A few weeks ago I shared three ways I was using images to generate 100+ extra visitors per day to my health and beauty blog.
The third method – and the one responsible for my biggest traffic numbers was Pinterest.
And my Pinterest traffic keeps on increasing. Take a look at this screenshot I took a few days ago after a few users Pinned some of my blog posts to their boards.
That was taken on Friday 10th February and as you can see from the image below, I got 166 visitors from Pinterest alone on that day.
And I’ve had 1,068 visitors from Pinterest in the past month.
Take a look at just how many people have Pinned content from my blog at this page. And if you see anything in there that you like, then feel free to Pin it 
Pinterest is growing fast and it’s capable of sending you massive traffic so to help you get started, or increase your Pinterest presence, I’ve assembled a few materials for you below.
1. Pinterest is currently invite only. You can Request An Invite when you go to Pinterest.com, but that may take a few days to come through. If you want to get going quicker then send me an email using the Contact page with the email you’d like to be invited.
2. I’ve prepared a special report that reveals how to use Pinterest to increase exposure for your site and your brand. It’s totally free with no opt-in, just hit the link below to open the PDF.
Free Report: How To Get Traffic With Pinterest
3. Want proof that Pinterest really works? Have a read of this case study revealing how this blogger generated 46,000+ visitors from Pinterest alone.
4. Read this article revealing 56 Ways To Market Your Business On Pinterest
5. Finally, take a look at some of the things that have been Pinned from my site, and if you see anything you like, feel free to Repin it 
I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and feel free to leave your comments below.
Thanks,
James
Today I’m going to share one incredibly simple thing I do that consistently generates me over 100 visitors per day in three different ways. It also helps me build backlinks which contribute to long term traffic growth.
It is the simplest and most effective discovery I’ve made in the past year – and you can EASILY use this strategy yourself to get more traffic and make more money.
So what is this strategy?
(You’ll probably be a bit underwhelmed when I tell you!)
My free traffic strategy for generating 100+ visitors per day is…
ADD MORE IMAGES TO YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE
Before you close the window and leave the blog, let me reveal exactly what I’m doing and how putting more images on my blog is generating me over 100 visitors per day.
How I’m Doing It
Using the example of my natural health and beauty blog, every time I publish a new blog post, I include one high quality image at the very top of the post that’s relevant to the content.
For example: Top 3 Best Homemade Hydrating Face Masks
I find the image at iStockPhoto.com and I usually download images that cost 1 or 2 credits which is around $0.80 or $1.60.
I pick an image, download it and rename it from something like iStock_74354975345XSmall.jpg to something more relevant. For the photo above, I renamed it to “hydrating-face-masks.jpg”.
Then, when creating a new blog post, I open the Media Manager, upload the photo and set the alternate text to “hydrating face masks”.
Essentially, the alternate text should be a description of what the photo is. So if you have a photo of a banana, set the alternate text as “banana”.
That is ALL I do. It costs less than a dollar per post, takes two minutes max, but generates traffic using the three methods below.
1. Google Image Traffic
Sometimes, for reasons unknown, Google ranks some of my images pretty high up for certain keywords. It’s a bit of a lottery, but I have at least ten images that generate consistent traffic from Google Images.
For example, I have one image that ranks for the search phrase “wheat” in Google Image search.
Here’s the traffic I’ve been getting for it since November.
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433 visits in total – and an average of over 5 visitors per day for that one keyword for that one image.
A quick search in Google Images for “wheat” shows that I’m in the second row of results, as shown below.
If they click on that image, it will take them to a blog post on my site. Admittedly, it isn’t the highest quality of traffic with only a 1.23 page views per visit average, but would you say no to an extra five visits per day completely passively and for free?
Another image that has generated significant traffic from Google images is this one of cocoa butter. It has generated 270 visits since being published.
Back in October I was generating 20-30 visits per day from Google Images for the keyword “banana”. That image has stopped generating traffic now, but while it lasted the keyword “banana” sent me just over 200 visits.
I have tens of keywords that have sent over 100 visits purely from Google Images.
Add some relevant images to your site, optimize them for the search engines and hopefully Google will send you some more free traffic, too.
2. Fellow Bloggers Borrowing My Images
This isn’t such a significant traffic source DIRECTLY, but who knows how important this is for improving my search engine ranking.
Often I find that other bloggers “borrow” images from my site. They really aren’t supposed to, but MOST of them link to my blog as the original photo credit so I don’t mind.
I’ll often get a trickle of traffic from the link they place to my blog, and it counts as a valuable link back to my blog which gives a little search engine boost.
3. Pinterest
I expect more and more of you are becoming aware of Pinterest – a new social networking site where users can “Pin” their favourite images to their virtual “Boards”. The image gets posted to their boards and their followers can see those images, and if they click on them are taken to the original site.
Having high quality images on your site increases the chances that Pinterest users will “Pin” your page to their board which can result in a nice little traffic boost.
Plus, other users can “Repin” the image which will then be exposed to their followers, who can again “Repin” until your image spreads virally throughout the site – and all the time the image will still link back to the original source it was pinned from.
I’ve just started using Pinterest myself for my health and beauty blog for the last 10 days or so. Take a look at my traffic stats so far…
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It was about January 16th I set my account up, which is just before the two massive spikes at the end of the graph. I pinned a few of my things (as well as interacting in the community and pinning other stuff, too) and have had two 100+ traffic days from Pinterest alone.
Before I even set up my account, I was generating traffic in late September and early October simply because someone stumbled across my site and Pinned one or more of my images. That can’t happen unless you have high quality images.
I think Pinterest is going to be BIG, so I’m going to be back later this week (or early next week at the latest) with a “Pinterest how to” so you can start generating some traffic with Pinterest as well. Make sure you are subscribed at the top right to get updated when this Pinterest update is published.
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So I hope I’ve made my case for including high quality images on your site. It’s made a huge difference not only for traffic generation, but for user experience, too.
Got any questions? Anything else to add? Or any other simple traffic ideas? Just leave a comment below.
And as always, don’t forget to Tweet, Like, Plus 1- or even Pin this post
Talk soon,
James
If you are a subscriber of mine and you opened the email I sent yesterday, then you’ll know that either late this week, or early next week, I will be releasing a brand new product. My first new release in over 8 months!
In today’s blog post I have more information as to what this product will be about and a short excerpt from the guide so you can take action on just one of the methods I share before I release this product.
