Blogging For Profit; The Simple
Success Strategies Of A 19 Year Old Kid
A blog is a simple but powerful tool which all marketers and businesses
should be utilising to explode their sales, build credibility and improve
customer retention.
I've been doing a lot of research with regards to blogging and came
across a case of a 19 year old kid who was making something ridiculous
like $50,000 a year with a blog on mobile phones, from his bedroom! This
is an extraordinary case but clearly there is a good earning potential
through blogs, however they do take time to grow and build up a readership.
Blogs provide a very simple, quick and easy means to add fresh content
to your website. As I’m sure you’ve heard many times over ‘content is king’
from a search engines’ view point and by providing high quality, regularly
updated content your website should benefit with regards to your search
engine ranking.
By providing fresh, high quality relevant content you will gain an increase
of both first time visitors and repeat visitors, they will come back to
check out your new content. Providing it’s interesting, relevant and useful
to them, you will begin to build relationships with your readers, increasing
your credibility and building their trust in you and your business.
These repeat visitors will be exposed to your messages more and begin
to trust you and your recommendations. This in turn will fuel sales and
referrals. Just make sure you don’t recommend a product you haven’t tried,
if it is bad you will lose all credibility.
Whenever you buy a new product, review it in your blog and be brutally
honest, your readers will love you for it. Take a completely unbiased view
point and talk about both the positives and negatives of each product.
In essence you are providing more of an insight into the product than the
sales page itself, this will help convert those prospects that are ‘sitting
on the fence’ so to speak. As it has been shown that prospects are seven
to ten times more likely to buy from a blog recommendation than from other
sources!
There are many ways in which you can monetize your blog, for example,
by using it as a tool to promote your own products or affiliate programs.
Other ways that you can generate extra income through your blog are through
the Google Adsense program, selling banner/link space as your traffic increases
or by adding you own opt-in sign up form to which you send your newsletter
or other targeted offers.
Your blog can be syndicated using RSS, enabling savvy webmasters to
use your blog content on their web pages. This benefits them as they have
regularly updated fresh content for their website and benefits you through
increased exposure, free targeted traffic and extra inbound links.
To get the most benefit from my blog I use a technique called ‘blogging
and pinging’, whereby every time I post to my blog, I ping Ping-o-matic.com
to inform the search engines and blog directories I’ve updated my blog.
You should submit your blog feed to blog directories to gain more exposure.
You can do this manually however, these are three automated sources that
I have had the most success using and best of all…they are free!
http://pingomatic.com/
http://www.rssfeedpromoter.com/
http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
Be passionate about your blog, love your blog. If you do not then it
will become obvious through your posts and you are unlikely to be anywhere
near as successful as you could be.
Add to your blog regularly provide good quality content and reviews
and you will be on your way to blogging success.
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