I love the idea of guest blogging and find it’s a great way to get that exposure your webpages need for you to succeed as a work from home blogger. I feel it’s perfect for those who don’t want to spend more money promoting their website.

As a guest blogger you will be able to publish posts on many other blogs in your niche, of course your articles must be accepted by the blog owner so they need to be quality blog posts worthy of publishing. This works great for me and I get a lot more target traffic today because of the time I invest in guest blogging.

I don’t even bother with blogs that don’t relate to my own blog, in some way. The thing is, even if you get published on non-related blogs, you aren’t likely to get target traffic and because of that your results won’t be as they should be. Stick to being a guest blogger on relevant blogs.

Reputation Is Everything Today

My advice is to skip the blogs that have a poor reputation as you don’t want any of that rubbing off on your site. Instead take the time to find quality blogs to associate with as a guest blogger and you will have more positive results.

Reputation can be assumed or passed on by association and is a big reason why you should avoid sites with bad reputations or spammy sites.

Choose Blogs That Are Active

I see a lot of blogs that interest me at first but once I look at them I notice they don’t publish very often which is a red flag to me. I want to guest blog on relevant blogs that are actively blogging regularly, a minimum of two blog posts a week or better.

Then you have the blogs that accept every article that comes their way, good or bad. This is just as bad as having a blog with too few updates as it can look very spammy to the search engine bots that visit them.

Example: On my blogs I show the last 10 posts and I only publish 5 articles a week max, guest posts included. This means anyone guest blogging on my blogs has their blog post showing for at least a week.

Now don’t get me wrong here. I still guest post on blogs that have a lot of articles published, as long as they maintain a good pagerank and stay relevant.

As work from home bloggers we need to learn how get the best results, meaning targeted traffic, from each guest post you have published. Article marketing through guest blogging is such a great way to do. Make it a part of your marketing goals and stay relevant and on topic.

Link building today is a vital part of any work from home business that has a web presence. It’s a skill that can be easily learned and should be done on a daily basis. I use backlinking to gain more traffic to my webpages. Here is some of what I do that makes me more money.

1. Visit Relevant Blogs And Comment. I love visiting blogs that are in my niche to see what they are talking about. Then, once I’ve read their latest blog post, I like to leave a comment that will add value to the post, if I can. If I can’t then I usually will ask a question about their post so that I learn more.

Doing this will get the attention of the blog owner and even their readers and subscribers.

I leave a link back to a relevant page on my own blog which gets me more traffic from relevant traffic.

2. Take Time To Get Listed in Web Directories. You should take the time to find directories you can list your blog or websites in as it’s another method of getting backlinks and better ranking for your sites and pages. One way backlinks are the best kind to get but they should be located in the proper categories on these directories.

3. Request Link Exchanges. I don’t really do a lot of reciprocal linking today as I much prefer one way linking as do the major search engines. It’s part of why I have multiple domains on the same topic and have multiple hosting accounts with different IP addresses.

Having multiple sites in the same niche but on different IP addresses allows me to offer three way linking so that they appear to be one way links.

4. Use Article Marketing. To do proper article marketing you really should find pages on your site and use those keywords to write articles you will publish to various places online. You will be able to leave at least one backlink, or it’s not worth your time.

Each article should have similar focus, keyword focus that is, but should not be the same article, as some people do. Write an article that complements the page you are linking to so the search engines will see it as relevant and help your ranking.

I only publish articles to article directories with pagerank. I look for PR4 and up. I also always start with eZineArticles.com as they are the strictest at accepting articles.

Rewrite each and every article so that you are not publishing duplicate content as it won’t help your pagerank. Personally I use The Best Spinner to rewrite articles faster but before I publish spun articles I make sure I have proof read each one to see that they read like a human wrote them.

5. Vary Your Anchor Text. This is important because it makes your backlinking look natural to the search engines. If they see that you have 1000 links pointing back to your site which all say the same thing they will know they are not natural and that can go against you and your site’s page rank.

These 5 points should help you get your own backlink campaign going that will start the process of getting your site ranked higher in the major search engines.

