Holistic Business Center» Traffic

4 Quick Tips for Getting Traffic with Social Sites

The Passion Diva — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Social sites like Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon have become hot and are getting hotter all the time. Both online and offline businesses are jumping into social marketing – and for a good reason. It works. To push past your competition, you’ll want to continually build relationships and stay ever-present in the marketplace. Social media can help you to accomplish this. And, it’s fun.

Thankfully, there are simple and effective ways to use these social Web 2.0 sites. I’ll share some of those tips with you now.

Quick Tip #1: Twitter Is Golden

Many people are using twitter as a way to connect with colleagues, family, friends, and customers. If you haven’t tried Twitter, now may be the time to set up an account and see what it’s all about. Twitter is a “micro blogging” platform where you can write (in 140 characters or less) anything you’d like. You can update people about your day, share resources, send a link to your websites, etc. – anything that you feel your followers will find useful or interesting.

When you’re a member of twitter you “follow” people and they will “follow” you.

This just means that when you log in to your twitter account you will see the messages posted by those who you’re following. Likewise, the people who have decided to follow you will see your messages.

Ex. Sally follows Paul. So, when Sally logs into her Twitter account, she can see Paul’s updates on her screen along with all of the other people she’s following.

Assuming you’re using Twitter for marketing and making money, the people you follow and those who follow you should be highly targeted. They log in because they are interested in what you and others have to say. Since there are only 140 characters allowed per “tweet” (twitter post), you’ll want to encourage your followers to follow your link for more information on what you are referring to.

If you use this social media site in the correct way you’ll gain loyal followers which leads to targeted traffic and then some very targeted customers. Some have even found Twitter traffic to be more targeted than PPC and article marketing, both which have been deemed proven methods of internet marketing.

Quick Tip #2: Facebook for Friends

Facebook is a social media site that actually started out as a way for college friends to keep in contact. Soon enough high school students signed on, now it is being used for business as well. It seems that everyone you run into today has a Facebook page. As of this writing, Facebook has over 200,000,000 active users. That’s a whole lot of potential traffic.

Just like you have followers on Twitter, you have friends on Facebook and that’s where the power of Facebook lies.

You can update your status, link to your website, and leave comments on your friends’ Facebook pages. Again, this creates a great community feeling and also very targeted traffic since people will get to know you and become interested in your opinions and suggestions before clicking through a link to your website.

Quick Tip #3: Digg Your Way to the Top

Digg is a very interesting way to receive traffic, and it is currently adored by Google. The basic idea is that when you enjoy or really “dig” an article, you “Digg” it. If other people are interested they will Digg it as well (by clicking the “Digg” button that appears). The more Diggs a web page gets, the higher the rankings and exposure tends to be.

You can Digg your own articles and pages on your site as long as you are careful. Digg has banned users for spamming or being too self promotional. However, if you use the true social aspect of it by making friends, digging their articles, and digging great articles you find online you can easily drive targeted traffic to your own submissions as well.

Quick Tip #4: Linked In for Business.

Linked In may be classified as an “unusual” social media site as compared to Twitter, Facebook or Digg. While those sites tend to promote finding old friends and making new ones while networking socially, Linked In is geared to the world of business networking. Using it will help you network within your chosen niche for suggestions, support and help. It will also allow you to search other niches and help you find targeted prospects as well.

Linked In is similar to Facebook in the fact that you will be given a Linked In “page” where you can post information about your business and the reason you are there. You can add business websites, blog addresses and anything else related to your business. As of this writing over 40 million professionals regularly use Linked In. Just think of how many people you may be able to reach out to in regards to your business, Linked In is definitely a great social site for all business owners become a member of.

Social sites put an exciting spin on website promotion and marketing. Not only are you getting fantastic exposure to your online business, but it’s great to feel as if you are a part of a community, and it’s a whole lot of fun.

The First 6 WordPress Plugins you should install

The Passion Diva — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:13:59 +0000

You did it. You chose WordPress for the platform to build your website or blog page. You have picked your site theme and now are wondering how to get your site to work just as you originally envisioned. These plugins will certainly help you achieve that dream and create the website you’ve always wanted, all while increasing productivity and visibility!

