Whatever online business you have, including affiliate marketing, you must publish blogs for the long-term viability of your business. Blogs are one of the oldest online social medium. It started as people’s personal journals and slowly permeated into the business world. Online businesses are pioneers in using blogs as a communication tools with their customers. Now a days, you can hardly find a successful online business that does not have a blog.

Though you can publish a blog using an unlimited domain hosting plan for $10 a month, many people are reluctant or unable to pay even $10 for their business investment. If you fall into this category, you can still get a blog for free using one of the popular free blog services. But you must buy a domain for $10 a year and point it to your free blog. A domain is an online real estate and you must start acquiring them for each niche you’re promoting. You then nurture these domains by promoting them and acquiring links pointing to them from other domains.


9 Reasons to publish a blog

• 1. It is the easiest way to set up a website. There are plenty of free themes you can use for a nice looking site.
• 2. Search engines love blogs because they are looking for fresh content everyday. If you work at adding new content on a consistent basis Google and other search engines will reward you with free traffic.
• 3. You can sell your own or affiliate products on your blog. Start by placing a banner for your favorite affiliate program on the sidebar. Then add text link ads for more products you sell in the content of the blog articles themselves.
• 4. You can earn money from AdSense – those Google text ads that you see in many sites.
• 5. Blogs are a great way to establish yourself as an expert or enthusiast in your niche.
• 6. Blogs allows you to interact with your visitors. You can find lots of information and your visitors’ need from their comments on the blog. You can use that information for researching more products or creating your own products.
• 7. Blogs are a great way to build your opt-in email list and keep in touch with them through.
• 8. You can network with other bloggers in your niche and share ideas.
• 9. When you send traffic to an affiliate product site directly, that traffic is lost to you forever. But if you send the same traffic to your blog, you can retain a percentage of the traffic who will become repeat visitors to your site.

How to Get a Custom Domain Free Blog

• 1. Sign up with Blogger and use a keyword rich name for your blog and subdomain in blogger.
• 2. Get keyword rich domain and point it to your blog in Blogger. Click here detailed instructions on how to get a custom domain for your blog.
• 3. Get a free, fresh and modern template for your blog. For detailed on how to change your blogger template, click here.
• 4. Start writing contents for your blog.
• 5. Submit your blog and RSS feed to blog and RSS directories.

To publish blogs, you need to you find ideas for your contents? Your starting points are WikiHow and EzineArticles.com. See what others have already written about your niche. Start those articles as a springboard for generating contents for your blog. Don’t copy them verbatim. Rewrite them in your own words. Get the best ideas from two different articles merge them together to create new contents. You can experiment with different ways to generate contents and once you become good at it, new ideas will flow. For some information gathering sources, read this article on 6 Information Gathering Sources For Article Writing.