Fall is always beautiful in Vermont but this year I thought the views were extraordinary! Here is a slideshow I put together with the best of the pics I took over the last few weeks.

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Social Networks can be a major source of targeted web traffic!

Besides building your lists (friends), most social networks can gain you traffic in several ways.

The first mistake we all do at social networks is invite and accept everyone we can to build a large friends list! Building a huge list is great but….. as with every list, if it is not targeted to a narrow niche or product/service, it will not be a very profitable list.  Now having a list is much better than no list at all, and if  you are active in the community, you can network with friends friends to build more targeted lists. So all is not lost. This just takes more time. A targeted list may not grow as fast, but will be more profitable and take less of your time in the future!

An example would be a small list built by offering a free report on computer games. (narrowed to even one game or manufacture is even better) Once or twice a month you can send the hottest computer game deal (and really try to find a great deal)  that you are an affiliate of to this list…….  You make a few hundred to a few thousand dollars depending on the list size. Easily!

Sending the same deal to your large community friends list will probably only make you a few bucks if you are lucky….

You can sort your friends lists into different groups at most communities and sort them even further by having them sign up to even more targeted list through the offers you send them.  This takes list building and management software on an autoresponder. Another easy way to automate and target your marketing that will work for you once you spend a little time setting it up. A story for another day…..

OK! So the number 1 way to use social communities is list building.

To build your lists or customer base, you need traffic! There are many ways to build traffic.

Most people opt for what I call backwards marketing. They work to get clicks on their ads. Most of these sites have the same type of people looking at your ads… people looking to sell…. not buy. Then when you stop clicking or reading their ads…. you stop getting traffic to your ads! A vicious circle that nets you little.

Then there are the people that buy advertising. Look at the big picture here folks! There are millions of people (trained advertising copy writers and people with to much money)  already grabbing the top traffic! If you think you are better than they are……. Have a go at it! Just make sure you set your spending limit low!

Then there is organic search engine traffic. Look at the big picture again folks! There are millions of SEO guru’s out there grabbing the top keywords! Do you think your affiliate page or your Blogger or Wordpress free blog will ever get seen? Only by the people you send there! Even a site or blog on your own domain will never be seen by serch engine traffic without massive work from you! (A free blog on TrafficBlogNet.com will get you seen the quickest because we are small enough so I can help and large enough to be seen) You will need a team to get seen, there is no way around that. Web TraffiCircle and Community Marketing University (CMU7) are established teams already with site rank and massive web presence, ready to assist you in building your business and online income.

So this brings us back to your social communities. The big ones will still be harder to get seen on (untill you realy get good at keywords and posting) because of the shear numbers of compitition (still better than alone on the internet). But their rank will boost the keywords you use in every post, and with research can get you a top search listing within minutes!  Any community blog or forum you prticipate in gives you one more chance of getting that traffic. The more posts, the better the odds!

Then the kicker!!

These posts will keep bringing you traffic as long as they are live on the internet! They also may not rank high for a keyword now, but as things change, you may end up #1 for that keyword! The other great thing about most social communities is every article you post on their blogs or forums is automatically linked back to your profile! People liking what they read will check out your profile and follow links from there! (Why Profile set up is so important!)

Picking the best communities for you (only ones you are interested in), profile page set up, sorting your friends into groups, staying active – posting and commenting wil get you the best results. Check out new communities before you join, only join  the ones you see you will want to be posting in (you won’t have to stop and think up something to post)…… Not trying to  catch every person on the internet will make your life a lot easie. Don’t fight it! Be a social network success!

I always get lots of invitations to join new programs and try new products. I sometimes even go wild and sign up for a few!

Then in about 3 to 6 months I find I have just worked my butt off promoting someone elses products and program while my highly targeted traffic to my blogs and sites has fallen off because I neglected my own business!

I learned my lesson about program hopping and hope I can enlighten you before you get lost in the maze and give up!

Online business is just like any business. You need a good reputation to quickly gain the trust of new customers and provide good services to back it up or they will leave! The internet is a fast paced world and one wrong move can ruin your business quickly!

