I
thought I might focus here on one particular element of the program
which I consider to be particularly intregal to the success of a
blogger, namely, the ability to drive traffic to their blog.
If
you've ever started a blog, or any form of website trying to earn some
cash, you'll know it's not exactly a case of "if you build it they will
come".
Even
a great blog doesn't guarantee traffic and a major part of a
bloggers focus has to be spreading the word about their blog in a
variety of ways in order to continually increase traffic and profits.
Sure,
I could have talked about the blog creation and management aspects of
Firepow, which I know so many new online marketers and bloggers will
find so valuable. But for me, I'm more concerned about how the program
can help a user increase traffic and make more money.
Anyway,
that said - I thought I'd make a brief mention of some such features of
the program in order to open your eyes to the ways this program might
be as much a benefit to you as I predict it will be for me.
The
first thing I like, or perhaps category of thing I like, is the ability
the user has to easily generate backlinks to their blog once it's up
and running.
When you start a new blog, you want enough search
engine spider juice to your site to have it able to rank well
for long
tail uncompetitive keywords, purely by on page optimization, within a
few days of being created.
In addition to giving you powerful on
page optimization capabilities (like allowing you to set the meta data
AND h1h2 tag data for every post or page), Firepow lets you quickly
generate the spider juice you need to get indexed and potentially
ranking for an uncompetitive term.
For example, as soon as your
site is created, you can click a button to have your RSS feed submitted
to a bunch of RSS directories. You'll get some valuable link backs,
plus some great spider activity right off the bat. Not to mention the
ping from your post.
Furthermore, if you choose to, you could
use a tool called BlogLove Builder, to quickly and easily implement a
trackback to a popular blog post within your own blogs first post - and
instantly generate more link juice, and even a few visitors right from
the get go too!
Furthermore, if you focus on search engine
traffic you'll know about the importance of link building in locking in
long term rankings. Initial spider juice can get you a quick ranking,
but for a LASTING ranking, you need an assortment of relevant quality
backlinks establishing your page as an authority on that keyword.
Firepow
has that more than covered, giving you the ability to obtain links from
social networks, blog comments, and in content links from Firepow's own
network of high PageRank blog sites as well.
I stress that even
what I've mentioned here isn't close to all of the tools Firepow gives
you to drive traffic to your site. And it's for that reason among many
that 'm recommending all my blog readers to check it out for themselves.
The lower the market supply for the demand, the more profitable it’d be.
This may seem very obvious, but you’ll be surprise how many people ignore this basic economic principle.
- Search Engines
The easiest way to check the availability of products targeted to your market is through the search engines.
For example, a search for ‘weight loss’ at http://www.google.com showed an average of 2.83 MILLION competitors out there!
However, if you just narrow down your market for example, ‘weight loss tip’ has just 300,000+ competitors. This is a huge difference which will play to your advantage.
The bottom line’s to focus on specific, niche markets instead of the overall general industry. You’ll see more sales and money coming in this way.
- Yahoo! Shopping
Another simple trick to check the supply of a given product or market is through the net’s biggest shopping network – Yahoo! Shopping :
Doing a search for say ‘digital camera’ returned the following :
Search Results for digital camera found 1412 stores with 53806 products
Wow! 1,412 competitors marketing 53,806 products, now that’s an idea of over supply.
You’ve got to balance the demand and supply to decide if the market you want to go after is profitable. This will help you in determining affiliate products to promote.
How to
Actually Rank For Any Keyword With a Legitimate Search Engine
"Loophole"..
Everyone wants to have their site rank well in Google.
And why not? Not only can Google send you a boatload of free traffic -
it's also highly targeted, and it's one of the best ways to drive
business.
The problem is, that exact same ideal is shared with thousands of your
direct competitors. This creates an environment where you'll always be
fighting, kicking and scratching to maintain your traffic - along with
the ever present fear that your livelihood is only one "algorithm
update" away from vanishing.
And that's if you can even get ranked for any decent keyword, to begin
with...
In fact, only the largest, most-established authority sites can
reliably see consistent traffic from Google. And even then, their
rankings fluctuate constantly - several times a day, in some cases.
The fact is - it's getting harder and harder for the "little guy" to
get any kind of meaningful web presence on the web these days.
Getting ranked in Google is almost impossible unless you've got a major
promotional budget and some time on your hands to "wait" for your
domain to become trusted (Google favors older domains). And advertising
with pay-per-click ads isn't affordable like it once was.
Search marketing has finally become what everyone feared it would - a
game reserved for big business.
But what if there was still a way to legtiimately rank for keywords
with tons of traffic?
And what if you could do this without having to spend months and even
years building up an authority site to do so?
In fact - what if you could systematically create one-page minisites
that could rapidly rank in the top 3 spots (consistently) for basically
any keyword you target within a matter of a week or so?
Is this for real?
YES.
But not with Google.
It's happening right now, as we speak, on MSN.com
Now - before you think it - yes, I know, MSN doesn't have nearly the
reach that Google does. But, it still does receive millions and
millions of search users daily. After all - MSN is the default
home-page for anyone who first uses Internet Explorer.
And, to put it in perspective, which would drive more traffic?
Occupying the #1 ranking for your most desirable keyword target on MSN?
Or occupying the #47 spot on page 5 of Google's results?
Sadly, it's actually more effort to make it to the 47th spot in Google
than it is to literally dominate in MSN.
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