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It’s Summer and both of my boys are home so every day has been pretty hectic. So I am sharing another of my Warrior Forum articles. I am only selecting the most popular to share in my blogs. I hope you enjoy!
Finding new traffic strategies is the goal of 99.9% of Internet marketers and business owners. The opportunities and benefits that new traffic resources offer are endless. However, countless resources are relatively unused and considered “new” to many people online.
Using these unused traffic resources can achieve dynamic and astounding results for your website, videos and articles.
Below I listed 7 powerful and creative traffic strategies for maximizing traffic and exposure to your website or blog, videos and articles.
1. Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is an immensely compelling and effective strategy for attracting traffic to your website. In fact, one blog comment can generate hundreds of unique visitors to your website or blog.
However, the majority of bloggers overlook or undervalue the benefits of blog commenting. Also, in addition to boosting your website’s traffic, blog commenting is a fantasticl way to establish crucial relationships with other bloggers.
And these relationships can lead to guest posting opportunities, backlinks, interviews, and more.
Blog Commenting Tips
- In order to optimize your comments for the most traffic, you’ll want to make sure that you’re one of the first to comment. The earlier you comment, the more exposure you’re going to get because your comment will be at the top of the page.
- And, ensure that your comment provides valuable and useful information. You want your comment to get a lot of attention. And again, you achieve this by adding intelligent and detailed comments that enhance the conversation.
- If you do this frequently on several high-profile blogs you could atrract gobs of traffic to your blog and build invaluable relationships with your fellow bloggers.
2. Guest Blogging
An awesome option to get tons of great exposure and laser-targeted traffic is guest blogging. You are probably thinking that this is not a new traffic source. But not many people actually do it. In fact, very few Internet marketers or business owners use this exceptionally compelling strategy
Guest Blogging Tips
- It’s an excellent option to display your content to an entirely new audience. And the icing on the cake, is that your name, your brand, and a link back to your website or blog is added to the end of all your post.
- How do you get a top rank and popular blog to post your content? You have to promote and display your best content.
- You also need to establish relationship with the blogger that you want to guest post for. You probably thinking” how the heck am I going to do this?” But it is not difficult.
- To start a relationship with other bloggers, begin by writing intelligent and useful comments on their blog…comments that will get display your knowledge. Do it for several days and even a week or two and then email the blogger advising them how much you like their blog.
- Send them a personal and distinctive email, complimenting their work. Please be sincere. The blogger will recognize your name since you’ve been writing insightful and valuable comments on their blogs for a while.
- After developing a relationship with them, you can contact them about doing a blog post and most likely they will graciously agree to post your article (as long as it contains exceptionally useful content).
- Then you can showcase your content in front of thousands of new readers. Guest blogging is one of the best ways to boost your traffic and exposure.
3. Submit Your Site to “Cool Site of the Day”
This site is an amazing traffic source!! It lists some of the most interesting sites from around the web. Best of all, you can submit your own site as well if you think it’s good enough. This site offers a fantastic link opportunity and Cool Site of the Day is known for attracting thousands of visitors to their featured sites.
Facts About “Cool Site of the Day“
- If your site is selected, it’s featured on the homepage and promoted to their email list of over 150,000 subscribers.
- The featured sites many times are selected by journalist around the world. And many sites that have been featured in past, have appeared on the BBC News website, featured in USA Today, selected by radio stations and countless other important media outlets.
- Other sites that are similar to Cool Site of the Day that you can submit content to: Yahoo Picks, Top Site of the Day, AskMen, Blackstump, Family First
4. Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allows you to hire people to do a wide variety time consuming, simple tasks.
Many people have heard about but overlook the powerful marketing benefits it provides.
Benefits of Mechanical Turk
- You can have people on Mechanical Turk do almost anything… vote for your video on YouTube, post comments on your YouTube videos, submit your articles to social media and bookmarking sites, etc… And cost just a few pennies.
