This article is guest posted by Brian and Jeff.

There is a heavy misconception in the Blogging World that in order to Blog about a particular topic and turn it into an Authority Site, you need to have gone to school for years on the subject or do it everyday at work. I’d say that statement is about 10% true and I’m going to tell you why in a minute. All you have to do to create an Authority Site is learn about the subject you want to start Blogging about. But it doesn’t take that long.

You can Become a Blogging Expert in any topic in just a matter of a few weeks. I don’t see anyone writing about this, but just about each skill, trade and subject out there to create a Blog around has it’s own set of custom lingo or terms of the trade. For example in Network Marketing there are terms like jump ship, which means to go from one program to another. If you wanted to start Blogging on the subject of Network Marketing you’d want to be familiar with all the comp plans.

So to Become a Blogging Expert in a niche find out what you want to start blogging about. That’s the first step. Then do a search on google and make sure at least a few adsense ads come up. This is a 30 second test to make sure the niche you want to enter is commercially viable. Then go online and do some research and learn the trade lingo.

Another example is if you wanted to Create a Blog on Insurance you’d learn all the terms and lingo relating to the Insurance Industry. There are great clickbank programs and especially awesome CPA Programs in this field. Also go to your bookstore and get a $15.00 Dummies Book or even visit Half Dot Com and get a used book. Read it from cover to cover.

This is the learning formula for getting the required knowledge in a certain area that will allow you to blog on the subject and to create a high quality blog. After reading one good book on the subject and doing some online research you should have enough knowledge to write as many articles as you want on the subject. You will also gain critical insights into how the industry works so you can review similar articles for ideas and interject your own ideas for a blog that is 100% unique content.

I’ve personally viewed hundreds of blogs that are setup in many different niches that are totally built with RSS feeds and none of their own unique content. They are usually ranked a PR0 which means Google doesn’t really value these blogs at all. In order for Google to value your blog you have to write the articles yourself or have them written by a Ghost Writer.

Ghost Writers do have their uses. In fact we’ve used them a lot in the last couple years. But in the last 90 days I’ve made an interesting discovery and for the most part have stopped using them. We have a great repoir with the major article directories now, and what we’ve discovered is they prefer to see new content trickle in over a period of time verses getting bombarded with a bunch of Ghost Written articles all at once.

So what my program is now to build our Blog is that I will personally write 3 articles per day. Sometimes I’m feeling great and write 4-5 but as a general rule I write just three. I’ll write for other blogs in a related niche and give them unique content and I’ll also write for article directories and submit duplicate content to most of these. Personally I rarely post comments however I’m not against this as I know many benefit a lot from it, but I prefer to stick to writing since I love it so much.

There are a couple other reasons I’ve been shying away from Ghost Writers recently. One reason is the cost. If I can write just 3 articles per day at $6.00 per article, that’s $18.00 per day or $540.00 of value per month I’ve put into my business that I’ve saved. This is arguably a lot of money to save each month.

The other reason is that a Ghost Writer usually isn’t usually an expert in the particular niche you want them to write about, so the articles you have them write have a tendency to be too general. People will see this and it can negatively reflect on your business. Plus I’ve had to do a lot of editing on articles I’ve had Ghost Written, like high Keyword Density issues. I’ve had to go back and remove the main keyword so the Article Directories would accept it.

After all the trial and error of marketing over 11 years online, I’ve come to the realization that one is better off creating 1-2 authority blogs in particular niches they know a lot about and use this as the foundation of your career. Then writing 1-3 articles per day and submitting them to the major article archives. If you do this after 6-9 months, your blog will start getting lots of attention. Eventually you will get a lot of traffic and you can now start to sell advertising and make extra money with Google Adwords.

I also recommend finding the Hottest Affiliate Program in your niche and make it your main program on your blog as you build it out. You should get the Simple Link Cloaker Wordpress Plugin. Then create a cloaked link and call it “mainprogram” or something easy to remember. Then as you create each post, insert that cloaked link in all of your posts using your main keyword as the anchor text. As you create more and more posts and get more and more backlinks over time, you’ll drive more traffic to your main affiliate program.

I recommend you do this until you start making one sale per day and if it’s a CPA offer do it until you are at $100.00 per day. It’s imperative you build out your blog with one master cloaked link for your Primary Affiliate Program because if the program goes south it only takes you one minute to change the link to a competitor program to ensure none of the work you’ve been doing became a waste of your valuable time.

