How To Profit From Your Home Business Blog
By Ian Canaway
A blog is a simple tool which all affiliate marketers
should be utilising to explode their affiliate sales.
I set up my blog in about 15 minutes at http://www.blogger.com
it’s a completely free service, and it’s really easy
to set-up. I followed directions on an excellent article on getting
a new website listed in Google in 48hrs check it out here,.
I just followed the advice in the article and got started with
no problems in no time.
I've been doing a lot of research with regards
to blogging and came across a case of a 19 year old kid who was
making something ridiculous like $50,000 a year with a blog on
mobile phones, from his bedroom! So clearly there is a good earning
potential through blogs, but they do take time to grow and build
up a readership. Treat your blog as a marathon not a sprint, because
it will take time.
Blogs provide a very simple, quick and easy means
to add fresh content to your website. As I’m sure you’ve
heard many times over ‘content is king’ in the search
engines eyes and if you can provide high quality, regularly updated
content your website should benefit with regards to your search
engine ranking.
By providing fresh, high quality relevant content
you will gain an increase of both first time visitors and repeat
visitors, they will come back to check out your new content. Providing
it’s interesting, relevant and useful to them. You will
begin to build relationships with your readers, increasing your
credibility and building their trust in you.
These repeat visitors will be exposed to your
messages more and begin to trust you and your recommendations.
This in turn will fuel sales and referrals. Just make sure you
don’t recommend a product you haven’t tried because
if it is bad you will lose all credibility!
Never recommend something you haven’t tried
and tested your self.
You want to send traffic directly to your blog,
do it through multi-dimensional strategies. Have a subscriber
box for your newsletter to build your list from your blog. Use
it as an exit pop-up from your main site or thank you page for
new subscribers, directing them to relevant content immediately.
As once your prospects have got to know you through the blog they
are much more likely to explore your website and check out whatever
you are offering.
Whenever you sign-up for an affiliate program
or buy a product, review it in your blog and be brutally honest,
your readers will love you for it. Take a completely unbiased
view point and talk about both the positives and negatives of
each product. In essence you are providing more of an insight
into the product than the sales page itself, almost a sample,
this will help convert those prospects that are ‘sitting
on the fence’ so to speak. Obviously when you review your
affiliate products, make sure that you use your affiliate links.
It has been shown that prospects are 7-10 times
more likely to buy from a blog recommendation than from other
sources!
Other ways that you can generate extra income
through your blog are through the Google ad sense program, selling
banner/link space as your traffic increases or as I mentioned
earlier by adding you own opt-in sign up form to which you send
your newsletter or other targeted offers.
Your blog can be syndicated using RSS, which I
won’t go into here, that’s another article. But savvy
webmasters can use your blog content on their web pages. This
benefits them as they have regularly updated fresh content for
their website and benefits you through increased exposure and
free targeted traffic.
Be passionate about your blog, love your blog.
If you do not then it will become obvious through your posts and
you are unlikely to be anywhere near as successful as you could
be.
Add to your blog regularly provide good quality
content and reviews and you will be on your way to blogging success.
“A man would do nothing, if he waited until
he could do it so well that no one at all would find fault with
what he has done”. -- Cardinal Newman
Get that blog started today!
Copyright © Ian Canaway
Ian Canaway is a home business entrepreneur and
the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com
and also a home
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