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:)