A new person into affiliate marketing that I helped to train was able to start generating around 100 dollars a month in come starting his first month out the door.  He invested around 7 hours in training with me and an aditional 40 hours that first month to generate that income.  The thing is he has done nothing after the frist motnh and is still generating that 100 a month.  If he actually kept going and kept up that 40 hours a month I am sure he would be making more and over the course of many years you can make a very nice living online.

Getting started is not hard and it takes little investment.  If you have money.  All the better because you can invest in some training and guides.  If you wanted to start a blog like this site is then the cost for a domain name is going to be 10 dollars each year and then you will have the cost of hosting which is around 10 dollars a month.  So a total out of pocket expense to you can be as low as 130 dollars a year.

A great quick guide that I recommend out can be downloade by following this link www.blogsavvy.net/uploads/plr_process_Rebranded.pdf .   While this is a very basic book, it’s filled with many of the things I do to generate a nice 6 figure income each year.

It can take years of work to generate a very good solid income online but like all things.  The more you do it the more you learn and the better you get at it.  When you first get started you will find that after a good 40 hours of work you may of only made a 1 that first month.  But the nice thing about affiliate marketting is as your sites start to age and you build up that traffic each and every month then you will start making more and more sales.  I made a total of 10 dollars my first month and I must of put in at least 100 hours.  Granted I had know idea what I was doing and most of that was reading everything I could get my hands on about how to make money online.  Now even if I do not put in a single hour of work I will still most likely make 300-700 for the day.  It all pays off in the long run.

When getting started I think the most important thing is to have a game plan in place as well as a goal.  In the next few weeks I am going to start to build up a FREE game plan for people and maybe will even hold a few conference calls with my readers.

As for the goal we can cover that part now.  I alsways recommend you start with a smaller goal that is still hard to achieve.  My goal was to pay for all my grocies each month.  Between my significant other, myself and my son the total is around 400 on food.  So my goal was to make 400 dollars.  It took close to 7 months for me to first hit that goal.  I have no idea how many man hours but it was a lot of late nights.  Of course I did not have a well thought out plan and it wasn’t untill that 6th month of doing things that I found out about the guys who wrote that book I recommended earlier.  These guys are the ones that got me on track and thanks to them I am now were I’m at today.

Stay tuned for some great info on exaclty what to do to get started.  I am going to be releasing all this info free of charge because I know what it’s like to be broke.

HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE MONEY IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IS WORKING!!!!!!!

It just kind of hit me one day.  I was reading an article about how to increase conversion rates and the one thing they kept hitting on was to spilt test and track results.  The sky cleared and a big light just shined down on me.  Track the sale to know what page the sale is coming from and from what type of link.

While I don’t very few products there is one I like to use on all my blogs.  I use this tool for several reasons.  The first is it auto links to any keyword or keyword phrase on my blog while at the same time hiding my affiliate link.  I only hide the link  NOT CLOACK it.  This plug-in is a great check it out at  www.affiliatepro.com. Now this tool alone will track the clicks on blogs but will not track the sales.

Almost all affiliate programs out there will let you ad tracking ID’s to the link.  I normally track what site the link is one for example if it was on my personal website blogsavvy then I would name it Blogsavvy or a variation like BS.  Then I mark were the link is located ie.. Banner type or size, in-text, top.  Things like this.  Then you can name the page.  This way when a sale happens you know the website, the page of the site and the link location.

A great free tool you can use to hide or mask your affiliate link on static web pages or any page for that matter is http://www.ragepank.com/articles/hide-affiliate-links/.  You can even use this with the WP Affiliate Pro plug-in and that’s the way I have it setup.

As alwasy be sure and comment.  Do you have a tool you like to use ?  Do you have a better way of tracking and want to share?

There are millions of different niches out there.  It can be hard for many to find the right niche for them.  As an affiliate marketer finding a profitable niche is a must.  While many people offer guides to finding a niche I personally use a different method.

The first is to decide how your site will be monetized.  Yes deciding this before you even pick a niche.  Normally we just use affiliate products.  On about half of my sites I do not even use Adsense.  The many reason I do implement this is only after I am unable to convert a product into a sale.  While this is very rare I do sometimes pick a niche that I can not seem to convert anything on.  When this happens I drop the affiliate product or at least ad adsense to the pages as a major focus of the site.

