If you've used the demo you should be a bit familiar with the interface. The following gives you step by step instructions in how the Self Serve Blogging system works.

2. Now click on the small "Login" link in the TOP RIGHT COLUMN.

3. Enter your ID and PW and you should be in.

4. Now you should see some more options in the top part of the right column. In order to enter a post, click on "Admin" and you will be taken to what is called the "Back Office" - your own Administration area.

5. Once into the Admin area you should see a row of tabs along the top:

- Write - Posts - Categories - Blog Settings, etc.

At this point forget about everything except "Write" and "Posts".

"Write" is what you use to create a new post. "Posts" is what you use to check or edit previously created posts.

Click on "Write".

6. Now Select a blog by clicking on one of the buttons in the second row "New Post in Blog:"

7. Enter a Title for your post. Titles should contain important keywords. Keep them fairly short: 6 or 7 words is good.

8. Select a "Language" - If you are writing in US English leave it at US. This feature is mostly to let the software interpret foreign characters correctly, but it also creates a little flag within the post, and you might as well choose the one you want to display.

9. Leave "Type" as "Post" and leave "Link to URL" empty.

10. Now enter your copy into the box below. Just enter plain text. You can include simple html if you know how - such as bold <b></b>, and italic <i></i>, but please don't bother trying to create fancy headlines with <h> tags. And don't use <p> for new paragraphs, or <br> for line breaks. The program will automatically interpret an enter as a line break and a double enter as a paragraph break.

You'll just have to experiment to see how it works. Simple formatting is best. Create a new paragraph every two or three lines of text - just by hitting the "Enter" key an extra time.

11. You can create long or short posts, but we find the most effective posts are just two or three paragraphs long. You can put hyperlinks anywhere in your text, but please don't make your text just one long series of links. And there is no point in linking to the same page a number of times within the same post. Better to include a link to your home page, and possibly to another internal page (like a specific product page), or even to other sites. Links to other sources (websites) are also good, especially if they are associated with your product. This reinforces the relevance of your site to the subject matter. But cramming in a whole bunch of links (more than 4 or 5) may very likely be seen as spam by the search engines so I am encouraging new members to take it easy.

TO CREATE A LINK -- Select the anchor text (words you want to link) and then click on the "link" button above. Type the full URL into the box that pops up. That's it! See the video describing creating hyperlinks.

Bear in mind that some of the syndicated versions of these posts only include between 400 and 500 characters, so keep your important links at the beginning of the post so they show up in the syndicated versions. This greatly increases the effectiveness of your posts, since each post is syndicated on a number of different sites (with more being added.)

IMAGES - This is covered in some detail in another video.

We will be adding more instructions to the member's area of the Linknet Marketing Forum just as soon as we can. In the meantime, if you have any questions or run into any problems, please let us know.

We also expect to be adding more blogs where you can make posts. When we do we will let you know.