21 Untapped Traffic Sources
For those of you who know me, you probably know that I’m a traffic addict. Finding new traffic strategies is like opening a shiny new present on Christmas day. And in this article, I want to turn you into a Traffic Yoda.
Below you’ll find 21 high-powered traffic strategies for kicking your website into high gear. Now, I realize that this article is pretty long. But I promise that it’s well-worth the read.
So, without further ado, let’s dive in…
1. Submit your Blog to Content Aggregators like AllTop.com and 9Rules.
If you have a top-notch blog that regularly publishes valuable content (which you should), then you can submit your blog to sites like Alltop.com and 9Rules.com. These are content aggregators that aggregates the best content from around the web.
AllTop is the creation of Guy Kawaski. Alltop aggregates content from leading blogs around the Web, allowing you to get the hottest new information all in one place.
As a blogger, Alltop can also be a tremendous traffic source if you can get your blog listed. You can submit your site at:
9Rules.com is another top content aggregator online the pulls the best content from around the web into one location. 9Rules accepts submissions throughout the year. You can see when their next opening is at http://www.9rules.com/about/join/
2. High-Profile Content Syndication
As you probably know, article marketing is becoming less and less effective. Simply posting your articles to sites like EzineArticles.com will no longer cut it.
There’s nothing wrong with submitting your content to article directories, but you’re going to get exponentially more results if you start zoning in on high-profile content syndication.
So, what is high-profile content syndication?
Well, instead of submitting your articles to article directories, you submit them to the top websites and blogs within your market.
So, for example, if you have a blog about sports, you could submit your articles to http://bleacherreport.com , one of the most popular sports websites online.
If you have a website about parenting, you could submit articles to http://www.momsnetwork.com/submit-articles.shtml
If you have a website about finance, you could submit articles to http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/submitarticle.html
If you have a blog about Internet Marketing, then you can submit your articles to sites like Site-Reference.com, BetterNetworker.com, Startup.biz, and Mashable.com.
No matter what market you’re in, there are very popular websites that you could be submitting articles to for massive traffic.
Another great place that you can submit your articles are Ning Communities. There are thousands of Ning Social Networks online centered around almost every topic imaginable.
Simply go to Ning.com and search for a community related to your target market. Find one with over 1,000 members and start getting involved in the community.
Best of all, you can contribute articles within EVERY Ning community and they are displayed on the FRONT PAGE. I hope you’re starting to see how incredible powerful this is.
Ning communities are one of the biggest untapped traffic sources online.
3. Guest Blogging
Another great way to get lots of extra exposure and laser-targeted
traffic is guest blogging. Now, I can hear what you’re probably thinking… “Kim, that’s not a new traffic source!”. But how many of you are actually USING this technique to generate traffic to your website. I’m betting that VERY few of you are actually IMPLEMENTING this EXTREMELY powerful traffic strategy.
Guest blogging is one of the best ways to expose your content to a completely new audience. Best of all, at the end of your post is your name, your brand, and a link back to your website.
So, you might be wondering how you get a popular blog to post your content. As always, it comes down to value. You want to showcase your very best content.
Plus, you’ll also need to develop a relationship with the blogger that you want to guest post for. Now, at first this might sound hard but it’s really not. Here’s what I like to do to initiate the relationship with other bloggers.
First, I start making in-depth, insightful comments on their blog…comments that will really stand out. After I do that for a couple days (maybe even a week or two), then I send the blogger an email telling them how much I enjoy their blog. I also like to make some sort of deeper connection as well. So I try and find out what their favorite hobbies are, their favorite music, etc… and I look for something that we have in common so that I can make a deeper connection.
So then I send them a personalized email, which is ALWAYS well-received. You can never go wrong paying compliments, as long as they’re sincere. Plus, the blogger already knows your name because you’ve been leaving all-star comments on their blog.
So now that you’ve developed a relationship with them, you can approach them about doing a blog post and chances are that they will happily post your article (as long as it contains extremely valuable content).
And you now have your content in front of thousands of new readers. Guest blogging is one of the best ways to increase your traffic and exposure.
Great Resources about Guest Blogging:
Why Guest Blogging is a Powerful Way to Gain Exposure for Your Blog
7 Reasons Every Blogger Should Be Guest Posting
What Makes a Great Guest Post
How to Get Your Guest Post Featured on Bigger Blogs
4. Trackbacks
A trackback is an automated process of notifying another blog that you have linked to one of their articles. Whenever you link to an article on another blog, WordPress will automatically “ping” the other blog, alerting them to the incoming link.
Trackbacks are an excellent way of letting another blogger know that you have linked to them. Plus, trackbacks are also displayed in the comments section, so your link will immediately show up in the comments section of that blog, which can lead to lots of traffic (especially on a high-traffic blog like TechCrunch, ZenHabits, etc…)
Plus, bloggers LOVE it when you link to them… and out of gratitude, they will often link back to you, which sends even more traffic your way.
Don’t underestimate the power of linking to other blogs. It’s a very powerful traffic strategy that can also help you build relationships with other bloggers online.
Trackback Resources:
Link Karma: How Linking to Others Can Get You Lots of Links in Return
How to Do a Trackback to Get More Links and Traffic
5 Thinks You Need to Know about Trackbacks
5. Blog Commenting
Blog commenting can be an extremely powerful technique for building traffic to your website. Click here to find out how one blog comment can bring 230+ unique visitors.
Unfortunately, most bloggers underestimate the value of blog commenting. Not only can commenting bring you lots of extra exposure it’s also an excellent way to start building relationships with other bloggers.
And these relationships can lead to guest posting opportunities, backlinks, interviews, and more.
In order to optimize your comments for the most traffic, you’ll want to make sure that you’re one of the first to comment. The earlier you comment, the more exposure you’re going to get because your comment will be at the top of the page. And, as always, make sure that your comment provides tremendous value. You want your comment to stand out from the others. You do this by providing in-depth, insightful comments that ADD to the conversation.
Now imagine if you do this consistently on several high-profile blogs you could drive some serious traffic to your blog and build invaluable relationships with your fellow bloggers.
6. Write Tutorials!
Tutorials are a HUGE untapped traffic source online. If you have a
website related to graphic design, wordpress, web development, SEO,
marketing, or programming, then you can use tutorials to send thousands of visitors to your website. There are hundreds of websites online that you can submit your tutorials to. One of the most popular is Instructables.com.
