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Internet marketing can be a little over whelming especially for the newbie.

There are a variety of different ways to get started with internet marketing. You’ve got pay per click, niche websites and affiliate marketing to name a few.

Then you read about the top internet marketers like Tom Hua, Brett Mcfall, Sean Roach, Amand Morin, Matt Bacak, Ewen Chia, Tracy Repchuck and the list goes on.

Where do I start? (I’m so confused) I’m sure you have asked yourself this question. I know I have.

One of the reasons I started this blog was to introduce some of the many different internet marketers and their products. I added the videos, not only to learn from, but to put a face, a voice and a little personality to the name.

I’m going to suggest that you don’t jump in with the first program or internet marketer you come across. Search this blog, search the web, learn the different systems and mentors that are available to you.

To be successful you want to be passionate about the internet marketing system that you decide to go with. You also want to feel comfortable with the Mentor (internet marketer) that you are going to be working with.

I’ve mentioned in previous posts about the upcoming World Internet Summit in New Zealand July 23-26. If you can’t attend the event live, I will be providing information (as we get closer) on how to watch it live on the internet.

This is a great opportunity for newbie’s and experienced marketers to learn about new and different products and systems. You will also get a chance to see the different personalities of the speakers. Possibly your future Mentor.

It does cost money to get into business. Internet marketing is a business and is no different. So take your time and find the right Mentor and system for you.

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In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.

Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major “pillar” articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good “how-to” lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger’s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry – it’s sort of like your blog telling someone else’s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important – it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it’s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it’s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn’t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it’s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have – your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your “Resource Box”. You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I’ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won’t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

I hope you enjoyed my list of traffic tips. Everything listed above are techniques I’ve put into place myself for my blogs and have worked for me, however it’s certainly not a comprehensive list. There are many more things you can do. Finding readers is all about testing to see what works best for you and your audience and I have no doubt if you put your mind to it you will find a balance that works for you.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.

To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

www.BlogMastermind.com

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I learned a valuable lesson today that I want to pass on to you.

I installed a plugin on this blog called “add to any” it is suppose to help readers share, save, bookmark, and email posts and pages using any service. It replaced my social marker plugin that I was using previously.

Now everything looked great on my laptop and I even used the “add to any” plugin to share information from my posts to twitter.

Just to go back a step, when I turned on my laptop there was no problems loading my blog and everything was perfect.

I’ve been having problems with pinurl.com (not working) so I thought I would make sure it wasn’t my laptop so I turned my wife’s computer on.

My wife uses Internet Explorer and my blog http://worldinternetsummitspeakers.com/blog would not load properly. The right side of my blog was missing and I was unable to scroll down as the screen was frozen as it continued to try to load my blog (for the next 15 min with no positive results). When I checked my daughter’s new laptop and my friends computer down the street I got the same results.

My blood started boiling a little as I realized that my blog has been messed up. This blog worked just fine om my laptop. Now I didn’t know If it was messed up for every one or for how long but I was not happy. It may have been messed up for a couple of days or a couple of weeks ago when I last made changes to my blog with new plugins.

I thought of what I had changed on my blog recently. I added “optin pop” and the “add to any” plugins. I deactivated both and my blog was back to normal. I activated the plugin pop and it still worked properly. So the “add to any” plugin was the culprit that messed up my blog.

I don’t know if it just didn’t load properly and I may experiment a little with it because I like the plugin.

One thing is for sure from now on when I add new plugins or change anything else on my blog I will double check the changes I made on another computer. I won’t trust that any changes I make to my blog are working properly, even if everything looks perfect on my laptop.

I’m not a computer geek and I have no idea why this happened. I thought I’d pass this experience on to make you are aware of the situation and maybe help you avoid the blood boiling experience

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Here’s an awesome WordPress blog tip that gives you a proven method of getting all the subscribers you want without spending an extra dime on blog traffic

(this will blow you away)…

1. Use an unblockable popup window that shows your blog visitor a “micro” squeeze page when they go to leave…

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After you have been posting to your blog for awhile, you will start receiving comments to your posts.

Most of the comments will be good quality comments from people who actually read your posts.

Make sure you respond to the comments that are left, it is after all, the polite thing to do.

When someone leaves a comment, quite often they leave a URL to their website or blog. This helps to generate back links to their site and potentially, business for them.

People leave comments on my posts and I don’t have a problem with that, in fact, I encourage it. It doesn’t have to be a big elaborate comment, it can be as simple as, “nice post, I couldn’t agree with you more”. On the other hand, feel free to disagree with my post, if you feel that way. Every website or blog owner is different. For the most part, just leave good relevant and tasteful comments.

I moderate the comments that are left on my blog; I either approve or delete them. I’ve received comments with no relevant content that were nothing more then gibberish nonsense; a sad blatant attempt to generate back links. I’ve had comments with just a website address or the same comments on different posts (probably on automation). I’ve even had a comment left, that informed me, that it was not spam and then continued with a partial question about ring tones. This same comment left three different web addresses and said I would be an ass if I deleted it; I deleted it.

Can you believe the audacity of someone to attempt to intimidate someone through the “comments” section? Unbelievable.

If you are new to internet marketing and you leave comments on blogs or websites, please leave good relevant and tasteful comments. Moderate the comments left on your blog or website. It only takes one finger on one button to take out the garbage.

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