The Affiliate Secrets To Blogging Successfully In A Busy World
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The Affiliate Secrets To Blogging Successfully In A Busy World
Blogging Successfully is the goal, right?
Aren’t we all in this to have the biggest and best blog around?
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Writing content for your blog makes for a busy lifestyle of blogging. What I’d like to show you are techniques to blogging. Even if it’s a brand new blog.
Making money is not that tough when it’s done correctly. It’s common for someone in the affiliate space to start a blog and start making money within the first 21 -30 days.
The key to a successful blog is also not that hidden.
First, I want to cover a very important question:
Simply put, SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. This is essentially a way for bloggers and website owners to play by the search engines rules so that the best page will get the best ranking. This can be quite easy to get on the first page if you put into practice the key ingredients for each page you produce on your blog.
To be a bit more detailed, SEO is a set of rules that are ambiguous to the masses so that everyone is on an even playing field. Except for those that use trial and error or the very select that have access to people who are in the know (former employees of google or Bing)
Whether you know it or not, your blog is being affected by SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There are google bots, bing bots, and all manners of search engine bots. All of them scouring the internet to see what new posts are worthy of ranking on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd pages of their search engine. So, know that every piece of content you write is being judged by all search engines. There are several key items that you need to pay close attention to when writing a blog or a webpage in order to rank it
Blogging Successfully Means Being CONSISTENT
Consistency is the key to anything that is successful. Imagine what sort of player Michael Jordan would have been had he not been cut from his high school team and from then on thought that he no longer needed to practice his shooting (or sticking that tongue out before a dunk 🙂 ). In practice, you need to be doing on a regular basis and preferably on a daily basis.
I’ve heard of quite a few Julliard students that practice several times per day to speed up their learning curve and become a master at their trade of music. So why can’t you blog in a fashion like those students?
But the second step in this formula is to be entertaining. I know that when I first started to blog, I took it like a job and that bled over to the next blog and the next. This isn’t good because when people are reading your blog they want to hear in your writing a sense of personality.
So, I thought the next step was to create another blog – not another blog post. The way my mind was wired was to do busy work and look like you’re busy. This works will when you are working at a job but when you’re an entrepreneur, you need to do things that make money. Setting up blog after blog and only blogging on them for about 10 posts is not a successful blog. Affiliate blogs are just the same as any other blog except they are geared for the affiliate in mind.
I know that people are on a budget. Using a free blog is an option for you while you’re in the personal space of blogging. Not so when you’re making affiliate claims, business building, and promoting anything that has any sort of money transaction. So, If you’re already blogging about your business affiliate (Shakes, Oils, Soap, or any other product) you need to have a blog that is yours. One that will not penalize you for putting content that is in the make money online niche, for instance.
Should You Invest In An Affiliate Blog?
Your blog should be immune from a company shutting you down (e.g., Empower Network’s Kalatu Blog), putting ads on your blog page without you having control over them, and most of all does not allow affiliate blogs to live on their servers. This is not a sustainable strategy. Ideally you want your own hosted domain to handle your blog. A place where you have control of what happens to your media.
Sure, there’s a huge reason for you to have an affiliate managed blog, and the reputable blogs have a way to back up and move the content over to a new platform. However, do you want to go through all that work to transfer the content and then make sure all the posts look great on the new platform?
Affiliate Blog’s Downfall
Affiliate blogs are more commonly known as the Free blogging solutions. The reason for this is that they are free and offer an instant solution to blogging. However, look at the T’s and C’s on some of the more popular blog services such as WordPress (not WordPress.com), Google Blogger, and Tumblr. These specifically state that businesses that use their services are bound by the Terms of Service.
What does this mean? It means that you are more than likely either violating the TOS of the free service you are using for business.
Business uses of our Services
If you are using our Services on behalf of a business, that business accepts these terms.