I think that’s the biggest mistake most Amateur Bloggers make. They don’t centralize all their Affiliate Marketing and traffic operations and structure them in such a way so they maintain total control. They will link from their offsite articles directly to an Affiliate Program, and when that program dies or they stop paying out, all that SEO work they put into promoting their main program was wasted. What’s worse is this discourages some people so much they may even quit and this is a trajedy.

If you set things up right, you can keep driving more and more traffic to your Blog until eternity and virtually guarantee your income will keep rising each month. And remember that ALL your offsite articles need to link only to your Blog, keep all links within your Blog Posts Cloaked so you can update your Affiliate Links from one centralized place in your Wordpress Back Office, and no Affiliate Program Managers can ever take advantage of you.

If you follow all of these rules and work hard, you will Become a Blogging Expert in your niche over the next 1-3 years. Remember keep posting and focus on constantly ramping up the traffic and the sales will come by proxy. We wish you the best of luck with all your future publishing.

Learn more about Simple Internet Marketing and Cell Phone Marketing from MLM Review Kings Brian Garvin & Jeff West.

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This article is guest posted by Brian and Jeff.

When the subject of how to Earn Residual Income From Home comes up, most people get it all wrong. The problem is there are a lot of Internet Marketing courses that have been coming out lately that over complicate things too much. So lets break things down a bit so even the freshest of newbies can get started. Anyone can Earn Residual Income From Home Blogging but you need to be aware of the proper steps to get there.

The first thing you need to do is you need to eliminate your initial confusion by deciding what you want to blog about. Believe it or not most people don’t even get this far. What are you good at? And is your Blogging topic commercially viable? There’s a simple test to figure this out. Search for what you want to blog about on Google. If at least 4 adsense ads pop up you can Earn Residual Income From Home Blogging about this subject. Plain and simple.

The next thing you want to do is to get a domain name. This should cost you less than $10.00. Some will say to get your domain based on some keyword you want to rank for. I can’t really say I agree with this, unless the domain name also makes sense to a searcher. The most important thing when choosing a domain name is to choose one that will brand your purpose well once your blog eventually becomes an Authority Blog.

Now you need to go out and find Low Cost Website Hosting. You can build an Authority Blog that will earn you a consistent Residual Income From Home for less than $10.00 per month.

Next you need to choose a Blog Theme that makes sense. We use Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme for $67.00 and we really love it. We make about $1200 per month on our MLM Authority Site with it. Not bad return for a $67.00 investment. This website gets 800 or more unique visitors per day now.

So once you have your Domain Name, Blogging Theme and Hosting you will need to make sure you have the proper Wordpress Plugins installed. Here are a list of the ones we use. Don’t worry, these are all free.

• Add Twitter
• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• CommentLuv
• Facebook Dashboard Widget
• Google Analytics For Wordpress
• Google XML Sitemaps
• ILWP Simple Link Cloaker
• KeywordLuv
• ShareThis
• Facebook Status Updater
• Top Commentators Widget
• Tweet This
• Twitter Tools
• UBD Ad Block Plugin

Once these free Wordpress Plugins are installed, you are now ready to start to build on your blog and Earn Residual Income From Home. I’m going to give you the formula, and this formula will be free and very simple.

What you want to do is write 1-3 500 word articles each day. You want these articles you write to include the targeted keyword you are going for once in the title, 1-2 times in the description and about once per paragraph in the article, but go a bit light on this. For example if you have a 700 word article you might insert the keyword 5 times verses 7 times. Swipe a nice free clipart image off the Internet relating to the blog post you are making. Posts look 500% better with images and even related videos.

Then you will submit each post you just put on your blog to all the top article directories. Here they are:

• Ezine Articles
• Idea Marketers
• Buzzle
• Article Snatch
• Article Dashboard
• Articles Base
• Articles Factory
• Hubpages

This is so simple but so effective it’s almost unreal. But this is my program I’ve been doing for the last 4 months. It took us from 400-800 visitors per day in just 90 days. And I don’t ever pay anything for my traffic. I think in the next 3-6 months of submitting content at this rate our website will really be at over 1000 hits per day.

