I want to introduce to you a system that will help you in developing your blog and or blogging business. A system that helps you to get focused and to achieve success in the Internet Marketing arena. A system designed to help you practice good techniques and get organized and disciplined with your blogging journey. This system provides you with one element that is crucial to being successful, “community”. As you help other people, you are also helped. One of the best features of the Golden Rule Blogging system is that it is absolutely free. The Golden Rule Blogging system does require hard work and commitment, but that is part of the territory in having a successful blog.

As you begin blogging one of the things that you realize is that you need people to come to your site. You need traffic. Most of the traffic that comes to your site will come through the big three search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo). If your site shows up on search engine results, you will get traffic. If it doesn’t show up. you won’t get much traffic. To get your site to show up you need to be aware of how to optimize your site for the search engines (SEO). The search engines are looking for fresh original content (which is why you write original informational articles), and they are looking for how many other sites link to yours (there are other factors, but these two are significant). The fresh content part is obvious, you need to write a lot, at least three of four times a week in the beginning. The links are harder. You can develop links through Social Networking and Article Marketing, but these methods take a lot of time. Unless….

What the Golden Rule Blogging system does is organize you into communities of 10 bloggers. You make a 3 month commitment to each other to comment on each others articles ( favorably), link to each other’s sites, and bookmark each other’s articles. The process will provide you with a lot of good clean links and traffic in a short period of time. Your community group can continue to work together past the three month period which will add more and more good links into the mix.

For a detailed explanation of the Golden Rule Blogging system go the Blog Consulting site or www.goldenruleblogging.com.

I wrote on article a few days ago about how My Newbie Blog was doing for a keyword search of how to create a blog. At the time, the site was being returned by Google on page 5 in position 46. This was after weeks of slowly moving up from back in the 300’s. Two days ago, the site quit being returned by Google for that keyword. Gone! This happens from time to time and it can be very frustrating. It should come back eventually, but it is really the biggest traffic generator for this site. The upside at the moment is that I am getting a page 1 return for the keyword on Yahoo.

This brings 5 or 10 people to to the site everyday. How does that happen? It would make sense to lose some position from time to time, especially in a competitive keyword environment. It doesn’t make sense to go from 46 to no where. It’s in the algorithm I guess! Perhaps I was working the keyword to hard, although I had been balancing it with a few other keywords, like starting a blog and starting a blog from scratch. These results have not been affected. No matter what the reason, all I can do now is wait for the keyword to come back to the site on Google. I am grateful for the Yahoo returns but it is hard to know how long it will stay on page 1. I will keep checking and let you know.

I just wrote about this yesterday on How to Create a Blog, but the site moved up again for both of the main keywords today. For the keyword Newbie Blog we are now at page 1 position 2.

The result for “How to Create a Blog” also moved up to position 38 on page 4.

This is the result we are working on to get to page 1. With both of these results moving forward I am going to start working on another keyword, “Starting a Blog“. Right now My Newbie Blog is showing up on page 8 in position 75. This is better than I thought it would be. The last time I checked it was back about 15 pages.

I am going to start a new series of articles in the next few days about developing a niche site. I will begin to focus on the starting a blog keyword to see if we can get a better a result. There are a lot of really good blogs using this keyword. I am interested to see if we can get up there close to the top.