I've created this guide to show you step-by-step
how to get your
first 100,000 visitors.
Many, many hours have gone into creating this
guide. But that was
just the writing part. I’ve spent 7+ years actually
learning,
implementing, and testing these strategies – now
served up
to you on a silver platter :)
Listed below our my top 23 favorite traffic
strategies.
Or as I like to call them – “traffic engines”.
Just one of them can instantly boost your traffic.
Master all of them and you’ll be well on your way
to becoming
a Traffic Jedi.
Your 23-step roadmap to 100,000+ visitors…
1. Create EPIC Content.
Creating EPIC content is BY FAR the best way to
attract thousands of visitors from social media
AND from Google :)
In fact, Google rewards EPIC posts. They LOVE
content rich websites.
In fact, research has shown that the top 10 results
for the majority of keywords in Google have an
average content length of at least 2,000 words.
Plus, longer content naturally attracts more links.
So if you want thousands of organic visitors from
the search engines, write epic content for your
readers.
When I sit down to write a new blog post – I’m not
thinking about how many words does this have to
be or how can I get the very best keywords in the
title.
That’s LAME.
Instead – I’m thinking about how I can provide
EPIC value that stops at nothing short of a
braingasm.
I don’t want casual readers. I want rabid fans!
And building a tribe of rabid fans all starts with
creating EPIC value.
Next step… Once you’ve created something epic,
you need to make sure other people find out
about it.
This is where the marketing side of the equation
comes in.
Just a little bit of momentum will do :)
All you have to do is get the snowball rolling.
2. Social Media Seeding
Social media is making it easier to share and
spread your content
than ever before. EVERYONE online now has a
circle of influence that
you can tap into IF you’re providing massive
value.
By submitting your blog post within your own
social networks you’ll be able to spark that initial
momentum to get your first hundred visitors.
And if you’ve created truly epic content, you’ll
start getting retweets and Facebook likes that can
quickly become a traffic snowball.
This is KEY for getting your content to go viral.
Plus, you can also ‘seed’ your content on sites like
JustRetweet.com.
JustRetweet is a social sharing community. It’s
essentially a huge blogging alliance that works
together to promote each others content.
This is a super simple strategy for getting your
first 20-30 retweets
and Facebook likes. Which will immediately kick
off your first bit
of momentum.
Whenever I have an especially good article, I also
like to do a Promoted Facebook post as well.
This is an easy way to get more of your Facebook
Fans to see and click on your post. If you have a
nice size fan base. This is one of the easiest ways
to drive hundreds of extra visitors to your new
blog post.
3. Google Authorship
You can instantly start getting more traffic to your
blog using
Google Authorship.
By adding just a few lines of code to your blog you
can get your
photo next to your search results and instantly
start getting
MORE traffic.
But this isn’t just pie-in-the-sky theory I’m
throwing around.
Back in January 2012, a search marketing firm
named Catalyst
confirmed through their own research that
Google’s rich snippets
do indeed increase CTR and traffic.
Google has stated that rich snippets do not
increase your search engine rankings. However,
you can imagine if you have your photo next to
the search results it’s going to have a BIG
influence on how many people click-through your
link versus somone else’s.
And of course – it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of
entertainment thrown in :)
Need traffic? Create something EPIC.
Until then… stop whining.
4. Submit to the top 25-50 Scoop.it Pages.
Here’s one of the fastest ways to get backlinks
and additional traffic to your latest blog post.
If you haven’t heard of Scoop.it yet, it’s basically a
content aggregator that pulls together the very
best content on thousands of different topics.
It’s kind of like social bookmarking but with a
more visual, magazine-like format.
As a content creator, you can search for your
specific topic and submit your latest article to the
creator of that particular Scoop.it page.
You’ll see a link at the top of each Scoop.it pages
that allows you to submit a suggested link. It takes
all of 10 seconds to suggest your link.
If they decide to share your link, it gets published
and any followers of that page also get notified
(instant backlink and high-quality traffic).
Resources:
How To Curate Content and Build Authority With
Scoop.it
A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content
Curation
An In-Depth Guide to Scoop.it
5. Kickstart your promotion with a
StumbleUpon ad
If you want to kickstart your
content promotion you can
spend $10-$20 on
StumbleUpon ads. With
StumbleUpon you can get
clicks for just 10 cents per
visitor.
(But keep in mind if you’ve
created some great content
you’ll also get lots of organic stumbles – which will
decrease the cost.)
