As a work from home marketer I get to enjoy a lot more freedom than I did working for others. However don’t let that make you think I don’t work hard for my income.

My experience started out a bit shaky but I eventually learned what it takes to be a work from home marketer and is so worth the time it took to learn.

My Daily Commute Is Shorter Now

For a long time I’ve dreamed of working from my home and making a living at it. Now it’s become a reality and the short commute to the office is so cool.

I get up really early, the middle of the night for most people, and never liked waiting hours before I could go to work. Now I can get up a 4am and pretty much go straight to work. It’s nice to have my day done by noon most days.

I don’t use an alarm. I just get up when I wake up and that’s always early and then it’s off to the office to turn on my computer and next the kitchen to start my first coffee of the day. Then I hit the bathroom to freshen up and I’m ready for the day.

First Let’s Dump The Email Spam

Even though I wake up without an alarm I am still a little dopey for a while so this is a good time to get rid of the spam in my email box. It gives me a little time to wake my brain up enough to really start working.

It doesn’t usually take long as my email software kicks most of the trash to the curb. Next I can get to the real email. Just this morning I received 4 guest blog posts for two different niches and 2 other requests from people wanting to guest blog on one of my other niche blogs.

Guest bloggers make my life so much easier today as I have more than a dozen blogs to provide content for.

I Review Each Guest Blog Post

Each guest post is saved in a temp folder so I can come back to them once I have finished with my email checking. Once I have them all saved I check each on to make sure it meets the rules I have set for guest bloggers.

I don’t accept all guest articles as not all follow the rules. Maybe they don’t think I am going to check them but I do and they get rejected.

Some are bad and get rejected but for those that write quality articles and yet make a mistake somewhere, well they always get a second chance with me. Just not the spammers.

It’s usually about this time I head to the kitchen for another cup of java.

I Schedule Publishing Guest Posts

What’s really great about guest articles or posts is that I don’t publish them all at once. I like to have a single post per day or every other day and schedule posts so that the show up exactly when I want them to, even when I’m off fishing with a buddy.

Publish To Article Directories With PR

EzineArticles.com is one of my favourite article directories and is where I publish first. Why, well EA has the toughest guidelines and won’t mess with any duplicate content. So I publish there first, wait for approval, which can take a few day if you’re new there but it’s quick for me.

After I get the email telling me it was accepted I take the article and spin it using The Best Spinner. This makes a few extra articles I can then use for the other article directories which are less strict.

Relevant Blog Commenting

Don’t overlook blog commenting as it can send you a lot of relevant traffic. There are a couple of commenting tips that will help you get your comment accepted.

1. I don’t just leave a generic comment like so many I reject each day. Instead take a few minutes, read the article and then add a comment that adds some extra value to their article. This will usually get the attention of the blog owner. Especially if they moderate their comments like I do.

2. Don’t know enough yet to leave a value added comment, not to worry. You can read the article and then come up with a real question that will help you learn more. People are usually eager to help as it makes them look good and you may go to their site as well.

Note: Be the first to comment. This will mean most people reading the article will see your comment. If you are commenter 27 they may not even see your comment. To make this easier I use Google Feed Reader or Bloglines to monitor the blog feeds I want to comment on. Feed readers are great time savers.

Need More Content Hire A Writer

There may be times you will not be able to come up with all the content you want. I am always looking for more content so I can publish articles all over the place with links back to my money pages. The thing is I need unique content and rewriting isn’t always an option.

Just a few months ago I learned about iwriter.com where I could request articles for the writers there.  The cost was very affordable which kind of led me to thinking maybe it sucked but my concerns quickly faded away.

An example: Just yesterday I made a request for 3 different articles at 500 words each. They were completed, checked through CopyScape for uniqueness and I was notified they were ready for approval. Today they are already scheduled to appear on my blogs.

I kept one of the articles to use as my original for spinning a bunch more in The Best Spinner software.

PageRank Building

Just two weeks ago I got an email from a blogging friend telling me about BuildMyRank.com. She told me it was a great place to publish articles to build my rankings. It wasn’t free like some of the place I’ve used that got me zero results but they do have a 15 day trial and I would have 10 links.