My new product deals with two massive problems that a lot of us face:
1. Where to find affiliates
2. How to get them to promote your products
Over the years I’ve devised a system that I use to find thousands (and I really do mean thousands!) of potential affiliates. I’ve also become rather talented at sending just one (and sometimes two) copy and paste emails that convinces them to promote my products, even if I have ZERO prior relationship with them.
I’ll be revealing every single strategy I use to find affiliates and every single strategy I use to convince them to promote my products. I’ll even include copy and paste email templates that you can use to recruit your own affiliates.
I’m only about half way through the guide so far. I’ve planned it all out and will spend the whole of this week making it the best it can possibly be – and I promise it will be really good.
UPDATE DECEMBER 2011: Affiliate Sales Army has now launched and everyone LOVES it. Click here to check it out.
In this blog post, I’m going to share just ONE of the affiliate finding strategies you can use to get hundreds of affiliates to send you passive traffic.
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How To “Hijack” Other People’s Content & Get Them To Send You Free Traffic
While it’s great to have an email list owner blast an email out and send you 500 clicks in 24 hours – I prefer to have passive traffic. It’s great to have affiliates who send a reliable stream of highly qualified, targeted traffic to my offers and this is one of the best ways to achieve this.
Here’s what I do…
I find people who are ranking in Google for the most targeted search terms related to my product.
For example, my product 100 Subscribers Per Day reveals ten methods I use to build my email list. So people typing the keyphrases below would likely be interested in buying my product.
How to build an email list
Build a list
Email list building
How to get more email subscribers
I’d now go to Google, type in those search terms and go through the top ten results for each.
If I found an article on someone’s blog or website then I’ve struck gold. For example, after searching “How To Build An Email List”, here is one of the top results:
http://www.listbuildingblogger.com/how-to-build-an-email-list/
It’s an informative article on the topic of list building. I’d now email this blogger (who I actually know because he’s a big commenter on my blog) and say something like:
“Hey Jorge,
I just came across this article on your blog: http://www.listbuildingblogger.com/how-to-build-an-email-list/ after doing a Google search for “how to build an email list”.
I was wondering whether you’d be interested in just making a quick edit to the end of the article and putting a link to my product 100 Subscribers Per Day?
Of course, use your affiliate link and you will make instant $9.95 commissions on every sale you generate.
It will be a nice little passive income stream for you. If you are interested, here’s some text you can use but of course feel free to use your own.
“In this article I’ve revealed exactly why it is so important that you build your email list. A well-treated list of subscribers is an absolute goldmine and is the closest you can get to printing money on demand. If you want to discover ten incredible strategies to start generating over 100 subscribers per day to your email list, then pick up a copy of James Penn’s list building guide”
It would be great if you’d stick a link at the end, but don’t feel like you have to.
Here’s where you can get your affiliate link
http://www.acceleratednicheprofits.com/100perday/affiliates.php
Thanks for just reading this email and if there’s anything I can do for you just give me a shout.
Thanks,
James”
Let’s just assume for arguments sake that that blog post gets read 20 times per day and 25% of readers would click through to my product – that’s an extra 5 visitors per day.
That might not sound like much but it’s about the most targeted traffic you can get. Plus, over the course of a year that’s 1,800 visitors. At a 10% conversion (and I’d expect no less from this type of traffic for a $10 product) that’s 180 extra sales per year.
Now imagine convincing just 10 bloggers to add a plug for your product within their content.
This is one of the most effective ways to get more people promoting your products since you only have to encourage them to commit to doing this one small thing. And then once they’ve done that and they’ve seen that your product converts, you can get them to:
- Put banners on every page of their blog
- Write a review of your product
- Blast an email to their subscribers
- Put an email in their auto-responder sequence
Give this strategy a go and see just how effective it is.
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So that’s a sample from my new release. What did you think?
If you’re subscribed to my email list you’ll be the first to know when this is available so if you aren’t, then enter your email address into the form on the right.
I better get back to working on this.
UPDATE DECEMBER 2011: Affiliate Sales Army is now live and you can download it here.
Talk soon,
James Penn
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Guest posting is the number one strategy I have employed to get my health blog to over 1,000 visitors per day.
It drives a lot of direct traffic to my blog daily from readers reading my content on other blogs and clicking my links. For example, just today, I have generated 137 visitors from just one guest post on one of the most popular “Hair Care” websites in the world and there’s still two hours of the day to go!
But, more importantly, the backlinks generated by my guest blog posts have significantly increased my rankings enabling me to rank on page one for a number of keyphrases that get more than 5,000 searches per month.
In this blog post I’m going to reveal my guide to finding guest blogging opportunities and how to approach those bloggers and convince them to publish your content.
Here we go…
10 Ways To Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
This is the simplest part, if a little tedious.
In this step we simply need to make a list of as many blogs in our market as is humanly possible. Preferably, we want to make a note of blogs that state they accept guest posts, but we also want to keep a record of blogs that don’t explicitly state that they do.
To keep a record of these blogs, either create a new Bookmarks folder in your web browser (this is what I do) or create a new Word document and copy and paste all the links into this file.
Here’s a few ways you can find hundreds of blogs in your market that you can guest post on. Make a note of each one.
1. Firstly, simply search for “keyword blog” with the keyword being your niche or market. For example “health blog”.
2. Search for: keyword “powered by wordpress”. This will identify a number of blogs in your market using the WordPress platform.
3. Search your keyword in Google Blog Search – http://www.google.com/blogsearch
4. Search for “best keyword blogs” or “top 50 keyword blogs”. This will bring up lists compiled by bloggers of the best blogs in the market. Follow these links and make a note of the best.
5. Search for phrases like: keyword “guest post”, keyword “write for us”, keyword “submit an article”. These phrase will produce pages with blogs in your market advertising for guest bloggers.
6. Use these three Google search tricks to find guest posting opportunities.
7. Go to Twitter and search for “guest post”. I only just read about this strategy but I’ve already found a number of blogs that accept guest posts in my market. It’s a fantastic strategy.
8. Register at guest blogging directories like MyBlogGuest.com and BlogSynergy.com. This is essentially a resource for guest bloggers and guest post hosts to find each other.
9. Every day I get three or four requests to guest post on my blog. If I’m interested, but not convinced by the writer, I’ll ask them to link to some existing guest posts they have published. I follow the link and make a note of the blogs.
10. Go to forums, either in your market or internet marketing forums like the Warrior Forum, and start a thread asking if anyone would like you to publish guest posts on their blog.
There we have ten ways to find guest blog hosts, now it’s simply a case of approaching the bloggers and getting your content and your link on their blog.
