As this year 2010 is coming to an end a savvy enterpreneur would have taken stock or be taking stock and then be ready or would be ready to take the next year 2011 by the horn. He should have mapped out how to achieve those things he was not able to this year. I want to mention three steps that will enable him achieve his target this new year that will arrive in a matter of days from now. I want to state that these are useful to newbies aswell as webmasters. Its meant to help the newbies have a good headstart in their business journey online and for the webmasters to turbocharge to the next level of desired achievement. These steps are natural or common-sensical but, as the saying goes common sense is not common. Thus the need for writing this post.
Let's set the ball rolling...
1. Have the right mindset.
This is more of your outlook for 2011. You have to set a goal or objective for your online endeavour. Make sure, however, that your goal is a SMART goal: you've heard of this acrony before; haven't you? It means that your goal should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed. Here is an example of a SMART goal "to get 1500 visitor daily to a particular site of yours by the 1st of may 2011. This goal is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed ( the time to achive the goal is on or before). This is just an instance, you can choose any of your online changel and set a SMART goal(s) to help you solve the problem it represents.
2. Have a plan.
Map out a plan on how to achive your goal. Ask yourself questions and get answers to them and form a plan of action that you will take based on the answer to the questions you asked. Question like "what do i need to achieve my objective(s)? What organisation or person or association is/are the best to help me? Do i need financing? For what do i need financing? How and when do i get the materials or money that i need? e.t.c. As you seek answer to this questions and more relevant ones you will see a plan crstallise. Then do the very important last thing...
3. Take action.
You have the smart goal and a the apropriate plan in place now go for the kill by taking action. It is the action taker that is the result getter. At some times you will find out that you achive more in a shorter time than you planned. It pays a great deal to act on a SMART goal that is backed by a relevant plan of action. The things to keep a flexible mind so that it will be possible for you to change or modify your plan when necessary. I tell you in order to achieve your set objective/goal you might need to change your plan(s) several times. Be ready and you will succeed. I see you succeeding online this new year if you get more organized and strategic.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
5 ways to use the power of your posts to increase traffic to your site
If you have been following me on this blog you will realise that i have been sharing traffic generation strategies. I have decided to approach traffic generation from another angle, namely using the power of your post.
The IMPORTANT thing is to make sure your posts are useful and optimize for the right niche. Lets set the ball rolling.
1. Ping your site whenever you post new content. In most cases what you are required to do is to just fill your sites title, url and rss feed url and bingo! Your site is announced to search engines and various popular blog/site directories. All you have to do is to fill in the 3 info above into the right field on pinging sites you are using. Pingoat.com and pingomatic.com are good pinging sites that i recomend.
2. Share with your facebook and twitter friends. This will announce your post to your facebook and twitter friends and some of them will definetly check out your site. Thats traffic you know! Try it out today.
3. Use forums.
Now you probably are thinking of rules on forums that prohibit puting links directly in post or thread. The trick here is to write summary of your post and then put link to your site as the source of the main article. If the url is too long you can turn it to tinyurl at tinyurl.com
4. This next one is a popular one but you might not be using it yet or it might be that you are not consistent with its use. Optimised post will position your site for search engine traffic. If you use the right key words with the right density (2%-5%) your content might appear in the search engine results of major search engines. Density means how many times the keyword appears per hundred words, for instance, its 2% if it appear twice in each hundred words 3% if it appears e.t.c
5. Turn your post into pdf format and distribute it to scribd, 4shared with your sites link in the header and footer in the ebook. This is a very powerful technique that can make your site travel far and wide as this is a good example of viral marketing. Give away the ebook for free. You can even give the recipient the right to sell it or use it bonus to their package. As i said earlier, this method will increase the reach of your site.
The IMPORTANT thing is to make sure your posts are useful and optimize for the right niche. Lets set the ball rolling.
