| When Free Traffic Dries Up, So Does Your Income |
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| Internet - Search Engines |
| Written by Audrey N. Burlington |
| Wednesday, 26 August 2009 09:17 |
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Why are you blogging? Do you just make it for fun -sharing stories and pictures with your friends- or you actually plan to build some passive income with it?
Why are you blogging? Do you just make it for fun -sharing stories and pictures with your friends- or you actually plan to build some passive income with it? Because people get traffic to their blogs mostly from the organic search they will work hard so their blogs can hit the first page of the search engines and take the full benefit of being there. For those of people who blog for money it is important to reach the first page position -number one if possible- of the search engines, especially Google. Google delivers most of the free traffic compared to others like Bing (MSN) and Yahoo! To be listed on the first page of the search engines there are basically two ways people do. One is on-page SEO which is providing relevant contents and the other one is by off-page SEO where they try to get as many back links as possible to their blogs. Google can determine how important your blog is by looking at the backlinks. To get your blogs reached the top position is not a sky-rocket science provided you know how to choose the right niche and keywords. However most bloggers made mistakes by depending on factors they can't control. You can't ask Google for example to put your blog on the first position forever. It is actually Google who controls our blogs ranking. Don't risk yourself by letting Google control your blogs and your income. Depending on free traffic is not always a good thing to do. A lot of online marketers lost their money everyday due to the Google dance. What can you do when suddenly your blogs are found nowhere on the search engine pages? To prevent such disaster happen to your online income you have to build a list of your visitors' email addresses while the search engines still deliver good quantity of free traffic to your blog. You can give something valuable for free in exchange for your visitors' email addresses. Nobody will refuse to receive something useful. Once you have your list actually you are building your own market. Why list building? Because your list will get bigger and bigger and at anytime you can send your email promoting a product to them. You need no traffic because you have them already in your list, you don't depend on the search engines generosity. While SEO takes a good part to drive traffic to your blogs, capturing the visitors is the best way to have a long term relationship and take benefit from it. It's several times easier to profit from EXISTING customers than it is to go and find new ones. About the Author: Make sure to visit rudiawan-lukman.com to get related articles about opt-in email and download your Alex Jeffreys' List Building e-Book for FREE! |