How Do I Get Gobs of Traffic to My Articles?
Fresh from the Article Marketing Round Table I led at the recent Glazer-Kennedy Super Conference in Dallas, here is one of the FAQs I got:
Q: Once I have created my article(s), how do I get traffic to my articles?
A: I really like this question, because there are just so many great answers to it. I’ve got room for only 3 in this article, and here they are:
1) EzineArticles.com – One of the first things I learned about getting traffic on the Internet is this:
“Don’t chase after traffic. Find out where the traffic is going and get your information in front of it.”
When you get your articles on EzineArticles.com you are getting yourself in front of over 30 + million unique visitors a month. These are folks searching in specific categories for your specific information. This is a great way to connect highly qualified prospects with your information and invite them back to your web site or blog.
Your goal should be to get as many articles up on this Article Directory as you can, and establish yourself as an expert in your niche or area of expertise.
2) OPT - This stands for “Other People’s Traffic” and you get it when you click here to read the rest of the article…
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If you are just starting out in Article Marketing here is how to quickly and easily create your first 10 articles.
And by the way, this also works for more experienced writers and experts.
Your First 10 Articles
If you are serious about creating articles and the traffic that comes with them, then these are the simple steps I want you to follow:
Step 1 - Pick a specific topic in your niche that you know well. The more specific the better.
Step 2 - Make a list of 7tips you would give to your ideal client about this topic.
Step 3 – For each tip craft 35 – 50 words of explanation on how to use the tip.
You now have your first article. Now here come a few more … (more…)
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Create More Traffic with Articles
Article Marketing is the best free way to drive traffic to your web sites and blogs. And when you use the five steps below, you will know what topics to write more about to drive even more traffic.
Step 1: Log into your EzineArticles.com account
In your EzineArticles account you can use the feedback on your articles to let you know what your readers want more of. Once you know this you can write more articles on those topics to drive more traffic.
Step 2: Click on “Author Tools”
It’s in between Profile Manager and Author Resources. Click on “Author Tools”. You’re going to get a drop-down menu.
Step 3: Click on “View My Article Reports”
When you click on “View My Article Reports”, you can see the Article ID, Article Title, Views, URL Clicks, EzinePublisher, Comments, Votes, Rating, and Publication Date. What you want to pay attention to – the things that turn into money – are the Views and the URL Clicks.
Step 4: “Read the street”
“Read the street” means (more…)
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Email “FROM” Lines vs. “SUBJECT” Lines
I’ve surveyed thousands of my students about my findings in this post, so please read it carefully.
Here’s the heart of the matter: Whenever you send an email message to your list, to your friends or colleagues, they privately ask themselves these 2 critical questions before taking further action:
1) WHO is this email from?
2) WHAT is this email about?
Test this premise with yourself. The next time you’re about to open-up and read email messages from your Inbox, what question(s) do you privately ask yourself before grabbing your mouse, clicking and reading them?
If you’re like most people I’ve surveyed, the answers are: WHO? and WHAT?
The WHO Question: Answering the WHO? question is easy because it involves the FROM LINE of your email messages. I recommend that your FROM LINE never changes. Here’s what mine looks like:
~ Alex Mandossian ~
Specifically, I put a tilda (“~”), then a space, then my first name, then a another space then my last name, then another space, then a second tilda.
That’s it.
I never change my (more…)
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Rediscover the Adwords Learning Center
It’s no secret that Google Adwords can become a fast, easy and predictable way to attract targeted website traffic.
Like most marketing strategies, setting up an Adwords account is simple, but not so easy to master. That’s why I recommend you visit Google’s Learning Center.
In my experience, it is hands-down the single most cost-effective way to learn Adwords marketing strategies.
Click here to visit the Learning Center and you’ll find these 9 Modules:
1. Introduction to AdWords
2. Getting Started with AdWords
3. Targeting
4. Costs and Billing
5. Tracking Ad Performance
6. Optimizing Ad Performance
7. The AdWords Toolbox
8. Google Analytics
9. Managing Client Accounts
You can count on (more…)
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Got “Affiliate Signup” Access On Your Blog?
Do you see Affiliate Signup button (the one I’m pointing at) on the upper left side of this blog?
