This is Chris Stigson speaking. I’m a blogger who has spent many, many hours figuring out “blogging”. I’ve partially cracked the code and I’m literally sharing some of the basic secrets here with you. I’m doing a test as well as giving some knowledge for you today. Please read on, you’ll benefit.

It’s no lie that blogs are a very profitable way of running an online business. You probably need to do a couple of things differently in order to fully have all the benefits that comes with owning a blog. Internet marketing strategies for promoting and using special tricks to increase search engine rankings is not unusual around here.

Having a well defined anchor text using a keyword is a smart way to increase search engine rankings. But search engine rankings isn’t the only way to get free traffic. See, there is a lot of traffic to be gained from RSS submit, which is an RSS syndication software. You can also get a lot of traffic from socialbookmarking sites and more.

Now as for tips on running an internet marketing blog that relates soley towards internet marketing or affiliate marketing, eBay marketing or traffic, you need to choose a specific topic and “niche it”. This means find a topic within the general category “internet marketing”.

Finding your niche within the niche is the key to success. When you have found your “internet marketing niche” it’s not hard to start finding products, keywords and articles to finally make money. Targeting “make money online”, “how to make money” or “marketing” isn’t your best bet here… Go to keyword research tools, spend some time and figure out what keywords you can use to rank #1 more easily.

If we were to use “traffic generation” as an example of a sub-niche, then after keyword research we’d most likely find a keyword such as “increase search engine traffic”. Search it, do some “link:http://www.yourcompetition.com” in Yahoo to find how many backlinks these sites have between search results 10 and 20. We have found a viable sub-niche-long-tail-keyword. Hurray!

Register a domain called “http://www.increase-search-engine-traffic.com” or something like that. If you want a short catchy domain name, go for that, but try having “traffic” in your domain name… seriously, this will help a lot.

Now you write relevant content about “increase search engine traffic” in your blog. Simple? Yes, but you also need about 10-20 keywords more to start writing articles just like this one. When you have done that, post them on various article directories online and see traffic, rankings and profits pouring in!