Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic
May 10, 2008
I have collected some blog traffic driving gems tonight. These should be a great help if you aren’t already getting 1 million visitors per month.
If you are, then take the night off!
21 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided.
Tips for Blog Traffic - How to Increase Traffic Levels
But in my opinion, the best way to increase blog traffic is simply by posting often with quality content. In fact, there are so many benefits of posting quality content that I’m going to dedicate this entire blog post to the subject… …
Increase blog traffic via Blog Explosion
I have found myself spending a lot of time over at blogexplosion.com. It is a great way to get traffic to your blog and there are several fun ways to do it. You can surf others blogs, each time earning traffic to your own blog. …
Increase Blog Traffic With Google Image Search
How many times in a week do you search for images in Google Image Search? For bloggers, those numbers may be very high. I know that I use Google Image Search quite a bit when I need to find a picture to use for a blog post. …
Others find commenting to be a good tool to increase blog traffic. Being a middle of the road person - I see both sides of this debate and have not abandoned commenting all together. Why Commenting is Worthwhile …
How To Increase Blog Traffic With Your RSS Feed
The RSS feed for your blog is a very valuable traffic generation tool. Really Simple Sydication (RSS) makes it really simple to syndicate your blog content all over the internet….for free. … [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use TrackBoost to Increase Blog Traffic!
Its brand new. We programmed it, so you know its good!
How To Increase Blog Traffic and Improve Search Engine Exposure
Having a blog is good. Having a blog that gets traffic is great. Not having to pay for that traffic…. PRICELESS! If you have a blog, or any page on the web for that matter, learning how to… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Web2Submitter to Increase Blog Traffic!
It submits to the top social sites faster than you can!
How to Increase Blog Traffic with Social Communities
Social communities, like BlogCatalog or Twitter, are great resources to help you increase traffic to your blog and get more eyeballs on your content. While social bookmarking sites allow you to mark… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Utility Poster to Increase Blog Traffic!
It allows you to compile posts like this one you’re reading. Very fast, very keyword dense, very lovely for your readers looking for your information.
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Carve Your Niche By Dominating One
March 3, 2008
Guest Post By Michel Fortin
I was recently interviewed by a print magazine about how I started my business. In it, I offered several tips and ideas on how to carve a niche in the marketplace that I personally applied.
And I realized that some of these tips were particularly powerful. So I wanted to reprint some of my answers here for you.
If you know my personal story, you know how niche marketing played an important role in my career.
Long story short, I feared rejection immensely, which led to a reclusive childhood. I wanted to overcome my fears and decided to dive into the world of sales in order to fight them. Years passed and many failures ensued until I finally became the top producing salesperson in Canada for a Fortune 500 company.
How did I accomplish that?
Since I hated prospecting, I found and developed more effective marketing strategies that caused high quality prospects to come to me instead of the other way around. I no longer had to prospect. I no longer had to be rejected. In short, I went from prospecting to positioning.
In other words, I decided to specialize in a specific niche — even though my employer did not require it of me. I positioned myself as an expert in a specific area (for a specific target market). Even though I could sell everything to everyone from this employer, I decided to specialize in only one product line for one particular category of prospect.
The result? I appeared as a specialist. I’ll come back to this later, but for now, realize that doing so helped me to attract pre-qualified prospects to my door. I didn’t have to do cold prospecting anymore. I didn’t have to “bother people” to listen to my pitch. I attracted higher quality prospects who wanted me to help them.
People today are bombarded with so much information, commercials and competition. Prospecting online is not only difficult but also impossible. Thus, you have to market in such a way that causes those kinds of people to come to your business or website, and not the other way around. Like a magnet, if you will.
Therefore, rather than prospect for clients you must position your business as unique in a particular category or industry, or for a specific audience or market. And by being unique, you will naturally become the leader. With all the competition out there, it is no longer possible to be better than the others. The goal, therefore, is to be different — and not better.
In other words, don’t duplicate. And don’t dominate. Instead, differentiate!
It’s better to be the leader in a small niche than an alsoran in a general one.
Being a general copywriter when I first started out would have pitted me against all the copywriters in the world, particularly all the top copywriters who were far better than me. But being a copywriter specializing in cosmetic surgery (which was my niche at the time), I naturally dominated that niche.