The key to making this work is consistency, and I can not emphasize this enough. Do not get side tracked on the latest get rich quick plot. Do your Blogging, get off the computer for a while and get balance in your life. The Blogging Game is a marathon not a sprint. Remember, people like Yaro Starak, Carl Ocab, Rob Benwell, Alvin Phang and Darren Rowse have been blogging for years.

And the cool thing is someday you can be like them, but you have to get started. I’ve just given you the entire formula to do this. If you decide to take action, a year from now you’ll be laughing when you check your Google Analytics account and see how many places you are getting traffic from. Trust me on this. And the momentum will never stop until you stop Blogging. This is how you Earn Residual Income From Home.

Let Brian Garvin & Jeff West teach you more about Simple Internet Marketing and Cell Phone Marketing at MLM Review Kings today. And best of luck with your Online Blogging plans!

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This article is guest posted by Melvin from MelvinBlog.com

Many bloggers are notorious for doing things at the wrong time. May it be trying to cash out too quick, or trying to do too much. I said “wrong time” because most bloggers follow the established bloggers too much that they tend to imitate what the latter is doing. I’m not saying its wrong but it’s not good because established bloggers have one thing we may not have yet (or Carl only does have here) and that is good reputation

A Blog Is a Good Reputation Management Tool

Contrary on what it used to be before, a blog is a useful tool for carving out one’s reputation. I know first time bloggers start blogging primarily because of money and I can’t blame them for that. But one underrated thing is that it brings a lot of good things more than just the money thing. Blogging gives out an online brand for yourself and it wouldn’t take long before it would start raking in reputations (hopefully for all good reasons).

Why not look around? Guys like Darren Rowse, Shoemoney, Daniel Scocco, yes they are making good amount of money with their blog but how has their reputation in their blog paved the way for more opportunities for themselves and their business? Because they have good reputation, a lot of people trust them. Because of their name, a lot of people are willing to do joint ventures with them and because they are famous a lot of fellow marketers respect them!

What Can You Get With Good Reputation?

I’ve always been told that before a company or a person do business with you, they search your name in search engines. This is so true. Just existing in the index of Google is not enough. You have to exist for the good reasons. You, being able to be known as a good influence can lead to a lot of good things that are way better than just making a direct income from blog. It includes:

• Getting invited to large conferences
• Being able to speak in seminars
• More business opportunities
• Irresistible Offers from some top notch companies in your niche
• Unique Brand for yourself

Those are just few things that you could be eligible with when you start gaining that reputation. These things are obviously better than just making money directly from your blog and these would lead to a lot of good opportunities that could very much make you and your business more profitable.

Wait patiently and Just Work Your Way Up

It is essential for us bloggers to be patient. It will initially take certain amount of time for a certain blogger to gain popularity, much more to gain good reputations. Sadly, a lot seemed to give up already and they just instead focus on milking their blog too much that it hurts their readership and reputation. Patience is a big factor here and it having the right mindset is essential to achieve it.

How about you? Are you risking yourself too much because you want to have that money quick? Do you also believe reputation can be your biggest asset as a blogger? I would be very much elated to hear what you guys would like to say.

Melvin is a young entrepreneur and student who has been doing internet marketing related stuffs for more than 2 years now.  He shares his experience and ramblings in his blog in w/c you can subscribe. He also uses Twitter and hopes to get followed by more people.

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Today I’ll be reviving something that has been long forgotten. And long as in 2 years ago!

It’s the “Ask Carl” sessions.

I did it before for a couple of weeks when I first started my blog. You can check out the “old times” here.

BTW, the picture on the left – sooooooooooo 2 years ago too so please bear with it :-)

(but hey, I think I can still pull that pose!)

The idea is dead simple.

1. You ask me a question related to internet marketing via email or by commenting on this post.

2. I answer it.

3. Enjoy? (I think they add that for OCD purposes, so it would “look right” 1, 2, 3… not just 1, 2)

Well at least, that was the idea *before*. Now, let’s make it more… interactive.

The New Idea.

Since I’m not a Jedi master of everything – we’ll answer the questions. For every Ask Carl post, I’ll answer one question and I’ll open the other question to you guys.

And some little incentive, I’ll be looking for sponsors who can give a prize to the best contributing answer.

Ask Carl!

