Serious advice needed.

winnermarketing

9 years ago

What are your methods to get traffic?
PPC, SEO, Social sharing...?

Thanks

Signature

Free Guide to Make Money Online [Now!]

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166738].message }}

ara67

9 years ago

sorry body, but you need to select profitable niche and have sell funnel set up properly, getting traffic cost money or time if you let me know what is your goals I might have free training for you but need to know which niche u r into....

Thanks
1 reply

Signature

Your Simple Internet Marketing Solutions

Regards; Al Amaro

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166741].message }}

SudeshGamage 9 years ago

Hi Break The Chainz!

Seems like you're running a blog in the internet marketing niche.

For you to get traffic you must invest in some traffic first. Build a list of subscribers.

Also you can start posting YouTube videos around different aspects in Internet Marketing. Provide so much value and people will start to follow you.

Also set up your social media accounts properly and link into your blog.

Keep publishing quality articles frequently and you will achieve SEO results. But this route takes some time.

Also try to write a small eBook with valuable content and give it away when people subscribe to your blog.
You can even sell it for $1 so that you will create a buyers list which is highly responsive.

Cheers!
- Thanks
- 1 reply
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166794].message }}
- Jill Carpenter 9 years ago
  
  This is going to sound like cruel and nasty, but I'm going to give you a serious answer here.
  
  You have a whopping 4 blog posts about crap that is everywhere and I can get answers to at a much better site.
  
  Why would I go to your site? Am I your friend?
  
  Please feel free to sign up, not online can you sign up to receive blog updates but you can also "register" to become a member of the growing BTC community.
  
  Typo in a like 100 word post. WTH? What community? Community being led by someone with no clue about IM about IM?
  
  What are you looking for exactly?
  
  Partner? A partner in a relationship is all about what you can give - not just what the partner gives you. So what would you have to offer a partner? From what I see, you need someone with some business sense. But not sure what you have to offer back.
  
  Other than a tinsy tiny link at the top, you have no "registration" form. Where is the form that should be at the end of your request to register? Where is a form in the hot spot of your blog (do you even know where that should be?)
  
  Why do I need to join your community? Who is your audience?
  
  (yes, I'm a very mean person sometimes but you asked for a serious answer)
  
  Ok, I'm going to be nice for just a minute. Not sure why.
  
  Going to tell you about something I saw today. Was just about 2 hours ago actually.
  
  This is important.
  
  Opportunities are everywhere if you are paying attention.
  
  Are you paying attention?
  
  Ok.
  
  So, I'm going to blabber a bit here and go into a "personal problem" cause, well, that is what marketing is all about. Find a problem, get paid to solve it.
  
  That's it.
  
  It's that simple and that important.
  
  Here goes.
  
  I recently bought a new toothbrush. Not a regular tooth brush you can find in the store, but I got something with some very fine bristles and it is small to reach those back teeth cause honestly I'm getting older and have some unseen dental issues that I'm too damn cheap to go to the dentist and pay thousands of dollars to deal with.
  
  So, I got this tooth brush from Amazon, and went to go and give it a rating. When I went to do that I started to read through the comments of others who had purchased. I had done this before I even bought it but I wasn't paying attention the first time.
  
  While browsing through the comments I noticed someone mentioned a special "tooth paste" or in better words "liquid tooth stuff" that could be used to clean the teeth and would reduce swelling in the gums and get rid of gingivitis and la de da. I copied the name of this stuff and pasted it back into the Amazon browser to look it up and see what it was all about.
  
  Turns out, 4oz of this stuff runs $25.
  
  Now if you were paying attention, you'd know that I mentioned I'm too cheap to even go there. I'm not the buyer of that product.
  
  But my story doesn't end there.
  
  I took the time to read the comments of that product - and this is really messed up.
  
  The top comment was a gal talking about the ingredients in this mystery tooth elixer and how one could buy those ingredients and make their own concoction of it for like a 10th of the price for a ton more product.
  
  355 of 364 people found the following review helpful
  
  ?????
  
  There were 355 people who read this one girls comment and clicked the "I found this helpful"
  
  There are 176 posts in one discussion - just comments about what this one gal said! It is pages and pages long.
  
