Blog Marketing - How to Start a Profitable Blog Part 3

Don't expect making money in your first month

That's maybe not what you would like to hear. But it's truth if you want to be long-term in making money online you will have to be patient and consistent with your effort. Successful internet marketers try to make theirs blogs the best industry. That should be your blog also! Provide the content that is innovative, your experiences that people won't find anywhere else. Dig first through subject you want to talk about to see it from different perspectives, give to your posts personal stories, successes or failures. Keep it your personal journal with great content and value.

Comments

Great thing in blogs that make it more interactive and web 2.0 is that all readers have an ability to comment to each of your post. They can share with you what they think about your post, about topic you've written about. Amount of comments for each post can tell you which posts build a biggest controversy or become most interesting for your readers. In this way you can determine what you should write about.

Let's start now blog marketing!

Create valuable content. Make content for people not only for search engines. Create content that can help people, write about what they are looking for. You can make a survey, poll to ask your readers what they want to read about. Most people rely only on search engine traffic. But actually most of your AdSense clicks, sales of affiliate products etc. will come form your repeatable visitors. Make your blog content original and unique.

Pinging to blog search engines

Blog marketing can be much more successful for you if you will use potential of blog search engines. Especially in WordPress where you will be able to automatically add your blog posts to dozens of blog search engines.

Comment on other blogs

Go to top blogs in your subject and comment. You can put link to your site. You will get free backlinks and traffic. Try to comment regularly and be first in that way more people will see your comment and link to your site.

Search engine optimization

One of the most important things to get a lot of traffic from search engines it to update your blog often. Next important factor is getting backlinks from other sites to yours. These sites should be relevant to your or search engines like Google won't count this backlink. WordPress have lots of useful SEO plugins that can help you getting higher listing.

When can I expect to get traffic?

It can take some time to get some significant traffic from search engines. Try to gather many links from blog commenting to speed up your listing. You should expect get some traffic in first few weeks.

When can I start to make money?

It can take few months before your site will be stable and you will get some goof traffic. Some people may be surprised that it takes so much time but raising your online business is not an overnight thing.