If you have been program jumping for a while. I bet you find some of your friends shy away a little more with every jump. You must think over every move you make and look at it from many perspectives before making any decisions. Be sure you look at what you are doing as if you were one of your customers. It may look very different!

Web Presence.

Online marketing takes a web presence. Your web presence will tell the story of how you and your company will help each and every one of your potential online customers. This has to be spread over many sites on the internet, building many streams of targeted visitors pointing back to your main online information. Your web presence will always be a work in progress, building with every post and article submitted. Now if you are program hopping…. your web presence changes every time you hop! All the previous work may not work anymore! Unless the programs are almost the same and you use the same keywords, you have to start over again!

I would rather not!
A little forethought will go a long way in saving you time and money. Draw up a business plan and stick to it! This will keep your web presence building…. and building…

Ning has been a hot website for some time now.

Ning makes it easy for anyone to create their own social network in any niche they desire!  Hundreds of thousands of people know this already!  I run 3 and am co-Admin on 2 more!

The Power>>>>>

Comes from

-Its Rank

-Its Traffic

-The shear amount of members!

-The categories or niches

-Their Member Blogs

-Their Member Forum

-RSS

-The ability to invite your friends, on any Ning network to any other Ning network you are a member of with one click!

There is much more going on over the Ning network of course but  I think that gets my point across. Those of you that have followed me for a while know I started the IMIC (Internet Marketers Inner Circle) and the IMIC Ning Project.

The IMIC Ning project is a novel idea to simply join unconnected and non category spasific Ning networks through a common group.  This will connect people that never before would!  Anyone can start and run their own IMIC Group by joining the min network HERE then starting a group on any Ning network they are a member of. After your group is set up simply list it on the IMIC main network with your description of the network you started the group on.  Use keywords in your descriptions so your network will be searchable on the main IMIC network. You will get much more exposure as admin of the group which will build your Ning friends quickly! Your Ning Network will grow faster because of exposure through IMIC!

All very simple!

Building "You" on Ning

1. Target your profile to how what you do can help their members.
2. Make sure to be "You" and ad enough about you that readers know who they are dealing with.
3. Post blogs
4. Post in  the Forums
5. Browse the members and invite to be friends
6. Comment on others profiles
7. Do Not make 3, 4, and 6 blatant ads
8. Add RSS from your blog, Twitter or other site you use often to your profile page.
9. Always use a photo of  "YOU"
10. Use your name or the name you will be "Branding" in all online work.

I would rather Hit The Target!

You may have seen some of the traffic  "gimicks" being pushed on anyone looking to advertise on the internet.  You know…. the ones that say Free Traffic!  or Easy Website Hits!  Well, these guys can get you hits. Some are only bots hitting your site and a few actually do send real people  to your page or ad.  The problem with the real people they send is they are people just like you, trying to sell their product or program and generally do not have the money to purchase anything.  Any of these sites are cool to get some traffic flowing to your site but do not do much but make you feel better about the work you have put in to your online business.  I have seen tens of thousands of hits without a single sale.  That can wear that good feeling off pretty quick!

Another problem with these sites is. When you stop working them….. (doing what ever you have to do for advertising credits) your advertising or traffic soon stops.

There are very few sites on the internet that actually work the way they are promoted.  The best way to be an online winner is to build your own web presence with good informative content  well linked together. There is no easy way, even the "automatic" ones take work or your web presence with lists and traffic already set up. 

Do your homework! Work for yourself, not some product, build your own traffic and hit the target!
 

I have known this for quite a while and have been teaching it in my online classes. It only makes sense. I always am looking for more information when I search online….