Here’s a more complete list of popular sites where you can submit your tutorials for tons of extra exposure, traffic, and backlinks…
http://www.noupe.com/
http://www.tutorialized.com – (This one is one of my favorites because it has a section for marketing and SEO.) This site alone has sent me thousands of visitors.
http://www.good-tutorials.com/
http://www.pslover.com/
http://www.pixel2life.com/
http://www.tutorialsphere.com/
http://www.tutorialkit.com/
http://www.rnel.net/
http://toxiclab.org/
http://tutorial-index.com/
http://designbump.com/
http://www.designfloat.com/
http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/
http://www.tutorials-expert.com/
http://www.cg-links.com/
http://www.fstutorials.com/
http://tutorialoutpost.com/
http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/
http://psd.tutsplus.com/
http://psdtop.com/
http://graphic-design-links.com/
http://design-newz.com/submit-newz/
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/02/add-design-news-on-woork.html
http://devmarks.com/
http://www.dzone.com/
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/contribute/
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com
http://www.webdesignbooth.com/
http://www.crazyleafdesign.com/blog/contributors/
http://psdlearning.com/
http://www.brushking.eu/submit_news.php
http://kailoon.com/
http://www.myinkblog.com/submit-news/
http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/user-link-feed/
http://designm.ag/submit-news/
http://www.flashperfection.com/submit.html
http://www.tutorial-center.com/submit/
http://www.totaltutorial.com/
http://www.designshard.com/contribute/
http://www.knowtebook.com/publish
http://sharebrain.info/submit/
http://www.photoshop911.com/tutorial.html
http://www.cg-links.com/submit-link.php
http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/submit/
http://www.v7n.com/graphics/submit.php
http://www.tipclique.com/
http://gfxtuts.com/
http://www.tutorio.com/
http://designmoo.com/
http://www.zabox.net/
Additional Resources:
Tutorial and Article Websites That Bring Traffic
7. Video Responses
If you do any video marketing at all, then you should immediately add video responses to your marketing arsenal. This is a very simple technique you can use to dramatically increase your YouTube video views. I’ve used this one simple tactic to get thousands of extra views on a single video.
Unforatuntely, I see very few people taking advantage of this powerful technique…
Here’s how you do it:
First, you’ll need to upload a video to YouTube.com.
Next you’ll need to find a related video that has LOTS of views. So, for example, if I create a video about dog training, then I would look for a related video about dog training that has lots of views.
Here’s a good example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CskvOzDOmbw
This is a great video about dog training that’s received over 100,000 views. That’s definitely the type of video that you would want to post a video response to.
So you after you find a popular related video, you would then post a video response. To do this, you’ll need to look underneath the video in the section called “Video Responses”. On the right hand-side you’ll see a blue link that says “Post a Video Response”.
Click on that link and you will then be taken to a page where you can post a video response.
Click on the link in the middle that say, “Choose a Video”. From here you will choose one of the videos you have already uploaded on YouTube and click on the button that says, “Respond with This Video”. You need to choose a related video to post a video response to.
Now, once you have posted a video response, you can go back to the
video and you will now see that your video is listed in the Video Responses section.
As you can imagine, if you have posted a video response to a very popular video, you can get thousands of views coming to your video from the video response you’ve just posted. This is one of the easiest ways to divert traffic to your videos.
Don’t take this strategy for granted. It’s EXTREMELY powerful and it has
brought thousands of extra visitors to my videos. Simply find popular videos that are related to yours and post a video response.
8. Tag Your Videos
Here’s another simple strategy for getting lots of extra views on your video. Simply find existing videos on YouTube that are related to yours and have a lot of views. Then, copy their tags to the video you’re uploading. This gives you’re video a very good chance of appearing in the related videos in the sidebar, which can send you a ton of extra traffic.
9. Embed Your Video for Hundreds of Extra Views
There are lots of sites that allow you to embed your videos for further promotion. One of my favorites is WonderHowTo.com. If you have a “How To” video on YouTube, MetaCafe, or any video site that gives you embed code, then you can post it to WonderHowTo and get hundreds of extra views on your video.
Some other sites where you can embed your video to include:
http://www.flixya.com
http://www.spike.com
http://www.instructables.com
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.uvouch.com
http://www.magnify.net/sites/categories
http://www.ulinkx.com/
http://www.myvidster.com (Social Bookmarking for Videos)
http://www.gemzies.com/
http://www.infectiousvideos.com/
http://www.videosift.com
http://www.vewgle.com
http://www.tagged.com
http://www.wonderhowto.com
http://http://www.maxior.pl
http://www.nowpublic.com
http://www.vodpod.com
http://www.mefeedia.com/add.php
It’s kind of like article syndication for videos! But 10x more powerful!
This is one of the easiest ways to get thousands of extra visitors for your video. I’ve seen VERY few people taking advantage of this strategy, so I hope you start using it in your own online business.
Extra Juicy Tip: You can also submit your video to any of the Ning Communities online. These are social networking communities centered around niche topics (everything from baking and parenting to biking and dog training). Ning.com has thousands of communities on almost any imaginable topic. These social communities contain thousands of users and you can submit blog posts and articles to all of them. Best of all, those articles and blog posts will show up on the front page of the Ning Community. Very Powerful!!!
10. How to Get More Views on Your EzineArticles…
As you probably know, EzineArticles.com is one of the top article directories online. However, did you know that there’s a trick you can use to make it even more powerful.
Here’s what you do…
You’ll notice at the bottom of each article a section called “Most Viewed” and “Most Published”. However, did you know that there’s an easy way to get your article into these sections for tons of extra exposure and internal backlinks?
The Most Published section is easier to get into so let’s start with that one. First, you need to grab the EzinePublisher URL for your article. You’ll find this at the top right hand side of the page. You’ll see a list of icons with a printer icon at the top. Well, right below the printer icon that says “Print This Article”, you will see a link that says “EzinePublisher”.
Go ahead and click on this link. Now, grab the URL for this link and paste it into a text document because we’re going to be using this URL for a little while.
You see, in order to get into the “Most Published” section, you need to get the most clicks onto your EzinePublisher link. To do this, we will be promoting the link ourselves outside of EzineArticles by using social bookmarking, Twitter, and a few other sources.
So, first you will need to submit your EzinePublisher url to all of the different social bookmarkings sites like Digg, Mixx, Delicious, etc.. You can do this semi-automatically at SocialPoster.com.
Once you have submitted your URL to all of the different social bookmarking sites, you can then send it out to all of your friends on Twitter, FriendFeed, and other microblogging platforms.
By doing this, you will increase the views on your Publisher page, allowing you to get into the “Most Published” section. Once your article has been placed in the “Most Published” section, it will be placed on every single article within that particular category.
This means extra exposure for your article. But more importantly, it means MORE LINK JUICE. You see, the internal linking structure within EzineArticles.com is EXTREMELY powerful for ranking in Google. These internal links are very powerful.
By getting your article in the “Most Viewed” or “Most Published” section, you are increasing the number of internal links pointing to that article, which can make a huge difference in how the article ranks in Google.
Do you see where I’m going with this?
First you need to make sure you’re using the targeted keyword phrases in
your article title and sprinkled throughout your article. Then, by getting your article placed in the “Most Viewed” or “Most Published” section, you can dramatically increase your Google rankings because your article now has more internal links pointing to it.
If you want to get into the “Most Viewed” section, you use the same
technique, but this time you will be promoting the URL of the actual article.
If you want to guarantee your spot in the “Most Viewed” section you can use StumbleUpon advertising, which is just 5 cents per view. This is one of the simplest ways to get your article in the “Most Viewed” section. Plus, by using StumbleUpon, you’re also driving lots of targeted traffic to your article and increasing your exposure.
