As a new Linknami user, you may have been wondering how you actually can benefit from this service, since there are already many ad networksout there.

First of all, Linknami offers you many functionalities of other ad networks and link building services under one roof, which means that you can manage all features from one central user interface, whether you are publishing ads, advertising on other websites or using the link building tools (this is why the interface may look a bit overwhelming at first (some may say confusing), but the idea is that all sections can be accessed and accomplished within 1-4 clicks from the user area dashboard).

Secondly, Linknami offers extremely competitive payout rates for publishers that usually beat major ad networks (flat-fixed-rates for banner/text ads and text links) (if you know of other networks with equal or better rates just inform us that you know better ).

Most importantly though, there are some features that distinguish Linknami from other similar services:

For Ad Publishers:

With your high quality content, you can earn more money by publishing banner and text ads on individual pages/blog posts only than with site-wide ads.
An example: You are offering site-wide ads for US$ 100 per month and single post ads for US$ 10 per month.
You have just written a great article about new dog training practices and sell a banner ad there for US$ 10 per month. Advertisers in our system are automatically notified about this article (if it matches their keyword profile) as soon as its published on your site.
If you write 30 posts per month and sell 1 banner ad on each for 10 US$ per post, you can earn US$ 300 per month, this is US$ 200 more than with a site-wide ad for US$ 100 per month.
Advertisers get more targeted visitors with single page ads than by publishing their ad on your site on a site-wide basis.
This advertising method is as close as it can get to traditional offline newspaper and magazine ads where targeted ad spaces are sold next to specific articles.

For Advertisers:

Receive highly targeted visitors for your specific advertising campaigns by placing your ads on individual blog posts only, rather than via site-wide advertising.
When you are advertising site-wide or on untargeted ad networks, you are getting a lot of visitors who are not really interested in your products or services but pay a larger advertising fee than you actually should.
By setting up your keyword profiles, you get notified as soon as new blog posts are published that match your profile and can immediately request to publish your ads there.
By publishing ads in real-time on highly targeted pages, you can take advantage of the hype high quality new posts generate on social networks and platforms that go viral.

If you have any questions on how to setup the publisher code, advertising, link building code or encounter any problems during setup please do not hesitate to contact us, we will walk you through the specific processes with more detailed information.

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Following the road of affiliate marketing can sometimes become a frustrating path to be on. You put in the effort to build niche sites, you drive traffic to your affiliate offers, but you still do not extract any reward for your tireless efforts. It is this disappointment that forces many marketers to surrender before they reach their goals. A large percentage of internet marketers do not close any deals, they don’t make one sale – this is a fact! But this trend can easily be avoided by following a handful of practical techniques. In this article I will provide a few practical tips on how you can boost you affiliate sales:

1. Do The Groundwork

Too many affiliates browse through what is on offer on 3^rd party sites like Clickbank and Commission Junction, they look for the product paying the highest commission then they spend a few minutes researching a keyword and thereafter they build a site around that keyword. There is a big problem with this approach! Why? Because:

• Everyone is going after the products with higher commission pay-outs and that results in an extremely competitive market
• Keyword research needs to be intensive and extensive
• Higher commissions equates to a higher product cost price which opens the door for a competitor to enter the market with a similar product at a lower price. In most cases the competitor already exists and the vendor that you chose offers a higher commission because his or her competitor is already dominating the market.

You need to do the groundwork before you enter any niche. Before deciding on which product you going to market – analyze what alternatives are available. When engaging in keyword research ensure that you also examine your potential competitors who are also targeting a specific keyword, and how well optimized their sites are. You should also look at the CPC of your chosen keywords to determine the market value or marketability of pursuing a particular keyword.

2. Selling Vs Pre-Selling

This is a pertinent point that needs to be emphasized – as an affiliate it is not your job to sell the product. Yes, you heard me right! Selling the product is completely the responsibility of the vendor. The vendor must invest heavily in professional sales copy to close a deal. Your task is to drive targeted traffic to the affiliate offer. For traffic to be targeted you need to use the right marketing channels, and you need to choose highly targeted keywords.

