Archive for the ‘Traffic Generation’ Category

Getting Traffic via Classified Ads

May 21, 2008

Online Classified Ads are quite powerful, not only they put your product in front of potential buyers, but help you to get inbound links from high PageRanks sites. 

There are so many websites which allows to post classified ads, following are few:

www.craigslist.org
www.classifiedsforfree.com
www.gumtree.com
www.kijiji.com

You can also check out the following newsletter directory sites for newsletters that cater to your market:

www.newsletteraccess.com
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour 
www.ezinelocater.com

In order to get the maximum exposure from your classified ads, you can do the following:

1 : Your headline is your punch line

The first thing people will notice is your headline. Use “power words” such as, “free,” “guarantee,” and “save” to make sure it grabs their attention right away! Otherwise, they won’t bother reading the rest of your ad.

2: Keep it simple

Focus on what benefit they are going to get from your info. Remember, the point here is not to sell the product, but to encourage the people to click to find what they are looking for. Post your classified to proper categories, if possible post it on multiple categories.

3. Go Multi-language

Utilize the power of the multi-language. If you cannot write the article other then English, you a freelancer to translate your article.

4. Learn from the competition

it is always good to see what kind of ads your competition is placing to check out their strengths and weaknesses, so that you can do a better job.

5. Your Ad position

It might happened that one day your ad is on the top and the next, it dissaparred five pages down. If the site allowed, re-submit your ad on regular basis.

So take action, and post your first classifed Ad NOW.

Cheers!

3 quick ways to get traffic to your BLOG!

May 14, 2008

Blogging is now a global phenomenon, thousands and thousands blog launching every day, and they are a good vehicle to drive traffic.

Here are quick 3 ways to attract traffic to your blog.

1. Bookmark with OnlyWire.

Onlywire is a service that allows you to automatically bookmark your post on well over 17 high-traffic sites. It’s also helps you to get the search engines index your new post too.

it’s take few clicks to setup everything, so take a look at

www.onlywire.com

2. Contribute BLOG comments

one of the best and easy way to get traffic is to leave comments on other high-traffic blogs related to your blog niche. To find them, you can used google, technorati, or even blog search with blogs like wordpress, blogspot etc.

3. Unique Keywords

For every post, instead of using most obvious or generic terms, use long-tail keywords. Blogs looks for long-tail keywords. Over time with hundreds of these, you will see more value traffic coming to your blogs. e.g.

if you are writing a blog about “best beaches in US”, don’t want the target words like ‘travel;’, beaches’ etc., used “cross country beaches” etc. as they do not duplicate with sites like expedia etc, and will come up top on the Google’s organic list.

So go on, try the above,  will take only few minutes to complete.

Cheers!

Add to Onlywire


Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - The Basics

May 2, 2008

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is often referred to improving the amount of the traffic originated from various search engines to your website. Many site owners will engage in using SEO in an attempt to obtain qualified visitors to their site. The quality of these visitors will often be measured by what specific keywords they are using in order to reach the desired result they want, such as making a purchase, or it could just viewing or downloading a particular page on that site.

You will need to have plenty of patience, as results do not happen overnight. So if you are looking to improve the search engine position of your site, you should consider this very early on when looking at using SEO.

Following are some of the points of consideration in terms of SEO.

THE FRAMEWORK

The Content is King

Your site may be technically perfect as SEO, but you may still find less visitors, because of the lack of good contents at your site. Your site contents should be unique, fresh, specific, grammatically correct, and appealing to the user.

Page titles are bold and descriptive

Make used of h1-h6 (header tags) to make it bold, clear and descriptive all your page titles.

Search Engine friendly URLs

Most of the robots of the search engines does not recognized URLs with “?” so used search engine friendly URLs like www.google.com/trends. By using a search engine friendly URL; you are helping both your ranking and users of your site. There are so many scripts available to accomplished that.

Links

It is crucial that what sites are linking to your site, as it helps to improve your PAGE RANKING on search results. For any site on the web, incoming links are very important, especially for SEO. But many people have found that incoming links are less important, especially where you have more specific and unique content on your site.