I reject 90% of approaches to guest post on my blog, yet I get accepted 90% of the time when I approach blogs to guest post on theirs. In the next section I’m going to reveal my formula for getting published on even the biggest, most popular blogs in my market, including a sample email you can model your proposal on.
How To Approach Potential Guest Post Hosts
It’s all well and good having a huge list of blogs in your market, but if you can’t convince them to publish your content, then it’s a worthless list.
Here’s my checklist for making sure you get your blog post published on even the most popular, authoritative blogs.
7 Step Checklist To Getting More Guest Posting Gigs
1. This is a given, but most of the guest posts I get sent to publish on my blog are absolute garbage. You HAVE to provide quality content or you’ll get rejected instantly. If writing isn’t your strong point, you can find some very good writers for just $10-20 per article.
2. Write about a topic that would fit on the host blog. Yesterday I got sent an article for my blog about plastic surgery. My blog is dedicated to natural health and beauty alternatives. I’m not going to publish a post about plastic surgery. Similarly, make sure the topic you are writing about hasn’t been covered recently on the host blog.
3. Don’t be over promotional with your blog post, but DO include an anchor text link WITHIN your article. I always include one anchor text link back to a blog post that delivers value within my article because this provides fantastic SEO benefit for me and gets lots of clicks. No blogger has ever had a problem with me including a within-article link.
4. In your email to a blogger, make sure you address them by name (if possible) and personalise the email for that blogger and their blog.
5. State your expertise and why you’re in a position to provide value for the bloggers readers.
6. Briefly provide an overview of the article you are contributing. State that should the article not be of interest to their readers, then they should suggest an alternative topic so you can provide an article on that topic.
7. Attach your article in .txt or .doc format including formatting, hyperlinks, your author resource box, and a high quality royalty free image if possible.
Now, here’s a sample email that you can use to model your proposals on.
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Hi FIRSTNAME
My name’s Your Name from MyBlog.com where I’ve been blogging for nearly four years and have amassed a following of over 30,000 readers per month.
I came across your blog recently and am wondering whether I could publish a high quality, unique and original post to your blog?
I’ve gone ahead and written a post that I think your readers will love. It will be exclusively available for YourBlog.com should you decide to publish it.
It’s titled “Blog Post Title” and reveals “this, this and this…”.
I have attached the article pre-formatted and with a high quality royalty free image you can use. If you publish this, let me know and I will be happy to share on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter to give you a traffic boost.
Let me know what you think or if there are any other article topics you would like me to write about.
Thanks a lot and I am very excited to (hopefully) see my blog post published on your blog.
YOUR NAME
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It’s as simple as that.
Write an article, send that email, and if all goes according to plan, you should see your post published within just a couple of days.
Bonus Tip: For really, really popular blogs where one blog post can send hundreds of visitors per week, I add one more element to my email. I say something like: “Should you decide to publish my blog post, I will happily share on Facebook and Twitter, and will also notify my email subscribers which will send 500 new visitors within 48 hours.”
This may just swing the deal in your favour. Obviously, only promise to do this if you actually intend to do so and can do so.
Getting published on high traffic, authority blogs is easy.
Simply find them, create fantastic and relevant content and send a personalized email using the template above and get your content published on some of the most popular blogs on the internet.
Your Challenge
Now we know how easy guest blogging is and how it can drive incredible amounts of traffic, here’s a challenge that I set to you to ramp up your traffic fast.
My challenge to you is to write one blog post every single day and to find a home for that blog post on someone else’s blog.
If you can have one guest post published every single day and each post sends just 10 visitors per day back to your blog, within one month you’ll be generating 300 visitors per day. Within one year you’ll be generating over 3,500 visitors per day.
Plus, your search engine rankings will be sky high.
Guest blogging is one of the most powerful, most effective, most ethical ways to drive traffic and increase your search rankings.
Follow the advice laid out in this post and become a guest blogging master.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this post. If you have please share it with your friends and followers on Twitter and Facebook.
Thanks,
James Penn
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Today I want to share a really simple, almost foolproof plan that you can copy to set up really easy “mini-sites” that generate crazy amounts of traffic, suck in hundreds of new email subscribers every week and generate thousands of dollars of affiliate profits and ad revenue each and every month.
I’ve shared a similar strategy in a recent blog post but that article focussed more on building an authority website. This plan involves building a mini-site – a website with 10-25 pages of content.
They are easy to create and you can start profiting with them in only days.
So without further ado, here is my plan for setting up super profitable mini-sites that spit out money every single day.
1. Topic Selection
The first thing we need to do is select a topic for our mini-site. The topic selection really isn’t that important – but I’d say to choose a sub-niche within a main niche. For example, if the main niche is beauty, then pick a sub niche of skin care. Or if the main niche is gardening, then pick a sub-niche of vegetable gardening.
A little tip I use to pick topics for mini-sites that I think would be successful is to head to http://www.ezinearticles.com and look at the sub-categories under the main categories on the home page.
For example if you hover over ‘Health & Fitness’ then you’ll see topics such as Aromatherapy, Massage, Anti-Aging and many, many more.
Pick a topic and then follow the strategies in step two to find out if this topic is feasible.
2. Content Research
In this step we want to find AT LEAST 10 keyphrases that are being searched MORE than 1,000 times per month according to the Google Keyword Tool.
For example, if our main topic was Hair Care, then we’d want to find at least 10 keyphrases related to hair care that we could write a 500 word article about.
To find such keyphrases, I’d go to the Google Keyword Tool and I’d type in something like “for hair”. I’d check the box next to “Only show ideas closely related to my search terms” and perform the search.
I’d then tick the box on the left hand side under “Match Type” that says “Exact” and I’d uncheck “Broad”. I’d then order the list by Global Monthly Searches by clicking on that column.
Now I’m going to go through the entire list and make a note of every single keyphrase for which I believe I could write – or have someone else write – a 500 word article on that topic.
Here’s the list and the number of searches (note: I’m ignoring all keywords related to hair styles as I don’t want to focus on that topic, instead I’m focussing more on hair health.)
Vitamins for hair growth – 14,800
Coconut oil for hair – 12,100
Castor oil for hair – 6,600
Tips for healthy hair – 6,600
Shampoo for oily hair – 6,600
Argan oil for hair – 6,600
Biotin for hair growth – 5,400
Home remedies for hair fall – 3,600
Vitamins for hair loss – 3,600
Jojoba oil for hair – 3,600
Home remedies for hair growth – 2,900
Best shampoo for dry hair – 2,900
And the list goes on and on and on. And there are hundreds more searches you could do to produce more keywords.