Well the comments are open, ask ahead! If you prefer to ask privately, you can also email me.

Little update 9/12/09: Thanks to Malek for alerting me via email that I said “the image on the right” instead of left! I’m glad I can still whip out articles even though I can’t figure out what’s left or right :-)

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Internet Marketing Is Too Saturated

One of the most common reason I hear why people don’t want to get into internet marketing is that “It’s too saturated”

In the post above, PotPieGirl shares a very eye-opening video (it gave me goosebumps from time to time) on what’s happening all over the world.

Cloud Living: Freedom, Expression, and Financial Abundance

Glen contacted me about this a month ago. All I can say is…

It’s content packed.

I skimmed the review copy a little bit and it seems like Glen concentrated and wrote the ebook with newbies in mind. He even posted step by step screenshots on how to get a domain, get a host and get your WordPress blog up.

Ending Domestic Violence Abuse

This is unrelated to say the least.

But I feel that this is important to share to you because there are a lot of Filipino domestic helpers out there and it hits me a bit when I see them in the news, going home with bruises abused by their employers.

Do give a time to check the site out.

Daily Blog Tips’ Make Money Blogging Ebook

DBT is one of the most authoritative blogs in the “make money blogging” niche, after DBT, he launched other sister site’s like DailyWritingTips.com and DailyBits.com which got thousands of subscribers in just a matter of months.

Now he’s put some of the “core principles” that he’s learned through the years into an ebook.

Note: You’ll have to optin on this one – but I tell you, it’s worth it :-)

Google Wonder Wheel

Here’s a pretty cool find by Darren – it’s Google’s new “wonder wheel”.

Very awesome tool to find topics to write about, keywords to bid on on PPC AND to discover new niches.

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This article is guest posted by Mathew Carpenter.

The rules of web design have been written and rewritten 100 times over. With technology constantly changing the nature of web design, trends come and go, and what were once fundamentals of design are now remnants of the old ‘net. These ten tips will help bring Australian web designers into 2009, and out of the 20th century mindset that all too many are operating in.

1. It’s not 1996: Tables are long gone.

There was a time when tables were a major part of any successful website. Back before ideas like cleanliness and usability, tables were a great way to sort information on a website. The problem is, what worked back then now looks a little boxy and utilitarian. New web designers and developers should focus on clean design rather than a design sorted by tables.

2. Lose the marquee text.

You know what marquee text does? It captures the eye. It also blinds any potential customers from your real content, and keeps them wondering where they should be focusing. There’s a place for marquee text — in video content. Make sure it stays off your website.

3. Fix your dead links.

This one’s a simple tip that gets passed over time and time again. Not only do dead links confuse and annoy your website viewers; they project an unprofessional and rough image. If you’re linking to other websites from your own, spend a little time each month checking over your links to make sure that they actually take you somewhere.

4. Templates are for MySpacers.

Are you making a social media profile? No — then don’t use a template. While you can customise your Myspace page with templates, you shouldn’t ever do so for your professional page. Not only do templates leave your website looking amateur and poorly designed, they often fail to truly provide the best design for your website’s content and structure.

5. Burn the ‘blink’ tag.

Blinking text is the plague of web design. In 1996, it was impressive, though only for about 30 seconds. Lou Montulli, the creator of the blink tag, is quoted as saying that it’s “the worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet”. Take his word for it, and make sure that you don’t use it on your website.

6. Validate your xHTML and CSS.

Come one, this should be a no-brainer. It’s amazing how many professional websites there are out there with broken code. Running your pages through a validator takes no time at all, and the benefits of making sure that your code is correct are definitely worth the small time expense.

7. Pick a sensible colour scheme.

Think that pink text on a lime green background will make readers flock to your website? Think again. When you’re designing a business website, you should value customer experience first and foremost. That’s the philosophy that built Google, and it’s the philosophy that you should be applying to your website colour. Don’t blind your users into hitting the back button; keep them reading with something easy on the eyes.

8. Save PDFs for presentations and contracts.

Say you’ve got a customer on your website ready to place an order. They click on your button, ready to hand over their credit card details, and they’re immediately thrown off your website and into a PDF file. PDFs are distracting, annoying, and utterly inflexible for your average internet user. Whenever you get the chance, write your information on a simple page and leave visitors with the option of downloading a PDF file.

