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How to Get 1,000’s of Views On Your Videos

Kim — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:01:02 +0000

Videos are a search engine powerhouse.

In fact, according to Forrester Research, videos are 50 times more likely to rank on the first page of search engines than traditional text pages.

I’d say that’s pretty powerful!

But…

That’s not what we’re not going to be talking about in this article.

Instead, we’re going to go a bit underground…

As I reveal some of the best, untapped traffic strategies for driving thousands of visitors to your video.

I’m going to teach you how to get thousands of extra views on your video using ning syndication, video embedding, and viral voting.

So without further ado, let’s dive in…

1. Embedding Your Videos.

There are lots of sites that will allow you to embed your videos for further promotion, traffic, and exposure.

Some of my favorites include WonderHowTo.com and ImBroadcast.com. Both of these sites will allow you to ‘embed’ your videos from sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, or any other video site that gives you embed code.

Some other sites where you can embed your video include:

http://current.com/news/

http://www.flixya.com

http://www.vidiac.com/publish/

http://www.sumo.tv/upload.php

http://www.mefeedia.com/addmedia

http://www.instructables.com

http://www.uvouch.com

http://www.magnify.net/sites/categories

http://www.vidiac.com

http://tv.affiliatetip.com/

http://www.betternetworker.com/

http://weblogtoolsvideos.com/

http://www.myvidster.com

http://www.gemzies.com/

http://www.videosift.com

http://www.wonderhowto.com

http://www.vodpod.com

http://www.videotutorialzone.com

http://www.bestechvideos.com/

http://www.sutree.com

This is one of the easiest ways to get hundreds (and sometimes
even 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 before the rest of the world starts catching on ;)

2. You can also embed your video on Ning Networks for extra
traffic.

Ning is a highly powerful, but massively untapped traffic source
for videos.

Ning is basically an online platform that allows people to create
their own social networks.

Best of all, each of these networks allows you to submit articles, blog posts, and videos.

So, for example, in my market I could submit my video to the
following Ning networks:

http://sta.rtup.biz/ (75,280 members)
http://www.twittermoms.com (25,638 members)
http://www.viralnetworkers.com (8,456 members)
http://homebasedbusiness.com/ (15,454 members)
http://www.tweetbook.tw (24,619 members)
http://startupspace.ning.com/ (29,564 members)
http://liveops.ning.com (15,846)
http://mombloggers.ning.com (9,712 members)
http://jvvillage.ning.com/ (1,334 members)

Thus, allowing me to get my video in front of thousands of
laser-targeted prospects.

You can do the same thing with your videos.

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.

From there you can start submitting your YouTube videos, which
are featured on the FRONT PAGE of each Ning Community.

Ning communities are one of the biggest untapped traffic sources
online.

(* Quick Tip: You can use a similar strategy with forums. Forums are a great place to post your video, especially if you’re delivering high-quality content. Simply start a new thread on a
related forum and give it an enticing title. This is a great way to get the conversation started. You can also use your video to respond to commonly asked questions within the forum. Most forums are delighted for you to post your videos (as long as it’s good content). Just make sure you get a feel for the general guidelines first.)

3. Viral Voting – One of my faves ;)

Looking to give your video some social voting power?

There are 5 websites online that will help drive your video to the top of the most popular social media sites online.

The Unified Tribe
Synnd.net
Facebook Tribe
SponsoredTweets.com
StumbleUpon Ads
MicroWorkers.com
WebeServe.com

Now, let’s go into each of those in a bit more detail…

The Unified Tribe is a paid membershp site that uses the power of
the community to vote up each other’s content.

I have to admit, when I first heard about this I was pretty skeptical.

But I decided to test it out and give it a whirl.

48 hours later I had an additional 875 visitors to my website directly from the blog posts that I had submitted to the Unified Tribe Feed.

As you can imagine, that pretty much cleared up any doubts I was
having :)

The website is very intuitive and easy to use. It’s basically run on a point system. You get points for voting on other people’s content and you then use those votes to post your own content. So member’s must vote on other people’s content in order to post their own.

But best of all, there is a very high-quality filter here. All of the content is top-notch.

Like I said, there is a monthly membership fee, but I find it well worth the price. In return, you get voted up on the top social media sites online – Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and StumbleUpon.

The next social voting site is Synnd.net. Syndd is similar to the
Unified Tribe in that it uses the power of the community to vote
up your content.

In fact, Synnd has a community of over 800+ people who will vote
up your content.

The biggest difference that it has in comparison to the Unified
Tribe is that the voting process is completely automated. Each user has software installed on their computer that automatically submits users submissions throughout the day.

But again, a very powerful system.

Synnd gives you the propulsion you need for viral propogation.

Next up is the Facebook group called (TSA) Tribe Syndication Association.

This is a Facebook group that’s dedicated to helping its members
syndicate each others content.

Once again, leveraging the power of the community.

Whether you want more views on your video, more comments on your
blog posts, or more exposure to your website, TSA can help you do
it.

The main problem that can come up with a volunteer system like
this though is that people don’t have the same incentive to
continue voting for the other members.

It works more on the honor system – Which is good, but not as
sustainable or consistent. Whereas the 2 systems above work
EVERY time as long as you’re submitting top-quality content.

