Who is telling the truth and who isn't about traffic building?

Here are a few quick notes I have based on reading that.

1. I'm not sure your 3 niches are related. If you are "the expert" and happen to branch into those 3 it is ok. Otherwise I think they should be divided. Claude talks about how no matter which niche he is talking to he is their expert. Most don't even know he works with other niches. Unless you are trying to build a huge personal brand I wouldn't put these together. And even then I would pick one and build the personal brand around it first.

2. Each niche needs a funnel. You have the parts of a funnel but it doesn't sound like you have a funnel set up.

3. What would people search for who would need Productivity help? Stress Management? Marketing help?

That is what you need to focus on to get traffic. Also is there enough traffic on those terms?

4. If you are not on page one no one is finding you. If you are not above the fold on page one few people are finding you. If you can't dominate search you need to find other means to traffic. Consider paying for it depending on the niche and your knowledge of the competition.

5. How much have you made in those 2 years? Don't assume because you have been doing it for a while you know what you are doing. Results matter. I don't care if you got results in 3 months or 13 years.

Would someone pay you to do it? If not hire someone or do it to learn as you go.
If you were hiring someone to do it would you hire yourself? If not hire someone to do it.

If you wouldn't give yourself $1,000 or more to do it don't do it yourself.

6. Focus on one channel. You have your eggs in a load of baskets and none of them are working yet. Choose one. Make it work. Then learning what worked move to the next channel and rise and repeat. Or stay in the one channel and keep tweaking.

People do too much. Doing less is a virtue many need to learn. Massive action is great but without direction and focus it is simply clogging things up.

Alejandro,

You have a lot going on....e-books, manuals, websites, sales letters, email marketing, books, teaser content, facebook, twitter, amazon....

We will assume that all of this is top notch content, sales copy, etc etc.

Of course, without any kind of traffic, all of this is useless...even with tons of non-targeted traffic, all of it is useless as well. So you are looking for quality, targeted traffic, that is specific to your niche, service/product, and emotional state that coincides with your needs (buying, needy, self-help, fearful etc etc)

I have no clue what you have learnt in your SEO courses about traffic but there are a few fundamentals when it comes to traffic in my opinion.

Who exactly is your target audience? (gender, age, occupation, marital status, etc) This should be an narrow as possible because the less time/money you will spend on the non-targeted visitors/fringe visitors, the more you can spend on the target audience.

Where is your target audience located online? Are they using Google, youtube, bing, facebook, amazon, or what ever to find/utilize items in your niche? No use going for using Facebook if it only holds 5% of your market, when youtube holds 45%. Unless that 5% has a better emotional state.

What is the emotional state of your target audience in your niche and how is your content/marketing capturing/utilizing that emotional state? It is useless to have funny cat pictures if the emotional state of your audience is desperation/greed.

Once you know WHO (target), WHERE (using what medium online) and WHY (emotional state), then you can begin to focus your traffic generation methods on those targeted people, on the targeted locations looking to incite or help a the specific emotional response. Every other traffic generation method should be shelved till you can capture all of this specific traffic that you have identified because it is a waste of time/money.


The other thing is, once you have identified the specific traffic that you should be going after. Instead of doing the traffic generation methods yourself, sometimes it is a much better use of money to pay someone to generate the traffic for you. For some reason, everyone thinks that they can generate traffic online, which is not the case. It is a skill that needs to be learned and mastered. As such, it is better to pay a professional and utilize your time in matters that you have learnt/mastered yourself. Which in this case, could be the subject matter in which your niches reside.

I know that facebook sounds like a good idea and that a lot of people get a lot of traffic from it.

But what I like to do is I will do searches using technorati.com to find forums in my niche and join those forums and use those sites to drive traffic to my site

and I will use big-boards.com to find blogs in my niche and I do blog commenting or guest posts to help drive traffic to my site.

I will also contact the owners of blogs and forums in my niche and work out a deal to put up banner ads on their sites, or even text ads.

You can also do a search for "your niche+blogs" and "your niche+forums" so something like "productivity+forums" and/or "productivity+blogs"

both of those searches should give you a list of blogs and forums in your niche.

That should get you off to a good start. And should actually get you better results than using facebook