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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Twelve

May 21 (Day 12)

Morning everyone,

Now I want to say something here and it’s a little off topic, but all the same. I wanted to say this due to an event that I was confronted with by some 47 year old who was acting like a child yesterday and being totally insultive, not appreciating what I am doing here and the methods in which I approach these posts in and totally disregarding everything of what I have said - I take on the picture that not everyone is the same where a lot of people do not have this experience or may not know exactly what to do, or thought about it, but needed some kind of re-assurance of what they have been doing is the correct approach, or before they attempt it - I don’t go by illustrating things from the middle, up. I start from the rock bottom and work my way up, unlike what this other guy’s way of doing things taking it for granted that everyone should learn from the middle, upwards with no fundamentals in place - no one is going to learn quickly that way, people are still going to need to go back the roots and understand the fundamentals.

So if there are any guys here who are at a more advanced level, I apologise if some of this bores you.

Now, this is about profitability and business modeling…

So..I need to get this off my chest cos it kinda pissed me off. The logic that this person had just didn’t make any sense what so ever. One can not compare apples with orange’s and start forecasting what is going to happen in regards to traffic, and or earnings. Not in this game, affiliate marketing with PPC, yes, viral marketing, yes, but SEO, NO WAY. There are too many factors involved such as search engine algorithms, and how fast pages are indexed and when those pages of yours start getting traffic via organic searches or those sources you get links from that delivers traffic to your sites, etc.

As I have said before, in which method you use, is not wrong, sure there are other ways to get traffic fast and earn big money. But in SEO, no. Did Brad Fallon (my wedding favors) get those 5,000 - 10,000 visitors a day in one night? No, It took him years to get to that level, with over 33,000 back links. Brad knew first hand that it would take some work, and if he stuck with it, it would pay off eventually, and it has, 100 fold. It takes a lot of work, even it means to invest your time before things turn profitable, or gets to a point that you’re happy with.

Now you may be thinking, “what the… man that’s a lot of work”. You’re right. I personally don’t spend much time on article directories to be honest these days, I’m past that stage, but two years ago when I didn’t have the amount of sites that I have now (568 and growing), I had no choice. I was new to the SEO Industry, and finances were very tight, some of you may know of my situation explained in my E-Book that people downloaded when they joined my Pre-launch Waiting List for SEO Website Builder Pro, which coincidently has a more complicated linking structure, which I’m trying to illustrate on this blog, but in tiny bite size lumps and the methology behind it. Any ways as I say, my finances were on a very tight budget to get myself out of this whole I was in, so spending more money on what I knew that I had to do to push the envelope to speed up the process in time and effort spent to get the results I needed, wasn’t an option at that time.

I’m a pretty patient guy, and know eventually the work I put in will pay off, and besides all that, I wanted to learn the ropes of SEO and thanks to Brad Callen I was able to learn it and pick up tips on my own and learn how to test things out, and what was actually involved before I decided to spend thousands on dedicated servers, domain names, C-class IP addresses - which I might add was money generated via Adsense - so my upfront out of pocket cost was ZERO.

My Success can be duplicated and achieved in about 2 years or sooner. And by no means am I saying you’ll be rich over night as you can see this SEO stuff is very time consuming, at least to start off with, but we have to start from somewhere. When you get to the stage I have, a lot of this stuff I do here you wont need to worry about, you can use your own websites. You see, I have my own social bookmarking sites, RSS Feed sites, tons of blogs, normal websites, article directories, link directories, forums, social networking websites, and a crap load of yahoo group ezine spam free lists, which todate has a little over 100,000 people on related to all sorts of topics driving traffic to my blogs and other related websites. Yes, they took a little while to promote, but eventually it went viral and other people were joining the list that were interested in that particular topic.

I’ll get into that stuff later in the weeks to show you what you can do to get more traffic. It’s an investment well worth considering, but yes, you will need to put the time and effort in, you may not earn big money straight away like some people think you should and totally dismiss the idea cos the business model isn’t worthy enough to pack in your day job right there and then. Personally I think that’s a wrong attitude to have and more so to relate what we are doing here with offline businesses.

All businesses start off in Debt, most of those who have started businesses have to get some kind of loan, unless one was fortunate enough to have the money to start with a huge chuck of change and still some left over before ones business becomes profitable to live on. In any case, based on an example of a jealous person I was confronted with yesterday put this case study down, insulting my methods of getting traffic cos at this stage, Day 12, was not a good business role model to follow, because it worked out that I was earning around 45 cents a day - so far. Sure, not a great amount of money. But at least this method is not in debt, it’s ALL profit, and profit is profit no matter how anyone measures it. And with time, it will increase, just like fine wine as it gets older, it tastes a lot better, and so will your success as you let it mature and keep on chugging along.

I could of approached this case study in a method to say… hey, stop what you’re doing, you don’t need to do SEO to get traffic. Do this, do that, go here, post this, post that, go to forums and spend 3-6 months in the sector that your site is about, get to know people, more forums you join and mingle in with, you’ll be on your way to earning not $10 a day, but hundreds in adsense income. Or I could say, hey, don’t do this, don’t do that, post out loads of classified ads in your area, yes, it works, there are places out there that cost anywhere between $10 - $150 to have your ad posted out to hundreds of classified news paper ads.