Well, it seems the search engines are heading that direction even further. I read today that duplicate content on your domain will kill your ranking. No real problem…. I always tell my students to use their own content on their blogs and to use duplicate content on other domains linking back. This still will work (so far). The problem arises in the blog template. I have heard from several sources that the template (header, footer, and sidebar) will count as duplicate content! I hear that if your post is enough larger than your template content, the post will over ride the duplicate content. I am not sure about that yet, but I am testing….. The problem I see here is all of the cool widgets, rss feeds, and even ads in the sidebar…. will have to go! This also means Google Adsense ads! (I wonder if Google thought of that? Maybe they figure if the pages are different enough, the ads will be different?)

Anyway folks. It looks like all that cool stuff you have on your sidebar so people can find it no matter what page of your blog they land on… will have to go, or you may suffer with a Google page-rank 1 forever….. Or will you?

Internet marketers inner circle (IMIC)

Was conceved by Scott Reynolds and Jeannie George. Both have had enough of the backwards marketing hype and lies. IMIC would tell internet marketers the truth about the backward marketing and the untold secrets to becoming successful online to hopefully keep them from making time and money wasting mistakes others already have. It was originally set up as a newsletter and will soon have its own set up for weekly publication. But one idea flows into another and the IMIC Ning project was launched.

The IMIC Ning project

Will connect marketers from all Ning networks with IMIC groups on each network. Each group leader can connect their group from the main IIMIC Ning network on the Network Index page.

On the SEO side: This will link together Networks that normal linking would not work well with.

On the Social Side: This will build the group leaders Ning Friends list and build the Ning networks involved.

IMIC will be a strictly monitored network and all spamming of any kind will be deleted and repeat offenders will be banned. IMIC is for real networking and learning, not promoting your products. I am amazed at the people who read my posts and articles then send me an ad…… No problem, they just get added to the spam filter and I never see their emails again… You see? This is what IMIC is about! It is all over the internet….. Instructions on how to spam (Unsoliced promotional messages).  Real potential customers will never get these messages!

IMIC Goals

1. To educate Internet marketers new and old new more effictive ways of marketing.
2. Cut down spam and make the internet a more information friendly place
3. Guide Internet marketers toward success with real marketing and away from the backward marketing.
4. Build any marketers netowrk that is not afraid to succeed at what they are doing.
5. Create  Huge exposure for members, groups and other networks

Summery

IMIC will show you a new light in the tunnel of your Internet marketing and income potential! Learn to stop backwards marketing and get more results with less work with streams of customers coming in 24/7/365 just like everyone says but never help you get set up! Just with the secrets of the inner circle…. Build your teams, networks and lists along with your confidence and professionalism.  Learn the real reasons most online businesses fail. You are being told to do the wrong things!

Learn more about IMIC by visiting the IMIC Ning Project site

Web TraffiCircle was conceived by Scott Reynolds after extensive research in the home online business, MLM, and business opportunity areas. He noticed that all online income opportunities were lacking one thing (or charged the big bucks to get it). That thing is website traffic, visitors or online customers. It seems every opportunity claimed you could make big money just by using the copied page they gave you. The reality is…. the customers usually only find the main site!

Some boast "spill over" and other claim you get random signups sent by them. I have received "spill over" and "random signups"…..  Guess what? They were either not real people or died as soon as they signed up under me! To make this story short……. They are not going to give you the customers that are making them money.  Lets see….are you going to say……. I am making $1000 a week ….. here, take these customers?

Web TraffiCircle is set up to help members with most any website traffic need.  Scott Offers targeted traffic packages for imediate traffic for start ups or special product promotions. Members can upgrade to Pro or Master levels for a steady flow of targeted traffic to their pages while they are building their own free targeted traffic streams.  These streams can come from our free blog network, traffic exchanges, forums and fee advertising sites. All Traffic Tools are linked in the membership and more are added as we test and approve them.

Web TraffiCircle also offers marketing and traffic/SEO training. One person can not do it all so Scott teamed up with CMU7  to gain more internet marketing tools and free training. A cmu7 VIP member can get a domain name, hosting, conference room, Income opportunity, autoresponder/list builder, and much more! If a new member takes advantage of the one time offer and upgrades to VIP on signup they get VIP benefits for about half price for as long as they stay an active VIP! NO way you can beat that!