Of course I signed up and started using the system immediately using up my free links in no time. My articles we picked up and published quickly and indexed in a couple of days. That info is available for tracking purposes.

I wrote 4 articles and used iwriter.com for two more articles covering 5 of my niche domains.

The articles are only published once so no duplicate content floating around. My articles got published on a PR4, PR3 and PR2 sites. I don’t have any free links left but I am certainly convinced it’s a good place to be a member and made the commitment to a monthly membership.

And that brings an end to this article, hope it helps you reach new heights. If so let me know by leaving a comment. Maybe you are even a possible guest blogger.

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For those who have the desire to create a blog that will earn cash you need to have a specific keyword focus to your articles. Fresh distinctive or unique content today isn’t really an option, it is a requirement. This is in part due to greater expectations from search engines like Google but also from humans like you and me.

Know that each of your articles has to earn money meaning it’s worth your time and effort to optimize those articles for your traffic. If you haven’t been doing this you need to start today and even return to published articles and optimize those as well.

What I Do To Come Up With Quality Content

1. I Write Down All My Ideas

For the longest time I would get ideas that would just come and go. If I didn’t write them down I may never think of them again. Eventually I started carrying a pad and pen with me so I could write those money making ideas down for future use.

I go for long walks for health reasons. It’s great and my mind can be free to wander. This is the time I get answers to different questions I’ve had and if I don’t write them down it’s unlikely I will still remember them when I return home. So I write them down, immediately. I carried a small recorder for a while but felt kind of weird talking into it while walking.

2. Niche Focused Magazines For Ideas

Magazines are one of my best methods for coming up with fresh ideas for my blogs. I make a list of my niches and give them to family members as suggestions for Christmas and birthdays, so when I am hurting for an article I can open one of my magazines and refresh my mind.

I am not suggesting you copy the content, that would be very wrong but there is nothing wrong with using them to trigger ideas of your own. Put things in your own words and mix it up a bit so that you have unique but keyword focused content.

3. Take Part In Niche Forums

The forums that exist within your niche can be a great help and full of ideas you can spin into your own content that’s still yours and unique. But Be Forewarned as forums can be really addictive and a lot of time gets wasted just chatting and hanging around.

Get in, get out and get publishing. You can visit the forums again when your work for the day is complete. I used to spend some late nights on forums where I worked during the day and then returned to chat and goof off all night.

The ideas listed above are great ways to come up with ideas for content and should keep your readers happy for a long time. But I have multiple blogs with the same niche focus and don’t like using duplicate content.

Google does care much for duplicate content either so I need to come up with even more content but instead of working night and day to get that content I put my article spinner, The Best Spinner, to good use spinning content for my sites while keeping unique.

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Guest Blog Post by: Work From Home Moncton

Not every one has a product to sell online. I am one of those work from home online marketers who has no products of their own but I don’t mind at all because it doesn’t mean I don’t have products to promote and sell.

It’s great to have an opportunity to sell other people’s products as it means I can go into a whole lot more niches as I can join affiliate networks and promote other people’s products. All I have to do is learn about them and promote them on my blogs.

Affiliate Products To Promote

Today you’ll find affiliate marketing has limitless potential as there are so many products and services one can choose from. Selling affiliate products all day long for the rest of your life and you’d still never come close to selling all the products available.

One of my favourite niches is the home gardening niche as it’s a great way to save money and if you choose to blog about it you have a way to make money blogging. The garden niche is so big that it has many sub niches meaning you will find unlimited products to promote and sell.

Digital Affiliate Products

I use the Clickbank marketplace to find and promote gardening related digital products called ebooks, which are books in digital form so you can read them on your laptop, computer or ipad or Kindle.

You will find other affiliate programs for digital products other than just at Clickbank. You might want to look at PayDotCom.com and eJunkie.com too.

You need to learn all you can about affiliate marketing and Clickbank is the place to look. It was there that I found the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner and my online business life started making money. Rosalind Gardner is the go to person for all things affiliate marketing.

