7 Ways to Generate Traffic Without Google

Let’s get right to business. The following are 7 non-Google traffic-generating strategies that you should take advantage of right away.

1. Blogging

Blogging is inherently SEO-friendly. It actually doesn’t matter which blogging platform you choose, whether it’s Blogger.com, Tumblr or WordPress. However, many online marketers (including myself) prefer WordPress because of its flexibility, abundance of community resources, and extremely extensible features.

WordPress has several plugins that greatly enhance your blogs’ SEO friendliness.

When creating a blog, try to use your business’ main keyword phrase in your domain. Use your top keywords in your blogs’ meta title and description, and use long tail keywords in each post title. Before writing any blog post, you should already have a keyword identified for that post.

Your blog can explore topics related to your niche, but in order to effectively monetize your blog, each post should focus on building your business email list.

2. Email marketing

There’s an old tune that a lot of marketing gurus are playing these days called “Email Marketing is Dead”. That idea couldn’t be further from the truth.

Email marketing is still one of the best traffic-generating and best converting strategies out there. One of the biggest benefits to running a regular email marketing campaign is that it reminds your audience about the value that you offer them.

Also, with email marketing, you build a stronger relationship by nurturing their trust with relevant and valuable content that you keep on providing them for free. If done properly, email marketing places you right in front of your audience each time they check their email as they start their day.

3. Submit content to social bookmarking sites

There’s an extremely effective traffic generating activity that seems to be forgotten by veteran online marketers, and that many newbie marketers are not taking full advantage of.

Social bookmarking is one awesome link building activity that offers your content an opportunity to garner traffic without Google’s help. I have been promoting my posts on StumbleUpon, and I have been loving the results I’m getting. One post onoptimizing your Google+ profile  had over 540 stumbles (visits from StumbleUpon users) in just under four hours.

Pretty neat stuff, huh?

Also, social bookmarking is good for organic search rankings, because most of the major social bookmarking sites allow “dofollow” links.

Two of the most widely used and most popular bookmarking sites that have very high authority are StumbleUpon and Reddit. For a list of other good dofollow social bookmarking sites, clickhere.

Tips on promoting content on social bookmarking sites:

• Strive to promote only original and high quality content.
• Each time you update your site with a new content, post link to your content on social bookmarking sites right away.
• Always be relevant. Be sure to bookmark content on the appropriate category. This allows you to target the right audience for your post.
• Observe SEO best practices. Social bookmarking sites allow you to create titles and descriptions for your for each content you bookmark. Be sure to include keywords in titles and description.

4. Affiliate traffic

Allow your affiliates to help you drive traffic to your site. Here’s how you do it:

• Before you set out to create a product that you want your affiliates to promote, announce a launch first. The announcement should be about 90 days before the launch.
• Create a blog where you will keep your affiliates updated
• During the pre-launch period, keep building your list of subscribers
• Give away free content and tools to your affiliates through your blog

This strategy treats your launch as an event. As such, it creates a lot of buzz, and the momentum it creates leading up to the launch will improve conversion rate and frequency.

5. Contests and sweepstakes

These are two different strategies but are similar in many ways. Running contests and sweepstakes effectively increases your social media engagement and attention and helps you build your list of subscribers.

With contests and sweepstakes, you get people lined up for something that they want. But don’t just give away anything; try to give away something that is related to the topic of your site. I’ve found Amazon (gift cards) to be a great way to fulfill giveaways.

Choose a good social networking site to run your contest on. Facebook seems to be the most popular choice these days for contests. However, be sure to follow Facebook’s guidelines on running social media contests.

6. Guest Blogging

One of the most highly-effective ways to generate targeted traffic is through guest blogging. Start by making a list of the top blogs in your niche. Technorati.com makes a great starting point. Visit each website and reach out to the webmaster or editor, and explain your expertise in the niche. Offer to write a guest blog post, and use primary data or new research in your writing to deliver excellent value. Be sure to include a link to your website in the byline at the end of your post.

Build a relationship with your contacts by connecting with them on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, and be sure to thank them when they publish your post. After your first post is published, offer to continue the relationship.

