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The 14 Step Traffic Generation Plan, That is the Real Work
Hey all,
Thanks for your amazing comments last post, and for people who still need some more about upsells and downsells, don’t worry I will explain it more in later posts.
“Now what do I have to get traffic to this blog” I asked myself this question and amazingly fast I got thousands of ideas to spread the word around my blog faster as I could have imagined so I went to my “Idea Book” and I really recommend you to do this, as if you found great ideas on whatever what but you are currently busy, you can easily put in idea book to be sure it is in safe place until you are not busy.
So I have been thinking “Why I don’t share some of these ideas to my blog visitors” and found it that it is really a beautiful idea to share these stuff as it will really helps other people to drive traffic to their own blogs and so I will increase your reciprocity meter as I am going to give you free and valuable ideas so you will want to payback me sooner or later
>> powerful concept isn’t it?
So I have shared like 14 ways to get pure targeted traffic
- Doing a link bait, what I mean with this term is doing a post that interests lots of people like this one so people can link to it on their blogs or to their lists driving me thousands of visitors each day.
- Video marketing, I am planning on creating some professional videos from sites like Animoto.com and then I will be going to TrafficGeyser.com which helps me to submit my video or my message to thousands and hundreds of thousands of people as it submit my videos to all video sharing sites like youtube, revver, viddler, metacafe and more also it submit it to hundreds of podcast sites which sure increase traffic as video are loved by Google so sure I will get more traffic ranking thanks to this.
- Article Marketing, Back to the old school so I am outsourcing a team of writers to get to me tens of articles so I can submit them to article directories like EzineArticles.com, ArticleAlley.com and more as I am using a software which submits my articles to thousands of article directory(Search for it on Google) and hopefully I will get thousands of backlinks to my blog whether from the article directories or from the people who will be sharing my articles on their sites and all that lead to more traffic as the SEO bar of my blog increase.
- Blog Commenting, A wonderful to get more and more backlinks to your blog is commenting to other “RELATED” blog especially the ones which has the “CommentLuv” plugin so you can go to blogsearch.google.com as you search for relating blogs after that read the topics that you are interested in and leave a comment but make it a real comment so the admin don’t disapprove your comment, this will get you more traffic and increase your SEO rank.
- Link Building, The boring part, isn’t it? Well, I’ve outsourced it to a team of experts from Elance to submit my blog to thousands of directories helping me to achieve more and more SEO rank and to get hungry hordes of traffic to my blog.
- Social Bookmarking, Oh yes, the Web 2.0 era is here too, I will be submitting all my posts to Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit and more as it is the next trend of traffic generation art also you can submit my posts with me if you wish
. - Twitter, That one little mighty…. I get hundreds of people to my blog by simply tweeting my blog posts in attractive headline and hopefully some of my followers read the tweet and come to my blog, You can retweet the post below
- Press Release Distribution, One of the most powerful ways to get traffic, unfortunately lots of people forget it although it may have an impact effect on increasing your traffic more and more, you can read more about Press Release Tips http://www.prweb.com/pressreleasetips.php.
- List Building and RSS feeds, when people visit your blog and like your content, they have to ways to keep in touch with you, they can subscribe to your RSS or subscribe to your Blog newsletter, so make sure you use them to tell your customers about your new *attractive* blog posts.
- Forums, it is like a list but limited, you can easily drive thousands of targeted traffic to your blog from forums, all you have to do is providing a great content and leave the link of your blog in your signature and once they are really want to find more about you and your topics, I bet they will click the link to your blog.
- Freebie product, Back to link baiting stuff, your freebie product can be easily a 20 pages PDF ebook but really valuable and hopefully it will spread virally all over the internet and make sure you don’t spam your freebie product by thousands of links, just leave your blog link at the end of the ebook or in the footer of each page giving you extra traffic to your blog.
- Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Answers, Go to Yahoo.com and press Yahoo Groups from the left sidebar and search for your blog category, sure you will find thousands of related groups so start joining them and post valuable content with your link at the end also some groups allow submitting your link to them also there is always a freebie section for your product, after that you can go to Yahoo Answers and search for questions related to your blog category and answer some of their questions and leave your blog links and that will get you two advantages, your expert status will instantly increase and of course will get hundreds of traffic.
- Holding a contest, that will be very soon as I will be making my first contest on this blog soon to drive thousands of traffic to my blog as I can make some rules to join like tweeting my contest post and more all that by giving prizes whether cash, toys and gadgets.
- PPC, the easy way to get traffic if you are an expert and have some money to risk.
Hopefully that is it, I will be making most of these steps on a long term plan as I have to balance creating my upcoming product with getting traffic to my blog and writing wonderful posts to you my friend.
I wish I have done something good to you by reading this article so feel free to comment and give me feedback also if you have more ideas you can post it as a comment and I will put it in the main post and will share your name and link.
Thanks to you all for your amazing comments and support
Mohamed Hammad
July 25, 2009 - 7:41 am
Nice!
FYI: Check your links on #2 – they seem to be broken.
Check out my latest blog post for a traffic technique I just shared! =D
Alex Lim
July 25, 2009 - 7:46 am
Hey Alex,
Nice to see you again!
All links have been checked and fixed, thank you Alex.
Sure I will see your traffic generation tips.
Thanks again for your comment
Yours
Mohamed Hammad
July 25, 2009 - 12:03 pm
Nice stuff Hammad and good luck with it buddy
July 25, 2009 - 4:06 pm
Excellent Mohamed… your site looks great. Thanks for the great content !
Susan Naftali
July 26, 2009 - 9:33 pm
@Wakas and Susan Thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support, I really appreciate it.