1. Ping your site whenever you post new content. In most cases what you are required to do is to just fill your sites title, url and rss feed url and bingo! Your site is announced to search engines and various popular blog/site directories. All you have to do is to fill in the 3 info above into the right field on pinging sites you are using. Pingoat.com and pingomatic.com are good pinging sites that i recomend.
2. Share with your facebook and twitter friends. This will announce your post to your facebook and twitter friends and some of them will definetly check out your site. Thats traffic you know! Try it out today.
3. Use forums.
Now you probably are thinking of rules on forums that prohibit puting links directly in post or thread. The trick here is to write summary of your post and then put link to your site as the source of the main article. If the url is too long you can turn it to tinyurl at tinyurl.com
4. This next one is a popular one but you might not be using it yet or it might be that you are not consistent with its use. Optimised post will position your site for search engine traffic. If you use the right key words with the right density (2%-5%) your content might appear in the search engine results of major search engines. Density means how many times the keyword appears per hundred words, for instance, its 2% if it appear twice in each hundred words 3% if it appears e.t.c
5. Turn your post into pdf format and distribute it to scribd, 4shared with your sites link in the header and footer in the ebook. This is a very powerful technique that can make your site travel far and wide as this is a good example of viral marketing. Give away the ebook for free. You can even give the recipient the right to sell it or use it bonus to their package. As i said earlier, this method will increase the reach of your site.
Friday, December 17, 2010
5 EFFECTIVE FREE TRAFFIC GENERATION TECHNIQUES
Traffic is a very important factor to the success of online businesses and websites, no matter the purpose for the existence of such site and business; wether it is to make money or something else like sharing knowledge and expertise. Getting traffic to such online ventures or portals is usually a feat to most webmasters. I want to reavel 5 effective free ways for generating traffic to your site consistently and i belief they will produce great result for your site as they have been known to do.
1. Video marketing.
I want you to start considering this technique if you have not before. It is a new trend in online parlance which has gained great popularity and acceptance. The thing is that you get your visitors to stay more on your site as information is passed to them passively. With the use of video hosting sites like youtube and its popularity and virality traffic generation is easier than ever.
2. Article marketing.
You have heard about this before-or maybe you have. Well, its all about writing articles related to your niche or site's niche and put link to your site in the author's bio or signature. The rave now is to write SEO articles and position your articles for the search engines. This could be more exposure for your site through your bio link. Then submitt this to article directories out there.
3. Bookmark your contents.
Use the power of social bookmarking sites to get instant flood of traffic to your site. Bookmarking your content and post on social sites like Facebook, stumbleupon, reddit, digg will make the search engines fall love with you. That means more instant traffic to your site.
4. Press release.
You can get your website or a resource on it published through this method. The document (press release material) is made available to the media and consumers of your product or potential clients for your service(s). When you submit your news it is instantly published, archived and distributed to news channels that publish your news again online
5. Link exchange.
You can exchange link with a partner or a competitor. The exchange will lead to visitors finding you through the link on such partner's or competitor's site. There some sites that offer this kind of service for free e.g linkrefferal.com, trafficswarm.com, linkexchange e.t.c.
1. Video marketing.
I want you to start considering this technique if you have not before. It is a new trend in online parlance which has gained great popularity and acceptance. The thing is that you get your visitors to stay more on your site as information is passed to them passively. With the use of video hosting sites like youtube and its popularity and virality traffic generation is easier than ever.
2. Article marketing.
You have heard about this before-or maybe you have. Well, its all about writing articles related to your niche or site's niche and put link to your site in the author's bio or signature. The rave now is to write SEO articles and position your articles for the search engines. This could be more exposure for your site through your bio link. Then submitt this to article directories out there.
3. Bookmark your contents.
Use the power of social bookmarking sites to get instant flood of traffic to your site. Bookmarking your content and post on social sites like Facebook, stumbleupon, reddit, digg will make the search engines fall love with you. That means more instant traffic to your site.