11. Cool Site of the Day
Here’s another interesting find. It’s called Cool Site of the Day. This site lists some of the most interesting sites from around the web. Best of all, you can submit your site as well if you think it’s up to snuff. Not only does this present an excellent link opportunity, but Cool Site of the Day is known for sending thousands of visitors to their featured sites.
If your site is chosen, it will be featured on the homepage and announced to their email list of over 150,000 subscribers.
Much like Digg, Cool Site of the Day also has a ripple effect. The featured sites are often picked up by journalists throughout the world. Some of the previously featured sites have been quoted on the BBC News website, featured in USA Today, picked up by radio stations and quoted in a number of other media outlets.
Sites similar to Cool Site of the Day that you can submit to include…
Yahoo Picks
TopsiteoftheDay
AskMen
Blackstump
Family First
12. Coupons
Give away coupons and promote them in coupon directories. If your site offers coupons of any kind, you can submit your site to hundreds of different coupon websites online for additional exposure and traffic. Plus, you’re also creating valuable one-way backlinks to your website.
Here’s a list of coupons sites you can submit to:
SuperCoolCoupons
Coupon Cabin
Ultimate Coupons
FreeShipping.org
Deal Taker
For a complete list of coupon sites, go to…
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p4bAsllwd0FlMmPng37LvTA
Additional Resources:
Find Customers and Backlinks by Adding Your Site to Coupon Directories
13. Twitter Traffic
Since it’s launch in July of 2006, Twitter has quickly become one of the most popular microblogging platforms online.
It’s a place to network, connect, and communicate.
Twitter is a powerful platform for communicating with your readers, building your brand, driving traffic to your blog, and building relationships with industry leaders.
At it’s core, Twitter is about the conversation.
Twitter is like one giant cocktail party. It facilitates instant engagement with your readers, fellow bloggers, and industry mavens.
Social media has created a fundamental shift in the way we do business.
“Anonymous” business people are being ignored. Personal brands and social equity are becoming more and more important. Twitter allows you to share a more personal side of yourself with your readers – whatever that may be. Quirky and Crazy, Starbucks Addict, or Late Night Insomniac – Be true to yourself and people will love you for it. This is how you turn your everyday readers into a community of raving fans.
Twitter allows you to create a dialogue with your target market.
But the key to winning in social media is to provide value. Whether this be in the form of interesting links, cool resources, or encouraging quotes. The key to all forms of social media is to focus on providing value.
Become a connector! Look for ways to be of value to your network. Help people connect with others. Help people find good jobs, good VAs, good copywriters, good graphic designers and you will quickly become an invaluable resource. By becoming a connector, people will start coming to you as the go-to person in your market and they will spread the word about you as well.
Engage at every possible opportunity. Share good content. Have Fun!
And if you want to automate your twitter marketing, then I would highly suggest using TweetAdder.com.
TweetAdder allows you to quickly build up your Twitter following while you focus on engaging your readers and providing tremendous value.
Great Twitter Resources:
How I Got My Blog Post Retweet by @problogger, @GuyKawaski and 250 more
How to Drive Traffic with Repeat Tweets
Go Viral on Twitter
16,000 Followers in 90 Days Without Steroids
How do You Get More Followers on Twitter
5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence
47 Twitter Power Users’ Secrets To Getting Many Followers
5 Reasons Twitter is an Essential Social Media Tool
14. Free WSO’s
This little strategy is a golden nugget for anyone in the Internet Marketing niche to rapidly grow their list. The technique here is to post Free WSO’s in the Warrior Forum. These are known as Warrior Special Offers. And a lot of people in this section of the forum list products for sale. But what I do is I actually list Free WSO’s that point people to a squeeze page where they can get my free report, free video, etc…
This allows me to quickly and easily and 100 subscribers to my list. Very powerful! And something that people aren’t doing nearly enough.
Now, it does cost $20 each time you list or bump your WSO. But it’s well worth it considering the kind of list you build using this simple technique.
You can also create what I like to call a “perpetual WSO”. I learned this particular technique from Jason Paker. This is where you continue to bump your WSO’s each day in order to keep them on the front page. So you can actually have one or two WSO’s in rotation each and every day, which will automate your list building process and add anywhere from 25-50 subscribers to your list each and every day.
When you initially launch your Free WSO, you can get anywhere from 100-300 subscribers. And then you can start bumping those same WSO’s to put your listing back on the front page, so that you can start adding people
to your list on autopilot.
15. JV Giveaways
Another great way to build your list quickly is to enter Giveaway events as a contributor. A Giveaway event is basically a site where multiple marketers contribute a free gift. This can be in the form of free ebooks, reports, videos, audios, etc…
Then, all of the contributors promote the Giveaway Event to their list, which puts your offer in front of thousands of people. Your offer is listed among all of the other contributors. And when people come to the site, they’ll see your offer. If it’s something they’re intersted in, they’ll click on it, go to your squeeze page and get signed up for your free report.
Giveaway events allow you to piggyback on the traffic of other marketers, allowing you to quickly add a couple hundred subscribers to
your list.
Giveaways are a great way to start building your list quickly. They’re also one of the best ways to build your “seed” list for future ad swaps.
By contributing to giveaways, you can quickly build up a list of 500 subscribers, which you can then use to start exponentially growing your list through the power of ad swaps.
If you want to grow your list quickly, then I would look to contribute to at least 1 or 2 giveaways per month. At the same time, you don’t want to burnout your list promoting giveaways. You must continually keep a careful balance between promotions and giving away valuable content.
It’s critical that you provide your subscribers with TREMENDOUS VALUE and focus on building a relationship with your subscribers.
Additional Resources:
Where to Find the Best Giveaway Events Online:
http://www.bestgiveawayevents.com/
http://thegoldengiveaway.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6405644093
http://www.giveawayriches.com
16. Hosting JV Giveaways
I would also strongly encourage you to host your own JV Giveaway. This will allow you to add thousands of people to your list instead of just a few hundred.
The key to hosting a great Giveaway event is to have lots of good contributors. To do this you must already have a sizeable list of your own that you can promote the Giveaway to. So whenever you approach a potential contributor you can say, “Hey, I will be promoting this Giveaway to my list of 10,000 subscribers so you’ll be able to get plenty of exposure.”. I would recomment that you build a list of at least 10,000 subscribers before you start hosting your own Giveaway Events. This gives you lots of leverage when contacting contributors, because you now have something of value for them. And that’s the key!
Once you have that seed list that you can promote to it’s easy to get people involved in your Giveaway Events.
17. Ad Swaps
Once you’ve built your subscriber list up to 500-1,000 subscribers, you can then start buiding your list exponentially using ad swaps. Ad swaps are hands-down one of the fastest ways to build your list.
But first, let’s talk about exactly what an ad swap entails…
An ad swap occurs when two list owners each agree to mail their list on offer from the other list owner. This is usually a free offer placed on a landing page in exchange for someone’s name and email address. As a result, they are both adding hundreds of subscribers to their lists.
