Critical Steps to Online Success--More Ways to Promote your Blog

If your Blog is just a fun thing you do on the side then
this article doesn't have much relevance for you unless
you're really keen to expand your readership. But if you're
in business with your Blog; if your blog is a key element
in your online marketing strategy, then promoting your Blog
is very serious business.

Do anything and everything you can do to get more visitors
and more links to you…every little bit counts.

Here are a couple of reasons why it's important:

1. You'll get more people reading your articles and
eventually more names on your list.

2. You'll add inbound links that add to your ranking with
the Search Engines.

So it's a good thing to do!

Need even more traffic to your Blog?

Try BlogExplosion.com. It's 100% free to join.

Here you can join a blogging community--other people can
find and read your blog, get reviews etc. BlogExplosion is
a great way to expand the number of people that read your
blog!

Here are some further tips from Blogger.com:

* Tweak your blog. There are three basic categories-
settings, techniques, marketing.

* Set your blog to ping weblogs.com. It's a blog update
notification service.

* Activate Your Navbar. Visitors really like the "Next
Blog" button.

* Install Email This Post: It's a convenient way for
others to publicize your blog for you.

* Turn on Post Pages: This ensures you are publishing
every post as its very own web page; your entries become
way more link-able and more attractive to search engines.

* Turn on your site feed: visitors will be able to
subscribe to your site feed and automatically read your
pages.

* Add your blog to Blogger's listings: When you add your
blog to the blog listings it shows up in Nextblog, Recently
Updated, and other places. It's like opting-in to
traffic…another good thing to do…

I keep running across new ideas daily and so can you if
you search the web for ways to increase your traffic. But
these few ideas will get you started…

Keep on winning

Regards

Jim

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Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer. He coaches
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Critical Steps to Online Success - Find some "Affiliate Products" to market

When choosing Affiliate Products it's a good thing to keep in mind that "physical products" have a large manufacturing cost component in their pricing, so your profit margins are skinnier. So my first advice is to choose digital products such as books or online services such as dating (dating services can offer affiliate commissions up to 75% or more so if you like this field it can be very lucrative).

For more information on affiliate programs you can download my free book at: http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Let's look at some places to find affiliate products. You can of course go to Google and enter the search term "affiliate products" but an easier place to start is with affiliate networks. Affiliate networks act as middlemen between merchants and affiliate marketers. Joining an affiliate network is free for affiliates and offers a large range of high quality programs to choose from. You can feel much safer about your commissions actually being paid out to you by these legitimate marketers. They are a great place to start your search because the information is tabulated for you.

Here are a few:

The three largest are: Commission Junction: http://cj.com/

Linkshare: http://linkshare.com/

Performics: http://performics.com/

"Click Bank" is a network that specializes in Digital Products. http://clickbank.com/index.html

Residual Commission Finder: http://residualincomefinder.com.

provides a comprehensive listing of merchants offering long-term commissions for customers that you bring them. They offer listings of Affiliate Programs that payout commissions for at least a year.

Let's look at Clickbank as an example since I have recommended you start with digital products. You open their site at http://clickbank.com/index.html and click on the "Become an Affiliate" link, which you will find in the left hand column. You then click on "Sign up" and fill in the simple form and "voila" you're a registered member. Once you are a member you fill in your email and password in the box at the top right of the page and login to the members area.

Then you go inside and search around the affiliate listings for programs that interest you. Just do the same with the other networks I've listed and you're on your way. There are many more affiliate networks you can check out but this will get you started. The process is quite straight forward…you'll be an old hand in no time at all.