Traffic Hacking: How to Find (and Focus on) Your Top Sources of Web Traffic

Traffic Hacking - How to Find Your Best Source of Web TrafficWe all understand the importance of traffic generation.

The problem?

There are so many different sources of traffic that it’s hard to know what’s worth your time and what isn’t.

Fortunately, there is a quick fix to this problem.

All you have to do is use a few tools and apply a specific mindset to your traffic generation efforts. Then you can easily identify the most effective promotional tools for your authority site and/or Kindle books.

It’s been over a year since I started the Authority Internet Business Case Study.  During this time, I’ve experimented with a variety of traffic sources to the site DevelopGoodHabits.com (DGH).  What have I learned?  There are only a handful of tactics that actually work (for me.)

In this post, I’m going to reveal a seven-step plan for finding your top sources of traffic and explain what to do when you identify them.

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The Top 10 Sources of Free Traffic – DISSECTED [Traffic and Conversion #11]

How to Increase Blog TrafficIt’s time for another edition of the Traffic and Conversion Series!

The idea behind these posts is to show what’s actually working with my traffic generation efforts.  By following this series you’ll get ideas and tactics that can be used with your online business.

I’m writing this post after completing a seven week cross-country trip across the United States

So I didn’t get a chance to do much in the way of blogging.

Did my traffic go up?  Did it go down?

More importantly, what am I doing to grow these numbers moving forward?

I’ll answer these questions.  Plus I’ll analyze ten different traffic sources for the last 1.5 years – Showing what’s currently working and what’s not.

There’s lots to cover today.

So let’s get to it…

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How to Master the “Deep Inner Game” of Traffic Generation

Inner Game of Web TrafficTraffic generation is one of the most important things you’ll need to do as an affiliate marketer.  Simply put, without traffic you don’t have an Internet business. 

The problem most people have with traffic generation is they understand the techniques, but NOT the mindset behind many of them. 

Fortunately Logan has a great guest post which details a number of “Inner Game” strategies that can take your web traffic to the next level…

You’ve read all the blog posts, you’ve spent DAYS on social media, you’ve written until your hand aches and your pen runs dry…

…but the people are elusive.

They won’t come.

No matter what you do, your site remains a barren wasteland of unseen dreams.

Empty.

Worthy of attention, but invisible to the masses.

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How to Get 5293 (Automatic) Monthly Twitter Visitors [Traffic and Conversion #5]

It’s time for the 5th edition of the Traffic and Conversion series!

In this monthly report, I list the exact strategies I use to increase traffic to this blog {and other websites.}

Today I’m going to detail a specific technique I used to generate 5293 monthly visitors from Twitter.

The best part?  I did this by only spending an hour (in the last month) on this social media site.

Some people might *disagree* with this strategy.  But I’ve found this is the best way to maximize your Twitter results.

Now before we jump in this month’s topic, let’s go over the current statistics:

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10 Ways to Use Google Analytics to Increase Web Traffic

What’s the secret to getting more web traffic?

Is it promoting your site in a variety of places?

Or is it maximizing one source of traffic?

I think it’s neither.

My web traffic philosophy is simple:

“Find what’s working and do more of that!” (Tweet This)

It’s a straightforward strategy.  You concentrate on the traffic strategies that are working and ignore the rest.  It’s like that famous expression: “Starve the Ponies, Feed the Stallions.”

So you might wonder: How do find out what’s working?

Easy… you install and monitor Google Analytics on your site.

In my opinion, Google Analytics is the best tool for monitoring your traffic stats.  Unfortunately not many people know where to get started.  In this post, I’ll show ten ways to use Google Analytics to increase your web traffic:

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How to Get 1 Million Website Visitors in ONE Year [Traffic and Conversion #4]

How to Increase Your Blog Traffic SeriesWelcome 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:

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How to Increase Your Google Website Traffic by 30.01% [Traffic and Conversion #3]

How to Increase Google Ranking Traffic

How to Increase Google Ranking TrafficIt’s time for another update of Traffic and Conversion!

In this series, I list the specific tactics I use to increase web traffic to my Internet properties.

(Specifically I talk about what I’m currently doing to get more visitors to  SteveScottSite.com)

In the last month I’ve worked hard at improving my blog traffic.