9. Stick in one window.

Opening windows is annoying. No internet user wants to end up with 5 windows open, unsure of what’s going on in each one. Make sure that any links on your website lead to the same window, and preferably the same tab. If you’re adding outbound links, make sure they open a separate browser tab, and not a new window.

10. Spelling matters!

Your website isn’t just another addition to your marketing and contact plan — it’s a very visible tool for your business. As such, treat it with the respect that it deserves. Spelling mistakes may not seem major, but they betray the trust and professional image that your website should project. Spell check, proof-read and edit your website content to make sure that it’s free of errors, easy to read, and suits your purpose.

This article is guest posted by Mathew Carpenter.

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DANGER: Extreme rant ahead. Proceed with caution!

*START RANT*

Is content king? I think that’s overrated.

The way I see it…

Marketing is king.

Let me throw some examples first:

Case 1: Coca Cola vs Pepsi

Since 1975, Pepsi has been running “The Pepsi Challenge” wherein they hand 2 blank cups to bystanders in malls – one containing Pepsi and the other one, Coke, and then they’d ask which tastes better.

The result? Pepsi topped the challenge.

But Coca Cola is still the number one soft drink. Why? Advertising.

Case 2: Problogger.net

It’s widely accepted that Darren is the #1 blogger who blogs about how to make money blogging (And I amen to that) but does Darren give “the” best content about blogging to make money? I’m not saying that Darren’s content sucks, Darren gives high octane info. But does he give the best content around the blogosphere?

Of course not, there are a lot of bloggers out there who give hard core advice on blogging but they’re unnoticed. Why? Because they didn’t market themselves enough. They haven’t positioned themselves properly. Darren positioned himself as THE Problogger.

Case 3: McDonalds

Let’s face it.

They don’t have the best tasting burgers.

They don’t have the best tasting french fries.

But they do know where to put their branches.

One of my dad’s MBA teachers once said “McDonalds is not in the fast food business, they’re in the real estate business.”

Content is just a part of marketing

I personally believe, and the way I apply it to my business, content – is just part of marketing.

There are a lot of people out there who are topping the charts but are not really “the” best or don’t really posses the best skills – but they know how to market themselves.

Another quick example: Bruce Lee, not the strongest, not the quickest but the most popular martial artist ever.

There are a lot of people too who have “the” best content, but are unknown.

Of course, I’m not saying that you should just put all your efforts into marketing – again, content is part of marketing – you have to deliver.

Not necessarily the best content, but “good enough” content to keep them coming back.

So in conclusion: Marketing is king.

*PHEW! END RANT*

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One of the questions I get asked most of the time is…

“How do you do it? You’ve got school, friends, (girls?) + this huge business thingy. How do you do it?”

Before I start blabbing about the “ceremonies” and “chants” that I do that help me handle all those stuff, I’d like to tell you upfront that…

I AM THE WORST TIME MANAGER EVER.

Goofyness aside, I am. I am always late at almost all stuff + I keep forgetting things (Heck, there was once a time that I asked my dad where my iPhone was and it was just in my hands!)

Here’s The Secret…

That was kinda cheesy, but here’s how I do it…

(Some are from personal experience and some are those stuff that really, has worked from the start.)

1. Get Into A “Spell”

This is probably the hardest part to do for me back then. Sounds very simple, but very hard to do.

The thing is, you should get “in” to a spell – or a “work trance”. When you’re in that spell, you can do almost anything, even if it’s the most boring task, when you’re in a spell, it’ll be hard to stop you.

Now here’s a little technique I do to get in to that spell…

What I’ll do is I’d start my day with a very easy task. A task that I like to do – say firing up Photoshop and whipping out banners or arranging computer files (hey, I like doing it. OCD?) Then progress on complicated tasks to the most boring tasks.

Now what happens is that the easy tasks will get me in the mood so as Iprogress to the most boring tasks, I’m already in that “work trance”.

I wouldn’t recommend starting your day with emails because you’ll definitely get lost with who you are talking to. Starting your day with your daily reads isn’t a good idea for me also.

2. Daily To Do List

This is probably the most overused tactic.

But hey, this is VERY crucial – without a daily to-do list, I’d be lost and probably would wander off to Youtube after 10 minutes of work.

