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just learned about affiliate marketing today. Tough stuff. Why is it that all the top blogs out there are based on affiliate marketing and monetizing blogs....is that really the biggest market?
 
So I set up a blog in what I think would be a very popular niche. I haven't done any social networking stuff to get traffic yet, but shouldn't I be getting some traffic from using the sites like pingoat.com? I have 0 hits in the past 2 days and I have 6-7 posts on the blog so far. I'm probably going to pay someone for directory submissions and social bookmarking traffic but I wanted to wait until my blog has more content before I do that. Is there anything else I can do for now until I wait?
 
In order to generate more traffic is better to use long tail keywords (3 or 4 words) rather than short ones (1 or 2 words), because the probability to get people on your site increases with Google displaying less links to a keyword you search. You can use Seobook in order to see the long tail keywords that generate more traffic. For example, instead of 'internet marketing' use 'internet marketing resources/specialist/campaign', and this will assure a larger number of people on your site!
 
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I'm new at all this blogging and Affiliate Marketing Andrew, and this thread is much appreciated. I'm not sure I'll make it $$$ wise blogging, and I've tried PPC, but that chewed me up and spit me out. However, I do like trying, and I'm going to keep after it. I do at least know my main reason for not doing well blogging, and that is I haven't found my niche.
 
I discovered Andrew Wee's blog through Amit......excellent content and quality topics regarding blogging and aff marketing....
 
Question from yet another noob.

I've noticed most of these blog indexers want you to post code or links back to their own sites. Is this a good idea, or am I just looking at the wrong indexs?

And as for getting ranked high, or at all, on google, how important is the age of your domain. I bought a new domain name that's never been used before last week (it's a .info) and have been adding a lot of relavent content. I've told both google and yahoo to crawl me but I domain is still cloaked in invisibility. Have I just not given it enough time?

Thanks!
 
Jeez - a lot of great info here - worth joining up just for this!

I read recently (and it is was somewhere authoratative, just can't recall where) that about 400 or so bloggers are making the kind of income that allows them to give up work (or regular work, at any rate.)

Several thousand were listed as making a good extra income from their blogs. But of course, the numbers of blogs online are in the tens of millions.

Does this mean that realistically, most of us could hope to make only a pretty small amount from a fairly successful blog? (Although I suppose something like hundreds of readers a day would be seen as very successful, given the competition).

All seems incredibly hit and miss, despite all the really good methods discussed here for helping to hit the big time. But aren't the odds of doing so just slightly higher than winning at a lottery?

Dunno - just thinking aloud here ( as you do - lol).
 
Good thread, I just finished reading through it. I am on my 3rd attempt at a successful blog and I think I have found a formula that works for me. I am in niche financial topics and making a little more then 1k/month off each site. I know they can earn a lot more, I just need to get more traffic to them.

Once I switched from focusing efforts on ads to affiliate marketing on the sites, the revenue went up quick. It went from a $100/month blog, to 1k/month in a matter of weeks. I just need to figure out how to get it to the 3k mark.
 
I officially started blogging for money today, while at the same time running an experiment to see if a noob like myself can have success at this in just a year. I've set some pretty juicy goals (I think the timeframe is a bigger challenge than the monetary goals I have), and the experienced bloggers I've spoken to pretty much tell me I need to be, well, realistic. That's pretty cool, I like being told that - I mean, who doesn't like a challenge? :)

I've done enough research to know that to reach my blogging (and affiliate marketing)goals I'm certainly going to have to get a lot of things right - and most people who've been at this for a while think I have the odds against me in a bad way. Some probably think I'm a real idiot. I can't say I really care about that, though. For one thing, like I said, I love the challenge. Secondly, if I had no shot at succeeding, what's there to lose? Also, I'd blog even if I didn't make a dime (because I think it's absolutely super cool, basically), and I have some things I REALLY want to share with the world in this way. Besides, my income from my tiny consulting business is more than ok anyway, so it's not like I'm desperate to make this money. I just want a good additional income stream to what I have now. This all means I can make an intense effort and really have no fear of failure whatsoever. I'll just gain anyhow, in several ways. If I didn't have a passion for this, though, I'd give myself zero chances of success. I really think the single greatest factor in my success - if I have any - is that I'd do it for free and still get immense satisfaction from it.

Anyway, I'm getting some pretty good insights from your blog, Andrew, so thanks for that.
 
thanks for the posts guys...decided to take action over the weekend and now I just made $0.06 in adsense earnings..lol not much but it's a good start...im looking forward to learning more about blogging although im not sure whether to keep on optimizing ad placements or replace them with banners with affiliate links on them to generate more earnings. what do you guys think?
 
Banners typically don't work that well. While you're starting out adsense is fine and mix in some affiliate links (text links work best) of the products you're talking of. Then later replace adsense with a better way (private ads, banners ads, etc...)

For now concentrate on getting good content, backlinks and optimizing the adsense placement.
 
andrew wee said:
a lot of the top bloggers are personally posting 3-4 times a day, which i think takes away from the other stuff you could be doing...
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They're not doing it, their paid staff is making the postings. The John Chow and Jon Cows have a staff of writers. Most eventually commit suicide or are brought into a room and shot.
 
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