Make a note of every single keyword with over 1,000 exact monthly searches.
3. Mini-site Set Up
Now it’s time to set up our really simple mini-site. We’ll be using WordPress which can be installed and set up in seconds if you have the right hosting.
With my Bluehost hosting I simply have to tell it where to install and press Go and it’s up and ready. I presume your hosting will be much the same.
If not, here is a step-by-step guide to getting set up with WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
You’ll also want to install a new Theme so it fits in with the topic of your blog. Do a Google search for “free wordpress themes” and find one you like. If you are unsure how to install it then you can pay a few dollars for someone to do that and customize it for you.
Now you should be all ready to create your content and start publishing it.
4. Content Creation
If you are good at researching and writing, then you can do this step yourself. That way your investment is zero and so is your risk. The only thing you’ll be wasting if it doesn’t work, which it will if you follow the plan and work hard, is your time.
If you aren’t such a prolific writer and researcher, then you’ll want to pay to get someone else to write your articles for you. You can find someone on The Warriors For Hire section of the Warrior Forum.
I recommend you don’t pay under $8 an article. Our aim is to rank #1 in Google for these keyphrases. Google likes quality, well researched content that solves the searchers request. A $3 per article writer won’t be able to deliver this and your content will be effectively worthless.
Give your writer the list of keyphrases you collected, but make sure they are aware they should write for humans and not for search engines. If you have a big list and a small budget, then just give them 5-10 article topics for now. You can give them the rest when your site is generating revenue.
5. Content Publication
Once you receive your first articles from your writer, or once you’ve finished writing them yourself, you are going to want to start publishing them.
I suggest a publishing schedule of one article every three days to start with.
Paste your article into your WordPress “New Post” dialog box and complete the following checklist to fully optimize your article for ranking for its main keyphrase in the search engines.
- Make sure your keyphrase is included in the post title
- Try to make sure your main keyphrase is mentioned in the first and last paragraph.
- Bold, underline or italicize your keyphrase once throughout the article.
- Insert at least one high quality image that includes your keyphrase in the “alt” attribute.
- Make sure your main keyphrase is mentioned in the Title Tag, included in the Description, and inserted into the Keywords tags.
You can upload all your articles right away, as long as you schedule each one to be published approximately three days apart.
What we should have now is a website that’s going to be regularly updated with new, original, useful content around a specific topic. The search engines seem to love these.
In the next section I’m going to reveal how we make money from this content, and then after that I’m going to reveal the ONE strategy I’m using to rocket my content to the top of Google for my main keyphrases.
6. Monetization
Before I get onto the section about generating crazy amounts of traffic, I want to share a few monetization strategies you should implement so that the traffic you generate results in profits.
Firstly, I recommend inserting a couple of Adsense blocks within your content. I have one block in a prominent position at the top of the content with the text wrapped around it, and I have one more subtle block which is in no one’s way but still gets a couple of clicks per day.
You can see my Adsense layout on this blog post: 50 Tips For Ultimate Health, Gorgeous Skin, Beautiful Hair & A Perfect Body
Secondly, insert some affiliate links to relevant Amazon products. For example, if one of our keyphrases is Coconut Oil For Hair, then linking to a top rated coconut oil on Amazon will result in a number of sales.
Simply getting people to click on your Amazon links is 90% of the work. They will then be cookied with your affiliate code for 24 hours and any product they buy you will be credited for.
I once had someone come to my website, click on an Amazon link of mine and they decided to buy about 30-40 books – a couple of which cost $80-100, and a few other unrelated items including two Amazon Kindles. I earned commission on each of these items.
Plus, there are some products on Amazon that cost $1,000-$10,000. If you are really lucky, and this hasn’t happened to me yet, then someone will buy one of these products through your link.
Have a read of this fascinating article revealing some of the strangest (and most expensive) items purchased through this guy’s Amazon affiliate link.
Finally, you’ll want some opt-in forms on your pages. You want to get as many subscribers as possible because then you can promote high value, relevant products with high commission pay-outs via email. I recommend an opt-in form at the top of your sidebar, at the end of your article, and as a pop-over opt-in form – this form will convert the best but it may ruin the user experience.
Achieving a 10%+ opt-in conversion is not unrealistic, so imagine generating just 500 visitors per day and getting 50 subscribers daily.
Insert your Adsense ads, add some relevant Amazon affiliate links and strategically place some opt-in forms and then we’re ready to start generating traffic.
7. Promotion
Our number one goal with this business model is to rank as high as possible in the search engines, specifically Google, for the keyphrases we have already researched.
For example, let’s say the first article we publish targets the keyphrase Coconut Oil For Hair. This keyphrase gets 12,100 searches per month. Research suggests that a number one Google position gets 40-50% traffic from these searches, so a number one ranking would result in approximately 6,000 visitors per month.
There’s one main strategy I use to achieve number one rankings for my keyphrases and that strategy is…
GUEST BLOGGING
Guest blogging is the ultimate traffic strategy. It’s completely 100% free, it generates direct traffic from people clicking your links, and it gives you a huge search engine boost due to the backlinks you generate.
It simply involves creating content that is published on someone else’s blog or website in which you can link back to your own blog.
In this section I’m going to reveal how you can use guest blogging to sky-rocket your search engine rankings and generate crazy traffic and profits.
Step #1
Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
The first thing you need to do is find places where you can submit your content. Here’s how you can do that.
1. Do Google searches for things like “your keyword blog”. So if your blog is about hair care, then search for “hair care blog” or “hair health blog” etc.
2. Do Google searches for things like ‘your keyword “powered by wordpress”’.
3. Use DailyBlogTips.com search ideas to find guest posting opportunities.
4. Join free guest posting directories such as myblogguest.com and blogsynergy.com
5. Search for lists of top blogs in your market. For example, a search for “best health blogs” yields a result for an article titled “Top 50 Health Blogs”. There we have 50 potential guest blogging opportunities.
Step #2
Creating Your Guest Post
There are just a few things you need to do to create a perfect guest post. Here they are:
- Identify ONE blog and write an article that would fit perfectly on that blog. For example, make sure it is relevant to the categories on the blog and that it hasn’t been discussed before.
- Write a FANTASTIC 400-600 word article that includes an anchor text link back to one article on your blog. For example, if you want to link back to your article targeting the keyphrase “coconut oil for hair”, then make sure that exact keyphrase is included within your article and link it back to the article on your website. When guest blogging, most people don’t include a link within their text and instead settle for only one link in their author resource box. I’ve always included a link in my article body and my resource box and only one blogger has ever objected.
