Search Engine Optimization is responcible for nearly half of my effective traffic to this blog and a lot more in a case on Niche blogs, so its importance can never be overlooked. When I first started working on the web I have jumped from place to place until I run into an eBook “SEO Made Easy” by a guy named Brad Callen.

This was a first COMPLETE information I have got on the topic and what got me started doing things right in terms of SEO. Needless to say that once I learned something good from the guy I had to check out what else he has to offer. This is where trust lead into action and I have discovered that Brad was the author behind the great little tool called Keyword Elite that was the best selling keyword research product for a last few years.

You want to know why? Quality!

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PPC Web Spy is a FREE tool you can download right now and use for what I personally would call nothing less but “swiping” the well researched keywords in ANY profitable niche. While called PPC Web Spy I personally think its usage expends beyond PPC and presents unlimited opportunity for bloggers!

In fact I say – EVERY blogger must have it and for two reasons:

1. It doesn’t cost you anything – just download it here
2. It cuts down your keyword research time and leaves you to do what you do best – content creation to dominate the Natural SERP’s. Let others pay for the keywords!

Interested to learn more? Dive into the details!

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Special guest post by Mike Paetzold

One of the best and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is by taking advantage of the various free resources available on line.

Caveat: Your main or as I call it money blog needs to be on YOUR server and on a domain YOU own. You should be using a WordPress blog there.

Now that we have gotten rid of the caveat, lets look at some of the free tools that are available.

• Squidoo – my absolute favorite
• Hub Pages
• Blogger
• WordPress.com
• MSN Live

For the purposes of illustration we will pick a topic and use a bad word in my vocabulary ass/u/me that you have done the research and found to have profit potential about Bumble Bees. (Hey I am old and bald bare with me here.)

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This guest post submitted by Mert Erkal from www.searchforblogging.com. Visit his site for even more information on blogging and SEO.

These days I have seen quite a lot of bloggers who are trying to dominate popular search phrases to pull traffic to their blogs. Frankly speaking, most bloggers will never dominate popular search phrases. Top five blogs dominated those keywords already. Thus, you should not expect your blog to rank on the first page of search engine results for those specific keywords.

Yet, the game is not over for the small and mid-sized bloggers. Thanks to a concept called the Long Tail, we can still drive good traffic from search engines without dominating the top keywords.

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