(Blogging) Why Won’t Online Marketers Do This?
No commentsBy Steve Weber
What if you could wiggle your nose and instantly have a quality website with many hundreds of pages of content in a semi-popular niche? Do you think you could make money with that site? …duh…stupid question.
Most of the new Internet marketers I work with are far too focused on “making money” in the beginning. Usually that mode of operation simply leads to frustration at first. Instead, allow me to offer another perspective on the topic of achieving Internet marketing success.
Let’s use the proverbial “dog training website” as an example. Dog training is just an example. There are thousands of other possibilities which can work just as well.
What if you began today and wrote just one page daily for your new dog training website? Also, assume you know about SEO and will apply those basic techniques to each page. (I highly suggest working in a niche for this project in which you have plenty of knowledge and/or interest in.)
Please don’t think, “There is no area I know enough about.” EVERYONE has knowledge about or interest in something that will work. In every single case which I have helped someone brainstorm this issue, I have always found something in their range of knowledge and interests that would work.
Imagine the size of your site in just 2 or 3 years of spending 20 minutes a day! It could contain 1000 pages or more! Besides attracting a LOT of traffic with the keywords you optimized each page for, a site that size casts a LARGE net and will snag many thousands of “rogue” searches each month.
For example, our 100 page CactusCanyon.com site gets over 5000 page views each month from long tail keywords I never intended to optimize for. It would not surprise me if a 1000 page site in a good area would easily get 40,000 to 50,000 page views a month from “unintended SEO”…not to mention how much traffic would come from the intended optimization!
Don’t sabotage this idea by assuming it would be impossible to come up with ideas for a 1000 pages of content. Simply open up Google’s keyword tool and look for keywords using a variety of forms of your keyword. For example searches for dog training, training dogs, how to train dogs, dog training tips, and on and on will result in thousands of page topics…ditto for most niches.
Success really is this simple:
o Pick a niche you are interested in and one where people spend money.
o Research and list the keywords you will use for the content.
o Learn basic on and off page SEO and apply those methods to the pages.
o Begin writing and publishing an article a day.
You will not have to wait 2 years to begin seeing success. Whether you monetize your site with Adsense, affiliate products, or selling your own physical or digital products, results will begin showing up sooner than you think.
Yet, just IMAGINE what you will have going for you in 2 or 3 years!
Sadly, 99 out of 100 people who read this will never take the required action to make the plan work. Most simply can’t see the big picture. They want a quick method and don’t have the self-discipline to invest the work and time into something which won’t payoff by next week or even next month.
Steve Weber is an author and teacher who owns and operates StevesClassroom.com. There, he provides a wide variety of Online marketing information including how to start a home Internet business.
How to Drive Blog Traffic
By Chase Carpenter
No blog survives without traffic. More so, less traffic only means that the content is not that good. However, there are also instances wherein a great blog does not have enough traffic. The key in getting traffic is to come up with a strategy and make everyone notice your blog. There are a few things that you need to consider with regards to generating traffic to your blog and these are not that different from planning a regular Web site.
The only exception is that blogs can generate traffic a lot faster. What you only need to consider first is your target audience and where exactly you are generating your blog’s traffic.
The Content
The content of your blog is very important. It is the reason why people visit your blog. Try to make your blog interesting and learn to master the ideas included in your blog. The content should also be relevant and of high value to the audience. Find out what your audience wants and if what you are writing satisfy them.
The content is especially important if you are planning sales from your blog. Firstly, you must become a trust-worthy and credible source of information before people try the product. Blogs are excellent medium for sales since they allow you to connect and converse through the use of the content. You must realize that without a great content, your blog cannot fully achieve power and leverage against others.
In order to gain audience for your content, remember not to publish infrequently. Additionally, do not criticize others if you do not have facts to support your claim and references for those facts. If you criticize, do it in an objective non-personal manner. What you can do is to publish often and make sure that the entry you are about to publish is meaningful and of high-value. Lastly, be yourself to help your audience relate to you but do not reveal any private information.
The Ping
Some bloggers take the extra mile just to ping and do not solely rely on the blog software pings. The blog software pings’ job is to update the servers for the purpose of announcing your content updates. Search engines and blog directories then checks these update servers for the latest updates; this is the reason why your blog’s content gets into search engines quickly.
