How To Win The Affiliate War

Winning the ongoing affiliate war isn’t easy but (unlike some wars) it IS winnable. The
affiliate wars cannot and will not be won by lazy affiliate marketers. The affiliate
marketing wars will be won by the aggressive strategists who are willing to work hard
and long.

Affiliate marketing is not for the faint of heart. If you had really known how tough the
competition is in affiliate marketing would you have joined the fray? It doesn’t matter.
You are in the midst of it now and quitting simply is not an option for a true warrior. The
only option is winning...and winning BIG!

Winning the affiliate marketing wars means winning the small daily battles and minor
skirmishes one at a time and winning them decisively.
You want to become one of those super affiliates. You want to become one of those big
earners that make an annual income that has more than one comma in that number on
the bottom line, right?

Then you need to be prepared to work hard. You need to be prepared to do more than
what is required. You need to be prepared to go that extra mile.
First and foremost, reputation counts in affiliate marketing. There are thousands of
affiliate marketers out there but the ones who make the big bucks are the ones who
have established high visibility and great credibility for themselves.

Establishing credibility and visibility go hand in hand and establishing both are critical to
your success and your victory over your competitors.
Credibility and visibility are established in several ways. Two of the most important ways
of establishing credibility and visibility are by writing and marketing articles and E-Books
that relate to the products and services that you sell. You must establish yourself as an
expert...a guru, if you will.

You need to become the guy or the gal that others go to when they need information or
need questions answered. Writing articles and E-Books (or having them written for you
by a ghost writer) is one of the very best ways of establishing your reputation as a
person who has answers.

Articles that you write or have written for you by a ghost writer will be uploaded into
article banks for other website owners of E-zine publishers to download and reproduce
free of charge. At the bottom of each 300-400 word, key-word rich article you will include
a resource box that has your name and your website address in it. This helps to spread
your name and news of your knowledge around the Internet to those who are the most
likely to be your customers.

E-Books should only be 10 to 12 pages long but a link to your website needs to be
included on every single page as well as in the resource box at the end. E-Books are
uploaded to E-Book repositories where others may download them and reproduce them
just like articles.

Because it is required that E-Books cannot be altered and that resource box information
must be included when E-Books are downloaded and reproduced, your reputation as an
expert in your field will be enhanced each time anyone chooses to use them.
Another way to build your visibility and your credibility on the Internet is to post to blogs
and forums that have topics related to the products and services which you sell. It is a
very simply matter to find these forums and blogs. Simply type your related key word into
the search box of your favorite search engine followed by the plus sign (+) and the words
blogs or forums. You will get many hits.

Choose the three or four of the ones that have the largest number of active members
and join those blogs or forums. Be careful here. Posting to blogs and forums effectively
is going to take several hours of your time every week so don’t choose too many.
Once you have joined three or four blogs and forums do not go in with guns blazing
posting blatant advertisements. The idea here is to build visibility and credibility.
Introduce yourself and behave as though you had just moved into a new neighborhood.
Your signature tag that appears at the bottom of each and every post that you make
should have your name as well as a link to your website.

Take you time to get to know the other posters in the community and become a valued
member of the group. You will be building a good reputation, visibility and credibility.
It takes time to build your visibility and credibility. While you are building them, you will
also be promoting and selling products and services and you want to establish a good
relationship with those who buy products and services from you. Be sure that you
provide good information, good service and a guarantee if one applies.

Go to great lengths to never appear to be a cheapo or corner cutter to your customers.
Always treat your customers like they are your most valuable asset...they ARE your
most valuable asset.

Never discount products or services or offer rebates. You don’t want to build that kind of
reputation or that kind of customer base. Instead of offering discounts or rebates take
the time and put forth the effort to add bonus incentives to the products and services that
you promote to give them added value.

The winners of the affiliate wars are the men and women who go to the trouble and take
the time to build excellent reputations as experts and as fair and honest merchants.
People buy things on the Internet from people that they feel like they know and can trust.
People buy things on the Internet from affiliate marketers who have the reputation as an
expert or a guru and one who actually cares about the people to whom he sells products
and services to. A positive and hard working, fair–dealing reputation will help you win the
daily battles and, ultimately the affiliate war.

