Traffic And Leads

Now you’ve created your blog and need to do the next step which is drive traffic! Weather you have a list or not you always need to keep driving traffic and leads to your blog in order for you to make any sales. I have 8 free great steps that you should be doing everyday in order of generating targeted traffic to your blog.

These steps are still used by even the top gurus of the internet marketing industry, the only difference between you and then is that they have teams of people doing this for them on a daily basis. Now, you do have the advantage of receiving the same treatment by hiring a Virtual Assistant. Your Virtual Assistant will get your articles written and posted to all the article directories, write your reports, handle your social networking and almost any task that is need to support your online business.

Since traffic and leads are a vital component to your business be careful of wasting to much time with this task for it will consume a great deal of it.

8 Proven Free Steps For Driving Targeted Traffic And Leads:
Post To Your Blog Everyday
You want to post a new keyword targeted article 3-5 times a week to your blog. When I say keyword it must me mentioned in the title of the article, twice in the body, in a link at the end of the article and the first words in your tag.

Article Marketing
Write 3 – 5 articles that are related to the topic of your website. You want to include a brief bio and link to your website at the end of the article. Submit each of these articles to as many article directories as you can. You can do a search in Google for article directories.

Forum Marketing
Find the top 3 – 5 forums in your niche and join each of them. PLEASE DO NOT SPAM. You do however want to set up a profile (and signature, if allowed) and post an introduction. Get involved in each of these forums by posting at least one thread or response each day. This will assist you in gaining exposure in your target market, making people naturally interested in your related website.

Viral Marketing
You want to write a report that would be of great interest to your target market, and sell it cheap. Include a bio and information about your site within the report (briefly in the Introduction, and fully in the About The Author section at the end). You will can offer 100% commission to affiliates, this will allow all of your competitors to send trageted traffic to your website for you.

Social Networking
Set up profiles at popular social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. You want to network with people in your niche and get established on these sites customizing your profile. It is very easy to grow your network with people who are interested in what you offer. You also want to make sure that you use video networking sites as well like YouTube, DailyMotion, Metacafe, etc. Make sure when using video to link it back to your site.

Search Engine Optimization
Learn all that you can about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and take the necessary steps to optimize each of your web pages. It is not complicated or impossible, but there is a lot of mis-information out there about search engines. There are a few sites that will assist you with SEO and you can also use your Virtual Assistant with this project as well.

Point Links To Your Blog
You want a variety of links pointing to your blog, not only to your main page but also to internal pages of your site as well. Submit your new site to appropriate directories, and get it listed on niche resource pages.

Funneling Traffic From Other Sites
Consider ways that you can funnel traffic from popular websites such as: craigslist, wikipedia, ebay, youtube, etc. These websites are very popular, very established and bursting at the seems with constant live visitors. Think of ways that you can add something of value, without being an obnoxious marketer or spamming to lure some of their visitors to your website.

Once you’ve complete all 8 steps, go back and do it again and again. Consistently marketing your site in a variety of ways is the main key to gaining exposure and getting a consistent flow of traffic and leads to your site.

RSS feed | Trackback URI

Comments »