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How to
Profit from your Home Business Blog
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by:
Ian Canaway
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How to Profit from your Home Business Blog
Copyright Ian Canaway 2004-11-30
http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com/
A blog is a simple tool which all affiliate marketers should be
utilising to explode their affiliate sales.
I set up my blog in about 15 minutes at http://www.blogger.com/ it’s a
completely free service, and it’s really easy to set-up. I followed
directions on an excellent article on getting a new website listed in
Google in 48hrs check it out here, http://www.scamfreezone.com/gg/ . I
just followed the advice in the article and got started with no
problems in no time.
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! So
clearly there is a good earning potential through blogs, but they do
take time to grow and build up a readership. Treat your blog as a
marathon not a sprint, because it will take time.
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’ in the search engines eyes and if you can provide 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.
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 because if it is bad you will lose all credibility!
Never recommend something you haven’t tried and tested your self.
You want to send traffic directly to your blog, do it through
multi-dimensional strategies. Have a subscriber box for your newsletter
to build your list from your blog. Use it as an exit pop-up from your
main site or thank you page for new subscribers, directing them to
relevant content immediately. As once your prospects have got to know
you through the blog they are much more likely to explore your website
and check out whatever you are offering.
Whenever you sign-up for an affiliate program or buy a 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, almost
a sample, this will help convert those prospects that are ‘sitting on
the fence’ so to speak. Obviously when you review your affiliate
products, make sure that you use your affiliate links.
It has been shown that prospects are 7-10 times more likely to buy from
a blog recommendation than from other sources!
Other ways that you can generate extra income through your blog are
through the Google ad sense program, selling banner/link space as your
traffic increases or as I mentioned earlier 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, which I won’t go into here,
that’s another article. But savvy webmasters can 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 and free targeted traffic.
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.
“A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that
no one at all would find fault with what he has done”. -- Cardinal
Newman
Get that blog started today!
(Feel free to use this article online and in your email newsletters as
long as you leave it intact and do not alter it in anyway. The byline
and biography must remain in the article.)
Resource Box:
Ian Canaway is the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com/
and you are invited to come and have a look round his new home business
blog at http://ahomebusinessblog4u.blogspot.com/
For home business tips, advice and product reviews. Happy Blogging!
About the Author
Resource Box:
Ian Canaway is the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com/
and you are invited to come and have a look round his new home business
blog at http://ahomebusinessblog4u.blogspot.com/
For home business tips, advice and product reviews. Happy Blogging!
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