Non Digital Affiliate Products

Of course all products are not digital so I went looking for other affiliate networks that have physical products I can promote.

There are so many affiliate networks I have joined but my top sales come from just a few I have listed below:

Commission Junction, LinkShare Affiliate and ShareASale Network

Those are just a few affiliate networks I use and they carry a lot more than just garden related affiliate programs. I use a lot of the same affiliate networks for my other niches like fishing and acoustic guitar.

I really doesn’t matter what you niche is there will be an affiliate program you could make money with, unless you pick a niche that is so out there that there is little to choose from but for the normal things there are often multiple programs to choose from.

Just as a reminder, it took Rosalind’s Super Affiliate Handbook to get me on the right path to making money with affiliate marketing on my blogs.

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As a work from home blogger with a decade of online marketing behind me I have learned the importance of owning keyworded domain names and have made a few bad purchases that cost me money every day.

Today I only purchase keyword focused domain names and it’s one step you don’t want to miss out on when it comes to online businesses such as work from home blogging.

I am quite happy with GoDaddy.com for my domain purchase and for a good reason. They provide me with domains. They also show me other domain extensions such as .org and .info in case I want to purchase those as well as .com as I usually purchase.

I have been more than pleased with GoDaddy.com service, although I have only needed it a couple of times in all the years I have been doing business with them. Service is so important to me as I not only have domains that are mine I also have domains that belong to clients and I don’t need headaches.

So now you know I am please with GoDaddy and I also highly recommend them for your domain purchases. Now let’s get into how I make a domain purchase.

Go To GoDaddy.com

I guess the first step would be to head on over to GoDaddy.com where we can get started. Of course this is after you have done your research and found just the right keyworded domain name.

No need to be a GoDaddy client right this minute however once you have found the domain name that you desire you will need to signup to make a purchase.

You can see the search box for a Domain Search. This is where you will enter your keyword phrase, without spaces though. Directly to the right of the search box is where you can specify the extension such as .com, .net, .info and others.

Note: What comes to mind for most people today, when thinking about domains is .com. It’s just an automatic things to put .com on the end, even if someone tells you it’s .net or .info.

So try to get your keyword phrase as a DOT com first.

Okay let’s give it a try then.

I am looking for a new domain for my home garden site and would like to rank for. I used Keyword Elite to find keywords and to evaluate if I should go for them or not based on data gathered by KE.

Exact Match Keyworded Domain

When I use keywords to find my domains I like to get the domain for the exact match. So let’s say I wanted the phrase ‘raised bed vegetable gardening’ then I would be looking for the exact domain which would look like: www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

The thing is there are likely to be others before you with the desire for that specific and exact match keyword phrase, so what does one do.

1. You could purchase something other than .com. Just remember that .com has been burned into people’s minds for more than a decade meaning they might forget you extension and just use .com and landing on your competitor’s site.
2. Using hyphens. The downside to using hyphens is they are a pain and people easily forget them if typing in your domain and again land on your competitor’s site.
3. Add a suffix to your keyword phrase. If I can’t get the domain as a perfect match and didn’t want to go for option 1 or 2 I would add the word tips and if that doesn’t work I may use my city name: www.raisedbedvegetablegardeningtips.com.
4. Add a prefix to your phrase. I always go with a suffix first as it leaves my keyword phrase at the beginning which makes it more keyworded than if I add a word to the beginning something like, www.monctonraisedbedvegetablegardening.com.

After I did my research and found that I wanted www.raisedbedvegetablegardening.com as my domain name GoDaddy told me it was taken. I didn’t want anything but a .com. I didn’t want to go the hyphenating route so I tried a suffix. I used ‘tips’ as my suffix and found it was available, as a DOT com without hyphens. Perfect.

So before I ever went looking to GoDaddy.com to find my domain I did my keyword research so I could get a keyworded domain. This is the first step toward your blogging success. Again I use Keyword Elite or Micro Niche Finder for my keyword research but a few years ago I was using Google’s Free Keyword Tool.