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Offer Your Prospects Bonus Incentives

What usually happens when an affiliate marketer goes to Clickbank or Commission
Junction and signs up as an affiliate marketer for a particular product or service that is
relative to his affiliate marketing business topic?

The first thing he does is usually to place a logo for the product on his website and send
out a marketing email to his list advocating the value of whatever the product or service
happens to be. If this average affiliate marketer has any zip at all, he will make his sales
letter as good as he can make it.

It will address each member of his list by name and there will be bullet points listing the
advantages provided with ownership of the product or service. Then he will sit back,
cross his fingers and toes, and hope to make a few sales. Well, that IS a plan but it isn’t
a very good one.

If this average affiliate marketer happens to get lucky and be included in the launch of a
new product, he does pretty much the same thing. He notifies his list of the upcoming
launch (the average affiliate marketer usually only sends one preparatory email) and
then he sends out the marketing email at the launch.

He will make a few sales...very few. Of course, he won’t be working very hard either and
maybe he is very happy being an average affiliate marketer. There is a problem,
however, with being average. Average is a very crowded place.

Average! Why would anybody want to settle for average anything? Doesn’t ‘average’
mean ‘common or ordinary...nothing special’? If you are not happy with being an
average affiliate marketer, then you need to keep reading.

What puts one affiliate marketer above the average affiliate marketer? The answer
is uniqueness.

Being unique is a quality that sets one apart from all of others. If you want to be better
than just average, you will need to develop some uniqueness in your marketing
techniques that will set you above just an average affiliate marketer.
Average affiliate marketers just don’t grasp the idea that in order to sell a lot of product,
their offer needs to be more valuable than the offers their competitors are making. Most
affiliate marketers won’t offer any incentives to their lists for buying a specific product
from then rather than buying the same product from some one else.

Some affiliate marketers will offer some bonus incentives but they will be pretty ordinary
and things that are really not of much value or even unrelated to the product that is being
promoted.

The really GOOD affiliate marketer will offer bonus incentives that are BETTER than
anything that is being offered by any other marketer and are directly related to the
product that is being promoted. The really GOOD affiliate marketer will give his
customers a very good reason to buy from him.

Actually, the whole idea of offering better incentives to customers is just plain old
common sense. If you can buy 2 ears of corn from vendor A for 20 cents or 2 ears of
corn from vendor B for 20 cents and vendor B throws in some butter to go on the corn
free of charge, which vendor are you going to buy from?

Affiliate marketing is the very same thing.

You have to offer bonuses and you have to offer better bonuses than those that other
affiliate marketers are offering.

For example: Let’s say that there is an E-Book about Email Marketing than you are an
affiliate marketer for. It’s a very good book that has been written by an Email Marketing
Guru. It is selling for $100 and your commission is going to be $50 per sale that you
make. There is an elaborate live launch for the product. Your competitors are offering an
additional E-Book or two as bonus incentives.

How can you get an edge here? The only way that you can possibly get an edge is to
offer something that your competitors are not offering. You could have set up a free
teleseminar that will take place within a few days of the launch for those who buy from
you or you could offer a free 30 minute downloadable audio tape that further explains
certain points in the E-Book.

The people who buy from you will be getting a better deal than they could get from your
competitors. The product will always be the same...but the bonuses that are offered is
where you get the edge.

Tip: Never underestimate the power of ‘free’. Everybody loves getting something for
nothing or getting something extra. They especially love getting something that
everybody else is not getting. And that brings me to another, finer point of offering bonus
incentives.

If you can offer something such as a free teleseminar that is related to a product launch,
you need to limit the number of people who will receive the bonus. That makes it more
exclusive and thus more desirable.

This is tricky.

You don’t want to make customers mad but you do want to make those who get the
added bonuses feel like they have gotten something others have not gotten. You might
phrase your offer to say that the first 200 people who buy the product from you will be
allowed to join the teleseminar live and others will receive a transcript of the teleseminar.
Like I said, this is tricky but it can be done.

The bottom line is just this: if you want to be a better than average affiliate marketer you
are going to have to offer more and better bonus incentives than your competitors offer.
All affiliate marketers for any product are all trying to sell to the same basic customer
base and that base is not unlimited.

In order to get an edge and rise above what is common, ordinary and average you will
need to get really creative with the incentive bonuses that you offer with your affiliate
product or service.

