Do good keyword research.

Find some words that have low competition in your niche.

Use those keywords in your post title and 1 to 3 times in your post, one time in bold.

1,2,3. Done.

(Should I call this the ADD marketing blog for all my short posts?)

Wordpress.com is pretty adiment about having real people blogging there and are kind of on the warpath against spammy blogs. That is what I hear anyway. They also fixed it so forms don’t work so you cannot capture emails.

Just as an expeiment, in a small health related niche, I have been writing a blog there. Well kind of writing, mostly I just add related articles (with author box).

What I notice is growing traffic from wordpress.com for the tags. Apparently people search there and get results from tags. Nothing from Google yet.  It is a pretty fresh blog so I cannot say a lot about the traffic, except in a couple days it is growing on a nice 60 degree up graph. I did add a link in the blogroll to a more commercial related niche blog and I will check to see if I get any traffic.

It takes about 5 min to drop in 2 articles so maybe I am on to something. I pick articles from different article sites and they are very specific to my blog topic.  I have no ads or affiliate links in there, just content.

If you are not familiar with comment luv it is a plugin that adds the last post of anyone who makes a comment. This helps build traffic.

You can get the Comment Luv Plugin here

To find blogs in your niche is as simple and fast as a google search. This is the search format to use: <your keyword> more:comment_luv  for example marketing more:comment_luv

Spread the Luv

There are a lot of ways to find markets. It can be as simple as a newspaper, TV Show, or, one I like, NPR News. Their in depth discussion of many things can tip me off to emerging and growing markets. A couple days ago they interviewed 2 women who write books about gardening. They said gardening is a rapidly growing market. It makes sense too, lots of people want to save money and eat high quality healthy food. Since most Americans grew up nowhere near a farm and likely grew little more than a houseplant, the new gardener is hungry for information.

There are some very sophisticated sites that offer free market research in a more officially businesslike way:

• ResearchInfo.com

• KnowThis.com

Amazon top selling products is a good place to look. Ebay pulse and ebay kewords will show you what people are searching for.

Del.icio.us searches will show you what people are interested in enough to save the sites. You can search your interested keywords then see what sites people are saving.  I should mention Google Alerts too, it is a great way to see what people are writing about from any keyword.

Markets evolve around us. I remember when roller blades started to become popular. Looking back the many discussions people had were a tip off. People talked about how they might be dangerous, how they were better than old style skates, about how to stop when using them. People talked. What do you see people talking about?

Automatically find and post video to your blog.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” - Albert Einstein

How much of what is delightful about children stems from their never ending curiosity?

What is ther around you that grew from someone’s questioning?

Without curiosity and qustioning what would you have never discovered?

Can you ask better quesions, more insightful questions? Questions that require more honest answers? Questions that provoke deeper understanding? I hope your cusiosity will drive you to. There is always more to be discovered.

Not being a very good copywriter will hold you back in your business and even in life. We often have to convince someone of something. Direct sales copywriting is about convincing people.

I am not a very good copywriter but I know enough to find some of he best in the business and study them.

Reading these several Copywriting Articles by Clayton Makepeace at ezine articles is a good source for copywriting lessons. He has the chops. He has done it. Written copy that increases sales by 10 times over the previous ads.

A real history of success is about as difficult to argue with as a boa constrictor.

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Here is a feed of this blog I just made at Sproutbuilder. This is a fun and fascinating site. Anyone can make a widget there. You can use all types of Media and make many different sizes. You can make widgets with multiple pages. There are some very cool looking widgets in the sproutbuilder gallery. A lot of people will be doing these. It is too fun not too. There are ways to build massive numbers of links with these widgets.

Please comment me about any widgets you make. People with better graphics experience could make some amazing widgets. I want to see what you make so please comment me.

here is the code for this widget

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This Wikipedia Donate Button was made at sproutbuilder.com which is a site where anyone can make all sorts of interactive widgets. This one is very simple compared to some that are being made there. It is my first one.

I just like the idea that bloggers and people with websites can help Wikipedia since they provide such a useful service. I am thinking maybe I could have just made a simple image link thing but since I am intrigued with widgets now this is it.

Then I made this much better looking Wikipedia Donate Widget

Copy This Code For Your Site, 125 x 125 fits right in.

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Widgets can also be made without the shre and sprouts part at the bottom if you join the pro level. Pro level is free now but will probably cost something in the future.

Please Comment me any widgets you make, I want to see your ideas.