How to Get Massive Traffic

Part 3 of 3: Conclusion of Blast From the Past

21 Top Posts Everyone Needs to Read About Online Business Development Continued… A Series by Amber Ludwig.

This 3rd post in the 3-part series concludes “Blast From the Past” week where I deliver the top insights and training pieces I’ve written since starting this website. Print them out, share then on Facebook/Twitter, or just enjoy the content!

I hope you enjoyed this short series. Sometimes with blogs, new visitors just come in and don’t look back on all the incredible information written about in the past. Bookmark these posts if you want to refer back to them anytime.

Have You Thought of Facebook as Your Opt-In List Yet?

If you’ve studied Internet Marketing at all, you’ve heard “build a list, build a list, build a list!” This is sound advice. Building a list of email addresses, people that are interested in following you – this can be your greatest online asset over time. Of course you’ll want to handle your “list” with care. Don’t spam, don’t email every day, etc etc.

Follow my logic here for a moment… People are subscribing to lists less and less. Some have asked if that burst of squeeze pages, newsletter signup forms and ethical bribes (like an eBook giveaway) are going away for good even. No, I don’t believe they are.

What is a Backlink and How to Get Lots of Them!

A backlink is basically a link to your website from another website (an inbound link). Backlinks are key to good Search Engine Optimization (SEO)! The more links you have pointing to your website, it conveys a message to Google and Bing about how important your website is. The more important your website is, the higher you rank in search engines. Another reason backlinks are key is because it opens portals for getting traffic from different avenues. If you have 50 websites linking to yours and they all get decent traffic – imagine how that could boost your visitation!

A Few Top SEO, Social Media, Copywriting, Design and Internet Marketing Resources I Use

Enjoy some of my very top resources below and enjoy all that you learn from them…

The Power of Social Media

An incredible video on the powers of social media for your business! This video will blow your mind away on the powers of the Internet and how you should be using it to gain sales, clients and visitors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

Search Engine Optimization Top Tips Combined

SEO insights from 9 top professionals and social media experts – Insights of key SEO tactics and strategies that we should be addressing in our small businesses. Very good tips you can implement right away!
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-expert-seo-tips-for-small-businesses.html

5 Ways to Create a Blog Post Strategy to Gain Exposure and More Traffic

When I started this blog, I had many ideas and tools to get started with a bang. I had been studying Internet Marketing from the top experts in the industry – and a few became great friends. I have had excellent mentors that showed me how and why to do certain marketing aspects – avoiding the ones that didn’t matter.

But, I still had to try it on my own. You can have all the education in the world, but it’s the execution that really starts your training. So today I share some of the things I’ve done to keep me on mark with my goals to getting traffic, getting subscribers, and just plain enjoying the ride!

Custom Twitter Backgrounds to Attract More Twitter Followers

Custom Twitter Backgrounds (see below for examples) can hands down increase your followers! If you are using Twitter to get business exposure then you need as many followers as you can get your hand on.

What if I get a follower who doesn’t appear to be interested in my Twitter topics?
It doesn’t matter. When “SarahJ” becomes a follower of you, your tweets show up in her Feed (where all of HER followers can see what tweets SarahJ’s followers make). So, naturally, someone else in SarahJ’s network will be interested in what you have to say…then that person will follow you too. Now you are showing up in that person’s feed where even more can see what you have to tweet. See how it snowballs??

Starting an Internet Business with Low Budget and Little Starting Knowledge

“I want to start an Internet business but know nothing about it and don’t have a lot of money to start it. Can you point me in the right direction to accomplish this? What are the most lucrative type Internet businesses?”

Dear Entrepreneur – You have quite the journey ahead, but it’s absolutely possible. I can tell you that getting your business online or even starting a blog would be a smart move…it’s just where things are headed.

Starting a blog is honestly your best bet on a low budget. You can start your own WordPress blog (wordpress.com) for free – it will just take time. You can create your own look and feel by choosing a theme.

Low-to-No Cost Methods for Driving Traffic

Not everyone can afford thousands of dollars to spend on hiring a web development and marketing team to help them keep up with the more than 200,000,000 blogs out there alone. I was just on a forum and saw this question:

Does anyone have any suggestions for low to no cost methods for marketing the service offered by one’s website?

I thought I’d share my reply for you to also benefit from…

My boss wrote a free report on “101 Realistic Ways to Bring Traffic to Your Web Site”. We give it to all of our clients once we publish their website and it is an AMAZING resource. Most of the methods are ways without spending at money, just time.

Custom Twitter Backgrounds to Double Followers

In a previous blog post, “What is Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Squidoo, and all the others?” I wrote about what Twitter is. “Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. You can type posts of up to 160 characters (called “Tweets”) about what’s on your mind (about the weather, your business, sports updates, anything!)”

HereNextYear has been working on developing custom Twitter design backgrounds for clients. This is key to getting more followers for your Twitter account. Marty couldn’t have said it better in his blog post, “5 Steps to Getting 2000 or More Followers on Twitter“.

Top 5 Social Networking Sites According to Alexa

As of today, below is a list of the top social networking and media sites. Why should you care? Well, this will be a good indicator of which sites you should be on in order to gain exposure for your product or service.

Want an explanation of what some of these sites are for? Go to my previous post “What is Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Squidoo, and all the others?“

And Now, For Alexa’s Top 5 Most Visited Social Sites:

1. YouTube – YouTube Has a traffic rank of 3 (3rd most visited website according to Alexa)