My new product
I have created a new ebook on keyword research. It’s short (about 10 pages) and to the point.
It covers Keyword Research Basics.
And it’s free.
How to get a free copy of Keyword Research Basics
Would you do me a favor?
My goal in creating this product is to provide the best information out there on traffic generation. If I cannot answer your traffic questions then I have failed.
Unfortunately I don’t know all of your questions.
Will you leave a comment below with your traffic questions?
Some possible questions
- How do I do keyword research?
- How I get my site indexed by Google?
- How do I get my site to rank higher in the search engines?
- How do I use social media to drive traffic?
- How do I get targeted traffic?
- How do I use pay per click?
- How do I do search engine optimization?
- How do I get people to come back to my site?
- How do I use twitter to drive traffic?
- How do I use the article marketing to drive traffic?
What do you think?
I would love to hear your thoughts so leave a comment below!
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Nick would love to see a section or emphasis on FREE traffic sources that are worth something. Also what do you think about traffic exchanges?
I think social media like twitter and stumble upon are great sources of free traffic provided that you have great content.
I think traffic exchanges are a waste of time. You can read about my experience with them here:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/915_case-study-my-recent-experience-with-a-traffic-exchange/
How do I create an affiliate marketing web page?
Are you trying to set up affiliate marketing for product you created? Or are you an affiliate for someone else’s product and you want to set up a page for that?
Are there different SEO rules for Google than for other search engines?
Should I design for Google’s rules and hope the rest falls into place?
I think the rules are slightly different I wouldn’t worry about those differences. Your time is better spent creating fantastic content and building a community.
What is the best traffic tactic to get targeted traffic with the least amount of work?
What is (in your opinion) the greatest untapped traffic source?
Thanks, Trey
If you have money to spend, you can get super targeted traffic with pay per click. But you have to pay for it.
If you’re looking for free traffic sources there is no easy solution that requires no work. If there was then everybody would jump on it and they would no longer be effective.
I believe the greatest untapped traffic source is social media. Sites like twitter and stumble upon can send a ton of traffic to your site. But most people go about it the wrong way. They try to take crap content and make it go viral. But people aren’t going to spread garbage to their friends. So if you make truly fantastic content and social media has the potential to send you a ton of traffic.
If I have a high ranking will my site remain in that spot without doing anything more?
This really depends on your niche. Usually though, your content will become outdated. Or someone else will come up with something even better. This will cause your ranking to slowly go down.
How to use Facebook for traffic ?
Well, this really depends on your niche. Usually though, your content will become outdated. Or someone else will come up with something even better. This will cause your ranking to slowly go down.
Nick,
Best way of doing keyword research?
How do I get my site indexed by Google?
How do I do best search engine optimization for Wordpress?
Best way of using article marketing to drive traffic?
Thanks!
Wayne.
>Best way of doing keyword research?
See the link at the top of this post.
>How do I get my site indexed by Google?
Read: http://nickstraffictricks.com/1162_8-ways-to-get-indexed-by-google-super-fast/
>How do I do best search engine optimization for Wordpress?
Find a good theme and it will be done for you. I recommend Thesis: http://nickstraffictricks.com/2202_my-favorite-theme-for-wordpress/
>Best way of using article marketing to drive traffic?
Read: http://nickstraffictricks.com/1132_advanced-article-marketing/
Hey! Thanks for all the great resources!
I would like to know, not how do I do Article Marketing, but,
How Important it is to the average ranking of a medium competition level?
Thanks again!
Javier
I personally don’t think article marketing is that important I believe some people have done very well with it.
If you’re trying to build a community I recommend focusing on building great content for your visitors.
Hi can you tell me, how to get massive amounts of backlinks with very little effort?
There are numerous ways to build back links but most of them take a lot of time. You can always pay someone else to do this for you and save yourself a lot of time. You’re simply trading money for time.
I don’t know of any way to build massive amounts of back links for little money and little time. If there was I suspect that everyone would do it.
What is the best way to generate free traffic?
A lot of people want to know how to get free traffic so I decided to write a post on the top 5 ways to get free traffic:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/2212_top-5-ways-to-get-free-traffic/
I have used a lot of different free or low cost traffic sources with varied results. Which do you find to be the most effective?
Top 5 ways to get free traffic:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/2212_top-5-ways-to-get-free-traffic/
what is the top 10 most effective methods of getting free traffic?
Read: Top 5 ways to get free traffic:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/2212_top-5-ways-to-get-free-traffic/
How do you keep steedy traffic with out having to update the site on a regulat bases?
