Posts Tagged "traffic generation"

Tweet Pin It I haven’t been this excited about a marketing service application since…. I can’t even remember. Let me set the scene here: First, if you are curious about social media marketing, or social buzz, but don’t quite know what all the fuss is about or if you should fuss about it, then take a few moments right now to watch these super cool and important videos: VIDEO 1: Social Media Revolution – Is Social Media A Fad? No matching videos VIDEO 2: Social Media in Plain English – What it really means… Social Media in Plain English Runtime3:44 Views874,482 Ok, now that we’re on the same page I can continue my story: Over the past...

Tweet Pin It Article Marketing has been heralded for years as the best all round traffic generation tactic, and I happen to agree. It can be scaled to any budget, from newbie netrepreneurial dabbler, all the way up to big corporate strategies. I suggest that anyone start off by doing manual article submissions to the following top article directories: www.ezinearticles.com and www.articlebase.com. Become familiar with the process, the publishing guidelines, and see some initial results for your efforts from those first. Continue to submit manually to those top directories above, but also add the following automation tools: Use Unique Article Wizard to help automatically submit your unique articles to hundreds...

Tweet Pin It In just the past week I have posted the following on website traffic generation, representing a large percentage of my top recommendations for how to draw targeted traffic to your site as effectively and efficiently as possible. The largest internet traffic survey ever – participate and get the published report FREE OnlyWire social bookmarking – great time saver and this one’s free LinkJuicer for a web of backlinks Article Marketing – both manual and automatic Joint Ventures – how to strike deals with other websites for mutual benefit Traffic Attraction Formula – stunning alternative ways to attract new business online Social Buzz – How important is it? And...

Tweet Pin It The alternative ‘traffic attraction formula’… Jason Van Orden has some of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes ahead of top business institutions and brands you would recognise… Jason has just released an important video about ‘alternate’ ways to do business online… … and since I know a couple of the people who have helped create the free video series you get access to, I give it my highest recommendation: Traffic Attraction Formula You’ve probably never heard of Jason, but he’s built a whole “internet empire” in just a couple years even though according to a lot of folks he does everything ”wrong” when...

Tweet Pin It As part of my Traffic Generation article series… I want to tell you about The Link Juicer. Link Juicer… Automatically marks your web pages, blogs or articles on 26,846 social bookmarking and content accounts Runs on autopilot Automatically spins and posts your content to thousands of content publishing accounts Randomly varies anchor text to ensure your links do not get flagged as spam Builds links gradually to maintain natural link velocity No limit to the number of urls you can link to Up to 1,500 links a month with a standard account Upgrade your account as your needs increase, and get 1000′s or even 10′s of 1000′s of backlinks monthly Converts your blog postings into...

Tweet Pin It As part of my Traffic Generation article series… I will begin by telling you about OnlyWire. My good buddy living in Thailand, Dan Lew, recently reminded me about this little gem. Using WordPress it can work for you automatically. Or you can use it manually to bookmark any webpage within your ‘web property portfolio’ to several dozen major bookmarking and social sites. Instant link-backs. Instant traffic. Fast and Free. You see, if you were to manually go around to all of those social sites that OnlyWire submits to, you would spend a good chunk of your day doing nothing but that. Where as OnlyWire gets the job done literally in a few seconds flat. OnlyWire’s slogan is ‘one...

Tweet Pin It If your company runs banner ads, be sure to learn from Motley Fool. They run the best banner ads I’ve seen. Their banners ads are simple, blend into the page, present worthwhile, interesting and curiosity building information. And they get the click. See the example below. Notice how it fits into the webpages main article and without moving flash animations or other such gimmicks, it draws the eye and pulls the reader into the banner’s content.

Tweet Pin It Question on LinkedIn: Do you have any secrets that you can share to improve the open rates of your email campaigns or newsletters? As previous head of marketing for an email service provider I’d like to offer a couple of more uncommon suggestions. Mail more often. And mail your unopens. IF (and you should be) you are mailing relevance to segmented lists, then where is there left to go? Mailing more often. And then extract the addresses of those that have not opened within say 3 days, and mail those addresses again, possibly with a different subject line. You will most likely see a bump in overall open rates.

Tweet Pin It There are 3 broad categories of marketing: Paid Advertising. PR. And Referrals. Social media marketing can and should occupy all 3 categories. Companies have embraced the benefits of social media, buzz marketing, and social collaboration. But most, including big brands, still do not know how to implement it. Having been involved with social marketing before the terms ‘web 2.0′ or ‘user generated content’ were coined, I can share my perspectives on how to approach social media marketing effectively and efficiently. Modern PR First, recognise that social media can be seen as synonymous with online public relations. Your PR firm may not like that. And nor may your digital or...

Tweet Pin It You have a plan, a selected target market, a product, and a conversion mechanism. Now you need traffic. People, prospects. Folks with cash and a desire for what you have available. Let’s consider key traffic sources in modern marketing: Online Traffic Sources My advice is to group sources of online traffic into 5 areas. Search Engine Marketing Programs Paid Advertising Programs Email Lead Gen Programs Partner Programs Social Media Programs Search Engine Marketing Programs SEO – ‘Free visitors from search engines’ is what some SEO’s call it. But having worked as SEO Manager for the largest independently owned loan brokerage in the UK, I can tell you that traffic from...