The most effective ad swap occurs when two list owners endorse the other person’s squeeze page offer, which gives away a free report, video, or some other content of value.
Even if you just have a small list, you can still leverage that asset to swap ads with other list owners – helping you to grow your list at a rapid pace.
Ad swaps are a little-known tactic that all of the big internet marketers are using to add 200 to 500 subscribers per day.
So, once you’ve built a “seed” list of 500-1,000 subscribers, it’s now time to go out and start looking for potential ad swap partners.
Here are some places online where you can find other list owners who are actively looking to do ad swaps:
http://www.imadswaps.com
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-joint-ventures/
Once you have found some potential JV partners, contact them and propose to do an ad swap with your lists. Keep in mind that it doesn’t matter if your potential JV partner has a bigger list size.
For example, let’s say you want to swap ads with someone who has a list that has 10,000 subscribers and you have 1,000 subscribers. Not a
problem! The person with 10,000 subscribers would just send your ad out to 1,000 subscribers of their 10,000 person list. So they would just send it to a segment of their list. Problem solved!
Here’s a powerful tip that will increase the chance of your potential partner agreeing to do an ad swap…
Go ahead and set up a squeeze page that is specific to the marketer you’re swapping ads with. So at the top of your squeeze page (directly under your headline), you would have some text that says, “This is an exclusive secret download page only for Bob Smith’s subscribers)
This makes it a lot more personal. Not only are you going to get a more
positive response from your potential partner, but you will also get higher conversions on your squeeze page because it’s targeted directly to their subscribers.
Here’s an example… http://www.buzzblogger.com/Jay
Do you see how I personalized the landing page just for Jay. I also created a customized URL for him. Not only will this improve your chances of getting more ad swap partners, it also converts better because you’ve personalized the page specifically for their subscribers.
Ad swaps are one of the best ways to grow your list quickly without spending any money.
This is some of the very best traffic you can get because someone is endorsing your free offer to their list of subscribers.
Plus, the really cool thing about ad swaps is that you can do them MULTIPLE times… with the same people!
Since both of your lists are growing all the time you can do an ad swap with the same people on a monthly basis by sending the ad swap only to your newest subscribers.
I hope you’re starting to see how powerful this is.
18. Use a Contest to Double Your List Size
Here’s a little-known technique that will double your list size… Contests!
I’m always surprised at how few people use this technique.
Clayton Makepeace, one of the smartest marketers online, has used this technique quite effectively.
With a contest, you are simply leveraging your existing list to add thousands of additional subscribers.
There are 3 keys to creating a successful contest that adds thousands of extra subscribers to your list.
1. First, you need a value-packed incentive. You must have some killer prizes lined up for your readers if you want them to actively get involved in your contest. Some great ideas to offer as prizes include your own free products, other people’s products, and one-on-one coaching time.
2. To enter the contest, your readers will need to do things that spread the word about your newsletter or your free offer. You need to get your subscribers pointing people back to your squeeze page. To do this, you can have them make videos about your free report, basically giving a testimonial for your report and why it’s so great.
You then have them post the video on YouTube and post the link to their video in the blog comments.
You can have them send a promo to their email list and then post the email in the comments.
Or have them make a blog post about your free report and then have them post a link to their blog post in the comments.
3. For each of those activities, you will need to give your readers a prize. Now, you can either give a prize to the best blog posts, video, and email. Or you can give a prize to everyone who makes a blog post, video, or sends an email out to their list. Of course, the latter is going to be a much bigger incentive and get you a lot more exposure.
You can see an example of how this is done at:
http://www.makepeacetotalpackage.com/wendy-makepeace/urgent-deadline-midnight-tonight.html
I suggest doing a contest every 3 to 4 months. Not only are you engaging your readers (which is EXTREMELY powerful), you’re also able to double your list simply by running a contest. This is one of THE best ways to leverage the power of your existing list.
You see, once you’ve built a list of at least 1,000 subscribers, it becomes much easier to start growing your list exponentially through the use of ad swaps, contests, Giveaway Events, and JV partnerships.
19. Amazon Mechanical Turk
Many of you have probably heard of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Mturk allows you to hire people to do a wide range of simple tasks.
But many people do not realize it’s potential marketing power.
You can have people on Mechanical Turk do almost anything… vote for your video on YouTube, post comments on your YouTube videos, submit your articles to social bookmarking sites, etc… All for just a few pennies.
So, for example, let’s say you wanted to get your article on EzineArticle.com into the “most viewed” section. Doing this would allow you to get a ton of extra exposure and hundreds of internal backlinks within the EzineARticles website itself.
To do this, you would simply go to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and setup what they call a HIT (Human Intelligence Task).
You would then buy hits for people to view your article. But you’ll want to do this slowly. (approx. 25 or so per day)
You would pay about 4 cents per hit. Also, do not republish the hit. Simply make a big one and say 200 hits and then pause or re update the hit. This way the same worker won’t redo the hit.
And of course, this is just the beginning of what’s possible with Mturk.
You can use it for Stumbles, Diggs, YouTube votes, YouTube comments, etc…
20. SocialElves
Have you ever wanted to get on the Front page of Digg? Well,SocialElves.com can help you do just that. SocialElves is a social media marketing agency that can help you build conversations around your brand and drive huge traffic to your website or blog.
They are one of the first to offer truly organic marketing campaigns on Digg.com. If you’d like to get more exposure on your content WITHOUT having to spend months developing power profiles on all the different social media sites, then I would highly suggest you check out SocialElves.com
21. Buy Existing Websites – I’m always surprised how few people are buying existing websites online. You can easily buy an untapped website and quickly turn it into an automatic lead machine for pennies on the dollar.
There are lots of webmasters online who simply do not realize the full
potential of their website. With just a little bit of marketing knowledge,
you can maximize the site’s potential and start generating hundreds of
subscribers per day.
Here are some of my favorite places to buy websites:
http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/ – lots of good deals here
http://www.viperbusiness.com/listings/ – pricey but these are golden gems that are already generating large profits. (Many of them even come with an existing list of subscribers.)
Another very powerful technique is to go buy underperforming sites on Clickbank and PayDotCom. The majority of products on Clickbank are getting little to no sales per month. Either they did a big product launch and now things have sizzled out or they simply don’t have the proper marketing knowledge to get things rolling. Either way, it’s a HUGE opportunity for you.
You can easily come in and buy entire products for pennies on the dollar. You can then either use your marketing knowledge to immediately increase conversions and traffic and bring the site back to life.
OR, you can use the content inside the product to build a huge plot of juicy content real estate online. Many of the products on Clickbank have up to 200 pages so you can take that content, split it up into articles and then drip-feed it to your website.
Or you can syndicate the content around the web. Turn it into video and submit them to all the top video directories. Break the product into multiple ebooks and submit them to all the top ebook directories online.
The possibilities are endless. You can use that content to easily generate thousands of visitors by repurposing it into podcasts, viral reports, blog posts, videos, and articles that you can syndicate around the web.
