Archive for July, 2005
Traffic Conversion Tips Part III of III
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005Hi All!
Well here is the long awaited part III of the Traffic Conversion Tips. I saved the best for last, so sit back and absorb the info… 
Traffic Conversion Tip # 11
Placing anchor tags through out your site linked to your order page, testimonials (or reviews), bonuses, and benefits is a sure fire way to up that conversion rate.
You’ve probably noticed on some of the well-known marketer’s websites that they are putting a link to their order page through out their site. Why? Because they are putting the money jar (the order page) in front of them as often as they can! You can also do this with testimonials, bonuses and benefits.
For instance when you are writing your ad copy for your salesletter and you are trying to prove that your product is the best. After you make the statement about how great your product is put a link to your testimonials right after it.
Example:
Top online marketers are using (your product) and they can’t get enough of it. Just read my testimonials to see what they are saying!
You can also use an anchor tag to show that you are over delivering on your customer’s purchase.
Example: Not only will you get (your product) for the low price of $47 but you’ll also get these exciting bonuses.
By exposing your visitor to something over and over again, you are giving them more chances to take the action you want them to take.
Traffic Conversion Tip # 12
You can also increase your conversion rate by offering your product to people leaving your site. Use an exit pop-up to offer them your product at a lower price.
If you can’t offer it to them at a lower price, use an exit pop-up to offer them a free gift in exchange for their contact information. At least in this way you are getting their information so that you can contact them again in the future.
Traffic Conversion Tip #13
Get a 1-800 number. There are several services now that will give you a 1-800 number for about the same price as you pay for long distance. It used to be very expensive, but now days you can get one relatively cheap.
By having a 1-800 number you look more professional and people are more apt to call you when it’s on YOUR dime and not their dime.
What if you had a product that sold for $197, and someone came to your site. They wanted to purchase your product, but like the typical person wanted answers NOW. If you had a 1-800 number they could call, you could answer their questions and make the sale right on the phone!
Here’s an extra little tip I have discovered about having a 1-800 number. If you have a customer that comes to your site, has answers about your product, calls your 1-800 number, and you answer all their questions and get them to buy, guess what? That customer is 99.9% more likely to buy from you again than customers who purchase off your website. Why? Because they feel like they know you.
Traffic Conversion Tip #14
We’ve all heard about autoresponders, but here’s a powerful way to use one. If you do offline advertising of any sort (radio commercials, tv commercials, public speaking, etc.) instead of putting your website in and ad or giving it out, give them your autoresponder email address.
Example: A client of mine has a construction business. I just developed a radio commercial for him. He wanted to put his website in the radio ad. I talked him into letting me set up an autoresponder series for him and giving out the email to it instead.
Not only does his information get delivered to his potential customers, but he has their contact information so he can contact them at any time!
This is a very powerful tip and there’s about a 100 different ways you can use it!
Traffic Conversion Tip #15
The last conversion tip I would like to share with you deals with emails you send. The From field and Subject field are the two most important parts of your email. If they don’t grab your reader, your email will never get opened.
The From filed should be your “brand” do you brand yourself with your name or your product name? You shouldn’t use anything else besides your “brand” in the From field of your email.
Subject Line should be your headline. Make it short and snappy. Use it to create curiosity to get your email opened.
Example:
Hey, Name, I just had to share this secret with you.
That’s a short and snappy headline that creates curiosity.
By using a tracking url in your emails you can test different subject lines. If you are seeing that more people are opening your emails with certain subject lines, modify it a little and use it again!
Well, that’s it for the traffic conversion tips series. The only way to know what works for your site is to TEST! You must test any changes you make to your site. Keep what works and throw out what does NOT work. If you don’t test, you’ll never know how much profit your site CAN pull!
As I had said, there is a video of these tips made into a step by step course for you. It will be launched in September and the only way to get it is to be a member of http://www.MyOriginalEProducts.com Get over there now because the price to join in September will be $47 instead of $27!
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The Hybrid Blog and Ping
Thursday, July 14th, 2005I usually don’t post articles here, but this is a GOOD one…
…..”The Hybrid Blog and Ping”
© Keith Baxter - All Rights Reserved
For the past two years, one of the best SEO inclusion tactics was the use of blogs. Blogs have become a base standard in SEO marketing, but as times change, so does the efficacy of any tactic.
With that said what worked two years ago certainly isnt the same thing thats working now. The worst part is that uninformed marketers are still teaching the old methods of SEO marketing with blogs to the masses.
In this article, you will be enlightened to the newest form of SEO marketing with blogs.
Lets begin by eliminating a huge fallacy.
The blog and ping is a process by which you post a snippet of information from your site to a blog (mainly blogger.com) with a URL to your site included, and then notify Yahoo that a post exists on this blog. The idea is that your blog will be spidered quickly by both Google (due to blogger.com) and Yahoo.
You only need to blog and ping a maximum of 10 pages from your site. The entire purpose for doing this is to attract search engines to your site and let them spider the rest of your site on their own. You can equate this process to renting links. You simply rent one link to your site in order to get the spiders to visit your site.
