Posts Tagged ‘blog’
List Building and Traffic Generation
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on January 21st, 2009
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Hi! You may notice a change in things this week. Yes I have swapped my old theme for a new one, and I think it looks just great.
Happy news also - I have got Google Analytics working at long last. Just as I was about to give up on it I got the green tick that tells me where all my fantastic traffic comes from and how much there is of it.
You may have noticed I havent been about much the last few days. I have had a few days off, really considering my options and thinking about what I need to be focused on. I think I had a bit of information overload where I ended up thinking about doing other things. But my commitment lies with this course and with generating great traffic and working hard to build my business this year. I know there are other ways to make money online but I want a good solid base to start my business off from, and this is it!
I am constantly amazed at how easy it is to be distracted. I think it really pays to be organized. As an at home Mum I am fortunate that my husband works at home too so we have our childcare needs covered. It does mean though that we have to be organized so that we both get time to work. Its all too easy to say well I want to do this today and it’s important, and then you don’t get the work done that you need to do.
So we have devised ourselves a new routine which allows me to get stuck in with work again, hurrah!
The plan is to do what I have been doing, but keep at it more regularly. I also need to keep checking my G/analytics because I will be applying the 80/20 rule - finding out the 20% that gets me 80% of my traffic and concentrating on that. Work smarter!
I mentioned the video competition that Alex Jeffreys and Maria Andros are promoting for Alex students, and so I will be doing as much as I can to organize a great video. I have left this quite late and therefore am unlikely to win but I want to make a really top-notch video. Keep your eyes peeled for the link, it will be on here!
I enjoy visiting others blogs, and it does provide me with links, so I will also be adding the sites that I like best to my blogroll. I have only just thought about doing that but I think it will be a good idea plus make it easier for me to dive over to them and visit.
I am part way through an article which I would really like some opinions on, I hope to be posting it here tomorrow. It’s a different sort of style to my normal way of writing, and I will tell you more about it tomorrow.
The final thing I will be looking at is giveaways, some of Alex students have had real success with this. It would be best for me to write something completely original, but I do have some things that I can grab that are really helpful to new marketers, to add to List Building with Alex. I am looking forward to putting together an excellent package.
Until then,
Best wishes,
Ruth
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Tools That Help List Building
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on January 5th, 2009
Today I want to talk about one of the tools that I have used to get my traffic so far. Over the last couple of weeks I have been driving lots of traffic to this blog, but I haven’t had the sign-ups that I have wanted.
So for the next few days until the next module of training (Thursday) I have been directing some of my paid traffic through to my squeeze page to see if it does any better. It’s not on advice from Alex, but it’s just something I wanted to try for myself.
So, tools. For everything anyone ever wanted to build, there are tools, and list building is no exception. I have told you about a few of the ones I have liked over the past couple of weeks, but there is one more that I have been testing that I want to tell you about also.
The first one is free, so off to a great start there! It consists of three pieces of software, the first is very useful to us because it let’s the user know if a blog has “no-follow” plug-ins. This means if you go to the trouble of writing on the blog, and it does have the no-follow plug-ins, then you won’t get the benefit of trackbacks to your blog. You can then concentrate on the blogs that do allow trackbacks and this will improve your general rank. Remember what Alex says about associating yourself with leaders? Well this part of the software helps with that.
The other piece of software that it contains checks other peoples sites Alexa rank and what back links it has, which can be useful because sometimes sites can have back links to undesirable sites, which Google spiders might not like.
There is another piece of software but to be honest I didn’t use, and don’t really know how to explain but it does apparently help with SEO. The link for all these free pieces of software is here.
There is another thing I want to show you and maybe you will think this is cheesy, but I was shown something similar recently and it motivated me.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNHbucBXrA
There you go, I hope it works for you too. I try and remember this when gathering the list seems to be an up hill battle, and not one that I am winning.
Right, thats me off to bed, it’s 12.14am here!
Best wishes,
Ruth
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Blogging traffic
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on January 1st, 2009
Today I want to talk about two ways of getting traffic. Both are great fun! This comes as a surprise because most of the traffic tips that I have shared lately have seemed to involve cash, and neither of these do, hurrah!
The first one is a traffic exchange, and this was recommended to me by Kotobot.com, Jim Gallagher. Truly a person who knows what he is talking about with over 5,000 visits to his blog! Marvellous.
