You can connect with me on the MyBlogLog network by visiting here.

Head on over to the MyBlogLog website and use your Yahoo ID to login, it’s okay if you don’t have one as they are free and only takes a few minutes to set-up.

Follow the instructions to register your website and also make sure you connect all of your social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Now, whatever you do will be updated in real time on the MyBlogLog site for people to see.

You can also add a cool ‘recent visitors‘ widget to your blog and see who has, erm, recently visited. This is also handy when you visit blogs with the widget in place as your picture will appear on their blog along with your blog information (as long as you are logged into MyBlogLog).

When you register your blog come back here and join my community. You should also see your photo on the Foxley Marketing Solutions MyBlogLog widget.

Another great feature of MyBlogLog is the stats area. MyBlogLog will record where your readers came from (refering site etc), what they viewed on your blog and what your readers clicked on.

Right, I’ve said enough, get your blog on the MyBlogLog website and start increasing your blog traffic and exposure.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. For those of you that would like a video series showing you how to use MyBlogLog as a traffic generation tool (plus many other video series to boot) then visit Daves Online Videos. To gain access to the website you’ll have to pay a low monthly subscription but you can watch as many videos as you like and cancel before the month is out to stop any further payments. Dave has so many quality videos that you’ll probably want to be a member for some time to come.

BlogCatalog is a great blog community that you can tap into if you have a blog. Register with the website and add your blog to their listings and then every time you add a new blog post to your blog it will be shared on the BlogCatalog website for the entire network to see.

BlogCatalog also has a groups area where a wide range of topics are waiting for you to join, share your knowledge and build relationships with other BlogCatalog users.

Why not start your very own group and lead the discussion!

You can also plug in your social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, etc so that all your activity on these sites will be updated on yourBlogCatalog profile (even more exposure for you and your company).

What are you waiting for? BlogCatalog is free to join and a great source of blog traffic and blog exposure.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

The website I’m talking about is Gumtree, a UK classifieds (a local advertising directory).

If you are from the USA (or the rest of the world) you can use Kijiji, just scroll to the bottom of the page to find the website dedicated to your country. Gumtree is the UK version of the Kijiji website.

Simply visit Gumtree and select ‘Post an Ad‘ and then select the category that best fits your business, for this site I would select service. Make sure you choose the location your business operates in, Derby, London, Birmingham etc.

Now complete the easy-to-follow steps to create a search engine friendly listing. The listings are free in quite a few cases but you may be required to pay in the more popular cities (very low cost for the exposure it can bring). You can also purchase upgrades that will give your listing even greater exposure.

The great thing about Gumtree is the fact that when your listing comes to an end you can simply add it again.

Gumtree currently has a PageRank of 6 and has an Alexa traffic rank of 760; meaning this is a great place to get a link pointing to your website.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. To discover other online marketing tactics why not sign-up to our 7-Day Email Mini-Course and Newsletter.

I’ve decided to start blogging regularly about link-building and traffic generation. Instead of writing a 30 tips to more traffic etc, I’m going to share each one individually as I come across them, test them and get a decent result.

I am going to qualify each tip I share as a successful traffic generation tactic if it generates, at least, a few visitors to my website per week.

Although only a few visitors to my website a week isn’t heaps of traffic by any stretch of the imagination, the cumulative affect of having lots of links all sending a handful of visitors each week will turn out (over time) to be a good sized piece of traffic that’s not to be sniffed at.

The tips will cover:

• Link building for traffic generation.
• Link building for search engine optimisation.
• Link building for local search (great for businesses operating in a particular region).
• Traffic generation best suited for squeeze pages (lead capture pages).
• Traffic generation through search engine placement from alternative websites (those that you do not own).
• New places to share your RSS feed.
• What ever I consider to be ethical, whitehat and to the benefit of your website and business.

So, what should you do now!

The first tip is going to go live tomorrow so I recommend you grab our RSS feed and stay-up-to-date with our latest posts as they go live.

If you have any traffic generation methods and link building tips you want me to trial, test and share then use the contact form or leave a comment; no affiliate links please.

Be sure to check back tomorrow for the first post!

