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Before you start to write a blog, you should seriously consider the topic you’re going to cover on it. Lots of different blogs offer information on the technical aspects of blogging as a business: these are mostly people from the IT and advertising worlds who are very good at understanding concepts like SEO (Search Engine Optimization), keywords, traffic, and ad revenue.

These blogs– which can be found by a simple search engine that will provide you with more how-to articles than you can ever read in a lifetime– are geared towards the business-minded individually who will see blogging, first and foremost, as a business. This has been my essential problem when looking for advice on how to start a blog for profit: On the one hand, I’ve enjoyed dozens of blogs over the last decade that both engaged me as a reader and reportedly have made a significant income for their creators.

The thing that drew me into blogs like dooce.com, Daily Dish, DailyKos, or Awesome Zara had nothing to do with my perception of their business models, and that’s one of the trickiest parts of starting such a successful blog. The interest I had in any of these blogs was their engaging content. Dooce.com, for instance, was started by a graphic designer who was frustrated with her job working for a PR firm in Utah. She set up the blog essentially as a way to vent her frustrations about her job, and gained such a following that her boss fired her for it.

Within a year, Armstrong was able to leverage revenue created on her blog– where she chronicled her struggles with depression over losing her job, coupled with the stress of being a new mother– into covering the costs of the mortgage she and her husband had previously been paying through each of their jobs. While it’s true that Armstrong had knowledge of the tricks and blips to keep her site going without having to invest in it herself, what drew me and countless others into her readership was her ability to tell storie4s about her life that kept us wanting to read more. Daily Kos’ unique community of people, while they seem to share a certain political perspective that gained massive popularity during the end of the Bush years, has much the same draw: at the root of it, the writing on both of these sites is what increases their traffic and keeps me as a loyal reader.

Both of these sites are centered around strong, unique content. In Armstrong’s case, she found a passion in juggling the duties of being a mother and being a businesswoman with a flair that caught on among the circles of women who found reflections of themselves in her story, which she told with such a dizzyingly honest and abrasive tone that she kept the readership entertained and concerned about her. In the case of Daily Kos, the writers there all had significant and topical things to say about the way the bush administration was running our country into the ground, they marketed their viewpoints through networking, and have since become one of the go-to sources of political blogging on the web.

They key to these blogs’ successes was primarily a matter of the passion with which their contributors told their stories and expressed their viewpoints. So while , yes, technical notions of how to optimize on popular themes and incorporate them into your blog are important, the first step to starting a blog for profit is finding something about which you’re passionate that you think others can be passionate about, too.

This is my blog launch formula. It is an absolute beauty. Follow this strategy and you are GUARANTEED to successfully launch ANY blog in ANY niche. I won’t make any wild claims about the number of visitors you will receive, nor the number of pages you will have indexed in Google, nor the number of mentions you will have in Google, suffice to say, you will be delighted with the return on time and effort invested.

You will have noticed that blogs and blogging play a big part in the 7 Sexy SEO Secrets. In fact, that is the 7th and in my opinion, the sexiest seo secret of them all; BLOG.

Here’s the launch formula that I personally use when I’m serious about a blog. You can trim accordingly for less important blogs, but trimmer beware, who knows where the secret sauce lies?

Task + How Long?

1. Keyword Research and Domain Purchase 1 hour

2. Install WordPress blog 30 mins

3. Install 2 tag plug ins, change the permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/, insert ping list, insert header. 30 mins

4. Create my Feedburner feed and submit RSS feeds once posts have been completed. Also add my Buzzboost to display in sidebar 30 mins

5. Insert sign up form using Aweber 30 mins

6. Install Google Analytics and submit Google Sitemap 20 mins

7. Set up RSS Bookmarker to take care of my social bookmarking. Could also use AutoSocialPoster 30 mins

8. Claim blog at Technorati. Also submit to Entrecard (worth buying a few ads) and BlogCatalog. 30 mins

9. Write 5 unique articles and post on blog. Submit same articles to Ezine + Article Marketer 3 hours

10. Install WP-O-Matic to publish RSS feed 30 mins

11. Start a low budget PPC campaign on Yahoo, MSN or Google for selected keywords. 2 hours

12. Create a video and post to video distribution sites. Also post video on my site. Also bookmark video by adding video RSS Feed to RSS Bookmarker. 2 hours

13. Link to blog from 4 of my other blogs, including 2 of my blogger blogs. Add FAQ, privacy and contact pages to my site. 1 hour

14. Add my site to links network. Submit RSS Feeds. 10 mins

15. Completely rewrite 25 PLR articles and set them up for sporadic posting over the next month or so. Submit those too. 8 hours

16. Submit site to directories using a directory submission service 30 mins

17. Write and submit a press release 1 hour

18. Write and submit various classified ads 2 hours

19. (Potential to buy links but Google may frown on this practice. Buyer beware!) 1 hour

20. Forum posting (genuine, not Spam), include Warrior Forum Special Offer 5 hours

21. Install ad tracking codes on certain campaigns to measure return on time/money invested 1 hour

22. Rifle shot approach to top listings in Google and other target sites, contacting each site individually and exploring advertising/joint venture opportunities. 5 hours

TOTAL, give or take 40 hours

* Please note that it takes about 5 minutes per account to register for each social bookmarking sites. So, if you don’t have any accounts set up as yet, please allow yourself around 3 hours to set up 30 odd accounts.

So, there you have it. Appreciate it that this might be a bit overkill for some blogs but thought it might cut out a lot of guesswork for others.

There you have it, The 7 Sexy SEO Secrets. They, in case you missed any, are:

1. Long Tail 
2. Off Page 
3. Ranking page ownership 
4. 1 way links 
5. Keep it fresh 
6. You don’t need SEO! 
7. Blog

Good luck on your journey! Remember to always ask for help and to seek expert advice from top SEO services if you need it.

Many times problem arises when you purchase website traffic services and the service provider do not insert keywords while doing directory submission. As a result your increased web traffic drive is hampered adversely. This fact clears how vital it is to use keywords and phrases. Whichever website traffic service provider you choose it should provide the chance to choose the keywords for directory submission.

Keywords are the basics in the procedure for searching the relevant information through the search engines. Maximum percentage of targeted website traffic use keywords in search engines and respective links to locate the information. Every major search engine uses their own official algorithms so that the system generates most appropriate and exact matching results to the keyword’s request. You might feel that search engines produce results in fraction of seconds, so it is a very simple process and no extra efforts are their in it! But the truth is search engines have programmed mathematical formulas and put into system that scans and indexes all type of websites in just fraction of second. Importance of keywords always remains on top priority for getting targeted website traffic.

Website content should have clearly defined and structured keywords/phrases so that the fact is established that your website can meet up the needs of the keyword request of the users. Frame out well-structured keyword strategy leaving no chance for your competitor to takeover your traffic share! Wherever you have text see to it that it contains significant keywords, it can be articles, blogs, social websites, images, directory submissions, link building, etc.

At any cost never practice ‘keyword spamming’, it increases the chances of your websites being banned by search engines. Construct content with relevant keywords in a meaningful way and not use it repetitively just for the sake of it.

When you do purchasing of any website traffic services ensure it that they allow you to select your preferred keywords. It is possible that unlike marketing campaigns have some similar set of keywords. Select the keywords cautiously for the purpose of directory submission, also the directory submission heading should be written carefully.

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