We get many of our StumbleUpon ads for an
effective cpc of just 5 cents per visitor because
the ad also generates a lot of organic votes as
well.
On StumbleUpon you can target specific groups of
people. Everyone from personal finance
enthusiasts to bird watchers. Fitness fanatics or
photographers. There are hundreds of targeting
options to choose from.
So for a small investment you can give your article
a quick boost. This gives you that initial
momentum to get your blog post going viral. Once
your blog post hits a tipping point – it spreads
quickly via social media.
6. Submit your blog post to popular Link
Roundups.
Here’s a cool traffic trick for you…
This one is super simple and can bring you
hundreds of extra visitors.
Once you’ve created some EPIC content – simply
submit your blog post to Weekly Link Roundups.
What????
Ok, so you might be wondering what a link
roundup is?
They’re basically where blogger’s post their
favorite links and articles each week in what’s
called a Link Roundup. These are generally a
collection of their favorite blog posts from around
the blogosphere.
One of my favorite Link Roundups can be found
at Kikolani.com.
I’ve been listed in numerous releases of Kristi’s
Friday Roundups.
She ROCKS!
Here’s how it works…
You start by finding Link roundups within your
market.
Simply type in the following search queries on
Google:
“Daily Link Roundup”
“Weekly Link Roundup”
“Monday Link Roundup”
“Friday Link Roundup”
“Link Roundup”
If you want to find blogs that are specifically
related to your market, then you can add a
modifier. Something like:
“Weekly Link Roundup” + marketing
“Weekly Link Roundup” + moms
“Weekly Link Roundup” + parenting
You can also use these same queries on sites like
Google Plus or Twitter Search.
This will give you a list of related blogs that do
weekly link roundups.
Best of all, there are thousands of blogs that do
these link roundups on every imaginable topic.
Now here’s where you come in…
Once you’ve found a related blog that does link
roundups you can then contact the blog owner
and send them a link to your latest blog post.
If you’ve published truly great content, then
there’s a very good chance that they will link to
you in their weekly link roundup.
Super simple and it can send you hundreds of
high-quality visitors. Not to mention some of the
best backlinks available online :)
7. Blog Hops
Here’s another super simple strategy you can use
to get hundreds of extra visitors to your blog post.
(Do you see how these strategies start stacking
up?)
It’s something called a ‘Blog Hop’ (also known as a
link party)
It’s kind of like a ‘link roundup’ but with a few
twists.
Every week, bloggers all around the web host link
parties.
It’s an opportunity for other bloggers to add their
latest blog post
to the link party. In return – you get extra traffic
to your website.
This is one of the best (and easiest) ways to get
your blog posts in front of new readers.
Each party has a theme or topic – so you’ll need
to find related
link parties to submit your latest blog post to.
The blog host uses a WordPress plugin (such as
inlinkz.com or linkytools.com) that allows users to
submit a link, upload a thumbnail and then
publish it to the link party.
Some link parties allow you to post a photo while
others are text
links only. Be sure to include an enticing title /
headline.
Most link parties are centered around the
following topics:
Crafts
Recipes
Mom Blogs
Homeschooling
Teachers
Wedding
Fitness – low fat recipes
Organizing
So if you’re in ANY of these markets – put this on
your to-do list today!
Link parties can easily send you hundreds of extra
visitors each week.
Plus, you get to form great relationships with
some cool peeps :)
*** Important Note: Submit your link as EARLY as
possible. The links are listed in the order that they
are submitted. So if you’re the first person to
submit a link to the link party – then you’ll be
listed first on the page. (And also get a lot more
traffic)
8. Convert your article into Powerpoint
and submit to Slideshare.
Now that you’ve syndicated your content around
the web using Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus,
StumbleUpon, link parties, and Scoop.it – let’s
now shift our focus into new content platforms.
One of the biggest mistakes bloggers make is they
create hundreds of articles each year – but they
never ‘repurpose’ those articles for additional
traffic and backlinks.
If you’ve put in the hours to create EPIC content –
then you should also be repurposing that content
into multiple formats to quickly tap into new
traffic pools.
So first up we’re going to convert our article into a
Powerpoint. Turn each main point in your article
into an eye-popping PowerPoint slide.
You can then submit your Powerpoint
presentation to top sites like SlideShare.net,
SlideRocket.com, Slideburner.com and
SlideBoom.com. These are great sites for high PR
backlinks AND exposing your content to a
completely new audience.