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. I’m giving every page that is related to this topic the tag [lbtt] so you’ll be be able to pull them all up together when you do an on-site search.

It was through using this that I discovered a cool article directory. For those of you that are using article marketing in your online marketing strategy then you’ll now have an additional place to upload your articles, increasing your exposure and search engine love. If you aren’t using articles in your online marketing campaigns the I recommend you get started ASAP.

The article directory I found is called iSnare (you may not be as slow as me on this one and already be familiar with the service) and not only is it a typical article directory, it also features a very low cost article distribution service.

The price starts from as little as $10 for 5 article distribution credits ($2 each), making this something that is very affordable.

Be sure to bookmark iSnare and add it to your article marketing campaigns.

To your success,

Karl

If you want to know more about the benefits of article marketing then you should sign-up to our 7-day Mini-Course, Website Promotion Success!

photo credit: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³

Adding a variety of online marketing strategies can help you to diversify visitor streams and below you will discover a list of alternative ways you can do this.

I recommend you only us the traffic generation methods that you feel comfortable using. Below you will find some of the usual suspects and maybe a few that you hadn’t heard of or thought of using. Enjoy!

You Tube

Create videos that you can upload and share on YouTube and other video sharing sites. You can use free screencast software, Jing, or the more powerful Camtasia. You can use the popular FlipMono to make videos of yourself and others.

You Tube

Also try:

Revver

Blip.TV

Daily Motion

Scribd

Scribd is the You Tube for PDFs. You can create quality looking PDFs for free with Open Office Writer. Open Office is every bit as good as Microsoft’s offerings but will cost you nothing.

Make sure you complete your profile and add a link to your website.

Also try:

DocStoc

SlideShare

Not only can you create PowerPoint presentations and record them using the screencast software above allowing you to share them over the video sharing sites, you can also add them to SlideShare. SlideShare is a powerpoint presentation sharing site. Be sure to include your website link in your profile and within your presentations.

Also try:

Author Share

Slide Boom

You can create presentations online with 280 Slides.

Facebook

Join Facebook, complete your profile, add your website and then connect with people. Create groups and fan pages for extra exposure. You can upload your images and videos to share with the people you are connecting with.

You can find me on Facebook with my own easy to remember link: www.facebook.com/karlfoxley.

Also try:

MySpace

Bebo

Hi5

Friendster

Flickr

Create images to share with the world using Flickr. Upload free graphic packages for people to share and download. Create a profile and include your website URL. Have a complete package on your website and point your shared images to the full package. You can share also share photos.

To create your own graphics or eye-catching images you can use the free GIMP software or Adobe’s Photoshop.

Also try:

Photobucket

Write Articles

You can write articles and share them on popular article directories. You can get more info by signing-up to our 7-day Mini-Course where article marketing is covered or read the document on Scribd by clicking here. I recommend starting with Ezine Articles, be sure to complete your profile and include a link to your website.

Also try:

Go Articles

Helium

Join Forums

Find and join forums in your niche. If you are into online marketing then I recommend your join the Warrior Forum and Conquer Your Niche. Read more about how to use forums for marketing by visiting here.

Twitter

Join the ever popular micro-blogging community and start Tweeting. Twitter has a profile section that you can use to include some info about yourself and your website and include a link. Start following people and you’ll soon start gaining followers yourself. Connect with me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/karlfoxley.

To learn how to create your very own custom background then I recommend the video series that Dave Guindon has inside his membership site. Take a look at all the video series that Dave has uploaded over at Daves Online Videos.

Further reading: Micro-blogging for business.

Also try:

Tumblr

Plurk

Linked In

Linked In is the Facebook for professionals. Join, complete your profile and add your website links. Now join some relevant groups and be an active member.

Killer Startups

Killer Startups is a review site for new websites released on the web. List your website on here and you will get a lot of free exposure.

Pimp This Blog

Pimp This Blog is a place for bloggers to share their best articles and blog posts. Pimp This Blog will share the content over many other networks such as Twitter.

Join Freelance Services

If you are a service provider such as a writer, coder, SEO consultant etc you can join the many freelance services and use them for extra exposure of you and your company.

