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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 you 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 yourself.
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 you website and check out
whatever you are offering.
Whenever you sign-up for
an affiliate program or buy a product, review
it in you 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 you affiliate links.
It has been shown that prospects
are 7-10 times more likely to buy from 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 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
About
the Author:
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://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com/blogindex.html"
- http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com/blogindex.html.
For home business tips, advice and product reviews.
Happy Blogging!
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