When a potential customer is on your site your second task is to pre-sell and not sell. Do not fill your site content with heavy-handed sales copy – this is a fundamental error.  Your duty is to offer value through your content and warm the potential client up by pointing out the features and benefits of your affiliate product. Thereafter you can endorse the product and refer the visitor to the vendor’s site. If you are reviewing a product you shouldn’t concentrate completely on the benefits – offer an unbiased review without suffocating the visitor’s desire for the product.

3. The Money Is In The List

Some affiliate marketers still do not see the value of having an email list. They view email marketing as a chore rather than an opportunity. Every visitor to your site is a potential lead, if they click the back button on their browser that is basically a potential sale that is lost forever. You need to capture your visitor’s email address by offering a free report, or free ebook.

Secondly, when you’ve built your list and begin your email marketing campaign you should not send multiple emails filled with conspicuous sales copy. People are growing weary of opting into email lists and then being bombarded with one sales pitch after another. The proven approach is to send follow-up emails that deliver value to your subscribers. This will open the door for a relationship to be built and it will also secure a level of trust with your subscriber. Thereafter you can refer your subscriber to your affiliate product. Many of your subscribers in your email list will become repeat buyers once you’ve established a relationship with them.

These tips that I have alluded to should be taught in Affiliate Marketing 101, but unfortunately many people offer courses that skip the basics that have proven to work time and again. By following these simple and practical methods you will have a better chance of succeeding in this industry and your sales will certainly be boosted.

About the author:

Alex Papa is a seasoned businessman who has established successful entities both online and offline. He has developed a website haven for business minded people where they can learn about new home based business ideas. On his blog he shares tips on the best antivirus software and he also offers the latest Norton discount code.

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As a a blog owner, you usually add fresh blog content to your site on a regular basis for your readers to enjoy and to communicate with them. You may publish a blog post a week or every day on your blog.

However, with thousands of articles posted every minute on the internet, its getting more and more difficult to get search engines attention with publishing just a few blog posts on a site. The trend is going towards newspaper-style sites targeting a specific niche that publishes a lot of juicy content about a certain topic, just like a newspaper does.

However the question is, the day has only 24 hours, so from where do you get all the content?

Via Linknami.com, you can find targeted guest bloggers and niche-relevant articles in the article catalog to publish on your blog with a simple click, so that you never run out of relevant articles and blog posts on your blog, just like your daily online newspaper and keep your site traffic at a peak all day long.

If you have more than 10 blogs and do not want to add your blogs manually, we offer a free bulk import service which allows you to add all your blogs via a text file or excel sheet.

After adding your blogs, you can either actively search for interesting articles in the article catalog for fresh blog content or wait until you receive article publishing requests from expert guest bloggers in the system.

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Apart from advertising formats such as banner and text advertising, you can monetize your blog with an affiliate program matching your niche and site visitos to get a continuous flow of income.

Most of the companies selling their products and services online create affiliate programs to boost their sales. They offer commission payments to their affiliates, that can be per click (PPC), per sale (PPS), per lead (PPL) or per action (PPA). If it is a quality affiliate program, it may benefit both the owner and the affiliate whenever a sale is made.

Most affiliate programs can be easily integrated in blogs or websites for online sales. There are many sources on internet for affiliate programs. The best is to start search for relevant affiliate programs in big affiliate networks such as CJ Junction, Clickbank, Sharesales, Amazon, Pay dotcom, etc.

You can find several affiliate programs with a variety of payment schemes. Mostly, they pay commissions as PPC pay per click, per lead generated (PPL), CPA or pay per sale.

There are many important considerations, which you have to look into, before you join any affiliate program.

How to find a suitable affiliate program?

All affiliate programs are not same. It needs a lot of re-search and time to find a suitable and genuine affiliate program, before you join it. Spend some time on searching but don’t overdo it. Give yourself some time testing and analyzing results as well.

