There are many ways to increase the traffic of your website, some through untargetted popups, others through banner/link exchanges. The Publicity Wheel takes its approach from a different angle by promoting a single website (per category) at a time through its entire user community. In effect, the featured website has its banners or links displayed on all participating members' sites for several days. As you could imagine, the resultant boost in traffic could be quite considerable.
It works through a kind of ticketing system known as "publicity points", and provides some code to add to your site promoting the featured site within your category. Publicity points will be added to your account each time one of your visitors clicks on a banner on your site, forwarding them to the featured site. Each point earned is effectively one ticket (or entry) into the draw to be used at the next "spin" to select a new winner. Unlike a real lottery, however, you don't lose your points if you don't win, so you have a better chance over time of winning as you accumulate more points. Winner points are reset to zero to avoid the same sites winning each week.
Imagine this…. You have a website that gets around 400-500 unique visitors each day, 300 of those are from Google as organic traffic, or free traffic.
Your website earns you between £500-£750 which is between $1000 and $1500 each month.
You start to get used to this type of income from your website and after 18 months of this, you feel fairly secure.
Then, one day… Google updates its Algorithm and you start to notice your traffic decreasing. Over a period of about 10 days your traffic dies to around about 100 visitors per day, with about 50 referrals from google.
This is what has just happened to one of my websites. The strange thing is that the site has 80,000 backlinks pointing to it in yahoo. The site is around about 5 years old with mature content!
There are several reasons why this could have happened…
A Powerful Marketing Campaign – And How to Enhance It with Facebook Invites
I am usually not one to be enticed by offers, and consider myself somewhat immune since I am in the marketing business myself. But I couldn’t ignore the following little item that turned up in my inbox last week:
“RECRUIT YOUR FRIENDS TO THE Blank REVOLUTION!
Earn 2 months of free phone service for each person you get to sign up.
EVERY 6 PEOPLE YOUR REFER MEANS A FULL YEAR OF FREE SERVICE!
(They will each get a free month too.)
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!”
Free phone service? My friends get free phone service too? Who wouldn’t be interested, especially since this is coming from the phone company that I have already signed up with!
I recently decided to look at my productivity and find out what was slowing me down. I found out actually how much time I waste by doing various unproductive things which I was not going to benefit from. Here is a short video about a recent story.
I can remember when I first started online, there was so much information and so many things to do. Not to mention how many distractions there are on the net. I still feel overwhelmed sometimes now, especially when I think about my goals, targets and projects.
But… I take a step back, write things down and plan them out into small steps. As the old saying goes "Rome wasn't built in a day!" - So if you are feeling overwhelmed, watch this short video I made. Although I talk about Mlm and Network Marketing again, it is really for anyone who is marketing their business online.
If you can consisently take small steps each day, you will end up achieving a lot of things at the end of the year!
Yesterday I was playing around with Blip.tv after watching an excellent video by Sherman Hu and I started integrating blip.tv with several of my other accounts. The process for me now is below the video.
1/ Record a video 2/ Upload it using TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser 3/ The Video then gets uploaded to Blip.tv which then distributes it to my Facebook, Flickr, iTunes, MySpace, Delicious and various other accounts and it then gets syndicated around the web.
This saves me a huge amount of time and ensures maximum exposure for my work. The best type of work you can do is something you can do once and have it populate around the web automatically.
There are a few more steps I need to integrate into this process, but Im having fun learning it in the meantime and I'm generating much more traffic as a result.
This video blog is my attraction marketing plan. I just got a new camera after having sold my high def camera because it was too difficult to edit! This video is similar to my last post, but is in video format. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions about the video quality.
I am always looking to find new ways of generating an income, and in the past I have tried lots of different ways to make money, both online and offline. Some have been successful and others haven't. One thing I have learned is to give things a trial period of 3-6 months, if they don't earn you money, then drop it and move on to the next thing.
The biggest problem online is there are so many 'ways to make money' - many of these ways are legitimate, but others you will be banging your head against a brick wall for a long time so giving yourself 3-6 months to learn something new and implement it is a great way to make sure you don't wasting too much time!
In this video I show you me opening my latest Clickbank checks. Im not doing this to show off, but rather to inspire you and to show that with a little hard work, focus, effort and by being consistant, it is possible to make money as an affiliate.
Much has been said about what not to do to a website from the 1.0 perspective – hopefully you will enjoy my upgrade.
1. No Interactivity
We have progressed so far beyond static websites that if you do not have something on your site that is guaranteed to engage the reader through interactivity, you will inevitably lose that reader. If you have a blog, “widgets” are often available that will add some form of interactivity to your page. While the content should be attractive enough to keep them, your site is more likely to be bookmarked if it has something that your audience can “click on” to keep them interested.
