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4 Low Cost Online Marketing Strategies For 2012

Small Business Mavericks

Unlike traditional bricks and mortar businesses, an online presence has to compete with a much wider range of entities. The news is not all bad however, you can compete, and these four low cost online marketing strategies can help you to increase traffic, market awareness, and hopefully, profits.

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Principles of Choosing a Profitable Blog Topic

ProBlogger

Sometimes you have to narrow your topic to find such niches, other times you have to be ‘the first’ as a new topic emerges and other times there might be existing sites on the topic – but they are of a low enough standard that you can compete easily by producing something better or more useful.

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How to Grow Your Fitness Blog to 100,000 Monthly Visitors in Less than a Year

ProBlogger

Someone may wonder, how can a new fitness blog compete with these and gain its share of traffic and money? The website makes money from Adsense. At some point, I did try to test other ways to make money by creating my own products (related to dieting) and through affiliate marketing but at the end I found that Adsense performs better.

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Case Study: What Happens When You Want to Sell Your Blog?

ProBlogger

Thanks to my business model (using Google for traffic and affiliate marketing for income), money was still coming in. My travel blog had a good steady income, big audience numbers, and potential for monetisation beyond affiliate marketing. Towards the end I was exhausted and burnt out.

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8 Factors to Consider when Choosing Affiliate Programs

Social Media Network Marketing

As an affiliate you need to weed out the good from the bad and find what's good for you so that you maximize your profits with less effort. Affiliate marketing is currently a booming industry as more people quit their jobs to work for themselves at home.

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Conquering Big Industries: My Bulletproof SEO Strategy

Viper Chill

Less competing sites on the first page = more clicks on you. Reply Khush-Adsense Information says: July 19, 2010 at 9:54 pm Great information. Going to start a blog similar to yours once I get my feet wet in affiliate marketing…a lot has changed since I stopped the simple things I was doing to run my web design business.

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Women in Blogging: 125 Fearless Female Bloggers

Kikolani

Her blog, Erica Biz , covers affiliate marketing, blogging, business, making money online, social media, and more. Her blog, Business Blogging , covers affiliate programs, bloggign, ecommerce, local search, social media, and more. Lisa makes a living online and enjoys blogging and affiliate marketing. Gina Trapani.

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