Posts Tagged ‘free-traffic-method’

There’s 366 of These So Don’t Bug Me For A Year, M’Kay?


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!

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[videos and an article] Real Traffic, My “Nakedness” – and Happy Birthday to me!

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. 

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Traffic Tips #5 and #6 – Get Your Slidecast On and Out

presentation-right235x405I’m sure you remember our last traffic tip, where we learned how to use slideshows to attract visitors to your site. If you’re stopping by for the first time, it may help to read that tip first.

What we’re doing now is taking that tip and with a few slightly more technical tweaks, take it to the next level. That next level is slidecasting

What’s Slidecasting

If you want to be technical, it’s podcasting but with a slideshow instead of a regular video. Since a podcast is an RSS feed with enclosures or attachments (most commonly audio), technically a slide with audio doesn’t qualify. But we’re going to go with the general use of the term, which is an audio-enabled slideshow. 

So how do you create a slidecast?
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7 More Tips for Setting Up Your Follow Contest Model

In the previous article, we talked about how you can use the model of incentivized following in social media to create a contest that can help you gain publicity and leads for your business. Here are a few tips specific to running the contest.

1. Set up clear, easy rules for entry and giving away the prize. Keep it as simple as you can – the more rules there are, the fewer entries you’ll get. Do just enough to prevent someone from cheating.

2. Dedicate a page to describing the prize in as tempting a way as you can, almost like an information/sales letter. Then at the end let your readers know they could win this item and how to enter. Publicize that page when promoting the contest.

3. Eliminate as many negative experiences as possible – as we mentioned in the contest traffic tip, some may not enter because they think talking about this in their status updates may be spam, or at least irritating. 

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Traffic Method #228 : Host a Free Tool

This is a much easier trick to pull in the Techology sector online and you see it often. Someone hires a programmer to make a tool that tells you where you rank in Google with some unique twist. Their target market is people who are watching their Google positions and need more traffic. Match made in heaven.

I wonder though, why I don’t see these in other areas.

If I had a cooking site for busy parents, I’d have a random Ten Minute Dinner Recipe Generator.

If I was in business travel, I’d have a best last-minute Business Flight Rate Finder.

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Traffic Method #227 : Write Exclusive Content for Major Publications

This is part of the point I was making with High Profile Article Marketing before I retired that product.

You see, gone are the days when you’re an expert online just because you claim to be. Even if you, you have to prove it somehow. You’ll need either:

  1. Social Proof
  2. Applied Proof, or,
  3. The “Proof” of Popularity

Get the trifecta (that’s all three of these winning horses in that order), and you’ll never be broke again.

How do you achieve such a thing? The exclusive content angle can take you through all three of these if you’re diligent.

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Traffic Method # 225 : How to Get Better Traffic by Using Commenting to Form Relationships

Why don’t I consider leaving comments a traffic method?

Because commenting isn’t meant to generate traffic, it’s more of a by-product.

And yes, there are some things we can use to generate traffic, even though that isn’t their purpose, but only when it’s ethical.

Leaving comments for traffic alone isn’t ethical.

You’re trying to take something from a community that worked hard to get it, instead of getting credit for sharing something with a community that you belong to, and reciprocating when it’s given to you – these are two different things.

I wish there was a plug-in that let me keep people from leaving links until after a certain number of comments, and to turn their links off if they stopped participating.

Andy told me on his ultimate dofollow list about Lucia’s plug-in, which paid commenting may force me to turn to this evening.

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Free Traffic Tips :: Free Traffic Methods Re-Cap Part Three

Free Traffic Method #6 :: Ezines

They say the money is in the list.

“They” aren’t lying.

Just because you’re using RSS successfully, doesn’t mean you necessarily want to abandon email. Some things are more appropriate for email, just like some conversations you have with your clients are better on the phone, and others might be better addressed in a mailed letter.

Ezine Day

Free Traffic Method #7 :: Forums

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