SEO White Hat Blogging Techniques

Research A Profitable Niche Market

The first thing you should ever do when creating a SEO friendly blog or launching any website is look into the market and find out if money can be made.

The main idea of creating niche blogs is to earn money from affiliate programs and adsense while giving quality content to your visitors.

With this is mind you need to first find a well converting affiliate program to promote through your blogs. To do this just head on over to www.clickbank.com and click on the bottom link.



Then go into the different categories of products. In these you will see various products and the higher they are ranked the more income that product is getting.

You can see from the stats below each program the amount you will earn per sale in both percentage and dollar amount. You’ll also see the percentage of sales generated by affiliates and the number of affiliates that have made a sale in the last 8 weeks.

From these stats you will be able to see if the program will be profitable. You need to aim for affiliate programs paying over 50%. I’d even go after the ones that pay 75% first and work your way down.

You’ll also want to select a product that has at least 50% of its sales generated by affiliates.

The gravity isn’t as important as when starting I recommend selecting products in small markets. Then once you have the hang of the system go after the larger markets with high gravities.

Once you’ve selected 3 to 5 suitable products that you would be interested in promoting you need to find out weather or not you’ll be able to drive traffic to those sites for free.

Creating & Tuning Your Blogs

I recommend creating 5 to 10 blogs in your network. Now before you go thinking you’re creating useless blogs that offer no content think again.

So let’s create some blogs.

Now to create your blogs you can use wordpress or blogger, both work well but I like blogger as it’s free and I’ve found that that MSN and Yahoo will rank these blogs higher than Wordpress ones.

First you need to go to www.blogger.com and create an account.

Then you need to create your blog by following the simple steps.



Then Chose Template



Now Uploading Content



Now you’ve created your blog you need to do some fine tuning in order to increase your search engine rankings. To do this you need to just go to the settings section and replicate the following screens.

Interlinking Your Blogs

Now you need to take you individual blogs and make them into a network.

Let’s say you have 5 blogs. 1 may be the main two word blog and the other 4 maybe 2 or 3 word sub blogs e.g.

Main blog -- SEO Training
Sub Blogs – Adsense Training Tip

Monetizing Your Blogs

So you’ve set up a few blogs around a niche and have some quality content on there isn’t it about time to set your blogs up to make money.

On your blog and easiest way to make money is by promoting affiliate programs and displaying Google Adsense.

From having these on your blog you will be able to make money by sending your traffic to other sites.

Placing a Banner Ad

The first thing to do is find out if the affiliate program you are promoting has a ready made banner. If not you can create one in photoshop or paint. It doesn’t have to be fancy just text like a headline. E.g.



You need to then upload this banner to some web space you own. If you don’t have any you can get some free space from www.geocities.com

Once uploaded you then need to implement the following code into your blog

<a href=”TARGET URL”>
<img src=”IMAGE URL”
<width=”” height=”” border=”0”></a>

This needs to be placed below the description.


Placing Adsense on Your Blog

Now you have your affiliate banner you need to fill the remaining spare space on your blog with adsense ads.

I recommend having Adsense down the side of your blog and a bar along the top as well. So the code you need is for a skyscraper ad and either a 468 banner or 720 leaderboard.

Once you have the code the horizontal adsense bar goes just under your affiliate banner.

Search Engine Optimization

Now you have your blog set up and ready for a flood of visitors it’s time to optimize your blog for the search engines.

You need to do this in two ways. On page optimization and off page optimization. Now the on page optimization is already done if you have posted key phrase specific content to your blogs and added the keyword to the title and description of your blog in the settings.

This leaves you with the off page optimization which is basically the incoming links to your blog. These need to be key phrase specific e.g.

Now you know how to link to your blog you need to go and get hundreds of backlinks. This will be sure to get your blog ranked high.

Now for your sub blogs it will take less links but in large markets I have seen that it can take thousands of incoming links before ranking on the first page which is why the research phase is so important.

So how do you get hundreds or even thousands of links without using any black hat techniques or risky software.

There are a few white hat ways to get incoming links which are…

Links on your other blogs

By following this system you will have already have links on your blogs to you main blog by posting articles with the keyword in the title field and blog url in the link field.

Now if you want to add links to other blogs you can either use this method or you can place anchor text code in the template code.

Here’s the code you need to use:

<a href=”Blog URL” title=”Keyword”>Keyword</a>

And you can place this either in the side bar or at the bottom of the blog.

Links from submitting articles

The best way to get outside links from hundreds of different websites is by submitting articles.

Now this can be done manually or semi automatically using software www.articleassistance.com

Using the software allows you to submit to over 150 directories in around an hour which is excellent considering it would take you at least 5 hours to do it manually.

Once your article is in the directory people like yourself can place these articles on their blogs or websites for free so long as they keep the links to the author’s site or blog.

This means that within a few weeks you can have hundreds of extra links coming into your blog from people who are displaying your content on there sites.

Now writing an article is really easy and it only has to be 350 to 400 words long.

You can simply research and read a couple of articles in around 30 minutes and re word that information into a unique article in another 30 minutes.

Remember to make sure the links in your author box are keyword specific using anchor text like when linking from blog to blog.

Links from link exchanges

Another excellent way to get links from hundreds of on topic websites is by joining link exchange websites. The one I recommend and use is www.linkmetro.com

This has over 20,000 members wanting to exchange links and makes it really easy to exchange links.

You just find a site you want to link to. Place some code they give you on your blog and then that site is notified and asked to link back.

Link metro even has videos showing you step-by-step how to use their free service so even that a total newbie can do this with ease.

Now you have a blog which is optimized for the search engines and you are starting to get incoming links which in turn is moving you up the search engine rankings.

Update and move into other markets

Now you have one blog network set up you can keep posting articles and news to those blogs giving regular content to your readers. This will keep your visitors coming back to your blog.

You can also set up another blog network in a different market. You could go for a totally new market with nothing in common with the one just created or you could go for one linked closely to your existing network.

Doing the second will mean you can interlink your blogs and share traffic between the networks.

By using these white hat steps you will be able to create real blogs that add value to the internet and keep readers coming back while monetizing your blogs to make profit from adsense and related affiliate products..................Go on Top

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