4. Press release.
You can get your website or a resource on it published through this method. The document (press release material) is made available to the media and consumers of your product or potential clients for your service(s). When you submit your news it is instantly published, archived and distributed to news channels that publish your news again online
5. Link exchange.
You can exchange link with a partner or a competitor. The exchange will lead to visitors finding you through the link on such partner's or competitor's site. There some sites that offer this kind of service for free e.g linkrefferal.com, trafficswarm.com, linkexchange e.t.c.
Monday, December 6, 2010
5 TRENDS YOU MUST BE AWARE OF IN ORDER TO GROW YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
Social media networking is the rave now and it will continue for a long time to come. The social medial sites are at the center of the craze for social networking which has been capitalized on by savvy netpreneure. You too should if you haven't before.
Here are 5 trends that you should know about social media networking.
1. People crave for more meaningful connections and seek them online.
People report feeling more isolated than ever before. This is true despite the advancement in communication technology and tools. More people are more isolated than ever before. The online business person is to capitalise on this by making himself available to have conversation with members of these social media sites who, incidentally, are his clients or prospects. They will also like to have conversation whit those who follow him also.
2. People are everywhere but how do you find them.
The places where you find many prospect for your biz are many. This variety makes it very difficult to get a large community of followers (prospects) in a single place online-before niche specific forums were hubs with large online visitors mostly members, most times of the day. That trend changed with the popularity of social medial networking with most members of such forums 'abandoning them for social networking sites'. This trend led to sparse membership on blogs, forums and other places that they use to frequent. This lead to the need to be skill of lead generation being very important to financial success an enteprenure using social networking for his business. He will need to cherish his customers whether new or old. New and inexperienced enterprenures are his target clients too.
3. Let them (clients/members)know you.
Include your personality.
The basic idea is to be as intresting, funny, motivational and controversy as possible: just be natural and interesting with the touch of your personality.
4. Make use of the interactive tools and applications to your advantage.
Use the applications that are available on these sites to promote your offers and services. Get the edge that leveraging on such applications sites can give to your business. An example of this is the 'fan page' application on Facebook. You may be surprised how eagerly people will join your fan page. The good use of this application might translate to great benefit for your business.
5. Pay per click services.
The membership strength of social sites are usually in the tens or hundreds of million. This is a large exposure for the offer of a netpreneure. The price of getting this services is usually very affordable. You can get 100000 display of your ads for only $0.01.
Here are 5 trends that you should know about social media networking.
1. People crave for more meaningful connections and seek them online.
People report feeling more isolated than ever before. This is true despite the advancement in communication technology and tools. More people are more isolated than ever before. The online business person is to capitalise on this by making himself available to have conversation with members of these social media sites who, incidentally, are his clients or prospects. They will also like to have conversation whit those who follow him also.
2. People are everywhere but how do you find them.
The places where you find many prospect for your biz are many. This variety makes it very difficult to get a large community of followers (prospects) in a single place online-before niche specific forums were hubs with large online visitors mostly members, most times of the day. That trend changed with the popularity of social medial networking with most members of such forums 'abandoning them for social networking sites'. This trend led to sparse membership on blogs, forums and other places that they use to frequent. This lead to the need to be skill of lead generation being very important to financial success an enteprenure using social networking for his business. He will need to cherish his customers whether new or old. New and inexperienced enterprenures are his target clients too.
3. Let them (clients/members)know you.
Include your personality.
The basic idea is to be as intresting, funny, motivational and controversy as possible: just be natural and interesting with the touch of your personality.
4. Make use of the interactive tools and applications to your advantage.
Use the applications that are available on these sites to promote your offers and services. Get the edge that leveraging on such applications sites can give to your business. An example of this is the 'fan page' application on Facebook. You may be surprised how eagerly people will join your fan page. The good use of this application might translate to great benefit for your business.
5. Pay per click services.
The membership strength of social sites are usually in the tens or hundreds of million. This is a large exposure for the offer of a netpreneure. The price of getting this services is usually very affordable. You can get 100000 display of your ads for only $0.01.
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