Traffic: Generating Traffic…Where do I Start?!
Where/How do I get traffic to my website? For website owners this is one of the most pressing questions that needs to get properly answered. For those that are new to online marketing, the idea of learning how to get traffic to your website can seem downright daunting since there are numerous traffic generation methods & so many ways to improperly use these methods. So for those marketers that are new you’re probably asking the question in this article’s headline…….Where do I start?! Well first, let’s break traffic generation down to its most basic parts to really understand it. You have 2 primary types of traffic, Paid traffic and Organic (free) traffic. In the charts below, take note of some examples of both traffic types as you will want to research them a bit and eventually use several of them regularly throughout the life of your online business.
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Mindset: So You Wanna Be An Overnight Success, Eh?
Wake up, grab a cup of your favorite beverage, pull up a chair and get ready to get your mind right. Yessir (or ma’am) we’re talking about mindset and getting back to the basics in this month’s issue of Internet Marketer Magazine.
So many people (myself included before I got “it” – what is “it” anyways?) chase the next big internet marketing launch for fear of being left behind. While true that online one month is equivalent to about a year in the offline world, if you have no use for the next big shiny product, what good is it going to do to buy it and have it sit on your virtual shelf collecting electronic particle dust?
Mindset is a tricky monster and what you hear here today may go against anything that intuitively feels like the comfortable thing to do. Here we go, flying in the face of untold lands, though usually what has served me well in developing a focused mindset that leads to “overnight success” is counterintuitive.
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Quick Tips: Staying Smart during the Product Launch Hype Machine
Spring has sprung and with it comes many things including allergies, kids out of school, car washing weather and…….HUGE BLOCKBUSTER PRODUCT LAUNCHES!!!
No matter how long you have been involved with internet marketing, product launch promotions when done properly are entertaining to follow, educational to learn from, and highly effective at extracting our money. I mean who does not like to get the latest product that all the Gurus are emailing us about, and how can we resist all those bonuses included in the product? Better yet, isn’t it awesome to watch your email inbox for the best Guru bonus that only requires you “buy using their link”? Now we at IMM fully endorse all subscribers to purchase the products necessary to further their internet business education to the next level, however there are some things to keep in mind during what we call the Product Launch Blockbuster Season.
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Social Media: The Basics
Social Media is a big buzz word these days but many don’t really “get it” or think it’s for the young kids. I’m here to tell you Social Media isn’t a fad, and it’s the way businesses is happening and will continue to happen from here on.
If you happen to watch the Weather Channel, they talk about Twitter all the time and communicate via Twitter to their followers. Many times they ask questions of their audience but want the replies to come in via Twitter.
News programs are doing the same thing and big companies are using Twitter as a means to contact their support department. Twitter is just one of the many sites on the social media landscape, but what does this mean to you and your business? Let’s lay the ground work to have an effective presence on the social media landscape.
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Back to Basics: WordPress: what you need
Do you have a blog? If you don’t you need one. And if you need one, you need the right type of platform to run it. WordPress is THE right type of platform. Besides being the most popular blogging platform, it is the one with the most tools, widgets and plugins. One of the most important factors in using this platform is that it is FREE and the majority of the tools, widgets and plugins are also given away at that same low price. So you have no excuse not to use the most powerful blogging platform found on the Internet. Well I guess that is not entirely true you may have the excuse “Well how do I set it up properly?” You are in luck because I am going to relieve you of this excuse.
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Tools: Tracking, Tracking, Tracking!
If you are new to marketing online and are attempting to do many of the numerous tasks required to make your business hum, I’m sure you noticed this can be a very time consuming process! To reduce the workload, you can either outsource specific tasks to other people, or you can seek out tools that either automate or reduce the amount of manual effort that you need to put out to accomplish routine tasks. Like any other resource, there are free tools and paid tools, and in order to determine the value of any tool, you will typically need to try them out for yourself to see if they do the trick.
This month we’re going to focus on monitoring and tracking traffic to your website. The good news about tracking website traffic is that the best tools truly are free. Now to us at IMM the key to tracking the traffic to your website is not just to track it, but to also be able to intelligently interpret the data collected.
We like to keep things simple here at Internet Marketer Monthly so without further ado, let’s check out 3 free tools that may be the right thing for your “I.M. Toolbox”.
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