Step one is to find a long-tail keyword. This is a keyword that is 3-4+ words long. For example “Using article directories to promote your blog”. T his is a really long one, but it gives you the basic idea. Write your post about this topic, and set the keyword in your post title. It works good to have your blog permalinks setup like www.yourblog.com/this-is-the-post-title/. I have noticed the search engine likes it when the keyword is somewhere in the address bar. So now you have your blog post, keyword in title and relevant content in the post body. Don’t forget to use the keyword and similar ones in the post body and make them bold to make sure the search engine knows what keyword your post is about.

Now to rank for this long-tail keyword is pretty easy. Create yourself an eZineArticles.com account, and while you’re at it create yourself a GoArticles.com account. Now write another article with the same article topic, and the same type of content. It is best to re-write a unique article. Write as many articles as you want, two almost guarantees you first page if you have a decent blog authority already, and the keyword isn’t super competitive. (It’s best to choose long-tail keywords that aren’t really competitive.) Post one article to eZineArticles.com, same idea as the blog post put your long-tail keyword in the title. Now in the resource box of eZineArticles.com write your keyword in a link like so: <a href=”http://blog.com/link-to-post-kwhere” title=”kwhere”>Long-tail Keyword Here</a>. And that will be a good quality link to your blog post thus bringing it up in the search engine.

Now if you use GoArticles.com or many other article directories you can post the link right in the article body, use the same technique and make the link text be the actual long-tail keyword.

I hope this helps some of you bring your traffic to your individual posts up a tid-bit.

The first step in making money online is finding a niche to market to. This can be anything, I recommend you choose something passionate to you so you don’t mind writing and reading about it daily. Once you have your niche you start building a keyword list. A keyword describes your content. Keywords are used by the search engines to decide where to place your content/website in the search engine rankings. It’s best to choose keywords intentionally, rather than have the search engine choose them for you. So if you’re in the weight loss niche, You’re going to want to generate related keywords such as how to lose weight, lose weight quickly, buy diet pills, akins diet etc. There are some decent tools for doing keyword research a good free one is freekeywords.wordtracker.com. I recommend you generate 5 top goal keywords, these are the keywords you want to be number one on. These will be the first 5 pages for your website!

The website can be a blog, or any other CMS if you prefer. You could use 5 static pages as your main keywords/navigation, and attach a blog to grab long-tail keywords with your posts! Once you have your website up and running it’s on. Start by writing the 5 pages we discussed as your main navigation/landing pages. These can be the wordpress pages. Then write a few good articles related to your niche and submit these to your blog. Don’t forget to ping each time you post an article, use a service such as pingomatic.com

Once you have your website up and you’re posting articles atleast 4 days out of the week, you’re going to want to start building links. I recommend you take 5 articles each week, and on random days you post 1 article to 1 article directory. Use top article directories for the best success. Be sure not to use articles that are on your blog. You want to use unique articles for the article directories, this is where most people mess up by mass posting articles. If you post one quality article to eZineArticles, You can set the title as a long tail keyword and generate an extra 20 or so visits per day with just one article! This builds up quick. Also you leave a link to your blog in the promotion box, this generates a link for your site and pushes it up in rankings.

I like to use SEO, it is a long-term source of traffic. It doesn’t require as much attention as Pay per click campaigns and other traffic sources. I find it also converts the best! So all-in-all it seems to make sense to start projects with Search engine optimization, and move up from there. Using the technique outlined above I have generated mini-sites that get 500-600 visits per day. I recommend you outsource the writing once you start scaling it up to new niches.

Step one would be to pick a good domain name for your blog, something with the keyword your trying to target is best. Pick a keyword related to your niche, so you get good links. Then get wordpress installed and theme it with a decent design. Try to pick a design thats easy on the eyes, and is coded correctly for the search engines.

After you have your blog setup, you need to populate it with content. If it’s a topic you are passionate about, then I’d suggest you write the articles yourself. You can be creative and have fun with it. If it’s something you’re just doing to boost up a landing page, then you can hire someone to write articles for you. This is usually fairly innexpensive and can be bought for $10 per 500 words.

Once your blog is populated with content, and updated 2-3 times per week you are ready to go. The next step is to get some links pointed to your blog so it will start getting ranked and spreading accross the web. I suggest writing or having some articles written by your article writer. Get 1-2 articles per week written and post them to different article sites. Make sure to put your link in the authors box pointing to your blog. After a few weeks you will have enough links to start getting ranked and generating a little traffic. This also will make it prime for linking to your main site! Now when you post articles, you can link one of the keywords to your landing page or site you’re trying to promote and bam you have some quality links from quality blogs. And this can be used to sell links or just prmote multiple websites of yours.