How to Milk Slideshare for
Moo' Website Traffic from Ana Hoffman
Resources:
Slideshare Traffic Case Study: From 0 to 243,000
Views in 30 Days
How to Milk SlideShare Homepage for All the
Traffic You Can Handle
Attract 100,000 Pageviews in 1 Month Using
Slideshare
How to Generate Leads with Slideshare
9. Convert your article into a PDF.
Simply by converting your article (or a group of
articles) into a PDF you can now pull in extra
traffic from the top document sharing sites
online.
In fact – if you want to automate the entire
process you can have your virtual assistant to
convert each article into a PDF. You can do this
for free at Doc2Pdf.net.
(Quick Note: I personally don’t like to duplicate
the content on my site so I would recommend
either rewriting your article OR creating a unique
article for this particular strategy.)
Then from there you can have your virtual
assistant to submit your PDF to the top 15-20
document sharing sites online.
Scribd.com
Docstoc.com
Slideshare.net (also accepts PDFs)
Issuu.com
WePapers.com
MyPlick.com
Powershow.com
Slidesix.com
Empressr.com
AuthorStream.com
Calameo.com
Yudu.com
Edocr.com
PDFCast.org
Here’s a full list:
http://blog.ribbun.com/document-sharing-sites-
for-seo/
10. Ebook Directories
Once you’ve written at least 25 articles on your
blog – turn it into an ebook and submit to the top
ebook directories online.
Regardless of which market you’re in, you can
generate additional traffic from ebook directories
like E-Library.net.
Or – why not go full hog and publish your book in
the Kindle marketplace.
11. Kindle Traffic
Publishing your ebook on Kindle is one of the best
ways to attract
‘buyer traffic’.
Plus, Google LOVES Amazon pages and gives
theme preferential ranking
because they’re a HUGE authority website online.
This is why it’s soooooo important to do your
keyword research when
choosing your title and optimizing your Kindle
page.
With just a little bit of link building – you can get
your Kindle
book on the front page of Google. Leveraging off
of their authority
platform.
I call this a “Google Backdoor”.
Plus – you don’t have to write your ebook from
scratch. You can repurpose and reuse your old
blog posts to create your completed ebook.
With your new Kindle book – you can create a
new revenue stream in your business AND build
your subscriber list.
Be sure to offer a ‘bonus gift’ at the beginning and
end of EVERY Kindle book.
This will allow you to build your subscriber list.
Remember, people that buy Kindle books are
proven buyers. Some of THE most valuable traffic
you can tap into.
So if this all sounds pretty cool – be sure to read
some of the more extensive guides below…
Resources:
How to Make Money with Amazon Kindle Books
61 Ways to Sell More Nonfiction Kindle Books
72 Places to Promote Your Kindle Ebook
12. Audio Submissions
Now let’s take this a step further and convert our
content into audio.
Simply grab your headset and record yourself
talking into the microphone.
You can do this using some free software like
Audacity.
After recording, you can submit your file to the
top audio sharing sites online. One of my
favorites being SoundCloud.com. Or you can
automate the entire process using Fiverr.
VERY few people are doing this and it opens you
up to an entirely new audience. Plus, it creates
high-quality backlinks as well :)
Or, if you’d really like to take your traffic to the
next level, I recommend starting your very own
podcast…
13. Podcasting
Starting a podcast is one of
the best ways to tap into an
entirely new traffic pool.
Plus, it can do wonders for
building your brand.
Regardless of your niche –
you can use podcasting to
grow your audience.
Podcasting allows you to
instantly tap into the
massive traffic on sites like
iTunes, Stitcher, and Blackberry.com.
Plus, this is some of the highest quality traffic you
can get. These are by far some of the most
affluent consumers online. So not only are you
tapping into a rich new traffic source, but you’re
also reaching people who are frequent online
customers.
iTunes has over 500,000,000 active buyers in their
marketplace.
The average podcast listener is affluent, highly
educated, and highly responsive.
Plus, the iTunes marketplace is still fairly
untapped.
You can easily re-purpose your existing content
and connect with an wntirely new audience on
iTunes.
Creating a podcast show is something I’ve put on
the top of my to-do list.
But in the meantime you can learn from the case
studies below…
Resources:
How to Start a Podcast – Step-by-Step Tutorial
How I Reached #1 on iTunes: A Guide to
Launching a Podcast
How to Podcast for Free Traffic
14. Blogging Communities
There are a number of communities online where
you can submit your content for instant exposure.
