Generating traffic is the meat and potatoes of all affiliate and email marketing strategies. But what if you’re just beginning…or you don’t have a lot of cash for marketing? There are ways you can generate all the traffic you need for free and earn six and seven figures annually.
As stated earlier, generating traffic is the sole source of your business…it’s the sole source for any business, for that matter.
First of all, generating the kind of traffic that will give you the kind of lifestyle you’ve only dreamed of, you’ll have to get in the mind-set of doing the work. By that I mean you have to pump out the most content that you’re able to, in order to be seen. For some, that might be one post per week. For others it could be three to four post per week. But whatever your skill-set you must post as many times in a week that you can. As time goes on, you’ll get better and faster at writing your content. Start according to your ability and eventually you’ll find yourself writing 2 to 5 thousand words with no problem. With that being said, I’m making the effort to follow my own advice. Personally, I want to get up to posting 5 or six times per week.
Remember, this is a business and we have to treat it like one. Make it a practice to go to work, just like you would do for a regular 9 to 5 job. If you have a full-time job, treat act as though your business is your second job.
There are a number of ways you can generate traffic to your site, and the first way I’m going to talk about is…
Keyword Research
You want your content to be seen by as many people as possible. The way you get that message seen, is by ranking high on the search engine pages. The higher your content ranks on the search engine pages, the more people will see your messages. For instance, your content will get viewed by more people if it falls on the first page than on the second. If it’s the first content on the first page, the chances of your content getting open goes up dramatically.
Keyword research is one of the keys to getting your content ranked higher in the search engines. What keyword research does, is it allows you to see the words that people are using when they look up the topic you are writing about. It shows you why someone is looking up the topic you’re writing about. And there are free tools that you can use to do your research. One of the first I want to talk about is called…
Google Keyword Planner: Google keyword planner is free and is probably one of the best tools you can use to see what internet users are looking for and how they are wording it. Another free tool is…
Answer The Public: This particular keyword tool will give you hundreds of questions being asked on the internet for a particular topic. You just type in the keyword of your topic and hundreds of questions will come in. This is a good site to get ideas from, but if you’reS using the free version, you’ll only get one try daily . Another drawback with the free version is, it caters to the British internet users. In order to see what American users are asking, you have to upgrade to the premium plan. Still, this is a great tool to gain ideas. My next free tool I want to talk about is…
Soovle: When you plug in your keyword in soovle, it will show you the common phrases used in Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Wikipedia, Bing, and Answer.com. Talk about a great tool…and it’s free. If you do your research you can probably find other free tools you can use, but the last one I want to talk about is called…
Also asked.com: This site will show you the phrases used by people on the internet in a mind-map configuration. These are just a few of the great free tools you can use to generate traffic to your blog or website.
Another great strategy you can use to generate traffic is…
. Writing Guest Posts
An excellent strategy for generating traffic is getting backlinks by writing guest list for other blogs.
When you write and post on other blogs, especially for blogs with large audiences, you’re getting seen by readers who may not ever have noticed you before seeing you on the person’s blog you are posting on. The two things you must remember is…make sure your content is valuable to the readers and make sure you get backlinks to your blog or website by leaving your domain name.
You may be asking yourself…how do I go about getting to guest list on someone’s else’s blog? The most practical way is, JUST ASK. But when you do, make sure you’re polite…be professional about it. Don’t patronize them by telling them something like, “Your blog is the GREATEST BLOG in the world. Stay to the point by telling them how you enjoy their blog and how you might be of service to them. Every blog out there survives off of content. If you have good content that could benefit their blog they’ll be more than happy to let you make a post on their site.
You can also go to guest blogging sites and find blogs that accept guest bloggers. Just Google guest blogging sites and you’ll find a number of sites you can go to.
You’re in the business of attracting people. You want them to open up your messages…and share that message with others. In order to make sure your messages are getting read, you must be able to…
Write Good Headines
It doesn’t matter what you write if nobody ever reads it. You have to get your reader’s attention. You do that by writing good or great headlines.
Your headline or subject line for emails is the first thing your reader sees when they search for something. Your reader sees hundreds of some kind of ads everyday. Be it advertising, emails, salesletters, or whatever the case may be. The point is, you have to be able to stand out from the crowd. This is where your keyword research comes into play…and where you start by crafting a great headline.
Crafting good headlines is an important skill that can easily be learned. First of all there are four elements that every headline should have. These four elements are: Uniqueness, Usefulness, Ultra-specific and Urgency.
Unique: You want your readers to see the kind of message they haven’t seen a thousand times before. It could be something new or something stated a different way. But most of all it can’t be a general statement that’s been heard a million times before. Example:
Get Rich with This Investment
or
See how this Arizona woman earned 50% profit on this tiny unheard
company in Dallas Tx.
Not a great headline…but which headline would you most likely to open? My guest would be the second one. With that being said, this leads me to another element needed in a headline. Which is being…
Ultra-Specific: Being specific always out does generalities. You’ll notice in the headlines above, the second headline, while not great was much more specific than the first. Stating a women in Arizona and how much she profited, which was 50%.
Useful: Your message has to be relevant to your reader. You wouldn’t craft a headline about the best gardening tips to a mechanic would you? Of course not. Make sure you cater your headline to what your reader wants.
Urgency is an important element in any headline, but for this post we’re talking about attracting traffic and how you’d get your message opened…so I’m going to replace the urgency element with…
Curiosity: Nothing can get your message opened quicker than curiosity. If you can make your reader curious about what’s in your content, THEY WILL OPEN IT. You can do that by not telling them the whole story in the headline and make them wonder how the story ends. When it comes to advertising, blogs salesletters etc. Curiosity one of the strongest element that will make a reader open the content you post.
The last thing I want to talk about when it comes to attracting traffic is…
Make Your Content Easy to Read
We as humans have short attention spans. Especially due to the automated society we live in today. We want everything quick and easy. If your content is difficult to read…guess what? You’ll get clicked off, unsubscribed or whatever undesirable action you don’t want to happen to you. Test your sentence. Say it out loud. If you have to take a breath in the middle of a sentence…âthen your sentence is too long. Break it up into two sentences or elements part of it if you have to.
Elements complicated words. You’re not in the business to impress, you’re in the business to express. Writing long complicated words might make feel or look smart, but it’ll only make your content harder to read which will only cause your prospect to go to another site to find what they’re looking for.
You also want short paragraphs and you want to leave about an inch of white space on your borders. This makes your content not look so long-winded. As I said, today’s audiences have short attention spans…if your content looks like it’s a long drawn-out read…it probably won’t get read.
Use subheads, bullet and numbers lists to break-up your copy. This is especially good for readers who offer skimming as opposed to reading.
Summary
As a content Creator and an affiliate marketer you want…or need traffic. If you don’t have a cash reserve to spend on obtaining that traffic, you can find free ways to accomplish your goal.
There are free research tools that can connect you to your audiences wants and needs. Tools like Google keyword planner, soovle, answer the public, and also asked.com.
It’s important to make your content easy to read by writing short sentences and using subheads and bullet list to break your copy up into bite-size pieces.
And getting backlinks through writing guest post is an excellent way to direct traffic to your site.
That’s it for today…until next time …stay safe in these trying times and have a blessed day.
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