The benefits of guest blogging include:

• Highly targeted traffic to your website
• High-quality inbound links to your website
• Development of your brand
• Higher search engine rankings (resulting from the high-quality inbound links)
• Establishment as a niche authority

If you’re not yet doing active outreach for guest blogging, include it in your regular online marketing efforts.

7. YouTube marketing

You should love YouTube marketing, because Google loves video.

Another reason to fall in love with YouTube is the fact that it is the undisputed #1 video-sharing site, and is, by far, the most visited. Many marketers don’t know this, but YouTube is actually the second most used search engine in the world. On an average, YouTube gets about two billion views per day. Imagine getting just a fraction of those eyeballs on your marketing videos.

Video ranks quickly and strongly in the search engines, provided it’s properly optimized, which is actually pretty straightforward.

Optimize your YouTube video by including your main keyword phrases in the title, description and tags. And to rank it even higher, get people to comment on, like and share your videos, especially to Facebook and Twitter.

 

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6 EASY WAYS TO PROMOTE A NEW BLOG POST

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6 EASY WAYS TO PROMOTE A NEW BLOG POST

Creating a post or an article is one thing that all bloggers and writers are doing almost everyday but promoting a blog post is another thing that only few bloggers make’s effort on. Some bloggers might be thinking of how they could promote their newly published blog post and they are confused about where to start from. The majority of traffic comes to a blog post during the period it was published my main focus today is to share with you on how to promote a blog post immediately or after it was published.

6 steps to promote a new or an old blog post

 

==> Share your post on facebook
With the majority of people on facebook some are likely to visit and read your blog post if it sounds interesting and has a catchy heading and title, you should always share your blog post on facebook profile and your fanpage if you don’t have a fanpage. ccreate your own fanpage

==>  share on google+
Share your blog post with your friend and followers on google plus because google plus is a wonderful marketing tool for blog promotion, it is among my top and the best traffic source to this blog

 ==>  Tweet your post to your twitter followers
Always tweet your blog post to your twitter followers this will update your followers about your new blog post, there are sites that help you automatically publish your blog post to twitter and facebook you can use twitterfeed.com

 ==> Share images of your post to pinterest 
 Pinterest is a wonderful and powerful visual site that allows you to promote the images on your blog post. Pinterest is the right place to promote images on a webpage.

==>  Share post with your linkedin friends and linkedin groups
Sharing your post to your linkedin friends and linkedin groups will give you an oppurunity of gaining more visitors and loyal blog readers, so always share every blog post to your linkedin friends and followers and any linkedin group that you belong to.

==> Share and stumble your post on stumbleupon
Using social bookmarking sites to promote a post is one thing that almost all bloggers are partaking in and because site like stumbleupon is a great way to share your blog post with people seeking article like yours.

 

 

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How to Make Money With Twitter Using Sponsored Tweets

To outsiders, Twitter can seem like a big waste of time; a bunch of egomaniacs telling the world what they ate for lunch or what they think of the latest contestant on “The Bachelor.” But to those who use it and love it, it’s an invaluable resource. I’ve used Twitter to find new jobs, locate sources for articles, and gather information on a variety of topics.

There are many ways to use Twitter for business and personal success. However, until recently, I couldn’t put a dollar amount on Twitter. Then I discovered Sponsored Tweets, an advertising platform that connects companies with tweeters.

How Sponsored Tweets Works

Sponsored Tweets allows brands to tap into a Twitter user’s followers to reach new customers. By giving companies access to your Twitter stream, tweeters are compensated for each advertisement they accept.

The only thing tweeters need to do is write a tweet based on some simple guidelines provided by the advertiser. Sponsored Tweets takes care of the rest, and will even tweet it out for you. Companies choose Twitter followers they like based on a variety of factors, including how many followers you have and how much influence you have over those followers.

1.Tweeters Sign Up

Setting up your account will only take a couple of minutes. To be eligible, an account must be at least 60 days old with 50 followers and 100 tweets sent. Sponsored Tweets will review your application, and once you’re approved you can start earning money.

2. Tweeters Promote a Brand on Their Own Terms

The great thing about Sponsored Tweets is that the tweeter is in complete control. If an advertiser is intrigued by the influence you have on your followers, then they present you with an opportunity through your Sponsored Tweets account. They will inform you of what your tweet needs to say and what link must be embedded in the message.

