New Video & Free Report – Build Traffic and Build Opt-In Lists

Here’s a new video for you from Internet marketing mentor Doug Champigny, showing how to build traffic and build opt-in lists using your affiliate marketing program:

If you don’t already have an affiliate marketing program but DO have one or more products for sale online, I recommend you check out http://www.Hosting4Marketers.com, where you get hosting, unlimited pro autoresponders and your own affiliate marketing program for about $20 a month – well worth it just for the affiliate program alone!

Also, at the end of this video you’ll see mention of a free report called ‘7 Ways to Build Traffic & Build Opt-In Lists For Internet Marketing‘ – download this powerful free traffic-building report now!

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Web 2.0 Beats Search Engines For Faster Internet Marketing Success

©2010 Doug Champigny, http://top-traffic-tips.com. All Rights Reserved.

Internet marketing continues to grow by leaps and bounds, with more and more people turning to it as a means of creating additional income, replacing their full-time jobs or in an attempt to get rich. Concurrently, more and more people are turning to the Internet for their purchasing, so the two growth trends are nicely balanced.

But for someone just starting out with their first online business, it can be difficult to ascertain the proper promotional methods to achieve the quickest success online. Because the industry is evolving so rapidly, much of the available information is outdated or less important now than it was when published even 6 months or a year ago.

For example, until recently the keywords tag on each web page was very important and worth spending a fair bit of time tweaking. With most of the big search engines now skipping that tag, the importance of keywords has more to do with your page titles and domain names than it does with your meta-tags.

Similarly, the amount of time spent tweaking the search engine optimization (SEO) of your site, while still important, is no longer paramount to your Internet marketing efforts. The emergence of the Web 2.0 interactive sites has seriously challenged the search engines as the ultimate way to drive targeted traffic, especially immediate traffic.

Don’t misunderstand – it would be foolhardy to totally ignore the search engines as they drive so much of the traffic online. Do what you can to achieve great results within the search engine ranking pages (SERPs), but don’t spend an inordinate amount of time on it, especially when first launching your site.

Still do your initial keyword research within your niche to choose your domain name, page titles, etc, but then get the site online and start actively promoting it using the power of article directories, podcast directories, video directories, blog posts, Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Squidoo, Google knol, HubPages, etc.

Each of these promotional avenues is free to use, so learn to use them both individually and in concert with each other to create almost instant targeted traffic. Traffic from search engines usually takes longer to build, unless you’re purchasing ads on the site which can bring in immediate visitors but can also be extremely expensive in popular niches.

While this formula will probably change again down the road, for the present time your focus for building your traffic and your lists should be on using the Web 2.0 properties for the fastest visibility, and the search engines as part of your long-term strategy. Taken together, this should be your best recipe for success with you Internet marketing!

About The Author…

Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor and speaker and the creator of the PowerStart Marketing 4-week Internet Marketing Crash Course. To learn more about Doug or to book him to speak at your next event, contact him through his blog at http://DougChampigny.com.

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Using PLR for Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic Generation

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Once in a while a great PLR package comes available, like the one that Aurelius Tjin released this morning at www.PLRForSale.com. This package is a perfect example of Private Label Rights packages that can be used to generate targeted traffic from Web 2.0 sites without much effort, and still be used to make money online – and lots of it!

First up, there are only 100 non-transferrable PLR copies ever to be made available – and that scarcity helps your SEO efforts, your targeted traffic generation, and your sales. With so few people able to compete with you on this product, it’s much easier to get the upper hand than it is with most Master Resell Rights products – and since you have Private label rights to the package, you’re branding yourself heavily with it, which can then boost your other targeted traffic generation efforts by adding the power of name recognition.

But the real key here is that you’re getting both the PLR e-book AND the PLR audio e-book…

As always, start by revising, editing and branding the e-book – if you’re not up to speed yet on using PLR e-books, download my PLR Tutorial Videos and simply follow along with the step-by-step do-it-yourself video lessons. Edit the graphics and salespage (also covered in the videos), and get them ready to go online.

Next, create an upsell page to go between the salespage and the payment processor, where you offer the audio e-book as well for $10 or $20 more – give them both options, the e-book alone or the e-book and audio e-book. Create the two download pages, add it to your affiliate program if you’re using Hosting4Marketers.com, hook up your payment buttons and take the site live.

