Website traffic

I found a very good article on Website traffic in the BestWebsiteDesign  and  Buzz Blogger blog and I have re-published it below for your information and convenience.

 

21 Steps to 1,000 Visitors Per Day

Posted by Kim on 21 September 2011 filed in Traffic

 

Traffic is the currency of the web. The more traffic you have, the more people who will subscribe to your list, buy your products, and spread the word via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

During the past 7 years online I’ve built multiple sites up to 1,000+ visitors per day. With millions of visitors in our web archives, I’ve learned the hard way which traffic methods are the best and which one’s are a waste of your time. And in this article I’m going to serve them up on a silver platter.

Your 21-step roadmap to 1,000+ visitors per day…

Step 1: Create Insanely Useful Content!

The first step to creating massive traffic is to create insanely valuable content that oozes with personality…

Your voice, Your style, Your very own brand of Kool-Aid.

Unfortunately, voice can’t really be ‘taught’. It has to be found individually be each person.

It’s a journey of SELF.

It requires us to be something that most of us run from on a daily basis…

RADICALLY HONEST.

It requires us to pull off the shades, take down our guard and allow ourselves to be vulnerable.

I relate writing to be much like dancing.

Sometimes you just have to let go.

Otherwise, you end up looking like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz…

Your unique voice is what people will be drawn to.

Building a raving audience of fans online all starts with mind-blowing pillar content.

Content that makes people think. Inspires. Creates value. Provides a new perspective. Pushes people out of their comfort zones. Challenges your readers. And creates
nothing short of a braingasm!

Social media only works when you create content that matters.

Content that’s actually WORTH sharing.

Step 2: Syndicate Your Content Around the Web…

Ok, so now you’ve created your content and posted it to your blog.

Not so fast! You’re job has just begun

To get your blog buzzing with traffic, you’re going to need to get in the trenches.

Content is just the entry fee – now it’s time to play the real game…

Marketing and promotion!

Fortunately, social media is making it easier to share and spread your content than ever before.

EVERYONE online now has a circle of influence that you can tap into IF you’re providing massive value. And a bit of entertainment doesn’t hurt Like I often tell my coaching students… “Boredom is the death of ALL marketing.”

So don’t be afraid to have a little FUN

Then, once you’ve pressed ‘Publish’ it’s now time to share your content on sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social sharing communities.

Here are the exact steps we take to guarantee we get at least 1,000+ views on EVERY article we publish…

Step 3. Submit to Twitter.

This should be a no-brainer for you by now.

Unfortunately, I STILL see WAY too many people not using this platform effectively.

And others who have discounted it all together.

Seriously!?!?

I’m personally using Twitter to drive 1,000+ visitors to my website EVERY single week. And we’re teaching our clients to do the same.

Social media is NO longer an option.

It should be the first place you send your new blog post.

Step 4. Post to Facebook.

Our next stop is good ‘ol Facebook! Which is quickly becoming the #1 traffic source for many websites online.

If you’re not already active on Facebook… it’s time to get your
booty in gear!

When you dedicate yourself to creating truly epic content, Facebook can quickly become a traffic powerhouse for you.

Step 5. Submit to Any Related Blog Carnivals.

Blog carnivals are one of the fastest, easiest ways to increase your traffic and generate additional one-way backlinks to your website.

Essentially, a blog carnival is a type of blog event that is published on a weekly or monthly basis – centered around a particular topic.

As a blogger, you can submit your latest blog articles to be included in upcoming blog carnivals.

On the day of the blog carnival, a link to your blog article, along with a short description is published on the blog host.

Here are some popular blog carnival examples…

http://getoutofdebt.org/29324/awesome-personal-finance-stories-of-the-week
http://freefrombroke.com/best-of-money-carnival-106/
http://www.mypersonalfinancejourney.com/2011/08/best-of-money-carnival-116-who-dropped.html
http://www.freemoneyfinance.com/2011/02/best-of-money-carnival.html

You can submit your latest blog posts to related blog carnivals at:
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/.

Or, you can automate the entire submission process using a cool tool called Xingla Pro

Step 6. Post to BloggersBase.com.

Looking for some instant exposure to your content?

You can instantly increase the number of visitors to any article by republishing it on BloggersBase.com.

Once you’ve published to your own blog, wait a few days. Make sure your page is indexed in Google and then re-post the article to BloggersBase.com.

This alone will put hundreds of extra people in front of your article.

WAY more effective than traditional article marketing.

Stop wasting your time with sites like EzineArticles.com and start publishing to blogging communites like BloggersBase.com that ACTUALLY send traffic.

Step 7. Post to BlogEngage.com

Next you’ll be re-posting your article to a site called BlogEngage.com.

Again, very similar to BloggersBase. BlogEngage.com is a popular blogging community online where you can get additional exposure to your content and build strong relationships among the blogosphere.

Step 8. Post to Blokube.com.

Blokube.com is a rapidly growing social media network and blogging community.

It was first established in 2010 by a very talented 17 year old high school student named Devesh.

Aren’t kids smart these days!

Remember though, the key with any online blogging community is to provide VALUE to others FIRST.

So before you go and start blasting your own articles to the site. First start sharing OTHER people’s articles. Comment on other people’s articles and start engaging with the community.

