Traffic Generation – Part 1Filed Under: Archived, My Journey to Success, The Traffic Challenge

Welcome back to my Blog, you are very welcome here and please if you would like to leave a comment or 2 then I would be very grateful, thanks.

Traffic, traffic and more traffic is every Internet Marketer’s dream. There is no point having the greatest product, idea or website if nobody sees it. So where do you start, how do you start, do I pay for it, can I get good quality free traffic. All the questions are there at the beginning of your and my traffic journey. It can make you want to stop and give up almost straight away.

Well the good news if that I have the answer for you. The bad news if that you get nothing for free in this world, but it is not all bad as the cost to you can be your time or if you like a little cash. So what is the answer to driving traffic to your sites. Well for starters you need to have a plan of action, a daily routine to start with which will begin to build the traffic streams back to your site.

So what’s in the plan what do I need to do I hear you ask… well strangely you probably already know most of the techniques, but I bet your not implementing them. I know that is the case for me. It is putting all the little techniques together, grabbing those visitors from lots of differnet places from all over the net.

Ok lets get into the nitty gritty of the techniques, lets start with forums. So how will a forum drive you trafic, well it is easy really, if you go and have a look at warrior forum you will see that there are thousands of post and hundreds and thousands of views for each thread, post etc. All you have to do is start to add value to end thread or post that takes your interest. Leave constructive replies that will leave the reader wanting to know more. So how do they find out more, well simple when you join a forum you can add you signature to the bottom of every reply you leave which then gives the reader the opportunity to click on your link and bam they is a brand new visitor to your site.

This is how your links should look when you edit them in your profile:

[url="http://url you wish to add"]Text you want to be clickable[/url]

Just replace the bold text wilth your URL and the text you want, for example:

[url="http://neilmarsh.com"]Visit my Blog[/url]

This will look link this once you leave a reply:

Visit my Blog

You can normally add 3 to 5 lines so you can add a few links to your signature if you wish. Now you will need to active and post lots of replies for this technique to work, but work it will if you add good content and value to each thread.

So go and find yourself a forum list from google and get to work, give yourself a set number of minutes in a day to do your forum work. I recommend at last 30 – 60 minutes a day to start with. The more you do the better results you will get.

Remember action creates reaction, the more action you take the more  of a reaction you get. If you do nothing then nothing will happen.

Look out for part 2 in my traffic generation series of posts as by the end of the series you will have all the knowledge to go and build your own traffic levels to massive new heights.

Thanks for reading and please leave a comment if you found it useful.

So you have a Blog, now what???Filed Under: My Journey to Success

So you have built a blog, your foundation is up and running, so now what do you do……??? Well you start by telling your story, tell your pain, your problems. Tell people where you are and where you want to go. Be straight with people as everyone can relate to a story, but nobody will relate to hype or BS. If you have no traffic, start telling people you have no traffic and then tell people what steps you are going to make to achieve more traffic. Remember that good information alone will attract more people to your site, so don’t keep things a secret, be open and you will see the difference quickly.

So here I am at my new beginning, however I have taken action by getting myself a mentor (Alex Jeffreys). I am certainly not a complete Newbie, but having direction is huge as you can easily find yourself going down the wrong path. So what am I going to do to start building so more traffic, well to start all I am going to do is get much more active on other peoples Blogs as this will start to drive traffic back to my Blog. However I am not going to start pimping my sh*t, as this will work against what I am trying to achieve. No, I will be doing my best to add value to their Blog. This is huge as if you don’t add value, why the hell would anyone want to visit your site to find out more what you have to say. Help as many people with as much information as you can, information will give you the starting point you need to become someone they will look for in the future for more help.

So back to what I am going to do, I will be commenting on other Blogs everyday until I am fully able to attract traffic all on my own. I have given myself a daily task to comment on at least 10 different Blogs a day. This should take me around an hour a day. This time commitment however will be the building blocks to having a truly active and succesful Blog. It isn’t an instant overnight trick, but more of a long term residual way to build traffic, but attracting real genuine people with the time to read and add value to my Blog to.

I hope you can start to see the picture I am painting with this plan, and remember to be yourself becasue that will go along way to becoming an individual that gets noticed, listen to and respected.

A Solid Foundation- Do you need one?Filed Under: My Journey to Success

Ok, what is a solid foundation? For me a solid foundation in terms of Internet Marketing is your starting point in your online journey. So where do you begin, well that is easy you build a Blog, and yes that is easy to. Contact me for an easy step by step guide.

But before you start to do anything make sure you have planned out what you are going to do, step by step and which day each task should be completed by, if not completed put it down for the next day and so on.

Set each task as an ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’ depending how important each task is,

Here is a PDF you can download and use: Download

Now back to the Blog……

Put on your Blog this is me and this is where I am starting, this is the beginning of my adventure online so to speak. Just put something up there that is about you and what you wish to achieve, be accountable so if you say on your Blog I am going to do something you now have a reason to follow up on it. Take action……..I can’t speak more about that word ACTION without it nothing you read, buy or whatever will ever work. Don’t be afraid to get your face out there. At first I did not even what to sign an email with my name, now  you can hardly find a blog post without my mug on it. It becomes fun and to think that what I am saying can guide people in the right direction is fantastic. Read the rest of this entry »