Archive for January, 2010

Basic SEO For You

I left similar advise on a members page at MegaTraffic.tk and then decided it was really simple advise everyone could use, so I added a little more to it for all of you.

By posting a small post about something on your blog or site every week, here, on your blog, and in any other social networks you are in, you will build your web traffic 2 ways.

1. people will see something from you on a regular basis and go see what it is you are so excited about.

2. Your content and keywords that are in your posts will be indexed by the search engines from each site and show links in, from each of them.

If your blog is on Blogger or another large blogging site it will need lots of incoming links and regular posts to boost your blog through all of the competition and get you seen on the search engines.
Free and affiliate websites work the same way. If the company you are an affiliate of has 10,000 affiliates, you have to win the top spot by beating every one of them in the search engines, not easy with a page you can not edit!
Thats right! Those "free websites" they give you are just about worthless on their own. You need your own blog and social profiles with blog and forum posts to draw your customers and the search engines. Your "free" page will only be the link you send interested customers from your posts to buy the product you mentioned in that post.

BIGGEST SECRET EVER!!!!!

Do not talk about your products all the time!
Sure, they will come up just as in normal conversation because you are excited about them. But talking just about what you are selling will get you very few customers! This is why I added the most searched terms to Mega Traffic. so you can see what the world is searching for.
Watch that list!
You very seldom see a product listed.
If you do, do not run to try and corner that search phrase! Google it first…… see how many times it was found on Google? That is your competition! Think you can beat all of them out to rank on the first page of a Google search? It would take years for a single person! The top search will probably change tomorrow… You missed that one!

This brings me to teamwork.
1. The Gang Up group allows you to team up and make a difference (and money) quickly as a team.
2. Mega Traffic is a teamwork site. Every post, link, update entered on Mega Traffic by any member will help every member.
I am helping you by bringing our site a higher traffic rank than some more active Ning networks. I allow very little Spam or member adverts all over the place to keep our quality high and the search engines watching us.
All you have to do is post interesting, informative blog and forum posts. Every post you submit will bring you closer to being seen from a search on a major search engine.

The weird part? It does not have to have a single thing to do with what you are marketing! It has to do with what you like, what you know, and who you really are!

How close are online customers?

How close are you to your online customers?

Right beside them!

Even newbies and people that never tried internet marketing  are right beside their online customers!

Most people look so hard to find new customers they never see them. The backwards marketing and lies to protect a few peoples secrets has taught us it is really hard to get new  online customers or we have to pay people lots of money for them. Most people contact many people online every day, email something funny or interesting to their friends, IM with people far away, leave comments on blogs and forums…..  But you don't market to them do you?

You would like to keep them as friends wouldn't you? 

So why do you work so hard to find new people to market to when you know if you sent the same stuff to your friends, they wouldn't like it?

What makes you think your "new" non friends will ?

The Backwards marketing that has been taught in the past (and sill is) programed us into thinking this will work to make them more money. If  you like making them rich… stop reading! You have lots of work to do!

Happy People tend to buy more.

Everyone should know this. You don't need a degree to understand that a happy person is more likely to make purchase than a pissed off one…. Yet online companies still widely promote spamming and backward marketing pissing off their customers and affiliates! They all say it is a numbers game…. It is when you do it that way! They plan on losing 90% of their affiliates within 3 months! Most make it next to impossible to unsubscribe or stop paying their monthly membership fee or even worse … autoship just because they know people will not go out of their way to try and stop it.  You know….. well, I am paying, I need to give it more time….. I WILL WORK HARDER…. They get their money….. I bet you didn't make any!

So your lists of friends here and there are your happy people if you are playing your cards right and not pushing every ad you can find at them…. So how can you "market" to them and still keep them happy?

Just keep doing what you are now! If they like what you send them, they will always look, read, listen….. They will notice when you are making money or otherwise succeeding in what you do and may even ask you what you are doing! Truly  Amazing concept!!!  Don't believe me? Ask your local business person.

Law of attraction works on this principle, "act" like you are succeeding so people will be drawn to your success. It works to an extent, but if you lie to people…. you really never have their trust. The worst part is, you have to lie to yourself first!

A side note here….. If you have groups of happy friends…. outside people will notice and ask to join your little group! Mind Blowing Huh!!!

It is hard

It is hard in todays fast paced world to not get caught up in the backwards marketing and just plain bad ideas! The hype will grab you no matter how ready you think you are! I sure have more often than I would like to mention! But I learned from each and every experience. So its not all bad!

Try to think like you are on the receiving end before you start marketing anywhere. I set up email filters, block friends, and lose respect for people that send me spam (spam is anything you did not specifically ask for). You lose me after 1 or 2 tries. Most emails never get through spam filters. A lot of work that does nothing but give you a bad online rep!  If it is fun, informative, interesting and not just after their money or email address, you are probably ok.

Change your thinking

I know its not easy to bust out of the backwards marketing way of thinking. For a while I could not write anything that didn't sound like a Google ad! No matter how hard I tried! It was sick!

Step out of  "Mr (Mrs) Marketer" and look at things as you for a while. Filter out all those "Guru's" emails. Stop spamming the spammers at those safelists and other advertising that has produced NADA……… If it hasn't worked? It probably is not going to! 

Start treating the few friends, readers, customers you do have left with the respect they deserve and make sure you give a little of yourself if you expect anything in return. This is real life folks! You want yours to change? Start with the only part you can change……….. Yourself! I guarantee you will like the results, yes, unlike online programs promising results… You can change your life for the better! Just do not expect someone else to do the work for you! 

How close are your online customers? All around you! Talk to them!