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		<title>5 Steps To A Successful Niche Blog</title>
		<link>http://midnight-software-mart.com/2010/02/25/5-steps-to-a-successful-niche-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This FREE report has just been updated so you can now feel free not only to use the 5 steps yourself, but if you wish to please do give the report away from your website or blog or pass it on to your list. Enjoy!]]></description>
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<p><strong>&#8217;5 Steps To A Successful Niche Blog&#8217;.</strong></p>
<p>This <strong>FREE</strong> report has just been updated so you can now feel free not only to use the 5 steps yourself, but if you wish to please do give the report away from your website or blog or pass it on to your list. Enjoy!</p>
<p>It covers the following areas:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Step 1: Choosing Your Niche</span></p>
<p>Step 2: Creating Your Blog</p>
<p>Step 3: Adding Valuable Content</p>
<p>Step 4: Driving Traffic</p>
<p>Step 5: Creating An Opt-In List</p>
<p>If you would like a copy please click on the link below:</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #810081;"><a href="http://midnight-software-mart.com/5Steps/5StepsBlog.zip">http://midnight-software-mart.com/5Steps/5StepsBlog.zip</a></span></span></strong></p>
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		<title>Free 2010 Blogging Calendar</title>
		<link>http://midnight-software-mart.com/2009/12/28/free-2010-blogging-calendar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Wood</dc:creator>
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<p>Don&#8217;t you just hate it when you really need to update your blog and draw a blank? Well, one of the best ways to jump start those creative juices is to simply look at the calendar. How simple is that?</p>
<p>Every month, week and day, there are some really strange, fun and downright funny holidays and observances celebrated everywhere. In fact, you can even make up your own &#8216;holiday&#8217; to celebrate on your blog with your readers &#8211; that&#8217;s how easy it is to come up with days of posts at a time. But you don&#8217;t have to make it up yourself. It&#8217;s hard enough coming up with a post. Here&#8217;s a blogging calendar I found that feature some of these holidays. The other nice thing is, it has room to jot down your own ideas and you can use it to literally plan out the year&#8217;s content &#8211; or just a month or two ahead if you&#8217;re not the planning type. This really helps keep your blog going without rushing to write last minute posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogenergizer.com/download-blogging-calendar/">Download</a> and check it out for yourself. I bet you can find a couple of posts just off those dates you can write about. In fact, you can write about them right away and schedule them. Your readers will have fun and marvel at how you are so on top of the holidays and seasons.</p>
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		<title>Starting Out With Free Blogs</title>
		<link>http://midnight-software-mart.com/2009/04/13/starting-out-with-free-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a very easy way to make money online free using networks of blogs such as Google's blogger.com. You can set up any number of blogs on these services without ever having to pay for a domain name or hosting of your own.
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<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-598" title="1166381_blog" src="http://www.midnight-software-mart.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/1166381_blog.jpg" alt="1166381_blog" width="300" height="200" />There is a very easy way to make money online free using networks of blogs such as Google&#8217;s blogger.com. You can set up any number of blogs on these services without ever having to pay for a domain name or hosting of your own.</p>
<p>In this post I want to look at the easiest ways of adding content to these blogs and then perhaps even more importantly driving traffic to them. Traffic equals profit and without traffic you can have created the best blog in the world and no-one will get to see it.</p>
<p>Our aim in setting up these free blogs, is to do so at no outlay cost, and then to monetize them through adsense. Once we have mastered setting up free blogs then maybe at a later date, when we are feeling more confident, we can move on to creating our own self-hosted blogs.</p>
<p><strong>Creating The Content</strong></p>
<p>Pick a niche (and if you have any trouble with this one, check out the Niches section in my sidebar) where people have a need and are prepared to spend money on it. e.g. health, insurance, making money, expensive hobbies. The ad revenues are usually higher in these niches. Set up a free blog on the subject that you picked, write 5 blog entries (or use PLR articles), apply for a Google Adsense account and put Adsense on the blog. You will earn when people click on the ads.</p>
<p>After the first 5, do not try to write the blog entries yourself. It is better to take articles from a directory and spend your time on <a href="http://www.driveyourwebsitetraffic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #046381;">attracting traffic to your site.</span></a> The more articles you can find to add to your site, the better. Ezinearticles.com has plenty that you can use in almost any niche, you must just be sure to keep the author&#8217;s resource box and link intact.</p>
<p>You can add your own introductory and concluding paragraph to each article if you want to give your own flavor to them. Say whether you agree or disagree with the article, point up something else that they have not mentioned, or just write that you think it is a useful article. This may also help with the issue of duplicate content in the search engine results.</p>
<p>If you prefer not to have an author name on the articles then look for PLR articles in your niche. These are not expensive and you are free to edit them and upload them as your own.</p>
<p><strong>Monetizing The Blog</strong></p>
<p>You can apply for an Adsense account from virtually any country in the world. Google will pay into your bank account. Just be sure to read their program policies. In particular, never be tempted to click on the ads on your own sites. You can very easily lose your Adsense account that way.</p>
<p>It will take time to build up traffic but you can do this quite easily by submitting links along with a comment on other people&#8217;s blogs. Your comment must be meaningful and add something to the site &#8211; a question about the blog post is good. A meaningless comment like &#8220;great blog&#8221; will probably be deleted.</p>
<p>When you have built about 100 links, create another blog in another subject. Repeat. Your earnings will start small but they should grow.</p>
<p>One thing that is important is to keep <a href="http://www.driveyourwebsitetraffic.com/"><span style="color: #046381;">working on the traffic.</span></a> After you have built each new blog, go back to the others that you already did and build a few more links for each one. That way, the links continue to grow in a natural way. This can help you to attract more traffic through the search engines, bringing more visitors to your blog so that you make money online free almost effortlessly.</p>
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		<title>FREE Report: 5 Steps To A Successful Niche Blog</title>
		<link>http://midnight-software-mart.com/2009/01/11/free-report-5-steps-to-a-successful-niche-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Wood</dc:creator>
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<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-425" title="blog" src="http://www.midnight-software-mart.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/blog.jpg" alt="blog" width="297" height="300" />I have a new free report available: <br />
&#8217;5 Steps To A Successful Niche Blog&#8217;</p>
<p>It covers the following areas:</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Step 1: Choosing Your Niche</span></p>
<p>Step 2: Creating Your Blog</p>
<p>Step 3: Adding Valuable Content</p>
<p>Step 4: Driving Traffic</p>
<p>Step 5: Creating An Opt-In List</p>
<p>If you would like a copy please click on the link below to download:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #810081;"><a href="http://midnight-software-mart.com/5Steps/5StepsBlog.zip">http://midnight-software-mart.com/5Steps/5StepsBlog.zip</a></span></span><a href="http://midnight-software-mart.com/5Steps/5%20Steps.zip"></a></p>
<p>Seasons Greetings! <img src='http://www.midnight-software-mart.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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