The next site I’d like to introduce you to is SponsoredTweets.com.

This site essentially allows you to set up paid Twitter campaigns
where you can have multiple people voting on your content.

You’re also able to choose exactly who you want to retweet your
content. You can search their database based on followers, ratio,
country of residence and more.

They will provide you with a list of Tweeters that meet your criteria.

You can then make offers to the people you pick.

This one can get a bit pricey compared to the other options we’ve talked about, but still a very effective way to give your content that initial boost it needs to gain momentum.

StumbleUpon Ads (https://www.stumbleupon.com/ads/) are a similar
concept. You pay just 5 cents per view.

Plus, videos are VERY popular on StumbleUpon. You can use
StumbleUpon Ads to give your video the initial boost it needs to
go viral.

For example, you could pay $10 for StumbleUpon ads and then let
organic voting do the rest for you.

Once you’ve given it that initial boost, people will start voting naturally as long as you have good content.

Next up is a very unique website called MicroWorkers.com.

This is a really cool site where you can get people to do small jobs for you.

You can pay people to tweet your content, Stumble your content,
blog about your product, Digg your website, post comments on your video, rate your video, and much more.

So, for example, let’s say you want 50 people to Digg your video.

You could go to MicroWorkers.com and create a new campaign.

In the section for “available positions”, you would put 50 – showing that you need 50 workers / 50 people to Digg your content.

You would also choose how much you want to pay each worker.

Once you’ve posted your campaign, people will then start digging
your content.

Pretty cool huh?

Not only will this help you get to the front page of the top social media sites but it also creates powerful backlinks that will help you rank well in the search engines.

And finally, our last social voting site is called WebeServe.com.

Webeserve is another crowdsourcing solution that allows you to build traffic and spread your message around the web.

Their community of workers will tweet your videos, bookmark your
videos, distribute your articles, Digg your content, Stumble your
content, etc…

WebeServe.com is a very affordable way to drive thousands of extra visitors to your website through the power of social voting.

So, now that you know the tricks of the trade, get out there and start promoting your videos!

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Top 5 Ways to Drive Traffic in 2010

Kim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:25:02 +0000

I’ve been building my subscriber list for about one year now and I’d like to share what I’ve learned during that time. I currently have close to 12,000 subscribers and I have 5 favorite ways for driving traffic to my squeeze page and building my list. Here they are…

1. Ad Swaps – Ad swaps are hands-down one of my favorite
list building techniques. Ad swaps allow you to add 200-500
subscribers in a single day. In fact, I just did an ad swap a
couple days ago that brought in just over 500 new subscribers.

This is definitely one of the most powerful strategies I use in
my business. Plus, they’re super simple to set up as well.

Before you begin doing ad swaps, you’ll first need to build up
an initial “seed list” of 500-1,000 subscribers. Once you’ve
done that, you can then start building your list exponentially
using the power of ad swaps.

Essentially, an ad swap occurs when two list owners each
agree to mail their list about the OTHER person’s free offer.
This is usually a free offer placed on a squeeze page in exchange
for someone’s name and email address. As a result, they are both
adding hundreds of subscribers to their lists.

Here are some places online where you can find other list
owners who are actively looking to do ad swaps:

ImAdSwaps.com
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-joint-ventures/
AdSwapFinder.com
ListSwapper.com

Quick Note: Keep in mind that whenever you’re doing ad swaps, you should not base the ad swap on the number of subscribers someone has but rather on the average number of click-throughs they get in each email. Lots of marketers have big lists but that does not necessarily mean that they are responsive lists. So base your swaps on click-throughs rather than just the number of subscribers itself.

Also keep in mind that there are MANY different types of ad swaps.
Email ad swaps are the most common, but you can also exchange
banner ad space on your blog, ads on your thank-you page, log-in
page, log-out page, etc… Think outside the box. After you’ve done
an ad swap with someone look for additional ways that you both
can integrate your ads into the other person’s marketing and sales
funnel. This type of integration marketing can create a perpetual
list builder that lasts well beyond an initial ad swap.

2. Free WSO’s – As many of you probably already know, the Warrior
Forum is definitely one of the best places to rapidly grow your list
(if you’re in the IM market).

You can add hundreds of subscribers to your list simply by posting
a free WSO in the Warrior Forum. Of cource, a lot of people list paid
products in the Warrior Special Offer forum, but I like to focus on list
building and so what I do is I actually create 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 add at least 100 subscribers to
my list every time I post a free WSO. Very powerful! And something
that people aren’t doing nearly enough.

Of course, I would also advise that you put some sort of one time
offer after your squeeze page so that you can monetize your signups.
There will always be people who want to go to a higher level with you,
so if you don’t offer them something directly after they sign up, you’re
simply leaving money on the table.

Most people have a blank thank-you page after the squeeze
page (which simply reminds people to confirm their subscription).
HUGE MISTAKE! Your thank-you page is one of the most valuable
pages of your entire website. If you don’t put some sort of offer
on the thank-you page (even if it’s an affiliate offer), you’re
leaving lots of money on the table.