- Include an author resource box that links back to your main domain. This will encourage readers to come and have a look round your entire site and link juice will be passed to all pages of your website.
Step #3
Getting Your Content On These Blogs
I have a very simple formula for getting published on high traffic, high influence blogs in my market. Here it is…
- Find a contact email address for the blog owner and email them with an article that I think would fit perfectly on their blog. State that should they publish it I will do everything I can to help promote it via social media.
- Ask them to let me know whether they would like to publish it or not and to let me know ASAP so I can use it for other purposes should they not want it.
- 98% of the time, I’ll see my article go live on their website very shortly – sometimes within hours.
- If they don’t want it I’ll send it to someone else and they will publish it for me instead.
It really is as simple as that.
Every single guest post you contribute to another blog will give your website a small boost in the search engines. And it will generate you direct traffic from that blogs readers clicking on your links and checking out your website. They will subscribe to your email list, click on your ads, and buy affiliate products through you.
And every position you move up in the search engines you will get more and more traffic from Google.
If I didn’t get bored, I would spend every single hour of every single day finding blogs, writing articles and getting them published on related blogs in my market because the results are incredible.
I rank in the top 3 on Google for a number of keyphrases that get over 10,000 searches per month and this is purely because of guest blogging.
Plus, I don’t just get the search engine boost, the direct traffic generated from my portfolio of guest posts scattered around the internet pull in a great number of visitors every single day, too.
Just last night I emailed the owner of perhaps the most popular Hair Care blog on the internet. It has a traffic rank in the US of under 10,000 – meaning it’s in the top 10,000 websites in the US. I sent her my article, stated how I would promote it should it go live and she replied within one hour telling me that she loved it and it would go live on their biggest traffic day, next Tuesday.
I don’t know how much traffic this will send me directly but the website in question gets just shy of 10,000 visitors per day and has a page rank 5.
I’m even more excited about my upcoming guest post on problogger.net however.
Problogger, at time of writing, has 158,000 feed subscribers. This means every time there is a new post, 158,000 people are notified. There are also thousands of Twitter followers and Facebook fans resulting in a combined subscriber base of 321,000 readers. It also has a page rank 6.
On Wednesday October 5th I will have a post going live on Problogger.net and it will be promoted to 321,000 readers.
To get on blogs like this you need to create REALLY good content, and I think my post is. I spent about 6 hours writing it and it’s over 2,000 words.
I’ll notify you, if you are a subscriber (if you aren’t then enter your email address at the top right), when it goes live as I want to thank Darren for letting me publish content on there by sending him as much traffic as possible. Plus, if he notices my blog post generates more traffic than most other people’s then he’ll obviously be happy to have me post again. Plus I really think you’ll enjoy the article.
Anyway, I’m digressing, so here’s my quick start guide to set up, and profit from your own mini-site.
7 Step Quick Start Guide
- Pick a sub-niche topic that has lots of searches being performed every month for a variety of keyphrases.
- Identify at least ten, but preferably more, keyphrases with more than 1,000 exact searches per month.
- Set up a simple mini-site using WordPress that you can publish your content to.
- Write an article for each keyphrase and upload it to your WordPress blog. Schedule each post to be published approximately three days apart.
- Optimize each post for the search engines using the five tips I shared above.
- Find as many blogs as possible that you can guest post on, create content for them, and get it published linking back to your blog within, and at the end, of the article using anchor text.
- Repeat step six as many times as possible promoting each one of the articles on your mini-site fairly until you rank as high as possible in the search engines.
Ranking number one is certainly possible with enough hard work and dedication. If you don’t have the dedication to spend so much time writing, then you can certainly outsource the content creation to a ghost writer. And if you don’t have the dedication to find and approach fellow bloggers, then you can hire a virtual assistant to do it for you.
This blog post is a bit longer than I originally anticipated. I was hoping to share a really simple quick start plan in 1,000 words or under but as usual I got carried away.
Still, you can use my 7 step quick start plan if you want to get going fast.
Give this plan a go, let me know how it goes, and thanks for reading!
Oh, and while I was writing this article I got an email from Kim Roach sharing her 21 steps to 1,000 visitors per day. It was a fantastic read so if you want to read her post on her blog then click the link.
Kim is the author of the bestselling Traffic Dashboard product. If you want a point and click system to getting massive traffic then picking up a copy of Traffic Dashboard would be a wise move.
Here’s the link.
Thanks for reading and if you enjoyed this post please share it on Facebook and Twitter.
Thanks,
James Penn
In my last few blog posts I’ve discussed my health blog and my plans for it.
I revealed how I was going to increase my traffic and set myself a goal of 1,000 visitors per day. At the time, back in April, I was getting about 100 visitors per day.
Well, on Monday July 18th I hit 1,000 visitors for the first time – 1,084 to be exact.
Each month for the past four months my traffic has pretty much doubled and if I carry on at this rate, I’ll reach 10,000 visitors a day a little while before Christmas.
See below for a screenshot. (Click to enlarge)
In this blog post, I’m going to share some strategies I’ve been employing to increase my blog traffic.
Strategy #1
Focus On Keyword Research
Most of the blog posts I publish target one or two very specific keyphrases that may get between 500-10,000 searches per month.
Usually, for the keyphrases that get below 1,000 searches I can write a post, press “Publish” and I’m instantly ranking on Google on the first page for my chosen keyphrase. Not necessarily in position one, but perhaps position 5, 6 or 7.
And that means instant traffic. Not thousands of visitors per day, but a few more.
For example, one of my recent posts targets the keyphrase “bentonite clay for hair”.
The Google Keyword Tool suggests that this gets 480 searches per month – just over 15 per day.
As soon as I pressed publish I added the keyphrase to my Market Samurai Rank Tracker. It told me I was ranking at number 5 – and I’ve remained in a similar position ever since.
That post has receive 144 visitors so far from the search engines for a variety of keywords – the main one being “bentonite clay for hair”.
It’s quite motivating to know that as soon as I publish a blog post it will start generating traffic.
Some keyphrases need a little more work.
For example, I wrote a blog post targeting the keyphrase “olive oil for hair”. This keyphrase gets 15,000 searches per month – 500 per day.
I don’t think I was even ranking in the top 100 when I published this article. But, using strategies 4, 5 and 6 (discussed shortly), I have managed to rank up to position 3 for this highly competitive, in demand keyphrase.
