If you’re having trouble getting traffic to your blog, you might be better off to write for someone else! Guest posting is a great way to gain readers, increase your name recognition and drive traffic to your blog.

Readers need to see you and hear your voice before they’ll know who you are – that’s pretty simple. Guest posting will give you a chance to show your work to readers on blogs that see far more traffic than you do. Plus – the more you guest post, the more people will remember your name. If they remember your name, they will remember your blog. Finally, most blogs give guest posters a link at the end of their article. Post on a blog that has several thousand views per day and you’ll see an instant spike in traffic.

If you’re looking for somewhere to guest post, this is a great list to get you started.

Once you’ve established a new blog, you will want to get traffic, so in turn, you can make money.

There are a few dependable ways to create traffic for your site including SEO, building back links, social networking or through professional promotion.

All of these ways will work, especially if you have good content, at generating traffic and bringing real visitors to your site. For now though, let’s focus on professional promotion.

Why Professional Promotion?

If you’ve developed a high-quality blog that offers valuable information, then professional promotion could really help you get started. Why though, would someone choose to pay what could be a significant amount of money for a start up blogger to promote a blog?

The simple answer is simplicity.

Professional promotion, like that offered by companies like PRWeb, PRLeap and several other professional public relations companies, can generate lots of traffic in a relatively short period of time with very little effort on your part.

Sites like PRWeb have thousands, if not millions, of subscribers including bloggers, consumers and journalists who will all have a look at your site and, if it’s valuable, share it with others.

Try it Today

If you’ve got a blog, then give professional promotion like PRWeb a try. PRWeb is the most popular press release service on the Internet. They’ll share your site with hundreds of thousands of bloggers, journalists, consumers and social networkers and put your site at the top of the search engines.

It’s the simple solution to a complicated problem.

When you’re blogging, it’s important to have the right resources at hand. You wouldn’t try to build a house without a hammer and nails, right?

Here is what you’ll need to start and run your blog, no matter your level of experience.

• Topic/Information
• Platform
• Design
• Monetization Tools

Using these four items above, you will be able to build and run your blog all from the comfort of your sofa.

Topic/Information

Well, you need something to write about, right? Content is king. What you write about it the most important aspect of your blog. You can have all the SEO experts, tips and tricks at your disposal, the best design and the best domain and you will not get anywhere without good content.

Pick carefully your topic and make sure it’s broad, but not too broad. Be specific, but not too specific. Be vague, but not too vague. Wait, I’m kind of being vague now.

What I’m trying to say is – make sure your topic includes enough information, but make sure it’s specific enough to target an audience. This blog, for example, is about blogging. Within that topic, there are sub niches – like design, monetization, advertising and well, blogging.

Platform

A platform to blog from is also very important. In order to blog, you’ll need a blog. Personally, I run a self-hosted version of Wordpress. That cost me some money though. You’ll need a domain and hosting to do this. You can get a free version of Wordpress too. You can also get a free version of blogger.

When picking your platform, take into account your topic. Also consider the depth of your blogging and how much you might want to customize on your blog. Free platforms come with limitations. But, if you’re just looking to throw up some ads and write for fun, that might be for you.

Design

Your blog design is very important. Everyone says “don’t judge a book by its cover” but everyone does. Your blog needs to look reputable. It also needs to present your personality.

Make your blog real and trustable. If you want people to return, then you will want to have a professional and presentable blog.

That doesn’t mean simple though. You can have a blog with lots of flare and spice – if that fits your topic. Take into account what you’re blogging about, who your audience is and what you want to say to people when picking a design.

Monetization Tools

Perhaps, this is the most important part. That is, if you’re looking to make money with your blog. There are several different ways to make money blogging.

These include Ads and Affiliate Programs. Both are effective and both are good to use. This blog uses both.

Ads like banner ads and text ads are usually paid per click. A visitor clicks on the link and goes through to another website. These ads are minimal in margin, but people make thousands of dollars a month from them. The best ad program to use is Google Adsense, but you can also try Text Link Ads.

Affiliate programs usually pay more, but also usually require a result on the other end of the link. For example, a visitor clicks on an affiliate ad and goes through to another site, but before you get paid – the visitor has to sign up or buy something. For affiliate programs, I use Clickbank and Commission Junction.

There are hundreds if not thousands of blogs being registered daily. However, not many people have a strong idea of how to setup a blog to make money with it. Even when you setup a money making blog, money doesn’t come immediately. You need to work for it and be patient to start seeing the money to come to you.

Research

When you are starting anything online, you need to do a research to have an idea of what your result will be. When you are starting your blogging business, you will want to research your niche. The easiest way is to look into your interest, magazines and best selling list.

When you have your niche, it is recommended that you build your blog on the sub-niche. Let’s say your niche is relationship, maybe you can blog about husband and wife relationship. You will be more focused in your blog postings and you blog will seem more professional rather than posting everything about relationships.

Setup your blog

Your blog name does play a big part when it comes to ranking high on search engine result page (SERP). So, see that your main keyword is incorporated into your blog name.

For the husband and wife relationship sub-niche, something like guideforthemarried.com would tell what you are offering in your blog.

Optimize your blog

When you are optimizing your blog, remember that you are doing it for the search engines and your readers. So, choose 2-3 keyword phrases about husband and wife relationship and write your post around them. This will then help to get your blog listed on the SERP.

Optimizing your blog for search engines will only get your blog rank high on SERPs. Still, your readers are the real people who help you to make money with blog. They are the one who click on your advertisements and buy your affiliate products.

When viewers see you are forcing your keywords into your posts and made it sound unnatural, they will not come back to you again. When that happens, you will fail miserably in your blogging business.

Monetizing your blog

When you are done with optimizing your blog, it is time you build some affiliate links to your blog. Find your product from the affiliate program network and promote them in your blog.

When you are looking for your affiliate product, look for one that gives code for banners too. You will want to put some of these banners in your sidebar so that your blog look more interesting. However, you need to be careful when you are putting banners on your blog because too many of them can distract your viewers’ attention.

Drive traffic

How much money you can make with blog depends highly on the traffic to your blog. So, the more people read your blog and convinced by you, the more you can earn. What you can do is to submit articles to various article directories online. When you have extra money to spare, you can always get an article submission service to do the job for you. If you are low on budget, you can look for the top 10-15 article directories and submit the articles yourself.

Another good way to drive traffic to your blog is to link to other blogs. Before you can link to other bloggers, you will want to comment on their post. Share constructive comments about what they say. Article Search and other free article directories will  link to you. Then you will be able to leverage on the blogger existing traffic to build your blogging business.

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