An Easy Way To Drive Traffic To Your Site

[janeth]

I’ve been making my living online since the end of 2002 and have enjoyed every second of it, well…almost every second.

I guess one of the neatest things about making a living online is the people you meet and the willingness to share.

So I thought I would share a little as well.

Lately we’ve been doing very well and it is due to the following:

• WordPress Blogs
• Social Media Sites
• Blogger Blogs
• Squidoo Lens

Making money online is about finding hungry buyers and convincing them that your product will make their life better, easier, more productive, happier and more profitable if they owned what it is you’re selling.

It's a combination of the right website design and the right traffic.

I am going to focus on affiliate sales but the methods will work with anything. Affiliate marketing allows me to focus on marketing and not on:

o Products
o Custom Support
o Merchant Accounts
o Accepting Payments
o Shopping Carts
o Email Systems

This system is amazingly simple yet incredibly powerful.

Our Goal Is To Convert As Many Visitors into Buyers as Possible

We will do this by focusing on a small percent of Google searches that take place each and every day in massive quantities.

So here's how it works;

I come with a product to sell and build a website around that product. The top part of the website has a call to action, and is set up just like any other website that would be selling that product.

Under the call to action is my WordPress blog.

I add a couple plug-ins like;

akismet
all-in-one-seo-pack
auto-social
easygravatars
global-translator
google-sitemap-generator
no-ping-wait
page-link-manager
pingcrawl
privacy-policy
seo-automatic-links
seo-image
sociable
statpress-reloaded
twitter-feed
twitter-tools
wp-auto-tagger
wp-smilies
yet-another-related-posts-plugin

Okay, now the idea is to create profiles on social media sites that will link back to my main site and I also interlink those profiles back and forth to one another. Along with those I also have a number of social bookmarking sites that I bookmark to.

I try and build enough back links to the site that there is no doubt Google knows about the website, at the same time that is going on I hire someone to add content to the blog.

We come up with a list of keywords and then we add keywords to those that we feel someone that was about to buy the product would add to those keywords.

For example;
Special Offers
Cheap
Discount
Order
Promotions
Free Shipping
Store
How Much
Quality
Best
Acquiring
Best Buy
Good Buys
Deal

We have an extremely long list of these types of words that we use.

The idea is to make about 20 posts per day.

And so far this has worked great for us and the neat thing is that it’s easy to set up and you can duplicate it over and over again.

[Doc]

Very comprehensive, Janeth! Thanks for taking the time to put that together for us.

[crankydave]

Janeth... This is a very nice post. Provides nice answers to a very basic question that gets asked a lot. I'm going to make it it a sticky.

Dave

[janeth]

I wanted to get a little more into some of the things you need to do but the post was getting so long I stoped before saying everything I wanted to say.

One of the things you need to understand is your competition and what your competition is doing.

There are all types of neat little tools you can use to do this, one of them is a plug-in for Firefox called SEO Quake and it is a pretty neat little plug-in.

As you search Google this tool can provide information such as:

• Age of a Domain
• Pages Indexed in Both Google & Yahoo
• Number of Other Sites Linking to a Domain

While understanding your competition is important something that is more important is having a good list of keywords.

Below is a list of a couple tools you can use to find keywords online for free.

WordTracker.com

Free Keyword Suggestion Tool from Wordtracker

Free Search Term Suggestion Tool by KeywordDiscovery.com

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

https://www.PayPal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_shop-ext

eBay

Shopping.com - Find, Compare, and Buy Anything in Seconds

Search-based keyword tool

Google Trends

[janeth]

Originally Posted by Doc

Very comprehensive, Janeth! Thanks for taking the time to put that together for us.

The blog posting has worked really well for us this year, as a matter of fact, last year as well.

I believe I could take an established website turn it into a blog and start making money within a month.

Of course it needs to be in a good market.

But the post are the key.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by crankydave

Janeth... This is a very nice post. Provides nice answers to a very basic question that gets asked a lot. I'm going to make it it a sticky.