Now that you decided on how you will monetize your site we need to focus in on a niche.  Many people do random keyword searches and the like.  Personally I start with the product.  Yes we don’t even know what we are selling yet.  I go through the many affiliate networks and just site back and browse till I find a product I would then like to promote.  Then I build up keywords around that product using the free Google keyword tool.  A Quick example would be a site I purchased today called howtotransferfiles.com.  I found a product called Laplink.  Then plugged in some generic terms like data transfer, file transfer and the like into the Google keyword tool.   I checked out many of the long tail keywords and found that I have many options for long tail keywords that I can write about and get some very good traffic coming into the site.

I know what your already asking.  So how do I know if this niche is profitable?  Well that answer goes back to the product we are selling.  On each sale of Laplink I should make 20+ dollars on average.  I love to sell software that has a profit of 15 bucks per sale.  At a CTR ( Click Through Rate) of 15% and a CR ( Convertion rate of 3 %) that would mean that for every 1K unqiue visitors I will make 4.5 sales.  Times that buy 20 bucks and I am making 90 dollars off of 1K unique visitors.  So if I build up traffic to the site using long tail keywords and properly optimize my site and get 1K of unique visitors a day I will be making 2,700 bucks a month off of this niche.  It should take me around 6 months to build that kind of traffic over time but once it is there that is 2.7K a month for a long time to come.  This is how I was able to build up my income to the level it is today selling affiliate products.  Now if your CR is less then 3% and it can be depending on the offer you will make far less.  For example if it’s only a 1% CR and your CTR is only 10% then you will be making 1 sale per 1K visitors which equals just 20 bucks a day.  This will sometimes happen and when it does you will need to switch some things around on your site until you get a better conversion rate.  If that fails then it may be time to implement adsense into the site.  You can see that tracking your visitors and sales is the most important factor in finding what products are more profitable.  Once you do this a few times you will start to discover other profitable niches that are related to the one you are already making good money off of.  For instance I am already in the data back niche and that has been converting very well for me.  Because Data back and data transfer are very similar it is safe for me to assume I should have close to the same results.

Hope this quick guide helped.  Be sure to add your comments, tricks and tools for what you do.

For those that are looking to develop some kind of service that does snot have a set name then often times you should find a domain that is brand able and easy to remember.

If you are an affiliate marketer like me then I have far more advice to offer.  First I stay away from any domain with a number unless that number is part of your keyword you are targeting.  I never purchase any domains with a dash in it.  While you can get away with just having one I still would not go this route.  The only extensions I consider are .com, .org, and .net.  All others can work but from a marketing point of view other extensions are not as trusted or known to visitors.

Once you know the niche you are entering I like to build a list of keywords that I will be targeting,  Use the free https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Tool.  Build up a list of names and be sure to check to broad search volume.  Identify a set of keywords that have a common keyword phrase.  A keyword pharse is normally 2 – 3 keywords.  For instance I just did a search on the following terms, data transfer, file transfer, transfer files.  These are some great keyword phrases for me to promote Laplink software.  So now I will use one of my favorite domain tools at http://www.domainsbot.com/. This is a 100% free to use tool and great to find domains that are not registered.  I plugged in the above keyword phrases one at a time and found out that transferfiles.org is not taken.  Now I can drill down on the transfer files keyword phrase and see if there are longer tail keyword phrases I can target.  I just did this and there are 100’s of great phrases I can target that have the keyword transfer files in it.  The domain is a keeper.

You will notice this is not hard at all and 100% free to do.  I always use a domain name that has the main target keyword in it.  This will give me a foot up over other domains and help me to rank higher a whole lot easier.

Post your questions and comments.  If you use any other free tools or paid tools post them.  If you have questions ask them.

While many niche bloggers can go out and find their own affiliate programs from smaller companies often times many brand names are affiliated with an Affiliate Network. Here is a listing of some of the prominent affiliate networks out there.

When searching for a good product or service to promote, be sure to check all the networks. You may find that same company on a different network offering a slightly hire commission rate. This is often times because different networks have different fee structures. Also many affiliate network programs out there offer a bonus like OneNetworkDirect from Digital River.

Onto the list of Affiliate Networks:

Google Adsense/Double Click: Google is on of the main sources of income for many bloggers and affiliates. With the acquisition of Double Click you can find plenty of products and services to promote. The is one of the best and easiest ways to monetize your blog and to supplement your income.

