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Can You Make Money Blogging – With Search Up 46%, Of Course You Can

With reports that Global Search Grew By 46% In 2009 you know people are looking for something. If you are wanting to make money blogging then the trick of course is to tap into the topics that people are searching for. Easier said than done but there are ways to succeed.

First, making money through a blog requires a commitment. I won’t say it’s hard work, but it does take that daily commitment to develop your blog and to work at ways of delivering traffic. How do you find what people are searching for? If you’re a first time blogger then let me suggest you start by looking at yourself. What do you have a passion for? What do can you write about right at this very minute with very little in the way of research? That should be your starting point.

If you have a passion for clothing, and you are a plus size, then think about what you can write about that area. Clothing covers such a wide range from pants to tops to dresses and that’s just the outer layer. Do you like capris? Can you write a post such as – Plus Size Capris are Hot. More importantly, can you monetize it? You can even if it is through ads such as Adsense or similar.

Adsense is just one method of monetizing a blog. Other sources of income include affiliate earnings and selling your own products. Can you teach others how to do something? Could you teach something like – How to Excel in Medical Transcription? If you can, take the time to create a first class ebook – they are becoming popular again.

There are many different ways to monetize a blog. Start with areas that you have a passion for. Do a search for affiliate programs that match that niche or settle for straight out pay-per-click advertising. the choice is yours. Write to your blog everyday using keywords that you want to target. Use social media to promote your blog together with article marketing to gain inbound links. You can make money blogging - just read through some of the posts on this blog for more in-depth information on each area.

Blog Traffic: What’s Wrong With This Article?

I absolutely believe in this guy’s advice, but can you tell me what’s wrong with this article?

Traffic to Blog – 3 Easy and Fast Ways to Drive Traffic to New Blog Today!

By Brandon Jamison

#3 – Video Marketing

This is one of the greatest ways to drive traffic to the blog. People will go to your video on these following sites:

• YouTube
• Google Video
• Veoh
• Daily Motion
• AOL Video

Or many of the countless video websites around the web. It’s a great tool that you should definitely think about starting today. Video marketing allows your visitors to visually identify what you and you blog is about, it makes you look professional, and in the end – you can use keyword targeting to recommend people to your blog as lifetime subscribers!

#2 – Social Bookmarketing

It’s actually social bookmarking but you are actually social bookmarketing. You want to establish a community, relationship with tons of friends, and even book mark other websites. Social bookmarking websites with “do following” links are the best because you can build up backlinks and attract the social bookmarking website links to your website.

You should definitely start today as well! Search engines find these social book marking websites and eventually find your blog, this can instantly bring traffic to your website, and bring you a great deal of lifetime subscribers who are eager to click, read, buy, shop, or do whatever you want them to do!

#1 – Google AdWords

This is for those advanced users. If you want a sudden influx of traffic, then you will want to read everything you need to know about Google AdWords. This is not something that is easily done – otherwise everybody would do it.

Now that’s not to say you can do it, or even succeed your first time. You simply have to sign up for Google AdWords, find the correct keywords to what you think people will type in who are interested in the content you have to offer – and in the end; you’ll enjoy the amount of people who visit your blog over a lifetime.

So the question is, why not start today and find out how many people you can get to your blog!

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I certainly agree with this advice, but there is one fundamental thing wrong with this article. Before I tell you, however, let me add:

Viddler is another good video website that I see a lot of video bloggers using today. Secondly, social bookmarketing is one of the best ways to accomplish your marketing initiatives online and many of our clients are taking advantage of that service.

Now, have you figured out what’s wrong with the article? Hint: He’s not taking his own advice.

See the link where he tells you to go for more information? If you click that link and read the page he tells you to buy a domain name to sell your product. He didn’t buy a domain name, but he’s telling you that you should. I agree that you should buy a domain name, but why isn’t he following his own advice?

This is one example of how not to do article and blog marketing. If you tell someone else to do it then build your own credibility by following your own advice.

Ask about blog consulting.

Should You Market With A Blog Or Articles?

Article Content Provider published an article today asking if articles or PPC is better for marketing? Any idea which conclusion was drawn?

Well, there’s no doubt that there are benefits to PPC advertising, which is a paid method of advertising, and there are benefits to article marketing. But do the benefits of blogging trump those of article marketing or PPC?

The answer is, it’s not an either/or question. Blogging, article marketing, and PPC all have their advantages. We believe the most effective marketing is to use them all in conjunction with each other and let them compliment your marketing efforts. Knowing the tools available and the media that you are using is essential to marketing online. Don’t give up on blogging just yet.

The One-Two Blog-Article Sucker Punch

I have a strategy I like to use online that I like to call the Blog-Article Sucker Punch. It revolves around the combination of blogging and article marketing, as if you couldn’t guess by the name. It’s real easy to implement and even easier to grasp because you only need one brain cell to get it, which means most of the human race qualifies.

First, you build a rock solid website. It must be optimized and it helps to have at least one landing page that you want to promote heavily. You can do it with any any number of landing pages, but the more landing pages you have then the more time you will spend marketing them. If you’re new to internet marketing you should stick to one landing page. This combination, however, can work for any number of landing pages that you want to promote.

