Getting Traffic

What methods have you been doing to target traffic? If you have over 300 clicks and no conversions, you're doing something really, really wrong.

I'm not sure that Amazon will convert at 10%, but it should be converting at least 1%.

If you are simply driving traffic from everywhere, that's your problem. You need targeted traffic, which comes from building links and doing good seo work and trying to make sure you are ranking #1 for your top keywords and at least the first page for your secondary keywords.

It sounds like your top issue is getting better qualified traffic.

Your second issue is getting more traffic, contingent on your getting better quality traffic.

I have written extensively on this topic. See my signature.

But I will give you a few tips here.

The 10% to 13% conversion rate is directly related to people who are sending well-targeted traffic to Amazon.

If your conversion rate is less, the traffic you are sending is not at all targeted traffic.

If you are not talking directly to the people most likely to buy from you, you are missing the boat with the traffic you are currently getting.

My best converting Amazon traffic is in fact converting at about 14%, but these people are arriving on a small niche item.

I always advise that instead of getting any traffic from anywhere, you position your links on pages where you are able to pre-qualify your traffic.

In other words, I have content on blogs and such that is precisely speaking about the product that I want them to buy at Amazon. Then when the traffic clicks through to Amazon, those folks know exactly what they will see in the Amazon page, and therefore they are more likely to buy what I am telling them they can buy.

It does not close 100%, because there are more onsite factors that affect conversion rates. The consumer may decide that the product is priced too high, or they don't quite have the money available now.

They may decide that Amazon's consumer reviews were such that that may have changed their mind about purchasing that product. Maybe they were just on a fact-finding mission to learn more about the product.

There are so many factors that determine at what rate people will purchase products on Amazon, but you are in complete control as to how well targeted the traffic you send will be. When you increase the quality of the traffic going into your Amazon listings, then you will naturally sell more stuff.

And only when you are satisfied with the quality of traffic landing on your Amazon pages should you try to scale up the process to get more traffic.

Whoops sorry, I really wasn't trying to get my link in there all ninja like. From what I understand, Google doesn't give a lot of weight to multiple links from the same URL, so I apologize for that.

The site is about a month old, and I have done a few articles, nothing major though. That brings me to another point though. What is the point of social bookmarking if the majority of them are "nofollow"?

Seems kind of counter productive to me. This is the website I was told to use: Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites - SocialMarker.com for social bookmarking, but I am going to go out on a limb here and say that it is pretty much my fault on this one, because I haven't taken the time to learn everything about social bookmarking.

So again, thank you both for taking the time to really help me out. I was under the impression that the more quality information I had published, the more traffic I would get.

And since they were already searching for guitar material they would naturally be inclined to purchase offers I had.

What I am gathering from the info here, is that if I was to write posts on say my reviews or recommendations of new products that would probably drive more targeted traffic huh?

I would probably put the exact product name as the name of the page, as well as wrap in an <h1> tag.

Let me know if I am way off base here, or if I am getting close to moving in the correct direction.

Thanks much everyone

Andrew Duley

NoFollow does not mean that the search engines won't follow the links. It just means that they won't count those links as links that pass link popularity.

content + links = traffic

don't overthink it buddy

When you set up a new website, do some research and find a bunch of related sites and put them in a RSS reader for easy organization. Then comment on those blogs regularly. Dont try to stuff keywords, just put a name in the name field.. and your URL.

Those links will set you on the right track with Google.

After you have a couple months of content and blog commenting, start upping the ante with more links. Do social bookmarking (you can outsource this reeeeaaaly cheap) and set up pages wherever you can pointing in to your most important keywords.

