There are many reasons why people create blog sites on the Internet, one of which has to do with their pure passion for being involved with the Internet. They love interacting with the online world and designing things that will be successful in such a competitive online world. This passion drives these dedicated blog owners to do what they do and helps them to spend the majority of their life doing things that they love to do.

The other reason for why people create and publish blog sites is because they are trying to find ways of earning more money. The online world has become a major source of income for many Internet investors, and continues to attract many hopeful entrepreneurs to its profitable business realm. The question for all blog owners then, is how they might be able to generate more income with their Internet marketing blog.

Blog owners can do many different things to help make their sites more profitable and to obtain actual money from this important online investment. This article will share a few ideas that will help you to increase your amount of income that arrives from a successful blog site. These ideas should be carefully considered and then applied to the blog site if you want to experience fast results.

Advertisements

One of the most common ways that blog owners generate income from their sites is by first becoming very popular in the online world, and then allowing advertisements to be posted onto your web pages. The more popular your blog site becomes, then the more money that other blogs and companies will pay you to post the ads. Advertisements are a great way for you to generate income with your Internet marketing blog.

Products

Another great way for you to increase the amount of income you make is to offer some sort of products on your blog site that are available for purchase. Although you might not have a blog that sells actual products, you can sell things that are able to be used online such as software programs, design templates, and blog tools. These can be valuable assets to your blog site and offer a little bit of additional income for your pocket.

Going Public

If you have built a blog site that has grown into an enormous and major network of web sites, then you might be able to perform this next method of increasing the amount of online income that you make. As the owner of a major network of blog sites, you might consider “going public” with your online business and selling portions of it to business entrepreneurs. Selling part of your online blog to other people will render large amounts of money and should relieve a lot of extra stress from your workload.

You can also attach a small amount of reward fees to these sales and generate an ongoing income from the successes of the blog sites that you sell.

Web 2.0 and Web marketing is a match made in heaven. There are many ways to create traffic to your website using the power of Web 2.0. Below I am going to examine what I consider to be the top five.

Jack Humphrey, a well-known Web 2.0 expert, defines it this way in his Authority Black

Book:

Generally speaking, if people can submit links to content, submit content, make comments and vote good/bad content up/down thus affecting the amount of traffic that content can generate, it’s Web 2.0.

Blogs, wikis, file sharing sites, content rating systems, book-marking sites, and social networking sites are all examples of Web 2.0. Some of the more well-known Web 2.0 sites are YouTube (file sharing), Facebook and MySpace (social networking), Wikipedia (wiki), BlinkList (book-marking) and Digg (content rating system). The list is almost endless, and the traffic that these websites generate is absolutely staggering.

So how can you harness some of this traffic?

1) Create original, quality and compelling content and submit them to Web 2.0 websites.

For example, if you write an original and compelling article, you can submit it to content sharing and content rating system websites such as Digg, Propeller, Newsvine MarkTD or Reddit. Sometimes there content sharing and content rating system websites that specializes in a particular industry. MarkTD specializes in marketing, for example.

When you submit your article to these sites, people will give it a vote, and each vote moves the article up where it can be seen by more and more people. This has the potential of creating a lot of traffic for your website since each reader will need to click on the link to go to your site to read the full article. And you’re building a permanent link pointing to your website that can be followed for months and years to come. (And don’t forget, a link from a quality site to your website helps in your search engine rankings too.)

Or you can create an original video and submit it to YouTube. Here it will get rated and possibly seen by many people. If the video contains your website or a plug for your business, then all the better. YouTube is not the only video sharing website however. There are many, and one video can be submitted to them all. This same concept applies to your original images, photographs, digital art and audio files.

2) Web 2.0-ize other people’s sites that contain a link back to your website

I’ll assume you already know how your bookmarks (or Favorites) work in your browser. There are websites that exist that act in the same way, but the bookmarks you set are public. BlinkList and Simpy are two examples of this. People’s public bookmarks are browsed by others and lead to clicks to the sites you’ve bookmarked. So be sure to bookmark your business website and inner pages that are important.

Also, these bookmarks can appear in search results in engines like Google and Yahoo. And some even think that search engines use book-marking sites in their algorithms, although this has not been conclusively proven. Simpy and BlinkList are two more examples of these kinds of Web 2.0 book-marking sites.

Let’s say you write an original, quality article and post it to your business website. Then let’s say you submit the article to a handful of content rating websites like some of the ones explained above. To further market this article, you can then use social book-marking sites to bookmark the page on the content rating websites that list your new article and that contain a link back to your article. This can be very powerful.

Or let’s say you notice that an authority in your industry has a link on its website that points back to your website. Go ahead and bookmark the page on the authority site, thus marketing it, which in turn markets your site as well. One particular Web 2.0 website that is very popular and can generate tons of traffic is StumbleUpon. This site allows people to give any page you deem worthy a “thumbs-up”. And if you get enough “thumbs-up”, people browsing StumbleUpon will see it and click over to that page. So I always make it a point to “Stumble” my business websites’ homepages and sites that contain links to my business websites as well.

If you become an active member in a handful of Web 2.0 websites and utilize these first two suggestions alone, you will be amazed at the kind of traffic you can generate.

3) Engage in the conversations and activities

When I suggest above to become an active member I mean that you need to visit a few of your favorite Web 2.0 sites on a regular basis and actually contribute to the site with your opinions, votes, comments and submissions. For instance, if you like Digg or Newsvine, visit them often and submit quality articles, content and sites to them. And they don’t all have to be your sites.

In fact, the more impartial you are, the more people will trust you when you submit one of your articles. And you ought to vote for other people’s Digg submissions as well. You may enjoy Facebook, Linkedin ro MySpace. First, create a profile on the site, then go out and make connections within the community. The more you do this, the more you can harness the power of the people you meet to help market your website or yourself.