Anyway, it’s called Blogclicker and its fun. Jim says he gets around 100 people a day for doing ten minutes looking at other peoples blogs. Well, I have had a go and I think it’s great fun looking at blogs, I was planning on just doing ten minutes or so when I glanced at the clock half an hour had gone by! I thoroughly recommend this one, for the sheer fun factor. I am not so keen when I don’t understand the language of the blog - but nearly always they are in English, so that’s good.
The second one I want to tell you about is www.icerocket.com. It is a site that lists blogs, and it shows the latest blog posts. You put in the keywords that you want to highlight or read about, say affiliate marketing or list building, and it will show you all the latest blog posts that use those keywords. This is good fun also, and you can learn some interesting stuff. For instance I found a blog that has a list of all the traffic exchanges that the person recommended.
I plan on having a look at them and if I feel its a good deal or good idea I will let you know, of course.
I nearly forgot my lady of the day, here she is.
I hope you all had a wonderful first day of 2009, I certainly did.
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building with Alex Jeffreys - getting traffic.
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 30th, 2008
I was thinking about traffic, you know, of the cars vans and lorries variety. Real traffic. The really heavy traffic comes when everyone is heading the same way, usually around holiday time, and its usually because they are off to do something fun.
So to get traffic to our blogs, we need to make sure something fun is happening here at our blogs.
We we were kids we hated the teachers who would just stand and talk, lecturing us. We bloggers don’t want to have the same reputation as those teachers! Adults don’t like lectures either.
So from now on, I am going to tell you the things I have been doing to get traffic in a short snappy and (hopefully) sometimes humourous way.
If you look down the side bar of this blog you can see I have a new pic, about internet forums. Internet forums are great because you can go in there, help people, get a good reputation and have your url in the signature at the bottom of your comment. This forum goes one further, if you leave comments and refer people, they let you put up banners. So not only do you benefit yourself you benefit others, then benefit yourself again! Fantastic!
Second thing - you know when you see that item on QVC and you buy it, and then forget it in the kitchen cupboard? We have all done it - it seemed like a great idea at the time! Well, don’t do what I did and forget a traffic exchange I had signed up with for free, I went there today because someone had sent me a message - and realized I had credits that I could swap for traffic! So I quickly spent those to get some traffic here, of course.
Remember, if you want to learn much more about building your list, getting good traffic and building your business in 2009, sign up to the ebook, List Building with Alex. He is our guide, and the whole team are learning loads.
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building ok, Blog….very sick!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 29th, 2008
Hello!
Well my list building is going ok. My list is growing steadily, and I am looking forward to giving everyone the extra information we have for them, plus other gifts that I have for anyone that signs up. I want my list to have all they need and more to build great businesses for themselves.
Sadly, my blog is a bit poorly. In that for some reason that I haven’t yet fathomed, there can be no comments. If you want to say anything to me, you can email me at gale_10@hotmail.co.uk. When I have sorted out the problem I will add your emails as messages, so you will still be heard.
I have started to do a few classified ads, which are free - and seem to be working! I would recommend both www.craigslist.org and www.adjingo.com , it doesn’t take much to just add a bit of text to a pic of List Building with Alex and you have an ad that could get you traffic for months to come.
You may be wondering why there is a picture of a woman on this post. This is because I have started to read some interesting stuff from this blog site www.copyblogger.com. It’s a high ranking site that helps people with their copywriting, among other things.
There was a blog post that said that people (both men and women) find pages where there are semi naked women to be attractive.
Since you can’t post any comments at the moment (although you can email me them Gale_10@hotmail.co.uk) you may as well have at least one perk!
I have got a few images which I bought from www.istockphotos.com - I am allowed to use them on this blog, in fact, use them pretty much as I like, because I am licensed to do so.
I hope everyone who is list building is having a productive time, and I look forward to getting my poor blog well again!
Best wishes,
Ruth
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Pinging - helps with traffic, SEO and list building
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 26th, 2008
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Hello there,
I have some news on pinging - I have to confess it is something that I don’t understand fully still. But from a layperson to another, pinging reminds sites that you have a new post. Now I had read that you don’t need to ping blogs because with wordpress, it pings for you. Which it does. One ping site.
How many ping sites are there? Well I don’t know but there are a lot more than one! Probably in fact there are thousands. But to get you started if you have a blog and you want to get the word out and get more traffic, more comments, more links and therefore move up higher in the SEO stakes, then you need to add these to your blog.
