Website Traffic Secrets…
Getting website traffic seems to be the #1 concern of most people trying to make an income on the internet.
Go on, admit it! That includes you too, doesn’t it?
I thought so…
But…I’m not psychic - by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, Blind Freddie could have figured that one out in about 5 seconds, with his eyes closed… 
Seriously though, almost every single person I know who’s trying to make money using the internet craves traffic. It’s their addiction, you could say.
Why?
Simple really, website traffic = $$$
Or, to put it in different terms, the more eyeballs you have cruising through your website, the more chance you’ve got to have them buy sometime from you, or click on an ad on your website, or even sign up for your email newsletter (which you then promote products and/or services to them through that medium…don’t you???).
From an Adsense perspective, the higher your number of website visitors, the more money you make from some of them clicking on your ads.
From an affiliate marketer’s perspective, the more website traffic you get, the more sales you ultimately get.
And if you’re one of the smart ones, you’ll be selling your own products and/or services, and doing even better from all those surfers.
“Real businesses” 
can and should use website traffic to collect sales leads and sell their products and services online. Even accountants and lawyers can make money online - you don’t need to be an eBay or Amazon.com to make money on the net.
So, now that we’ve established the fact that website traffic is a GOOD THING (!), why is it that so many website owners struggle so much to actually get that traffic?
I personally believe it’s because they don’t understand a few key fundamentals about what makes the Internet work, and, they then don’t know how to properly use that knowledge and put a plan of action into place to actively and deliberately get web site traffic to their site/s.
I’m lucky in 1 respect, and that is that I work as a Search Engine Marketer for a real bricks and mortar company. That means that every day I get to play with all the key elements that are important when it comes to getting website traffic, and put them into real-world action for my clients.
These companies and individuals pay thousands of dollars to have myself and my co-workers do “that SEO thing!” on their behalf, and they expect results!
Actually, we plan for results ourselves, because we offer a money back guarantee on our SEO services, so we can’t afford to not perform. Nothing like a bit of pressure to make you get the job done right!
Now, the main reason I am writing this blog post is that there’s 2 things happening at the same time right now, and you can benefit from this day to day experience I get at work, and turn that into your own website traffic!
Firstly, I am about a week away from the launch of my new Video training product:
Website Traffic Secrets: 26 Ways To Drive Cheap Or Free Traffic To Your Website
This CD will contain over 2 Hours of narrated live screen capture video, walking you through all the different aspects of driving traffic to your websites.
It will be all laid out for you in a simple, easy-to-understand, step-by-step action plan…
In Video…
With Audio narration…
And, lots of great free and cheap resources to help you get started.
Plus, it will have my IE Favorites list, pointing you to all the sites that I use on a regular basis that can help you in your quest to get that traffic.
This is a condensed version of my work experiences over the last 12 months + 12 years of working in IT, Sales and Training. In short, you could describe it as a website traffic braindump!
There’ll be more about this CD soon…
But for now, the other thing that’s happening is that I will be adding a new article to my blog every day until the CD is launched, discussing website traffic concepts and hints/tips to get you started.
You don’t have to buy the CD when it’s launched, because it’s only for those folks that are TRULY serious about getting as much website traffic as possible.
However, for those of you just putting your toe into the water and needing a plain english introduction to the whole topic of getting website traffic, then I guarantee you’ll really get value from my upcoming articles.
So dear reader, see you back here tomorrow for article #1 (”The 2 Most Common Ways To Get Website Traffic”), and have a fantastic day!
Joel Comm Is Selling Keywords Now? What a Scam!
God, am I the ONLY person out there in the big wide world who is not frothing at the mouth about the newest “trend” to hit the get-rich-quick Internet Marketing community?
Joel Comm (of Adsense Secrets fame) has been promoting his 500words.com site around the net lately, and when I saw the site, a sense of deja vu wafted over me in a major hurry!
Reminds me of the pixel selling craze of a year or so ago, where everybody went ballistic buying 1 pixel ads on a site to get link popularity benefits from Google & co.
That was great for the first 1-2 players in the field, and it got a LOT of press and some good dollars for the early mover, but have you noticed that no one seems to be paying much attention to it these days?
Why, you ask?
Simple really - because it goes against what Google (in particular) and the other major search engines are looking for when it comes to measuring the worth of incoming links.
My philosophy when it comes to the “fad of the month” brigade is simple: If I can show it to a Google Search Engine “cop” and have him or her be happy that it’s legit and fair and honest, and give me full value for the link, then it’s all good.
However, if the Google cop laughs at me and asks me if I’m on drugs, I know it will ultimately be a waste of time. It might work temporarily, but once Google figures it out, they will add a small routine to their algorithm to ignore the value of links from sites like this.
Even more than that, I am really disappointed that Joel Comm is the one promoting this. Mr Adsense himself should know better than to try and get one past Google!
If his idea was SOOOO good, he would keep his mouth shut & just build these sites for himself to get the link popularity.
Instead, he’s selling the script to build the keyword sites instead - THAT’s where the money is. He’ll sucker in hundreds of get-rich-quick starrey eyed individuals who think they will make a fortune with it, and in reality, HE will make a small fortune and probably only 1-2 others will as well.
Folks, use some critical thinking here PLEASE!
If this was really as good as he says it is, why is he selling the system instead of using it for himself?
Simple really - he makes money on the people who buy the links AND he makes money on the people who buy his script.
However, I can guarantee you that within 6 months (probably less), Google will be giving links from these sites little or NO value. All these word links are doing at the moment is drawing traffic from the buzz, which is nice, but not sustainable long term!
If you want link popularity, spend the money you would have paid Joel to buy his script and/or buying a word on his site, and pay someone from rentacoder or elance to write you some unique articles instead.
Link your primary keyword/s in the author resource box and publish the articles on your own site. THEN, modify the articles sufficiently so that they have at least 25-50% different wording & content to the original, and publish them on the major article sites like ezinearticles.com.
The value of the link popularity you will get from doing this will far outweigh any value you will get from the 500words site over the medium to long term.
Just this technique alone has got my biggest client to #1 GLOBALLY on Google for one of their primary keywords in less than 6 months. It took me about 2 hrs of work to publish the articles for him, and that’s all I’ve had to do since.
The link popularity he has earned from those published articles has steadily climbed and climbed, until it is now at #1 against 115 MILLION competing pages!
Now, THAT you can take to the bank. It’s a solid strategy, it keeps Google happy, and obviously it thrills my client and makes me look good.
What more can an SEO ask for!
I love Internet Marketing, but I despair at times at how many people just chase the newest fad, hoping to get rich quick, instead of working smart & hard and putting together a quality site.