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Blogging is Dead? Are you Crazy?
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I’m sure you have heard it before. One of the first starting points with online marketing is web presence. For the majority of people their web presence is defined by either a website, blog or social profiles. Taking time to plan out your online footprint is essential to your online success.
I would like to focus for a minute on the importance and Power of a blog. Some folks have the misconception that blogs all look the same are dull and boring and offer nothing more than a Virtual notebook with some columns. This is a misconception and is the suicide of most bloggers.
Blogs are one of the most versatile communication tools. Blogging platforms like WordPress have been constantly evolving with the Search Engines. In fact, the blogging platform poses a real threat to the traditional “national brand mainstrem media outlets.
In fact WordPress is quite possibly the most versatile blogging platform of them all. If you’re unfamiliar with the WordPress platform then I suggest you get familiar real fast if you want to supercharge your online success.
With today’s global economy anyone can directly compete with the Worlds Biggest Corporations. I’m talking about competing on the first page of Google for some of the most searched industry topics and making money from the website traffic. Worpress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform that focuses on usability and functionality while providing the latest in aesthetics and web standards.
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How To Become A Successful Affiliate Blogger
Posted by: | CommentsHow To Become A Successful Affiliate Blogger
Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money online. Finding a niche market with products and services you trust and believe in is the first step to success. There are many affiliate programs which offer you all the tools and materials you need to promote and market their products.
However, what you do with those tools is what separates a successful Affiliate Marketer with ones that just gets by.
Here Are A Few Steps To Becoming a Successful Affiliate Blogger
Step One – Commit to publishing content on your blog on a consistent basis. Content has proven been proven to be the best sales tool available to affiliate marketers. Nothing, not even strategically placed ad copy works as well as providing quality content that pre-sells any product that you’re promoting on your blog.
Step Two – Track and test. Make sure you know where your prospects are coming from, what gets them to click through and what information they read and respond to – then give them what they need. Tracking and testing is the only way to know if your promotion campaign is working or not.
Step Three – Use the marketing materials provided but make sure you take it even a step further. Many affiliate programs do a great job of providing their affiliate with ready to marketing materials including:
1. Banner ads
2. Buttons
3. Email copy
4. Articles
5. Free promotional reports
Use the materials your affiliate manager has provided. It’s been tested and developed for results. That being said, be sure to create your own content too. Even as an affiliate you are running your own blog and it needs to reflect your personality and brand.
Building a community around your blog and providing valuable content is a sure way to create a following that trusts you and your credibility – which will result in click throughs and affiliate sales.
Step Four – Pre-sell. Don’t just drive traffic to your affiliate link, as an affiliate blogger you can pre-sell products and services right on your blog. Pre-selling means your content, whether it is a review, article, tutorial, course, or blog post, speaks honestly about the products and services you promote.
Pre-selling is about providing value to your blog visitors and prospects, making them
comfortable with you and your authority that generates interest and a click through to the affiliates sales page, where the selling happens.
Step Five – Follow up. Just like your affiliate manager follows up with you to see how you’re doing and what you need, follow up with your prospects. A great way to do this unobtrusively is to create an op tin list where your visitors can subscribe to your newsletter, free report, or any number of products in exchange for an email address and the permission to contact them with valuable information and special promotions.
Being an Affiliate Blogger is the only way to go if you want to build a successful affiliate marketing business. Find products and services you trust and believe in and then create a strategy to share information to your target audience. Test and track your efforts, focus on providing value to your prospects and leave the selling to the companies you represent. Helping others live better lives, without having to provide the products or services personally, is a great way to make a living.
Yes, Affiliate Marketing is an easy way to get started making money online. Take the time to learn more about Affiliate Marketing and set up your “system” and you’ll soon be a successful Affiliate Blogger too.
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Four Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
Posted by: | CommentsFour Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
A blog without readers is pretty much worthless. If you’ve been blogging for awhile now and have only been getting a trickle of readers to your posts, you need to put a free web traffic system into action. Learning how to create traffic is as much of a necessary skill to bloggers as writing quality posts is. Many bloggers are excellent at creating content however know very little about building traffic.
This is a quick guide to the four most popular (free and most successful) traffic building approaches.
- You Need To Be Social!
Social networking and blogging go hand in hand. Your blog posts can be distributed over social networking sites in many ways. Sign up for Twitter and tweet about your posts as soon as they are published to you blog. Update your Facebook status with a link to your new blog posts. Submit your posts to Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com. etc… It’s also important to remember that in order for social networking to work, you’ll need to participate with other people in your social community. If you visit their links and respond to their updates, they’re more likely to do the same for you.
- Make Sure You’re Noticed!
Look for blogs in your niche and start following their posts. Always contribute informative as well as useful comments on their blog posts. Not only will the blog owner notice you and visit your blog, other commenter’s will also visit your blog to find out more about you and your related site. There’s no need overdue commenting, but make it a point to leave comments on several relevant blogs each day.
- Get Your Message Out There!
RSS feeds are a good way to syndicate your blog’s content so that it’s sent to a variety of people in their own blog readers or on their own sites. Most of the blogging systems have RSS feeds automatically included, however you can add extra features to your feed by using a free service like FeedBurner.com. With FeedBurner you can add things like sharing the feed via e-mail so it will pull in new readers and encourage previous visitors to come back to the blog again and again.
- Syndicate Your Blog Posts!
As a blogger you may think that there’s no need for article marketing. The truth is that you can get a lot of visitors to your blog simply by re-writing several of your most popular posts and adding them to article directory sites. You can convert your favorite posts as articles with a link back to your blog to many different article directories. Not only will you get valuable one-way links but your articles are often picked up by others who will publish them on their own blogs which will bring you more traffic.
These four ways of starting your free web traffic system can be used over and over again to help build traffic to your blog and increase up your readership.