- For instance, let’s say you wanted to get your article on EzineArticle.com to be displayed in “most viewed” section. Doing this would allow you to get a ton of extra exposure and hundreds of internal backlinks within the EzineARticles website itself. To do this, you would go to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and setup what they call a HIT (Human Intelligence Task).
- You would then buy hits for people to view your article. But you don’t want to do to fast (approx. 25 or so per day).
- You would pay about 4 cents per hit. Also, don’t republish the hit. Just make a big one and say 200 hits and then pause or re update the hit. This way the same worker won’t redo the hit.
- There are many, many more tasks you can use Mechanical Turk for. You can use it for Diggs, Stumbles, YouTube votes, YouTube comments, etc…
5. Give Away Coupons
A great and creative resource to attract traffic is to give away coupons and advertise them in coupon directories. If your site promotes coupons of any kind, you can submit your site to hundreds of different coupon websites online for extra exposure and traffic. By submitting your site to coupon directories, you are also creating invaluable one-way backlinks to your website or blog.
List of Coupons Sites to Submit Your Coupons to:
Ultimate Coupons
FreeShipping.org
SuperCoolCoupons
Coupon Cabin
Deal Taker
Also check out the link below
List of Top 15 Coupon Sites of 2012
6. Add Video Response to Your Video Marketing
Video marketing is an amazingly effective marketing tactic that is relatively untapped by many business owners and marketers. You can turbo charge it by adding video responses This is a really easy strategy that will significantly boost your YouTube video views. This simple technique can get you thousands of extra views on a single video.
Video Responses Tips to Skyrocket Your YouTube Videos
- Few people are taking advantage of this amazing technique…
- Here’s how you do it:
- You need to upload a video to YouTube.com, then you need to find a similar video that has LOTS of views. For instance, you I create a video about playing tennis, then you would look for a related video about playing tennis that has lots of views.
- After finding a popular related video, you then post a video response. So you’ll need to look below the video in the section called “Video Responses”. On the right hand-side you’ll see a blue link that says “Post a Video Response”. Click on that link and you will then be taken to a page where you can post a video response.
- Click on the link in the center that says, “Choose a Video”. From here you will choose one of the videos you have already uploaded on YouTube and click on the button that says, “Respond with This Video”. You need to select a related video to post a video response to.
- After you have posted a video response, you can go back to the video and you will now see that your video is listed in the Video Responses section.
- As a result, if you have posted a video response to a very popular video, you can get thousands of views coming to your video from the video response you’ve just posted. This is one of the easiest ways to divert traffic to your videos.
This strategy is extremely effective as well as powerful and it can generate thousands of extra visitors to your videos. All you have to do is post a video response to popular videos related to the topic of your video.
7. High-Profile Content Syndication
Posting your articles to article directories like Ezine Articles and Article Base is not as effective as it was in the past. To skyrocket your article marketing efforts you need to submit your articles to high-profile content syndication sites.
What High-profile Content Syndication?
- Rather than submitting your articles to article directories, you submit them to the top websites and blogs related to your niche.
- For instance, if your blog is related to Internet Marketing, then you can submit your articles to sites like BetterNetworker.com, Startup.biz, Mashable.com and Site-Reference.com.
- If you have a website related to parenting, or home business ideas for moms you could submit articles to www.momsnetwork.com/Submit
- If you have a finance website or blog , you could submit articles to http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/submitarticle.html.
- There are countless extremely popular websites that you could be submitting articles to get a massive traffic surge no matter what your niche is.
Another awesome site that you can submit your articles is Ning Communities. There is an endless amount (there are thousand) of Ning Social Networks online on every subject under the sun.
You need to login to Ning.com and search for a community that is similar to your target market. Then find one that has over 1,000 members and start getting involved in the community.
You can contribute articles in EVERY Ning community and they are displayed on the FRONT PAGE. This is an invaluable and compelling marketing tactic for your website or blog. And will generate tons of quality traffic.
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