1. Squidoo is easy to use. Half the struggle in creating a website is building it. You can always hire someone to do it for you but then you have a static site. Squidoo lets you play around and add and change and improve as you see fit.
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Welcome to Day 30 of 30 Days to More Traffic!
During these 30 days I’ve written in-depth about the top tactics for getting traffic. It’s essential to work at least the most important methods into your daily focus.
Quality of Traffic
Tons of website owners and bloggers think, “How am I going to get a lot of traffic?”
When really they should be asking themselves, “How am I going to get a lot of quality traffic?”
1 hit from a high source of traffic is often better than 100 hits from a low source. For instance, if a well-respected blogger such as Darren Rowse has provided a link to your site on blogging, he has given his internet stamp of approval for your website.
The visitor is likely to spend time reading what you have to say and he will also trust your products/advertisements. If Darren Rowse is raving about you, you don’t need to do much to sell yourself when that traffic comes through.
However, let’s say someone used a traffic exchange to get to your site. This is such a low quality source of traffic that the visitor may not stay but a few seconds, he immediately doesn’t have a lick of trust in your content or you, and he may have even stumbled upon your site looking for content outside of your niche.
Before you put together your strategy, ponder what I consider to be the highest to lowest quality sources of traffic in relation to the sections above.
Traffic Quality Chart
High:
Low:
Your Focus
Unless you work 8-hours-per-day or hire help, it’s unlikely you can do all of these effectively. What we do know, however, is this. On a daily basis you should aim for generating traffic from at least one high quality source.
Objectives #1 and #2 are necessary for long-term traffic:
Your #1 objective should be linkbuilding.
Linkbuilding leads to both high quality direct traffic and long-term search engine traffic. Use all of the methods above, from viral linking campaigns, to guest blogging, to utilizing a blog roll in the right way, etc.
Your #2 objective should be either submitting search engine optimized articles to ezines (Article Marketing) or publishing them at your own website. Pros often do both.
Your #3 objective should be harnessing the traffic power of social bookmarking, creating viral media (ebooks and videos), forum marketing, Squidoo, and other things.
Goal Setting
As part of your strategy, set small goals. You can’t look at your traffic generation in absolutes. For example, vow to double your daily traffic each month instead of be upset that you’re not getting 10,000 visitors every day the second month your site’s up.
In other words, don’t expect these techniques to magically make your site as popular as an authority site that’s been on the net for 5 years over night. Although it’s possible if you generate enough incoming links.
Use these techniques. They work.
Hire Help
If you have the money, the best way to effortlessly drive traffic to your site by hiring help (outsourcing). There are skilled individuals on the net who provide services for building links, connecting you with JV partners… They’ll even write content for you for a low price. You can hire someone to do all the dirty work. I recommend Warrior Forum, an online marketing forum since 1997, for finding a contractor. Elance works well too.
Read more about hiring writers.
Warrior Forum is also a goldmine of knowledge. Talk to the members and use the search feature to find out anything you want to know about online business and generating traffic.
Traffic Building Checklist: Stage 1- Getting Started
Traffic Building Checklist: Stage 2- Getting Traffic
Traffic Building Checklist: Stage 3- Taking things to the next level
If I had to do it all over again…
If I had to do it all over again I would do 2 things differently:
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Welcome to Day 29 of 30 Days to More Traffic!
Today’s I want to talk about going where the traffic is.
This may sound like a strange idea but bear with me as I believe it to be a worthwhile concept.
This concept was originally introduced to me by Willie Crawford and basically states that if you want to increase traffic to your site then find related sites and look for ways to leverage their traffic.
For example if you want to get more traffic to your Poodle Manicures site then go find the most popular sites about Poodle Manicures and look for ways to leverage their traffic.
There are numerous ways do this. Here a few of the common ones:
What are your thoughts?
