Blogging has been all the rage in the last couple of years and doesn’t look like its going anywhere soon. If you have a blog, that is a perfect way to promote the Burn the Fat program, but there is a right and a wrong way to do it.

If you have a health and fitness blog or if you are using a blog to journal your own personal fitness or weight loss journey using the Burn The Fat program, mention www.burnthefat.com often throughout your blog entries, in your links list ("blog roll") and/or in your ad space, and be sure to use your clickbank hoplink.

Keeping up a blog – especially daily – can be very hard to do because you run out of content and things to write about (trust me, I know, I blogged my entire bodybuilding contest preparation last year at www.BodybuildingSecrets.com).

Sometimes the biggest challenge with blogging is that you run out of things to write about. When you use your blog to promote the Burn The Fat program as an affiliate, you don't have to worry about content, because you can use our reprintable articles and syndicated Q & A columns as content for your blog. Just copy and paste!

By the way, if you don't have a blog yet, you can start blogging a few minutes from now – absolutely free! How? Just go to www.blogspot.com and get a free blog.

Word Press is our preferred choice, but you will need to install a blog on your own domain to use it for affiliate marketing. Wordpress does not allow affiliate links unless you are hosting your blog on your own domain. Wordpress can create some awesome looking blogs, so its a step up from blogspot, which is a free blog on someone else's domain. For information, visit www.WordPress.com

If you are interested in building a world-class blog on your own domain, such as my www.BurnTheFatBlog.com, or my Bodybuilding Secrets Blog , (both were built with Movable Type), then just e-mail me and I will be glad to connect you with one of the top blog webmasters in the world to help you set it up.

There is also a service called Blog i360 which is gaining popularity for being the most optimized wordpress blog, and very user-friendly.  Blog i360 is a fully optimized with special features and plugins that makes hosting and marketing with a blog easy.  It's not free like Wordpress - there is a monthly fee. One thing you should know is that many of the plugins can be found for free if you search the wordpress plugin database. Of course, what you are paying for is convenience, speed, and having a fully optimized blog that is ready "out-of-the-box."  We would recommend Blog i360 to experienced blog marketers who are looking to take their affiliate selling to the next level and don't have time to handle special tweaking themselves. For more information, visit: www.Blogi360.com

Last, but not least, if you are an active blogger with a quality Burn The Fat-related blog, I will be happy exchange blog links with you and add you to my Burn The Fat blog roll. I will only exchange links with blogs that are: (1) burn the fat related or fat loss related, (2) updated regularly, (3) contain quality content, (4) follow ethical business practices. To request a blog link swap, just e-mail me. This way, we will help connect the entire online Burn The Fat community together and we can benefit from each other's traffic.

Blogging For Pleasure And Profit:
Tom Venuto's Top 11 Blog Tips for Affiliate Marketer Bloggers
(copyright 2006, no reproduction of this article permitted)

1. Keep your blogs brief. Blogs can be used as publishing tools to post articles or content of any length whatsoever. However, blogs tend to work best with short articles or "bite-sized "sound bytes." (please note: I will be adding a "quick tips" and "sound bytes" section in the preprintable content area soon, and my longer articles may be broken into parts one and two, etc.

2. Be the face with the place. Show your name, face and personality. Be a human being, not an anonymous website out in cyberspace. The internet is not machines connected to other machines - it is people connected to other people.

3. Take a stand or be controversial. Part of showing your personality is to express your beliefs and opinions. This is part of what blogging is all about. A blog can be and should be a personal journal and a place for opinion and editorial. Speak your mind! If you don't like diet pills and you're upset about the advertising in the diet industry (like I am), then say so!

4. Blog about current news and events. Check the health news on CNN or Yahoo and comment on current news events and topics related to health and weight loss. For example, I wrote a blog with my two cents about the weight loss drug Xenical going over the counter when that was in the news not long ago.

5. Use your blog as a diet and training journal. In our industry (diet and fitness), blogging could not be a better and more natural fit! If you don't know what to blog about - use your blog as a training and diet journal! (which is a great motivational tool for accountability, by the way).

6. Be funny. If you have a sense of humor, use it (it doesn't have to be so serious!)

7. Don't be boring. No one will stay on or return to your blog if you bore them to death. Be engaging and entertaining. Web surfers are NOT a captive audience. Be boring... one click... they're gone!

8. Be original. Use my articles and reprintable content, but don't use them exclusively. Make sure your blog has at least some original content. Remember, a blog is just a publishing tool, but if you just republish the same articles everyone else does, then... well... you're the same as everybody else! Be unique, and be sure there is at least some unique content on your blog site. Because these articles are reprintable, you may also quote sentences, paragraphs or excerpts, provided you give proper attribution to the source and don't change any of the text. Then you can use the rest of your blog to add your personal commentary on the issue. That's what Dr. Mercola does - short article, news blurb or research study from somewhere else, followed by his commentary.

9. Have more than one website. It is a great idea to have a traditional, informational, themed "content" or "portal" website AND a blog. Just because you already have a website doesn't mean you shouldn't have a blog too. You can build a blog on its own domain or install it right there on the website you already have using a tool like Word Press. Websites are cheap to build and cheap to maintain these days. Take advantage of it.

10. Use the prime website real estate wisely. Here's one of the most important money making tips of all. The prime real estate on any website including a blog site is what is top and center -- right in the visitors face "above the fold" on the "first screen" they see when they land on the site. A text ad, review or banner ad posted permanently in that space will give you more bang for your buck than anything you write in blog posts.

11. Use the prime website real estate wisely, part 2. The articles you write on your blog are most effective as sales and promotional tools only while they are on the home page, because whatever is on your home page gets the most page views. It's a fact that blog archives are only visited a fraction of the time that the main page and current blog post is hit. Check your traffic stats if you need proof of this for yourself. Once again, this means that only what is right in the visitors face on the home page will get much attention. The second area of prime real estate on any good blog that stays in view at all times is the right hand navigation column, especially the upper part, in the first screen (what the visitor sees before they start scrolling). If you want to sell Burn The Fat e-books, or anything else online, you have to use your prime real estate wisely! (try a book cover with a short 2 or 3 line text ad right below it, in the upper right hand corner of the site and watch what happens to your results!

That's all 11 - happy blogging!

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