Traffic Tactics So Far
So, just wrapping up a few things before the Xmas festivities kick off. A quick run down of what I have been up to to drive traffic.
To be frank, I’m not really going all out to win the 2 week traffic competition. I see traffic generation as a long term plan and we’ll all go at a different pace, what i will be spending this 2 weeks doing is setting the foundations for a good steady traffic stream in the coming months.
If anyone really wanted to just go out and win the competition they could probably spend $200 in traffic exchanges and get 10,000+ hits over the next 2 weeks. These hits would be largely useless and would in no way help the business or long term traffic plan.
Anyway, I came across this handy little cheat sheet that maps lots of different link building strategies. You can download it here. It’s now pinned to my wall. The sheet was provided by ProspectMX.
So anyway, this week I signed up to 10 of the top Internet Marketing forums out there and made one or two posts on them all. I intend to try and get involved in these communities as much as possible. Both helping others out and getting help myself.
I signed up for Twitter and Squidoo and had a bit of a play around. Started following a few people, and read some of the tweets. I noticed a lot of people already have hundreds of follows, is there a way to speed up this process, or do you have to follow everyone automatically? I must admit I’m a twitter newbie.
I submitted my site to some of the more reputable directories, but this is unlikely to have any immediate affect, just part of the long term plan. In any case a lot of people are saying link directories are dead now. But it can’t hurt anyway.
I’ve actually outsourced for someone to sign me up with accounts on the major social media sites, and post about my blog on them. 50 sites in all for $10 which seemed reasonable seeing as it would probably take me a day to do myself. That should be done by next week some time.
My next steps will be to get another, more personalised video done and get that out to as many video sites as possible. I was going to do it this week but I have a rotten cold and didn’t want to be blowing my nose all the way through it.
And finally I want to spend a day getting round as many fellow students blogs as possible, seeing what they are up to, commenting on their blogs and getting everyone on my blogroll.
So thats it! Hope you all have a wonderful holiday!
Carl.
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Hey Carl;
The voice of reason speaks – lol
You’re so right m8. I think one of AJ’s students is doing exactly that with traffic exchanges.
I’m also much more interested in long term traffic and am going to focus on building a blog with real value to reach out and attract visitors from all over the web.
Thanks for the ‘cheat sheet’ – really useful
Cheers,
Austin.
Hi Carl,
I liked that outsourcing thing.Submitting to 50 for 10 sounds like a smart deal. Mind sharing the source? Just send me a quick email.
Advance thanks.
Big Paul
http://www.bigpaultactics.com
Yep I was planning on sharing the source once I verified that they had done the work satisfactorily, didn’t want to recommend anyone until I had the results
Got an email from them saying it should be done in a couple of days so will let you know.
Carl.
Hi Carl
Merry Christmas from another one of alex’s students stopping by to say hi, also can you please add me to your student blog roll. I have you on mine.
Talk to you soon John.
Hey Carl
This is exactly how I feel and what we are doing. There are many ways to get a lot of fast traffic, but what’s the point if it’s not targeted traffic. We are building long term targeted traffic for the future.
I wish everyone success with the $1000 challenge.
JJ
Hi Carl,
Great looking blog so far. Your plan sounds reasonable and I like that you’re outsourcing some of your tasks. I love the cheat sheet on building links.
Let us know when you have your squidoo and hub pages done so we can visit.
Happy New Year,
Theresa
Hello Carl,
Here is a Christmas Present for you and all of Alex’s students
I just spent the last two days writing and mapping out how to get free traffic to your website or blog within days. I have actually showed Alex’s students and my friends one of the techniques I use to get over 1000 + unique visitors a day to my car audio site for the last 4 years. I also show how they can get listed on the first page of Google within days. These are proven tested white hat strategies. I hope you like the post.
Vince Craine
http://www.vincecraine.com/blog
Carl,
I really appreciate and like the information you’re providing. It’s invaluable! I’ve been looking into outsourcing myself and found a few companies on eLance.com. I think the starting rate is $2.00 per hour. For basic blog posting and backlinking.
At the moment, my site is sooo boring. I yawn when I look at my baby. But I’m sure with all the blogs from the students and others, I’ve come up with some ideas with what to do with my not-so-exciting template.
Keep in touch!
Nadeem Ahmad
affillions.com
PS. Yes, I’m a total supporter of the longterm approach. Buliding a solid foundation is important and I think you’ve got it right. I’ll be learning much from you in the next little while – so thanks in advance!
Hey Carl,
Yes, very wise words. I myself have been saying to my partner I feel the need to stand back from my business a bit and do some work “on” my business rather than just working “in” it.