Some of my favorites include BlogEngage.com,
Blokube.com, BizSugar.com, ImNewsWatch.com,
Inbound.org, Serpd.com, FamousBloggers.net,
and MySEOCommunity.com.
These are social communities that allow bloggers
to share their favorite content, vote on the best
articles, and build their social network.
But like any online community – the key is to
provide VALUE to others FIRST.
So before you start blasting your own articles to
the site – ENGAGE with the community. Share
OTHER people’s articles first. Comment and start
building relationships.
Once you’ve done that, then you can start sharing
some of your own stuff.
But get in the trenches first!
Provide value FIRST and you will reap MUCH
greater rewards for your efforts and from the
community.
Find out where YOUR target market hangs out
online and position yourself in front of them. This
is traffic 101 in a nutshell.
15. Blog Content Aggregators
If you’re regularly publishing great content on a
weekly basis – you can get hundreds of extra
visitors each week from sites like AllTop.com,
Affposts.com, AffBuzz.com, and AffDaily.com.
These are content aggregators that pull in the
best content from around the web.
AllTop.com in particular has sections for almost
every topic under the sun.
So whether you blog about pets or parenting –
this is an additional traffic stream you can tap
into in ANY market.
And the cool thing is they’re always looking for
new blogs to publish.
Simply find a relevant category and submit your
blog at
http://alltop.com/submission/
Or – if you have a site related to affiliate
marketing, SEO, or blogging then you can get
hundreds of new weekly visitors from sites like
Affposts.com, AffBuzz.com, and AffDaily.com.
16. Build your Blogging Alliance
The most successful bloggers online have a secret
that they rarely mention in public.
It’s a bit of a secret society.
But without the hidden passwords and funny
hand shakes.
In fact, most of their meetings rarely happen in
person.
And it’s generally a small group of people.
A handful of like-minded bloggers who
strategically work together to grow their blogs
faster.
If you look at any of the most popular blogs
online – you’ll find that almost ALL of them have
formed a strategic alliance of some sort – whether
it be informal or strategically planned.
This closed door group is one of the key parts of
growing a large, successful blog online. No one
gets to the top by themselves. You simply cannot
build your business to its greatest potential
without also building relationships with other like-
minded entrepreneurs.
Members of a blogging alliance help each other in
a variety of ways:
* Commenting on each others blogs
* Link to each other.
* Swap Guest Posts
* Share each other’s content on sites like Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Plus.
* Promote each other’s products.
* And much, much more…
As you probably know – it can get a bit lonely
working behind your computer all day long. But
within a mastermind you’re able to share results,
bounce off ideas, and help each other to grow
faster.
But the blogging alliance has a secret code.
It’s a small tweak that makes the whole thing
work…
* No one in the alliance is playing for themselves.
Each member looks for ways to help the OTHER
person first.
Give unconditionally – and it will come back 100x.
With a group of blogging friends, you literally have
traffic on tap simply by sending out an email, IM,
or Skype message.
But the RELATIONSHIP comes first.
And when you put the RELATIONSHIP first. When
you put GIVING first, you’ll be amazed at all of the
incredibly powerful synergies that come from
that.
17. Have FUN!
Hey, you made it to the very last step. I’m
impressed :)
And you’re in for a treat because step #23 is really
the secret sauce of success.
Having FUN!!
You must be passionate about the game of
business.
And most importantly, you must be passionate
about your subscribers and fans. (Serving your
Tribe)
Success requires a BURNING DESIRE, an all-
consuming obsession.
This is NOT about buying another course or
reading another ebook.
This is about doing it, doing it, doing it.
Building a business requires an amazing amount
of persistence and
a good bit of elbow grease. And that kind of
persistence MUST be backed by PASSION. Passion
is what gets you up in the morning and keeps you
working late into the night.
If you want to win this game, you must center
your business around
something you truly love. Don’t choose a market
just because some guru told you it was profitable.
You’ll lose interest quickly… and some of you
probably already know what I’m talking about :)
But when you’re building a business around your
passions – you’ll have the drive that it takes to
work late into the night, cranking out new content
for your readers.
You have to love the journey more than the
results. You have to love your customers more
than the bottom line.
Commit to something greater than yourself.
Devote yourself to your community. Focus on
providing overwhelming value and you’ll be
surprised at how quickly success comes your way.
how to get your
first 100,000 visitors.
