Combine your email marketing with Social Media
If you want to get your website out and target social media, then you should read what Amanda Gagnon (from aweber) has to say about combining social media with email marketing.
It’ll take you only 5 minutes to read that blog post and you can target and use social media without much problem. Go there, print the blog post, read it and then implement it and watch your traffic grow.
Let The Traffic Building Begin…
Back in 2004, when I started, traffic building was easy, YET, I struggled to get 100 unique visitors per day. Today when rules have changed, competition increased and it’s hard to get traffic, I think it’s still pretty easy to get traffic.
It’s silly, isn’t it?
To me, it has all become part of the experience that I’ve gotten in last 6 years of marketing online. You might think it’s super hard to get traffic but for someone who is doing it for couple of years will find it easy.
Photo by Rowdykittens.
So How do you actually build traffic to your website?
Simple answer is cumulative effect of your promotion will build traffic.
You know my formula (content+3X promotion = traffic). The more you promote your website, more traffic you’ll receive, the higher your chances to increase your traffic.
That’s where most people get it wrong. They try a technique few times and then claim it doesn’t work.
Traffic is all about getting back links. As you get more backlinks, you’ll get traffic. Almost all the techniques are based on this idea.
Getting website traffic is all about figuring out where you customer is and then get them to come to your website. Of course, not all of your customers are in forums, blogs and other web 2.0 properties… they are only fraction of the total crowd.
So Again, it all comes down to the idea of getting more back links to get increased rankings in search engines.
What are the factors that’ll effect your rankings and traffic?
When you are link building here are some basic factors that you have to keep in mind.
- Link from High quality pages – Links coming from high quality pages will always carry more weight towards your rankings.
- Age of your link – How long your link has been online will also effect your rankings.
- Quantity – Most marketers often go for the quantity and they are pretty right too. It’s not bad to build as many links as possible.
- Anchor text – What your anchor text contains will help you boost your rankings with specific keywords. I personally recommend to focus on few keywords and then build a complete link profile.
- Sources – How varied your sources are also going to play an important role in this. that’s why quite a few marketers target lots of web 2.0 forums blog and places to get links from.
- How old the website is – This helps somewhat but is not a major factor.
- Authority hub – Authority sites link to other authority sites. So if you are getting linked from some of the authority sites, your rankings will dramatically improve.
Remember all links are not equal, as all traffic isn’t equal. Some links caries more weight, some less.
What about no-follow tags?
Personally I am not worried about this. I always says to build as many links as possible. No-follow tags might not help you in your rankings but if you get a link on a high traffic web page, and you are getting traffic. Do you really think you should worry about that no-follow tagged link?
The simple answer is NO.
How to create a natural link profile?
Remember – If you are trying to manipulate link profiles, then you are not building a natural links at all. This is where I suggest you should go aggressively and market yourself. There are always chances some of your site (and links) get picked up and get blasted by others webmasters and bloggers to get loads of links.
Do Not Worry About Building a Natural Profile.
Promote as much as possible, it’ll build automatically.
What you can do now to increase your rankings?
It’s simple. Get more links through -
- Blog comments
- forum posting
- creating web 2.0 properties
- building relationship with bloggers and web masters
- article writing
- press releases
- Video marketing
- podcasting
The methods are endless, just get started implementing it.
How to become successful Internet marketer in next 60 days?
If you are tired from get rich quick schemes and spam, then you should take out at least next 60 days to get started and succeed online in your business. It doesn’t take much to start online but it takes a lot of efforts to be successful
Why 60 days are important?
I am suggesting 60 days, because in that time period, you’ll be able to make your website into a successful traffic getting, profit generating website. The time limit is important to keep you on right track. Of course there are many exception where people succeed in less than 60 days but for majority of the successful entrepreneurs it took effort, planning and time.
Step 1 – Find a market which suits you.
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Photo Credit – The Cleveland Kid
Finding a market which suits you, your temperament is important. There are 2 things you need to know about this.
- Market should already have people who are buying
- You have understanding of the market.
Most people make this mistake into jumping in markets where they don’t know anything about it. Of course most of the stuff can be ghostwritten but you cannot provide service to the industry. This idea is good for quick buck, but to make a business out of it, you either should get into market where you know your stuff or get educated in that market.
I’ve personally made this mistake jumping into this market and then I spent time and money getting myself educated in that market. I could have avoided wasting that much time just by following this advice.
Step 2 –Why You should learn how to write?
Putting pen to paper (Photo Credit lowjumpingfrog)
Content is big factor in your plan in getting traffic. You are either going to use articles to get traffic or provide a free report or something of that nature. So you should learn how to write.
Taking from someone whose English is 3rd language, you can trust me, when I say it’s easy to write.
Step 3 – Spend as much time promoting as you can…
You should be spending as much time promoting your website as possible. Without going out and getting attention, your site will never get traffic.
It’s surprising how the most important step is implement the least by most people.
I used to give this formula to anyone who asked me about the secret behind getting traffic.
1 X content + 3 X promotion = Success.
If you write 1 hr of content, you should spend 3 hr promoting that piece of content everywhere you can.
Step 4 – Take a break once a day in a week.
Learn how to relax right from the master Simpon (Photo Credit krasi)
If you spend most of time in front of your computer, you’ll get fat, screw with your eyes, get into fights with your loved ones. Computer is a addictive menace. So take time out once every week.
My Martial art mentor used to say “Always give 120%, even in rest”. So when you are resting, don’t think about that web page or the article. Just take a break.
I am stressing so much because I’ve personally suffered a burn out myself and then stopped working on website for many months (resulting losses in my business).
Of course I had to build it back up but trust me it isn’t pleasant to build your income back up. If your goal is to make money online then you should read this article and keep it in your memory. Remember to treat it as business, to promote 3 times and then take a break once a week.
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