Saturday, May 30, 2009

From Blogging Newbie to POWER Blogging Professional

By Timothy R Walls

From Concept to Blog Marketing POWERHOUSE!

The simple blog creation and blog marketing strategies outline in this article may be old news to some seasoned marketers and an earth-shaking revelation for others. The question is. Are you implementing any of these tactics and strategies? The even bigger question is this.

Do you have a clear concept of what a POWERFUL web site marketing and traffic generator a blog really is?

By the time you get done reading this article...you will have a clearer picture of the POWERHOUSE that a self-hosted WordPress blog can be for you.

Most of us "get it", that is, the understanding that a blog is a tool for communication. What is not so easy to understand is how to turn a blog into a POWERTOOL for two-way communication, not only with the visitors to your blog, but all across the Internet Marketing Universe!

Here is my POWERBLOG Marketing Strategy of choice.

How to Use Your Blog as an Online Marketing Tactic for Generating Massive Targeted Traffic, List Building from that Traffic, and Converting Your Visitors into Buying Customers.

Onto the POWERHOUSE blog traffic generation strategy. Use it if makes sense in your situation. Refer back to it, when it does.

The point and focus of this articles to reveal a blog marketing strategy that will open your eyes to a whole new level of blogging. It is hardly the only blog marketing strategy, but one of many. Do with it what you will.

1. Set up a long-term hosting account. I paid for several years up front. Reason? Anyone checking how long I've been online will determine I am here to stay. The second was to pay the discount rate, which comes out to about $3.46 per month, and gives me unlimited domains, unlimited mysql and unlimited bandwidth. Choose a host provider with a full menu of services.

2. FTP upload and install the latest version of WordPress. This is the self-hosted approach. It is the only one you will take, if you are serious about building your online blog marketing business.

3. Install Affiliate Template, investing in the unlimited site license.

4. Install at a minimum the following plugins.

* Adsense-Deluxe * Akismet * All-in-One SEO Pack * Anarchy Media Player * Feedburner Feedsmith * Google XML Sitemaps * MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer * Simple CAPTCHA * Sociable * Statpress Reloaded * Traffic Getting SEO PluginTM Free Version * Unique Article Wizard plugin * WordPress Database Backup * wp-cache * WP-PageNavi * WP-Postratings * WP-Postratings Widget * wp-private * WP Auto Tagger This list of plugins should be subject to your constant evaluation and potential replacement, as you continue to study the recommendations of other expert bloggers.

5. After activating all plugins, use the Traffic Getting SEO PluginTM Free Version to perform an amazing number of tweaks, usually around 40, which will SEO optimize your blog for maximum traffic generation from Google, Web 2.0 and Articles Marketing.

6. Google for Google AdBuzz. Locate a marketer who is giving the software away for free. Install Google AdBuzz on your Desktop. Use Google AdBuzz to research and choose a profitable niche market.

7. Use one of 41 available niche headers that comes with your Affiliate Template for WordPress.

8. Use the UAW (Unique Articles Wizard) plugin to deliver tightly targeted key-word rich articles to your blog. This begins the traffic generation process.

9. Join Unique Articles Wizard and write a minimum of 10 new articles per week. Unique Articles Wizard software will generate human readable article variations into the hundreds and submit them to target article directories, which will, in turn, generate backlinks to your blog, higher google ranking and potentially a tsunami of unique visitors over a period of a few weeks to a few months.

10. Use the amazing built-in features of Affiliate Template to create product reviews and links to your affiliate and resale rights product offerings.

Expand your marketing efforts into forums, classifieds and email marketing (your own mini-course, newsletter or ezine.)

11. Repeat this process for as many niche market blogs as you have time to set up and manage.

This article only scratches the surface of the potential in this multi-pronged internet marketing, web promotion and list-building tactics. This strategy includes

* writing and publishing articles using a very power articles marketing/publishing strategy * writing product reviews - the softsell approach to converting visitors into paying customers * text ad programs (affiliate power ads and Google Adsense)

Summary: Half the battle won in the personal transition from the self-defeating psychology of viewing one self as a newbie marketer to online marketing professional and mentor is the act of investing into a Complete Toolbox of professional POWER Marketing tools. Take the time to go through the learning curve to learn how to use this professional POWER Blogging approach and you will not only see yourself as a marketing professional, you will act like one, reaping the benefits of a part-time, leading to a full-time online success in your own Internet Marketing business.

To your good fortune and online marketing success,

Timothy R Walls

Marketing Secrets Ezine

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