Internet Marketing Basics

Issue Number 105
In this issue:
Welcome
Featured Article: How To Bring Large Amounts of Traffic To Your Blog
Subscriber Comments
Featured Article: Niche Blogs and WHY They Make Such An Excellent Affiliate Marketing Tool

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WELCOME

Welcome to all, old and new! :~)

This week NJAE is all about blogs and blogging.

We have 2 great articles for you to help you make the most of your blogging. And if you aren't blogging yet, they might give you some ideas that tempt you enough to give it a try.

Now, if you are already a die-hard blogger and know a thing or 2 about wordpress, then I'd love it if you could drop by the forum and help Dan out, his post is here: Dans Questions. While you're there, don't forget to say Hi to Brandon and ask him some ecommerce or ebay related questions if you have any.

While we're on the topic of the forum, Jefferys fantastic hosting offer is still very much valid. It's so good I even took advantage of it myself and have started another site (which I won't tell you about as of yet...). Oh yeah, there's also blogging software in cpanel there ;)

If you haven't checked out my blogs yet, you can find them here:

Internet Marketing Basics (NJAE blog)

Kids And Coping With ADHD

Real Life Parenting

May you be happy and prosperous in everything you do!

Until Next Time...

Anna-Marie Stewart

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Ok, this week I'm doing something TOTALLY different with the free download. I'm not putting it into the members lounge for you, but I'm linking to the owners page.

A really close associate of mine (I would say friend, but that sounds like such a cliche these days, even though he truly IS a friend) has just written a free report. Apart from me and 2 or 3 of his closes friends YOU are the first to get a chance to grab it. All he asks in return is that you donate a little to his chosen charity IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT!

Here's what I wrote back to him after reading the report:

Wow Dennis

You've done a great job on this report and I can see no reason why it shouldn't help both newer and more seasoned marketers set up a whole network of sites that they can make money from.

The report looks and reads great. It's so simple to follow that I can even see myself trying it out, and I'm no newbie.

I love the fact that it has all the 'newbie info' up top though, as too many people think EVERYBODY will understand what everything means, without taking into consideration that not everybody is at the same level when it comes to website creation and setup. Well Done!


Please believe me when I tell you I meant every single word of it and what's strange is that it actually talks about blogs in parts of it, so that suits this weeks issue down to the ground. It's almost as if he was reading my mind LOL. Anyway, grab your free copy Right Now and you could be well on your way to building your own network of money-making sites.


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If you're unsure of how to send one in, the form is in the Members Lounge, along with all the other forms and stuff ;~)

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How To Bring Large Amounts of Traffic To Your Blog

Copyright By By Stefani Partin

Have you been blogging, but not too many people are visiting it? Are you waiting for those comments to come flooding in, but all you get is spam comments? I am going to tell you just a few things you can do, to bring in steady traffic to your blog.

Many new bloggers start a blog but get easily discouraged because they have no readers reading it. Well, the readers can't read your blog, if they can't it. They also won't read it, if it's not something they want to read.

My biggest tip I will give here is, give your readers something they want to read. If you write a post that people enjoy reading, they are going to reward you by coming back. Never forget that your readers are real people, make your posts conversational. When you are blogging, remember to keep each post to one topic only and include keyword rich words in your title. Be sure to post to your blog often. Search engines love blogs and if you are posting daily, your blog is going to be indexed by the engines even faster and more frequently.

My next tip, if you are looking for really large amounts of traffic, I would like to suggest optimizing your posts for the search engine. You will want to throw a little SEO into your postings. You can do this easily by doing the following:

1. Use your primary keywords in the title of your post

2. Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post

3. Use your keywords in your anchor text of links in the body of your posts

If you follow those three steps above, you have a better chance of your posts being properly indexed by the search engines. This means more traffic for you.

