How to make money on a blog ideas include niche marketing, keyword research, creating images on your blog posts and submitting the blog posts to article directories along with back links to the blog pages, posts, and articles.

Niche Marketing

Choose a niche topic you like to write about. A niche is content of a larger market. For a niche to be profitable for internet marketers it need to be broad enough to have a large numer of people and narrow enough to have a low number of competing websites. In the search engine results make sure there are advertisements promoting the same type of products you wish to promote. A good niche is large enough to have a large group of viewers and narrow enough to have a small number of competing websites.

Keyword Research

Keyword research determines the best words needed to attract traffic to you website. Use the Google Adwords Keywords Tool to evaluate your keywords. Use high traffic low competiton keywords. Profitable blogs depend on how relevant the keywords used in the pages and posts are to the products promoted. Therefore keywords are needed for evaluating traffic and conversions of the traffic to sales.

How to Make Images

Blog posts should have images for interesting content and the search engines. Images are easy create. Plus it is easy to get images from screen shots using the control print screen function and the paint software. Also there are many sites on the internet to get cheap or free images. You can easily create images from online logo and banner software. Use your keywords in image titles, descriptions, and alternate text. Hyperlink the images to the vendor sales page with your affiliate link. Images can effectively disguise your affiliate link. You could not find a better affiliate link disguise than a sharp looking image. Viewers expect to be able to click on images.

Article Directories

Submit your articles rewritten from your blog posts to article directories. Remove the images, vidoeos, affiliate links, and promotional content from the blog posts and submit them to article directories. Google search your keywords using the site operator and directory name to see if other marketers are using that directory and what category they are submitting them in. Articles can be submitted in different categories, but only one category per unique article per article directory.. Submit similar articles under different categories to see which category gets the most views.

How to Get Backlinks

To get high search engine rankings it is essential to backlink blog posts. Backlinks are 70 to 80 percent of the process search engines use to rank web pages. How to get back links is an easy skill to acquire. Many article directories will allow more than a link in the article. Read the terms of service to find out how many back links are allowed and use the maximum amount allowed. A few restrict you to resource box links. Others also allow in context links. Some links are follow links and others are no follow links. Both types are needed for your posts to have a natural link pattern look for the search engines. Use the links to backlink your home page and the internal pages and posts on your website. Use keywords as anchor text.

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