Help me about traffic

Hi Lena, first of all you should have your website or blog so that you can build a list, never send traffic directly to some affiliate offer. Instead you should present affiliate offers on your site or at least- free blog.

If you need traffic instantly, paid traffic is usually the best choice (Facebook ads, Bing ads etc.) but if you're not sure what you are doing it's easy to burn money, so be careful, start small and do split tests.

For free traffic join forums relevant to affiliate offer and be active, provide value and just help others as much as you can. You could find relevant blogs, youtube videos, questions on Quora etc. and start commenting and answering there. Focus on quality of your posts and comments.

You should definitely start writing your own blog, that way you build authority in your niche and increase your chances to rank on Google, especially when it comes to long tail keywords.

Hi Lena, i think first of all concentrate on one source of traffic. Its going to be very hard to spread your resources to get the most out of all traffic sources. Start small and build from there.

Also make sure that your website/content is worth the traffic even being on your website.

What is your current plan?

aww traffic is the super affiliate status question! Well that and being able to convert that traffic!

Learn to use the search feature of this forum as well as google and youtube to find the answers to your questions. Its part of the success process.

You have paid traffic and you have free traffic. Both work and both work well. I suggest setting asside a marketing budget for your business in invest in both paid and free sources for now.

1) Blog frequently

Most new bloggers dislike hearing this. Trust me when I say that the struggle for content is ongoing. New bloggers, however, feel like it's just happening to them. The truth is, don't get a blog just to have a blog. Get it and keep it updated. It's the quickest way to gaining traffic. How often should you blog? Three times a week. The best days to blog? Studies have shown that Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday are key days for blogging.

2) Stay on point

I tell authors this a lot: stay on point, stay on topic. Why? Because if you don't you'll lose readership. Once someone commits to your blog they want to keep reading relevant information. So don't blog one day about your book, your speaking, or your mission and the next day share Aunt Ethel's pot roast recipe.

3) Plan your blogs

While spontaneity is the catalyst for creativity, planning is a good way to stay on track. Start to map out key dates that you want to blog about that have some relation to your topic - this way when you're at a loss for topics, you can always pick one from your list of planned out blogs. Also, consider these topics to blog about:

a) Future predictions: everyone loves these, to the degree that you can predict market trends in your industry do it, and the readership will follow.

b) Discuss industry news: what's happening in your industry that you can talk about? Even if you're a fiction writer there's always *something* going on worth mentioning in publishing, writing, or marketing that directly relates to your topic.

c) The elephant in the room: talk about the stuff that everyone is afraid of. What new trends are emerging that consumers/readers/companies need to be aware of? What's next for your market and how will it affect the industry? How can we keep publishing books when we already publish 800 a day? You see what I mean? Think of things that frighten you and talk about them. People will respond. Every time I do this I get a ton of comments on my blog.

d) Write reviews: review other people's books, product or work. This is a great way to network and to become a "filter" for your market. Filter out the new stuff and feature it on your blog (this goes for you fiction writers too!).

e) Other blogs: what are people talking about? What did your favorite blog just say? Virtual networking (with other bloggers) is a great way to grow your content and get to know others in cyberspace. Don't forget to link to the blog you're discussing!

4) Invite comments on your blog!

This is really important! The more folks you can get commenting, the quicker your blog will get passed around. If you have a "no comment" feature on your blog, remove it! You want people to be able to comment and give feedback. In fact, at the end of every blog, why not invite readers to comment? If you start getting a lot of responses to this, begin featuring your favorite comments in future blog posts!

5) Comment on hot topics in the news

The quickest way to get traffic is to get your blog featured on a high-traffic site. But how can you do this? By commenting on news stories. Most major news sites have a feature that will list blogs that are talking about the various news stories. Not all blogs get featured but: a) if your if your topic is related to the story they've featured; and b) you've written an insightful post on the topic, you'll likely get listed. For an example of what these look like take a peek at a recent story on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/14/simpson/index.html

6) Digg yourself

Make sure that your blog has a bookmarking feature. Sites like Digg and Delicious are great places to get started. You can go there, sign up for an account (very easy to do) and then follow their instructions for bookmarking your individual posts. This is important! You don't want to bookmark the blog but rather, the posts. The posts will then show up in these sites and, hopefully, other folks will bookmark them as well. Even if no one else bookmarks your posts, it doesn't matter. You can still get traffic by being positioned on these sites. Super simple to do, go ahead, give it a shot!

7) Twitter your blog

Got something to say? Try microblogging at Twitter: http://www.twitter.com. It's a free service that asks the question: What are you doing now? Go in, sign up and start posting your messages with links back to your blog. We tried this and it's fantastic. You can also blog from your cell phone and blackberry. You can not only use it to promote your blog but your book, speaking event, whatever you want. It might sound like a "who cares" idea, but trust me, everyone's Twittering these days.

