Sunday, February 24, 2008

Tips For Running An Internet Marketing Blog

Tips For Running An Internet Marketing Blog
by Christopher Stigson

Chris Stigson speaking. I'm an internet marketing blogger who spends a lot of time testing new stuff in the bloggin era. I've kind of cracked the code for running a profitable blog and want to do a test as well as share some knowledge with this article. Benefit by reading more.

You've probably heard that blogs are profitable means of making money online, and you are right, they are. It's just that you need to do a few things differently in order to get the most out of your blog and internet marketing strategies for promoting it and to finally increase top search engine rankings.

What I've found is that creating a traffic pulling blog is more than just about getting search engine rankings. You need more... See... Blogs are so easily syndicated using RSS and tools such as RSS submit to get your website spread like wildfire in just one go. This is no news... This isn't any news either, but you want to "deep link" your blog posts and have strictly defined anchor texts.

Now as for tips on running an internet marketing blog that relates soley towards internet marketing or affiliate marketing, eBay marketing or traffic, you need to choose a specific topic and "niche it". This means find a topic within the general category "internet marketing".

Finding your niche within the niche is the key to success. When you have found your "internet marketing niche" it's not hard to start finding products, keywords and articles to finally make money. Targeting "make money online", "how to make money" or "marketing" isn't your best bet here... Go to keyword research tools, spend some time and figure out what keywords you can use to rank #1 more easily.

If we were to use "traffic generation" as an example of a sub-niche, then after keyword research we'd most likely find a keyword such as "increase search engine traffic". Search it, do some "link:http://www.yourcompetition.com" in Yahoo to find how many backlinks these sites have between search results 10 and 20. We have found a viable sub-niche-long-tail-keyword. Hurray!

The next step would be to create a domain which would be similar to the keyword. Either short or long, depending on your preference. So, "traffic" should be in the domain and something like "www.increase-search-engine-traffic.com" would be a perfect domain for the keyword "increase search engine traffic".

Now you write relevant content about "increase search engine traffic" in your blog. Simple? Yes, but you also need about 10-20 keywords more to start writing articles just like this one. When you have done that, post them on various article directories online and see traffic, rankings and profits pouring in!

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