Search Engines are not fools

Never use such methods as cloaking, link farms, keyword stuffing, alt text spamming or any other dubious ways. Although they may work for a short time, you not only risk getting your site penalized, but it could actually be banned from search engines altogether.

SITE Structure

No Frames on your website

Do not used HTML Frame Tags, instead there are workaround to achieve similar results, as search engines robots do not understand that.

Meta Tags are Important

Put specific keywords in META name tags, explaining your website function, services offered etc.

HyperLinks pages

Hyperlinks pages are links with <a href=”"> attributes. It is important that you make sure that all pages link to at least one other page. Pages which do not link out are known as “dangling links”. Organize your topics, sub-topics links accordingly.

Hn Tags

H Tag <Hn>some heading words</Hn> The “n” in this tag represents a number from 1 to 6. The biggest heading is represented by 1. You will find that H tags are given more weight than ordinary text in a page, and so the bigger the H size, the more weight it will have. So it is important that you include your target search term in the H tags at least once on the page, but if possible two or three times is even better.

Images

Alt Text <img src=”url” alt=”some text which is displayed or mouse over”>

Always include the alt text to all your images, as search engines do not understand an image but looks for alt text.

THE KEYWORDS

Keywords are an important part of SEO. These are like ‘hot buttons’ of your website pages. It’s reflect what your website is all about. Do a good amount of research to come up keywords, research the competition to get ideas (go to competitor website, on browser, click on View/Source to see keywords in meta tags),

Include Keywords in Title Pages, Meta Tags

It is important to include Keywords in your title pages <title>title page, keywords…</title> and meta tags <meta …. </meta>. It is vital that, for each page of your site, you include the appropriate keywords within all the page’s tags.

Bold Keywords in Contents

use h1-h6 in your contents with Keywords, this will help the search engine to index your pages based on the keywords chosen.

GETTING TRAFFIC FROM OTHERS

In a SEO world, it is important that who knows your website. It is called ‘backlink’. A backlink is a link which directs others towards your site; they are also often referred to as inbound links (IBL’s). So, the number of backlinks that your site has is an indication of how popular or important it is according to your peers (other site owners).

There are a number of ways in which back linking can be achieved.

1. Reciprocal Linking
This is where you link to another site that provides the same service or product as you and they in turn have a link to your site on theirs.

2. Site Submissions.
Submit links for your site to directories which allow free submissions, or if you can afford it, some paid directories. There are many sites around which offer a service where you can submit your site details to numerous sites. Plus, if you want, you can always create your own directory of similar websites.

3. Articles.
This is another way of getting great backlinks. So if you have a reputable looking site that contains informative, well written reviews, then there is a good chance that your articles will receive high search engine rankings also. But it is vital that any articles you write are on the subject, informative and thorough in relation to your site. Also you could always write a few articles for submission to article sites such as EzineArticles.com or SearchWarp.com. This is another great way of getting even more backlinks to your site.

4. Blogging.
This has now become an integral part of the internet, and is one of the most effective ways of linking. You either have the choice of placing a few words of comments on to someone else’s blog, or you may want to link to them from your own blog. In fact, you will find that most blogs will be happy to link back to you. However, it is important that you try to update your blog regularly and post interesting content to ensure that people will want to link back to you.

Although everybody wants good listings, there are unfortunately many sites which appear poorly or not at all in search engine rankings. This is because they have failed to consider just exactly how a search engine works.

Later, will include some of the upcoming SEO techniques that we can used on our websites.

For now, my rule for SEO is;

Build WebSites for HUMANS and not be pleased the Search Engines… :)

Cheers!

Getting Traffic to your website via One Article!

April 30, 2008

There are several strategies that you can implement to drive free traffic to your website. I am going to discuss a simple one, which is via:

‘Writing an Article’

In order to generate traffic to your website, follow these actions:

ACTION 1: Write an Article

You can write about anything that excite you e.g. your niche product, tips/tricks etc. The key is to have your viewers learn and benefits from it.

