Grab The WebSite Traffic

A properly installed WordPress Blog is one of the BEST traffic generation tools on the planet.

One of the most effective and proven ways to generate targeted traffic to your home business website is with a blog — not just any blog, but a locally hosted WordPress blog.

WordPress is the blog of choice for TOP internet marketers, regardless the niche or market. WordPress has numerous, high impact plugins and designs to choose from. Mike shows you with WordPress Made Easy how to cut through the clutter the quick and easy way, save time, save money and eliminate frustration — simple as 1, 2, 3 to get YOUR BUSINESS BLOG going in less then an hour!

So we just upgraded our blog to WordPress 2.8 and optimized it with plugins etc. as described in Mike’s WordPress made Easy! Several “How To” video’s are included in his package!

You should upgrade and optimize too!

Success
Fred Lotgering
LotCon Biz Solutions
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There’s no doubt that somewhere along the way that we’ve heard someone say, “The money is in the list.” Am I right? And today might be the day when you have finally come to realize that you need an opt-in list. So you started your pursuit by reading articles, did a little online searching, and maybe you have even been reading posts on your favorite forum. But maybe you’re not brand new to list building, maybe you started 6 months ago, 12 months ago mayb even a few years ago and you are paying monthly for that online account, but you’re just not satisfied with the results that you’re getting from your opt-in list.

Building an Opt-in List [ 4:28 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today’s’ audio will address both of these. You can accept this fact as truth: people have made small fortunes with their opt-in lists. And finally today you are in a place, in your heart and mind, where you’re ready to dedicate some of your time, money and resources to growing your own opt-in list.

It might be said that your list is the most important marketing tool, and whether that’s true or not – if you don’t have one you are not achieving anywhere near your income potential. Let me reveal something to you. It’s been many years since I’ve been marketing online, over a decade in fact. But it took me over 9 of those years to come to the point that I hope you are at today. And by the 10th year I figured out what I was doing wrong.

About a month ago, I was speaking with another online marketer. And like me he had been marketing online for quite a few years. What really surprised me was that he revealed he had been marketing online for 7 years without his own opt-in list. Wow! Now I suppose that I drew some comfort in the fact that I wasn’t the only one in the crowd making the same mistake. But I was really encouraged when he cracked the whip. He was able to build up a list to over 7,000 subscribers in less than a year.

Now, while a large list of subscribers is important, the quality of that list is even more important. Your emails need to be opened, read and hopefully links are clicked on. The best way to achieve this result is to begin with that end goal in mind. You want your customers to trust you and your products, so begin by writing articles in your area of expertise. Post them not only in forums, but article directory sites. This is the beginning phase of building credibility, your online identity and your brand.

Always link back to your site, so the readers are able to see what your online business is all about, and what products you are offering. Even if you’re promoting other’s products, it’s truly hard for someone to trust and believe your recommendation if they haven’t first developed a relationship with you – that’s your goal and purpose.

The next thing is to keep a common theme in the material that you send to your list. For example, if you are building a list of pet owners there’s likely no point in mailing out an offer for a new weight loss product. Since it will just confuse your readers. Keep you e-courses, product offers and other material to a common thread or theme. Again, you are building rapport and credibility with your subscribers.
Third is to keep in touch with those on your list. In the past I built lists, and many months would go by between mailings. So, when I finally did launch a new product and sent a mailing to my list, it was ineffective. Why? They didn’t remember who I was. Now how often you should mail your list will vary. Personally, I think that daily is just a bit too frequent, But I also subscribe to lists that sender mails his subscribers, typically, twice daily.

The final point today is to make sure that when you build this list, you are using a reliable online service. The small monthly fee is very worthwhile, and you will be able to make that back in profits many times over

In conclusion, it is never too late to start focusing some of your resources on building your opt-in list. So why not start today?

Keyword density is an indicator of the number of times the selected keyword appears in the web page. But mind you, keywords shouldn’t be over used, but should be just sufficient enough to appear at important places.

If you repeat your keywords with every other word on every line, then your site will probably be rejected as an artificial site or spam site.

Keyword density is always expressed as a percentage of the total word content on a given web page.

