Easiest Method for Free Traffic
Posted on October 3rd, 2010 in 10x, EzineArticles, Free Business Model, Really Simple Method, Reports, Reselling, Simple, Simple Cash Blog, Strategies, Traffic Drill, Web Traffic | 24 Comments »
One of the most common struggles newer internet marketers experience is developing constant streams of traffic to their websites and offers. Without the flow of ongoing traffic, your website and your offers die out. You MUST be smart about getting multiple streams of long-term web traffic or you won’t survive.
It’s harsh, but it’s true. Getting those eyeballs is our lifeblood.
The good news is that there are literally thousands of different ways to generate traffic for free. I mean “free” in the sense that it doesn’t cost you any money – it will cost you time.
Let’s talk about one of my favorite methods. It’s ridiculously easy and you can do this several times in a lazy afternoon…
First, you find a long-tail keyword phrase that your target niche is searching for. I generally try to target searches that receive a bare minimum of 1,000 searches per month. (Note: If you’re in a niche where customers are paying a lot of money for your goods or services, you will probably be able to get away with 300 to 500 searches per month.)
Second, I analyze the strength of competition (SOC) for that long-tail keyword phrase. This can be found in seconds and in one click using the best keyword research tool on the market, Micro Niche Finder. The lower the SOC, the better your chances of ranking, but if it’s 50 or below you’re golden. You stand a good chance of getting ranked for that phrase.
Here’s what Micro Niche Finder looks like once you’re inside:

Here’s a perfect example…
The term “natural fat burning foods” gets about 1,600 searches per month has an SOC of 38. That means it’s a strong candidate to target as a long-tail keyword phrase.
Third, I write a 350 to 500 word article targeting that topic. I include the exact keyword phrase in the title and in the first 50 words of the article. I also sprinkle it one or two additional times throughout the article. I submit these articles to EzineArticles watch the traffic roll in.
Advanced tip: If you want to drastically increase your chances of ranking, you want to sprinkle in LSI keywords to your article. To find these, I use the Google Keyword Tool to search for the long-tail keyword phrase I’m targeting. The first 5 results in the list are the LSI keywords. Try to use at least 3 of those 5 LSI keywords exactly once in your article.
Fourth, I rinse and repeat this process at least 5 to 10 times. Now, this is the important part…after about 2 weeks, I track which articles are doing the best (getting the most views and clicks) and then write more articles about similar long-tail keywords.
When you do this, it means big traffic. You’re taking proven winners and creating more using the exact same formula. You’re replicating success, and that’s going to multiply your traffic.
Tip: You can also use the above formula to build streams of traffic to a new blog or website. Simply put half of the articles on your website, half on EzineArticles which points back to your blog or website. This builds real value….remember that your website/blog is an ASSET that you can sell down the road. So, every article you put on your website increases the worth of the site.
Seriously, it doesn’t get much easier than the method I’ve outlined above. Take a market, find a weakness, create optimized content for that keyword and steal traffic from your competitors.
Of course, you need to be able to cash in on the traffic you’re getting. If you’re sending mass amounts of traffic to a page or offer that doesn’t convert, you’re going to leave a lot of money on the table. It’s extremely easy to maximize your income in simple, clever ways, and it doesn’t take much time.
With the right offer, you can make as much from 200 to 300 visitors as you can from 1,000s of people. You don’t need a whole lot of traffic to make a boatload of money, you just need the right business.
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24 Responses
Hey John,
Great advice…
however, you didn’t mention what you do with the article(s)?
Do you submit them to Ezinearticles.com…
place them on your website/blog?
use an article submitter?
Please advise,
Thanks
Don
That’s a great strategy, Mark — try something, see if it works, if it does, exploit it. Very smart.
Silly me, was listening to an audio and the guy’s name was Mark.
Sorry, MATT!!!
I never thought of using LSI Keywords! I am going to have to try that…
Thanks!
Hi Matt-
can you clarify step 4….
In step 3 you say.. \"I write a 350 to 500 word article targeting that topic. I include the exact keyword phrase in the title and in the first 50 words of the article.\"
In step 4 you say rinse and repeat 10 times.
Do you mean rewrite 10 more articles with that exact same title and just submit them to different sites?