If you don’t like a company that approaches you, you can simply turn down the offer. If you want to move forward with the opportunity, however, simply write the tweet using the guidelines provided by the advertiser, and the advertiser will approve the final text.

All tweets carry full disclosure, which means they must include hash tagged text such as “#sponsored” or “#ad.”  Since you’re writing the tweet, you can create a message you’re comfortable with. Once it’s approved, the tweet is sent out and you receive payment in your Sponsored Tweets account.

3. Tweeters Get Paid

With a typical Sponsored Tweets account, you must earn $50 before you can withdraw funds from your account. However, if you sign up for a “Pro” account, you only need to have $25 in your account before you’re eligible for withdrawal.

You can upgrade your account to Pro status for free for one month, and cancel at any time. After one month you will be charged a monthly fee of $1.99. According to Sponsored Tweets, having a Pro account will move you to the top of the list among available tweeters, which could result in increased offers from advertisers

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Online Business Ideas

1. Virtual Assistant Business
The job of a virtual assistant demands proficient handling of the Internet and administrative skills to provide support to sales personnel, entrepreneurs and executives by offering them a helping hand to take care of some of their routine jobs for which they lack time to do on a daily basis.
Yes, this job is quite akin to that of a secretary with the exception that a virtual assistant can work with more than one boss without leaving their home and remaining in touch with the bosses through the Internet.
2. Data Entry From Home
If you have good secretarial skills and have a computer with Internet connection, you can work from home and earn money. You should have the ability to search through various websites and locate the desired information for your buyers.
3. Ghostwriter
If you have the skills and imagination for writing, you can start a home based business and undertake writing for others. That’s the job of a ghostwriter with the condition that they don’t get the formal credit of having written the actual work.
In other words, you work as a freelancer, write for others and get paid by them. When your writing is published online or otherwise, your name as an author doesn’t appear anywhere. Once you have been paid for the writing, you transfer all the rights to your client and that’s the end of it.
4. Membership Website
Having your personal website may be fun, but you can transform that to a business website and earn money. People don’t mind paying for online content. However, building such a website can be interesting or a pain. To get started, you’ll need to choose a Domain name and a hosting company to host your eCommerce site.
5. Blogging
Blogging professionals prepare blogs for individuals and companies with the intent of increasing traffic to their blog or website. They continue offering professionally written content.
Many blogs need help to gain online foothold and understand what direction the blog should go, assess their target audience and the expectations of the readers. It’s a perfect home based business if you know what you are doing.
6. Freelance Writer
There are many who make a living by writing for self or others from their computer at home. If you are good at writing, you can be a free lance writer and earn money working on your computer at home. For a dedicated writer the opportunities are endless.
7. Internet Marketing
The number of internet users is growing at a rapid pace. As more and more people start using internet for everything from shopping and dating to researching and socialization, more online money making opportunities are emerging.
You can start an internet marketing business with virtually no money (or little money) depending on what route you take.
8. Spyware & Virus Removal Business
With the ever increasing number of people depending on computers for their businesses, computer security has become a major issue. Everybody using the computer expects a secure system devoid of any virus and spyware.
The more is the number of users, the more liable is the information to be exposed to the risks of viruses and spyware. This phenomenon has caused a splurge in the demands of virus and spyware removal businesses. This is easily the best time to venture into this business.
9. Computer Programming
Primarily, the job of a computer programmer is to make programs that businesses, industries or even individuals could gainfully use. Other than that, a programmer can do coding, trouble shooting, testing of programs and prepare manuals for their use.
The developments in technology are changing so fast that at times what you produce today becomes obsolete tomorrow! Without innovative programming the pace of developments would slow down. That’s why programming is the third fastest growing industry of the present world. There is a tremendous demand for professionals in this field and the opportunities are almost endless.
10. Search Engine Optimization
The ongoing boom of Internet marketing is progressively adding to the business of search engine optimization. For the Internet marketers to be successful in their business, it’s imperative that their product gets maximum exposure. Good informative sites are soon picked up by search engines, meaning more exposure to your products and that translates to more chances of getting new customers.
SEO people can make your sites very prominent which are seen on the top of the lists to get viewers’ attention. There is an ongoing demand for this business that doesn’t require any formal education and can easily be learned. With more than three hundred million daily users of search engines, it offers great potential for growth.
11. Day Trading Business
Day trading refers to quick buying and selling of stocks and currencies on the same day. People who indulge in this kind of trading are known as day traders. The lure of quick results, prompts people to join this business.
Day traders buy stocks; hold onto those for a couple of hours or even minutes, and sell it back the same day to book quick profits. With the coming of the Internet, this form of trading is getting more popular as the Internet facilitates quick information. Because of the very nature of this business, it becomes a full time business.
Not long ago, this business was confined only to large financial institutions and professional traders or private investors, but now it’s enjoying patronage from casual traders too.
12. Computer Repair Business
These days, almost everyone has a computer and computers need repair here and there. You can start a computer repair business even from your own home. To stand out from the competition, offer lower rates and over the phone services or maybe even 24/7 service.