Dave

Thanks,

I thought I might start posting on the forum again and figured I would start by starting my own thread.

[morestar]

Originally Posted by janeth

...The idea is to make about 20 posts per day...

Hi Janeth, do you mean blog posts? If so are these posts specifically about your product? one product?

[chrisJumbo]

Janet, why do you think the number of posts is so critical? The figure seems large and too fast. Are you picking lower competition/traffic phrases? Is most of your traffic from search engines or other sources?

[SnerdeyWebs]

Janeth.. it's good to see others share the spices of success with others. It's so important that everyone in this forum succeed at their business dreams, goals and whatnots. There are so many of us that have indeed enjoyed this path that there's room for more..

Bravo!

[hyperparts]

Janet, Is there any way you could give us an example of what you've got going on here? It sounds like something I'd really like to try on our site, if possible, but I don't understand exactly what it is that you're doing with the blogs, especially when you say "Under the call to action is my WordPress blog." and that you add a couple of plug-ins like "akismet, all-in-one-seo-pack, etc."

I must say you've grabbed my interest here.

[chrisJumbo]

I have also tried Hup Pages. If the quality score is high enough the external links are dofollow. As I understand it, Squidoo is nofollow.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by morestar

Hi Janeth, do you mean blog posts? If so are these posts specifically about your product? one product?

Yes, about your product or products depending on how you have it set up.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by chrisJumbo

Janet, why do you think the number of posts is so critical? The figure seems large and too fast. Are you picking lower competition/traffic phrases? Is most of your traffic from search engines or other sources?

Most all the traffic is from the search engines. If the content is good content and stays on topic it's not too many or too fast from what we've seen so far.

And yes, we go after the less competitive keywords.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by chrisJumbo

I have also tried Hup Pages. If the quality score is high enough the external links are dofollow. As I understand it, Squidoo is nofollow.

I believe Squidoo starts off as no follow and change to do follow.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by hyperparts

Janet, Is there any way you could give us an example of what you've got going on here? It sounds like something I'd really like to try on our site, if possible, but I don't understand exactly what it is that you're doing with the blogs, especially when you say "Under the call to action is my WordPress blog." and that you add a couple of plug-ins like "akismet, all-in-one-seo-pack, etc."

I must say you've grabbed my interest here.

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[iany]

Janeth

Fantastic information. Some of it I guess we all do already - some intuitively - but great to hear from someone who has had considerable success with it.

Will certainly be reviewing our processes to see where we can improve.

Cheers

Ian

[Web Res]

Thanks Janeth, Great Post.

I had a look at your site, checked some posts and found many to have weird spelling and words running together. Is that because people are writting so many posts that the content is getting mixed up, or is there an auto generating process that might be a little buggy? Perhaps it is intentional, or did a writter have a bad day?

Clearly you are finding the a huge number of new posts will attract attention. I have tended to try to write less and be more relevant, but that may be a mistake.

20 post a day....

Here's an example:

"How canin favor ofe fundraising programs, non-proficostume jewelryNoarrangeofit fundraising is an anamountand live inional idea. It hascostume jewelryountless social and religious causes of mbecausekind for a long time. In addition,arise the increasing nucostume jewelryon-governmlexis organizationwork outandor elsether nonprofit organizsubsequentlyns, fundcostume jewelryrarrangems have become furthermcommonctin the sphere ofetruth fight for certcostume jewelryl, econobrilliantloption in favor ofsons." (Anti Obama Silicone Wristband | Silicone Wristbands)

BTW: the anti-Obama thing just caught my attention - I don't mean anything by selecting it for the example.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by Web Res

Thanks Janeth, Great Post.

I had a look at your site, checked some posts and found many to have weird spelling and words running together. Is that because people are writting so many posts that the content is getting mixed up, or is there an auto generating process that might be a little buggy? Perhaps it is intentional, or did a writter have a bad day?

Clearly you are finding the a huge number of new posts will attract attention. I have tended to try to write less and be more relevant, but that may be a mistake.

