Slowly and insidiously, we begin to spend more time hard at work blogging, sometimes working well into the night to finish our daily posts and implement our backlinking strategies and linkwheels.

It’s not long before the success of our blogs become our main obsession and we eat, sleep and breathe our online business. The desire to make money online keeps us afloat above the stress and anxiety, but once worry and doubt  appear in our online lives it can be very hard to stop this kind of thinking. We start to worry about whether or not we’ve chosen the right affiliate products and networks, we worry about our customer satisfaction if we market directly to them, we worry about how much we are spending on ppc campaigns and how they are performing, and the biggest worry is whether we will get paid and of course when. We also have something in the back of our blogging minds that makes us wonder whether we are doing the most we can with this idea of doing business online. It’s easy to start wondering if everything we are doing is proper procedure or if we are breaking any advertiser rules.

What he have done essentially is unknowingly developed the paranoia of small business owners and we expect something terrible to happen to us while we wait for success online. Anyone going through these thoughts and worries needs to take a step back and relax a little. Starting a blog can be fraught with problems and situations that you were not prepared for but anything that comes up can be worked out in the end. Changing the way you look at things and keeping a positive attitude can keep you steadily blogging amid the stress and feelings of failure. Why? Because every online failure or problem is nothing more than a lesson learned. Many new bloggers put so much pressure on themselves to do everything perfectly that they give it up in disgust because it was just to hard on them physically and emotionally. It doesn’t have to be that way though, if you take the time to put everything to do with your online business into perspective. Life truly is what you make it and so is your online life. So what if you didn’t know you needed backlinks to find online success? Now you do. So what if you aren’t able to post every single day? Post when you can, there is no law that says you have to do otherwise. The bottom line is, don’t be so hard on yourself as a new blogger this is a learning process and you will get there in your own time and preferably stress free.

As a new blogger, you may be wondering to yourself about just how much traffic you blog gets and why. It’s important for any blogger who wants to be commercially successful to take a look at their web stats and measure their performance once in a while. If you’ve never even heard of web stats or how to measure them, then you do have your work cut out for you but hopefully this post will help get you through the worst of it. Every time you as a blogger publish a post, it affects who comes to your blog and the reasons why. Certain post keywords and tags have the ability to draw in readers like a magnet while others don’t do anything to improve your blog’s performance at all.

So how do you know which keywords and phrases are drawing your readers in to your blog? That’s where analyzing your website statistics comes in. It may not be the most enjoyable task you will have as a blogger, but it will show you exactly what people are searching for online before they end up at your blog. Analyzing your web stats can show you:

• Who has been to your blog in the past?
• Which pages and posts drew them to your blog specifically?
• Which of your backlinks are sending you traffic?
• Which sites have linked to your blog?
• What sort of traffic are these sites sending to you?
• What kinds of keywords are being used to find your posts?
• What type of browser your visitors use to view your blog?

There are plenty of other statistics that you can learn about your site’s traffic if you have good tracking software installed. Here is a list of some of the best hosted statistics software online today:

Google Analytics – This is a free online stats system hosted by Google that has many options for customizing and viewing your blog’s stats. It even allows webmasters to set traffic goals and obtain keyword search information.

Stat Counter – A free statistics tracker that even allows you to view maps of where in the world your traffic is originating from.

Site Meter – They offer free basic stats tracking, as well as very sophisticated advanced tracking through paid subscription.

Search Traffic: A micro-niche doesn’t have millions of search traffic per month due to the fact that it is a small niche. A good bench mark for keeping in mind is that your micro niche search volume estimates shouldn’t go below 800 searches per month.  Less than 800 people searching for your keywords per month means poor sales for you even if you dominate the serp’s.

Competition: There must be a small enough number of other websites competing for the traffic you will receive to your micro niche. A targeted and well focused keyword can ensure that you will have fewer competitors to have to outrank in the search engines. A broad one word keyword will have you competing with literally millions of other websites to get to the front page of the search engines. Finding a targeted two, three, four, and even five word keyword phrase will considerably lower the number of websites competing with you for search engine traffic. You really shouldn’t go after keywords with millions of competing pages, it’s best to bring that number of competition down to a workable number within the hundred thousand range.

Strength of Competition: You must always assess the seo or search engine optimization strength of the pages that are competing for your keywords. This assessment must include on page as well as off page seo factors. Off page factors are things like well aged domains in your topic area which you will not be able to control if you have a brand new website. So then it becomes extremely important to analyze the strength of the sites you will be competing with for a first page search engine ranking. The weaker the competition is in on page seo factors, the better it is for you.

• What are on page seo factors to take into consideration?
• Do the other sites in your chosen micro niche use your chosen keyword set in their url?
• Do they use the keyword in their site’s title tag?
• Do they use the keyword when making backlinks to their site?
• Do they use the keyword in the header tag or H1 tag?
• Do they use the keyword in their site’s description?

The more you come to find that competing web sites in your chosen micro niche are not optimized for your particular keywords, the better chance you have of getting to the front page of the search engine listings if you take the time to optimize your site with the suggestions I’ve listed above.

The bottom line is that a micro niche embraces the concepts of seo to the fullest extent and if you as a blogger or website owner can do that in your chosen niche, then success is yours to do with as you please.

More and more people are turning to the Internet in their quest to earn extra money from home. Why? Because the promise of Internet success is possible for those who work hard and with the instability often seen with job security in today’s economy, many people who have ventured into the area of work from home businesses have been extremely motivated to find success and quite often do. So what can you do to start the making money ideas flowing?