16 ways of making money online

1- Affiliate Marketing
This is by far one of the top choices for a web-based business. You are basically selling other people’s stuff for a commission. You can find digital products like e-books and short reports to promote on sites like ClickBank and PayDotcom.
2- Surf The Web
This is one of the earliest GPT style sites that created an opportunity for anyone to earn few cents at a time by visiting advertiser’s websites for a set amount of time (usually less than 10 sec). You can’t really call it earning money, but at the same time, there is not much work required either.
3- Stock Photography Sites
If you like photography and enjoy taking interesting pictures, there are a bunch of websites known as Stock photography Sites where you can upload your images and receive a commission each time someone downloads an image of yours.
The good thing about using stock photography as a way to pocket a few bucks is that its passive income. You upload the picture once, but you keep getting rewarded each time somebody downloads it. Imagine the potential of having 100s of images on 5 or 6 stock photography sites.
4- Sharing Files Online
Very similar to stock photography option, but it’s files and documents instead of pictures. There are a couple of document sharing sites that you can upload any kind of file you own to, every time someone downloads one of your files, you make a few cents. Files can be in almost any format, from TXT to PDF and everything in between.
5- Review Products And Websites
Set up a website or a blog and start a review site. Website owners and bloggers will pay you to post a review of their site on your site. It helps them get the word out and helps you get the dough.
You can also review products you are an affiliate of, on your site, linking to the merchant’s site using your especial affiliate link, so that whenever someone buys the products using your link, you get your commission.
6- Get Paid To Search
Search engines are big money makers. No wonder every day new search engines pup up everywhere. But since they are not as big as Google and yahoo and some other engines, they use rewards as a way to entice users to search on their site. You won’t make a lot of money fast, but it’s a good chunk of change for what you already do anyway.

7- Design Logos
Hundreds of new websites and blogs are born everyday. Most of them will need a logo, but not every site owner knows how to make a logo. If you have some design talent, you can create a small business out of it, offering custom logo creations on webmaster related forums and classified ads sites. Don’t have a professional software? Use free imaging tools such as PhotoFilter to make stunning logos.
8- Flipp Website and Domain
It’s Just like flipping houses! Buy good domains and resell for a profit. Build a website or a blog, work on it for a while and once you got it to a stable point, let it go for a nice chunk of change. People like websites that are ready to go, and they do shell out handsomely. Hundreds of websites are bought and sold every day on sites like Flippa.com.
9- Design And Build Websites
If you are good at designing sites, why not use it to help yourself financially?… There are even free software such as Kompozer that you can use to design and build nice looking websites without any knowledge of HTML. Use webmaster related forums like WarriorForum and DigitalPoints to find buyers.
10- Design T-Shirts And Other Customizable Items
If you are good at coming up with catchy phrases and cool designs, you can make a decent living by designing and selling T-shirts on sites like CaféPress.
You don’t have to spend a dime on stocking products, printing designs, shipping, payment processing and returns. It’s all done for you by CafePress. All you have to do is sign up for free, create and upload coll designs, drive potential buyers to your page and earn yourself some moolah.
11- Make Digital Scrap Booking Templates
I personally don’t get this, but many people love to scrapbook, and they do pay handsomely for templates. Make different kinds of templates and make it easy for people to use them.
12- Take Advantage Of YouTube
One way to use YouTube is to use it as a tool to make yourself known. In this age of YouTube and instant super stardom, it’s not very far-fetched to think you can become a star if you can sing. YouTube and other video sharing sites make it possible and easy for anyone to have a chance to be discovered by record label companies.