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Affiliate Marketing – How Really Competitive It Is

When you watch a football game on TV, you can easily see how games are won or lost

in the battle that takes place on the line of scrimmage. Offensive plays are designed to

protect the quarterback and/or to open up holes in the defense so that yardage can be

gained.

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Defensive plays are designed to sack the quarterback or close holes that would allow

yardage to be gained. Quarterbacks and coaches get the credit for wins and blame for

losses but the battle is won or lost in the trenches.

Affiliate marketing is a lot like a football game just without the bruises and sore muscles.

An affiliate marketer must design offensive plays and defensive plays that will put him in

a position to win the affiliate wars.

When you are one of many marketers who are trying to sell the very same product to the

very same consumers, you had better have a plan to get at least your fair share of the

market or more.

Every niche market on the Internet is highly competitive. If it isn’t competitive then there

can’t possibly be much of a customer base to sell to. That is just the nature of all Internet

marketing and in every niche.

Maybe you do have a long and impressive list of paid customers. That’s great! It means

you have already won several of the affiliate marketing contests and come out on top.

The problem is there are always those up and coming marketers who want your

customers on their lists.

Your list and your competitor’s lists may well contain many of the same names and email

addresses. Just having a list will not be enough to assure you of a victory when selling

an affiliate product. You have to design some offensive plays that will assure that your

customers buy from you and not from your competitors.

So, you ask, what is it that I can do that will assure that my customers will buy from me?

The answer is just one word... unique!

You have to be unique. You have to offer something that sets you completely apart from

your competitors. You have to make your offer for a product or service for which you are

an affiliate more attractive to buy from you than it is to buy from you competitors.

If you simply send out a marketing email advertising a product or service that you are an

affiliate marketer for, you need to remember that there are dozens or maybe even

hundreds of other marketers who are sending out marketing email advertising the exact

same product or service and many of them are sending them to the same people that

you are. You have to do something to make sure that your customers buy from you...you

have to be unique.

There are several ways to achieve uniqueness. One way is to have established yourself

as an expert in the field for which the product or service is being sold. You have to have

become not only visible but credible, as well. This visibility and credibility is not easily

achieved. It takes a lot of hard work, time and effort.

Visibility and credibility are established by taking such measures as writing and

marketing articles and E-Books, posting to blogs and forums, appearing as an expert on

teleseminars and webinars, etc. The fact is that when people know you and trust you,

they buy from you. They will buy from you even is your competitors are offering a better

deal or more incentives.

People do not like to buy from strangers. The Internet is a big impersonal and even

frightening place to many consumers. They want to feel like they know and trust the

people that they buy products and services from. The time, effort and energy that you

put into becoming visible and credible is the best time, effort and energy investment that

you will ever make. Reputation is everything in the world of Internet marketing.

Credibility makes you unique.

Another very important thing that you can do to insure that your customers buy a product

or service for which you are an affiliate marketer from you and not from one of your

competitors is to give them a very good and compelling reason to make the purchase

from you. Offer something extra or a lot of different extras that will enhance the value of

the product that you are marketing.

No matter what the niche or what the product is that is being marketed, there are free

gifts that you can find that will make the product a better value if it is purchased from

you.

For example: if you are marketing an E-Book about Internet marketing, you could add

several additional free E-Books concerning different aspects of the broad subject of

Internet marketing.

E-Books can be downloaded from PLR sites or even from E-Book banks and

repositories. Another free gift that people can’t ever seem to get enough of is free

utilities. There are many on the Internet and you can bet that there are some that will fit

right in with whatever product or service that you are promoting.

While other marketers who are selling the very same product that you are, simply send

out marketing emails that recommend the product to their lists, you will be adding value

to the product and doing it for free to boot.

Add extras! Add free gifts! Even better than extras and free gifts is additional help to

use the product or service that is being sold. You can offer a free teleseminar for those

who buy the product or service from you that will make the product or service better or

easier to use.

You can most likely even get the producer or the product or service to speak at your

event if you plan far enough ahead. People just love teleseminars... and they love

free...when you add teleseminar and free together, you will have a winning play that

might just score the proverbial touchdown for you.

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How to Create A Popular Blog

If you want to make money through blogging, creating a popular blog is the
key to success. If your blog receives very little traffic, you will not have
much success monetizing it.

No matter which method you use to make money from your blog, you will find the most success if you have a large readership. Because of this, making your blog popular and growing readership should be one of your primary concerns.

