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Amazing Secrets Of A Free
Traffic Generation MASTER
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by: Willie Crawford
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Copyright
2004 Willie Crawford
Without traffic to your website, you're not going to make any money in
your online business (unless you're able to tap into someone else's
traffic).
For many websites... especially new sites, one of the fastest, surest
ways to drive traffic to the site is pay per click search engines. The
RISK in using pay per clicks is that you don't know how well that
traffic is going to convert before you've paid for it. You can adjust
your webpages and your pay per click listing fairly quickly, but today
I want to share with you two of my MAJOR free traffic generation
methods.
The most powerful weapon I've used in my marketing arsenal lately is
actually... blogging. A blog is simply an on-line diary or weblog.
Since they are usually updated frequently, the search engines love them
and visit them often.
The way that I use my blogs is that when I make a post, I include a
link to a site or webpage that I want spidered by the search engines.
Google actually visits my blogs daily, and takes snapshots of
everything there, and follows links from the pages, and takes snapshots
of those pages! So, I make minor changes to pages that I want to get
ranked higher, and then I "help" Google to find those updated pages.
It's a simple, ethical, and very powerful method.
I'm fairly new at blogging, but I'm quickly getting the hang of it.
Most of what I know about blogging I learned from a course by my friend
Paul Short. The course is called RSS Exposed. I recommend you get a
copy of Paul's course today and set aside 2 hours to digest it. Get it
at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=109478
Paul is like me... he's very busy, and doesn't have time for fluff. So
his course is under 100 pages, and it's all "stuff" that you can read
and then immediately implement.
Does this stuff work thought. My friend Stephen Pierce taught me that
NOTHING is more powerful than concrete PROOF. So let's look at how I
rank for a few keywords that I'm focusing on right now. I'll show you
with a few of the more than 100 niches that I have top 10.... often top
3 rankings for. I know that showing you these examples may attract the
attention of potential and existing competitors, so I won't show you
the most lucrative ones :-)
Readers who know me, know that my real online success started with a
simple soul food or southern cookbook! That one cookbook still
generates a very nice six-figure income! This season of the year, I
know that people are on-line searching for holiday recipes and also
gift-giving ideas. My logs show me how my market finds me... keywords
and sources. They show that for the cookbook, most find my site through
Google, with MSN being a distant second. Here's how I ranked for a few
cooking related terms (as of November 21st, 2004):
Soul Food Recipes - #2 out of 1,220,000
Soul Food - #3 out of 8,840,000
Soul Food Cookbook - #2 out of 273,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipe - #3 out of 257,000
Deep Fried Turkey Recipes - #4 out of 302,000
Sweet Potato Pie - #2 out of 614,000
Sweet Potato Pie Recipe #2 out of 394,000
Fried Chicken Recipe - #2 out of 861,000
Fried Chicken Recipes - #2 out of 1,160,000
Southern Fried Chicken - #2 out of 436,000
Deep Fried Turkey - #14 out of 330,000
Pound Cake Recipe - #2 out of 547,000
Macaroni And Cheese Recipe - #1 out of 207,000
Collard Green Recipe - #4 out of 21,200
Southern Recipes - # 15 out of 4,970,000
... I guess I need to work on that last listing :-)
One of my other markets is "Internet Marketing," and those looking to
start or improve upon an online or home-based business. How do I rank
there? Here are a few of the thousands of terms that bring me in free
search engine traffic (again based upon my website logs):
Internet Marketing 101 - # 1 out of 5,550,000
Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 10,600,000
Free Internet Marketing Course - #2 out of 11,800,000
Free Internet Marketing Lessons - #2 out of 2,810,000
Homebased Business - #9 out of 1,930,000
Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 522,000
Free Homebased Business Course - #1 out of 483,000
For those of you without your own product, let's see how I do with
products I have reprint rights to. One is a web copywriting course by
Bob Serling called Power Copywriting For The Internet. When someone is
searching for that course they search on very specific terms... but...
since their search is so specific, a higher percentage of them will buy
when they get to my website. This is a more niche market, but some of
my rankings are:
Internet Copywriter + Bob Serling - #1 out of 985
Web Copywriting + Bob Serling - # 7 out of 918
Web Copywriting Course + Bob Serling - #5 out of 16,400
Power Copywriting For The Internet - #2 out of 128,000
Another product that I have reprint rights to is an excellent course on
how to increase your website, and advertising, conversion rates. It's
called, "Small Changes - Big Profits." Here's my ranking on keywords
customers have recently used to find (and buy) this product:
Increase Website Conversion - #6 out of 2,480,000
How to Increase Website Conversion - # 6 our of 2,490,000
Note that when you enter that last phrases, Google tells you that "how
to" is a very common phrase and therefore not included in the search.
However, notice that Google found an additional 10,000 pages when I
gave it that expression. Ok, so I'm confused too :-)
My second most powerful weapon right now is that I write lots of ezine
articles... like this one. Since 1998, I would estimate that I've
written over 300. Those articles are a very powerful way of getting
one-way links to my site. Those articles are a powerful way for people
with specific problems or interest to find my sites.
Here's a simple example of how powerful articles can be. I know for a
fact that the majority of people in network marketing aren't doing that
great. I also know why. The proof that I know what they are doing
wrong, and how to correct it, is provided by the fact that I was
recently the #2 producing representative in a major network marketing
company for 2 consecutive months. The only reason I wasn't #2 longer is
that I've only been with the company a little over 4 month, and that in
my fourth month, I was the #1 top producing rep in the entire company!
Recognizing what many network marketers are doing wrong... especially
those that market over the internet, I wrote an article on the topic.
This article targeted those who wanted to know why their network
marketing is failing. So if you go to Google and enter...
"Network Marketing Failing" without the quotation marks, you'll see
that the returns for webpages featuring my article take up the entire
first page. If a person were to type in the statement "My Network
Marketing Is Failing" my page ranks #1 out of 312,000. Do people search
on these terms? Not as many as search on more competitive terms, but
why not go after easier terms... why not go after "the low-hanging
fruit."
People do visit my sites after reading the hundreds of articles that
I've written, and they do make purchases and join my network marketing
team. That's proof that writing and properly using articles is a very
powerful traffic generation technique. I have lots of resources on how
to properly do this inside my private membership site. If you're not a
member, you should join today. Inside the site you'll find lots more
solid, usable information like you just gotten in this article.
I've just shared with you two of my most powerful free traffic
generation methods. I actually know HUNDREDS but only use a handful. I
believe that it's better to get really good at using a few rather than
tinkering with (but never mastering) many. You need to do your research
and find the techniques that work best for you.
If you'd like a really comprehensive course on website traffic and
sales generation methods, I recommend John Reese's Traffic Secrets
Course. Check out John's course to learn a ton of ways to outflank your
competition at:
http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=110203
It's 14 DVD's, so realize that it will throw a LOT of information at
you. Make sure that you pick just a few techniques he covers, and then
put them into immediate action rather than letting the sheer volume of
information overwhelm you.
As I've demonstrated, being a master at generating free, responsive
traffic doesn't have to be complicated or even difficult :-)
About the author:
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar
speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military
officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and
lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate
substantial income on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems.
An example of such a system that you can study and duplicate is at:
http://ProfitMagician.com
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