By Jeff Herring

Article Marketing is the number one source of free traffic on the Internet if you get your Resource Box right. Get this one wrong and you have wasted all your time. Get this one right and you have got it made! Click here for more nuggets of gold!

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with their blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often, bloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their readership will grow and how much money they will make, and when these expectations are not met the disappointment can crush the desire to continue blogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into has to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a profit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a realistic plan and stick with it. Click here for more nuggets of gold!

By M. Nielsen

Here’s a tip if you’re struggling to write content. Every day people like you and me are wasting a lot of time in bits and pieces. The fact is that on any given day you will probably waste 30-60 minutes waiting for something. So, here’s a question for you, what can you achieve in 30-60 minutes a day? Click here for more nuggets of gold!

By M. Nielsen

How much time do you spend writing blog posts? Do you think you’re getting maximum value out of your blog posts?

If you’re like me you spend a lot of time coming up with new content for your blog. Wouldn’t it be great to squeeze more traffic and profit from your blog posts? Click here for more nuggets of gold!

Content is king. So, it’s only natural that content writing is regarded as one of the most important tasks for a blogger. It’s important to write content of high quality! Having said that, even high quality content is no guarantee that you will be successful.

As a blogger one of the most important things is to get traffic to your blog. It’s not that difficult to get “instant traffic” through social bookmarking and things like that, but to get long term traffic you need to take that goal into consideration when you write your blog posts. First of all, you have to know what people in your niche want to hear about. There’s absolutely no point in going on and on about something nobody cares about!

That leads us to an interesting point. How do you know what people want to know more about?

One way to know, is to check forums, blogs and websites in the niche. That gives you a pretty decent idea of what’s hot in your niche right now.

What’s hot right now, however, might not be hot in 4 or 5 years. I know that’s pretty far into the future, but I want you to think about writing content that will provide valuable information today and several years from now. You should, in other words, write content that falls into the “evergreen” category. By writing that kind of content consistently you’ll slowly build a steady stream of traffic that will only keep growing.

If you need inspiration for your content you should consider writing your content based on keywords. I’m not going to lie to you, this blog post is actually written based on a keyword. In this case, the keyword is “write content.” I found this keyword through a keyword research tool.

A keyword research tool helps you find keywords that are used as search terms in the search engines. A good tool will give an overview of how often a certain keyword is used. The best tool I know is the Google External Keyword tool, which also happens to be free!

By basing the content you write for your blog on keywords you have found with a keyword tool you ensure that you will eventually get traffic from the search engines. How to decide which keywords are good and, which are bad is a topic for another day. However, if you write content for your blog based on a certain keyword you will eventually get search engine traffic for your blog.

Since I decided to take part in the HAHD challenge over at EzineArticles it’s been a roller coaster ride. To be quite honest with you I’m not an article marketing expert. However, it is something I truly do want to become better at and it’s something that fits the profile of this blog and the way I want to do business really well.

As I said, I’m not an article marketing expert. So, what do you do when that’s the case? You study what those who are successful in the field do! Click here for more nuggets of gold!

Three things have led me to write this blog post today. A blog post with a somewhat weird title I’ll grant you, but this post is about something that’s really been on my mind today. First of all, you probably know that I’m participating in the 3rd HAHD challenge. You can find more information about my progress in the sidebar to the right. Secondly, I recently declared that I would take a week off to focus on developing an article writing application. And finally a friend of mine has run into some problems getting her articles approved recently.

These three things made print out the EzineArticles editorial guidelines. All 7 pages of them! Click here for more nuggets of gold!

By M. Nielsen

When you’re promoting your blog one of the most important things you need is content on your blog to promote. This is by far the one part of blog promotion that takes up the most of your time. So, it’s important that you make your writing and publishing as efficient as possible. Click here for more nuggets of gold!