This means you need to do 4 things:
1. Find topics or niches with a lot of traffic potential
2. Constantly add quality, fresh content to your blog
3. Get lots of free traffic to your blog
4. Monetize the resulting traffic
So what topics should you pick that will generate a lot of traffic??
Here is a partial list of popular topics to chose from:
Baby
• Gifts
• Furniture
Cars
• Buying
• Insurance
• Loans
• Repair
• Audio Systems
• Car Rims
Cell Phones
Dating
• Internet Dating
• Dating Advice
• Attraction
• Seduction
Dogs
• Breeding
• Grooming
• Ownership
Finance
• Student Loans
• Grants
• Home Mortgage/Loans
• Credit Card Debt
• Bankruptcy
• Debt Consolidation
• Foreclosure
• Forex Trading (trading foreign currencies)
Food
Gardening
Gambling/Online Gaming
• Poker/Texas Hold'Em
Guitars
Health
• Workout Secrets
• Health Food
Home
• Buying
• Selling
• Remodeling
Home Business Ideas
Interior Design
Internet Marketing
• Affiliate Marketing
• Niche Marketing
• Ebooks
• Ebay
• Search Engine Optimization
• Traffic Generation
• Buying/Selling Websites
Medicine
• Alternative Medicine
• Homeopathic Medicine
Men's health
• Hair Loss
• Sexual Health/Performance
Music
Sports
• Baseball
• Football
Shopping
Tattoos
Travel
• Las Vegas
• Vacation
• Family Vacations
• Hotels
Video Games
• Online Games
Wine
Webkinz
Weddings
• Dresses
• Planning
• Invitations
Weight Loss
• Diets
• Pills
You can also find other high traffic topic by using the Icon Interactive
Tool. Using data from the month before, the Icon Interactive Tool allows
you to see how many times a keyword was searched for in the major
Search Engines. The major Search Engines (by some estimates) account
for about 80% of all Internet searches. This tool is therefore very helpful
in gaging overall demand and traffic potential.
1. Go to http://www.iconinteractive.com/tools/keyword.php
2. Type in the topic and click on the 'Go' button.
3. The keyword should have at least 50k searches. A keyword with a
volume of 50-100k is Good. A keyword with a search volume of
between 100k-300k is Very Good. And a keyword with search
volume of 300K+ is Excellent.
Below you will also find a link to a video that will show you to find
current hot topics .
Note: This video was intended to be viewed by “Bum” Marketers but it
works just as well for locating current and profitable niche topics:
http://ultrabums.com/Vids/LIVE-Buzz.html
Another easy way to find hot topics is to lurk around forums and see what
topics garner the most attention. At the Warrior Forum, for example,
spotting hot topics is very easy to do. To the left of each post is a little
folder icon. If the folder is on fire, people are very interested in the
topic of the post. On the far right column is the number of times the
topic has been viewed and to the left of that is number of comments
people have made on that post. The best subjects will have 40+
comments and 500+ views. The higher both of these numbers are the
better.
This means you need to do 4 things:
Getting Started
Getting Started
A lot of marketers suggest blogging about a topic that you are passionate about. I disagree. If you actually want to make a lot of money with blogs you need to create blogs centered on profitable topics, that is, topics with a lot of potential traffic. I am very knowledgeable about politics and social theory, for example, but creating blogs around these interests would draw few interested readers (traffic) and I would make little, if any, money. I'm convinced anyone can start a blog based on a hot topic they hate and still keep it stocked with fresh, quality content. As we will discuss in later chapters, Search Engines LOVE fresh, quality content. If your website or blog can produce fresh, quality content you will be rewarded with great Search Engine Rankings. As you will see in Chapter 3, there are other ways to get traffic to your blog that do not involve the use of Search Engines. Nonetheless, Search Engine rankings are very important to your success.
The equation is something like this:
Popular Topic + Quality, Fresh Content = High Search Engine Rankings
+ Happy, Loyal Readers = Lots of Traffic To Your Website = $$$ = :-)
Three Simple But Powerful Words
Three Simple But Powerful Words
One of the very first ebooks I read on Internet Marketing was called The
Affiliate Masters Course by Ken Evoy. This particular ebook has the
distinction of being the inspiration that really got me interested in
creating my own online business. Even though I first read The Affiliate
Masters Course more than four years ago and even though the whole
ebook was meant to pre-sell readers into buying Site Build It!, I still
recommend it to people to this very day.
By far the most important concept from Ken's ebook boils down to three
simple words: underpromise and overdeliver. This is a very simple and
yet powerful philosophy. All it really translates to is giving people more
than what they expect.
That’s it.
Just tell people you will give them one thing and then give them what
you promised plus a little bit more. The results of adopting this simple
philosophy and incorporating it into your Internet business can be truly
remarkable.
Think of it kind of like karma on steroids.
What makes the underpromise and overdeliver concept so incredibly
powerful for Internet Marketers is that it doesn't really take a whole lot
of additional effort to give people more than what they expect. This
ebook is a really great example of this too. When you purchased it I
included several additional, useful bonus items I did not advertise on the
sales page (you'll discover these as you progress through the material).
The effort required to locate these bonus items and include them in the
zip file amounted to only a couple of extra hours of work for me.
But by spending just a little bit of extra time giving you a few things you
did not expect I established myself as someone who not only delivers
what he promises but gives you even more. Ultimately this translates into
a rock solid reputation and long term customers (you) who will buy from
me over and over again. All of which equals more profits for me.
Basically, you need to be very generous. But in this business being
consistently generous results in more than just a personal feeling of
satisfaction, it results in huge profits. The benefits of practicing the
underpromise and overdeliver philosophy far outweigh the extra effort
and expenses on your part.
In fact, this philosophy works so well online that I have even
incorporated it into my personal life and daily activities. Recently, for
example, I held a garage sale at my home and offered everyone who
came free refreshments because it happened to be unusually hot out.
The result of this little act of kindness was that potential buyers didn't
haggle nearly as much as had been my experience with past garage sales.
Kindness really does pay and on the Internet it pays in a big way!
Underpromise and Overdeliver.....Write this down somewhere.
One last thing before we begin...
Blog marketing is a truly great thing to learn. It's also an easy thing to
learn. Making money by using a blog is one of the most satisfying things
that you will ever learn how to do. Just do not expect to make money
over night, know that you have to work at it consistently everyday, and
remember to put into it what you want to get out of it.
Ok, enough talk. It's time to turn you into a blog marketing expert.....
Why You Need To Join A Forum
Why You Need To Join A Forum
If you are looking to make a lot of money with blogging you will need a
community of like minded people to help and support you. An online
business forum is absolutely vital to your success regardless of what
specific Internet business model you decide to operate in. The ebook you
are reading right now is an excellent example of the importance of a
forum. The entire time I was sitting at my laptop writing I was also
posting questions to the Warrior Forum whenever I got stuck and needed
help. I usually got great, top notch answers within minutes of posting a
question.
Where else can you possibly get help like that at no cost?
Here is a list of the forums you should consider joining:
www.bloggerforum.com (Free, reccommeded)
forums.digitalpoint.com (Free)
www.sitepoint.com (Free)
www.warriorforum.com (Free, recommended)
www.whydowork.com ($2 monthly)