As a blogger who is going to stand out among the rest in your market, you’ve got to differentiate. Try to brand yourself (especially if your exit strategy is to get acquired by a larger blog network or company). Forget about using free accounts like Blogger or Wordpress.com. Spend the few bucks per month and get your site hosted on a shared server. Register a unique domain name and make it something that’s easy to remember so that people can come back to your site by just typing in your URL.

I think that the whole blogging and affiliate marketing industry is maturing and you’ll see many bloggers fail and give up. The days of getting easy traffic through Technorati tags, blog and ping, etc. are over. You have to be more creative and use every single tool in your arsenal in order to win in this game. SugarRae has a good post on the evolution of affiliate marketing which you should read. Even though it’s not focusing on bloggers, everything can be applied just the same.

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