Here are 10 powerful blogging tips you must take into your action and marketing plan seriously. Follow them and you’ll be on your way to building a highly successful and profitable blog online and earn money on the internet.
Step 1 – Find a Topic of Interest
Think of a unique niche or topic that fits your personal interest and something that you would like to blog about for life. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics.
Step 2 – Create Your Blog
Probably the most popular of the blogging platforms is Blogger.com – but there are others like WordPress.com and MSN Spaces. Wordpress.org offer the platform for free but you then need to find and pay for your own hosting and domain name. MovableType charge for a license for the platform and then you need to arrange and pay for your own domain name and hosting.
You need to include the keywords in Step 1 in the content of your blog but try not to overuse them as it sends out bad impressions to the search engines
Step 3 – Go Google
Sign up for Google Adsense account and paste the generated javascript code into your blog html. Every time the page is accessed, the code will pull advertisements from the Adsense program. When someone click on the ad which resides on your blog, you get paid. However, Google doesn’t disclose the exact revenue share or percentage that webmasters will earn.
If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.
Also add your URL to Google’ index.
Step 4 – Find Something to Sell
You might try finding an affiliate program (ClickBank and Commission Junction) to join to maximize your income and truly learn how to make money with blogs.
Whatever program you join will give you help inserting the code you will need to insert into your blog, but be sure you do this correctly or you WILL NOT earn money from your visitors. If you do not know how to edit HTML, W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great place to start.
Step 5 – Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites like OnlyWire and SocialMarker are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.
I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.
Step 6 – Write an Article
Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.
Submit your article to any of the 100’s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.
Blog online marketing is only as hard as you make it. Use these powerful tips and get your blog out there and seen today!
