Blogging for Dollars Blog

Want to make massive sales with your articles? Discover how you can increase your article marketing profits using blogs. It’s a simple method, and it works.

Blogging has become mainstream. However many affiliate marketers are not yet using blogging to its best effect. A simple blog can lead to many affiliate sales, and these sales will continue over time.

Let’s look at four simple steps to help you to combine article marketing and blogs and increase your income.

1. Create a Blog for Each Product You’re Promoting With Article Marketing

You can create unlimited blogs at Google’s Blogger blog platform for free. Therefore it’s a no-brainer to create a blog for each affiliate marketing product you’re promoting.

When you decide to promote a new product, create a blog. Basically this blog will be your sales page for the affiliate product.

Start sending traffic to the blog by posting articles to the article directories.

2. Post Articles to the Blog

Next, post articles to this blog. You don’t need very many, just explain the product and its benefit to buyers. Your main aim with these articles is to send people to the product’s sales page.

3. Add Additional Posts to the Blog

Blogs take time to get indexed. Your blog will be indexed more quickly by the search engines if you post additional content to the blog. These updates don’t need to be complex or lengthy. Post links to videos, short articles of a couple of hundred words, and longer articles too. Remember to include a link to the sales page in each blog post.

4. Drive Traffic to the Blog

Most of the blog’s traffic will come from the article directories, as well as directly from the search engines. However you can also investigate other ways to send traffic to your blog for faster results.

One of the easiest ways is to become active on forums. Join a forum related to the product you’re marketing, and become active.

However don’t waste too much time with this – focus on adding content to the blog. Remember, the search engines will keep sending traffic to your blog for years.

Blogs and article marketing are a great way to increase your income. Start a new blog today.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I advocate setting up blogs and marketing them, and repeating the process until you make a good income.

It sounds simple, and it is, because blogs are wonderful marketing tools. Indeed, this blog is itself a marketing tool for my ebook of the same name, Blogging for Dollars.

Because the blogs-to-income process is simple, many new bloggers try to over-complicate things. Don’t do that. Just remember: blog + marketing, and you’ll do great.

Affiliate Marketing Diary has an interesting new case study – Trend Marketing Case Study – Overview: “This case study will be focusing on building a Blog from scratch and test the viability of Trend Marketing and see how quickly I can generate a decent amount of traffic to the site. By the way, if you are interested in learning Trend Marketing using strictly pay-per-click and see some case studies as well, you may want to check this out (this report costs $7, but it’s well worth it with over an hour of video).”

It’s a great series for you if you’re a new blogger, and also for more experienced bloggers who’ve been skimping on the basics.

Remember: keep it simple.

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If you’re affiliate blogging, beware some of the over-hyped sales letters out there. While the figures tossed around with abandon may be true, they may not be the whole truth. Profits quoted may be gross, rather than net. If you’re spending $5000 promoting a product in order to make $5500 for example, the net is $500.

While $500 net profit is great, not all promotions work. You may find that you’re spending $6500 to make $5500 on occasion. Remember you’re in sales: sometimes you get a great result, and sometimes you don’t.

AltrnativeSOHO is taking one of the latest “make money online” products and putting it through its paces.

In her first Challenge post, she says 20/20 Challenge: Day 1: “Only 35 pages into the 20/20 Manual, the truth is revealed about the $20,000 figure being gross income from the project. Of course, there are some other figures thrown around to offset it; Figures such as $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 and a few others for effect.”

I’ve added the blog to my RSS feed; if you’re interested in making money online, you should too.

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