Once you’ve done that, then you can start sharing some of your own stuff.

But get in the trenches first!

Provide value FIRST and you will reap MUCH greater rewards for your efforts and from the community.

Relationships are the key to building your business faster. Plus, it just makes things a whole lot more fun

Step 9. Post to Niche Social Sites

In addition to sites like BloggersBase.com, Blokube.com, and BlogEngage.com, there are also tons of niche social sites online that can send you a TON of highly-targeted traffic.

Sites like ImNewsWatch.com, Serpd.com, Tipd.com (very popular for the finance market), BizSugar.com, BetterNetworker.com, DesignBump.com, DesignFloat.com, Tutorialized.com, and Pixel2Life.com.

ImnewsWatch is one of my own personal favorites. It’s a daily must-read for any and all internet marketing addicts

IMNewsWatch is a news aggregator that brings you the latest and greatest from the IM world on a daily basis. So you can quickly and easily stay up-to-date on all of the latest IM news, launches, events, and more.

Plus, it’s a great place to submit your own content for additional exposure!

You can submit your latest Internet Marketing articles, news, and product releases at: http://www.imnewswatch.com/submit-news/

Regardless of your market, there are social communities online where you can extend the reach of your content.

Step 10: Post your content to the Top Tutorial Sites online.

Tutorial sites are a HUGE, untapped traffic source online. Especially if you publish articles regarding internet marketing, wordpress, SEO, graphic design, web development, programming, or business development.

I’ve personally used tutorial sites to send thousands of extra visitors to my articles.

Submitting your content to tutorial sites is one of the easiest ways to increase your traffic online.

And best of all, these websites simply link BACK to your original article.

So you’re not actually republishing the article, but instead the traffic is coming STRAIGHT to your website.

Here’s a comprehensive list of popular sites where you can submit your tutorials for tons of extra exposure, traffic, and backlinks…

http://www.buzzblogger.com/500-places-to-syndicate-your-content/

Step 11. Guest post AT LEAST two times per week.

EVERY blogger knows they need traffic. But few are truly willing to put in the elbow grease it takes to drive significant traffic.

You’ve got to put is some massive hustle… ESPECIALLY in the beginning.

No time for ‘American Idol’ or your latest reality show.

If you’re serious about building a successful online business, you’ll be writing till your eyes bleed… writing killer content not only for your own blog – but also for other blogs.

Guest blogging is one of the fastest ways to start driving laser-targeted traffic to your website.

Plus, there are also a TON of side-benefits to guest blogging…

* High Quality Backlinks
* Increased Exposure to Social Media
* Networking Power – Building a blogging alliance
* Boosts your Brand & Reputation (Authority by association)
* Increased Exposure in the Search Engines

Guest Blogging is one of the best ways to increase your traffic, position yourself in front of new audiences, and develop solid relationships with other bloggers.

To give you a quick example, I’ve had my own content published on sites like ProBlogger.net, Rosalind Gardner’s NetProfitsToday.com, LifeHack.org, ZenHabits.net, Site-Reference.com, Pat Flynn’s SmartPassiveIncome.com and many others.

And as a result I’ve received thousands of visitors to my blog.

But even more importantly, I’ve also developed a circle of friends.

You see, PEOPLE are the cornerstone to EVERY business – online or offline.

Building connections and fostering relationships is one of the fastest ways to shortcut your way to success.

Way too many people online are looking for one-off deals when they could be forming long-term, strategic partnerships.

The other big key to guest blogging is to focus on the most popular blogs within your market. Don’t go after little small blogs just cause you think they’ll accept you.

Go big or go home.

With guest blogging, you’re only going to see truly viable results if you zone in on the top traffic blogs within your market.

That’s where you’re going to see you’re best results (sending hundreds of visitors your way for each guest post).

If you’re looking for places to guest post, you can search over 500+ websites that accept content submissions at…
http://www.buzzblogger.com/500-places-to-syndicate-your-content/

(Each section is broken down by category so you can quickly and easily find the top guest posting opportunities within your market.)

QUICK TIP: Once your guest post has been published, don’t think that you’re job is complete! In fact, there are a number of things you should be doing AFTER your post has been published.

First and foremost, be sure to respond to each and EVERY comment.

Blogging is a social activity. Once your post has been published, you’ll want to monitor it closely for people who leave comments and respond to each one.

This shows that you genuinely want to provide value and you’re not just in it for the extra traffic, exposure, etc…

Plus, it’s also a great way to show your gratitude for being given the opportunity to guest post. Always remember that every commenter is potentially a new connection, new reader, or a new fan. So it’s in your best interest to engage with as many readers as possible.

In fact, what I like to do is send out a few personalized emails to a couple of my favorite commenters. Super simple – but one of the fastest ways to create raving fans!

Above all, remember that at the end of the day, this is all about relationships – real connections and interactions. You have to care about your readers MORE than you care about the money. Otherwise, you’ve already lost the game.

Step 12: Build Your Blogging Network

One of the fastest ways to grow your blog is to build your own blogging network – or what I often refer to as a blogging alliance.

A blogging alliance is basically a small handful of like-minded bloggers who strategically work together to grow their blogs faster.

When I think about a blogging alliance I often think about the Fantastic Four. As you probably know, the Fantastic Four is a group of superheroes who work together synergistically.