Visit and comment on blogs in your industry. This is another tried and true way to engage in the online conversation. Blogs are Web 2.0 and have been around for a while now. Unfortunately, leaving blog comments has been abused by so many people that you absolutely must only leave blog comments that contribute to the overall blog post.

Only add your website’s link if you’re asked to. These links won’t help your search engine rankings but can drive traffic to your site.

4) Encourage visitors to bookmark and tag your content

If you have a blog, add a feature that shows up at the end of every post that allows users to bookmark or submit your post to other Web 2.0 websites. ‘Share This’ is just such a blog add-on (or plug-in) that can do this for you. If you have a Wordpress blog you’ll be able to find a plug-in that allows you to integrate this type of feature (including Share This) into your blog very easily and without the need for any technical knowledge. If you write a memorable or compelling post, people can use this to make bookmarks to the post, Stumble it, Digg it and so forth. All of this can lead to more traffic.

5) Add a Web 2.0 feature to your website

First of all, your business website needs a blog. If you don’t have one, then stop reading this and go to it. A blog enables you and your employees an easy way to post new information that is relevant to your business and helpful to your customers. And it allows your customers to easily communicate with you by leaving comments.

But beyond a blog, what other Web 2.0 features can you add to your website? If you’re selling products, consider adding in a feature that allows customers to rate each product. It can be something as simple as one to five stars or more elaborate where they leave reviews. Amazon does this and it one of the major driving forces in their sales. When potential customers see that your products are rated by existing customers, they’ll be more likely to trust you and buy.

You could add a wiki to your website. A wiki is software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content. By encouraging your website visitors to create content for you, you’re allowing your site to grow, become more informative and thus creating more chances to be found in search engines. These features can be found as third-party software packages and integrated into your existing website surprisingly easily.

The power of Web 2.0 is substantial. It’s time you begin to harness its potential and by following these five suggestions, you’ll be well on your way.

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My name is George Collins and I know that there are a lot of people out there that are looking for ways to really get more people to look at their site. So I wrote some articles and I’m going to share it with you, and it will give you some ideas. So let’s get started.

Where Do I Get Help, How Do I Market Online

When you find the top person to teach you they are usually on the next topic of teaching you before you have even grasped that first topic. But just hang in there and do not expect to come into this industry and become an overnight success without knowing anything. I guarantee you that any top earner you interview or ask, did they just automatically come in one day and start making thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, I guarantee not. I guarantee if you ask them if they bought any courses that were worthless, they will say yes. Have you found the cream of the crop in the industry that you are in now in order to learn what you know to market, most will say yes. You ask them did it take you months or years to learn what you did to get to where you are. Did it take you six months or a year to make ten thousand dollars, did you make it in two months. Some will say two months, some will say ten months. Everyone of us is different.

That is the unique thing about us as humans is that we were all created different, we are all unique, we all learn at different paces, we all learn differently. Some of us love to read and can read and learn just fine. Others need to look at something visually just to understand it. We all learn different ways and different paces. Look at how you learn, if you learn a little bit slower, you learn a different method, try to find that method of learning from your mentor to teach you that and get it. Do not rush things, I know some people, whether you are trying to do affiliate marketing or you are just starting your home based business, some people are under pressure because of debts, or loss of a job or other life problems.

It just does not happen overnight. If you expect that, than you are really just setting yourself up for failure and when it does not happen you get all upset and think this stuff does not work, when you actually never give it enough time. Or if you did not do any marketing you might not have hung around long enough to see the fruits of your labor. When we first started network marketing and when we found the cream of the crop, he said go recruit from within the industry, and we said how do you do this. He said you need to call other people in the industry. So we started calling people, we did not know much about the internet, but we did call to generate the traffic, it is part of the formula, it is targeted traffic because we are recruiting from the industry which is the target market, we are just using the telephone to generate the traffic.

We would do like a hundred to two hundred calls a day, it would take us about two and a half hours or so. It took us a little longer in the beginning but you get better at what you do over time. Contrary to what people said about using this method, they would sponsor one person after calling a hundred people, we did not sponsor one single person until after many hundreds of calls. When we first started it was not even a hundred calls a day, it was more like fifty or less until we were use to using the phone that much. You have to work up to calling that many people in one day. So it took us many weeks and many hundreds of calls to sponsor one person.

If you try to gauge yourself on what other people are doing, like sign up one person for every hundred calls, that may work for them but do not think it is going to work for you. Maybe they have been doing it for a long time and they mastered that skill. You may have a long way to go before you can be as competent as they are and perfect that technique. We did not have that when we first started. It took us weeks to even get close to that. If we just listened to what they said and what they did and we did twenty calls the first day and say we got to a hundred calls my fourth or fifth day, we called a hundred people by that time combined and did not sponsor one person.

If we just listened to that, we would have stopped at that point. But we knew that they had been doing the calls for quite a while, they know exactly what they are doing, they put their time in already, just like we are doing now to perfect this and to become a master at what we were doing. And soon after we made that first sale, after hundreds and hundreds of phone calls, we soon mastered it where we were recruiting one person out of every hundred or two hundred calls, and because of the voice message that we left we would sponsor one person every two or three days from the voice messages that we had left.

You have to perfect all aspects of the techniques that you going to be using. After you become a master at one of the techniques, then you can go on to teach any of the people that you work with. You can tell people that they cannot use the method and expect to get the results that a person who mastered that technique is getting, it just will not happen. You cannot start cold and make two hundred calls a day and sign up two people like someone who has been at it for a year or so. So that is just an example on branding.

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