Following checklist helps you to single out a suiable program:

- Find out about the company and their reputation
- The payment structure, when and how do they pay commissions
- Their support to affiliates, how easy is it to contact them and get response
- Last and the most important is that the company should be genuine and you can trust that you will get paid after putting all your time and effort (check forums and boards in your niche).

The first consideration should be to find that it should be able to meet the interest and focus of the audience on your blog; otherwise you will not get any result. Find out your earning potential after all your effort and any money you may spend to promote the blog, and critically examine the commission structure of the program. It can happen that you may get frustrated before you are able to reach the minimum amount payable or it is too long to wait in a normal payment cycle.

No one pays you instantly. Most of the time the payment is made after a long time, it may be 30, 60 or 90 days when they send your check.

All these considerations are important as you may go on spending money without getting any money in return from faulty affiliate programs or program selections.

Another important thing is the quality and reputation of the product and its price. Since you are selling the product to the customer, in a way you are directly accountable to them. It is worth trying the product yourself, if possible try to know about its benefits or any problems related to it. If you cannot do it, collect sufficient feedback about it from users through their reviews.

You can search affiliate directories and CPA networks, which are also sources to find the affiliate programs that may suit your niche and are profitable for you.

It may be a bit difficult to get approved by the CPA network programs like Clickbank. Many times they decline applications from newcomers.
Reason being is that your blog or the website may not be qualified according to their criteria for affiliates. They may be looking for the clean design, quality content, longevity, traffic or ranking on search engines. Improve your content and put efforts to clean up your blog. You may be able to pass if you can present a good layout, clear navigation structure and some quality content.

You can get many opportunities for joining affiliate programs. Some owners may have strict requirements, but these need to be pursued as they are usually more reliable and profitable.

You should concentrate on joining a good, reliable and profitable affiliate program that bring value to your niche and your blog offers a great potential for that.

Do you have any success with affiliate marketing? Do you have any programs to recommend? Share them with me in the comments.

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You have heard so much about Google Adsense everyone seems to make with it on the internet, at least this is your impression everytime you receive those information emails in your inbox. But what are the actual steps to make money with Adsense?

I’ll break it down for you in 6 easy to understand steps in a minute below.

Everyone wants to earn a solid income or at least some extra money from his blog or website using Google Adsense. Some website owners and bloggers earn lots and lots of money via Adsense, but most of them do not even make a cent. It is hard to earn money with Adsense, if you are not experienced in this business.  You can make money using Adsense only when you seriously consider it as your business. There are proven techniques, which can be used successfully to earn money with Adsense.

Many people start with Adsense anticipating to earn a lot of money; subsequently they do not earn anything even for a couple of months. Then, they start getting disappointed and stop working on it. Adsense is not a scheme to become rich quickly or overnight. Such techniques do not exist. However, sincerely and steadily, you can win this race by being more patient and consistent than the quitters and you’ll at least leave them behind and earn some extra cash, even if you’ll not make the big bucks.

Steps to make money with Google Adsense:

1. Select your niche

The first step is to select your preferred niche. Make sure that it’s a hot and trending niche and that it’s not too broad to start out with. For example, if your main niche is finance and you optimize for this keyword, you’ll waste your time and money because you may be bankrupt in no time before you even get your first visitor from search engines because it is too difficult to compete with all the already existing authority sites in this area (unless you post material that would win you the nobel prize, then you’d have a chance )

How to find out if the niche is hot and trending? Go to “google trends” and view some of the current hot topics in the area of your expertise.

2. Create your blog or website

Register a domain name at a domain registrar such as godaddy.com and (preferably a domain name close to your niche OR a completely modern short name).

After registering, install the wordpress blog software on your domain (using the 5 minute wordpress install). If you need further help, there are many tutorials for beginners out there that exactly walk you through from A-Z.
After installing the blog software, add some important modules like the All-In-One SEO Plugin. Fortunately the installation of modules is easy. Also modules for Google Adsense are available.

