We saw the main reasons why we want to use content sharing sites.

Things like getting a huge number of quality back links; note the emphasis here is on quality back links (we’re not going to be trying to get lots of worthless back links, that’s just wasted time and money).

And getting higher search engine results positioning — who doesn’t want to rank high in Google, and improved conversion rates; we also looked at how to use the content sharing sites to maximize benefits.

This time we’re going to go more deeply into the various content sharing sites and how to use them properly to produce an astonishingly large amount of traffic.

So what do you think the first thing you need to do to get that traffic is?

Get Content

Well, first you need content; yeah, I know, even I’m rolling my eyes and saying duh

But, this stops so many people. For whatever reason most people freeze up when they think they have to write something.

Don’t do that.

First, most people can write well enough to create the small articles for the traffic network.

You don’t need to write a thesis or a paper like you did in school. You just need to write less than one page on a topic you probably know and like but even if you can’t do that, with the Internet and search engines as research tools you can knock out an article in 10 minutes.

Just decide who your target audience is and find one or two great keywords that audience searches for and then that should help you decide what to write about.

Then sit down and write. Again, is doesn’t have to be a long, just write it.

Here are some resources I use to help me write articles:

• Answer Analyst
• Easy Article Writer
• Instant Article Wizard
• Market Samurai
• Mass Article Control
• SENuke

Also, Melissa Ingold, someone I’ve worked with on several projects and someone who provides monthly content for some big name Internet Marketers, has a book on how to write articles for profit that you may find useful.

You can also look at my How to Create Absolutely Amazing Articles for some help.

Second, even if you think you can’t do that, or more importantly, you think you shouldn’t be using your precious time to write articles (which I agree with) there are 2 things you can do.

1. Buy prewritten articles that come with rights that let you use them for this purpose, that is, to use as content; Private Label Rights articles are best for this.

There are lots of great resources for PLR articles, here are some that I’ve used or created:

• 111107 Articles
• http://www.8-8-8sale.com/niche-content-pack.htm
• PLR Articles Daily

You can also take many PLR report and books and split them up into articles, here are some that I’ve used and created:

• Naked PLR
• Turbo PLR

One thing, I would suggest you change your PLR articles to make them more unique, they’ll have more impact on your results. I aim for at least 40% different although some people say 30% is sufficient.

2. Hire someone to create articles for you; this could be an individual, a company who acts as a broker for writers or a service.

Here are 2 services I use:

• Need An Article
• Article Z

Hiring a good writer can be the best way to go but it is more expensive. For example, last week, I commissioned for 400 articles from my top writer and it’s going to cost me several thousand dollars. You can buy a lot of PLR articles for that kind of money!

The advantage is I can get exactly the article I want and they are unique to me. The disadvantage is obviously that it costs more money and it takes a lot more time.

Either way you choose (actually I hire writers and use PLR) you need content that you can distribute throughout your Ultimate Free Traffic Network. It is the key to blowing off the ceiling that’s been holding you from getting more traffic than you can handle.

Article Marketing

Article marketing, yep, good old fashioned article marketing is still a wonderful way to get you direct and indirect links and, in combination with some of the newer content sharing and social media sites, it is better than ever.

Taking your articles and posting them to article directories, with the proper resource box of course, is a quick and easy way to start getting links and traffic.

If you don’t know much about it, look below for a free gift that will help you start using and profiting from articles.

Now some people say you should take your articles and blast them to hundreds of article directories.

I say don’t.

We’re looking for quality links and there, at most, 10-20 article directories that are of real value.  Places like:

• Ezine Articles
• Article Dashboard
• ArticlesBase
• Buzzle
• Article Alley
• Go Articles

These are ones that will make a real difference in your traffic network.

All the article directories are just content sharing sites and the search engines loves content, particularly fresh, quality content.

Article Marketing is a really fantastic method to give the fresh, quality content which pleases the search engines and attract prospects to your Web properties.

One of the best things about an Ultimate Free Traffic Network is that it doesn’t matter what you are selling or if they are your product or something else and using article marketing is a key component.

I’m not going into much about article marketing here you can see Fast and Easy Article Marketing for that; as well as the free gift I mentioned above.

