Your e-marketing strategies for getting traffic to websites should include as varied a mix as possible. In driving web traffic, as in many things in life, putting ‘all your eggs in one basket’ can leave you in a precarious position. Yet many online marketing plans do just that – less-savvy marketers and a great many offline businesses spend the bulk of their traffic generation time and their online marketing budget focused strictly on SEO, or Search Engine Marketing.

But while it’s obvious to more experienced online marketers that SEO should only be one aspect of your efforts to build web traffic to websites, is SEO even the BEST method of promoting the site you’re trying to drive traffic to?

For example, let’s compare article marketing to on-going SEO activities. (On-site SEO is done when the site is built, and it’s only natural to consider the best SEO practices at that point as it takes no additional time. What we’re discussing here is the ongoing time spent on SEO after the website is complete and you’re trying to increase your visibility on the Search Engine Ranking Pages, or SERPs.)

Effective ongoing SEO activities require online marketers to be true specialists. This is because, in effect, SEO companies are engaged in what is almost guerrilla warfare against the search engines. The search engines want to list sites based on their content, their originality and whether the site is truly helpful to search engine users who are searching for information that’s relevant to them. Effective SEO requires search engine marketers to try and manipulate those results in favor of their clients or their own websites and blogs.

This has led to search engines not disclosing their ranking algorithms, and to changing those algorithms regularly as they find SEO efforts affecting their results or they come up with better ways to evaluate each page. For example, one of the methods used to evaluate a page is the number of sites linking to that page, the assumption being that the best content gets linked to the most. Online marketing programmers then created automated reciprocal linking sites called Free-For-All links pages, which flourished just long enough for the engines to catch on, at which point they dropped the rankings of the sites using them. Software was developed that spawned hundreds of sites almost instantly, all linking back to one site. Again, once the search engines had the ‘footprint’ of sites built that way, they dropped those using them. As an additional step, at least one large search engine also starting rating links lower if they come from within the same ‘sub-net mask’ (basically, the same server or servers located in the same vicinity since they may well be owned by the same website owners.)

And so the battle continues, with SEO firms trying to get more website traffic to their clients and the search engines trying to send their website traffic to the most deserving sites based on original, helpful content.

By comparison, top article directories work to help the search engines to achieve those goals. At EzineArticles, the biggest of the online article repositories, it’s now mandatory that articles submitted be unique, hither-to unpublished, properly written and not on subjects most commonly used for spam. Further, in an ongoing attempt to ensure that each article is helpful to its target market, submissions must be 400 words or longer – anything less and there’s usually not enough content to properly discuss a topic.

That being the case, the links from the bottom of the articles are completely legit, as article marketers write their content to attract readers targeted to the niche of the sites they link to. For the article writer that’s important because it means the website traffic generated is much more likely to be interested in the products or services their sites provide, and it’s of value to the readers as its a way to get more information or help in a topic that’s of interest to them.

As you can see, already article marketing is ahead of SEO vis-a-vis attracting web traffic to websites – each provides backlinks to the target website for the search engines to spider, but popular article directories also have their own audience that can be targeted through article submissions. But it doesn’t end there…

As an author builds up a collection of article submissions in the article directory, their target market starts to recognize them as an expert in the niche they cover when writing articles. That name recognition and added credibility is known as ‘branding’, and once again it leads not only to more web traffic to websites promoted by the article marketer, but often to higher conversion rates on the target sites due to being perceived as an expert in that field.

And as if that weren’t enough incentive to spend your time writing articles and submitting them instead of just doing SEO marketing, published EzineArticles authors have one additional benefit – their RSS feed. When you go to the profile page of any EzineArticles author, you’ll see the orange RSS feed notifier appear in your browser’s address bar. Savvy article marketers will take that RSS feed and submit it to the RSS directories just like a blog feed, potentially drawing that much more website traffic to their articles, with the resultant additional web traffic to their websites as well.

While both SEO efforts and article marketing have their place in your online marketing plans, they represent just the tip of the iceberg for generating web traffic to websites. Fortunately Marlon Sanders has not only detailed 16 different ways to drive web traffic to websites, but has built them into point-and-click online software that takes you step-by-step through the correct procedures for all sixteen methods. If you’re not getting enough website traffic yet, follow the steps he lays out in his Traffic Dashboard to achieve the targeted traffic levels you desire.

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1. Marlon Sanders Releases Traffic Dashboard – 16 Ways To Drive Web Traffic To Websites!

I’ve talked a lot so far about using Web 2.0 sites and technolgies to drive traffic to your websites, blogs and affiliate links. Only natural, seeing as how I was chosen as the Web 2.0 Targeted traffic Expert to speak at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas at last year’s Intrnet Marketing SuperConference…

And Web 2.0 traffic generation has improved since then with the phenomenal rise of Twitter – just look at the testimonials on the page for my new Advanced Twitter Marketing System. From Internet marketing gurus like Willie Crawford, Harris Fellman & Peter Parks to complete newbies, every one of those testimonials is from someone who got more targeted traffic from Twitter within the first few days of trying the Advanced Twitter Marketing System!