There are many ways to make your blog more popular. The first thing you
should consider is who your audience is and who you are writing for. You
should always write about something that interests you, and that will
interest others.

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 You may think that your new kitten is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there are probably not very many other people who want to read a blog about it. It is best to find a niche audience that is large enough to support a wide readership but not to vague.

One of the great things about blogging is that you do not have to be a professional writer to have a popular blog. You do have to obey common grammatical rules and at least be able to put together coherent
sentences, but you do not have to be a highly skilled writer.

Blog readers are looking for interesting, relevant topics to read, not the next
work of Shakespeare. Make sure what you write is interesting, edgy, or even
controversial. Popular blogs are never boring and add value to reader’s lives
either through information or entertainment. Make sure your blog adds
something of value to your reader’s life otherwise you will not develop a
large fan base.

Making your blog popular is a lot like driving traffic to a website. You can use
many of the same techniques to drive traffic to your blog. Finding places to link
back to your blog is a good way to drive traffic. Social sites such as Myspace,
Facebook, and You tube provide lots of opportunities for this.

 You can also use social book marking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg to promote your blog. Blogging on a popular blog site such as Wordpress and Blogger are also good ways to make your blog more popular as these blogging sites help to bring in traffic for your blog.

Whether you blog on a blogging network or you have an independently
hosted blog, you need to make sure your blog is designed well. It is true
that content is king and if a blog has great content is may receive lots of
traffic even though it is ugly, having a well designed blog that is not ugly or
annoying will help to drive repeat traffic. You want your blog to look unique,
but not too unique. Keep with internet formalities such as blue links and use
large font for headings.

You should break your post up into small paragraphs each with a headline if
possible as internet readers tend to scan the screen looking for relevant
information rather than reading everything word for word. Make sure your
colors do not contrast too harshly and that the text is easy to read. Using
good design will make your blog aesthetically pleasing and make readers
more likely to come back and remain on your page.

No matter where your blog is hosted, you should try to get it indexed by all
the major search engines. Some forms of blog monetization require that
your blog be indexed by search engines before they will allow you to
participate in your program. The higher ranked your blog is, the more
visitors you will receive and the more popular your blog will become.

All forms of monetization for your blog require readers to work successfully.
Before you try to implement your monetization strategies, make sure your
blog has enough readers to make your efforts work. If there is no one to
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Blogging and SEO - How it Can Help You

Blogging can greatly enhance any websites natural search results through regular posting, and natural keyword placement. There in fact is no stronger way to market ones website for free than by blogging with natural keywords.

Similar to article marketing, posting daily blogs with the keywords of your business included can have remarkable effects on the ranking of your site in any given search engine, and thus net you more traffic.

 The key to gaining more traffic from the keywords is what is called long tail keywords, and short tail keywords. The word tail refers to the length of the keyword term. A short tail keyword term would be “internet marketing” whereas a long tail keyword term would be “internet marketing for people that own mac computers” and so on. The short and long tailed keywords help your post get picked up in the search engine as highly applicable to the keyword that a person was searching in the first place.

Getting picked up in search engines can lead to huge masses of traffic heading to your site everyday. There are top keyword placers that use blogs to retain huge amounts of daily traffic to their sites just by implementing these long and short tail keywords into their posts. The amazing thing about blogs is they are picked up by the search engines almost as quickly as one posts to it, which makes it a wonderful tool for SEO purposes.

Another way blogging can help your sites search engine ranking is by the quality score. Most search engines, including Google rank sites with a quality score, the more unique, user provided content, the higher the quality score. If a website is just a sales page, and a few pictures, the quality score will most likely be low. But if a site has a blog on it, with fresh, daily posts, the quality score becomes much better, and thus the site gets ranked much higher when people are searching for your niche, or keyword terms.

Blogging and RSS

Many people fail to realize that blogs started out as a subscription style online journal for people to receive via email, otherwise known as a RSS feed. Blogs are at their most fundamental state nothing more than a journal posting that can be delivered to subscribers via email. The RSS feed is an easy way to land your blog post in millions of people’s inboxes, and on the net under bookmarks as well.