20 post a day....

Here's an example:

"How canin favor ofe fundraising programs, non-proficostume jewelryNoarrangeofit fundraising is an anamountand live inional idea. It hascostume jewelryountless social and religious causes of mbecausekind for a long time. In addition,arise the increasing nucostume jewelryon-governmlexis organizationwork outandor elsether nonprofit organizsubsequentlyns, fundcostume jewelryrarrangems have become furthermcommonctin the sphere ofetruth fight for certcostume jewelryl, econobrilliantloption in favor ofsons." (Anti Obama Silicone Wristband | Silicone Wristbands)

BTW: the anti-Obama thing just caught my attention - I don't mean anything by selecting it for the example.

We had a guy that was writing content for the site for a little over a year now and I believe two things happened.

1. He got lazy
2. He found out the work was going unchecked and figured what the heck.

He has since been replaced and we have a new writer. I pay good money for the content and want it to be
on topic and informative.

However, just don’t have time to stand over an adults shoulder to make sure he does as he should.

[dwhs]

I agree those are good ways but they are not the easiest. I would say paid ads and releases is the easiest way. With that said a blog is a key part of any website campaign now a days.

[MikeB]

What a great post. I've just spent months re-building my web site and I'm bracing myself for The Next Big Push, which will be traffic building so your post couldn't have been more timely.
When you say 20 posts per day, I assume that in total, including your extra blogs, social media sites, etc. Or do you mean 20 posts a day on the primary site?
Anyway, thanks for the post.

[maco]

Thanks Janeth, I learn a lot from it.

(Based on your example site with massive amount and little more aggressive posts)

No offense, but my question is: Is it really interesting for "visitors"?

And question for SE's and everyone: How long will this technique works?

[janeth]

Originally Posted by maco

Thanks Janeth, I learn a lot from it.

(Based on your example site with massive amount and little more aggressive posts)

No offense, but my question is: Is it really interesting for "visitors"?

And question for SE's and everyone: How long will this technique works?

I've got blogs that get a lot of comments and have a lot of people that follow the articles. I’ve even gotten emails from people thinking me for some of the information on the silicone wristband blog which is a really hard topic to write about.

There is nothing black hat about the technique. Google likes fresh content and what I am telling you to do is to pick a topic and continue to give them fresh content about that topic.

If you are always putting good and fresh content online then why would the search engines have a problem with that?

You basically become the expert in that industry.

[pingram3541]

This is very interesting and sounds a bit more involved for the beginner entrepreneur.

I started a few blogs a while back and was regulary adding content but was very time consuming and have since slowed down my postings. Most of my keyword searches bring my sites up first page on google so I think that is a plus.

I'd be willing to pay writers for content but I just don't have the time to review every post and using WP requires either approving a draft (of which I receive no notification, maybe theres a plugin for that) or I give them higher access which allows access to other parts of the blog admin I'm not comfortable with (also maybe a plugin out there).

[pingram3541]

I think in my case I would need the help of someone with experience that is willing to invest some sweat equity in return for some profit sharing. It's truly a "time" thing in my case, I just don't have it, or lack the experience to be efficient with it. I honesty could only invest about an hour a day without quitting my day job.

[maco]

Janeth, you did a great web design job on that silicone wristbands site!
Concerning this blog part with 20 post per day, I am not saying that it's black hat, but it looks too spammy to me, I just can't help myself. I believe it can be hard for robots to decide if it's great content or not, at least for now, it's just question of time until this method gets some flags.

My point is: Is it really quality/useful content for visitors, or it's just todays technique how to keep SE's spiders busy?


ps: sorry for my language.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by maco

Janeth, you did a great web design job on that silicone wristbands site!
Concerning this blog part with 20 post per day, I am not saying that it's black hat, but it looks too spammy to me, I just can't help myself. I believe it can be hard for robots to decide if it's great content or not, at least for now, it's just question of time until this method gets some flags.

My point is: Is it really quality/useful content for visitors, or it's just todays technique how to keep SE's spiders busy?


ps: sorry for my language.