13- Making MySpace Backgrounds
They are all over the Internet, those ads for MySpace background! And that means only one thing, there is still a market for MySpace backgrounds! Creating MySpace backgrounds isn’t that hard. But most users don’t have the time to do it or are simply lazy.
You can provide them with this service and customize their MySpace pages and charge a fee for doing so. What better place to advertise your service than MySpace itself?…
14- Make Videos
With the huge interest in videos online, there is always room for more. Create interesting videos of yourself or whatever and upload them to sites like Revver and Break. They will share a percentage of their ad revenue with you. Plus, you get something for each download as well.
15- Do Directory Submission
In order for a website or blog to be successful and generate revenue, it needs traffic. There are many ways to work on traffic. One way is to submit your site to website directories which is very tedious and time-consuming. That is why many webmaster and blogger who are busy with other aspects of running their online business, hire people to do it for them.
That’s where you can come in and offer to submit their sites to directories for a fee. Use forums like SitePoints and DigitalPoint to offer your service to webmasters.
16- Build A Niche Directory
You have seen those directory sites that have a list of specific sites in different categories. Set up one for yourself. Gather a list of sites and sources related to a specific niche and list them on your site.
Sell ad space to other webmasters to generate revenue. You can charge a monthly fee to have their ads shown on your site. BuySellAds.com is a good place to look for potential customers.

Few good sites to earn money online.

The following sites are free to you as you get started making money online.
  

Amazon Mechanical Turk

This site is great, but it won’t make you rich. As an Amazon site, this is pretty much as legitimate as it gets. The tasks found on this site are super simple, and this means that most of the tasks you find on this site can be completed within a couple of minutes or less.
While this site is legitimate, the work you do here can’t replace your income. It can add up to some spending money if you do enough of them, and you can earn this money on this completely free site.
Visit Amazon Mechanical Turk here.

 oDesk

oDesk is completely free for freelancers to use, and the vast majority of jobs on this site are completely legitimate. Like any site, an occasional scam could pop up, but the folks who run this site are diligent, and scammers usually are quickly booted from this site.
Like many freelancing sites around the web, there are jobs in many areas here. From writing to web design to social media, there are available gigs in these areas as well as man, many more. This free site lets users make money legitimately online.

iStockPhoto

You can sell your photos as stock photos for free, and you could make money doing so. You need not be a professional photographer to make money with this site. Your photos of fireworks on the last Fourth of July could make you some money. The photos of the particularly appealing looking salad you mad last weekend could be salable as well. Posting your photos here is not a guaranteed money maker, but it t is a great start. If you can figure out which niches and keywords are underserved and post appropriate photos, you could really bump up you extra income.
Visit iStockPhoto here.

 Blogger

Starting a blog is a great way to make money online, and Blogger is one of the easiest to use, free blogging platforms available. It comes loaded with many easy to us tools, and the ability to monetize your site is just one of them.


Starting a blog doesn’t mean that you will be instantly bringing in the dough, but there are many things you can do with your blog that can bring in income. Ads and affiliate networks are one way that you can make money with your free blog with a site like Blogger or WordPress.. You could also make money through paid posts, request for contributions and other channels. If you want to start making money online for free, Blogger is a good start.
Visit Blogger here.

Why your blog does not make money.

The main reason your blog isn’t making money is probably because your traffic isn’t high enough – you don’t have enough readers clicking away on advertisements. But, traffic isn’t everything!
You can make big bucks even if you only have a few hundred readers a day, depending on where your ads are and what they look like. And, how bold you are as a blogger.
“If you decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it.“If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere.”
 99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail.
This may be because there are no barriers to blogging – anyone can start a blog within a few minutes. The lowest, least respectable bloggers steal other bloggers’ content. Actually earning money from your blog requires time, perseverance, consistency, and a healthy dose of “web savvy.”