And a blogging alliance is basically the same thing. A handful of bloggers who strategically work together to grow their blogs faster.

If you look at any of the most popular blogs online – you’ll find that almost ALL of them have formed a strategic alliance of some sort – whether it be informal or strategically planned.

No one gets to the top by themselves. You simply cannot build your business to its greatest potential without also building relationships with other like-minded entrepreneurs.

Just like no single person within the Fantastic Four would be as powerful by themselves. It’s the collective power of the group that makes them so incredibly effective.

But you might be wondering…

What does a blogging alliance actually do?

Well, the possibilities are truly unlimited, but here are some great examples:

Members of a blogging alliance Link to each other. Comment on each other’s blogs. Retweet each other’s content. Stumble each other’s content. Promote each other’s Facebook Fan Pages. Swap guest posts. Interviews. And much more…

Whenever you need some help voting up your content, you can call upon your blogging buddies to help you out.

With a group of blogging friends, you literally have traffic on tap simply by sending out an email, IM, or Skype message.

Always keep it casual and relaxed though, just like you would treat a friend.

“Ex. Hey Chris, just wanted to show you one of my latest blog posts (7 Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from Taylor Swift). Thought you might like it since you’re a Taylor Swift junkie. lol… If you’d like to tweet it or stumble it that would be really cool as well.

Also, feel free to send me any of your upcoming blog articles. I’d love to check them out and give ‘em some link love

Cheers,

Kim”

Important Note: Above all, remember to focus on what you can do for the OTHER person first.

If you go into this thinking only about yourself and what you can get from the relationship – it simply won’t work.

A blogging alliance is a way to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs. The synergies and benefits that come from that are simply a by-product of the relationship. But the RELATIONSHIP comes first.

And when you put the RELATIONSHIP first. When you put GIVING first, you’ll be amazed at all of the incredibly powerful synergies that come from that.

Step 13: Forum Marketing (Old School is Kool!)

I’m talkin’ old school like Monopoly and your first Nintendo. Remember the days!

Sometimes the oldies are still the best

And the same is true online.

Most people discount forum marketing cause they’re too busy searching for the next bright shiny object.

But I’m here to tell you that old school is kool!

And…

It’s one of the FASTEST ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to your website.

Forums put you DIRECTLY in front of your target market. You can literally have traffic on tap within 5 minutes.

I personally use forums to siphon off thousands of visitors every single month.

The key here is to provide tremendous value to the community. Much like social media, forums are communities and the key to successful forum marketing is to interact with the community and provide insane value.

Give away your very best information and you will get tons of free traffic and quickly build your reputation as an expert in your field.

More Value = More Traffic

The more value you provide, the more people who will come to visit your site through your signature link.

It’s NOT about quantity. It’s about quality.

Spend one hour a day contributing world-class value and you’ll get 100x more traffic than if you spent an hour making a ton of replies.

Aside from the traffic benefits, forums also allow you to make connections with other marketers in your niche. I have met a number of strategic business partners directly from forums.

As always, it comes down to relationship building. Look for ways that you can provide value to the OTHER person first and you will quickly build lots of mutually beneficial relationships.

There are lots of great people to connect with on the forums. You can find potential guest posters, ad swap partners, experts that can barter services, collaborate with on a product, etc…

The opportunities are endless when you focus on building long-term win-win relationships.

Step 14: 2 Solo Ads Per Month

Solo Ads allows you to send a solo email to someone ELSE’S subscriber list.

Meaning that you are able to get your squeeze page in front of thousands of people for just a couple hundred bucks.

You could literally use this ONE strategy alone to build your entire business.

There are hundreds of list owners online who will allow you to advertise in their newsletters.

Just to give you a quick example, I paid $600 for a solo ad a couple months back that went out to over 60,000 subscribers.

From that promotion, I received 890 laser-targeted visitors, 483 new subscribers and 23 new customers.

So for me, it was well worth the investment.

Plus, those subscribers will generate many more sales on the backend and via my follow-up sequence.

The biggest key to paid advertising is that you MUST know your numbers You must know, on average, how much each customer and subscriber is worth to you.

Based on that data and knowledge, you are then able to decide which advertising sources are profitable.

And the higher your visitor value, the more advertising opportunities that become available to you.

Some of my best solo ad spots include:

Heri Rosyadi
John Cornetta
BizWeb2000
Imran Qureshi
WF Banner Ads (Killer!)

I REALLY probably shouldn’t just give those away.

BUT…

You know me, I like to dish out the good stuff

Some other solo ad spots that I’m looking to test out soon include:

http://FormidableMarketers.com/solo-ads (Heard really good things about these guys from multiple marketing friends.)
http://opportunity-advisor.com/soloadbooking.html (Gary Baker)
http://www.safe-swaps.com/list-building/tutilee.html?tab=solo_sell (Tuti Lee)
http://profile.safe-swaps.com/thevinsta (Vincent Craine)

*** http://soloaddirectory.com/ – A good list of solo ad providers by Reed Floren.

* Plus, once you’ve found the best newsletters to advertise in, you can basically put your traffic systems and lead generation on autopilot.

In fact, you could even set up deals with other newsletter owners to where you get a discount by paying to advertise in their newsletter for 6 months in advance.

