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Setting goals for a new blogger

August 21st, 2009 Kevin Quinlan 2 comments

One of the best ways to keep your motivation alive as a new blogger is to set achievable goals. Many bloggers begin to write because they like the concept of blogging but don’t really have a plan or objective in mind, they just sort of start without thinking it out.

If you are just getting started and want to run a successful blog understand that a new blogger needs to be patient. Making money online and getting paid to blog doesn’t happen overnight. The most successful blogs have been around for over three years and post on a daily basis (if not many times a day). So, this is not to discourage you but for you to have the information in advance. Be patient.

So what are reasonable goals for a new blogger? Well, I would start out with this list which I tend to use when I create a new blog.

1. Write 100 blog posts
2. Secure 50 quality backlinks on various posts
3. Build a RSS subscription of 25 readers
4. Earn five dollars a week with advertisements (try google adsense)
5. Achieve PageRank of 5

These goals might take you three months to six months to achieve depending on really how new to blogging you really are but this will at least give you something to shoot for and keep you going. Some people try to create many blogs but never really put any effort into any of them, if you are a new blogger, start one blog, do it well and get it successful before you consider starting a second blog.

How to capitalize on targeted internet marketing

August 20th, 2009 Kevin Quinlan 4 comments

One of the best ways to make money online is with targeted internet marketing this is because all of your focus is driving traffic based on around a smaller set of keywords and topics. If you create a blog about cell phones for example, all of your articles will contain the keyword cell phone and in addition you can apply long tail keywords to attract more of a readership.

The smaller the topic of the site, the more effective targeted internet marketing can be as not only does your SEO get easier but also affiliates and advertisements will see your site as more valuable. Put yourself in the shoes of someone trying to sell a product. Would you want your advertisement for a cell phone gadget on a general technology blog or would you want it on a blog dedicated to cell phones. Obviously, you want the cell phone specific blog. This is because not just some, but 100% of the readership of the blog will be there due to an interest in cell phones.

Targeted internet marketing is all about linking up very specific topics with advertisers and marketing campaigns that fit within your topic. The more specific your blog is on a specific topic, the better it is for targeted internet marketing. So what does this mean to you for your blog?

Well, look over your site. Does it cover a general, generic theme or is it specific about one subset within a theme. If it is generic, try to focus it in now on a topic. Pick something that interests you and start writing regularly on that topic. Eventually you will gain in rank for that topic and keywords related to that topic which will result in interest from affiliate advertisements.

Here is a good article to get you started on your targeted internet marketing.

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