At the moment I’m in position 10 and generating about 50 visits per day through this keyphrase only. At one point, I was at position 3 and generating over 120 visitors per day from this keyphrase.
Pick your keywords wisely. Mix up easy to rank keyphrases with high demand keywords and promote the hell out of those posts for serious traffic.
Strategy #2
Create Lots Of Content
Another reason for my increase in traffic is due to my more regular posting.
If you know that every single post is going to generate you an average of 10-20 visitors per day, then it makes sense that the more content you have, the more traffic you’ll generate.
If you have 10 posts you could get 100-200 visitors per day. But with 100 posts you could get 1,000-2,000 visitors per day.
Of course there’s no way of telling how much traffic a blog post will generate you. Some of my posts get virtually zero traffic, but I have one or two posts that get 150+ visits per day.
Create lots of content – some will strike lucky.
Strategy #3
Build Your List
It’s hugely important to build your email list when you are blogging.
The reason being that as soon as I publish a new blog post, I can send an email to my subscribers and I’ve instantly got a couple of hundred engaged readers. And these readers can share the post on Twitter or Facebook giving me more traffic.
You can use your email list as a huge platform – start building it.
Strategy #4
Interlink Your Posts
The next four strategies are all about promoting your content and boosting your search engine rank.
The easiest thing you can do is interlink your posts. To do this, simply hyperlink a couple of keyphrases to other relevant blog posts on your blog.
It’s a good way to show the search engines what content you see as being important, and Google, hopefully, will rank your posts accordingly.
Strategy #5
Guest Post
This is perhaps my most effective traffic strategy. Not necessarily because it sends the greatest amount of traffic, but more because of the search engine value it offers.
Get in touch with other bloggers and ask if you can contribute some content to their blog in exchange for a couple of backlinks.
I usually ask for one anchor text link within the article to a specific blog post and one link at the end within an author resource box.
I’ve had a couple of guest blog posts that have generated 100+ visitors in a 24 hour period and they continue to generate 10+ visitors per day even now – a month or so after publishing.
Create more content and get it published on more blogs.
Strategy #6
Get Links On Other Blogs
This has been a useful little strategy for me – but it needs a bit of luck for you to find the right blogs at the right time.
I stumbled upon a food blog recently that asked fellow bloggers to submit a link to their own food related blog posts.
Here’s an example:
http://www.foodrenegade.com/fight-back-friday-july-1st/
I was late to the party and was the 51st blogger to add their link – yet I still received 20 visitors per day for a number of days and still get a little trickle of traffic daily.
I came across about three of these types of blog posts and they generate a nice little stream of traffic. I’m not sure if it provides a valuable backlink, but it can’t hurt.
Strategy #7
Blog Commenting
This provides little search engine value, but does provide a little bit of traffic from highly targeted sources.
It’s also a great way to build relationships with other bloggers.
Get on the feeds or email lists of fellow bloggers and comment on their posts quickly after they are published to yield the maximum amount of traffic.
So there are my seven strategies to get your blog to 1,000 visitors per day.
It’s simply a case of repeating these processes and improving on each one. For example, get a guest post on a bigger, more powerful, higher traffic blog.
I didn’t have to use many tools to achieve 1,000 visitors per day.
The only essential tool I used was the Google Keyword Tool which is completely free.
The other tool I used is not necessary but highly useful. It’s Market Samurai.
Market Samurai is incredibly useful for doing keyword research, checking competition and finding promotional strategies. The main reason I use it however is for its Rank Tracker feature.
Using the example I shared above, let’s say I published an article targeting the keyphrase “bentonite clay for hair”.
I’d add this keyphrase into my Rank Tracker and update every day to see the progress it is making. It’s highly useful for identifying keywords whose ranking can be improved to generate more traffic.
I’m not a Market Samurai affiliate, just an avid user. If you fancy getting yourself a copy do a Google search for some reviews to see if it’s right for you.
I have nothing to sell here, but I will recommend the book that really got me into blogging. It’s called ProBlogger: Secrets To Blogging Your Way To A Six Figure Income.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this post. If you enjoyed this post then please share with your friends and followers using the share buttons below.
Thanks for reading and I’ll be in touch again soon.
Talk soon,
James Penn
I’ve been running a natural health blog for the past 3 years or so. It’s always been a bit of a side “hobby”.
I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than five hours in any given month working on this site.
I have a writer who produces the content – although there have been three-four month stretches where I’ve published zero new content on the blog.
All I do is copy and paste the article into WordPress and insert some Amazon affiliate links.
It’s fair to say I’ve never really put much effort into this site.
Yet almost every single day it has been averaging 80-100 unique visitors – 80% of whom find the blog via the search engines.
This happens despite the fact I’ve never done any backlink building. Aside from a few articles published on EzineArticles.com and one Squidoo lens that I haven’t updated for nearly 3 years.
For those of you not aware, the more backlinks you have, the higher your search engine ranking.
Google and the rest of the search engines see a backlink as a “Vote” for your site. The more votes you have, the higher you rank.
Therefore it makes sense that to increase your traffic you need to get more backlinks.
So on Saturday I started doing some research into strategies to get more backlinks.
And then, while I was doing some Google searches, as if by magic I got email of a new special offer from a guy called John Rhodes.
He’d just released a new product called Iron Fist Backlinks.
It reveals the strategies he used to get 6,743 backlinks from “diamond level” sources.
It was just what I needed, so I picked up a copy. It’s only $9.
I went through the training videos and started implementing some of the strategies that night.
I didn’t implement many. Just a couple. Then on Sunday I implemented a couple more. And then Monday a few more. In fact, each day I’ve spent about half an hour – perhaps 45 minutes on some days – dedicated to building backlinks.
And here are the results… (Click the image for a larger view)
On Saturday I had 93 unique visitors, Sunday I got 98 visitors, Monday 147 visits, Tuesday 206 visits, Wednesday 209 visits and so far today I’ve had 249 visits – and there’s still three hours left!
By the end of tonight, I probably will have received about 300 visitors for the day meaning my traffic has more than TRIPLED in the past five days.
And I’ve hardly spent any time building these backlinks.
All I’ve done is follow the strategies outlined by John in Iron Fist Backlinks and my traffic is growing like crazy.
It’s been a pretty exciting few days, and as I continute to build backlinks I expect the traffic to continue to climb.
And do you know what, the market I’m in is so huge that getting 5,000 visitors per day is completely realistic and I fully expect to reach that level at some point in the future.
I’ll certainly be implementing more of the strategies from Iron Fist Backlinks and if getting more traffic from the search engines is something you want to do – then I suggest you pick yourself up a copy as well.
