How Do I Run A Profitable Internet Marketing Blog?

- By: Noel Swanson, 2008-02-23

This is Christopher Stigson, a blogger who has spent hundreds of hours trying to figure out the blogging game. I think I've finnally cracked part of the code and I'm sharing this with you today. The point of this article is to run a test and at the same time share some knowledge about internet marketing blogs.

It's a common thing to hear about success stories on profitable blogs these days.. Some generate amounts of up to $100,000/month and beyond. Profitable they are. You as a blog owner probably need to do a few things differently in order to get the most out of your internet marketing techniques and take a few steps to increase search engine rankings, make more money and have it run on autopilot.

Having a well defined anchor text using a keyword is a smart way to increase search engine rankings. But search engine rankings isn't the only way to get free traffic. See, there is a lot of traffic to be gained from RSS submit, which is an RSS syndication software. You can also get a lot of traffic from socialbookmarking sites and more.

You should always "sub-niche" your internet marketing blog. Doing "traffic", or "articles", or maybe "eBay marketing" is a good way to "sub-niche" your sites. It's not at all difficult to sub-niche and it's far more profitable since you WON'T be burried hundreds of miles down in the 46th page of Google!

When you have got a niche within the "internet marketing niche" it's easy to start generate some income. See, most people are targeting "make money" and "how to make money" and "make money online", but this is NOT what you want to do. Instead head over to keyword research tools and find long tail keywords in the internet marketing niche.

Simple example could be "traffic generation". That's our "IM sub-niche". Great. Let's go do some keyword research before we get carried away. Let's say we type in "traffic" and it spits out "increase search engine traffic" as a viable keyword. Then head over to Google and type it in. Now head over to Yahoo and use "link:http://www.yourcompetition.com" to see the backlink count for your competition. If it's below 1,000, go for it! There's our sub-niche-long-tail-keyword. Yippie, let's get going!

Now when you have a topic and a keyword it's time to create a domain name that has similar or an exact name of the keyword. So "www.increase-search-engine-traffic.com" would be ideal for "increase search engine traffic". You can go as far as doing "www.increasesearchenginetraffic.com", but I like the dashes. For search engine rankings, I personally haven't seen it matter.

It's time to write content. Since we have a keyword, in this case "increase search engine traffic" all we have to do is write content about the subject and post to our new internet marketing blog. Simple and smart! You also want to collect some 15-50 keywords more and type content using these keywords. Start posting them to various article directories online and start to see profits. Recommended directories include ezinearticles and goarticles.

Before you buy anything online, make sure you check Chris Stigsons' excellent free Internet Marketing Blog, featuring various Internet Marketing Tips and tricks. He's a marketing expert who creates internet marketing products like crazy.


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