IF you have a site of any kind that you are trying to make money from you have to have web traffic. That’s right website traffic. The nemesis to most marketers. The only thing that will allow you to make sales, money from adsense, clicks on whatever ~ web traffic.
When I started this site I was so green, I didn’t know anything about internet marketing. I did know I wanted to stay home with my daughter and make money while I did it.
As you can see if you check out the “get more traffic” category of this blog I have tried a little bit of everything to drive traffic to this site. The only I haven’t tried is PPC, because I don’t know the ins and outs and don’t want to lose money driving traffic.
Over the last year I still had a feeble showing of traffic to this site. I then discovered “social traffic” and some days I would see more than a thousand visitors to this site. The thing is, they stayed for about as long as it took to click the little stumble button again. They didn’t click ads, they didn’t buy products. It’s great to see the traffic spike, but really it was pretty worthless.
As you know a couple months ago I started a coaching program with Courtney Tuttle. After studying with Court it became clear exactly what I needed to do to drive not only plenty of traffic, but amazingly targeted qualified traffic to this site.
It’s interesting I recently looked around to see what other people were doing to drive traffic to their sites. I saw lists and lists of 25 ways, all the way up to 101 ways to drive web traffic to your site. What I know now, and I really wish I knew then it really only takes 2 ~ yes I said 2 ~ activities to drive all the traffic you need to your site.
Here it is. I’m giving up my secret, right here, right now.
- Write keyword targeted posts
- Point links at those targeted keyword posts
You can spend your time chasing social traffic, working day after day to get traffic that generally doesn’t convert or you can spend your time writing keyword targeted posts and then pointing links at those posts. Of course, you need to make sure you do your keyword research and make sure you are targeting keywords that have people searching for them, and are worth some money, if you are using adsense. If you don’t know how to do that, or what that means I’ve written a simple step by step guide to doing keyword research like the professionals.
If you target good keywords and spend your time building links to those posts you will find your keywords move to the top of the search engine rankings and you will get organic (free) web traffic right from the source ~ Google.
Not only will you get this qualified web traffic once, you will get it over and over and over again. Once you have done the work building links your site will generally stay put and keep sending you traffic for your targeted keyword. When that’s done you can move on to the next profitable keyword and start all over again, meanwhile you will continue to receive web traffic from the keywords you have already targeted.
This is the best method you can use for getting targeted, profitable web traffic to your site. Forget the social traffic, if you are trying to make money blogging, or trying to drive traffic to squidoo lenses, or hubpages, or any other site, focus on this internet marketing strategy and you will see a huge increase in your web traffic soon.
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Nice Advice
any simple method for me as a noob ????
click on the articles page and start reading and taking action.
I like using social bookmarking myself , I use socialmarker dot com , and once set up its nearly automated.
Thanks Seany.. I’ve been looking everywhere for that site. Signed up a while ago and totally forgot the name of it… and thanks Jackie for the post
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Hey!
Nice post. I really like your tips and obviously use them myself. I’m in the “free traffic” niche teaching this to many people who want to learn more about this subject. It’s easy, just stick to the fundamentals!
Keyword Targeting – High Search Volume, Low Competition.
Create Good Content – Keep Your Keywords in the Title, Post and Tags.
Ping Your Posts – Ping your posts with ping services.
Link Back To Your Posts – Write and submit an article or social bookmark your posts.
That’s a quick basic outline that works, over and over. You can take it a lot further though.
- Chris Stigson
A bit over simplified, but it has it’s point.
It was a good read.
wow great insight i truly learned a lot from this post
Great info…I hope you keep writing articles like this. I am still trying to get my head around the importance of keywords. There are so many tools out there for keyword research…the mind boggles!
Great blog, web marketing is difficult but this makes it easier. One recommendation, get the word out about your blog by pinging sites with tools like BlogBuzzer.com
Thanks for the info. Its great to have someone like you.
Great information, would have saved me $6000 in advertising with a consulting firm. Keep up with this information, wish others would give this info out.
Good content is the key to keeping traffic on your page, and it is important for seo purposes. In the begining however you need to be very aggressive with your traffic strategies
Hey Tiger Tom,
That’s actually how you establish yourself as an authority on a subject.
Jackie
“1. Write keyword targeted posts
2. Point links at those targeted keyword posts”
That’s about the size of it, unless you can establish yourself as an authority on a lucrative subject.
Nice post.So true, you can get all the targeted traffic you need by just writing good content and being social.Many more people would become successful online if they understood that marketing takes a lot of time, and it takes time to build up the kind of traffic that translates into sales and money in your pocket.