Take a look at:

Hire My Mom

Project 4 Hire

Guru

Advertising Directories

Add your services or products to the popular advertising directories such as Craigslist. You can read more about this by visiting here.

Also try:

INetGiant

1 Stop Classifieds

Ebay

Join eBay and sell your products on the popular auction site for extra exposure. You can also create an About Me page where you can promote your website or send people to a profile page that then links to your websites and product pages. Always include details about your website in your products packaging.

Amazon

Similar to eBay, sell your items on Amazon and make sure you include your website information where ever possible and certainly in your product packaging.

Kindle

Read documents on a wireless reading device; introducing the Kindle. Sell your documents to Kindle readers through Amazon’s eBook program. Make sure you include a bio and links to your website.

Podcasts

Take your content, articles and blog posts, and turn them into podcasts. You can use a simple USB Microphone to record your voice and download the free Audacity for editing. You can learn a lot more about podcasting over at Geek News Central. You can submit your podcast to popular podcast directories such as Podcast Alley. To see what you can do with a great podcast take a look at Blog Talk Radio (you can even register to start your very own show).

Groups

Groups are a bit like forums in that you become a meber of a community and establish yourself as an expert, sharing advice and tips. Point to relevant documents on your website / blog that answer peoples questions.

Try:

Google Groups

Yahoo Groups

Answer Questions

Answering questions and helping people to solve their problems can be a great source of traffic. Join Yahoo Answers and answer questions in your chosen field of expertise. Great a profile and include a link to your website.

Shopping Comparison Sites

This is a great way of generating a lot of exposure to your products. Simply register with the popular shopping comparison sites and list sign-up for a merchant account. Get started with Shopzilla (BizRate), scroll down to where it says ‘merchant listings and advertising’.

Write A Press Release

Write a press release about your latest website or service. The benefit of doing this is that you will get lots of search engine optimised links (if you do it properly) spread across the web on authority sites pointing back to your website. Do you have anything news worthy to write about? I recommend you use PR Web for handling your press releases. Submitting a press release is well worth the fee.

Also try:

1888 Press Release

PR Leap

Employ An Affiliate Workforce

Do you have a product or service? Why not recruit an army of affiliate marketers to go out and promote your product / service for you! This can method of traffic generation can see you get masses of traffic.

If you have a digital product then list it on:

Clickbank

Pay Dot Com

E-Junkie

If you sell a service or tangible products then try:

Affiliate Announcer - get your affiliate programme in front of thousands of affiliates every day.

Joint Ventures

Joint ventures are one of the best traffic generation methods around. I’ve written the Guru Traffic Secret Report that covers this method further. You can find JV partners from dedicated websites such as JV Network. Alternatively, find website and product owners that are a good fit for your business and contact them regarding a link, ad or email swap.

Advertising Browser Ads

Free Traffic Bar sites on your browser and displays ads for every page you surf. For each page that you surf you earn credits that can be used to show your ad on other peoples browsers who have the Free Traffic Bar installed. This means that you will earn credits for surfing the web as you would normally. Works with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.

Also try:

Instant Buzz

Further reading:

Free Traffic Bar Advertising

Instant Buzz and Instant Buzz Mastery

Traffic Exchanges

Not everyone likes these websites so using them is at your discretion. Register with the sites below, add your website details and then manually surf other peoples websites. You’ll earn credits so that you can send a number of visitors to your website. The best way to use these is to create a splash page (has a headline, an eye-catching graphic and a call to action that encourages surfers to click through to your actual website) For more details on this method and a list of the best exchange then click here to read Top Traffic Exchanges.

Safelists

Safelists are another controversial traffic method but if you know what you are doing then this is a great traffic generation method. A safelist is not spamming, people opt-in to receive your email. I recommend you create a squeeze page (look at Guru Traffic Secret for an example of a squeeze page) and use AWeber or iContact to capture leads that you can then engage with using email marketing.

I recommend Blast Your Ad.