Now it’s time to drive targeted traffic to it from the Web 2.0 sites and technologies. Always start by doing a blog post announcing the new product, and then ping the blog directories – especially Technorati . Give it a couple of moments, then make sure it’s also showing up in your MyBlogLog listings – Technorati and MyBlogLog are the two most important Web 2.0 sites to any Internet marketer, niche marketer or affiliate marketer in terms of promoting their blog posts.

Here’s where the power of Private Label Rights, or PLR, comes into your Web 2.0 targeted traffic generation strategies… Take a look through the e-book and see if you can find a good passage of about 600-800 words that either sums up the contents of the e-book or gives some great tips without revealing the most powerful tips in the PLR package. Copy & paste that part into a notepad file and edit it as necessary to make it into a powerful Squidoo lens. Write a summary or ’signature box’ to put at the end of it, pointing out that it’s an exerpt from your book, and recommend they download the full version for more info – and be sure to link to your salespage. Add the lens to Squidoo and as soon as it’s published, bookmark it at all the popular Web 2.0 bookmarking sites using the OnlyWire site.

Next pick 3 or 4 good tips from the e-book, and copy & paste 300-400 word passages about each of those tips into separate notepad files. Touch up anything that doesn’t flow til you have four good articles, add an ‘About the Author’ box that’s similar to the one on your Squidoo lens, and submit all 4 articles to the ten or twelve top article directories online. This is the fastest way to get a number of high-quality one-way backlinks to your new site, getting it quickly spidered in Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, SearchMe, etc.

Really want to maximize your targeted traffic from the Web 2.0 sites? Go back now to the PLR Audio, listen to it right through a couple of times, making note of any 3-5 minute passages that seem particularly crammed with great information. Once you’ve picked a couple, use your audio editing program of choice to copy and paste the two or three best passages into their own audio files. Record a quick intro pointing out that the info is exerpted from your audio e-book, and a quick exit for the audios recommending people download the entire audio from your site – be sure to both say and spell out your salespage URL! Now go back to the e-book and do the same with those exact same passages, creating a transcript for each of your new audio files.

Over the course of the next few days, add one of the transcripts to your blog as a new post, embed the audio in a player with the post, and ping the usual blog directories AND the podcast directories – after all, your new audio files ARE podcasts as soon as you add them to your blog! This is an easy process if you use a podcast plugin like PodPress – and it will let you upload your podcast to the massive iTunes directory as well! Since every audio file has your URL listed at the end of the podcast, each listener at ANY source is now part of your potential traffic. And since they were interested enough to listen to the podcast, you know they’re TARGETED traffic as well!

That looks after using your new PLR for targeted web 2.0 traffic generation – assuming you remeber to grab your copy from www.PLRForSale.com before all 100 copies are gone. If you’re too late, either write and record your own product to use this way, or watch for other PLR sales that include both PLR e-books and PLR audio e-books.

Done right, this can be one of the most powerful targeted traffic producing machines you can put online right now – use the Web 2.0 sites and Web 2.0 technologies to your own massive advantage while they’re still the hottest traffic-generating resources around!

To your successsful targeted traffic generation…

Doug Champigny

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Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic Expert Doug Champigny has been working online full-time since 1997 and is the author of the Top Traffic Tips Blog. For a lot more info on Web 2.0 traffic techniques, be sure to download his Massive Traffic Bootcamp.

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Yesterday on my Internet Marketing Blog I told you about the 20 products with Master Resell Rights available for just 10 bucks from Denise Hall & Kathe Lucas – did you download yours yet? Better hurry – that page comes down in less than a week… And I pointed out the fantastic training package, the Resell Rights Bootcamp, where you can learn all about handling Master Resell Rights products. If you missed either of those, be sure to grab them now.

Ross Goldberg & Doug Champigny at JVAlert

Now, whether you’ve built your own site, put up a blog, used the Master Resell Rights products above, put up your niche sites from the Niche PLR Membership Site or built sites using the 100 PLR articles from Easy Articles Pro one thing is true – you need to put some time and effort into getting targeted traffic to your sites and blogs.

That was the topic of my onstage presentation at Carl Galletti’s Internet Marketing SuperConference in Las Vegas last week – how to get more targeted traffic from the Web 2.0 sites. Tied in with those sites you have to have your SEO down pat too, since the effect of many of them rely on positioning your links in the search engines to draw more targeted traffic.

