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By SEO Advisor | February 13, 2010
Back-story
My name is Debbie Lattuga and I blog at BestSLRCamera.org. Like most of you, I have been attempting to make money online. I consider these last couple of years my graduate study. I love to learn new things, and I am good at it. But just learning stuff and not doing stuff, didn’t make me any money. And I wound up with Information Overload.
Here are the graduate courses I studied:
Semester I: Business Models
In order to pass this semester, you must take the following classes. In addition, you must make at least $5.00 in 4 of these classes.
* Blogging 101
Spam Blogs for Fast Money
Authority Site for Aspiring Probloggers
Site Flipping for Cash
Membership Sites for Content
* Pay-per-Click (Not for Thin Wallets)
* Pay-per-View to Make $1 at a Time
* affiliate marketing for Newbies
* product launches a la Jeff Walker
* Made some meager money in these classes.
The good thing is, I learned a lot. The bad thing is, I didn’t stick with one model. And by bouncing around to different business models, I didn’t give any one model enough effort to produce results.
And they are all good models. But I was looking for one that fit. I’m sure if any one of them had taken off – that one would have fit just fine.
It did appear that the blogging model was the one model that I could pursue that would be the best fit for my ability to learn quickly. And I love sharing what I learn.
Semester II: The Blogging Model
To pass this semester, you must take the following 4 classes and be able to produce a power point presentation on each of the core concepts.
1. Search Engine Optimization for Beginners
- linking
- remote blogs
- niche research
2. Advertising to Drive Traffic
- article marketing
- copy writing
- social media
- video production
3. List Building for Income Generation
- writing ebooks
- squeeze pages
4. Content Development for Ranking
- fast post writing
- private label rights
- rss feeds
- outsourcing
Now I passed these classes… but I had to translate what I learned into something profitable.
How I Got 1578 Uniques in One Day
So now you know my back-story, fast forward to starting my first blog BestSLRCamera.org on November 16, 2009. I decided to build several small blogs to generate a small amount of money daily. I did my niche research and determined it would be fairly easy to rank for the term ‘Best SLR Camera’. And I really view this as my test site.
Article Marketing
All the new stuff will get tested on this site. So one thing I’m doing is uploading my blog posts as articles to the article marketing sites. The post goes on my site on day 1, goes on Ezine Articles on day 7, and gets posted to 10 additional sites on day 14. Well, not exactly on that schedule, but close enough.
Around December 04, 2009 I wrote an article titled, “The Top 10 Best-Selling Photography Books on Amazon”. I figured it would be a good link-bait post and would generate some Christmas traffic. I then posted it to Ezine and the other article sites. I’m not sure it really got me any extra traffic before Christmas. My blog was too new.
Little did I know, a photography author that had 2 books on the list, discovered my post. And he gave me a shout out on his blog. BANG! 1578 uniques to my blog the next day. And since that day, I’ve received about 2500 visitors to my blog from his site.
And prior to his post I was averaging 30 uniques a day.
Analytics Stats
My Lesson to You
Write a Top 10 Book post for your blog. Post it to the article sites. Then send an email to each author letting them know how much you like their book. (you did like their book, didn’t you?) Mention that you noticed they were on the Top 10 at Amazon and you’ve written a blog post including them.
And make sure you are an Amazon Associate before you write the post. You want to make sure you get paid for any referrals.
Now use this tip and go drive some traffic. Your wallet will thank you.
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