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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Five

May 5, 2008

Hey everyone, hope you had a good weekend,

Ok, well, today really isn’t day 5, but let’s make it Day 5 any way.
I figure that the more realistic I can make this the better. Over the weekend other things came up, so this situation of mine is most probably no different to anyone else, we all have things to do, have a life and do things on the weekend. So I figure from now on what I will do is do Monday - Friday reports instead and rather than doing this for 28-30 days. I’ll do this project for 12 weeks. How’s that sound? Good? :)

Below you can see the traffic I received, take note of 3rd may (Saturday) and 4th May (Sunday), 31 & 30 visitors, respectively. Not bad for doing nothing eh? That’s residual traffic. ;)

Traffic received so far

Now, the problem, well, not really a problem to be honest, at least not at this stage, I didn’t receive any adsense clicks. Oh hum.

So, a question would arise, why? It could be due to the placement of the ads, so what I will do later in the week is do some adsense placement testing to see if I can squeeze some more clicks out of the site. Not just the placements I might add, but which type of ad formats I should use. And it’s still early days yet any how. And having saying that, I tend to create normal websites which in my personal experience tends to convert a lot better than blogs…

So I think before worrying about where I should place these ads, I will concentrate on the ad format for now, then worry about the placement later.
This is split testing guys, it’s very important. It’s also important not to fill your pages up with ads as well, higher the impressions you receive, less you get and lower your CTR will be. If your CTR gets too low, then your account could be questioned and possibly closed. So take those thoughts into consideration when you create sites, not just for adsense, but proper informational websites.

Okey dokey then…

Our return visitor has increased from 1.61 to 2.56 Visitors per visitor. :)

5th May (Day 5)

* Started at 2:24pm
* Prepared Articles for Article Directories for next week.
* Submitted blog to 23 more link directories.
* Submitted blog to 10 more forums with article snippets and or genuine replies to a person asking a question.
* Paid $45.00 to have blog posted to 500 link directories over a course of 7-10 days.
* Traffic received before starting 27 visits.
* Finished for day, visits received while submitting 36
* Finished for the Day, time spent on project 2 hours 4 minutes.

I don’t normally like paying for services. I started online with no money at all and made a lot through Marketing and grew it from there.
But hey, this site looked good and if they turn out to be quite good, I’ll let you know of the url.

Now next week, I want you to pay real close attention. I’m going to reveal the one major mistake that people make when they submit to article directories and other places that people post full articles or article snippets on. Can you guess what it is? Make your comment below and let me know. You probably know it. I know you’re smart enough and read a lot of forums online, though you may not have heard it before other than what I have said in SEO Elite, or Keyword Elite forum, or my very own forum. Or maybe you missed it? Or perhaps you even read my SEO PDF when you joined my SEO Website Builder pro Pre-launch list that I give away for free? Haven’t joined? Crikey… you’re missing out if you haven’t. ;)

In fact, I know that very few people do this. This type of strategy is no different to my Marketing Strategy when I was fully into it on a full time basis. It was also revealed on another site recently and I was like, hmm, is this guy taking credit for my ideas…lol nah, can’t be, he’s been doing it for years just as I have. Now this method is rock solid. It’s not just a free traffic generation tactic, but it also builds authority on your articles and increases your indexing rate AND keyword rankings. Which then in turn, should you create your articles in a fashion that’s not just talking about one keyword prhase, but other related words also, as this is very important when creating your articles, but the type of in-content linking.

Does anyone know what in-content linking is? And what it does in the eyes of the search engines? Let me know of your thoughts. :) If you don’t know, don’t be shy, there really is no right or wrong answer here if you’re new to this stuff. And when there is enough comments I’ll reply with the logic why in-content linking is a vital tacttic of onpage seo. :) Want a head start? Search for the term in the search engines. :)

Speak to you all soon.

by the way, up, give us a digg, or click the links in the email via feedburner for us if you like these posts. :) Thanks.

All the best

Loz


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6 Responses to “Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Five”

  1. Jon on May 5th, 2008 7:28 pm

    Loz,

    Thank you for this series, definitely great stuff. Quick question about Instant Article Wizard–do you leave the references or submit your articles without them? If you leave them out, do you worry about getting shut down somehow for plagiarism? Also, by in-content linking, do you mean links in one post to different posts of your blog that are keyword specific?

    Thanks,
    Jon

  2. Loz on May 5th, 2008 7:36 pm

    Hi Jon

    Ignore what you hear about plagiarism. If it were a crime, people wouldn’t be able to take a quote of text from someone and place it on their site, or trackbacks from blogs wouldn’t be allowed.

    re: in-content linking… hmm, I wonder what others have to say? What ya reckons peeps?

    Loz

  3. Jon on May 5th, 2008 9:30 pm

    Wow, how many Jons are posting here?

    I’ll have to agree with the other Jon on the guess for in-context linking. On my blog, any time that I reference any consumer product, I try to link to it through some affiliate program. A good example is my recent post on flat panel TV mounts:
    http://www.ineedmoretape.com/mounting-a-flat-panel-tv/

    I must have a dozen Amazon links riddled throughout that article.

    -Jon

  4. Jon on May 5th, 2008 9:34 pm

    Hey Loz,

    Thanks for the reply! So removing the references is perfectly ok? I’m about to try and start a blog-I have a couple ideas in mind that I’ll do some research on to find a good amount of key words. I’ve never done any type of IM, so this is a whole new world for me. I need to just sit down and do it or I’ll never be successful with it. I’m looking forward to reading more-I have you subscribed in my Google Reader.

    Thanks,
    Jon

  5. Loz on May 5th, 2008 11:10 pm

    ineedmoretape-Jon…LOL there’s a problem with that though. The links are not consumer friendly. i.e many people wont click on those links or buy from them. Use a 301 redirect instead to make it look like a part of your site and have them open up in a new window. :)

    Sure, it becomes your own article any way. some times, not all the time though, it all depends on how motivated I am, but as Jon Leger says, make the article your own, read it, then add or remove words so it becomes your own voice. I find that this can take approx 5-10 minutes of editing an article. But if 7 articles were made per day, that’s 3 x7 = 21 minutes + editing time 7 x 10 = 70 minutes. 1 hour 31 minutes. Which isn’t bad, that now sets you up for 7 days when using the auto schedule posting on word press. AND SEO Website Builder pro. :)

    Internet Marketing is a BIG word and people get all confused. Internet Marketing is the ability to drive traffic to your site and there are many ways you can go about it.

    PPC networks. Word of mouth, Radio, paper, press releases, classifieds, forums, blogs, social networking, articles, social bookmarking, yahoogroups, msngroups, google groups and other groups like, banner advertising with companies like ask, google, yahoo, excite, aol, etc. Leaflets. the list goes on and on.

    IM is just the method ONLINE to spread the word, nothing more nothing less.
    And when you sell the product Online, give unbiased reviews, as if you were the reporter letting people know what it does, it’s features, it’s benefits, it’s savings, it’s productivity, etc. Then you’re set :)

    hey nice one On google reader, cool :)

    All the best

    Loz

  6. skiper on May 6th, 2008 2:57 am

    In content linking - I guess and I think you can get an added authority with it and on the search result you may have a related links under your site.

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