will people want to visit my blog based on what they see in search engines or social marketing websites?
2. Have I chosen categories and tags that reflect my subject matter so the search engines know what my blog is about?
3. Have I let the world know I’ve updated with pinging and social bookmarking?

Blogs are a great way to sell something and promote yourself as a professional. There are loads of blog gurus like John Chow and Problogger that can help you learn more about maximising the potential of the blog.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008