Just get the content and post some of it to article directories. For you Ultimate Free Traffic Network, try to get one article out every day but you can do at least 2 or 3 every week to start.

Be sure to create a good resource box (see Step 7 in How to Create Absolutely Amazing Articles).

Conclusion

As I said last time, publishing content at content sharing sites is the first and best thing you can do to build your Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

To so that the first thing you need (well, after your goals and campaigns as decided) is content. It sounds obvious sure but without content you won’t create any real free traffic network let alone an ultimate one.

You can get that content by either (1) writing it or (2) buying it.

Here are some resources to help you if you write it yourself:

• Answer Analyst
• Easy Article Writer
• Instant Article Wizard
• Market Samurai
• Mass Article Control
• SENuke
• Melissa Ingold’s book on how to write articles for profit
• My How to Create Absolutely Amazing Articles blog post

To buy it you can either (1) hire a writer or (2) buy articles (PLR is best).

Here are some resources to help you if you if you are buying content:

• 111107 Articles
• http://www.8-8-8sale.com/niche-content-pack.htm
• PLR Articles Daily

• Naked PLR
• Turbo PLR

• Need An Article
• Article Z

After you have your content, one of the major uses for it is to submit it to the article directories. You don’t need to submit it to hundreds but you should submit them to the top 10 or 20 article directories, places like:

• Ezine Articles
• Article Dashboard
• ArticlesBase
• Buzzle
• Article Alley
• Go Articles

Anything more than that won’t help much, if at all. Some people think it can actually hurt you but I haven’t tested it.

Just be sure to create a killer resource box (see Step 7 in How to Create Absolutely Amazing Articles).

If you need to know more about article marketing read my blog post Fast and Easy Article Marketing and download your free gift.

Next time we’ll look at other content sharing sites and how to use them properly. This is all doable and within your grasp, you just need to take action and do it.

So, have you been building your Ultimate Free Traffic Network? Tell me what you’ve done.

Is there anything you don’t understand?

Just remember, it’s all in the doing!

Please leave me a comment about what you’ve been doing or what you think about this series.

Before I finish I better give you that gift I was promising you. I have a video course on article marketing that was pulled from the new training site I’ll be launching soon.

It seemed appropriate for people who need to learn more about article marketing so I’m giving you an advanced look.

If you want to learn more about how to do article marketing then go to

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The One Thing You Need to Get an Insane Amount of Traffic: Ultimate Free Traffic Network, Part 7

The fastest and easiest way for most people to get targeted traffic to their sites is the use of pay-per-click advertising.

Pay-per-click (PPC), sometimes called cost-per-click and pay for performance, has been around since the mid-to-late 1990s and has been the way thousands of businesses have been successful.

The basis of PPC is that you have ads places on various Web sites and, if someone likes your ad and clicks on the link to go to your Web site, you pay a pre-defined amount of money. That is, you pay that amount for each time someone clicks, hence pay-per-click.

That is unlike many common forms of advertising when you pay just to have your advertising made available for viewing; traditional advertising in magazines, television, radio, newspaper, etc. used this “pay to show” type of advertising.

When it comes to PPC advertising there is one extremely important thing you must never forget to do. You must be sure to do…
… your keyword research. If you don’t then you are just throwing time and money away.

What is Keyword Research?

If you’re new to getting Web traffic then you might not know what keywords are. They are words and short phases that are highly relevant to your topic or niche or blog or… whatever.

The reason this is important is that the major PPC companies like Google (with their AdWords program) use keywords to decide when and where to display your ad.

Therefore, it is important that you find keywords that are popular, that is, people are doing lots of searches for them. In addition, if you are selling something you want to make sure the keywords are ones that buyers are using.

Of course, the reason you want to do this is that people who are searching for specific things are more likely to be interested in buying something on that topic.

The entire subject is worthy a book so I can’t go into it now but there are some good tools to help you do your keyword research:

• Google: Keyword Tool – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and Trends http://www.google.com/trends
• WordTracker: http://www.StreetGuideToWebTraffic.com/Recommends/WordTracker
• Keyword Elite: http://www.StreetGuideToWebTraffic.com/Recommends/KeywordElite

Google AdWords

The most popular and successful PPC program is Google’s Adwords program.

