Digg.com Type Websites for Quick Targeted Traffic
Posted on April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Traffic Generation
by Ed Duvall
If your considering using Digg.com to submit your
articles to you may want to consider that digg was
setup to cater to the techno individual rather than for
someone interested in promoting their own site or
marketing a product online.
The majority of people who frequent this site or their
as non internet marketers and really have a general
disdain for marketing online.
It also has limited categories (so to minimize the
marketing and promotion niches?) and most probably
would be a big waste of your time to pursue any kind
of marketing or promotion of your site or a product from
your site to digg.com
Instead you should consider doing some research for
niche specific Digg like sites where you can submit
your articles, stories and tips to be reviewed and voted
on by those who are interested in your content.
The keyword here is “those who are interested in your
content”.
Use of internet marketing friendly sites, that are similar
to digg.com, can bring you a good amount of traffic if
you produce a worthy article.
You may not get as much traffic from these niche digg
clones media sites as you would from Digg, but it’s much
better having your content read by like minded people
who are more likely to become your regular visitors,
subscribers and long term readers.
In addition to the traffic you are also creating a one way
link back to your site and you may well have your story
picked up and published on other sites as well as in an
ezine related to your topic.
Here are a few to consider….
earnersclub.net/
sphinn.com/
plugim.com/
blogg-buzz.com/
digalist.com/
Keep in mind that you are looking for niche specific sites,
similar to your own, that you can submit your content,
articles and stories to. If your promoting your alternative
medicine site then it would be a waste of your time submitting
content to an automotive digg like site.
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For a big list of digg style sites that can generate traffic
and help your overall internet marketing efforts go to
http://www.cashway.com/backlinks/digg_like_sites.htm
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Perhaps the most passionate talk about Web 2.0
Posted on October 20, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Business Ideas, Business and Management, Internet Trends, Online Business, Promotion and Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Marketing, Traffic Generation, Web Development, Website Tips
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Blog Promotion: 7 Strategies That Work
Posted on October 8, 2008 | Filed Under Article Marketing, Blogging, Online Marketing, Traffic Generation, Website Tips
By Jack Humphrey
I just finished looking at my stats and thought I would show you where my traffic is coming from and what marketing tactic I used to get it.
Below are only the things that produced visitors to my site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical whatsoever.
1) Search Engines
Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site platform and the performance is unlike anything I have ever experienced before.
I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in one 48 hour period than ever.
From very nice short tail keywords like “video syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get more friends on myspace.”
And everything in between.
How do I do so well in the engines?
I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth. Nuff said.
2) Article Syndication
LOL – right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.
Rather than try to be on every article directory on the web, I go for the most important article directories on the web.
I also write the best content I can on highly relevant, topical, hot issues in my niche.
I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I write for traffic. Huge difference most people completely ignore.
I syndicated this article over the weekend and am getting traffic from the following article sites:
* GoArticles.com
* Ezinearticles.com
I will get traffic from many others, but I am only showing you today what happened to drive real targeted traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this anywhere else that I know of by the way!)
I syndicate my articles exclusively with SubmitYourArticle.com.
3) News Readers
Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide range of related topics I publish on, I have feed subscribers on all kinds of readers.
In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people using feed readers from:
* Yahoo
* Google
* Bloglines
* Delicious, and
* different versions of desktop readers like MyWebTop.com.
4) Links
I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours from sites such as:
* BradFallon.com
* CreativeBits.org
* WillieCrawford.com
* MichelFortin.com
and many many others.
These are link partnerships or just people pointing to specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.
The better your content, the more people comment and trackback your site. So good content equals good link traffic.
5) TrafficSwarm
I get a good amount of traffic each day from TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.
I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic, if you were wondering.
They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic and subscribers.
6) Video Syndication
I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos lately and syndicating them on all the free video sharing sites available.
Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like “blog marketing videos” and many others to this marketing tactic alone.
Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is great each time I submit a video.
Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of 2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!
7) Tagging and Pinging
Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically (and practically instantly) in places like Technorati which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.
Right after I post this I will see traffic from Technorati and other sites that I ping.
Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every post brings me more traffic and another chance to score in the engines for more keywords.
If you don’t know how this is all done, the best information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.
Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live, free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in the last 48 hours.
Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they push to drive traffic to their own sites.
—About Jack Humphrey—
Jack Humphrey is the editor of the Friday Traffic Report. He teaches blog marketing, social marketing, and link building strategies. Stop by and subscribe to his blog at http://www.jackhumphrey.com
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Visitor Tracking with Hit Tail
Posted on October 1, 2008 | Filed Under Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation
By Jack Humphrey
So I’ve been using Hit Tail (A free stats program) for about 2 weeks now and I have some stats for you.
Hit Tail shows me long tail keyword phrases people are using to find me. That’s not a huge deal as several other stats programs do this as well in their own way.
What impresses me about my data coming back from Hit Tail is that its entire focus is driven by long tail phrase discovery for your site.
For instance, here are some stats for my site so far:
Top ten keywords are 19.4% of all your search traffic.
Long tail keywords are 80.6% of all your search traffic.
Hit Tail has also collected 143 keyword phrases so far and makes recommendations of phrases, based on the entire data set it collects from visits and where and how they found me, that I should capitalize on further.
Here is a novel idea for keyword research:
The only way to do proper keyword research for a niche is to build a site and develop content for it. You can get initial ideas from regular keyword tools about the popularity of a topic, but developing a site and watching real-time phrases being used to hit your site develops the real keyword list you want to work from.
The keyword list I am developing through my content, which gets picked up and ranked in the engines the way it does because I publish on the Authority Site Center system, is second to none and no one else in the world has it.
No one can run a program to find out what’s on my list because it is developed in-house.
Think about that for a moment.
1. You are developing a strong, real-life list of phrases people actually use to find content in your market.
2. No one else can ever have the same list if you are writing original content on various topics in your niche regularly.
3. While everyone else is using some generic tool like Overture or Google phrase programs, you are developing a unique list of phrases you know for a fact people are really searching on, and that’s people who know exactly what they want. (People in niches like mine who type in one or two keywords to find something aren’t serious enough to convert. They are just playing around and wasting my bandwidth.)
4. While everyone else works like dogs to optimize for those generic phrases they are rarely, if ever, going to rank well for due to fierce competition, you are simply providing content informed by all the other searches in your market. Let the amateurs and Fortune 500s duke it out for the more useless phrases in your market!
Stats tracking has come a long way. With a three-pronged approach:
1) MyBlogLog.com,
2) HitTail.com, and
3) My log files (yeah right, like I’m going to link you to THOSE!)
I am able to triangulate and pinpoint data in my market that relatively few others in my market are able or willing to find.
It makes my content better for you and it makes it easier for you to find me because the engines find me more relevant than millions of other sites and pages on my search terms more often than not.
When you know the things I know about my visitors, the engines, and the ways I can improve and create rankings out of thin air, you will be a powerful publisher to watch out for in your market for sure!
—About Jack Humphrey—
Jack Humphrey is the editor of the Friday Traffic Report. He teaches blog marketing, social marketing, and link building strategies. Stop by and subscribe to his blog at http://www.jackhumphrey.com
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The History and Purpose of Getting Trackbacks
Posted on September 23, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation
Before people ever discovered that something like trackbacks might be valuable for SEO purposes, there was the original purpose.Understanding why trackbacks were created in the first place will help in the ongoing web-wide discussion about follow vs. no-follow and the debate over whether a link is worth getting if Google doesn’t give you any credit for it.
What Are Trackbacks and Why Do They Exist?
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