The secret to massive digg/stumbleupon traffic

I'm ALWAYS working on ways to increase my ratio of repeat traffic. And I'm always trying to make the blog better for you, the viewer. One of the many reasons it makes sense for you to also view the visitor much more so than other bloggers, is while using the self generation traffic exchange methods, every visitor can convert into another visitor, which can convert into another, and another. I see every bit of potential with social bookmarking sites such as digg or stumble upon as I do with traffic exchanges in terms of allowing your traffic to bring back more traffic. So when I see a post related to information to Digg/Stumbleupon like this one, I pay attention.Here's a brief bit from the article..."Someone else did a big chunk of the work when he or she Dugg or Stumbled the story. He or she might have IM’ed some of their Digg/SU friends, to invite them to participate.What if that fan Dugg or Stumbled your next great story? Who wouldn’t want a fan like that as a regular reader? We could all use more quality friends that we haven’t met yet. After all, relationships are what social networking is about. Isn’t it?I know this is going to sound “too Liz” easy, but the answer is simple.Just say, “thank you.” Yep. That’s it. Say, “thank you.” Find a way to show your appreciation. That Digg/StumbleUpon User probably sends tons of traffic to a number of sites every day. Yet, rarely does someone stop to say “thanks for the effort.” Be that someone. Do right – the way your mom taught you – and you’ll be that little bit remarkable. You also might make a true and influential friend."

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Self Perpetuating traffic online part 1

This website is for those of you that wish to get traffic to your site. But ultimately I introduce a new concept which is to go viral. The idea is to monotize your blog for traffic, not to generate revenue.



This idea came after reading GetGoogleAds Free ebook, where it goes into emmense detail on how to offset the cost of advertising on google, by doing things such as selling ads on your site, or even to profit. This is in addition to running your campaign. While this is a great strategy if you can pull it off, your readers are forced to endure looking at a lot of ads. The author proposes that you only create a "splash page"(click on the link to see an example). This way your visitors can sign up to your email, and you can bring them to a site that isn't overwhelmed with ads. The people paying for the ads are happy, because they pay a fixed amount, which effectively turns out to be a lot less than your cost per click. However you win because you have 10 or more ads on your page, in combination paying a lot more monthly than your monthly cost of advertising. You are then able to reinvesst that money along with any earnings into next months advertising, and you can increase the cost of advertising every month or so as you get more traffic, and as a result, you will get more traffic.


This method certainly has a lot of merrit to it, but it takes work, and a decent advertising budget to get it started., as well as graphics telling people to "buy this advertising space" and an easy way for them to be able to buy the space.

For the internet newbies, and intermediate beginning marketer., this method can be difficult as well.


However, the fundimentals of the idea are so great, that I had to try to duplicate it in my own way.

