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Blogging

We need more bloggers in the massage profession! Laura Allen who recently mentioned that she is being told to calm down about the NCBTMB on Massage Magazine's blog because of the NCBTMB being an advertiser is just more proof that people need their own self hosted blogs so that they can start speaking their mind.

I am going to start collecting blog addresses and post some of them here and you can add your blog address too!

Blogging is a way to create discussions on various topics that we need to be looking at as a profession. These forums/blogs here are a great beginning!

Here is one of my blogs!
http://thebodyworker.com/massage_blog/

What do we need to blog about? Politics, building a business, explaining massage and how it works to the public to create a more professional image, massage research, evidence based practices, massage schools, massage continuing education...

Ok maybe it is just me being the infopreneur that I am need to blog about all that! Ha!

Julie

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by massagenerd on October 15, 2009 at 6:43pm

Here is my blog: http://www.massageblogger.com
It is mostly responses to questions asked from other massage therapists and people that have massage questions.
Ryan
www.MassageNerd.com

Permalink Reply by Alex Frigino on January 9, 2010 at 11:51am

Hi Julie! Blogging is useful to get the word out, but also they are easy to update with fresh content that the bots can crawl. So a good reason to add a blog to your online presence is that it will eventually raise your search ranking.

Permalink Reply by Julie Onofrio on January 9, 2010 at 1:35pm

I just also wrote a short report on how to use wordpress on a self hosted basis and set up you blog for Search engine optimization. It is really easy and Wordpress has a xml sitemap plugin which is essential to set up and then submit your site to SE.

http://www.massage-career-guides.com/massage-blogs.html

Permalink Reply by Stephen Willi NMT on October 30, 2010 at 8:09am

Okay Julie, after reading your thoughts and ideas you've convinced me......I need to set up a blog. Thank You!

Permalink Reply by Julie Onofrio on October 30, 2010 at 12:34pm

Most hosting systems will let you add a blog with just a few clicks using something called a Cpanel and fantastico installer. It is best to install them on the same server as your website. let me know if you have any questions.

Julie

Stephen K Willi said:

Okay Julie, after reading your thoughts and ideas you've convinced me......I need to set up a blog. Thank You!