Resource: Online Selling For Newbies

List Builders

Build your mailing list by joining list-builder sites. To really benefit from these types of websites you need to upgrade your accounts from free to paid membership. For example, if you upgrade at Downline Builder Direct you will be able to email 20,000 random members every two days. This method of traffic generation is not for everyone so only use it if you feel comfortable in doing so. I recommend sending people straight to a squeeze mail and getting them onto your email list.

Also try:

List Dot Com

Build My Downlines

List Auction

Software

Have you developed software  or widgets that you would like to give away for free. Maybe you have a trial version. Then you can get a serious amount of traffic from adding your software to Download.com.

Also try:

Brothersoft

Free Download Center

Website Directories

Add your website to dedicated website directories. Only submit your site or blog to directories that are what they say they are and not link farms. I recommend DMOZ, Best of the Web (they also have a blog directory) and Yahoo’s Directory.

Pay Per Click Advertising

Pay per click advertising allows you to advertise across content networks and in the search engines sponsored results driving you lots of targeted traffic. You will need to understand how PPC works to fully capitalise on this marketing method but, when you do, the payoff can be huge.

Recommended networks:

Adwords

Bidvertiser

Adbrite

Yahoo

Ask

Hub Pages

Hub Pages allows you to create Hubs on particular topics you wish to write about. Your hubs can receive trememdous amounts of traffic and you should create a complete profile pointing back to your website.

Squidoo

Very similar to Hub Pages except you create lens. Visit Squidoo and create your first lens. For both Hub Pages and Squidoo you want to create each Hub / Lens about an individual topic.

Ezine Advetising

Ezines are newsletters that people have signed up to in their area of interest. What this means to you as an advertiser is that you can pay a small fee to advertise in an Ezine that is sent to your target market. To learn more about this form of marketing you need to take a look at The Directory of Ezines. Visit The Ezine Directory to find Ezines in your niche.

Posterous

If you want a bit more Twitter but not as much as a blog then Posterous is the perfect middle ground for you. If you have short blog posts that you question are right for your blog then post them on Posterous. You can get a good amount of traffic from using the site.

Blogging

Creating a blog is a great way to drive traffic to your main website or products. Blogs are loved by the search engines and are readily indexed. You can set up a blog on dedicated sights like Blogger or WordPress. However, I recommend you host your own blog using either WordPress.org‘s self hosted blogging platform or Blog i360.

WordPress Plugins To Make Your Blog A Traffic Generating Machine

Feedburner – let Feedburner handle your RSS feed making grabbing your feed a breeze.

FD Feedburner Plugin – seemlessly manages your Feedburner RSS for you without you having to mess with the theme.

All In One SEO Pack – helps you optimise your blog for the search engines for better search rankings.

Tweet My Blog – sends a Tweet to Twitter to let your followers know you have a new blog post.

Sociable – allow your readers to share you content easily with just one click of a button.

Referrer Detector - give your visitors a welcome message and an opportunity to sign-up to your RSS feed. The message is customised to match the referring website.

Google XML Sitemaps – creates a Google friendly sitemap (plus Yahoo, MSN and Ask).

Subscribe To Comments - allows your readers to receive an email each time another comment is added to a post they have commented on.

No Ping Wait - alert many other sites that you have updated your blog. No ping wait does this instantly!

No Self Ping - prevents WordPress from sending pings to your own site.

Minor Edit – this plugin allows you to make small changes to a post without resending a ping (and possibly getting you listed as a spammer).

Blog Networks

The following sites are places you can list your blog, join communities and earn lots of traffic. You can also add widgets onto your blog like the community widget from MyBlogLog on the right sidebar.

MyBlogLog

BlogCatalog

Technorati

Pijoo

Blogarama

Best of The Web Blogs

Blogging Traffic Tactics

Blog Commenting – visit top blogs in your niche or business sector and comment on the blog posts. Add value and provide a solid contribution to each site and you will be rewarded with visitors to your website who want to learn more about you. Most blogs will allow you to add your website URL so make sure that you do.

Become A Guest Blogger - like a blog in your niche? Why not submit a guest post with the only requirement is that you are allowed to link out to your website.