But be that as it may, I don’t want you to miss out on the old-school traffic generation techniques either… In fact, the old tools to create traffic to a website still work well, and their effect is mltiplied when combined with the new Web 2.0 targeted traffic strategies. For example, there’s a great blog post today from Kenneth Koh on Free Search Engine Traffic, showing the results he got using keyword research, link building and the like.

The beauty of SEO work like that is once it’s done you can just leave it to work, while you apply today’s faster and bigger Web 2.0 strategies – since you’re already getting the search engine traffic, tie the two together. Use Twitter, FaceBook, Weebly, StumbleUpon, MyBlogLog, Google Knol, MySpace etc. to drive traffic to those same sites, and link from those sites to your profiles on the Web 2.0 sites – get your cross-traffic happening and the whole thing just keeps growing exponentially!

And then, of course, throw Twitter into the mix to really skyrocket your results! Don’t go at it haphazardy though – be sure to follow the system I’ve laid out for you in the Advanced Twitter Marketing System. After all, why settle for mediocre results when you can soar?

If you’re serious about making money – BIG money – online, use Kenneth’s advice on SEO & keywords, then follow the steps laid out here and in the Advanced twitter Marketing manual to grow your traffic exponentially. Can you have too much targeted traffic? Only if you think success brings you too much money!

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In these days of Web 2.0, there’s no dubting that a blog is the fastest way to boost targeted traffic in any given niche – which is a blessing considering WordPress blog software is free. Installing it through your cPanel is fairly painless, but as I personally experienced, the automatic blog installs are great targets for hackers – we had three of our blogs hit in 2008 alone.

So as I watched WordPress expert Alex Sysoef develop his Expert WordPress software, I was quite impressed that it used a secure setup that didn’t include the standard installation codes. But what really caught my eye was his decision to include all the latest SEO (Search Engine Optimization) plugins to go with it.

Now blogs are already powerful traffic tools – they allow you an easy platform to keep your readers updated with fresh content, they get indexed in the majore search engines like any other web site, but then they also get listed in blog-specific directories, and in such massive traffic generators as Technorati and MyBlogLog. But it’s only when coupled with the latest SEO plugins that your blog really starts to rock as a targeted traffic generator – and Alex Sysoef’s Expert WordPress installs these for you too.

Best of all, this tool is a newbie’s dream – no technical knowledge is required whatsoever to install secure, optimized WordPress blogs with it, and Alex STILL includes videos to demonstrate exactly how to complete the 3 steps required. I sure wish this software had been available 4 years ago when I first started blogging!

So obviously it’s a no-brainer that you want this software, that your want to install WordPress Blogs & their SEO plugins automatically. So once you see all the features of Alex Sysoef’s Expert WordPress software, I’m sure that you’ll be as surprised as I was that he’s giving it away for free. And that he has an upgraded version with more features that’s available for a low monthly investment.

Alex Sysoef’s Expert WordPress software really has to be the best traffic-generating software aid I’ve seen in the last year or two – I give it 5 out of 5 and suggest you download it now while it’s still free!

To your success,

Doug Champigny,
Web 2.0 Targeted Traffic Expert.

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Of all the various ways to boost your blog’s or website’s ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs), one-way backlinks are amongst the most important and most valuable SEO techniques to use. There are three common techniques for generating backlinks to your sites and blogs, and each has it’s own place in your traffic generation strategy.

Hiring An SEO Firm To Get You Backlinks:

The first is paying an SEO company to get them for you – this can be hit and miss based on which companies you use, but in time you can find and stick with a good one.

Benefits: Doesn’t take up much of your time – you’re on to other projects while they get you your links. Drawbacks: Can be very expensive to get links from good PR sites, and paid ads on sites with high Page Rank are overly expensive for most marketers.

Article Marketing To Get You BackLinks:

Second is article marketing – the reliable old way to get your name out there, establish your credibility and generate a lot of one-way backlinks to your sites. There are hundreds, if not thousands of article directories out there just waiting for your articles, and you can build a ton of backlinks over time both from your articles being at the directories, and from people using your articles on their sites and blogs.

Benefits: Unlimited number of links can be generated, both by writing and submitting more articles and by submitting your articles to more directories. It also gives you a chance to prove yourself an expert in your field, and build a reputation amongst the other marketers in your niche. And it’s free if you do the work yourself. Disadvantages: Not everyone is a good writer, has the time to research & write article content, or can think up enough topics to keep a steady stream of new articles rolling out. Outsourcing your article submissions saves a lot of time but is expensive, while submitting articles yourself takes a lot of time if you want wide exposure.