July 27, 2009 - 2:07 pm
Great Work on this Blog Mohamed Thanks for the free ideas. they are really valuabl
Steve Reh
July 28, 2009 - 6:06 pm
Hi Mohamed,
This is a really comprehensive list! So far I am only using blog commenting and Twitter for the bulk of my traffic but I will be utilising more social media websites very soon.
Keep in touch.
David
July 29, 2009 - 9:30 pm
Hi Mohamed,
What a GREAT post-I printed it out for future reference! I’m doing some of these things, but I need to do more & your post will help me! Keep up the great work-I wish you the very best!
Take care,
Joann
July 30, 2009 - 11:48 am
great post….
thanks for sharing..
July 30, 2009 - 9:52 pm
Hi Mohamed,
Well I’m following one of the tips right here. I enjoyed that post and will be using it as reference to build my business.
More info on each method would be great.
Regards
Andy Michaels
July 31, 2009 - 3:45 am
Thanks all for your wonderful comments and support you give me, I really appreciate all that
August 1, 2009 - 6:48 am
Hi Mohamed,
Finally, I got to come over to you blog and pay you a visit and I love your Look & Feel. Especially your font, which one do you use if I can ask?
I tried something this past weekend and that was to look up blog directories to add my URL. My intentions were to gather up some backlinks.
There are a few free directories, that are sort of neat, that I have been getting a good response from.
Three of them that I remember are Blogged, Bloggapedia and Blogcatalog.
With Blogged, you actually get followers that read your posts, which is sort of neat.
I really like your blog Mohamad and I will be back soon to see what you are up to.
Take care,
Karen
August 1, 2009 - 7:09 am
WOW ~ your blog has grown soooo much, since the last time i was here.
Aren’t you glad you started this blog
August 2, 2009 - 3:07 am
So, Mohamed–
How goes it since you posted this?
Can’t help noticing many of your traffic methods depend on getting reader’s attention and click thrus.
Being a copywriter, I notice that stuff!
So, I searched thru my hard drives and binders and compiled a big list of headlines that have been proven effective to use when writing article titles, Twitter posts, email subject lines, etc.
I’m offering the PDF free to anyone who asks at my blog:
http://www.lee-little.com/101_headlines.html
Keep us posted–Lee
August 2, 2009 - 8:02 am
Mohammad,
Wasn’t it you that said to Alex… Well we can forget that can’t we.
Look like you’re a pro in blogging.
And yes, this is a darn good post and now finally I know what link bait is.
Great review on the other methods.
Cheers,
Rob
P.S. Many students are also using this plugin to help with backlinks and general increased blogging.
http://comluv.com/download/commentluv-wordpress/
hope that helps.
August 2, 2009 - 11:53 pm
@Karen Thanks for your wonderful comment, I really don’t know what is the font, I use the default one!
I’ve more than 150+ directories which their page rank from PR2-9!
Some are free but some are paid, I will add them on the forum soon.
Thanks again for your warming feelings and looking forward to seeing you again at the blog.
@Brad Thanks so much Brad for your comment, yes I am really glad I started this amazing blog all that thanks to you only and your great support to me
@Lee I am really doing pretty well, I’ve broke the 500 visitor mark and looking forward to get more and more visitors, Yes I depend on that because at our web world today, we all look at the headline only, if it interests us then we enter if not then no way I am going in!
btw Thanks so much for your amazing gift
@Rob yes that was me
Thanks so much for your comment, I am really happy I make you learn something at my blog and thanks for the plugin I will see it later
Thank all of you again for all your amazing support
I hope you good luck
Yours
Mohamed Hammad
August 15, 2009 - 3:29 pm
Mohamed
Great post and loving the ‘ideas book’ concept, which I will be sure to use.
A comprehensive list of traffic generation strategies with little or no cost, I have only begun to scratch the surface of. Thanks for the tips, keep up the quality content!
Tom
August 16, 2009 - 8:56 pm
Hi Mohamed,
I am a new AJ student and I am really just getting my BLOG stuff up – I popped over here to your BLOG this AM and read your first several posts but this one really got me – so helpful – thank you so very much for sharing!
Peace~
Leanne
October 27, 2009 - 8:42 pm
@Tom Thanks buddy, I’m really happy that you liked the “Idea Book” concept, I am using it daily in my tasks, I hope you get very well in your traffic generation plan
@ Leanne Thanks for your lovely comment, I look for seeing more of your comments on my blog, I will come and visit your blog soon and I am sure it will be great
Thanks All again,
Mohamed Hammad
November 4, 2009 - 1:05 am
Mohamed,
Yep, traffic is important… Got a few new ways on my blog.
Not sure about 11… I’d rather sell it for 100% commission to affiliates, and
Number 12… Got to figure out that one day soon.
Take care,
Rob
December 18, 2009 - 1:13 pm
Hi Mohamed
Great post!
I found you at the MWA forum today. And I got curious about what you do that let you to leave your job and be a free man.
Like you was some time ago, I’m now trying to find ways to promote my blog. I’ve being learning Internet marketing for months now and I still feel myself like a newbie.
I’m a Cuban who was lucky to emigrate to Europe and now I’m trying to find ways to help my relatives in Cuba to live a better life. Especially my mom who is seriously ill. I comment this because I get inspired by you and your results.
So, thanks for sharing your knowledge and I wish you all the best.
Estani
February 6, 2010 - 12:36 am
Hey Mohamed
I am a newbie on Alex’s current coaching course. We covered traffic last week so your blog of 25th July is superb for me.
So pleased to hear your great results. That’s the kind of success I want!
Keep going!
Best regards
Wayne
February 6, 2010 - 10:00 pm
everyone reads this but few practices, im in everyone group