Once modules have been installed (or before, as you like), select a nice free template from the wordpress template repository (even easier than module installation, just with a simple click), so that your new blog looks nice and fresh.

3. Install Adsense

Before registering at Google Adsense, add some new content and articles to your blog so that it looks not like a completely vacated site.

After signing up, you will get the google Adsense code in the Adsense user area. Add this code to your wordpress blog > adsense plugin so that its displayed throughout your website.

Google displays the ads on your blog and you are paid per click. You do not know how much you will be paid by Google for every click on the ad appearing on your blog and how much you will earn. You can estimate it by doing a keyword research and find out what the advertisers pay for those keywords. You should find out the AdSense keywords that pay more and use them in the content on your blog to earn maximum.

4. Hunt for Niche Keywords

Use the free google keyword (search-term) selection tool to find all relevant high-traffic keywords in your niche. Then create unique articles that involve those keywords and publish them on your blog. How many articles you publish is basically up to you. However, the more articles you publish and the more content you push online, the faster google will re-visit your site and re-index it. Whatever you decide, make sure that you keep always posting in the same frequency. For example, if you start posting once daily, keep on posting daily and don’t change it to every 2-3 weeks once.

5. Getting Traffic

That’s pretty much the hardest part because you do not have full control over it. Every blog or website anticipates a flood of traffic and aims on that to earn maximum. You get the best traffic through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, etc. This traffic is free, targeted and usually long-lasting. However, to get maximum visitors to you blog, it should appear on the first page of search results. This requires search engine optimization (SEO) of your blog. Few other tips posted here on search engine optimization.

6. Updating your blog

If you want to get a flood of visitors on a recurring basis, you should update your content on the blog regularly. But, at the same time, quality of your content is very significant to get a regular traffic. If you post often, search engines will visit and index your pages faster, If you post quality content, visitors who found your site through search engines will come back directly, so both go hand in hand. This is a must requirement to draw visitors to your blog from search engines.

We have discussed now 6 important Adsense money making steps. If you follow these steps sincerely, you should be well on your way to earn an extra income with AdSense.

Do you use any other Google Adsense money making techniques not listed above?

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It is often frustrating when your website is hardly getting any traffic after spending so much of time and money on its development. Chances are that your site is not optimized for search engines and it is ranking lower than it should because you may not be feeding enough or correct page information to Google to justify higher rankings.

Here is a quick SEO checklist to make sure that your site is not caught in the SEO trap:

Unique Content on Every Page

Unique content on every page is important. If a search engine observes no difference in content on various pages, it may not index any of your pages or rank one page with duplicate content lower than necessary. The pages should also furnish sufficient information to search engine spiders, just adding 3-4 keywords is not enough.

Deep Link Building

The home page is the most powerful page on any website and usually attracts the majority of unique visitors and getting backlinks to your homepage is vital. However, at the same time, you should not disregard your internal pages. Your important internal pages should have inbound links to them to increase the backlink count from external sources.

Optimize Internal Linking

Do not try to spread the links all over your site. The optimization of links is possible within content, in site map and navigation. If there are multiple links on a page leading to same secondary page, ensure that the search engine can recognize the primary keyword for different pages which is usually the first link on a given page.

Optimize Meta Title

The Meta title should include the target keyword for the page and the Meta description will also draw the attention of users in search engine rankings.

H1 Headings

Although H1 is not the only thing that may move your listing from page seven to first one on Google, but every small thing matters. Include your key phrase in the H1 heading on every page, and there should be only one on every page properly setup.

Site Speed

Site speed has become one of many ranking factors. Make sure to have good navigation speed of your site to get more visitors and improve your SEO.

Remove all Broken Code and Redirect Links

Search engines can detect broken bits of codes. This will slow down the site and it will take more time to index your pages. Same way, broken links are interrupting the navigation to desired sites and you get 404 messages which will decrease your visitor’s surfing experience.

