Social Media – How To Get Free Traffic?

You read and hear it every day out there. The biggest challenge is to get the right traffic to your blog.

Traffic is very important to reach your targeted audience and address your message.

There is one, of several, easy ways to reach your targeted audience at no cost.

When you write a blog post and publish it you can go to your Share This Post button (like this one below)  and share this post with these 58 social sites. If you are not registered yet, then you need to register with them first.

58 sites look’s like a big time investment. Maybe, depends on the goals you want to achieve with your blog.

You only need to register with them once! You safe your login data with Firefox and you keep logged in.

When you submit your most recent post it should go very quick.

Imagine the long term power of this strategy! When you only submit one post to 58 sites per week, you can achieve 2784 back links in one year.

Can you imagine the traffic which results from this strategy on the long term?

To discover the cash value of this strategy go to Google AdWords and search for PPC prices for your most targeted keywords of your topic.

Now imagine your average click price is $0.50 per click, if you decide to do AdWords marketing to attract visitors.

Let’s do the math:

You have 2784 back links and let’s say you get one click from each per month which visits your blog.

2784 x $0.50 = $1,392

Yes, you get a value on clicks of $1,392. That’s what you safe, every month!

Targeted high value traffic completely FREE!

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5 Google Tools For Researching Your Market

By Pete Moore (c) 2009

Internet marketers and webmasters have always had a love/ hate relationship with Google. Whatever you think of them they do provide website owners with some great market research tools.

No matter what market you are in or plan to be in, you will find these free tools provided by Google very useful when researching your market. You should be researching your market constantly, NOT just when setting up your site. The internet is ever changing and, if you’re not keeping up with those changes, you will be left behind.

Market Research Tool 1 – Related Searches And Wonder Wheel

When you start typing in the main Google search box you should see a drop down box appear giving you some alternative search terms related to the word you typed. Note these phrases down in a notepad file or write them on a piece of paper. They will be useful as part of your keyword list used in the next tool. You will also see more related search phrases after you click search. Scroll to the bottom of the results page and you will see “searches related to:” Note down any new phrases shown there.

Recently Google has released Wonder Wheel which is also a related keywords tool but is shown in a mind map format. You can also click on the related phrases to find more useful search terms. To access wonder wheel: enter your keyword in the standard search screen, then at the top of the results on the left you should see a show options link. Select that and it will reveal a menu. Near the bottom of the menu you should see wonder wheel.

Market Research Tool 2 – Adwords Keyword Tool

We all know how important keywords and search phrases are. Let’s face it, it’s what drives the internet. Google has provided us with a tool that tells you what keywords and phrases people are using to find what they are looking for. You are able to search an individual country, more than one if you hold down the ctrl key on your keyboard as you select, or all countries.

The adwords tool is now more valuable due to the fact it shows actual search numbers. Previously you only had a green bar to indicate how much traffic the search term received. You can also see how competitive each keyword is amongst adword advertisers, showing us which keywords are commercially viable.

Market Research Tool 3 – Google Trends

Now that you have an idea what keywords your market is using you can use the trends tool to check the history of that keyword / phrase. Google Trends supplies data for the last 5 years, giving you an idea if the search term is consistent. You can also see if the search term is popular at certain times of the year, also known as a seasonal keywords.

Another important function of Trends is the section that tells you the popularity of a keyword by country, city and language – very useful if you are targeting particular countries or even cities.

Market Research Tool 4 – Google Alerts

Alerts is underused by webmasters. If you want to stay in touch with what’s hot in your market, you can by using Google Alerts. All you have to do is enter the most popular phrases in your market. Google will then send you links via email depending on what type you select.
Forget Expensive PPC Advertising – There is an Alternative!

The types are news, web, blogs, video and groups. If you would like a mix of all, you can select comprehensive. You can decide how often you want to be updated by selecting either: as it happens, once a day or once a week. I hope you can see how powerful this is if you want to be seen as an authority in your market.

Market Research Tool 5 – Google Web Search

Finally, we have Google’s standard web search which is not standard in my eyes. It provides a lot of information if you know what to look for. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an important part of running a website. By performing a search of your market keywords, Google will tell you what type of content it sees as important.

If you see videos, blogs or images this gives you another way to reach the top 10 of Google. If you see Web 2.0 style sites such as Digg, that could be another avenue. If there are adword ads on the right side of the screen, that tells you the market is commercially viable and more importantly that the keyword you entered is good enough to pay for, especially if there are 10 ads or more.

As you can see, even if you don’t have money to buy the latest tools, I have shown you there is a way to get some very important information using free tools from Google. Are you starting to love them now?

Thanks for reading.

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Why And How To Setup A Lead Generation Process

Leads are the lifeblood of any business! With a steady stream of qualified and targeted leads you can build your business and without them you have NO business!

They are companies out there who offer services to you to generate leads for you and take up to $100 per lead. I think this is a lot and you should do this by your own.

When you do your own lead capture including a bonus product like a whitepaper you can do this in a more affordable way and you can set and monitor the quality level of your generated leads by your self. Here you can find more info about whitepapers.

