blog and list building

Well, you can use the email list to give them free things, info that's more "valuable" than that which is on your regular blog, special offers on your products, etc.

Let's say your in the weight loss niche and you've done some proper keyword research and you've found 10 low competition keywords which look like they're going to be easy to rank for. Those keywords are known as Low Hanging Fruit.

What you need to do now is write a short report. Make it 10 chapters long, each chapter talks about the solutions to each keyword. The chapters don't have to be long, just 10 short articles is enough. This is your incentive.

Now put a squeeze page on your blog, it's better to upload a simple HTML squeeze page with no links on it rather than a blog page or post with lots of links on it. You want to give your visitor 2 options - give up their email address, or leave. This is your money page.

Put just a few lines of text on your squeeze page, first a headline (to find a good headline just go squeeze page hunting in your niche and save a few headlines to a txt file and rewrite them), then have 10 bullet points, each bullet point promises the solution to 1 of the keyword related problems.

Now start writing your blog posts, optimize each one for each keyword. Talk about only the keyword and not the solution, eg.

Keyword - How To Lose Weight (not low hanging fruit just an example)

Post title - HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT - My Weight Loss Journey

Blog post - It's amazing how many times the keyword 'how to lose weight' is searched on Google each day.

This is obviously due to the weight loss epidemic in our country. There just doesn't seem to be much effort being put into educating the public on the risks of unhealthy eating.

I myself was once extremely overweight, and if your in the same situation then I assure you I know what you're going through!

blah blah blah... Notice how I'm not providing the solution, I'm just talking about the problem/keyword...

Now in the post put some links to your squeeze page, eg:

I spent months trying all the popular weight loss methods, most of them were a complete waste of time, some even made me ill! But after months of trial and error I finally found what I was searching for! i tell all about it in my personal weight loss diary here <--link to squeeze page.

Now at the bottom of each post put a small banner ad, also linking to your squeeze page.

Where you normally see an opt in box on a blog I always replace that area with a square ad, linking to my squeeze page.

And I also use a script which opens a small pop up ad linking to my squeeze page when a visitor attemps to leave my blog.

The aim of the game here is to have lots of different types of links to your squeeze page - links in your post, banner ads, pop ups, anything you can think of!

I even link all the images on my blog to my squeeze page so when somebody hovers their mouse over an image and their pointer turns into a little hand they click out of curiousity and land on my squeeze page.

Anyway... Once you have your blog set up just hammer the link building, take no notice to anyone who says build links slowly, or make sure your links are coming from relevant content.

The only way you could build links too fast is if you use Xrummer, and relevant content is just a myth.

Just grab Angela or Pauls monthly link packets and absolutley hammer them, using the correct anchor text for each blog post.

Then spin some articles and vary your anchor text a little and use SENUKE or another article posting tool to blast them out.

Just keep link building until your at no1.

Once you're getting steady search traffic you can test different squeeze pages and banner ads and so on to increase your conversion, but you don't even need to worry about any of that yet, the most important thing is getting that site up, screw making it look pretty, you can do that later, just get the thing ranking.

I'm assuming that you've already found a product, or lots of products, that you'd like to promote in your niche, so now just promote them to your list.

OMG it's 4:13 am lol I'm going to bed!

Yes I use Aweber, highly reccomended.

No I don't get them to confirm, I don't use double opt in, there's no point in it, it isn't there to make a marketers job any easier it's just a safeguard for Aweber so they stayy SPAM compliant.

I have them enter their email address, then they're taken to a page says:

Thanks, I've just sent your free report to the email address you entered, if you think you may have made a mistake simply click the back button and try again.

They then get the free report via email link, I don't send them directly to a sales page, I always make sure I give value before asking for any sale. You don't have to rush the sale, you've now got all the time in the world to do that as you've been a smart marketer and collected the email address

(But don't leave it too late)

And don't worry about giving the solution to the problem away for free to your new subscriber...

THERE'S ALWAYS MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION!

Goodnight!