It’s only $9 and it’s already trebled my traffic.
Click Here To Buy Iron Fist Backlinks
I hope this blog post has given you some good ideas.
I’ll be in touch again soon.
Talk soon,
James Penn
I purchased an interview the other day called “3 Top Traffic Secrets” from Jason Fladlien and Kim Roach. It was actually SIX top strategies since they each shared their three favourite tactics for driving insane levels of targeted traffic on a daily basis.
I was so blown away by the strategies (especially the stuff Jason shared) that I recommended it to all my subscribers and a whole bunch of them downloaded the revealing interview. (It was only $7!)
Jason emailed me to say thanks for all the sales I’d sent – and so I cheekily took the opportunity to ask if he’d be willing to share just one more super simple traffic strategy with my blog readers and subscribers. Within 24 hours he’d replied with the below article that I could share with you and I think you’ll get a lot of value out of it.
I’ll let Jason take over now. If you like this article (and remember, this strategy didn’t even make it into his top 3) then you’ll love his 3 Top Traffic Secrets interview so make sure you check it out.
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Jason Fladlien here to share with you a traffic strategy I use that is working right now. Best of all it’s a simple strategy that takes little effort to perform and is duplicable by beginner and seasoned pro alike.
There are lots of “document sharing sites” on the internet that get traffic directly within that site (as opposed from Google). So what I do is take a free PDF report – either my own or PLR – and submit them to the following sites…
• http://scribd.com
• http://www.slideshare.net
• http://issuu.com/
• http://www.free-ebooks.net/
• http://www.getfreeebooks.com/
• http://www.globusz.com/
• http://www.yudu.com/
• http://www.youpublish.com/
• http://www.ebook2u.com/directory/add.shtml
• http://www.jogena.com/
• http://www.virtual-ebooks.com/directory.htm
• eBooks.biz
• e-library.us
• Download.com
• And more
These are just a handful of sites I have used with some success in the past. There are many more – you can create your own list to test and try out by doing searches for “free ebook directory” “slide share site” and other relevant keywords.
Now I’ll warn you in advance – you won’t get a TON of traffic from any ONE of these sites. That’s okay. My goal is to get over the next month, an average of 15 visitors who read my pdf from 10 different sites. That’s 150 visitors – HIGH QUALITY I might add – for something that takes less than an hour of work to do.
And usually over a period of 6 months you’ll get about 300-400 visitors from no more than an hour of work. So it’s worth it.
The magic is in the numbers. If you do this once a day for the next 90 days… guess what? You could potentially be pulling in 1 reader a day from 10 document sharing sites per PDF – especially if you keep testing out new directories and dropping directories that don’t do much for you.
But do the math – 10 readers per PDF times 90 PDFs would be 900 readers a daily. Of those 900 readers, let’s say “only” 200 of them click on the link from your PDF back to your site. And let’s say that site is a squeeze page to add them to your email list. So you get 200 visitors a day to your squeeze page… and “only” 50 of them opt in a day.
All from less than an hour a day of effort? With that number continuing to grow bigger and bigger with each new day? I’ll take that. And so should you!
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Thanks Jason for that fantastic traffic tip.
I wrote about my experience with one of the sites you mentioned, e-library.net, in a previous blog post. A 5 minute submission has since generated over 7,000 unique visitors.
I’m definitely going to be submitting more eBooks and reports to the above mentioned sites and I’ll report back with my successes.
If you liked the free training from Jason and you’d like to discover his, and Kim Roach’s top 3 traffic secrets, then hit the link below to download the revealing interview.
Click Here To Download 3 Top Traffic Secrets
I hope you enjoyed this blog post.
I may work to get more experts to contribute their content if that’s something you would be interested in? I’ve got two months now until I finish university for good, so a lot of my focus will be on my upcoming exams and coursework. It means I won’t have the time I want to dedicate to publishing new blog entries – but I’ll try my best.
Would you like to see more contributions from top experts? If so, are there any experts you’d particularly like to share content on this blog? If so, leave a comment below with WHO you would like to contribute and WHAT topics you would like discussed.
I’ll try my best to convince them to share some of their best stuff with you guys.
Leave a comment below letting me know the answer to the above two questions, and share what you thought of this article from Jason. And one more time, don’t forget to check out 3 Top Traffic Secrets.
Have a great day and I’ll be in touch soon,
James Penn
I’ve been really trawling through my Google Analytics stats for one of my niche blogs today.
I decided to have a look at the top referring sites of all time and made a pretty strange discovery.
There was a slightly weird site in the top 10. A site that very few people use for driving traffic, yet a site that can drive ULTRA targeted visitors to your website for YEARS.
You see, three years ago I spent about 3 hours on this site being active and getting involved. It gave me a quick surge of about 40-80 visits per day for a couple of days.
And since then it’s generated 3-4 highly targeted unique visitors per day without me having to lift a finger.
And it’s going to continue to generate this much traffic for many more years into the future.
I’ll reveal what that site is in just a second and share strategies you can implement to siphon cash in hand visitors to your website.
First, I just want to let you know about a FANTASTIC interview I read a couple of evenings ago. (You can listen to it if you prefer, but I prefer to read.)
It’s between two of the most talented traffic generators online today.
Jason Fladlien and Kim Roach know how to generate insane amounts of traffic and they know some underground strategies that no one else knows about (including me!) to pull in crazy traffic.
These are the strategies (the underground one’s that no one knows about) that they’ve shared in their revealing interview.
It’s only $7 and I can’t recommend it enough.
Jason reveals one strategy that blew me away. He reveals a real life case study of how he built a list of 4,000 subscribers and generated $150,000 in info product sales in just a week and a half.
I strongly suggest you check this out.
Click Here To Download This Interview
Right, now back to my traffic strategy…
So what’s the site I’m talking about?
Yahoo Answers
Every day people are posting questions and await desperately for the Yahoo Answers community to help them.
What if it was you answering their questions, solving their problems and then providing a non-intrusive link back to your blog or squeeze page?
Here’s what I did three years ago for about three hours (spread over a week or so) to generate a total of over 3,000 and growing visitors.
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I have a blog in the natural health market. It deals with all sorts of topics such as weight loss, anti aging, beauty, disease, acne and much more. As long as it has a natural approach, it’s fine.
Over the years I have accumulated a fair number of blog posts which can help solve a number of problems.
I went and registered with Yahoo Answers and clicked on the Health category.
Presented in front of me were all the most recent questions related to health.
