Blogging - The Great Marketing Equalizer

1. The number one factor is to choose the right niche. Something you can help others look at from another angle that hasn't been done to death. Plus, of course a niche/topic you enjoy more than sex or at least a close second.

2. With so many look-a-like and sound-a-like blogs don't under-estimate good solid niche market research, it will pay off in the long run or blind side you if you skip steps. That's true now more than ever because thousands of new blogs come online each day.

3. After you've established who your target market is ... You've got to find ways to separate yourself from the crowd so they can recognize you. And never stop looking.

There's much more, but those are my top 3..

1k click after one year of blogging every day.

The question is will you be able to keep up the blogging when you see no return.

Thanks for clarifying those points The Niche Man. You know a lot about blogs and the inner workings of them. I'm all ears if you would like to post some further insights.

Tyler Pratt, it's not me who owns the blog but I hear what your saying. He didn't monetize it but I plan on monetizing mine. I would think even at a conversion ratio of 1/1000 I'd be making 30 sales a month based on 30,000 unique targeted traffic. Even if you cut that number to 1/2000 I'd still be making 15 sales a month. Not huge money by any means but still worth it as the point is to not stop at 30,000 uniques a month it's to build it to 30,000,000 uniques a month in 20 years time or sooner.

What is it you do may I ask? I take it your into list building? That is an area I'm very new at.

Thanks again.

J

Well if your not providing genuine value in terms of content your not going to see any revenue. I think if you provide value the revenue will come naturally. J

There are no mega-secret "strategies" with blogging.

You choose a topic that you're passionate/knowledgeable about, make sure it's a big market with a large demand for info and products/services, then pump out quality, genuine content on regular basis.

The first 50-100 articles not much will happen, but when you start to approach 150-200 posts, then things will begin to go uphill for you.

Without invest in any advertising copy learn from your friend:

- he has a good niche blog, in which he can write very specific articles
- he write for years EVERY day


After that my suggestions are:

- personalize your blog (colors, images).
- use SEO
- share with social media (create your social network Page)

increase traffic with PPC!

Write about things that interest you.

1. Unique perspective.
2. Personal
3. Niche specific.
4. Consistent, Free, Value.

Hi jordorules

you hit the spot (in the comment above) then: Write every day valuable content to your audience, share each blog article on social and becomes interactive, respond to every comment, so you create your own brand and you will be reliable in the eyes of those who follow you.

Good luck!!

PS to thank is the appropriate button!

...you're welcome, if you need us so many warriors !!!

I'll give you my best advice about blogging.

Remember Nike's old slogan: Just Do It.

Yes, Just Do It.

We can all give you our recommendations and hints, but what works incredibly well in one niche won't work in another. What's unique about what you're doing? Just tell people about it and the results will come.

For all we talk about great content in this day and age....how many sites in your niche produce truly good, or even great content more than 1x per week. I write about wine and there's approximately a million wine blogs in English alone....there's only a few that meet my above criteria.

Internal links are nice too

I use to run a 5-figures-a-month blog, so I know a thing or two about blogging. Here is my advice: stay away from blogging... It is the worst ROI (return vs time) in the industry.

A lot of bad advice above.

J,

You don't need to write a new article for your blog everyday. Quality is more important than quantity, and someone who's writing an article per day is not someone focused on quality. I know, a lot of you will get upset, but that's the truth.

Also, I see a lot of you see blogging as praying: just write articles, and somehow the blog will grow. Some of you suggest SEO and social media, but SEO is unreliable (look at all the people who get hit with each algorithm change), and social media is for people who want to waste time, not focus and read articles.

Anyway, there's a lot more to tell, but I recommend you search the posts of (now banned) member Alexa Smith, and see what she does. She basically writers very high-quality articles, and then she asks other blogs/websites/ezines to publish them with a link back to her website. As people read the articles, some click the link at the end and get back to her website. These are real people, interested in what you have to say, not just people who liked the thumbnail of your article on social media websites.

As for monetizing, you first think of a niche, see if there are decent products and enough potential customers, and only then start a blog/website. Not the other way around, as your friend is doing.

Make sure that you not only go into a niche that you like and know a little something about but one that is profitable as well. Do your research and find products before you actually get your domain name also.

Joey

I'm sure you do have one thing or more than you are knowledgeable about, consider that but make sure to also consider how much audience will be interested on that niche. You know it isn't that hard to get people to your content most especially if you are able to deliver what needs to be delivered; concise and consistent.

You've got to look at a few things, I think this might have been covered already but I think it's all about the quality of your blog. You can have so much info on it - but some people are just not that keen to read a lot. Most people now days just like to be informed real quick, it's as if we want as much info in such little time. It all depends tho on what you are writing about - and making sure you have target audiences. As long as you really know what your talking about and if its about something that really interests you then you should be fine in creating a lot of posts. Having a few posts a week is good as well as it will help to put your website on top of others on search engines - like google. The more work that goes into your website the more keywords you'll have and so forth.

J,

What I talk about is article syndication. Alexa Smith has many posts on this topic - she's an expert. So is Myob and John McCaibe. There are others, too, perhaps. Look them up, and follow their posts.

I also recommend you read: Turn Your Words Into Traffic: Finally! the Secret...
This is a fantastic book that explains the process in detail. This should be more than enough to give you a good idea of what I'm talking about.