I'd say if you are unable to write content that is not spammy or useful to the reader then you should not do it.

I was asked to show an example of what I was doing and I did so with a site that meant the lest to me.

You seem to be hell bent on attacking that site and its content and that is all fine and good but as I’ve said before and will say again, I have other sites were people enjoy the updates and the content. And I have people that have enjoyed the content on that site.

The post was to show some people how to drive traffic to a site and make money with those sites. If you don’t want to use the method then that is fine.

Rather it is spammy or not would depend on how you set the site up.

[Doc]

Originally Posted by maco

Janeth, you did a great web design job on that silicone wristbands site!
Concerning this blog part with 20 post per day, I am not saying that it's black hat, but it looks too spammy to me, I just can't help myself. I believe it can be hard for robots to decide if it's great content or not, at least for now, it's just question of time until this method gets some flags.

My point is: Is it really quality/useful content for visitors, or it's just todays technique how to keep SE's spiders busy?


ps: sorry for my language.

Maco, blogging is a very useful tool in the SEO toolbag, and one that the SEs readily accept, provided it is relevant. Placing a link to your product pages, for instance, is not the least bit spammy, when that product is related to the blog topic. Certainly, someone can get carried away and have their blog post inundated with dozens of links, and do themselves harm, both with the SEs and with the users. However, the key is to always remember that the user experience is #1.

• Does the blog post offer information that will be helpful or entertaining to the user?
• Does the information to which the link takes them match up with the topic of the blog post, in such a manner as to enhance the user experience?
• Are both the blog post and the link target relevant to the search criteria the user was expecting to see?

There are a myriad of other factors, but I think these cover your "spammy" comment. Just because there's a call for action, doesn't make a site "spammy". And linking to amplifying information or product information, doesn't make a blog "spammy" either.

All things in moderation...an excellent rule of thumb.

[alextj]

Doc,
I don't think Maco was referring to linking from blog posts, which is perfectly fine and useful, but to the auto-generated mumbo jumbo in some of the posts on the home page, such as
"How canin favor ofe fundraising programs, non-proficostume jewelryNoarrangeofit fundraising is an anamountand live inional idea"
Quality posts, rather than quantity, with useful information and the odd link is of course fine....mixed with some common sense and respect for your visitors' time.

[maco]

Janeth, I was just referring on your example site and expecialy if there are blog posts as Web Res and Alextj show us here.

Thank you for pointing that "Quality" + "Fresh" content will be always essence for sites.

You only show us one example site including blog, which was just mainly about that part "Fresh".

I believe you, that you have another sites where you do it in more clean and visitors friendly way.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by alextj

Doc,
I don't think Maco was referring to linking from blog posts, which is perfectly fine and useful, but to the auto-generated mumbo jumbo in some of the posts on the home page, such as
"How canin favor ofe fundraising programs, non-proficostume jewelryNoarrangeofit fundraising is an anamountand live inional idea"
Quality posts, rather than quantity, with useful information and the odd link is of course fine....mixed with some common sense and respect for your visitors' time.

I'd like to know where that post is on the home.

And I don't know how many times I need to say that is a site I used as an example, explain the problem with the site and what happened and say you should write quality post before you people are able to understand that.

Seems to me I wasted my time posting the information here and don’t have time to defend the site anymore than I already have.

This will be my last most on this topic and I’ll keep the rest of my information to myself or on a forum where people appreciate getting free information.

[pingram3541]

well thats a bummer because I was really interested in more of what you had to say Janeth!

people are going to nit-pick regardless, who cares, don't take it personal. You started this thread taking the role as a teacher to students.

I consider myself a student. Those other guys are teachers that have walked into your classrom. However, instead of debating and defending, some of us would like hear more details on the process you have used to be successful.

All in all, who cares about "spammy this" and "auto-generated that" because whatever you're doing is working and what I'm doing isn't.

