After doing this for over 4 years, I've tried just about every known
way to get traffic to my websites. And to be quite honest, most of
what "marketing" is all about is getting people to see your offer.
Once they see it, your gears switch from marketing to sales. So
when we think about internet marketing, it's really "how can we get
more and more people to see our offer?" From there, our mindset
should change from thinking as an internet marketer to thinking
as an internet salesman.
I think that's why starting an online business is a lot harder
than a lot of people make it out to be. Let's be honest... It's
tough to get people to your website. Traffic doesn't just happen
over night. Once the visitors start coming... well, then the sales
part is a breeze. It's the "internet marketing" part that can be
difficult and downright discouraging.
I've been doing this online thing full-time for over 4 years now,
and I've literally tried just about every single traffic-generating
strategy you can think of. Aside from joint ventures (and that is
usually just a quick, short-term burst of traffic), the single best
way to get long-term traffic is through the search engines.
http://www.articleapps.com/
There are several reasons why.
- the people visiting your sites from search engines are highly
targeted. Think about it, they were essentially searching for YOUR
site.
- It's free! You can't beat that, right?
- Everyone uses search engines to find what they're looking for.
So your market potential is HUGE!
- Did I mention that organic search engine traffic is free?
There are several ways to increase your site's rankings in the
search engines, but what I've found to be the absolute best way is
to get loads of ONE-WAY "backlinks" pointing to your site. This
tells the search engines, like Google, that your site is
important. The more links there are pointing to your site, the
higher your search engine rankings will be. PERIOD!
From my own experience, I've found article marketing to be THE best
way to get backlinks to your site.
More backlinks = higher search engine rankings = more traffic! It
doesn't get much simpler than that.
So how do you get these one-way backlinks? Easy... Article Marketing
=> http://www.articleapps.com/
The idea behind article marketing is that you write an article on a
similar topic to your website, add a link inside the article that
points to your website, submit that article to several of the
biggest article directories online, and then sit back and watch how
well-dispersed those links become across the internet.
The problem I used to have was spending my entire day writing
article after article. It took way too long, and I hated writing
to begin with. So the next thing I did was I hired a writer to do
it for me. It took me a really long time to find a good, quality
writer I could trust... and once I did, I was spending an arm and a
leg.
So I thought, I'll just have my programmer create an article
writing and spinning software program for me that would take my
old, plr articles and write new ones. I tried all of the other
"spinners" out there, and they were (in my honest opinion) total
Crap!
After several months of programming, adding all of the features
that I personally needed, and then doing fine-tune tweaking even
further, I started using my own software to rewrite individual
articles into literally hundreds of other UNIQUE articles.
The end result: I only had to spend a few minutes to produce loads
of quality and unique content that I could submit to article
directories.
=> http://www.articleapps.com/
After just a few months, I started seeing my sites in the top 5
positions for VERY competitive keywords. And this has continued
for a very long time. This isn't like joint venture traffic that
is a single burst of visitors. This is LONG-TERM. Do you think
it's brought a lot of traffic my way?
Absolutely! Once the traffic started coming, "selling" was the
easy part.
I originally created this software for my personal use, but then
thought... what the heck, I've seen some great advances in my own
business so why not share this with you.
So I had a graphic designer make the software interface look nice
and pretty and I created a site so that you too can start building
more long-term traffic to your sites.
=> http://www.articleapps.com/
Real online businesses think long-term. And this is, in my
opinion, one of the single best ways to bring visitors to your
site long-term.
Enjoy this one,
Matt Callen
P.S. If after you take a look at the software, let me know
if you have any suggestions or feature requests. I've put everything
I can think of into this software, but if you've got any ideas, don't
hesitate to let me know.