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Revolutionary traffic

There are certain methods of traffic, that if done right, are self perpetuating. What I mean by this is, they don't require any additional work once set up. For example, traffic exchanges reward you with "credits" for either surfing through sites, or for referring others to the traffic exchanges. Surfing requires work, so it is not self perpetuating. However, if you put up a site with traffic directory referrals on it, and from the people viewing your sites on the traffic directories, enough of them sign up for the other traffic directories to make up for the credits that you spent to advertise for the first traffic directory, you are generating more credits than you are spending to advertise this site. In this sense it is sself perpetuating. If you could pay for ads via adwords or other ad services, and promote a site for very cheap, and your site had ads where you made up for your cost of advertising, you would have self perpetuating profits, provided you didn't have to change your ad campaiign. Unfortunatly google doesn't allow you to put up adsense on sites that generate traffic through traffic exchanges... But The idea is, you want to create a bunch of systems that are both self perpetuating in terms of profit, and self perpetuating in terms of traffic. I am now going to show you a plan that compoundsthis method (or at least attempts to! Unfortunately you need a high conversion to make it work for the traffic exchanges, and so posting ia list of the traffic exchanges to join on the side of your site probably isn't enough. The focus needs to be on traffic if you are going to make this work. You may have to upgrade your membership for this to work IF the traffic exchange will upgrade your amount of credits per referral by doing so. However, paying monthly usually isn't smart, so if it's a one time fee, go for it, if it's monthly consider it, but probably don't do it. So basically you want to create a site promoting the other traffic exchanges, and a secondary optional focus on affiliate programs related to traffic. But in order for this to be self perpetuating, this alone isn't enough. You want to capture visitors email in an autoresponder. This way if they miss signing up the first time, they still might signup for n email list that will convince them and give them the details of why they need to sign up and if they already have to create another aaccount. You can use their email for MANY other things down the road.
Now If this method is truely self perpetuating, you can send your viewers here rather then to your actual site. Now on this site, you might have a small link at the bottom that goes to your actual site or blog if you wish, or you can put a link to it in your email. It's more important to funnel others into a self perpetuating method than to go to your site, because every 1 visitor might mean 1 more, which means 1 more, which means more and more and more. Now there are many other self perpetuating mthods, this in itself is not special... HOWEVER, I will now show you how you can combine it with so many other methods...
Another self perpetuating method is writing articles. It's not in the same sense that one visitor will lead to more due to the other visitor on it's own, but it will continue to generate views over time. Now if you can add to this article skills that enable it to rank high in the search engine, then you have people click on the search engine and search for the article, and you have people viewing the article... And if you use Digg for the article, you can have people view the articlethrough searching through digg. But Now you can link to your "digg" story and get people that "digg" this will increase it's rank. Now if people "digg" it, and it's ranked higher, more people will see it, which leads to more "diggs" Now you can send the article to those who signed up for your list the link so they can "digg" your story. You can post links on forums telling people to digg, and you can even make an article about services like dig, and your link can tell them to "digg" you. . Now there's methods on "myspace and other social netorks that can get it self perpetuating. Posting videos on major video directories are somewhat "self perpetuating, because one video view might lead to someone checkign out your video profile which leads to additional video views. Now if you have links on your videos to your blog and/or your articles and other things, you're going to get more visitors. Now you can submit classified ads telling people to check out your traffic secrets, and when they sign up you can email them a ink to your article, and have them "digg it" and then you can send them a link to your video... and you can post your video on your myspace profile, and you can keep adding things like this. Connect as many self perpetuating traffic ideas as you can, and then move on and create another entire group of these self perpetuating methods... When you have a few going, you can link to each other... just a small link might be enough, but find a way to connect them, and make them unique. For example, you might have 4 groups of sites or blogs all pointing to the other 3 traffic directories... they might consist of Traffic G, Traffic Swarm, Traffic Splash, and TS25... And your other group might consist of Magnify traffic, SavvyClicks, Web Biz Insider, and Fast easy traffic.You can then modify your posts to say something like "did you sign up for these traffic exchanges, if not you should check it out, you can create self perpetuating traffic by... (continue to explain). IOnce you've done that, if you want to set up more of these you can either sign up under a new name, or you can check out other traffic exchanges like you'll find here (link to your other related site)"
Now both systems are basically mirrors of each other, but once you web them together, as long as they're fairly different, but not too much, If you can link them together and direct your traffic in that direction without sacrificing your conversion rates of the other ones, your self perpetuating method will magnify itself again.Not only will you be getting a continuous stream of traffic, but you will get an increaseing stream of continuous traffic. You will continue to add MORE of these on.... Now suddenly Methods that MAY have not been worth your time before suddenly are. Before you might only get a small number of people clicking on a classified ad and to your site, but now that small number gets stuck in a vortex, and in doing so allow you tto generate more traffic. Compounding traffic. Now why not crreate a website promoting an ebook on traffic. Now you can promote it on your traffic blogs or through the newsletter.... But what's more, in the ebook you can direct the people to your blog explaining the tactic, and in addition, you can teach them how they can use their autoresponder to generate profits by referring your ebook. Now every customer becomes an affiliate for your ebook, and they also sign up for traffic exchanges through your link.. They also use the same exact tactics you use, so they will also set up automatic streams of traffic. DO you see the power here? Just in case your self perpetuating traffic boost wasn't self perpetuating enough, you have those that buy your book to become your affiliate, so every person that buys your book might go on to get 5 sales each, which get 5 more, etc... but they're also setting up self perpetuating traffic themselves. Now there self perpetuaing traffic is designed to promote your ebook... But even if people don't buy your ebook, they'll probably check your site out and click on it, and maybe sign up for your newsletter... Your newsletter will then send them to your blogs, which generates more credits, which generates more buyers whch generate more affiliates, which generate more buyers, etc.. In addition people are diggin g your site because they've signed up for your newsletter, they're digging your articles, your videos, and everything else is growing... Now in the future you can create systems that are similar but focus on promoting a list interested in growing a business or building a website. You can sell an ereport on how to build a website, then in those ebooks link them to "how to build a business" which links to "how to build a website" which links to "how to build traffic"...
Now after all of this, you are creating an empire, however, you want to promote this stuff to affiliates. You want to do JVs, and get super affiliates... continue this over and over again... then you can use your network to takeover the different niches, you can create a social network, and single handedly build it, you can essentially revolutionize the internet.

Traffic Secrets - Guaranteed Traffic

With rising PPC costs creating more and more competitive pricing, it can be difficult to have an effective PPC advertising campaign to get traffic to your site, and often a waste of money as well.
So what else can you do for traffic? Well, if you want long term traffic, you can combine other web 2.0 tricks with the power of traffic exchanges. Traffic exchanges on their own are not very useful. But leverage a few secrets with web 2.0 tricks, and you have a self generaating stream of traffic. Traffic exchanges, is a group of many people grouped together agreeing to visit other websites in exchange for people visiting theirs. Those that join traffic exchanges will eventually find out that they are trapped, foreced to keep surfing if they want more traffic...

But those that find the secrets are amazed at what traffic exchanges can do!

Traffic exchanges have a feature where you can gain advertising credits for referring other people. This means that no surfing is really needed. You simply can use methods to promote your site and your site will just have links referring others to the other traffic exchanges. But here's the trick... You use your credits to direct your traffic to that site. If you combine it with other methods such as using article promotion to promote that site, you can eventually have more credits comming in, than going out. Now for awhile, I suggest using all your credits towards this blog so you can continue to generate more credits... But then you can start feeding some of your extra credits over to the site you want to promote. Of course if you have people digging your articles, and clicking over to your videos, your increasing your chances of getting more traffic later.