After you’ve built a solid landing page that you want to drive traffic to, build a blog to promote it. You can build an onsite blog or an off site blog. Which you choose depends on several factors that we can cover in another blog post, but for now just plan on starting a blog. You’ll write to it every day.

How To Make The Blog-Article Combo
Work For You
The first thing you need to do is make sure your landing page is prominently displayed on your blog somewhere. It can be anywhere, but it must be on your blog somewhere. Secondly, write about your landing page or something in your niche related to your landing every day for 30 days. Don’t be over-promotional. Just include useful tips about what you are promoting. Give away your knowledge, but don’t give away the farm.

Also during that 30 days, write one article per day and submit it to 10 article directories each day. At the end of 30 days you’ll have 30 articles at 10 directories – that’s 300 starting links. Those links are not ends of themselves. They are the means to an end. What you are hoping to do is to make your articles readable and popular enough that other publishers in your niche will want to publish them. That’s not as hard as it sounds.

Let’s say that each of your 300 articles (30 X 10) is published one time per month for the next six month. Now you have 1,800 inbound links. Each of links will serve to push your website further up in the search engines for your keywords. Higher search rankings translates into more traffic. But you’re also writing to your blog during that entire six month period, and you’re writing to it every day. Because each blog post is a separate web page and you are linking back to your landing page with every blog post, you’ll have 182 additional links to your landing page – at a minimum!

Keep in mind that your blog posts will also be ranked in the search engines for your keywords. That will draw traffic and consistency in publishing daily will keep traffic coming back to your blog. Plus, if you promote the blog in other ways through social media and networking, you can get even more traffic. You’ll use your blog to drive that traffic to your landing page. All you have to do is sit down and count the links and the traffic. Do the math and you’ll soon see that the blog-article sucker punch is a powerful search engine marketing strategy that can make you money over time. But for it to really be effective, you’ve got to make sure your landing page is ready to close the sale.

Social Bookmarking Benefits: Is It All About Link Value?

Blog Marketing Journal wrote a great blog post about social bookmarking sites that use do follow links instead of no follow. At the risk of spoiling it for you, I’d like to let the cat out of the bag:

• Furl
• Digg
• Propeller
• Technorati
• Slashdot

I can vouch for these, but I’d also like to say that social bookmarking is not necessarily about the links. At least, not the links that you can get from the social bookmarking site.

Link popularity is one of the most important measurements that you can make as a website owner. Link popularity is defined as the aggregate number of inbound links your website has pointing to it as reported by the various search engines. Most link popularity reports focus on the Big Three: Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Although MSN, for the last year, has been unreliable and may report its links, or not, from one month to the next. That leaves us with Google and Yahoo!

Yahoo! is much more liberal in its link reporting policy than Google is. In many ways, Google, the primary motivator in the development of link popularity as a website metric, has clamped down on inbound link credits in recent years. Google is very concerned with link quality whereas Yahoo! seems to be much more concerned about link relevance – the actual relationship in topical value between a linking website and its link partner.

When checking link popularity, you take what each of the search engines report for your inbound links and add them together. So if Yahoo! reports that you have 4,531 inbound links and Google reports 123 – a disparity that is not at all uncommon – then your link popularity will be 4,531 + 123, or 4,654. A website with at least 5,000 inbound links is just starting to gain some link notoriety. A website with at least 20,000 inbound links is well on its way to becoming a powerhouse and a noteworthy authority in its niche. That’s how important link popularity is.

Social Bookmarking’s Real Value
Social bookmarking has the potential to help you increase your link popularity. If you focused entirely on the sites that gave you link value for your inbound links then you’d only bookmark your website or blog posts at five social bookmarking sites, but that would be a huge error. I repeat, that would be an outstanding miscalculation on the scale of Coca Cola changing its formula.

The real value of social bookmarking comes in getting your bookmarked items noticed by a community of interested persons who like your content. One bookmark at a well trafficked website like Digg or Propeller – or even StumbleUpon or del.icio.us, both very popular sites that do not give you any direct link value – can boost your link popularity by thousands of links within a single month. The way that happens is by making your content popular enough that people share it with their friends. Each person that visits your website or blog is a potential blogger. Every blogger that likes your content enough not only to bookmark it but also to write about it on his or her own blog becomes a one-way link partner for you and assists you in developing your link popularity.

I had an article on my poetry website last month, for instance, that drew more than 2,000 visitors. Before that, my daily traffic count was in the 40-50 range. But I had one blog post, bookmarked at StumbleUpon, that drew thousands of visitors because of its topical subject matter. That one blog post subsequently attracted hundreds of inbound links from other poetry bloggers who linked to my blog post, giving me additional link popularity. Seeing as how there are only a couple of thousand poetry bloggers, that’s not a bad run for one blog post. Now multiply that by hundreds of blog posts over the course of a year or two.

Of course, not every blog post can be that popular. But one very popular blog post in the midst of hundreds of blog posts with average or moderate link and traffic attention can give you a huge edge over the competition.

Social bookmarking is the new article marketing. Article marketing has long been a great way to develop inbound links and gain new traffic to a website. Social bookmarking offers the same benefits on a much bigger, grander scale. It’s article marketing on viagra. You can get more links faster and watch your link popularity soar! I’ve seen it and so have the clients who use our social bookmarking service for their blog content. If you try it, I know you’ll it too.