Posts Tagged ‘Weblogs’

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

Tags: Alex Jeffreys, blog, build an opt-in mailing list, how to build an opt-in list, list building, list building secrets, list building tips, list building with Alex, Ruth Stewart, Search engine optimization, traffic, Traffic exchange, Weblogs

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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.

bodyforblogbig9 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

Tags: Advertising, Alex Jeffreys, blog, build an opt-in mailing list, how to build a list, how to build an opt-in list, Image, list building, list building secrets, Ruth Stewart, Weblogs, Website

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Traffic - rich, Listing building - ?

Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 25th, 2008

Hello!

Well I am still getting traffic, which for the day is pretty good. But I wouldn’t know about list building because aweber are not in their offices until Saturday. I hope they are having a lovely time.

Yesterday I managed to sort out RSS on this blog, which I hope will have a positive effect. I have claimed my blog at technorati and I was recommended onlywire. Onlywire is a company that will send your blog posts to many different social bookmarking sites all at once. This has the effect of getting your writing out there for people to comment on, almost taking your word to them, rather than them coming ot you.

: Image by Stabilo Boss via Flickr

Onlywire had dual membership, one is free and one you pay for, but it is $25 per year, which to me is a reasonable charge for what it is. My mum used to say £1 is a lot of money if you haven’t got it; I am always reluctant to say “only”, because it does all depend on your perspective. But I think it is a way to get people to read your blog and maybe come back to it. And free is good!

Another traffic targeting tip I came across on Jim Gallaghers blog is RAD or Revolving Ads Depot. You need to go there and see the ads, they look good. There is free membership or paid membership, paid is $25 but that is for a lifetime. So I guess it depends on how long you live to see how much value it is! He he he!

Anyway, both those sites are worth a look.

I am off now to do some more bits and pieces, anything I find that looks good I will come back and tell you all about of course.

Many people are on holiday today I believe - I hope you are all having a good time in your tinsel worlds!

Best wishes,

Ruth

Tags: Digg, Hosts, how to build a huge list, how to build an opt-in list, list building, RSS, Social Bookmarks, Syndication and Feeds, traffic, Web, Web search engine, Weblogs

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List Building and being the best you can be!

Posted by Gale10 in Uncategorized on December 23rd, 2008

: Image via Wikipedia

Hello!

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