Making a to-do list could be one of the very easy task you can do to get into that “spell” too. Takes me around 5-10 minutes.

One of the most important things you should do is to prioritize tasks, or arrange them from easy to hard if there’s no time constraint to help you get into a spell.

By the way, I use Google Tasks on gmail.

3. Cross Out Finished Tasks

I didn’t know that little things like this would matter – but when you finish tasks, it’s important that you cross them out or make a mark or something that tells that you have successfully completed it.

This will give you a sense of accomplishment, and if you’re like me, you’d feel more relaxed.

4. CLOSE Distractions

The biggest distractions that I have are Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Email and Youtube. And one of the biggest mistakes I made to avoid these distractions is to put a status message on Skype, Yahoo and Gmail…

“Busy”

or

“Message if important only”

Now what happens there is that yes, the number of people who message me reduces BUT the “temptation” (is that the right word?) to talk to someone is still there. Heck, even to look who’s online.

So here’s what I did.. I CLOSED IT.

That also applies to websites that waste your time – Youtube, Facebook, Flickr all sorts.

But there’s always a temptation to open it again right?

Block it.

You can simply block a website by going to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc then opening “hosts” with notepad. (Note: to Vista users, open notepad first as an administrator then open the “hosts” file) then adding….

“127.0.0.1       website.com”

under

“127.0.0.1       localhost”

5. The Stop Play Music Routine

I don’t know why and how this works, but it serves me very well.

The idea is, to play 3 of my favorite songs in a row to start my day.

Although I did mention before to turn the music off, I found out something better…

When the first song starts, I’d go ahead with my first easy task to get into that “spell” then when the 3rd song is in the half way, I’d stop it and just continue working afterwards – this really gets me in the mood.

I don’t know, maybe the first 2 songs gets me to that “spell” then stopping at the 3rd song helps me concentrate to the tasks instead of the song.

6. Take Notes, Don’t Act Right Away

Yes, they say that without action, you won’t get anything.

But, with action PLUS the right timing, you’ll get everywhere.

So when you’re in the middle of a task and an idea or an additional task pops out of your brain – right it down and get to it later on after you finish what you’re currently doing.

7. NO!

Learn to say no.

There are stuff that won’t really benefit you that much, learn to say no to interviews, to meetups, to speaking engagements.

Of course, you wouldn’t want to say it with an all caps “NO!” but you don’t want to beat around the bush as well. Be frank, but polite.

8. Delegate & Automate

This changed my life.

And I hope this will change their life too.

The thing is, I’m not really like the master of internet marketing. There are a lot of stuff that I don’t know how to do. I can’t even code or touch a single php script.

Not to mention, how I suck at copywriting and PPC.

But here’s the secret… I let other people do these stuff for me.

Since I got my first fulltime employee working for me, the time I spent on my business is less but I’m still able to maintain the income.

Your “Techniques”?

These stuff are just some of my personal techniques – and I can’t even say that I’m “that” productive – I’m able to do stuff nonetheless.

So if you’ve got something that really keeps you productive, I’d love to hear it :)

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This article is guest posted by Albert Fang.

In any webmasters point of view, they would agree that without targeted traffic, they are simply nothing. Bounce rates begin to reach ever so high, conversions are at it’s decimals, what else can be worse? These are the practical stats that most webmasters face due to the fact that the keyword that they want to rank for is too competitive and they become discouraged. They want to get targeted visitors that can convert, but they can’t simply due to the overwhelming competition that they know will take months, if not years to see some progress.

I am here to say, there is a simple way to bypass this. Simply, target your target audience indirectly. I know that it sounds like I’m reiterating my self on this, but trust me, it will make a lot more sense later on.

Step 1: Find Your Target Audience

You have now picked a niche and now have a site ready to make sales. You hint to your  self that you are promoting a product on  search engine optimization, which means that you now know that you want to target an audience that are of webmasters. Once you have found your target audience, you are ready for the next step.

Step 2: Target Your Target Audience Indirectly

Once you have found out your target audience, in this case webmasters, you are ready for the next step, digging deeper. I am not talking about a large marketing campaign, but rather a really simple project that only involves a simple piece of paper, a pen, and a bit of creativity. Once you have that out, it is time to visualize. Ask your self these questions.