Many, many hours have gone into creating this
guide. But that was
just the writing part. I’ve spent 7+ years actually
learning,
implementing, and testing these strategies – now
served up
to you on a silver platter :)
Listed below our my top 23 favorite traffic
strategies.
Or as I like to call them – “traffic engines”.
Just one of them can instantly boost your traffic.
Master all of them and you’ll be well on your way
to becoming
a Traffic Jedi.
Your 23-step roadmap to 100,000+ visitors…
1. Create EPIC Content.
Creating EPIC content is BY FAR the best way to
attract thousands of visitors from social media
AND from Google :)
In fact, Google rewards EPIC posts. They LOVE
content rich websites.
In fact, research has shown that the top 10 results
for the majority of keywords in Google have an
average content length of at least 2,000 words.
Plus, longer content naturally attracts more links.
So if you want thousands of organic visitors from
the search engines, write epic content for your
readers.
When I sit down to write a new blog post – I’m not
thinking about how many words does this have to
be or how can I get the very best keywords in the
title.
That’s LAME.
Instead – I’m thinking about how I can provide
EPIC value that stops at nothing short of a
braingasm.
I don’t want casual readers. I want rabid fans!
And building a tribe of rabid fans all starts with
creating EPIC value.
Next step… Once you’ve created something epic,
you need to make sure other people find out
about it.
This is where the marketing side of the equation
comes in.
Just a little bit of momentum will do :)
All you have to do is get the snowball rolling.
2. Social Media Seeding
Social media is making it easier to share and
spread your content
than ever before. EVERYONE online now has a
circle of influence that
you can tap into IF you’re providing massive
value.
By submitting your blog post within your own
social networks you’ll be able to spark that initial
momentum to get your first hundred visitors.
And if you’ve created truly epic content, you’ll
start getting retweets and Facebook likes that can
quickly become a traffic snowball.
This is KEY for getting your content to go viral.
Plus, you can also ‘seed’ your content on sites like
JustRetweet.com.
JustRetweet is a social sharing community. It’s
essentially a huge blogging alliance that works
together to promote each others content.
This is a super simple strategy for getting your
first 20-30 retweets
and Facebook likes. Which will immediately kick
off your first bit
of momentum.
Whenever I have an especially good article, I also
like to do a Promoted Facebook post as well.
This is an easy way to get more of your Facebook
Fans to see and click on your post. If you have a
nice size fan base. This is one of the easiest ways
to drive hundreds of extra visitors to your new
blog post.
3. Google Authorship
You can instantly start getting more traffic to your
blog using
Google Authorship.
By adding just a few lines of code to your blog you
can get your
photo next to your search results and instantly
start getting
MORE traffic.
But this isn’t just pie-in-the-sky theory I’m
throwing around.
Back in January 2012, a search marketing firm
named Catalyst
confirmed through their own research that
Google’s rich snippets
do indeed increase CTR and traffic.
Google has stated that rich snippets do not
increase your search engine rankings. However,
you can imagine if you have your photo next to
the search results it’s going to have a BIG
influence on how many people click-through your
link versus somone else’s.
And of course – it doesn’t hurt to have a bit of
entertainment thrown in :)
Need traffic? Create something EPIC.
Until then… stop whining.
4. Submit to the top 25-50 Scoop.it Pages.
Here’s one of the fastest ways to get backlinks
and additional traffic to your latest blog post.
If you haven’t heard of Scoop.it yet, it’s basically a
content aggregator that pulls together the very
best content on thousands of different topics.
It’s kind of like social bookmarking but with a
more visual, magazine-like format.
As a content creator, you can search for your
specific topic and submit your latest article to the
creator of that particular Scoop.it page.
You’ll see a link at the top of each Scoop.it pages
that allows you to submit a suggested link. It takes
all of 10 seconds to suggest your link.
If they decide to share your link, it gets published
and any followers of that page also get notified
(instant backlink and high-quality traffic).
Resources:
How To Curate Content and Build Authority With
Scoop.it
A Comprehensive Guide to Scoop.it for Content
Curation
An In-Depth Guide to Scoop.it
5. Kickstart your promotion with a
StumbleUpon ad
If you want to kickstart your
content promotion you can
spend $10-$20 on
StumbleUpon ads. With
StumbleUpon you can get
clicks for just 10 cents per
visitor.
(But keep in mind if you’ve
created some great content
you’ll also get lots of organic stumbles – which will
decrease the cost.)
