Traffic Is Everything!!!

Well I have been at this Internet thing for about a year and a half. And I have tried a little of everything, mostly in the affiliate marketing area. Heard everything from it's all in the list to find great keywords to SEO. And the one thing that I feel really counts is traffic. Without traffic all of the above, well does nothing. Because no matter how good your site is, if the traffic isn't there.

Who sees the site?

So how do you get traffic? Well that is the million dollar question, but getting links back to your site is a big part of the puzzle. So I have started submitting articles, listing my site to web directories etc. And there is always the PPC thing but being on a limited budget buying click is out of the question.

But on a good note have made a few sales.

Good Luck

Pop-up, Pop-up Everywhere I See Pop-ups

Have you notice that just about every site you visit there is a pop-up! If it isn't in your face when you arrive, then you get a pop-up when you try to exit. Now I have to admit that I have used them on my site, but not any more. I just found this new script. It's not a pop-up, but what is called a peel-away.

This script is great, it isn't in your face, just check the top right corner of this blog. Just mouse over the corner to see how it works, then head over to their site (they have a $10 discount on their page right now). You'll want to check it out as soon as possible, they may raise the price in the future.

So if you are sick of pop-ups too, and if you are using one on your site, you'll want to get your hands on this new product!!!

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A Different Resource that may help you with your business

I have a different resource that may help you with your online Internet marketing business. I know the you have heard of or maybe seen some of the videos posted here. This resource is You Tube, and if you are having trouble with Internet marketing, affiliate programs, AdSense etc. this is a good place to go.

Why you ask? Because as the web moves into web 2.0 everyone is posting videos and most if not all the gurus have one or more videos on You Tube. Another reason I have started looking on You Tube to answer questions I may have, is it is easier & faster to watch videos then it is to read about how to fix the problem I maybe having.

So give it a try.

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Is AdSense on every page of your site necessary?

Well it's been a while since I last posted something. Now I know I'm not a guru and there are a lot of experts on AdSense. But does it make since to have AdSense on every page and is it a good idea to do this?

What got me thinking about this is, I was looking at a catalog I got in the mail you know the ones fulled with low priced products. Well the one I was looking at had these detox patches for the feet and I had never seen anything like this before. So I hit Google and did a search on detox patches for feet.

I clicked on the first site which was a good looking site. It had good graphic, good layout, was nice and clean with a good sales page. You can tell some thought went into it, with some good brief information on it and best of all a buy button mid-way on the page (because don't you just hate some of the sales pages that seem to never end. I know I do because after 5-10 minutes of reading I ready to move on).

Well to get to the point they are selling detox patches and the Google AdSense ads they have on that page are promoting other peoples detox patches. Now I don't know about you, but why would you want to give someone the opportunity to leave your page, possibly losing the sale just to make a few dollars from AdSense. But I guess the thought is if I can't get them one way, make a little the other way.

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Do You Have a Enough Traffic

Well now that I know that traffic exchange sites are not going to bring in the traffic, or sales. I need to move on to more constructive things to get traffic.

So I found a few things which may help with the task of bring some traffic your way. First is Instant Article Wizard (EARLIER POST BELOW) and the other is a Directory Submitter (IN THE SIDE BAR).

Also I found this post on the Warrior Forum 50 Traffic Tips, stop by and take a read.

And I wanted to add tip #51. Lay out a plan on how you are going to promote your site. Example:

Monday submit articles.
Tuesday submit to directories.
Wednesday post on forums.

And so on, and here is the part that make this tip work (no matter what your plan is) spend at least 10 minutes a day, working your plan.

Good Luck

Is Article Writing Got You Down

When it comes to writing articles for your content site or ones to submit to article directories, do you find yourself just sitting in front of your computer?

Or do you spend endless hours researching, just to find out that your article isn't going the way you want it too. Well I found a new product that may help, it's called Instant Article Wizard.

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Are Traffic Exchange Site Worth It

Well my testing of 4 traffic exchange sites is now done. I spent over 5 hrs. looking at other peoples sites (time that I could have spent writing an article), I had my spyware software, alert me 6 different times to sites that were know for spyware.

I had over 1000 views, no sales and one opt-in. So is the traffic that you get from these sites worth it, I think not! It is low quality traffic. And I think that the risk of getting a virus or keylogger etc. is too high. For when you are trying to start or run an on-line business, having an infected computer is the last thing you need.

