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366 Ways to Get Web Visitors -
I have decided to release a list of 366 Traffic Methods all at once. So now, you can’t ask me how to get traffic for a WHOLE YEAR.
Go away!
Okay, I’m just kidding.
Really.
The great thing about this guide is that it’s rebrandable.
You can just put your own link on the front page, or you can do that AND join the free affiliate program and load affiliate links in it with the rebranding kit, a zip file you can find right here or on the last page of the guide. I have committed Mac treason and created a program that only runs on Windows, (XP or Vista). Please refrain from flogging me. I will do my best to help if you have a Mac that doesn’t run Windows, just reply below.
(And… btw… HOW DO YOU LIVE? I was without Windows on my MacBook Pro for two weeks and almost drown in my own tears. Anyway.)
(You can get your 366 Traffic Methods here if you are reading this via feed and can’t see the embed above. That’s a PDF link so don’t hurt yourself!)
If you own The Evergreen Traffic System or Traffic Reality and are signed up at my site, there’s an affiliate link in your member area that will give you an extra 10% bonus, so please use that one instead of signing up twice. 
Oh, and of course I forgot to mention in the guide that the cookie the affiliate code drops is good for a Year.
That’s right, even if it takes a year for someone who signs up to our newsletter at the site to buy, or even if they don’t sign up but you were the first person to tell them, it will be a year before anyone else gets to make a sale through them.
So. Uh. You might want to grab the rebrand kit and get your copy out there before everyone else.
And if you need hints as to how you can do that?
It’s a guide to generating web traffic! So you can use the traffic generating guide to generate traffic to the traffic generating guide. Lots of the methods are free, too. (See what I did there?)
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There was a really important post at DoshDosh today called “An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get“. It went over a very basic marketing principle that has somehow gotten turned into a gimmick - the idea that in order to get someone, anyone, to do something for you, that you must first do something for them.
It struck me, reading that article that everyone knows you’re supposed to do that.
Everyone thinks they understand why to do that.
And yet few people know HOW to do it. Or everyone would, and everyone would buy everything and all our problems getting the word out and would be solved.
I wonder why that is. Thinking back to when I was a newbie, thinking about how current newbies to traffic generation behave when they meet me, I think this quote from the article best alludes to the mystery:
You’re not selling to robots or animals. You’re selling to people whocare about the seller. Get what you want by first giving unconditionally. Manage what people think or feel about you and you’ll get what want easily.
When I was a newbie, I didn’t get that. I got into business to be able to help people and have some extra spare change - I was looking for a part time supplemental income.
One day put out some valuable information for free, and for a while got a lot of great attention for it. Then when flipping through Clickbank, I noticed that someone had turned my idea into a product. Out of curiosity I bought it, thinking they had the same idea I had at the same time - maybe we could work together and make something bigger.
And I saw that, word for word, some of the content in the product was stuff I was giving away free on my blog.
At the time I didn’t know what I was supposed to do.
Sue? I didn’t have a lawyer and couldn’t afford one.
Contact the person and bluff that I was going to sue? I couldn’t make good on the threat, and besides, it was a lie. And people knew that person well - they were just getting to know me in the marketplace.
Ultimately I figured out that due to the ranking of the product, they couldn’t have been making a lot of sales. So I made a better product, and put it on the market. Six months later the market for that particular item was flooded with competition, and I was still on top.
I always believed it was because I provided better value, and people knew it. I gave away most of the information others make you pay for, and then heaped a lot of actionable content to pay for on top of that. Eventually my tactic paid off.
Because I wanted to build a business. The other guy just wanted to make a quick buck.
And that’s the difference between some of the new blood in any business and the veterans, between some of those living the “guru” lifestyle and the true experts.
One wants to build a business, the other is hoping to run away with some of your cash. One has to shoot straight with you or they risk losing your future business. The other doesn’t care because they just want to get you to buy this one thing and then run away.
If you want to earn trust with your audience, before everything you do, think, “will this build me a long-term relationship with subscribers, customers and clients?”
Ask yourself why they would come back for more.