Today’s world has become overcommunicated and hypercompetitive — one huge blur of sameness, in my estimation. If you attempt to be too general or too wide in your approach, you will only dissipate among the blur. And people will not see any greater value in buying from you than in buying from the competition.
One of the greatest errors committed by most new businesses is that they fall into a trap: they try to be “all things to all people.” And they do so because they are mislead by the notion that, by offering more (or by serving more people), they will generate more sales. That’s understandable for the survival of any new business depends on the number of sales it makes.
However, the more general you are, the more indifferent you will appear to your audience. Indifferent to their specific needs, goals and problems.
Based on the law of averages, you will have to advertise quite heavily to be in front of as many eyeballs as possible, with the hope of attracting an adequate amount of prospects that will in turn translate into a certain number of sales.
Undeniably, this requires a gigantic advertising budget. (Or a heck of a lot of time.)
For most new and especially smaller businesses, this is quite a challenge if not impossible. Admittedly, it is true that, the greater your reach is, the greater the potential quantity of responses will be. But what about quality? Would it matter if your business or website generates a large quantity of uninterested visitors that will simply never buy from you?
Let’s look at the Internet. If your online business targets everyone, then your marketing message (and that includes your website) must therefore be painted with broad brushstrokes as to appeal to everyone. And the challenge with such an approach is the fact that you will lose a large percentage of visitors.
They may fall into your target market, but visitors that leave your website do so because they likely feel left out or become uninterested fast. Others simply choose competitors that might provide them with greater perceived value. In other words, the broader you are in your appeal, the less relevant you will be to any and every individual visiting your site.
If your site sells everything, chances are that your audience will not perceive any greater value in shopping from you than from anyone else. In fact, the only common denominator, with which they have to work, is price. If there are no other points of comparison, naturally the cheapest alternative wins.
Why? Because the greatest common denominator between generalists is pricing. And price will be the only metric used in comparing your value to others.
Sales will increase dramatically if your site is centered on a specific theme, product, industry, people or outcome. A niche, in other words. Put in a different way, the more focused you are, the less you will need to produce a sufficient quantity of website visitors to produce similar results.
A good niche is one that has three major qualities:
- It exists already;
- It’s easily identifiable;
- And it’s easily targetable.
Let me explain why this is important.
The most commonly asked question I receive from aspiring entrepreneurs is this: “What product should I sell?” (Or “what sells well on the Internet?”) Quite frankly, everything sells (and can sell well) — from pet food to travel packages — in some way, especially online.
In fact, everything is being or can be sold, somehow, in some form or another. But that’s not the problem. It’s not what you sell. It’s to whom. In other words, don’t look first for a product to sell. Look for an easily targetable market with an easily identifiable need or problem, and fill their need or provide them with the solution.
In order to achieve this, you need to be observant and listen to the needs of the marketplace. If people seem to be asking for a specific solution to a problem, obviously it is because a niche exists that has yet to be filled. Look at some of the questions people ask or the complaints they have. These are very good indicators that a need exists. (Otherwise, the marketplace would be silent.)
Once you have found a niche, everything will flow from that point. In fact, if you follow this tactic you will constantly find products to sell.
Simply put, don’t carve a niche. Rather, find one and fill it. Your marketing will naturally help to solidify your position and thus dominate that niche, rather than trying to “get more clients.”
Sure, there are ultra-targeted niches that are very small and very limited. In such cases, the only way to remain profitable is to dominate several of them. This is often called “market segmentation,” where you segment your marketing to cater to a wide variety of small niches.
But for the scope of this article, let’s just say that, if you’re a generalist already, narrowing your focus to a smaller segment will attract not only more prospects but far more qualified prospects, too.
How do you dominate a niche? It doesn’t need a lot of work, really. When you position yourself as the expert in a niche, you naturally dominate it through the power of leadership. And leadership is not the result of an action or an event. It’s based on the power of perception.
If you offer a customary service or if your competition offers the same thing you do, catering to a niche helps to project an aura of uniqueness and superiority instantaneously by virtue of the fact that it doesn’t appear as customary. Rather than copying your competition, you isolate yourself from them.
For instance, if you required brain surgery, would you choose a dentist? Would you choose a general, medical practitioner, even a general surgeon? Not really. You would probably choose a neurosurgeon. It’s the same thing for direct marketing. If you owned an imported car that needed new brakes, would you choose any general mechanic? Or would you choose one that not only specializes in brakes but also specializes in imported cars?
