Posts Tagged ‘free traffic’

Social bookmarking is one of those buzz phrases you may have heard around the internet, but what is social bookmarking?

Put simply, social bookmarking is simply a more public version of the bookmarking you do on your own browser. When you want to remember a page or site on the internet, you usually go to the ‘Bookmarks’ menu in your browser and click ‘Bookmark this page’, right?

Well, with social bookmarking, you simply allow other people on social bookmarking sites like Delicious and Digg to see what you’ve bookmarked and visit that site themselves. Social bookmarking sites provide you with a platform on which you can keep track of your bookmarks while sharing them with other people.

The larger and more established social bookmarking sites are very well regarded by the search engines so when you bookmark something, that bookmark becomes like a vote for that site which Google and the other search engines see and consequently they will often rank sites higher that have lots of social bookmarks.

For a full list of the social bookmarking sites I use plus those that I recommend, check out my List of Social Bookmarking Sites post.

The benefits of bookmarking in this way are fairly obvious, but I’ll break down why I think they’re such a good part of online business and blogging. Read the rest of this entry »

As you’ll know if you follow my blog page on Facebook, I’ve grown that page to over 3100 mostly targeted fans in order to bring me some traffic each month. I’ve actually been working on Facebook for some time but only recently have I started to ramp up the way I use it to generate leads and income, largely inspired by people like Phil Henderson.

However, I’ve now started to branch out and grow several other pages in a number of different markets in order to expand the amount of income streams I have. Using methods I’ve learned both recently and over the time it took to grow this blog, I am growing the number of fans consistently and steadily. So, if you’re looking for how to get more fans on Facebook, then you’re in the right place.

Here I’m going to show you my top 7 ways to get more fans to your Facebook page, no matter what market or niche your page is in. I’ll break down each one so you can start applying them today.

One word of caution before we get started: Choose one or two of these methods and get good at them before you start on the others, otherwise you may find them overwhelming and hard to keep track of. If these methods are new to you, take your time to understand and apply them individually before combining those that work best for you.

So, with that said, on with the show!

Method One – Make Your Fan Page Title Irresistible… Then Optimise It

One of the first keys to getting lots of fans is to come up with a title that will excite people or that they will agree with without thinking about it. When it comes to marketing online, this means that you need to find a title that has the following attributes:

• It’s engaging and perhaps even a little outrageous or opinionated
• It’s keyword rich (meaning that it contains your main keywords for that niche)
• It’s specific to your market and the people you want to connect with
• It’s funny or at least amusing (humour gets ‘likes’ like you wouldn’t believe)

I’ve added the part about humour last because it’s not essential, but it does help add an extra element of attraction to your page as people enjoy humour and will like to share that humour with the other fans as well as their friends.

In order to find a page title that checks the first three features listed above, you need to do your research.

1. First of all, choose a market and then look within that market for a niche or even micro-niche. As an example, you could start with the lifestyle market, then look into relationships then drill down to the people looking to date a specific type of person (uniform dating, religious dating, sugar daddy dating, that kind of thing).
2. Research that niche using tools like the Google Keyword Tool or Market Samurai. You’re looking for ‘Exact Match’ keywords that get at least 500 searches per month on Google.
3. Choose a relatively ‘long-tail’ keyphrase (more than 4 words long) as there will be less competition for this when it comes to optimising your page (more on this later).
4. Look at other already successful pages that exist within your niche and see what their titles are. Don’t copy them word-for-word but see if you can use the basic idea and make it better, more engaging or funnier.
5. Take your chosen keyphrase and integrate it into your title, giving it an engaging twist. For example, if we continue with the dating example, the keyphrase might be ‘best place to find hot dates’ so the page could be called ‘Hotties of the World – The Best Place To Find Hot Dates On Facebook’ (you’ll be surprised what people will like).

Remember that there are currently over 500 million people on Facebook, so you’re bound to find something that appeals to a group of say, 25,000 (remember, this is a tiny fraction of the total people using the great book of Face).

The next step is to set up the page with your catchy title. If you’re still lost for a catchy title, check out the magazines or products that cater to your niche and use their catchy headlines or sub-headlines as the title for your page, ensuring that you integrate your keywords with them.

Now the goal is to get your page up to 25 fans as quickly as possible. Once you get to 25 fans, you can choose your own page address, meaning you can get facebook.com/YourKeyphrase. For example, I recently (3 days ago) set up a page for a new comedy show on the UK channel, Channel 4. My keyphrase was the show’s title and the name of the network so I got www.facebook.com/CampusChannel4.

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When it comes to finding out how to make money with Twitter, there are a wealth of people out there purporting to be experts.

Some will tell you that in order to make some Twitter cash, you need to set up tons of accounts and then create automatic tweets in order to reach as many as possible. Others will tell you that you need to build a relationship with some core followers and grow from there.

The problem is that most of the information is either

• conflicting
• or created by people that aren’t really making much money from Twitter at all.

I was recently looking for a definitive guide to making money and building a monetised following from Twitter from people who not only know how, but are actually doing it.

True to form, I found a few products and checked them out. Most weren’t great, and some were just downright spammy.

One that I found that I really like (Twitter Cash Blueprint) was created by a young guy who’s just 15 years old. I actually met him at one of Mark Anastasi’s events in London and was impressed by how bright, intelligent and go-getting he was.

I wanted to show you exactly what Maksud has to offer so I’ve created a video review that takes you through the product, and shows you the entire thing. I’ve spent my money and time on this in order that you can see if it’s right for you. I’ve applied some of the strategies and listened to some of the interviews numerous times, and they work. They’re informative and actually contain great information about the business of internet marketing as well as Twitter marketing.

Enjoy the video. If you want to go straight to get Maksud’s product, click here.

http://www.adventuresininternetmarketing.net/upstart

‘Yeah, yeah,’ you may be thinking

‘Free traffic? Whatever…’

But bear with me. If you’re a blogger, you’re leaving money and traffic on the table if you’re not doing this.

OK, first of all, you might have heard of my friend and blogging consultant, Chris Garrett. He wrote the Problogger book with Darren Rowse.

Well, he has a new e-book out that tells you everything you need to know to get quality authority links and a boost in traffic, all through a quick and easy approach to guest blogging.

http://www.adventuresininternetmarketing.net/guest-posting

Guest blogging is simply the idea of making a guest appearance on someone else’s blog in your market. You write them an article that provides great quality content for their readers and subscribers. In exchange, at the end of the article, you get a link from their site back to yours. This does several things
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Yesterday I posted the start of a very cool list put together by Craig Caron and posted on The Warrior Forum.

It shows you A LOT of excellent ways to get more traffic to your blog. So, without further delay….

Here’s Part Two!

WARNING: Some of the techniques are a bit maverick and not condoned by me and this blog (although they did really make me laugh – just look out for the airport and the eBay ‘stunts’).

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First of all, I want to say something important: I really like George Brown. I really like his marketing and a little part of me wants to be him when I grow up (yes, I realise that’s ridiculous and impossible, as he’s 6 years younger than me).

But you don’t need to buy his shiny new product, Traffic Ultimatum.

And I have good reason to say that. You see, the whole point of George’s course (from what I can tell) is that you need to build traffic by getting lots of good quality backlinks to your site. So far so good. I totally agree. The only way to build a stable business is to get lots of consistent visitors to your website in order for a percentage of those to buy your product.

However…

There is a better way of doing it than many of the ways that George suggests.
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