This whole thing started with an idea in your head to build a fantastic website, place a block or two of Adsense ads on it and then kick back and let the money roll in, right? So you coded the perfect site in a niche that is extremely hot and searches abound for this product every second of the day.
You spent time, time and more time getting your SEO up to par and have been graded at over 98% optimized for your niche area of marketing. You have submitted your sitemap, placed the appropriate ad blocks on all of your pages and those ads just look bbbeeaaauuutttiiiffffuuullll!!! Do a search for your product and up you come in spot #4 on Google page #1. Now just what in the world could possibly make you happier? How about some earnings?? Probably might be smiling just a bit more if you were able to start feeding your checking account a little bit now and again. So what is the problem? You researched and tweaked your keywords until your finger tips are sore. You have enough back up unique content to last you for months and just keep the visitors clicking, right? So what have you forgotten?
Remember a post or two ago when we discussed that Google was happy when you were happy. Both parties are in this game for the same return…$$$$$$$. And if I recall it was the responsibility of mother Google to supply you with the tools of the trade and your responsibility to provide pertinent and informative content and ??…what was that? Oh yes…..TRAFFIC!!!
It is great that you are indexed and have a great SERP rating. However the amount of unique visitors that will stumble upon your site through a Google site is nowhere near that which you need to make a decent income.
This is the time for you to get to work. Create traffic, attract traffic, buy traffic, rent traffic, steal traffic or beg traffic to stop by for a visit and a click. Do it anyway you want but bottom line is that you need the traffic, so lets explore a method or two to obtain traffic with $$$$ in their clicking fingers.
What I think is the most satisfying source of traffic is that which you create. This is directly related to your fresh updated content. Your site probably consists of articles you pen regarding whatever niche you specialize in. Well these articles are your first great lure to attract visitors. Once in place you then should be directing the article to directories. Then when one is picked up and published over the web each and every reader probably will be clicking through your pages for more related information. You not only are able to update and refresh the website content but at the same time you are trolling Internet wide for new and unique visitors. That word unique seems to poke its pretty little face into just about every aspect of our lives, huh!
If you are marketing a product or service through your site then you indeed should maintain an email list of all visitors you can get to opt in. Then each time you add content you should automatically email the entire list with the new information. Keep it interesting and relevant to your product and these emails will also get passed from your subscribers to their friends and relatives as they in turn pass the information along. Your unique visitor count will increase exponetially with each post.
Along with the subscriber email you should adapt the habit of social bookmarking and networking with each post. Just a few minutes to go through the list and post on a few such as Furl, Digg and the like and you will see the return in a relatively short time. Now is also the time to give www.pingoat and related urls a bit of a nudge regarding your new words. And if you are really serious and anxious to get up and about you can use press releases. At times this gets more than a bit expensive so I would be careful (but then I am broke and not in that much of a hurry!) with your expenditures.
I have a list of over two hundred methods to attract visitors but to take each and disect it becomes tedious to me and boring to the reader. I will post a few in upcoming days to liven up ensuing posts but off I go to compose an sale page for a group of products I wish to get out there (in exchange for a few pennies of course).
