May 16th, 2008
If you are into niche marketing, then coming up with good keywords is paramount to ensuring your site will get noticed by search engines and people. One of the methods for finding relevant keywords for your niche is to brainstorm for keywords. This is a good way to generate a few “seed” keywords around your niche topic, but if you want more related keywords you will need to use a tool such as a keyword suggestion tool.
Keyword suggestion tools can generate hundreds of suggested keywords from a single topic keyword seed. One of the earliest keyword suggestion tools was published by Overture along with the number of monthly searches for each keyword. Those were the good old days. Support for the Overture Keyword Suggestion tool stopped a few years back and the data has since become stale and less relevant for today’s internet marketers.
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April 6th, 2008
Blogging is one of the quickest ways to make a profit online. The goal of making money online is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to learn and apply what they have learned on a regular basis. You only need a basic understanding of blogging technology to be up and running in less than an hour. However, very few people manage to achieve the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for one or more of the following reasons:
- Unrealistic expectations of how fast and how much their blog will be noticed
- No understanding of their target reader and what they value in a blog
- A lack of promotion of their blog and the content it contains
- Quiting too early during the nurturing phase of the blog
- Not using a range of monitising methods
- Loosing interest in the blog subject and topics too early
- Focusing on the “money” before adequate effort has been invested
- Running out of topics to blog about
- Feeling overwhelmed by the technology used for blogging
- Not planning to take small and achievable steps to succeed
- Listening to negative comments about blogging from trusted friends and family
If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to design a realistic and achievable plan and stick with it. To succeed at making blogging profit, the main thing that you will focus on is to build a good size readership base. The more readers you have, the more blog traffic you will have to your blog. Advertisers will pay you for advertising space on your blog based on the number of readers you have and the number of monthly visitors to you blog. The more readers and visitors you have coming to your blog, the greater your profits. Cultivating regular visitors and turning them into loyal readers isn’t an easy task.
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April 5th, 2008
Mind maps are a wonderful tool for crystalising your thoughts and sharing them with others. If you haven’t heard of mind maps, I encourage you to check out the various books on the subject by Tony Buzan. Tony is a master teacher on the subject. Mind maps are a great tool for brainstorming ideas and collaborating with others on a subject of interest.
Once you understand the basics of mind maps and its power as a creativity tool, you will want to use the technique to help you come up with new internet marketing ideas, or to flesh out a niche topic, or to help you build up ideas for new articles and content for your site.
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