Ask yourself why YOU would come back for more.
This month in Traffic Reality we’re going to be talking about how to use social media properties to build your business. I’m not going to just talk about Twitter, or Facebook or StumbleUpon or forum marketing.
I’m going to talk about all of them as a whole, from the technical points of how to use them, to the tips and tricks on each separate site in my Web 2.0 strategy and how I use them together to generate traffic, leads and sales.
I’ll be focusing on Actionable Steps, and how to reduce your daily social media workload to half an hour a day. We’ll discuss the intimate nature of how and why some things get popular in social media and other items fail miserably.
We’ll be looking into why these occurrences have nothing to do with quality of the resource, and everything to do with leverage. Actually we’ll be talking about that fact that I feel leverage is so important that, years ago, I named my company Leveraged Promotion.
This topic is so important that I’m going to start giving away bonsues in Traffic Reality at the beginning of the month of lessons instead of the end, so I can get them all in.
In the next post in this series, I’ll give you a few take away points for right now, as well as an announcement of our last content winner.
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By the time this is published, it will indeed be my birthday on the East coast, where I’m currently located.
And I definitely wanted to take some time out to celebrate that, so I’m planning on not working at all tomorrow. Yay me!
What does that have to do with you? At some point in one of these videos I tell you exactly what you can do on my birthday to make me smile. :)
Okay, seriously though, what this has to do with you is that every year, on my birthday, I’ve sent out a special newsletter, blog post, birthday gift to all my pals, something.
This year I’ve decided to be naked.
Yeah, that’s drama, and kinda hype-y. But I bet you want to know what it means, doncha?
If you don’t, you can always just leave. 
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Still there, huh? Thought so.
What it means this year is that I’m going to, right now, for the first time, give a video peek into the stats of my site. Not a picture of last year’s stats.
Not a screenshot of last week’s stats.
My web site stats for 2009, from the first three months of the year that I wasn’t promoting… and a look at the dramatic difference it made when I am actually well enough to promote this year.
Where does nakedness come in? That’s how it makes me feel, totally exposed. But I’m comfortable being this open with you.
Of course, I can’t give it all up - I’m not THAT easy, LOL!
The one thing I didn’t share, that I’m only telling folks signed up to Traffic Reality is what links send me traffic. It’s surprising information that I also keep close to my chest.
But I show
- what keyword phrases send me traffic, and how much,
- what kind of traffic Google has sent me this month,
- exactly how many unique visitors I’ve had this month, and,
- how my traffic tripled about two days into turning my promotion machine up from low to medium.
I’ll also point out how you can tell that this isn’t Bot traffic - at least 89% of my traffic is from real human people looking at my site.
I’m sure most of you remember this time last year that I was physically unable to work and couldn’t promote my site… But the traffic kept coming, because of the way I have set up my sites.
That was shocking to some people, that you could keep having traffic for months or up to a year without manually promoting your site every day, with no spammy software, and no virtual assistants.
But if you think that was a shocker, wait until you see what it looks like after a day or so of me just doing a BIT of promotion. This is not full strength, now.
Meaning none of this traffic is from JVs or affiliates, StumbleUpon, Digg, press releases, podcasting, video sites, link campaigns or any offline promotion .
This is just from search, blogging an average of twice a week, RSS traffic, one article published, a few Tweets, two newsletters sent, and very light auto-pilot promotion on Facebook.
Here’s the first video where I do a quick overview - look in the upper right corner at the time - this video was recorded live and just published a few minutes ago. You can see the time changing in my taskbar in the upper right - it matches up with the video, this video is unedited.
You may want to view it full screen for the full effect. Or you can see the first stats video here if you’re reading via the feed, or as this is republished on Facebook.
And here’s the continuation in the second video. Again, notice the time. The only reason there’s even a break is due to Jing Pro’s 5 minute limit per video.
Again, you may want to view this full screen for the full effect. Or you can see the second stats video here if you’re reading via the feed, or as this is republished on Facebook and other sites.
Now, why am I showing you how much traffic I get to this site?