Later in step 4 you say \"I track which articles are doing the best (getting the most views and clicks) and then write more articles about similar long-tail keywords.\"
You mean more articles on the first five in the Google Keyword Tool on the same long tail keyword?
Thanks !
Very good explanation of how to include key words and phrases into an article. When you say that you need to be able to convert the traffic, you are talking about getting the visitors to either sign up for your list or click through to your product, correct? A strong call to action must help the reader to visualize how your information can change their situation. Be descriptive and help them to feel that signing up with you is a great decision…do that and you are set!
Matt – how many different places (and why types of places) are you publishing the articles? Directories? web 2.0? Your own blog? Guest blog posts?
And if you didn\’t have Micro Niche Finder, how would you go about analyzing SOC?
I just submit to EzineArticles.com. No need to post them on any other article directories.
Now, you can submit them to your blog, too…that would work. But, you’ll want to mix it up between EZA and your blog. That way, you get the traffic coming in from EZA, and you’ll get the search engine juice from Google for your blog, at the same time.
Ha! Not a problem at all Jill….I mean Bill.
(OK, maybe that was a little low, I shouldn’t have changed your gender. At least Mark is still a guy.)
Sorry Bill.
Hey Ron,
Thanks for the questions, let me clarify…
1.) I mean follow steps 1 through 3 ten more times.
2.) I mean I track which articles are doing the best in EzineArticles (if you post the article to an article directory) or are pulling the most traffic (if you post them to your blog.)
3.) Yes, you can use the LSI keywords from your most successful articles as your new long-tail keywords, that’s right.
I hope that helps!
Matt
Hey Glenna,
You got it! By converting the visitors, I mean getting visitors to sign up for a list, click through to your product – any action that makes you money. Yes, a strong call to action in the bio box of the article is very powerful!
All the best,
Matt
Hey Matt,
I’m posting 1/2 of these articles on the blog, 1/2 of them on EzineArticles. That way, you get the link juice from EzineArticles to whatever pages you want (whether it be to your blog or directly to your article), and you get the value of having some of the content on your own website to build long-term love with Google.
I have no idea how to measure SOC without Micro Niche Finder. Honestly, it’s one of the first investments I’d make if I was just starting to market online. The only other things I would get first are hosting and an autoresponder.
Thanks for the questions!
Matt
Matt, In your response to Matt Wiggins, other than investing in Micro Niche Finder, you would also invest in a hosting site and autoresponder. Can you suggest a hosting site and autoresponder to invest in?
Absolutely, Doris.
John and I use BlueHost for hosting many of our websites. They haven’t been perfect, but they’ve been fairly reliable and the customer support is usually very helpful. You can host as many domains as you want, have unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage space and more. Beware though, “unlimited” doesn’t REALLY mean “unlimited” (for ANY hosting provider, not just Bluehost)….if your website is pulling down thousands of visitors per minute, you’re going to need to scale up into dedicated hosting, which BlueHost does not offer.
For our e-mail provider/autoresponder, we use Aweber. However, Aweber unfortunately changed their pricing structure recently and have become much more expensive for new users who aren’t grandfathered into the old pricing.
There’s a little “loophole” though…you can actually sign up for Aweber services under the old pricing by going to Profollow.com. That’s Jeff Walker’s white label version of Aweber, which uses all of Aweber’s backend systems and infrastructure (so it has the same delivery rates)…so it’s basically Aweber at a cheaper price. It’s $20 per month for up to 10,000 subscribers, I believe, whereas Aweber is now $20 per month for up to 500 subscribers.
I know – big difference, right?
The only benefit the more expensive Aweber provides is some additional tracking, but I’ve heard from several reliable sources that it’s not worth the extra cost. So, in short…if you want all of the benefits of Aweber reliability and deliverability rates at a fraction of the cost, use Profollow.
I hope that helps you make a decision!
Matt
With the “1000″ searches per month criteria for the keyword they would need to be 1000 searches for the ‘exact match’ for the keyword right?
Does MNF take that into account?
Cheers,
Dave.
Good idea Matt!