But in order for your traffic exchanges to continue to generate traffic you still will want to know a few other tricks. Setting up an autoresponder for example, is a great way to make sure those at the traffic exchanges don't just click and then leave. If you can get them signed up for your list, you can promote the traffic exchanges so you continue to have more credits and you can promote your actual website which is your goal anyways. Personalizing your traffic exchanges specific to each traffic exchange, also can improve your conversion. Using classified ads, and forums, and other methods to promote your traffic exchange will keep your referrals flowing enough to keep the traffic going while you tweak your site. Changing your site up, adding a few more traffic exchange referrals, and taking a few off might also help. Massive submissions to FFA and other ad directories using ad blasters, or massive emails by buying lists of course will get more people, but mroe people doesn't mean you will convert a higher rate neccesarily. Upgrading your traffic exchange accounts to pro will sometimes automatically increase your credits earcned per referral (as well as per click) by a fctor of 3. Find out which ones... you should be willing to pay the amount if doing so will put you over the edge... remember, if you have more credts going in than going out, you essentially have unlimited credits to advertise via the traffic exchanges.

Build it and they will come? Pt 3

Build it and they will come might be true in the phyical world, but is it true in the online virtual world?

This is the third article in a series of articles that attempts to answer that exact same question You can find Part 1 and Part 2 below

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Combining article marketing, and social bookmarking is just one way you can build your site in a traffic friendly way. However, you have to make a clear reason for them to want to socially bookmark your site. It has to be something that they'd want to show others. So you want to build a site that is user friendly, and traffic friendly. setting up "reminders" at the bottom of each page that people can bookmark your site is a good start. But the content of your site must be good enough, and unique enough for it to stand out. Unless your website does something to differenciate already, you're going to have to find some unique way to catch your viewer's attention.

What about video? If you can create a video related to your site, or create a video on your site, and relate it to your promotions, you will improve the quality of your site. Not only will this make people more likely to want to add it to digg, and other social bookmark sites, but you will get more people coming to your page if you do it right. Simply make a video, and in the description box put a link to your website. In the video itself, you can mention your site a couple times, at the beginning, and at the end. Now submit your video to google video, youtube, yahoo video, msn video, myspace video, vsocial.com, etc. You will have tons of traffic comming from these places. See, using video is yet another way of "webbing" your site out to other highly populated (or as they say online "trafficed") areas.

Now you can cfcreate more videos, or break 1 video down into a few parts. Then you can use your video to "reply" to youtr first one. and you can use the description box to make a link to the first video as well as to your blog. This way people that see your first video, can see the 2nd video. There can be visitors that might see one but not th eother... by allowing them to see both, you keep their interest, and you get more video views. Some people search by "video views"! so the videos with more views will get more than those with less, with all other things being equal. Now if you have a subscriber list, you might want to send them to the video so you can get more views, which will lead to more views later on.

If you don't have any subscribers, you need to start collecting them. Iyour customers might forget about your site, or not be able to find it again, and WANT to come back... You need to start taking their email so you can give them the lattest info and give them a chance to come back to your site., as well as provide them more information. You can network within the video sites depending on the site.. this way you can add more friends, have people subscribe to your videos (and be notified when you have a new video), and you can send them messages.

If you do this, and network well, you will start to get more subscribes and more views, and better ratings on your video.

If you build your site, and web it around linking yourself from other popular sites, and effectively use web 2.0 methods... they will come.

Build it and they will come? Pt 2

In part one of this series of articles, I explained how "build it and they will come" isn't always true, but I also gave you a glimpse into the world of web 2.0. See the world of the internet is different. There once was nothing at all on the web, and look how much there is now. There is essentially an unlimited amount of space for more and more webpages. If the servers run out of room to store all the information, they just make bigger and faster servers. There are a limited number of domain names under a certain amount of characters, so certainly the demand for certain domains goes up and it costs more, but there is an unlimited amount of domain names and subdomain names if you don't put a limit on the amount of characters. Unlike the real world, when you build a site, it can exist in a place that nothing at all existed before. If you built something on a populated area, people would notice it, and the saying "build it and they will come" almost has to be true. But in the online world, unless you have something connected to your site that exists in places that people already know about, your site will just be like an island in the days when there were no boats to find them.

I still believe that the phrase "buil it and they will come" is true on the web, but just as their are different rules for how and where you can "build it", there are different things that must be involved in the building process.

The first thing you must do to survive in the world of web 2.0 is to associate or connect your site, either by talking about it, a video about it, or a link to it, or a social bookmark of it to an already existing and populated area. This is like building signs that point to your "virtual real estate".. You should develop a strategy of making your site known by creating a large presense in the web 2.0 community. It's called the world wide web for a reason, and if you wanted to be included, you'll have to "web" your site, connecting it to other sources. Since the search engines "crawl" these webs regularly, they will "crawl" through the web, and find the new webbing leading to your site. The more of these "webbings" in populated areas, the more often your site will be crawled, and the more significance the search engines will place on your site. Now in Web 2.0, the uer is the one to crawl these sites, but it's different in the sense that you really don't have to "web" out to another site for the web 2.0 users to crawl you. You can just list yourself oor bookmark yourself on these social bookmarks, and the social bookmark network will automatically web you in their own way for their users to "crawl", rank, and the community will decide what they like better.

