Friday, October 3, 2008

Are You Building a List With Your Blog?

By Shannon T. Herod

Blogging is a great way to build traffic to your website and also build great relationships with your potential customers and clients. But, are you monetizing that traffic to the fullest extent?

There are many different ways to monetize the traffic that you are getting to a blog, but the absolute best way, in my opinion, is building a list.

When you build a list with your blog, you are not only setting yourself up for long-term profits, but you are building an instant traffic stream whenever you need it.

When you are building a blog, your day-to-day efforts concentrate on building traffic. That is all good and we all need to do that, but there comes a time where you need to stop working on building traffic and start working on long-term traffic.

In my opinion, the best long-term traffic model is building a mailing list. With an opt in mailing list you can send one e-mail and send a boatload of traffic wherever you want.

Now I will reveal to you the top three locations to build subscribers to your mailing list.

1. Using a hover ad. This is simply a box that will drop in or pop up in your visitors browser with your opt in message.

2. In the sidebar. You can set up a quick and simple message in the sidebar of your blog with an opt in box. This is the easiest way and what most people use.

3. Under each post. This is one of the best ways in my opinion, but one of the more difficult to set up. This is where underneath each post you have an opt in box with an offer to get people to sign up for your list.

These are the three techniques I personally use on my blog to build an opt in list. You can see an example live by going to my make money online blog.

Once you start building a list from your blog you will quickly realize how valuable that list is. Don't wait, start building your list today.


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