Blogging Dollars In 7 Hours Or Less
By Mal Keenan, Sat Dec 10th
Need to make money fast, but you don't want to spend a singlecent to establish an online business? Fret not, dear friend. Youcould actually start earning from the web with zero capital,zero obligations and zero risks! All these can be accomplishedwithin 24 hours! Read on and I'll show you how.
Hour 1
Try to find a profitable niche. Niches are highly specializedsegments of a market where the demand is high and the suppliesare low. There are few competitions in a niche, allowing youmore opportunity to establish your online presence.
Think of a market that you could cater to. Then narrow it downby enumerating its subcategories. The more you are able toreduce the subject, the higher the profitability will be. Forexample, the general market you thought of is about dogs. Asubcategory of this would be about Chihuahuas. A furthersubcategory would be about Chihuahua grooming.
Hour 2
Once you have found your niche, run a search atwww.inventory.overture.com or www.nichebot.com . The resultswould show how many searches were made for that subject. Themore searches there are, the higher the demand is for that topic.
Run a similar search of the same subject in any of the searchengines on the net. The results would reveal your competition.Naturally, you would want a subject that has less competition.This would mean that you're looking for one that would producefew results in your searches.
Hour 3
Once you've found a lucrative niche, it's time to look for itsrelevant keywords. Run a search of the topic athttps://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox to get a listof related keywords and keyphrases. Keep a copy of this list.
Hour 4
Open an account with a free blogging site. Or, if you alreadyhave your own website, download the Wordpress software atwww.wordpress.com . It's free. And Wordpress can be easilyintegrated with any website.
Set up your account. Fiddle with the controls. You'll discoverthat using a blog is as easy as writing down your thoughts andclicking on a button to publish them for all the online world tosee.
Hour 5
Enroll in any affiliate program of your choice. You could choosemore than one, of course. Just make sure that such program isoffering some products that cater to the niche you have chosen.Try to find a program that offers highly sellable products andgenerous commissions. Don't settle for a commission rate of lessthan 20%. Look for something that would give you at least 40%for every successful sale you would be able to refer. A goodplace to start is www.clickbank.com , but eventually you wouldwant to "graduate" to something grander. But for your initialforay, ClickBank would suffice.
After enrollment, you would be able to immediately choose theproducts you want to pre-sell. Get the affiliate links for them.Do not lose these affiliate links.
Hour 6
It's time to put that blog to good use! The premise heart ofthis budget-friendly strategy is your blog. are excellentand cost-effective alternatives to websites. Search engines lovethem, and they have their own linking network as well. Also,they are easily updatable, and search engine spiders loveconsistently updated content.
Write an interesting piece about the niche you have chosen. Itmay be a personal review of one of your affiliate products, oryour views on the niche in general.
The trick here lies in being able to strategically insert youraffiliate links in your blog entries. It must be subtle. Youwon't want your blog to look like a blatant sales page. Yourentries should be highly informative, first and foremost.Content is still king, and it is what will drive visitors toyour site.
Hour 7
Go to www.pingomatic.com . Ping the blog directories and thesearch engines that can be found there. This would inform theirspiders that your content has been updated, and they will checkit out come the next relevant query. What does this mean? Fastindexing for your blog site!
So there you go. A zero dollar, seven hour marketing plan thatwould rake in some earnings. It doesn't stop there, however. Tryto post a new entry everyday, and ping the search enginesafterwards. Soon enough, you'll have a high traffic blog sitewhere you could expose your affiliate links to a whole lot ofpeople!
Good luck!
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