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Leveraging High Quality Content to Gain Website Traffic

It’s time to demystify getting website traffic. The reality is, it’s not as hard as you think. It does take work, but it’s not difficult to work. How do you drive traffic to your website consistently? Here are several proven traffic sources and methods to help you consistently bring people to your website.

A Content-Filled Newsletter

You’ve probably heard the expression “the money is in the list.” This is SO true. Website owners who put off building their list until sometime “later” are majorly missing out.

The time to start building your list is now.

The attitude you should take with your newsletter is to build your following or audience. The attitude shouldn’t be one of trying to SELL them.

A 90% content to 10% sales ratio is about the maximum amount of selling you should do.

Remember: The goal is to build an audience over the long run, not to try and make as many short-term sales as possible while burning out your audience.

Leverage High-Quality Content

High-quality content is what will bring you the most traffic over time. To build a business successfully means to have high-quality content that people want to come back to and send to their friends.

What are the best ways to leverage high-quality content?

The most obvious way is to put it on your own website. You should have more high-quality content on your own site than any other site.

Another way to leverage high-quality content is to have your content published on other people’s websites. One great way to do this is to guest post on other blogs.

What does this mean? Basically, you write a piece of content exclusively for someone else’s blog or website. The article is highly informative and really hooks others in. At the bottom of the article is a link pointing back to your site.

There are many places you can publish your content. These include article directories, other people’s blogs, which is known as guest blogging and more. The bottom line is to really get your content out there to as many people as possible.

Explore Other Methods of Traffic

Try publishing a YouTube video and see what happens. Start a Twitter or Facebook page and see how your audience responds.

Once you start getting decent traffic from your website, expand out to other methods of gaining traffic.

Chances are, only a couple methods will really work for you. But if you don’t try it out, how will you know?

Interviewing Other Experts

One great way to gain both traffic and credibility for your website is to interview other experts on the topics they’re known for.

This does two things: First, it provides high-quality content for your own readers and subscribers; and second, it also links your site with the person you’re interviewing.

The person you interviewed will often post a link to the interview on their own website. Even if they don’t, you’ll still get massive credit in your industry and in the eyes of search engines for interviewing those experts.

If you interview 10 experts, you will almost certainly get at least 5 backlinks back, resulting in both increased rankings and a lot of traffic.

There are many ways to drive traffic to your website. The most important thing is that you’re implementing something today. If you take action, you will always see results. Select the one that appeals the most to you and put it into action now. Gauge the results, then take the next action from there.

Need help utilizing high quality content in your newsletter. Let me help you!

Social Media is Key for the Work at Home Entrepreneur

By Alyssa Avant

When I first came online to “do” business, social media was small and quiet. Not nearly the robust powerhouse that we know now. But one thing I learned quickly about social media as it grew was that it was a must for a work-at-home entrepreneur like myself to be involved with. There are many reasons why you should as well. For many work at homers it has been dubbed as the Internet’s water cooler. It is surely a way in which we can connect and where relationships can form.

For me, social media is key to several important aspects of the work-at-home business, including:

Relationships – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms allow us to establish relationships like never before. With just the click of a mouse we are able to make contact with, get to know, and start up a conversation with a complete stranger who could in turn become a joint venture partner, a client, a mentor, or even a friend.

All of the above has happened for me in the last few years of “doing business” online and utilizing the amazing avenue of social media. I have met friends, forged joint venture relationships, followed and learned from mentors and worked for clients in almost every state in the nation and some other countries as well.

Finding Your Audience – With the many groups, associations, forums, lists, and more that categorize people by their interests, age, social status, and more the opportunity is there like never before to tap into a number of “databases” if you will of people with among whom you can find the audience that you’re looking to serve.

This is how social media allows for the entrepreneur to instantly connect with his or her audience and quickly begin networking with those they wish to serve.

Communication – Before doing business with social media one would have to jump through many more hoops to establish a connection with someone in order to enter into a conversation with that person. I shudder at the thought of “cold calling” and “lead purchasing” though they have merit and value in business, maybe even in today’s marketplace. I, for one, am grateful for the invention of social media which allows for communication with my potential audience and my leads without such grueling tasks.

