List Building with a Traffic Generating Blog – Part 2

This is part 2 of the List Building with a Traffic Generating Blog series, and it is the final part. Basically, I’ll be covering a few more tips about having a blog that gets more traffic to your squeeze page. So listen up.

When writing blog posts, make sure the title to each post has your main keyword in it. Put it as close to the front of the title as possible without making it look too silly. In addition, include your keyword a couple of times in the article, but don’t make it unnatural sounding. Also use synonyms and other related words as well so as not to appear to be keyword stuffing, which is heavily frowned upon by Google.

Google has something called “page rank”, which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a particular page. A high page rank often means a higher ranking in the search engines, which leads to more traffic. Things considered are whether your keywords are appropriate for your content, number of backlinks, how often you update your site, and many other things. High page rank will also attract more blog comments, which will lead to more content, more authority, and more traffic. Just be sure to watch out for spam comments. That is one of the bad things about having a high ranking blog. But I’m sure we will all happily deal with the nuisance of spam blog comments if it means that we have a popular blog with tons of traffic. I know I will.

Also, something to keep in mind when writing blog content is that search engines don’t like duplicate content. So if you have a blog article and you submit the same article to tons of article directories, you have a potential problem. Why? Because the search engines don’t want the same content showing up over and over again in the first page, so the highest ranking site typically gets credit for that article on the first page, and that site might not be yours. So it helps to change your blog articles enough when you submit them to directories so that they don’t show up as duplicate content.

One of the best things about blogs is that the search engine spiders love them. They’re easy for spiders to navigate because they’re primarily text in most cases. There’s not a lot of code to stop the spiders and send them to another site. So, blog pages are indexed quickly, and each post is considered to be one page. Therefore, the more you post to your blog, the greater the number of pages. The more pages you have, the higher your page rank will be, and the higher your blog will rise in the search engine results. That means traffic.

Try to make sure your posts have a call to action to entice people to click and visit your squeeze page. Also, make the anchor text a keyword you want to rank for.

These are just a few tips to get you in the right direction in blogging for traffic. Follow these tips, and be sure to post as often as possible, and you’ll see your traffic grow and your list building efforts will be benefited greatly.

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List Building with a Traffic Generating Blog

Stage one of the list building process is having a squeeze page up and ready to get subscribers. The second, and most important part is to get web traffic to your squeeze page. There are tons of traffic generation techniques. One of the most effective is blogging, which is the topic I’ll discuss today.

One thing that makes people uneasy about blogging is that it requires a lot of writing, and many people don’t think they can write. Well, lucky for you, you don’t have to be a great writer to start a blog. If you can speak in coherent sentences, you’re fine. Just write the way you speak. Don’t worry about using elegant language or big vocabulary words. Just be yourself in your writing and you’ll be fine, even if you writing skills aren’t high level. People will appreciate the authenticity and it makes you appear more down to earth and approachable.

Also, if you are blogging about a topic that people are passionate about, they will read your blog based on your passion and knowledge of the topic. So if you know what you are talking about, then readers will read what you have to say and they will subscribe to your list. So put that limiting belief that you need to be an excellent writer aside. There are bloggers who speak English as a second or third language who make thousands of dollars a month and even more than that blogging.

First, be sure that the keywords for your blog get enough traffic each month to justify your time. So do extensive keyword research before you set up your blog and squeeze page to make sure the market is healthy.

Another issue people have is finding content for your blog. The more content you write, the more traffic you will get over time, because the search engines love regularly updated content. So this is a crucial issue. What did we do when we wanted to find information about a topic before the Internet was around? We went to bookstores and libraries. Lucky for us (at least for the time being), bookstores and libraries are still around. So if you want to find content for your blog, become knowledgeable about the topic of your blog. Get books, magazines, visit museums, etc. Do anything and go anywhere where you can learn more about the topic of your blog. If you are going to blog regularly about a topic, you need to become knowledgeable, and eventually an expert. So get started and you will have all of the content that you need.

In addition to using your own head, there are other options for content such as private label rights products and article directories. Also, you can feature a post from a guest blogger.

If you really don’t want to write, you can just hire the job out to someone else. You can get articles written for about $10, more or less depending on the level of quality that you want. Be careful about paying too little for articles, because you get what you pay for. If at all possible, get a writer who is already familiar with your niche.

These are some of the key techniques to get more traffic to your blog, which will result in more squeeze page traffic as well for your list building efforts. Check out the next post for a continuation of this topic.

10 Quick Ways to Build a List

Growing a list of 1000s of responsive subscribers
by Fabian Tan

The importance of list building is talked about all the time. But just HOW do you build a list of responsive subscribers on a daily basis?