With the advancement in technology the RSS feeds will now auto update themselves to provide people with a wonderful array of blog posts daily without ever having to actually visit the blog itself. This means that one can grow a virtual subscriber base with one simple niche blog, and profit from the experience every time they make a post. Utilizing the power of blogging and RSS one can make some serious money by keeping people up to date with affiliate products, and services.

Since the RSS feed will deliver the blog to subscriber’s mailboxes, and let millions of people on the net know what your blog is about through a RSS feed description, it makes sense to attempt to profit from such an advantageous situation. By offering affiliate products, one can provide their own affiliate link embedded into the blog for readers to click.

One example of setting up a blog for maximum RSS exposure is to write a blog with hyperlinked keywords that are directly linked to your products. The more links the better, as the more chances you will have to sell the affiliate items to your subscriber base. Make sure that the links are either live, or given actual URL’s in the actual post so that the user can stay within their own e-mail application while reading, and visiting the recommend site that you provide them with.

RSS feeds are hugely popular today, and known to help search engine optimization as well, and thus are a must do for anyone serious about profiting off of blogs. Setting up the RSS feed is as easy as filling out a short questionnaire in the blog appliaciton of your choice, which means it takes little time to do something that can help you profit big.

AdSense and Blogging

One of the easiest, if not the easiest way to make money with AdSense is by posting to blogs. AdSense and blogs go together like peas and carrots, or peanut butter and jelly, and the results tend to show this fact.

The key with any AdSense optimized website is traffic, the more traffic that comes to the website, the more clicks the ads will get. While traffic is the key, there is one other important aspect of AdSense money making schemes, and that is keyword placement. AdSense advertisements must be triggered by a keyword, or set of keywords, and can often be cumbersome if the website the AdSense is hosted on doesn’t offer the exact keywords the ads need to be triggered.

With blogs one can rest assured that if they are making daily posts, most every AdSense ad possible for their niche will run at some point during the blogs life. This means that the variety of AdSense ads on blogs is second to none, and the traffic is also very good.

The majority of web traffic comes from search engine listings, and blogs help even the most novice marketer place high in the search engine rankings. By having a high place in the search engine rankings one can receive copious amounts of traffic to their site on a daily basis for free.

AdSense is a marketing business that needs to be tested constantly to ensure effectiveness. The sad fact is that many websites need to have certain keywords on them to attract big dollars, and the typical AdSense client might not get the traffic to trigger those ads for years, if ever. With blogs one can constantly test the keywords on the site to help prompt better advertisements on his or her website.

Using AdSense as a way to make money with blogs simply makes sense, a lot of sense, as it is the easiest, most effective way to make money on the internet without doing a single thing different with your blog besides placing the code in at the top to allow the ads to be shown.

Ad Placement - How and Where to Place Your Ads on Your Blog

In making money with blogs there is one element that trumps all the rest in importance, advertisement placement. The actual spot where you put your ad is as important to your profits as any other thing you do with your blog, ever. The most successful people that blog for profit utilize special placement for their advertisements so to best get results from the site visitor, and from experience I can tell you this works like a charm.

Putting your advertisements at the top of the blog isn’t good enough anymore. Many people have been using computers long enough to train themselves to ignore the advertisement banners at the top of a website, or blog, and thus you the publisher must find new, and unique ways to get the advertisements read, and clicked by your visitors.

One place to put the advertisements for your blog is directly to the right hand side of the daily blog post. Research shows that the human eyes tend to gravitate to the upper right hand side of any page, which is where your advertisement should be in order to obtain maximum exposure. The more the ad is put in this spot, the better rate of clicks that you will get on the ad.

Another great place to put the advertisement is in the body of the text. This is commonly done by highlighting, and adding hyperlinks to some of the more popular keywords. By adding such keywords one can simply click on the highlighted word to learn more about a product, or service you might be promoting. In text ads aren’t ever very big as not to disrupt the text, but can pack a serious punch in terms of sales because of the natural curiosity of the reader to check out whatever it is you are promoting.

Finally one can place advertisements at the bottom of the blog, with more information about you, the author of the blog. Since blogs are typically personal, people enjoy reading about the author, and thus
it makes sense to include a few ads near your profile, to capitalize on the profile checking nature of your visitors.