Or I could say, don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, pay for Radio advertising. Or What ever. Sure, there are many ways you can generate traffic and earn a lot more than what we are doing here. But this is not about being in a race, it’s not about earning as much money as possible, but the many methods in which we can get traffic from. What you do with this information is free for you to do as you wish with, follow or not. It’s completely up to you. We all have to start somewhere, and in my opinion, I think the best place to start is the very bottom, and work our way up to the top. And that’s exactly what I am doing here.

Ok, now I got that off my chest… let’s move on.

Okey dokey then, I’ve enclosed an image of the 2nd step of the article directory linking process in the hopes that it will iron out any confusions. Refer to Day 9’s post for the first step.

As you can see from the first step all we merely did here was what a majority of us do; post articles to article directories with links pointing back to our home page and an additional two inner pages.

The image above illustrates the process AFTER our articles to these other article directories have approved our articles. In most cases, unfortunately we have to wait about a week before the articles are approved, but that’s ok, don’t let it stop you from continuing, work around it until they are approved. If you find that article directory 3 was the only one out of the 5 that approved your article that day or the very next day, no problem, what I would probably do is link up another article that I know will be approved that day or the next, back to the article I did the day prior. It’s still ok to create this chain of related documents even if they are on the same site, I do it all the time on mine, just as wiki-pedia does. So by the time the others are approved, I’ll have article directory 1, 2, 4, and 5, linking up to article directory 3’s articles so doing it on others sites is always a good approach that many decide not to do, while article directory 3 links to the articles I posted there. Which is all good. I’m going to be doing the same any way on these other articles.

Any ways… To the left we have our first article directory posts and these all point to our home page, and other inner pages as described on Day 9’s post. And to the right we have our second article directory posts. Each of these posts are written around our main keyword. As you may remember, I choose for this example, to post article keyword 1 to article directory 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the first article directory step. The next day I did the same, but this time I used my articles that revolve around keyword 2.
I pointed these articles back to the article that was approved - then next week when the others are approved, I’ll concentrate on giving those links some more link love with more back links from other article directories and other sources that we will go into next week.

Just remember to jot down those approved article links and which sources they are having links pointed from so you can keep track. Around 10 or so is a good number which should generate at least a PR1 - PR2, and in some other cases high PR on those articles which eventually will funnel down on to your other pages of your blog / website, giving it more authority and speed up the process of article indexing.

I’m also going to mix it up a little bit here, and point more links from forum signatures to these articles as well today, and submit them to social bookmarking sites too. Sky’s the limit here.

May 21 (Day 12)

* started at 9.05am
* Traffic received before starting 18 visitors
* Submitted approved articles to social bookmarking sites
* submitted RSS Feed again to directories using RSS Feed Submit
* Submitted to more link directories
* Created more snippets and replied in quotes to forum posts
* Submitted more articles for Keyword 3 to article directories
* Before starting another $1.22 in an adsense click, almost approaching $20.00 or so in total so far.
* Time spent on project - 3 hours 56 minutes

One thing before I go, a reader of this blog submitted a resource that I wanted to share with you. And worth checking out.
http://trafficnymphomaniac.com/?cat=6 Worth Checking out. Also, one good resource that stuck out like a sore thumb is one I use regularly, and that’s RSS Matron. You may also want to check out ClipClip.org social bookmarking too.

Now here’s a tip that I share in my Video Guide To Profits videos (amongst many others), when you visit social bookmarking sites have a good long think about the keyword tags you are going to use, don’t use too many, 5 is ample. Actually thinking about it I think that’s the most you can do now on clipclip.org, before it used to be a lot more. Any ways, keep it at around 5 in any case. Before posting your tags run a search for the ones that you think is related to your niche, when the results show up take a look at the other tags people are using for their submissions, right click and open it in a new window tab, take a look at the page rank of that tagged page. Does it have a page rank? No, okay, keep trying and locate a tag that has a PR and write that down. Of course this is tiring too, but hey, it’s worth it. There are many social bookmarking sites out there that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute to stop the PR from being applied to your page, but in any case, the initial research you do will help the process of doing this again for future submissions a lot easier and of course, less time consuming.

If you’re starting out for the first time it is going to take a while to build up this resource. Back in the day when I was doing Viral Marketing, it took me years to gather over 4,000 highly responsive yahoogroup lists to post to, with a combined total of over 1,000,000 subscribers on them - of course, minus those that could be on the same lists. All the same, I found that each month that went by my list that I could post to was growing and so was the affiliate commissions I was making too. So it’s all good.

Oh, one more thing before I call it a day. RSS Feeds, not many people use these. If you have the cash, and you have prepared articles for several websites, think about setting up an RSS Feed for the new pages. I personally create my own and add links inside the descriptive text to get more one way back links than the norm. These RSS Feeds are then placed on my other related websites or a web page that is related which update automatically each time the page is visited. The good thing here is although the content from one RSS Feed’s website can provide more back links, the thing you need to think about is to avoid having this rss feed on a lot of pages that show the same content, although duplicate content is ok for websites, I still prefer to have random RSS Feed Item descriptions to be different on each page. I have a script that allows me to set a randomizer of which items it should display out of the many pages it displays. ie, on page 1, it may display Item 10, 20, 30, 40 and item 50. On page two, it may display item 1, 14, 17, 32, 27, and so on. This feature is also going to be added at some point in SEO Website Builder Pro too.

Okey doke Ladies and Gents, sorry for the long post and allowing me to get my little rant off my chest, I feel better now.

So, same time tomorrow then.

All the best

Loz

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