But don't limit yourself to just one of these methods, combining the old methods of webbing your site and branching it out to other successful sites, in combination with adding yourself to these new social bookmarking sites, will allow you to get people from the search engines to go to your site, and if they have a social bookmarking toolbar instead, they can click a button, review your site and if it's a subsection of your site that hasn't been added, they can add it, if it has already been added, they can say they like it, or "digg it" or sphrul it or furl it or a variety of other terms and phrases they use to increase their ranking in these social bookmarking "search engines". In addition, you can use other methods of promotion that have always been effective, but due to the surge in web 2.0, might not be as effective as before. But if you combine these techniques with web 2.0 techniques, you can mek your site even more popular then before!

For example, article marketing has ALWAYS been a great form of promotion, ever since article directories and internet marketing has been discovered. But it has increased in popularity, and there are more articles than ever, and their are massive amounts of article directories that people use software to submit it to all of them with a click of a button. There's even some that can take the same article, or a couple of them, spin the paragraphs and phrases, reword phrases using a thesaurus, add in a few common phrases, and automatically come up with a unique article. So how in the world ar you supposed to survive using these tactics? By using web 2.0. Add your article into your social bookmarking directories, both on your webspage and on a top article directory or two. Maybe you "stumble it" as well as put up a button that allows users to "digg it" Now users that "stumble it" might come across it and not only say they like it in stumble upon, but they'll say they "dig it". Once your site gets ranked higher for having more "diggs", it will also get stumbled upon from digg users checking it out... If you make this a high quality article, put it in the right categories, and use this method, it will be very viral.

Using techniques like this, and many others will help give you a huge boost in traffic.

Build it and they will come? Pt 1

Build it and they will come... or so the saying goes... Unfortunately in the world of the web, build it and they will come is only true if you build it in a way that they can't help but be magnitized to your site. Previously on the internet, the only way you could do this was tomake your website compatible for the search engine, and to optimize it for the search engines, and then either market it using other people's sites, via link exchanging, or building the links on the web in the right places so your wsite would rank high in the search engines for the right keywords. However, the internet has changed. We are no longer in an primative phase of the internet, we are in "web 2.0". We make the web, we let the bookmarking sites (the "new search engines") know that we like the site, we tell the bookmarking sites and everyone else using it to remember this site, and let other people know it's worth checking out.Now there still is over 50% of the traffic comming in through regular search engines, particularly google, yahoo, and msn, but it's getting more and more popular to search "social bookmarking sites". Sites like stumbleupon.com where you can press a button to randomly be taken to a site that the community has reccomended, as well as search for sites that people of similar interest like, or even your group of friends that like the site. If someone just adds all of the sites they want people to go to, and tries to "spam" these social bookmarking sites, the community will let the bookmarking community know that it's not a site they reccomend. and soon the spammer's site is banished. Previously you would have to wait until someone decided to file a complaint to google or the search engine... and it could take 2 or 3 months, sometimes more until they actually do something about it, and by then, the spammer would just have a new domain, a new site ranking high in the search engine using their "black hat" methods. Aside from sites like stumble upon, there's sites like Digg.com. The more "diggs" a site gets, the higher it ranks in the bookmarking's form of a search engine. You let other people know you "digg" the site by clicking a button. Then there's sites like technorati.com where you can use keywords to let people know what your site is about. Then there's squidoo lens to orginize information, to put up lists that people among the squidoo comnunity can rank. YOu can make posts, put up video etc. Then of course there's Myspace, the huge social community. Although people don't use this as much to find new sites and tell each other, you can develop friends, send out messages to your entire list of friends, create groups, and of course submit videos, or put videos on your "myspace page". In addition you can promote your band, send out classfied adds, tell people about events. Facebook is very similar. Of course then there is youtube.com, a social network of people posting and watching videos, as well as writing comments, sending messages, etc. People can easily copy and paste the link to embed it in their site, and people can click a couple buttons and email the video to their friends. Now since google has bought it, they are comming up with an add that goes on the bottom of the video, that you can use just like adsense to generate revenue from.

But it's a new world wide web... A web for the community, by the community. If you want to survive the world of web 2.0 as a marketer or web owner, you're going to have to make several adaptations. You're going to have to learn to intigrate various platforms to allow people to use these tools on your site. You're going to want to make it very easy for your users to tell entire communities that they like your site.

