Using the social sites such as Digg, Propeller, Stumble upon etc to get high quality one way links just became a whole lot easier. Thanks to a great new piece of software by Jack Humphrey over at the Friday Traffic Report which allows you to post to over 25 of the top social site very easily.
This is such a great way to get high PR sites to give you one way links its a great tool to have in your armoury.
Don’t forget that another great by-product of using the social sites to get links is that you can actually get some massive traffic from people searching on those sites.
Review of Web2Submitter
Tip - However you post your links onto these social sites remember that you should allways take your time to set up your profile properly including uploading a picture. You only have to do it once and it will give your links far more credability than if you simply dont bother. People using these social sites wish to communicate with other users of these sites so you can be in danger of being viewed as spam if you do not set up your profile properly.
Web2Submitter will not make your links any better but it will make them easier to post and save you loads of time which you can spend doing other things!
I just had to share this tip from stephen pearce which i came across today. This one youtube secret could save you a fortune in deciding which sites to link to or advertise on - Amazing Stephen and yet so simple.
If your thinking that hes going to tell you to leave video responses or comments on other popular videos then think again - In fact it has more to do with linkbuilding and i advertising than Youtube Videos!
If you’re new to blogging then as the title of this post suggests a great way to increase your blogs visibility and therefore traffic is to leave comments on other peoples blogs. I found a great post on commenting and trackbacking by Peter Lenkefi over at his Web2Centre blog that explains really well the do’s and don’t of commenting and trackbacking.
So go have a look at peters post and start commenting and using trackbacks to increase your blogs visiblity.
Quite often the best ways to get traffic to your website are the free ways. You can get some serious amounts of traffic for free or very little cost. The real power in generating your own traffic is in the fact that you are in complete control of it quite often allowing you to choose more accurately who to target therefore generating higher conversion rates. People quite often overlook these methods and there are some real gems. Below I will outline the 5 best ways to get traffic to your website for FREE:-
People are spending more time watching video’s online than doing anything else online. Video marketing is huge it’s not all about YouTube although obviously YouTube by itself is massive but there are also loads of site that you can upload your videos to including Google, Myspace, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. It is not that hard to do and you can download some screen capture software for free. Although if you wish to get serious about Video marketing then some investment in software will improve the look and feel of your videos.
Searh Engine Optimisation (SEO)- I know its obvious but it’s probably the best way of getting more traffic for your website. The three most important things to consider are:-
Choice of keywords - Most people choose keywords that there is too much competition for and do not give themselves a chance of getting to the top of the rankings.
Content - You need to have loads of relevant content that you update frequently to make sure that the search engines see your site as a current one.
Links - Not the quantity but the quality. You need one way links that are relevant and from other sites with high rankings for similar keywords.
The best way to look at SEO is to try and look at it from the search engines point of view. When somebody does a search they want the best results to be displayed (if a load of irrelevant sites with no real content ie spam sites are listed then its not a very good search engine)
3. Articles and Press Releases just like the one that you are reading here are great for generating free traffic for several reasons:-
A. You will get high quality one way links from the article directories that you submit to right back to your site. So they are great for SEO. Imaging if you write 2 articles per week and get them published on 10 sites you will be adding roughly 80 high quality one way links to your site per month or just under a 1,000 in a year.
If you do some keyword research then your articles will very likely get good rankings in the search engines and be found that way.
People just browsing the article directories find your article and read it.
The best thing that can happen is an Ezine or magazine can choose to publish your article including the resource box with the link back to your website in it. Some magazines and Ezines have hugh readerships and your article can go out to the whole list generating massive traffic for FREE.
4. Harnessing the power of web2.0. Write a review or a short description about a page on your website that you wish to promote and then submit the review to the social sites. There are loads of the including, Digg, Furl, Stumble Upon, Reddit and Propeller to name a few. Using this method you again generate those one way links from high ranking sites so its great for SEO and people can find the link when browsing these social sites and click through on the link to have a look for themselves. The more interesting and intriguing your review is the more people will click through on your Link.
5. These are excellent ways to tap into highly targeted groups of people. You can also learn so much from other people in these groups or forums. Just go out and find a group or forum and start participating in the conversations and answering questions. You will have a signature file attached to each post that you make and this is where you have your link back to your site. Again building those one-way links and if you write a good signature file that is interesting people will click on those links.
With this type of marketing it is best only to give responses if you know the
Answer rather than just to get your link up there. It is easy to loose credibility and be seen as a spamer if you are not careful.
The most important thing to do now you have some knowledge is to Take Action without it you will not get any Free Traffic. It’s best to focus on one way of getting traffic and get good at that before moveing on to the next. So good luck and above all enjoy what you are doing.
Video Marketing is huge - Watching video’s is the single biigest activity on the internet at the moment. There are now so many place to post your video - Its more than just YouTube!
Below i have put together a list of the Top 25 places to post your video. If you have ever uploaded a video you will know that it takes a long time to upload. So if you are going to get serious about Video marketing then be aware that it is going to take time to upload your video to all of these sites however you can get some serious traffic from video sites.
Do not despair though there is a piece of software you can get which will upload to all of these sites for you at the same time - You can try it here for $1 - It has to save you a load of time and is far better priced than anything else on the market.
Video marketing will drive loads of traffic and is also fantastic to building one way backlinks thus improving your rankings. Learn other ways to get Free Traffic
Early Blog Results Fantastic is a post on this blog site. I have had a few requests for a post to explain how i achieved these results so quickly. So here is that post - You will be amazed at how simple it is.
I Downloaded and installed wordpress see the guide here for how to do it if you don’t know.
