Showing posts with label Traffic Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traffic Tips. Show all posts

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Traffic Tip 4: Why Do You Need Poor Quality Traffic And How It Can Help Your Website?

Have you ever thought why a lot of bloggers and website owners are into automatic website surfing? And do you think that they are just wasting their time? To tell you the truth, those people doing it are not insane nor wasting their time. They just know how to make great traffic works for them, both poor and good quality traffic that they have been receiving through auto-surfing.

As promised, I will give you a tip today and on subsequent weekends on how I get my traffic, how I used poor quality traffic to get good ones, how I got my PR3 Google ranking, and other stuff that I used to manage this blog successfully. This is the first one of the series of tips that you will get. To be informed in the future of succeeding tips, you can subscribed with my blog by clicking the orange circle logo of Feedburner at the upper right portion of the screen or by just clicking here.

In conventional marketing methodology and newspaper advertisements, it is a rule of thumb that it will take around 9 times of advertisement exposures to get attention of the readers. It means that it will take nine ads to get and experience results in your marketing efforts. The same holds true in internet marketing but I believe it will take more than nine viewing of your website ad for the surfers to take notice of it and even more if you are using only text ads. It is also true that it will take a lot of website visits before you get their full attention.

There is an advantage and a disadvantage in internet ads. The only advantage that you can get is that a webpage is limited in space and if your ad is in the right location, it will surely get a lot of attention once noticed by a reader. The disadvantage is that if you make them visit your site and fail to get their full attention, they can easily leave your site in just one click. But don't worry, somehow they can get back to your site and this is why I told you that it will take more than 9 times of ads or website visits to get them interested to you.

The role of auto-surfing in this marketing technique is very important. First, it is free. Second, some auto-surfing companies offer free text ads, banner ads and of course your website will be viewed many times by the thousand members doing the automatic surfing. The same members are your prospective readers and clients in the future. Since they are members and willing to auto-surf, the chances that they will see your website is great. I know that it takes only a few seconds to see your website when viewed by them but as I told you that the rule of thumb in marketing is that it will take 9 viewing, or more when it comes to internet, to get the surfers attention. To give you a proof that it works, please check out the screen grab of my website google analytics statistic below (click it to expand):










In the figure above, I am using SmileyTraffic.com to do my auto-surfing. So far, it is the only automatic surfing website that I have tested to work for me but I have a plan to try other traffic providers in the future. As you can see, that service alone has given me extra traffic of 922 visitors for a couple of weeks but I haven't done it everyday, only a few hours or minutes, 3 or 4 times a week. Take a look at the Bounce Rate. It is 90.35% (I started100% with it). It means that I didn't get much quality traffic from it. Only 9.65% got interested in really viewing other parts of my blog and probably some of them clicked my Adsense ads or some even subscribed to it. By that 9.65% is actually 88 visitors of 922. That 88 could be in my site before and just decided to stick around for a while because they have been seeing it for quite some time. Look at my "%New Visits". It is 80.91%. They are not all new to my site. 9.09% of them have been there before.

Imagine what my figure will be if I have the time to do the auto-surfing everyday with 5-8 hours a day. So if you have the time more than me and do it, you'll get more traffic than what I already have had. I think you can already get the idea, right?

By the way, you can do auto-surfing while doing something else with your computer. You just need to check it out from time to time to know if it's still running. Sometimes it crashes and stops. And by doing so, somehow you'll see yourself exploring some websites that it prompts you. That is actually the idea, to get the members check out few sites that grab their attention. So, to make your blog more appealing can surely give you better results.

If you want to try SmileyTraffic.com, you can visit them by clicking the URL below:

http://www.SmileyTraffic.com

Another traffic generators that will surely can give you quality traffic is TrafficSwarm.com. It is not an auto-surf company but manual-surf one. It is easy to join but you have to gain 50 points or more to be activated. It means you have to manually surf first before your website can be seen by others. But once you get activated, you will get traffic that has better quality than what you can get from SmileyTraffic.com. You can also refer other blogger's to register and get additional points for free. The more points you get the more exposure your website will get.

