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Blogging is an essential key ingredient for any internet marketing business which wants to find real online success. Blogging has been around for a number of years and time and time again it proves itself to be Google’s best friend. This is because blogs feature unique, quality content and often, if done correctly, they can be their own viral hubs.
I recall the first time when I got into internet marketing. I decided that the first thing I was going to do in order to make money online was create a viral blog. I was convinced that this would make my internet marketing business flourish, so I went ahead and utilized blogger.com to create a free hosted blog solution. Little did I know at the time that blogging would be hard and take more then just a little bit of content to make money online.
Since my first attempt to blog, I have learnt a lot about blogs and the basic things they need to have to become viral hubs as well as make money online. The first of these is that any internet marketing blog needs to be clearly planned. It is essential in the competitive online market of today that your blog’s content has the same direction across the board and always has the ability to build a relationship with the reader. Without this relationship there is no potential for your blog to grow virally through the many opportunities social networking sites present to us these days.
I see so many of what I like to call “Lazy Internet Marketing Blogs” on the internet these days. I never find them in the search engines though, but, only really when I click the link of a spammy comment. These blogs have no content direction for the search engines. What I mean by content direction is that these blogging internet marketers have not done their keyword research so that Google effectively picks them up for any specific terms in the search results. Any Internet marketing business which wants to be successful needs to understand that making money from a blog is not possible if your content is not deliberately oriented towards the search engines through keywords. Thus, many don’t get indexed anywhere near the top of the search engines’ results for any terms due to the lack of direction.
Finally, one of the most important ingredients to driving traffic to your internet marketing blog is to engage in external link building practices. This is essential, not only because Google loves external links, but also because you want to build yourself and your blog as a brand. In today’s online world, with the search engines ever changing and becoming more unpredictable, it is essential that you generate traffic from other websites as well as directly from the search engines. You can do this by guest writing for other bloggers or alternatively submitting unique, quality content to sites such as Ezine Articles.
The steps I have laid out in this article should provide you with a lot of great ideas to start a successful internet marketing blog for your business. Make sure that you take your time early on, and, in every way possible steer clear of the mistakes I made so you can make some great money online.
About Author :
Sam Bakker has been online marketing for the past 7 years. If you would like to find out more about making money online or blogging for money you can visit his website SamBakker.com.
About Lee Ka Hoong
Success comes the hard way!SEO really take a lot of efforts.
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While search engines are the lifeblood for many, one should always write for the reader first. Google will tell you that as well. :)
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But,the problem is even if you don’t do enough SEO you’ll have to market your blog well.Only quality content is not your guarantee to success.
Chrees
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I think without good organic traffic, blog income strategies will not work. Email marketing is an altogether different topic and so is social media. But if you are talking about making money via blogging I would say it’s all about search traffic.
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Most newbie bloggers failed to be tap by search engines and they just ignore SEO because of excitement or aggressiveness to earn money online.
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For me, the best thing to succeed in our internet marketing is to apply those information we gathered so far. Because as I’ve seen these days of blogging, I mostly see bloggers who start a make money online blog where they don’t apply it on themselves.
- Felix Albutra
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I used to rely alot on article marketing during my previous time of making money online. Somehow, i got a bit bored of it and exposed myself to other options of marketing. Now i heard so much about how blogging can be enjoyable and at the same time make you money .
Well indeed it live up to my expectation but its not something easy nontheless.
however, i have enjoyed blogging and making money online ever since and my previous written articles have constantly proof itself well to be worthwhile as i get to literally transform and resubmit them up as content in my blog.
cheers =)
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When trying to connect to your potential customers online, blogging gives you the advantage to get know one another better. We all agree that connecting with people on the internet is key. The great thing about a blog, is that it offers a place for your customers to get to know more about you and your products or services.
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Yup, the lazy man’s way to make money. I am so tired of hearing/reading that online. Look, if you want to make money, it takes hard work and persistence. There are no free rides.
Getting back links should be your top priority once you have done your keyword research.
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Hi Lee,
There are many things that a person can learn from your blog, I mean that you have touched all the important parts of blogging in your posts that I have read.
Thanks for another wonderful post.
thanks for advice. can you include PTC Programs in one of the ways in making money online? why don’t you try it… it’s fun!
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