Snatch Traffic Out of Thin Air
Do you have a blog? If you're an Internet Marketer, and you don't have one, why not? Is it because you're afraid that you can't write? Is it because you're afraid you don't know how to set up a blog? Is it because you don't think you have time for a blog? Well, you're wrong on all three counts. You're wrong!
Everyone interested in list building should be driving traffic to squeeze pages, and blogs are an incredibly easy way to do that. First, search engines love them, so if you start a blog and make an entry every day, you'll soon get ranked highly, if you stick to a theme and use keywords in your posts that show the search engines: "This is what my blog is all about." It doesn't take very long, either. One of my blogs came out as a PR5, the first time it ever got page rank, and for those of you who don't understand the significance, it's great!
Of course, page rank depends on a lot of factors that we don't want to get into here, but let's say that on a scale of 0 - 10, a PR5 is pretty solid. The higher your page rank, the higher your site will show up in the search engines, and the more traffic your page will receive. Of course, the first three pages are the desired real estate, with the first page being the highest goal. The number one spot on that page gets the most traffic of all. And here's the great thing: It's all free!
But let's address your worries:
You're afraid you can't write.
Well, you can. Anyone can. If you need something to help you, get a home study course and learn it. Then, sit in front of your computer or a blank sheet of paper, and just sit there. Soon, you'll begin to form ideas. Write them down. Do this for one hour, at the same time, every day. Eventually, you'll train your brain to think, "It's writing time!"
You can also find interesting tidbit on the web, and put excerpts from this stuff on your blog, too. Just be sure you aren't plagiarizing. If you want to post more than 10% of the total words in the work, then, get permission from the author first. Or use an article from one of the directories, like Ezine Articles, iSnare, or GoArticles.com. Use the work in its entirety, including the author's resource box or bio box. Then add a paragraph of introduction to the piece and a closing paragraph and "wrap" the article with your own words.
But if you're still not convinced that you can write even a paragraph, hire a ghostwriter. You can find people at Elance.com or Craigslist.com who will do the writing for you. When you buy their work, be sure you're buying "all rights," which means you can use the work any way you wish. You can rewrite it. You can put your name in the byline. You can alter the article to suit your purposes. All rights even means you can sell it and keep all the money. If you can afford a ghostwriter, it will save time.
You don't have the know-how to set up a blog:
Sure you can! You have to have cPanel hosting with Fantastico, but if you do, it's a snap. Just go into cPanel and look for "Fantastico." The icon is a big smiley face. Once inside, you'll see something that says, "WordPress 2.0" If you click on that, you'll be asked to fill in a few blanks, and BINGO! You have a brand new blog on your server. Simple! Customization might be a bit more difficult because it requires knowledge of HTML.
So, if you don't know how to do these mechanical details, hire a technician to do it. You can find them online, too, at places like RentaCoder.com. Tell them what you want done and pay them to do it for you.
You don't have time for a blog:
You don't have the time not to run a blog. They're great for many reasons. We've already discussed how search engines love them. When you put a link to your main site on your blog, you're getting a one-way link, if you don't make the mistake of linking back to your blog from your website. One-way links are search engine optimization (SEO) gold. Each link back to your site counts as a vote. The more votes you have from other sites, especially if you didn't vote for theirs in return, help your page rank and your standing. But the best thing a blog will do is send traffic to your squeeze page. Sign up for some Web 2.0 sites, like Technorati.com, StumbleUpon, and Digg, too. you'll get a ton of traffic via your blog this way, too.
People need to see your squeeze page to sign up for your list, right? If you don't take some action to make this happen, you won't get a very big list, so get that blog going. Join some Web 2.0 sites on blogging, too, like MyBlogLog.com, Technorati.com, or FeedBlaster.com. You'll see your traffic pick up. Maybe overnight!
Tellman Knudson is CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. and knows how to generate targeted website traffic. He gets results! If you'd like to learn more ways to drive traffic to your site, visit MyFirstTraffic.com at http://traffic.overcomeeverything.com
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