how to create and market the perfect blog

How to create and market the perfect Free Blog

by Karen Cook

You are promoting an affiliate program. Maybe more than one. And you're wondering if you are doing everything possible to promote your internet marketing business.

You have a website but you're not getting enough traffic to convert to sales. Maybe at this time you don't have the available cash to invest in Adwords. What are you going to do?

Why blog, of course!

By now, even your grandparents probably have heard of blogs. Maybe they even have one of their own...

Are you presently blogging to promote your affiliate programs? Is it performing like you had hoped?

Are you new to the blogging experience but you want to market your internet business with more success?

Blogging is the perfect vehicle for getting traffic. Not just any lost souls. Highly-targeted visitors. And, it's free. What can be better than that?

The two most popular blogging platforms are

***Blogger at https://www.blogger.com/start ***Wordpress at http://wordpress.org/

You'll want to play around with both to get a feel for what works for you. Both have excellent qualities. It's just a matter of finding your perfect fit.

Don't get too frazzled setting up your first blog. As with most things, once you've had practice, the rest are easier. Soon, you'll amaze yourself with how good a blogger you've become.

Once you have your blog set up, what then? Well, search engines love great content. So, you will be the master of your blog content. They're called posts.

Here is where you'll shine. You will provide information on your affiliate program. It can be a review. Or it can be relevant articles on a certain aspect of the affiliate program.

Don't stress about the writing. Just write your posts like you talk. Your visitors appreciate that.

What's the most important thing you'll need to know about creating the perfect blog?

Keywords. I can't stress it enough. Keywords. Learn everything you can about them. Read everything you can get your hands on about them. And...then study some more. Seriously, it is crucial to promoting anything on the internet.

There are many good programs you can buy to assist you with keyword research. For the free ones, I use...

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ | Good Keywords

http://www.wordtracker.com/keyword-research-guide.html | Goetargeting Keywords Tool

http://ubersuggest.org/ | http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/ | http://franklinbishop.net/tag/keyword-ideas/

http://freetools.webmasterworld.com/tools/related-keywords-tool/

http://www.seobook.com/why-it-makes-sense-target-longtail-keywords-first

http://www.pamorama.net/2014/01/04/10-keyword-resear

http://www.spider-food.net/keywords.html

How will people find your blog? First, you'll want to "ping". Yes, that's what it's called.

My favorite "pinging" platforms are:

***http://www.technorati.com/ ***http://pingoat.net/

Nice ping platform http://www.googleping.com | http://www.pingmyurl.com

Easy to use and free! You'll want to ping after every update to your blog. This gets the word out that more content is available. And you've given more food to the search engine spiders.

Now go forth and multiply. Highly-targeted blogs, that is!

http://amanda.wordpress.com.cn/2008/09/25/how-to-build-a-somewhat-successful-blog-16-lessons-i-have-learned/

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic. http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1347

http://www.steve-olson.com/how-this-blog-attracted-100000-visitors-in-the-first-30-days/

http://marketing-a-website.blogspot.com/ | http://blog.marketingtips.com/category/featured-articles Dereck Ghel

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/27-lessons-learned-on-the-way-to-3000-visits-a-day-and-2200-rss-subscribers/

http://www.clazh.com/how-to-get-instant-traffic-for-your-blog-or-website/

Social Media Traffic

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/best-webmaster-forums

http://www.doshdosh.com/blog-website-promotion/a-comprehensive-guide-to-stumbleupon-how-to-build-massive-traffic-to-your-website-and-monetize-it/

http://www.ifuzion.us/95/how-to-get-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-sites/

http://www.skelliewag.org/how-to-level-the-playing-field-with-digg-288.htm

http://www.linkrain.com/articles/top-10-social-bookmark-sites-based-on-traffic-pagerank-and-alexa-rank/

Head Line Making a Huge Difference to your Traffic

Link that should help you add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to your pages

Non English Social Bookmarking

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Sites like digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc can bring you a LOT of traffic. How about getting 20,000 and more visitors a day when your listing hits the front page?

Getting to the front page of these sites is not as difficult as it seems.

Pay attention to your Headlines

Many great articles go unnoticed on social bookmarking sites because their headline is not catchy enough.

http://andybeard.eu/2007/02/headline-split-testing-social-news-with-the-same-article-for-massive-traffic.html

http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/ Measure emotional values

http://www.copyblogger.com/magnetic-headlines/

Write a meaningful & short description

The headline is very important to draw attention but if you want to keep that attention, a meaningful description is vital.

Have a great first paragraph

This is a rule that is always true but for successful social bookmarking it is even more important. If you have successfully passed Level 1 (headlines) and Level 2 (description) in the Catch the User's Attraction game, don't let a bad first paragraph make them leave your site.

Content is King

Create an EPIC blog post. Like this one here...

http://www.buzzblogger.com/content-marketing-tools/

Make it easy for others to vote / bookmark your site

It is best when other people, not you, bookmark your site. Therefore, you must make your best to make it easier for them to do it.

Know when to submit

Submit to the right category

Build a top-profile

Not all users are equal on social bookmarking sites. If you are an old and respected user who has posted tons of interesting stuff, this increases the probability that what you submit will get noticed.

Cooperate with other social bookmarkers

Many stories make it to the front page not only because they are great but because they are backed up by your network of friends.

Submit in English

http://www.ifuzion.us/95/how-to-get-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-sites/

http://www.adityaspeaks.com/2007/10/11/10-tips-to-get-killer-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-websites/

Add social bookmarking links to your blog.

http://dr.tuvinh.com/ab/2008/05/16/how-to-get-traffic-from-social-bookmarking-sites/

http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/tips-get-people-retweeting/

Bringing the twitter conversation to any web page

1. Go to search.twitter.com and create a search – this can be by your name, product, #hashtag, industry phrase. You will get your current results in the browser window but also note the “Feed for this query” link at the top right. This is the specific RSS URL for this search. (by using the advanced search function you can create very specific and even complicated searches that use location and specific twitterers)

2. Take the RSS URL for your search and create a free Feedburner account and add the feed, then find BuzzBoost under the publicize tab and activate this feature and copy the HTML code that it produces. Paste this code on any web page and you will get a frequently updated stream of twitter content published to your page.

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2009/05/20/bringing-the-twitter-conversation-to-any-web-page/

Squidoo your blog to the top of the search engines

Squidoo get’s spidered like crazy so your sites will get listed quickly. It takes all of 10 minutes to have every-thing set-up and active. Including the full page design!

The best free targeted traffic - trafficswarm.com

However, this site allow anyone, regardless of their skill level, to get immediate targeted web site traffic. And they’ll start sending you targeted high quality traffic to your site today. Not tomorrow. Not next week. Today.

Trafficswarm

Affiliate Programs

Associate Programs - Make money from your blog

Here are nice forums discussing affiliate programs Affiliate Talk and Associate Programs

Article Marketing

If you write and submit 5 articles to the directories you more than likely will never achieve a flood of traffic. You will probably find it very difficult to make sales as you are not receiving enough unique visitors to your site. But if you write consistently, say, between 3 and 5 articles every single day, every single month, you will soon experience the exponential effect of all that writing. Janet Cole is a powerful coach and online mentor. She has over 650 articles in print and has created over 11 educational products.

http://www.online-success-shortcuts.com/

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