Adventures in Internet Marketing

Posts Tagged ‘traffic generation’

‘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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As many of you regular readers will know, I’m a very big fan of WordPress. It’s an excellent system with a myriad of applications. In fact, I run all my sites on WordPress, ever since David Cavanagh first showed me how easy it is.

The plugins – elements that can be added to increase the functionality of the site – are part of what makes WordPress so good.

Anyway, I thought I’d share with you the 10 top plugins that I believe every blog site needs to run effectively. There are other plugins out there that do similar things but from my own testing and plenty of trial and error, these are the best ones. To get them installed on your blog, simply go into WordPress, click ‘Plugins’ on the left hand menu and click ‘Add New’. From there, just type their names into the search bar (one at a time) and then click ‘Install’ next to the one you want.

So, here’s the list for your blogging/site-building pleasure…
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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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I was browsing through The Warrior Forum as I tend to do more or less daily and stumbled across an awesome post which I wanted to share here.

A discussion had started about traffic generation – the science of getting visitors to your website. The thread started with 9 very good methods of getting traffic, but then Craig Caron wandered onto the thread and blew everyone away with the following methods.

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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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This is very clever indeed.

Imagine if you could get your blog in front of the key players of big news sites. That would be cool, right? Read on…

I’ve been working with a couple of companies over the last few weeks and months, trying to get their blogs and websites more traffic.

The thing with blogs is that, if you have one (ideally on WordPress or Blogger), then the search engines tend to love you that little bit more.

You see, unlike a standard website where the content only changes rarely, a blog can be updated several times a week with new, unique content. The ‘unique’ part of that equation is why the search engines tend to love you more.

They’re always looking for good quality, unique content to give their users and if your stuff is targeted to a niche and is of good quality, then you can be sure to get more traffic.

However, I’ve now found a fantastic way of potentially getting a deluge of traffic to your blog.

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

You submit your blog to the BlogBurst service. If they approve it (they decide that it’s good quality and the sort of thing their people want), then they syndicate or distribute your blog content to sites like TimeWarner, The San Francisco Chronicle andThe Chicago Sun Times.

These sites get a shedload of traffic daily. One of your posts appearing on their site could make you a blogging star virtually overnight.

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

Best of all, it’s free to sign-up and submit your blog. How good is that?!

So go ahead and register and good luck!

http://www.blogburst.com/index.html

You can thank me later…

Or just send me some Green & Black’s chocolate.