3. High-Profile Content Syndication – Many of you may already
know that I’m a huge fan of content syndication, guest blogging, etc…
From my own testing I’ve found that high-profile content syndication
is MUCH more effective than traditional article marketing. Submitting
your articles to article directories use to be very effective a couple
years back. But in recent years, article directories have dramatically
lost their effectiveness.

That’s why I’ve switched over to high-profile content syndication and
creating exclusive articles for the top websites online. I’ve been published
on sites like ProBlogger.net, Rosalind Gardner’s NetProfitsToday.com,
LifeHack.org, ZenHabits.net, Site-Reference.com, and many others.

Getting your articles published on high-authority sites like this is
much more effective than traditional article marketing and submitting
your articles to article directories.

Plus, you’re also getting very high-quality backlinks and building
relationships with influential bloggers. Very Powerful.

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.

I also like to submit content to Ning Communities, tutorial sites like
Tutorialized.com, ebook directories, and document sharing sites like Scribd
and DocStoc.com.

4. Interviews / Webinars / & Teleseminars – Webinars & Teleseminars are one of
the very best ways to generate traffic and build your list of subscribers.

Unfortunately, there are very few people doing them because
of fear. Public speaking is the #1 fear in the world. But, if you
want to take your business to an entirely new level, then this
is one fear that you need to overcome.

The growth of your business lies OUTSIDE your comfort zone.

Webinars & Teleseminars are one of the best ways to get ahead
of your competition. Simply because almost everyone else is
chicken and won’t do it.

Here’s how you can turn webinars and teleseminars into a lis building
machine…

First, you’ll need to find someone in your market to interview. You’ll
also want to make sure that this person has a list of subscribers.
Once you’ve found someone that you would like to interview who
also has a large list of subscribers, you’re next step is to start
building a relationship with them.

Start leaving comments on their blog. Not short little comments,
but in-depth, insightful comments that truly add value to the
conversation.

Next, send them a personalized email to tell them how much
you enjoy their blog, citing specific posts and what you have
learned from them. Be as specific as possible here. You don’t
just want to send them an email telling them how great they
are. Be specific and find common interests that you can talk
about.

One of the best places to find out about someone’s hobbies and
common interests is on Twitter. So be sure to read through all of
their Twitter posts before you send them an email.

This email must be highly personalized and sincere. You’re building
relationships here – just like your offline relationships.

If you want to go above and beyond, you can do a personalized video
instead of an email. In this case you would send them a personalized
video message to tell them how much you enjoy their blog, product, etc…

Personalized videos are really great because you simply can’t ignore them.
If someone sends you a personalized video, you have to open it. Not doing
so would just be rude.

So definitely a great way to get on someone’s attention radar.

After that you could offer to do a guest post for their blog. This will
deepen the relationship even further. Churning out content every day
is no easy task and almost any blogger online would welcome a guest article.

But make sure that you give them your very best work. Write them
an article full of tremendous value that their readers will read and
appreciate.

And finally, you’re now ready to ask for an interview. But best of all,
you’re almost guaranteed a yes because you’ve already developed a
relationship with them and written exclusive content for them.

At this point, they’ll probably be more than happy to do an interview
with you.

But the best way to get an interview with someone is if you highlight
the benefits for them. This works best if you have some leverage to
work with and you have your own subscriber list of at least 1,000
people that you can promote the call to. You would then allow your
guest to promote their product in the last 5-minutes. And now you’ve
created a win-win situation.

Once you’ve set up the interview, you’ll need to send them a list of
questions that you’ll be asking on the call. Each person should have
a list of the questions AND the answers so that the call goes as
smoothly as possible.

But, here’s where the list building part comes in.

If you’re doing the interview through a webinar, you’ll want to use
GoToWebinar. If you’re doing this in teleseminar format, then I would highly
recommend InstantTeleseminar.com.

You’re going to be promoting the webinar to your list as well as
your guest speakers list. Whenever you send out the invitation
page, you’ll need to use a program called WebinarOptin.com so
that you can transfer all of your webinar attendees directly into
your Aweber autoresponder.

This way, whenever your guest promotes the call to their own
subscribers, all of the people from their list who sign up will also
be added to your subscriber list.

Very… Very Powerful.

But the tool that makes this all work is WebinarOptin.com

So not only are you adding hundreds of people to your subscriber
list but you also now have the video or recording that you can
re-purpose into multiple formats, turn into products, etc…

5. Integration Marketing - Integration Marketing is the fastest
way to create an automated lead generation system that funnels
hundreds of subscribers into your sales funnel each and every day.

Essentially, integration Marketing is the process of integrating your
offer into someone else’s marketing funnel.

This is hands-down one of the most powerful, yet untapped traffic
strategies online today.

One of the best ways to use integration marketing is to look for people
who have products related to your market. You would then approach
them about including your content as a bonus for their product.

For example, if you have a product that you are currently selling, I
would allow them to include your product as a free bonus. The only
catch is that they have to sign up for your list before they are able
to download your product.

This is really a no-brainer (especially if you have a high-quality product)
because they are able to provide tremendous value to their customers,
offering them an extra bonus that they would normally have to pay for.
In return, you get a very powerful list of buyers!

By pairing your products with other products within your market
you are going to create an instant, perpetual flow of leads to
your website, allowing you to grow your list very quickly.

