Welcome to the January 2012 edition of the Traffic and Conversion series!
In this monthly blog report, I list the exact strategies I use to increase traffic to this blog {and other websites.}
Today’s post is a special one.
That’s because I’m going to provide an overview of how I plan on getting 1 million visitors to this blog in 2012.
This is a major goal that will take a lot of work to achieve.
But I’m fully confident that it can be done.
Before we get to the *meat* of this post, let’s go over the stats from last month: [click to continue…]
The cornerstone of any income-producing website is a strong presence in the Google search engine.
But there is a valuable lesson that many online entrepreneurs learned in 2011…
One wrong move can result in complete disaster.
For instance, last year Google had their infamous Panda Update. [click to continue…]
It’s that time again…
The ball has dropped. It’s a new year. And many people have picked their annual “resolution.”
Unfortunately it’s been my experience that New Year’s Resolutions are a complete waste of time. Even worse – Some resolutions actually prevent people from achieving their goals.
Think of it this way… Imagine it’s the final minutes of year. You make a resolution simply because everyone else is doing it. [click to continue…]
One of the emerging trends with affiliate marketing is to promote products through video.
Unfortunately many people shy away from this technique because they think it’s too hard to do.
The reality is anyone can make a simple video!
In fact,there are a wide-range of tools that make it super easy to create a stylish looking YouTube video.
For instance, I’ll often use the Animoto program to make videos. This software makes it very easy to create a multimedia presentation in less than ten minutes. [click to continue…]
Update (12/22/11): I wrote this article last year…but I thought it was funny enough to post again.
Anyway…I’m taking a few days off to enjoy time with my family. Check out the blog on Monday for an in-depth video about creating simple affiliate marketing videos for YouTube.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday season and enjoy your time spent with loved ones.
Recently I realized I’m a bit cocky when it comes to completing my projects. The truth is we’re about to witness the best project manager in the world – Santa Claus.
Old St. Nick has been a (not-so) lean, mean, project finishing machine for hundreds of years and there’s no sign he’s going to stop anytime soon. [click to continue…]
All Internet businesses need a solid search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.
…And every search engine strategy needs a variety of backlinks.
…And the backlinks need to come from sites with high Google PageRank (PR).
Ultimately it’s these high PR backlinks that determine where your site will rank in the search engines for specific keyword phrases.
The question is – “How do you get a variety of backlinks without wasting a lot of time or money?”
This is something I’ve asked myself in the last few months as I develop my niche affiliate income sites.
When it comes to search engines, I believe in the 4 V’s of backlinks:
- Volume: The quantity of links to your site
- Variety: The number of different links to your site
- Velocity: The speed you get links to your site
- Verbiage: The anchor text on the link to your site
Now there’s one thing that sucks about building backlinks – If you do it wrong, you’ll get “Sandboxed” or even delisted by Google. {This is bad.}
My advice is to think carefully about how you get backlinks to your site. In other words, only get links from sites that Google likes. To help you get started, I’ve found a number of high PR sites where you can get backlinks. [click to continue…]