Blogging is a great way to make money working from your home, even if you’re an old hippy like me. All you need to get started is a desire to make money, a willingness to work for your money and access to the Internet.

Of course Internet access will only get you online, you are still going to have to do some learning before the money starts rolling in or before you start writing anything.

So it’s important I point out the fact that blogging for profit does take work but also that it is so worth investing the time it takes to learn. how to start a work from home blog that’s profitable.

Step One – Learn How To First

My biggest blunder when it comes to my online business was taking so long to decide to learn how to make money online. Don’t try to wing it hoping it will work for you as it will most likely just frustrate you. So the biggest mistake in marketing is NOT LEARNING FIRST.

Learning how to start your work from home blog for profit has to start with more than just a desire to make money. It will take some niche research so you can be sure you’re going to be blogging for profit in a niche you can rank for without working for years to do it.

Know right up front that the vast majority of those who try to make a profitable blog never actually make any money. This in my mind makes it vital that you learn how to succeed with a blog before ever writing a word.

First steps first …

How To Find A ‘Profitable’ Niche

Finding a profitable niche is important if your goal is to make money blogging but no this that most niches are profitable. The trick is to find a niche you can profit in which means a niche you can stick with long enough to make money.

It’s really not the niche that’s not making money, it’s the blogger who isn’t making the money, yet so many other are able to make money in that niche. Why is that?

Your Niche Has To Keep YOU Interested…

… long enough to get traffic that you can keep interested long enough for you to profit. Get that right and you may just have a winner.

Take the time to match a niche with your interests and you can go far. On the other hand pick a niche you think the money but don’t have a strong interest or experience in and you could be spinning your wheels for a really long time and never make any head way or income.

Where To Look For Profitable Niches

One of my favourite places to look for niches I can profit with is to head over to Amazon.com where I can find best sellers in every category. I just start going through the categories that I have hobbies and interests in.

Amazon makes it so easy to find products in niches I like and from there it’s all about finding the keywords and phrases that I can create a profitable blog with.

Enter A Niche You’re Knowledgeable About

I suggest one niche per blog so you can stay focused on one topic to help you gain ranking for your pages easier. Get too many topics in one blog and it’s hard for the search engines to narrow down what your site is about.

There is a number of methods used today to get content on ones blog but if you have a niche you have know-how in you will find creating your own content the best way to go at the start.

As I started to gain momentum and ranking with my blogs I began receiving request by guest bloggers. They wanted to write content for me, at no charge, how cool is that. Today I have blogs I seldom need to create content for as guest bloggers are giving me all the content I need to gain in the rankings and make money with my blogs.

Although I have some how to make money working from home blogs most of my blogs are hobby related like my fishing, gardening, acoustic guitar, and puppy potty training blogs.

Researching Your Niche Choices

Okay, you’ve found a few niches you’re interested so now it’s time to learn more about the competition in these niches. You don’t want to go for a niche that’s going to take way too long to rank for. However that doesn’t mean you want to avoid that niche.

Every niche I work through my blogs was hard to rank for when I wanted the top keywords but I didn’t go with the top keywords as my main focus. That would be blog suicide really as the competition for the niches I have are strong.

Instead I use tools to help me find the best keyword for me to use NOW, TODAY.

I started by using Google’s Free Keyword Tool, easily found with a quick Google search but once I had the money to invest I purchased two keyword tools that make my research a breeze. The two keyword research tools I purchased are Keyword Elite and Micro Niche Finder, you can check them out for more info.

Next Step Is A Keyworded Domain Name

Now if you are here and haven’t purchased a domain yet I’m proud of you as your domain name is an important step in having an optimized niche website. Example: which domain name do you thing I would get better ranking for as a home gardening blog, www.hbb2obm.com or www.backyardgardeningtips.com.

Well both those are my blogs and both are about gardening but the keyworded domain, which was started a year after the non keyworded domain is getting more than a thousand unique visitors per day over the non keyworded domain and is making considerably more income for me.

I use GoDaddy.com for all my domain purchases and highly recommend them. Learn how to purchase a domain on GoDaddy.com here.

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