Since we all tend to view other peoples blogs, whether looking for specific information, to kill some time, just browsing for amusement, or to keep up on your favorite subjects, what you should be doing - while - you are going through those blogs, is leaving relevant or appropriate comments on them.
By doing this, you will not only help your SEOsearch engine rankings, but perhaps gain some additional traffic to your own sites as well since some viewers will want to see who’s commenting on the blog. Then, of course, if they like what you have to say, they may visit your site from the link thats attached to your name (when you leave a comment on a blog, most blogs link whatever “name” you insert to the website url you input).
So start blog commenting for traffic and helping yourself to get some free traffic while you are visiting those blogs! That’s what I’ve been doing for the last week or so to try and gain some traffic to check out this site!
Having a retail site to sell your items will obviously gain you more money per sale than a similar discount site offering the same items.
But consider this: many IM people have duplicate sites. The first website, the retail site, is for any sales they can catch outside of their regular customer base. Sure, these same buyers “could” get the merchandise cheaper if they searched for the discount site. Many will not though, so they pay a bit more.
The discount site, is the exact same site as the retail site, the only difference being is the price. Now, there are a few different ways one can go about accomplishing this. One, you set up the retail site at one domain, then you just copy the entire site, changing the price, then loading it onto a new domain. OR, you could set up the retail site, then just reference it on the discount site telling these (discount) site viewers to NOT buy from that site, but instead, to buy from the discount site. Is it a waste of time doing that? After all, setting up the retail website may not get any sales at all.
Well, consider this: you are showing potential buyers (at your discount site) that you ARE trying to sell (whatever) at the retail price. First off, it shows buyers the value of what they will be getting, only at a reduced price (what a bargain!). Secondly, if you leave the discount website for your regular customers, they will appreciate it knowing that they are getting something at a discount price. Then you should also be promoting your retail website outside of your normal avenues. That may gain you future customers (who will then after be entitled to some discounts from you). You benefit from the retail website by acquiring the retail price. In addition, you may gain even more sales from the discount website “because of” the implied retail site. Everyone loves a discount, and when people see that you are selling (whatever) at your retail website for $xx, but they can get it for $xx (much less) at your discount site, that’s a good buying incentive!
For instance, I have setup the “retail website” for the create a successful website package, offering it for $97. This blog you are reading here, IS my discount site, and you can get this same successful website package off of this site, for just $47! That’s $50 off the normal price!!! Now THAT’S a pretty good discount if I do say so myself! Because you decided to read this experiment website, you are entitled to get the package for less than half off!
Setting up dual sites, a retail website and a discount website may take twice as long, and/or cost twice as much do, but can be very beneficial if you use this technique correctly. Just remember, you’re benefitting in multiple ways; full price from the retail site sales & possible increased sales from the discount site when potential buyers realize they can get it less inexpensively! Especially when they see that you ARE selling it for more somewhere else!
When you have a blog, you should add the Feedburner Feed to it. This gives readers a way to subscribe to your rss feed from your blog. This will keep visitors returning to your site to keep up to date on what’s happening with it. Takes about 10 minutes to sign up, select some options & input into your own site.
The Feedburner site makes it easy for you to implement on your site. They give you a chicklet (a little icon) to paste into your blog. See the orange icon on my sidebar towards the top? That’s the feedburner feed chicklet. When people click on it, they can subscribe to this site. There’s other designs for the chicklet that you can select as well.
Feedburner feeds for feeding is just another promotion strategy that I have am using on this site for obtaining traffic to it. You must use several ways to get traffic, as well as methods to keep all that traffic, if you intend on having any success with your sites.
Have you ever seen these traffic exchanges? They’re called text ad exchanges. You join the exchange (free) and you can post between 1-20 ads every day, for free!
You basically acquire credits, from a variety of different methods, which you then exchange for traffic to your websites.
The traffic comes from the other members in the text ad exchange, which see your banner ads, text ads, traffic links, or receive the solo emails that you can send to them.
It’s another source for more traffic to your websites. The one thing I would recommend if joining any of these, is that you start up a new email account! As they send you solo ads from the other members.
I ran across this from my daily browsing of other peoples sites (you have to keep tabs on whats going on!). There is a really neat game plan listed on this site I found that explains how to use these traffic exchanges to get the most out of them. Check it out: traffic system.
Below is the one I joined & am using to give this site some extra traffic!
A friend told me about another widget for obtaining traffic so I decided to add this one onto the blog too. There’s lots of these types of widgets for supposedly getting more web traffic to your sites. Some work well, and some don’t. It all depends upon the subject matter of your blog to how well any given device will work for you.
This one in particular, link2blogs, took about 5 minutes to sign up, obtain the html codes & install onto the blog (on the sidebar). An easy one to do to possibly acquire some additional traffic. Whether or not it actually produces the traffic is yet to be seen.