I really like what you’re doing in regards to outsourcing, please do let us know how that goes as I know there are a lot of students here who would love to have the same service. Also thank you for the link to “Link Building 101″, very handy indeed
Happy Holidays!
Ann Marie Dennis
http://www.AnnMarieDennis.com
http://twitter.com/AnnMarieDennis
Hi Carl
Doing the New Year rounds,
I added your link to my blogroll
Looking forward to a great 2009 with Alex and the rest of the gang
Keep well & prosper
Jim & Des
Hi Carl,
Thanks for the cheat sheet you’ve posted on your blog. I would be more then happy to promote it on my blog via your link if I may.
Also, if you’re interested in finding out more about Twitter go onto Austin Delany’s blog http://nicheweapons.com/ and open up his 47 twitter tools link. Plus good ol’ Richard Moloney http://richardmoloneyblog.com/ might be able to help since he’s got nearly 800 followers on his Twitter account so ask him for some advice.
Hope this helps and keep up the good work and value on your blog.
regards
Guy
Hi Carl,
Great article!
I totally agree that getting traffic is a long term thing – the only way I can think of getting sudden bursts of traffic to be a contender in the competition is, as you say, to BUY it. And although it might have the desired short-term effect, it would have little long-term benefit.
Instead, I’ve set myself a personal “traffic challenge” to see how much I can increase my own traffic by over the next 7 days – and do it “legitimately”! (= doing it the hard way!)
And thanks for the chart, Carl! That should help keep me focused!
Keep up the great work!!
Chat soon
Joe
http://www.JoeTrueman.com
Hi Carl,
Like your site, particularly your sqeeze page. Have to get round to mine but not too sure of the techie stuff!
Have a some spare time today, so rig hopping other student sites and getting all on my friends/blgroll list. Have included you on mine, can you do likewise.?……….thanks
Regards
Colin
http://www.colinplatt.com
Hi Carl,
Good Blog, I am just getting round other students blogs. Thank for the reminder on Market Samurai. I am happy to include you in my blogroll perhaps you can add me to yours.
Regards,
Rodney
http://www.rodwarnock.com
Hi Carl,
Long term traffic is the way to go. It took some time for the heavy hitters to build there list.If you would like to view what I feel is one of the best videos on Twitter, you can visit my blog, just go to the tab Free Resouces and take a look. Mark Flavin is a friend of mine, and he is a expert on twitter.
I’m also doing some research on a program,that I saw on the warrior forum the other day, where I saw great reviews. I will let you know what I find out. Keep up the good work.
Michael Burton
http://www.greathomebasebusiness.com
Hi Carl,
Thanks for the “cheat Sheet”, it’ll definitely come in handy. Your blog looks great, too. I also agree that long term targeted traffic is important!
I’ll add you to my blogroll over the weekend.
Keep up the good work.
Lori James
http://www.everythinghomebiz.com
Oh, please let us know who you are using for outsourcing if it works out well, that would be sooo helpful, and save a lot of time!
Thanks again,
Lori
http://www.everythinghomebiz.com
Hi Lori,
Sorry i forgot to post this earlier. I used http://fildaddy.com/OutsourceBookmarking/ to do the bookmarking. It was completed within 2 days and all the linking seemed to be in order.
Carl.
Hi Carl,
Great looking blog you have here.
I must admit, when i looked at the name of your blog, i came here looking for presents
As for your twitter questions. Beth McDuffie posted a video on twitter which opened my eyes slightly.
Basically you can use the site called twellow.com and search for your market ( internet marketing ) is good. From the results, which are sorted from the people with the most followers, you can then follow them, view their profile AND then go through their followers list and follow people currently following them.
She also suggests to not follow more than 200-300 people per day as you do not want to trigger any flags.
As far as i know, this is about the quickest way to do this.
Cheers,
Colin
http://www.marketingwithcolin.com
Hi Colin,
Thanks for the tips on twitter, I will check that out.
Lol, it never even occured to me that I might sound like I’m offering presents. I guess I’ll have to put more freebies up so as not to disappoint
Cheers,
Carl.
Hi, I like very much the idea of outsourcing those 50 account signups for $10, how good a deal is that ?? Is it still working OK for you ? Are the links still working as you thought they were? It feels good to do all the work yourself, but some times it gets to the point where you just don’t have the time to get through all the things you have to do. Alex is a terrific motovator but there are still only 24 hours in a day. Of course, we could all go without sleep – something which I have done too many times lately, just to get through the workload I set myself. Please tell me it gets a bit easier!
Paull
Hi Carl, I am so sorry but when I commented on the 15th I neglected to change the url to http:// only. I really would appreciate your visiting my site to see my latest post as it concerns a poll about Alex. Thanks in anticipation.
Paull