RSS Underground - RSS Resources - Dynamic Directory - Article MenuFeatured RSS Underground Blogging ArticleThe Basics of Blogging to Niche MarketsMal Keenan In the previous article, we discussed how blogs can help you generate traffic for your main web site. But what if you don't have another site? Or what if you want your weblog to be your main web site, the exclusive carrier of your moneymaking ventures? This can be achieved, of course. Such is the versatility of web logs. Standalone blogs are best utilized for online businessmen or women who have decided to pursue what many people call as nicheing. Yes, the word is ungrammatical, but it is a term that many Internet marketers have come to embrace with fondness. Nicheing involves the creation of many sites that cater to particular niches. Niches, of course, are very specialized markets, most of which are so obscure that they do not garner the attention of businesses, hence creating high demands with low supplies. The purpose of nicheing is to find these markets and provide for their needs. These enterprising businessmen would earn through the following ways: * Creating and eventually selling products that aim to serve the said niches. * Selling existing products that the said niches need. * Providing for information that the members of the said niches can access for free, and enrolling the site that contains the information in a Pay Per Click (PPC) program like Google AdSense. Regardless of what path the online entrepreneur decides to take, he should first create a site that serves as the repository of his commercial methods. Niches can be very rewarding. Since there is but a few competitions in the field, your search engine placement is sure to be higher than usual. Traffic should also be at a sustainable level since the members of a niche have nothing else to visit. This will mean a greater possibility for more sales, if you're selling a product, or a higher Click Through Rate (CTR) if you're enrolled in a PPC program.
Now, making a site can be quite cumbersome. You have to deal with the aspects of web design, graphic creation, and content writing among other concerns. What more when you have to create numerous sites for numerous niches? Thankfully, blogs will make things a whole lot easier for you. Every online marketer who has attained success with niche marketing can attribute this to their proper exploitation of blogs. Whereas it would take you a couple of weeks to come up with 10 web sites, it would only take you a couple of hours to come up with 10 weblog sites. The sheer convenience and ease of web logs have made nicheing a very potent business model. Blogs can very much substitute for a regular web site. As we have previously discussed, high quality content is, ultimately, what will drive traffic to your site, and this kind of content can easily be carried through a weblog . Also, you don't have to change the entire page whenever you want to update your content, as you would with a regular web site. With blogs, all you have to do is to write your update in a designated box and press the publish button. Of course, different blogging software have various features, but none comes more loaded than Wordpress (www.wordpress.com). Blogging is the way to go if you want to create, and maintain, several niche sites. And Wordpress is the weapon of choice for most Internet marketers. To fully realize the potentials of the medium, therefore, you should be able to exploit all the features that Wordpress does offer. Again, David Pankhurst's excellent report on powerful Wordpress secrets (http://www.malkeenan.com/top10tricks) will help you excel in this area. Look out for the next article, where we're going to discuss how you could efficiently integrate the Google AdSense program into your weblog , and make it a passive income generating machine. Related: Content Searchers - Keywords Content RSS Underground Featured Article Author BoxGet Your Hands on My FREE and Exclusive 7 Day Blogging Report by Sending and Blank Email to mailto:freeblogreport@getresponse.com In this Report I Reveal All The Secrets for Creating and Running A Successful Online Blog, Including Blogging to Niche Markets. Packet8 Adds User Chat And BloggingIn what could be considered a first, Packet8 has introduced a free add-on service for its VoIP phone subscribers that includes subscriber message boards and, oddly enough, blogging. It seems like a general vanilla support site with some extra community interaction features. Here's a snippet from the letter they sent out..... ~~~~~~~~~~~ You are cordially invited to become a citizen of the new Packet8 Online Community, a place on the Internet where you can: * Learn more about Internet phone service and the technology behind VoIP * Chat with other Packet8 subscribers * Read 8x8 CEO Bryan Martin's weblog * Create your own blogs * Discover how to troubleshoot minor Packet8 issues * Share your expertise with others * Learn about the latest Packet8 promotions * Post your own advertisements, thoughts, opinions, feedback, photos and feelings in forums and special interest groups ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interesting....VERY interesting. I'm already partial to Packet8 over other broadband phone providers. With this development maybe more folks will discover them and stop being swayed by the Vonage mass marketing media campaign. 