5000 Dollars In 45 Days - My IM Voyage

Hello fellow Internet Marketers! Today I have a special treat! A guest article from Hamida over at InternetMarketingRamblings.com. This post has some fantastic information on traffic generating methods. I use them myself. Enjoy!

TomG.

These are my top 15 favorite ways to get traffic to my own sites (in no particular order):

1. Participate in related forums using a signature link that points to your site – Most of my traffic to this blog comes directly from my sig link at the Warrior Forum. I frequent a number of other forums as well where I link back to some of my niche sites. You can find lots of different niche forums here: Big-Boards.com

2. Social bookmark your sites using either Social Poster or Social Marker. I don’t get a ton of traffic this way, but if you have a newsworthy topic you may get a few visits here and there.

3. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site.

4. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and quote your website as the source – this works better for some niches than others but I manage to get quite a lot of traffic this way.

5. Write articles and submit them to article directories – some people like to submit to a number of different article directories, I personally prefer to submit just to Ezinearticles if the aim of my article is to get traffic to my site. More top article directories are Buzzle, Goarticles and Searchwarp.

6. Write a Press Release and submit it to Webwire (I don’t do this very often as it’s hard to find a “newsworthy” topic for some of my niche sites, but when I do it can generate a lot of traffic). This isn’t free, but at $19 isn’t overly expensive either. If you want to go the free route I recommend Pressbox, Free Press Release and i-newswire – you can find more free press release sites here

7. Use Pay Per Click e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM – this isn’t something I’ve tested extensively, but it’s definitely high on my list of “things to do” for 2009. Free advertising is great, but I think a mix of both free and paid will be even better!

8. Submit a blog to a blog directory – because most of my niche sites are blogs I submit them to the top blog directories (I just Google “blog directory” – the top ones will come up on page 1 and 2 of Google)

9. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories – I submit to Feedagg, Feedest and Feedage (your feeds can rank quite well in the search engines using these sites).

10. Nothing beats good SEO for traffic. I can’t really go into SEO here because there’s too much involved, but simple steps such as optimizing the titles of your pages for searched for keywords, using a keyword rich domain and so on can make all the difference to how you rank.

11. Have a link to your site on community sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. I personally only use Twitter (I have a Facebook profile but don’t use it for marketing purposes) – whenever I make a new post to my blog I announce it on Twitter and it brings me traffic.

12. Create a freebie product to give away e.g a free report or ebook. Include your affiliate link to a more comprehensive product or include links to your site.

13. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – Check out the original SEO friendly free directory list - http://info.vilesilencer.com

14. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube. Include a link in the description and within the actual video – I haven’t done much of this yet but from what I’ve seen it works well for many people.

15. Create small “feeder” sites with Squidoo, Hubpages, Wikidot, Weebly etc and link to your “money” site (or direct to merchant if you like). Both of these can rank well and send good traffic to your main site.

You’ll probably have noticed that a lot of this can be very time consuming (even working full time online I couldn’t possibly do all of this myself) so I highly recommend outsourcing some of the more tedious tasks like social bookmarking, creating web 2.0 sites, articles, directory submissions etc if you can afford it. If not, then stick with the tried and tested methods like article marketing until you’re making some money.

Hamida

After a ton of research and feedback, it is finally here. I have produced what I think will be called THE definitive guide to blog flipping. For those of you who can’t wait, here’s the direct order link:

OK, that link was for those of us who can’t wait for a review, itchy trigger finger and all. For the rest of us, here’s the skinny:

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5) What Plug-Ins to use - My favorite plug-ins with links.
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Many of us struggle with hunt and peck keyboard skills. Many of us use article marketing to get the word out. The problem we face is that we can think and talk much faster than we type. It leads to frustration and aggravation. One tool that I found that vastly increased my productivity is Dragon Naturally Speaking. It is a software tool that types the words you speak as fast as you can speak.

How does it help? I use article marketing to promote products and services and my own websites and blogs. It really tires me out typing thousands of words each and every day. My hands hurt and I am annoyed that I think much faster than I type. Dragon Naturally Speaking does the typing for me quickly and efficiently. Once you train the software to your voice (a very easy process), it is deadly accurate.

Now I get at least 10 to 20 articles out each and every day. I no longer dread writing. My income has really taken off because those articles are getting links and traffic for me every day. Try it out, you’ll thank me later.

TomG.

Hello everybody!

I am sorry for the less than frequent updates to this blog. I will get you some useful information and updates today. First off, comments on the coaching program. It turns out that this is very hard work. Creating 2 blogs per customer per month filled with great content is pretty time consuming. But I don’t stop there! I also configure SEO plugins and social plugins and other secret stuff to keep the SE’s happy and get the blogs rankings. Then I go to my special social bookmarking accounts and get them links. Then we do some article marketing. Think about it, 10 customers, 20 blogs, TONS of work. Why am I saying this? Well, I think I will close the doors once I get these fledgling blog flippers on their way.

Again, why mention the mentoring? I will tell you. When building a business, it is not always easy to get started. I wanted to help people get started with their businesses. I see that labor-intensive offerings cannot be sustained unless you outsource the whole operation. If not, your own business will eventually suffer because you cannot put in the effort to maintain and expand it.

OK, you’ve been patient with me. This post’s informational part starts here. I have proven that blogs are the way to go. Build them and profit from them or sell them. Problem is, takes a lot of work to get a successful blog going. There is the blog content itself and there is the promotion. After all, you can have the best, most informative content out there, but without promotion, you’ll have a deserted blog.

So how do we make all this easier? Well, PLR will help. Appropriate use of private label rights aka PLR articles will help you keep your blog fresh. Here’s how to set it all up. Simply use WordPress’ post scheduling feature to load up 20 articles at a time and set the posting frequency to 2 days. That will keep your blog fresh for 40 days. Set the posting frequency to 3 days and you are good to go for 2 full months. That effort will leave you with plenty of time to actually go out and promote your blog. You can use social bookmarking and article marketing. Article marketing is easy if you rewrite your PLR articles. One tool I use is Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred. Basically, it works like this. I read the PLR article out loud while putting it in my own words. The finished product is a completely rewritten article perfect for the article directories. I submit a few versions to the top 20 directories for traffic and links. Well, that’s all for now.

TomG.