Google provides numerous online tools to help you, including ones that track how many people have clicked on your ad. This is important so you can track how much your advertising is costing you and compare it to how much you are earning.

Then you can decide whether the ad campaign is working and whether you need to ramp it up, change it or drop it altogether.

This is huge topic and here are some good resources available if you want to learn, in depth, how to really profit from AdWords

• My Secrets of Google AdWords book at http://www.SecretsOfGoogleAdWords.com
• Simon Leung helped set up the AdWords program and his Adwords List Building course is full of great insider information of how to use AdWords within Goggle’s guidelines yet still maximize your profits, get it at http://www.StreetGuideToWebTraffic.com/Recommends/AdwordsListBuilding
• Greg Cesar is a very successful AdWords expert and highly in demand at conferences, his Adwords Profit System goes into all the tricks and techniques he uses, get it at http://www.StreetGuideToWebTraffic.com/Recommends/AdwordsProfitSystem

Yahoo! has a similar service named Yahoo! Sponsored Search, go to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/ to learn more.

Online Comparison Shopping Engines

Another place you can promote your PPC ad campaign is the various online comparison shopping engines. The concept is the same as with AdWords and the techniques as the same as well.

Here are some of the major comparison shopping engines.

DealTime (http://www.dealtime.com): DealTime is one of the major comparison shopping search engines on the web and it integrates product reviews from Epinions. It goes beyond product search to offer helpful information that helps people decide what to buy and where to buy it.

Kelkoo (http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/): Kelkoo, was founded in 2000, is Europe’s largest e-commerce website after Amazon and Ebay and the largest e-commerce advertising platform both in the UK and Europe. Kelkoo now operates in 10 European countries and Kelkoo is a one-stop shopping service, which helps shoppers to find, research and buy products online with confidence using their tools that compare prices and product features in seconds.

NexTag (http://www.nextag.com/): NexTag is the leading comparison shopping site and it enables shoppers to quickly compare prices and find the best deals on millions of products and services; they get more than 17 million people per month.

PriceGrabber (http://www.pricegrabber.com/): PriceGrabber attracts over 26 million unique visitors each month, and provides a comprehensive environment for them to find and select the right products and shop.

Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com/): Yahoo! Shopping it Yahoo!’s shopping site and they have a program similar to Google.

Since there is nothing in the rules and regulations that bind you to an exclusive agreement you can certainly sign up for all their programs. The only cost is the time for research, placing the ads and tracking.

You may, in fact, do well using several different sites so see which ones are best for your products.

Conclusion

PPC is often an affordable and quick way to launch an ad campaign. The cost per click is often low so it won’t be too costly, unless you happen to lots of visitors clicking through, but if your Conversions Pillar is strong then you’ll reap the benefits and more than be able to afford the cost.

Do, however, disregard all the stories of overnight success and people making tens of thousands of dollars overnight.

Those are either false or they are from very established marketers who are experts in PPC.

Plan to start getting traffic soon and, if you did your keyword research well and you are targeting your (well written) ad to the right audience you can expect to start seeing sales but it will take some time before you see really significant traffic and sales.

Please add any comments, questions, feedback, disagreements and anything else below.

Talk soon,

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Get Tons of Traffic with Pay-Per-Click

The Traffic Pillar is one of the 3 Pillars of Success and, to me, this is simply getting targeted prospects to a place where you turn them into customers.

Simplistically, this Pillar is about getting people “into the door” of your online business.

There are many ways to get these people to you and we’ll look at many of those ways over the coming months but basically the important thing about traffic is that…
…without it you have no business; you are just a lonely “shopkeeper”, sort of like that Maytag repairmen guy in the old commercials.

Stated simply:

A strong Traffic Pillar requires you to have enough of the right people coming to your online properties, on a consistent basis, that you are able to build relationships and have the opportunity to convert them into customers.