Article marketing is a powerful method of online marketing and a big part of my work from home business day. It’s not just about writing articles or everyone would be making a great living online.

Article marketing goes beyond just writing for your blog or website, if the goal is to blog for profit. This is going to take a strong backlinking campaign in order to get ranked higher in the search engines today. I use article marketing for backlinking because it’s easier to get people to accept a good keyworded article than it is to get a backlink on their site.

You’ve likely heard that content is king and I agree 100% but content with a couple of links pointing back to your main page and inner pages is even better.

The thing is I can barely keep up with writing content for the blogs I already have, so writing content for other blogs is very time consuming. I just couldn’t get it all done and I could see things starting to slide if I didn’t get more backlinking done.

Well I found this cool site where I can get others to write content for me, at a very affordable cost which is important to me. The site is iwriter.com.

I checked out iwriter a few times and didn’t bother with it because I didn’t think I could get quality content at such a low cost. Of course I was getting further behind and had already tried getting free content from article networks but that took me longer than if I wrote the content myself as most of it is so over spun it doesn’t even read like a human wrote.

So I decide to spend the money and see what I could get for an article at iwriter.com and was completely surprised with the results. It was great content and they made good use of my keywords.

Now I just head over to Iwriter and make requests for articles and then get on with my day. No more hours wasted trying to find free articles with good content.

The key with Iwriter is that I can reject any articles and the author doesn’t make a cent so it’s in their best interest to write quality content if they want to make money and that works for me.

I have been a work from home blogger for a few years now and spend a lot of time focused on getting links pointing back to my webpages to help increase my page rank.

I have enough websites on the go now that I can’t keep up with the backlinking campaigns I had planned so I do use link building services to help me out periodically.

When I am writing content to publish I am always thinking about backlinking and keywords I will use for my backlinks because today it’s all about remaining relevant in the eyes of the search engines.

Focus Your Backlinks On Relevant Sites

Once I learned about good backlinking habits it began to make more sense to focus my backlinking to relevant sites only. Why would I waste hours of my time trying to get links from non-relevant sites.

I have a few home gardening tips blogs I need backlinks to so I can increase my site’s popularity and page rank for more top listing in Google. Why would I even bother thinking about getting links from sites that aren’t even close to my niche.

Make Your Backlink Text Keyword Varied

A good backlinking company should know to make your links keyworded and natural, using a variety of backlink text. The variety text for the hyperlinks is extremely natural but many just use one keyword phrase and then have hundreds of them all the same which looks very un-natural to the top search engines.

Be sure you or the backlink service you hire us natural linking and get linked from many different sites as well, such as news sites in your niche, relevant product websites, sites with pagerank, even some new websites. Don’t forget to use sites like Facebook, Squidoo and Twitter.

I don’t just comment on other sites to get backlinks from sites. Well actually yes I do but I take it to the next level by always leaving value added comments the owner isn’t going to delete. That added value in my comments nets me a lot of extra traffic directly from the site. Usually it’s targeted traffic because I link from relevant sites.

You may have noticed I use the word related or relevant a lot and for good reason. Relevant linking works so much better for me personally and the major search engines look for relevancy.

Using Article Marketing For Backlinking

Part of my backlinking strategy includes using backlinking services but I don’t have them do it all. I do what I can and for me that means writing and publishing keyworded articles around the Internet.

When article marketing I like to write first for EzineArticles.com as they are the most strict when it comes to article directories. Once I’ve been accepted I can rewrite the article and publish it on the other top article directories.

Guest Blogging For Backlinks

Part of my article marketing strategy is to use guest blogging as a methods of backlinking on relevant sites.

I have found I get better results when I guest blog on blogs with pagerank but it can be tougher getting a guest blogging gig on a blog with higher pagerank so make certain you produce a quality and helpful post the blog owner will want his or her readers to see.

I offer guest blogging on my own blogs and I will usually only give a person one second chance to produce quality. If they can’t satisfy on the second attempt they usually get another opportunity.

For this reason it’s best to look through the blog you wish to guest blog on and see what they have already.  This should give you a good idea of what they expect as far as content and quality go.

