As web promotion grows more and more popular everyday, so does over analyzing your stats, rankings, page rank, popularity rank, etc. We are all caught up in an analyzing funnel that seems to have no end in sight. Now granted we are all massively guilty of this and certainly knowing where most of your traffic comes from so you can concentrate your efforts there is a must. Knowing which PPC AD is pulling the traffic is important, but if you are one of those people who have 7 tabs open and all point to analyzing stats its time to re-adjust.

Many of you who have learned how to promote your own website, seem to be forgetting the 1st and most important rule – keep promoting. The reality is when you continue to promote all the other things that are getting some much of your time and attention is going to come naturally PERIOD!

Analyzing Is Over Rated:

As we all have our own methods to base our success online, we also have to make sure that we don’t forget the fact that the more we analyze, the less we promote.

Does This Sound Like You?

- I like to re-check on a daily/hourly basis my Google search engine placements!

- I go to Alexa.com everyday to see if my ranking has gone up/down!

- I check my link popularity once a week, maybe once a day!

- I check to see how many backlinks Google rewards my site!

- I double check my site stats to see if the GoogleBot has been crawling on my site!

If this sounds like you, you might want to re-think how much you are actually contributing to your search marketing efforts.

See most people want to see their efforts being rewarded right away while loosing sight of the real agenda on hand. If you keep promoting and forget to check your rankings, placements, etc, when you actually remember to check your stats, you will be in for a huge surprise!!!

It’s better to explain it like this. Have you ever had a moment that seems like 1 minute took an eternity? On the flip side of that, have you ever had an entire afternoon seem like it flew past and you didn’t notice the time?

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While there are many ways to get people to read your blog, there is one method that distances itself from all others. It’s like Usain Bolt racing a bunch of toddlers. Way, way out ahead of the pack.

Before I tell you what it is, ask yourself a quick question…

Why are you reading this blog post?

Maybe you clicked here from an email you received from me. Or maybe you were visiting this blog and clicked onto this particular post. Maybe you were chasing Usain Bolt, gave up and stopped here to rest. Doesn’t matter. The question is the same…

Why are you reading this blog post?

Or, said another way, “what attracted you to this particular blog post?”

I’ll tell you what did it. Or rather WHO did it. It’s a person we all know very well. His name is…

Mr. Cure E Osity.

Curiosity. That’s what got you to read this blog post. You probably didn’t say it out loud, but I guarantee you some part of your mind (consciously or subconsciously) thought, “what IS the #1 way to get people to read your blog”?

And here you are.

I was at an amusement park recently where there was a hole in a wall. Above the hole was a sign that read, “Do Not Look Here”. People were lined up around the corner to look in the hole. Why?

Curiosity.

Curious has two distinct meanings:

1) Curious means “eager to learn or know”. What is it that your subscribers and site visitors are “eager to learn or know”?

2) Curious means “arousing interest or attention”. What kind of title, headline or description can you use to “arouse interest or attention”?

It’s fairly easy to get people to read things. In face, the formula is almost elementary…

CURIOUS topic + CURIOUS headline = people reading

It begins with a CURIOUS topic. You have to know your audience. Readers of the Wall Street Journal aren’t the same as readers of Mad Magazine. (At least, most aren’t) You have to ask yourself, “what is it that my audience is ‘eager to learn or know’?” What are they CURIOUS about?

I know that a large majority of my subscribers have blogs. And what does every blogger want? Someone to listen to them. So, my “CURIOUS topic” is getting people to listen to you if you’re a blogger. That’s what YOU are “eager to learn or know”. That’s the subject matter of this post.

From there, it’s about developing some kind of CURIOUS headline. Knowing that people will “look” where it says, “do not look here” (in other words, knowing people are curious) it’s easy to use words like “the #1 way to…” It “arouses interest or attention”.

When you have a CURIOUS topic that is coupled with a CURIOUS headline you will have people reading. AND when the CURIOUS topic LIVES UP to the promise made in the CURIOUS headline you will KEEP people reading. And eventually taking action.

But that’s a different post.

Here’s what you need to do in order to make this work right now, today, at YOUR blog.

1) Ask yourself, “What is it that my contacts are ‘eager to learn or know’?” That’s your CURIOUS topic.

2) Ask yourself, “How can I express that topic in a way that ‘arouses interest or attention’?” That’s your CURIOUS headline.

And that’s how you get people to read your blog.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I’m guessing with at least a few of those nine lives he came back for more.

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An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing. He may have the necessary drive, diligence and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works.

He may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him a fortune if only the whole world could see it.

However, all these would prove useless if he does not know how to drive traffic to his website. His business would sink into oblivion together with all the sales, fortune and dreams that he might have realized if he only knew how to do this particular task.

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down.

The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer.

With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.

The first step in driving traffic to one’s website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means.

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If there is one bit of advice I can ever give you, whether it be about marketing or business success in general, it is a quote from Russell Crowe in Gladiator: “On my mark, unleash hell.” Yes, you might have heard one or two other marketers quoting this very same line. And with good reason. That one line epitomizes the very core of what all marketing programs teach you. Here’s a break down:

Find your target - Pick a market that is favorable for approach. It doesn’t have to be the perfect idea, just one that works on paper, and most importantly, something that you know you can do while maintaining interest.

Prepare your approach- Mark out the main spots – what sort of advertising mediums can you use? What is your budget? What is your exact strategy for each medium? No need to go into excruciating details, but you should know, for example, your allocated monthly budget for your PPC campaign, your target keywords and the expected cost-per-click for each keyword. This will at the very least help you monitor your advertising and tune it based on the  results.

Intense marketing- There are two different approaches in this regard. Use the first one if you can afford to spend a lot of money on traffic, use the second if most of your advertising budget will be paid for by your business even at the start.

- All-out marketing, pulling out all the stops at once, complete blanketing of your target market – Slow build-up, tackling different advertising mediums one by one, building to crescendo effect where at the end, you replicate the effect in the ‘all-out marketing’ technique.

Taken by itself, the term ‘unleash hell’ is also used to describe another valuable business lesson:

If you have a product, or a business idea, or a service to sell, GET IT OUT THERE! Take your business to the market first, worry about refining and
managing later.

Essentially, don’t wait months to find the perfect idea. Pick an idea that’s good enough, and launch your business. If you are a resume writer and want to sell your services online, throw up a website, put up your basic contact and payment information and BEGIN PROMOTION.

Too often people wait too long until they have the ‘finished’ product before starting their marketing campaigns. A newcomer shouldn’t waste their time like that. The product will be developed along the way through customer interaction anyway. On the other hand, there is no way you’ll make any money without traffic.  So go get that traffic, and ‘perfection’ will come in due time.

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If you are looking for a simple guide to over 70 promotion methods than I don’t hesitate to bring up Ross Goldberg’s ebook The Traffic Manifesto.

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There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how the big hit sites drive traffic to their sites? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmicks. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

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