My Favorite Web Stuff

It’s kind of funny — usually traffic is something we would prefer less of.  But when it comes to your websites, blogs, and other online offerings, it’s the more the merrier.

But how do you get traffic?  There are so many different ways, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start.  Maybe you’ve been working your fingers to stubs on the keyboard and still… the results aren’t always what we wish they were, especially once we consider all the work we’ve put into it.

Here are three power strategies on how to go about building that traffic the smart way along with resources that can help:

1)  Links bring traffic, and they help with Google rankings.  They help people find you out in the wild and wooly world of the World Wide Web, two ways: If people come across a link, they click on it, and presto: there’s your site. And ifyou have lots of links, Google will take notice and believe that your site is important, and it will start giving it higher and higher priority when it comes on where it’ll show up in search results. And the result of that: You knew it. Even more visitors.

So how do you get links?  You can build them yourself — a slow and tedious process. Or you could take an accelerated path: Check out this FREE e-training on linking to help you speed up your link building learning curve, activities and results.

2)  Too much work to build it all yourself?  Wish you had some help?  You can, and it’s not expensive at all (or rather, it doesn’t HAVE to be expensive).  Learn about how to get help with your traffic building projects right here, and yes, there’s some FREE e-training available as well.

3)  If you have heard about viral marketing — the ultimate in getting the word out about you — but never quite knew how to go about it, discover how it works right here — and yes, there’s also a freebie available.

Just don’t sign up for all of it at once, or all the free stuff will clutter up your inbox

Between the three — link building, i.e., getting more links that will bring visitors to your site both directly and by way of Google once the links have started to propel you up to the front pages of Google, outsourcing some of the grunt work so you can spend your own time on more valuable activities that only YOU can do, and viral marketing — the ultimate power tool, you’ll find that your traffic can increase substantially in a very short time.

And last but not least — if you don’t have a blog yet, you’re REALLY leaving money on the table.

In another blog post, I’ll tell you about Mike Paetzold’s WordPress Lessons (they’ll open again to a small but select audience). What makes Mike special is that he’s a total expert on how to set up your blog to optimize it for traffic, and he shares all his secrets right there on the webinars.

I’ll write more about him in an extra blog, but if you can’t wait, you can find Mike’s WordPress Lessons Here.

Not enough hours in the day. Where to start? I can’t keep up with all my squidoo lenses and my hub page(s)(?) and so on. What to do?

Well, outsourcing of course. And since I just deleted my entire blog post by mistake when I tried to cut and past to replace a bad link, I have to start all over.

Anyway, there’s Tiffany Dow and her Squidoo lens building service, which I think I’m going to give a shot.

You can find it at Tiffany’s Lens Design site.

And here’s a banner too:

I’m also going to get help with the link building thing and with posting my rss feed in all those directories…
We shall see how this works. I start realizing that I’m more enamoured with staying in control than I thought I was (no that’s not true — I KNOW I like to make sure things get done right, not that the way I do them always works — see the links)

Anyway, now that I have the proper links here, do take another look.

And have a great day!