Your Online Making Money Guide

Avoid the mistakes that most marketers make when it comes to traffic…….. concentrate on DOING what they fail to do!

The first steps to creating a free traffic generating system, are 1: committment, and 2: tracking….I will explain..

Assuming that you have  a domain, niche, and your carefully chosen keywords that you are targeting……. you must commit  to this task, and ONLY this task. This takes some w-o-r-k, but will pay back handsomely for a very long time.

By ‘task’ I am referring to setting up a list of things to do each and every day to start driving traffic to your site.

As an example:

Monday: write an article about one keyword, at least 400 words, and submit it to 5  article directories. slightly alter each of the 5 articles. once they are published, copy the url to the article,then  tweet (using twitter,facebook,etc.) and ping (pingler.com) the url once per week. Create a Squidoo lens about your niche (being careful to follow their tos) linking back to your article, and website.

Tuesday: Compose a press release about one of your niche keywords with links to your article url and website. submit this to Free press release.com. copy the url of the press release when published to later tweet and ping. If your website does not have a blog…start one, either on your site or a free site such as blogger or wordpress. I suggest your own hosted wordpress blog with your top keyword in the url. Post useful, relevant information at least two to three times a week. and of course, tweet and ping the posts…..almost forgot to mention, put a link to your article within the post.

wednesday:  Create a free Hubpage around one of your keywords…..very much the same as the Squidoo lens.

I am going to stop here, because you should be getting the point about committment. You cannot write ONE article, submit it and then do NOTHING for weeks while expecting droves of visitors……wont happen. setv a continuing schedule that you feel comfortable with and keep at it. Do not stop creating content, articles,releases,free web 2.0 pages, and interlink them to your website. ping the urls of all….I call this ‘promoting the promoters’.

This is not pushbutton, or a traffic explosion at the drop of a dime, BUT something even better! This will get you started ranking in the organic (free) search results for at first, some obscure long tail keywords, and then over time, more and more higher ranked keywords, untill you start seeing your site on page one for a bunch of different keywords, some of which will even be highly competitive ones.

On to part two…tracking

I know that everyone has knowledge of tracking clicks, sales and such, but your tracking needs to start at the very beginning with traffic generation. When you know where your traffic is coming from, ie press release, hub page, article, etc…..you can then follow through to finding what traffic sources are bringing the most visitors, the most sales, spending the most time on your site, demographics and much much more.

There are some very good tools to accomplish this….one free one that I like to use is Statcounter.com

easy to set up and use…..a very useful cache of information.

Do the things that most people fail at, and you are on your way!

Here is a FREE software program that you can use to quickly and easily submit articles, press releases, videos and more!         Free Software

much more to come….this is just scratching the surface!

Tags: Article Url, Blogger, Committment, Concentrate, Content Articles, Droves, First Steps, Free Press Release, Free Traffic, Free Web, Generating System, Long Time, Marketers, Niche, Squidoo Lens, Three Times, Top Keyword, Tos, Traffic To Your Site, Tweet

I am devoting a series of posts on traffic generation at the request of many subscribers…….mainly free traffic.

I don’t consider myself to be any traffic guru…. far from it, however, I do find it easy to rank high for many very competitive keywords. The truth is, ANYONE can do this as well.

There are certain components that need to be in place to accomplish this……
Aside from your carefully chosen domain name and hosting, you will need to concentrate on your on-page seo, fresh, relevent content, and to get to the top of page one…..Backlinks.

The main problem, as I see it, is that the focus of the product pushers is “get to page one now” …meaning that you can have a new site to the top of the search rankings in just a day or two. This just is not feasable…maybe you can put a site there for a short burst, however it will not stay long at all. The purpose of doing the work to get your page ranked highly, is to KEEP it there for the long term. This is easy to do at a slower pace by first targeting the lesser searched relevent keywords and phrases, and slowly working your way up to top rankings for the most competitive relevent search terms.

And NO, I’m not talking years here……..you can see results in as little as one to two months!……Remember, we are building a BUSINESS that will be around for a very long time.

