Many businesses and people are now creating BLOGs. If you aren't familiar, a BLOG is nothing more than an information website that someone posts articles they write or information about key issues in their industry. Or they are sometimes personal BLOGs just posting info about what's going on in their life.
Jeremy and Jenny, our son and daughter-in-law
just moved to Manhattan, New York City with our 5 grandboys (oldest 9). As you can imagine they create quite a site walking down the street. We always had a hard time keeping up with what they were doing and pictures of the boys. She now has a BLOG page that I subscribe to in iGoogle that tells me when she posts a new article and photos of the boys. That's how you would use it for the personal world.
just moved to Manhattan, New York City with our 5 grandboys (oldest 9). As you can imagine they create quite a site walking down the street. We always had a hard time keeping up with what they were doing and pictures of the boys. She now has a BLOG page that I subscribe to in iGoogle that tells me when she posts a new article and photos of the boys. That's how you would use it for the personal world.So, when you subscribe to a BLOG you have a reminder when something new has been posted and you can choose or not choose to go check out the new information.
When your web browser opens it is usually programmed to go to a website immediately or to go to another start page. Google, Yahoo and AOL have created these wonderful start pages for you to collect what are called "gadgets' of information that you can review quickly in one place. You can see your facebook info, Blogs you are following, the weather, stock market, lowest gasoline prices around town and all kinds of other gadgets summarized on one screen.
On the right column of this page are some icons for: iGoogle, MyYahoo and MyAOL. Depending on which one you are using, if you click on one of them it will immediately link this blog as a gadget on your web browser start screen. That way you will know when I post a new article. You can immediately go check it out or wait till another time that you open your browser.
I use iGoogle, for several reasons. One I am tracking a lot of what is going on at Google because they are responsible for 64% of all of the searches on the Internet. I want to know what's going on that affects my websites. We also believe they apply some additional value in the search engine rankings to what is posted on your iGoogle start page. So of course I have a link to my BLOG on my iGoogle page.
If you aren't already using one, click on the iGoogle icon at the right, and it will automatically set up your iGoogle start page for you. You can choose some options as you start it up and you can go back later and add gadgets from the "Add Stuff" link at the top of the page. I have several Blogs I track, FoxNews.com, Wall Street Journal, weather, GasBuddy that tells me where the cheapest prices are, weather, and stock market reports on mine.
If you currently have a MyYahoo or MyAOL start page on your browser you can click the related icons for those and it will post it on your browser window.
It's just that easy. If something goes wrong or you have trouble, post a comment below or email me at wayne@MarketingStrategiesRx.com
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