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After a month long vacation in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, I decided it was time to move my family back to Japan. What great timing as Japan had record high temperatures this summer from the end of July to August 28th, something like 38 degrees everyday. We just missed getting cooked in the heat and humidity of a Japanese summer. Did you know that Japan has 5 seasons and not 4? Yes, we have an extra one called the rainy season ‘Tsuyu’ which occurs in June, however in my books, there are 6 seasons. Typhoon season is just about to start now in September. We know exactly what New Orleans is experiencing right now with Hurricane Gustav. Trees get blown down, rice fields get flattened and roofs get ripped off, pretty frightening for all. Lets hope this typhoon and hurricane season will be more forgiving.
Ok now on to our business topic for today. I am going to give you a comprehensive list of methods to start getting FREE traffic to your site.
These methods are what I use to drive traffic to my website and are now the top ways to get top quality traffic and leads. Let’s get to the meat. Now this is where you have to start doing some work. What did someone say Work? Well, we all know nothing is Free, right? Think of this - ‘Do the work now, work for free, to reap the residual rewards later.’
For Guaranteed Success, Do these actions Everyday:
1. Post in Forums
Look for forums you like and start posting at least once a day to them. First get to know the forum by reading around, and then write a ‘new member’ introduction and a worthwhile comment without promoting your business. Remember forums are for sharing ideas and information and NOT advertising your opportunity, you will lose respect doing that. Create worthy topics for discussion ask questions of other members and build a name for yourself as a trustworthy individual. Make sure you add a signature and let that link do the work for your business.
2. Article Marketing
Start writing articles about your niche which you think will interest your readers at least once or twice a week. Write about your passion, tell them what you know and this will inturn create interest in what else you know thus they will click on your link in your information box at the end of your article. This will create highly targeted traffic for you and your website for years to come. Keep your articles around the 500 word mark and divide the article into readable chunks that can be scanned quickly by someone looking for certain information. Submit these to article directories so they can be picked up by newsletter or ezine distributors. You can do it manually, for instance www.articlemarketer.com or you can find a site to submit them for you, for example www.articlesubmission.com . There are many more to chose from so use your google search bar to find more submission sites.
3. Create a Newsletter & Ezine
If you want to build your opt-in mailing list, you must create a newsletter or ezine for people to receive weekly or monthly. These publications deliver fresh quality content to your subscribers’ email boxes. Remember you are creating a community of readers. Be friendly and use a conversational manner. Listen to your readers and offer solutions to their problems, once you do this, they will become your customers for life. Before you start your own, subscribe to another newsletter and observe how they are written, take a few notes of what you like and don’t like, then get started creating your own. Try this one: www.TLCProfitSolutions.com/newsletter-signup.html . And just for signing up you can have your choice of 1 or all 6 ebooks. That’s it.
4. Blog Your Way to Success
Get a blog set up right away, stop heeing and hawing about it. Action and practice is all it takes to be on your road to success. I was afraid of blogging at first but it is getting easier the more I do it. Get yourself a WordPress.com or blogger.com blog, they are fun and very easy to use…any newbie can use them. Get your free blogger ebook here: TLC Profit Solutions. You can develop your own style as you blog, you can make it professional or you can make it personal or you can use both together like I do. I prefer using both because I can add a bit about my life and I feel I can connect with readers as a real person. I am real and my readers are too.
5. Add RSS - Really Simple Syndication
A free marketing tool, RSS, if used correctly, can skyrocket your sales. Do a read up on Wikipedia.com or google it to find more information. If you have a blog attached to your website, then the RSS feeder can be part of the blog as well.
6. Use Social Bookmarking as a Marketing Tool
Because of the high volume of visitors to Social Bookmarking sites such as MySpace, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook and many more, this is definintely an effective tool for marketing your opportunity. These sites may not create immediate results but they do create visibility of your products to visitors who may later be converted into buyers. Back links will be automatically created when other visitors tag your site. Be careful with being too commercial, the social sites will bury you deep. Read the rules and then start clean. Hey, what are you waiting for? Go Now and create your profile at the ones you like best and start getting free traffic right now.
7. Send a Press Release
You can write a Press Release like you are writing a newspaper article, you have to have an edge and a catchy headline. Capture the reader, keep them reading and then mention your product at the end. One release read by hundreds of readers can mean sales by potential customers. To read more about how to write a press release do a keyword search on Google or Yahoo to find tips for writing a good copy. Or read pages 274-282 of Dotcomology.
8. Use SEO and Keywords
This is more work and takes a bit of study to master Search Engine Optimization to get your site ranked on the internet. Get a really good ebook and read up on it, as this will be the most effective form of online marketing for your business. One of the first steps to SEO is selecting Keywords for your site. Now one of the keys here is NOT to select highly popular words due to competition but less used longer phrases which you can use to rise to the top of the search engines with little or no competition. Use a good Keyword search site such as www.wordtracker.com or try www.websitetips.com/seo/tools/keywords/ as this site is offering valuable information and they keyword search is instant and free….a good place to start.
9. Link Building
Links are the core of your SEO campaign. Links are natural connectors based on quality not quantity of incoming links. The best way to get quality backlinks is having good content on your site, the saying goes ‘content is King.’ Create a Blog and upload it to your website, by blogging every week with your insights and hot discussion topics, you will get quality visitors voluntarily linking to your site. Add the articles you have written to the first page of your website, brand yourself as a trustworthy business person who is helping others be successful. Those who help others first and foremost will create abundance beyond their wildest dreams. Read up on other ways to get backlinks here: www.seochat.com/c/a/Link-Trading-Help/Link-Building-Methods/ Make sure you stay away from Link farms they will destroy your ranking. Links from other websites with similar content is the key to getting google to love your website.
Hope these 9 methods help you on your road to success. Remember stop getting ready to get ready. Do one or two of these everyday and you will start seeing the fruit on your tree of success before you can count from 1 to 9. Cheerio and thanks for visiting.
From Theresa
a.k.a the TLCgirl
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Theresa Kannenberg is helping people around the globe be successful with their businesses on the internet.
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