Some businesses out there do the lead generation only when they run out on leads. This can result in more pressure to the sales force to convert these leads into sales. It results also in more pressure given to the potential client and can damage your credibility and your business. This is not the way!

Forward thinking businesses have set up a lead generation and made it an ongoing process. This gives them the advantage to track and follow up their leads without any pressure. These companies know that leads are important and a lead which is in the list can become a profitable client.

When you build your sales funnel and generate a steady stream of fresh interested leads you will convert a good percentage of them during the time.

Here are some great tips on how to setup your ongoing hands free lead generation:

1. Define your targeted clients.
2. Research which websites and topics they are interested in.
3. Build a goal sheet of the leads and conversion you are expecting to achieve.
4. Write a whitepaper; include valuable information for your clients, to give it away to the interested leads.
5. Register with Aweber.com and setup an auto responder with follow up messages. The first one can include the whitepaper as a PDF and a thank you message with your contact details.
6. Build a lead capture page, a so said Squeeze Page. Here you can read more about squeeze pages.  A squeeze page is very easy to produce!
7. Include an Awber.com form into your squeeze page. You need to capture First Name, Last Name and Email Address. If necessary you can request the phone number and more info as well within this form.
8. Go to Google AdWords and setup a CPM campaign, choose the websites which target your potential clients and take those who are 100k and more.
9. Write a minimum of four ads and place them into your campaign.
10. Set your daily budget.
11. Monitor your campaign and delete all those websites which have a conversion of less than 0,10% click with 1000 visits. Record all sites, visits, click conversion and spending you have deleted. Do this every Day.
12. Also monitor the perfomance of your ads. Take out the ads which do not perform.

Some places to setup further campaigns:

• Adbrite.com
• Business.com
• Allbusiness.com
• Facebook.com

When you setup further campaigns you should also name your squeeze pages to give you the ability to track the conversion which every ad network delivers.

For example:  http://www.yourdomain.com/lead_google.htm or http://www.yourdomain.com/lead_adbrite.htm

I think you’ve got the picture.

AWeber tracks the source of your leads. You can see who the sources are and how they perform.  During the time you can analyze which ad network suits your needs best.

Now when you have setup your lead generation process, you can expect a steady stream of interested leads which you can convert to profitable customers.

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How To Choose The Right Ad Network To Monetize Your Blog?

Which network works best for me? Which one has the best payout? Etc.

First of all let us summarize some of the actually existing content monetizing opportunities.

Here are some:

1. Google Adsense
2. NetPartner
3. ProjectWonderful
4. Bidvertiser
5. LinkWorth
6. Chitika
7. WidgetBucks
8. Adgitize

What are the quality criteria for you to choose the right network? Is it the payout percentage, or the minimum payout, or the advertiser potential, the payment processor, etc.?

Simple answer: You need to check it out by your own!

Yes, Google is always a good bet, that’s true. But does it also work for you as well? What happen with the other networks from the list above? They have publishers and they have advertisers. So do you think that Google is the One And Only?

Do not measure minimum payout or advertiser base. These are important points to be taken into account, but are not the only things you have to take care of.

You have to take care of your niche and your subscriber base also!

The best way to find your own personal networks which suit your needs, is to test drive them.

Also we will not forget the actual existing Blog Ad Networks, which are specialized to help bloggers to monetize their content! These Blog Ad netwoks attract interested advertisers who exactly want to do adverting within a blog, for paid reviews, text links, etc.

Blog Ad Networks

You need to test drive them to learn which one is good for your blog, for your niche. Maybe you come to the conclusion to use more than one.

Good, why not!

Try and see what will happen.

BlogAdMonkey.com will bring some more thrill into this market through several unusual benefits for bloggers which the above networks do not offer actually. Subscribe to my RSS feed to stay updated when the public beta begins.

When you do your test you should measure and record your results. This sets you later in a position to make your decision on a more fundamental base.

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Part Eight Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

Welcome to the last part of my series Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing.

Today I will show you way how you can inform search engines like Yahoo, Google and Ask.com about the news you have blogged about, without lifting a finger.

Do you know Google Webmaster Tools? Do you know what a XML sitemap is?

Ok, here we go. The Sitemaps protocol allows you to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.
A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for your site or blog. It allows you to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site or blog.

This allows search engines to crawl the site or blog more intelligently. And that’s the most important point. It allows search engines to crawl YOUR blog, YOUR posts and YOUR comments more intelligently!

Imagine distributing your news seamlessly to SEs like Yahoo, Google and Ask.com. This saves you a lot of time and could result in a massive return of qualified traffic of people which are interested in your topic!

Yes I know what you think! How can I do this without lifting a finger???

There is a very easy way to do this when you use a WordPress blog. You can simply install the WordPress ‘Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress’ Plugin to let do it for you, automatically!

Here you can find the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

Simply install and configure it and you are done!

Here you can find all previous posts:
Part One Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Two Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Three Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Four Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Five Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Six Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing
Part Seven Of 8 Powerful Ways For Your Inbound Marketing

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