Yes, organizing your blog certainly can be time consuming, but it will also make your blog easier to negotiate when your visitors come to see what you have been writing about.

Easier To Read

If you look at anyone who is out there blogging in the internet marketing business at the moment, who does even a half decent job, you will notice that they split it up into different sections, all headed in a certain way. For example, if their marketing blog is about internet marketing, they might have a section on traffic generation, another section on building a good website, another on attracting visitors, another on sales and marketing, and so on.

By doing this they can ensure that anyone visiting their internet marketing blog will immediately be able to go to the section they are most interested in, without having to worry about searching through loads of entries which they may have no interest in at all.

Breaking Up Your Blog

Breaking your blog up into sections also makes it easier to write a more rounded blog. Take the internet marketing example for instance. If you didn’t have those sections you might find you tend to write about traffic generation far more than you write about building a good website. Sales and marketing may hardly get a look in at all.

Whatever subject you write about, it’s probably fair to say that you will want to bring in visitors and generate sales for your internet marketing business. If this is the case then having a well rounded blog which appeals to everyone in that specific niche will help increase your sales and encourage more repeat visitors to interact with your internet marketing business.

So make the most of expanding your blog and look for ways to add new but relevant categories from time to time as well. You will benefit from it if you do.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Most people who want to make a lot of money online will find that there’s an awful lot of fierce competition out there already.  How do you capitalise on the ability to earn money through the internet? You need to set yourself apart from the rest. You need a USP (unique selling proposition). Sure, you could go ahead and sell something that’s already selling like hot cakes but you might only make mediocre earnings because businesses like yours are a dime a dozen.  Things that are unique can take a bit more work to launch but the results could be that you could make a huge difference in your own success levels.

USP - Unique Selling Proposition

Whether it’s the product that you sell, the type of business you have or the customer experience that’s unique, finding a unique selling proposition can make your online business the next great thing.  How do you set yourself apart?

• Research.  Figure out what people want.

• Solve a problem. Figure out how to make someone’s life better.

• Provide value.  Give people something valuable.  The perceived value has to be greater than the cost.

Great businesses aren’t built over night so even if you do hop on some other band wagon to get your feet wet and learn,  if you take the time to find or create a great solution for your customers, you can definitely stand apart in the crowd of competitors in your niche.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Finding the best key words and phrases for your website or blog can help you in a big way. Not only will you have the most chance of getting traffic but you’ll write content that appeals to people because you’ll write according to what they’re looking for.  KWMap.Net is a free tool that will give you access to related keywords. It’s as if it instinctively “knows”  what people are looking for when they search for something.  Not only can you search once but you can drill down multiple times.

Write The LSI Way

Latent semantic indexing works really well. Instead of just striving for keyword density you’re looking to tell the search engines that your site is really related to all things “that” subject. If writing about marketing, the kwmap.net tool tells you that you can use words like:  website marketing, network marketing, internet, web, promotion and other words.  If you’re building a content site to sell or advertise marketing services this can be very useful in telling you other semantically related words to use in your content.By drilling down and choosing network marketing you’re then shown: multilevel marketing, work at home, internet marketing and home business.

As you can see, this can be very helpful in learning to write for a specific niche so the search engines will consider your site extremely relevant which will result in a better page rank, more traffic and could translate to more sales. This free IM tool gets a thumbs up!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Even in this modern era, there’s nothing as good as a customer list for those who are sales people. If you’re an internet marketer, your list is your lifeline to increasing your business.  A list of customers with e-mail addresses is something you can use in many ways.  For each sale you make, you should capture the e-mail address. Even when you don’t make a sale, see if you can entice an opt in because although someone might not be ready today, they might want to buy from you further down the line.

If your list is made up mostly of people that have bought from you, you know they’re not adverse to buying online and they have already demonstrated that they trust you a little if they’ve knowingly bought something directly from you.

Get them on the list!

Get people on your list by getting them to subscribe to a newsletter, offer a valuable free course or report or have a contest and offer a giveaway.  This way, you’ve got people you can do direct marketing to.

Sell stuff!

There are lots of ways to sell stuff to your list…

Here are a few tips:

• Offer a free newsletter. You can talk about your niche and enclose affiliate links to products.
• Talk about hot deals and specials
• Write product reviews about products you’re selling

Internet marketers should be careful with your list! Don’t sell names or spam people and always allow the option for opting out. When you treat the customer list with care, you can definitely use it to your advantage.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009