Saturday, December 17, 2011

Five Most Effective Traffic Generation Techniques

1. Guest Blogging

It was only after a few months of my starting blog that I heard about guest blogging. The concept of guest blogging was still new then, and I was awed by the kind of traffic other bloggers are getting just by writing a guest post for another blog. I started guest blogging after that, and the result has always been great.

My first guest post on another blog sent me around 50 visitors the week it went live, and after a few months of learning how guest blogging works I submitted a guest post to an A-list blog, and that guest post resulted in over 1,000 visitors the day it went live. Ever since then, I have decided that guest blogging will be an integral part of my marketing approach.

2. Email Marketing

If you’ve been in the internet marketing space for anything more than a few days now you will have heard several times over that the money is in the list. If you haven’t taken that saying serious before, then I’d also like to tell you that the traffic is in the list. Yes, you heard that right. For several months over my email list has been one of the top traffic sources to my blog. Whenever I publish new content the first thing I do is send a link to it to my list, and in a matter of minutes the article will have gotten enough traction to make it go viral. Building an email list can be a great way to get in touch with your readers repeatedly, while at the same time creating an opportunity for your blog to be successful

3. Search Engine Traffic

I’ve always been a fan of optimizing a website to take advantage of search engine traffic, and I have good reasons for this. As far as traffic generation is concerned, guest blogging on a top blog will only send you a spike in traffic for a limited time, sending an email to your list will only send you a spike in traffic for a limited time, and both of these tasks have to be done repeatedly for maximum results. This isn’t the case with search engine traffic, and you can easily optimize your blog for the search engines once and reap the rewards later. Google currently sends around 15,000 visitors to my blog every month, and this has been the only source of traffic that is constant without me doing anything.

4. Interviewing Top Experts

This is another tactic I love and have used to great advantage on my blog. You can easily get more traffic and readers to your blog by interviewing experts on related subjects and asking them to share the interview on their favorite social media site. Most of these bloggers already have an impressive following, and if you can ask them interesting questions they will want to tell their readers about it.

Another approach you can follow is to ask a group of bloggers a single question, and then compile all their answers on one page and ask them to share it. Most of the bloggers will be honored to see their name included alongside their blogging heroes, and as a result, they will want their followers to see it.

5. Social Media

People have been saying it for years now that social media is the future of the web, and I can see social media starting to have more influence in the lives of individuals. Facebook is currently the 5th top traffic source to my blog ever, and is always one of the top 10 traffic sources to my blog every month. Twitter is also the number 10th top traffic source to my blog ever, and it also sends quality traffic to my blog every month.

Social media is becoming increasingly important, and as marketers and bloggers we shouldn’t ignore its importance. If you can learn and master how to use social media for your business, you will start noticing significant difference in how much traffic you’re getting.

Monday, March 14, 2011

5 Reasons Your Business Should Use Social Bookmarking


Author: Rumal Choudhury

 Have you ever sent a friend or colleague a link to a website that you thought was interesting or useful? Perhaps something in the news, or an article you’ve read that you wanted to pass on. That’s social bookmarking and it’s a great tool to use to promote your business on the Internet. But how?
There are many social bookmarking websites across the Internet. These allow users to create connections with other users through the content they produce. Say that you write a blog post or article for your business, you can give the option for other people to share it using one of the main social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon. Those articles/blogs/content that are quickly bookmarked by lots of people, rise to the top of the Social Bookmarking sites and suddenly you have lots of interested traffic going to your website.
1)Instant Traffic
Articles that get more than 25 votes within the first 15 minutes of being on a site will quickly rise through the ranks of the social bookmarking website. If the articles or blogs that you write for your business end up on the first page of one of the main social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, you’ll get a vast amount of traffic instantly. That’s got to be good for business!
2)Referrals and Recommendations
Social Bookmarking is a great way to get attention from a diverse audience of potential customers or clients. Users can look at each other’s bookmarks and this creates a sort of social referral system. Users can also recommend content to each other and the more recommendations that your content receives, the higher it ranks. Again, all this referring and recommending brings more traffic to your website.
3)Backlinks
Google and the other Search Engines love quality backlinks from popular websites and backlinks that come from the top Social Bookmarking websites. Social Bookmarking encourages people to spread the word about your content and spread links to your website along with it!
4)Discussion and Feedback
Discussion of your article promotes the contribution of content to your website. It allows you to hear what people think about your thoughts and ideas too and that encourages further discussion. All of this interaction creates SEO-friendly content that will help you to attract more visitors to your site!
5)Free Promotion
Social Bookmarking really helps to promote your business. But best of all, it’s completely free. All you need to do is add content and you can add as much or as little as you want. Your only limitation is the amount of time that you have. People talking about your articles, blogs, videos or podcasts is good for bringing other people to you, and again, that’s free and it’s great for business.
Social Bookmarking is a free way to create tons of instant traffic and gain great SEO value through the content that you create. When you create high quality relevant content, you get high quality relevant traffic.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/5-reasons-your-business-should-use-social-bookmarking-1782234.html

