It’s finally arrived, your making money online veins have just been given a huge bypass, with the arrival of YouTube Sponsored Search!

There have been rumours about this service for some time and Google have obviously been planning an income stream from their video search engine superstar.  Michelle McPherson has posted an early heads up on her Social Marketing blog today.

In Michelles blog she details the whole ‘how to ‘ on using the service including the integration with Googles Billing facility.  So what does this really mean??

YouTube is known to be the internets No.2 Search Engine and the 3rd most visited site in the world today  (Quoted from Social Marketing) so the reach of this marketing behemoth is almost unbeatable, currently receiving in the region of 32,000,000 visitors each month with an Alexa Rank of 4.  The ability to reach the audience on a targeted level similar to adwords marketing but using video within a single site structure provides a totally integrated marketing forum.

Early days yet, who knows how this is likely to deliver, are the YouTube crowd in a buying mode or an entertainment mode?  Are they so used to receiving unlimited FREE video resources that they are not in the buying mindset whilst inside the YouTube framework??  Only time will tell!

You spend hours every day with your blog. It’s become a labor of love. Wouldn’t it be nice to find a way to make easy money on the internet with your blog?

There are ways to make easy money on the internet with blogs.

tip #1: Host ads. The easiest method and is probably seen on most blogs is to host ads, such as with Google Adsense. When you let Google put their ads on your site and get paid when people click on the ads.

tip #2: Affiliate programs. Affiliate programs work on blogs as well as they work on websites. Affiliate with companies that sell products related to your site. When people click on the link in your blog and purchase a product, you profit. This is another way of making money online with blogs that doesn’t cost you anything. If you are passionate about a product and write about it, this can work well.

tip #3: Write articles. If you have a website, blog about some aspect of it and provide a link. Your blog can effectively sell the product, and all the customer has to do is click to your site and order it.

tip #4: Leverage on the Search Engines. You will never make money with your blog unless people can find it. Search engines seem to prefer blogs because they tend to be content rich. It helps to stick to one topic. If your blog serves a niche market, it will have less competition.

In conclusion, it is possible to make easy money on the internet with blogs. Consider your blog as another avenue for making money online with little or no cost. Write about what you love, market your blog, and you could be on your way to creating successful at home businesses

Whether you are an affiliate marketer, or have a website or an online store, blogs can be a fantastic way to draw traffic and people interested in your product. Blogs that are updated on a regular basis with informative content are spidered by the search engines more frequently. If the search engines like the content on your blog, your page rank will increase. As your page rank increases, the likelihood of your site being at the top of the search results also increase. The higher you are listed in the search engines, the easier your site or blog easier to find which means more traffic.

The search engines spiders love new, unique and informative content. If your site is updated regularly, the site will be visited more often by the search engine spiders. Sites that have content that is informative and full of pertinent information will obtain a higher position in the search engine results and these sites are usually indexed much faster. Since blogs are content driven, the search engines will send more traffic to them. This traffic can produce more sales and sales produce greater profits.

One of the great things about a blog is that it is very easy to use. There is no more converting text to HTML and no more uploading to a server. With a blog, you can post new content with a few clicks of your mouse. If you can cut and paste, you can blog. This makes it easy to keep your content new and fresh for the search engine spiders to enjoy. What’s more, there are a lot of blogging sites on the internet that are free. You can’t beat free traffic being driven to your blog or website.

To keep your content unique and fresh, you can write your own articles, write reviews on affiliate products or programs, or you can use outsourced content. Which ever you decide to use, make sure it is high quality and informative. By regularly adding new content to your blog that is unique and informative, you make your site far more “sticky” increasing the likelihood of it being visited by return visitors. That return traffic means more potential sales for you.

There are many ways you can use your blog. You can use your blog to direct traffic to a website or an online store. You can even direct your visitor to an eBay auction or eBay store. You can have your visitor sign up for email announcements of when you add new content to your blog. If you are an affiliate, you can also have them sign up for announcements of new products that they might be interested in.

Always keep your content in mind. They say content in king, but unique and informative content is KING.

Social Bookmarking

Possibly the most important way to drive traffic to your blog, opt-in page or landing page is with the effective and repeated use of Social Marketing. There are thousands of social wesbites and services out there, some more effective than others.

The key to using these facilities is to build link volume and quality and also to create remote content on high PR sites that attract prospects to your sales funnel. Jeff Johnson and John Reese are the Masters of Social Marketing and Traffic Generation, utilising the most effective techniques to push their products in front of targetted audiences.

Great examples of social bookmarking services include, Digg, Stumble Upon, Mr Wong, Furl, Spurl…the list goes on, check out the resources section of Niche Ninja Chronicles in the menu bar for a full list of Social Bookmarking references.

Blogs - The Only Way to Market Successfully

The advent of the blog as a marketing platform is a recent event in internet marketing terms, a base from which you can offer and reap thoughts, advice, conversation and open un-interrupted discussion in a manner never before seen in the publishing world.

The blog platform allows us to create fresh content at any given moment in the day, providing opportunity to transmit our ideals, problems, solutions and any other message that we so desire. As a marketing weapon, the blog is more powerful than almost any other web platform, Wordpress in particular with the plethora of free themes and plug-ins offer the power of total niche domination in the right hands.

The art of Wordpress blogging creation and expansion is covered in Niche Ninja Chronicles.