This way, you’ve put your traffic generation on autopilot. You’ve created a ‘system‘ in your business that will continue to work for you on autopilot. And those are the best types of traffic sources to have because consistent lead flow is the key.

Step 15: 2 Ad Swaps Per Month

Once you’ve started using the traffic strategies above to build your initial seed list – you now have some massive leverage in your business that you can start using to scale your traffic even faster.

This is why it’s is SO important to build REAL assets in your business.

To focus ALL of your marketing on building a subscriber list. Because now you can start exchanging traffic with OTHER marketers online.

You can now start exchanging traffic via ad swaps, twitter swaps, Facebook swaps, article swaps, banner swaps, thank-you page ad swaps, etc…

Are you starting to see the power of leverage in your business?

*** If your business is moving slowly right now. It’s most likely because
you haven’t built that initial momentum and leverage into your business.

Now, ad swaps in particular are one of the fastest ways to grow your subscriber list online.

Ad swaps allow you to add 200-500 subscribers in a single day!

Plus, they’re super simple to set up as well.

Essentially, an ad swap occurs when two list owners each agree to mail their list about the OTHER person’s free offer This is usually a free offer placed on a squeeze page in exchange for someone’s name and email address. As a result, they are both adding hundreds of subscribers to their lists.

Here are some places online where you can find other list owners who are actively looking to do ad swaps:

Warrior Forum JV section
IMAdSwaps.com
Safe-Swaps.com (One of my favorites!)
AdSwapFinder.com
ListSwapper.com
HonestWorkFromHomeSuccess.com
UltraSwaps.com

Quick Note: Keep in mind that whenever you’re doing ad swaps, you should not base the ad swap on the number of subscribers someone has but rather on the average number of click-throughs they get in each email. Lots of marketers have big lists but that does not necessarily mean that they are responsive lists. So base your swaps on how much traffic they can generally send rather than just the number of subscribers itself.

Also remember to keep your ad swaps limited to about 3 per month.

There are WAY too many marketers out there going hog wild with these ad swaps and they end up ruining their list because of it.

Instead, you need to keep your ad swaps very limited and ONLY do them with people who are providing MASSIVE value. Remember, your reputation is paramount and you must guard your list at all times.

That means making sure that you always have THEIR best interest in mind. So we ONLY swap ads with the cream of the crop – people who we KNOW are going to provide our subscribers with MASSIVE value on an ongoing basis.

Step 16: Newsletter Syndication

Want some FREE Advertising?

You can essentially get solo ads for FREE by submitting an article to be published in their newsletter.

While others pay hundreds of dollars for advertising you can skip to the front of the line with just one good article.

I did this over and over again when I was just getting started online
and it was my #1 traffic source.

In exchange for providing your world-class content to other people’s newsletters, you get instant exposure to thousands of laser-targeted subscribers. And of course at the end of that article is a link that points back to your website – sending you hundreds (if not thousands) of visitors.

People who have newsletters, membership sites, and other content driven assets have a HUGE responsibility to continuously crank out killer content.

This opens up a HUGE opportunity for you if you’re willing to put in a little bit of time to create a value-driven article that their subscribers will enjoy.

There are no submission fees, no advertising fees… just a bit of your time is all it cost to get access to HUGE mailing lists.

You’re basically getting FREE marketing and exposure that’s worth hundreds of dollars per article.

The best way to find potential ezines to publish your articles is to use the DirectoryOfEzines.com.

I’ve been a member of the DOE (Directory of Ezines) for over three years and I highly recommend it if you’re looking to do any sort of ezine advertising or if you’re wanting to find large ezines that accept article submissions.

This is the place to go.

http://www.directoryofezines.com

The directory of ezines lets you search thousands of different ezines. You can sort them by category, number of subscribers, and more. You can also filter your search for ezines within your category that accept article submissions.

Do you see how powerful this is? Most of these ezines are charging hundreds of dollars to advertise in their newsletter. However, by writing an article for them, you can get all of that exposure and traffic for free.

Step 17: Webinar Swaps

We’re going to get a bit more advanced here.

If you’ve got the chops, this is definitely one of the best ways to grow your list quickly.

There a number of different ways to use webinars to grow your subscriber list.

The first is to approach other list owners about doing a special LIVE webinar for their subscribers.

This works EXTREMLY WELL because it’s a completely different approach than what MOST people are doing online.

You’re actually offering to provide VALUE to their subscribers FIRST. You could approach them in the manner of… “Hey, how about we do something special for your subscribers. I’ve been doing a lot of webinars with other marketers lately and we’ve been getting a ton of really great feedback. I’d love to do a special call with your subscribers where I talk about my top 5 traffic sources – nothing held back. The call itself is packed with high-quality content. If you’d like we could even setup a webinar swap and I’ll introduce you to my subscribers as well. Let me know what you think! – Kim”

This sort of approach allows you to instantly stand out from the rest of the
crowd.

People are generally just approaching people about promoting a product launch so when you approach them with something different – something that offers VALUE to their subscribers – you instantly stand out from the crowd.

On that webinar you offer a TON of exceptional content – nothing held back. And then at the end – you just do a short 5-10 minute promo.

