As these days many people are starting there own Blog, the very first question they ask where should I host my Blog? Especially the one who is concerned about the search engine optimization because when they setup a Blog, they continuously do optimising for there Blog to get traffic. Getting links is one of the important things that many people are concerned about. Once you set up a Blog the juice of links come in and with it you generally increase your ranking at the same time your traffic to website.
Generally there are two ways how you can host your Blog.
1) you can host it on your own website
2) you can host it on free Blog hosting like Blogger.com
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Clickbank is a marketplace where you can now make money on internet as an affiliate. It has over 10,000 digital products where you can start promoting products within minutes after you signup with an affiliate account.

There are thousands of people already making money online by selling merchants products. To become successful in affiliate promoting here are few affiliate promotion tips:

Forums: yes start promoting on forums by answering questions of the forum members. Visit forums related to product that you are promoting and provide something useful information or answers to questions. While promoting clickbank products one must remember not to promote anything in the body of your post.
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RSS is a way that allows site owners to syndicate their content of the blog to readers. Previously this task was done manually but right now there are number of wordpress plug-ins that helps in your way to manage your blog RSS feed.

• Feed subscriber stats – this plug-in allows you to check how many subscribers have subscribed to your RSS feed via feedburner from your dashboard of your blog.

• Feedburner widget – is a plug-in that displays your feedburner subscriber on your sidebar.
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Publish to facebook plugin publish a post or page of your blog to facebook mini feed every time you publish to your blog.

To install publish to facebook plugin to your wordpress blog, follow these instructions:

• Download publishtofacebook.php plugin and upload it to your wordpress plugins directory.
• Activate the plugin from your admin interface
• Select options page of publish to facebook plugin in your admin interface and select the functionality for the posts and/or pages.
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Both are a ways to make money on internet. Affiliate marketing has evolved from the days when Amazon used to pay for webmasters if they published ads and sold books of Amazon on their websites.

Today it spread to huge range of products that is having presence on web. In affiliate marketing, companies pay for the affiliate marketers in terms of commission a percentage of sales for products advertised on their websites.
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Tracking traffic of your blog is a part of optimization process. Doing so you will have an idea about the volume of traffic your blog is attracting along with other details like from where the traffic is coming for ex: demographics. Let us look at some website tracking tools that are available at your disposal.

Google analytics: it is a free website tracking tool that is popular among millions of website owners.

StatCounter: it is free traffic tracker that comes with an option of invisibility. It tracks up to 2,50,000 page views/month along with detailed statistics of each visitor.
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Twitter has become a way or tool for social messaging. To get most out of it there are few powerful widgets that allows you to check your tweets from your blog and also allows the visitors to retweet your blog entries.

• Twitter profile widget: if you want to display your twitter updates on your blog then this is one twitter widget that will let you take status widgets and put them on your blog.

• Retweet button: you can put this button on your blog or website that can be embedded within the post, page, email, or in RSS feed. This button is increasingly becoming popular for blogs and news feeds and is very simple to install.
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There are different wordpress plugins to manage trackback for a blogger. Using such plugins will ease blog management easier. They are:

• Auto-Trackback by category: this plug-in enables the blogger to set automatic trackback pings associated to each category, as opposed to individual posts.

• Simple trackback validation: this plug-in performs effective test on all incoming trackbacks in order to prevent trackback spam.
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Blogger.com ability to add RSS to your blog makes this platform for blogging popular. To add RSS feed to your blog, follow these instructions.

1. Log on to your blogger.com account. This will take you to dashboard of your blogger.com account, where the list of your blog will be listed there.

2. Select “layout” of your desired blog that you want to add RSS feed.

3. Click on the “add a page element” that appears in another window with list of available page element that can be added to your blog. To add feed to you blog, select the “Add to blog” underneath the “Feed” element that takes you to “configure feed” dialog box.
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With increased intention to make money blogging, every blogger is aiming to increase their readership. Unfortunately or fortunately many bloggers don’t have idea about promoting their blog when they just get started on blogging. Here are few facts that I learned in my experience.

Generating traffic to blog is not overnight. To build significant search engine traffic will always take time up to several months before they gain enough trust from search engines and flow traffic to your blog from search engines.
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