About the Author

Rumal Choudhury, Internet Marketing Mentor, Success Chief. Helping people make all their dreams come true, and making vast sums of money online. For more information, check out http://www.xtremewealthmaker.com

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Google Adsense

What is Google Adsense?

Google Adsense delivers text and image ads that are targeted, on a page-by-page basis to the content on your website. Website owners simply copy Google's HTML code into their webpages, and then Google automatically delivers ads based on the content of each page.

Whenever a website visitor clicks on these ads, the advertiser pays Google, and Google splits the revenue with the website owner.

Price of Keywords

Google charges advertisers on a price per click (PPC) basis.That is, advertisers pay only when a user clicks on their advertisement.
Advertisers bid against each other to receive better placement in the results,and the bidding price for each keyword differs.

For example, the keyword ‘weather’ is only worth 5 cents or less to most advertisers,while keywords such as ‘mortgage’ often yield $5 or more per click.Since Google splits its advertising revenue with you on a click-by-click basis,you obviously want the ads that Google delivers to include the highest paying keywords.

By optimizing the text of your website to include high priced keywords, Google will deliver ads based on these higher priced keywords, thus yielding you significantly more revenue per click.

Specifically, by understanding which keywords are the highest priced, you can generate more revenues by:
- Modifying the text of existing web pages
- Creating new web pages for existing websites; and/or
- Creating completely new websites

For instance, a site about baby names (baby names is a $0.05 keyword) could include content about life insurance (life insurance is a $6.00 keyword). In this case, the correlation is that when parents have children, they should make sure they have the best life insurance policy.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Top 10 Ways To Use Twitter for Marketing:


1. Use it to promote new pieces of content you or your company
create to drive traffic to your site. From online articles to
blog posts or from videos to webinars, each time you add
something to the Web that is of value, tweet about it and include
a link. (Most people on Twitter use www.TinyURL.com to take a
long URL and make it short.)

2. Use it for learning new marketing ideas, strategies and
techniques. If you follow the right people, and you have to be
picky about who you follow, you'll get pointed to a good amount
of useful tutorials, videos, e-zines and other things that teach
you about marketing.

3. Use it to get new customers. Use Twitter's search to find
people who may be interested in your product or service. There
are many ingenious ways to search for people on Twitter. For
example, if you sell red widgets you could go to
http://search.twitter.com and find people who have tweeted
specifically looking for red widgets. To do this, type the
following into the search box: red widgets?

* You'll notice a lot of the results will be of others selling
red widgets. These ones will all obviously have links in them to
direct people to the site they're selling red widgets on. To
weed these people/tweets out, use the negative sign like this:
-http red widgets?

* Since every link has 'http' in it, using the negative sign
in front of it will cause your search results to not include any
tweets with links in them.

4. Use it to build your email list. Use Twitter's search to find
people who may be interested in the monthly newsletter you send
out to your opt-in house email list. Invite these people to join.

5. Utilize Twitter plugins or add-ons such as TweetMyBlog or The
Twitter Updater, which both automatically make tweets of every
new blog post you publish. Also check out TwitThis. When visitors
to your website click on the TwitThis button or link, it takes
the URL of the Web page and creates a shorter URL using TinyURL.
Then visitors can send this shortened URL and a description of
the web page to all of their followers on Twitter. Finally, look
at TweetLater, a service that allows you to write lots of tweets
at once and then schedule them to go out over time.

6. Use it to build buzz about an upcoming product or website
launch.

7. Use it to better brand yourself or your business. Remember,
when someone wants to learn more about you or your company, they
are increasingly using sites like Twitter for research. You could
easily use Twitter to establish yourself as an authority in your
field.

8. Use it to update followers on breaking news regarding your
company. If your company is mentioned in a new article, tweet
about it and include a link to the article. Or if you're at a
conference or trade show, you could tweet what you're doing and
invite people to visit you in person.

