For those of you who hate to write, you're going to love today's web traffic tip. Today we're going to learn about submitting our sites to niche directories. This web traffic tip will help you in a couple ways. 1. Get some good quality links back to your site to help improve your search engine ranking. 2. Some direct traffic. What is a niche directory? A niche directory is a site that contains links to a bunch of different sites all related to the same niche or topic. You can find … [Read more...]
Freebie Almost Friday
February 25, 2010 By 15 Comments
I was digging around on my hard drive and realized I have a ton of stuff on there that is just collecting dust so I thought I'd put it out there for you guys to peruse. I've created a new Free Resources page where you can find free reports on different topics that might help you move forward. This all started because I knew I had some cool resources on getting more traffic ... somewhere... I finally found the one I was thinking of and wanted to give it to you on almost the last day of … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Tips: Backlink Packets
February 24, 2010 By 49 Comments
Even after my post a few days ago about changing the mindset of getting traffic I know most of you still want to build links to get some Google love. That's ok ~ Google traffic is free, and once it's established it's pretty much hands off so I understand. The question then becomes: How do I build enough links? Thus far we have been creating a lot of content to add our links to, which means a lot of writing. I also realize not everyone loves to write or finds writing easy to do. For … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Tips: Article Marketing
February 23, 2010 By 22 Comments
Articles can be used for many many things and we've talked about article marketing quite a bit in the past. However, previously when we've talked about article marketing it's been in terms of Squidoo lenses, getting a site indexed, and creating links to a site to build it up in the search engines. While article marketing is great for these things, it is also a great way on its own to get traffic to your site. When you start thinking about article marketing as a traffic getting strategy … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Series: Traffic From Youtube
February 22, 2010 By 13 Comments
You are all probably aware that video is a great way to get traffic. When using video to get traffic you're basically finding low competition keywords with some search volume and then doing a quick video on that topic. You then optimize your videos for those keywords ~ using them in the title of the video, in the description area and then using those keywords as the anchor text of any backlinks you build pointing at the video page on youtube. Once your video ranks in Google you should get … [Read more...]
But… How Do I Get Traffic?
February 19, 2010 By 26 Comments
Yesterday I asked what you all would like to learn about next on this blog. To my surprise I got a lot of ... How do I get traffic? Which surprised me a little lot since I just spent an entire month showing you different ways to get traffic. :) So there must be a piece that is missing. I'm not sure what it is, but I've got a couple ideas and I'm going to cover them in this post. (I had a post about getting traffic with video planned for today ~ but it's getting pushed to Monday). What's … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Series: Repurposing Your Content
February 17, 2010 By 18 Comments
To tell you the truth I was going to do a post on Facebook today but here's the deal... I haven't quite figured out how to drive good traffic from FB quite yet ~ so if you want to learn more about facebook I suggest you check out Mari Smith. She is a pro. If you're looking to build a facebook fanpage your best bet on that is Pat Flynn's post on Building Fanpages. It's what I followed to build mine. So what am I going to talk about instead? Recycling. :) No, not your bottles and cans... … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Tips: Twitter
February 15, 2010 By 24 Comments
Please stop groaning. Twitter really can be your friend, and it can be a great way to drive traffic! I love twitter. I love that it drives very qualified visitors to my website. I love that it gives me a break through the day and let's me get into conversation with adults. I love that it is so easy, and it's really fun. Image via CrunchBase So how can you make Twitter work for you? Before we get started, Twitter is not going to be the best traffic strategy for micro niche sites ~ it … [Read more...]
Web Traffic Tips: Guest Posting
February 12, 2010 By 8 Comments
photo credit: Körschgen Today's tip may seem intimidating, but it's one of the VERY best ways to drive traffic to your site. That's right, I'm talking about turning yourself into a rock star with guest posting! What is guest posting? Guest posting is writing an article that gets posted on someone else's blog. Why would I want to give someone else my content? There are a lot of reasons. Here's a few. 1. You get yourself in front of that person's ENTIRE readership. Let's look … [Read more...]
Some Interesting Things I Found About CommentLuv
I was over at a new blog I'm following yesterday and when I went to make a comment I realized commentluv had been pulling in the same blog post for a really long time. I started clicking stuff and realized you could actually sign your blog up at commentluv and then it would show 10 posts for you to choose from. That's pretty cool. It was not easy to figure out how to do it, some links on the site are broken, but I finally did it. Here's how it went: 1. Go to the site 2. Click the … [Read more...]