Do you know the characteristics of successful blogs?Successful blogs that make a lot of money have a lot of readers so if you wantto have success with your blog, focus on getting lots of readers. There aremany ways to go about getting readers, but you should know that only about ahandful of them work to get you the readers that you desire.

If you didn't already know, you need a blog so that you canpropel your business to the next level. I think it's plain to see that having ablog can do a lot for your business growth. In the internet marketing world,there's an old saying that says "the money is in the list", so if youwant to earn money with your blog, focus on building a list.

Popular blogs have a readership level in the thousands. Itcould take some time to build this up from scratch or you can pay foradvertising and set up a capture page to get users to subscribe to your blog. Ipersonally feel that the first option of building a list from scratch isbetter. With this you are using free advertising. For one these people know youand like you and have grown to listen to your advice. If you think that youcan't build a successful blog from scratch, then think again.

Internet marketing in general is hard, and building asuccessful blog is even harder. Popular blogs get a lot of traffic on a dailybasis but you shouldn't let this discourage you if you're not getting a lot oftraffic yet. You want to build successful blogs so that you can be perceived asan obvious expert in your niche. With credibility behind you, it will be easierfor you to sell your products and services.

It doesn't matter what you use to monetize your blog - youneed a lot of subscribers to make it successful. If you have Google AdSense onyour blog, you should know that you will get a lot of clicks, but to repeatedlysee the numbers rise in your favor, you need a following of people who willvisit your blog on a daily basis. This is something that successful blogs have.

I mentioned above that successful blogs have a lot oftraffic to their blog. This is important because without a lot of trafficyou're dead in the water. You need a lot of traffic if you want to survive inthe internet marketing world - that's just marketing 101. There are a ton ofways to get traffic, but only a few of them are worth your time. If you're a beginner,you should stick with the free ways to get traffic since you probably won'thave a lot of money for advertising.

One of the best kinds of free advertising is videomarketing. All you do is create 3-5 minute long videos and submit them to thetop video sites. Sites such as YouTube, Metacafe, and Google Video are allpopular sites and get a lot of traffic to them on a daily basis. You can standto benefit from the traffic that these sites can deliver to you.

Another way to get traffic is with article marketing. Simplywrite up 300-500 word articles and submit them to the top article directories.Here are a few of my favorites below:

- EzineArticles.com

- ArticleDashboard.com

- ArticlesBase.com

- GoArticles.com

- IdeaMarketers.com

All of these sites can deliver a ton of hits to your blog.You will want to write on topics that are related to your blog so that you canget targeted visitors. You get search engine traffic when you write for thearticle directories, and you also get traffic when website owners publish yourarticle on their website.

Another great way to get free traffic is with forummarketing. Sign up to a forum and post helpful messages on the forums. Reserveyour advertising message until your signature line as this is the proper placeto put your message - so keep this in mind.

Successful blogs have all of these things in common. If youwant a blog that is successful, simply follow the tips in this article.

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