Basically saying that if you’d like more content like this, you can check out our membership site at www.mysite.com.

To really top it off, why not just give your webinar partner ALL (100%) of the affiliate commissions!

Seriously…

I know it might sound crazy but you could grow a rabid list of subscribers” using just this ONE strategy.

You deliver a value-packed webinar, you do a short promo at the end and give 100% commissions and in return you get all of the subscribers who sign-up for the webinar.

This is super easy to do using something like http://webinaroptin.com/ or http://webinarbridge.com/

Traffic equation in a nutshell : Provide MASSIVE value = Generate MASSIVE Traffic

The more value you provide, the more traffic you’ll get.

 

Step 18: Rocket Deals

This next strategy is one of my all-time favorites. You could literally build your entire business around this one strategy alone.

I call them ‘Rocket Deals’. Put together 3-5 rocket deals and you can easily put your traffic on autopilot, sending 1,000-5,000 visitors to your website every week. Without any work on your part.

It all runs on autopilot.

So, here’s how you set up a Rocket Deal…

It’s basically an exchange of virtual real estate.

The goal is to get your ad on the OTHER person’s thank-you page.

The first thing you’ll want to do is start building a relationship with the other person. Find out what you can do for them first.

- Guest post on their blog.

- Tweet their content.

- Send them a video testimonial.

- Do a webinar for their subscribers. Do an ad swap, etc…

Then, you’ll send them an email similar to the following in order to setup the Rocket Deal…

Some potential virtual real estate that you can exchange includes:

Thank-You Pages
Log-Out Pages
Autoresponder Follow-Ups
Exit Pops
Member’s Area
Bonuses
Content Sharing
Upsells
Banner Space
WSO Bonuses
Newsletter Inserts
Footer Links in Your Email

So you’re sending them a LOT of traffic each week, each month all on autopilot and all that you ask of them is that they put YOUR ad on their thank-you page.

The thank-you page is one of the highest traffic pages on many sites – especially with people who are doing a lot of ad swaps or growing their list on a regular basis.And of course, those are the sort of people you’ll want to setup these rocket deals with…

People who are consistently and actively growing their subscriber list.

This is a win-win deal. It’s an offer that’s hard to refuse because I’m offering them right up front a TON of value – offering to send them hundreds of visitors on autopilot each and every week – In return for them putting my ad on their thank-you page.

Do this with just 3-5 people and you can push 10,000 – 20,000 visitors to your website every month, all on autopilot. That’s how powerful it can be when you set up these type of integration deals with strategic partners.

And remember, we’re not looking to develop relationships with just anyone and everyone. We’re looking for strategic, long-term relationships to setup these sort of win-win deals over the long-term.

You’re looking for people who already have access to the traffic. People who do a lot of ad swaps, have a high-traffic website, have a high-traffic forum, etc Those are the type of people you want to strike up deals with.

So find the people who own the traffic and then create an irresistible offer that will allow you to swap virtual real estate.

 

Step 19. Find 2 new banner advertising spots per month.

If you’ve been following me for long, then you’ll know that I LOVE free traffic

However, if you’re running a serious business online then paid traffic should definitely be a part of your overall strategy.

Once you’ve created a high-converting sales process, you can use paid advertising to literally put your traffic on autopilot.

But NEVER pay for advertising blindly! You should ONLY be paying for advertising if you have proper tracking in place. You MUST know exactly how much your paying for each lead, sale, customer, etc…

My favorite testing and tracking tool is Adtrackz Gold.

Once you’ve found some highly effective advertising spots, you can then start working out custom deals for increased exposure and traffic.

For example, let’s say you’ve found a good banner spot on a related blog that’s performing well for you. Why not approach the blog owner and offer to pre-pay for 6-months of advertising. And in return, not only do you get your banner spot – but you also get your content featured once per week with a link pointing back to your site in the resource box.

This is a HUGE win-win for both parties. The blogger is getting paid in advance while also getting some exclusive content to publish each week. And in return, you get ongoing exposure to an audience that is now being pre-sold through YOUR content.

There are so many unique, custom deals you can setup with blog owners online.

It’s a shame that so few people are thinking outside the box. But good for us cause we’re now able to approach those bloggers with unique, win-win deals.

Step 20. Send AT LEAST 1 Thank-You note per day.

Send at-least one thank-you note per day. The most successful people online are those who build a rich network of friendships.

This can be an email, a postcard, or even a hand-written note that you send to a customer, a subscriber, a blogger, or simply to someone who has re-tweeted your content.

I promise you, by the end of the year, this small gesture will produce exponentially more than just 365 new raving fans. You will have created a network of influence, comprised of loyal JV partners, ambassadors, and long-term friends.

Step 21. Have FUN!

Hey, you made it to the very last step. I’m impressed

And you’re in for a treat because step #21 is really the
secret sauce of success.

Having FUN!!

You must be passionate about the game of business.

And most importantly, you must be passionate about your subscribers and fans.

Success requires a BURNING DESIRE, an all-consuming obsession.

This is NOT about buying another course or reading another ebook. This is about doing it, doing it, doing it.

Building a business requires an amazing amount of persistence and an overwhelming desire to succeed. And that kind of persistence MUST be backed by PASSION. Passion is what gets you up in the morning and keeps you working late into the night.

