Archive for June, 2009

The Key To Your Success Is Not Just Traffic

Monday, June 29th, 2009

When you stop to think about it, I must be crazy telling you that the key to your success is not just traffic to your website. Particularly since this blog is about one thing only - driving free website traffic.

All I truly mean is that before you go seeking just any old visitor to your website, make a plan to drive targeted visitors to your web pages.

Your marketing plan should include seeking out like-minded people who would find your website helpful for their needs. Whether they are looking for a better way to sell products, or the answer to a pressing problem in their life, find them and send them to your site.

Naturally if your site is sports oriented you want people interested in sports coming to read your pages. Obviously then you want to be finding sports fanatics to tell about you and your website.

Working your traffic building strategy in this manner is much more beneficial than just plastering links all over the internet. Your efforts at targeted traffic will reap greater reward, yes in particular if you are selling a product or service.

So keep in mind the key to your success is not just traffic but a step by step plan designed to go get targeted visitors.

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Traffic Steps | No Comments »

How Affiliates Can Send You All The Traffic You Need

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

It takes work and dedication but you can learn how affiliates can send you all the traffic you need. So once you decide to start your very own affiliate program the first thing to focus on is keeping your affiliates motivated about your products.

I highly recommend that before you go after affiliates you have everything in place to help them be successful.

You are going to want tools available for them to put to use immediately. Tools such as…sales material, product reports, videos, emails, pre-written reviews, signature lines, etc. These all help your affiliates to get started immediately.

However, the one thing most affiliate managers fail at is…

…simply to remain in contact with their affiliates. These days it truly is not enough to merely provide a few tools and release your affiliates to send traffic back to your website.

One of the easiest reasons for staying in contact with affiliates is to pay attention to those who are successful. From there acknowledge their success in an email to all affiliates. Obviously this will motivate the productive ones while reminding the other affiliates success can be had in your program.

It is important to remember that affiliates are really a part of your sales team, and as such, you need to reward them for their efforts. Contests, high commissions and acknowledgement of efforts will reward you too with a hard working team.

The bottom line is that you cannot expect to sign up affiliates motivated solely by the potential to make some money. Everything online comes down to relationship, most marketers miss this point and seldom see the success possible as a result.

Purpose in your business to provide the best support for your affiliate team. This will make all the difference, set you apart and even attract more affiliates as a result. It is all about the relationships you can establish, and far, far less about website traffic secrets no one has shared with you.

Now that you know more about how affiliates can send you all the traffic you need, it is up to you to put that knowledge to work…Today!

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Affiliate Traffic | 2 Comments »

Why Do People Return To A Website?

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

It is an interesting question, and easily answered, why do people return to a website?

Because they are able to find the information they want quick and easily. plus the content is relevant to their search query.

Think about it this way, how do you react when you are doing a search online, follow a link in the search engine only to discover that link took you to a site that was irrelevant?

In other words, the link was misleading?

It’s frustrating isn’t it. I know I don’t like it one bit, and you probably don’t either.

Now, how do you react when you land on a site that has relevant material? And what about a website filled with quality content?

Probably bookmark that site, right? At the very least, if you are like me, you make note of the site name. I’ll do a seach on that name if I happen to forget the URL. 9 times out of 10 I find the site again.

But I’m not talking just about hoping visitors bookmark your site. Nope, I’m actually pointing out that it is the quality of your content that brings people back.

Solid, original content, that is relevant to the search query will win over visitors every time. They will most likely come back again to discover what is new.

And that is the second part, be sure to continually provide fresh content so when people return they discover more material for them to devour.

It isn’t hard to do this and best of all…you are rewarded with every increasing search rank as a side benefit. This means even more visitors!

That answers the question, why do people return to a website, it is just a matter of you choosing to put in the effort for success.

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Traffic Steps | 3 Comments »

How To Get Free Autopilot Traffic

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Getting directly to the point, good content is the answer for you when seeking how to get free autopilot traffic to all your blogs and websites. It takes a commitment on your part to provide that quality too.

I can promise you this…if you can commit to writing just 1 article each day about your niche, you will be miles ahead of your competition. If you don’t, you can bet some one else will.

And you will fall behind them because of their determination. So avoid that happening…remember, just one article each day.

Post it to your blog, if you have one, and to a few article directories as well. I do recommend that you take a bit of time and write 2 or 3 variations of the article. Not so much for fear of duplicate content penalties by the search engines…

…rather because common sense tells you people are smart enough to recognize duplicate content themselves. You do, right?

Your autopilot traffic is coming from the SE’s and good content will win the day. Plus, search engines are in business to provide relevancy to the search query.

Common sense tells me that a couple of different articles aiming at the same keyword, found in different article directories, will give you, and your site, more authority every time.

That authority beats any authority derived from duplicate content.

Yes it all takes a bit of effort, commitment on your part, but the rewards are well worth the extra effort.

I recommend you also read the post “How To Use The 2 Step Article Marketing Method” in your article marketing. You will be astonished at your results. Quite pleased actually.