Bulk Link Building

You do not need to spend time and money on attempting to get a herd of links in a short amount of time to increase backlinks and search engine rankings. It is worthless and may even attract a penalty.

Escape from Bad Neighborhoods

Google is very strict with anything that you, the webmaster, can control on your site. And linking to other sites from your site is one thing that you can control, since only you can place the link on your site. Avoid linking to shady sites. These ‘bad neighbourhood’ sites may have an adverse influence on your site’s ranking in search engines.

Avoid Keyword Spamming

Keyword spamming is repeating your keyword over and over again on the same page. This is an insult to google’s million dollar ranking algorithm, this is why they’ll penalize you for it. They want to show you that already know what your site is about just by analyzing its natural content. It is useless to use the same phrase over and again. It will be sufficient to include the keyword in the title and in the content.

Avoid Hidden Text

Do not try to hide keywords on the pages. Visitors cannot view them, but search engines discover them easily. It has no benefit for you and is, again, an insult to google’s intelligent engineers

Avoid these SEO mistakes and apply these search engine optimization tips now to ensure that your site is safe and healthy indexed in search engines as it complies with all search engine guidelines.

Do you have any other on-page and off-page optimization tips to share? Just add your comment below.

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Content is the key to success for any website. A well-composed content can draw visitors on to your website or blog. They may tell their friends about it via social networking sites like facebook and twitter. Your content goes viral. Some website owners may even link from their sites to the content, which in turn, increases the rank of your page in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.

You have a lot of creativity and fantastic ideas but it takes ages for you to put it into words on paper. In this case, outsourcing your content and article writing to professional writers who accept freelance work might be the best option.

However, it is important for you to select an expert writer who can write rich content for your website or other material meant for marketing. You can get freelance writing services from expert freelance writers on the internet. Their services are mostly inexpensive, but it is very difficult to distinguish between the good and the bad.

Keep in mind following important qualities when you choose a freelance writing professional for your work:

1. Language

If you are writing for an english-speaking and/or global audience, the writer should ideally be a native-speaker. If this is not possible or if it is too costly for you, the writer should have at least excellent command of British English and American English and an excellent grasp over semantic principles. Good knowledge of grammar makes the writing more impressive and enriches the quality of content. In addition a sound vocabulary is essential for the writer to enable him to convey his ideas exactly and distinctly.

2. Experience In The Field

Everyone learns from experience. If the freelancer you select is having adequate experience in a specific subject, he will be able to provide the content which will attract your readers. Moreover, the writer’s content will meet the requisite criteria set by search engines. Many freelance writers who offer writing services are familiar with search engine optimization (SEO). They recognize the importance of using keywords with business potential in order to boost the ranking of websites on search engines that will also help in generating visitors and increasing sales.

3. Use of Superior Quality Software

Proficient freelance content writers make use of the latest Writing Software effectively for producing rich and interesting content, which is free from spelling, grammatical and typographical errors. In addition, they use software to confirm the quality to be free of plagiarism. They also use it as freelance editor on the content and do the proofreading. Ultimately, you get a powerful content, which will maximize your online sales.
You will be able to get the best quality from content writing and checking software that can be useful for copywriting and content writing for eBooks, books, articles, screenplays, essays, poetry, stories, etc.

Before hiring a freelancer for your next article writing project, make sure that he or she is able to pass all 3 qualities mentioned above with flying colors, otherwise move and don’t stop until you find this person. It may take extra time but it all pays off as soon as you deliver excellent content to your readers.

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Have you ever wondered why one should write guest posts or publish someone else’s article on their blog? The answer is relatively simple: Guest blogging is a win-win situation for both the guest blogger and and the blog owner because it is one of the best ways to market a resource like a website or blog through a guest post and the guest article publishing blog increases targeted traffic by providing fresh and relevant content to its readers.

