I’ve just finished watching the latest coaching call, Module #5 – Traffic Tornados. As the title suggests this module was all about the best ways of generating traffic. Most of the ways were totally free too. So I will give you a quick summary of what was covered, and then some time in the future I will make individual posts and possibly videos, going over these methods in depth.

At the start of the call Alex first reminded us about Module #1, and how we need to stay focused and have a plan of attack. Now a lot has changed since I made my plan back in Module #1, so soon I will be adding all that I’ve learnt since then into my master plan. I’ve only been doing weekly plans so far, this time I have enough knowledge to know what I want to be doing for the next 90 days. And I’ll still be learning more stuff on top of that, but that statement is always going to be true, even after the coaching has ended, because as humans we never stop learning new things.

But even when the coaching is over, it’s never really over, we have access to the private members forum for life, which the value of I think is priceless. The community we have over there is great, and creating a program or product of my own, and maybe having a forum is something I plan to do one day. Of course I won’t be able to do that just yet, but it’s one of my main goals for the future. Before I can do anything like that I need to put everything into practice, until I’m seeing all the right results. ;) Until then I all I can do is share with you what I’m learning, so you too can put it into practice.

So on to…

Traffic Methods:

Forums

Forums = traffic + JV partners – Using this method you should not try & sell, and just be YOU and give value in your posts by helping people. If you do this people are more likely to want to find out more about you, and they will click your link that you will have in your forum signature file, which is underneath each post you make. This is also a great way to get a lot of one way backlinks to your site.

Search for forums in your niche on google, for example: internet marketing forums list, brings up some good lists/directories of forums in the Internet Marketing niche. You want to join the forums with the highest traffic, this would usually be the forum at the top of the search results. You can check the forums traffic ranking on Alexa.com against other forums if you want too.

Articles

Article marketing is a great way to drive traffic, and get backlinks to your site. If you have trouble writing articles, you can research the article directories for your subject, for ideas on what to write about. Once you find an article you like, you can totally rewrite it in your own words and add your own twist to it. But you need to make sure you add your keywords into the article. You can also use this method for ideas for your blog posts too, you’ll never have writters block again! :)

Search for Article Directories on google. Ezine articles is the best with the most traffic, but it’s also harder to get your acticles accepted because they are more strict. That’s the reason they’re the best though. I’ll make a post of all the best Article sites soon.

Blog Catalog

Use Blog Catalog and similar sites to search for the top listed sites in your niche, and add value comments on their blogs and build relationships with the site owners.

Google.com

Use the search term – link: (example- link: http://paul-lear.com ) to find out which sites are linking to any given site. Then go out and see if you can get your link on those sites somehow, if it’s a blog you can comment on a post and leave your link.

Yahoo.com

Use the search term – linkdomain: (example- linkdomain:http://paul-lear.com) to find out which sites are linking to any given site. Then go out and see if you can get your link on those sites somehow, if it’s a blog you can comment on a post and leave your link.

Alexa.com

Search for big name sites in your niche i.e:- the sites on the first page of the search results on google, yahoo, etc… Then go out and see if you can get your link on those sites somehow, if it’s a blog you can comment on a post and leave your link.

Press Releases

These can get you a lot of traffic, you can even end up getting picked up by Yahoo News. This is more advanced stuff though, press releases can cost around $200. But there are some free press release sites too, but obviously you won’t get anything near the results that you’d get by using a paid option. This is something I will go into at a later date when I know more about them. For now I’m sticking to the free options.

GiveAways

GiveAways are a great way to build your list and drive traffic, for more information on this you can download my free Listbuilding With Alex report. It gives step by step instructions on how you can use GiveAways to build your list.

Video Marketing

Use sites like YouTube to your advantage by submitting targetted videos, then do some keyword research and include these in your description, title, and tags. Also make sure to include your full website url in the description.

Social Media

Use sites like stumble upon, digg, delicious, to bookmark interesting posts including your own.

UStream

You can use ustream.tv to broadcast yourself live, it’s like having your own TV station. You can advertise to your list, on your blog, Twitter, when you will be broadcasting. I’ve not really looked into this, but it has huge potential.

I think that was about it, I’m sure you’ll agree there’s plently to keep you busy there, and great potential in all of the above methods discussed. Now all we have to do is take action and put them all to good use, and very soon I’m sure we’ll all be seeing floods of traffic.

Just remember though, you can’t do everything at once. Tackle one method at a time, and be consistant, consistancy is key when using free traffic methods. And make sure to always have a plan, and stick to it at all times!

Until next time….

Paul.

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