Do you want to get more free traffic to your website or blog from the search engines, especially Google? Do you love the idea of building your site and just watching the traffic come in totally free??
I know that is what I am striving for…absolutely free traffic coming into my site from the search engines and from other sites. It is really the holy grail of internet marketing isn’t it? The absolute ideal is to build a site and then here comes the traffic, but it doesn’t necessarily work that way does it? There are some keys to doing that and a few simple rules to follow. This is not intended to be a technical article on SEO. Instead it’s intended to give you a basic idea on how to get traffic to your site from the search engines.
There are so many gurus out there teaching you how to get incoming links to your site by gaming the system. Let me tell you right now that it won’t work in the long run. Short term you will have some success, but Google especially strives to give the people that use it’s search engine the best content that lines up with what they are searching for. They are going to slap down sites that are gaming the system by generating their own incoming links all over the place without providing good content.
The biggest tip I can give you is provide good content that readers will love and keeps them coming back for more. What a secret, huh? That will do more than anything to drive that search engine traffic to your site. Why? First things first is that the search engines strive to reward good content. When you are writing on subjects that people want to learn about and you write well it keeps them coming back. If they like it they’ll link to it in their blog, on facebook, in del.icio.us, reddit and various other social bookmarking sites. They’ll write about it in squidoo or hubpages and you’ll automatically get all kinds of incoming links without having to do it yourself.
There is nothing better than you can do than to provide great content that helps your readers. When I am writing I am thinking, “what can I write that will help me readers?” I am not thinking, what can I write that will make my readers want to buy something. Of course I ultimately want to make money from this blog, but without traffic I will never make a dime and without great content that will help my readers I won’t ever get any traffic.
If you feel challenged by the idea of writing good content that will genuinely help your readers than I suggest a few things; first, read good copy and content from other writers. Secondly, start writing a post on your blog every single day. Well, I don’t write on Sunday because it is a day of rest and worship for me, but I do write at least once the rest of the days and it definitely sharpens my skills. I am by no means a great writer, but I can see improvement as the weeks go by.
If you want your page to be optimized for the search engines this is the long term way to do it. Don’t expect results overnight, but if you provide the kind of content your target market loves they’ll keep coming back and they’ll get all their friends and colleagues to visit your blog as well.
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Jason DeMars
Tags: good content, search engines, SEO, traffic, valuable content
This is an interview I recently conducted with a successful Full-Time Network Marketer Dave Hanson. He has built a group of over 2,000 people.
On an average month how many leads have you been able to generate on your own?
Over the past twelve months I have averaged 173 leads per month. I don’t generally use paid advertising.
What are you doing that generates the most leads for your business and tell us more about this system?
For the most part, I drive traffic to my own custom lead capture pages using techniques taught in MLM Traffic Formula. It’s a constant process of testing and tweaking, and sometimes massive overhauls are required to adapt to what’s working on the internet at that time.
That said, SEO is my most steady stream of leads but now my blog at http://www.davidahanson.com/ is starting to generate a steady stream of traffic and leads outside of the traditional search engines as well.
We see so many programs out there that are supposed to revolutionize our business, but when utilized they end up being empty promises. What is the least expensive way that you have been able to generate leads that actually works that isn’t an “empty” promise?
There is no silver bullet system that is going to instantly create success. What is required is to find a method of contacting people that works for you, takes advantage of your skills, and do it consistently for one to three years. When you find something that works, don’t ever stop doing it; it’s okay to add other methods, but don’t drop the current.
There is some good training available to teach people how to find people to talk to, but what I’d recommend is only listening to people who have actually developed huge organizations with the tactics they are teaching.
My favorite generic industry trainer is Mark Yarnell. I’ve known him for several years, he was the master distributor at the company I cut my teeth in MLM, and he now offers excellent training for those who want to make really big money. One of his CD’s teaches exclusively on rejection free prospecting. http://www.holygrailnetworkmarketing.com/
I’ve not had any good results promoting any of the many “funded proposals” systems out there, and don’t recommend any personally; some of them are written by people who haven’t even made $10,000 per month in MLM… go figure.
Ultimately a lead is a lead, but the important thing is the sale and that is what we are all looking for. Which type of lead has given you the highest conversion rate?
Absolutely, hands down, a self generated lead converts the best, if done properly. If working online the landing page ideally should be informational regarding your opportunity (which will reduce the number, but increase the quality) and also include information about you, since that is what you really need to focus on for converting leads into team members.
The second thing I’ve seen and experienced that works is a radio coop available at http://promisecoop.com/ This is the only “lead” source and system that has consistently produced results and leaders throughout our organization. With this system you are trading quality (which is outstanding) with quantity (the cost per lead, which is high) but the return on investment with this withstands the test of time.
I hope you have enjoyed this blog post. For more information on the business that Dave Hanson is involved with visit http://www.ThatsMyJetStream.net
Tags: 3 step plan, Dave Hanson, lead conversion, mark yarnell, mlm traffic formula, promise co-op, SEO