Lets look at some of the advantages for guest bloggers:

Branding

By writing quality guest posts and publishing it on relevant niche blogs you can brand yourself or your organization. The more exposure your name and brand has on the web, the faster you make a comfortable footing in the industry. The idea of branding is to create a distinct picture of yourself, your products and services that differ from your competitors.

Targeted Traffic

Writing guest posts is a sure shot guarantee for increased traffic. The more guest articles you publish on related blogs, the more visibility you’ll get in your niche. You will find more people being interested in your products and services than if you just would publish the article on your own blog.

Building Relationships

One of the biggest achievements of blog writing is to build relationships with readers. Guest blogging helps you gain many contacts in your niche, thereby increasing your reach and attracting new friends, fans and followers.

Backlinks

One of the key aspects of guest blogging is that you get valuable contextual links to your website or blog. If you are in a niche market, then getting exposure through links is extremely important to get targeted traffic. Also backlinks can help increase your search engine rankings.

Reputation

The more quality posts you publish, the faster you’ll see your friends, fan and follower-base growing. Very soon you will be considered as a subject matter expert in that field and this will extend your authority in your niche.

Now let’s look at why should accept guest posts on your blog.

Content

Your blog should be rich in content relevant to your website theme and a guest blogger can help you here. A guest blogger ensures that your website doesn’t have any downtime. Just like a professional newspaper, you will be providing non-stop quality content to your readers even when you are on leave or in a case of emergency you can publish guest posts on the blog thus not reducing your traffic.

Point Of Views

A guest blogger, who again maybe a subject matter expert, will have his own ideas and points of view. You will see different perspectives and different communications being set up and thereby it will increase your blogs visibility on your niche.

Building relationships

It is always essential in your area of business that you keep maintaining relationships. When you are inviting a guest blogger to write on your blog you are actually building a long term relationship. A relationship with subject matter experts will always be helpful for you on your future endeavors.

Learn

Another wonderful aspect of guest blogging is that sometimes you may not be aware of all details about a specific topic and through guest posts you will get new insights and ideas. It can prove to be a good learning experience.

The positive features of guest blogging definitely outweigh the negative points. Why don’t start and reap in the benefits you can get from guest blogging. Now that you know the positives of guest blogging why not try it and see the impact for yourself.

Do you guest blog or accept guest posts on your blog? Did you have any success with it or do you see any potential problem? Share your experiences with me here.

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If you are running a website or a blog, you need backlinks from other websites to get visitors. You already know that you can get links by submitting your site to directories for example, but how do you get quality links that can send you really targeted traffic?

For years, marketers have used article marketing to get targeted traffic. Article marketing usually involves writing articles and  submitting these articles to article directories like ezinearticles and other article directory sites. However, the traffic those directories send gets less and less targeted, and there is a reason for it.

But where does the traffic go?

The good news is, the traffic didn’t just disappear. Users are nowadays using other media formats like audio and video. There lots of additional content formats and media distribution options available.

I’m talking about submitting content to document sites, video sites and pod sites (a list of these sites is below).

There are so many people who are interested in the content available on these websites and are constantly searching these sites for related content. Many of these sites feature social networking profiles and functionality. You can get valuable direct traffic from these sites even though your site may be appearing on page 5 in Google with zero traffic.
However, by increasing popularity through document sites, video and podcast sites, you can also increase your google ranking in the long run.

Many people recommend social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to boost traffic. But, in reality, these sites do not publish juicy content the way document sites, video and podcast sites do.
If you depend solely on these social networking sites, your valuable content may lie buried under a bulk of personal chitchat, which mostly revolves around socialization rather than content.

If users visit your site, they should be interested in the content you have placed on your site to really become your potential customer. If you have done some selling earlier, they may even re-visit your site again to make a transaction.
Or at least they may signup for one of your mailing lists or free offers. If your content depicts about your in-depth knowledge on your subject, or it excites and enlightens rather than irritates the reader, you will attract more visitors. In order to draw those targeted visitors to your site, it is must have something to attract them.  Here is where multimedia content comes in.

