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Written by Al (PaPaGrizz) Nelson
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 11:51 |
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I feel there are so many angles from which I could make a review of Andrew Hansen's new blogging software Firepow. I thought I might focus here on one particular element of the program which I consider to be particularly vital to the success of a blogger, namely, the ability to drive traffic to their blog. If you've ever started a blog, or any form of website trying to earn some cash, you'll know it's not exactly a case of "if you build it they will come". Even a great blog doesn't guarantee traffic and a major part of a bloggers focus has to be spreading the word about their blog in a variety of ways in order to continually increase traffic and profits. Sure, I could have talked about the blog creation and management aspects of Firepow, which I know so many new online marketers and bloggers will find so valuable. But for me, I'm more concerned about how the program can help a user increase traffic and make more money. Anyway, before I get off in another direction - I thought I'd make a brief mention of some such features of the program in order to open your eyes to the ways this program might be as much a benefit to you as it has been for me. The first thing I like, is the ability the user has to easily generate backlinks to their blog once it's up and running. yes I said easy backlinks!
When you start a new blog, you want enough search engine spider juice to your site to have it able to rank well for long tail uncompetitive keywords, purely by on page optimization, within a few days of being created. In addition to giving you powerful on page optimization capabilities (like allowing you to set the meta data AND h1h2 tag data for every post or page), Firepow lets you quickly generate the spider juice you need to get indexed and potentially ranking for an uncompetitive term. For example, as soon as your site is created, you can click a button to have your RSS feed submitted to a bunch of RSS directories. You'll get some valuable link backs, plus some great spider activity right off the bat. Not to mention the ping from your post. Furthermore, if you choose to, you could use a tool called BlogLove Builder, to quickly and easily implement a trackback to a popular blog post within your own blogs first post - and instantly generate more link juice, and even a few visitors right from the get go too! Furthermore, if you focus on search engine traffic you'll know about the importance of link building in locking in long term rankings. Initial spider juice can get you a quick ranking, but for a LASTING ranking, you need an assortment of relevant quality backlinks establishing your page as an authority on that keyword. Firepow has that more than covered, giving you the ability to obtain links from social networks, blog comments, and in content links from Firepow's own network of high PageRank blog sites as well. I stress that even what I've mentioned here isn't close to all of the tools Firepow gives you to drive traffic to your site. And it's for that reason among many that I am recommending all my blog readers to check it out for themselves. By the way, I don't know about you but one of the most important features to any program I purchase is "The Support". How many times have you purchased a program/software only to find yourself banging your head against the wall trying to get it to work. Then to make matters worse, you submit a support ticket and wait a week for an answer...arrrrrrgh! This will not happen when you join FirePow! Andrew, Vince and the other support/creators live "Down Under" which for me makes a time zone difference of %u10D6 GMT example: as I write this post it is 3:45pm Central Time. Where they are it is 6:45 in the morning. My point is I can have a problem in the morning (my time) click on the support link, and click on live support and someone will be there!! I could not believe I could get live support when in Australia it was 2:00 in the morning. Now I ask you how many product owner's give that kind of service? And here is some icing on the cake, the forum is filled with like minded people and believe it or not, we all are trying to help each other not just spam everyone for some kind of offer, but real help! So if you are serious about looking for a way to make your blogging efforts easier and more profitable just check them out. When you sign up get in the forum and give me a shout. Oh yeh check ot the video below. Thanks for reading, Al aka. PaPaGrizz Here's the link: Firepow 
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