Guest blogging is a great and powerful opportunity so take your time and do it right the first time.

A good backlinking campaign for your work at home websites will include many ways to get your backlinks and they all have potential to send your page rank soaring.

New marketers and bloggers for profit should know that being a work at home marketer and blogger takes a time, research, work and dedication to make it really profitable.

I love it because it gives me the freedom I have actually dreamed of having. For me personally it is all so worth the investment of my time and the effort I put into it.

Work From Home – The Daily Commute

It’s always been a dream to set my own work schedule and today I get up and work when I feel like it. I am an early riser and always found it such a drag to have to wait hours before I had to be at work. I love the daily commute to my work from home office. It takes about 3 minutes and that includes plugging in the coffee kettle and turning on the computer.

The rest of the commute is hitting the bathroom to freshen up for the day. One more stop to get that first cup of java and I’m off to my work from home office, a 20 second commute.

First I Like To Dump And Spam Emails

I use the time it takes to check my email for spam and dump it. It’s a great time to get my brain in gear for the day. It’s so nice to work from home and have that coffee to charge me up.

Next it’s time see what real email I have received overnight and scan them for important emails first. I love seeing guest posts requests from other like-minded work from home marketers. Having guest bloggers in my niches sure saves me a ton of time each day.

Having a dozen blogs going I get a fair bit of email so it’s always nice once I have brought it under control for the day.

Review Guest Blog Posts In Email

It’s important to me that I put guest posts into a separate folder where I can check them over before either accepting or rejecting. Those authors who haven’t met my requirements get an email reply letting them know what needs to be changed.

Not all guest posts are acceptable and must be rejected. I really don’t care for rejecting articles however it’s my work from home business and the rules have to be followed. I am happy to say most have no problem following the guidelines and I get a lot of great guest blog posts for my blogs.

Once this phase of my day is complete I have usually consumed at least 2 cups of java. I’m glad I drink mostly decaf or I’d be climbing the walls by noon.

Guests Post Are Put On A Publishing Schedule

The spam is now gone and guest bloggers have had their article checked. I have replied to any guest bloggers who didn’t make the cut to give them something to work on while I am working with the articles I did accept.

Because I use WordPress for my blogs I can schedule my posts to appear when I want them to so that I don’t need to be home at any specific time and still have content appearing on a regular basis. This means I can be fishing for the day and still have articles published.

Note: I personally use Windows Live Writer so that I can work my articles from my desktop and only publish them when I have I’m ready. Windows Live Writer is much the same as a word processor making it easy to work with.

I have many articles in various stages of writing using Live Writer and only publish or schedule once I’m satisfied with them.

Articles Published Need To Be Keyword Focused

Now my work from home day moves on to publishing affiliate marketing related articles with keyword varied backlinks pointing to relevant pages.

Publish To High PageRank Article Directories

I like publishing to EzineArticles.com as the first article directory I publish to. The reason being, EA is the strictest when it comes to accepting articles. Once my article has been accepted, which doesn’t take long once you’ve been a member in good standing for a while, I spin the article into multiple new articles and publish them to the other top article directories.

Note: In the resource box or author box for the article directories I leave a little relevant details about myself along with a link to a relevant page on my niche related site which matches my article content.

Relevant Blog Commenting

Commenting on other people’s blogs nets me a lot of traffic as well as guest blog requests. Using blog commenting is a great way to get target traffic that doesn’t come from search engines. However it doesn’t happen with comments like, ‘great post’ or ‘I like the information here’.

I make blog commenting work for me because I do one of two things. 1) ask questions based on the blog post or 2) I add a value added comment, meaning I add to the blog post by maybe adding another tips to their 5 tips. What you want to accomplish here is to get your comment read by the owner and blog readers.

I like to be first to add a comment if I can or maybe second or third. It’s way better than being number 43 to comment. I use a feed reader to keep track of blogs so I can be first.

I Started Hiring Writers To Create My Content

I do keep a rather busy schedule and even though I have guest bloggers to help out I still find I need more content. The articles I don’t need for my blogs I spin into more great articles to publish on other sites for backlinking.