Another way you can use this strategy is to look for membership
sites within your market. People who own membership sites are
constantly looking for quality content that they can add to their
site. That’s really one of the biggest jobs for someone who owns
a membership site, adding new quality content every month.

So you can provide them with tremendous value by allowing them
to put your premium content in their membership site. And in return,
you will build a very powerful list of buyers. And as you know, a list
of buyers is 10x more powerful than a traditional subscriber.

Another powerful integration strategy you can use is to write a
killer report of about 30-40 pages of truly great content. This has
to be some truly juicy content. Not the same stuff you see rehashed
100’s of times over. For this strategy to work, you must create
content that stands above the crowd.

You would then offer this ebook to other marketers for them to
give away to their list (no opt-in required.) The key here is that
you MUST include links throughout the report that point back to
your squeeze page.

To add even more power to this strategy, I would recommend that
you personalize the report for each marketer. At the top I would
say something like, “An Exclusive Gift for MARKETERS NAME’s Friends
and Subscribers”.

I would send out 50-100 personalized emails offering your report
to them for free. You can email bloggers, product owners, and
related websites. You can find these people through Clickbank,
PayDotCom, and traditional Google Searches.

You can also some extra juice to this strategy by including a revenue
component by branding the report with their affiliate link peppered
throughout the report.

Some other extremely powerful integration points include thank-you
pages, log-out pages, autoresponder follow-ups, exit pops, and banner space.

There is a TON of virtual real estate online that goes untapped. It’s
your job to look for these priceless integration points and find ways
to integrate your content into other people’s marketing funnels.

The key to making integration marketing work really well is to make
sure that you have a high-converting sales process. If you want
people to integrate your offer into their marketing/sales funnel, you
must know your visitor value. How much (on average) will someone
make for each visitor they send to your website?

Now, you can instantly increase your visitor value by creating a full
sales process. An example would be a front-end product of a $1 trial
that led into a $39 per month membership site, followed by 2 upsells,
and a backend follow-up sequence of higher-priced products.

If you have a high visitor value, it’s going to be a 100 times easier
to get joint ventures and affiliates on board. It becomes a no-brainer
for your affilate because they make more money sending traffic to
your offer than they do anyone else’s.

That’s why it’s soooo important to focus on creating ONE sales funnel
and then continue testing and tweaking it for maximum conversion.

Unfortunately, most product creators rarely do any testing. And then
after the product launch the product dies and they move onto the
next product launch.

But if you want to create a real business online with affiliates who
are ready and eager to promote for you and integrate your offer on
their thank-you page, then you need to focus on ONE sales process
and maximizing the visitor value for that ONE sales process.

Hope you enjoyed my 5 favorite traffic strategies! If you have
any comments or questions, please post them below.

Cheers,

Kim

21 Untapped Traffic Sources

Kim — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:51:47 +0000

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:

http://alltop.com/submission/

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.

Hidden Traffic Sources – Part 1

Kim — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:32:52 +0000

I have a confession to make…

I have been keeping some of my favorite secrets stashed away in my marketing toolbelt. Secrets that I’ve never revealed on my blog, to my subscribers, or even to my dog Mattie.

… and it’s not that I am tryin’ to be a scrooge or anything.

Well, mayble a little ;)

These little tricks, tactics, and secrets are some of the most powerful, underused strategies online.

And at first I really wanted to keep them to myself. And for good reason… because if these strategies were to leak out to too many people, they’d start losing their effectiveness.

But then I realized that only 3% of the people who read something actually take action on it. And I want to reward those action takers!

So I’ve decided to reveal all my juicy secrets…

1. How to Get Featured on Google News

News web sites like Yahoo News, Google News and MSNBC receive millions of visitors every day. You can tap into these massive traffic sources through the use of articles and press releases.

All you have to do is get published on one of the many sites that is syndicated by Google News.

Simply perform a search on Google News for relevant keywords and take note of the sites that are getting picked up. Then find out if any of them allow you to
submit articles or press releases. If so, you have found a direct pathway to getting your content in Google News.

One of these places can be found at www.AmericanChronicle.com. Simply visit the site and scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the link that says “Send Us Info. From there you can sign up to be a contributor.

If accepted as a contributor, you will then be able to submit articles along with your picture. Many of their articles are syndicated on Google News and are available to the millions of searchers who go to Google News each and every day.

Other sites that are regularly syndicated by Google News include:

http://www.prlog.org/
http://www.prweb.com
http://www.pr-inside.com
http://pr-usa.net
http://www.webwire.com

In addition to press releases, you can also get your content into Google and Yahoo news directly. If you publish frequent news and articles, your site may very well qualify as a news source that can be syndicated by Google News, allowing you to tap into a massive new traffic stream.

You can submit your site for inclusion to Google News at
www.google.com/support/news/bin/request.py . However, keep in mind that Google is looking for sites with an editorial
review process and multiple contributors. Be sure to read all of the guidelines carefully before submitting your website as a potential news source.

You can also suggest your news site be added to the Yahoo News
index. Simply click here and fill out the form.

If you’d like to find out more about how to get your articles featured
in Google News, here are some additional resources:

http://www.pluginhq.com/how-to-get-in-google-news-and-receive-8000-visitors-for-one-article/

2. Traffic Sniper

As you probably know, content syndication is one of the best ways to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, when most people think about content distribution they think about submitting their articles to places like EzineArticles.com.

