| Micro niche blogs are all the rage these in the internet | | | | If you are serious about blogging for profit, then get |
| marketing world these days. Successful blogs sell for | | | | your own domain and hosting to avoid the frustration |
| great prices on site flipping marketplaces, but I am | | | | later. Once you get these squared, download the all in |
| going to show you how to start blogging for profit | | | | one SEO plugin and other WordPress plugins useful |
| using the micro niche techniques. This process | | | | for affiliate marketing, Amazon and eBay marketing |
| involves 3 steps: | | | | purposes. Pick a simple free theme for the start the |
| 1. Keyword Research. Use a free tool such as Google | | | | blog. You can always purchase a premium theme |
| Keyword Tool and type up some keywords on the | | | | later on. if you are going mostly for AdSense, I |
| niche you would like to go for. This can be a physical | | | | recommend using the free version of Heatmap |
| product or a ClickBank product kind of niche, Find | | | | theme since it makes it extremely easy to set up |
| long tail keywords (3-7 words) that get at least 1000 | | | | AdSense ads on your blog. |
| product name searches or more per month. Make | | | | 3. Content generation and monetization. Write a few |
| sure to select phrase search option rather than the | | | | 300-400 word articles for your main keyword and at |
| default broad search. When you phrase search your | | | | least one article for each one of your secondary |
| keyword in Google by putting it in double quotes, | | | | keywords. Make sure the content is unique and |
| there should be less than 25-30.000 competing sites | | | | provides value to the customer. Make sure to watch |
| coming up in the results. It is possible to get rankings | | | | out for the keyword density and do not mention |
| for higher competition keywords, but as beginners | | | | your keyword more than 2-3 times in the article |
| we want to pick the low hanging fruit. There should | | | | body. Set up your WordPress to schedule posting |
| also be plenty of AdSense ads displaying when you | | | | these articles weekly or couple times a week. Ping |
| search this keyword, this means there is money in it. | | | | and social bookmark it each time new content is |
| After deciding on your main keyword, pick a few | | | | posted. Write shorter, watered down versions of |
| more keywords related to this niche. | | | | your articles and regularly submit those to article |
| 2. Domain registration and blog setup. Buy a domain | | | | directories. |
| consisting of your long tail keyword, Go for domain | | | | Set up a Google AdSense account and get AdSense |
| since those rank the best. If that is not available,.net | | | | codes to post on your site. Then go on Amazon & |
| or.org is acceptable is what you should go after. If it's | | | | eBay and set up an affiliate accounts there. If you |
| not available for your main keyword, then consider a | | | | are promoting ClickBank or other e-products, get an |
| synonym keyword (matching our monthly search, | | | | affiliate code for those as well. You can set up |
| competition and profits criteria) or one of your | | | | affiliate accounts for most major product vendors |
| secondary keywords. | | | | for digital or physical products. A good strategy is to |
| Do not get an.info domain, they are very affordable | | | | add the multiple link AdSense ads and the large |
| but it's extremely difficult to get them ranked in | | | | Amazon recommended products widget to your site. |
| search engines. Since we are blogging for profit, we | | | | However, take care not to stuff it too much with |
| want to get the domain we can rank rather fast, | | | | AdSense, we don't want have more ads than |
| Next step is to get a hosting service such as | | | | content. |
| HostGator. Do not use free blogs, these get deleted | | | | After you complete this steps, the next thing to do |
| and shut down all the time, and your profits will | | | | is to promote your site in the blogosphere, social |
| vanish overnight. | | | | media, article directories and free classifieds sites. |