Are you putting yourself out there.  Here is a short video before I had to run this morning that I made on ways that we can put ourselves out there and get more results.

This video I am going to talk on the importance of goal setting.   I go into why we should get goals and some tricks I have learned over the years getting goals and what type of goals you should get.

What is one of your goals for 2010?

Cheers,
Mukul

5 Free Ways to Generate Traffic To Your Website

The 5 methods I discuss are used to bring long term consistent traffic that you can grow into more traffic.  Lets dive right into them;

I am showing you this image, because this is prove that the 5 methods I explain work.  The blur are affiliates and niche market websites, more on that later.

1. Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing)

When optimizing for this traffic, there is 2 parts to it; on-site (20%), off-site (80%)

Offsite – When using the other 4 methods here, you are building an online presence and back linking to your website.

Onsite – Make sure to have your keywords in the following places;
o Title
o Description
o Metatag
o Header or H1 Tag
o Image Tag (if applicable)
o Last paragraph on your page

This can be more detailed, but that is the basics.  I am personally a fan of using the big keywords in the industry for my home page, you can use long tailed keywords for other pages or blogs on your website.

2. Video Marketing

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not a strong writer, but am big on video marketing and it makes me money every day.

A few brief tips on  Video Marketing.

- Make sure you are adding valuable content, dont just be spamming,

- Constantly be adding videos (I add videos that I made over a year ago, just spinning them differently)

- You want to market your videos with all the guidelines discuss on SEO.

Video Marketing is a #s that can be deceptive compared to other marketing means. For example (I will show proof on my blog, not in Warrior Forum as it may not be the place and seem like bragging, I believe that someone should walk the talk and want you to know these methods work). For 76,000 visitors to my website, I have  to have over a million views on You Tube. That may seem like a low conversation rate, however consider that it is easier to get more views on You Tube then on EzineArticles. The end of the day, it is a consistent stream of traffic leading to consistent income.  Look at if Video Marketing adding to your bottom line.

3. Affiliates Partners

This is huge in bringing you a lot of traffic. It is also a #s game and relationship game. You need to consistently work on attracting new affiliates.  Personally I am not as much on the chase after partners to promote for this example I am showing you, so I use to other methods.  Now if I was, I am sure to have more sales and people working for me.

The best 2 ways to consistently attract new affiliates is;

#1. Your website; each visitor who comes to your website is a new potential affiliate marketing partner, you do not know their relationships and who they know.

#2 Customers; turn them into sales people, some may love your service and be advocates to market and spread your service. Some may be in the business or the goto person in their community for that kinda of service.

Treating your affiliates well as being a cornerstone to your business is critical, most dont do that.  Some affiliates like the hand holding or phrasing, others (like me), just want give you sales, you give me a payment, I dont want to be buttered up, I just want to consistantly be paid on my results.  Anyways, so know your affiliate and treat them well. One of my mentors, Paul Tobey says I LOVE writing affiliate checks, that is business I most I did not have to go out and chase and made money from.

4. Specialized Websites in Your Industry

These are niche sites in your industry. They can come in different forums from Question/Answer websites, Forums, Blogs, Social website. On an on going basis, you want to continue looking for people who have a problem and your product/service in the solution to that problem on these websites.

How To Find These Websites? You can go to Google or any other search engine and typing in keywords in your industry, I mean big keywords like ‘real estate’, ‘cell phone’, ‘health’ and look at the websites that you can post on and build part of the community. This is not a invite for a spam fest, however to add value to the communitu by answering peoples questions directly which happen to be your product/service.

BAD EXAMPLE – putting a post saying

Hey, look at me, I sell this service and goto www.baddomain.com

GOOD EXAMPLE – responding to a post saying

Yes, that issues can be easily resolves, it would take you less then 5 minutes to do it and you would also get this benefit A, benefit B which give to blah blah blah, check out www.gooddomain.com

5. Question/Answer Websites (especially Yahoo Answers)

Q&A websites are great since you have people begging for what you want. Yahoo Answers I find produces the best in me more traffic, the others still do drive consistant traffic and is well worth it.

There is a eBook in the War Room on Warrior Forum for free on Yahoo Answers, check it out.

For the other Q&A websites, consistently test, test, test or I have your outsource person do it. she first found a bunch of question/answer websites. Then post about 2-3 posts a day for few weeks. You do not want to spam, even if the person asks the question and all you do is answer to one website, you may get kicked off.  Test which bring you more traffic, which ones don’t like what you are doing. I also contribute to the community of answering other questions.