I think that I will continue to use the older method of getting traffic. Writing articles, submitting to site directories, posting to other blogs and trying to get one-way links.

Good Luck

I have Traffic, but is it the Right Traffic?

Well after six days of using a few traffic exchange sites, I have had over 300 hits. Maybe 50 to 75 hits of this traffic has been repeat visitors. I have been testing five different pages over these six days(one of which is an opt-in page) and not one has produced any results other than being viewed.

Not one sale, AdSense click or opt-in. I have spent over four hours viewing other sites, and that is time I could have spent promoting my pages by some other means.

But I may keep doing this till I hit 1000 hits, just to give it a good try.

Good Luck

PS If any one has had any success at this let me know.

The Traffic War Continues

It's day two of using traffic generating sites, I have spent 2-3 hrs looking at other peoples sites to earn point so the same can happen for me.

Checking today's stats and a little over 100 people have been to my home page and still there hasn't been anyone go pass that page. But I did just see a great idea to try with this traffic site, will have to get a new page put together and test it.

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Traffic, Traffic, Traffic, Who's got the Traffic

Well, I got my hands on an old program used to automate viewing for traffic generating sites. You know the ones where you sign up and sit and look at other peoples sites and earn points. And in return others do the same, main purpose is to drive targeted traffic to your site.

I figured that I could sit there, the software would do the work and move me to the next page, so that I didn't have to have my hand on the mouse and clicking every 20 to 30 sec. I know I'm lazy!

Now I know that these programs were used by some to cheat the system, but I want to look at the websites, because you never know when you'll see something that you can use or give you your next niche idea.

So I went to 5 of these traffic site and in the terms; I found out that you can't use these kinds of software. So after signing up, I wanted to see if the traffic that I earned from these traffic sites would produce some kind of action.

One hour later,a sore wrist and clicking finger, I checked my stats. And I had 56 visitors to my site and can you guess what happened? What's right the traffic that I got was the same traffic other's had gotten from me 20 to 30 seconds on the home page and nothing more.

But it's a little early to tell if this is a waste of time or maybe a sale or two.

Good Luck

Affiliate Links

How many of you sell affiliate products on your website? Well, I have a few affiliate products on my site and I just learned an important lesson. I have never bothered to check these links. So I started clicking my affiliate links last week and to my surprise not all were active.

Two of the affiliate products were not being sold anymore. And one other was using PayPal, so anyone I had sent there didn't get credited as a sale for me. Which is a little disappointing when you sit down and think about how much time it took to get traffic to my site (as little as it is.

So if you don't check your affiliate links on a regular basis, learn from my mistake and start checking, so you don't lose a sale!

Good luck

Web Site SEO--How are you ranking?

Yesterday I talked about site promotion: how is your traffic. And today I came across this site http://coolestguyontheplanet.org/ which was set-up by Jonathan Leger.

Here he shows you how he got this site list at Google and is ranked #9. But what is more important is that he explains how he has gone about it. On the progress page it shows that the site went on-line Wednesday, April 18th, 2007.

Within it's pages he explains that it's all done over time (like I was saying yesterday by promoting 10 minutes a day). Another thing that caught my eye is he uses a product that I have mentioned in a past post and it's called: SEO Elite.

So if you are like me and are having trouble with finding traffic, head over to coolestguyontheplanet.org.

Because without traffic your site will never be seen!

Good luck

Site Promotion How is Your Traffic

Well I haven't posted in some time. Trying to redo my site and do some reading on how to get more traffic. I don't care what everyone says, but it comes down to traffic and how much you are getting to your website.

It doesn't matter how good your product is, how much time you spend on keyword research, SEO or list-building etc. If you don't have traffic at your site, you are not going to have any sales or people signing up for your newsletter.

Now we all have read or heard about writing articles, PPC, finding good one way links and listing your site using search engine submitters, plus listing to directories. All of which I have tried! I have listed at about 300 directories, submitted an article or two and looked for links. And still the traffic to my site is close to null.

Now I have done all of this, but not on a regular basis. Till I read this article and it said something like this: If you want traffic to your web site then you need to make a list of places you are going to list your site at.

