Is There a Super-Fast Way to Move Your Blog Up in Search Engines?

Let's face it; in order to make any money with your blog you are going to have to have some traffic coming to it.  You can have the best blog in the galaxy but if you have no visitors coming and reading your content, you will make zippo with your blog.

So how do you get traffic?  Is there a super-fast way to move your blog up in the search engines and then you can just kick back while thousands of people swarm to your blog like bees flying to a honey hole.  The answer is unfortunately, no.

The goal of having any blog is to provide good content for your readers so that they will come back. Have you ever gone to a website that was just a bunch of links taking you to other pages with absolutely no content for you to read?  These hop sites might make some money for the people who placed links on them but I would bet that the return traffic is nil.

Somebody told me the other day that in order to have a good blog that brings in traffic you need to have your own website and have the website as a page and not hosted on a subdomain like "blogspot.com."  So, I finally decided to peruse the web looking for the real answers.

I found plenty of so-called SEO pros that confirmed this statement.  The truth is I like to have my blog as part of a website anyway because I don't like the real long "blogspot" url.  A lesson I will teach soon.  However, I don't believe it makes a difference when it comes to traffic.  You can do more with an actual website so this is a plus but traffic comes gradually as you keep adding good content.

I have had many websites and a few blogs over the last ten years and I can tell you that I have been happy with how all of my sites were indexed by the search engines.  For this reason, I do not recommend spending a lot of money on SEO.  What I do recommend is adding good content for your readers that they will want to read.

The robots that the search engines use today are smart and according to the article below they can easily differentiate between websites and subdomains.  This means that there is no longer any advantage to hosting your blog on a top level domain.

So keep on writing good content and the smart robots will reward you.  The following article is proof enough from Google:  Is It Bad for SEO to use Subdomains

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Create a Twitter Account and Then Place a Twitter Button on Your Blog

The power of social marketing far outweighs sitting back and trying to get your blog posts high up in search engine results.  Many people today, like it or not, will not sign-up for any more mail or subscribe to your blog.  This is because many people like myself are flooded with hundreds of emails daily and could not possibly get through them all.

You have to very special to get people to sign-up for blog updates through email.  On the other hand, there is a much more efficient way to stay in touch with your blog readership.  This method includes social media like Twitter or Facebook.

People are far more likely to "follow" you on Twitter and here you can tweet about your latest blog posts and drive people to your blog.  And, your followers on Twitter are more likely to revisit your blog if they like what they read.

Having said that, In my opinion I believe a Twitter button is an essential "gadget add-on" for any blog.  I have seen people just say; "follow me on twitter" without a button.  This tactic certainly will not work as well as an actual button that they can click and go straight to your twitter account.

You can create a Twitter button very fast by going to your blogger layout page and selecting "add a gadget."  You then want to go to the "more gadget tab" and search for POWR button.  You then can make the button easily by following a couple steps.

Here is what the gadget can do for you:

Now it will be super-easy for people to follow you on Twitter or Facebook.  Why not follow me by clicking on my free button?  In return, I will follow you back.  My handle on Twitter is @TrafficXchanger and that is what I do.  I follow people who follow me and I try to build relationships with these people rather than people I do not know.

According to a recent survey by Twitter, 69% of people buy products from people they either follow or meet on Twitter.  Now that is a huge number not to ignore.  So, if you do not like social media, you might want to at least rethink your strategies.  Twitter allows you to build a rapport with your followers and that is the difference between repeat visitors of your site or just one-time visitors that never come back.

Ideally, as we will discuss later, you do want people to actually sign-up for your blog through email.  However, this takes a lot of patience and time that can be bypassed through the use of social media.

Your action step for today is to open up a Twitter account if you do not already have one and then place a Twitter button on your blog.  After this, come back here and Follow me on Twitter and then I will follow you.  See how easy it is to get your first follower?

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Clickbank Product Review: Mastering Super Affiliate Marketing.

I just finished reading Mastering Super Affiliate Marketing which is a product being offered through Clickbank.  I have been an affiliate marketer for years and I have met with many failures and successes.

I can say that if I would have read this ebook, along with it's Worksheet, and Checklist earlier, it would have been a great boost to my business.  I would not have spent a few years flopping around like many other affiliates not really knowing in which direction you should head when affiliate marketing.

I do not consider myself a "Super Affiliate" but aspire to be one.  Now, that I have learned some more important things you need to do to become an SA, I think I will get there quickly.

This eBook is not the longest one out there and you can read it in one day.  You should take a couple days, though, so you can properly absorb all of the good information supplied.  I highly recommend this book for new affiliate marketers, as well as, mid-level affiliate marketers who would like to take their business to the next level.

The writer of this eBook, Richard Jablonski, definitely did his homework and is a good writer who writes in a manner that you can easily understand.  The book does not go into affiliate products that require advanced marketing techniques like "deep linking products" on your website or how to manage product feeds or examples of how to put products on your website or blog; however, this was not his focus.  His focus is to give you a good background of what affiliate marketing is and then steer you in the direction you must go to be successful as a Super Affiliate.

In conclusion, I won't be returning this book.  I found it to be an excellent read by a knowledgeable pro. Sure, I knew quite a bit of stuff that was in it.  But for the price, I learned well worth my money and will be a better affiliate marketer because of it.  Thank you Mr. Jablonski for a great product.

To purchase the book yourself and gain a lot of Affiliate Marketing Knowledge that can make you a Super Affiliate===> Click Here! 

Getting Ready to Market Clickbank Products

In my last post, I talked a little bit about affiliate products and that you should offer them on your blogs.  When you make some money through your new affiliate products, I suggest turning your blog into a fully functioning website with a blog.  I already talked about this in my previous post: Converting Your Blog to a Website.

Since this is a new blog, I am going to work on it as if starting from scratch.  I think this is the best method to help you achieve success with your blog.  So, today I went to Clickbank and looked for a good product to promote through this blog.  I chose a book that I think could help out anyone that is trying to make money as an affiliate marketer.  The name of the book is: Mastering Super Affiliate Marketing.

Remember, when you are marketing a book or other product, you should examine the product yourself before offering it to others.  All it takes is one affiliate product that is a scam and you will lose many future sales and blog followers.  I did not examine this book yet, but am buying the book today and will critique it in my next post.  Hopefully, it is as good as it sounds, and you too can purchase and market it on your blog if you would like.

If you have not done so already, you should sign-up as an affiliate marketer for Clickbank and get ready to start marketing products of your choosing in your new blog.  Have a great day!

To examine the squeeze page of the ebook I just bought Click Here!  It sounds good, huh?  Would you buy it?  In my next post, I will review it and explain if it was a good deal or not.