If you were on the targeted traffic teleseminar, at the SuperConference, or have read any of my FIVE books on the subject in the bundle at our Massive Traffic Bootcamp, you already know I’m considered one of the web’s top experts in driving targeted traffic to sites and blogs. With over 120 sites online in the Team Champigny network, I had to become an expert to survive…

So when I tell you my friend Ross Goldberg has come out with an amazing update to his Traffic Manifesto that is a must-have, you know I’m not kidding around. In fact, for what little he’s charging, the videos should be an upsell, not part of the product at Traffic Manifesto 2.0.

What’s important to YOU right now is how complete this great training manual is – Ross details 79 different ways to get more targeted traffic to your sites, so you know there’s at least a few that fit your style, that you can add to your efforts to get more targeted traffic & boost your sales and profits.

Ross Goldberg & Teri Champigny at JVAlert

Best of all, what you learn from this package will continue to reap rewards for you from every site or blog you launch, since the same rules apply to each site you promote – yet you can make back your investment with one or two extra sales on just one of those sites!

You put in the effort to get your sites and/or blogs online – don’t leave them twisting in the wind on a lonely server, eating into your budget while not producing results. Get over to Ross Goldberg’s Traffic Manifesto 2 right now and learn to make more from every site you put online!

Empowering YOU & Helping You Make 2008 GREAT…

Doug Champigny
Massive Traffic Bootcamp

P.S. – If you get involved in affiliate marketing, then learning 79 different ways to drive more targeted traffic to your affiliate links is a must – you’d be wise not to let this one get by you! Be sure to download Ross’ great 132-page guide and start boosting your numbers today – it’s available for instant download from Ross Goldberg’s site right now!

Helping you succeed… DC.

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Forum Marketing for Targeted Traffic

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Do you participate in any online forums, also known as message boards or discussion forums, which pertain to the topic of your website? If you don’t, you should start doing this immediately. Forum marketing, as it is known, is a very effective, free way to get targeted traffic to your websites from these powerful Web 2.0 sites!

Forum marketing is actually quite easy, and it doesn’t have to be time consuming at all, if you do it correctly. Start by doing a search in any search engine. For instance, if the topic of your site is diabetes, you would type in diabetes discussion in the search engine, and it will come back with a list of forums that are devoted to this topic. The ones that come back at the top of the list are the ones that you will probably be most interested in.

Next, visit those forums, and look them over. Are people there? Are they active? When was the last message posted? Is there spam in the forum? If there is spam, it is a good sign that the forum is not moderated, and this probably won’t be a good forum to participate in. Look for forums where there are discussions going on – current ones – and where people are really active.

Next, register for membership. In most forums, this is free, unless the forum is part of a paid membership site. Before you make a post, make absolutely sure that you read and understand the forum rules and terms of use! This is vital. You don’t want to do something in these important Web 2.0 communities that makes you look bad!

You see, with forum marketing you not only increase your website traffic, you also increase your own visibility, popularity and credibility in those communities, and you also create inbound links for your website. Forum marketing has many different benefits – so make sure that you read and adhere to the rules!

Next, see if you are able to create a signature file. This is usually found in the profile section of the forum, where you can change your profile. If there is, take advantage of it. Again, read the rules for the forum. Many forums will have rules that pertain to how long signature files can be. This is usually between five and seven lines in length, but may be as small as three lines.

Your signature file should contain your name and your website address, first and foremost. If there is additional room, you can add your business slogan, or your city and state, or other contact information, if that is something that you want to be made available. Another powerful idea is to add the link to your opt-in form for your e-zine. If there is no way for you to set up a signature file, just create one in a text document on your computer, which you can copy and paste from.

Now, just start participating in the forum discussions. If there is an introduction section, introduce yourself. Look for questions that you can answer, or posts that will allow you to add information. Always use your signature file at the bottom of your posts! Do not spam the forum, though – be sure every post is legitimate, on-topic and helpful.

Most forums will not allow you to blatantly advertise your website, business, or products in your posts, and most frown on the use of affiliate links as well – sometimes even in your signature file. Don’t do this. Instead, just use that signature file, and you will be pleasantly surprised at the targeted traffic that comes to your site as a result of your participation in those busy forums.

For more information on Forum marketing, download the amazing Massive Traffic Bootcamp bundle created by Web 2.0 traffic expert Doug Champigny, available at our sister site, www.TopTrafficTips.com Don’t miss out on all the free targeted traffic the Web 2.0 technologies can deliver to YOUR web sites, blogs and affiliate links.

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What one factor is common to every successful Internet business? Targeted Traffic. Every article you will find about making money from your web site or making your company successful online will always include the importance of generating targeted traffic – and lots of it!