Take a look at this list of Internet work from home ideas and see where you might be able to find your own opportunities for success.

Online Auctions

This idea may be an old one but it’s still a good one. Ebay is a powerhouse online auction marketplace with millions of sellers that makes those who leverage the power of auctioning quality goods online a very profitable business opportunity indeed. The way to gain a competitive edge in the Ebay marketplace is to look at ways to provide your customers with your very own unique selling proposition. Do you have a product or service that you hand make or provide yourself that is unique and at the same time fills a need in the marketplace? Then your chances of success are quite high if you auction them online. Perhaps you don’t have your own products or services to sell at auction? Not to worry, that’s what drop shippers are for. Do your homework and find a top quality drop shipper that sells quality products in the market you’ve been researching, and it’s a no-brainer that you will make sales giving your customers what they want.

Online Directories

You could open your own work at home directory site where you offer your visitors valuable information on how to start a home based business online themselves. People who are looking for legitimate home business opportunity information will flock to your website or blog to read what you have to say on the subject. If you offer your site visitors quality information around the topics of home based franchises, home based small business, home business startup, and how to start a home based business, your readers will be thrilled with getting the information they need to be successful and in turn your site or blog will become a success as well. You will be able to make money and monetize your traffic with advertising as well as partnering with home business companies that you can receive income from providing customer referrals to those companies.

Work At Home Reviews

Thoroughly reviewing work at home business opportunities for your readers is a very lucrative field to get into. People want to know which work at home Internet business schemes work and which ones they should avoid like the plague. If you have integrity and are honest with your readers about which work at home opportunities work for them, you will be rewarded with a loyal readership of your blog and steady traffic to your site. Your valuable advice will help your readers steer clear of bad business decisions and get them on the right track with profitable business ideas that you’ve reviewed for them.

This is just a partial list of how to earn extra money from home online but its great starting place for your work at home Internet business ideas to grow into a website or blog you’d be proud to call your own.

What the heck are dofollow links anyways? Basically, you can leave a link at any site you like on the Internet, but some webmasters choose to use “nofollow” link structures on their pages. This means that they would like to keep the search engines on their site only, not let the search engines pass to your blog through the link you have posted on their site. A website that uses “dofollow” link structure allows the links you post on their sites to be found by Google and the other search engines every time these search engines come around to their sites. So think of sites that have ton of constantly  updated content and you will start to see how easily you can find places to put links to your blog on their site. Here is a list of the best sites that offer dofollow backlinks to your blog:

Squidoo – Create a page on Squidoo about your blog topic or something you’re interested in, and link to your blog from within the page
Ezine Articles – Write an article for Ezine Articles in the topic of your choice and add a link to your blog in your signature box
Go Articles – Same as Ezine Articles
Propeller – Submit a blog post to propeller and it automatically links to your blog
Slashdot – Same as Propeller

Other things you can do to get backlinks to your blog that will be seen by lots of Internet searchers even if they aren’t dofollow, is to Tweet your posts on Twitter as that will go around the Twitter universe and bring you some traffic. You could also leave a comment on a blog you find matches the interest of your blog and that will send traffic to your blog as well. Agree to trade links with other bloggers you like but be wary of link farms or placing your link on sites that are irrelevant to your site’s topics.

Most if not all of these dofollow websites expect you to earn your backlink by adding valuable and original content to their sites. So simply pasting your blog’s url all over the place without contributing content will put you in the doghouse with most of these sites and could get you banned for being a spammer.

Some posting schedules are too frequent and a waste of good quality posts, while others are more efficient at getting your articles out there in force. What your personal posting schedule relies on are two crucial factors, one being the size of your readership and two being the quality of your posted messages.

If your blog attracts several hundred visitors per day, over posting made be detrimental to your success as great posts travel through the blogosphere by word of mouth and social circles, so it’s best not to post several times a day in order for your best posts to gain a certain amount of exposure. Replacing a post that hasn’t received enough exposure with an inferior quality post just for the sake of publishing regularly will only lead to your best posts not making its as far as they can go. Provided you have enough time for quality content that is ideally suited to a small number of blog readers, then posting could be scheduled every two days until your readership picks up.

What sort of numbers are we looking at for a more frequent posting schedule? While there’s no hard and fast rule a good guideline to follow is to wait until you have more than 1000 visitors per day, and then publishing good quality posts and content once per day is no longer wasteful and reaches your intended audience. In this way, you ensure that you have enough posts that will be seen by real visitors to your blog instead of posting frequently in the early days of your blog when few readers are watching or reading your blog. A schedule like this keeps your good quality content from going to waste.

One thing to remember when starting a new blog is that your content and your posts will take some time to draw in your readers, but steady writing and a regular posting schedule will build up your readership and gets your posts were booked at sooner and more frequently than when you first began your blog. The main thing to remember with blogging is that it’s easy to be over enthusiastic about getting your writing out there to the rest of the world but too much too soon may not be seen by actual readers and you risk burning out before you even get started. It also goes without saying that producing quality content and posts for your blog takes time and diligence and posting three or four times per day probably isn’t going to be your best work but more of a rush job or short little posts that are more like notes and than real posts.

So the bottom line on posting frequency is, start slowly while honing your writing skills and build up your posting schedule frequency as your readership and traffic builds.