  What did she do? She gave the ingredients out, and suggestion to buy them cheaper - and then other people chimed in with more advice/suggestions on how to mix the stuff and what brands to get.
  
  Holy cow.
  
  Marketer Jill's lightbulb went off at this point and the niche, products to sell, and even squeeze page was blasting in my face.
  
  Problem: gum/tooth issues
  Solution: Get these 3 secret ingredients, mix them up like this, and save not only your teeth but thousands at the dentist
  
  Hmmm. How much do you think someone might pay for this information? My audience is those people I saw on that Amazon thread.
  
  I inadvertently spent time researching as I was interested in what the solution might be for my own personal use.
  
  I can give out a "free report" and then send those emails collected links to get product to make their own tooth elixer. I can push that new toothbrush I like as well. And that is just a beginning as this is a "natural remedy" niche as well as dental and there are about a bazillion different directions I could go with it.
  
  All that'd be left at this point is to send some traffic to a site - which could be done by making it a clickbank product and getting affiliates, or paying for some little ads on facebook or what ever, or tweeting about it, or just pick one of the gazillion ways to get traffic to the site. Targeted traffic of course.
  
  So I will ask you again - what problem are you solving? Who is your audience? And why would someone want to partner with you?
  
  Find a problem you can truly solve.
  
  Not going to say you can never sell in the IM niche, but you will likely see quicker results going with something you have a better grasp of.
  
  [ 7 ] Thanks
  
  Signature
  
  "May I have ten thousand marbles, please?"
  
  {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166835].message }}

Cali16

9 years ago

Originally Posted by BreakTheChainz

I'm getting no traffic to my site, therefor I'm getting no opt-ins..
Honestly, I'm getting a bit frustrated.

Before you focus on traffic, you need to redo your website. I clicked on the link, saw an abstract bird, and saw absolutely nothing that told me what the site was even about. Even when I scrolled down the page there was nothing compelling me to stay. And no opt-in form (or reason to opt-in or "register", which is the current option).

So, work on improving your website first, then focus on the different ways to get traffic.

Thanks

Signature

If you don't face your fears, the only thing you'll ever see is what's in your comfort zone. ~Anne McClain, astronaut

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166805].message }}

nmwf

9 years ago

At first sight, BreaktheChainz, the blog looks like a personal diary -- not a marketing blog. Generally, there is no reason for anyone to sign up to a personal diary. Opt-ins are typically used for sites that sell something. If your site sells something, it's not immediately apparent.

So you might need to scrap what you've done so far and start over with a clear definition of what you want to do. If you want a personal diary, great. Don't try to sell that or get anyone to sign up for anything. Just understand that only your family, friends, and the occasional but lost searcher will visit it.

Thanks

Signature

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166809].message }}

alias2002

9 years ago

What method do you want to use for your website for getting lot's of traffic?

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166899].message }}

Riki Stein

9 years ago

For some reason I can't reach your blog, but from what I'm reading above, it sounds like you're just starting out and are trying to find some direction. It's ok if your blog starts out as "a diary" of "your journey," or to talk about what you're learning.

Don't expect people to sign up, though, if you're not promising something of value to them.

I'd recommend you figure out where you'd like to be headed - which part of IM would you like to venture into to. Do you like Kindle publishing, physical affiliate marketing, digital affiliate marketing, product creation, etc. - maybe read up about each one, try to dip your toes in, and see what you enjoy and are able to get the hang of.

Feel free to blog about what you learn. You never know what it might turn into. Once you have something of worth to offer potential subscribers, then start your list. Drive traffic to it. Continue what else you've been learning to finally earn money with it. Etc.

Thanks

Signature

Are you a newbie who would love to learn how to start making money online? Boy, do I have a free report for you!

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10166983].message }}

EelKat

9 years ago

It took me 7 years and several hundred posts before my blog picked up and started getting traffic. (I never did anything to promote it and still don't, so, not really sure why I finally did pick up at all.) I do have a theory though. In the early days (1997) my blog was just random updates about "Here's what I did today". No real reason for anybody to read those.

Later on, in 2003, my blog evolved to include lots of posts about Voodoo and magic arts and spellcasting (I'm a Voodoo Priestess), so it started having more "focus" but it was still mostly me just throwing up random "So today I blah, blah, blah..." It was around this point that I started getting a few followers.