Getting Traffic to Your Blog

No matter what the website, in order for it to be a success one needs to have a constant and steady stream of traffic to profit, and this is certainly the case for those creating blogs. There are simply too many factors to ignore when it comes to getting traffic, and thus people that are able to harness traffic to their blog are known as masters of the internet. The interesting fact is that getting traffic to your blog is easier than you might think, and just takes some creative thinking, and a few hours a day of shameless promotion.

So after you hit up your family and friends, who else is going to read your blog? The answer is likely nobody unless you give them a reason to read it. This is where the traffic driving secrets come into play when dealing with a blog. The best way to get traffic to your blog is by using free promotional methods. The key is to have something on your blog worth checking out once they get there, but for this part we’ll simply focus on getting traffic.

Start out by joining all the forums, and social networks in your niche. If you have a blog that is aimed at giving dating advice, make sure to join all the dating forums you can, and any free dating sites possible. The first thing to do is find out where your link is allowed, and post your blog link in your signature. Once this is done take a few hours each day to make posts, eventually people will start considering you an expert, and gladly check out your site.

Next it is important to start submitting your blog posts as articles to free article directories. The free article directories will help promote your blog by distributing the articles to thousands of resources, which will also get your blog, and your article higher search engine ranking at the same time.

Finally start to collect email addresses and setup your blog for RSS feeds. Allow the membership to enjoy your blog in the comfort of their inbox by choosing the option on your blog software to email the blog post every time a new one goes up. This will be a way to attract daily traffic to your blog for free, and keep the traffic you receive from your expert forum posting coming back.

Awesome Blogging Resources

The amount of awesome blogging resources on the net today is outstanding, and can truly make any average blog a special one in no time. There are millions of resources for you to tap into when it comes to blogs, a few of the best ones are highlighted here for your consideration.

Blogger.com is a website owned, and operated by Google that allows users to post blogs for free, and make money with AdSense. While blogger.com lacks the power of a Wordpress, it is easy for those that are interested in implementing their AdSense ads in a simple, little code, manner.

Wordpress.com is another blog publishing software that is known on the net as the most powerful, and sophisticated blog publishers out there. Wordpress is also free, and allows users to build blogs that are much more advanced than a blogger.com site would be. Wordpress.com also allows users to customize their blog more than most, and even implements free plug-ins that are also worthwhile.

Blogrankings.com is another great site that ranks all the latest and greatest blogs. The value of this site is to look at what other top bloggers are doing, and attempt to emulate it with your own blog. Understanding what makes a certain blog in your niche so popular can revolutionize the way you think about and post to your own blog, which could have long lasting positive effects.

TheFreeSite.com offers free blog resources that are as much fun, as they are useful. The site offers users free software, and plugins to enhance any blog, or even create one from scratch. Since so many blog updates are costly these days, TheFreeSite gives users a nice alternative with their free downloads of blog software.

Blogarama.com offers users a virtual telephone book of blogs from all areas of subject matter. No matter what your interest, or niche, this website can bring out the best and most popular blogs. This site is full of directory style listings, and even user ratings to help you search the net.

Ultimately the best blog resource is the one that caters to your needs, and thus must be sought out by you according to what you are trying to achieve. Seeking out your own best blog resources will certainly help you profit from blogs in the near future.

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What is a Blog and How Blogging Will Help Your Business

Many people wonder what exactly is a blog, and how can it help their business, if at all. This is a common question that people ask me as I make big money on the internet with blogs, but before you can make big money with blogs you must first understand what blogs are all about, because many people simply don’t know.

The blog has been around for years, however just came into major popularity in the last three years.

The weblog, or blog is simply a application that allows users to post written text that gets immediately posted to the web, like an online journal of sorts. The blog is something that is meant to be as easy to use as the word processor application on your computer. While most websites take hours to update, a blog can be updated in real time, as quick as one would save a file to a computer. This is partly what makes blogs magical.

Blogging is a great way to get information on the internet inexpensively with friendly results, such as high search engine ranking, and free advertising. The blog, with it’s variety of keyword heavy posts allows people to make money off of the high return result on a search engine like Google. What this means is that if you are selling home security systems, and you create a blog about good deals on such systems, chances are people looking for a security system will come across your blog in the search engine. This added exposure will surly help more people notice your business, and make purchases, thus creating greater business for you.

Blogs are most commonly found on the internet via the World Wide Web, and can be published for free by some of the biggest names on the internet. The fact that the blog is free is the main reason why people can so easily profit from using them, because there is no real upfront investment with blogs, and thus there is only one way to go from zero dollars invested, and that’s to profit.