Tagalize It Plugin that allows links directly in your post to Technorati and Ice Rocket.
I then set up my ping list see the link for more details.
I then started blogging makeing sure that i used the All in one SEO plugin and Tagged in my posts
I then put some links to my blog using Web2Submitter and on my own website. I also wrote some HubPages and some Articles and published some Videos all with links back to this Blog Site.
I did that for a short period only and you can see the results for yourself.
If you would like other ways to gererate free traffic look at this page - Free Traffic
I have heard a lot of talk about how difficult this is to do, however I have found a really easy way to get you Blogging with a hosted Blog really quickly and easily.
Before I go into that I would like to explain the reason I hosted my own blog rather than using a blog that is hosted on the wordpress site is because wordpress have the power and the right to delete a blog that they host if you break one of thier rules. So you could work really hard on your blog - Then somebody else could come along and write a post that broke a wordpress rule and your blog could be deleted!
Step 1
Set up a hosting account and domain name if you don’t already have one. I use a company called 34sp which works great, but there are loads of other hosting packages out there - The only thing you need to make sure that you can set up a “MySQL” Database.
Step 2
Once you have your Hosting account set up log onto the back end programme of your site and set up a new database keeping a note of the database name login name and password that you choose
Step 3
Go to www.wordpress.org and download wordpress - Just click on the orange box on the right hand side Once its downloaded unzip the files into a new folder.
Step 4
Open the file wp-config-sample.php in notepad and change the database connection details that you noted down from step 2. Then save the file as wp-config.php (ie remove -sample from the file name when you save it)
Step 5
Upload the whole folder using your FTP Programme to your hosting site.
Step 6
Open the file /wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should set up your database tables. Take a note of the Password given to you.
Step 7
If there is a file called index.htm already set up for you by your hosting company then delete it or it will be the file that is opened rather that index.php which you will want to open.
Step 8
Open the file www.yoursite.com/wp-admin.php and log on using “admin” as the user name and the password given to you in step 6 above.
Thats all there is to it - your now ready to start blogging - Have fun!
If you have never heard of Hub Pages before it’s a great site that you can use to get some free traffic. The better at it that you get the more traffic you will get so its worth having a play about with. The pages themselves are indexed by google and the other search engines and quite often rank really well in google. Recently Hub Pages have been getting as much traffic as squidoo so it gives you an idea of the sort of traffic that’s possible.
To create a hub just sign in and click the arrow that says “start a new hub”
Enter a title - you will notice that the web address is created for you and I will usually leave this as it is.
Then add some tags - you can add more later.
Then click continue
That should bring you through to the edit hub page.
Hubs are made up from content capsules and there are some capsules put in your hub to start you off.
To add to the capsules just click the edit link on the capsule that you want to add to - make your changes and then click the save button.
If you do not want a capsule you can just click the cross in the right hand top corner to delete it.
If you want more capsules you can add them here - just click on what you want and it will be added at the bottom of your hub.
To re-arrange your hub you can either use the arrows on the top of each capsule or just drag the capsules in the capture ordering box - Its really easy.
Ok so that’s you hub page made now you need to look at the hub score which is the number in Red after your hubs title.
This is a measure of how good your hub page is and you want to aim for 80 - 85 to get consistent traffic but the nearer to 100 the better.
How you get a good hub score is really important as this will make your hub easier to find and therefore get more traffic.
The Most important thing is content - make sure that you have lots of content that is relevant to you keywords.
Allways have a picture or 2 - with alt tags that match keywords
Include a video - I use youtube and make sure that the keywords match so its relevant.
Include some outgoing links that have your keywords in them
Get as many relevant incoming links as you can. To get links you can:-
1. Write an article and include a link in your recourse box
2. Include a link on your website.
3. Have a link from your video.
4. Social sites such as digg or myspace, delicious, propeller, reddit, shoutwire, plime, newsvine, stumble etc there are loads of them
There is a great tool that i use to submit to these “social Sites” called web2submitter . It allows you to submit to loads of sites at once saving you valuable time.
So that’s it from me on hub pages - give them a look there a really easy free and fun way to get some free traffic - In actual fact you can earn money from your hub by using adwords etc.
The travel Inustry is Hugh - a few facts/observations!
The average family spends nearly $4,000.00 a year on vacations
People max out there credit cards - Just to take a vacation ( They deserve it right?)
Nobody wants to spend their vacation at Motel 6. (everyone wants to stay at the ritziest, most elegent, hoghest priced resort they can - or can’t afford)
People will allways spend more money on what they want rather than what they need.
Travel spending is growing 23% faster than the global economy ( You could say Exploding Market!)
In the time it took to read these facts …OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS of travel was booked.
If i said to you that you can have luxury accomodation anywhere in the world for between $298 and $699 per Appartment per week (the $699 appartments usually sleep 6) That i could offer reduced rate air fares and car hire. You could travel any number of times a year (you could even sometimes take a guest family with you) If you sell the product to anybody i will pay you $1,000 commission and if they sell it to anybody i will pay you another $1,000 commision for each time they make a sale.
If i then said that the price for this was $zero - You would probably think that i had gone mad.
The early results from this blog have been fantastic. Its only been about 3 Weeks since i first started it and already reaching the No 1 spot on google for some search terms.
Have a look at the video or the results below.
I have not done too much investigating into how well its doing at the moment as there is so much more that i will do and share with you.
Keyphrase 1 - How to write a great lead capture page
Pretty impresive considering i have only just started! - Whats more all of the tactics i have used so far are included in this blog so have a look around.