If you have a self hosted wordpress blog like this one, you need to go to your dashboard. You need to scroll down to Settings, click, then click on writing. If you scroll down again it will show you the box where there is one pinging site.
Copy this list and paste it in there:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://blo.gs/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogoole.com/ping
http://blogoon.net/ping/
http://blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://blogupdate.org/ping
http://blogupdate.org/sverige/ping/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://effbot.org/rpc/ping.cgi
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed
http://imblogs.net/ping
http://lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.blogg.de
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogoon.net/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.feeds.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://ping.wordblog.de
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc
http://popdex.com/addsite.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.feedsky.com/ping
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080
http://rpc.newsgator.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://weblogues.com/RPC
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogupdate.org/ping/
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.focuslook.com/ping.php
http://www.godesigngroup.com
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping
http://www.imblogs.net/ping
http://www.kping.com/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/ping/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
http://zing.zingfast.com
Your site will get a lot more exposure now!
I would love to tell you that I had found this out on my own, but thanks need to go back to the Fortunate 500 forum (available only to Alex Jeffreys students, sorry) where I discovered this information. But sure enough, it will help bloggers everywhere and it’s great if we can all help one another!
So there you go, thats my tip of the day so far. If I find anything else of interest today, I will be sure to let you know!
Best wishes,
Ruth
P.S. Here is a video from the fantastic Matt to show you how to add pinglist to your blog.
How to update your pinglist on Wordpress blog!
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List Building and being the best you can be!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 23rd, 2008
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Well, first things first. You know some days come along and you do everything you are supposed to, and your To Do list looks the same as your Did Today list (plus a bit more, because I am a girlie swat). I had one of those yesterday. So today I bounced out of bed, thinking I could do the same today, and that perhaps I am actually becoming one of those wonderwomen that can do everything all the time!
Ooooooooh NO! Sadly, today has not been one of those days. Today was a day that I failed to get a grip on. I have done some work - I have made some progress, but with none of the smugness of yesterday. There are still things that I could have done and perhaps should have done but didn’t. Anyway, that is enough introspection, now time for the useful stuff.
I have wandered round quite a few blogs, and I have discovered a few things I really don’t like. Firstly, I don’t like being lectured to so I want to say sorry, if anyone has felt that I have done that. Secondly, I really do like pictures, especially bright ones!
I was really pleased to find this blog because this man, he has done a list of tips for bloggers, and I thought it was really very good - tips for bloggers. His name is Chris Brogan, he has a lot of experience writing blogs, and I felt he could give some good advice.
Now traffic. The thing about traffic is that you need to be able to measure it. You need your google analytics to work. Mine doesn’t, I don’t think.
I have got a traffic tip for you though. There is a company called Hits2U.comand they give you seven days free traffic, if you recommend three people though, that changes to 365 days free traffic! Cool! As is usual with these things, you can pay and then you get more exposure, but you don’t have to. I have signed up with them, I will let you know how it goes (if I can get GoogleAnalyzer to work that is!)
Another way of getting the word out about yourself and your site or blog or whatever, is to go on forums. There are many about, and you can usually put your blog or site or both in the signature box. So then if you keep at it you will get known for giving good advice. Like a blog, your reply will be there for a long time, so it can be clicked on and you can get traffic from it for a long time.
Right I am off now, going to twitter and do a few other bits and pieces.
You can follow me on twitter here: http://twitter.com/Gale10
I look forward to hearing from you all,
Best wishes,
Ruth
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List Building all over the world!
Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 22nd, 2008
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Hello!
Well, good morning, and it is a good morning because I got traffic in the night! I am so happy! I would thoroughly recommend Feedjit. It’s free, and it shows you not just how many people have come through your blog but also where they come from. Lots of pretty flags to go on your site. I feel like the traffic is zooming past>>>>>.
I just want a few of my lovely readers to sign up to the newsletter and maybe even get the List Building System. They will get all the information we have got to help us build a list of people all interested in their products! What could be better?
Also, regarding traffic, I have a link to an interesting article I found on ProBlogger.com. It gives three good tips on getting more traffic. It is quite an old article but the information is still relevant. Here it is:
I also noticed that there were many people who were starting out in blogging and wanted to get more tips, which proves there are people out there looking for the kind of information on traffic that we are putting on our blogs.
I actually think that its interesting finding out all this stuff - even doing the research. It feels a bit like panning for gold, I feel great when I find a useful little nugget I can include.
If I find anything else interesting I will most certainly add it.
Until then, best wishes,
Ruth
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