And in this post I’ll show…

How to increase search engine traffic by 30.01% in a single month! < – – Re-Tweet this!

Before we get to that, let’s look at the overall traffic stats for November.

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7 Actions that Increase Blog Traffic by 25.3% [Traffic & Conversion #1]

How to Increase Blog TrafficWe all want to increase blog traffic.

And we all would like to make more money.

That’s why it’s important to take a strategic approach for growing our blogs.

Starting last month (September) I made the commitment to focus on increasing readership for the Steve Scott Site.

My goal is simple:  Get more blog traffic and convert readers into ‘action takers.’

In addition, I’m also implementing the same strategic approach with my niche affiliate sites.

The end result is a series called Traffic and Conversion.

Each month, I’ll test something new with my sites.

Then I’ll report back the results.

The idea here is to provide YOU with specific actions for expanding your Internet business.

I’m pretty excited about this series.  I think you’ll learn a lot from it!

To get things going, I’d like to talk about something that’s important to any blogger…

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Weekend Reading: 7 “Must Reads” on Improving Web Traffic

Improving Web TrafficI’m almost done with my travels for the summer (Just one more trip to Mississippi.) Once that’s done, I’m dedicating my time to a simple goal: Get more traffic to the Steve Scott Site.

Now, I need a strategy if I want to increase traffic. That’s why I’ve been reading a lot of content on this subject. In today’s post, I’d like to mention some of the best resources I’ve found:

1) 5 Ways Google Plus can Help Affiliate Marketing: On my blog, Peter wrote a detailed analysis of how to use the brand-new Google+ site. Some people have been raving about this service. Read this post to learn how it works and how to add it to your Internet business.

2) Web Traffic: Yes, this is a link to a blog; not a piece of content. But I want to give an overall recommendation of Ana’s Traffic Generation Cafe. This is one of my favorite destinations for staying current on web traffic strategies. So check out her latest articles and subscribe to her to RSS Feed for future updates.

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5 Ways Google Plus can Help Blogging Affiliate Marketing

Today’s guest post is really timely.  In the last week, I’ve signed up for the new Google Plus service.  But I’m not really sure what it is and how to use it.  Fortunately Peter Mugi does a great job of explaining how to use this site…

Google Plus (Google+) is Google’s latest attempt at social network.  It has become a hot talk on the internet (it accounted for 35% of tweeted news links in the week immediately after it’s launch in June 2011).

I like Google+ not only because it’s a great social networking service, but also since it’s an amazingly powerful tool for all bloggers and affiliate marketers.  In just a few days, it boosted the visitor count of one of my blogs and assisted me to prepare a niche marketing campaign I’m going to launch soon.

In this article I’ll show you all bloggers and affiliate marketers how you could benefit from Google+.  Before I introduce it, let’s have a look at some solid data.

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11 Article Marketing Lessons YOU can Learn from an Account with 2,338,985 Views

Do you use ezine-articles a major part of your article marketing strategies?  If so, you’ll want to pay close attention to this po

Today, I’m going to reveal 11 lessons from an article marketing account that has over 2,338,985 Views.  I learned these the hard way – By making LOTS of mistakes!

So read on to see how to take your ezine articles to the next level.  (Also keep an eye out for the free article template hidden somewhere in this post.)

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POST PANDA NOTE:  Since this article was written the Google “Panda” and “Scrapper” have come and gone.  6 months have nearly come and gone since these updates.  This has been enough time to prove that these article marketing strategies do, in fact, still work.

Let’s be honest.  The days of writing a single ezine-article and having it rank #1 for competitive keywords are long gone.  This is as much due to increased competition as the Google updates.  But article marketing is far from dead.

The Article Marketing Strategies in this post have been changed (where needed) to better match the Post-Panda article marketing world.

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Herding Kittens- A Review of Best-Reviewer

Herdint kittens and backlinking

Herdint kittens and backlinkingGetting traffic

whether to your article, blog, landing page or affiliate offer is a huge desire for many.

Whether they are bloggers, affiliate marketers, article writers, freelancers, amazon affiliates or website owners.

The desire is for more.

More traffic.  More eyes on what you write.  More!  More! More!!!

The problem is that getting this extra traffic can seem like herding kittens.

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