WordPress Contact Form 7.0: Of course you want to be able to open the doors of communication with your clients. You could post a phone number and email address, but what you really want is to capture the data of the clients contacting you as well. Contact Form 7.0 to the rescue! This easy to install plugin comes with the default fields of name, email address, subject, message, and submit but can be easily adapted to your specific needs. Best yet – no coding is needed to add or change fields.

Akismet: With blogging comes the potential for spammers to bombard your blog – especially if it’s a popular one. It’s almost inevitable that you’ll receive all sorts of spam comments. Akismet stops spam in its tracks. Basically, this plugin previews messages that are being sent to you and checks them for potential spam before they ever make it to your blog.

WordPress Database Backup: Now that you have created your site, you’ll want to preserve all that hard work you’ve put into it. What would you do if your server crashed or your site gets hacked into? With this plugin you won’t have to worry anymore. This plugin allows you to backup your site in regularly scheduled increments. Once you’ve downloaded and activated the plugin, simply customize your backup settings according to your needs. This once daunting task becomes a thing of the past as WordPress Database Backup takes care of backing up your site for you.

All in One SEO Pack: Certainly you want to drive traffic to your site. So how do you get your site to appear in someone’s Internet searches? Use the All in One SEO Pack plugin. This plugin allows you to tweak your titles, item description, and add keywords to your posts to increase your rankings in search engines, which makes it easier for your readers to find you when they need you most.

Google Analytics for WordPress: So who is visiting your site, and what pages or sections are the most popular? Welcome to Google Analytics, an easy to install plugin that allows you to see into the minds of your visitors in a sense. This easy to use plugin helps you track traffic whether it is from the title of one of your posts, the article itself, or possibly even the comments field. You can even combine this plugin with Google Adsense.

XML Sitemap Feed: Ever wonder how you get your site to appear in searches on all the different search engines? Welcome to XML Sitemap Feed. This plug in provides XML-compliant feeds of your site and automatically updates the major search engines of any changes that you have made. Best of all it is one click activation and setup.

From backups to interacting with visitors of your site, building advertising blocks to managing spam and increasing your search engine optimization to managing traffic patterns, these plugins will help you create a site that is easy to use and manage. Achieving your website goals will be easier with the use of these and other popular WordPress plugins. Who doesn’t like easier when it comes to creating success online?

Simpleology Blogging Course

The Passion Diva — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:49:23 +0000

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

The best blogging techniques.
How to get traffic to your blog.
How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

How To Become The Obvious Expert in Social Media

The Passion Diva — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:19:56 +0000

Two Basic Parts of a Low Cost Web Site Promotion

The Passion Diva — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:45:00 +0000

Anybody could own a web site. Anybody could up sell their own products and services to their target audience. Anyone could try to promote their web site with a low cost. But there are not many web sites that have a truly successful web site with traffic all day through. What these individuals or companies lack is the most essential factor of success – a low cost web site promotion that really works.

If you have been trying to promote your own web site and you have received traffic every hour, my hands are down for you. But for those people who need assistance, who does not have the patience to promote their own product and services, and lacks knowledge to properly advertise themselves, here are some guidelines to help you achieve success with a low cost web site promotion.

Search Engine Submission and Ranking are the two basic parts to a low cost web site promotion. Both of the parts have the same effect on the market of the web site – for your products and services presented in your web site catches the people’s attention.

The first inexpensive method of web site promotion is the search engine submission. This first part is the act filing information and submitting your web site to search engines. There are two types of Search engine submission – manual and automatic. For a low cost and effective web site promotion, automatic submission is ideal because after filling up the information, a software program would forward this information to other search engines.

The second money-saving web site promotion is ranking. This refers to the numerical position in which your web site appears on a search engine, based upon the web site’s criteria. Some search engines rank the order in which your search results appear primarily by how many other web sites link to each page. The leading web sites on this order would eventually fulfill a low cost web site promotion.

Other types of inexpensive web site promotion you could use to boost up traffic on your web site are banner advertising, classified ads, text links and section sponsorship. Banner advertisements pop up above and below web pages, and sometimes in another window. Text links and section sponsorship may cost more, but these methods helps in promoting to your specified target audience. It wouldn’t harm your web site to try these methods.

Always remember that the effects of your not so costly web site promotion hits are increasing significantly each day. Don’t waste time; find an effective and affordable web site promotion of your choice today.