Once a page gets some links (they don't have to be 'quality'), Google will put that page in the game and send it some relevant traffic. If you have a low bounce rate (not many people are hitting the back button), that page will do pretty well in the SERPS. At this point, it's just about picking keywords that have VOLUME, CONVERT, and are even possible to get ranked for (don't even try to get ranked for "credit cards")

Getting targeted traffic was initially a real challenge for me too, but I have learned to do better kw-research and zoom in better on the targeted traffic that will convert. 10 targeted visitors is much better than 100 un-targeted visitors. quality over quantity is definitely the approach when it comes to traffic that will convert.

by 3 steps you can get enough of traffic if you have good site content and good looking template.
- twitter submission
- facebook pages
- seo
Get more Twitter followers

Hi,

Rss won't flood your website with traffic... but you can let your visitors subscribe to your rss feed, use feedburner.com to set that up... if you have aweber you can also add an optin box to your blog that allows people to subscribe and instantly get notified via email when you post something new - this is called Blog Broadcasting feature in aweber. I use both this and feedburner.com

What I suggest is using feedburner.com only. Then put an optin form using aweber however not Blog Bloadcasting feature rather to collect names and emails (build list) and give them tips via email, etc. This is one of the best way to increase your conversions because we all know that website visitors won't buy instantly, you have to follow up with them. Build that relationship by showing them with your tips you're a real person, you know what you're talking about, etc.

For traffic, then use all you can, start one by one, such as:
article marketing
video creation and posting to video sharing websites
seo your blog
put a tell a friend script

There's a load of them. If you have found a niche, which you have, then why not start researching for a good traffic generation course, maybe start in Wf review section. But put that optin form there to start building list. It's a must have.

Karl

targeting better keywords and building backlinks for ranking on them are the best way for that , you still 6 months on Im so dont count them because some of those are on Learning Mode.

I am a noobie here to this forum.

I have done affiliate type marketing the hard way (and the dumb way) since 2000 by buying online ads for a single affiliate site each time. I spent thousands on online ads and reaped precious little in return for them. I was in a lot of MLM programs hoping that at least one of them would be the golden egg. I got lots of folks in my downlines, but it meant nothing, because very few people upgraded from free memberships.

Right now I have an affililate website: growyourwinnings.com (I bought the domain name from godaddy.com) that I share commissions on it with the hoster, and another website called sixdollars2wealth.com that I host myself using Vodahost. Outside of registering my URLs with the search engines I bought targeted visitors using growstats.com. The visitors come, but the conversion rates are still zero. Any advice anyone after looking at my sites?

Doug

Hi Aduley! Hmmm... Your niches are guitar lessons for beginners and guitar equipment... An inference: A lot of people interested in guitar lessons for beginners could be going to YouTube and to other popular video directories regularly, most likely to view content about guitar lessons for beginners, guitar lessons from popular guitarists and so on.

You could develop a short video series of fundamental guitar lessons for beginners, place watermarks informing people of your website and more beneficial relevant content available there which provides additional value to your target viewers, split it up into 3 to 5 sections, upload each one to YouTube and to other heavily trafficked video directories, then make the entire video series freely downloadable content upon signing up to your site's mailing list.

You could then develop your own follow up video series of guitar lessons for beginners and offer it on your site and to your mailing list members then promote it on other relevant, heavily trafficked top ranking sites and pages while contributing updated and useful content relevant to the needs and problems of your target viewers in those online places.

You can also offer it to site owners and relevant mailing list owners for commissions per sale as your affiliates. You can promote your product on ClickBank to get more affiliates selling your product for you.

You can then include reviews of your affiliate Amazon products on your newsletters/mailing list updates/site pages.

You could also go to popular article directories like EZA, then to a relevant niche/main category, afterwards to a relevant sub niche/sub category and click any listed published article under those relevant main and sub categories/niches. At this point, go to the "Most Viewed" section of the page and go to the top 3 to 5 listed articles. Determine the number of views and the publication date of each one as well as the keywords targeted by the authors of those articles. You can also find out what those authors are promoting on their sites by going to the pages linked by the resource box links and which particular sites they use to post their backlinks or promote their products/services/site content.

With this, I get to see relevant articles with a good number of views after only a few days upon publication. I also see the keywords targeted by its authors, so I use each one on Google and Yahoo! initially to know if the traffic mainly consists of search traffic. I also check backlinks on other sites pointing to those articles because those would be possible sources of relevant traffic, too. Then, further market, affiliate market, competition market and keyword research.