9. Use it for business networking, master-mind groups (see
Napoleon Hill), and getting yourself seen by high-profile people
in your industry.

10. Use it as an instant messaging system to keep you and your
team on the same page during projects. This is especially useful
for those who work with teams spread out in different cities or
countries.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Greatest Ways To Converting Your Traffic Into Your Greatest Profit

Greatest Ways To Converting Your Traffic Into Your Greatest Profit
By: Seth Chong

Do you have a website which pulls in large number of visitors everyday? You can actually benefit yourself with the traffic and earn a great, residual income if you give a little more effort. Here are some of the greatest ways you can convert those traffic into mountainous cash:

1. Sell a product/service

Of course, to earn money you need to sell a product or service to your visitors. It is the best way to profit from your own product. Usually, an e-book or software works the best - they can be downloaded right away, no shipping included, no handling to be done. You earn 100% of the profits without any investments to be taken before that.

Other than that, selling your own product allows you to set your own price.

2. Opt-In list

It is very crucial that you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.

With an opt-in list, there are tons and tons of ways you can profit greater in the future. You can make previous customers purchase again from you, making them your repeating customers - that is of course, if they are in your mailing list and you can urge them to buy again.

Building a closer relationship with your own subscriber will be the best thing you can do. By having your subscribers 'trust' you, you can endorse many other useful products to your subscribers and the chances that they will buy from you will be high - because they trust you.

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus to be listed on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it'll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own publicity and branding.

In the future, you will receive great benefits as when you are known, people will trust you more and this profits you. Between a product - let's say a tooth brush from a beggar and a doctor, who will you prefer to purchase from? Unless the beggar offers something special, it is hardly that you will purchase the tooth brush from him.

4. Pay-per-click

In this case, you don't pay for every click but earn instead. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the bidding on a certain keyword. The famous ones are Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn a small portion of money. Nevertheless, if you have high traffic to your site - these programs alone can generate your residual income.

5. Offer an advertising space

Usually websites which brings in very high traffic will sell a small portion of space on their web page. You can charge a minimum of $300 for advertising someone's ad a single month on advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day.

Other than that, you can also create exit pop-ups that advertise other websites as well. By doing this, you don't clutter your website with too many ads and you can earn a better reputation from your visitors.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don't have your own product for sale, you can sell other's products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don't need to go through any problems after your sales.

No customer service, you don't need to issue any refunds, just let the owner do everything else for you after each sale. If you have a mailing list, you can endorse many other products and earn very great profits from your subscribers.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from every click your visitors clicked on, you are paid if you get your visitors to subscribe into other's mailing list. Nevertheless, it is not necessary that you just get visitors to become other's subscribers.
There are a lot of bigger companies like Coca-Cola and Pepsi which holds survey every few months. By referring your visitors to them in order to complete a survey, you can also earn great profits from it.

Applied correctly, you can make a huge fortune on the Internet and build a steady online business - taking over the place of your day job. Take some time to put effort in either of these strategies, because it can make your day bright.

Author Bio

Seth Chong is the owner of IMViral, one of the largest, greatest viral Internet Marketing Newsletter which is being spread around the world, you can sign up for the Newsletter(worth $297) for Free at www.imviral.com

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Master Affiliate Marketing

7 Ways To Take Your Earnings To The Next Level
By: James Simpson

It's a fact that affiliate marketing is one of the quickest ways to get a web business up and running. After all, you don't need a website, you don't need a list and you can start advertising someone else's product just 5 minutes from now.

And the great thing is you really can make money by doing it. But the truth is, if you are making money from a particular product you're promoting in this fashion, you're almost certainly leaving money on the table.

To explain why, we need to look at your average affiliate marketing strategy:
-- Pick a product to promote with a high affiliate payout ($50 or more)

-- Set up a pay-per-click campaign to promote your affiliate link

That's it! Those two steps are what the vast majority of affiliate marketers do. And that's why 95% of all affiliate payouts are made to just 5% of the people doing the marketing... because those top 5% are doing far more to earn their commissions than just a simple PPC campaign.

You need to understand that if you're fortunate enough to be making money from the product you're promoting just by doing those 2 basic steps, then it's almost a racing certainty that you're missing out on a mass of additional income.

Let's look at how you could increase your commissions and future related sales on just one product you're already making money from:

1. Build a 'name squeeze' page to capture your prospect's name and email address. It's a fact that virtually all product sales are made after the customer's fifth visit to the website.