We get many of our StumbleUpon ads for an
effective cpc of just 5 cents per visitor because
the ad also generates a lot of organic votes as
well.
On StumbleUpon you can target specific groups of
people. Everyone from personal finance
enthusiasts to bird watchers. Fitness fanatics or
photographers. There are hundreds of targeting
options to choose from.
So for a small investment you can give your article
a quick boost. This gives you that initial
momentum to get your blog post going viral. Once
your blog post hits a tipping point – it spreads
quickly via social media.
6. Submit your blog post to popular Link
Roundups.
Here’s a cool traffic trick for you…
This one is super simple and can bring you
hundreds of extra visitors.
Once you’ve created some EPIC content – simply
submit your blog post to Weekly Link Roundups.
What????
Ok, so you might be wondering what a link
roundup is?
They’re basically where blogger’s post their
favorite links and articles each week in what’s
called a Link Roundup. These are generally a
collection of their favorite blog posts from around
the blogosphere.
One of my favorite Link Roundups can be found
at Kikolani.com.
I’ve been listed in numerous releases of Kristi’s
Friday Roundups.
She ROCKS!
Here’s how it works…
You start by finding Link roundups within your
market.
Simply type in the following search queries on
Google:
“Daily Link Roundup”
“Weekly Link Roundup”
“Monday Link Roundup”
“Friday Link Roundup”
“Link Roundup”
If you want to find blogs that are specifically
related to your market, then you can add a
modifier. Something like:
“Weekly Link Roundup” + marketing
“Weekly Link Roundup” + moms
“Weekly Link Roundup” + parenting
You can also use these same queries on sites like
Google Plus or Twitter Search.
This will give you a list of related blogs that do
weekly link roundups.
Best of all, there are thousands of blogs that do
these link roundups on every imaginable topic.
Now here’s where you come in…
Once you’ve found a related blog that does link
roundups you can then contact the blog owner
and send them a link to your latest blog post.
If you’ve published truly great content, then
there’s a very good chance that they will link to
you in their weekly link roundup.
Super simple and it can send you hundreds of
high-quality visitors. Not to mention some of the
best backlinks available online :)
7. Blog Hops
Here’s another super simple strategy you can use
to get hundreds of extra visitors to your blog post.
(Do you see how these strategies start stacking
up?)
It’s something called a ‘Blog Hop’ (also known as a
link party)
It’s kind of like a ‘link roundup’ but with a few
twists.
Every week, bloggers all around the web host link
parties.
It’s an opportunity for other bloggers to add their
latest blog post
to the link party. In return – you get extra traffic
to your website.
This is one of the best (and easiest) ways to get
your blog posts in front of new readers.
Each party has a theme or topic – so you’ll need
to find related
link parties to submit your latest blog post to.
The blog host uses a WordPress plugin (such as
inlinkz.com or linkytools.com) that allows users to
submit a link, upload a thumbnail and then
publish it to the link party.
Some link parties allow you to post a photo while
others are text
links only. Be sure to include an enticing title /
headline.
Most link parties are centered around the
following topics:
Crafts
Recipes
Mom Blogs
Homeschooling
Teachers
Wedding
Fitness – low fat recipes
Organizing
So if you’re in ANY of these markets – put this on
your to-do list today!
Link parties can easily send you hundreds of extra
visitors each week.
Plus, you get to form great relationships with
some cool peeps :)
*** Important Note: Submit your link as EARLY as
possible. The links are listed in the order that they
are submitted. So if you’re the first person to
submit a link to the link party – then you’ll be
listed first on the page. (And also get a lot more
traffic)
8. Convert your article into Powerpoint
and submit to Slideshare.
Now that you’ve syndicated your content around
the web using Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus,
StumbleUpon, link parties, and Scoop.it – let’s
now shift our focus into new content platforms.
One of the biggest mistakes bloggers make is they
create hundreds of articles each year – but they
never ‘repurpose’ those articles for additional
traffic and backlinks.
If you’ve put in the hours to create EPIC content –
then you should also be repurposing that content
into multiple formats to quickly tap into new
traffic pools.
So first up we’re going to convert our article into a
Powerpoint. Turn each main point in your article
into an eye-popping PowerPoint slide.
You can then submit your Powerpoint
presentation to top sites like SlideShare.net,
SlideRocket.com, Slideburner.com and
SlideBoom.com. These are great sites for high PR
backlinks AND exposing your content to a
completely new audience.
