Blogging 101

Why do you want to blog?

You might be a budding writer wishing to let the world know how your imagination can soar, or you may have a hidden journalist hidden within you fighting to come out. Probably you know more that everyone about the dietary habits of people of shire, or might be you just want to tell every one how your last vacation was.

Who is gonna read your blogs?

If you take the pains to write, what fun it would be if no one read your blogs. Before you start writing, think! Is there an audience for what you will write? Is the niche already too overcrowded with writers? There might be a huge audience for blogs about iPods, but with millions of people writing about it, what chances your blog has of getting popular? Will writing about the latest gossip in your locality be a better idea?

Where are you gonna blog?

To start blogging you will need to choose your blog provider and platform. www.blogger.com is the foremost blogging platform today and it is free. You may want to host your blog yourself; wordpress from www.wordpress.org is most suited for it. www.wordpress.com offers free wordpress based host. There are some other options but these are most popular.

Who are your visitors?

You need to track your visitors, see where they come from, what browsers they use and how they find you. Tracking your visitors is important as it tells you what your visitors like to read about, and help you in optimizing your blog. www.statcounter.com provides free invisible tracking, with very extensive results.

Brand yourself.

No matter what blogging tool you use, it will come with a set of default templates. Your visitors will be sick of seeing the same template over and over. Change it to something more original. When they are reading your blog they must be aware of it. Get a good logo for your blog.

Ping, link, comment.

When you update your blog, ping to blog tracking services so they may index your upadated blog and visitors find you. Link to other realated blogs and they will link to you. Visit other related blogs and leave a comment. Generally people will come to visit your blog and if you have great content a large percentage will be hooked.

Most importantly, have patience. A popular blog takes time and effort to build. So many people leave midway. If you follow these advice, and put in some effort, your blog will surely get popular.

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How Affiliate Marketers Make Money With Product Reviews

Writing product reviews is a simple skill to learn, and one which may help you create a significant online income.

Affiliate marketing is widely touted as an easy way to start making money online. While there are certainly some affiliate marketers who are able to generate six and even seven figure incomes, most people who are starting out as Internet marketers find that a lot of work is involved.

Affiliate marketing is highly dependent on traffic. It's fairly easy to calculate how much traffic you'll need in order to make a certain income. Before you even start, you can make certain assumptions.

For instance, you might want to earn an extra $1000 a month. If you are promoting an affiliate product which pays you $25 for every sale, you'd need 40 sales a month. At a rough industry average conversion rate of 1%, that means you'd need to send 4000 visitors a month to the sales page for your affiliate product. That means about 133 visitors a day clicking on your affiliate link.

One way to get people interested in the product you are promoting is by writing an honest review and posting it to a blog. Free blogs, such as those hosted by Blogger.com and WordPress.com, are well-liked by the search engines. It is quite possible to find your free blog listed by Google within a day or two.

Once your review has been published, you will need to drive traffic to your review site. There are a number of ways to do this at no cost, including writing articles and publishing them to article directories, writing press releases and submitting them to free press release agencies, making pertinent comments on other peoples blogs and so on.

If you are persistent, you will find that it is quite possible to generate a reasonable amount of income from simple product reviews.

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