There you go, my methods revealed on how to get free autopilot traffic that will never cease to land on your sites!

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Article Marketing, Traffic Steps | No Comments »

Twitter Drives Fast Targeted Traffic

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I’m beginning to take a closer look at Twitter, like a lot of people these days, and noticing Twitter drives fast targeted traffic.

Using simple tracking URL’s I have witnessed instant traffic to any number of web pages I point to in my posts, “Tweets” as they are called. i’m absolutely floored by the potential.

While people want to know how to get followers, I have for the most part just been focusing on slow growth via networking. I merely believe people want solid useful information they can use and that is what I try to provide.

Most of my Tweets point to various posts right here on this blog you are reading. Some point to static web pages within this entire website, these are mainly offers for products I believe ever one with a website can use.

All in all, what I am discovering is people like the short informative posts here, and I plan to keep it up. You will notice many of these posts are step by step methods you can easily follow to better your websites online reach.

I write and publish a post, usually answering some ones need on Twitter and the merely Tweet the new blog post. I can easily have 100 people read that post in a few hours! Usually that number of visitors to this new blog takes days.

You can bet I am going to tweaking my ‘Tweet Methods” and not stop until I continually make a few sales. I will cetainly let you know how it goes.

You can do it too. It really is as easy as I have described. I recommend you get started today. And you will discover yourself, Twitter Drives Fast Targeted Traffic…enjoy!

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Twitter Marketing | 2 Comments »

Give The SE’s What They Want, Relevant Content

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

It occured to me just a few moments ago and I thought it worth while to point my thoughts out to you…Give the SE’s what they want, relevant content

The information I promote throughout this blog, and web pages, is 100% White Hat marketing at it’s best. I don’t believe gray hat or black hat methods are ever the way to go with marketing and SEO.

Here’s why.

The best way to explain what I mean is to ask you to imagine the potential a person has who writes malicious code. You know, worms, trojans and viruses. Have you lost data because of such activity? Eventually we are all effected by these viruses.

Imagine the potential some of these code writers would have if the put their efforts into coding programs that offered real solutions for people. That is what I see with the black hat marketers out there today.

They are for ever spining their wheels trying to stay ahead of the search engines and CPA networks. All that work, and it all gets lost, because they are gaming the system.

White hat is the way to go with your search optimization methods. You will never go wrong!

Give the SE’s what they want, relevant content, and they will give you what you want…targeted traffic.

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Squidoo | No Comments »

Proper SEO Aided With A Well-Crafted Marketing Plan

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

“A proper SEO plan aided with a well-crafted marketing plan can put your business on autopilot, making you money 24/7″ Andy Fletcher ~ KickStartSEO.com

I cannot stress to you enough times over in these articles, getting high ranking in the search engines will never fail you! That quote above by Andy says it all.

The problem comes in when you lose patience waiting on your optimizing to go into effect. Then it becomes easy to give up and move onto another project. And, do the same, over and over as it becomes a pattern.

What is a proper SEO plan? For that matter, what is a well-crafted marketing plan?

(more…)

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Blog Marketing | 2 Comments »

Google Loves RSS Feeds, It’s Crazy!

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Let’s talk a little bit about RSS, not what it is, but rather how much Google loves RSS feeds, it’s crazy really…

…if you have a blog and your are yet to get setup with even just Feedburner, you are truly missing out on a lot of potential traffic and link juice. By the way, did you know Google owns Feedburner?

The #1 key to effective use with RSS is to be sure your  main keyword(s) are in the title of your Feed. Be sure to that you are using your keywords in your your post titles too. These are all going to be picked up by the search engines, remeber this point.
(more…)

Tags: , , , , , ,
Posted in SEO | No Comments »

How To Get More Clickthroughs With Every Article You Submit

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Your signature box is the ‘most valuable player’ on your article marketing team, and beginning today, discover how to get more clickthroughs with every article you submit!

The other day I wrote about the 2 Step Method for driving traffic to your sites using articles. How using the resource box was the invitation to your reader to come to your website.

Today let’s focus a little more on your resource box because it really can be your MVP with article traffic.

(more…)

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Article Marketing | 3 Comments »

Getting Traffic To Your Website, Now What?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

So you have studied how it is done and spent all this time on getting traffic to your website, now what?

Good question. You do have a plan in place for visitors who land at your site don’t you?

A plan that really does one, maybe two, things. And both of those should be “making an offer” to your site visitor.

First, you should be offering visitors the opportunity to join your list. Always make this offer. Always.

Second, you should be making the sales pitch. Either for the purchase of a product of yours. Or, this second pitch should reinforce your first pitch, that of getting people to subscribe to your list.

Listen, getting traffic to websites is easy. You may not believe so now, but it is. I recommend spending some time reading the articles found here. You will find some very good traffic generating information.

Most marketers fail because they do not understand that direct marketing ONLY begins with traffic. They falsely believe having a website with consistent traffic will be all that is needed for success.

What happens if one or two of your sources sending traffic dry up? Think about it.