Web 2.0 has arrived, and if you want to not more than just survive, you're going to have to learn the tactics required to not only do well in the search engines, but do well in these social bookmarking sites, and other web 2.0 material. Then you will not only survive... but thrive

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In the last couple post, I talked about stumbleupon and Digg...
Now I'm going to talk about another social bookmarking site. This time, I'll talk about Netscape propeller. While Digg's search results, and Furl's and other sites results are based on the OVERALL number of "diggs", Netscape is more related to the amount of bookmarks (propells) a site gets within a time frame. 100 propells within a year isn't going to be listed as high as 35 in 16 hours. So Once you're receiiving traffic, a lot of times you can make a new post, put a netscape propell button on it, and if you get enough bookmarks to propell quick enough, you can be listed on the front page of propell which will result in a quick couple thousand of views... However, because of this, propell would normally be subject to a lot of spam, and useless articles. Digg had one the other day that said "digg this if you don't care about black monday"... But where Digg just sort of lets whatever comes to the top go to the top, Netscape propell, actually has a group of editors that will sort through the top content, make sure it's related to the things they want it to be about, and they will manually sort through the things at the top and put what they want to on the front page. If you can actually write quality content, this is to your advantage.
What you actually can do is use your traffic exchange credits to launch a massive promotion to one specific article, blast out ome classified ads to it, have the propell button clearly listed, and have you and a couple friends propell the article... Hopefully if you do things right, you can use the quick boost of visitors to your site to get a bunch of propells quickly, and get listed at least on the top of your category, which will lead to several more propells, which might lead to a front page. Which will lad to MASSIVE traffic, which will lead to a bunch of diggs, stumbles, etc. The instant boost of traffic from traffic exchagnes, will lead to a larger instant boost of visitors, which will lead to a bunch of diggs and a high digg rating, which will lead to a lot of medium term traffic, which can build a lot of long term visitors to your site. When using Propell, keep a few things in mind.
Here's some tips on how to get a lot of propells
Write compelling content.
-Write a very good title
-Study what the other top propelled sites do... see if there's a certain style that the editors like.
Send a list of your subscribers to the post by broadcasting a message. (I use getresponse)())()link()()()
Have a bunch of systems in place such as traffic exchange referral links, ads, blogrush, etc. Make sure you also have articles and perhaps videos and press releases out so you are already getting a steady flow of subscribers.
-Wait until you have monotized your sites with RSS subscription buttons, other social exchange buttons, bookmarked the sites using these buttons, an autoresponder form to catch the subscribers, and various other methods I talk about in the newsletter.
After You have done all of this, and have, dugg, stumbled, furled, etc the article, as well as dugg, stumbled, furled, etc anything you have promoted, or someone else has done promoting your article...
propell all the things promoting your article.
Once you have done this, blast out your ads, make a post in popular forums with a signature link to the article suggesting they propell itpropell the article, propell the article yourselff, have your friends do it... direct all your traffic exchange traffic to it, make more posts in the forums, and watch the traffic come in. This may take a lot of initial set up, and it might take awhile to get everything right... but trust me, it's worth it.
If you are going to put an ad in your post, be warned that you will probably get docked, and visitors won't like it... But if you do... Wait until AFTER you have cracked the front page of propell, because then you can at least slide it in and get massive traffic bfore people stop coming to your site from propell. Also, be very covert about it, and don't blatently advertise. Actually solve a problem related to one your post presents, and make sure it actually adds value to your readers.
You are probably better off avoiding it altogether the first time. Once you can consistantly generate top propell stories, you can experiment... But it's probably not worth jepordizing potential long term traffic (as well as short term), by putting a bunch of ads in there. You can have it on your other posts, and you can have it on your site itself, but leave it off the post/topic you are propelling,.