Expertise is in the eyes of the niche. You become the leader not because you are superior but because you are different. Specialization is in itself a marketing process that, as a byproduct, generates the perception of expertise. It’s amazingly effective in creating “top-of-mind” awareness among a specific target market.
For instance, an accountant specializing in car dealerships will acquire more clients than a general accountant will. An advertising salesperson specializing in home furnishing stores will sell more advertisements than a typical advertising agent will. A photographer specializing in weddings will get more bookings than a regular photographer will. Ad infinitum.
As more businesses get started, and the more inundated with marketing messages our society becomes, the less time, energy and money people will have to spend in choosing the companies with which they will do business. Thus, specialization helps to solve that problem by projecting an aura of expertise.
Take the mechanic, mentioned earlier. Rarely would you call a general mechanic an “expert mechanic,” unless she has invested a considerable amount of resources in branding herself that way, or in educating herself deeply in the world of mechanics backed by many years of experience. On the other hand, it would be easy to dub a mechanic — even a new one — that specializes in imported car brakes as an “expert mechanic.”
Similarly, by finding and dominating a niche, you can become an expert by default — not by design. You become an expert as a byproduct. In other words, a generalist is just a marketer. But a specialist is an expert. That’s the difference.
About Michel Fortin…
Michel Fortin is a direct response copywriter, marketing strategy consultant, and instrumental in some of the most lucrative online businesses and wildly successful marketing campaigns to ever hit the web. For more articles like this one, please visit his blog and subscribe to his RSS feed.
Authority Site Center Updates
November 6, 2007
New from ASC…
We’ve been upgrading our membership services to include a lot more training and contact with coaches and staff.
New Webinar Center
We are using a a new webinar center to have more training events more frequently. A new series of short 10-15 minute training videos will be recorded with this software. Topics include: Outsourcing, Content Development for Main and Remote Sites (like HubPages, Squidoo, and blog sites like Xanga).
Video Training Center
Our video training center now houses well over 100 videos from using Cpanel, to Wordpress and plugins, claiming your blog on Technorati and MyBlogLog, and Blog Marketing topics galore including exclusive “Bending the Web” training.
We have a whole section on common Wordpress Plugins. A section dedicated to publishing on the ASC system from working with your blog to posting tactics that related to our Post and Rank (TM) technology.
Weekly Coaching Calls
We have two weekly coaching calls (Monday and Thursday) where our coaches and senior ASC members train on all facets of Research, Publishing and Marketing with the ASC system as well as answering questions you have about anything to do with those topics.
New Member Orientation
Orientation is a big deal with a site this big. We found that people were getting lost at times and needed some guidance on where to start and how to find everything in this “library” of tools and resources. Now with the new member orientation calls you can get on the line and get a personal tour from Program Director Sam Clark.
There isn’t a bigger, better internet marketing membership site on the Planet. Starting off in the right direction and learning where to find the tools you need right away is a big time saver.
ASC Newsletter
Our newsletter consists of articles and training by staff, partners, and senior ASC members who have lots to teach. It comes out once per month and is chock full of useful traffic driving, content development, and search engine marketing tactics.
Customer Support
Our support system is second to none with the addition of our new Support Director David Olsen. Tickets are being answered and members are being helped with lightening speed, which is a major deal in the internet marketing world.
Results
Case study after case study is finding our members driving more traffic than they ever did before joining ASC, capturing more leads, making more sales, and ranking in the engines for hundreds and even thousands of keywords people are typing in to find them. (Not just “vanity keywords.” Real keywords people are really using to hit ASC member sites. There’s a BIG difference there!)
There is no better time to be a member of ASC.
With the opportunities for promotion expanding exponentially, the opportunity to become mighty confused and disorganized is also increasing for DIY web marketers. Publishing on the most powerful, optimized platform and getting the training and tools you need to manage and grow an Authority web presence is absolutely crucial to the success of sites bringing in 500-10,000+ visitors per day.
Check out Authority Site Center today, risk free, and feel what it’s like to become a true, high-traffic Authority in your niche.
Tags: asc, authority site center, authority sites, getting leads, getting traffic, Website PromotionWhat’s Your Biggest Question About Online Marketing?
