Nine Steps To Massive Website Traffic

Posted by Cindy Floyd

May 5, 2008

In the online internet home business we all know that traffic is our business. Without massive amounts of visitors we don’t stand a chance of making enough sales to build a successful online business. So the repeated question is always “how do you drive Magnifying glass traffic to your website?”

Below I offer a nine step process to help you drive free traffic to your site.

STEP ONE: Write an article.
Write an article with good content regarding your product or service. The article needs to be between 300 and 500 words long.
If you don’t like to write articles or simply don’t have time here is a list of places to outsource these resources.

Elance.com
GuestProfessor.com
ThePhantomWriters.com
Content-Writer.org
Guru.com
ArticleAuthors.net
RentACoder.com

STEP TWO: Submit your Article
Now that you have an article written you need to submit it. Below is a list article submission sites.

Before you submit the article make sure you have a good resource box for your business promotion, after all that’s part of the purpose of article submission. This is your call to action and should be with every submission. You will need a few since every submission site is different in how much data they allow you to post.

Here is one of mine:

Example: “Cindy Floyd is a former Corporate Information Officer of 15 years in the Pharmaceutical and High Technology industries, now a full time internet information entrepreneur, book author, business coach and avid traveler. Cindy and her husband Bob passionately pursue seeking the top discount travel clubs and have discovered Global Resorts Network to be the #1, saving their members up to 75% off their week long condo stays for life. Discover how you can travel and earn $1,000 in commissions immediately with their great travel club bargains, and there’s no selling! We also provide a sales service center that will close your GRN sales for you.”

Article Submission Sites:

Articlealley.com
Articlebase.com
Articlebiz.com
Articlecat.com
Articlecity.com
Articledashboard.com
Articlegeek.com
Articlepros.com
Articlerich.com
Christiannotepad.com
Contentdesk.com
Crixi.com
Easyarticles.com
Electrictext.com
Ezinearticles.com
Freearticlepost.com
GoArticles.com
Ideamarketers.com
Impactarticles.com
Marketmyarticle.com
Submitondashboard.com
Workoninternet.com

STEP THREE: Rework Your Article into a Press Release and then Submit.

Rework your article content into a press release. A press release needs to be more like an announcement rather than just news or helpful topics like most articles.

There is an art form to this, so check out this link before posting to any press release site for best results. http://www.prwebdirect.com/pressreleasetips.php

There are two ways to post your press release: Free and Paid.

Here is a list of Free submission sites, you will need to post to each of these individually, which can be a lot of work.

1888pressrelease.com
express-press-release.com
freepressindex.com
free-press-release.com
i-newswire.com
prbuzz.com
pressexposure.com
pressreleasespider.com
prfree.com
prnuke.com
prurgent.com
transworldnews.com

The “daddy” of them all is http://www.prwebdirect.com. This is a paid site however one of the very best. If you post it here you can get your press release picked up by many top sites. This is great exposure.

STEP FOUR: Rework Your Article into a Video.

Your next step is to rework your article into a video. This is an important step. Video is becoming a staple in the online internet marketing advertising media. The results you get from video submissions are fantastic. The Big 3 (Google, Yahoo, MSN) are trying to turn the internet into the next television, so videos get ranked very high. If this is not your idea of fun, have it outsourced.

You will need some recording equipment to get stated, a microphone and a program called Sound Forge built by Sony. With this, you can record yourself reading your article.

When you have your audio created and ready to go, it is time to start creating the video. You can use Microsoft Power Point to create template slides to use in our video and then you can use a program call Sony Vegas Movie Studio to put the audio and template slides all together.

This does not have to be elaborate; 3 to 5 slides will be just fine. Save your file as a .jpeg file and import into Sony Vegas Movie Studio. If you need help with this task check out this website http://www.InternetVideoGuy.com for some good training.

STEP FIVE: Submit video.

Now you’re ready to begin submitting your videos to video submission websites. You will need to create accounts on every one of the websites you wish to submit to. Most of these sites are free, just time consuming to post and up load your video. And this is just a small taste of what’s out there!

BoFunk.com
Eyespot.com
Flurl.com
GoFish.com
GUBA.com
LiveLeak.com
LiveVideo.com
MegaVideo.com
Motionbox.com
Revver.com
Sharkle.com
Stickam.com
Tubemogul.com
Twango.com
Veoh.com
Video.google.com
Video.yahoo.com
YouTube.com

Or if you would rather upload once and have someone else do this for you can subscribe to TrafficGeyser.com. This is a great service however pricey.

STEP SIX: Turn your audio into a Pod Cast.

Since you already have your audio file created (you used it in the video presentation), you can now create a pod cast it. With iTunes having over 200 million users, there should be no reason not to start pod casting today. When you use iTunes 4.9 or later, Apple has taken pod casting mainstream by building everything you need to find, subscribe to, manage, and listen to pod casts right in iTunes. You can publish your podcast to iTunes (as long as it’s free of copyrighted material and overtly explicit content) and reach a potential audience of millions. There are video tutorials on Apple’s site to help you get through this task. To make it easier, visit this site: http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials.

STEP SEVEN: Create your blog entry.

Blogging your content will help you create another media to pass your information. Blog’s are seen differently by the search engines. They are indexed much faster… When using RSS feeds you can create back links to your website to help draw much more traffic to your site.

Simply copy your article code and post to your view section in your blog. Then copy the video code and there you have it, a blog post!

You can also create links to Facebook, and Twitter that will copy this post to those social media site providing additional exposure to for your business.

STEP EIGHT: Create a Squidoo Lens.

To make a Squidoo Lens, you use your video and audio content. Squidoo is an insanely easy-to-build page online. It’s popular way to drive more traffic to your website. If you want to get the word out about something, sell something, share information, or just love to create and express yourself, then you shouldn’t miss out on this task.

It is super easy to do - Squidoo has a wizard that walks you through creating the lens. It’s also very simple to add your video from youtube because you can search for it through Squidoo and they will create the video code for you. This is a great site to be on because it is considered an authority site on the internet and it has a page rank of 7. You can also put links back to your website on their site for free! This should be a no brainier as to why you would want to use this site to drive traffic.

STEP NINE: Bookmark Your Video Links.

The last step entails you to social bookmark your video links. This will help you boost your videos higher in the search engines. Ultimately, this will boost your main site even higher. A social bookmark site is just like using the bookmark tab in your browser. It bookmarks the sites you’re interested in. Although, rather than being on your computer, a social bookmark site allows you to save them online… so you can visit these book marks from any computer.

Here is a list of social bookmark sites you can use to start posting to:

Propeller.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Del.icio.us
Stumbleupon.com
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Backflip.com
Google Bookmarks
Jumptags.com
Ka-Boom-It.com