Why Blogging is So Popular

Name one person that doesn’t like to share his or her point of view, and you will have just named nobody at all. The point of the above exercise is to show the simple fact that everyone likes to talk about themselves, and what they are up to, even if they say that they do not like doing so. There is something about being human that makes us self involved to the point where we truly feel as if others want, or need to know what is going on with us. Blogs offer one a unique way to express his or her feelings on any number of issues, with a shield that only the internet can provide.

The most common use of a blog is that of a journal, or an opinionated piece of writing involving some aspect of the author’s day to day life. While some blogs are totally commercially driven, they are often masked as personal musing in order to entice visitors. This is something that just can’t be avoided, people love checking out other peoples blogs to see what’s going on.

The internet can be a cold and bare place for people to be at times, and the blog helps create a sense of community with its powerful reach, and ease of use. Many people want to share, or keep up with others, but simply don’t have time. Email has gotten to the point that people are overwhelmed just to deal with their regular inbox each day, nonetheless an email from an old friend, and thus checking someone’s blog is commonplace nowadays. In fact, there are millions of blogs out there, and most of them are intended to be read by family and friends.

Blogging is popular because it relates to community, family, and friends, and therefore it is in direct relation with what matters most in life. Blogs can be a powerful tool to communicate to others, as well as to market with, as they are so friendly to search engines in terms of keywords, and ranking. Just making a few blog posts can literally get you noticed immediately, and is something that truly can help you become a big player in the internet business game.

Niche Blogs and How to Get the Most Out of Them

Having a niche blog is something that can be profitable and easy, or challenging and difficult depending on how you handle the day
to day posting. Niche blogs are typically blogs related to one or more specific industries or fields, including hobbies, illnesses, and sports. The more niche, or in-depth a blog is, the harder it might be for people not involved in that niche to get into. It is for this reason that one must think about the best way to make the most out of niche blogs, and finding the right niche is a good start.

When searching for the right night for any blog, be sure to look at the prospective audience, and your abilities to keep the blog up to date within that niche. If you are thinking about doing a blog about horse racing, yet you have no time to watch horse races, it might not make sense to try to do a niche blog on the subject. Instead a good way of finding a niche is by looking at what it is that you do have time to do, and then creating a blog based on that instead.

After you have selected your niche blog topic, it’s time to become an expert. No matter how much you think you know about your niche blog theme, chances are you could use some brushing up on the topic. One can brush up on a topic by simply doing research on the niche blog theme, and spending a few hours reading within the blog subject territory each day. Feel free to check out rival blogs, as they will give you an idea of what is popular in this niche, and what is not.
The most important part of getting the most out of a niche blog is becoming the go to place for information in this niche. That means creating a blog that is constantly updated, and is accurate in the stories relating to the subject. If you do this with your niche blog, expect big time results.

Benefits of a Wordpress Blog

Concentrating on the benefits of a Wordpress blog can provide you with some great optimism for the future. The reason Wordpress is such powerful software is the combination of value, quality, and ease of use that is unparallel in the blog software world. While some people prefer to use more basic blog software, they too can truly benefit from the power of Wordpress, and once they read about all the perks they too will be downloading the software for profit as well.
What might be the most notable benefit of Wordpress is the ability to work on a post offline, in a standalone interface. Most blog

software applications require one to be logged onto the internet, and geared up ready to go to post to the blog, whereas Wordpress allows you to edit, build, and post a blog at anytime, without being connected to the internet.

Another benefit of Wordpress is the ease of use, and advanced functionality of the software compared to some blog software applications. Wordpress functions code free if one needs to post in such a fashion with easy to use icons similar to what one would see in a word processing program. Having the ability to utilize a program like this allows people to create blogs that are as high tech, and complete as full blown websites.

Yet another benefit of Wordpress is its remarkable plugin library that allows for users to instantly add features, and functions to Wordpresses already impressive abilities. The plugin library for Wordpress is robust because of the popularity of the software, many programmers and designers have created plugins based on their particular needs.

When you add up all these elements you end up with a program that is fully capable of creating highly attractive blogs that encourage people to visit the sight and stay to read whatever is posted on it. If you ever wanted powerful blog software that was less template and more unique Wordpress is it.

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