June 30, 2007
I want to know what the #1 question about driving traffic to your site is right now.
I am a bit overwhelmed with the amount of website or blog promotion topics that I could write about, have written about, or started to write about but haven’t finished.
It’s time I hear from you!
I want to know what’s on your mind, what you’ve been trying to do but haven’t succeeded with yet, and/or any blog marketing or link building questions you have that haven’t been answered to your satisfaction by me or any other experts out there.
Need An Answer For Questions Like These?
- Have you read the Authority Black Book and have a question about a tactic introduced in it?
- Did you read something about link building and want to know if the technique is something I’d recommend?
- Do you want to know something about search engine marketing or getting higher rankings with a specific tactic?
- Have you discovered a new Web 2.0 site and wonder if it is worth spending time on for backlinks and traffic?
- Do you want to know how, if I only have a PR 4, I get anywhere between 2600 and 5000+ visitors per day?
Well here’s your chance to get some free answers without a consulting fee and without having to buy the course someone just sent you an email about. I’m not going to write an ebook as an answer, but I’ll try hard to steer you and other readers in the right direction.
Rather than making this an anonymous survey I want to get these questions out in the open for all FTR readers to benefit from. So please take a moment to ask your burning online marketing, search engine optimization, link building, social marketing or any other question dealing with growing the traffic of your site below.
I want readers to learn from my answers, but also from the questions other readers submit. There’s a lot to learn from questions alone, and I aim to make this post and resulting questions and answers a very educational read.
I will answer questions in comments if they are short answers. I will make posts out of the bigger questions that demand more attention.
The result, I hope, will be a database of extremely valuable content that is free to access, hype-free, honest and to the point. Something you should be able to turn into real measurable results in your quest to become the authority in your niche.
The only thing I ask is that you take part in this exercise and not just lurk. The more questions, the better!
Ask away! Submit your question below in the comments area…
Tags: how do i, how do you, how to, Link Building, marketing questions, Website PromotionDigging for Dollars: Links Are The Bees, Content Is The Honey
March 31, 2007
The word is getting out: Content is Everything
To most of my readers, this is old news. But then, my honey attracts a specialized and rare bee - the motivated DIY website publisher.
What I mean is that the greater internet community is catching on finally and it is even spilling over into print media. Or rather flooding into it.
In his Business 2.0 article “Cashing in on the Zeitgeist” (April 2007) Paul Sloan covers Daniel Kovach’s strategy to bring the buzz to his scholarship information site.
Kovach’s strategy is cashing in on trends and buzz in the “how to find a scholarship” market.
He does this by finding stories that get him links from social sites like Digg.
In the Business 2.0 article, Sloan outlines one of Kovach’s biggest successes in generating a high ranking for a trend in the scholarship arena: Boston University’s whites-only scholarship.
This story, as you can imagine, was generating heated discussion, lots of news coverage, and a lot of searches on the web related to the topic.
Kovach had a piece written for his site called “The White Man’s Guide To Getting A Minority Scholarship,” and got it into Digg where it hit the front page.
As most people in our industry know, hitting the front of Digg is pay dirt.
And it pays to be a “scholar” of your niche in order to turn up stories and ideas for linkbait like Kovach does.
I’ve outlined how you can be a media sleuth for your market and turn up pieces of gold that you can turn into links and higher rankings in other posts.
There is a lot of truth in Kovach’s statement about being on top of all the information flowing in your market: “You have to sift through it all. No one is going to hand you pieces of trend gold.”
I think this is the big lesson for most content providers and future authority site hopefuls.
In order to be the authority you have to do in your niche what no one else is willing or able to do: monitor and capture trends as they are hitting in order to take advantage of the buzz and be one of, if not the first to visibly hit the web with it.
I say “visibly” because there is a lot that goes unnoticed on the web by the majority of every market niche.
Which means there is a massive opportunity in building and marketing sites that help people find things.
The search engines all have different ways to displaying their idea of the top ten for any search term.
Most searches are casual and interest tends to fizzle out past the first page or two of results.
People quickly get frustrated by their results even if they are on what they consider to be the best search engine on the planet.
That’s where the authority site publisher comes in.
Not only is an authority site publisher good at isolating and capitalizing on trends in a market, but they are search engine savvy and can put themselves on the front page of the engines for their desired search terms.
