{"id":7098,"date":"2008-11-02T09:11:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/5-things-to-think-about-when-blogging-to-the-bank\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T09:11:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T15:11:33","slug":"5-things-to-think-about-when-blogging-to-the-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"5 Things to Think About When Blogging to the Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Patrick G. Moore<\/div>\n

The blogging trend has only just begun, millions<\/a> of bloggers<\/a> express them self daily using this medium. However, not many people know how to properly setup a blog<\/a> in order to make money from it.<\/p>\n

Blogging can generate a good stream of income but as any online business the money doesn’t come all by itself. You have to put in some effort and slowly work yourself up the traffic ladder and sometimes you need a bit of luck to find those high performing search terms. It’s often wise to have patience and work for a long term strategy that in the long run will reward you over and over again.<\/p>\n

If you are serious about blogging, it?s recommended to create your main blog on your own domain and hosting<\/a> as oppose to the various free services available. This will give you more flexibility and options for optimization.<\/p>\n

In order to make your blog successful you need to have several aspects in place like research, setup, optimization, monetization and traffic driving. Here are my 5 top secrets to build a money making blog:<\/p>\n

1. Research a Niche – To find a niche that you are comfortable blogging about, you can for instance take a look at popular magazines in Amazon, popular products in Ebay and most published\/view articles<\/a> in Ezinearticles. Write<\/a> down your niche ideas and choose a subniche from each that has at least 10-500 searches per day in Wordtracker. Also search google for the main niche keyphrase and favor phrases that have under 10.000 competing pages in Google. Also check Clickbank and Commission Junction to see if there are good products that match the keywords.<\/p>\n

3. Setting up your Blog – A keyword rich domain name does wonders with Google so choose wisely. For the niche golf swings you could choose a domain name like improvemygolfswings.com. The recommended blogging platform to install is WordPress. Optimize the blog with at least the following plugins: All-in-One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Akismet, Feedburner, Google Analytics and Auto Social.<\/p>\n

3. Finding Blog content – Pick out 2-3 main keyword phrases from the research phase to start optimizing your blog for. Search these phrases for content in Ezinearticles, technorati, PRwebs, forums, magazines and books. It’s also a good idea to setup Google Alerts in order to receive daily keyword specific articles. Strive to make daily quality posts by rewriting the content in your own style or just adding your comments under the article. Don’t just copy other peoples work. Make sure you include keyword phrases in the post title, body and header tags, but don’t overdo it. It’s more important that it’s readable to the user.<\/p>\n

4. Monetization – Join and search both Clickbank and Commission Junction to find suitable products to promote. You could also find affiliate merchants by searching Google for [main keyword] + affiliates (or affiliate program). Sprinkle affiliate links in your posts and put some banners in the sidebar. Just don’t make it look like a big advertisement blog that will scare away the users. 1-2 products to start with are enough.<\/p>\n

5. Traffic Generation – Start submitting articles to Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, Isnare.com and other article directories. If you want more exposure, consider using an article submission service. Submit your RSS feed to RSS services such as Feedsubmitter.com, Feedagg.com, Feedage.com and Feedfury.com. Make a bookmark of each post in social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, Del.icio.us and Propeller. Socialmarker is a resource that automatically posts to all these sites with a click on the mouse. For more backlinks comment on other people’s blogs and create article pages on free webservices like Squidoo, Hubpages, Weebly and Blogger.<\/p>\n

Keep working with these traffic driving tactics and you shall soon see results. Keep in mind to regularly add quality content to the blog and do not over optimize the posts. Think about the user experience and ask yourself what impression you would get as a customer ending up on your own blog.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately all blogs does not perform well, if you heard about the 80\/20 rule, the same principles can be applied here. 20% of your blogs will make you 80% of the income. So if you blog isn’t performing after a month or two, put some Adsense on it and repeat the process on a new blog. Sometimes the old blog can be a late bloomer and suddenly attract people so keep it in hibernation mode and do some post to it now and then. By having a couple of blogs you will spread your chance of hitting a really good performing blog.<\/p>\n

The highly successful million dollar<\/a> blogger Rob Benwell teaches a lot of secret strategies in his latest e-book, Blogging to the Bank 3.0. This guide is gold worth for someone just starting up but also includes a lot of tricks for the more experienced bloggers. Another tip is Firepow, a top notch tool which helps you automate the setup of a blog with the right plugins, getting content, optimize posts and promote all your blogs within a single easy to use web interface.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Patrik G Moore is an avid blogger and owner<\/a> of a dozens of blogs and websites. In blogpostingsoftwares.com he suggests people to study Blogging to the Bank 3<\/a> and also his Firepow Review<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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