DK Fynn Says:
September 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
I learned a lot from your 7 Day Blogging Challenge, and am incorporating what I learned into the training system I’m developing to train the outsourcers we’ll have on our team.
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Norene Says:
September 10th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Kim,
This is a fabulous list of traffic sources! I have used so many of your suggestions from your ultimate blogging course and the traffic that has been generated is nothing short of magical! Blogging is so much more powerful than I ever thought. Thanks for all of your help! -Norene
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Tony Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Hi Kim,
All I can say is…WOW!
This is fantastic!
You always supply us with powerful “knock your socks off” information that can elevate our businesses to new heights.
Your “Ultimate Blogging Challenge” has truly been a blessing for me. The tons of “ready to buy” targeted traffic that I have received from just one high-quality article has outperformed 10 articles from EA and 5 other article directories.
It’s all about working smart not hard!
I will definitely intertwine tips from this post into my traffic “empire” and watch my stats explode!
You are amazing! Thank you for all of your help.
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Kim Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Thank you so much Tony and Norene! You have made my day :)
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Geoff Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 12:44 am
This is a great list. Too often, I see blog posts like this and it’s the same-old-same-old. This is really solid. Now off to put it into action! Thanks!
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Stan Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Hi Kim
I was going to say that you never cease to amaze me with your incredible content but I can’t as I have to come accept that your content is always amazing and this is no exception!
The downside to it is that it’s a little intimidating for us lesser mortals as I really struggle to produce content that would come anywhere near the quality of yours.
In an internet that’s full of dross you are a standout.
Thank you
Stan
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Rod Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Thanks Kim
I tripped over your name recommended in some obscure corner of the web a few months ago – one of the most useful of my discoveries! IPF and your blog have been a great help to getting things moving in my internet business. Time I said a big thanks for the great value of your work!
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dan martin Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I really like this post, there are some fantastic ideas here to help people get more traffic to websites. I just stumbled across you on the web but am going to read more of your blog.
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Kim Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Hey Dan,
Thanks so much for the great feedback!
It’s great to have you here :)
Cheers!
- Kim
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Ron Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
One Good Trick for Articles
Hi Kim
Extensive and thorough as usual..Great
One good trick for article posting on blogs
or anywhere is …spend time on the Title
The Title is your main concern
It compels people to read the first sentence.
And of course the purpose of the first sentence is
to encourage your audience to read the second sentence
and so on to the end..
all with your super content..
Thanks so much for your training.
Take Care Ron
PS
For people just starting out who do not have a
lot of credibility (like myself)
don’t be afraid to start small.
Find one or two contacts each day
to add something to their life.
This includes offline stuff too.
Always a good place to start anyways.
The 20,000 member list will come.
Last Thing.
A book that I use for my PR Principles
is the old stand by
How to Win Friends and Influence People.
So many tips to help us in our social networking.
One of the PR Principles I try to adhere to is
“Everything Counts”…pay attention to detail.
There should be no “Little” people in your life.
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RB Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Fantastic resources KIM
Easily worth a WSO!
We have same problem…I.E not updating blog regularly :)
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shanghai888 Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Excellent article. Liked the info about YouTube especially, thanks!
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Jonathan Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 12:43 am
Kim, your ‘tutorials’ idea looks very fine. I suspect it may have more juice than writing articles for article directories, considering that a tutorial is studied a lot more more closely and intensely.
Plus you’ve reminded me to do more video responses – that’s just a no-brainer for getting traffic.
Marvellous resource you’ve given here.
Jonathan
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dantanner Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Thank you for the wonderful piece. I have tweeted this already on twitter, some posts are just worth mentioning. I will be re-reading this article again to sink it all in.
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Sydney Johnston Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 11:43 am
What an excellent post! You could sell this as a course or WSO and no buyer would feel cheated. I know a lot about traffic generation but I learned a couple of new things and will execute them. Thanks!
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SD Says:
September 12th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Kim,
Thank you for the great post! I’ve met some of these ideas in paid WSOs, and here you share them for free!
One question about StumbleUpon traffic – I have never used that before, but heard that it is not converting. Is that right? If so, even $0.05 per click might be too much if you need a few thousands clicks, for example!
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Debbie Panell Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Ok, So I admit I was expecting the standard run of the mill ways to build blog traffic blog entries.
But KUDOS to you! You had some ideas on there I had never seen or heard of- and even better- mostly FREE! :)
another idea- create a facebook fan page- I just started mine a few days ago and have already had an order placed from it! :)
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Robert-Dene Smith Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Fantastic Blog Post Some real Under the radar Traffic secrets.
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Marko Saric Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Wow great article! I especially liked the tutorial sites list, never tried that option before.
And thanks for linking to my articles!
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Tom Harvey Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Kim
Superb, what a great comprehensive article. Plenty of great new ideas and techniques that I will put into action! Look forward to following your advice, thank you and keep up the good work.
Tom
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Tom Harvey Says:
September 13th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Kim
Superb, some great techniques and tips here to supplement my current endeavours, cant wait to put them into practice and reap the rewards!!
Thank you so much, will pop back again!!
Tom
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Gerry from http://www.increaseweb-sitetraffic.com Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 5:32 am
Fantastic Post !
You have certainly covered a number of ways to get traffic.
Keep up the great work.
Regards
Gerry Walter
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tali Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 10:30 am
this is great, i am not sure where to begin.
thank you
tali
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John Tanner Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Hi Kim,
I’m a Newbie being taught by Alex Jeffreys struggling to generate traffic, but my fellow student Norene posted about her traffic success and suggested reading your blog.
Thanks Norene!!!!
I’m so pleased to have been pointed to your blog, I’ve printed the article out and will start to work my way through all your suggestions.
This is just what I needed.
Thanks again,
John
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Aleisha Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
The best article I’ve ever read about getting more traffic.
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Een Rockstar Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Awesome article..I appreciate your effort to write this KILLER article..It helps bloggers a lot..
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Steve Winters Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Nice and simple post! Good job on narrowing down the list to 21 highly efficient traffic driving tips. I have now added a few of them to my business plan.
Cheers,
Steve
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Paul Wilson Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Hey Kim,
I can’t believe the amount of content you keep churning out for FREE :-)
There are some real gems in here, and certainly a couple I will be looking to implement shortly!
Keep up your hard work!
Take care
Paul
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Matthew L. Says:
September 14th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Great stuff, Kim… I forgot about Sitepoint since I’ve become more seasoned. I’m totally going to tear it up now :)
You rock!!
- Matthew
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Jason Parker Says:
September 15th, 2009 at 1:44 am
Thanks for the plug Kim. Much appreciated :)
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Peggy Baron Says:
September 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hi Kim,
I ran over here from the Warrior Forum and I’m glad I did. Your blog is filled with valuable posts… just the kind of blog I like to read.:)
Kudos and thanks,
Peggy
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Kim Says:
September 15th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Thanks Peggy!
You can imagine how much that means to me :)
Cheers!
- Kim
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Gunasekhar Says:
September 16th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Kim,
I am excited at the quality content you have been coming up with. This blog post rocks.