The combination of the two is a deadly one. It’s a one-two punch that cannot be defeated except by other rare publishers with this skill set.
And there’s 9 spots available in the top ten for that kind of competition. To this day, despite the plethora of search engine optimization firms and free SEO advice galore, search engine rankings are mostly accidental.
When you marry buzzworthy content skills with the ability to control your search result destiny, there’s not much anyone can do to stop you from dominating your niche.
That means traffic, and a lot of it. Which leads to monetization through advertising, product creation, affiliate marketing, and lead generation.
It is a formula. Although it has a lot of moving parts, it is the only formula for assured domination in any market on the web that will be viable even after 10 more generations of fly-by-night cheating strategies come and go.
The way to learn this art and science is to hang out in places where people actually practice it successfully.
The ideal would be to find a place where publishers practice it almost religiously. There you can key in on how to best put it to use to bump your site(s) in rankings and traffic by watching what the core is doing.
Tags: authority site building, Blog Marketing, business 2.0, creating buzz, social media, Website PromotionFree Social Marketing Course Update
March 29, 2007
I am having a blast with our latest free social marketing course “Authority Black Book.”
The comments, kudos, and results are showing up every day over at the Authority Black Book Blog and it seems we really hit a home run with thousands and thousands of downloads in one week.
There are now too many blogs mentioning the ABB to mention here and now, but I will try to get all of you guys linked here ASAP after the dust settles!
Want some idea of how big this thing has gotten? Google results for the exact phrase “authority black book.”
Today over 42,000 pages reference it. In 1 week.
Its become a “movement” in a week!
And it was done without a single major JV partner (with a list over 200,000) to date, although they are coming on board and I don’t know what’s going to happen then!
People are Sick and Tired
People are so sick and tired of gimmicks and crappy free products used only to get them on a list.
Then the list owner proceeds to hammer them over the head with mail after mail for more and more junk they don’t need to succeed with their online business.
That’s why we call ABB a movement. It is a statement that things can be different.
That people can provide ultra high quality free products and still be ok.
In fact, we are doing much better than ok, because as soon as people saw what we are giving away for free, they started signing up for Authority Site Center en masse this week.
The lesson is:
Provide something to your market that is so high quality that your credibility is never in question so you can rise above the hucksters in your market who are presently ripping their customers off big time.
The way to stand out is to stand up and raise the bar higher than the scammers can ever reach. It’s because they just don’t understand, and never will, the simple principle of giving before asking for trust.
There will be more lessons from the field as this progresses. So far we have only hit a tiny portion of the market.
When the major players online pick up on how promoting our guide helps their credibility with their own lists, the thing is going to blow up!
Thanks to everyone who has downloaded Authority Black Book so far.
You haven’t seen anything yet! 1.1 is coming soon!
Tags: authority black book review, authority site building, free marketing course, free seo course, Website PromotionWho’s Afraid of the Big Black Book? (Your Competition Is!)
March 23, 2007
Apparently not Michel Fortin. He reviewed the Authority Black Book and our Web 2.0-ish sales letter for ASC.
Read Fortin’s “Birth of a Better Salesletter” to see what he thinks of both!
I’m proud on both counts for the mention by one of the web’s greatest copywriters… ever.
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Mark Hendricks likes the black book. We used a lot of it today when I presented Social Power Linking tactics as a VIP guest speaker here in Orlando at his awesome ISS event.
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Carl Galletti went through the whole Authority Black Book and teased his readers with tiny snippets of gold.
“Last night I read what I think is the best and most valuable
book I’ve ever seen on linking and getting traffic to your
site.”
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It seemed to please one of the hardest to please guys on the web…
“Jack, this ebook is fantastic. I’ve downloaded a LOT of crap lately and this free, did I just say free? ebook is simply awesome. I’m not sure what your angle is. I don’t know what the backend product will be. I just don’t really care. This resource is simply amazing.
I threw a post up on my blog saying as much.
http://lostballinhighweeds.com/I think it will help with not only Lost Ball but all my other blog efforts. Thanks again for a fabulous read.”
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Other mentions for Authority Black Book:
- Authority Site Center Offers Free Report - Black Book of Web 2.0
- Learn Web 2.0 Insider Power Tools
- The Most Amazing FREE report EVER!