If you're not capturing your prospect's details, how are you going to make sure they go back to the sales page using your affiliate link? To greatly improve the chances of this you can set up a 7-series autoresponder to automatically send your lead additional information and reminders about the product they're interested in. This approach will keep the product fresh in their mind.

2. Build a website reviewing the product you're promoting, including a newsletter to catch your prospect's details. You can give full details about how the product will solve your prospect's problems, giving an impartial review of the features and benefits with some real-life results.

The newsletter will allow you to keep in touch with your prospects in the same way as the name squeeze page method.

3. Offer additional bonuses for buying through your affiliate link. This gives your prospect a reason to buy from you, especially if they know you're going to make a commission from the sale.

The important thing here is that your bonus products are related to the product you're selling. I mean, there's no point advertising a bonus book on 'how to make your parrot talk' if your initial product is about training dogs to perform tricks.

4. Create video tutorials on how to use the product you're promoting. This works especially well when you're promoting a software product. You can show people how to get started as quickly as possible without them having to read the manual.

The vast majority of people learn visually, so they're much more likely to use your videos than read the manual supplied with the software. You can even tie this in with option 3; give your prospect free training videos if they buy through your affiliate link.

5. Make your own product to cross-promote. It can be an add-on to the product you're promoting as an affiliate. Again, you could easily offer it for free or at a discounted price if they buy through your affiliate link.

6. Promote related products via email. This works by creating an 'A ' Grade list out of your newsletter and squeeze page sign-ups, i.e. the people who have actually gone on to buy the product you're promoting.

It's a known fact that people who have a proven track record of buying online are more likely to buy from you again. You can easily recommend to them a related product that will further enhance their original purchase, resulting in more affiliate commissions for you.

7. Tie all of the above together. You don't have to use just one of the methods above. Use all of them.

Create a name squeeze page, build a review website with newsletter, add some bonuses to your affiliate link, make some video tutorials, develop your own related product and promote other affiliate products via email to the lists you've built with your name squeeze page and newsletter.

But before you do any of this, make sure you're promoting a product that sells. After all, spending your time doing all of the above for a product that is poorly supported, doesn't work properly or has a high refund rate is going to be time wasted.

Author Bio

James Simpson is an internet marketer and product developer. Currently he is producing 'how to' videos, showing how to properly use and benefit from XSitePro, over at www.xsitepro-videos.com


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Making Money with Twitter and Clickbank

With the worldwide web constantly evolving, it was only a matter of age before people found a way to earn some extra income completely internet. Two of the ways in which people are doing this are through Clickbank and Twitter.

Clickbank is somewhat of a one stop shop for those who are trying to start off a home based business venture.The website hosts peoples' products and offers affiliates a opportunity to promote these products for a commission.

Twitter is a blogging and social networking website, where users put up and send messages called tweets. Your tweets are shown on your profile and all those who subscribe to your page are known as followers, who receive your tweets.

Making Money with Twitter

Naturally, you will need to open a Twitter account if you haven't already. Signing up is free and easy. After you do it you are going to have to spend some time to build up followers, and you can do this in different ways.

The easiest is to follow as many people as you like, because the odds are that they will check out your page and follow you right back.

The other method requires some creativity on your part. You need to create for yourself a niche and make it an interesting one. You will grab people's attention, your tweets will become popular and therefore you will gain more followers.

Having lots of followers is important because it makes your account more valuable. This means that companies will be fond of using your account to advertise their products, resulting in you pocketing more money. If this happens, you are likely to get offers to use your Twitter account to send out short ads for a payment. If you have around 2,000 followers, you can make as much as $1.00 for every tweet. This can be quite a bundle of cash, which will only increase as you get more followers.

Making Money with Clickbank

Clickbank also requires you to make an account on the website. You can then roam about their marketplace until you find a product that you want to promote. You should ideally pick one that has a 'gravity' of 50 or higher, which simply means that it will potentially be a popular product.

Now you move on to advertising the product. The easiest, cheapest option is to go with article marketing. This is when you create articles about why your product should be bought. Once your article is ready to be released, you need to make sure it is well publicized. You can turn to a many websites to achieve this. You can obviously submit them to any number of websites as well.

To make sure people read these articles, visit to social bookmarking websites and then submit the url that leads to your article in any of the above websites. This way, you have increased odds of your articles turning up in any search engine, giving you more and more views, and thereby more and more money.