Traffic Generation Part 16 – Creating a Presence in Forums
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 26th 2008Becoming active in forums is a fantastic way to increase exposure to your website, as well as help to establish yourself as an expert. Simply finding a forum that is related to your niche, throwing your website in your signature line, and answering relevant questions can bring about a nice amount of highly targeted traffic (and also results in backlinks too).
I would suggest not pushing your website too much, a subtle advertisement in your signature line should do the trick. Establishing yourself as an expert can go a long way, after all, wouldn’t you rather buy from someone that you trust?
If you are a fan of twitter visit the new Twitter Forums.
To hear me talk a bit more about working with forums, please view the Video.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 15 – Fun With Facebook
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 25th 2008Facebook is a hugely popular social site right now. It is a place where people setup profiles about themselves, and a fantastic opportunity for networking.This can be a great way to build relationships with others in your niche. I would suggest setting up a profile that is based on your niche, and becoming social with those interested in your niche.Facebook has a ton of free tools that make communicating and setting up a nice page a breeze.Please review the video to learn more about Facebook.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 14 – Take Advantage of Video Websites
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 24th 2008Video marketing is very popular right now, and when you have a video that you can use to promote your website, it can open some doors for you. Submitting your video to the top video sites is a fantastic way to get some strong backlinks, as well as traffic (and if you are lucky and your video goes viral….look out!).Creating videos is actually not as hard as it sounds. It can even be done using software that typically comes with Windows (Windows Movie Maker). The video need not be fancy either, just a few slides and some music should suffice.Popular video sites include:http://youtube.comhttp://dailymotion.comhttp://video.yahoo.comhttp://video.google.comhttp://dailymotion.comhttp://revver.comhttp://blip.tvhttp://livevideo.comTo hear me talk a bit more about video marketing, please check out the Video.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 13 – Content Remains King
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 24th 2008I would like to talk briefly about the importance of the content on your actual site. It is extremely important that you have high quality and unique content. Not only is it important to the search engines, but your visitors as well.After all, if you visited a site and it was a bunch of garbage, you certainly wouldn’t want to return, let alone tell your friends would you?Make sure you take the time to ensure that your website contains information that people want to read about. It may sound obvious, but you’d be surprised how often this crucial piece is overlooked.Please view thte Video to learn more about why content is so important.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 12 – The Power of Craigslist
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 23rd 2008CraigsList is an insanely popular website where anyone can post a classified ad. With a bit of creativity, you should be able to find a way you could use this with your website. Depending on what you are posting about, CraigsList can also bring you a crazy amount of targeted traffic. It is located here:
http://craigslist.orgI do need to caution you however, CraigsList has been abused by spammers, and if people find your ad to be spammy in any way, they will flag it and it will get taken down. If you are using Craigslist, make sure your ad appears clean.
I would suggest taking a look at ads already on there, and model yours after those. You will also want to make sure you are not posting too many ads at once, they don’t like that either!
Please refer to the video to learn more about CraigsList.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 11 – USFreeAds
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 22nd 2008USFreeAds is a pretty cool website that allows its visitors to post free classified ads. This website gets a surprisingly high amount of traffic, and is also well respected by the search engines, resulting in a powerful backlink.
USFreeAds can be found here:
http://usfreeads.comYou can get pretty creative with your ads, as this website does allow HTML, meaning you also have complete control over your backlinks. If you would like to give this a try, I would suggest checking out other ads in your niche, to get an idea of how you can use thisto its fullest potential.
Please feel free to review the Video to hear a bit more on USFreeAds.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 10 – Press Release Distribution
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 21st 2008Press releases are a fantastic way to get the word out about your website quickly. The best place to submit press releases through is PRWeb, located here:
http://prweb.comPRWeb offers a variety of ways to distribute your press release, ranging from free to very expensive. If you are serious about your web business, you may want to consider spending some cash here, as it is well worth it. You will want to make sure that your press release is well written (PRWeb can help with that too).
To learn more about the importance of press releases, please refer to the Video.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 9 – Utilizing Keyword Research
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 21st 2008If you aren’t doing proper keyword research before you build your website, you are taking a stab in the dark at your pages becoming popular. Just writing on your niche isn’t enough, you need to be spending time researching and discovering the best keywords to target.
The basic premise of keyword research involves finding keywords that have:
1. A reasonable amount of searches per day/month
2. A reasonably low amount of competition on the internet for that specific phrase.
I highly suggest and recommend using Matt’s Free Keyword Tool to do your keyword research. You can download it for free here:
http://MattsFreeKeywordTool.comThere is also a free video series that comes with the tool. I am going to highlight the keyword research process for you here.
You basically want to avoid two problematic areas:
1. Keywords with too much competition (you would not be able to rank high enough)
2. Keywords with too little search volume [...]
Traffic Generation Part 8 – The Power of Propeller
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 20th 2008Propeller is a place where members (it is free to become one) submit “news storiesâ€. I would suggest picking a page from your website that you feel is worth telling others about (and if you don’t have one, create one). Submitting a story to Propeller is very easy, and should only take you a minute.Propeller is a very popular website. It carries a page rank of 8!Propeller can be found here:http://propeller.comYou do need to be careful though, if you submit something that is of poor quality, it will get shut down. You’ve been warned!To learn a bit more about propeller, please view the Video.
[...]Traffic Generation Part 7 – Using Hubpages For Traffic
Posted by David Wiltshire on December, 19th 2008Hubpages is another social website, where its users can sign up for free and create their own pages. It is located here:http://hubpages.comHubpages is very similar to Squidoo, and I highly recommend that you take advantage of both of these websites. What a perfect way to create some strong backlinks that you have complete control over.One final note however, you will want to make sure that your pages on Hubpages are of decent quality. If you just throw up content that is taken from somewhere else, or of low quality, your page will get shut down. Be careful!To see me talk a bit more about Hubpages, I suggest you review the Video.
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