Thanks
Guna
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Claudette Mitchell Says:
September 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Great work! Good Info!
Claudette Mitchell
http://LittleIsMore.com
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Elaine Drennan Says:
September 19th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Hi Kim!
Glad you’ve joined us at Chris Farrell Membership :)
Looking forward to the traffic generation webinar!
Elaine
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Katherine Sullivan Says:
September 20th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
You certainly deserve a round of applause for your post and more Specifically, your blog in general. Very high quality material.
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Claudia Says:
September 21st, 2009 at 2:04 am
Awesome Kim,
I get inspired by you, not only from business stand point, but also personal.
love
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Radhakrishnan KG Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Awesome information Kim..
Keep them coming!
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Alex Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Super methods Kim with lots of detail too.
Yes you did overdo this…and thank you!
:-)
Alex
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Michael Kelly Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Terrific work – thank you very much for your time spent in doing this. I learned a LOT from this post.
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Candy Collins Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Very good info. I have never heard about such place as viperbusiness to buy a website-business.
It is pricey, sometimes very expensive to buy but looks like real deals.
Thanks Kim.
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rahul Reply:
October 10th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Excellent article. Liked the info about YouTube especially, thanks!
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Ion Andrei Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Hi Kim!
This is really cool. I have more than 30 articles published in EzineArticles, but I never knew until now that you can get even more traffic from them. Of course, and the rest of methods are great.
Thank you.
Ion
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Income From Home Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Kim,
Not many people can get me to drop everything an read their blog posts–but you can. I always know that when I get an email from you with a link to one of your posts that it is going to be good. Thanks for spending the time to compile all of this awesome information. You really know how to GIVE, GIVE, GIVE.
Rana Burr
Income From Home Network
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James Mangosteen Dean Says:
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Wow! Overwhelming and exciting at the same time.
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Josh Says:
September 24th, 2009 at 11:50 am
As always this was an extremely interesting and useful article, thanks again kim
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1111 Says:
September 25th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
If you have a business, economy and/or finance -related blog, you can also get free traffic by submitting to http://fwisp.com/.
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Iman Yusef-Yahya Says:
September 26th, 2009 at 10:49 am
After reading this blog post, I feel like I do after every Thanksgiving dinner – stuffed, not needing another bite to eat.
As was stated earlier, you’ve shared some ideas for driving traffic that I never even thought about using, or new existed. This blog post is a great example of delivering high-quality, actionable content folks can use and begin seeing results. Thanks Kim, and Sherman Hu for posting this to his profile.
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Karen McAllister Says:
September 26th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Great resource here, love all these ideas. I will give a few a try today:)
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Rob Says:
September 26th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Great ideas, thanks for the inspiration!
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Cristian @ MaquinaStudio.com Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Great Article! Really hones in on alternative online marketing methods that few are using. Powerful stuff, especially leveraging the social media networks like Ning.
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Steve Says:
September 28th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Hey kim,
Would you happen to know of any alternatives to mturk since the services (requester) aren’t open to non-US citizens??
Thanks in advance!
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michael lamb Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Never have I seen it listed out in plain & simple language like this. “This is how you do it.” Period. Love it; thanks for taking the time to create this article.
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doruman Says:
October 1st, 2009 at 9:39 am
Thank you Kim, your guide is one of the most complete and valuable free offers that I ever seen on Internet. With techniques of SEO and with your “21 Untapped Traffic Sources” guide the life could be more easy for any blogger. Congratulations for your work, good luck in what you do!
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Andrew Hansen Says:
October 6th, 2009 at 2:51 am
In the nicest way possible, this post is RIDICULOUS.
There’s at LEAST 4-5 $47 ebooks there and you’re posting it for free. REALLY cool of you Kim, thanks alot. I’ll be sharing it :)
Andrew
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rahul gupta Reply:
October 10th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Excellent article. Liked the info about YouTube especially, thanks!
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Udi Says:
October 6th, 2009 at 5:03 am
That’s an.. amazing list. Better than most eBooks or even classes (that cost hundreds of $) that I’ve read and seen. Even though I was familiar with many, I certainly wasn’t familiar with all.
To say ‘fantastic work’ would be an understatement!
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Dal Khera Says:
October 9th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Damn Kim, I think you are my go-to marketer for all things traffic generation. I’m hooked on your stuff right now.
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Jen Says:
October 13th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Great info you gave, thanks for the tips.
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Peter Davies Says:
October 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
This post rocks! I have just printed it off and read it now my head hurts. Many thanks for sharing this – I will be using much of this to get the traffic flowing to my Blog.
Regards
Pete
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Mel Says:
October 27th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Wow! What an excellent post full of some great ways of getting extra traffic that I am sure it would have taken me some time (and princely amounts of money) to find by myself. Thank you for sharing so freely a wealth of information that unseasoned, budding “netrepreneurs”, such as myself can use to give their efforts a boost as they make their way through the sometimes sticky world wide web :o)
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Shane Says:
October 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Excellent post!
So much good info here, that I don’t know which method to try first.
Thanks a lot for sharing this!
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Design A Webpage Says:
October 29th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Absolutely juicy content that I will be squeezing the action out of this week! Thank you so much for this blog post. Informative, excellent material! Keep it up…
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Stuart Says:
October 29th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Kim, I love the idea of a contest. One question though, how to you get the word out? What is the best medium for promoting a contest?
Thanks
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Neil Says:
November 1st, 2009 at 10:52 pm
dude… great information man!!! f’n reading this stuff has me all excited.. keep it up..
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Jackie Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Kim,
I have paid money for content that was of a whole lot less value to me than the information in this post.
You always deliver great information.
Thanks a lot,
Jackie
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satrap Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
wow, its easy to see why your article brought you that much traffic. great work.very detailed information. i dodnot know you could buy stumbleupon visitors.
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galit Says:
November 7th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Hi,
Thank you for all that great information. It seems so overwhelming though. When do we get the time to do all of that? How long will it take to drive traffic to my blog? It seems like it can take years. How many hours per day do I have to spend doing all of these? Do I have to do all of these to drive traffic?
Galit.
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What's Cool in Alaska Says:
November 14th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Thanks co much for this great post!!! This is the most interesting, useful, and concise information I’ve found on this topic. I can’t wait to get started with #1.
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janet Says:
November 27th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Superb! Many Thanks Kim for this fabulous article! You are awesome, I can’t imagine a more comprehensive traffic information list, without becoming an ebook! LOL – In fact, I’m sure this puts a lot of traffic ebooks to shame :P
You are Joy!
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Cash Cow Affiliate Marketing Says:
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Hey Kim, thanks for this! I found it via your thread on Warrior Forum.
What I really like is that this is not just rehashed stuff – about half of this list are gems that I had never heard of before.
I’m so used to using article marketing as my sole free method of immediate traffic but now I realise I can get way more traffic without just pumping out mundane article after article!
Thanks!
Chris
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Louisa Chan Says:
December 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hi Kim,
I literally stumbled upon your site and I am amazed at the the tips and links that you gave out here.
