This is Christopher Stigson, a blogger who has spent hundreds of hours trying to figure out the blogging game. I think I’ve finnally cracked part of the code and I’m sharing this with you today. The point of this article is to run a test and at the same time share some knowledge about internet marketing blogs.

It’s a common thing to hear about success stories on profitable blogs these days.. Some generate amounts of up to $100,000/month and beyond. Profitable they are. You as a blog owner probably need to do a few things differently in order to get the most out of your internet marketing techniques and take a few steps to increase search engine rankings, make more money and have it run on autopilot.

Having a well defined anchor text using a keyword is a smart way to increase search engine rankings. But search engine rankings isn’t the only way to get free traffic. See, there is a lot of traffic to be gained from RSS submit, which is an RSS syndication software. You can also get a lot of traffic from socialbookmarking sites and more.

Now as for tips on running an internet marketing blog that relates soley towards internet marketing or affiliate marketing, eBay marketing or traffic, you need to choose a specific topic and “niche it”. This means find a topic within the general category “internet marketing”.

It’s important to “niche within the internet marketing niche” if you want to dominate search engines. It’s that simple to generate income, once it’s set up. Don’t make the mistake of targeting “make money”, “make easy money” or “make money online” first time around or you’ll be quite disappointed =). Instead use keyword research tools and gain massive leverage over your competition who is guessing what we search for.

If we were to use “traffic generation” as an example of a sub-niche, then after keyword research we’d most likely find a keyword such as “increase search engine traffic”. Search it, do some “link:http://www.yourcompetition.com” in Yahoo to find how many backlinks these sites have between search results 10 and 20. We have found a viable sub-niche-long-tail-keyword. Hurray!

Now when you have a topic and a keyword it’s time to create a domain name that has similar or an exact name of the keyword. So “www.increase-search-engine-traffic.com” would be ideal for “increase search engine traffic”. You can go as far as doing “www.increasesearchenginetraffic.com”, but I like the dashes. For search engine rankings, I personally haven’t seen it matter.

It’s time to pump out massive amounts of content about your keyword. In this case we used “increase search engine traffic”, so let’s write about it in your blog! Sounds smart and simple? Well, it is… It’s also smart to collect another 10-20 or even 50 NEW keywords and create articles about these as well. Start posting them to various article directories like ezinearticles or goarticles for maximum exposure.