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How
To Profit From Your Home Business Blog
By - Ian Canaway
A blog is a simple tool which all affiliate marketers should
be utilizing to explode their affiliate sales.
I set up my blog in about 15 minutes at http://www.blogger.com
it's a completely free service, and it's really easy to set-up. I followed
directions on an excellent article on getting a new website listed in Google in
48hrs check it out here, http://www.scamfreezone.com/gg/. I just followed the
advice in the article and got started with no problems in no time.
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! So clearly
there is a good earning potential through blogs, but they do take time to grow
and build up a readership. Treat your blog as a marathon not a sprint, because
it will take time.
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' in the search engines eyes and if you can provide 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.
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
because if it is bad you will lose all credibility!
Never recommend something you haven't tried and tested your
self.
You want to send traffic directly to your blog, do it through
multi-dimensional strategies. Have a subscriber box for your newsletter to build
your list from your blog. Use it as an exit pop-up from your main site or thank
you page for new subscribers, directing them to relevant content immediately. As
once your prospects have got to know you through the blog they are much more
likely to explore your website and check out whatever you are offering.
Whenever you sign-up for an affiliate program or buy a
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, almost a sample, this will
help convert those prospects that are 'sitting on the fence' so to speak.
Obviously when you review your affiliate products, make sure that you use your
affiliate links.
It has been shown that prospects are 7-10 times more likely
to buy from a blog recommendation than from other sources!
Other ways that you can generate extra income through your
blog are through the Google ad sense program, selling banner/link space as your
traffic increases or as I mentioned earlier by adding your own opt-in sign up
form to which you send your newsletter or other targeted offers.
Your blog can be syndicated using RSS, which I won't go into
here, that's another article. But savvy webmasters can 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 and free targeted
traffic.
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.
"A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do
it so well that no one at all would find fault with what he has done". --
Cardinal Newman
Get that blog started today!
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