Establishing Yourself as An Expert – Of all the mentioned benefits, this is likely the greatest of all. Social media gives the entrepreneur equal footing and a platform from which to speak. This allows for you to create a name for yourself as well as establish yourself as an expert in your chosen field much faster than ever before. This is why it is important for the entrepreneur to begin to share their message, loud and clear with anyone who will listen.

I encourage you to use the tools and benefits that social media brings to the table for the work-at-home entrepreneur. You will be glad you did.

In addition, I know that social media, and staying involved in it, can sometimes be a daunting task. That is why I had to develop a social media system for myself in order to stay on track. If you’re curious what is involved in my system, why not download my FREE Ultimate Social Media Systems Checklist.

Your Website – The Right Way

By Alyssa Avant

Building a website the right way will ensure you get plenty of traffic – Not just today, but repeatedly over time. Most people who get started in web marketing try to cut corners and end up getting nowhere. The reality is, if you build your website the right way from the start, you’ll be able to create a very nice stream of traffic and income for months and years to come.

What Makes a Successful Website?

A successful website is based on giving real value to your visitors. These are websites that people will actually pass on to their friends because the content is so useful. If you create a genuine online asset, that’s when the payoff really comes.

Why Great Content Matters

There’s a saying in the world of journalism: “Content is King.”

It doesn’t matter how pretty your site is or how good you are at writing copy. If the actual content, the real meat of your website isn’t good, then you’re not going to succeed.

Having great content will mean having your content passed around, getting links, and getting ranked. Make sure your content is truly first class.

Work With, Not Against, Google

It’s true that you can game Google for a short period of time. However, eventually Google will update their algorithm and put these kinds of sites out of business.

It really doesn’t make any sense to try and game your way around Google when you can actually give Google what it wants instead.

What does Google want? Good, high quality, relevant content for its searchers. If you give Google’s users that, then every time Google updates it’s algorithm you’ll win instead of lose.

Connect With Your Visitors

Connecting with your visitors is key. If you can build a real relationship with the people you’re serving, you’ll get both links and traffic.

You’ll also start to become better and better known in your market. If you treat your market as just a “target market” to market to, you will get some traffic and sales. However, if you treat your market like you’re talking to real people, then you’ll actually start to build trust and a reputation in your industry.

That is how you get your visitors to come back countless times in the future. You’ll become the go-to person in your niche. That is what you want.

Autoresponders and Why Your Business Needs Them

By Alyssa Avant

I’ve had people ask me, “What is an autoresponder?” Simply put, an autoresponder is a email system that automatically sends out email messages for you. It can be programmed ahead of time to send out messages when someone opts in to your newsletter or ecourse, or when you want to set it up to send out your newsletters over time so that you don’t have to go in and send out the message that given day. Because of the magic of the autoresponder, you are able to preschedule your messages for as far ahead as you’d like, saving you time.

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Autoresponders are great to use for:

delivering a newsletter
delivering an e-course
getting information out about your upcoming webinar
delivering an information product
following up with a client a specific number of days after your meeting

Autoresponders work their magic while you work yours doing something else. Many years ago I would not have suggested an autoresponder or even known how to explain to you what one was, but now I use them successfully in my business and therefore realize their importance. I would encourage you to give them a try in your business as well. They can allow you to do so much without having to put forth a lot of effort or work multiple times.

An autoresponder is one way to work once and reap the benefits of that work again and again. Create one set of messages and use them to email to subscribers for years to come, without having to go back into your email system weekly to mail something out to your readers.

Having an autoresponder work in your business allows you to set it up once and benefit from it hundreds, even thousands of times.

So, what options are there for autoresponders to use in your business? My favorite autoresponder / email management system is Active Campaign, hands down. I love its features, its ease of use, and the cost as well. It’s affordable and does everything I need it to do in my business.

There are other options out there as well, several include Aweber, Mailchimp, and ConvertKit. An important part of any business is communication with your clients or potential clients, as well as building a list of those. An autoresponder can help you to do this, get signed up with one today. Don’t hesitate; they really aren’t as scary as they sound.

The first step in getting an autoresponder going is giving away a free offer, something of value for free in exchange for a name and email address. You do this by creating a landing page. If you’re not sure what a landing page is or how to create one, contact me to see how I can help you!