How to Profit from your Home Business Blog

How to Profit from your Home Business Blog

Copyright © 2005 Ian Canaway 
A Successful Home Business for You
http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com 

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 from an excellent article on getting a new 
website listed in Google in 48hrs, check it out here, 
http://www.scamfreezone.com/gg/ . I just followed the advice in 
the article and got started with no problems in less than 15 
minutes.

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!


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Ian Canaway is an affiliate marketer, home business entrepreneur 
and the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com and 
also http://ahomebusinessblog4u.blogspot.com. He will show you 
the simple and proven system he uses to enable 'anyone' to make 
money online. Check us out now! 
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