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Why Blogging?

A few years ago all of a sudden you began hearing

about everyone becoming bloggers. The lifestyle

was tooted as being carefree and easy. Well that

is not 100% true.

While it is relatively easy to get started as a

blogger there really isn’t any one place to go to

learn how to make it a full time profession.

I will attempt to show you how profitable and

simple blogging can be to start as a business.

Blogging is how website owners communicate

with their audience and content engines such as

Google and Yahoo love to visit these blogs as

much as people do to help more people find your

content.

The only thing you have to do as a blogger is

provide fresh content on your blog a few times

per week to keep people and the search engines

interested. I’ll go over with you exactly how to

grow a profitable blog in the next few pages.

The Different Types of

Profitable Blogs;

As a blogger you have a few options for types of profitable blogs;

Advertising Blogs

You can create a blog on any topic with the specific intention of earning

revenue through advertising. With this blog model you would you’re your

money from selling ad space on your blog. How much you earn is going to be

dependent on how many people visit your website, how targeted your ads

are to their needs and how long they stay.

Affiliate blog

Much like the advertising blog model you would earn your money by running

advertisements on your blog, the difference is that you would get paid more

when the visitor takes an action on the advertised website. So instead of

Subscription blog

This is where you would focus your intention on providing extremely high

quality content for a fee. People would sign up to pay you for your knowledge

or expertise on a monthly recurring basis.

This type of blog is very successful when you know your topic very well and

have enough material to provide new fresh content weekly or daily.

Once you have decided on the type of blog you are

interested in running you need to choose the niche

or topic for your blog. It should be something that

you have an interest in because you will need to

consume yourself in this niche in order to stay

relevant in your field. If you are not remotely

interested in the topic you can always outsource

the content to a writer.

Once you have chosen a topic you will need to do a little research to see if

this is a viable niche to work in.

Researching Your Blog

Topic

Not Every Niche Is Profitable!

For Example The Joke Niche Is One That Though It

Has A Ton Of Traffic, You Would Not Earn You

Much Money At All.

You need to find a niche where people are spending money every day. How do we

know if we have a profitable niche? Answer these 4 questions “yes” and you have a

profitable niche.

1. Are there advertisements on your main keyword in Google?

2. Does amazon have at least 10 books for sale on this topic?

3. Is there a “Dummies” book on this topic? (www.dummies.com)

4. Are there at least 1000 searches per month your main keyword? (Google

keyword tool)

How Do I Find A Profitable Niche?

There are a few places you can look to find a niche

to target and to find out what people want to know

…

1. Yahoo Answers

2. Amazon Bestsellers

3. Forums (www.Big-Boards or www.Omgili.com)

Discover Obscure Niches or Rising Trends;

- www.trendsbuzz.com

- www.trendhunter.com/tv or

- www.trendhunter.com/trendreports

How to Conduct Keyword Research

- Google Keyword Tool

- Google Trends

How to Profit From Your Blog

As A Blogger You Get Paid By Either;

- Promoting other people’s products

- Selling ad space

- Selling your content

Find Other People’s Products to Promote From the Networks Below;

Affiliate Networks

Clickbank Google Affiliate Network

Commission Junction Shareasale

Linkshare Amazon

Revenue wire eBay

Warriorplus Jvzoo

Digiresults

CPA Networks see all offers at one site (www.Offervault.com)

Marketleverage Hydra network Max bounty Neverblue

Clickbooth Convert2Media

Selling Ad Space

You can sell your ad space directly by placing

advertising for sale signs on your blog or if you prefer

not to handle this yourself you can submit your ad

spot to a network with buyers who will sell it on your

behalf for a fee.

Here is a list of places that can help you sell your ad

space

- www.buysellads.com

- http://www.advertisespace.com

- http://www.oiopublisher.com

- http://performancingads.com

- http://web.blogads.com

Selling Content

If you want to sell your own content you will need to

install a membership plugin and have a way to accept

payments from people. You can accept payments

through www.paypal.com or www.clickbank.com and I

recommend using www.wishlistmember.com

membership software for wordpress to create

restricted areas of your blog that people need to pay to

see.

Setting Up Your Blog

Wordpress is the recommended blogging

platform for a number of reasons. Mainly it is

very well supported and there is an enormous

community of developers who create plugins

to enhance your website some for free and

some you have to buy.

Which Plugins To Use

All in one SEO

Contact Form

Privacy Policy

Google XML Sitemaps

Installing Wordpress

It is easy to install wordpress, if you have a

host account with a control panel usually

there is an automatic wordpress installer that

you can click on to install wordpress in 1 click.

It may be called “Fanatstico” or “Softaculous”

Domain/Hosting

Get a domain and hosting for your blog. If you wan to be

professional you do not want to use free blogs and free domains.

Always pay for your own domain and hosting.

A word to the wise, avoid buying your hosting from the same place

you get your domain. I know it is convenient to buy them all at

once but in my professional opinion I have never seen hosting

from a domain provider that didn’t have restrictions that made

running certain software, applications or plugins an issue.

My recommend host is www.hostgator.com and you can buy your

domains from www.godaddy.com

Getting Traffic

Once you have your blog setup you need traffic so how do we get people to

visit our blog? You should do as many of the traffic methods mentioned

below possible and do them continually.

Your strategy should be always to find multiple streams of traffic so that

your business is not dependent on any one source.

Free Traffic Methods

Guest Blogging

This is where you write articles on popular blogs with lots of traffic.

When you guest post you get the benefit of backlinks and direct

traffic. If you can guest post on high traffic blogs you can see

significant traffic immediately, through your link right in the author

bio box.

SEO

By far SEO is the slowest method of getting

traffic. But it is free traffic, and it will cost

you in time spent waiting for the traffic. By

all means make sure your blog is optimized

and ready for Search Engine traffic but don’t

dwell on it.

Forum Marketing This is the easiest to start with and the

most often over looked. Simply put a link

to your squeeze page in your signature

and hang around in forums related to

your niche. Post often but make sure you

are not spamming just to get your link

seen.

Paid Traffic Methods

If you are going to do paid traffic methods you

should make sure you are sending the traffic to a

page where you can capture the leads information

of have them perform some specific action that

earns you money. You can setup a squeeze page for

this type of traffic.

1. PPV – This is where you run ads on pay per

view networks such as www.directcpv.com

and www.leadimpact.com. Your ads will

appear when someone views a website

related to your offer.

2. Solo Ads – The crème de la crème … I saved

the best for last. Running paid ads sent to

other people’s lists, that is what’s called a solo

ad. Solo ads are inexpensive compared to

other traffic methods and your audience can

be very targeted in most cases. The best

places to find solo ads are www.safe-

swaps.com and

www.warriorforum.com/warrior-joint-

ventures. You will pay somewhere around

$0.50 – $1.00 per subscriber depending on

the ad cost.

Rinse and Repeat Often!

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