- Because it’s the one thing web site promotion professionals and marketers Will Not do whether they know what they’re doing or not, because the results are so often taken out of context.
For example, the amount of visitors I got to this site this month pales in comparison to traffic I’ve generated for clients and for some of my other sites.
However, given that the majority of people online have absolutely no interest in a site about web site traffic? It’s pretty darn good.For the average online business person or marketer, it would be phenomenal.
- To show you that those results are possible for everyone.
You’ve heard my story, most likely. If not, go to the Evergreen Traffic sales page and read it. The bottom line is, yeah I’m an expert at this, but the methods I use are easily boiled down from rocket science into steps anyone can follow.
- For me. To give myself a much needed pat on the back for still having “it”, 11 years after my very first website went online.
- To get you to give Traffic Reality a try.
Traffic Reality is my new membership site. Well, it’s my new, old membership site. I set it up to show people how to get better traffic results to their site back in 2006 and had to take it down.
This year, with help from friends, I put it back up. If you’ve heard of Evergreen Traffic, in which I showed three simple traffic techniques and showed you how to combine them to multiply their effects, then you’re familiar with my concept of blending different traffic methods into a system in order to magnify their effect.
For example, search marketing and article marketing can go well together if implemented properly. Try shortcuts or mis-judge how to blend them, and you’re courting disaster.
In Traffic Reality, I
- start you off with one traffic method, and teach it to you in bite-sized pieces,
- show you how to put it on auto-pilot or semi-auto-pilot, then,
- add another traffic stream.
By the end of the second week of implementing the steps you see your first incremental traffic increase. The next month I teach you how to maintain those resuls while simultaneously increasing your traffic with another method, broken down into about a dozen of lessons, sharing literally hundreds of traffic tips, methods, techniques and sources.
So essentially, it’s Evergreen on steroids, split down into pill size.
These are the exact same tactics I use to promote my sites. And a site like this one is in a difficult spot - almost every business is at least twice as easy to generate traffic for than mine is.
Until my birthday ends, the price special that expired last week is on. So, if you want to get into Traffic Reality at a 20% discount price that you’ll be locked into forever, you want to join today.
Oh yeah, all members can also sign up for the affiliate program. It’ll be a while before we introduce it to Clickbank - they have to approve the site and everything, it’s not like with a product.
Current members, look for an incredible bonus at the end of each week of lessons for the next 9 weeks. One hint: if you’ve seen all the main pages of the site, you already know what it is.
I’ll be back with more birthday madness later on in the day.
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Before we continue, I want to let you know I’m aware of the video embed problem with videos from my Facebook fan page.
Apparently even if you embed a video to a page, which is supposed to be visible to Everyone even outside of Facebook, some people still can’t see it.
So I’m uploading the videos to our free member site over at Leveraged Promotion, and using that embed code to feature them here.
If you couldn’t see Why Facebook Matters, The Psychological Side of the Facebook Experience, or Leveraging Your Profile via News Feed vs Other People’s Profile Promotion (otherwise known as Why Facebook Spam Fails), the new embeds visible to everyone are now live at those links.
You can become a fan of mine at Facebook to see all the videos in the series in one place. If you’re looking to be able to connect with me directly and don’t know me yet, that’s your best bet.
However, if we already know each other, you might want to join me at the social members section of Leveraged Promotion, where I have a members-only blog that’s updated with less frequency, but juicer tidbits.
Members are currently moderated and approved on a case by case basis. Generally if you’ve made a comment here, know me on Twitter/Facebook/StumbleUpon or have bought a product from me, you’ll be accepted as a free member - apply here.
That’s it for announcements. Oh, and we are back on the old site theme until next week when I hope to unveil 09’s custom theme.
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Much like the Read it Later extension, Scrapbook allows you to quickly save pages for later reading.
However, it has a few more great features, like taking whole snippets of pages (like Google Notebook), searching within snippets, saving whole websites, and you can even organize the snippets like bookmarks. Perfect for researching or in-depth bookmarking.
What more could you want? Have at it.
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