Commission Junction (www.cj.com): This company is one of the oldest out there and you are sure to find many top brand names. I have had my differences with this company and in some situations felt treated un fare but in no means am I going to stop working with them. With many top Brand names programs you are sure to find a few products to promote.

Click Bank (www.clickbank.com): I do not promote too many CB products. These are all 100% digital products. Many e-book and software companies. They often have very generous payout structures because it is in a digital format. As many people know this is a great way to sell your own digital product and gain affiliates with out trying too hard. As stated earlier I do not promote many of their products. Most to seem to be junk programs and I can’t bring my self to recommend them. That’s not to say you can’t find some real GEMS.

Share A Sale: (www.shareasale.com) This is a network that everyone needs to be apart of. Like CJ you will find thousands of products and service that can fit your niche and needs.

Link Share: (www.linkshare.com): Many of the world’s top products are offered on this ad network. Just like many of the above you need to be apart of it.

One Network Direct: (www.onenetworkdirect.com) This is another software site. This is a Digital River company. You can check out Digital River over at www.digitalriver.com. I use One Network Direct for the vast majority of all my software sales. I have many reasons like the fact that they offer only top name products and are very willing to work with me. Another is the bonus structure. While 1-3% extra in bonus may not sound like a whole lot at the end of the quarter it’s another grand in my pocket.

I know we have not covered all affiliate programs out there. If you have a favorite you use all the time and love be sure to post it for others. I only listed some of the main ones.

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My goal is to reach below 80,000 by February 2009. At the rate I have watched my Alexa rank decrease (remember, lower is better), I figured that this type of goal was not only obtainable but I could easily do better.

Using the Sparky add-on for Firefox, when I visit my sites on a daily basis I watch to see how rank is improving or declining. This is vital information for me to know on all of my sites. Losing traffic and rank…

In the Race to Rank series I reported last month that my Alexa rank was at 166,686.

My goal is to reach below 80,000 by February 2009. At the rate I have watched my Alexa rank decrease (remember, lower is better), I figured that this type of goal was not only obtainable but I could easily do better.

Using the Sparky add-on for Firefox, when I visit my sites on a daily basis I watch to see how rank is improving or declining. This is vital information for me to know on all of my sites. Losing traffic and rank for me means I’m losing business. This isn’t good so I heavily monitor what’s happening with rank on all my sites.

Today, as I logged into my dashboard to see the comments left over night I noticed that my rank with Alexa has changed. More specifically today’s Alexa rank is 156,977.

Quick math tells you that in just 20 days, my Alexa rank has dropped by 9,709.

Logic says, what happened? We’ve got to repeat what happened on my blog in the last 20 days to reach the 100,000 goal by January.  And continuing the same steps, how can I drop to 90,000 or maybe even lower?

The best way for me to sum up what has happened in the last 20 days is to give you just one word:

Stumble

Yes, that’s right. StumbleUpon brought so many visitors in the last 5 days with two different blog posts. This is the only thing out of the ordinary for BlogSavvy.

To get specific, the post Race for Rank was stumbled several times which brought 617 visitors to my site directly from StumbleUpon.

If you’re keeping track, this means that in two days BlogSavvy had 968 visitors from StumbleUpon and that’s not counting residual traffic for either post on the same or different days.

The lesson learned is to write posts which will help you bring in traffic. You knew this, didn’t you? I mean, how many times exactly have we, as bloggers, heard Content is King. Aren’t you sick of it at this point?

However, the truth remains that while the saying sucks, it’s absolutely true. If your posts are on topics that people actually care about and you do the networking required to promote such posts, you’ll have traffic. Traffic is links, better Alexa rank, and in the long run, a better blog community.

A simple, simple post that explained I knew there was an update because I had pages on my blog, previously not ranked, showing PageRank.

Here’s the lesson of this post:

Pay attention to your ranks, know what they are if you want to make them better. Knowing where you’re at, what your ranking average is, and where you want to be will give you an idea of how to properly promote and network your blogs.

Next, make sure you have something that’s going to report real time statistics for your site. For example, I use and monitor daily my stats with the WordPress.com stats plugin. This has been vital to me.

I find it important to monitor my stats like this in real time because it lets me know where to spend time networking that day. It means if I’m getting heavy traffic from StumbleUpon, I need to head over to the site and spend time networking. It brings in more visitors. And the truth is, if you’re just getting a few visits from StumbleUpon, you can head over there and network to bring in more.

