Day 4 - Driving 1000's of Visitors To Your Blog!
Hello Visitors,
Their are dozens of ways you can be promoting your websites, these are the techniques I use and if you use them right you will jump straight from 0 to thousands of visitors a day.
Content Is King!
If you write great content, the traffic just comes! People will regularly visit your website looking for more great posts and other bigger sites will link to you. I use to try to write 5 blog posts a week and had a good following but found if I did two really good posts a week, spent two or three times the amount effort and time into making sure the post would make their jaws drop, then my following would be incredible. Think about it this way, you create a blog post called "7 Ways To Get More Traffic", sounds alright and you would probably check it out. But now imagine you created a post called "7 Traffic Secrets That Made me 6 Figures Last Year on Autopilot", you would be getting linked to all over the place, the difference in the two titles is that one is used daily and one isn't. You have to provide something new and make sure it's 10x better than anything else people are providing. This may sound really hard but it isn't, instead of just offering a post about how to become a pro poker player, you could also include a list of top earning poker players, poker tricks and how to shuffle cards like a pro. The big thing is just keep offering more value, time after time!
How To Get 1000's of Twitter Followers and Visitors To Your Blogs
Twitter in the last month has been a result of around $4000 of income to my blog and I just can't get enough of it! It sends so much traffic and allows me to dominate any niche over night! I see my Twitter followers as my open source mailing list, the really important people who love my work and buy my products and it's the same for everyone. What I did to get over 30,000 followers on my Retireat21 Twitter account is went to the biggest guy in my niche which is Problogger and every day add his most recent 1000 followers, they will then come to my profile, check out my website and see what great content I offer and then they don't just follow me but also become regular readers of my website! I typically see on average half of the people I follow on twitter check out my website. So over night you can start driving 500+ people to your site every day that are really targeted and interested in your niche! What I have also noticed is these type of visitors are the best, they stay on my website for 3 minutes longer than people do when they come from Google and 9 minutes longer than Stumbleupon!
I am going to share with you the number one way to automatically add 1000's of people a day, so that you can drive insane traffic from Twitter to your blog just like me. It's a service called TweetAdder which will basically add people on Twitter for you and when they go to your profile to follow you back, most of the time they will click your website URL and then follow up by clicking your links in your Tweets. Just to show you how powerful this is, my friend owns a new clothing website and I added his first 2000 people for him while we went out for lunch, when he came back he already had a few sales! If that's not enough, I personally have made $xx,xxx from the traffic Twitter has sent to my blog and know 100's of other people doing this.The software is real simple to use, to find out more about it, check out TweetAdder.com!
Creative Content and Link Bait
Creative content and link baiting has sent me 100,000s of visitors to my website, gave me number 1 Google Rankings, features in top newspapers, Yahoo News, AOL and some of largest websites in the world. More money means more traffic, PERIOD!
Creating link bait is really easy, in fact I will share with you just how powerful it is and why I use it! Being dyslexic I struggle to write great content, the benefit of doing creative content is that it's basically lists of interesting things such as "Top 30 Earning Website's" and "Top 30 Earning Internet Entrepreneurs". The benefit of this type of content is its really interesting, everyone loves to see some thing inspirational and everything in one place. The best thing is that it's all research, you don't have to write anything and my top tip is you can outsource it! On IncomeDiary.com we do two top lists a week and on those days we bring in 5x more traffic!
Another name for this is Buzz Marketing where you create a buzz about your website or product and drive huge amounts of visitors to your website. My dad and his business partner Dean Hunt have created a great membership website teaching everything about how to create a buzz and drive huge amounts of traffic to your website.
Search Engine Optimization
Work with the search engines in mind, every time you create a blog post make sure you call your blog post something that people will be searching for in Google, for example don't write a post called "I just got scammed" but instead have "Steve Jone's eBook a Scam or Not?".
