RSS Underground - RSS Resources - Dynamic Directory - Article MenuFeatured RSS Underground Blogging ArticleBlogging Part 7 – More Traffic SourcesGetting links from other web sites is not the only way to attract visitors to visit your weblog . This time, we are going to explore alternative methods to attract high quality traffic with both free and paid methods. The first thing you can do to generate traffic is to recycle all the content you have written on your weblog . What I really mean is to turn your weblog posts into little “manuals” or articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day. When you submit your articles to these directories, you are exposing your name to the thousands of pairs of eyes visiting them for free! On most article directories, you are also permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said article directories. Some good article directories to get you started: www.eZineArticles.com www.ultimatearticledirectory.com www.submityourarticle.com Another excellent way to gain traffic is to join internet forums that is based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, just go to any search engine and enter “ +forum”, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum.
When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post very useful and valuable posts, your peers will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are also allowed to append a link to your site in the signature line, which is under every post you make on the forums. People will click and visit your weblog if they find your posts helpful and informative. This way, your credibility is built even before they land on your weblog , so traffic from the forums would be easier to turn into profits if your weblog is selling your own products or recommending others’ as an affilliate since they are already convinced you’re an “expert” in the field. The strategy we’ll discuss is word of mouth. Let’s say you already have a daily visitor count of 100. What if you compiled a small report or gift and posted it on your weblog , saying that if a certain visitor can refer three of his/her friends to visit your weblog the gift will be his/hers for free? If your small report or gift is lucrative enough, it will generate a small buzz among your weblog readers and they will surely refer their friends to this weblog that they frequent! You can also utilize the “blog and ping” technique that everyone’s talking about. Basically, when you update your weblog , you can let weblog portals such as www.technorati.com know by pinging them. You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free www.pingomatic.com. Besides the techniques described here, there are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space. A thing to keep in mind when buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. If your profits do no offset the expense, you will end up losing money, so choose wisely. Related: Keyphrase Optimization - Relevent Content RSS Underground Featured Article Author BoxEveryone's talking nowadays about niche markets for Google Adsense but where can you get the content for your web site? Problem solved, visit http://www.scienceofbreath.be/freetool.html for a totally FREE tool that sucks in content from every corner of the internet! Need a reliable web host to host all those adsense web sites? Visit http://www.scienceofbreath.be/webhost.html for a reliable web host. Blogging Part 8 – Monetizing Your BlogYou have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your weblog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money. There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your weblog , and Google’s Adsense programme allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their web site at http://adsense.google.com/. You’ll find out more about their advertising programme there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you. First, Google’s Adsense programme is a really useful way to monetize your weblog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your weblog because they have nothing else to do on your weblog . If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your weblog , they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your weblog . Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents! But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the “heat map” of your weblog . The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone looking at your weblog . Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the colour of your advertisement text and links. You will want them to match the colours on your weblog . If your weblog ’s text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too! It’s that simple. Another way to earn profits from your weblog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services. Anyway, let’s refer back to our technological gadgets weblog example. Let’s say you discover this Gadget X on a merchant’s web site, and they offer an affilliate programme. What you would do is to create a post in your weblog and do a mini-review on this Gadget X. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to purchase the Gadget X online. If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 paycheque for you just for writing about ONE product. Now, affiliate programmes are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programmes that are related to your weblog ’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for +”affiliate programmes”. Another slightly better way is to go to http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programmes in your niche. The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your weblog . We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!
Blogging Part 9: More Monetizing OptionsWe’ve discussed about using Google Adsense programme and other merchants’ affiliate programmes to generate profits from your weblog . However, we have a lot of other options ot monetize your weblog , so we’re going to look into that today. The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising programme because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget weblog , Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application.php?type=mm You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their Associate programme here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/ Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 10% commission. It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. This programme really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into your weblog posts. Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your weblog if your weblog is truly popular. Just take a look at blogs like http://xiaxue.blogspot.com. That weblog receives over 10,000 pageviews every day and naturally merchants will want to strike a deal with the weblog ’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that weblog , you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your weblog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your weblog popularity. To gauge how much pageviews and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool available at www.statcounter.com. They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it. If your weblog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your weblog on a per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like www.adbrite.com. For a complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60. Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your weblog !
Blogging Part 10: Interactions Between BlogsAs your weblog ’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction! When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain weblog , you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation! As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your weblog , you can interview other weblog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often. If you’re using Wordpress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced weblog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous weblog . Since the famous weblog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer. On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links. However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your weblog . You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your weblog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other weblog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.
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