It will hold harmless and indemnify Google and its affiliates, officers, agents, and employees
from any claim, suit or action arising from or related to the use of the Services or violation
of these terms, including any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, suits, judgments,
litigation costs and attorneys’ fees.
I’m not here to discourage your use of free platforms. We all have seen people push their limits waiting for WordPress, Tumblr, google to crack down and see if they get shut down. I know the best way to get your stuff removed from the web is to store it on a free service that you DO NOT OWN.
So, if your content is at all important to you and you would like to have some control over it, then start using self hosted blogs.
Sure blogging costs money to startup. However, it’s one of the cheapest endeavors to start. You could offset that cost in no time by being consistent in your blog posts, and doing the right advertising.
Just talk to your friends on Facebook and find out who likes to blog.
Show your friends and family how to blog and what you’ve learned. That will start a small tribe that will help each of you gain page views. Page views equals monthly income. Your goal should be to get over 100,000 page views. That will cover your cost right there and after a couple of months you’ll be profiting!
Learn To Do SEO The Profitable Way
there are several tools out in the space of SEO. I personally have been using Market Samurai for a long time to rank. The key to SEO is:
Know what keywords you would like to go after
Drill down and figure out the best keywords
BLOG BLOG BLOG all about those keywords in as many ways as you can.
That’s how you start taking over the first page of Google or Bing!
You can see how I do my SEO using Market Samurai, as well as the free options out there. I’ll show you how to use Bing or Google Keyword Tool – which is the source that Market Samurai uses. This can be used in any online or offline business
To get better rankings you will also need to know how to get back links to your blog as well. Not just any back link either. The latest release of google panda has made blogs become more interactive with each other and sharing each others links (in other words, getting editorial links). For more on this you can visit Pat Flynn’s blog.
What Type Of Content And How Long Should A Blog Be?
I’ve heard from many guru’s saying that all you need to write on a blog is what you are knowledgeable about. If you choose a topic that you are both passionate about and is proven to be profitable, then you’ll be well on your way to blogging successfully. It doesn’t have to be that long of a blog – say about 700-1000 words minimum.
You need to have a blog post that is going to solve the problem of your reader. They can go to social media to get a short version of what you’re writing about. After all is said and done, you need to have superior content to any social media outlet. This will give your reader a reason to make the move away from social media and on to your site where you have a solution to their problem(s).
If you’re trying to rank on Google’s first page, I’m going to burst that bubble really quick. But first I want to recommend a solid product that will literally take you higher in the rankings right out of the digital box.
If you were to google a keyword phrase, then visit each of the top ten resulted search, you would find out that the top 3 have between 3000 and 5000 words and the #10 spot would have a minimum of 2000 words.
To say you only need 300 words to rank high on Google. That is a flat-out joke, unless the keyword is not desirable, which has no traffic to be worth writing.
Granted, there are exceptions to the rule. If you know how to use back links, and using your keywords, without stuffing them in. You will do quite well for less competitive keyword phrases. Like I’ve always said…
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As for what to put in your blog? I’d say the mind is your limitation.
Read more: Ranking your blog higher in google
That, my friend is one of the biggest discussions among all the internet discussion groups & marketers. So, if you’re in business for yourself and want to get free traffic, blogging is for you. Especially if you like the idea of Blogging Successfully and getting a return on your investment.
Here’s the kicker though…
Blogging isn’t the end all and be all of marketing. Of course you already knew that, right?
The main purpose of blogging is to get people off the social network and onto your social network – your blog. The underlying strategy to social media is TRAFFIC.
I have been working with a proven system that does everything but drive traffic – that part is up to you. If you’re not really sure how to get traffic, or even run an online business, that’s where systems can take you a long way.
So get yourself a trial 14 day access to this system which gives you access to the coaches and the system that is generating money for people who have previously never seen a paycheck and even the experienced marketers are seeing 5 to 10 times the income.
Blogging can be a big difference in what your bottom line is. Whatever you’re promoting, you will have a presence on the internet. Which, by the way, never closes.
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