If you are blogging you may want to consider doing some niche affiliate marketing. It involves the same skills as blogging, but your sites are smaller and they don't need continual updating.
I love niche affiliate marketing. It allows me to follow my inspiration, not get stuck in one niche or blogging about one thing. I can jump around and still make money.
When you do niche affiliate marketing, you need to do some good keyword research. You need to find great keywords related to your niche. Then you need to find some content to put up on your site. This can be challenging if you aren't particularly familiar with your niche. Once you have content you need to find products to promote.
This can sound really overwhelming to a new niche affiliate marketer. You can use a service called Niche in a Box. In each niche kit you will have 15 well researched keywords, 5 articles to use for content and affiliate products you can recommend.
Niche in a box makes it really easy to get your niche business started. You can have sites up in no time and then all you have to do is get traffic to your site and you are in business.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Building Links Is Not as Hard as You Think!
When people ask me why they aren't getting traffic or making any sales the first thing I ask them is how many links have you built back to your site. It's the most important piece of the puzzle and one that many new internet marketers just don't understand. If you want the search engines to rank you in the results page you have to be building links. Here are a few ways to build some links.
Blog comments. This is an easy way to start building links. It will also get you some direct traffic if you do it right. You can use software to find blogs that are related to your site, but you can also just go to Google blog search and put your keywords in. When you find a blog similar to your, read the post and then if you have something to say you can make a post in the comments. You can put your keywords in the name field and your url in the url field. This will create a link back to your site. There are many nuances to this technique so look at the other comments and see if others are doing this before you do. Make sure you add some value in your comment. Don't just write "nice site, I like it" that is not valuable and your comment will most likely be deleted.
Another great way to build links is by writing articles. Writing articles can be tedious and boring, but it is a great way to quickly and easily get your links out there. You can send out mass submissions, which is best done with some sort of software. You should also send your articles to ezinearticles.com. It has quite a bit of pull and your articles are likely to show up in google for your keywords, which can get you a lot of traffic by itself, if you have written a good article and have a resource box that calls people to click through. Make sure you have keywords in your links out of your resource box ~ those are your links you are building.
RSS is a relatively new technology. Even so, it can be a great way to start building links to your site. You simply get your RSS feed url and submit it to a variety of RSS directories and feed aggregators. You will get a link back to your site for each post you make. The link is usually the title of your post, so make sure you use keywords in those titles.
Free content platforms. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of places online that will allow you to put your content on their server for free. These sites are a dream come true for those building links back to their sites. You have control of the content and therefore you can make sure your links have the perfect anchor text. These free platforms may be free blog sites, free wiki type sites, and of course squidoo. Make sure you read the terms of service for each before you start, as each site's rules are a little different.
As you can see building links to your site is not very complicated. It can be time consuming and relatively boring, but it's just one of those things you have to do to see search traffic. If you fail to build links back to your site you can pretty much expect not to see much search engine traffic. A big hit of traffic from stumble can feel good on the stat counter, but you may be surprised that even after 1000 visitors you haven't made a dime. Work on building links, so you can get some search traffic. It may take a little more work, but you will actually make some money.
Still in need of help buildling links or you don't understand how to get traffic to your site, try our FREE 6 step website marketing strategy. It will have hordes of traffic coming to your site in no time flat. Don't reprint the same version as everyone else. Get your own unique content website marketing strategy article here.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=8aaaeb93-b017-449d-8a5e-1c142785df5b)
Blog comments. This is an easy way to start building links. It will also get you some direct traffic if you do it right. You can use software to find blogs that are related to your site, but you can also just go to Google blog search and put your keywords in. When you find a blog similar to your, read the post and then if you have something to say you can make a post in the comments. You can put your keywords in the name field and your url in the url field. This will create a link back to your site. There are many nuances to this technique so look at the other comments and see if others are doing this before you do. Make sure you add some value in your comment. Don't just write "nice site, I like it" that is not valuable and your comment will most likely be deleted.
Another great way to build links is by writing articles. Writing articles can be tedious and boring, but it is a great way to quickly and easily get your links out there. You can send out mass submissions, which is best done with some sort of software. You should also send your articles to ezinearticles.com. It has quite a bit of pull and your articles are likely to show up in google for your keywords, which can get you a lot of traffic by itself, if you have written a good article and have a resource box that calls people to click through. Make sure you have keywords in your links out of your resource box ~ those are your links you are building.