Unfortunately money hungry marketers came along, didnt understand the concept, and then took it upon themselves to teach people that every page on your site required blogging and pinging. To top it off, these same uninformed marketers began teaching their followers that three pages should be processed every 15 minutes.
The blog and ping isnt as effective as it was a year ago because of these numbskulls.
With that said, it was time for the process to evolve. Its efficacy was diminished due to misuse and misguided education.
So where has it evolved to?
Its evolved into an organic blog that grows of its own. This blogging system receives its data from remote sources and posts on a consistent, yet infrequent basis. It pulls usable and visitor friendly data from a variety of sources, while still hosting the links you want found by the search engines. This blog informs over 50 blog directories every time an automated post is made, making it extremely valuable to the search engine algorithms.
How is this accomplished?
First, you need Wordpress (wordpress.org) and RSS to Blog (www.stealthtrafficsecrets.com/rsstoblog.html). Once youve downloaded both of these, make sure you install them.
Once installed, configure Wordpress per the instructions found here: www.stealthtrafficsecrets.com/wordpress-tricks/.
Second, create a list of links from your site which will be used in this new hybrid blog and ping tactic. One of the bonuses for RSS to Blog is a tool that does this automatically for you.
Third, add these harvested links to the RSS to Blog system and hit save. Set your cron to post out as often as you like and youre done.
Thats it in a nutshell.
There are a couple of additional points I need to make,
First, when using RSS to Blog you also have the ability to add additional data from other sources in order to make your Wordpress blog readable by the masses.
Second, the Wordpress tricks book gives you the knowledge to make your blog more search engine friendly as well as providing a list of blog directories that are automatically notified every time you make an entry.
With this tactic revealed, its my intention for you to enjoy the quick search engine inclusion that comes as a result of implementation.
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This article has been authored by Keith Baxter, the editor and publisher of the fast selling video newsletter at www.gothrive.com/sts.htm. If you wish to learn how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website, then subscribe to the site now its only 7 dollars per month!
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Almost forgot… The joint venture offer that blew me away…
Thursday, July 14th, 2005I knew you guys were watching me…
One of my subscribers, Robert Decker, called me on something…. I promised to tell you guys about the joint venture offer I was approached with and just blown away by. Not the offer it’s self, but the actual technique.
So, the story goes…
Recently, my friend Kidino from http://blackbeltjvbroker.com sent me one of the best joint venture proposals I have EVER been sent.
First, Kidino told me about what he was doing. He then asked if I would be interested and if so if he could send me more information. Of course I was interested because it was such an AWESOME product!!
Kidino sent his proposal over and it just blew me out of the water.
Kidino made a Word document of his proposal. In his word document he told me EXACTLY what he was selling. Offered me a great commission, bonuses for x amount of sales, a review copy of his product, and testimonials about his product. After I read his proposal I had absolutely no questions at all. Well one… Should I promote it or not, and of course since #1 it was a great product and #2 I was getting a heck of an offer for promoting it, I jumped right on it.
If you make sure that every joint venture proposition you send out does everything that I just told you, you are sure to succeed with joint ventures.
Make your proposal a complete presentation. Stand out and be UNIQUE. I know myself and many Internet marketers get tons of joint venture offers each and every day. You’ve got to stand out to get attention. The next time you are putting together a joint venture proposal, make sure you stand out above all the rest!
There’s your joint venture lesson for today…
Promo time:
If you want to really learn how to do joint ventures the right way, and learn all the tricks to building your business (with NO money) using joint ventures, then run over to www.JointVentureSeeker.com I’ll see you there…
Until next time…
Liz
Content site kick off…
Thursday, July 14th, 2005Hey all!
Okay, the content site is live… Well partially… Here is what has been going on with it.
In my post here, I told you about the 7 main keywords I would be focusing on. Now for each of those 7 keywords, I will have sub-keywords.
Here is the break down:
The front page will focus on all 7 of my main keywords, so the content for the front page will be focused on:
free scrapbooking
scrapbooking idea
scrapbooking layout
scrapbooking pages
scrapbooking printable
scrapbooking saying
scrapbooking sticker
Then each page will have it’s own keywords like this: (Main keywords are in bold. The sub keywords are under them.)
scrapbooking idea
free scrapbooking idea
scrapbooking layout idea
baby scrapbooking idea
wedding scrapbooking idea
scrapbooking idea for graduation
scrapbooking travel idea
scrapbooking idea for beginner
online scrapbooking idea
scrapbooking layout
free scrapbooking layout
birthday scrapbooking layout
baseball scrapbooking layout
cruise scrapbooking layout
scrapbooking school layout
scrapbooking pages
free scrapbooking pages
scrapbooking sample pages
disney scrapbooking pages
premade scrapbooking pages
free scrapbooking pages to print
scrapbooking printable
free printable scrapbooking idea
free printable scrapbooking pages
scrapbooking saying
scrapbooking saying quote
free scrapbooking saying
scrapbooking saying and poem
scrapbooking sticker
free scrapbooking sticker
wholesale scrapbooking sticker
scrapbooking sticker catalog
cheap sticker scrapbooking
Now, it is very easy to create content for each of these words/phrases. All you need to do is do a www.google.com search for each one and basically just write a 600-1000 word book report on them. Yes, it is VERY time consuming but in this way you can #1 have unique content and #2 have content that meets your needs exactly. Good luck finding content that focuses on one of these words at a time.