How to Milk Slideshare for
Moo' Website Traffic from Ana Hoffman
Resources:
Slideshare Traffic Case Study: From 0 to 243,000
Views in 30 Days
How to Milk SlideShare Homepage for All the
Traffic You Can Handle
Attract 100,000 Pageviews in 1 Month Using
Slideshare
How to Generate Leads with Slideshare
9. Convert your article into a PDF.
Simply by converting your article (or a group of
articles) into a PDF you can now pull in extra
traffic from the top document sharing sites
online.
In fact – if you want to automate the entire
process you can have your virtual assistant to
convert each article into a PDF. You can do this
for free at Doc2Pdf.net.
(Quick Note: I personally don’t like to duplicate
the content on my site so I would recommend
either rewriting your article OR creating a unique
article for this particular strategy.)
Then from there you can have your virtual
assistant to submit your PDF to the top 15-20
document sharing sites online.
Scribd.com
Docstoc.com
Slideshare.net (also accepts PDFs)
Issuu.com
WePapers.com
MyPlick.com
Powershow.com
Slidesix.com
Empressr.com
AuthorStream.com
Calameo.com
Yudu.com
Edocr.com
PDFCast.org
Here’s a full list:
http://blog.ribbun.com/document-sharing-sites-
for-seo/
10. Ebook Directories
Once you’ve written at least 25 articles on your
blog – turn it into an ebook and submit to the top
ebook directories online.
Regardless of which market you’re in, you can
generate additional traffic from ebook directories
like E-Library.net.
Or – why not go full hog and publish your book in
the Kindle marketplace.
11. Kindle Traffic
Publishing your ebook on Kindle is one of the best
ways to attract
‘buyer traffic’.
Plus, Google LOVES Amazon pages and gives
theme preferential ranking
because they’re a HUGE authority website online.
This is why it’s soooooo important to do your
keyword research when
choosing your title and optimizing your Kindle
page.
With just a little bit of link building – you can get
your Kindle
book on the front page of Google. Leveraging off
of their authority
platform.
I call this a “Google Backdoor”.
Plus – you don’t have to write your ebook from
scratch. You can repurpose and reuse your old
blog posts to create your completed ebook.
With your new Kindle book – you can create a
new revenue stream in your business AND build
your subscriber list.
Be sure to offer a ‘bonus gift’ at the beginning and
end of EVERY Kindle book.
This will allow you to build your subscriber list.
Remember, people that buy Kindle books are
proven buyers. Some of THE most valuable traffic
you can tap into.
So if this all sounds pretty cool – be sure to read
some of the more extensive guides below…
Resources:
How to Make Money with Amazon Kindle Books
61 Ways to Sell More Nonfiction Kindle Books
72 Places to Promote Your Kindle Ebook
12. Audio Submissions
Now let’s take this a step further and convert our
content into audio.
Simply grab your headset and record yourself
talking into the microphone.
You can do this using some free software like
Audacity.
After recording, you can submit your file to the
top audio sharing sites online. One of my
favorites being SoundCloud.com. Or you can
automate the entire process using Fiverr.
VERY few people are doing this and it opens you
up to an entirely new audience. Plus, it creates
high-quality backlinks as well :)
Or, if you’d really like to take your traffic to the
next level, I recommend starting your very own
podcast…
13. Podcasting
Starting a podcast is one of
the best ways to tap into an
entirely new traffic pool.
Plus, it can do wonders for
building your brand.
Regardless of your niche –
you can use podcasting to
grow your audience.
Podcasting allows you to
instantly tap into the
massive traffic on sites like
iTunes, Stitcher, and Blackberry.com.
Plus, this is some of the highest quality traffic you
can get. These are by far some of the most
affluent consumers online. So not only are you
tapping into a rich new traffic source, but you’re
also reaching people who are frequent online
customers.
iTunes has over 500,000,000 active buyers in their
marketplace.
The average podcast listener is affluent, highly
educated, and highly responsive.
Plus, the iTunes marketplace is still fairly
untapped.
You can easily re-purpose your existing content
and connect with an wntirely new audience on
iTunes.
Creating a podcast show is something I’ve put on
the top of my to-do list.
But in the meantime you can learn from the case
studies below…
Resources:
How to Start a Podcast – Step-by-Step Tutorial
How I Reached #1 on iTunes: A Guide to
Launching a Podcast
How to Podcast for Free Traffic
14. Blogging Communities
There are a number of communities online where
you can submit your content for instant exposure.