I’ve created a 10-point cheat sheet that you can use to grow a list of 1000s of subscribers, mostly on autopilot.

Here are the 10 steps:

1. High Leverage Article Marketing

With article marketing, I’m not just talking about the usual step of submitting articles to article directories. That still works very well. What I’m referring to is submitting your articles to popular authority sites in your market. For example, if you’re in the Internet marketing niche, popular sites like Entrepreneur, About, Associate Programs and even popular blogs like Site Fling are possible places to submit articles.

Submitting your articles at these places means you’ll have less competition and receive more traffic without having to compete with thousands of other articles.

2. List Builders

List builders typically work like this: you sign up for the exchange, and you’re allowed to promote to thousands of other members with an email promotion, but in exchange, you agree to receive emails from other members as well. Examples of such networks include List Joe, The List Auction, Viral URL and the new Viral Ads Unleashed system. I have personally used List Joe and The List Auction to add hundreds of new subscribers to my account every month just by sending out an email every 3 days. It is definitely worth a go.

3. Forum Marketing

We’ve got the old workhorse of forum marketing here. The problem with many people when it comes to forums is they don’t have a system. You’ll want to create a list of authority forums in your market, and then submit to them religiously almost every day. If you have a list of 5 forums, and you submit 5 posts to each of them every day, you’ll get a steady flow of new sign-ups each day. And this is just ONE of your traffic streams that you’ll be using to build your list.

4. Giveaways

Giveaways are another proven method of building your list. The idea is that dozens of list builders promote the same giveaway event so everyone grows their lists. The drawback to this is that you may be “giving” away your subscribers to dozens of other lists. Well, these days, you don’t even have to promote the giveaway if you don’t want to. Yes, you don’t have to! Many events provide the option of upgrading so you will receive additional points that will boost the position of your gift.

5. Ad Swaps

One of my biggest list builders is ad swaps. The idea is amazingly simple – find other list builders in your market, and propose to them that you will send an ad for their squeeze page to your list, if they will do the same for your squeeze page. This is a startlingly quick way to grow your list. I have personally added tens of thousands of new subscribers to my list from this method alone. It seems this method is picking up steam with other marketers as well.

In my opinion, this is like giveaway list building on steroids. But, unlike in giveaway events where the person who runs the giveaway is really the big winner, in an ad swap, 2 parties can be the big winners.

6. Blog Marketing

A blog is labor intensive but at the same time it can drive a flood of targeted visitors to your primary business. The great thing about a blog is that there are many ways you can leverage it for traffic – you can use it to tag and ping, it is easy to social bookmark, RSS is easily integrated and it is great for search engine optimization. Through my blog (which I have not been paying as much attention as I should), I have added hundreds of new subscribers.

7. Video Marketing

Video marketing is a highly scalable strategy for getting traffic. The hard part is getting the video created. Once that is done, promotion can be easy using automated tools like Tube Mogul and Hey Spread. These tools (or websites) submit your videos automatically to more than a dozen of the most popular video sharing websites online. Imagine if you create a short 3 to 5 minute video every week and submit it to more than a dozen of video sharing sites weekly. That should be enough to give you fresh inflows of subscribers.

8. Craigslist

The popularity of Craigslist.org has been growing immensely in the past year or so. In fact, in 2008, Craigslist’s popularity grew by 87%. This is probably because more people are going online to either search for bargains or to look for jobs or business opportunities. This means that Craigslist has never been a more fertile ground for marketers to tap into. I have not been taking advantage of it as much as I would like, but it is certainly something to put on your to-do list.

9. Ad Brite

Ad Brite is a banner ad exchange website where publishers and advertisers work out ad deals. I have personally advertised my sites on dozens of sites in the network and have reaped hundreds of fresh leads. The competition is also far less than it is on AdWords.

Here is a tip: Direct response, all-text banner ads seem to get the highest click-through rates.

10. Get Response Power Leads

If you’re looking to buy leads, then look no further than Get Response Power Leads. I have spent hundreds of dollars with them and have gotten a lot back in return. My list grows by the dozen daily and these people are highly responsive. Because the system is backed by one of the top autoresponder companies online, you can be sure of the quality of the leads, because they are real. I highly recommend checking them out.

There you go, my 10-point cheat sheet to growing a list of hot subscribers in ANY market. Apart from the List Builders tactic (which is more suitable for the home business niche), all the other tactics can be used for any niche.

All that’s left is to TAKE ACTION!

Fabian Tan is an Internet Marketing expert and author of the popular 59-page report: “Murder Your Job: How To Build Cash Sucking Autopilot Businesses In 30 Days Or Less!” Head over to http://www.MurderYourJob.com to get your FREE copy now.