Entries from May 2008 ↓

This is the second guest post by Yaro Starak. Remember you can download his Blog Profits Blueprint for free to learn how to start your own money making blog.

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers. Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers.

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth. Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
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Ok, I know this is extremely rare for me to make two posts in one day (let alone one week), but I think it is important enough to make an exception. Plus, it’s not like I actually had to write the other post from today.

I have decided to re-examine and re-evaluate the 3waylinks.net program. When I wrote my initial review of the program back in October of last year I was extremely enthusiastic. All my initial test sites I created to be used with the 3waylinks.net program got indexed by Google very quickly and got PR 2 rankings right off the bat. This was archived with no other promotion besides 3waylinks.net.

Better yet, was the fact that the sites were actually ranking really well in Google, sometimes even on the front page. Needless to say this resulted in pretty good AdSense revenue relative to the amount of work involved.

However, all that began to change in January. My sites began dropping off the font page of Google and then I couldn’t even find them in the top 100 search results. I was told at the time that this was normal and that my sites would come back in the rankings.
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As I promised yesterday here is the first of two guest articles by Yaro Starak, the professional blogger I told you about yesterday. If you enjoy the article he is also offering a free Blog Profits Blueprint at his own site:

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

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Yaro Starak, is planning on reopening his Blog Mastermind mentoring program again soon. Moreover, he is currently giving away his Blog Profits Blueprint for free here. If you don’t know who Yaro Starak is let me enlighten you.

Yaro is a professional blogger who runs multiple blogs such as entrepreneurs-journey.com. That blog alone currently makes him over $10,000 per month, which is pretty good money. Better yet, is the fact that he claims it only takes him 2 hours a day to make that much.

You can find out how he manged to do that for free by downloading his Blog Profits Blueprint. The guide itself is a great primer on how to start an Internet based blogging business in your spare time. It is filled with very useful advice.

My personal take on Yaro, is that he rare among Internet marketers because he actually over delivers on what he promises. With the obvious exception of Ken Evoy and Site Build It, I can not think of many other people in the Internet marketing community who honestly deliver more than they promise.
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Well it has been two weeks since I started my domain embarking experiment and I though I would give you all a little update into how it is coming along. First, it took somewhat longer than expected to actually embark all the pages to my satisfaction. The main reason for this seems to be that their servers could be really slow at times.

However, I did eventually get them all embarked, but it probably took at least 15 hours worth of work to get all 96 domains ready for prime time. To see what domain embarked pages look like you can visit three of my sample sites here: japanflights.info, berlinholidays.info, brugestours.info.

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