Some of my favorites include BlogEngage.com,
Blokube.com, BizSugar.com, ImNewsWatch.com,
Inbound.org, Serpd.com, FamousBloggers.net,
and MySEOCommunity.com.
These are social communities that allow bloggers
to share their favorite content, vote on the best
articles, and build their social network.
But like any online community – the key is to
provide VALUE to others FIRST.
So before you start blasting your own articles to
the site – ENGAGE with the community. Share
OTHER people’s articles first. Comment and start
building relationships.
Once you’ve done that, then you can start sharing
some of your own stuff.
But get in the trenches first!
Provide value FIRST and you will reap MUCH
greater rewards for your efforts and from the
community.
Find out where YOUR target market hangs out
online and position yourself in front of them. This
is traffic 101 in a nutshell.
15. Blog Content Aggregators
If you’re regularly publishing great content on a
weekly basis – you can get hundreds of extra
visitors each week from sites like AllTop.com,
Affposts.com, AffBuzz.com, and AffDaily.com.
These are content aggregators that pull in the
best content from around the web.
AllTop.com in particular has sections for almost
every topic under the sun.
So whether you blog about pets or parenting –
this is an additional traffic stream you can tap
into in ANY market.
And the cool thing is they’re always looking for
new blogs to publish.
Simply find a relevant category and submit your
blog at
http://alltop.com/submission/
Or – if you have a site related to affiliate
marketing, SEO, or blogging then you can get
hundreds of new weekly visitors from sites like
Affposts.com, AffBuzz.com, and AffDaily.com.
16. Build your Blogging Alliance
The most successful bloggers online have a secret
that they rarely mention in public.
It’s a bit of a secret society.
But without the hidden passwords and funny
hand shakes.
In fact, most of their meetings rarely happen in
person.
And it’s generally a small group of people.
A handful of like-minded bloggers who
strategically work together to grow their blogs
faster.
If you look at any of the most popular blogs
online – you’ll find that almost ALL of them have
formed a strategic alliance of some sort – whether
it be informal or strategically planned.
This closed door group is one of the key parts of
growing a large, successful blog online. No one
gets to the top by themselves. You simply cannot
build your business to its greatest potential
without also building relationships with other like-
minded entrepreneurs.
Members of a blogging alliance help each other in
a variety of ways:
* Commenting on each others blogs
* Link to each other.
* Swap Guest Posts
* Share each other’s content on sites like Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google Plus.
* Promote each other’s products.
* And much, much more…
As you probably know – it can get a bit lonely
working behind your computer all day long. But
within a mastermind you’re able to share results,
bounce off ideas, and help each other to grow
faster.
But the blogging alliance has a secret code.
It’s a small tweak that makes the whole thing
work…
* No one in the alliance is playing for themselves.
Each member looks for ways to help the OTHER
person first.
Give unconditionally – and it will come back 100x.
With a group of blogging friends, you literally have
traffic on tap simply by sending out an email, IM,
or Skype message.
But the RELATIONSHIP comes first.
And when you put the RELATIONSHIP first. When
you put GIVING first, you’ll be amazed at all of the
incredibly powerful synergies that come from
that.
17. Have FUN!
Hey, you made it to the very last step. I’m
impressed :)
And you’re in for a treat because step #23 is really
the secret sauce of success.
Having FUN!!
You must be passionate about the game of
business.
And most importantly, you must be passionate
about your subscribers and fans. (Serving your
Tribe)
Success requires a BURNING DESIRE, an all-
consuming obsession.
This is NOT about buying another course or
reading another ebook.
This is about doing it, doing it, doing it.
Building a business requires an amazing amount
of persistence and
a good bit of elbow grease. And that kind of
persistence MUST be backed by PASSION. Passion
is what gets you up in the morning and keeps you
working late into the night.
If you want to win this game, you must center
your business around
something you truly love. Don’t choose a market
just because some guru told you it was profitable.
You’ll lose interest quickly… and some of you
probably already know what I’m talking about :)
But when you’re building a business around your
passions – you’ll have the drive that it takes to
work late into the night, cranking out new content
for your readers.
You have to love the journey more than the
results. You have to love your customers more
than the bottom line.
Commit to something greater than yourself.
Devote yourself to your community. Focus on
providing overwhelming value and you’ll be
surprised at how quickly success comes your way.
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