Welcome to the third lesson in the Tomey Notes series. I’ve gotten some great feedback about this series and hope these lessons are really helping you.
Today I want to talk about a topic that is on all of our minds… Traffic!
We need to get traffic to our websites or we don’t make money. Plain and simple…
Here’s the thing… There are literally thousands of products out there teaching you thousands of different ways to get traffic to your website. Most of these products are full of crap. Make sure when buying any product that is going to teach you to drive traffic to your website that the creator is very reputable. There are a few traffic experts out there, but not near the amount who think they do.
You’ve been warned…
So, John Reese says you can steal, buy, or borrow traffic… Not verbatim, but that’s the jist of what he says. (Yes, John Reese actually knows traffic, so buy anything traffic related from him you can get your hands on.)
Now, the fastest way to get traffic is to buy it. Hands down… This lesson isn’t about that though. If you want to learn about getting immediate traffic then I recommend Kim Roach’s Traffic Dashboard at www.ThisKicksButt.com/TrafficRightNow
Next is borrowing traffic… In my opinion this is the best kind of traffic. Why? Well because when you borrow traffic you’re asking someone’s permission to use their traffic. Meaning you ask affiliates (or JV parnters) to drive traffic to your site. It’s their traffic/customers, and you’re borrowing it. This is also known as endorsed traffic. This is the best kind of traffic because it’s someone who already has control of a group of people (subscribers, customers, readers, etc) and are sending them to you.
Again… We’re talking free traffic. If you want to learn the art of getting affiliates and JV partners to promote your site then I recommend www.AffiliateSalesForceSecrets.com and www.MyAffiliateForce.com
So what’s left then?
Free traffic methods of course and that’s what we’re going to be talking about here. Let’s start by listing some of the best free website traffic tactics…
1. Article Marketing – Good for instant traffic from the article directories and backlinks to your site (SEO).
2. Forum Marketing – Good for instant traffic from the forums you post in and backlinks to your site (SEO)
3. Social Marketing – Good for branding, building relationships, and instant traffic, and backlinks to your site (SEO)
4. Blogging – There are many things a blog can do. It can be an SEO machine, it can be used for branding, pre-selling, relationship building and more. Depending on how you use blogging will depend on the kind and amount of traffic you’ll get.
5. Video Marketing – This is another one of those tactics that can do it all. Just like blogging video marketing can get you a ton of backlinks to your site (SEO), allow people to find you in the search engines, educate people about your product/website, build relationships (people watch your videos and get to know like and trust you). The cool thing about video marketing is you can use all of these things at one time.
6. Social bookmarking – Gets backlinks to your site (SEO).
7. Traffic Exchanges – Usually this tactic is only good for “money-making” offers, and should only be used to build a list. My opinion only so you guys who love traffic exchanges don’t start throwing rocks at me.
8. Giveaways – Want a huge list fast? Then using giveaways is what you want to do. I have an entire workshop on using giveaways. It’s a few years old, but the content is still VERY relevant. You can view the entire workshop by going to liztomey.com/listbuildinggiveaway
9. Press Release Marketing – Yes, this tactic can bring in a lot of traffic, but you’ve got to have something REALLY newsworthy. However, it’s a great tactic to gets backlinks to your site (SEO).
10. Classified Ad Sites – About the only thing this tactic is good for anymore is gets backlinks to your site (SEO).
So there’s 10 ways to get free traffic. I could go on and on and on, but that’s enough to get you started.
NOTE: Do notice though that most free traffic tactics related to SEO (search engine optimization). SEO is two things… 1. Doing a few little things to your actual site to make the search engines notice your site, and 2. Getting lots of backlinks for keywords related to your site so your site will rank in the search engines when people search for those keywords.
Yes, that’s it… Those two things… Remember that when you buy products related to how to do SEO, okay?
Now is what you need to do is pick 3-5 of the tactics above and use them. Not all 10 of them, not 9 of them… Just 3-5 of them, and work them daily! If you’re not driving traffic to your site daily, you’re not getting traffic daily… Again… plain and simple…
Now before you go any further, I want you to watch the video below about “Traffic Wheels”. This video will really explain driving traffic to you and the way you should do it, so don’t miss this…
NOTE: The Free Traffic Formula Workshop can show you several ways you can start getting FREE traffic to any site that you want! Grab your spot in this online workshop by going to www.FreeTrafficFormulaWorkshop.com
Now the next video I want you to watch is about creating a Traffic Calendar. This will help you with driving traffic daily. It’s only a few minutes long, so take a minute and watch it…
Okay, so we’ve gone over several ways to get free traffic, we’ve established that you have to drive traffic daily in order to get traffic daily (you can’t just do one or two things to drive traffic and expect people to come running in a stampede to your website), and I’ve shown you how to keep up with what you should be doing each and every day to drive traffic.
You have the keys to the kingdom in your hand. Now you need to use them to unlock the door…
Now I know for the 10 tactics that I gave you above, there are a ton of ways to do them. So, if you’d like for me to show you step-by-step how to implement those tactics and many many more, then check out my Free Traffic Formula Workshop. In this workshop I personally coach you on driving traffic to your site, and help you to get the traffic you need to make the money you want.
Grab your spot in this online workshop by going to www.FreeTrafficFormulaWorkshop.com
Okay, that’s it for this lesson. Make sure you truly understand what I’ve covered here, and always keep this in mind. Yes, I’m going to say it one more time….
You have to drive traffic to your site daily to get traffic to your site daily. When you stop driving traffic you stop getting traffic. You MUST work at this daily!
Remember that, implement that, and you’ll find website traffic isn’t hard to get after all!
Talk to you soon!
Liz Tomey
The Biz Model Guru
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