Traffic
Finding New Traffic & Readers – Traffic Methods Ranked In Order of Effectiveness
The subject of getting traffic to a website is a BIG topic. It has a lot of moving parts and some things work better for some than for others. There is no single effective method to build traffic. If there were, everybody would be doing it.
It is true, however, that some things tend to be more effective than others. My personal experience in this business has shown this. And I’ve seen new bloggers over-emphasize certain things and they end up wasting time.
So, I’ve devised a chart to rank certain popular traffic generation methods in terms of effectiveness, scaled from 0 to 10. 0 means it is mostly a waste of time, and 10 means it works insanely well.
Getting Leads And Conversions: A Blog Review of DavidRisley.com from Derek Halpern
One of the many things I do for members inside the Inner Circle is review their blog. When I do these reviews, I almost always do it on video. I’m looking at things like design, list building effectiveness, and conversion. I also evaluate the structure of the content, navigation pages, etc.
Rarely is the direction of that blog review reversed. And, like everybody else, I also value an expert third-party perspective.
Derek Halpern seems like he’s come out of virtually nowhere in our niche, from “who’s that?” to a guy a lot of us are paying attention to. He’s actually not a newcomer to this stuff at all. He has a lot of experience when it comes to building traffic and converting traffic into leads.
23 Tips To Using Social Media To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
So, I knew I needed to write a blog post. I was so busy that I didn’t have any time to prepare anything in advance. So, what did I do?
I went to my social media accounts and asked. The very first suggestion that came in (quick reply) was from @CavemanHomeComp who suggested – suprise! – the very post that I’m writing right now.
So, I’m going to put together a lightning-round of tips for how I think bloggers should use social media to promote their blog. And, at the end, I’d like you to chime in with a comment and let me know what tips I forgot to include that have worked for you.
First, a word of note…
Remember, Blogging Is A People Business
People make things too complicated.
I see it all the time in the world of blogging. A lot of bloggers out there trying to build up traffic, get recognition and make some money. They read blogs about blogging, which are (hopefully) written by people who have actually done that. Too often, however, I find that they get mired down in minutia.
Perhaps you know the type of minutia I’m referring to. Stuff like:
- “I’m going to keep tinkering with this theme until it is just right.”
- “I’ll launch my blog in 3 months, when I’ve got everything perfect.”
- “What little tid-bits of secret tactics are those successful bloggers doing that I’m not?”
- “I wonder if I have my meta tags right.”
The list goes on.
The Simple Ingredient Which Creates Die-Hard Fans Of Your Blog
As I’ve talked about before, I am in the midst of a re-making over on PCMech.com. I am putting the finishing touches on the new design, and I’m laying the groundwork for a re-making in how we talk about technology. All this is designed to make PCMech an interesting destination in a very crowded niche.
It is an interesting issue, and one that I think many bloggers deal with. PCMech is in a very saturated niche – tech. There are LOTS of tech blogs out there, and all of them are acting like little “me too” reporters. They talk about the same things incessantly. To a degree, that goes with the territory. After all, when you have that many sites talking about the same topics, there’s bound to be lots of overlap.
So, from a strategic perspective, I’m faced with a task of making PCMech relevant again in a niche where it is all too easy to merely blend in.
How To “Top Kill” The Big Leaks In Your Blog (Better Than BP Could)
The truth is, most people’s blogs leak worse than the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf. You’re not leaking oil (obviously), but what you’re leaking is attention units.
The biggest commodity online today is ATTENTION. So, if we break it down into a measurable pseudo-quantity we’ll just call “attention units”, we can then look at our blogs from that perspective.
Our blogs are supposed to be magnets for attention units. And once attention units are being flowed at the blog, the blog should funnel them efficiently. Not bounce them off or waste them. If you’re leaking attention units, it is a waste.
So, our goal is to attract as many attention units as we can, and KEEP them once we’ve got them. In this post, I’m going to look specifically at the leak points and how to plug them. We’re going to “top kill” the hell out of those leaks, and we’re going to put BP to shame in the process (which wouldn’t be very hard, given the circumstances).
Super-Easy Tactic For Increasing Reader Anticipation
One of the things we all want is for our readers to come back to your blog. This is why we like getting visitors onto our lists, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe by RSS.
However, there is another super-easy tactic you can use to increase anticipation: Showing them what’s coming before it is published.
With that in mind, here is some code you can copy/paste into your blog theme in order to easily list out scheduled posts.
Bloggers, Are You Building Your Assets?
One of the things I constantly preach is the importance of treating your blogging like a business. That is, if you actually want to make a business-level income from it.
That means thinking strategically about what you’re doing and how you’re developing.
In everything that you do, you should be thinking about how it is increasing your leverage and increasing your assets. Increasing your assets results in increased leverage.
So, what do I mean by assets?
Start Building An “Authority Blog” Before It’s Too Late
This is a guest post by Andrew Hansen.
I recently started a new “passion project” – a blog in the travel niche.
Like most projects, profit oriented or not, entering a new niche teaches many an interesting lesson.
Top Secret: All You Need To Know For Lots of Blog Traffic
People always want to know how to get more traffic to their blog. They’re looking for secrets. Hidden nuggets of knowledge that will unleash hoards of traffic without doing anything all that new.
So, I’m going to share the secret formula. The secret sauce. This is everything you really need to know. And it is…
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