'Bout damn time. Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications ....delivering choices to business consumers for dedicated voice and data network services. Michael also authors Broadband Nation where you're always welcome to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, and ramblings for the masses. Should Affiliates Really Use Blogging and Pinging To Get Indexed?Kurma Group There seems to be a huge craze lately with everyone trying to weblog and ping to get their web sites indexed into the search engines. Although this can be a great tool, all marketers should first understand exactly what they're getting themselves into before starting. This article is to serve as a beginners guide to getting started with blogging and pinging. 1. What is a weblog ? A "blog" is short for "web log." A web log is an online diary or journal. The main aspect weblog is that it is frequently updated - at least once a week, sometimes every day or even more. Since blogs are regularly updated, they tend to carry more value than regular static HTML pages (in some cases). 2. What is a ping? A ping is a program that sends out a brief request for a response from another computer or server. When you ping on the Internet, you send out a program to see if a remote server is responding. 3. How do bloggers use pings? Two main reasons to use pings with blogs: First and foremost is to let the search engines know that you have updated your web site so they can send their spiders. Secondly, pings also update the web sites on the internet who are using your weblog on their site (through a feature called RSS feeds, they are displaying your messages on their site). 4. So what is the big deal about blogging and pinging? Smart affiliate marketers use blogging and pinging to help get their sites crawled and indexed by the search engine spiders a lot quicker than they normally would. They set up a weblog either on their main site or on a sub-domain of their site. They then post links to their product pages on their weblog and send out a ping to all the major servers on the Internet. That ping says "This site has fresh content, time to go add it to your database!" It's a trigger that sends the search spiders looking for updated pages on your site. When they find the new pages, search engines tend to index them much faster. Blogging and pinging will not get you into EVERY search engine overnight. As of this writing, it is most effective with getting into Yahoo. But often MSN, and even Google, will follow in short order. Combine blogging and pinging with good link recruiting for the best indexing. Also, weblog and ping on a regular basis if you want to "stay" indexed in the search engines. 6. Is blogging and pinging a requirement to get indexed? No. You can get indexed quickly by getting plenty of natural backlinks. But for backlinks to be most effective, they have to appear as if they were natural and this can take weeks if not months. Blogging and pinging does seem to drastically shorten the process. 7. Is there a downside to blogging and pinging? Yes, some marketers are starting to abuse this strategy and the engines are getting wise to it! If you go over-board you risk getting your web site completely banned and removed. Also, many marketers are blogging and pinging for a few days and then forgetting about the web site - your web site will likely be de-indexed if you do not continue to naturally weblog and ping. The bottom line is that blogging and pinging is a great strategy right now to help you get your web site indexed faster. However, the old natural way of getting incoming links is still the best and most assured way - not to mention the long-term benefits of having incoming links. If you have not yet started blogging and pinging, I suggest you start with a practice web site first, not your main web site. This article has been authored by Anik Singal, an extremely successful and young internet entrepreneur and affiliate marketing consultant. Anik has developed his own affiliate marketing system that helped him earn over $10,466 in 60 days - he is now training select students on his system. http://www.AffiliateClassroom.com/free-course.html Can blogging increase web traffic?Blogging is merely keeping of a log at a web site. It is a combination of the words "Web" and "log". Blogging is carried out through a blogging software that maintains the daily posts on the site. It doesn't take long to set up blogs and once installed you can update it easily with lots of content daily. Reginald Copyright 2005 LookForLinks.com - the ultimate relevant reciprocal links exchange manager. 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