Weight loss is a niche that’s profitable, diversified and competitive. If I were to start off with my niche blog, I would still consider the weight loss market. Even if I don’t target the ‘generic’ keywords, I could go for micro niches like burn the fat, shed extra fats, burn extra fats etc. Only few people who started off promoting weight loss programs truly understand its secrets.

In every niche marketing activity, the steps to succeed lies with the product you select and the caliber of people who read your content. Fortunately, losing weight has become extremely popular in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom. In Africa, for instance, nobody cares about losing 20 pounds in 30 days; it’s a natural thing, a kind of gift from God. Sounds funny, huh?

Maybe you’re struggling to drive targeted traffic to your niche blog, whatever your niche, we shall be looking at proven SEO strategy. There are 4 simple strategies to begin. Here:

• Understand Your Niche
• Study The Traffic Source (Google)
• Write Strong Traffic-Sucking Content
• Build the Best Link for High Ranking Results.

1. Understand Your Niche

For a niche blog to attract traffic, the first assignment is to understand the niche. What kind of people are you building the blog for? You’ve to truly understand what competitions lie ahead and there is no shortcut on it.

Let’s consider my weight loss niche and learn from it: There was a time when my web pages weren’t ranking on Google homepage. I thought I was doing the right thing, but didn’t realize I was messing it up.

It’s not enough to know the problem this people face; you’ve to understand what got them into this problem in the first place. Prospects do not want to know the pain they’re going through; instead, what they’re after is to get rid of the symptoms. Does it make sense?

Truth is: they can leave with the pain for as long as they want, but bearing the symptoms is the most dangerous & frightful situation in their mind. In my niche, I would point out the symptoms of overweight – excessive sleeping, embarrassment from friends, obesity, gluttony, vision impediments and other diseases which can emanate as a result of being overweight.

If you can understand your niche, attracting targeted traffic won’t be difficult. Think about it?

2. Study The Traffic Source (Google)

The best organic traffic comes from Google. To be honest with you, I spent 4 months optimizing my contents, web pages and links and it wasn’t easy. But the efforts you put into search engine optimization pays consistently. Since 23^rd of August, 2011, my weight loss niche blog have been driving at least 425 daily targeted traffic on autopilot.

It didn’t happen overnight – I invested a lot of time in studying Google and how it works. Now that Google is periodically sending out updates, getting the right gist of what Google is up to would guide your efforts and bring results.

Google is aiming for engagement. Don’t just build a blog that solves problem in your niche, make sure you can engage readers. They should be persuaded to comment, share and bookmark the posts. If you’re reviewing a particular product, be practical and interactive. The time when Google blatantly send free organic traffic to blogs with quality content is gradually demeaning. You need more than targeted traffic these days – ‘engagement’ is the key!

Few years ago, thousands of backlinks was the determining factor for top 10 ranking. Although, links are still important, but the concept is changed – Aim for quality external links, not quantity.

3. Write Strong Traffic-Sucking Content

I got a lot of organic traffic because my content was well-planned. I don’t just write anything I felt is good, I usually study my readers to know what problems they’re seeking solutions for, and how desperate they are. You would be able to gather helpful data to help when creating contents. The traditional keyword research doesn’t work efficiently in weight loss niche, and several other markets that are highly competitive.

Most of the viable keywords are already optimized for by savvy and prompt niche marketers, who got into niche marketing early – there is no chance of you winning even if you’re an SEO expert.

Interestingly, the best keyword research strategy can be discovered when you take time to know your readers. Are you a blogger or social media examiner? Listening is the ultimate thing to do in your business. When you listen, you feel the pain, the enthusiasm, the desperation and the warmth in your prospect’s mind. If you’re reviewing weight watchers free registration and Bistro md coupon codes, make sure you’ve well researched content. Whatever they say when making comments and participating in forum discussion is usually true. No one is farther from his words.

Once you feel the pain of readers, go ahead and weave it into your content. Use the questions they ask as your headline and start the introduction with it. Use the same question within your content and in your third paragraph, solve the problem creatively and command action. Never allow your visitors to leave without taking action – it’s a waste of time and resources.