The key points are:

• Enough People: what enough is depends upon your conversions and the average value of each customer
• The Right People: what right means is people interested in what you have and are willing and able to spend money to get it
• Consistently: what consistently means is frequently enough to achieve your goals, whether that is weekly, daily, or every second
• Building Relationships: the pre-cursor to conversions and the thing that is both satisfying and makes converting easier
• Opportunity to Convert: notice I don’t say convert, that is the Conversion Pillar’s job, but it is the job of the Traffic Pillar to get people there and to have built the relationships so that the Conversion Pillar can properly, well, convert.

Traffic Sources

As I said, you can get traffic from many different places, some examples are:

• Affiliates
• Article directories
• Blogs
• Forums
• Organic search results
• Pay-Per-Click and other paid advertising
• Social bookmarking sites
• Social networking sites
• And more

Each of them work well on their own and the combination of many (or all) of them will make a truly strong Traffic Pillar.

As an example, here is a simple but very effective flow of traffic combining :

Briefly, use the social networking sites (Squidoo, Hub Pages, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.), the social bookmarking sites (Digg, Propeller, Technorati, Yahoo! Buzz, etc.), article directories (eZine Articles, etc.) and various forums to push traffic to your blogs.

The search engines will also pick these up in their organic search results and drive traffic to your blogs also.

Your blogs then go to your money sites, that is, to you sales and squeeze pages.

Build up to doing that on a consistent basis and you’ll be getting a good amount of traffic everyday and it is basically free traffic – it will cost time and maybe some money for the content.

There are lots of ways to get much more traffic and we’ll be looking at them and I certainly want you input in what is working for you.

The 3 Criteria of a Strong Traffic Pillar

There are 3 success criteria to keep in mind though if you expect to get a strong Product Pillar, your Products must:

1. Give Good, no GREAT, Content

First, and most importantly, you MUST be giving people things that will be useful to them so they want to know more about you and what you do and know.

Do not just sell and sell, remember nobody likes to be sold to.

Provide interesting information and commentary. Provide stuff people can actually use to improve themselves and their lives.

2. Use the World, No Man is an Island

Don’t try to do everything yourself.

Use the social sites.

Use affiliates.

Use paid traffic.

It is virtually impossible nowadays to get traffic and certainly enough traffic to have a truly successful online business doing it all by yourself.

Just doing “traditional” SEO on your Web site, blog and other pages is so hard and changes so frequently that you can assume you will fail.

Take advantage of all the available options, there have never been more, and you will give yourself a good chance to really thrive online.

3. Be Consistent

Don’t just do things now and then.

Post new content on a regular basis, every day would be the best, but be consistent even if it is just two or three times a week.

Without that consistency you will not be building the relationships with your prospects that you need to and your will be losing traffic unnecessarily.

The relationships are important because people are more likely to buy from people they know and like.

Think about it, if one of your friends sold electronics wouldn’t you be more likely to buy from them than just go to some anonymous person.

Consistency helps build relationships so be consistent.

What About List Building?

You’ll notice I don’t mention list building in the Traffic Pillar nor is it one of the 3 Pillars of Success.

You may wonder about this and you may doubt everything I am saying because, after all, so many people so “the money is in the list.”

Well, I agree and disagree.

Building a list is NOT a requirement of success.

You can build a successful business without having any list and many people have built 6-figure businesses just using affiliate marketing where they send prospects directly to the sales pages of the product owners, by the way, you should tap into that for getting you traffic.

Building a list will make it MUCH EASIER to be a success and it will give you another means of getting traffic and I STRONGLY urge you to start list building immediately if you aren’t already doing it.

But, the only 3 things that you must have for a long-tem successful business is strong traffic, good conversions and good products; the 3 Pillars.

Everything else is “the icing on the cake.”

Conclusion

To sum up, success in the Traffic Pillar requires a never ending stream of targeted prospects coming to your Web properties on a consistent basis.

To have a strong Traffic Pillar you must do ALL of these 3 things: provide GREAT content, use everyone and everything to send you traffic, and you must be consistent in your efforts.

Do those and you should build your self a very strong Traffic Pillar and be 1/3 of the way to your dreams.

Add any comments, questions, feedback, disagreements and anything else below.

Talk soon,

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