But no recommendations on quality of the contents which can do well for preselling. The problem for many begginers is look and feel of the sites particularly the sound relationship with their two customers… search engines and humans. Any comments on that?
Matt, You have saved me from spending more money on traffic systems that I don8\’t understand or are difficult or expensive to implement.
I have tried all the social sites and squidoo without any results having spent hours,days and weeks researching subjects for article submissions to get traffic which never materialised.
Having over 30 websites that don\\\’t pay their way is depressing but
your system makes so much more sense to focus on the topic and the LSI keywords and submit to Ezinearticles and the website/blog too.
It\\\’s so simple it\\\’s Brilliant! Why did\\\’nt I think of it?
PS: I also appreciate your open and honest comments re. Aweber etc as usually the shortcomings are not mentioned in IM marketing products?
Hi Dave,
I actually use broad match to determine the search count, but Micro Niche Finder does have the option to show you broad matches vs. exact matches, I’m pretty sure. (I’m on a Mac right now, so I can’t open it to verify for you.)
Matt
Hi Enock,
That’s a good point. High quality and useful content is critical to your success, for sure. If you throw up junk on EzineArticles (or on your website), people won’t respect what you have to say. You want to start building that long-term relationship with your customer from the very first point of contact.
Now, with that said – what if your website is an Adsense website? What if you’re not selling a product and you don’t plan on developing a relationship? Well, here’s a little trick I learned from one of our colleagues…
EzineArticles is an excellent source for backlinks to your website. You can write articles on literally ANY topic under the sun, and have your author bio box point back to any website you want. You won’t get much direct traffic, but the backlink itself is worth a lot in the long-run for your website.
The advantage to doing that is that you can pump out articles much, much faster. It’s far faster and easier for most people to write 400 words about your new iPhone app than it is to write about lawn mower repair.
Hi Matt,
You did explain what SOC is but LSI keywords?
Thanks.
Hey Morgan,
Simpler is better, almost always. Don’t feel like you’re the only one with that problem – I used to fall victim to overcomplicated systems, tools and processes all the time. If you’re able to do the “fundamentals” really, really well and consistently, there is no way you can fail.
Think about it – instead of trying to game the social websites, create squidoo lenses, get automated backlinks and so on like so many people do, how much traffic do you think you’d get if you did nothing but write a boatload of articles targeting low competition keywords?
If you had 1,000 articles out there, and each one averaged just one click a day to your website from each article (some will fizzle out and do nothing, others will bring you 20+ clicks a day), you’d get 1,000 hits per day. That amount of traffic to ANY website is going to make it really difficult to fail.
Getting just 10% of them onto an e-mail list means 100 opt-ins per day…getting 1% to buy a $50 product means $500 per day.
There’s a lot you can do if you just take massive amounts of action and force luck to be on your side. Plus, you can sell the website getting a ton of traffic and that has a high page rank…remember, it’s an asset.
Matt
Hey Frantz,
LSI is Latent Semantic Indexing. Here’s a good article about it:
http://www.seobook.com/archives/000657.shtml
This is a very watered down explanation, but basically, it’s a way of identifying phrases and words that are similar to one another. Google uses LSI to find keyword phrases on your pages that are related to the primary keyword phrase to determine how much your page is related to the topic being searched for.
I know that’s a bit unclear, but here’s what you really need to know…
Why use LSI in your articles? It increases the chances of you ranking well for your primary keyword phrase and numerous LSI keyword phrases.
How do you use LSI in your articles? Go to the Google Keyword Tool, search for your primary keyword phrase, and the top 5 results are the LSI keywords. Google considers them to be the most related keywords to the one you searched for. You just need to use them once in your article, where appropriate.
I hope that helps clear it up a bit!
Matt
Matt,
great advice on e-zinearticles, I have used them quite effectively…….usualy a 24+ % ctr.
any way…i also like to use search strings like this one”site:ezinearticles.com “this article has been viewed 1000..100000″*article submitted on:* *,2009″ “.(you can use variations) to find a title that has the most views. great way to get traffic as well.
Hey guys,
Nice traffic getting tips. I hear conflicting stories about long tail keywords not attracting enough to your “money” site to make good money. Have long tail keywords gone out of style? Just wondering because I know how fast IM techniques change.