If you want to win this game, you must center your business around something you truly love. Don’t choose a market just because it’s profitable. You’ll lose interest quickly… and some of you probably already know what I’m talking about

Building a successful business requires a wellspring of passion, desire, and plenty of late nights. And if you’re not building your business around something you love, you’ll never have what it takes to see it through.

You have to love the journey more than the results. You have to love your customers more than the bottom line.

Commit to something greater than yourself. Devote yourself to your community Focus on providing overwhelming value and you’ll be surprised at how quickly success comes your way.

 

If your going to market online then you have to be taught how to drive targeted traffic to your website. Having coming in day after day are the life’s blood of the network marketer. Without a continuous supply of leads coming in, soon the whole marketing campaign will dry up into online, thin air. Daily action is a requirement to be a profitable online marketer.

Most, newer to the game will buy their leads from lead companies. If you only knew how often these leads were sold, or should I say over sold. The leads company makes a pretty nice income from selling the same old leads over and over again. Then once you get them and begin to make calls or upload them into your auto responders you ethers see a high bounce rate or someone on the other end of the phone telling you they never filled out any survey and are not interested in a business opportunity.
If you want something done right, you better do it yourself. Generating fresh leads yourself is not rocket science. With the right internet marketing tools you can have great success. The nice them about the network marketing on the Internet is, nothing is really a secret. Success can be duplicated and can work like charm. List building is one of the greatest methods that network marketers can use to generate very solid leads that can convert as sign-ups into your primary business. If you don’t know it already riches is in your list. If your not building a list today then take note here and begin at once.

1. Most significant get a good auto responder service. This automates the task of sending out email messages on a regular time table, to many subscribers. Invest in a service, I would not use a free auto responder. Most of them are black listed and your emails will by no means reach your prospects.

2. Discover a good product or service that you know people will have a interest in. When I pick a product I try to find something that compliments any other business I may already have. So once I build the list once I can sell like products to all of my prospects. This could be an e-ezine, e-book or a series of informational reports to be emailed through the auto responder, over several days, weeks or months.

People, who have signed up through your opt-in form, will not know you in the beginning. Don’t have the idea that as soon as you get people opting into your list that your going to get signups or make money. You first have to build KLT. What is KLT it is Know, Like and Trust. Once you start to build some rapport with your prospects then they will begin to know like and trust you. I do this through emails as well as videos in my emails or on my blogs. Once trust is established, the prospect will be more receptive to your advice and suggestions.

3. Your list that you build is something that is going to get bigger over time. People will stay on your list until they opt out and decide to leave. As long as your not hounding them with to many offers or a bombardment of emails your list will grow. I may have my emails set up to go our every 3 or 4 days at the beginning but then drop back to a week or every other week a part. Also you can use the broadcast feature in your auto responder to share positive things that are going on at a given instant within your business. Someone on your team just got a huge bonus check for the quarter, or someone else on your team just recruited the most people in a week using a new process of advertising that you may want to provide details on. You become a trusted friend and skilled in your field, providing them with good advice and information. Along with this invaluable information you are sending out, you are also providing incentives for them to join your downline.

In conclusion, generating fresh fresh leads> is setting up your splash page on your website to capture leads and get people to opt into to get more information. List building is the most excellent way to get those hot leads that subscribe to your list then you can convince those prospects into your downline to build your business.

I found a very interesting blog post by SeanDonahoe
on an amazing webinar with a fantastically talented marketer Kim Roach.

She revealed 2 very cool tactics for generating floods of laser-targeted traffic for you and your business.

Sean wanted to make sure you got a chance as well to watch this incredible webinar recording so you can take full advantage of the information it contained.

You can access the webinar at:  Free Traffic Webinar

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I just found an interesting software called MyTrafficTool which uses an Automated Traffic Getting Technology and which sends Highly Targeted Visitors to Your Website… For Free!”

Act now and you can simply HAVE our brand new MyTrafficTool software, completely FREE of charge, and begin generating traffic and sales today!

Your copy of the Traffic Blowout will allow you to:

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• Generate Traffic by Syndicating Your Best Content
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You can download the free software from:

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Twitter is a service that’s received equal amounts of hype and disdain, with many Internet pundits hailing it as the coming of a new generation of short attention spans. With so many people using the service now, there’s certainly some truth to their argument. However, there are many ways to use Twitter as a highly useful marketing tool, beginning with just a few simple marketing principles.

Whether you’re a Twitter power user or just someone that wants to get more exposure for yourself or your business, optimising your Twitter usage through some very basic principles can lead to massive increases in your affiliate earnings, page views, and advertising revenue. These simple tips and strategies are detailed below:

#1 – Follow as many interesting people as you can.
This is a Twitter strategy that all too often gets massively misunderstood. With many accounts having massive follower counts, there are also far too many that have huge ‘following’ counts. Lets explain the differences between a value creating follower, and a value extracting follower:

A value creating follower is someone with whom you can connect, benefit from through tangible results, and communicate with to create value for both sides. This can be a mentor, an artist that you admire, or just someone that’s interesting to you. It doesn’t necessarily have to be anyone important, just someone that can create value you, and for whom you can create value.

