Blog and blog traffic
If you have chosen dropship business (you can find a list of free dropshippers here or buy access to the best drop ship directory available at this time (aff. link)) or affiliate marketing as a way to build your home business then you are likely to run a website of your own.
Nowadays most website owners run a blog as a part of their website maintenance. It is easy to support and helps us to keep the website updated. In fact, if you are unfamiliar with what blog or blogging is you are reading one at the moment. But to be more specific, let us check the definition of blog:
A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of “blogging”. Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.
[source: wikipedia.org]
Blog is a popular tool to attract more traffic to your website (for instance, if you run a drop ship store), it helps to get more search engine traffic and increase your site visibility on the internet, it keeps you in close contact with your website visitors (the latter see the site is updated; they also can leave comments (= interact) to your posts). If you do affiliate marketing your entire website might be based on blogging – many bloggers earn their living from their regular posts covering some interesting topics.
If you need help to install blog software you can get help from freelancers who will not charge you much.
Once your blog installed and running and you start writing you will lack one thing: readers, traffic. Two most vital components that will define your blog success or failure are your content (quality and quantity of posts) and traffic (generated through links and other affiliate marketing techniques). There is a good recent post on blog traffic by Seth Godin. It should help you to start your blog and know what traffic to expect.
Summary
Blogging is s popular method to generate income online, but it is not an easy way. There is much competition – check Technorati for the amount of blogs this search engine tracks, Google sandbox – it will not allow you to get traffic from the search engine for months and other factors that make only 1-2% of bloggers profitable. One needs to design a good plan and know what results to expect from blogging.
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