Unfortunately, simply submitting your content to the top article directories is becoming less and less effective.

Smart marketers are now focusing much more of their time on what I like to call High-Profile Content syndication.

There are a TON of websites online that will gladly put your content in
front of thousands of targeted readers. You simply have to know where to look…

The Bleacher Report – one of the most popular sports websites online. What’s truly unique about the Bleacher Report is that all of it’s content is created by the community, giving you a huge opportunity for massive exposure.

SeekingAlpha – A very popular finance blog that accepts article submissions. And if you have a blog, you can also join their blog network for increased exposure.

LifeHack.org – If your website is related to self growth, productivity, time management,
or technology, then LifeHack.org is an excellent place to start submitting articles to. Lifehack articles frequently featured on Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, and other top social media websites.

Mercola.com – The #1 alternative health website online. Best of all, they allow you to submit your articles to their massive audience of readers. Submit your articles here http://articles.mercola.com/submit/

NaturalNews.com – Another very popular alternative health & fitness website that accepts article submissions.

Mashable.com – One of the top 100 blogs online according to Technorati and they are actively looking for article submissions.

No matter what market you’re in, there are very popular websites that you could be submitting articles to for massive traffic.

In addition, there are also more general content syndication points across the Web that will bring you thousands of extra visitors. Here are some of my favorites:

Zimbio – One of the most popular community websites online with over 15 million readers month. All content is created by the users. You can add content or automatically import content from your blog so that every time you post to your blog you get increased exposure and instant backlinks.

Tutorialized.com – Tutorial sites can send thousands of visitors your way. One of my favorites is Tutorialized.com (because it has a section for marketing
and SEO.) This site alone has sent me thousands of visitors.

However, if you have a site related to Web design, then you can a TON of extra traffic from all of the other popular tutorial sites. For a complete list, go to:
http://www.wipeout44.com/brain_food/tutorial_sites.asp

9Rules – Aggregates content from around the web. To get your blog included, simply click on the link at the top of the page that says “How do I Join”.

BuzzTracker – tracks news from around the blogosphere on over 2,000 topics. In order to submit your blog for possible inclusion you simply submit your blog using their online form at http://www.buzztracker.com/page/faq.

Instablogs.com – is a community of bloggers that allows you to contribute content with links pointing back to your website. Again, another excellent place to increase your exposure.

Boxxet – Boxxet aggregates the best news, blogs, videos, and photos on a wide variety of topics. However, within each category you can also submit your own content.

Nowpublic.com – Social media news site that allows you to publish content
with a link back to your website.

http://bx.businessweek.com – The Business Exchange is an excellent site for anyone who has a blog related to business, marketing, etc… The Business Exchange is a web site that allows users to contribute content on business topics.

AllTop.com – 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:
http://alltop.com/submission/

3. Trellian – This underground tool is simply a goldmine for competitive intelligence.

This tool can uncover exactly where your competitors website traffic is coming from. You’ll know exactly whether they’re getting most of their traffic from affiliate programs, banners, forums, paid links, site sponsorships, articles, or advertising.

With this information, you can target the small percentage of sites that are sending them the bulk of their traffic. You can identify potential affiliates, hot advertising spots, content distribution points, and so much more.

Trellian also shows you which search terms are driving the most traffic to your competitors in the organic search. Find out the exact search terms your competitors are advertising on.

I hope you see how incredibly powerful this is! This type of competitive advantage will allow you to easily dominate your competition.

4. How to Get Free Press – Free press is one of the best ways to spread the word about your website, your product, and your brand. Unfortunately, most people don’t know where to start.

But what if you could get reporters and writers for major publications like the New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal to actually come to you for their information for articles?

This is exactly what you’ll get with a service called PR Leads, which connects experts with reporters. At $99 per month, this is one of the best publicity bargains around without actually hiring a full time PR agency.

PR Leads connects you with journalists in your area of expertise. They put you in direct contact with reporters who are actively looking for quotes. In fact, you’ll get 3-5 emails per day sent directly to your inbox.

However, if $99 is a bit too high for you, there’s also a free service called Help a Reporter Out that offers a similar service. It’s run by a New York PR guy named Peter Shankman.

Much like PR leads, they connect you with PR people and journalists who are looking for sources.

Each day, they will send your up to 3 emails containing anywhere from 2-10 quiries per email. You can then respond to any queries that are targeted within your niche.

You can sign up now at http://www.helpareporter.com/

5. Buy Existing Websites – I’ve saved the best one for last. 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:

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76 Instant Traffic Sources

Kim — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:56:17 +0000

Today I put together a mindmap of all my favorite
traffic strategies. 

I like to call them traffic engines. 

Just one of them can instantly boost your traffic. 

Combine just a few of them to increase your traffic
exponentially. 

