Free Traffic Tips

You’ve got to get visitors. Every site needs them, unless you’re online to talk to yourself, in which case you ought to just write in a journal.

And perhaps seek the advice of a professional. (I know because I talk to myself out loud and it freaks people out. Professional comedians really can help make that experience even funnier.)

There are tons of ways to get more visitors, as I’m sure you know. But what you may not realize is that there are ways to make every marketing effort you make have ten times the impact of your neighbor, who may be doing the exact same action.

I mean this literally. Guy A may submit an article to a directory and get 5 visitors. Guy B could submit an article on the same topic, of the same length, and get 5000 visitors from it.

I have Seven Tips for how to be Guy or Gal B coming up throughout the day.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m having a productivity day here at the site. Normally, I’d be talk about search today. But it’s Danny Sullivan’s birthday, so my gift to him is observing a day of lazine celebration, hereby redirecting any search related inquries to the upcoming search news page at Sphinn, or to other expert search engine resource sites related to him.

My first productivity tip on speed reading, can either cut your research/reading time, or help you get four times as much done in the same amount of time if you get as good as I am at it, which isn’t hard.

If you spend 3 hours a day reading, whether it’s email, books, reference materials, feeds or blogs, imagine getting the same amount of work done in 45 minutes. Or think about how neat it would be to be able to process four times as much information in those three hours what it takes most people 12 hours to read.

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People keep asking me how I get so much marketing and related tasks done in so little time. When I fell ill this past year, it took three people to stand in for me, and that was with no one assigned to the task of blogging.

If you

1. make your own infoproducts,
2. write your own blog posts,
3. create your own articles,
4. do extensive online or offline reading for business,
5. do your own research,

or otherwise maintain your own authentic voice in your online personality and image, there’s a special type of training you can get that will cut your time expenditure for those activities in half, or even less. You’re probably heard of this one before and thought it was a gimmick, but I’ll tell you, it’s definitely real.

I had actually mastered this technique as a girl, but after being out of practice for a few years, never quite got back to my original level. However, just a bit of practice gave me the ability to get my research for blog posts and social sharing done in 25% of the time it takes most other people.

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Good morning. It’s Friday!

What shall we talk about today? How about the ‘tools’ of Socializing, Commenting and Replying. Didn’t sneak that one by you did I? Oh, how clever you all are.

But have you thought of them as tools? Why not? Aren’t they, in fact, tools? Yes, they are and I’ll tell you why.

Socializing. You can’t imagine how important this is.

Not only do you get to read great content, run into interesting people, have access to sites that not only entertain but sites that can teach you everything you need to know about a myriad of subjects, spark ideas that you can implement immediately, sites where you get to express your views and opinions, have the opportunity to help others, get exposure that is world wide which is absolutely free, build a reputation as a guru of this or that and have a good time all the while. It’s better than eating Junior Mints with pop-corn. (Haven’t tried it – you haven’t lived).

Commenting. Are you inundated with comments? Well, maybe you could fix that by commenting yourselves.

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Okay, I know what you’re thinking. I’ve finally lost my mind. You might be right. But then again….

Let me ‘esplain’ how the title might apply to your web site(s).

Being a ’social animal’, I am fairly active in commenting on MyBlogLog, Bumpzee, PlugIM, Facebook, etc. and therefore I visit a lot of sites, actually tons of them.

To me, it’s interesting to see how bloggers design their home page. One would think that they would make the ‘flagship’ of their site drop-dead gorgeous, mind blowing, unique or real cool, daddy-O. One would think.

Too often, however, this is not the case.

Sometime the sites we visit are nice, but there’s just something that’s not right – kinda out of kilter – you know what I mean. It just needs that little ‘tweak’ to make it awesome. Just a little ‘torque’ is all it needs. Voila!

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