ACTION 2: Submit your article

Create a summary about your article, enlist the benefits of viewers, it’s like using attractive language when using Google AdWords, so be creative. You can submit your articles to:

Articlecity.com
Ezinearticles.com
Easyarticles.com
Site-refrence.com
Ideamarketers.com
Submitondashboard.com
Local-list.us
Articlecat.com
Article99.com
Bigarticlepro.com
Marketmyarticle.com

ACTION 3: Submit Press Release

To send your article as Press Release follows the instructions via http://www.prwebdirect.com/pressrel…s.php#format). Once you format your article, you can send this via all FREE press release websites or used www.prwebdirect.com and pay to submit your press release. Some of the Free press releases websites are;

i-newswire.com
clickpress.com
free-press-release.com
express-press-release.com
pr9.net
pressbox.co.uk
press-base.com
prfree.com

ACTION 4: Turn your Article into a Video

Creating a video nowadays is quite easy, you can used YouTube, Yahoo video or similar websites to view instructions and how to submit etc.

Basically, this is the new way to drive traffic to your website. Create a video with your audio, and create some PowerPoint and then record the whole thing, submit to video websites. You can also use SlideShare.com, if you want only the slides, not the video.

Couples of Video submission sites are:

YouTube.com
blip.tv
GoFish.com
LiveVideo.com
Video.Yahoo.com
vMix.com
SUMO.tv
The results that you get from video submissions are fantastic. Videos are the new medium of communications to the viewers.

ACTION 5: Create a PodCast

If you already have an audio recorded for your video presentation, you can PodCast it. It’s like you are starting your own radio station. You can used several PodCast websites to do that, or you can use Apples iTunes (www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/).

ACTION 6: Create a BLOG entry

Put the ‘Summary’ that you prepared for your article submission, and the ‘Video Link’ to your BLOG. Also, add your article into another BLOG entry too. People will be able to find info via searching BLOGs and will be able to come to your site and then to your website.

ACTION 7: Create a Squidoo Lens

Use your audio and video to create a squidoo lens (an easy-to-build online page). Squidoo (Page Rank 7) has a wizard that walks you through creating the lens. You can also put links back to your website on their site for free!

ACTION 8: Bookmark your video links

Enlist your video links as bookmark, as this will help you boost your videos higher in the search engines. Use the following social bookmark sites to start posting your video links

Digg.com
Del.icio.us
Technorati.com
Stumbleupon.com
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Newsvines.com
Furl.net
Slashdot.org
Plugim.com
MyLinkVault.com
Google Bookmarks
Jumptags.com

Once your follow and take ACTIONS as above, you will see traffic coming to your website. Remember, you have to take actions, to get things done.

So, go on take your action #1.

Cheers

Marketing via Wiki’s

April 16, 2008

Have you ever heard of a wiki?

A wiki is a type of web site that lets ALL its users update the site’s content. The name comes from the Hawaiian word for “quick,” and is sometimes used as an acronym for “what I know is…”

Wikis allow people to share ideas and communicate with one another in a fresh new way. Every visitor to a wiki web site can add to, delete, or edit the site’s content, creating a sort of living web page full of fresh perspectives and up-to-the-minute information from multiple users.

Visit Wikipedia.org (the Web’s biggest and best-known wiki);

It’s an online encyclopedia on everything from historical figures, to technical terms, to world events and it is becoming a reliable source of online information.

But what you can used Wiki FOR?

Well, wikis can be used an an option for online businesses. This will give you an online, interactive space where you can:

  • Market your products and services
  • Establish a company voice and identity
  • Offer product information to your potential customers
  • Answer questions, collect feedback, fresh ideas about your product
  • Attract traffic from the search engines, and drive that traffic back to your web site
  • Create a community that keeps your readers and customers coming back for more

and much more.

But I’m willing to bet that MARKETING WIKI’s will be the next big thing. For example, check out how Amazon.com is using their new ProductWiki to allow even more customer feedback on their products than ever before.

So take action, go to www.wikipedia.org and start your very first WIKI!

Cheers!

See where users clicks on your website

April 16, 2008

Ever wonder, what user do at your website. i.e. Where area on your web site they click most, which page they go?

There are so many FREE tools available in the market which helps you to capture user activity. I came across with this good tool. It’s called “ClickHeat”.

ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on your website pages, showing hot and cold click zones.

you can download this free script from;

http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html

With this tool, you can exactly see where FIRST THE USER CLICKS, which pages they go more often. So that you can re-design, re-adjust your website for better traffic and much more..

Cheers!

5 tools for your WebSite Stats

April 15, 2008

There are lots of great tools available that you can use to measure your marketing statistics on the Web. These tools will help you analyze your traffic stats so you can track visitor activity on your site and find out which search engines are sending the most traffic to your site as well as the keywords they plugged into the search engine to find your site.

All this information is VITAL and IMPORTANT, because it helps you fine-tune your web site and make sure it’s attractive to your visitors and search engines.

Here are quick 5 tools for measuring web statistics;

1. Google Analytics — It’s free, it’s provide great information on your webstats, visitors location, country and much more. get it it’s free and robust.

2. Statcounter — This one free too, and offers a good surprising depth of information.

3. OneStat — Costs about $10 a month, but has a free trial you can check out.

4. Click Tracks — This award-winning software starts at around $500 for a single user, so it’s not for beginners who are just starting out. Check out the free demo to see exactly what they offer.

5. WebSideStory — This one’s the “Cadillac” of tracking services! It’s pretty expensive, though, so it’s strictly for businesses who are doing major sales and attracting huge quantities of traffic.

If you’re not already tracking your site performance, than I suggest you give these tools a test drive to see which one works best for your business.

Cheers,

Founder, NewInternetTrends.com

Getting traffic via BackLinks

April 15, 2008

There are two type of links on a website. These are;

Incoming Links – These are the links from other websites to your site.

Outgoing links – These are the links from your site to other sites, also know as forward links, usually described as “links” or hyperlinks.

Google provides free toolbar (http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html) to check any website with its backward links. If you have the toolbar installed on your Internet Explorer browser, you can visit a web site, click on the blue “i” and then click on “Backward links” to see what appears to be the number of links pointing to the site you’re visiting.

Using Google to find backlinks:

You can use link:website.com

Type the following command into the Google search box:

website.com -site:www.website.com -site:website.com

(Remember to type in your actual site, not “website.com”.)

Doing this shows you;

- Pages that link to your site, minus the links on pages on your own site.

- You’ll also see sites that just mention your site but don’t actually link to it.


Using Yahoo:

At Yahoo!, type this into the search box:

link:http://www.example.com -site:www.example.com

This search excludes internal links.

(Remember to type in your actual site, not “example.com”.)

Here’s a refinement. For more extensive results, try this search:

linkdomain:www.example.com -site:www.example.com -site:example.com

The above search includes links to ALL pages on your site, not just the main page.

At Yahoo!, type this into the search box:

link:http://www.example.com/page

At MSN, use

link:example.com/page

In Google, it’s not so simple. Try this search:

example.com/page.html -site:example.com

It doesn’t actually give you “links”. It gives you mentions. However, most mentions tend to be links and it’s more accurate than Google’s “link:” command.

Link popularity check

You can check for backlinks by using link popularity sites such as www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/default.htm

Free backlinks checker

You can find which sites are linking to you by using this free tool, which also shows the anchor text used in the link:

www.helpfulinformation.org/seo-tools/anchortext.pl


Why backlinks are important

When ranking sites, search engines such as Google look at the number and quality of sites that link to your site. Ideally, you want backlinks from sites in your industry that have many popular sites linking to them.


How to get backlinks

Common ways to get backlinks include exchanging links with other sites (reciprocal links) and by placing articles you write in article directories and on other sites.

Perhaps the most effective way of all is to create such a useful, fascinating site that other sites voluntarily link to yours.

An excellent way to get backlinks

If you want thousands of visitors a day from search engines (and don’t we all!) it’s absolutely essential that you encourage other sites in your field to link to you. One excellent way to get links to your site is by writing articles for newsletters, which are then published on other’s sites.

FREE way to get links to your site

Check out the free Value Exchange for sites in your category that are eager to exchange reciprocal links with other sites. As the Value Exchange’s popularity grows, it is becoming more and more useful.

In some topics, it will locate only a few potential links partners. In other niches, it can find several hundred potential links partners for you.

Cheers
Founder, NewInternetTrends.com