• What else is my targeted audience interested in?
• What is popular that involves my target audience?
• What else are they searching up? (Keyword wise)
• What are my target audience’s goals?

Now answer them. I’ll give you an example of how it looks.

Target Audience: Webmasters

Q: What else is my targeted audience interested in?

A: Money making, Internet marketing, coding tutorials, article marketing, the list can go on and on.

Q: What is else popular that involves my target audience?

A: Link building, on-page optimization, specifically, search engine optimization as well, RSS, Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon.

Q: What else are they searching up? (Keyword wise)

A: Lets look back at the above and jot down a few ideas. Lets think back to step 1. Webmasters want to rank one to do what? Make money right? So, perhaps keywords like money making, Internet marketing, and social networking sites, are also commonly searched by webmasters as well because we know that webmasters main goal is to try to get maximum exposure to make money. This also answers this question, “What are my target audience’s goals?”

Step 3: Research Keyword Competition

Now that we know that webmasters are interested in many topics like money making, Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, social networking, and etc, rather than just SEO alone. We now have a bigger playing field in terms of finding that perfect uncompetitive keyword that provide the same target audience to if I were ranked number one for the keyword SEO. Now jot down those keywords that are not as competitive and has a pretty good search rate, and you’ll be ready for the next step.

Step 4: Take Action

Now that you have found your keywords, simply take action and build those links. Keep on page optimization in mind as well, and you are bound to see results. Some important SEO factors to consider when optimizing for the search engines on page are…

• Bolding, italicising, underlining important links and keywords.
• Using the Dofollow tag correctly.
• Using <H2> for Post Titles.
• Sprinkling the keyword (not excessively) in the intro paragraph of a post.
• Using the keyword in the Title page.
• Adding alt tags to pictures

You can read the rest on our post called the 14 Effective Search Engine Optimization Tips.

The search engines shouldn’t be your only source to get targeted traffic. We now know that our target audience (webmasters) are also interested in social networking sites like Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon, so why not utilize those sources to attract more readers as well? There are literally hundreds of untapped markets that has never been discovered before that are searched up everyday, waiting to be discovered. The possibilities are endless to finding your target audience. You just have to put the effort into finding them the hard way, directly, or the easy way, indirectly. All I can say is dig deep and you will succeed. If things look really overwhelming, slice it up. Simplify it!

This blog post was written by Albert Fang, the constructive guy behind MoolaDays.com. He and his blog emphasizes on the infinite ways to make money online, and everything else that comes along the line of ranking high, such as, tips on search engine optimization, tips on Internet marketing, and much more.

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This article is guest posted by Jason Tarasi.

“Your idea will never work and I see absolutely no reason why people will have any interest in something like this….”

These were only words, but the meaning behind them cut into my soul and stabbed at my heart.

Well over ten years ago when I first stepped cautiously into the online marketing arena, I allowed someone I considered an expert to crush my dreams and make me question my self worth.

Since I trusted this man and took his word as gospel, I foolishly gave up on my idea that I believed had so much potential, and moved on.

Several months later, I learned this “expert” was in fact a fraud who had not only been feeding his hollow lies to me, but others who had placed their trust in him as well. Much to my dismay, I also discovered that another marketer had used an idea exactly like mine to start a business that became wildly successful.

I was ok with all of this, except for random urges to put my head in a microwave oven. One day while contemplating if I should nuke my head on high or medium power, a revelation came to me – In order to succeed at anything in life, I had to learn to trust myself.

This revelation would become the basis of my success over the next ten years, and it has never failed me to this day. The trust I have in myself has never waivered. There were times I made bad decisions, but I always used those failures as a learning experience.

This is why I have always maintained that the biggest secret to Internet marketing is your mindset. If you believe you are destined to fail, you undoubtedly will.

One of my favorite quotes about achieving success and believing in yourself was given by none other than punch drunk Rocky Balboa:

“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! But until you start believing in yourself, ya ain’t gonna have a life.”

Marketing online takes resolve and it takes guts. Most of all, it forces you to put aside your fears and learn from your failures in order to keep moving forward. That is the only way to be successful in this business.

If you can’t trust yourself to make decisions, then who else can you trust? There will always be someone out there who doubts you and your ideas. Never let that person be you.

Believe in yourself and success will surely follow.

Warmly,
Jason Tarasi

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