50 Double Opt In's Today And Rising!

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Hi,

I dont post enough helpful information lately here so I decided I would do this. Its nothing too much and actually goes back to a newbie type mindset,lol. But its so simple it works!

Ok so I have been getting around 10 double opt ins per day in a niche im working on that I plan to offer a cheap membership site to soon. So I only had around 100 opt ins around 10 days of promoting my site and im building a relationship with m list. Thats all fine and dandy but I want to make some big money now I thought, im tired of slowly getting new list members. I want to be able to offer my membership site to a list of around 1000 within a week or so.

So I just thought for a few minutes and realized some things that I could do. It took me back to my days when I knew nothing about Internet Marketing. Using the social sites to build my list.

So I got busy this morning and I have just under 50 double opt ins so far today! Yea it doesnt sound like much I know, but its good when your building a good relationship with your niche and plan to offer a $7.99 a month membership site to this list.

So yea im just getting short spurts of traffic but im capturing them! So back in my newbie days I would get these spurts and offer a product and lose these people forever, but short spurts are great and long term if your building your list obviously!

So how did I get 50 double opt in's today?

Simple, here are some things I did!

1. I went to a keyword tool, in this case I used the free SEO keyword tool and looked for terms in my niche that are targeted that get say 10-40 searches per day. I checked to see the competetion and made sure the term with qoutes in Google only had say under 20,000 results.

Then I simply hit up some social sites like Digg.com and named the post after these keywords so that they rank in Google and bring a little search engine traffic perhaps. Its too early to really tell how well using SEO doing this actually works, but I suggest it for anyone doing this just because you might as well to get some extra traffic for the days and weeks to come on auto pilot.

2. I answered some questions on yahoo answers. I even started a new account and asked a few questions and worked my website url into the question without it looking spammy. Yea this may be a little grey hat but its not hurting anyone as long as you dont go overboard. It can bring a nice little traffic spike and it doesnt hurt to target a keyword in your question title.

3. I signed up for 4 gmail accounts and set the vaction response so that when people my gmail address they get an automatic email. I used these accounts for craigslist and offered a free ebook in my niche.

I set the autoresponder to basically look like a real message typed by me and informed the reader in my email that they need to head over to my site to get the free guide. They go to m site and opt in to get the free guide, not all of them do but a good bit of them do. This works great as long as you change up all of your messages on craigslist and do not make them look spammy.

Make sure all of the messages are hand written and unique. Just tell them that you offer a free guide and to email you at your gmail address to get it. Now you have craigslist traffic coming in automatically wanting your free guide and you dont even have to touch anything.

I found that about 30% of my post got flagged on craigslist and deleted. I posted around 3 messages per email, so I have around 12 posted on the site right now.

4. Head over to 43things.com and see if they have any big groups in your niche. 43things again is quick to delete your messages but not always. Post a non spamm message in one of the big groups and put your url. Sometimes the only way to do this is to say something like " I found a good free site for this, Look in my profile for the link."

But sometimes you can post your link without any trouble in your post on 43things.com. Really just depends, some of the bigger groups pick up traffic from search engines and this can be great.

Thats all I have done today pretty much to get my 50 double opt ins! Not only that but ive had several emails from people thanking me for offering the guide for free.

So if you really want to build your list fast then do the above. Of course this depends on the niche, my niche to be honest is really not that big. No where near as big as say weight loss or the relationships niche. I imagine if you do the craigslist trick and yahoo answers in bigger niches then you could get alot of opt ins if your post do not get deleted.

I hope this helps some warriors out there, just make sure that if your site is brand new you dont put your link everywhere because this could lead to your site getting sandboxed. When I post my links I try to post different pages of my site so it looks more natural.

Remember to keep SEO in mind when writing titles for post etc. You can even get some of your craigslist postings to rank in Google, but I have found that longer titles for some reason get deleted. Craigslist doesnt really support giving away free ebooks in sections where your not suppose to. So be sneaking about it and don't say in the title thats its a free ebook or guide.

I usually say it in my posting but when I did so in the title my post always got deleted. Now im going to go ahead and create some hub pages, write some more articles for ezine articles and head over to more social sites.

Basically if you want to build a list of 1000 opts in within 7 days it can be done using just social sites along with article directories! So stop looking for that magic bullet and start building your list. I have all the confidence in the world that I will have a hight success rate offering my $7.99 a month membership site to my list.

Some may not agree with this but I have offered them nothing to buy yet! Its all be good free information and then I will start offering my membership site after the relationship is built. After that its rinse and repeat time, before you know it you will have several membership sites bringing in an extra $1000 per month!

Oh and the last thing I forgot to mention in m success which might be pretty big is im using a opt in box that pops up on my site every time a new visitor visits my site. Yes thats right, as soon as they visit my site the opt in box with a picture of my free ebook pops up and this has no doubt raised my opt in rate.

I believe I bought this as a wso for only $7. Not sure if I can mention who sold it to me or not so I will leave it at that right now. Im sure theres other plugins for wordpress that do this so find a opt in box that pops up to raise the opt in rate!

Ok so this is a raw post and im going to end it here. Sorry about any errors or anything as this is raw because im short on time. So newbies get busy building that list. This is a simple little plan to get it going.

Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    LOL, just re read my post and its very sloppy. Sorry about that guys, its was right off my mind and I wanted to just type as I thought without making any edits.
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  • Profile picture of the author ADAMw3
    Craigslist is very strict. I found that you can only post 1 message per day (have only 2 active at a time) per account. What I mean here is pick a city, post your message today. Then tomorrow, pick another city with the same account and post your message. On Thursday, go back to your first message and delete it, then repost it.

    This works for me, but if you are using more than one account, you need to change your ip address, or Craigslist will get smart and realize your just posting the same messages with different accounts.

    Another great way to build opts in SUPER FAST is use a site like adbrite. You can get PPC traffic for $.05! Additionally, you will have to continue to test your opt in page, but for a new campaign, I usually get around a 10% opt in rate using adbrite. Once tweaked, I can easily get that up to 30-40%.

    Obviously, if you spend 20 bucks a day, you will be getting 400 unique visitors a day. 10% is 40 new opt ins. If you can get it up to 30% with some testing, that is 120 easy opt ins a day.

    (I recommend using single opt in for this situation. Remember, it is highly debated whether single or double opt in is better. You also have to remember that single opt in is legal too. For less tech savy niches, you will lose valuable opt ins using double opt in. As you can probably tell, I prefer single opt ins unless I am offering a full blown newsletter.)
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    Great tips Adam! So far most of my craigslist ads are fine. I have another account where I posted around 20 ads in another niche and I just checked it and 14 of them are still active and its been many days.

    So I really think its smart wording and not going overboard, thats why I recommend only posting 3 ads per account per day. Im going to create 2 more accounts later today and see if I can get away with 6 more post.

    But yea in general craigslist is very strict, but so far so good! If nothing else the site can be good for getting some quick opt ins. I am going to head over to ad brite and see what you are talking about, I have heard good things and bad about adbrite. But I find your post very interested and will invest $20 into it and see what happens
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