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16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you... Blog and Boost Your Search Engine and RSS Traffic One of the more recent secrets people are using to get their websites in the search engines, the last couple of years, is with Blogs. Blogs are short for web logs and are like daily dairies on the web. Blogs started out as ways for Internet... The Most Common Small Business Web Site Traffic Killers Copyright 2005 John Jantsch A prospective client asked me to view his web site and give him some advice on how to make the site better. Unfortunately, his site was such a mess it became the inspiration for this article. One of the primary reasons... The Myth of Rankings - Beyond Search Engine Optimization What follows is a condensed version of a conversation that happens all too frequently when I am approached by a prospect interested in search engine optimization (SEO): Prospect: We need our website optimized, because we aren’t showing up for any... Using Testimonials To Create Traffic to Your Web Sites. Using Testimonials To Create Traffic to Your Web Sites. By Tim Phelan - 2005 Most good sales pages for internet marketing products, services or programs have testimonials. Everyone has seen them and many of the people in the testimonials have...         How To Promote Your Online Store Copyright 2005 Denise OBerry OK. So you took the leap and started your online store. But, oops, there are no customers and your store is lost in the crowd. All is not lost. You just need to be very creative in how you market your site. The key thing to remember as you market your site is "people buy from people, not companies." To make money online: 1) You must get traffic to your site. 2) You must convert that traffic to paying customers. To begin simply create a T-chart. Label one column "Traffic" and the other "Conversion." Then brainstorm what methods you will use to to make those happen and turn them into an action plan. Traffic suggestions for you: * Pay per click * Offline advertising * Article marketing * Newsletter * Autoresponders * Word of mouth * Joint ventures / strategic partnerships * Talks to groups * Participation in online forums / discussion groups Most online stores are extremely competitive (what's not these days?) and they compete on price - one of the worst ways to compete. What you need to do is find a way to take the focus off the money, find your unique value and promote it from there. So how do you do that? First you have to know who your prospect is so you can speak to them directly. Hint: Your market is not everyone or anyone. Once you know who your prospect is, you can implement tactics that will convert them into customers. Here are some ideas that will help your conversion rate: * Bundled products * Free gift with purchase * Regular newsletter * Autoresponder course * Helpful content on your website * Companion blog for your website These should get you thinking about where you need to go. This is not by any means a complete, comprehensive list -- just a start. Begin by putting all of your ideas together in an action plan. Use your action plan to drive what you do every day. Spend at least one hour on these tasks per day. In no time you'll find you've made a lot of progress. About the Author Denise O'Berry helps small business owners take action to grow their business. Find out more at http://www.smallbusinessmatters.com