4. Build the Best Links For High Ranking Results
   

Most of my external links are from weight loss and health-related blogs. It doesn’t matter the pagerank of these blogs, being relevant and focused is Google’s #2 ranking factor. If your blog is new, you don’t have to struggle to build backlinks from CNN, problogger and other top blogs. If you’ve the opportunity, then go for it. But if you’re new to writing, you need some time to sharpen your writing skills.

Begin with niche blogs. For instance, search Google for your primary keyword and research the ‘top 10’ results. Contact the blog owners and propose to write for them. You’ll definitely be turned down by most bloggers, but don’t give up. Gear up your steps and move to the next blog.

If you publish 10 guest posts in weight loss related blogs in 7 days, it can result in high ranking for your product pages within 90 days. When linking from a niche blog, use a different keyword variation, not the primary key phrase you’re targeting.

Here is what I mean: my primary keyword is “weight loss program for men.” Now, if I’m linking from ediets.com which is a weight loss program network, I would use “weight loss programs” as my anchor text and link back to the same page on my blog. That’s how it works and you won’t appear spammy.

Web Traffic Takeaway

I’m sure you’ve enjoyed my weight loss organic traffic case study. Before my blog started generating significant income, I invested a lot of time, in writing quality, relevant and valuable content that engages my audience. Over time, Google noticed my hard work and started sending more traffic than I can handle. Don’t give up, learn from my weight loss niche blog, apply the tips to yours and cash in. See you at the top!

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With all the attention on Pinterest as of lately, there’s two ways to look at the site. The average person thinks… “cool, a new way to find fun stuff to look at online”, while the rest of us are thinking, “sweet! a new traffic source! how can I make money from it?”. You know you are always thinking the same thing whenever something new and huge comes out.

Well, that is the discussion this week as a spammer/affiliate/internet marketing is taking the fame game for a bit while he cashes in on the un-monetized success that is Pinterest. Already getting big media coverage from sites like Mashable, MSNBC, Daily Dot and many more… “Steve” is cashing in on the Pinterest craze and making more than $1,000 a day spamming their networks.

While $1,000 a day might not seem like a ton of money, it seems to be enough to get all of the media coverage you need, which is priceless. When someone is making a ton of money online and not doing it in the most ethical and acceptable ways, most people would keep quite and keep milking the cow for all they can get. “Steve” is very upfront about what he does and how he makes his money spamming Pinterest and simply says he will just keep doing it until they find a way to make it so he can’t.

UPDATE: It turns out that the Pinterest spammer has come out and retracted his comments, saying the whole thing was a hoax. Or was the all media attention simply too much???

Here are some of the highlights from various interviews with “Steve” across the internet.

How do you describe what it is you do? We’ll refer to it as spamming for now. Have you spammed other social networks before?

It’s spam; no other way of putting it. I’ve been through Facebook and Twitter. I’m sure if you ever heard of one of those spammy looking Facebook apps, I was one of the ones doing that.

What do you do when your bots get shut down? What would you do if they all got shut down, and could that ever happen?

Back when I started on Feb. 20, you could pin as many pictures as you wanted to with the same account and all the pins would show up on the boards. Well they changed that around the 23rd I think, and they banned one account. That was my first and only ban so far, maybe more when this interview is publicly posted. Oh how sad I would be. But like I said before, I do have a stockpile of accounts and I can easily create more if needed.  

Do you feel any guilt about what you’re doing? What would you like to say to Pinterest users who like, friend, and click on your bots — if anything?

Nope, I have no guilt. I’m not trying to scam anyone, or upload viruses to their computer or anything like that. I simply show products to the Pinterest community. I realize that I’m spamming the crap out of the site, but it’s nothing personal, just business.

While there is nothing surprising about finding a way to monetize and make money off Pinterest, it is interesting to see how Pinterest will act and change around their network. This is nothing new, as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and a ton of other social networks and content generated sites have gone through the same exact thing.