How To Increase Web Traffic With Qassia
Web 2.0 is really powerful stuff - John and I have seen it generate (literally) thousands of visitors for us on command. Twitter and Stumbleupon have honestly been a couple of our greatest assets to driving traffic to our website.
Note: John wrote about how to increase web traffic with Stumbleupon here previously:
>> http://imsimple.com/the-fast-and-simple-web-20-traffic-system/
There’s a new Web 2.0 on the block…and my bet is that it will be as big as Stumbleupon and almost definitely bigger than Twitter.
It’s called Qassia. I’ve been thinking about it since I discovered it yesterday and I think it can be best described as a peer-edited article directory. It won’t appear that way exactly to the public…but more or less, that’s what it amounts to. Take a look at the main page:
(You’ll notice there’s no place to “sign up” for it. More on that in a bit…)
It looks like Qassia is designed to be an article directory and search engine hybrid. There are no categories to classify the material at the current time, but it seems like a vast majority of the content submitted by people so far is somewhat mass appeal (and also interesting). Here’s a glance at some of the “intel” (Qassia’s name for articles) recently contributed:
How Exercise Can Benefit Diabetics
Clear Your Acne - Naturally!
How To Approach Being Downsized From Your Job
How To Wake Up Early
…and a few others. Like I said - they all seem to be interesting and at least somewhat mass appeal.
At the bottom of every “intel” you submit is the ability to put in “external links”..it gives links to your website as a bio box does, but you don’t have the ability to put in any information about your website or yourself - the “bio box” just consists of links.
So far, it just sounds like an average article directory…but here’s where it gets interesting.
For every piece of intel you submit or rate as a peer-editor, you get Qassia dollars…as of this article, I have $22,560. No, it’s not “real” money…but it serves the purpose of promoting your website and driving you traffic.
The content you submit does NOT have to be unique, as long as you somehow have rights to it. They prefer unique content and give more Qassia dollars for it - but you can submit intel that you simply own private label rights to and easily rack up dollars
At the current time it doesn’t look like you “spend” your Qassia dollars - it’s just there to calculate your net worth. The higher your net worth, the more exposure you’re going get on Qassia, so they explain - plus you’ll get backlinks and additional traffic from submitting intel, so there’s really no reason to not try to rack up as much as you can.
If you’re in the top 50 of all the top contributors to Qassia, you get to be in the “Top 50″ column on the left hand side…home page backlink from a PR 4 website, anyone? (And page rank is bound to increase as the site becomes more popular…)
The best thing about Qassia, though, is that it’s 100% free. But…you can only join by invitation or if you get referred by someone else. Luckily, I have your invitation right here:
>> http://rhodesbrothers.qassia.com
(Note: You must sign up through the link above if you wish to join Qassia. It’s 100% free.)
There’s a lot more I could explain about it…but it’s best if you just go in and poke around yourself.
Join now and you can submit as many sites as you want into Qassia…keep in mind that your net worth is divided amongst all your sites, so if you want to try to make the Top 50 list you’ll want to only promote 1 to 2 websites when you first start out.
Rate intel and submit it to boost your net value…then reap the traffic! Enjoy!
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
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