Five Tips to Managing Time with Your Blog

The Passion Diva — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:41:22 +0000

So you want to start a blog but you are afraid you do not have the time to devote to it? If
you want to have your own space on the internet and have the opportunity to show your
inner self to the world, blogging may be the answer. Consider these five tips to making
your blog as time efficient as it is exciting.

1. First of all, you may want to consider setting up a community blog. A community
blog is one that is run by many people who are like minded, instead of simply by one
individual. This helps to eliminate the needs for constant posting by one person. With
several people comprising a team of bloggers, each person can post a couple of times a
week and result in a blog that is relatively active.

2. If you do not want to create a blog with a community of bloggers working together,
you can also choose to hire a team of bloggers. This is similar to the way newspapers use
contributing authors for articles. In fact, many successful blogs are successful because
they do just that. This helps to insure active posting and timely posting, thus making
your blog more appealing to visitors. This also helps to increase your audience because
each blogger will bring with it his or her own group of influence. Like this idea but not
sure about the expense? You can offset the cost by allowing the display of Adsense
advertisements. This can, in fact, even turn out to be a profit making venture as well.

3. Next, you can recycle content to save time. Search for relevant articles on your
topic(s) and break them down into segments appropriate for a blog. You can also use
partial interviews and other things. Consider selecting a longer piece and breaking it
down into smaller blogs that could last a week. You can set this up and post parts daily
as a series.

4. Another way to save time is to use audio in your blog. Some people simply find it
easier to speak into a microphone than to write something. It is perfectly acceptable to
mix things up and use a variety of both in your blog. Use an MP3 recorder or phone to
record your blogs. This is convenient for those who stay on the go or those who are held
up in traffic or an unexpected meeting. You can record thoughts as soon as they come to
you instead of having to wait and try to remember it all later.

5. Finally, you can automate your blog. Many blog programs allow you to create blogs
ahead of time to be published at a future date and time. So, if you have some free time,
you can create blogs for the rest of your week. Automate them to post each day, and your
blog remains updated with no extra work on your part. This can be a huge timesaver if
you do not have to sit at the computer to type every single day. There are days when we
do not have enough time or space to say everything we want to say. There are other days
when we would prefer not to talk at all. Instead of having several entries on one day and
then nothing for the next two or three days, you can write it all at once and have it post
each day.

Free Website Promotion…Why Not?

The Passion Diva — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:19:28 +0000

Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?

Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

1. Enlist your website.

Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.

Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

2. Know your forums.

One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

3. Write a press release.

Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

4. Be friendly online.

Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

5. Write an article.

Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6. Just let the whole world know about your site.

What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!

7. Make a banner ad.

Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

8. Take up a free website promotion course online.

Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don’t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.

When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there is such a thing as free website promotion!

How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion

The Passion Diva — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:17:15 +0000

You have finished making your own website. You have introduced your company and presented your products and services. You have added propositions and promos to catch your target audience’s attention. You have achieved the dos and don’ts of building a company web site. But why isn’t your website a major success?

Maybe you’re not planning the key to the best promotion of your web site. Here are some guidelines on how to acquire free web site promotions for your company’s success.

If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention.

Be patient. Try each method in promotion until you acquire the best, free promotion there is. You have to accept trial and error for your web site to reach the top.

There are many ways for your web site to be seen. Here are some free web site promotions you could try until you find the most effective.

*Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted. Make sure to check your web site’s ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.

*Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites. Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience.

*Find free classified ads that could boost the promotion of your web site. These ads could be seen by other people who you are not targeting for, but may as well be interested in your services.

*Free and low-cost internet banners are spread all through out the World Wide Web. Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audience’s attention.

If your web site and its free promotion did not work even after accomplishing these methods, analyze your web site. Track down all visitors, advertisements, and transactions. Then locate errors in your web site. Upload new files to your web site continuously for audience to return for new products and services. Monitor your own web site if it’s up in the market or down.

Then be ready to try the methods again and surely it will work.

It has always been said that the best things in life are free. Yes they are. And as soon as your free web site promotion proves to the audience its worth, then you’ll believe it’s true.

Search Engine Friendly Pages

The Passion Diva — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:58:48 +0000

There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Altavista and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.

Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.

If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.

Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.

Use meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using meta tags, you are making the search engine robot’s job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.

Stop using wrong HTML tags like to style your page. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using CSS, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load.