Jwff C
If you have a very specific niche with no competition then you can rank high in Google and stay ranked without constantly adding content.
But if you have a lot of competition this will be far more difficult. If you don’t add content you are probably not going to get very much traffic from social media like twitter or stumble upon.
Social Media: Grrr! What a huge elephant. It does not seem to matter how many small bites you take it just doesn’t become any easier to digest. I have a laundry list of questions regarding the Web 2.0 pandemic. However, I would really like to know about deep linking. Everything I read tells me to link to the most current post on your blog O.K. But then they ask for the URL? Color me stupid but where or what is that URL? I know it is not the URL of the blog? Please some info would be appreciated.
Regards,
Peggy
If you go to your blog and click on the link to your newest blog post you should see the URL in your address bar.
For example URL of this post is:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1964_ill-give-you-a-free-copy-of-my-next-traffic-product/
Does that help?
Hi Nick,
For me how about some traffic tips on using rss feed effectively as direct traffic source in addition to backlinks.
Thanks,
Red
For RSS to really work for you you need to do the following:
- Start with really good content that people want to subscribe to
- Place the link for people to subscribe above the fold on your page. Make it really easy for people to see and find.
- Update your blog a regular basis. If you never update your blog RSS will never notify your readers of new content and it probably won’t help you get any traffic.
What is the best way to start an email marketing list?
I wrote a post titled: 12 Steps To Setup An Email Newsletter, Get Traffic, And Make Money
you can read it here:
http://www.nicksinternetmarketing.com/61_12-steps-to-setup-an-email-newsletter-get-traffic-and-make-money/
Hi Nick,
How to become an affiliate marketer i.e. step-by-step instructions?
Is it easy or difficult? How much money is in it? what are the best sources?
How to become an affiliate merchant i.e. step-by-step instructions?
Which networks i.e. linkshare, shareasale, etc. is the best and cost little?
Thanks,
Rob
The answer to your question is long and complicated. So I will save all the gritty details for a future blog post but I will share a few insights that I have right now.
I would estimate that 3% of affiliate marketers make 97% of the money. This means that nearly everybody who starts out in affiliate marketing will never make any money. Those that figure out how to do it correctly can become very wealthy.
So one thing you need to do to be successful in affiliate marketing is to first identify a market (not a product!). Figure out what people are hungry for and then look for product to satisfy that hunger. Most people starting out do just the opposite.
Once you’ve found a market and a product you need to figure out how many units you need to sell to make it worth your while. For example if your goal is to make $6000 a month and you are trying to sell $1 widgets then you will need to sell 6000 of widgets. This means you have to sell 200 widgets every single day. If you have a conversion rate of 5% (5 out of 100 visitors buys) then you will need 4000 visitors to your website every day so you can make 200 sales. That a fair amount of traffic for most niches.
On the other hand if you are selling widgets for $200 then you only have to make one sale per day. If you have a conversion rate of 1% (1 out of 100 visitors buys a widget) then you will need 100 visitors to your website every day to make 1 sale.
100 visitors each day is far easier than 4000 visitors everyday.
Selling more expensive products can cut down on the amount of traffic you need.
There are many different affiliate networks and each one has great products that you can promote. Just find a market first and then look for product. I would select the network that had the products that best matched by market.
The other problem with affiliate marketers is that they all do the same thing. They all put up the same banner ads and try to generate traffic with the same methods and they end up not making any money.
For example, let’s say there is $500 a day to be made in the widget market. So if you’re the only selling widgets then you should be able to make $500 a day with the single sales page banner ad. But when 500 people start selling widgets with the same sales page and banner ad then that $500 a day is split between 500 people. The average person is going to only make $1 per day.
So to make it in affiliate marketing you need to do something to make you stand out. You need to figure out how to give more value than anyone else. This could be in the form of comprehensive product reviews. This could be in the form of the building a community where you answer peoples questions and they trust you and so they buy from you.
Is this Product still available
It is coming out in a couple weeks. The holidays slowed down the product development.
You can now download it. There is a link inside the post.
Hey, Nick!
Where are you, man? You have all of us here waiting for your new product for more thatn a couple of weeks already!
Please let us know how is it going, and when will we be able to see it.
Happy new year, and best wishes!
Thanks Javier! You can now download it. There is a link inside the post.
Hi Nick, my question is, what are the best free offline methods to get traffic to your online business?
thanks
thanks
Good question. I haven’t really done much with off-line marketing but I would really like to.