Pings make blogs excellent search engine optimization tools. There are even instances where it only takes a day before your content gets into search engines. However, your blog’s content will only take hours to a few days to get into most search engines, on average.
When starting a blog, always check the instructions included. There might be section wherein you can turn on the blog software ping automatically, which activates on the background. By doing so, whenever you publish content in your blog, it will instantly transmit ping updates.
RSS feeds are also important. Not only will you be able to publish your content within a short duration but also replicate your content through the use of your RSS feed. Nowadays, the flow of your content is real-time and the RSS allows you to show your content to a wider audience.
There are several ways to promote your blog. However, keep in mind that there is no strategy for quick money when it comes to profitable blogging. It requires dedication, time, a strategy for the content and patience before the cash starts flowing in.
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Take Advantage of Affiliate Marketing
By Chase Carpenter
Affiliate marketing is one way in which bloggers utilize their blog to generate revenue. The amount of revenue generated by a blog featuring affiliate marketing links may vary significantly depending on the amount of traffic the blog receives as well as the compensation offered for the affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing essentially entails creating a link on the blog to another company’s website. The other company then compensates the blog owner according to a previously agreed upon contract. This compensation may be awarded in a number of different ways. The blog owner may be compensated each time the advertisement is served, each time a unique website visitor clicks through the advertisement or each time a blog visitor performs a desired action such as making a purchase or registering with the website. This article will discuss some aspects of affiliate marketing which bloggers should understand including selecting opportunities carefully, maximizing the income potential for these opportunities and understanding the requirements associated with these affiliate marketing opportunities.
Selecting Affiliate Marketing Opportunities
There is a wide variety of affiliate marketing opportunities available. Many different companies and websites offer affiliate marketing opportunities. In most cases the blog owner simply needs to submit the website address of his blog along with some other basic information for approval. In most cases the company is not likely to reject the application unless the content of the website is deemed to be objectionable or otherwise in conflict of interest with the company’s goals. However, although getting approved to display affiliate links on your website is a rather simple process, this does not mean blog owners should select these affiliate marketing opportunities without discretion. It is a far better idea to carefully select affiliate marketing opportunities with companies who are of interest to the target audience of the blog.
A well focused blog that is reaching a specific target audience should seek to display marketing links directing website traffic to companies which complement the blog without acting as direct competition to the blog. This helps to ensure the blog visitors will not only be interested in the affiliate marketing links and therefore more likely to click on the links but will also help to ensure the blog visitors do not find the affiliate marketing links to be bothersome.
Maximizing Affiliate Marketing Opportunities
Once blog owners have selected affiliate marketing opportunities it is time to consider how they can maximize the profit generated by these links. There are a couple of critical factors which blog owners should carefully consider to help maximize their profit from affiliate marketing. This includes regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the affiliate links and promoting the blog to maximize traffic.
Blog owners who incorporate affiliate marketing into their blog should regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the affiliate links. This can be done by comparing the percentage of blog visitors who click on the affiliate links to the overall blog traffic. A blog which has high traffic but a relatively small percentage of visitors who click on the affiliate links should consider making changes to attempt to entice more blog visitors to click on the links. These changes can involve the aesthetics, size or location of the advertisements. Making only one change at a time is recommended because it makes it easier for the blog owner to evaluate which changes are most beneficial.
Blog owners can also help to maximize the profit from their affiliate marketing opportunities by doing self promotion to drive additional website to the blog. This will likely be beneficial because higher website traffic will generally translate to greater profit from affiliate marketing. Additionally, the blog owner may want to occasionally mention companies for which they are an affiliate to generate interest in the advertisements on the website.
Understanding Affiliate Marketing Requirements
Finally, blog owners should pay careful attention to the affiliate marketing agreements they enter. This is important because some companies may place restrictions on the usage of a link to their website. This may include restrictions such as avoiding objectionable content, not including links or advertisements for direct competitors or restrictions on the appearance of the affiliate links. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in the blog losing affiliate privileges and the blog owner being denied compensation.
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