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All too often, writers tend to get off to a good start in blogging for dollars in internet marketing. However, more often than not, they tend to overlook what they have learnt at the beginning when they do achieve some success. It is always good to bear in mind the fundamentals of blogging – basics that will increase your blogging dollars even more.

How then and to what extent can blogs help you get massive income in your internet marketing business?

You can actually observe that blogs have already developed into becoming a very useful business tool for marketers both online and offline alike. Intuitively it should help if you can attach a suitable blog to your website; you will be able to get the following general results:

1 Traffic to your website will increase

2 Customers will come back to your website for more information

3 A larger range of audience will be reached

4 Your credibility is being created

5 Customer relationship will be fostered and improved

6 Your sales will increase and you will reap profits

What’s more in store for you as far as blogging is concerned? You will be happy to know that:

1 There are numerous blogging sources that you will get effective blogging services. Examples- Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, Typepad.com

2 With your blog, you are able to make money using services such as AdSense and BlogAds

3 Presently there are really many different blogging resources and tools that you can use to help you in blogging. Examples – RSS feeds, blog directories, blog search engines

As far as your internet marketing business is concerned, what real results you can expect from creating a blog and adding it to your website, you may ask. Well, when blogging for dollars, you can expect to reap the following benefits from having a blog:

1 A larger scope of audience

If your blog provides the relevant information and is in itself interesting, you will notice that you can reach more customers inside your target audience. Your blog will benefit too if you add more fresh content into it.

2 Better relationships with your audience

The blog certainly provides great opportunities to build customer relationship. In giving tips and updates, and if you post good advice constantly, your blog will secure good rapport with your customers

3 Enlarge your community of targeted customers

Through your blog, you’ll be able to keep your conversations with your customers ongoing. You can post new updates or you can also allow visitors to leave a comment.

4 Achieve better search engine rankings

Your blog must stand out in the sea of millions of others on the web. How, you may ask? Aim to be at the top of free search engines such as Google and Yahoo. You’ll have to do better with your keyword relevancy, get more incoming links with quality, and add more fresh content to your blog.

5 Connectedness with your customers

Through your blog, you’ll be able to show your personal touch (although digitally) to your customers, in your communications with them. You’ll stand to gain in creating trust that will lead to repeat customers.

You can start using your creativity, combine it with what blogging technology is currently offering, and real soon enough, you will find yourself communicating with the whole world. Blogs are powerful indeed! Happy Blogging for Dollars!

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Rob begins by discussing Market Research & Keyphrase Lists. This is a very important stage as it ultimately determines what you will be blogging about. Rob emphasises the importance of taking your time and discusses how you can find affiliate products using ClickBank. He also describes how to to do some basic keyword research using a couple of free tools. Overall, I found this chapter to be a great introduction to affiliate marketing and in particular keyword research. Before reading the chapter I knew almost nothing about keyword research and whilst I’m still no expert I now know the basics of optimising my blog and its pages.

Rob then moves on to discuss creating your blog. First, he outlines how to actually install your blog. Then he moves on to discuss the four options available to you when getting content for your blog. After this he outlines how to optimise, monetise and ping your blog. Overall, this section of Blogging to the Bank 2.0 contains a lot of good information. I was particularly impressed by Rob’s use of screenshots and instructions to explain his ideas. I’m a big fan of screenshots and feel they really help beginners. The section on monetisation was also a real help for me too. My main criticism of this section was that Rob does not explain how to automate the pinging of your blog. This is a relatively simple process but for some reason Rob ignores it.

If you have followed Rob’s instructions up to this point you should have your blog ready to go. Logically, Rob goes on to outline how you can promote your blog and get some traffic. The topics he covers in this section include basic promotion techniques (including article syndication, forum marketing and link exchanges) and Web 2.0. techniques. Web 2.0. is a phrase that describes the trend in web development towards creativity, collaboration and sharing between users (good examples of successful Web 2.0. websites are Facebook and YouTube). Whilst the basic promotion techniques are good, I was very impressed with the Web 2.0. section. Before reading this chapter I had stuck primarily to article marketing but now I have my first Squidoo lens out there and I am getting a lot of extra traffic from social bookmarking sites. My main criticism about this chapter is the section on DIGG (a social bookmarking site). Whilst Rob did open my eyes to a very good resource he did not make it clear that DIGG will ban you if you just submit your own blog posts, which is what happened to me.

Rob finishes his ebook by discussing some advanced techniques including outsourcing the creation of your blogs, creating your own product in the market you are blogging for and even selling your blog. I have not tried any of the techniques in this section yet but I am planning on creating some of my own products to sell to my blog readers.

In conclusion, I would highly recommend Blogging to the Bank 2.0. if you are looking to start your first blog, or even get more serious with your current blogging. After reading Rob’s ebook I decided to make my first serious blog (i.e. a blog in a niche topic that I would be updating regularly) and whilst I am not making nearly enough to retire on, I am generating an increased amount of traffic and revenue each month as a direct result of Rob’s techniques. My main criticisms of Blogging to the Bank 2.0. are that Rob seems to miss certain things out. A section on how to ping your blog automatically would have been really useful to some readers and there are a number of helpful WordPress plugins I have come across that Rob does not feature in his ebook. However, these are only small criticisms. By following the instructions inside Blogging to the Bank 2.0. I believe a relative beginner could quite easily get a monetised blog online in a short period of time.

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