So, as every successful Internet marketer, affiliate marketer, niche marketer or profitable blogger knows, targeted traffic is the most essential asset to a successful internet-based business company. Aside from ensuring that you have a great product to sell, and you have your web site support well taken care of, it’s time to focus on generating targeted website traffic.

If you already have a site and you feel you’re not getting all the targeted traffic you should be getting, then its time to put more time, effort and money into boosting your targeted traffic. If you are in a highly competitive business arena, you should always be a step ahead of your competition… so increasing your targeted traffic flow should have been done starting yesterday.

Timing is everything. But when it comes to generating site or blog traffic, you should always be on your toes and be a day ahead of everyone else in your industry. Never think of today or tomorrow as the starting point for building traffic, it should have been started yesterday – or last week, more likely.

To help you generate tons of targeted traffic to your sites & blogs, here are some seven surefire ways to increase your targeted traffic almost immediately:

1) Invest in good advertising on the search engines

Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture provide great advertising programs that are very effective and can deliver great targeted traffic. While some will shy away from spending money to increase their traffic, it is imperative to using advertising to boost website traffic.

2) Trade Links with other sites & Blogs

More targeted traffic is the usual result for both partners when you trade links on your sites, or add each other to your blogrolls. First you benefit directly from each other’s existing web traffic, and you also benefit by having another links to your site for the search engines to spider. And the more closely related the topics of your sites or blogs, the more targeted the traffic you receive will be.

3) Use Viral Marketing

Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product little or no outlay on your part. Simply produce or aquire a downloadable resource others will value and make it available from your site or blog. BE SURE to let the people who download it know that they can pass it along all they want – encourage them to, in fact. Every time they hand it out or have it downloaded, your links are being put in front of others who might otherwise never have known you existed. For more on building traffic virally, visit Jeff Dedrick’s Viral E-Book Explosion.

4) Search out and use targeted keywords and tightly-targeted keyword phrases for your site’s or blog’s content

Find the keywords being searched for most in your field, and the ‘long-tail’ keyword phrases most used – then write your content with those keywords in mind. If you aren’t able to write keyword-laden content to attract targeted traffic from the major search engines, it’s wise to hire a good copywriter to do that for you. While it IS very expensive to get great copy written, the extra targeted traffic you attract should definitely make up for it before long, and leave you sitting pretty from that point forward.

5) Write & Submit Articles that draw targeted traffic to your sites & blogs

Create even more great content relative to your topic, and submit it to the article directories and any sites in your niche that accept article submissions. Putting your website or blog link in the author’s Resource box both boosts your visibility with the search engines and drives in more targeted traffic from the directories themselves. Another win-win, with you on both sides!

6) Join forums and form online communities

Forums and online communities help boost targeted traffic in tremendous ways. First, your signature file usually has links to your sites, so the more helpful and active you are there the greater number of links to your sites, and the higher the volume of targeted traffic directly from the community to – you guessed it – YOUR sites and blogs. Secondly, that’s more links on other sites for the search engines to find, giving you a better chance of being indexed, and of ranking higher in those engines that use such criteria. And if you ARE truly knowledgeable in your field and give of yourself generously in the forums, you’ll quickly brand yourself as an expert, everyone’s ‘friend in the biz’ as it were, and not only generate more traffic but increase your sales conversions as well!

7) Last, but far from least, BUILD YOUR OPT-IN LISTS!

Opt-in e-mail lists for e-courses or e-zines are A MUST for successful Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, niche marketing or power blogging – and by far the best way to drive targeted traffic back to your online properties again and again. DO NOT expect to be truly successful at boosting your targeted traffic and your online profits unless you start, maintain and constantly build your own in-house opt-in mailing lists!

There are other ways to build targeted traffic, and infinite refinements on the list above – a blog like this one is just one example. But start with the 7 Traffic Building Tips here for now, then read more about targeted traffic generation and maybe even invest in my Top Traffic Tips Bootcamp. It’s time to boost your traffic, your sales and your profits online!

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Doug Champigny is a well-known Traffic Master with over 100 websites and a number of blogs under his control, including the Top Traffic Tips Blog and the Top Traffic Tips Bootcamp. Doug has also authored numerous e-books on increasing traffic for Internet, niche and affiliate marketing. Be sure to bookmark his sites for the latest in targeted traffic generation to bring a flood of traffic to your web sites and blogs.
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