Tags: Burst, Domain Name, Focus, Free Traffic, Keywords, Long Time, Phrases, Relevent Content, Search Rankings, Search Terms, Slower Pace, Subscribers, Traffic Generation, Traffic Guru, Truth

Are you on a mailing list?
One from a famous Guru?……. your in the trap!

Have you wondered why every new product that you are being bombarded with, that promises riches with almost no input from you………with secret software………..costs only…….$37 ?

That is because after careful study and testing, $37 is the best converting price as a front end, which, once you click the pay button, leads you into the gauntlet of must have upsells, and of course down sells if you decline the first upsell……. then of course, if you bite on the downsell #1 you are then taken to the upsell #2…… and so on.

This is the format, or funnel of every major product launch as of lately, because it works to release the grip of thousands of unsuspecting people ‘s money….. oh, and I should add that most of these products don’t work as promised, and even worse, they are giving you nothing more than is already available out there for free.

I’m on this little rant of mine because I’m sick of the lack of moral standards that the online marketing industry has slipped to. I am talking about blatant lies that the industry refers to as “creating urgency”.
Ever see a product advertised with “only 197 units will be sold”?….Bullshit!

How about “this will only be available for the next 17 people who act now”?….ditto

creating urgency is one thing….bold faced lies are quite another.

My best advice for 2011……..
stop buying this $37 crap, and the false promises…… learn the basics, get a website, start building a list, and for crying out loud, try to give people some value and worth……..actually help someone instead of bleeding them of their last nickel. The world, and the industry would be a much better place.

Tags: Bullshit, Careful Study, Crap, Ditto, False Promises, Gauntlet, Guru, Leads, Make Money, Marketing Industry, Money Trap, Moral Standards, Nickel, Online Marketing, People, Product Launch, Rant, Secret Software, Upsell, Urgency

The internet has evolved, changed. Our world of marketing online is constantly changing…..or is it?

Let’s break this down…….
Traffic methods, strategies, what works vs what used to work…..Google slaps, super secret, magic software.

Here’s the bottom line as I see it……….nothing has changed.

The trend as of recently is to launch product after product with massive hype, unrealistic claims and outright false, misleading advertising…..not much different than the snake oil salesmen of long ago. We are being fed more and more re-hashed material placed in a shiny new wrapper with a different name.

This is not to say that there isn’t some good content out there, only it is the SAME content freely available almost everywhere online. What is lacking is details on where to look, know what your looking for, and what to do with it when you find it.

I am going to spend a lot of time covering this in the coming weeks and months, right here on this site.

For today here is my brief summary of observations and research of the last year.

1. there’s NO magic button/software, whatever. stop looking for it, it does not exist. stop buying new software and programs that promise the moon….they don’t deliver.

2. traffic works the same way….. fresh,relevant content, carefully targeted keywords, on page seo, and quality, relevant backlinks……takes too much time?…out source it. this business DOES require work.

3. Get your own domain, hosting account and responder if you haven’t done this yet. Start collecting contact information and build a list of business partners, NOT customers……there is a difference.

4. pay attention to the world of marketing around you. You don’t need a monthly software subscription to see how money is being made, It is happening all around you and TO you.

Tags: Backlinks, Bottom Line, Brief Summary, Business Partners, Button Software, Google, Magic Button, Magic Software, Marketing, Massive Hype, Misleading Advertising, Moon, New Software, Relevant Content, SEO, Snake Oil Salesmen, Software Subscription, Time Out, Unrealistic Claims, Year 1

You know this guy?……..

If you do not know who Jeff Johnson is, then you had better take a look at this free video.

He is one of the top………no, make that THE top free traffic experts around!

Anyway, he is spilling the beans with some free videos and content that you DO NOT want to miss out on. He will be giving away a TON of information on 11 sources of unstoppable (free) traffic.

Hit the link below, and be prepared to take your business to the moon!

Jeff Johnson 11 sources of unstoppable traffic

Tags: Free Traffic, Jeff Johnson, Moon, Spilling The Beans, Traffic Experts