I have to repeat this, as the saying goes, "no pain no gain". You have to manually surf first and get 50 points to get activated. You have to work for it. If you just registered and do nothing, you'll get nothing also. So if you are interested to try TrafficSwarm.com, click the URL below:

http://www.TrafficSwarm.com


So that's all for now. Next weekend expect more exciting tips. So keep your subscription. And for those readers who just got here, you can subscribe by clicking the round orange logo on the right sidebar.

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Monday, December 31, 2007

More Traffic For The Year 2008

Happy New Year to you and belated Merry Christmas. I have been busy during Christmas so haven't got a time to greet you. It's better late than never, right?

For the holiday spirit, I have a small gift for you. I would like to tell you that my account with TrafficSwarm.com has been successfully giving me free (Please see my topic about it at Traffic Tip 3: Free Traffic From TrafficSwarm.com). But it didn't give what it promised of 1,000 daily unique visitors. Today, I've got only 10 unique visitors from it. It is only 10 but for me it is better than none at all. To think that I am only starting with it, the 10 visits would be rewarding on a small effort that I gave on doing it. I believe that that 10 will increase gradually in the next few weeks. I just need to surf consistently a few minutes a day and of course, I need to give TrafficSwarm.com new referrals to increase my credits.

So as I've said, this is a little gift that you can only receive if you will jump into the bandwagon. Why don't you join us now by just clicking the link below to register.

http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?752155


By the way, to get the traffic, you need to submit your site's URL and wait for the "Active" status approval. Failure to do so will just bloat your credit points.


Thank you in advance for joining. Once again Happy New Year to you and may you have all the blessings in the new year to come. May your traffic get doubled by the next month :).



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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Traffic Tip 3: Free Traffic From TrafficSwarm.com

Just a few minutes ago, I just registered and tried another site called TrafficSwarm.com that promised a guaranteed traffic of 1,000 visitors daily. I guess there's no harm in trying so I gave it a shot.

How it works

Traffic can be generated through a link to your site from the TrafficSwarm.com website. But your links can only be possibly displayed throughout its network when your account is activated; and to activate, you need to earn first a minimum of 50 credits with your account.

Of course, you need to sign up first with TrafficSwarm.com first to have a chance to earn credit. How to earn credits? There are different ways that you can do to earn credits for free or if you want to earn credit fast, you can purchase it from them. I guess that's how they fairly earn from it because it's not that expensive. But if you prefer to work for your credits, you can do the following:

  • Make TrafficSwarm.com your home page. Everytime you load up your browser, it's equivalent to 1 credit point. Very simple isn't?
  • You're going to earn 100 credit points whenever you successfully referred someone to register to them. So don't blame me if I invite you to join. :)
  • Every time your referral load their TrafficSwarm.com home page, you earn 1 credit point.
  • Click on other users' links on your Start Page and you'll randomly earn between 1 and 1,000 credits for each site you visit depending on the site that you visit.
  • When you use the TrafficSwarm.com search engine, you'll earn from 1 to 1,000 points depending on the site that you visit.
  • You can win up to 25,000 credit points by joining the lottery. I don't know yet how to join, I'm still learning it.
It is not yet clear for me how my credits are consumed. If the activation credit points requirement is only 50 points, I don't know yet how the rest of the points can be used up for my benefits. Will discover that and inform you in the future. For now, I will just set it up.

By the way, I need to install first a Google Analytics for me to possibly count unique visitors. That will be my next topic. After the installation, I hope that I already earn enough points to activate my own account.

So join me now with TrafficSwarm.com... click http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?752155






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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Traffic Tip 2: Publicize With FeedBurner

Now I am back on track. I postponed this topic to give way to two topics that got me carried away because of some useful tips that I got on social bookmarking and Firefox tweaks. I guess my enthusiasm bore a fruit because someone commented on my Firefox topic. :) Yes! The first comment I've got after 28 days. Hooray! But there's a catch; he asked me to visit a site. Wise guy heh! Anyway it's better than none at all.