This method can help you find golden nuggets

A few Question/Answer Websites
- answers.yahoo.com
- answer.com
- theanswnerbank.co.uk
- webanwsers.com
- maybehow.com
- blurit.com
- answerbag.com

You can goto a search engine and type in ‘question answer’

6. Bonus Traffic Source

I am not even sure how to explain this, but here it goes.

I got one that is even bigger and that is because of all this work we have done in the 5 main sources of traffic and that is direct traffic. My site like many people reading this do not have a household site like Nike, Wal-Mart, eBay or Coke. I do get tonnes of visitors a month through direct visit. I cannot tell you how, since there is no proof (I have strong believe and stats show it increases when I go more video marketing), however you cannot track it and if you know how, please let me know.  I dont do much email marketing.  This I believe comes from building a brand awareness online through the above methods.

If you have not already, please sign up for my blog updates on the right side, I am giving a free ebook that my team has created.

Follow me on twitter – ‘mukulverma‘ or

Facebook ‘Mukul on Facebook‘

For the last month or so I have been testing out Twitter and Tweetdeck after believing it was a global spam fest, I was introduced to it being a global conversation instead.  It does take up a lot of time (well a minute here and 2 their)

Is Twitter a spamfest?

or

Is Twitter a effective Marketing Machine?

I personally got only a couple hundred followers on my personal account in the last month, however these are quality people that I enjoy chatting with.

I am testing out quality vs quantity with Twitter (yeah I know there are people on both sides)

For my personal twitter account ‘mukulverma‘ (Follow me for quality) against my Video Marketing Intensive Twitter account (videomarketingi).  Go and Follw both!!!

What am I looking for in Quality vs Quantity?

For Quality

- Following people I would be interested in what they have to say.

For Quantity

- You follow me, I will follow you.

- You are in my industry, related industry, internet marketing or you may have people who want my Video Marketing service

- You dont follow me, I will unfollow you (I hate this rule, but this is a test)

The Goal

1. I would like to see how fast I can get to 10,000 followers.  In the first couple hours, I already have 108 new followers (I got this by following like 300 people)

2. To see the traffic and sales from using Twitter as a #s game (Quantity)

Anyone up for a friendly competition on how to grow our Twitter list.

I will keep you updated on my test here.

Cheers,

Mukul

PS – 2 more followers, I will let you know if #s matters or quality

As you start a new blog, you want to post on it like crazy, well I thought this would be a good place to post the upcoming Toronto Internet Marketing Meeting.

We have met 4 times now and everytime we experience massive growth.   It started off with Daniel who held it and was only of us, then went to 8 people, 13 people and last month we had 22 people show up.  It is great to meet other experienced online business minds.

Details

Who Is This For: This is for people who have a online business and are looking to share ideas and get ideas to grow your own business.  Come have fun, exchange ideas and we all grow assisting each other out.

This meeting, lets have a little fun and put a theme around it and that would be goals for 2010.  Sharing goals with others helps make you more accountable and reach them faster.

You MUST RSVP for this event, please send me a email at: torontoim@mukulverma.com

Hope to see you there, please come by and say hi.

Cheers,

Mukul

PS – If you cannot make it this event, you can get updates on future events at – http://videomarketingintensive.com/toronto-internet-marketing-meetings.html

UPDATE FROM EVENT

The event was a success, thank you for the 20 or so people who came by yesterday to Toronto Internet Marketing event.

Here is some footage that Brad took of what happens when you go around the table at a Internet Marketing event.

Thanks for spending the time coming by my newly formed website blog.  I appreciate you spending the time here and checking it out.

I will discuss interesting topics to me from internet marketing, sports, phones,books,  local events or whatever else comes by.  I am not a writer, so if I mix up words or forget words, it is about the content, not the spelling. I would like to keep this unedited.  There is a rule in my company that nothing I write is allowed out without someone else editing it, well this blog is the exception.

I am about to start on creating traffic generation for one of my websites. My January goal was to increase in by 1000 additional visitors a month on going.

Here is the traffic method I am going to using in a nuthshell.

1. Finding Niches industry websites with a market for my service.

2. Social Bookmarking - Build awareness for the website using Digg, Stumble and so on.

3. Facebook Marketing – One of my outsource employee got 90 people joined to our Facebook group in like 2 days, we are going to duplicate her method.  What she did was….

- Create a Facebook Fanpage

- Invited all of our contacts on Facebook

- Invite people with similar interests on Facebook

4. Be involved in Twitter conversations around the websites topic

5. Create a Video, load it on You Tube and Flickr video and bookmark these websites

I would repeat all these steps for atleast 3-6 pages on my website (or product or service)

Well time to get to working on it, please leave your comment below on your favorite traffic method.

Cheers,

Mukul