Quick Traffic Tips To Get Your First 1000 Visitors For Free

Quick Traffic Tips To Get Your First 1000 Visitors

This is a follow-up from my last post: Quick Affiliate Marketing Tips That Don’t Cost A Penny.

In my last post we discussed how you can pick a niche product on Clickbank and generate some quick affiliate commissions.

The response to that post was great, so I thought I’d share a little more with you guys

This time I want to show you some tips to generate your first 1000 visitors … for free!

The Importance Of “Digging”

One of the tips I gave when searching for keywords was to “dig down” into a niche to find easier keywords to rank for.

Even though they may have a lower search volume, they also have much less competition, which makes them ideal for getting some quick traffic.

If you’re still relatively new to this, the key to your success is going after smaller, less competitive niche markets, rather than trying to compete for terms like “internet marketing” or “make money”.

It’s SOOOO much easier to get traffic with 10 low volume, low competition keywords than it is to focus on one high volume, high competition one.

So if you’re looking to make some quick affiliate commissions, you MUST stick to niche markets.

Using Multimedia For Instant Targeted Traffic

In the last post, I suggested creating a Squidoo lens (page) to create your affiliate product review.

This method is useful because (a) it’s free and (b) Squidoo pages rank very high by themselves.

Now we need to drive traffic to that Squidoo lens.

Step #1 – Articles

This is the cornerstone of most of my marketing strategies. I gave you a list of places to submit to in the previous post, but we are going to do a LOT more with them this time.

If you want to submit to more than 10 different places I would suggest rewriting the articles to make them unique.

This can be done either by creating new ones from scratch (which is a lot of work) or using a free service like www.JetSpinner.com to create hundreds of unique versions easily and quickly.

You can then post unique versions to different directories and other “web 2.0″ content sites.

(For a large list of web 2.0 sites, visit: http://www.go2web20.net/)

Step #2 – Videos

Video sites like YouTube and Google Video get enormous amounts of traffic (and also rank highly in the search engines).

You can easily create a video by turning your article into a powerpoint presentation and then recording your screen as you talk through the article.

If you don’t have MS Office to create a powerpoint, try a free alternative at OpenOffice.org and if you don’t have Camtasia, grab a free alternative at CamStudio.org

Take your video and submit it to multiple video directories (for free) using the service at TubeMogul.com

Don’t forget to put your keywords in the title and also put the URL of your Squidoo page in the description box.

Step #3 – Submit Your Slide Show

You can take your powerpoint presentation you created and submit it to SlideShare.net

Be sure to include a link to your Squidoo page in the presentation and a call to action at the end to get people to visit.

Step #4 – Audio and Podcasts

You can take the audio from your video recording and upload it to different podcast sites like PodcastDirectory.org, PodcastingNews.com, PodcastAlley.com

Step #5 – Bookmark Your Submissions

As well as bookmarking your articles and Squidoo pages as discussed last time, you should also use SocialMarker.com to bookmark some of your videos, podcasts and powerpoint presentations

Step #6 – RSS Aggregators

Your Squidoo lens also comes with an RSS feed – the format is:

http://www.squidoo.com/xml/syndicate_lens/your_lens_name_here

For example, if your lens is:

http://www.squidoo.com/olivegardenrecipes

Your RSS Feed is:

http://www.squidoo.com/xml/syndicate_lens/olivegardenrecipes

You can submit your RSS Feed to places like:

Feedagg.com
Feedage.com
FeedsFarm.com
Feeds4All.com
Feed-Directory.com

Submitting your feed can get you more backlinks and help your pages rank higher in the search engines, as well as getting indexed faster.

The important thing to remember is that all of this content should be based around your chosen keywords for your niche affiliate product.

All of the above steps can be done with little work, and all from one “base” article.

If you research your niche keywords correctly, and use them in all of your content pieces, then very soon you will start to see traffic and sales at your site.

Highest Bid Is Not Highest Rank!

Hey, I was jut talking to a client and realized it may not be clear why the last post is so important. It is important because Google does not serve up ads based on who the highest bidder is, they consider relevance (a human actually looks at the ads and landing pages) and click through rate (one other way of measuring relevance).

Google wants to give the searcher what they want, or as close to it as possible, even in the paid listings. The higher your click through rate (%) the more relevant you look and the less you have to pay for a top listing. One good trick is to include the search term you bid on in the title of your ad and the headline of your landing page – even better, put it in the URL of the landing page too.

Keep coming back, or subscribe to my feed so you don’t miss any breaking news of critical tips!

Ken

The 10 Most Guarded AdWords Secrets

While Google AdWords is a revenue generating machine for the savvy advertiser, 9 out of 10 people often FAIL in their first few attempts to create an effective campaign.
That is why I have created this report – to help these new or not-as-experienced advertisers battle through the initial learning curve, and to implement a few very simple but effective strategies that will help you achieve your advertising goals and improve the overall performance of your advertising campaign.

1. Expand Relevant Keyword Terms
Keyword relevancy is the KEY to success with Google AdWords.
While it may be tempting to include all sorts of keywords you can get your hands on, be aware that this is often the #1 mistake advertisers make when creating their first campaign.
The keyword term qualifies the user as someone who is interested in the your products/services. For this reason, we need to make them as relevant as possible.
Do not go out on a whim and start adding terms that are somewhat related, because, chances are, even if users do find interest in clicking on your ad, they will end up leaving your website without making a purchase because your product/service was not exactly what they were looking for.

2. Be Familiar with the Various Matching Options
While broad match is the default match type and should be used more than 90% of the time, you should also be familiar with the other matching options that are available to you.
Selecting the right match type will increase your performance potential and for driving clicks/sales.
If you are unfamiliar with the different matching options, here is an example:
When tennis shoes is broad matched, your ad will show when users search on the keywords tennis and shoes, in any order, and even if the query includes other terms, such as tennis rackets and shoes.
With broad matching, the keyword is also automatically enrolled in expanded matching. This means that Google will show the ads for other relevant terms and variations (such as tennis sneakers) even if these terms are not included in the keyword list.
When tennis shoes is phrase matched, your ad will only show when users search on the keywords tennis shoes in that order. For example, queries red tennis shoes and tennis shoes sale will generate your ad, but not shoes for tennis.
When tennis shoes is exact matched, your ad will only show when users search on the keyword tennis shoes. This must be typed in exactly in this format. No other variations of this term will trigger your ad.

3. Use Negative Keywords Read the story »

Critical SEO Basics

OK, so here are the basics you absolutely need to do before anything else.

META Tags

You need a couple of things in your meta tags at the top of every page. first and foremost is a page title. EVery page in your website needs to have its own title and they should all be different. Under no circumstances should your business name be our page title. Page title can be as much as 30% of the score for what is actually on/in the page code, including the content – that’s huge, don’t blow it.

The second meta tag you need is Read the story »