My next tip, submit your blog to as many directories as possible. If you haven't done so, make sure your blog has a RSS feed. If you are using Wordpress, it will create a feed for you. If you don't know much about feeds, visit http://www.feedburner.com You can submit your blog url and it will give you a RSS feed address to use. I use Feedburner with my blogs hosted on Blogger. When submitting your blog and RSS feed to directories, make sure you try to submit to the big directories like Technorati, Yahoo, DMOZ, MSN, etc. Here is a large list of blog directories you can submit to:
http://www.toprankresults.com/blog-submit-list.htm

My next tip, add a option to subscribe to your blog so your reader is updated by email when you make a new post. This is a great way to get readers to come back to your site. I use a service from FeedBlitz. You can signup for a free account at Feedblitz, then login to your account and grab some code to place into your blog template. In return, you are able to capture your subscribers names and email addresses. When you update your blog, all your readers will get an email letting them know. Don't pass up this way to bring traffic to you.

My next tip, create inbound links to your blog. You can do this easily by visiting other blogs and posting comments. You can trackback to other's blogs in your posts. If you have other blogs or websites, link to your blog within those. Basically, post your link to as many places as you can.

My last tip, ping ping ping. Make sure to ping your blog to as many as the services as you can. I use a free service at Pingomatic http://pingomatic.com At Pingomatic you can type your blog url, then select the service you want to ping. They have about 20 services you can select. This saves a ton of time because you can ping all the selected services at the same time.

Happy Blogging!

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© 2006 Stefani Partin, a work at home mom of three from CA who owns
a network of sites for moms, blogs, a newsletter and more. Stefani
dedicates her time to helping moms find ways to make money at home.
Visit Stefani's blog at http://www.StefaniPartin.com or visit her main
site at http://www.MommyEnterprises.com
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Niche Blogs and WHY They Make Such An Excellent Affiliate
Marketing Tool
by Cory Threlfall
(c) The IWE, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.internetwondersezine.com

Blogs or more specifically... Niche Blogs are simply blogs that are topic focused and target a specific market and/or niche.

More importantly though, these blogs contain targeted information that their target market is searching for.

This is KEY.

As an affiliate marketer we are always told that information, whether its an article, review, ebook, ecourse, report, mp3 or pod cast, is a key Pre-Selling tool
before your potential customer decides to buy what it is that you're offering.

This is where Niche Blogs come into play because of there many capabilities and functions.

The biggest advantage Blogs have is they give you the ability to syndicate your content and/or information through a technology called RSS (Real Simple Syndication).

The types of content you are able to syndicate are as follows:

- Articles

- Product Reviews

- eBooks

- eCourses

- Special Reports

- Mp3 Files

- Steaming Video(A.K.A Pod Casting

Are you starting to see the advantages to blogs or more importantly, having a network of affiliate Niche Blogs?

I hope so.

Also, with your blog comes an RSS Feed that your potential visitors can subscribe to.

Whats this mean for you?

Simple. When ever you post to your affiliate Niche Blog or network of Niche Blogs guess who will INSTANTLY receives that post?

That's right, who ever subscribes to your RSS Feed.

Are you starting to see the many benefits of having a Niche Blog and incorporating it into your affiliate marketing mix?

Only you can answer that.

Another great thing about Blogs in general is that search engines love them and everytime you post to your Niche Blog it "Pings" the search engines and other RSS Directories you've submitted to letting them know that there's new fresh content for them to come and index.

The more you post, the more pages that will be produced, which means... more for the search engines to index, which means... more traffic to your Niche Blog.

The best way to take advantage of your new source of traffic and maximize your Niche Blog profits is to modify your blog template and add Google Adsense and your affiliate programs marketing materials to it.

By doing this, everytime you post to your Niche Blog your marketing message will always be there and Google Adsense will display targeted ads related to your content.

Now, I can't go into alot of detail on how to modify blog templates in this article simply because that's an article within itself and then some.

What I can do is show you one that I just put together as an example.

http://www.internetwondersezine.com/internet-joint-venture/

All I really wanted to get across to you is the advantages to having your own Niche Blog as part of your affiliate marketing mix to help market your affiliate programs to your target audience.

Blogs are here to stay so we might as well take advantage of them in any way that we can.

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Cory Threlfall is the Editor and Publisher of a online
webmaster publication called... The Internet Wonders eZine,
where you'll receive 'Daily' via the Web or RSS syndication
Expert Articles, Product Reviews, HOT Tips, and More on how
to Promote and Build your business online. Go NOW to ==>
http://www.internetwondersezine.com/internet-joint-venture/
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