Thursday, May 28, 2015

TRAFFIC AND BRANDING FROM CONTENT

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TRAFFIC AND BRANDING FROM CONTENT

Article marketing is still very much alive and continues to be one of the single best methods of driving targeted traffic to your site or offers. Never forget it was the original bloggers, those prolific content creators, that basically forged the entire affiliate marketing  platform. So let’s look to how they did it, and how we can leverage those efforts with social media for massive targeted traffic for ourselves.
1st step, obviously, is creating a great article.
 Remember again if your content is lousy, your traffic will be too.
So after writing your article edit mercilessly. And be sure to include a relevant image in your article!!!
If you struggle with article writing, head on over to the included bonus Content Genie
right now.

If you’re really stuck, I suppose you could consider hiring a writer through odesk. But if
you’re looking to build your brand, identity and authority, I highly suggest writing your own stuff.
Most importantly, please please please never succumb to the lure of ‘article spinners’.
They’re just so fake it is unbelievable. While it may sound ‘easy’ to buy a punch of plr for a
few bucks and ‘run them through a spinner’, the results are most often brutal. And by the
time you’ve gone through that effort you could easily have banged out a 100% original
article in your own words.
Ninja tip if you’re struggling with content for your article. Once you have a solid topic, build
the article around a product review. Don’t make the review the entire article, but it could
easily become say 50% of it. And then your content is rounded. Your original thoughts
about a subniche
you’re targeting, then introduce a product with a blurb about the producer, and your own thoughts. 
Bang. Instant article.
Here’s what you’ll find if you’re working within a niche you enjoy. As you get going, writing articles will become your favourite thing. And ideas for new ones will come to you  all the time. The more you create, the easier it becomes. Really. Try it.
Okay now you have an awesome article. What next? Easy. Syndicate. You’ve just created awesome original content. Get that puppy as much exposure as you can and start driving targeted traffic to your site and offers. Here’s how:
1.) Obviously post to your blog or website, then ping the url.
2.) Post the link to your article to your personal facebook account.
3.) Convert your article to PDF and / or powerpoint.  recommend you do, for maximum exposure.
 Recall you can use www.printfriendly.com to convert to PDF for free.
4.) Submit your PDF and Powerpoint to Slideshare.
 From within Slideshare, link your  new content to LinkedIn. Now we’re getting somewhere. 
Authority sites, filled with serious  traffic actively searching specific content. Give it to them.
5.) Now post the slideshare links to your facebook page. So now in facebook you  have a link to your article on your personal profile, and a slideshare link on your business page. 
Absolutely perfect.
6.) Post the image in your article to Pinterest
7.) Submit a snippet of your article to Reddit along with a link to the entire page
8.) Submit your article as a blog post in Tumblr
Of course, you’ve configured all of your social media accounts as outlined earlier to include your social media icons in your signature. The ones linking to your facebook, twitter and google+ pages. 
So let’s just see what these simple steps after creating 1 article have accomplished for us:

Now that we’ve converted our article into a  powerpoint, we simply use a screen capture tool and play the powerpoint while reading it to create a video. I like http://www.screencastomatic.com/ as it’s easy to use, very affordable and offers instant uploading.

And now we’ve gone viral with one article. Targeted viral traffic. The stuff that converts. That easy






Thursday, May 21, 2015

Making the Most of Your Blog Comments

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Making the Most of Your Blog Comments

1.) Reply to the very 1st comment.

 This is great for blog posts that have a lot of comments.
Your reply will be as visible to readers as this very first comment.

2.) Initiate your own comment thread.

 Blog viewers are naturally attracted to conversation threads as they like to see the back and forth between commenters.
 This is a high visibility source for you. Ideally, start a conversation with the 1st commenter in a post
by agreeing, disagreeing tactfully, and providing a thoughtful question that invites feedback.
Not only wil readers view these threads actively, but some will want to jump in and
participate. And this is a tremendous source of targeted traffic back to your site.

3.) Format your blog comments for visual appeal.

Everybody does this within their own blogs, yet close to NO ONE does this when they comment on other blogs. A visually appealing post will get noticed and stand out.

 Make a really long comment

 Take advantage of bold text for phrases, italics for selected sentences, and bullet lists. I don’t really know why, but bullet lists do the trick all the time.

4.) Make a really long comment.

 This will get noticed as well. In a post with or without several comments, a really lengthy one attracts attention.
 People assume if you’ve posted a long comment you have authority and something of value to contribute. So they’ll read it.
Trick is, you have to know what you’re talking about here!

5.) Select ‘notify me of replies’.

 This option is available on most blogs.
Great resource as rather than you go looking for posts to comment on, once you’re engaged in a post you’ll
get a reminder saying someone has added to that post. Giving you another chance to get in there and  contribute.

6.) Use the blogger’s name when commenting. 

This is a sign of respect and shows your concern for detail. Plus you’ll get noticed by the blogger him or herself, which will certainly help. Maybe they’ll want to link back to your blog and follow you on social media.
Easy to do, so rarely done.
How to go viral again this is the best part, because once you’ve made your comments the hard work is done.

Here’s how to drive the most targeted traffic from our blog

Commenting- alternate the links in your signature. 

Let’s say you’ve chosen to comment regularly in 2 blogs relevant to your niche. In one blog, include in your signature a link back to your own blog or site.
 In the other blog, make your signature link directly to your facebook page.
Some people will be more attracted to one format over the other.
So mix up your links a bit to send people to different places, all linking back to you. This just increases your brand exposure.
Plus if they like your facebook page and your comments, they’re likely to share your page again. And now you have targeted viral traffic.

 Ping the blog comment page

 Pinging is free, fast and I can guarantee you over 90% of bloggers aren’t doing it.
All it does is lets the search engines know that new content has been created, so it vastly increases the chances that your comments will be crawled by the engines faster.
Which obviously gets your comments viewed by a much higher potential audience.
So head over to www.pingler.com, then www.pingomatic.com, then www.masspinger.com.
All you need to is enter the url of the current blog page you’ve commented on, and these
programs will take care of the rest.
and of course ensure your signature includes your linked icons to your facebook, twitter
and google plus accounts.




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