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Stumble Upon is probably the latest craze that is getting bigger and bigger. I actually hear my MOM talk about stumble upon... apparently my sister was told about it through one of her friends who probably had been told about it through another friend... And my mom saw her doing it, thought it was cool, and decided to try. So I got this email the other day from my own mother about how she had found this cool site through stumble upon... When that happened, I knew that stumble upon and other social bookmarking sites are on the verge of becoming something HUGE. I'm talking, lookout myspace, here comes the next youtube. Then at work I overheard a woman who was in her 60s talk about how whenever she needed the latest news, or to check if a rumor was true she googled it. Now the younger generation is usually WAAY ahead of the rest of the world. When Youtube started booming shortly before google bought it out, everyone in their 30s and 40s was starting to catch on... the younger generation had known about it for the last year or two!
So if an older person talks about regularly using one form of technology... it's time to move onto the next... Now my mom uses the computer a lot, so she actually is usually only a little bit behind the youth in the recent craze. She found out about "the secret" while it was still being hyped up and before it was released, and months and months later it was on Oprah (which she loves) and it had kind of reached it's peak.
I go through a few things, some which become popular very quickly, others not for awhile... But one way I really know that something is going to catch on fast... is when it's related to something that's already popular, it's introduced in a new way, and one verification is when old people start using and talking about using the sites or technology that this new one replaces (in this case social bookmarking sites are replacing search engines). However, the ultimate verification is when my mom tells me about it! I know that it's starting to expand into a whole different target market, and that means it's probably spreading into other markets as well.
Stumble upon is real fun because you have a toolbar on the top which has a few buttons. One is "start stumbling", or "Stumble!" if you've already logged in. The other two are "I like it" and "I don't like it"... there are a few more buttons as well. If you click on the "stumble" button, you will be taken to a seemingly random site, but you are actually taken randomly with "weight" given to those that has more people that like the site. In this sense, the "rich get richer"... But of course, the stumble users will love this, because they are taken to sites chosen by the people for the people. There are also certain categories that you can choose, and you will only be taken to sites within those categories. If you only want to stumble your way onto games, you can choose "games" as your ONLY category. The result is visitors that WANT to be at your site... In addition, if you are searching the internet, and you "stumble upon" a site that you like, but found on your own through search engines, or whatever method you use... You can click "I like it" and a screen will pop up if this site has never been stumbled before, allowing you to pick a category, and write a description and a review. You can add your Top Stumbled sites to your "favorites" and you can build a list of friends, just as you would through digg. Since people aren't exactly searching for sites, you don't have to worry too much about keywords. You basically have stumble taking visitors to your site anyways. You can create a button for stumble upon... just as you would for Digg, or any other social bookmarking site, but because of the toolbar, you often don't even need a stumble button to get a lot of stumbles... A couple stumbles will lead to a few more, etc.... Of course, If you do add a button it will be more effective, and get you more adds.
Now if the interface is easy enough for my mom to use it... Anyone can, and it's probably going to catch on pretty fast... But if it ALSO has more advanced features -- when everyone else is just scratching the surface of what something can do, you should be diving into all of the features.
Now there will be tons of people just VIEWING these sites, thinking it's just random, and perhaps not even knowing what the "like it" and "don't like it" button do. And certainly not realizing that these websites are created by a community, and that you can choose categories, add friends, add sites, etc. Right now, I've just added a few of my sites, and added a few stumble buttons on my posts... But you can be sure that over the next few days, I'll be adding friends, becomming familiar with ALL of the features both on the toolbar and the sites themselves, implementing them, combining this witht he power of other sites like Digg, and developing a marketing plan around it. I'll update you with more info on how to use stumble upon soon, so subscribe to my blog, maybe even start using it and Stumble This Post so you can keep track of it.. and watch out for the next post I make about stumble.


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Social Bookmark Phenomenon

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Digg - One of the more recent phenomenons in the world of the internet are social bookmarking sites. An example of such a site is Digg. Digg can be used to keep track of your favorite sites, to see what sites other people are keeping track of, or to promote one of your own sites, and let people know that it's on your list.
Digg users can let people know they like a story, they can blog a story allowing people to "read more" or to "digg it" themselves. They can share the story , or they can bury the story if they don't like it. When stories get a lot of diggs, they appear at the top of their sections if they have more diggs then everyone else. Of course, then there's old stories that have a lot of diggs. These are sorted out because on the front page of digg, it brings you to the most recent... those sites that are new but have still been "dugg" by hundreds of users. Then there's a bar where you can sort by the top diggs in the last 24 hrs, or top in a week, month or year. As you can see, Digg is designed to provide users with recent updated and relevant content.
You can certainly create quite a buzz if you can provide hip relevant content to your site, and if you currently get enough traffic to get you a few "diggs". But there are a few things you must know.

• There is NO shame in digging your own content, or promoting a button for others to click on to "digg" your site.

• Digg users sort through digg, and often only read the title, and then the brief description, if they decide to click on the title, before they even look at your article.

• If you want to compete with the top Dugg stories in your category, (which you'll need to do to get massive traffic), you'll need to have ways to get a lot of traffic to begin with.

So that begs the question: "How can I increase my diggs?"
Doing so can be a fairly difficult process if you don't use other methods to generate traffic.

• When you're first building your site, don't expect a lot of diggs.
  
• Plan on building various systems to get you traffic.
  
• Use traffic from other social networks to get you more diggs (more on this in a future post)

These systems of traffic can start with all of the things I've talked about in this post about how to increase online traffic using a traffic exchange system, as well as a few of the things I talk about in my newsletter. Since Diggs are so focused on short term results, gradually trying to build it when you do not have these systems in place, isn't that beneficial. You probably will see a lot of posts which don't have many diggs at all, but giving people the option to digg your site, and digging your own articles is still beneficial. If you can generate extra visitors to your website, even if small to start with, and you have things like RSS feeds on your site and autoresponders to allow readers the opportunity to come back to your blog. It's worth your time.
Before you can expect enough traffic to get a significant amount of diggs (which will lead to a significant amount more)

1. First you must build your site in a way that allows every user to generate credits that will go towards more users. This includes things like traffic exchange recommendation, other social exchange buttons, rss feeds and "subscribe buttons", unique content, widgets from sites like blog rush (which require a solid amount of unique content first), and a flow of traffic that you will get from article directories, press releases, link exchanges, backlinks on other popular sites, videos, etc.
   
2. In addition, you will want to sign up to digg, search for content related to your blog, and add these digg suers to your friends list. Then add their friends friends which is as easy as viewing their profile and clicking "add friend" on all of the friends listed on their page, no new windows need to be opened.
   
3. Now when you have a group of friends, you're going to want to digg a bunch of their sites that they have submitted, as many will do the same back to you if you do. maybe even blog their content and digg the post that is about the news item they submitted to digg.
   