Well, I cheated a bit. I just don’t have time to write articles for all of these keywords so I ran over (not literally :)) to http://www.Guru.com and found myself a freelance writer, and boy is she good! For $150 she is writing 20 articles for me. Once for each keyword. Yes, I know I have more than 20, but I got really lucky and when I told her I had a few too many keywords she said that she would do them also. Am I lucky to have found her or what? What’s her name? Sorry, can’t tell you that one. Find your own writer this lady is mine. She is an INCREDIBLE writer.
Currently there is only one article on the site. My writer is working on the rest of the content, and as more is posted I will post the URL’s here. By posting the URL’s here I am blogging and pinging, and you know what? It’s not content puke and I didn’t have to pay $97 or $197 to do it. By blogging about the sites you are building, you are getting your site crawled by the search engines. So here is the URL http://www.scrapbookinghome.com/free-scrapbooking.htm As of right this moment, this URL is NOT indexed in Google or Yahoo. Let’s give it 48 hours and see if it is now that I’ve “blogged” it… I’ve done all the SEO (white hat of course ) techniques you are supposed to do, so hopefully the search engines will pick me up.
Remember when building your content sites. Search engines don’t index sites, they index pages, and so you MUST make sure that EACH page has had the necessary SEO done on them.
Need a quick and easy guide to the normal SEO stuff you should be doing to every page of our site? Go to http://seoelite.com about half way down the page, it says:
“On that note, grab a copy of my FREE search
engine optimization guide ($67 value) to learn 100s
of tips and tricks for getting top search engine rankings:
Sign up to receive my free Website Traffic Course with hundreds of promotional tips and tricks — FREE ONLINE — A $67 VALUE! Your email address will remain completely private and will never be given away for any purpose, EVER.”
Sing up for it… That is NOT my affiliate link… I haven’t even read what he is selling there, but I somehow got his course emailed to me and LOVED it!! So grab it now. If you guys know of any other quick FREE courses on SEO let me know…
So, now all I am waiting for is the content for the content site, and then I can start really putting things into motion. Once all the content is on the site we’ll move on to the promotion stage… Whoo hoo!
Remeber, be sure to take a look at http://www.scrapbookinghome.com/free-scrapbooking.htm and tell me what you think!
This is going to be fun, so stay tuned and pay attention!
See you all soon!!
Liz
No Liz Tomey didn’t fall off the face of the earth…
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005Hey All!
Well, I’ve been a little scarce lately; so let me catch everyone up….
First I am doing the Underachievers Month. If you haven’t heard about it, it started in on July 1st and ends on July 31st. The challenge is to make $1 in 30 days. Easy you say… Well, how much have you made this month?
Basically Ed Dale is teaching you how to make money with tiny niche sites. All the way from product creation to the actual marketing of your niche site. You can read all about it by visiting Ed’s blog at http://underachieving.blogspot.com/
I’m going to be REALLY honest here… I’m way behind on it… What’s new, huh? I’m supposed to be on day 13, but I’m only on day 3…. Not to worry though. I will catch up and I will make money using Ed’s teachings on my first try…
I’ll let you guys know about how things turn out and of course show you what I’ve learned!
Stay tuned for more info on my 30 Day Challenge
I’ve got several sites going at one time right now that I am actively trying to keep up with. One of them being http://www.MyOriginalEProducts.com I never thought this site would be such a huge success. Friday I will be adding another five original info products to it. That makes a total of 17 info products now that you can get for signing up. It’s only $17 a month to be a member. Each month you get 5 brand new ORIGINAL eproducts with master resell rights…. Yes, I’m serious… Only $17 a month… Pretty cool, huh?
Well Monday, I will be raising the price. The cost to join will go up to $27 for your first month and then the regular $17 a month for as long as you remain a member.
If you’ve been thinking about joining, save $10 and join before Monday. You wont be sorry because this site ROCKS, and no I’m not saying that just because it’s mine. It really does rock, and I’m very proud of it… Hhhmmmm… How many marketers out there are PROUD of their sites? Maybe a good question to ask them before buying don’t you think?
My http://www.BigMailCD.com site is really starting to take off also. WOW, you guys really like to advertise. That’s a good thing because I have a ton of advertising services that are due out by years end that you are going to love.
Stay tuned for more info on advertising… I’ve got a secret to tell you really quick…. I’ve got an info product coming out that’s going to teach you to advertise… Don’t tell anyone yet though, ok?
Well, it’s back to work for me. It’s time to work on that content site I’ve been telling you all about… I’ll have updates for you on that in just a second also!
Stay tuned…
Liz