Marketing online is the same as offline in that direct marketing methods still work. It is just the tools are different.

Take your site visitors and make the offer. Some will join your list. Continue to market to your subscribers. Do so until they become buyers.

A few visitors will become buyers right away. These go onto your buyers only list. Continue marketing other products and services to them too. Never stop until they ask you to stop by unsubscribing.

Keep this in mind. You will always focus on of getting traffic to your website, now what you do with that traffic afterwards is even more important.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Traffic Steps | 1 Comment »

How To Use The 2 Step Article Marketing Method

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

There is no better way to easily create backlinks than submitting articles to directories, and this is exactly how to use the 2 step article marketing method for creating fantastic traffic to your website.

The 2 Step Article method:

Step 1 - As you would normally, write your article based on the keyword(s) you have chosen. The difference is you will from this point forward begin writing each article a little bit longer than 350 to 450 words. Shoot for that 700 word count range.

Why? Because of…

Step 2 - You are going to break the article into 2 parts. The first part will be submitted to the directories. The second part will be placed on your website. Do you see where this is going?

Article directories allow you to include your signature byline with your submission. It is in this byline that you will include the direct link to part 2 of your articles.

This system works naturally to drive targeted traffic to your website because the reader wants to be able to finish reading what you have to say. They are going to click that link…

…and now you have the reader on you site, right where you want them. Do not miss the opportunity here to give them plenty of information, including part 2 of your article.

Go for the opt in by making your subscription box visible. Offer value in return for their email contact information and follow through with that value. And, don’t be afraid to ask for “the sale” either by pointing visitors directly to your sales page.

Be sure the sales page is part of your opt in sign up process. In other words, once the visitor subscribe then send them to your sales page automatically. These will be highly targeted readers landing on your offer(s). Your conversions will increase!

Now you know how to use the 2 step article marketing method, I recommend using this technique for all your article submissions from this day forward, you will see  amazing results, and finally - if you really want to take it to the next level, here is more information on Article Marketing!

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Squidoo | No Comments »

Do One Thing Daily To Bring Traffic To Your Website

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

These do not have to be difficult tasks, be sure to do one thing daily to bring traffic to your website.

Here is a list of 7 simple traffic generating techniques you can do:

  1. Write new content.
  2. Post comments to blogs.
  3. Submit an article to article directories.
  4. Participate in forums.
  5. Keyword research.
  6. Seek affiliates for products you sell.
  7. Send a broadcast email to your subscriber list.

That list of 7 things, one each day, to fill out an entire week will not only keep you busy, it will produce free traffic for your site. Spend just one hour daily on each of those, you will be pleased with your results.

And start Today!

Much of the content you write can be re purposed. For instance, a new article can also be used as a blog post on a different day. I recommend doing a bit of a rewrite when re purposing, this way you have unique content regularly. Plus, it is a lot easier to rewrite than to create new all of the time.

Keyword research helps not only for writing relevant content but also will help you to better serve the search engines with optimization. This research will help you to find keywords to add into your site content.

Once again, generating traffic does not have to be difficult, just create a daily plan that works best for your schedule. And use your content as frequently as possible..

…such as with affiliates. There is no need to create all whole new set of content, such as emails or articles, for their use. Reuse some of your existing stuff by changing it up through a rewrite. This makes it easy on you. And you are helping your affiliates to help you!

Feel free to follow these 7 daily routines, or develop your own, just be sure to do one thing daily to bring traffic to your website.

Tags: , , , ,
Posted in Traffic Steps | No Comments »

How To Get Visitors To Return To Your Website

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

So exactly how do you get people to come back for a repeat visit?

Actually it isn’t really that difficult at all to get visitors to return to your website. The first thing you should do is to decide that you want people coming back.

What I mean by that is simply that it is a lot easier to create content for your sites when you consciously work at making things enjoyable enough people want to ‘bookmark’ your site.

That is one way to get people back. Another way is to invite them to return when you send out an email to your list. I discussed this in greater detail just the other day. Always write your autoresponder messages in such a way that you can easily include a link for people to visit your site.

So, people will come back if the content on your site is compelling enough to make them want to return. A certain number will click on the links inviting them back in emails you send out. But what is the easiest way to manage compelling content? Or for that matter, what is the easiest way to get people onto your list?

The answer to both of those questions…start and maintain a blog. It is the easiest way to publish content today. And when you start looking at Wordpress, well, the opportunities to get it right the first time are in your favor.

And by “getting it right” I merely mean Wordpress is easy to install, setup for SEO and be publishing your content literally within an hour. You really can!

Plus, the endless supply of Plugins and widgets make Wordpress the #1 blogging platform. And never to be overtaken by any other platform either.

There it is, one very good piece of blogging software, two easy to implement methods on how to get visitors to return to your website, and I almost forgot…

…blogging is fun! Not too mention easy to get the hang of doing too!

Don’t waste another day. Start asking for people to return to your site, give them reasons to do so and they will come back, time and time again.

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Blog Marketing | No Comments »