Suppose you have 100 words on your webpage (not including HMTL code used for writing the web page), and you use a certain keyword for five times in the content. The keyword density on that page is got by simply dividing the total number of keywords, by the total number of words that appear on your web page. So here it is 5 divided by 100 = .05. Because keyword density is a percentage of the total word count on the page, multiply the above by 100, that is 0.05 x 100 = 5%

The accepted standard for a keyword density is between 3% and 5%, to get recognized by the search engines and you should never exceed it.

Remember, that this rule applies to every page on your site. It also applies to not just to one keyword but also a set of keywords that relates to a different product or service. The keyword density should always be between 3% and 5%.

Simple steps to check the density:
• Copy and paste the content from an individual web page into a word-processing software program like Word or Word Perfect.
• Go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click ‘Select All’. Now go to the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Word Count’. Write down the total number of words in the page.
• Now select the ‘Find’ function on the ‘Edit’ menu. Go to the ‘Replace’ tab and type in the keyword you want to find. ‘Replace’ that word with the same word, so you don’t change the text.
• When you complete the replace function, the system will provide a count of the words you replaced. That gives the number of times you have used the keyword in that page.
• Using the total word count for the page and the total number of keywords you can now calculate the keyword density.

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

So just HOW MUCH traffic is enough? Do you need 100’s of visitors? 1000’s of visitors?

Traffic Philosophy [ 3:20 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Successful web site traffic is never JUST about HOW MUCH traffic you can bring. In fact if it was only about how many visitors … you could drop a few hundred bucks and bring in hundreds of thousands of the least expensive visitors possible … and you’d be done.

NOT!!!

Here’s the key. You need the RIGHT type of visitor (whether it’s paid traffic or free traffic.) That’s because if your traffic isn’t interested in the product or service you’re selling, then there’s no hope at all of making any sales.

Let’s relate this to the offline world. Let’s say you own a small retail store that sells landscaping products (for example topsoil, mulches, and other ground covers.)

But if the people who walk through the door live in apartments, then chances of making a sale are slim to none.

To sell your landscaping products … who would need to walk through your door? Can you describe your customer?

A successful philosophy starts with the mind of the consumer. What do they want? What do they need?

This is exactly the process that an ONLINE marketer needs to do when deciding what type of traffic to bring to their site.

So let’s go back to the online world now.

Take a look at the product or service that you’re selling, and of course we’ll make a step of faith here that it’s something that people do actually want to buy.

Since buyers are looking for solutions to problems, then you need to know, where do they go when they want information? Yes, they’ll be doing some searching on the internet. They’ll go to their favorite search engine and start looking for some free information.

To get YOUR information into the results, you need to address their problem, and this can be done in an article, a blog, a youtube video, a podcast or any other CONCISE form of sharing information online. Be sure to ALWAYS include a call to action at the end of your info-piece because your goal is now to bring that CAPTIVE AUDIENCE back to your web site.

One of the ways to encourage them to come to your site, is to offer a free report or e-course series. Develop some credibility and rapport with your new lead, and then work on converting them to a buyer as a second step.

Traffic sources like youtube, forums, article directories and podcast directories are excellent in producing targeted free traffic. And although in the beginning it may only produce hundreds rather than the thousands you are hoping for, always remember that every one of these visitors is HIGH QUALITY because they are already targeted to your market or niche.

Here’s a rarely used leverage in Internet Marketing community today but is often used in commercial sites with tons of effective results!

More and more webmasters have the recurring dilemma on how to increase the flow of traffic in the websites. During the past few years many methods that been developed to solve this predicament. While most of them would work there are those that would not make even a small impact.

One of the methods that have spawned many success stories in driving traffic into websites is viral marketing (there is a separate chapter on this topic alone towards the end of this book). Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something to find informative, entertaining or amazing.

Many companies bank on this behavior to spread their products and increase the popularity of their company or their website. Viral marketing makes use of many mediums in enticing this behavior. It might be in the form of an interesting story, an addicting flash game, an amusing video and many others that may catch a person’s fancy.

This ingenious form of marketing is typically low cost and is a wonderful tool for any company to utilize. The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize this marketing scheme. Any website would greatly benefit that viral marketing.

Tell-A-Friend Script
One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a Tell-A-Friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, Tell-A-Friends scripts are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.

The basic concept of a Tell-A-Friend script is a script wherein a person may input his name, e-mail address, the recipient’s e-mail address and send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he wouldn’t think of the mail a spam mail because he would see the sender’s name as someone he or she knows and trust.