4. If you notice someone has blogged your content "help them help you" and digg their post.

Now you can add more of these social exchange sites to your blog, and do similar things and you will start to build a group of members and friends via these exchanges, which will lead to more diggs, which will lead to more site views, which will lead to more "propells" and "stumbles" and "furls" and other social exchange adds, which will in turn lead to more views and as a result more diggs, etc...



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7 more quick tips for Even MORE traffic

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7 more quick tips for even more traffic
okay, so my first article wasnt enough... people said they want more... so I decided to make 7 more quick tips. This is a continuation of my previous article titled "7 quick ways to get more traffic for free" Here are some more great tips to get traffic to your blog or website FAST!

1 Press Releases - a press release is basically an announcement to news publishers that you have a neewsworthy event. This could be something that actually physically gets put in a newspaper in some foreign country, or it could be something that gets put in google news, or it could go into something such as (online news source like drudgereport?). Submitting press releases to publications like PRweb.com offers youan opportunity to have the popular news sites such asyahoo news or google news list you. If this happens, your traffic will soar, and your backlinks will increase. People will not only link to your blog as the source of something, but they will also link to the news article. People will often have news rss feeds on their blog to update the readers with googl'es latest news reports. As a result you will get massive amount of traffic, exposure, and your search engine ranking will improve as well.
2 Answer sites(yahoo answers askville, etc), -Now I'm sure you have probablyseen yahoo answers, and msn Q+A, and perhpas other question and answer sites such as askville.com. But have you considered how targeted this traffic could be? You will often see search engines have yahoo answers resolved questions in the search engines. In addition, people that type in that question to search for, or if they view a related question, yahoo answers or another service will redirect them to a previous question. So answer a lot of questions related to your niche, and you will be able to direct people who have a problem that you can solve, and bring them to your site.You want to answer their question a little bit, and enough to get them to choose your answer as best, but you want it to be enough so they still want more information. If you have a site fishingman123.com, And someone says something like "what fishing lure is the best to buy?" you can answer the question by saying Hi, I'm Mike from fishingman123.com , choosing a fishing lure that's right for you depends on what type of fishing you're doing, and what kind of fish you're planning to catch. For example, if you're fly fishing you'll need a lure that can.... (explain) if you're deep sea fishing you'll need a lure like.... (name). Since you weren't specific enough, I made a free chart at my site that I link to in the resource section that ranks the best 3 lures from each category based on customer satisfaction, price, and style, and a few other factors... Good luck fishing, glad I could help"
This would alsmost surely get voted as the best answer by the community if the asker doesn't choose it first. But now someone might search for "how do I find a fishing lure" either in the search engines or in yahoo answers, and your answer will show up!
Of course you can ask the question too, but do it without seeming like you have no idea what you're talking about for example ""What's your favorite fishing lure" will be the question and the details might be "hi it's mike again from fishingman123.com, according to (whatever your source for your lure chart) XYZ Lure is the best based on (list factors), but I wanted to see what you personally like best out of the following: (list them). If you are unsure of the prices or something, I made a chart that can be found inthe resource links"
Now as you can see, both of these methods are good ways of interacting with the community. In addition, you get a chance to see what people passionate about your niche actually want. You can ask questions related to what they want for your next product, or you can search related questions and see what they're looking for. Businesses spend (millions) of doallars on market research every year, and on product testing. You don't have to spend a dime if you use sites like yahoo answers propperly.
3 RSS Feeds - Rss FeedsAre a way to "syndicate" your websie. RSS stands for "really simple syndication" WEssentially by having your RSS feed visable to others, it makes it easy for your visitors to keep track of your website automatically. If they wanted to go to "my yahoo" and have brief summaries of few of their favoritee sites so they didn't have to manually visit them all they could just submit RSS feeds to their "my yahoo". What? you're asking, why would you want them to not have to visit your site? Because chances are, if they see a post of interest, they'll click on the summery to read the entire thing. If they only go to sites via "my yahoo RSS feeds" they probably weren't going to find your site anyways. Think of it as another way of them being able to "bookmark" your site.But there's severla things you can do with your RSS feeds. For example, you can submit them to RSS directories. This way, people might even be searching for RSS feeds in these directories, looking for Sites from their favorite topic that they can quickly skim over on their site. Of course anytime you can use additional webpages either your own, or others to promote your site, the more exposure you can get and traffic you can expect, but a big reason why RSS feeds work is because other people might post them on their blog where it's visable to everyone. You might even consider posting an RSS feed on your site or blog. This way you have fresh, constantly updating content on your site. Search engines reward people that have constantly updating content, which is why you see some people that regularly write in blogs have some of the top search engine rankings for some search terms.
4 Link Directories - Link directories are a plce for you to get backlinks. High traffic link directories have the advnatage of other people who will potentially click on your link as well as giving you a high quality backlink. Get your link out there.
5 Ebook Directories - Ebook directories can be a great source of traffic if you have an ereport of some form. The ebook basically gets the readers interest, and if someone is seeking out ebooks on it, chances are that person is very passionate about your niche, and is hungry for information or services, or a product that YOU provide. Ebook directories might not bring a ton of traffic, but you can submit your ebooks to giveaways, and things like that, as wel as giving others the right to give the report away. If every person gives it to 1 other person on average, you will have increasing, exponential amounts of traffic... Even if this isn't the case, more visitors to your site who will possibly refer others, or refer other people, will still allow you to accumulate additional traffic.