There are so many different ways to get traffic with off-line marketing I think it really depends a lot on your niche. There is a book called Guerrilla Marketing which details numerous ways to build your business for very cheap.
One of the best ways to get traffic off-line is to network with people in niches related to your own. So if you had a wedding dress business and website you could network with wedding planners, wedding cake makers, wedding invitation sellers, etc.
my is qustion, Is Social Media network like Yuwie, twitter, facebook can sent converted and good traffic ??
is that traffic only vonvert good adsense reveneu or CPA traffic too ??
Wow, You are doing it again Nick!!
Left a comment earlier today asking about leaving comments on sites to increase traffic and links so I thought I would remind you about it so I could be included in your awesome offer here!
Another question would be, what are the best little tricks of getting visibility in a crowded niche.
Thanks again Nick, am looking forward to this! Am following your updates on RSS now!
Ty,
I am currently bombarded with questions and haven’t had time yet to answer them. I plan to answer many of them in future posts.
Hi Nick,
Due to circumstances beyond my control
I am very interested in methods of obtaining
FREE targeted traffic.
Thanks.
Mel
A wrote a post answering a specific question:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/2212_top-5-ways-to-get-free-traffic/
How do I increase my Google page rank?
Another question, if I do not have a great number of friends in Facebook, what is the best way to get traffic from there?
You can increase your Google page rank by building more back links. But I have come to believe that Google page rank doesn’t really matter as much anymore. I posted a video about this here:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1924_video-google-pagerank-doesnt-matter/
Facebook has an option where you can buy traffic is very targeted. Another option is to build a “fan of” page for your website or product.
Hey Nick:
I guess I’m not like your regular visitors – I’m a freelance writer. So I’m more interested in getting the keywords into well written articles that will then generate traffic on places like Suite101, eHow, or even Examiner. Suite and eHow pay based on ads my readers click, so in the end…its the same thing!
Every article needs begin with a fantastic title. A title that grabs you hook, headline, and sinker. I wrote about writing good headlines here:
http://www.nicksinternetmarketing.com/39_4-tips-for-creating-blog-post-titles-that-grab-you-hook-headline-and-sinker/
As a writer you may already know all of this.
Another idea is to write about things that people really care about, like things that cause them pain. This pain can be physical or emotional or mental. People who are in some kind of pain are looking for information on how to alleviate their pain.
We have almost completed a new website for our company. We have already bought the right domain name (it contains the right keywords). Can you suggest some cheap (read:inexpensive) ways to generate traffic to my new website?
Thanks
Vishal
Sure thing.
Start with great content on your site.
Then start building backlinks and use social media. Do you have a twitter account that people can follow you on?
Yes I do have a twitter account. The video you posted about how to increase traffic through social media has been removed for some reason. Is it available elsewhere? how does it work?
I have no idea what YouTube removed the video I don’t have it posted anywhere else.
However I have covered twitter in some depth in several blog posts:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1175_how-to-get-traffic-from-twitter/
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1791_10-ways-to-get-more-traffic-from-twitter/
http://www.twitip.com/7-ways-to-create-a-professional-twitter-presence/
http://www.twitip.com/how-i-will-add-1000-twitter-followers-this-year/
When you cloak your original url to atain a better domain name/url ( containing your main keyword ) , what url is spidered first by google , the new cloaked url or are the spiders still detecting the original poor url first and how will it affect the traffic you get from the search engines ?
There is no way to tell which URL the spiders will find first. I’m not totally sure how cloaking affects your search engine rankings.
Instead, I usually start by choosing the right keywords and then buy the domain with those keywords in it. This way I don’t have to do any cloaking.
Hi Nick,
Love everything on your site! And I was happily surprised today when I got the link for your Keyword Research pdf in my Inbox.
I’ve shared it with my “peeps” today on my blog at http://tastingtheinternet.com/social-media-blog. And I’ve added a link back to you for all the other great free resources you offer.
Thanks!
Terri
Thanks so much Terri.
Having got the right keywords for a PPC campaign, how about something on writing the ads themselves. Not a lot of room to manouver , and yet you want qualified leads coming though.
There have been books written about this very topic. But I will try to keep this short.
First thing is to get in the mindset of your client. What are they looking for? Of all the benefits and features of your particular product, which single one do they care about most? As you said, you don’t have a lot of room so you need to pick the most important one.
Another thing you can do is search for your keywords on Google and look at which ads show up. Make note of these ads and see if they are there the next day. Do this every day for a week and if the same ads keep appearing then they probably have a decent click through rate.
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