Dramatically Increase Your Traffic
My intention here isn’t to hype you up and drive you to another website, I want to give you some fast, quick tips on how to increase your traffic immediately using video and article promotion strategies. This is a four step process, and you need to be consistent with it to produce the kind of results that I get. If you have time, I encourage you to go through the whole strategy once per day, although it can be scaled down to a once per week effort (just understand that you’ll get less results on a once per week basis). Ok, so here goes:
1. The first step is to create a piece of educational content. You don’t need to have the greatest article or video around, it just needs to be useful and genuine. If you write regular articles, make regular videos, and take time to be consistent, about 1 out of every 5 articles you write will get you 80% or more of your traffic. There are some ‘super gurus’ out there that try and develop training to teach you how to only tackle the ‘heavy hitter’ articles, but you’re better off just creating tons of content and dealing with the ratios. Videos work this way too. All you have to worry about is creating a lot of useful information and getting out there on a website of some kind. You could put it on a blog, an article site, or a video site if that’s your gig.
2. In step two, you make a video and simply announce your article, then you broadcast the video to as many video sharing sites as you can. Video marketing is one of my favorite promotion tactics because you get the search engines picking up your content 10 times faster than any other method. Confused? Simply sit in front of a camera and talk about your exciting new article for 30 seconds. I use a service called ‘Traffic Geyser’ to broadcast my videos, because it’s simple to use and it’s the best thing around for video promotion. Point the link in the video back to the source of your original piece of content. You can use an awesome free service called TubeMogul as well, but it’s not nearly as effective in Traffic Geyser.
3. Write a brief article talking about your content, or a variation of the same article and broadcast it to the article directories. Articles are cool because they stay around for like 100 years and they get you long term, consistent traffic. Articles also have a cool side effect of making you appear as the expert in your specific niche. You’ve just got to keep using them. I use another cool piece of software for this.
4. Go through all three steps every single day. Look, this is a simple process, and it will work for you like crazy if you follow it. The cool thing is that this four step process works even if your content isn’t the best around.Honestly, even if your articles stink and your videos are second class, it will still work. (Of course, it will work much better if they’re killer). You need to work the strategy consistently to see long term results, and I encourage you to do it over the next 100 days.
Why should you keep it up over the next 100 days? I’ve got a simple answer for you. If you follow the simple advice in this article, you’ll be getting so much traffic and leads that you’ll flip out with enthusiasm. (It works that well). If you stick with the strategy, you’ll get results, and I’ll see you at the top of the search engines.
David Wood is a Jedi Master of Disguise at helping you Increase Your Traffic. If you want to learn more about the steps and resources mentioned in this article, and you’re up for a 100 day challenge, visit his blog entry: 100 Day Traffic Challenge.