Blogging Secrets #53 - Make $100 Daily with Bum Marketing For Bloggers

The Bum Marketing method was discovered by Travis Sogo. His method involves looking for low competition keywords and creating articles optimized for those keywords to make money from affiliate products.

In this article I will show you how you can use some of the bum marketing strategies to drive traffic to your blog. I've tested all this strategies and I am currently making about $100 to $200 daily using this method.

Why Using Squidoo Lenses Is Important for your blog Squidoo was developed by Seth Godin and is a very popular site with the search engines. Squidoo is currently under utilized by Internet Marketers. This means there are a lot of opportunities which you can take advantage before the mass of internet marketers come running to squidoo to make money from it. The fist thing you need to do is some keyword research.

Get the low competition keywords from your keyword research tool. Get at least 500 keywords for you blog. Create a lens for each keyword. Add you blog url and rss feed of your site to the lens. Once you have completed, publish these lenses.

Unlike a blog, search engine robots don't come running to index them. You'll need to submit the lenses to Google and Yahoo manually. There is a RSS feed on each of the lens, use the rss feed and submit to all of the RSS directories online.

Within a week your lenses will rank higher for the keywords and bring in your highly targeted traffic to your blog.

Why Create a $7 Ebook to generate Traffic to Your Blog? Another Bum marketing method is to create a $7 dollar product and give 100% affiliate commission to the affiliates that are promoting the product. This method was first discovered by Jonathan Leger in his famous $7 Dollar Secrets ebook. You need to capture the visitors with an opt-in list. While you are not making money from the front end you make money from the list you generated. Every once a while you can send the list with the latest updates on your site. After sending the email you just sit and watch the traffic increase on your blog.

Don't Bum All The Time and Use Wordpress I always suggest downloading and installing wordpress as a blogging platform. Wordpress is the most flexible and famous blogging platform online. The reason I suggest this is because you can have your very own domain name which must be keyword targeted and you can optimized the wordpress blog for SEO. An optimized blog always rank higher then normal blogs.

How to Get Optimal Results with Article Marketing Staying true to bum marketing method, you need to research low competition keywords and write articles which are optimized with these keywords. Write about 5 articles daily and you will have loads of traffic to your blog. Remember you need to optimize you articles with the keywords. A 2.5 % to 4% keyword density is just perfect for search engines. Look also for long tail keywords as they rake it more targeted visitors compare to the rest.

Using the techniques will increase your blog traffic and bring you more income as a result. Read our complete 100 Blogging Secrets to learn more secrets on how to drive more traffic to your blog.