I've got 76 of them, so you shouldn't run out any time soon ;)

Check them out for yourself at: 

http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=6491ab90d0cf46998e244a29a4ab9306

7 Killer Strategies for Unlimited Traffic

Kim — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:36:08 +0000

In this article, I’m going to share with you 7 killer traffic strategies for attracting thousands of visitors to your website each and every week. They include:

High-Profile Article Marketing
Forum Marketing
Ebook Syndication
Video Marketing
Viral Pushes
Ad Swaps
Paid Advertising

These are the exact strategies I have used to build a mailing list of over 7,000 subscribers.So without further ado, let’s dive into the details…

1. High-Profile Article Marketing

As you probably know, article marketing is one of the best ways to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, if you re-focus your efforts towards high-profile article marketing can generate 10x as much traffic.

Instead of submitting your articles to article directories, you submit them to the top websites and blogs in 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 weddings, you could submit articles to http://www.favorideas.com/submit-wedding-articles/

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

Are you starting to get the idea here? No matter what market you’re in, there are very popular websites that you could be submitting articles to for massive traffic.

Here’s a list of very popular websites that I personally submit articles to. The list below is a gold mine for building a list of thousands of subscribers. If you published just ONE really good article every day to the following websites, and had a good call to action in your resource box that sent people to your squeeze page, then you would have a highly responsive list of AT LEAST 1,000 subscribers by the end of the month.

http://sitefling.com/blog/steal-our-traffic-be-a-guest-poster-today/

http://www.associateprograms.com/authors/register

http://www.site-reference.com/submit.php

http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-looking-for-guest-bloggers.html (This site ranks #2 for “make money online” and they are looking for guest bloggers!

http://www.tutorialized.com (Submit your articles in the Marketing or SEO sections. This site will send traffic directly to your blog or website. So you will need to have a website set up to submit your articles here. But they can drive hundreds of visitors to your site.)

http://mashable.com/writers/

http://www.searchengineguide.com

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Author/partnerLeads.php

http://www.isedb.com/db/pages/Contribute-Articles-to-ISEdb.com

http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/become-an-npt-guest-blogger/

http://www.imnewswatch.com

http://www.carlocab.com/get-featured-for-free/

http://www.bloggingtips.com/write-for-us/

http://www.sitepoint.com/about/writeforus

http://www.zeromillion.com/involve/

http://www.promotionworld.com/submit/submitcontent.html

http://www.lifehack.org/about/contribute

http://www.copyblogger.com (a very popular IM blog that accepts guest bloggers.)

The following is a list of sites where you can syndicate your articles.

http://www.instablogs.com/write_article.php

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/ (Submit all of your articles to blog carnivals for extra traffic.)

http://www.gather.com/

http://www.nowpublic.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

2. Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is another excellent strategy for building a list of subscribers and sending tons of traffic to your website.

Forum marketing is a highly underrated, but extremely effective strategy for building a list of subscribers, driving highly-targeted traffic, and establishing yourself as an authority in your particular market.

Forums put you directly in front of your target market, making it a goldmine for driving thousands of highly targeted visitors to your website.

But keep in mind here that the key to successful forum marketing is to become an active participant in the community. Your first priority is to deliver lots of value. And that means posting highly valuable content in the forums and helping people with their questions.

Once you’ve become a trusted member and delivered some great value in your posts, people will naturally want to learn more about what you have to offer.

This is where your signature link comes in…

You’ll want to use your signature link to send people to your squeeze page where you can build your list of subscribers.

Here’s an example of a good signature line:

“Find out how to get front-page Google Rankings in 24 hours with my FREE Google Domination Video series… http://www.yoursqueezepagehere.com ”

The key here is to entice them with some sort of benefit to get them tocome to your website. Keep your signature file short and to the point.You should only be promoting one page in your signature file. Don’t confuse people with multiple options.

Also keep in mind that it’s the value of your post that drives people to look at your signature. If you provide people with extraordinary value, then they will naturally want to check out more of your content.

So focus on providing value. One extremely valuable post is worth 10x

Did You See Me on ProBlogger.net?

Kim — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:25:34 +0000

Did you see my latest article on ProBlogger? It’s called How to Get Featured on the New York Times, CNN, CNET, and Newsweek.

As you can imagine, I was pretty stoked when I find out that Darren Rowse was going to publish my article. He’s a super cool guy and I have learned a ton from his blog.

Hope you enjoy the article!

My Secret to Unlimited Website Traffic

Kim — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:26:18 +0000

If you give me two minutes of your time, I can show you how to get all the traffic you could ever want by using just one little secret…

This one little secret has the power to spread your name across the Internet like wildfire. It will quickly bring you massive exposure and an endless line of raving fans just waiting for your next email, article, podcast, or video.

And you know what, I’m going to give you the secret for free… But don’t let that devalue the information I’m about to share. This can be extremely powerful when put in the right hands.

So, let me whisper my surprising little secret into your ear…

Remarkable Content!

Yes…. Remarkable Content. Words that speak directly to your readers… Words that win the minds and hearts of your audience… Entertaining content that’s juicier than all the latest celebrity blogs.

I need to crave your content more than I do my daily Starbucks.

Do you get it?

It’s got to be that good.

So, how do you write Remarkable Content…

1. Emotional Engagement – Great content evokes some sort of emotional reaction, whether it be laughter, tears, or just the thought of “Wow, this is good stuff.” If you can get some sort of emotional engagement, you’ve hit a winner and people are much more likely to pass it around.