It is opening up great avenues for me and I like to say thanks very much. I will have to go through and pick out the ones I like to try, I like to see my list double
Louisa Chan
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Pascal Says:
December 28th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Questions about Video Response technique:
A quick thanks to you mentioning untapped traffic sources for video bloggers.
My question,
I have been following this strategy already in my youtube channel.
Where i am struggling is,most of the videos have manual video response option. I have been submitting video responses into atleast to 20 videos/every my video. But 1 or 2 only showing in video response. All my other responses not approved any time.
I want to ask you two things?
Is there any way to see my video responses approved manually later?
Is there any way to find which videos have auto video response approval before i submit?
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Gina Says:
January 4th, 2010 at 3:24 am
You’re right about the guest blogging. I posted an article on a mid-grade site that got pretty decent amount of traffic for my niche, roughly 1400 visitors per day. The blogger let me know he posted my article, and the next day I already had 6 people sign up to my list.
Imagine if I guest blogged at really high traffic site?
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How to make a website Says:
January 5th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Kim,
One of the best blog post I read in recent past. This post have great content. I can stand up and say superb! There is sufficient reason why you got more than 7K visitors to your article.
“Content is king”
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David K. Enders, D.C. Says:
February 11th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
WOW – what a fantastic list! Traffic is what we all need to our websites, blogs, and lead capture pages – if you just do a few of the techniques listed it should greatly increase your traffic. FYI – regarding your YouTube suggestion – you can also just use the same title that they use for their video for yours, this will get you listed in the related video column.
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TrafficTesters Admi Says:
February 12th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Hi Kim,
I can’t wait to get this info our to our members! It’s easy to get “tunnel vision” when trying to promote your business, these untapped sources are truly gems.
Thanks for taking us “outside the box” and I look forward to your next post!
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David D Says:
February 15th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Kim . . . your output is incredible. I just love the way you go. Amazing, Fantastic, A breath of fresh air.
Where have you been all my life. !!!
All the best
Be seeing you . . .
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Jane Seville Says:
February 28th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Wowsers! That list is almost overwhelming. This article must have taken hours to write. Of course, I knew about many of these, but I learned some new sources that I’m anxious to try. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Gerry http://anger-management-workshops.com Says:
March 10th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Wow, this is info that most people try to sell to others. Nice one Kim!
Keep up the great work!
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Matthew Zinda Says:
April 9th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Kim-
It is 6 months later, and now you can add yet another visitor to your article, via that Chris Farrell guy, ha ha.
They don’t call you the traffic queen for nothing. Any of your content that I have not seen yet, I rush to read.
I don’t even think you realize yet how many people you have helped, and are going to continue to help, even if you were to quit doing what you are doing today. I don’t see that happening, but you know what I mean.
You have inspired me. I am, right now this minute, sitting down to use everything I have learned to come up with the best content I can come up with.
I hope you don’t mind, I’m going to make it completely original, but I’m going to use your way of promoting the article when I am done writing it.
I’m going to use a few different sites than you did, but I’m going to use the same concepts.
I have been almost solely concentrating on traffic lately, almost to a fault.
I really appreciate your work. It is one thing to read it, and understand it, but it is vitally important to implement it, or use it in action.
Thank You-
Matthew Zinda
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Wize Time Says:
April 16th, 2010 at 1:00 am
Wow! You really are a traffic junkie like Chris Farrell! Some of these items you’ve got listed here, I’ve never ever seen and I’ve read a ton of material on driving traffic – thanks! I’m not surprised it got you so many people coming to your site!
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seo resources Says:
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:27 pm
very nice article. Although it is not well formatted and not divided into segments for easy reading, but it is really knowledge-full. One thing i will like to add is that Ning is closing its free accounts section. So it should not be listed in free ways of getting traffic. Nice article however, a really learnt some tricks.
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joefizz Says:
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Hi Kim
This is the most responsive and comprehensive advice I have seen to date on list building…thank you! I am already taking action.
One point to note (or change)…warrior special offers now cost $20 to be bumped up to the 1st page again.
Keep up the good work.
Joe
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tracyselena Says:
May 5th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
OMG all I can say is how awesome is this blog post. I am going to bookmark it and refer to it often. Thank you so much for doing this. It's like a $1,000 course in one blog post. You ROCK!!!
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Manan Saini Says:
May 11th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Wow nice post! summrise all content in one place! Good! keep it up dude!
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Ruby Rynne Says:
May 11th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
It's amazing that all the stuff that was 'the thing to do' back in 98 is still so important. It's so easy to get swept up in all the new gadgets and forget the things that have been pillars of internet marketing since day one.
Thanks for a great post that has reminded me of so many things I haven't been paying attention to much any more, but really REALLY should!
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angela800b Says:
May 15th, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Ning are now moving to a completely paid platform, so may not be as viable. I imagine a lot of subscribers will leave so there won't be as much traffic.
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juliefletcher123 Says:
May 17th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Kim,
Great list of traffic methods, I am already do some of them, but will add the rest to my to do list and work my way through them.
Julie
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Cash For Gold Says:
May 27th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Great article… some of the sites not worth it but in general is good to read and visit this sources of traffic
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Charlene Ragsdale Says:
May 28th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Thank you for mentioning Sta.rtup.biz. As one of the Moderators/Administrators of that Network, we appreciate your mention.
You have a fantastic article. I have circulated to our Network and to my own Pages.
Keep up the good work.
-Charlene Ragsdale
http://www.SuccessWithCharlene.com
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Sharon Whyte Says:
May 31st, 2010 at 10:54 am
What can I say, wow, wow and WOW what a list
Thanks so much for sharing Kim
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Terri Faye Says:
June 5th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
I've really enjoyed reading your posts on getting more traffic, but just one thing that is really frustrating in doing so is…each time I click a link it ask “do you really want to…blah..blah and then I lose this page and have to find my way back! I'd much rather the links would open in a new window, than I can read them and go back to finishing what I'm reading here.
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Ot Says:
June 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
https://www.fortunewp.com/en/fwp332995
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How To Make A Website Says:
August 27th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Kim, great article here. Has been quite a fan of yours but some of stuff isn’t too accurate here. I don’t think ezinearticles.com allow you to have artificial clicks or buying clicks to boost the views of the ezinearticles. They track very strictly about it.
Twitter is a poor source of traffic because of all the spamming and I’ve tried it with 30-100k followers and the power is weak.
Other than that, everything else is definitely awesome.
George Tee
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Benjamin King Says:
October 1st, 2010 at 1:38 am
Great Post! Especially loved the Write Tutorials one and the EzineArticles one. EzineArticles gives you huge potential for traffic to your website and a lot of people I find concentrate only on getting into the Most Viewed section instead of the much easier Most published section.
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Rune Ellingsen Says:
October 9th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
WOW. KIM ROACH KIM ROACH KIM ROACH!!!
You do really provide content which is beyond great. You have my full respect as this blog is BOOKMARKED from from my side… AS OF RIGHT NOW.
