Google Blog Search is a great tool for helping you to:

1. Get information about your niche
2. Assess your competition
3. Find blogs to network with

Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. Reading blogs from your peers and from mentors in your industry or niche can be very enlightening. By searching on a keyword or phrase you can find people to follow and subscribed to and you can get information that helps you in your own career.  Whether you’re a blogger, an internet marketer or a Jack / Jill of all trades online, the blogosphere can be very helpful.

Assess Your Competition

If you want to be a professional blogger or online marketer you can see how other people are selling what you want to sell. This can spark ideas for your own strategy.

Find Blogs To Network With

It’s no secret that commenting on blogs in your niche can help you multi-fold. It can help you get visitors to your own blog and help you with your SEO by sending search engine spiders your way.

Tools:

On the Google blog search site you an also create Google alerts from the page, subscribe to a RSS feed in Google Reader and add a gadet to your home page for quick access.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you want to learn the secrets to your competition’s success, you need to analyse their moves.  Google Alerts can help you do that.  Use it to do keyword searches and to help you get hand delivered information about your niche and your customers.

Google Alerts for Creative Research

There are loads of free Google tools to help you get information that can help you succeed. Get creative! Everyone needs to do creative niche research and everyone needs to do competitive analysis. Besides researching on the search engines, research for your keywords and research your competitor’s names and find out what’s out there that is making someone else money instead of you.  The results that get delivered to your e-mail could help you fine tune your copywriting skills, give you new angles to use for your article marketing and help you keep up to date on news in internet marketing by getting the infromation you want delivered to you so you don’t have to remember to go out and look for it.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Internet marketing has some stiff competition and if you study your competition, you can get ahead. The great thing about online competition is that there are almost no secrets, really.

Sure, your competition might not be 100% transparent but there are a lot of things you can research and learn in order to improve your chances of increasing how much money you’re making on a constant basis. Here’s what you do:

Pick Your Top Three Competitors

Look at your targeted keywords and pick the top three competitors who seem to be getting the market you want. Study everything about them! Read all their website content, put Google Alerts out there about them and about your niche in general so you’ll learn about their businesses constantly (set a daily alert instead of on demand if you’re worried about inbox inundation), dissect their landing pages and sales letters to see what they’re doing and opt in to their mailing lists so you can see exactly what they’re up to!

Emulate But Don’t Copy

Emulating your mentors isn’t the same as copying them. You aren’t looking to plagiarize or rip off your competition; you’re gaining market intelligence and seeing what makes them so profitable.  Learning about the competition’s techniques and strategies will help you and if you gather information about more than one, you’ll be well on your way to evolving and learning on a constant basis!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Finding a niche to profit from online isn’t difficult in terms of finding available options. If you look, you’ll see all sorts of subjects that are paying high profits.  Some of the popular ones include health, technology, weight loss, hobbies and marketing. If you haven’t yet decided which subject you want to dabble in for blogging or affiliate marketing, here are a few tricks and tips:

Choosing Your Niche

Are you passionate about a subject? Is there something you could endlessly learn about? If so, this might be a good niche for you because the more time you spend researching, learning and developing a niche the better your chances of attaining success and fulfillment.

Look at what’s out there. There are countless lists available talking about the most profitable niches. Read up on them and drill down until you pick a favourite.

Lookat free keyword search tools and see what you find in the news, on sites like Technorati which will make the tags for the most popular comments the biggest, Google Trends and Alexa which will give you a good inclindation of what people want to know about.

After you’ve decided on a starting point, you’ll find loads of information through websites and blogs and to get information delivered right to your e-mail box, consider using a tool like Google Alerts to send you messages about new information in that niche. We’ll talk some more about Google Alerts tomorrow.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

As an Internet Marketer in the rapidly changing cyberspace landscape, you’ll want to continually evolve. Free information is everywhere! Ensure your continued progress by reading news in your niche and in online marketing as a whole. You need to be ready to be a sponge looking to sop up knowledge wherever you can so that you don’t become a dinosaur and miss the boat on new and great opportunities.

Places to Get Free Information

Blogs are free and often provide a wealth of information. Subscribe to blogs in your niche and get tips delivered to your email inbox. Look for gurus in the affiliate marketing world to follow. Many will offer a plethora of free information such as e-books.

Free e-books and reports are plentiful in the online marketing world. They’re often designed to get your e-mail address so that they can sell you something later of course, but that’s ok. You should read everything you can get your hands on pertaining to SEO, your own niche and to online marketing.

Google Alerts

Google Alerts are a great free tool that enable you to tell Google to email you whenever anything gets indexed that has your desired keywords in it. This is a great way to keep on top of something specific and have alerts delivered to your e-mail as they happen or in specified time periods.

Knowledge is equal to power in term of being a guru in your industry. Keeping up on industry news and trends will be vital for your continued and increased online success.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008