Building niche sites is all the rage these days.\r\n\r\nThe basic strategy is very easy. Find a niche market that is not oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords people are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. Once you have your articles, upload them to your site. Monitize your site with affiliate links and Adsense.\r\n\r\nFor this kind of niche site to be effective and make money, it is imperative that you get free traffic, and a lot of it. And that\’s exactly where a blog can be your ideal friend.\r\n\r\nAt its very simplest, a blog is just a structure. It\’s the bones of a web site. A blog is a simple way to publish and display your content on the web. Most of us think of blogs as a chronicle of news events, or commentary on news and items of interest. Or personal diaries.\r\n\r\nFew people stop to think that you can build any kind of website with a blog. In reality, a blog can be used very effectively to build a niche site. The fact of the matter is, a blog is the easiest way to publish your niche site content. But the biggest reason to use a blog is that it can drive traffic to your site a lot faster than a statically-built site. A niche site built with a blog is a very powerful strategy.\r\n\r\nFirst, select your niche and research your keywords. Write your first article based on one of those keywords, just as you would when building a regular site. Then set up your blog and publish that article. Your niche site is now live.\r\n\r\nTo make your site structure the most effective, be sure to choose a blog that grants the use of Categories, such as Word Press or Moveable Type. Use your 10 most important keywords as the name of your Categories. Then file all your secondary keyword articles under those Categories.\r\n\r\nWhy is this so important? If you keep building your site with keyword-rich articles, eventually you could have hundreds of pages. Each of those pages will have a link to your 10 Categories. And each of those links will use the anchor text of your most important keywords. As a result of all those internal keyword-rich links, your site will end up ranking very well in the search engines for your Category names.\r\n\r\nNow it\’s time to set up your traffic strategy. This is where a blog can really shine. There are many special RSS/blog directories that are hungry for feeds. By submitting your new blog to these directories, you can begin getting traffic nearly immediately. Quite often these feeds will result in a lot more traffic than all the major search engines combined. This is why it makes so much sense to build your niche site as a blog. You can have twice the traffic, and get it much faster than with a static site.\r\n\r\nHere is a list of some of the top RSS/blog directories you should submit your site to:\r\nhttp://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/\r\n\r\nOnce you\’ve submitted your site to the directories, you can get it indexed by Yahoo nearly immediately by adding your RSS feed to your MyYahoo page. If you do not have a MyYahoo page, just go to http://www.yahoo.com. Now click on the MyYahoo link at the top and set up your free account. Once you have your account set up, click on Add Content, then add the URL of your blog RSS feed into the Find Content box.\r\n\r\nWhen you go back to your MyYahoo page, your blog plus your first post should be shown. If you go look at your web stats for your site, you\’ll find that the Yahoo spider has already made a visit! Your new site should be indexed in Yahoo in just a couple of days. This is a strategy that some marketers were selling for $50 just a few months ago. And it works like a charm.\r\n\r\nEvery time you add a post, you can alert the RSS/blog directories by \”pinging\” them. There is a wonderful site at http://www.pingomatic.com that makes this very simple. You just have to type in your blog URL and Pingomatic will send your ping to Yahoo and about 15 other huge directories. That will bring the spiders back to your site almost immediately!\r\n\r\nDuring the first month, I would recommend that you write and add a new article every day. Blogs that are frequently updated get the most traffic. And you\’ll find that the major search engines will spider your site every day. At the end of a month, you will have a 30-article niche site that is already getting a lot of traffic. If you have monetized your site with Adsense and related affiliate programs, you should also be making money already.

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Let me state right off, that I\’m not a marketing \’guru\’. In fact, I\’m not sure what a \’guru\’ is other than it sounds like a large hairy beast. Come to think of it, I guess I am a \’guru\’.

But back to the issue, when you first go on the web and begin checking out some sites, possibly some affiliate programs, most will state \’we have an automated marketing system that will do 99.5% of the work for you\’. Really? Then what do you need me for? Hmmm. What usually happens is you\’ll start marketing the same site that 10,000 other people are marketing on the Click or Hit Exchanges, Safelists, FFA Blasters, Auto-surf site, email-blasters, etc. etc.

From what I have experienced it seems that many people who have had some level of success with these types of programs, have created their own system or way of marketing the program that works great, but usually by the time you get around to using it again another 10,000 or so people are using it and it\’s power is diluted.

Another key factor is that many of the people who are successful have massive lists that they can market to which sort of guarantee\’s some degree of success. I am not knocking them in fact they have usually spent a good bit of time and money building these in-house lists.

The point is many of the programs make it seem as simple as breathing to be a success at Internet Marketing and they tend to fail to mention the talent, hard work, determination, and all the other factors that make someone successful at Internet Marketing. I wish it might be that easy, so then maybe I could be a \’guru\’.

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Wow — you finally have your website finished! Now comes the flurry of activities for getting it noticed on the Internet. You\’ll be submitting to the search engines. You might be blogging. You might be submitting to the directories. And you may be promoting through articles, amongst other things. World wide web marketing is a lot of work that involves patience and persistence. The results are not always seen immediately.

But there\’s one method of Internet marketing that is often overlooked and your SEO expert might not tell you about it. Chances are, you may see immediate traffic by using this strategy. Why is it overlooked? It might be because this marketing method is not directly related to the Internet.

The method is marketing your site offline. The old, tried and true offline marketing strategies can often deliver many targeted visitors to your website in a short amount of time, particularly if you are announcing your URL to people with whom you already do business. The beauty of offline marketing is that it is easy. You do not have to spend hours and hours finding link partners, writing articles or submitting your URL.

The most basic form of offline marketing is to include your URL on your business cards, on your letterhead, on your fax forms, and on your printed fliers. If you use any printed business forms, including sales receipts or estimates, be sure to include your website address.

If you give press releases, be sure to include your business URL in the contact information. That way, people who are reading your press release can easily find your on the web presence to learn more about your expertise, services and products. If these readers have taken the time to look at your website because of the press release, you are attracting a highly targeted and responsive audience.

Promotional gifts such as coffee mugs, calendars, t-shirts, hats, key chains or other items, are an excellent form of offline World wide web marketing. If someone is drinking coffee from your promotional mug every day, he is going to be seeing your URL each single sip! If you mail Christmas or holiday cards to your clientele, be sure to include your web address.

You may have a customer list that is responsive to catalogs or newsletters that you periodically mail. Announce your URL in your mailing, along with a special promotion code or number that will give your loyal subscribers discounts for on the internet sales.

If you have an ad in the yellow pages of your local phone directory, be sure to include your website address with your company information. Other forms of printed advertising, such as magazines or newspaper ads, should also include the web address. Of course, if you advertise with billboards, there is another opportunity for offline website announcements.

Provided that your domain name is one that people can remember, include it in your television or radio ads. Long and complicated domain names do not work too well in this method of offline advertising.

Do you affix labels or tags to your products? Or require your employees to wear uniforms? This is another opportunity to add your URL to your offline signage. Add the URL to all printed labels and uniform logos. If you drive a company vehicle or have a fleet of automobiles, you might want to include the company\’s URL in your automobile signage. The possibilities for announcing your site offline are endless.

Wherever your company name is printed or announced in the \”physical world,\” be sure to include your URL. Since many of these offline methods involve customers or clients who have a working relationship with your business, this might be your most targeted and responsive Internet audience.

People like to learn more about your company by browsing your website. By marketing offline, you will attract people who are already interested in your company and what you have to offer. This is an invaluable component to Internet marketing.

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Urbain Beck is a freelance writer serving various on the web and offline media. Some of Urbain\’s writing can be found at the marketing and earning on the World wide web blog.