Example of places: directories, forums, article sites etc. Then this article said the most profound thing which was "spend 10 minutes to an hour a day promoting your site." And this is what I wasn't doing, I wasn't spenting 10 minutes to an hour a day promoting my site.

I guess I'll be spending 10 minutes a day so that the rest falls into place.

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It's All In The List

I know that if you have been trying to make a living on the Internet for any amount of time. Then you have heard the saying It's All In The List. As true as that may statement may be, it seems to me that a better statement would be It's all in your list and the list of the people that you know.

As I have mentioned before I receive a few newsletters and you would be amazed at just how many of the emails, will talk about a new product that someone has come up with. These JV's must run in the millions, because you hear about some people with list of 100,000 or more. So I guess you can see the power of It's All In the List!

But how do you start your list? Some say the best way is to make a 5 day mini course. But if you are like me, I just sit here thinking about what I would use after that. I mean, from some of the newsletters I get are sent everyday and others every other day. But if I ever figure it out I'll post it.

Good Luck

Affiliate Sales

If you are involved in any form of affiliate marketing, then you may or should know about affiliate link theft. Well the other day I came across this free product. I was watching this video, that mentioned how cloaking links sometimes don't set the cookie for your affiliate product. If this happens, you will not get paid, now add the cost of a PPC cost and you could be losing a lot of money.

There are other way to protect your affiliate links. You can use scripts or redirects or you could just Use This FREE Tool to Increase Sales by 912% to ANY website - Instantly!... Click here to check it out.

Remember to test any product that you us to protect your affiliate link. Go all the way to the payment page and see if your affiliate ID is on the page. You may also want to have a few friend do the same thing for you.

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Free Stuff -- These Sites Offer Things Free

I have found a few more sites that offer free stuff. Now if you don't know how these sites work. You sign up and most offer free programs, e-books or courses. Some let you upload your products and then you can collect email address to build your list.

Other just offer free stuff, but before you get their offer there is the up-grade offer. But either way you get something.

So here are the links:

The Super Gifts This one has over 400 programs, e-books etc.
My Free Give Away This one has 30 programs and a up-grade offer.
The Best Advertising Money Can't Buy This is a free e-book which shows some sites that you can advertise for free. I think this one also has an up-grade.
Mini Sites Secrets 14 free videos with and offer to up-grade for the rest.

All of these offer some great things. You'll want to check them out!
Good Luck!!!

I also added a pop-up from one of these free sites not listed above. If it pops, leave me a comment about pop-ups and what you think about them. And check this site out they have a special offer page that you can put on your site and make some money.

What Site Promotion I Have Done

Well back to posting about my journey. On Friday, November 17, 2006 I talked about what I was doing for site promotion of Bob's Info World. Well to recap I found this free software Web Ceo (the link is in that post) to help me do the seo thing. It has a feature that can tell you about weak areas in your site. So after using this software to find weak spots, I decided to try some of the things I have been reading about to get my site promoted. And maybe make a little money from the AdSense and affiliate products I put on the site.

Now if you go by Google's page-rank system (if you use Google's toolbar) even on this blog, I have a zero. You would thing that I would promote this blog first and trickle it down to my other site. But I wanted to see if I could start making an income from that site.

So first I started listing my site with open directories. (A few directory links are listed in the link area on the rights side and a great resource in Sunday, November 19, 2006 post.) Well after listing my site at about 300 directories, not much happened. Either I was rejected or who knows what happened, because I have only received a handful of links back to my site. I check my link popularity using a site call www.mj99.com/tools/. There are a lot of sites that have link popularity checker.

So next I tried my hand at writing an article and posting it at free article directories. Well this is a time consuming project and the rules that each site has, well lets say more time please!

So if you are going to write an article for the purpose of site promotion, then these general rule may help. Make your article about 500 words long, because most site want between 350 and 1000 words. The average line length is 65 characters, but some site are longer. And its best to write your article using notepad.

Remember most sites do not allow links in the body of the article. So to promote your site you have to put the links in the author area. And the amount of link run from one to three. Then there is the question if they let you use html or strip it out. This is the difference between a text link or just www.yoursite.com.

So create a page with a few different author bio's, some with two links and some with three links plus a few using www.yoursite.com to save you time. It's then just a matter of cut and paste.

More on this later.
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