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Blogging
for Profit - The Simple Success Strategies
of a 19 Year Old
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by:
Ian Canaway
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A
blog is a simple but powerful tool which all marketers and businesses
should be utilising to explode their sales, build credibility and
improve customer retention.
I've been doing a lot of research with regards to blogging and came
across a case of a 19 year old kid who was making something ridiculous
like $50,000 a year with a blog on mobile phones, from his bedroom!
This is an extraordinary case but clearly there is a good earning
potential through blogs, however they do take time to grow and build up
a readership.
Blogs provide a very simple, quick and easy means to add fresh content
to your website. As I’m sure you’ve heard many times over ‘content is
king’ from a search engines’ view point and by providing high quality,
regularly updated content your website should benefit with regards to
your search engine ranking.
By providing fresh, high quality relevant content you will gain an
increase of both first time visitors and repeat visitors, they will
come back to check out your new content. Providing it’s interesting,
relevant and useful to them, you will begin to build relationships with
your readers, increasing your credibility and building their trust in
you and your business.
These repeat visitors will be exposed to your messages more and begin
to trust you and your recommendations. This in turn will fuel sales and
referrals. Just make sure you don’t recommend a product you haven’t
tried, if it is bad you will lose all credibility.
Whenever you buy a new product, review it in your blog and be brutally
honest, your readers will love you for it. Take a completely unbiased
view point and talk about both the positives and negatives of each
product. In essence you are providing more of an insight into the
product than the sales page itself, this will help convert those
prospects that are ‘sitting on the fence’ so to speak. As it has been
shown that prospects are seven to ten times more likely to buy from a
blog recommendation than from other sources!
There are many ways in which you can monetize your blog, for example,
by using it as a tool to promote your own products or affiliate
programs. Other ways that you can generate extra income through your
blog are through the Google Adsense program, selling banner/link space
as your traffic increases or by adding you own opt-in sign up form to
which you send your newsletter or other targeted offers.
Your blog can be syndicated using RSS, enabling savvy webmasters to use
your blog content on their web pages. This benefits them as they have
regularly updated fresh content for their website and benefits you
through increased exposure, free targeted traffic and extra inbound
links.
To get the most benefit from my blog I use a technique called ‘blogging
and pinging’, whereby every time I post to my blog, I ping
Ping-o-matic.com to inform the search engines and blog directories I’ve
updated my blog.
You should submit your blog feed to blog directories to gain more
exposure. You can do this manually however, these are three automated
sources that I have had the most success using and best of all…they are
free!
http://pingomatic.com/
http://www.rssfeedpromoter.com/.
http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
Be passionate about your blog, love your blog. If you do not then it
will become obvious through your posts and you are unlikely to be
anywhere near as successful as you could be.
Add to your blog regularly provide good quality content and reviews and
you will be on your way to blogging success.
About the Author: Get your
FREE step by step guide to setting up your first blog, visit: http://www.trafficstrategiesonsteroids.com/blogsetup.pdf
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