Tell-A-Friend script eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked because they use the information inputted by the sender. This allows for wider spreading of this marketing method. It can be quite sneaky but it is very effective.

With the e-mail sent and opened the sent media will either be read, viewed or played. Also along with the mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the site, company name or its products. The along with it is another Tell-A-Friend script.

Then the process begins and REPEATS again. As more people use the tell-a- friend script, more and more people will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or site. People who read the ads inside the mail who liked what they see would go and click on the link and visit the site. This drives traffic into the site resulting to great number of potential customers.

Tell-A-Friend Script Availability
A Tell-A-Friend script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming. In fact, you can copy paste a script and simply put it on an intended page. Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a Search Engine and type in the search box “Tell-A-Friend script” then press enter or click go.

In the search results page you will see many links that will direct you to a site where you can get a Tell-A-Friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and searching for the script and copying it to your intended web page.

With a Tell-A-Friend script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.

It is imperative that you have patience in using a Tell-A-Friend script. If your chosen media doesn’t get the mileage that is expected of it, it may take some time before it gets spread or shared. But surely many people will see your ads and there is great probability that they will visit your site increasing your traffic flow.

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Yhe Fantasos equivalent was delivered to me last week. My Delavo system is now working with all the features I had with Fantasos. I even got the free Delavo to compare (but you only need one system, a system centralizing all your business).
A basic system like Delavo will cost you hundred of dollars if you want to purchase a similar system. None offers the advanced features Delavo can offer.

As you may know already, DELAVO has been built on Fantasos’ machine. Fantasos’ price was $2997 when it was decided to stop the development and focus on DELAVO – for many reasons.

The revolution here is the way DELAVO has been structured. While based on the powerful Fantasos machine, it has been recoded in such a way so we’d add more power to it through the “Plugins” and thus not only allow DELAVO to do more things, but also allow it to co-operate with other platforms.

A Plugin is 1 file. You upload it and it adds more features to DELAVO. Simple. An analogy: If DELAVO was a gun, then Plugins would be the Silver bullets.

For example, the “MINISITES” plugin (included as a feature in Fantasos) allows you to create unlimited memberships “Butterfly-like” minisites, that can be controlled separately from all other Products/Packages inside your DELAVO system. In fact through a MiniSite you can sell 1 product or service and give access to the MiniSite’s members’ area. No need to upload any page, since the pages of the MiniSite can be edited inside DELAVO.

That Plugin for example, can then work with the OTOs Plugin, and thus display an OTO once the customer completes the order to access the minisite (aka. members’ area.) With the OTOs Plugin you can create unlimited records for unlimited OTOs and you can then add 1 or MORE OTOs after the order.

Of course, you have seen by now that you can create local or remote memberships with DELAVO, anyway, thus the OTOs Plugin can work with your Products/Pacakges too. However the main characteristic of the MiniSites plugin is that you focus on 1 product (membership) per MiniSite, and there is no need to upload any pages through FTP.

Those are just 2 of the Plugins that were included as built-in features in Fantasos 1.18, latest version. You may also have heard that Fantasos owners were able to sell hosted accounts to customers and control the privileges of each hosting account.

There are other Plugins that make DELAVO to work with third parties’ scripts too. For example, there are Plugins that allow DELAVO to co-operate with the phpBB forum, Invision Board, vBulletin board, and Simple Machines Forum.

ALL the Plugins that make DELAVO equal to the Fantasos 1.18 (latest version:) uotals: 23+ Plugins. But NOT ALL of you will NEED ALL the 23 Plugins.

For example if you just want to sell products, memberships, etc. by using only Paypal and Clickbank and offer an affiliate program, then the FREE DELAVO is just fine.

If you want to use more payment options though, you may need some of the following options:
2Checkout
Moneybookers
Authorize.net
Linkpoint
Setcom
eWAY
Google Checkout
Protx
PagSeguro

…thus, you should get the corresponding Plugins.

I’d like to be clear as crystal with you, John want to help you indeed. And that is why he delivered DELAVO free to you. But his profit, apart from having you as a reader, he expects that as you will become a successhul marketer he will make money on selling you Plugins.

So if youy haven’t got DELAVO for FREE yet, here is one more chance:
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Success!
Fred Lotgering
LotCon Biz Solutions

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LotCon Biz Solutions