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By M. Nielsen

Promoting your blog can seem like a task that can easily take up hours upon hours of your time every single day. Think about it! There are so many things you would like to do to promote your blog. This is only natural as every blogger wants his or her blog to be as successful as possible. On the other hand, there are only so many hours in a day. What’s the lesson here? The lesson is that you need to make the most of your time and ensure that you spend your time where it has the most value to you. The system I’ll show you will take less than 30 minutes a day to accomplish when you have set it up correctly. The focus of this article is the research you need to do to make your blog promotion work.

Step 1: Keyword Research

The first day you will focus on keyword research. You need to find “high traffic – low competition” keywords that are relevant to your niche. The tool I suggest you use is the Google External Keyword tool. The reason I suggest this tool is that it’s free and since Google rely on their advertisers to make money it’s a fair bet that it’s reasonably accurate. Look for keywords that get a good amount of searches, but have low competition in the green bar. Add those keywords to your list.

That’s keyword research at its very basics. There is plenty more you can learn about the topic so I can only encourage you to make further studies into this area. This step takes about 30 minutes by itself and is not something you should do every day. Doing it once a month should give you enough material for an entire months worth of blog posts.

Step 2: Content Research

Pick a keyword and do a search on EzineArticles, Google and Wikipedia for that keyword. You need to find 4 – 6 tips for your keyword. Don’t spend more than 5 minutes on this step. You need to make sure that the tips you find are tips you can elaborate on. If you don’t think there is anything more to be said about any given tip it’s probably not a good idea to use it for your blog writing. You need to be able to write 4 – 6 sentences that elaborate on each of the tips you find.

And if you want to know more about Promoting your blog you need to have a system in place. At his blog, http://www.netscribepro.com, M. Nielsen provides information on writing for the internet. Go there today to learn more about blogging and online writing in general.