It doesn’t matter where your numbers are at, but on a day when you’re receiving a great deal of hits from one source, spend your time networking that day at that source.

In the end, I have proof now that having posts stumbled will indeed help me to lower my Alexa ranking.

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If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something – experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts – there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry – the Internet marketing industry – not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche – Internet marketing – and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things – email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it – making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) – your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion – your stories – and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

Is Content really King?

Every time I start to think about what I’m going to blog about next I make more and more realizations about my blogging. This has become especially more true since finding out how my blogging has helped others.

And here’s a big reality check for me… there are many blogs that are simply blogging for money, and thus have to resort to PerPerPost type of blogging, which is stupid. But if you have to do it, here’s some help.

Interim posts.

Yes, put something real between all of that crap your blogging about. I’ve mentioned before that I find the PayU2Blog, and PayPerPost assignments simply spam, I’m seeing it more and more, the requests are simply garbage. but hey you get $2 for writing about hair gel who can complain about that? right , what if you blog niche is bald men, really does’t make sense, but hey it’s your blog.

So to help those who have allowed their blogs to become over run with sponsored posts, here’s some places where I like to find good content to write about:

Mashable: Very interesting! Keep yourself up to date with what’s happening in social networking.

Bloggeries: Great forum, get registered and start talking. Dig through past articles to find good food for thought.

Your local news: What’s happening in your part of the world?

Your household: Remember the good ol’ days when you blogged about your life and people were interested? What are you doing other than sponsored posts?

Politics: Next month we’ll be voting for a new President here in the US (woohoo, party time!). What are your thoughts (or lack there of) on the campaigns? Do you care who’s President and are you even registered to vote?

Blogs: There are several blogs that give me food for thought to write my own opinions on topics they bring up. The bonus: trackbacks! Not only am I learning something, gaining new content for my own blog, but getting a link back.

Seriously, I’m not trying to be an income drainer, keep taking your sponsored posts. But for heaven’s sake, bring back the content too or it won’t be long before I’m hitting my “unsubscribe” button in my feed reader to ditch your spam.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called “traction”, which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don”t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that”s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger”s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it”s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it”s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it”s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it”s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it”s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

Jesus was a Failure too! I don’t want to get into a pissing match with you about the fact that you think that Jesus was perfect, but in fact he was not, now don’t get me wrong, i don’t believe he ever committed a sin, but I have to believe he made mistakes.

This should make you at least feel better about your own life, if you are emulating Jesus. This might come to you as a surprise but I will allow you to process the information below.

Think for a minute, Jesus was a carpenter, now I am willing to stake my entire existence on the fact that while Jesus was perfect in the site of God, he still failed as a carpenter.

You are a Failure too!

Have you ever experimented with power tools? I have and the old adage of “measure twice, cut once” has yet to be a fool proof way for me to make a perfect cut. Typically I have to take multiple cuts to get the board the right length, and I have a Bosch 18” radial arm miter saw with a Laser line to make sure that you cut it in the right spot. Home Depot loves me for this, not only did I buy the saw there, but typically when I’m doing a project I make at least 3- 5 trips that day, all because i either forgot something or i failed and doing it right and need more materials.

Now to my point, when Jesus lived they didn’t have power tools, everything was made by hand. Therefore it leads me to believe, while I can’t prove it, that Jesus cut a few boards the wrong length,  they were either too short or too long from time to time and so while you look at Him as a perfect being, He was in fact a failure at his profession.

However the thing that made him a perfect teacher was that He knew that Failure was part of the learning process, so He happily Failed, He would say to himself (I’m totally making this up) “So what if I cut the board the wrong length, or so what if I chiseled it down too far, I’ll get it right the next time, because there will be a next time.  I’m not going to let a little mistake from allowing me to get it right.”

“What the hell does this have to do with making your BlogSavvy?”

The main difference between people who are successful and YOU, is they didn’t give up when they made a few or a ton of mistakes. If Your like 90% of the people in this world, you simply have a bad habit of giving up after a few times of Failure, but that’s the secret, here it is, you are supposed to fail, SO now you know it do something about it, if you publish a post with spelling errors make a point not to do that again, if you aren’t very good at affiliate marketing, then learn how to do it better, learn how to get a better conversion rate.  My point is blogging is hard, and while there are those that succeed, we have faild over and over, and it only looks like we don’t fail as much, simply because we already have done what you are now starting to do.