Started Blog--Now What??

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I have been researching IM for the last 2 months now since being laid off. I am like many others here who have no product to sell but plenty of time,but little money. I learned that a good place to start is with a blog, and this forum. Which I am doing. Problem --- I started a blog about deer huning, my passion and I figured the best place to start. Now How do I get people to it. Hell I can only find it because I know where it is. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    Congratulations on taking action - that's the hardest part!

    Now you need backlinks in order to get traffic. There are many ways to do that and if you search the forum you will learn about most of them.

    Since you are just starting out, I suggest you might try article marketing - it should be easy for you since you have a passion for your topic.

    Also, you want to do some social bookmarking - I find that if I digg a new site it will usually get indexed pretty quickly. Sign up at Digg, if you are not already and spend some time voting on other peoples posts, digging posts you like and posting a link to your blog.

    You might also join some forums on the topic (perhaps you are already a member of some) and put a link to your blog in your sig if it is allowed.

    There's many other things you can do but I think those will give you a good start.

    Lee
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
    What is going to be your selling point? Deer hunters probably arent all that big on looking for deer hunting info on the net. I doubt there are many clickbank manuals on deer hunting. Are you going to make some kind of manual or just run on ppc type income? I suppose you could find affiliate type links for various hunter oriented items
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley Wright
    Articles like michael suggested would be the best way to get noticed on the Internet, Also if you do your research on this forum and on other sites you will be able to gain alot of valuable information in order to start generating views within your blog which in time if marketed correctly will generat you money.
    Hard work must happen though for this all to happen don't think it will just happen in days!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sandor Verebi
      You need to make a choice between slow and long therm traffic and short therm traffic. Or you may make booth.

      If you make a good article marketing then that is cheap but a bit slow. If you want to make money right away then you need to make some PPC campaign which is more faster. The choice is yours.
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  • Profile picture of the author DEERFARMER
    Thanks for all the great input. This is a great forum. Deer hunting is actully a very big market.Lots of hunter out there. Not many choices for ppc on clickbank. Ill follow your suggestions and let you know what happens. Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
    Hey DeerFarmer,

    Welcome to the WF... lots of great people & great info here.

    I think you chose a great niche to start... the hunting industry is HUGE and people search for tons of hunting info/tips/tricks/products.

    I just did a quick search and found tons of hunting related affiliate programs you could join. Here are just a few that I found quickly:

    52 Deer Hunting Tips Affiliate Center

    GunBroker.com Affiliate Program

    ShareASale.com and Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS affiliate link)

    Here's a link to some other great outdoor affiliate programs:

    AffiliatesDirectory.com - The Affiliate Programs Directory: Sports/Hunting

    Anyways, I think you've found a "buyers" market... and you should do quite well if you get your pieces in place.

    Post a link to the blog you have started so far... it sounds like you are onto the next step of getting traffic to your blog... take a look at my 2 warrior blog posts in my sig about building backlinks & generating traffic.

    Jared
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  • Profile picture of the author forous
    Also use your content to build hubpages, squidoo lens, weebly and tumblr pages to drive traffic to your main site.
    If you want a business then build a list and build a relationship with them. Get to konw your list and their needs. Service those needs and you will be in business.
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  • Profile picture of the author DEERFARMER
    Thanks for the links Jared. I didnt know about those. Im checking out your others post now.
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  • Profile picture of the author misterlmno
    check out the WSO's as well, there are some good FREE sources in there that can help with your blog. for example check out some of the Free WSO for driving traffic.
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