To go back to my topic (I'm out of track again :) ), FeedBurner offers a handful of free services to publicize your site. I will discuss the three of them here but first you have to sign in first to Feedburner. If you don't have an account yet, click my topic on how to create one at Link Building Step 2: Sign Up To FeedBurner Step By Step. Click on My Feeds and click again the name of the feed that you want to work on. In my case, for example, my feed name is the same as my blog name, so clicked on that and it brought me to the feed tab menu. I Chose the one that said "Publicize".

Ok, so I am now at the "Publicize" display and there's a lot of choices that you can see on submenu at the leftmost column. As I've said, only 3 would be discussed; Pingshot (very important), FeedCounter (equally important), and Chicklet Chooser (very very important).


Pingshot

When you publish new content to your blog, the Pingshot automatically pings different feed reading services. If you are newbie like me and who is clueless about "ping"-ing and what it does. Well, "ping" is definitely not a sound of a gun shot nor a toy gun. I am also a newbie and I am not in the authority of expertise to expound to you what it is all about. Try reading Ping at Wikipedia.

On the left sidebar of the screen, click "Pingshot". It displays a list of all reading services that it can contact on publish of new content. The screen shot below is an example:


Choose the "read services" that you want, but four of them are already checked and can't be unchecked; Technorati, MyYahoo, Bloglines and Newsgator. Me, I also checked Google and Pingomatic and I recommend that you do the same so that there's no need for you to go to the sites of the two services and ping them yourself manually whenever you have new content posted. At the bottom part of the screen before the save button, you can choose 5 more services in dropdown list just like I did at the screen shot above. When done, click the save button.


FeedCounter

Scroll down this page and look at the bottom of the right margin. You can see a light green rectangle that says "readers" inside it and "by feedburner" underneath it. That is the feed counter. To create your own, at your FeedBurner screen, click the FeedCounter option at the left submenu. You will see the same as the screen shot below:


You can have that counter by choosing Blogger in the "Use as widget in"
dropdown list. Click "Go!" button, but be sure that you are logged in Blogger.com before you click that. A new Blogger.com window will appear and then, at that window, Select your blog in the dropdown list and then click "Add Widget". View your blog to see the result. If you want you can rearrange it according to your preference.


Chicklet Chooser

At the FeedBurner submenu, click "Chicklet Chooser". At the screen, choose the feed icon that you want and then at the bottom part of it, you will see again the "Use as widget in" dropdown list. Choose "Blogger", click "Go!" button and then do the same thing that you do in FeedCounter. View the result and rearrange according to your taste.


So that's it. You have now implemented the three important services to automatically publicize your contents.



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Sunday, December 16, 2007

Traffic Tip 1: How To Make Social Bookmarking Work

I was about to blog more about FeedBurner, but a couple of minutes ago, I came across a new traffic tips from trafficdash.blogspot.com that I want to share with you. So, I need to defer the Feedburner for the next post.

I know that I can just ask you to go to that blog and read it yourself. Actually, it is a good idea to explore the site and discover some more.

I just discover it a few minutes ago and read about a simple bookmarking technique that has been under my nose but ignoring. The blog explains it well and I just want to expound it a little more to how I will use it with this blog. After all, this blog is about the blog itself and how it will flourish (if it will be) from startup.

In the next few days, I will be actively participating with the three blog communities that I've already been a member for a more than two months already (but ignoring how it would improve my traffic). I guess I'm just a slow learner that's why I didn't realize the value of these sites. So here's what you're going to see in the next few days; you will see widgets of BlogCatalog.com, MyBlogLog, and Bumpzee in here. Slowly, I will visit a blog or two in each site and join their community, make them my online friends and let's find out if it will bring the traffic. Though, I am not sure if I can do it in a daily basis. I will try.

The objective is to make use of the old-fashion (but still working) people "networking" strategy to get them visit the blog, make them at home, get them used to it and attract them to visit more often.

So if you want to join the fun, why don't you join my own community, let's be friends and increase our blog traffic:

My BlogCatalog community: http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/joprotus
My MyBlogLog community: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/joprotus
My Bumpzee community: http://www.bumpzee.com/blogs/view/14588



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