10 ways to drive site traffic

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Traffic Driving Strategies Evan Weber, CEO Experience Advertising, Inc.

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Presentation will include strategies in SEO, social networking, paid advertising, and more to drive targeted traffic to your affiliate website.Experience level: IntermediateTarget audience: Affiliates/PublishersNiche/vertical: Organic TrafficEvan Weber, CEO, Experience Advertising (Twitter @experienceads)

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Page 1: 10 Ways to Drive Site Traffic

Traffic Driving Strategies

Evan Weber, CEOExperience Advertising, Inc.

Page 2: 10 Ways to Drive Site Traffic

• Posting Strategies - high frequency, keyword based, unique titles, on-page content

• Post it Yourself or Outsource it

• Be Intuitive, Niche, and Laser-focused

• Gorgeous WP themes (NewWPThemes.com)

• Google Alerts - Topics you are interested in pushed to you as they happen.

• site:yoursite.com in Google. Tells you how many indexed pages and what the titles look like.

Creating Content for Organic Search Traffic

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Syndicating Your Content on Social Networks and Social Bookmarking Sites

• Ping.fm - post to multiple social networks at once.

• ShareThis.com Chrome Extension• Share into related LinkedIn Groups• Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit,

Facebook, Fan Page, Twitter, LinkedIn (when appropriate).

• Post a different version of the same article to more than one site, i.e. article directories, guest blog posts, classified sites. Any website that allows you to post on their site.

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Gain More FB Fans from Your Web Traffic and Manage Them Properly

• Post Facebook Fan box prominentlyon your site/blog right column

• Cross recruit to FB Fan Page, Twitter, LinkedIn• Post updates to your fan page frequently (1-5

times a day)• Share helpful content, pleasantries, survey,

deals/coupons, interesting posts• Fanzy.com - adds rewards and auto-sharing to

your fan page.

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Signing up Email Subscribers andSending Effective Newsletters

• Post email subscribe box prominently. Pop-up WP plug-in offering whitepaper or ebook

• Encourage visitors to join your newsletter orFan Page for special deals

• Have a good HTML newsletter layout designed• Sweepstakes & Contest - builds fans and

emails. Woobox.com, WildFireApp

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Use Social Networks to Generate Traffic

• Build your friends, followers, and connections - ALWAYS!

• Focus on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn• Launch a niche social network (Ning.com)• Share new pages/posts on your social

networks• Social Karma - like, comment, share on other

people’s updates, tweets, and posts• Bit.ly - Change affiliate links to shareable links

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Social Networking to Build a Following

• Launch Facebook Fan Page, Twitter Account, LinkedIn Profile, Pinterest

• Invite all your friends to your Fan Page, mass invites. Same with LinkedIn et al

• Post valuable content and pleasantries, interact with others

• Foster interaction! (polls, surveys, sweepstakes, contests)

• Don’t be lame or boring! Be positive and optimistic!

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Paid Advertising to Generate Inexpensive, Relevant Traffic

• Look for niche keyword phrases - Google Keyword Tool

• MSN Adcenter - cheaper clicks, go broad• Google Adwords retargeting - advanced

technique, helps remarket to visitors leaving your site

• Facebook Advertising - Find cheap affiliate niches, Advertise for Fans

• eReleases.com - Online Press Releases - embed links to build SEO and saturate the organics

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Links in Your Email Signature

• Gets clicks, fans, and followers• Add your Facebook Profile, Fan Page, Twitter,

and LinkedIn to your signature• Wise Stamp - Gmail Chrome extension• Rapportive.com for Gmail - show you contacts

social networks you can invite them.

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Forum Posting - with Signature Links Added

• Builds inbound links• Gets click-throughs• Helps brand yourself/website on a niche forum• Makes friends and partnerships• http://forum.affiliatesummit.com• Join 5-10 well-ranking forums• Post like crazy!• Start topics and comment on topics• Make it part of your daily routine

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Blog Commenting

• Builds inbound links• Time consuming to leave good comments but

worth it• Gets clicks to your site• Make friends with the bloggers• Offer to exchange "blog roll" links with bloggers

- good for SEO• Google Blog Search to find blogs to comment

on. Google Alerts to have blog posts pushed to you as they hit the web.

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Good Learning Resources

• Mashable.com - Leading source of social media information and news

• StumbleUpon - suggests great websites in any niche

• Experience Advertising Resource Articles• Fan/Follow authorities in search, social,

affiliate• Avoid “affiliate systems” - basically anything

supposed to teach you how to make money online as an affiliate for a fee.

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Thank you!

Evan Weber

[email protected]

cell: 954-662-8010