The "How to Generate Quality Traffic Post" help the Novice Marketer

[neiq]

Hello all,
I, like probably alot of people here, consider myself to be a pretty good web developer in the sense of building great sites (in my opinion :p ) But I suck let me say it again SUCK !!! at marketing my sites :( . I've tried it all from buying traffic to reading ebooks etc....

I know that there are some great marketers on this forum and what i wanna ask is how did you generate you traffic ? I know some of you may want to keep your methods top secret, but for those of you who see no harm in helping the next guy out please share it here. I think that i read somewhere on this board that there's enough adsense $ to go around so why not help one another out.

Please post stuff like your daily/monthly uniques and how you get those visitors.

:confused: Please help the novice marketer out :confused:

[anks106]

I am in the same situation as the OP. We realize that ten sites at ten bucks a day is quite a bit of money, but the problem is getting ten bucks a day. How do you guys do it? How do u get the traffic to get the ten bucks a day? To go further, how do u get the traffic to get 100 bucks a day?

[Joel Comm]

I wrote about this in my ebook. Since I didn't have the space to tackle the issue, I told you guys where to get the absolute best product. There is a reason John Reese sold $1,000,000 worth of product in one day. The guy is a marketing GENIUS!

Traffic Secrets is pricey, but it is worth every penny and then some.

http://www.adsense-secrets.com/trafficsecrets.html

I have a copy on my shelf and find it to be invaluable. Reese is the man! Go look at his site. You won't believe the testimonies... all valid...

Joel

[Chuck Brown]

I haven't been able to justify the outlay for Reese's traffic product. I almost pulled the trigger one time on it...but then didn't. I still might do it someday.

I have purchased probably a hundred ebooks in my day (and written one myself), and I would say that 10% of them were worth the investment I made.

(as an aside, I would say that the information contained in Joel's ebook would have been one of those for me, if someone hadn't tipped me off to most of those tricks about a month in advance of hearing about his book. but it's chock full of really good stuff. and I think that's proven by the response in this forum. 1700 members in a couple months? yeah...that's value!)

But...that's the kind of thing that holds me back from investing in something huge like Reese's product. I have been burned 9 out of 10 times. Just reading rehashed, repurposed, warmed-over material.

And, unless there's a great mystery contained in that product, I suspect that most of the key still boils down to a few key elements:

- make your site something of value (useful, scratching an itch, good info, quality resources). when you do that, you significantly increase the likelihood that someone will link to you, talk you up to others or at least want to exchange links with you
- target your site to a very specific niche that is currently underserved on the web. make your focus very specific and optimize your site to reflect that with traditional SEO knowledge: page titles, page names, H1 titles, keyword density, etc
- exchange links like crazy...but only with quality sites. I personally spend an hour or two just RESPONDING to link requests. And I don't even go looking for link partners, which takes even longer. But remember this. If you link to crap, you'll end up doing triple the work. People that have no real investment in their sites don't take this seriously...and when the site stops producing for them, your link from their site becomes worthless and you end up drowning in alert messages and spending time removing your connections to them
- get a good reciprocal manager script. Joel has his affiliate link to Reciprocal-Manager.com here on the site somewhere. Go find it and click on it and buy the script. Yes, it's $150. But you can use it on all the domains you ever create. It's very simple to set up and it makes the link exchange process practically automatic.

This is my new personal slogan:

Build from the heart. Build on quality. Network with quality.

If you do that, and be patient...you can get to the numbers that isuccess is talking about without killing yourself or selling your soul.

c-