A value extracting follower is someone that follows you for the sole purpose of increasing their follower count. This can be a false metric sometimes. While often your follower count is a great way of gauging your online influence, all too often it can become deceptive. When your follower count is filled to the brim with followers that are only there for their own personal gain, it massively devalues your total follower count’s value.

#2 – Give your followers more than you take.
This is one strategy that far too many Twitter marketers fail to achieve. Instead of creating value for their followers and winning their trust, many marketers simply spam their followers with endless affiliate links, poorly crafted sales pitches, and shameless self promotion. This isn’t a long term strategy.

Affiliate links and promotional material can prove to be an exceptionally powerful and lucrative resource, but without the proper amount of preceding value, your followers will likely click away once they hit your sales page. You need to build trust with your followers before you lead them towards any sales pages or money making opportunities. Spend some time building that trust, and you can take your followers anywhere you can imagine.

This all boils down to a basic marketing truth: people will always listen to someone they trust before someone they don’t. Nowhere is this more true than on the internet, where spam and advertising is always present. Be the knight in shining armour and you can eventually lead your followers down a path that makes you massive amounts of money.

Discover the top 10 Twitter tricks in the free report at:

==> Turnkey Twitter

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I found an interesting thread in the Warrior Forum40-day-challenge-top-5-google-within-40-days.html and I think that it contains pretty useful information for anybody interested in SEO.

The author is  Joseph Archibald and he tries a challenge to rank in the top 5 of Google searches for a particular keyword.

The first questions is how to choose a food keyword and the author suggests to consider following questions:

• would you wish to attain a high ranking for a keyword phrase that is going to bring you buyers regardless there are perhaps only around 2 thousand searches per month in Google stats? (Very possibly a long-tail keyword).
• or are you looking to rank a keyword phrase that has 50,000 + searches a month and not too concerned about it being a buyer-related keyword? After all, with a large search volume, no matter your chosen keyword you should get at the very least a few sales, right (or wrong)?
• or perhaps the definition for you relates much more about how much competition there is in the likes of Google. If I stipulate something along the lines of 20 million competition for the same keyword phrase you wish to rank for, does that mean its a good or great keyword if you can indeed rank highly for it?

He then proposes following answers:

1. must have potential buyers (not necessarily long tail however)
2. must have over 50 thousand searches a month as per Google stats in the Google External keyword tool – this is the EXACT MATCH and not BROAD
3. well okay, the competition as per the Google stats is not what I would focus on at all. I don’t care if there are 5,000 comp or 50 million comp. There are other factors more important at play than this sort of competition. But for the sake of many, I shall indeed mention the competition of my chosen keyword

The author then encourages ìto check for your potential keyword who is top 10 to top 20 in Google, i.e. your true competition. For each of them he does as he describes below:

a) I look firstly for Google PR when assessing my potential competition. Say my competition in the top 10 all have PR5s or so, well then, I have a job on my hands! If the keyword is really worth going for (its going to offer really good pay-back in one form or another) then this will not necessarily put me off.
b) I check the site’s backlinks by using Yahoo because it shows up more backlinks to a site than do Google (by a long way!). A thorough investigation would involve questions such as “Where are the liinks coming from? What is the PR of the sites that they are coming from? Are they very much related sites to the one we are researching – the one we are just about to build?”

An important factor to consider when we want to challenge other good sites is a domain name with an exact match to our keywords/keyword phrase we wish to rank for. This will certainly give some advantage, some kudos in and by Google.

At this point the author chooses a keyword “twilight poster” which has 110,000 exact searches according to the keyword tool google and a domain name http://twilightposterz.com.

Google shows global and local results.Global is as it says – based on Google search figures from around the world over the period of the preceding year, broken down to a monthly average. Local stats are for the previous month alone (no average over the year) for the Google server that you have chosen to use. Ya, you can use this feature on the free Google Keyword tool, which is very neat! There’s a tab at the top where you can change to your desired country to get Google traffic stats for that country alone.

Joseph then decides to add some content to his site (a WordPress Blog) and writes some posts which target initially the keywords “Twilight posters” and “New Moon poster”. Further, he then sets up a page (static, in WordPress) for my main keyword – Twilight poster. The author suggests that it is well worth to do some initial effort of gaining some uniqueness for your web content where you wish to try and rank for a particular keyword. otherwise, its very probable that the amount of backlinks you need will be a lot more than if your content is relatively unique. He suggests also to add some internal links between the pages and especially links to the home page.

The author then gives some advise about increasing the site monetization such as adding Adsense and perhaps ads of products from Amazon or EBay.

He then continues his promotion activities as follows:

a) He posts different articles to various DO-Follow article directories, which will be used for what I call my “anchor articles”. The articles of course have links to some pages of the website.

b) He then generates a further set of articles which will be used to “smack-up” those anchor articles. Meaning, he backlinks to the main articles in the DO-Follow directories, just to give them some juice.

The author gives also a list of the main article directories which he uses for SEO purposes…such as:

Ezinearticles.com
GoArticles.com
ArticleBlast.com
Amazines.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashboard.com

All these are DO-Follows which is obviously highly beneficial for hyper-text links and SEO.

The author suggests also to ping the articles by using various online ping services such as this very handy tool… Ping-o-Matic! or to supply those articles on social media posts etc with some backlinks.

