Blog Promotion: 7 Strategies That Work By Jack Humphrey
Filed under: Blogging, Getting Links, Traffic Generation
I just finished looking at my stats and thought I would
show you where my traffic is coming from and what
marketing tactic I used to get it.
Below are only the things that produced visitors to my
site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical
whatsoever.
1) Search Engines
Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site
platform and the performance is unlike anything I have
ever experienced before.
I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in
one 48 hour period than ever.
>From very nice short tail keywords like “video
syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get
more friends on myspace.”
And everything in between.
How do I do so well in the engines?
I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth.
Nuff said.
2) Article Syndication
LOL - right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very
powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.
Rather than try to be on every article directory on the
web, I go for the most important article directories on
the web.
I also write the best content I can on highly relevant,
topical, hot issues in my niche.
I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I
write for traffic. Huge difference most people
completely ignore.
I syndicated this article over the weekend and am
getting traffic from the following article sites:
* GoArticles.com * Ezinearticles.com
I will get traffic from many others, but I am only
showing you today what happened to drive real targeted
traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this
anywhere else that I know of by the way!)
I syndicate my articles exclusively with
SubmitYourArticle.com.
3) News Readers
Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide
range of related topics I publish on, I have feed
subscribers on all kinds of readers.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people
using feed readers from:
* Yahoo * Google * Bloglines * Delicious, and *
different versions of desktop readers like
MyWebTop.com.
4) Links
I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours
from sites such as:
* BradFallon.com * CreativeBits.org *
WillieCrawford.com * MichelFortin.com
and many many others.
These are link partnerships or just people pointing to
specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.
The better your content, the more people comment and
trackback your site. So good content equals good link
traffic.
5) TrafficSwarm
I get a good amount of traffic each day from
TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.
I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in
rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic,
if you were wondering.
They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it
on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic
compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are
other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic
and subscribers.
6) Video Syndication
I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos
lately and syndicating them on all the free video
sharing sites available.
Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can
attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like
“blog marketing videos” and many others to this
marketing tactic alone.
Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the
sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or
higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is
great each time I submit a video.
Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of
2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!
7) Tagging and Pinging
Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically
(and practically instantly) in places like Technorati
which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.
Right after I post this I will see traffic from
Technorati and other sites that I ping.
Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every
post brings me more traffic and another chance to score
in the engines for more keywords.
If you don’t know how this is all done, the best
information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.
Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live,
free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in
the last 48 hours.
Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my
actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces
from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they
push to drive traffic to their own sites.
—About Jack Humphrey—
Jack Humphrey is the editor of the Friday Traffic
Report. He teaches blog marketing, social marketing,
and link building strategies. Stop by and subscribe to
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Traffic is the life-blood of your Internet business.
No traffic, no business.
So how do you get traffic?
With joint ventures and affiliates you’re relying on someone else to get you the
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With hocus pocus SEO techniques, you’ve got to stay a step ahead of the search
engines.
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Free Website Traffic Generation Techniques For The Little Guy
By Akin Alabi
The importance of generating website traffic cannot be over emphasized. We all need to generate a decent amount of traffic to our website. Without it, your online businesses will all die. The higher the traffic you are able to generate to your website, the better your site will perform all things being equal so we really need to go out there to get the traffic.
Generating website traffic can be a daunting and expensive venture if you don’t know how to go about it. But if you do, you will find it extremely rewarding. Today, I’m going to reveal to your three website traffic generation techniques anyone can begin to use starting today. I call them the website traffic generation techniques for the little guy.
Here they are.
Little Guy Traffic Generation 1: Post Comments on Blogs
Search for blogs related to your niche. Go to their comments segments and drop useful comments. Drop comments people will appreciate you for. Resist all temptations to directly advertise. Make insightful comments and leave your link behind.
Little Guy Traffic Generation 2: Forum Participation
Participating in forums is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Search for forums related to your niche and begin to post your comments. Respond to people’s questions and genuinely help them. Have a very decent signature line with your link in it and people will find you.
Little Guy Traffic Generation 3: Offline Article Marketing
This method involves writing quality articles and sending to targeted and niche newspapers and magazines. In the past, I used to think that only professional writers and journalists were allowed to contribute. Not so. If you send in quality articles, many editors will use them. Editors are always looking for contents. If they see you are ready to write quality articles for them for FREE, they will take a second look.
Start using those techniques today and I guarantee you will see positive results in no time.
I wish you all the best.
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5 New Rules For Link Building
There’s no doubt, one way links work for search positioning. But, have you considered that what works today may not work in the future? One exciting aspect about search engines is that nobody really knows everything. That leaves room for webmasters who are willing to research, test, and put into practice the best search engine optimization techniques.
These five rules for one way linking can help steer you in the right direction.
Rule #1: You have to be proactive. Google considers a high quality link something you have to earn. You earn these links by partnering with sites. In order for a partnership to work, you have to develop a relationship. I think more webmasters are open to establishing vital community relationships. It takes trust and a lot of patience for these relationships to build. Focus on what you can do for someone else first.
Cheap Ezine Ads: What Should You Expect?
by Anne Marie, 2007
What should you expect when you buy cheap ezine ads?
Well, in the first instance I have some bad news.
If you think that investing a small amount of money, 5 to 20 dollars, will bring you in return a considerable number
of sales and you’ll be one step further on your way to become wealthier, then you’re very far from reality.
I have recently noticed some advertisers complaining about ezine advertising and claiming that it is no longer what it used
to be. Why is that? Because they purchased some cheap ads and they expected a big return on their investment.
They didn’t understand how and why should be used this vehicle called cheap ezine ads.