6 Video Directories - Of course, we all know what youtube's worth to google... 1.6 billion! But what's it worth to you? People spend tons of money advertising on regular TV... But a recent study shows less people are watching tv... why? because more are watching youtube! And ANYONE can post his or her video on youtube, all you have to do is sign up. There are no fees of any sort! Computers are getting faster, able to handle more information than ever before, and people are taking advantage of it by downloading the latest videos. People can watch youtube on their iphone or itouch, or other mobile devices! It's obvious there's tons of people watching videos. And since there are much less videos than webpages, and because of youtubes awesome feature of putting related videos on the side whil you watch another video, it's easier than ever to get noticed! Add to that the fact that you can appear on "most watched" "most liked" or "most referred, and you have several ways to get traffic to your video just by posting it. Now if you don't have a webcam, or digital camera to use to make your own video, and you don't have video avaialble on your computer that you can leally use, it's okay. Simply head over to camstudio.org and download it for free. Now you can record your computer creen. If you ahve a microphone you can use that while you record. You can make a "secret link" on your website and post a video at how to find the "secret link" (perhaps it rewards customers with a discount!) You can explain it and post it on youtube. You can make a slideshow and recrord it with music playing and put it on youtube. But of course, you get nothing for video traffic, so you have to mention your website, have it at the beginning and end of each video both with visuals and audio. In addition, post a link to your website on the description. Alright, another backlink, and it's hightraffic too! Aside from submitting your video to google, there are plenty of other sites such as myspace video, google video, vsocial.com, livevideo.com grouper.com and a ton of others.
7 Traffic Exchanges -Traffic Exchanges on there own turn off most webmasters and marketers. Sure, you get traffic, but all traffic exchanges are is a big collection of people clicking on others links, just so they can get people to click on theirs. They enter your site with no intention to check out anything. They might not even look at your site... But that's only because most people are using traffic generators all wrong. Traffic exchanges are personally my FAVORITE form of traffic. Now before you tell all your friends how crazy I am, listen to my reasoning. So traffic exchanges require you to surf other people's sites in order to generate traffic, right? Wrong. They require you to either surf other sites, upgrade your account, or refer others. By referring others to traffic exchanges, you earn credits. Some traffic exchagnes reward you MORE credits for referring others if you pay to "upgrade" your account.. But Reccommending others would take a lot of work, and once you stop, the credits stop accumulating right? Wrong again. You see, people searching traffic exchanges ALL have one thing in common... They want MORE traffic. Well, if they sign up for MORE traffic exchanges, and surf two or three windows at once, or even more, they can get credits faster, and they can get traffic faster. Obviously if you're using Traffic G, it would make no sense to referr traffic G users to sign up for traffic G. But you could reccomend that they check out web biz insider, or fast easy traffic, or traffic splash for example. Now if you were to get 3 visits on average for every referral you get, and you post 3 traffic exchagnes for them to sign up for, how many people would you have to get to sign up in order for you to have more credits comming in, than you have going out? with only 1 traffic exchange listed, you'd have to have 1 out of every 3 sign up... but if you have 3 listed, you only need 1 out of 9. But if you combine it with other methods like for example if you havea form to sign up for traffic secrets, you can often get people who wouldn't take the time to read why they should sign up for more traffic exchanges, but they might just fill in their name and email address. Your follow up email might get maybe 4 of those 8 out of 9 that didn't sign up for the other traffic exchanges. Now you want to pay attention to which traffic exchanges you can upgrade for better referral credits, or perhaps you need 3 credits to get someone to view your site as a free member, but as a premium member you might only need to use 1. Getting more credits going in, than comming out is essetial. Now In addition, you'll want people torefer others. If you use techniques such as having a free ebook if they refer 3 friends and give their email address, and if you have a link telling them to "digg" your site", and if you have a product and can convert some of your customers into affiliates who will bring your site to 10s or hundreds or thousands of more people, suddenly although in terms of actual visitors through traffic exchanges go, you might be spending more clicks on generating visitors to your site than actual referral signups to the traffic exchanges, but because your site is "sticky" and uses other traffic techniques, you not only get more people comming back, but you get those people that come back to bring others with them!
Again, keep in mind that the #1 resource people want that use trafic exchanges are... TRAFFIC. If you have a product or site related to traffic, you absolutely MUST use traffic exchanges. If you have no product yet, or are willing to wait awhile, you can set up blogs to generate traffic generators. Set up several of these and if you can get them all generating more credits than you are losing, without having to spend additional time on it onmce it's set up, you can use all your credits to promote a product once you have it. Promote this blog using methods explained in this article, the previous article, and other viral techniques and whatch the effect compound!
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signature...: everyone wants more traffic! We all love to get traffic, and we all wish we had even more of it. Now we all could get more traffic if we just would decide to take action to (learn how to get the traffic secrets now)!


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Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic; Ars to Cuban: um, no

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How television broke the minds of three generations...

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