2. Personality – Good content, regardless of whether it’s an article, an
email, or a Twitter post, needs to be stamped with your personality.

Just a dash of personality can make a huge difference in how your readers
engage and respond to your content.

3. Changes Your Perspective. Truly great content will change the way you perceive a particular topic, idea, or thought process.

4. Deliver the Goods. People come online for information. It’s your job to
deliver the answers they’ve been looking for. All the better if you can
deliver this information in a creative, entertaining way.

In order to write truly great content, you must know your audience as well as you know yourself. When you do that, you can write directly to their fears, frustrations, aspirations, and desires.

5. Passion. It’s the secret ingredient to all great content. Your readers will
instantly detect it and be drawn to your writing, your videos, your podcasts, and any other form of content you produce.

6. Connect. You have to remember that behind every piece of content is a person. It’s easy to slave away on the computer, pounding out articles and forget that you’re writing to real people.

So before you lay a single finger on the keyboard, grab some coffee, take a deep breath, and imagine that you’re sitting across from a friend. You know all of their quirks, their frustrations, theirs hopes and their dreams.

Once you’ve painted a perfect picture of who you’re writing to, you’re now ready to fire up your favorite text editor and settle in for a nice long chat.

Once I started using this technique, my writing soon became more engaging, insightful, and passionate. And you can bet your readers will take notice.

7. Leave them wanting more. The best content online leaves your reader wanting more.

You’ve given them a refreshing glass of water in the middle of the desert and now they’re eager to devour your next piece of content, open your next email, and spread your content to all their friends.

You’ll be surprised how quickly you start to build up a group of raving fans when you put out truly great content. In fact, this is one of THE fastest ways to become successful online. By creating remarkable content you will quickly establish yourself as a trusted authority in your market.

Remember, those who stand out get the attention.

Break through the clutter.

The Best Tips On Getting More Traffic to Your Website

Kim — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:35:50 +0000

Targeted traffic is the lifeblood of any successful business. In this article, I’m going to show you how to get laser targetedtraffic in just a few simple steps.

1. Article Marketing – One of the best ways to drive targeted traffic to your website is through the use of article marketing. This is one of the oldest techniques for generating traffic, but it’s still one of the best.

Once you have written your article, you can then submit it to some of the top article directories like EzineArticles, GoArticles, Buzzle, the American Chronicle, ArticlesBase, and SearchWarp. For a list of the top article directories online, go to…

Article Directory List | Article Directory Rank | MasonWorld Internet Marketing Strategy | Internet Based Marketing Blog

You can also publish your website to Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, HubPages, Zimbio, and Gather.com.

For a complete list of Web 2.0 sites, go to…
Web 2.0 Directory : eConsultant

Article marketing is even more powerful when you submit exclusive articles to bloggers and owners of newsletters. This technique has sent me thousands of visitors with a single article. The key is to
find the right distribution outlets.

Just imagine if you spend just one hour each day writing and distributing one article. In three months you would have 100 articles all sending you traffic on a daily basis.

So get out there and start syndicating your articles, submitting guests posts, and writing for online newsletters.

2. Viral Ebooks – Why not bundle your articles together and create a viral ebook? Giving away free ebooks is one of the best ways to generate traffic online. It’s also one of the best ways to build your mailing list.

You can submit your PDF ebooks to Scribd, eSnips, DocStoc, Calameo, Issuu, Yudu, FreeIQ, and ButterflyReports.

For a complete list of ebook directories you can submit to, go to Free Ebook Directories

Quick Tip: You can also convert your ebooks to exe files and submit them to all the different software directories online. You can convert your ebooks using afree piece of software called
WebsiteZip Packer.

3. Blogging – Blogging is one of the best things you can do for your business. Blogging is a great way to get to know your readers. Plus, blogging can play a major role in getting valuable
search engine traffic from Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

4. Submit your articles to Blog Carnivals. A blog carnival is a collection of blog posts on a particular subject. They are then posted together on on blog – called a host. The host (who is also a blogger), publishes the carnival on their blog, with links to each blog post that has been submitted.

This creates an excellent opportunity to get your blog posts shared on other blogs.

There are a number of benefits to participating in blog carnivals. Not only will you generate extra traffic, but it also provides you with quality backlinks and an excellent opportunity to connect with other bloggers.

To submit your article to a blog carnival, go to Blog Carnival – Blog Communities Publishing Magazines.
For extra exposure, submit to multiple blog carnivals. Just make sure they’re all relevant to your topic.

This is one of the easiest ways to create one-way backlinks coming into your site, which is one of the biggest factors when it comes to ranking high in Google.

5. Submit your blog posts to social bookmarking sites.

Social Bookmarking is one of the easiest ways to get extra traffic and links coming into your blog. Social bookmarking allows Internet users to save and organize bookmarks to a public website, tag them with keywords, share them with others, and browse what others have bookmarked.

Digg, Delicious, Mixx, and Digg are just a few of the social bookmarking sites you can use to maximize your exposure.

You can do a semi-automated submission to over 50 social bookmarking sites at AutoPoster.com.

You can also encourage your blog readers to bookmark your posts as well with a Wordpress plugin called ShareThis.

