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

David Husnian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:41:14 +0000

Last time we started looking at the foundation of an Ultimate Free Traffic Network; this is what will generate the majority of your free traffic.

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:

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:

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

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:

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:

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:

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.

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

The Foundation of a Traffic Tidal Wave: Ultimate Free Traffic Network, Part 6

David Husnian — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:43:44 +0000

Last time we finished up our look at blogs as the center of your Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

We’re now going to start talking about the first “ring” around your blogs.

Let’s give a quick look at what the free traffic network looks like.

You’ll notice that around the blog there is a ring of yellow items (they’re not exactly oval but sort of); they have words like Squidoo, Facebook and Twitter in them.

These are all Web properties that will point to your blog; they are called a back links.

This is hugely important to the Ultimate Free Traffic Network and is the foundation of where all the free traffic comes from; it generates, directly or indirectly the majority of the free traffic the network gets.

To start, we’re going to look at the primary way to begin and maintain the flood of traffic you’ll receive in your Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

Yep, the best way, the thing you need to do, if you do nothing else is to use…

Content Sharing Sites

Content sharing sites are where people can post content and have it appear on the Internet, without having a website …

There are some very popular content sharing sites, some of which we’ll go over in depth later. They include:

Squidoo: Squidoo provides a free place, called Squidoo Lenses, where people can share all kinds of information and even earn a little money. You just copy and paste your article into a Lens, do a bit of tweaking and formatting and publish it for all the world to see.
Hub Pages: Hub Pages is another very popular free content sharing site and place for online publishing. You can write on just about any topic, add photos and videos and a lot more; it is strict though about promotion and marketing so you have to do things right.
Ezine Articles: Ezine Articles is a free article directory. That is, it allows people to publish articles for other people to read and use/republish. Re-publishers do have to follow the guidelines of Ezine Articles and the conditions the author adds; these can include that the authors name and contact/Web site details remain with the article.
YouTube: You’ve probably heard of YouTube but if you haven’t it is a site where people who have a video (on almost any subject) can upload it to the Internet.
Scribd: Scribd is a document and file sharing site that also provides syndication. It has the potential to drive serious targeted traffic to you site as well and improve your search engine rankings.

Reasons to Use Content Sharing Sites

When building an Ultimate Free Traffic Network, content sharing sites are critical for 3 reasons:

Because they are well liked by the search engines (many of which are considered authority sites). This all adds up to any content that is published to a major content sharing site will be quickly indexed by the search engines and you’ll achieve a higher search engine result.
They are visited by millions of people so many more people have a chance to see your content and click the links to your Web properties.
Many of the content sharing sites let people republish the content on their own Web sites meaning more links for you and more potential people to click on your links.

This will ultimately lead to more traffic.

Here’s why…

Back Links

A back links, particularly one-way back links, is considered by Google and other search engines to be a “vote” for your page by the Web site that has the link; sort of a “hey, this is a good page to read.”

These “votes” to help determine how good the search engines consider your page is and how high the will show your page in their search results.

You might think that the more votes the better and, in some ways, that is true but some Web sites “votes” are considered more important than other Web sites. These authority sites carry more weight so that a “vote” by them is like a hundred or even a thousands “votes” by regular Web sites.

This is why the content sharing sites (and social media sites to be discussed later) are so important to creating your Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

Search Engine Results Position (SERP)

Search engine results position (SERP) is where your Web properties appear in the search engine results for specific keywords.

So, if one of your keyword phrases is “all inclusive romantic honeymoons”. Your SERP for that keyword is what page and what position on the page your Web properties show up when someone searches for that term.

Of course, the best page is the first page and the best positions are the top few positions of that page and, according to some of the traffic gurus the bottom couple of positions are the second best position.

The better yours SERP the more traffic you’ll get.

All the back links you create on the content sharing sites help push your SERP higher.

Direct Links

Putting all those links on content sharing sites, particularly ones that allow re-publishing, mean you’re going to get additional traffic from people who read your content, either on the site or on the re-publisher’s site.

Improved Conversion Rates

This isn’t really traffic oriented but using content sharing sites bring more targeted traffic and you’ll convert better on your landing pages.

How to Use Content Sharing Sites

To use the content sharing sites you need to have content to share, obvious I know.

You should take your marketing campaigns and goals and find the keywords that best support those goals.

Then create/get content that uses those keywords.

Add your resource box (which contains links to your Web properties), or whatever is applicable, and publish them on the various content sharing sites.

Conclusion

Publishing content at content sharing sites is the first and best thing you can do to build your Ultimate Free Traffic Network.

In this overview, we took a glimpse at some content sharing sites: Squidoo; Hub Pages; Ezine Articles; YouTube; and Scribd.

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

Get lots of back links
Get higher Search Engine Results Positioning
Get lots of direct links
Improve conversion rates

And we briefly looked at how to use the sites to maximize benefits.

We’ve started to get the basis for an Ultimate Free Traffic Network, so let’s recap where we are so far.

Put your blog as the center of the network and use the content sharing sites as the main superhighways.

Next time we’ll look more deeply into the various content sharing sites and how to use them properly to produce an astonishingly large amount of traffic.

Have you been building your Ultimate Free Traffic Network? I have!

Is there anything you don’t understand?

Do you think I’m crazy or stupid for sharing this (or for attempting it

Please leave me a comment and let me know.

Talk soon,

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