Welcome to Day #3 of your 10 day Niche Blog Challenge.

Today, you’ll make your first blog post… and promote it.

Before writing your post, to get the biggest impact from
it you’ll do one simple thing - add Technorati tags to your post.

Here’s a ’secret’ link to make the task as easy as falling off a log!

http://www.egmstrategy.com/ice/tag-generator.cfm

Scroll down to ‘Generate Tags’

Type in 3 to 5 of your top keywords

Select the ‘Technorati’ button

Ignore the other fields

Scroll down further and click on ‘Generate Code’

On the next screen, highlight and copy all code in the
box and paste it into a text file. Save it to your
desktop - you’ll use it during every blog post.

Ok, now let’s get on with making your first blog post
… don’t panic, it’s EASY!

Here’s a simple, effective process:

* Go to a news site or article directory in your
niche. Google or Yahoo News is a good resource

* Search for something interesting - controversial
or breaking news, industry breakthroughs, scandals,
human interest stories, anything

* Think for a moment about what you can say about
it - your comments, opinions, prediction, feelings,
fears and concerns… related to the news you just
selected

* Log in to your Blogger.com account, click the link
to your blog, and click on the CREATE POST tab

* Briefly type down your comment or opinion (2 or
3 lines is good enough) - and insert your top 1 or
2 keywords into your comment

* Copy and paste a paragraph from the news story
or article beneath your comment

* Copy the Technorati tags code you generated
earlier, and paste it also into the blog post,
below this.

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(Quick tip: To make it easy for you, you can insert
the code for Technorati tags into the blog post
‘template’ so it automatically is included in your
future posts. Here’s how to do it:

Click on SETTINGS. Then on FORMATTING.

Scroll down. You’ll see a box labelled ‘Post Template’
Paste the Technorati tags code in this box, and click
on the ‘Save Settings’ button)

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* Click the SAVE AND PUBLISH button - and you’re
done

Your first blog post has been published!

All that’s left to do is tell the world about it.

So, now go to Pingoat - http://www.pingoat.com

Type in the title of your blog and its URL into the
form and select the services you wish to notify
about your blog post (in the General category,
you could tick all boxes, and choose only relevant
ones from the other groups)

Then, click on the ‘Go Pingoat’ button.

An announcement will go out to dozens of sites,
telling them you’ve published something new to
your blog!

That’s it for today. Take a break - I’ll see you again
tomorrow.

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