8 Tips To Get FREE Traffic For New Website

In the last days I was on some forums for entrepreneurs and I discovered a repeating question: How can I drive traffic to my new business and website?

When the website link was included in the forum post I visited the said website and went through to see how it looks like, does it has a blog, Meta Tags, Keywords, etc. Some of them had no blog; some had no Meta Tags or Keywords of great advantage. Some had a hosted blog, mostly from Blogger.

What I can say is that if you like to drive traffic to you website you need to give the people a good reason to visit your website. Furthermore it can be helpful to be found where your targeted market and user base is around.

I have put together some points which you can do for free.

1. Have a self hosted blog. I recommend WordPress. It’s easy to use and free. Get yours here http://wordpress.org/
2. Pick a great WordPress theme, also for free. Here you can find thousands of themes: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
3. Install a tweet Plugin into your WordPress blog, so Twitter users can tweet your posts.
4. Connect your blog with Twitter. There for you can get various Plugin for WordPress also for free. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
5. Choose your Keywords and Mate tags. Use Keyword phrases of three to four words, you can check popular Keyword phrases here https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Write a short and easy remind able description, include your phrases as well.
6. Connect your twitter with your facebook. The posts which you publish in your WordPress blog will be pinged to twitter and twitter pings them to facebook.
7. Build and engage your twitter followers and your facebook friends. Step into 2way communication. Don’t just broadcast!
8. Post remarkable content frequently. Start with 2-3 post per week and increase the number step by step. Write about the things which your audience is interested in.

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Traffic Through Facebook, Paid?

For a blogger who start out with their blogging career it can be a good option to think about to setup a campaign on facebook.

I know it is not free to advertise on facebook but it can be a good and helpful opportunity to generate traffic to your blog to initially make it a little more popular.

The various segmentation options in facebook can help you to laser target your potential niche very successful and you do not need to bid the highest amount per click.

When you are actually thinking about to start blogging you should consider to setup a Godaddy account. Why? Not only to self host your blog (maybe free WordPress) hence to cash in possible $50 Google AdWords Coupon and a $50 Facebook Coupon, equals in $100 of FREE traffic.

When you set your daily budget right, maybe $5 per day and set your PPC price in a good level, about $0.50 – $0.65 than you can get up to 153 visitors, for free. Not bad for the beginning!?

Take care to activate the coupons only if you have finished setup your blog and have some articles included. I suggest having about a minimum of twenty articles before start to advertise.

Furthermore you could produce a ‘Best Of’’ three to six pages PDF, of your already written content and give it away for free.
It’s on you if you like to capture leads on this or if you put it online for free download.

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How To Destroy Your Credibility

When I get followers from Twitter, new friends from Facebook and connections from LinkedIn than sometimes there are profiles with no picture or with a stock photo from a model for example.

When I get this invitations and contacts I ask myself why these folks do not show their own picture.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean company logos. I only mean people who do not show their original photo.

I personally do not add requests without a photo or with an obviously faked photos.

I have one example: Before a couple of weeks I have commented on a discussion on LinkedIn where the person has offered financial services.

I think you agree with me that financial services are trust sensitive. The person had no photo with their profile. I have recommended to this person to add his photo.

The next day I got a message where he wrote to me that they will discuss internally to do this.

I was curious and went to the profile one day later to see if he has added a photo. And guess what, he didn’t.

I asked myself, what’s the reason to discuss to add a photo or not to a LinkedIn profile ? Further I asked myself how they want to build trust without to be authentic, means when they did not show who they are.

Would you do financial transaction with them?

I wouldn’t!

Social networking is also to build credibility and trust. And with faked or no personal photo the opposite of this can be achieved.

In these times where everybody has become visible online it is important to live your live every day online like your mother is watching, probably she is.

When engaging in social media there is a huge opportunity to get great connections but only if you are authentic, means show that you are yourself, and you will attract friends and connections which like you and the things  you are doing.

To predict to be something other will not help to achieve any social media goals! This only will destroy trust and credibility!

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Use Google Buzz NOW And Promote Your Content!

These days thousands of discussions appear online about the use of Google Buzz for marketing purposes.

I have included Google Buzz on my page the same day it was made public and I use Google Buzz to include my content like tweets, Flickr photos and video for now. We will see which features will be added in the near future which open further opportunities to spread your content through the web.

For me it looks like that this, what we actually see is only the top of the ice berg and the 70% is still under water and not visible at the moment.

Google’s interest in social media will drive the development and evolution of Google Buzz. There is doubt!

An important fact is the inclusion of social status updates into Google search results and their launch of social search and not forget to mention the Google Buzz on phone which can help to get better found online and mobile. All Gmail accounts have been updated automatically and all android phones as well.

Nobody should underestimate Google’s desire to position in social media. Social media means high quality user data for marketing and this means a lot of revenue potential.

I think this is one key point which drives the future of Google Buzz and also empowers your benefit to position you self, your products and your services where our potential customers are, directly in front of them, with the help of Google, at no cost!

Under this circumstances mentioned above I think you should step into Google Buzz to claim you position.

It is simple to do this!

1. Go to your Gmail account and setup your Google Profile
2. Add your favourite sites, RSS feeds etc….
3. Install this Google Buzz Button on your WordPress blog (this one which you can see below) to get your content Buzzed.
4. Activate Google Buzz.
5. Invite your friends, step into a 2way conversation and build your follower ship.

Happy buzzing!

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8 Steps To Promote Your Blog To 60 Million For FREE

Discover eight easy steps how to use the 60 million user potential of LinkedIn to bring your free targeted traffic to your blog.

LinkedIn is a business oriented social network and it’s mainly used for professional networking. Today it was announced that LinkedIn has reached 60 million users in more than 200 countries worldwide.

What makes LinkedIn valuable for your marketing as blogger?

LinkedIn has an applications platform that allows other apps to be embedded within your member profile. For example, there is a WordPress and a TypePad application that allows you to display your latest blog entries within your profile.

Imagine how effective this can be for your exposure. You have your finger directly on 60 million potential visitors to your blog for free.

If you are still not a member of LinkedIn and have a blog about a business related niche than you should consider becoming one very quickly.

The eight easy steps to get free traffic from LinkedIn:

1. You simply signup on LinkedIn
2. Complete your profile
3. Associate your blog with one of the above mentioned apps (WordPress / TypePad)
4. Getting associate to LinkedIn Groups: As you can not invite people on LinkedIn directly, you should start by getting associated to LinkedIn Groups first. Look out for groups in your niche topic and request to be added and subscribe to their updates.
5. Get Friends on LinkedIn: After you are added to a group and subscribed to their updates, you will receive updates every time when somebody posts a discussion from the Group you are member of. Go and visit the discussion and if you have an educated comment, leave it there and invite the person you have commented on their discussion or comment themselves to connect with you.
6. Repeat these steps daily and your friends list will grow day by day.
7. Take care to be focus on quality friends not on the count!
8. Maintain your new relationships, step into (2Way) conversation.

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