Just read an amazing article on how you can profit from content marketing 

The one section that caught my eye was holding a treasure hunt on your site. Your readers go searching for puzzle pieces on your site and fellow blogger sites and once a reader find all the puzzle pieces they win the prize and best of all it's some valuable piece of content or software.

I own resale and distribution rights to 30 gigs of digital products so the prize wouldn't cost anything. Great idea.

For those of you that are serious about building a profitable online blogging business you need to set some guides lines before you start I tried to start blogging with out setting up rules and got little to no visitors to my website, but once I start following a set of guide lines I started to see traffic. The trick is to write good content, content that Goggle and other search engines need. How do you do this you ask, well... you start by using the Goggle keyword tool to find unused phrases and use those phrases in your content, forums are also a good places to find keywords. Content for keywords isn't anything new people have been doing for years and people will keep doing it for many years to come. I can't stress this enough keyword research before writing content is how you get free organic search engine traffic. The first article I wrote for first blog I started went to number one for the keyword phrase I targeted at the time I didn't know anything about keyword research and I just thought that it was like shooting fish in a barrel, blogging so easy, my confidence was though the roof so I wrote more articles and none of them even showed in the top three pages on Google's search results. It took me a little while before i realized that for an online blogging business to succeed I'd have to find out what went wrong that's when I realized that I was trying for search terms or phrases that I had no chance of getting. Alright I'm blabbering on so I'll stop and get to the reason your here.

Building a profitable online blogging business

1. Do your keyword research find a niche you can you compete in
2. Look for affiliate programs in your in your niche (if you can't find one it may not be profitable)
3. Choose your domain name carefully and put your target keyword in the domain name (it's easier this way)
4. Write your first three posts using your keyword phrases
5. Get active in a few forums in your niche (at least 2 but shoot for 10)
   1. start posting questions make sure a link to your site is in your profile this way when you post questions your website gets some exposure
   2. start answering questions this is good for other people to see you know your stuff and they may link back to you
6. Write more posts
7. Write some articles and submit them to article directories
8. Once you start seeing some traffic put up some ads
9. Buy me a cup of coffee and your done:)

Getting your pages indexed by google isn't as hard as it sounds. I was doing some of these steps without even realzing it.

Do the following to get indexed by goolge

1. Research your keywords find keywords that google needs content for as high of a search volum as you cna compete in other wise what's the point
2. Write good content and use thouse keywords in at least 1% of the content (you want to be in the top 10 of the search results)
3. Now the easy part post a link to your website from a website with a pr ranking of 7 and above. (I've been using forums)

Getting indexed by google isn't that hard I was actually doing the steps outlined above with out realizing what the benifits where. Good rule of thumb is do good things and good things will happen. I was helping people on Code Project and I was getting search engine hits as a result.

Resources that may help

1. How many inbound links from 9 PR sites does it take to shift PR from zero to one?
2. How do you get your website indexed by Google within 48 hours? (don't buy links like he says you don't have to)

The 100 bucks challenge is a website where the author has devoted his knowledge and time to sharing his findings on create a niche website that makes 100 dollars a day from adsense in 3 months. He is doing an amazing job documenting the whole process check it out on his site 100 bucks challenge and on Warrior Forum

I love what he is trying to do and I can't believe how ambitious he is. That's a lot of money to get up to in 3 months. When he did the math he figured he'd have to create 60 articles to achieve his goal. I guess that's not too bad if you plan out your entire site and start writing keyword intense articles.  He could have all his content written in the first month and spend the next 2 months promoting the site. I make it sound so simple, lol. Writing 2 articles a day isn't that bad I've been writing 4 a day for the last couple week or so. The promoting the site will be tough part.

I can't believe it the 100 bucks challenge, wow.

I can't read the screen anymore I'm so tired. I'm going to bed I'll check the spelling in the morning.

Affiliate niche marketing is the field of targeting your marketing efforts to a specific group or segment of the marketing arena.  Instead of creating a broad spectrum website, niche marketing focuses on targeting one specific area within a category.   

Affiliate niche marketing is when you create a simple web site that targets an affiliate product using a simple 3-10 page website.

You have a product to promote lets call it Dog Training For Newbies. To promote this product you buy a domain name putting keyword phrase as close to your target phrase as possible in the domain name. Upload your website and now the fun part. Your next step is to write 3-10 articles that target unused but common search terms, search terms that will bring in free search engine traffic. That's the main goal of Affiliate Niche Marketing get free or low cost traffic to your website which will convert to sales or adsense revenue.

Here is an example of affiliate niche marketing - website that uses the long tail method. More...

Every website and blog is governed by the keywords it contains and special care needs to be taken when writing content for you site. Organic search engine placement is determined by the use of niche keywords or phrases. Search engines use spiders and robots to crawl through websites on regular basis indexing content and determining popularity. They identify websites and categorize them according to the content that the site contains.  If you want to be found in search engines by certain search terms, you must make sure that your website or blog contains those words in your content and use those words in at least 1% of the content. More...