Authority Black Book…Get More Traffic…Get The Book…
March 8, 2007
What have we been up to?
Take a look…
Authority Black Book launches Monday, March 12th.
Tags: authority black book, authority site building, free traffic, Website PromotionMaking sure your linkbait (content) gets picked up everywhere!
February 21, 2007
Garrett French has posted “5 Tips to Maximize the Distribution and Value of Your Link Bait” today.
He comments on Lee Odden’s piece about social media campaigns not being for everyone and that they are “one hit wonders” for the most part.
I disagree with that assessment of social marketing unless people who use social marketing only use it one time.
I feel that if you don’t have a system for producing results with social media regularly (everytime you post content) then you are going to get mighty tired and quit doing it.
People who don’t have a system or a staff member who keeps their content in the limelight usually question the usefulness of social media marketing.
Social Power Linking, as I call it, is an ongoing campaign that works like many other forms of online marketing, in that, will stop producing results when you stop doing it.
(Although the links it produces are far more valuable long-term than doing old fashioned reciprocal linking!)
When you add up all the things we do in a well-rounded marketing campaign these days, there are fewer things you can do today “just once” to get a residual effect.
More than ever the engines are geared toward up-to-the-minute news and content while the lasting rankings are reserved for the major keywords your site scores best for overall.
I have some core phrases for this site (a handful), yet I am topping 2000 keyword phrases people use to find me each month that would be considered longtail.
Longtail search is a very dynamic, fluid and “evergreen” with pages moving all over the place month to month for our longer phrases.
Because I score for so many phrases a month, I am not about to cut off my social marketing just because it generates the bulk of its traffic around the time I publish something that catches on out there.
The links are valuable for as long as they stay live, which Odden did not mention in his post.
If I were to stay within the confines of traditional marketing, I’d have far less search engine traffic and for only a relative handful of phrases.
In the end, it is all important. There isn’t a best method or, to my mind, a choice between any methods out there that work on their own.
If you want to dominate your niche, you use traditional and new media marketing in tandem, and on a daily basis.
Tags: getting links, link bait, linkbait, social media marketing, social power linking, Website Promotion7 Blog Promotion Strategies That Work
January 11, 2007
I just finished looking at my stats and thought I would show you where my traffic is coming from and what marketing tactic I used to get it.
Below are only the things that produced visitors to my site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical whatsoever.
1) Search Engines
Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site platform and the performance is unlike anything I have ever experienced before.
I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in one 48 hour period than ever.
From very nice short tail keywords like “video syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get more friends on myspace.”
And everything in between.
How do I do so well in the engines?
I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth. Nuff said.
2) Article Syndication
LOL - right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.
Rather than try to be on every article directory on the web, I go for the most important article directories on the web.
I also write the best content I can on highly relevant, topical, hot issues in my niche.
I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I write for traffic. Huge difference most people completely ignore.
I syndicated this article over the weekend and am getting traffic from the following article sites:
I will get traffic from many others, but I am only showing you today what happened to drive real targeted traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this anywhere else that I know of by the way!)
I syndicate my articles exclusively with SubmitYourArticle.com.
3) News Readers
Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide range of related topics I publish on, I have feed subscribers on all kinds of readers.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people using feed readers from:
- Yahoo
- Bloglines
- Delicious, and
- different versions of desktop readers like MyWebTop.com.
4) Links
I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours from sites such as:
and many many others.
These are link partnerships or just people pointing to specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.
The better your content, the more people comment and trackback your site. So good content equals good link traffic.
5) TrafficSwarm
I get a good amount of traffic each day from TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.
I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic, if you were wondering.
They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic and subscribers.
6) Video Syndication
I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos lately and syndicating them on all the free video sharing sites available.
Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like “blog marketing videos” and many others to this marketing tactic alone.
Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is great each time I submit a video.
Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of 2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!
7) Tagging and Pinging
Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically (and practically instantly) in places like Technorati which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.
Right after I post this I will see traffic from Technorati and other sites that I ping.
Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every post brings me more traffic and another chance to score in the engines for more keywords.
If you don’t know how this is all done, the best information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.
Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live, free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in the last 48 hours.
Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they push to drive traffic to their own sites.
Tags: Blog Marketing, getting links, getting traffic, getting visitors, internet marketing, Website Promotion
