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Friday, April 30, 2010

Blogger Mistakes


Blogger Mistakes You Can’t
Afford To Commit

Who am I to teach you about blogger mistakes?

I’m not a big-time blogger. Neither has my blog won any award.

But I do know one thing, that is, how to use my blog as a tool

to achieve my goal.

I’m telling you this because this is exactly the TOP mistake

that many new bloggers make.

Many new bloggers tend to treat their blog as some kind of online

holy grail, thinking that as long as they have a blog, traffic will

come and they will make money.

What they should do instead is to think of blog as just another a tool.

It should be part of the business, not the business.

I know this is a bit theoretical and ‘dry’, but this is an important

fundamental that you must understand, if you want to follow

my advice.

As you know, I get most of my writing inspiration from our members’

questions. Today’s topic on blogger mistakes is no different.

1) Build A Business, Not A Blog

As I said, I don’t consider myself as a blogger.

My approach to blogging is from the perspective of a marketer.

To me, blog is one of my marketing tools for my business.

In other words, blogging is not my business, and it should not

be your business too.

Frankly, I can’t see a business in your blog. What I can see instead

is you are trying to write some articles and get people to buy the

Click bank product you’re affiliated to. That’s not a business.

Your domain name is membership-millions.com. If I were you,

I will turn the blog into a resource centre that teaches people how

to make money from membership. You may write articles that teach

people how to start a membership site, how to promote membership

sites, etc. You can engage a freelancer to create a membership script

to give away.

If you choose to go the membership way, everything you do should be

related to membership. Your opt-in freebie should be an ebook about

membership. Your articles should be about membership.

If you are afraid that you may not have enough material to write

about membership, your worry is unnecessary. Everything about

internet marketing can be twisted to link to membership.

For example, your little twitter ebook can be renamed to

“how to promote your membership with twitter”.

2) Forget About Making Money

Beggars can’t be choosers. New bloggers can’t be choosers too.

For a new blog, you must focus on providing useful content and

forget about making money.

At the beginning stage, you MUST establish your blog as a useful

resource that people can turn to. Promoting affiliate products should

be a by-the-way thing.

For example, while teaching people how to promote their membership

websites, there may be some traffic tools that you can recommend.

You are more likely to make sales if you focus on providing useful

advice rather than focusing on promoting the product.

3) Be Extremely Proactive In List Building

If you have been reading my blog, you should know that I

advocate ‘list’ before ‘blog’.

If you haven’t started building a list, you should do it asap.

When I say building a list, I’m not talking about the opt-in form

that is currently in your blog. I’m talking about a separate squeeze

page that you actively advertise and promote to get people to

opt-in.

You need to build your list fast so that these subscribers can become

your blog readers. Else you are forever talking to dust.

Check out our list builder script in your members’ area and see how

it can help you in this.

4) Practice Search Engine Optimization

Your blog may be SEO ready, but your articles are not,

or at least I can’t see how a new blog can get to the top

search result for a highly competitive keyword of “How

To Make Money Online Fast” with some 1,390,000,000

competitions.

If you don’t understand SEO, learn it. If you have learnt it,

practise it.

Build links to your blog. Research your keywords before every post.

This is the minimum you should do.

You won’t see immediate effects. But in 3 to 6 months, you will

reap what you sow.

These are the immediate things you as a blogger.

Moving ahead, there are tons of things you can do to keep you very busy.

For example, you can sell your own product, start your own affiliate

program, create a brand for yourself in your niche and a lot more.


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