Earning cash online with niche marketing blogs is an easy way to get started and to build quite a nice cash flow. While I’ll be covering each of these steps in further detail, I wanted to lay out the general steps, a blueprint if you will, I use in developing a niche marketing blog so that you can have an idea of how to begin.

1. Select a keyword to work. I most often look for long tail terms or associated terms that get decent, but not highly competitive, search traffic from Google. I can use free tools, such as Google Adwords, or paid tools, like Keyword Elite, to find these niches. Remember I’m targeting buying keywords, keywords that will earn online cash, and not keywords that appeal to information seekers.

2. Identify the monetization potential for the keyword. Is this a keyword that I can use to earn cash online? Is this keyword good for Adsense traffic? What about eBay affiliate traffic? Is there a ClickBank or Commission Junction product that will work? If I can’t find a potential method that will generate cash I try a different keyword.

2. Analyze the competition. I’m looking for niches where there isn’t a huge amount of competition where I can take the #1 spot in Google without a lot of work. Once again, free tools, like SEOQuake, and paid tools, like SEO Elite, help with this analysis.

3. Select a domain/site. This can take many forms. I may purchase a new .com domain. I may purchase a pre-owned domain. I may use a subdomain on an existing site that I own. I may just create a Blogger blog or other free site. It really depends on how much I want to invest in the keyword at the start.

4. Create the site and content for it. I’ll create about 10 articles for the site that are centered around the keyword. The titles and the content are optimized for the keyword. The articles, while not literary prize material, are readable and mildly informative.

5. Build links to the newly created site. I publicize the site by promoting it on social bookmarking sites, usually using Bookmarking Demon to automate this process, adding links to it in directories, submitting articles to article directories, submitting the feed to RSS aggregation sites, commenting on blogs and forums and other such activities. I may also create Squidoo lenses and other free mini-sites and blogs to promote the new blog and funnel traffic to it.

6. Monetization depends on the method. For Adsense sites, I’ll wait to monetize the site until I’m seeing significant traffic for the site and my Google search placement is stable. For EPN or most other affiliate methods, I monetize within a few days of the launch or even right away.

7. I continue to build links and occasionally add content to the site. However, I don’t sit still waiting on this site to produce income. Instead, I move on to the next niche blog.

How long does it take to go through these steps? I’d say it represents about 8 to 16 hours of work altogether once you get the hang of it. The most time consuming part is in building links and writing posts and articles. There are some shortcuts you can take but they can impact the amount of money you make or the stability of your niche marketing blog network.

Feel free to ask any questions you have about my basic blueprint for earning cash online.

Frank Carr November 23rd, 2008 Blogging

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