How To Setup A Profitable Blog Or Mini Site (PART II)

Posted by Felicita Vazquez
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Choosing a truly profitable niche was discussed extensively in the first article of this series. After your niche is selected, you evidently should build a website to take advantage of it.

There is a tool that has turned out to be one of the most popular choices for niche marketers because of their great simplicity of use, maintaining, and updating: Blogs.
And besides all that the configuration of a blog is usually by nature, search engine friendly. AND in addition, where it isn't, there is always a third party plug-in to make it so.

In order to produce a successful blog you have a lot of ways to and the one you select should reflect an understanding of your target market. Let’s see an example of one such method, which its focal point is on the creation of free traffic, and the advertising of an affiliate program for increase your income.

First, a successful blog should be either visually as aesthetically sounds as possible. A visually sound blog, more than just being nice-looking, is set in a manner that takes full advantage of all the content you create, by grabbing your reader’s interest, and drawing the most consideration to your affiliate program.

Different method for having a sound successful blog.

1. Select a blog theme with for the most part has a white background and black text. Plain suggestion, but frequently not taking into account. Black on white is the easiest for the eyes to read. Other colors designs can rapidly fatigue the eyes and make it tough to retain attention.

2. Select a fresh and orderly theme. It should be especially clear where your content is placed, very clear where your sidebar and navigation are positioned, where your other categories can be viewed and so forth. If a reader comes from a search engine, they should recognize precisely where they have to click in order to obtain the information they want.

3. You need to take into account several pages you definitely should have on your site (as long as your host allow you).
 
• Privacy Policy page
• About Us page
• Contact us page. Particularly Google looks at these pages as markers of a significant, superiority, non spamming site. Additionally, you want to have an archives page (easily achieved by the SRG Clean Archives plug-in if you use Wordpress), so as not to have your archives taking up valuable room in your blog sidebar.

After you have a visual enjoyable successful blog, you need some reader enjoyable content. Let’s assume here that you already have a product or several selected. Obviously the next step after choosing your niche (sometimes these tasks are one and the same) is to select a product or products that you'll advertise to the niche.

This is where you'll produce your income. After you've got a product chosen, and the background of a high-quality blog shaped as above, your next step is to write some content that the people in your niche will find helpful and use that content to take your website's visitors to the merchant's page and be paid an affiliate commission. Currently, you should have researched your niche's keywords.

In other words you should have some thought about what might be an excellent place to strike the niche from. In an ideal world you should have some keyword phrases related to your niche that have no competition in terms of the number of pages optimized for them in the search engines. Where you'd ideally start your content creation is by writing an article on this uncompetitive term, posting it on your site and getting it ranked in the search engines.

Now, you can build up as much content on search phrases from your niche, as you desire (let me remind you that you can obtain those phrases from a tool like the Wordtracker keyword tool) in order to raise traffic to your site. There are other factors we didn't mention in this article, such as:
• Page optimization
• Making your pages of content rank well in the search engines
• Monetization - the art of getting the highest percentage of visitors to your site actually making you money.

In the next article we'll look at driving traffic to your successful blog.

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