6. Ustream.tv – Ustream allows you to create your very own TV station on the Web. However, it’s better than TV because it’s a live, interactive experience. While you’re broadcasting the video, you’re also getting feedback from the live chatroom.

Ustream gives your business a human face and a real personality. This is extremely valuable, because people like to buy and interact with people, not impersonal companies.

Live video allows you to reach entirely new audiences and develop a much greater level of engagement. A deeper level of engagement almost allows equates to a higher conversion rate when done correctly.

It’s also an excellent way to get feedback from your audience.

7. Forum Marketing – Forums are another way to drive targeted visitors to your website. The key to getting quality traffic from forums is to find a forum that is highly targeted to your website, become involved in the community, and create a benefit-laden signature.

You can put a link back to your website in your signature. It’s critical that you use your signature to offer something of extreme value along with a good call-to-action. Otherwise, why would anybody click?

The biggest benefit of marketing in forums is that they are centered around a very tight group of people who are all interested in the same subject. This is essentially a community of raving fans for a particular topic, making them extremely targeted prospects.

Forums are also an excellent way to connect with other bloggers, meet other marketers, and gain insights into your market.

8. Interviews are another great way to generate traffic.

When you interview a fellow blogger, they will almost always publish a link to the interview on their blog. At the same time, you are also sending traffic to their website by posting the interview on your own blog.

This can be a very effective technique for generating traffic and meeting new bloggers. Unfortunately, most people are just afraid to ask.

9. Build a List – If you’re not building a list, you’re missing out on a major source of ongoing traffic. Your list is the most valuable asset in your business.

Best of all, it can be leveraged at anytime to drive a funnel of visitors to your website.

10. Video Marketing – Video sites have quickly become some of the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet, making them one of the best places to generate lots of extra traffic.

And don’t worry, your video doesn’t have to be a Spielberg classic. In fact, it can just be a PowerPoint presentation with audio. Even simple videos can drive thousands of visitors to your site.

Once you’ve created your video, you can then submit it to the top video submission sites with a tool called TubeMogul.

And finally, My Favorite…

Search Engine Optimization is one of the best ways to generate extremely targeted traffic online. By following just a few basic principles, you can get lots of traffic from the search engines every month.

Grab Front Page Rankings in 24 hours – Free Google Domination Videos show you how…

3 Hidden Traffic Tactics

Kim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:20:38 +0000

If you’re like me, then you’ve probably heard all about article marketing, SEO, video marketing, social bookmarking, press releases, blogging, etc…

They are the cornerstones of Internet Marketing. And they work. But sometimes don’t you just want to read about something new. I know I do. In fact, every time I discover a new traffic technique, it’s like opening a shiny new present on Christmas morning.

And I’m hoping I can give you that feeling with this article, because I’m about to reveal 3 traffic methods that you may not have heard of yet.

1. Download Sites – You can get thousands of visitors with download sites, even if you’ve never programmed a day in your life.

Here’s what I do. I take my articles and turn them into EXE files. This allows me to submit my article to hundreds of software directories, sending me hundreds of one-way links and visitors.

Now, here’s a quick tip on how you can use this technique to build your subscriber list quickly. Require people to register for your software (in this case your ebook is considered software) before
they are able to read your ebook. This allows you to grow your list quickly simply by recycling your articles and turning them into EXE files.

You can turn your articles into EXE files using some free software called WebSiteZip Packer. This software will allow you to turn an HTML page into a solid executable file (.exe) with an integreated HTML browser.

Quick Tip: This is an excellent way to get hundreds of one-way backlinks by using those PLR articles you have laying around. Since you’re converting the articles into software, you don’t have to worry about duplicate content. Just one of your plr articles can now generate you 100’s of one-way backlinks by converting it into software and submitting it to all the different software directories.

Here’s a list of some of the top download sites you can submit to…

Download.com
Tucows.com
Versiontracker.com
Jumbo.com
freedownloadcenter.com
regnow.com
regsoft.com
5star-shareware.com
shareit.com
topshareware.com
passtheshareware.com
sharewarejunkies.com
softpedia.com
shareware.com

Plus, Google loves these authority sites, especially Download.com. I’ve found many of my software titles ranking on the front page of Google with these high-authority download sites.

2. Get your articles into Google News. Google News has become very popular in the past couple years and can send you a ton of traffic. To get your article into Google news, all you have to do is get published on one of the many sites that is syndicated by Google News.

I personally use the American Chronicle. You can sign up for an author’s account and start submitting articles. Once your article is published, it will be listed on 20 sites owned by the American Chronicle as well as Google News.

This strategy can send you a lot of traffic, especially if you use the right keywords.

3. Webwire.com. I have saved the best for last…

Webwire.com is a hidden gem that I have been using to rank on the front page of Google within 24 hours.

Here’s a quick overview of how I am able to capture front page rankings…

First, I title my press release with the keyword phrase that I want to rank for. I have found that keyword phrases with a competition of less than 30,000 (in quotes) in Google rank really well.

I then make sure to include the phrase and variations in the first and last paragraph. Sprinkle it in but don’t go hog wild.

This simple formula has landed me multiple front page rankings and thousands of visitors.

For step-by-step videos on how you can get front page rankings within
24 hours, go to http://www.buzzblogger.com/traffic