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Just a quick update on the our recent experiments with Tag and Ping. We are continuing to see a huge increase in our daily visitors to Blogs and Websites since we started to apply the techniques outlined in Tagging Secrets.
Indeed, at the weekend we set up a new Niche Blog and within three days are seeing over 100 visitors per day to the Blog and a daily increase in excess of 50% per day. On the evidence of the other blogs or sites we have experimented with this on there will continue to be substainable traffic increases.
If you haven’t yet started implementing the techniques and approeaches in Tagging Secrets then you will want to think about them soon!
July 4th, 2006
A lot of people tell me that one of the most frustrating things for them in terms of Internet Marketing is that they put a lot of work into it and yet are still struggling to get visitors to their sites. In previous posts I have talked about the use of Tag and Ping which as described in Tagging Secrets is probably one of the most effective methods I have come across for driving traffic to our sites.
Here I am going to ask you to think about the basics! If you want to increase traffic and customer purchases on your website, you need to really analyze the site. If you have an existing site, then look at that. If you have a plan for a site, look at your plan.
As you look at your site or your planned site you really need to be objective about it as you ask yourself these questions:
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Is my site attractive and ‘sticky’? Does it make people want to stay and look around?
If your site is a built from a standard template, it probably does nothing to attract your customers. It may have all the necessary components, but does it look professional?
If your prospective customer looks at this site, does she or he think the person selling the product or service is a dependable business, or does the site look like it may fold any day?
If you don’t think you can afford a professional designer, think again! Many local web designers freelance and the prices you get for design may be better than you might imagine.
If your needs are simple and you are a small business person, it won’t cost you that much to hire a professional if you don’t think you have the skills yourself.
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Does your website offer ‘value’ and true content?
With the advent of search engine optimization and keyword overload, some sites pull customers in by using many keywords that the customer may use in a search, thereby ranking them higher with search engines.
When the customer gets to their site, they may find content that is not useful to them. In fact, there is so much of this going on now that online customers are getting pretty disgusted.
Make your content USEFUL. We’ll talk more about how to do that later on in this book!
Think about your target audience and what they may be coming to your site to see, learn or buy. THEN DELIVER THAT! Don’t bother your customer with four pages of sales pitch in a large red font in bold and italics. It is annoying, and at the very least will put your customer in a bad mood. At the very worst, your prospective customer will leave and never come back.
We don’t want that do we! You want repeat visitors who will buy what you are offering - don’t you?
June 24th, 2006
The Free Report in the post below has received some very positive feedback and thank you for that.
I am still finding an absolute mass of information in the Tagging Secrets and I think used appropriately Tag and Ping and Social Bookmarking is going to be a long term strategy for building traffic. It will be interesting to see how the Search Engines develop their own thinking on this area and whether there is much more emphasis placed on Googles Bookmarking abilities and the like. There are some tremendous benefits to this “Search Engine of the People” approach without all the emphasis on complicated algorithims as well as some downsides of course.
Interesting to see how it develops over the coming months.
June 18th, 2006
I have put together a Free Report for you on how to create a Blog and start to make Money from it. It also offers advice for the experienced Blogger looking to take their Blogging to the next level.
You can download your copy by right clicking on the link and selecting “Save Target as” to save it to your own hard drive. Blogging for Profit.
You cannot change the document or sell it BUT you can give it away to friends and your own subscribers.
June 17th, 2006
Getting links from other websites is not the only way to attract visitors to visit your blog. This time, we are going to explore alternative methods to attract high quality traffic with both free and paid methods.
The first thing you can do to generate traffic is to recycle all the content you have written on your blog. What I really mean is to turn your blog posts into little “manuals” or articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day.
When you submit your articles to these directories, you are exposing your name to the thousands of pairs of eyes visiting them for free! On most article directories, you are also permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said article directories.
Another excellent way to gain traffic is to join internet forums that is based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, just go to any search engine and enter “ +forum”, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum.
When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post very useful and valuable posts, your peers will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are also allowed to append a link to your site in the signature line, which is under every post you make on the forums. People will click and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative. This way, your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums would be easier to turn into profits if your blog is selling your own products or recommending others’ as an affilliate since they are already convinced you’re an “expert” in the field.
The strategy we’ll discuss is word of mouth. Let’s say you already have a daily visitor count of 100. What if you compiled a small report or gift and posted it on your blog, saying that if a certain visitor can refer three of his/her friends to visit your blog the gift will be his/hers for free? If your small report or gift is lucrative enough, it will generate a small buzz among your blog readers and they will surely refer their friends to this blog that they frequent!
You can also utilize the “blog and ping” technique that everyone’s talking about. Basically, when you update your blog, you can let blog portals know by pinging them.
Tag and Ping is probably one of the most effective strategies allied with Social Bookmarking and you can read more about that at Tagging Secrets.
June 17th, 2006
A variety of people have fed back to me after grabbing their own copies of Tagging Secrets. They are reporting that they have seen substantial increases in the traffic to both their Blogs and their Websites after implementing some of the suggestions.
For ourselves we are seeing a sustained growth in traffic to every single Blog!
If you haven’t take a look at Tagging Secrets then you can do so by clicking on the link.
June 16th, 2006
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