Another interesting point mentioned by the author is that, rather than submitting the same article to each directory, he submitsì spun articles instead, thus reducing any potential for a footprint. He changes also the title and the bio box and.he varies the hyper-text too in the bios.

Another interesting technique that he mentions is to extract from the articles some 100+ words snippets of texts with a single hyper-text link to a web page of choice.
He then uses a service called Blog Blueprint to upload the text snippets and then these are drip-fed at the rate of 20 per day to blogs and other websites. Thus he is able to attain rather a lot of very nice little text links without too much work.

The Warrior forum thread is very long and complex and I have included here only some important point. I invite you to actually follow the thread if you want a lot of additional details.

Resources
There a few useful resources mentioned in the thread and you will find the links below:

SEO Tips and Tricks Blog
How To Make Profitable Keywords Run To You.
The Best Spinner

Latent Sementic Indexing (LSI)
Scroogle Scraper

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Recently I read a lot of interesting information about the new program of George Brown called Traffic Ultimatum.

I copy below an interesting review posted in http://www.trafficultimatumreviewbonus.net/ by Izat

You can read more at:

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Nowadays, there are tons of social networking websites available in the internet. Facebook allows you to keep in touch with your friends, find long lost relatives, and even make new friends. However, social networking isn’t just what you can get from Facebook.

Because of its popularity, a lot of people are now taking advantage of Facebook as a website that they can use to market their business or their products and services.

There are many social networking websites that you can join today, but .Facebook is one of the best choices, if you really want to join a good site for marketing your products or services or really generate targeted traffic for your website.

Facebook is considered by a lot of people as the best place to go to when it comes to marketing and networking. With over 62 million active subscribers, you will see that it definitely has the potential in increasing your sales.

The great thing about Facebook is that it will be able to provide you with tools that can be used to effectively market your products and services. However, you need to know how to use the tools effectively in order to really fully take advantage of the website.

So, here are some tips that can help you use Facebook to market your products and services for free.

The first tip is that you need to make a great profile which will attract more people and more viewers will mean more people will be able to know about the products or service you are offering.

Try to use Facebook as part of your branding and try to include a photo of you. Also, include your contact information, your website address, work experience, personal interest and your education. Always remember that a complete profile is the best way to go in Facebook.

When you are already a member of Facebook, try adding friends. Facebook is a social networking website where you will need to make friends and build relationships. The more relationships you build in Facebook, the more effective your marketing efforts will be. The great thing about Facebook is that you will be able to see friends of your friends. By building an extensive network of friends, you will be able to boost your marketing efforts in no time at all.

You can also join groups or create your own group. In Facebook, there are different kinds of groups that you can join and you can try joining groups that have the similar interest such as yours or groups for coaches, wealth building and marketing experts. By joining or creating your own group in Facebook, you will be able to make hundreds of contacts that can help you in letting your business grow.

You may also want to syndicate your blog using RSS. In Facebook, it is possible for you to place your blog in your profile through RSS. With this feature, you will be able to let people read your blogs and boost your marketing efforts. With increased number of readers, you will get more leads which also mean more business.

These are just some of the things that you can do in Facebook to effectively market your website or your business. Through these tips, you will see that you will be able to increase traffic and get more businesses

Most websites visitors come from Search Engines searches and it is therefore important to attract some of this traffic to your website.

This article is an introduction to SEO which means Search Engine Optimization and can be defined as the set of activities which allow to optimise a website according to the rules used by the SE to return search results.

Every day people enter a very large number of searches into search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN and other ones and they return the results according to relevance rules. According to some statistic most users look on average only to the first three results and rarely browse the results after the second or third page. In order to attract traffic to your site it is therefore very important to have your site selected among these first results.

Search Engines want from websites a positive experience for the visitor and assign value to good page contents and to a natural flow of backlinks in the home and in the remaining website pages.

In order to use SEO, you should start with keywords research. The term keyword refers to the words entered by search engines users to search what they are looking
for.

You should try to understand what users are searching and in which way, in order to be able to have your site among the first page results. You should try to find keywords that have a large number of searches and that are not too competitive. If you make a search with a generic keyword such as “Health Insurance”, you will find that there are many searches, but there are also millions of competitive sites which target that keyword. If you search for a specific Health Insurance company in a given area, you will get a much lower number of results and it would be easier to compete.

Once you have a list of candidate keywords to target, you can use them to optimise your website with the aim to be found by users that search those keywords.

The optimisation consists of two main parts as follows:

a) There are Onpage factors used to optimise the single website pages. Some examples are using the keywords in the title, in the headers and possibly also in the website URL, using keywords with the correct density and much more. Keywords should be used in your body text in a natural way and you should avoid using them too much because this could be considered by search engines as spamming.

b) There Offpage factors which consist mainly in getting external backlinks which will increase the popularity of your site. The search engines consider the external links as votes to your website. They count more according to the PR (Page Rank) of the external website (for instance a link from CNN counts much more than a link from Mr. Smith). Generally the SEO battle is won by the site which has the higher number of external links with a good PR (Page Rank).

It has been estimated that the Onpage factors have about a 20% influence on the Search Engines results, whereas the Offpage factors count for the remaining 80%.

You will find more information and practical sugestion on SEO at

==>  http://seo.marioebooks.com

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