I am nowhere near an expert at SEO but I do rank very highly and even number 1 for crazy competitive search terms in my niche, such as: Young Entrepreneurs, Young Entrepreneur, Website Ideas, Top Entrepreneurs and I even rank on the front page of nearly 100 entrepreneurs names such as the founder of Wordpress, CEO of Zappos and Sean Belnick the 22 year old making $50 million + a year selling business chairs online. The point I am trying to make is SEO is still important, remember to include keywords and have good URL's and the search engines will reward you.
A lot of the time you find it's a bit of everything in this email that results to driving a lot of traffic, I rank number 1 for some search terms because of creative content which then went and got featured on 1000s of others websites.
If you want to know more about SEO for blogs then check out this great post by Darren Rowse.
Be The Authority
Their are 1000's of blogging websites and people trying to teach you how to make money online but you landed on mine and took action! This is because I made myself look like I am a guy you have to be listening to and following. Don't ever settle to be as good as your competitors, you need to be working every day on something to get one over on them, show them how its done now ;-)
A few things that are really important:
Be personal! Make sure to include a picture of yourself on your sidebar, paste your name every where on your blog and let everyone know you're going big! Look at the difference between John Chow and SlyVisions, the difference is they both have equally rubbish content, the only difference is John has 100,000's of visitors coming to his blog making him over $40,000 a month! This is because John has made himself look aspirational and is showing off how he makes money while he sleeps, it's all about how you make yourself look.
Great blog design and branding
In the Day 2 email I spoke about blog themes, It is so important for your brand that you have a good theme. So often I see great content on rubbish designed websites, what's worse is they aren't prepared to invest $80 in themselves. If you haven't already got your Wootheme, order it now!
Inspire People With Your Story
Everyone has a story, but most don't use it. Make sure to tell people why you are important, what's happened to you to make this website. Every day I see a new weight loss blog created but the difference between the successful ones and the failures is the successful ones are personal, they include progress reports, pictures of themselves before and after. They inspire people, make it so anyone can have the same success as they did. Look at me, I am dyslexic, a high school drop out and really lazy yet I work 1 hour a day and earn 6 figures a year online, surely If I can do it, you can to? See.... ;-)
Finishing Touches
A huge part of my traffic comes from all the small things I did at the beginning such as starting a mail list, RSS feed, link exchanges etc.
I spoke about how important my mailing list and RSS feed are to me in the day 2 email. So many people will come to your website and never come back because they don't have anyone to remind them. That's why RSS and mailing lists were invented, so they could be! Make sure you get everyone on your list and prompt them often to come back. They won't mind as long as you provide them with value! I actually get people emailing me saying "Michael, its been a few days, where's my newsletter!" - crazy but it's true, people actually look forward to your emails, like you probably have been waiting for this one.
You have a blogroll, use it! Go to your favourite 10 bloggers and offer to exchange links, its not huge traffic but its great for branding and finding new readers. The other thing I recommend is blog commenting, I am not a huge fan of it but it can drive you a lot of traffic. Go out and comment on all your favourite blogs every day and other readers will click your link, they will also see you featured on the right hand side of the website as you could well be a top commenter!
I even still get traffic to my website because when I started I got myself some business cards, as I was about to order, I noticed I could have magnetic cards, so people could stick them to their fridges. Later that month I went to a seminar, 3 years later and people still have my card up and reading my website. Actually it can be a pain in the butt because they still are ringing me up ha..
If you are wondering where I get my business cards from, try VistaPrint!
Yan who writes for my other website has done a great post sharing all the top tips for creating a great blog, well worth checking out!
Tomorrow will be a big day, so make sure you have everything ready and I will share my secrets with you ;-)
To our success in 2010,
Michael Dunlop
PS. If you need any help with anything mentioned in the eCourse then check out our NEW support forums!
PPS. Remember to check out Barry & Dean's Buzz Marketing Course to learn how they have had over 250,000 visitors in 10 days!
PPPS. I know their are dozens of other techniques all the guru's have told you about, I don't use them for a reason, they don't convert. What's the point of having a visitor stay on your site for 9 seconds?!
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