I have recently designed a site which got 2. position of Google amongst 60.000.000 other searches. Yeah I know… It is a good spot. Yesterday it got “sandboxed” by Google. For the ones who are not familiar with this it is what happens when the spam filters kick in at Google. Not neccessarily because of me spamming on my site. But every new site is beeing judged up and down for it to be serious. This always happens to a new site. Which means it CAN happen to anyone. It will climb up the charts again by itself if you keep on adding links as usual. No need for panic. There is also a possibility that a redirect of another site (if you have one) but this will have to be proven as I just read about it. Appareantly this is the best way to climb out of the “sandbox”. So I hope this also has contributed to anything else here;) Have a good one. R.
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CelisseWillis Says:
October 30th, 2010 at 5:25 am
Hi Kim,
Great post! I actually discovered #8 on my own one day while on YouTube. Literally just the idea of copying the tags from high view count videos just popped into my head, like this is ingenious! If you think about it too, tags are to videos what keywords are to a website; except the possibilities of receiving almost instant top rankings for your content without too much extensive research or having to bid and pay for the competitive ones hoping you get on the front page, like in AdWords. Considering that YouTube gets more monthly searches than Yahoo and Bing COMBINED, that one alone can be seriously profitable if used properly…
Keep ‘em coming!
C.W
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Anonymous Says:
October 31st, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Kim,
First time visitor, not the last!
This post deserves to be shared like its nobodies business (or everyone’s) and I thank you for taking the time to put such a valuable resource together.
I don’/t know where to begin, so I won’t
Just – WOW. and thanks
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Ed of Make Ebook Cover Says:
December 9th, 2010 at 3:29 am
Kim, your untapped traffic is full of
useful traffic tips that are hard to beat.
Hope to go full throtle on these traffic sources.
Ed
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Suraj Says:
December 14th, 2010 at 6:35 am
Thanks Kim, I learned few of the new strategies to get traffic from this post. I am eager to know, what is your opinion about auto-blogs to drive organic traffic?
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Marketing Minds Says:
December 26th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I love your style. I’m a member of Traffic Dashboard, and really appreciate YOU. You have one of the best traffic courses online. Thanks
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Michael Says:
January 12th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Thank you for this fantastic resource Kim! I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on traffic-building information — and most of them didn’t deliver a fraction of the value you’ve delivered on this page.
Thanks again.
Michael
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Michael Says:
January 12th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Thank you for this fantastic resource Kim! I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on traffic-building information — and most of them didn’t deliver a fraction of the value you’ve delivered on this page.
Thanks again.
Michael
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Michael Says:
January 12th, 2011 at 11:05 pm
Thank you for this fantastic resource Kim! I’ve spent a lot of money over the years on traffic-building information — and most of them didn’t deliver a fraction of the value you’ve delivered on this page.
Thanks again.
Michael
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Davidbeking Says:
January 26th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Thanks so much for the ideas to generate more traffic! I am actually launching a contest for my client using contest burner through wordpress so I am very excited to see the results with that and to see how it goes!
I got some great ideas here! thanks so much for the post!
David King
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Donato - Marketisoft.com Says:
January 28th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Really really great share here! I like the wso perpetual bump, even if now it costs $40 to bump
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Alex Says:
January 29th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Dang…. That is a comprehensive, and very contemporary list. There are some strategies I have never used much less heard of in here. Stoked to try some of these!
Alex
YourGoalBook.com
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Joshua Zamora Says:
February 24th, 2011 at 1:27 am
Wow this is an awesome list!!
Can’t believe it was posted one year ago! LOL
Glad I was able to see it! A great traffic technique
I have used is leaving my URL at the end of my feedback
when ordering from Fiverr.com 8) just to add one to the list
Going to implement some of these right away! Video responses
and WSO!
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str8lined Says:
February 28th, 2011 at 2:28 am
Extreme Value!!
I bought your Traffic Dashboard also.
Thanks for the great info.
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Riantalks Says:
March 1st, 2011 at 5:02 am
I just found out that there is a website where you can submit for Picks of the day. However, the Yahoo one is not active anymore as I see it only has 2007 listings :)
In any case, I love your tips about the trackback thing hehe. I just did it again after 2 years of being stagnant. Thank you.
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Boros Csaba Says:
April 16th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I have a blog: http://www.codingmix.com, I`m writing programming tutorials and I get the most of my traffic from http://www.tutorialswindow.com
They have an interesting widget: Tutorial Rotator, this sends me around 1.500 – 2.000 visitors / day
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Andy Says:
May 5th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Awesome post. I never really understood the power of tutorial websites but now i have got some great ideas.
Thanks.
PS:
Though just a word of warning, Stumbleupon no longer allow you to purchase views to ezinearticles.
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Fatabbot Says:
October 4th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Tutorials about any sort of graphics can be submitted here as well:
Written tutorials: http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/ext-submit/
Video tutorials: http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/video-submit/
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Anonymous Says:
October 27th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I’m adding another ‘thank you!’ to the list here. I’m currently developing my blog and this information is valuable. My blog’s URL is same as my name if anybody is interested in having a sneak peek.
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Yvonne97us Says:
December 26th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Hey Kim, this is great! In looking over this wonderful list I noticed the great EZA. I know EZA requires you have a top level domain to link your articles to but I don’t. I’m focusing all my energies on video marketing. How do you recommend I can use article marketing to backlink and get more views to my videos? Do you know of other article marketing directories that would allow me to link my articles to my videos? Just a thought. Thanks so much for your response. :)
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James Martin Says:
May 6th, 2012 at 9:02 am
Awesome list. I really liked the idea about video embedding. The other ideas, I knew a little bit about each.
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Kathi Says:
May 30th, 2012 at 6:27 pm
Thanks so much Kim! I have trusted you as an excellent resource for improving traffic. I was wondering two things: How do I find the Ning Communities? When you go to Ning, it seems to only show you how to start up your own social network. Also, in another post you write about submitting to bloggerbase and other blog network sites to syndicate content. Do you recommend spinning the blog posts first or just re-posting them? I was curious about getting a content generator and spinning articles for syndication to backlink to my blog. Thanks for your tips! :)
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Sourabh Rana Says:
August 30th, 2012 at 1:43 am
Only one word to say for this post many times WOW !!! and WOW !!!. Thanks for this great list of websites. Tutorial websites & NING communities for traffic very good idea you given me.
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Katharine Says:
October 3rd, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Hi Kim!
This is by far the best website I have come across while searching for marketing tips. You have so many original, creative ideas to increase traffic to my website.
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing all of these incredible ideas, I know I will be using them and I’ll report back with how they’re working.
I’m just starting out in this game and I will start by taking your #5 suggestion of blog commenting and post here first!
Thanks so much!
Katharine
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Charles Terrence Harper Says:
October 25th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Wow, I thought I was doing something by getting my post to Facebook. Here is my question and I will probably ask it on your other article too. Is this strategy adaptable if my blog is local in focus? Secondly, what if my blog is really an internet radio show?
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