At this point, I'll write articles for submission to popular article directories and onsite content providing updated and relevant content offering additional/supplemental benefits not found on my articles and softsell my free downloadable opt-in product by informing them of the unique benefits offered by my free opt-in product among other benefits from being in my mailing list, unavailable from my onsite content and articles. The purpose of my articles is to funnel traffic from my published article pages on popular article directories to my onsite content pages. The purpose of my onsite content is to make the traffic sign up to my mailing list. The purpose of my mailing list updates/newsletters/content is to establish a friendly professional relationship with my mailing list members and promote my products/services and affiliate products/services which can help them in their relevant needs and problems.

I am with Marx here. YouTube is great. Especially for people who know their audience and understand how to use titles, tags, content etc.

If you apply what you already know about SEO etc. to YouTube you will do quite well.

Now YouTube is full of people who have guitar videos. But. It looks like you have people coming to your site anyway. You can use what you do on YouTube to make the current visitors happier because you have something that will help.

Not to mention musicians are really picking up YouTube as a way to get their music out to the world. *AHEM* Justin Beiber.

That being said there are tools and services to help get your video more exposure. More exposure, more views, more subscribers, more visits, more serious buyers.

On top of all that you can use actual products FROM Amazon and incorporate them in your videos... IE: This is an amp I bought on Amazon... Hear how awesome it is?

Or

User XX-123 recommends this book, you can get it from Amazon. You can find the link in the description.

Use a bit.ly link to track conversion on the click.

Heck you can even use the YouTube Video Targeting Tool and put your Amazon link on other peoples guitar videos.

But I am getting off on a tangent here.

Give YouTube a shot.

Your domain is too long.

If you get badly targeted traffic, it does not matter how much traffic you get.

Expired domain traffic is one kind of traffic that is very poorly targeted.

If you pre-qualify and pre-sell your traffic to the Amazon offer, then your conversion rates will go up, once people land on Amazon.

It is all about finding the people who are most likely to buy what you are selling and making a compelling offer to them.

There are more than 3 dozen methods through which you can drive traffic and millions of websites where you can get advertising.

Once you understand the basics of driving traffic, then the fun begins... That is when you will need to fine-tune your ability to convert visitors into buyers.

It is all in the keyword research. Find good keywords that people in your guitar niche is paying to advertise on. Find sites like your site and find out what adwords they are paying for and see if you can get first position for that keyword. If you are using Firefox there is a Free Plugin you can use or just use the website.

This website will give you some adwords ads and adwords keywords that your competition is using http://www.semrush.com . Just put in your competitions domain name and it will give you a few adwords ads with the free service. With this info you need to find out if you can Optimize your website for those keywords plus look for other blogs with the keywords.

Then goto Google.com and type this in the search box--- allintitle: Then Your Keywords You Found In SEM Rush. Then look at the results "About 2,410 results" which is right under the search box. If that Result number is higher then 30,000 it will not be easy to hit that keyword for the number 1 position with out the right tools but I can be done. To do all of this quickly I would seriously suggest you use a tool like Market Samurai which I will give you a free 1 Hour Training and a Top 10 optimization Report if you buy it from the link in my signature below.

First thing you need to do is determine what your target is at Amazon. Are you driving to a general "lightning deals" page, or a guitar-specific page? The biggest difference I see in conversions occurs when I drive traffic to a specific, single item and pre-sell that item in the website.

Second, though Amazon is awesome, consider an affiliate program better tailored to your niche. For example, on a video game site I use console source ads convert at about 8x-9x similar ads for Amazon. Why? I suspect because console source is laser-targeted to the gaming audience.

good luck

sorry ramm what does KEI stand for

Ok
I have been doing that but is there software for it or just common sense/experience

Thank You Warriors i' am still new to the game but you guys and gals have given me a lot of info already. But I have a question of you what links should be in my sales page and is it okay to have a sales page with multiple pages.

See I wanted to build a sales page that has a lot of information about my niche on it as well as my product in doing that now I have a few pages is that good or bad?

Simple work such as writing articles, updating your site, and adding backlinks adds up to extra value over time if done consistently.

Track your traffic as well to know whats working and whats not..are you doing this? install google analytics onto your blog..