Traffic,Internet Marketing,SEO

Net marketers have a slew of tools at their disposal to find good blog names, create backlinks, and develop page rank for their micro-niche blogs. Locating the best niche tools can be a long trial and error process. The availability of these tools is a double-edge sword as it clearly works to your advantage to have all of these blog tools to increase traffic, but your competition has access to them as well. I’ve sampled countless numbers of blogging tools and found that the majority of them are either setup very poorly or only offer one blogging tool while another similar product offers many tools in one package.

Provided that most of us don’t have endless resources and we’re trying very hard to grow our niche sites and create passive income from them, it is important to pick your micro-niche tool set wisely. The main net marketer tools that I use on a consistent basis are those for article submission, article spinning, and keyword market research. These are the essential items for building a successful niche blog.

Whenever I’m looking to expand one of my niche blog’s web presence, I start with keyword research. While Google Adwords Keyword Tool is free, it is still very basic compared to more advanced keyword research tools. Market Samurai is the best tool I’ve found by far. Right now, they offer a free trial period with the option to purchase at a heavy discount afterwards. This tool is for serious bloggers and is probably too much information for the part-time blogger or even someone operating just one blog site. The amount of data that this tool provides is unlike any other that I’ve tried out from the amount of web pages that list the specific keyword phrase you are targeting to the strength of competition of the top ten Google search engine results. This tool quickly helps you discard high competition keywords that have high barriers of entry and focus on low competition keywords that have weak competition. This niche keyword research tool is one that every hardcore blogger needs to use.

Now that you’ve found a new niche keyword or niche phrase, it’s time to get to work on writing a related article and getting it published on as many websites as you can think of. The next couple niche blog tools make this task much easier and quicker. First, you need a reputable and high-quality mass article submission site that will handle your article submission automatically. However, you also need a article spinning tool that is evolved and allows you to quickly spin dozens or even hundreds of unique articles very fast. I use UniqueArticleWizard for my mass article submission tool. They have multiple types of article submission available which means that you have much more control on how many articles are submitted each day, how many pen names, titles, resource boxes, and variations on other data. For this tool, you only need three different versions of your article and it will randomly create dozens of new articles out of these three copies. I get email updates each day confirming the pre-determined amount of drip-fed articles that have been submitted and can adjust at any time.

Let’s say you choose not to use a site similar to Unique Article Wizard, then you’ll definitely want a high-quality article spinning tool such as JetSpinner. This free tool is what will create dozens and dozens of highly unique versions of the same article and you can manually submit these to as many sites as you have time for. JetSpinner also includes JetSubmitter which will do mass article submission for you. I have only used the free version of JetSubmitter and while it did alright, I thought the layout was confusing and felt that the site support was rather inferior for using it beyond the article spinning feature.

In summary, these tools are essential in the hardcore micro-niche blogger’s tool belt. While you can develop a successful blog without these tools, those of us who are limited on time and resources will see the results much quicker and we’ll be able to build on the momentum and see positive returns than handling these mundane tasks on our own. I only recommend blogging tools that I’ve tried and are familiar with and the above mentioned tools fit the script.

Online marketing isn’t really about finding the best advertisers and paying them money to sell your product for you. If you are doing that, then you’re lazy and you’re throwing handfuls of cash away that you could be counting toward your profit margin. Marketing on the Internet is really just about two things these days: ranking high in the search engines and appealing to your target demographic. If you can manage to do these two things, you will definitely make money. Merely for the sake of an example, here’s what I did recently to get a few websites ready to sell funny Christmas t-shirts this holiday shopping season.

The sites that we started with were not really that great. The pages were clunky, poorly designed, and had lots of really dud t-shirts on them that never really sold well. Before we did anything else, those pages had to be given a serious facelift. We made the page brighter and far more cheerful than it was before, because no one wants to buy funny Christmas t-shirts from someplace that looks like it was made in the 90′s. Continuously update your page if you think it looks dated or old.

The website itself has to pop and look fantastic because that’s the first thing the buyer is going to notice. If the site looks bad, they are not going to believe that it is reputable enough to buy from. If the site looks great, they’ll stay a while, get comfortable, and hopefully buy something. Our funny Christmas t-shirts site’s festive nature really puts people in the mood to shop for holiday shirts.

How are people going to find your page if you don’t advertise, you may ask? Easy. Two thirds of the world’s population uses the Internet. What do you think are the number of people out of 4 billion who are on a search engine looking to buy something you’re selling? Even if it is only 1%, that means you have millions looking for you. You only have to stand up and announce your presence. When people search for funny Christmas t-shirts, you can bet your bottom dollar that I want to be on the front page of Google’s search results for that.

The key to getting to the front page of Google is to build your links. It would be a fantastic start if you owned other pages that are decently successful to link to your new funny Christmas t-shirts page. This will give your page a huge boost when you finally show up in Google around six months after you launch it. The other thing you can do is to launch a serious article marketing campaign. It takes a lot of work and a massive amount of ingenuity, but article marketing will work. It’s working right now, actually, as you read this very article. If you don’t believe me, do a search for “funny Christmas t-shirts” and see who’s on top.