In 2005, I started posting my "how to write short stories", "how to self publish", "how to build a fantasy world", "how to create characters" series of articles. There was also a heavy focus on wizardy, magic, spell casting, and Voodoo in fantasy fiction, because being a Voodoo priestess, I tend to use a lot of Voodoo inspired elements in my own writing and most of my main characters tend to be wizards or magic users.

In 2006, you saw me posting less "a day in my life" posts and more "how to do...(topic aimed at authors)". And I changed the name of my blog to be a niche focus title for self publishing and writing serial pulp fantasy fiction. (I write serial pulp fiction; my longest running serial started in 1978 and is still being written and is now at 231 volumes; and most of my serials are very epic and have huge multiple planet universes with hundreds of characters, thus why my focus was on short fiction, serial fiction, fantasy world creation, and character creation. Plus the bulk of my work is self-published.)

In November 2007, my traffic went from a few hundred a day, to more then 100,000 in a single week. I was floored. I had no clue what happened. I Googled the titles of my blog posts to see if anyone had linked to any of them. And yep, someone did. Boy did someone ever. A very famous author (at the time) wrote a review of one of my really old posts from several years prior, and attributed that article I wrote, to the reason for her success. She said after reading it, it inspired her to stop wasting time being rejected by publishing houses and just self-publish the book herself. She had a lot of fans who read her post and ended up checking out my blog as a result. Traffic to that blog remained on that level until 2009.

In 2009 I was having health issues and stopped posting daily. Traffic slowed up as a result. The less often I posted, the fewer traffic hits it got.

Today I've mostly moved out of blogging and am focusing more on other things, so my blog gets updated maybe 4 times a year now and, likewise traffic in slim these days.

The thing I learned from that is to focus on a topic you are very interested in and know a lot about. In my case, that was telling other writers how it is I wrote my books, created my characters, etc. I've been writing and self publishing Fantasy fiction since the 1970s and so i kind of knew the business inside out and passed on the knowledge I had so others could learn to write and self publish fantasy fiction as well.

I also learned that, the best way to get traffic is word of mouth from someone who has a lot of fans.

And I learned that the more often you post QUALITY posts the shared useful information, the higher you traffic gets, but posts about random stuff don't get much interest and if you go too long between posts, you start losing readers.

-----------------------

I did notice one thing that I'm confused about (perhaps I missread?) You say you know nothing about IM but your blog is ABOUT IM? Why did you decide to create a blog about a topic you know nothing about? I would think you would have much better luck at making a blog about something you are truly passionate about and are able to teach others about because you already know how to do it so well.

[ 2 ] Thanks

Signature

My review of Flamboyant Nipples: The Site That Supports KKK Anti-Gay Terrorist Crimes
Info on my Novels is HERE. History of Stephen King's Thinner Gypsies is HERE.

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10168923].message }}

CarynDavis

Banned 9 years ago

If you don't have any success/proven track record, I don't think there would be too many partners that will be willing to help you.. you need to pave your own trail my friend

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10169092].message }}

RWBiggs

9 years ago

Well you're domain name is now parked at Go Daddy as of today. What gives. Were you not that committed? Read and reread what Jill Carpenter says above.

Too many times - Too many times new people in the IM world want everything right now without doing the research or work.

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10169213].message }}

BradleyMcClellan

9 years ago

What exactly have to tried for generating traffic?

How you were pre-framing the traffic? These are the things that really matter..

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10169268].message }}

ReezWeatherford

9 years ago

Don't think a month is the ideal time span to get mastery in internet marketing..

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10170006].message }}

greenowl123

9 years ago

Success in IM does not come quickly. Unless you are genius material, which few of us are.

You have to put your time in, and learn a lot.

Both Jill and EelKat gave you some VERY good advice and ideas to think about...

Re-read both of their posts 3 or 4 times if necessary.

Thanks

Signature

Free 40-page eBook "How To Earn With CPA Offers"
+ 14 Free Traffic Training Videos - Click here now. (no opt-in required)

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[10170165].message }}

Serious advice needed.

Trending Topics

How did you turn it all around?

Any thoughts on golf's latest phenom...Scottie Scheffler??

Infographic: How B2B marketers on LinkedIn can maximise their efforts for better audience reach

What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

Some interesting stats about brand comms