8) Syndicate yourself

Using simple RSS feeds through Email Marketing, List Management and RSS Feed Subscriber Services | FeedBlitz you can syndicate yourself and let folks subscribe to your blog. If they don't have a way to subscribe to your blog, they may forget you altogether. Once someone subscribes, every time you post new content it will notify them. And the best part? Your messages won't get stuck in someone's spam filter. They'll get the notification, head to your blog and voila! Your readership stays engaged and growing.

Finally, don't use an "official" voice on your blog. Pretend you're sitting across from your reader over coffee. Talk to them in a more casual, conversational tone and you'll not only get more readers, you'll likely get more comments too! It doesn't take much to grow a blog, just a little dedication and creativity. Happy blogging!

When It comes to driving traffic, there are 100 of ways. But the main thing you need to stick with one or two at a time with A/B testing.

If you are just getting started, I would start with Solo Ads, this is going to give you fast and scalable traffic, you just have to make sure that you are doing it the right way.

If you are going to use solo ads, I suggest you first learn the basics, having a great capture page, like how to create email swipe copy, and at least how to find the right vendors.
This source can be a lucrative one especially for clickbank offers.

Hope that helps

Do you know which types of offers you are interested in promoting?

If you want to start with Solo Ads, you should go to Facebook and join group "Solo Ads Testimonials". It's a public group. You can find good solo ads providers and read testimonials from people who bought their solo ads.

Testimonials include exact numbers and look like this:

Seller: Name
Clicks ordered: 100
Clicks received: 110
Opt in: 42.7%
T1: 84%
Comment: Awesome Clicks - delivered fast in less than 24hrs with nice OD, Optin rate, and T1, Thumbs up!

Hi Lena,
Very common question. I find the best way to get traffic is to lead with value. To bring value to the market place always. Being consistent with content, and in that way becoming the go to person when new marketers need answers. Video marketing is the best way to present your content.

Solo ads work most of the time with good results.
However, you can also start with some free traffic like craiglist ads, fb groups, twitter etc
and of course blogging on a regular timeframe.

If you have the budget for it, I would suggest solo ads. Try Udimi.com - there are lots of good sellers on there. Otherwise, you could try YouTube - it's one of the biggest search engines on the internet.

my advice would be to focus on one source of income to maximize your results. if you need info about traffic I'm sure theres tons of help around WF. best of luck

Hi Lena, I'm also in the same boat. I have website but generating traffic is hard, don't know why

First of all Make your content informative- Much useful and then you may go for Advt. where anyone can click on your Ad can go for websites as well and it will be much useful. Just go for it

Simply use facebook ads its no brainer , you don't even need money to start just a credit card and by the time you are billed , you would have made enough money to pay it , its a win win strategy . The only problem is how to use facebook ads effectively and pay less, I have a short straight forward guide on this , For every hundred visitors I send I always get at least one sale of a recurring product that I earn $25 per sale . Here is a screenshot

And remember always promote recurring products they are very lucrative.

Hi

If you want to see fast result, and can't afford to spend, go for soloads for paid traffic. For free traffic, there are many options to consider - social media,joining forum, blogging, etc.

Cheer

You can use Bingads to build traffic or even directly selling the product

OK.

First, find some traffic.

Second, find a way to monetize.

If you don't go with paid traffic then start generating organic traffic using SMO.

Hi Lena. I have been trying to make money online for 5 years with very little success from free advertising. Although free advertising can work, it takes a lot of time and effort. I am now doing paid advertising and getting better results. The best methods of paid advertising is solo advertising.


This is where you go to a site like Udimi. Select a seller with good feedback and purchase a small solo ad to test out your link. Sellers have large lists of subscribers where they will send your link to. When you start making money, reinvest it in more solo ads.There are probably solo ad sellers on this forum. Check it out. Do your research. Don't be too hasty.

Hi, I thinks you should pull traffic from facebook and google very good source of traffic that will be beneficial for your website.

As a beginner, you can find low-competition keywords and start ranking it

There are different ways to generate traffic, one of the ways that people use is the Social Media

Like Facebook, Instagram, and Snap chats doing good as well

you can leverage traffic platforms ( they are FREE)

and you can use super-cheap bot traffic to get unlimited credits to your website

You have lot of ways to get traffic,you can look SEO or you can do social networks,also,it depends if you're doing blackhat or whitehat.

What kind of offers are you promoting? Do you have a traffic budget?

Setup a squeeze page and build your traffic from relevant sites like forums, videos, blogging, paid ads, social media, SEO among others.

It really works when you send a consistent amount of targeted traffic everyday.

First try using this forum to drive traffic