After you have written your article, additionally prepare a PDF of the article and upload it to document sites like docstco and scribd.com.
Then create an audio file from your article and upload it to apple iTunes, podcast sites, etc.
Dont’t just stop there and create a video from your article, then upload it to youtube, and other video sites.
All this will definitely give you several links and push a flood of visitors to your site.

You can also explore many other publishing opportunities like free eBook directories and even publish the article on related niche blogs. Also articles can be placed on web 2.0 properties like Satellite blogs such as Squido, blogger and Livejournal.

Most of these websites permit the use of anchor text link. This can help you to increase the visibility of your website in search engines.

Document Sharing sites

scribd.com
box.net
esnips.com
divshare.com
4shared.com
gigasize.com
yudu.com
calameo.com
docstoc.com
issuu.com
edocr.com
gazhoo.com
bookgoo.com
keepandshare.com
docs.zoho.com
gotomyfiles.com
huddle.net
twidox.com
webexone.con
docuter.com
slideboom.com
slideshare.net
authorstream.com
slidelive.com
slideserve.com
myplick.com
slideburner.com
pdfcast.org/pdf
re-pdf.com

Video Sharing Sites

YouTube.com
Blip.com
uZood.com
Dailymotion.com
Metacafe.com
Veoh.com
Hulu.com
Megavideo.com
Revver.com
Vimeo.com

Podcast Sites

collectik.net
econsultant.com
divicast.com
enablr.com
feed2podcast.com
folcast.com
fruitcast.com

If you would like to see other sites here too, please send me the site URL in a comment.

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In order to establish yourself as trusted authority in your niche and industry, you need to learn and apply effective blog marketing techniques for your website. This article shares with you 7 useful methods for effective blog marketing.

Marketing your own blog online is not at all a tough task to do, however gaining trust from readers and presenting yourself as authority in your field is tough.

First of all, you need to be consistent. The most important part is to update your blog constantly with fresh content. If you are able to do this, you are on your way to optimize your blog marketing efforts and to establish yourself as authority.

Here are some blog marketing secrets that help you to increase authority:

1. Conduct interview sessions with other bloggers in your niche and industry. Interviewing targeted experts and thus posting all the content on your blog is a brilliant strategy get backlinks and to market your the blog online, because interviews are usually really unique and juicy content and other people like to link to unique content.
You don’t have to do it via telephone, you can also send your questions via email and they’ll send it back whenever convenient.

2. All your posts should be relevant to your website theme and maintain a certain level of quality. Don’t just cross-publish unrelated articles, this may confuse and bore your readers. Just give them what they are looking for on a constant basis.

3. Post breaking news. Make a habit of scanning the news in your market each day and write articles commenting on the news, you can add a little bit spice here and there which may create controversy. Controversy usually brings a lot of comments and search engines love busy blogs. Make sure to reply to all blog comments so that you keep up the discussion and the blog post nice and busy. This strategy will surely help you out to get more traffic.

4. Setup contests on your own blog and offer a prize related to your niche, industry and market. Contests are a great way of drawing readers to your blog and to create a community users also interact with each other. If you are selling products, services or memberships, give it as prize to your contest winner. By doing so, you will also create interest, long after the contest is over.

5. A google-recommended way to promote websites is via press-releases. Press releases are one of the first natural methods to inform the public about a new product, service and web page you have coming out.

6. Browse other blogs and give your expert opinion in the comment section of articles. Other readers will see your comment and follow through to your website. When you are trying to establish yourself as authority, it is not relevant whether the blog has a do-follow or no-follow policy. Just comment on the largest blogs in your niche. This is also a vital aspect for blog marketing.

7. While you are visiting these blogs, why don’t you send a request to the owner proposing a link exchange between your blogs at the same time? It just takes 2 extra minutes of your time and you may be getting a nice link from a related blog soon.

Do you have success/no success with any of these methods? Comment and share with me your top blog marketing strategies.

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