I published that button a week ago (as an experiment) to test if I’d get a “passive” spike in attracting new Affiliate Partners and so far, I’ve doubled my daily Affiliate sign-up rate.
Even if this “doubling” effect doesn’t continue, “shame on me” for not adding that button to my blog sooner!
How about you? Do you have an affiliate program? Do you have a blog?
If you answered “YES” to both questions, then I encourage you to ask yourself this question before you put your Affiliate sign-up button on your blog:
“Do I want my Affiliate Program to be ‘closed’ or ‘open’?”
A “closed” program is typically only available to Affiliates who have also purchased one of your offers. An “open” program is available to anyone who is in good standing with you and wants to promote your offers.
For the first 8 years of my online marketing experience, I had a “closed” affiliate program. But it is now “open” as a result of wanting to build-out the AskAlexToday “outer circle” calls held on the first Thursday of each month.
Turning Pro: The difference between an “amateur” and a “professional” is $1. The moment you make your first dollar, you’ve turned “pro” from my point of view.
Since my goal to get you to “turn Pro” as fast as possible, I’ll (more…)
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How Your “Actionizer” Can Change Behavior
If you’ve heard me speak on stage or on a Teleseminar, then you’re already familiar with my favorite “monetization” mantra: “Marketing changes minds. Promotion changes behavior.”
Read those six words again and again because they’re indelibly etched in your mind, you’ll dramatically improve the results of your presentations.
The key element to “monetizing” your marketing an “Actionizer.” A high value, dramatic action device that inspires, motivates and influences your audience to take physical action.
The $100 poker chip (above) was the “Actionizer” I tested at my Teleseminar Secrets Reunion on March 7th, 2009.
It changed behavior to get people to say “Yes” to the DoublingIncomeSecrets 5-Module Bookinar Series in less than 59 seconds. If you were there see if you can spot yourself. Click the video to see it now.:
Key Point: Before you design any presentation curriculum, it’s important that you write down these 3 verbs:
Think (“mind”) <—— Feel (“heart”) <—— Do (“body”)
Then ask yourself these 3 critical questions: (more…)
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New Equation of “Personalized” Accountability
What makes good entrepreneurs great is accountability.
Accountability to their business, to their teams, to their vendors, to their families and to themselves. Accountable entrepreneurs are leaders. They don’t get in the habit of making excuses.
And above all, they have a burning desire and willingness to accept responsibilities with a “beginner’s mind” and do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Accountable entrepreneurs assume nothing and question everything. They’re fearless “truth-seekers” and chase advice from practically everyone around them – their colleagues, their team members, their customers and most importantly, their personal “Accountability Partners.”
Does this sound like someone you know so far?
If it does, then at this moment you have an opportunity of a lifetime to seek out one Accountability Partner or “AP” who’s life you can change and who will change your life, by simply meeting once a week, 52 weeks a year.
Accountability Partnerships (APs) are (more…)
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Have You Written Your “101 Goals” List Yet?
I can define what a goal is in just 5 words: “A dream with a deadline.”
Goal setting is the single most important life skill that over 97% of people never learn how to do properly.
In Brian Tracy’s book Goals – How to Get Everything You Want Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible – he claims that “Less than 3% of adults have clear written goals with plans on how to achieve them.”
The keyword is written. Those who earn most of the money, who are the best athletes and who are the top producers in any type of business have written goals.
They are the 3% Club who can predict and even anticipate their future by creating it.
Sadly, most entrepreneurs resist taking an hour each month write-down their goals. But my experience has taught me that a written goal has 10X the achievement possibility than a goal that just lingers in my mind.
Go to Google and you’ll find hundreds of resources on the goal-setting and goal-achievement. Here are 3 of my of my highest recommendations:
1) Book: Double Your Income Doing What You Love by Raymond Aaron
2) Pictures: Goals achievement images on Google
3) Website: Setting Goals 101 has lots of free resources
If you’ve read this far and you still are resisting writing down your goals or “dreams with deadlines,” then I have one final recommendation for you. It changed my life and I know that it has changed the lives of many of the world’s top business thought leaders.
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VIDEO: Quickly Create Your First 10 Articles
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