Let’s say there was a question like:
“How do I get rid of cellulite?”
I’d head to my blog and try and find a blog post that helped solve this problem. If I found one I’d click “Answer Question” and say something like…
“Hey, I recently had a read of this article which may also help you get rid of your cellulite…
mylink.com/blogpost”
That was it.
Over the course of a few days I answered about 60-80 questions and started noticing some pretty impressive traffic.
Click the image below to see my traffic stats.
I was getting 40-80 visits per day. I was onto something pretty special.
I thought that if I just did this every day for about half an hour, I’d soon be up to 100 per day, then 200 per day, then 1,000 etc etc.
I started thinking about how I could employ other people to do it for me and really scale it up.
Then I woke up one morning to an email…
“Your Yahoo Answers Account Has Been Suspended”
Of course I got suspended. I was using Yahoo Answers purely for my own gain.
While I was providing a link to a useful resource each time, I wasn’t contributing to the community.
Back then I was really naive.
From those 60-80 answers I posted, I still get three or four unique visitors per day. And those three hours of work have produced over 3,000 unique, highly targeted visitors to my blog over the past three years.
Not bad, eh?
You’re probably thinking…
“But James, you got suspended for trying to game the system. Surely you aren’t suggesting I do the same?”
No, I’m not.
Like I said I was naive at the time. I’ve grown up since then.
But, you can still use YA to drive consistent traffic WITHOUT gaming the system.
I’ve revently spoken to a couple of people who have used YA for a couple of years and they generate a boat load of visitors using this super simple method.
Here’s what they suggest…
1. Get a foothold in the community first by answering 40-50 questions WITHOUT any links. Instead simply provide fantastic answers and try to achieve “Best Answer” status as often as possible.
2. From that point on, insert a link to your website in only one in ten of each answers you post and ONLY when relevant AND attempt to achieve best answer status as often as possible.
The good thing about Yahoo Answers is that it ranks pretty well in the search engines.
Let’s say someone asks a question like…
“What is the best natural cure for my acne?”
Then you give your helpful answer followed by a link to a specific post on your blog.
Now imagine that the question ranks number one in the search engines for the keyphrase “best natural acne cure”.
That will get a fair few visits and a large proportion of those people will also go to your website.
This is the most targeted traffic you can get and it will be arriving at your website consistently for many, many years to come.
That’s why I’m still getting three or four visits to my natural health blog via this method each day and it shows no sign of stopping.
Give it a go!
I hope you’ve found some value in this blog post. If so, please Tweet or share it with your friends and also please post a comment below.
If you want six more secret traffic strategies from two traffic masters in Jason Fladlien and Kim Roach, then hit the link below to download their incredible interview.
Click Here To Download This Training
Have a great day.
James Penn
In the last 30 days, AcceleratedNicheProfits.com has received 53,580 unique visitors. That’s nearly 1,800 unique visitors per day that visit my blog, my salespages and my squeeze pages.
Take a look at the screenshot below for proof.
That’s a pretty incredible figure and it’s growing at an extremely rapid rate. It’s risen by 499% on last month. And I expect next month for it to continue to rise by the same amount if not more.
In this blog post, I’m going to reveal my three biggest traffic sources so you know what’s working today.
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Right, now let me share my three biggest traffic sources so that you know what WORKS for driving crazy amounts of traffic. (The first two are pretty similar but it’s important to use both in conjunction with each other for quick burst traffic and consistent, growing traffic.
Strategy #1
Affiliate Email Blasts
By far, the majority of my traffic has been from affiliates sending an email to their subscribers recommending 100 Subscribers Per Day.
This is the fastest, most powerful traffic generation method that I know of. Without having to lift a finger you can get an instant 1,000, 2,000, even 5,000 visitors and an explosion of sales and subscribers.
To make this strategy work you simply have to:
1. Find fellow marketers in your market who have an email list.
2. Convince them to promote your product
To start with, you probably won’t be able to get guys with email lists of 100,000 subscribers to promote for you – but you will be able to get the guys with 5,000 or 10,000 subscribers. And they can send 250-1,000 clicks in 24 hours.
Update December 2011: I’ve just released a fantastic guide called Affiliate Sales Army. It reveals how to find and approach affiliates and get them to send you hundreds of sales per month. Take a look.
Strategy #2
Passive Traffic From Affiliate Links
This is my second biggest traffic source, and again is traffic sent by affiliates.
Instead of convincing affiliates with email lists to do a blast for my product to their subscribers, I adopt a much more long term strategy.
If you focus only on getting affiliates to promote your offer via email blasts then you’ll eventually run out of partners and therefore traffic. Instead convince your affiliates to do as many of the below long term promotional methods for your product:
1. Links or banners on their blog
2. Links or banners on their thank you page
3. Email messages in their autoresponder sequence (so the email is delivered to each subscriber on their Nth day as a subscriber and you get constant traffic)
4. Product reviews on their blog
Those strategies are never going to send you an instant surge of traffic, but you’ll receive consistent and growing traffic.
As more bloggers, website owners and email owners add your message your traffic will grow more and more rapidly due to the cumulative effect.
Affiliates are the most powerful strategy for growing your traffic and your income. Make sure you have an affiliate program and are actively recruiting affiliates.
Affiliate Sales Army has an entire section dedicated to finding affiliates who can send you passive traffic.
Strategy #3
Consistent Traffic From The Search Engines
This is my third biggest traffic source generating about 80 new visitors per day.
At the start of the month I was getting just 10-20 visitors per day via the search engines. I’ve increased this number to 80 per day by doing one simple thing – regularly adding new content to the Accelerated Niche Profits blog.
John Reese describes getting traffic from the search engines like a lottery: the more tickets (pages of content) you have, the greater your chances of winning (reaching the top of the search engines).
It has to be good content though. I never write for search engines, in fact I never write content based around keywords. However, every time I publish a new blog post, I know that within a few hours it will start generating traffic for crazy keyphrases you’d never ever think of.
Plus if you write quality content you’ll find that other bloggers start linking to you sending you more direct traffic and building backlinks which are the key to improving your search engine rank.
Here’s a few ways to build backlinks and increase your search engine position.
1. Submitting articles to article directories.
2. Guest posting on high traffic blogs
3. Blog commenting
4. Squidoo lenses
So those are my three biggest traffic sources for AcceleratedNicheProfits.com
Thanks for reading. Leave a comment below letting me know YOUR biggest traffic sources and, as always, if you possibly can please Tweet, Like or share this blog post with your readers
Thanks,
James Penn
02/14/2012