After using a few services to get articles written I found them just too expensive. Then I found Iwriter.com where articles are very affordable. I was more than impressed as I could make a request for content I need yesterday and I also have someone that writes an article in record time.

I could get articles a bit cheaper at iwriter.com but I prefer using the better rated writers and am willing to pay a little more. I still get my articles written for just $5.00 each. I can take my new article and either publish it right away or I can take a few minutes and spin it into more articles. Just a few days ago I asked for three articles for three niche blogs which I only paid $15 for and had them before the day was done.

Work From Home Promoting Affiliate Products

Now I do all this work 5 days a week most weeks. I don’t work Monday to Friday each week though. I set my own schedule so if I want to go fishing with friends on Tuesday I will either have a 4 day work week or I my work Saturday. That right there is a huge part of why I love the work from home opportunity.

Building PageRank For My Webpages

I am also a member of BuildMyRank.com where I can publish keyword focused articles linking to my money pages.

I started with BuildMyRank through their free trial where I could have 10 free links. I signed up and added my top 5 domains and then add an article for each domain along with 2 links. I created and had 6 articles published with my links included on sites with PR2-PR4. Once the articles were published it was only two or three days before they were indexed.

That ends this article, hope it’s helpful and please do leave a comment or maybe request to have your guest post on my blog.

Those who have been marketing for any length of time are aware of the potential there is in article marketing for building traffic, increasing page rank for their web pages and making money online working from home.

That and a buck fifty might just get you a coffee, maybe.

I know a few people personally who knew the earning potential there is in article marketing yet never made a nickel for their efforts. So knowing the earning potential and earning from article marketing is not the same thing.

Learn How To Earn From Article Marketing

Just sitting down and writing articles isn’t going to make you a successful blogger. I see people all day long who write articles that have no focus, especially keyword focus and it takes keyword focus to make article marketing work the best.

First Comes Niche Research

The number one step is to do your marketing and niche research to find a profitable niche, which is easy. The next step is to find keywords you can get traffic for quickly or you may go broke before you ever make any money.

Next Find Keywords You Can Get Traffic Using

So don’t use the same keywords people have been using and ranking with for years. It’s going to take you too long to get ranking and make money. Unless of course you have a really good plan. to use those keywords as secondary keywords.

Those two steps are your most vital steps and without them you’re likely to be stumbling around in the dark because there is more to article marketing than writing articles all day.

Stay Relevant In Both Content As Well As Hyperlinking

I write articles for my individual sites and focus on unique keyworded articles but I also publish my articles in a variety of places I can leave my relevant links and today I found a new place I can get quality ranking.

I’ve tried 4 of the article networks available today and after a year of working from home writing and spinning articles I have seen little benefit. My understanding is that most of the blogs in these networks have no page rank and give me little link juice that benefits any of my blogs.

I tend to write longer articles running near a 1000 words per article. People tend to want things short and to the point so shorter articles are great if they are in the 300 – 500 word range.

What I do now is instead of writing long and wordy articles I divide them into 3 or 4 articles which will have 2 links each. Much more powerful for ranking purposes, which of course is my goal.

Publishing to Article Directories

I also publish articles to the top article directories. For this I use The Best Spinner to rewrite articles for these directories.

Note: I don’t use the auto features for replacing words and phrases, although they do have an extensive user generated database, I prefer to rewrite semi-manually, if that’s a word. This way I avoid destroying the flow of my articles or worse, losing the focus of my keywords.

So I use The Best Spinner to rewrite sentences and then swap out words and phrases individually, although I pick them from the user generated database, which saves me so much time and I end up with unique yet keyword focused articles.

Article Marketing Makes My Business Money

So in conclusion I would suggest you avoid most of the article networks out there today until you learn about the blogs your content is going to be on. Do they have pagerank?

For your article spinning needs give The Best Spinner a try, you won’t regret it and both have a trial period. BMR is a free 2 week trial while TBS is just $7 for 7 days. I was sold in just a couple of hours though.