Making a short break, I would ask them the following question:
“After the first day of school did you expect your very young girl or boy to know everything on any thing?”. Sure not!
The first day of school is the first step on a long way.
The same is with the cheap ezine ads. Purchasing them is one of the first steps on the way of making a quite reasonable number of sales.
Are you confused? Have you heard about “big boys” getting a lot of money by sending some email advertisements and now I come here to tell you something else? NOPE!
Be patient and open your mind because you’re close to the explanation.
How do you think a successful advertiser knows that a certain ad works?
….
By TESTING the ad copy!
Any serious advertising campaign can deliver optimal results if SMALLER test mailings are previously done, with tests for offer, price, headline, etc. Such tests should always be refined by analyzing the results offered by an ad tracker. Without this tool the tests will be meaningless because while testing you must not look very much at the number of sales but at other performance metrics. You should also take very much care with the vocabulary you use. If it is not too much different from a spammer’s vocabulary, then the spam filters may grant you surprising results and not the ezines will be to be blamed. You don’t have to make wrong assumptions about spammer’s vocabulary and you rather test yours in order not to have some unpleasant surprises …
Returning to our topic, did the wording “smaller test malings” get your full attention? That’s the whole point!
If you test your ad copy in large ezines having a significant number of subscribers, then you may spend your whole budget even before starting the actual advertising campaign.
Here come the small ezines and the classified ad co-ops which offer you low cost advertising.
However always remember one fact: the bread is not as sweet as a cake, but this fact doesn’t mean that the bread is worse than the cake.
They only have different purposes …
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The Key to Getting Free Traffic
By Sean R Mize
It has been the desire of any Webmaster and online marketers to achieve the best rankings they can get through built traffic on their site. Initially, when a website is new on the net, the time it gets to be ranked and indexed is quite a long to wait. But then, when a site gets to generate the traffic in an instant, search engines see the potential of that site in the Internet and as such is given instant ranking and easily indexed. Now, how does one then get to have the traffic it needs in order to easily get indexed and ranked?
• Formulate a clear theme for your site. Any search engine is looking for a site that has a clear definition on it. The theme of your site identifies it being a site that has a clear direction in what it is to showcase and give. Search engines find it easy then to index and categorize your web site.
• Make an assessment of your keywords. Keywords are just so essential in any web site. In fact, it is not only important on a web site but rather keywords become the life-blood of a site. Search engines make it easy for your site to be “searched” when the keywords that net users look for have a match on your site’s keyword content.
• Create, design, and develop the website clearly and focused. A website carries everything in the Internet once it is launched in the web. If your website looks competitive in terms of what it can offer it can most likely be noticed by search engines and the net users. To simplify things, make your website noticeable by giving what search engines look for – keywords, and by the net users – information.
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Get Others to Build Your Site Traffic.
by Richard Martin
What if you didn’t have to work at getting traffic to your website? What
if other people built your traffic for you? Don’t think it’s possible?…
To tell you the truth, it’s simple to accomplish.
This might seem like totally new information.
But, this isn’t nearly as hard as it is to game the search engines today.
The reality is that only one thing matters to consumers:
THE VALUE PROPOSITION.
In fact, this is they key to 90% of all OFFLINE businesses’ success too.
The best stuff rises to the top in ALL markets. People who are impressed
by a purchase tell their friends. And they tell their friends. The chain
continues.
Let’s take a look at the automobile market to show you an almost perfect
example of this phenomenon.
Honda began shipping cars to the United States more than 30 years ago.
Honda worked hard at improving their vehicle’s quality and value
proposition to the average consumer. They made sure their products were
the best or at least perceived as the best.
Did Honda market their cars better? NO WAY!
Why did Honda sell a TON of Accords last year? Because their cars rock.
They sell for roughly the same price as their competitors. But, their
QUALITY is off the charts!
How about this:
Why would you pay $27,000 for a competitor’s product that will break in 5
years, when you could instead, buy a new shiny Honda Accord that will last
far beyond 120,000 miles. You will be happy, but, your interest in social
standing starts to take hold.
You actually TELL other people how great your shiny new Accord is.
You describe the car’s benefits, the quality. The handling, the great
value exchange.
You look better to your friends & they appreciate the information. This
has been going on since the beginning of time.
This works the same online as it does in the real world. People recommend
your website by linking to it and visitors come to your site from those
links.
You won’t be able to stop people from linking to your site and visiting it
IF it really is excellent.
The reality is that new sites come out & totally wreck the feeble
competition in categories that are supposedly too competitive. Every day!
Why? Because their site is better, serves their customers better & people
spread the news quick.
OK, but what should be YOUR plan?
Pull no punches in making your site so good that visitors are amazed by
the quality, the resources, and the experience. If your site is about
mortgages, figure out EXACTLY what they want to know, give it to them, and
help them pass it on to their friends. That’s all.
Turn your site into THE authority site about mortgages. Hire people who
know the subject inside & out to add content and tools about refinancing
and calculators.
Create a REALLY quality directory on the best mortgage resources online.
Build it & gather the information personally. Serve the customer better
than anyone else does.
Go the extra mile & get all the extra benefit as a result.
What would you rather have anyway? 1 person (YOU) building links or your
satisfied prospects building them for you?
Offer the best stuff you can get your hands on, or write it personally if
necessary.
This is what is comes down to: strive to be excellent and let the traffic
take care of itself. If you actually are the best in your market, you WILL
soon be sitting on more traffic than you can reasonably handle.
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Richard Martin contributes to Websitetuts.com. You can learn more
about Website building, Internet Marketing tactics, & Website Traffic
today by visiting: http://www.websitetuts.com/.
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