Getting Traffic To Your Website
Whether you own a blog or a website, the only way you are going to make any money is to have people visit your website. To make a full time income online, you need to drive bus loads of traffic to your websites everyday. This is not easy and is a work in progress.
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Back in June last year, I gave myself no choice but to TRY my hardest to make a living online. I had left my job and had bills to pay…so failing was not an option. If I had not made the decision to TRY to make a living online without a job to fall back on, I would not have worked that hard and may not have discovered that it was possible to make an income online. STOP!!! I am not suggesting to any of you to do the same…
As I had been scammed too many times into believing in all those plug in websites and instant online businesses, I decided to give it a shot at creating my own product and try to market it without an expense account.
Since I had some experience in horse racing systems and had made some money this way, I decided to write about my experience in an ebook that I titled “How To Make $50 - $100 a Day From UK Horse Racing” .
I supposed you can call me lucky in a way because I was using the keyword “money” that the online and offline world can’t get enough of. So the video that I created to market my product was quickly picked up by many people and has been watched 5225 times as I write this post. While I’ve sold more than 100 copies of that first product, it was only the beginning of things to come.
Creating Videos
I find that creating a video is the easiest thing that a newbie can do to drive traffic very quickly to your website. You can create all sorts of videos and link them all to your website. They do not need to be of the same theme as your product or website. The best way to get people to view your video is to make it an interesting video. Funny, scary or even accident videos get a lot of views. People are just curious and look for such videos and if you managed to get 1000 viewers, some of them will click through to your website. If your product is free, the click through rate is even higher.
This method is FREE to get traffic to your websites. You can create 10 videos for each website and that should really help with the traffic.
I make an average of 20 sales every month from that first website since I uploaded the video and I only created one very amateur video.
Link Building
In my opinion this is the ultimate traffic generator and it can be free. I say it can be free for those who are willing to do some work.
All internet marketers use this method to generate tons of traffic but will probably never admit it.
The best links are non reciprocal links or one way links that point to your website. There are 2 ways to do this, the paid way and the free way. Both of them are equally effective and will bring you a lot of traffic if done correctly.
Let me explain how link building helps with your traffic and sales.
Search engines think that the more people who link to you the better or more relevant your website is to the given searched keywords. This method works very well for niche topics that don’t have not too much competition.
Here is how to do it the free way;
You need to submit your website to website directories, to as many of them as you can find. There are free softwares that help you do this, I’ll upload one here for you guys to use on another day. Unfortunately some of these websites require you to link back to them. This would render that link pointless. However, there are also many site directories that do not require the link back, these are good for you.
The other more ‘lethal’ method is to write 3 different articles a week and submit them to all article directories that you can find. There are hundreds! Since it is such a tedious challenge you might want to use a software for this too. I am not going to go into the details of how to write an article…as that is a whole post by itself. The point here is just to get your link in the resource box found on every article submission to appear on those article directories. There are a 2 ways that this will help drive more traffic to your website;
1. the numerous links speaks volumes to search engines
2. some people search at article directories for articles to republish on their newsletters, so when their subscribers read your articles they have the ability to follow the resource link to get to your website.
In the old days this technique was used by all successful internet marketers as it was free and very effective.
While this method is still widely used and very good at getting you some results within 2 months, there is another link building exercise that is very effective with much less work involved, WAY LESS work involved. You can get yourself 500 one way links pointing back to your website in a matter of days or weeks. This one costs some money but is well worth it.
This method is considered a bit underground for internet marketers and most people do not want to talk about it for fear that their websites will get penalised, which happened to quite a few top guns last year.
There are many websites that sell links, just do a google search for ‘one way links’ and you’ll have an idea of where to start.
What you need to do is first select a couple of keywords that you use on your website. Say 3 or 4 of them , then sign up of one of the link services and start creating the links to point to your website but not all at once in a single day. You can vary the links to maybe a handful a day or so. By the end of 2 weeks you’ll have a good 200 links pointing to your website. Your google rank and alexa rank will not change so quickly and make take a month or two for the search engines to digest, then suddenly like magic you’ll appear on page 1 or 2 of the search engine searches for your keyword.
You can achieve the same results with the article submission, but for me that is just too tedious and painstaking!
I’ll be writing another article on Articles and Link Building to give you more details. In the meantime you can do some research and check out the websites for article submissions and link sellers.
Send me your questions…