31 Ways To Drive Traffic And Build Your List
Stuck on how to generate traffic to build your list? Here’s just a tiny fraction of the ways you can drive traffic and build a huge list…
1.) Create a blog and have each post “pre-sell” to your squeeze page, and…
2.) Set your feed up on My.Yahoo.Com (to increase SEO)
3.) Find comments from other blogs and use trackbacks
4.) Ping it with Pingomatic.com (no affiliation)
5.) Post comments on other blogs
6.) Join blog communities and blog carnivals - a simple Google search will bring up many.
7.) Make a Squidoo Lens based on long tail keywords.
8.) Post videos on YouTube with a link to your squeeze page, or another “pre-sales” page.
9.) Submit articles to article directories, such as EzineArticles, GoArticles and more.
10.) Use Facebook groups to link to your pre-sell squeeze pages. (Be unique on Facebook, and you’ll be seen.)
11.) Use Facebook flyers to advertise your squeeze page - if it’s a mass appeal product.
12.) Join Twitter and start posting as much as you can and following as many people as you can. (You can find John on Twitter at http://twitter.com/webword/)…then you can post links to your website casually.
13.) You can also ask your followers on Twitter to Stumble your pages at Stumbleupon, resulting in a surge of traffic. (You can also get stumbles other ways, too.)
14.) Make an affiliate program out of your squeeze page (offer a cut of the backend products you’re promoting, if they’re yours) and…
15.) Create a brandable, short report that your affiliates can use to distribute your product.
16.) Hit up big names in your niche and ask them if they’ll promote your squeeze page in return for high backend profits.
17.) Create a free video and then redirect it to your squeeze page at the end. Encourage your affiliates to link to the video.
18.) Join a giveaway. Give away a high quality free product on one of these giveaways and you’ll have a list that will believe in the quality that you give.
19.) Create a wiki at Wikidot with highly optimized pages.
20.) Create a forum and link to it - remember, all forum members are basically on your list.
21.) Use PPC ads from Google Adwords, Yahoo, MSN, Adbrite (I admit we haven’t had good results with them, but some people have.)
22.) Post high quality information to forums with a link in your signature to your squeeze page.
23.) Post high quality information to forums with tons of affiliate marketers, and post a link to your affiliate program.
24.) Write a press release about sites you release that pre-sell your squeeze page, and maybe even your squeeze page itself.
25.) Answer questions on Yahoo Answers related to your niche, linking to your pre-sales pages or your squeeze page.
26.) Interview well-known people in your niche. They will likely link to the interview, and it will earn you more prestige.
27.) Try to link to your blog from Wikihow and Wikipedia…but be sure your links actually provide value.
28.) Submit your “pre-sales” sites to directories such as dmoz.org.
29.) Post ads on Craigslist for your pre-sales page.
30.) Create classified ads on USFreeAds.
31.) Create low cost eBay products and when people purchase, have them opt-in to your list for a bonus.
…Of course there’s a lot more, but this list should show you there’s an almost infinite ways to drive traffic. The key to remember is that doing a single thing on this list won’t contribute much..but by mixing and matching all of the possible ways to generate traffic, your squeeze page will turn into a list building machine.
By the way, at FreeBusinessModel.com we offer a really powerful and effective way to build your list through our free videos. Go there now…
All the best,
Matt Rhodes
Google and the Dark Internet
The dark internet is basically the part of the internet or web that search engines cannot reach. In plain terms, if Google can’t find something it doesn’t exist.
Imagine looking for information on autoresponder memberships. You might search and search and search, but never find this site:
The reason you might not find that site is very simple. Google might hot have this site indexed. That means that Google hasn’t visited it yet. (Aside: How Google indexes your site.) Or, it might mean that Google cannot reach the site. Maybe you have password protection in place.
Back in October 2007, some people over at Webmaster World started talking about how Google was indexing sites that were part of the dark internet. Speculation about this showed up in other places. Here’s what a few people said:
1. Maybe Google is using the Google Toolbar to dig into sites
2. Maybe Google is using Google Analytics to find a backdoor
3. Maybe someone is linking directly to sites and Google’s following
No matter how you look at this, it sounds like Google’s trying to add some light to the dark internet. Maybe they are trying to use a mix of form variables and GET to drill into pages. Maybe they are using new, sophisticated robots to drill for oil.
It’s also possible that Google is finding some “secret” ways into site through RSS feeds or perhaps Gmail. There are many such potential holes.
I don’t really need to discuss exactly how Google might shine light on the dark internet. There are plenty of smart people looking at how it might be done. Remember, Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information.
My real point is very simple and extremely targeted. Look, the dark internet will continue to be under attack. Google, and many other companies, want to expose and index and exploit your content. Dark is bad. Light is good. You’re fighting with a multi-billion dollar company.
Yes, I want people to learn about autoresponder memberships but I don’t know how Google’s going to help me or hurt me along the way. I have to stay on my toes about their dark internet plans, and so do you.
My final caution is this: Anything on your web server might be open and exposed to the world. Even with security — lot’s of it — you might be at risk. If it’s on a server, you might find it on Google tomorrow. Understand this. Prepare for it. Google will index first, ask questions later, and mea culpa along the way.
Do no evil? You tell me.
Mobile Internet Marketing Secrets: Google and Apple
Mobile internet marketing secrets are all around you. Just open your eyes and it’ll become obvious what you need to do. Â
Regarding background, I’ll cut to the chase. Google and Apple seem to be taking over:
iPhone users search Google 5,000% more than the nearest competitor
Google homes in on revenues from phones
Google Sees Surge in iPhone Traffic
There’s plenty more out there. Just search and you’ll find more stories just like the ones above.
The important thing is that we now know the platform (Apple’s iPhone) and the services (Google Search and applications) that are the backbone of the mobile internet.
Keep in mind that there’s also a lot of iPhone activity outside the United States. The iPhone is not the mobile platform for a limited audience or user base. It’s a global phenomenon. There are issues to work out but the mobile internet is here, today.
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I do deliberately mean the iPhone and not mobile phones. The vast majority of “traditional” mobile internet activity (e.g., browsing, searching, clicking) is being done on iPhones. And, it’s being done via Google based on all the data we’ve seen.
Another interesting thing is that there’s a healthy black market for unlocked iPhones. There are iPhone hacks. In other words, there’s a huge demand to tweak, twist, unlock, and otherwise augment and edit the iPhone. This is a clear indication that the platform is healthy. This is counterintuitive at first but any great platform will be hacked.
How about Google? The mobile Google page actually has “iPhone” right in the navigation. That is a loud and clear message that Google and Apple are in bed. In fact, Google might be at the mercy of Apple. That’s entirely possible. Although, realistically, it is a functional dyad, where both parties are stronger as they work together.
When you see Google and Nokia together, that is just risk mitigation. It’s not any real commitment like Google is making to Apple’s iPhone platform. Sure, companies like Nokia are strong and big, but they aren’t Google’s bread and butter. Remember, at the end of the day more than 75% of Google’s income is advertising based. The iPhone is more in line with this vision than Nokia.
I’ll summarize by saying that if you care about internet marketing, grab an iPhone and learn everything you can about it. And, spend time learning what you can about Google’s mobile plans, especially in conjunction with Apple. Here’s a big hint for internet marketing geeks with code skills: Android!
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~ John S. Rhodes of “The Rhodes Brothers”
