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If you’re trying to generate traffic for your new blog and you haven’t set up the automated systems we show you how to do in our business blog video tutorials, then be prepared to invest a considerable amount of time and hard work into getting people to find your site.

To help ease your task, however, I’m going to let you in on a little secret that successful blog marketers use to literally steal traffic away from other blogs.

Think about this for a moment: What if you were to search for blogs in your niche market that were already established and had a ton of traffic and then were able to divert some of that targetted traffic to YOUR OWN blog? Wouldn’t that be something neat?

Well you can, using a method known as Blog Commenting.

One of the great benefits of using a blog to grow your business online is that a blog offers interactive and dynamic features, like the ability for visitors to leave comments on your posts.

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Most of my blog posts so far have focused on helping business owners understand why a business blog can help grow their business online faster, cheaper, easier and better than using a traditional static business website.

In this post, I want to start discussing the benefits of using a blog, or blogging, to generate income online via affiliate marketing.

If you are new to the concept, Affiliate Marketing is simply a way of connecting buyers (people searching for something they need) with sellers (merchants) online. According to Wikipedia, Affiliate Marketing is a performance-based marketing channel on the Internet where a merchant pays a commission to an affiliate for generating clicks, leads, or sales from a graphic or text link located on the affiliate’s site.

For example, I own an online Audio Book store called AudioBookOne.net. If you own a web site and want to promote audio books related to your web site’s topics, then you can become an affiliate partner, which allows you to place specially encoded links and banners on your web pages. When visitors click on these links, they are sent directly either to the main audio book online store, where they can browse thousands of best-selling audio book titles on a wide range of topics, or to a specific page containing more information about a particular audio book title or category. As the referrer, you then automatically earn sales commissions on all purchases of audio books made by your site(s) visitors who clicked on your affiliate links.

Affiliate marketing is a great, low-cost and fast way to start generating an income or additional business revenue online, as you don’t have to carry any of the inventory, or provide any customer service – the merchant is responsible for this. There are literally hundreds of thousands of physical and digital products and services that you can promote as an affiliate marketer. Although it sounds simple and easy (and if you know what you’re doing it is!), affiliate marketing does require some “how to” knowledge in order to be successful and turn your efforts into a profitable investment of your time.

One of the best resources for anyone interested in learning more about how to succeed with affiliate marketing, is “The Super Affiliate Handbook” by Rosalind Gardner. Rosalind shows you how she created a $500,000+ annual income using affiliate marketing and teaches you how to create a foundation for a similarly profitable business. Continue Reading »

Once your blog is up and running and you have added a few posts to it, you will want to start driving traffic to your site.

Here are 5 great ways for driving more traffic to your blog for free that I personally use with great results:

1) “How To Start A Blog” Videos – These step-by-step video training tutorials show you not only how to set up a WordPress blog, but also exactly how to configure it using FREE plugins that will automatically notify search engines, feed directories and social networking sites as soon as a new post is made to your blog.

Even if you (or your webmaster) have already set up a WordPress blog, these videos will show you how to go beyond the default WordPress blog installation and set up an automatic “set-and-forget” traffic-getting system for your blog that can help you grow your business online faster and save you a lot of time and effort. Click here for more details …

2) Publish Articles – Submitting articles regularly to article sites like isnare, Article Marketer, Article Dashboard, Goarticles, etc … can get you lots of traffic, visitors and new blog readers. Just make sure you have a link pointing back to your blog in your article’s “resources box” (e.g. “for more information about [your-area-of-expertise], visit the author’s blog here: [insert your blog URL]“.

Some of the main benefits of creating useful content like articles, is that you can then reformat and reuse the same information in different ways to help you not only drivet more traffic to your blog, but also target potential new customers, educate existing customers and generate more sales of your products and services.

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