RSS is a relatively new technology. Even so, it can be a great way to start building links to your site. You simply get your RSS feed url and submit it to a variety of RSS directories and feed aggregators. You will get a link back to your site for each post you make. The link is usually the title of your post, so make sure you use keywords in those titles.
Free content platforms. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of places online that will allow you to put your content on their server for free. These sites are a dream come true for those building links back to their sites. You have control of the content and therefore you can make sure your links have the perfect anchor text. These free platforms may be free blog sites, free wiki type sites, and of course squidoo. Make sure you read the terms of service for each before you start, as each site's rules are a little different.
As you can see building links to your site is not very complicated. It can be time consuming and relatively boring, but it's just one of those things you have to do to see search traffic. If you fail to build links back to your site you can pretty much expect not to see much search engine traffic. A big hit of traffic from stumble can feel good on the stat counter, but you may be surprised that even after 1000 visitors you haven't made a dime. Work on building links, so you can get some search traffic. It may take a little more work, but you will actually make some money.
Still in need of help buildling links or you don't understand how to get traffic to your site, try our FREE 6 step website marketing strategy. It will have hordes of traffic coming to your site in no time flat. Don't reprint the same version as everyone else. Get your own unique content website marketing strategy article here.
Getting traffic to your blog
Seems these days everyone has one ~ a blog that is. Once you have a blog up and running and some visitors coming it's important to build a relationship with those readers. You want to keep them coming back. You want them to tell their friends about your blog, this will build your readership and word of mouth traffic is easily monetized.
Email is a great option for traffic. You can use it a couple different ways. You can burn a feed with feedburner that will allow people to subscribe to your blog via email. This will let them read your posts in their own email. You can also start building a list of readers with an autoresponder. When someone subscribes to your list they give you permission to send them emails. This can be a quick teaser message about your latest post to get them to come to your blog.
An opt in list. This is a great way to get access to your readers. You need an autoresponder service for this one, but it's worth it. Create, have made or purchase a great piece of work on your blog's subject, then offer it for free to your readers. Once they give you their email address to get the free gift you can then email them. This can be an affiliate offer, or encourage them to come to your newest blog post. It's always smart to offer free stuff to your list once in a while too.
Understand your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.
Join the club. The club of blogs that is. There are quite a few blog networks around where you can get together with other bloggers in your niche. By joining these networks you can swap links, and end up sharing traffic. You can get some good feedback on your blog as well as new ideas for topics to blog about.
Use RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.
Maintaining a relationship with your readers can seem complicated, but it really isn't. You just need to keep them in mind while you are blogging, and write what they want or need. The more you make your readers happy the more they will tell others about you, which leads to more traffic. It really is a win/win.
Would you like to know the secret of website traffic promotion? Here's my FREE 6 step website marketing strategy. It brings me tons of traffic every day, and now it can bring traffic to your site as well. This and other unique content blog articles are available with free reprint rights.![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=a75baa3e-7a9f-4b49-890c-e054cb7b055e)
Email is a great option for traffic. You can use it a couple different ways. You can burn a feed with feedburner that will allow people to subscribe to your blog via email. This will let them read your posts in their own email. You can also start building a list of readers with an autoresponder. When someone subscribes to your list they give you permission to send them emails. This can be a quick teaser message about your latest post to get them to come to your blog.
An opt in list. This is a great way to get access to your readers. You need an autoresponder service for this one, but it's worth it. Create, have made or purchase a great piece of work on your blog's subject, then offer it for free to your readers. Once they give you their email address to get the free gift you can then email them. This can be an affiliate offer, or encourage them to come to your newest blog post. It's always smart to offer free stuff to your list once in a while too.
Understand your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.
Join the club. The club of blogs that is. There are quite a few blog networks around where you can get together with other bloggers in your niche. By joining these networks you can swap links, and end up sharing traffic. You can get some good feedback on your blog as well as new ideas for topics to blog about.
Use RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.
Maintaining a relationship with your readers can seem complicated, but it really isn't. You just need to keep them in mind while you are blogging, and write what they want or need. The more you make your readers happy the more they will tell others about you, which leads to more traffic. It really is a win/win.
Would you like to know the secret of website traffic promotion? Here's my FREE 6 step website marketing strategy. It brings me tons of traffic every day, and now it can bring traffic to your site as well. This and other unique content blog articles are available with free reprint rights.
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