[pingram3541]

oh yeah, and p.s. your success makes what anyone else says irrelevant. (unless its productive criticism of course)

[Doc]

Originally Posted by pingram3541

well thats a bummer because I was really interested in more of what you had to say Janeth!

people are going to nit-pick regardless, who cares, don't take it personal. You started this thread taking the role as a teacher to students.

I consider myself a student. Those other guys are teachers that have walked into your classrom. However, instead of debating and defending, some of us would like hear more details on the process you have used to be successful.

All in all, who cares about "spammy this" and "auto-generated that" because whatever you're doing is working and what I'm doing isn't.

Originally Posted by pingram3541

oh yeah, and p.s. your success makes what anyone else says irrelevant. (unless its productive criticism of course)

Two excellent posts in a row! And I heartily echo them both!

[dwhs]

I think you need to balance quantity and quality (70% to quality), if you can't blog alteast three times a week then you need to free up more time or get rid of some of your blogs. And pingram3541 good point I will always be a student as well.

[kms1167]

thank you so much for this..it has all been very helpful. I have been working on optimizing my keywords and some of your links really helped me to better target my traffic.

[ebong]

Nice article .... I really appreciated !

[hawash]

and do not forget your competitors links

when start building links

[findconstructionjobs]

I'm adding another to your list. Its socialmarker - an Automated Submission to 49 social bookmarking sites which can be done free.

[articlemaster9]

Originally Posted by findconstructionjobs

I'm adding another to your list. Its socialmarker - an Automated Submission to 49 social bookmarking sites which can be done free.

Thats a nice site but how will i know that they have submitted my link to those sites??

@Janeth its worth reading your every post. Thanks for such a lovely post.

[findconstructionjobs]

Originally Posted by articlemaster9

Thats a nice site but how will i know that they have submitted my link to those sites??

@Janeth its worth reading your every post. Thanks for such a lovely post.

Thanks Janeth I was enjoying your postings as well. very informative and precise.

For those socialmarker sites, that were posted, we get a notification in our email. In some sites, they may request us to activate the link that is sent to our email.

[JoeDuggins]

I have a silly question, I'm not sure this where it goes, but I gotta ask. Do MFA and affiliate marketing online actually produce money? I've been doing a lot of freelance work for a guy, and he talks up a storm. But I wanted to go to the source. Any thoughs would be helpful. Thanks.

[janeth]

Originally Posted by JoeDuggins

I have a silly question, I'm not sure this where it goes, but I gotta ask. Do MFA and affiliate marketing online actually produce money? I've been doing a lot of freelance work for a guy, and he talks up a storm. But I wanted to go to the source. Any thoughs would be helpful. Thanks.

I make money as an affiliate every day.

[nipplecharms1]

What I have not seen here Janeth is word count? what is a good word count for say:

Articles
Blogs
Social Media
others.

I know tweeter limits you to 140 character. I was interested in the others. Is 200 words enough? Is 1,000 better?

Also as far are you suggest, would it be better to put the articles on your site or submit them to an article site? I am always worried about dup content.

thanks and as always, great thread and insite.

thanks

Michael

[forestmarie]

Great effort Janeth. How about adding here about Facebook? I've heard that it can also drive traffic to your site.

[DallasSEOConsultant]

Social Media is a great way to get traffic to your site.

[keddy1]

keyword research,quality content writing and backlink building are efficient ways

[momake82]

I usually use social bookmarking and networking, blogs and forums to drive traffic to my site. But still, it needs time and patient

[ryanskaufman]

Thanks for sharing Janet. This will really help boost up traffic to your website, though this method is easy, still it requires enough time and patience. Because of this, some will hire outsourced linkbuilders. Keyword Research using Word Tracker will help as well for it will suggest keywords that might drive traffic to your site. I also notice that Twitter has the fastest response in getting traffic.

[andyf]

Yes, if you are just looking for traffic then you twitter may be helpful but its always better to have targeted traffic rather then simply traffic ( If you have business website )

[LoanShark]

Thanks Janeth! You just saved me a bunch of money!!! What is your take on Exit Scripts?