I conducted the SEO Blogging Workshop on 31 May 2008. There were 8 participants, most of them have already attended the SEO Workshop. Here’s a slide show of photos taken at the SEO Blogging Workshop.

The participants are very enthusiastic about WordPress blogging and making their blog posts visible in Google within hours.

SEO Blogging Community Forums

In order to provide a continuing learning platform for the participants, I decided to create the SEO Blogging Community Forums, a place where not only the Blogging Workshop can discuss SEO Blogging but is also open to the anyone interested to make their blogs to be visible and ranked top in Google.

Visit the forums and register now… http://myblog.sg/community/

Finally, we decided to organize and hold regular SEO Blogging Workshop from March 2008. This will be a Blogging for Business workshop.

If you are looking for blogging for money and make a quick buck with splogs then you’ve come to the wrong place.

Blogging For Business

This SEO Blogging Workshop will complement the SEO Web Design Course which we have been conducting since November last year. After several runs of the SEO Web Design Course, we are getting requests to help our participants, mainly business owners, to set up blog to promote their main online business sites.

The primary objective of the SEO Blogging Workshop is:

To install and set up a WordPress blog that is SEO-friendly and to achieve top ranking in search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

We plan to conduct this half-day SEO Blogging Workshop on weekends.

The first SEO Blogging Workshop will be held on Saturday, 22 March 2008. However, this first workshop will be by invitation only.

Our public SEO Blogging Workshop series will start in April 2008.

SEO Blogging Workshop Outline:

1. The Advantages of Using Blog vs Conventional Static Site
2. Strategic Applications of Blog to Promote Your Online Business
3. Blogging Platforms and Blog Engines
4. Where to Find FREE SEO-Friendly Blog Platform
5. The Pros and Cons of Using WordPress

Hands-on sessions:

6. Step-by-step Guide to Installing WordPress in 5 Minutes
7. Using SEO-Friendly WordPress Themes
8. Extending WordPress with WordPress Plugins
9. How to Structure a Successful Blog for Business
10. The Unbreakable Rules of SEO Copywriting for Blog

Requirements: If you know how to email and use Microsoft Word, then you are OK. Bring along your Wi-fi enabled notebook for the hands-on sessions.

The above 10 topics are what I feel most people will want to learn about blogging with WordPress. However, I may have missed out some very important topics and not answer your most important questions on blogging for business.

Please help me.

What are Your Top 3 Questions On Blogging?

Write your questions in the Comment box below. Thank you.

How To Be Invited
You will be invited if you have attended our SEO Web Design Course or SEO Workshop. Otherwise, send us your Top 3 Questions on Blogging and we will send you an invitation for the 22 March 2008 SEO Blogging Workshop.

I mentioned in my earlier post, Top Ranking for Blog, about a blog marketing course. The trainer of the workshop, Tan Kian Ann was featured in yesterday The New Paper. And here’s the report…

Maybe you ask, “Why need to learn to blog?” or “Isn’t blog marketing just like marketing a website?”

Blogging is not new. People started to write online journal since the end of last century. Ok, it not really a hundred years old but it definitely has been around for some years. Youngsters are the ones who started weblog(the older name for blog) at that time and it was about keeping an online diary and sharing it with your best friends.

You don’t have to learn how to keep an online diary. Anyway, keeping an online diary may not be what you want to do if you are thinking of marketing online.

You want to learn how to blog so that you can become popular for what you’ve written. Popular means you’ll have a big readership and each of your blog post is listed in the major search engines, news updates, Digg and has hundreds of other blogs linked to you verified by Technorati.

Basically, you want recognition for your blog.

So you’ll need to know what’s professional blogging and how to market your blog so that you can influence how your readers going to spend their time and money!

Will You Make Lots of Money After Learning How to Blog?

Let’s put it this way, there are some professional bloggers that make a 5-figure monthly income from their blogs. And there are hundred of millions other bloggers who don’t make a single dime even if they have Google Ads plastered all over their splogs!

So, since you’re already blogging, you might as well make it properly and professional – get proper blog marketing training. And gain recognition for your blog.

I believe many people will love to see their blogs or blog posts being ranked top in the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Live(MSN) Search.

And I thought I would prepare a 90-minute seminar to introduce working executives to SEO and Blogging with a catchy title…

Getting Top Search Ranking for Your Blog
Let Your Customers Find & Tell You What They Think About Your Service and Product

However, I know that there are already many articles written on the topic of Search Engine Optimization for Blog and Top Search Engine Ranking for Blog.

1. How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines
2. 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines
3. How to Optimize Your Blog
4. 7 Ways to Optimize Your Blog
5. How To: Optimize Your Web Site
6. How to Optimize your Blog’s Search Engine Ranking
7. WordPress and SEO

There are of course more than 7 articles available on the Internet, but these are the better ones that I’ve found. And I will learn from these great Blog SEO Specialists to hammer out my very own 90-minute seminar on How To Get Top Search Ranking For Your Blog.

[UPDATE Jan 31, 2007] I just discovered that there is a 1-day workshop on Blog Marketing. So I may as well not re-invent the wheel and direct working executives interested in corporate blogging to go check out:

• http://www.PracticalBlogMarketing.com