There are many ways to drive free traffic to your blog apart from using traffic exchanges, safelists, blasters and the like.

A blog is like a web site, it does need exposure and it needs traffic: loads of it! You must actively promote your blog to build up traffic to your blog. Sending a mail to your list announcing  your new blog is a good place to start.

Here are just a few of the many tips to get readers and traffic to your blog.

1. Headlines:
Just like a website, your blog needs to provide its readers with information they want to read. Good headlines will attract visitors, the headline is the first point of contact, so spend time on that; and of course the content matters too. Publish good content on a regular basis.

2.Optimised for search engines:
Make sure your post is optimised for search engines. When you write, think of the keywords, the primary keyword should be part of the title; the secondary in the body of your post, and don’t forget the anchor text, here it is best not to use more than two, more can be considered as spam. Categorise and tag your posts to get the best results.

3.Pings:
If your blog set up is correct you will allow pings. There are quite a few services out there today specifically designed to connect blogs. One of the most popular to use is Pingomatic, but there are many others like Technorati. [First you must sign up with these and add your blog] When you write and publish your post this service sends out a ping alert to say you have updated your blog and then indexes your post according to tags; hence tagging correctly is so important.

4.Directories & Feeds:
Add you blog to to directories to give greater exposure. When setting up your blog set up an RSS feed. Both blog and feed can be added to directories. There are many and varied directories out there but one of the favourites is Blogcatalog. Good places to maybe make friends, pick up a few tips and exchange links.

5.Forums:
Join some of the many Forums and use a Forum signature including a link to your Blog. Add your comments and observations to posts, be helpful to others in the forum, then they will consider you to be an expert and more likely to visit your blog. More free traffic. Of course, never spam just to get link backs, this will just get your membership deleted.

6.Blogroll:
use this to add other blogs in your niche to your blogroll. This cross linking gives you an added edge and may result in added visitors and readers.

7.Comments:
Add you comments to other blogs, make your comments useful and perhaps start a discussion. Its surprising what you can learn that way too. Once you have built a bit of traffic to your blog allow comments to build up interaction. There are various plugins out there to help you increase your comments and ways to organise them.

8.Trackbacks:
A way to link back to other blogs that allow trackbacks. A good way to build up free traffic to your blog. Its a good idea to first leave a comment on the other blog then add a trackback in your post.

These are just a few tips, however you can learn more about blogging and traffic by joining the Daily Info Calls or participating in a monthly online live seminar and workshop.

Zo Nicholas
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YORGOO Traffic buzz

We’ve had Instantbuzz and Yahoo buzz and now we have the YORGOO buzz. If your busy creating traffic you will soon hear the buzzzzzz…………..

It’s all about going down and coming up! and then you hear it.

It starts with a little murmur, and gets bigger and bigger and you end up just listening to the sound – the symphony created by your own work.

What the hell is she talking you ask?….then you must have missed yesterdays training call.

To catch up on what is going on you can listen to the Yorgotalk Daily Call recording right here.

And don’t forget we have the Monthly Ycademy Seminar coming up:

Diarise 25th & 26th October and buy your ticket.

2 Days online Seminar on October 25/26, 2008 Topic:

Networking: How to Make Money with DubLi

Get the necessary Knowledge, Tools and Strategies to grow and control YOUR BUSINESS, whatever it may be. The concept is the same whatever the business is.

Zo Nicholas
YORGOO Team

I know lots of people who are, will you join the crowd?
Just put on your Surfin’ cap, get your fingers ready and GO Go GO…

Its so easy to get Flipping…

Open your browser, add these 6 sites in seperate tabs and start clicking.
Surf 100sites on each, Then you will be entered in a draw to win 1000 credits. There will be 15 winners overall, 5 at each exchange. So, good luck!

Traffic-Splash
Traffic Muscles
Hit 2 Hit
and
Fast Easy Traffic
BlueSurf
Traffic At The Races

and goooo mad!

**see the list  of winners here

Happy Surfin’

Zo

Little or no result from your surfing?

Traffic exchange users click for credits and exposure. To place their promotional page infront of as many new eyeballs as possible.

The reason you may not be getting the results you want could with your promotional page may be not the business that you promote, but the way you promote your business.

Take a closer look at the page you are promoting?

Is you page attractive -  would you want to stop and read further?

Does your page stand out from the crowd?
or is long, dull and boring?

Here are some points to be aware of when submitting your site to a traffic exchange:

1. Does your site/page open fast? giving the reader enough time to make a quick judgement whether to stay or move on.

Submitting a page/site that takes 7 or 8 seconds or more to open when the timer runs out at 10 will definitely not bring in many results. The timer doesn’t hang about for slow loading pages.

2. Is the site/page easy to read? – can the text be clearly seen to be read. Black on white is the easiest text to read. Use contrasting colours for text and background.

3. Does it have a catchy/strong headline or colourful graphic? Surfers are surfing for credits, will they be distracted enough to take a closer look.

4. Does your page have a call to action? perhaps a simple click here.

5. Does it have an easy optIn page? Can this be done done quickly without too much fuss?

6. Is your splash page/site search engine friendly? Search engines cannot read fancy graphics nor flash animations.

Use a tracking system and split test your pages, see which gets the best results.
 
A good free tracking system one can use for this purpose is Google Analytics, which wil privide you with lots of interesting data to help you with your marketing efforts and conversions.

Surfing can be fun as well as profitable. 
 

A known pioneer in the traffic exchange industry Stephen Ayer of Traffic Roundup and Bobby Ivie straight from the Funny Farm himself and not the funny farm that first comes to mind. The traffic exchange funnyfarmtraffic.com that has been around for 4 years have now joined forces to bring you this hip new exchange.

Styled on the 60′s theme ""Discover the Fast, Free, Fun and Groovy Way to Increase Your Website Traffic"

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. 

A. Sign up with YORGOO
B. From your YORGOO back-office register with ClickBank
C. Select a hot ClickBank product and load the Referral link into your YORGOO under YOUR Business
D. Join all traffic programs supported by YORGOO by signing up from the links in your YORGOO back-office and by activating these accounts: promote ONLY your YORGOO referral link on all these programs.
E. Continue to fuel your Traffic engine by surfing and referring new subscribers to YORGOO and the supported traffic programs.

To learn the real tips and tricks of Affiliate Marketing  join our PROFITABILITY Seminar on 29/30 March ’08.
[the best 20$ you will ever invest online]

 Zo