THE ADVANTAGES OF “RSS WEBSITES”

The Passion Diva — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:49:00 +0000

RSS – or what is now known as “Really Simple Syndication” – is a file format that is incorporated by Internet users in their websites to allow for ‘web syndication’, making their web content available in a format that can be universally understood by other people.

In essence, RSS is a ‘mini database’ that contains headlines and descriptions (a summary or a line or two of the full article) of your web content, including hyperlinks that enable users to link back to the full article of their choice.

RSS websites – that is, websites that contain RSS ‘feeds’ (articles or postings) – typically have colorful graphics to indicate to users that the specific web content is available through RSS feeds. These graphics are usually depicted by orange rectangles that are usually marked with ‘RSS’ or ‘XML’.

With its increased popularity, RSS is now being adopted and used by more website owners or publishers. Today, numerous resources are now available that aid Internet surfers (and even beginners as well) on how to set up and use RSS.

Setting up RSS feeds and adding them to your website can be a simple process that does not involve a lot of time or any money. Listed below are some simple and basic steps that you might want to follow:

1. Have your web content and/or news in an RSS feed format, such as XML (appropriate and ‘ready-made’ feeds are also available from other sources).

2. Click the orange graphic – this is the RSS feed icon. Take note of the URL of the RSS feed; this will be displayed in the address bar (for Internet Explorer).

3. Input the feed URL on your RSS feed creation program.

4. Click on the “Generate Feed” button. This will generate the RSS code for your web content.

5. Enter the RSS code in the appropriate place on your own website.

Having created an RSS feed for your website, next comes the task of publishing your web content and news and having them displayed on other sites and headline viewers. This is made possible with the use of RSS readers or aggregators.

RSS readers or news aggregators are used to view particular web contents. RSS readers contain the collection of ‘feeds’ or RSS files from content providers, and they are generally classified into 3 types:

· Desktop RSS readers – also known as standalone desktop application, they generally ‘run’ in the background and are similar to an e-mail client, collecting the feeds and refreshing items automatically as they are updated.

· Web-based aggregators – these are online services that enable users to personalize web pages, refreshing them each time the page is accessed or each time a person logs in to the service.

· Plug-in aggregators/readers – these make use of either web browsers or e-mail clients, which allow users to view RSS feeds while inside an existing program.

Having an RSS-enabled website provides Internet users (especially those who are website owners) with the following benefits:

· Allows users to generate up-to-date news and postings, as information and content in the RSS readers or aggregators are automatically updated each time the RSS feed is ‘refreshed’.

· Allows users to have control over the information that they wish to view or receive, as they can remove a feed of their choosing any time they want to.

Aside from these benefits, RSS websites are also useful for people who conduct their business in the Internet, particularly in Internet or Online Marketing. RSS can be an effective marketing tool for your website, especially in the following fields:

· E-mail marketing and publishing
· Search engine marketing and optimization
· Business blogging
· Internet advertising
· Digital public relations
· Branding and e-commerce

In addition, RSS can ‘power’ your website, providing you with the following:

· Valuable, updated, and relevant resources for site visitors and potential clients – RSS is ideal for websites that contain (and syndicate) a lot of information that has to be changed or updated regularly.

· Search engine optimization for the website.

· Increased traffic for the website – your website can ‘harvest’ and display information from other sites, driving more traffic to your own website.

· A wide selection of ‘channels’ for content distribution, such as PDA’s, cellular phones, voice mails, and email ticklers.

· A reliable way to have your web content delivered to Internet users and potential clients – RSS ensures that your site is viewed by the people who are interested in them, without having them blocked and ‘cleaned’ by ISPs or Spam filters.

These are just some of the advantages that RSS can give your website (and your business). The possibilities are endless, as more and more comes up almost everyday. Do not be left behind – take the advantage of the marketing and publishing power of RSS.

Holistic Business Center» Traffic

4 Quick Tips for Getting Traffic with Social Sites

Related Posts

The First 6 WordPress Plugins you should install

Related Posts

Simpleology Blogging Course

Related Posts

How To Become The Obvious Expert in Social Media

Related Posts

Two Basic Parts of a Low Cost Web Site Promotion

Related Posts

Five Tips to Managing Time with Your Blog

Related Posts

Free Website Promotion…Why Not?

Related Posts

How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion

Related Posts

Search Engine Friendly Pages

Related Posts

THE ADVANTAGES OF “RSS WEBSITES”

Related Posts