Blog Commenting To Generate One-Way Backlinks:

The newest of the three common ways to get one-way backlinks is by commenting on blogs within your niche. Not just any blogs, though – WordPress uses a ‘no-follow’ tag by default, and most bloggers just leave it that way. Specifically you want to concentrate on blogs that have both the ‘Do-Follow’ and ‘CommentLuv’ plugins installed, as we do here at the Top Traffic Tips Blog. The Do-Follow tag tells search engines to follow your backlink and spider your blog or website, while CommentLuv fetches the last blog post you put online and links to it using your post’s title, thus ensuring your keywords are in the linking text – you ARE using keywords in every heading, right?

Benefits: My own experience using all 3 methods have shown blog commenting to be the most effective way to get one-way backlinks quickly to a new site, blog or affiliate link. While they don’t go viral like your articles do, the time involvement is much less. You simply take your list of appropriate blogs in your niche, and comment on 3-5 of them a day. This keeps the backlinks coming in over time, the way the search engines prefer, and gets links to your various posts according to what your last post was when you make your comment. External one-way backlinks to a lot of different pages in your blog or on your site is truly powerful – more powerful than all of them pointing just to your home page. And, like article marketing, intelligent commenting helps to build your rep as an expert in your field, and leads to more people cliocking through to your link.

Disadvantages: None, really, except the time it takes to locate the proper blogs in the first place, and that’s been solved for you now, with the release of a new directory of appropriate blogs to gain one-way backlinks from – you can download the report with both PDF and CSV copies of over 4,000 blogs to get one-way backlinks from by commenting there, ranging from PR0 to PR7. Start with the list, and find the one’s best suited to your target market, then work your way through, again 3-5 blogs per day.

Two Caveats about your backlink-building campaign – first, don’t ignore article marketing – keep it in your mix because of the long-term viral effect it has in building backlinks to your site. For every four or five days you spend on blog commenting, spend one on article marketing. Just be sure you start with the blog commenting, since it can generate traffic the fastest and points to different pages within your blog or site.

Second, do not – I repeat, DO NOT use auto-commenting software for this – be professional and visit the blogs yourself, leaving intelligent comments relating directly to the blog post you’re commenting on. First, almost every blog using the Do-Follow tag is moderated, so your comments won’t get through anyway. And after you’ve hit them a half-dozen times with spam comments, no matter how complimentary you are, they’ll simple add your IP address to the banned list to avoid having to delete your posts, and will report the comments as spam.

A long-term mix of blog commenting and article marketing will certainly bring you all the traffic you want, so grab the Do-Follow Blog Report now and get started!

To your success building one-way backlinks…

Doug Champigny,

http://www.TopTrafficTips.com

PS- Oh yeah, don’t forget to start by leaving a comment on this post right here after you download your report!

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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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Search engine optimization is the art and science of making web pages attractive to internet search engines. Some internet businesses consider search engine optimization to be the subset of search engine marketing.

In the middle of the 1990s webmasters and search engine content providers started optimizing websites. At the time all the webmasters had to do was provide a URL to a search engine and a web crawler would be sent from the search engine. The web crawler would extract link from the webpage and use the information to index the page by down loading the page and then storing it on the search engines server. Once the page was stored on the search engines server a second program, called an indexer, extracted additional information from the webpage, and determines the weight of specific words. When this was complete the page was ranked.

It didn’t take very long for people to understand the importance of being highly ranked.

In the beginning search engines used search algorithms that webmasters provided about the web pages. It didn’t take webmasters very long to start abusing the system requiring search engines to develop a more sophisticated form of search engine optimization. The search engines developed a system that considered several factors; domain name, text within the title, URL directories, term frequency, HTML tags, on page key word proximity, Alt attributes for images, on page keyword adjacency, text within NOFRAMES tags, web content development, sitemaps, and on page keyword sequence.

Google developed a new concept of evaluating internet web pages called PageRank. PageRank weighs a web page’s quantity and quality based on the pages incoming links. This method of search engine optimization was so successful that Google quickly began to enjoy successful word of mouth and consistent praise.

To help discourage abuse by webmasters, several internet search engines, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Ask.com, will not disclose the algorithms they use when ranking web pages.The signals used today in search engine optimization typically are; keywords in the title, link popularity, keywords in links pointing to the page, PageRank (Google), Keywords that appear in the visible text, links from on page to the inner pages, and placing punch line at the top of the page.

For the most part registering a webpage/website on a search engine is a simple task. All Google requires is a link from a site already indexed and the web crawlers will visit the site and begin to spider its contents. Normally a few days after registering on the search engine the main search engine spiders will begin to index the website.

Some search engines will guarantee spidering and indexing for a small fee. These search engines do not guarantee specific ranking. Webmaster’s who don’t want web crawlers to index certain files and directories use a standard robots.txt file. This file is located in the root directory. Occasionally a web crawler will still crawl a page even if the webmaster has indicated he does not wish the page indexed.

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