Share Your Posts - let your readers and other blog owners know that they can use your content as long as they link back to your website.

Conclusion

Getting visitors to your website can be easy when you know how! I hope you’ve enjoyed this post. If you thing there is anything I’ve missed then drop me a line and I’ll add it in there somewhere.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

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We have an RSS feed (real simple syndication) that will alert you the moment we add new content to the blog. It’s really simple to set up and all you need is an account with Google Reader, Pageflakes, or any other News Aggregator / RSS Reader. I use Google Reader and have it added to my iGoogle homepage (you’ll only need one Gmail address to access all of the Google services).

Our feed is handled by feedburner (owned by Google) which makes choosing your preferred reader a doodle. Click here for our RSS and you’ll be taken to following page:

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Now you know how easy it is to subscribe to an RSS feed let me give you 5 reasons to subscribe to our RSS feed.

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4. You’ll familiarise yourself with RSS and how it works and, maybe, you’ll add it to your website / blog for your readers to enjoy.
5. Your friends will think you are really cool just like we do!

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To your success,

Karl

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Miss P. explained that she had been phoning around for quotes and one company seemed very good as they were ranking on the first page of Google for a particular search term. Miss P. went on to say that they used this as proof of how well they were ranking due to there very good grasp of SEO. Now, I’m not going to call out the company but I am going to reveal what they are doing… what I found so annoying is that the search term they are ranking so well for is long-tail (which isn’t an issue) but has no competition and is hardly ever searched for (making it easy to rank highly).

I’m going to give you an example so you can spot this for yourself if you are contacting companies for SEO quotes.

I am going to use the following search term, ‘Get My Website Found on Google’. Now if I wanted to rank for this search term all I would need to do is create a page writing about it, like this one, and I shouldn’t have too much problem and here is why! Take a look at the image below:

I put the following, ‘get my website found on google’ and ‘get my website found in google’ into Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool and the results are shown above.

1. This show’s that these keyword phrases have very little competition.

2. The local search volume does not have enough data to give any figures.

3. The global search volume also does not have enough data to give any figures.

I also put the phrase into Google’s Traffic Estimator tool and it revealed that if I was bidding on these keywords for a Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign it would yield no clicks because not enough searches are performed for that term each day/month.

What this all means is simple, with low competition and low search volumes it is easy for someone to rank highly for something as redundant as ‘get my website found on Google.’

When you approach an SEO company and they show you something like this as proof that they are really good at what they do then I recommend you make some checks for yourself. As I adviced Miss P., please do not allow yourself to be mislead! It is good to build pages that have low competition but they do need to have, at least, a few searches each month for you to ever get any traffic to your site. I dread to think what keywords they suggest their clients use to rank well in Google!

You can get a free SEO health check for your website (UK websites only) undertaken by us, absolutely free to see how well your website is performing or just to see how well your SEO company has worked for you.

Now, I wonder how well the keyword phrase used in my example will rank for me!

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. If you would like to discuss an SEO package with one of our team then give us a call on 01212881723.

Resources,

Adwords Keyword Tool

Wordtracker Free Keyword Suggestion Tool

Just take a look at the coverage on Fox News by playing the video below.

This trend will only spread so I urge you to start looking at the Internet as a viable and cost-effective alternative for advertising your business.

Just take a look at how easy it is to have a website up and running.

1. You can grab a domain name from GoDaddy for under £5 for a year.

2. I recommend Host Monster for hosting your website because it is cheap, packed with features and the customer support is simply amazing (all important when you need technical help quickly). This will cost you around £4 a month.

3. You can perform a simple few clicks installation of a website like Foxley Marketing Solutions using Simple Scripts WordPress Installation feature within the cPanel area of Host Monster. If you use this option then you can purchase a top notch professional WordPress Theme from Studio Press for as little as £36.95.

4. If you don’t fancy using the power of a self-hosted blog using WordPress another alternative is to use a dedicated piece of software to custom build your very own website and the perfect tool for this is XSitePro. This software is super powerful and puts you in total control and will cost you around £120.

5. Lastly, your website will start being indexed (listed) in the search engines when you start adding content and receiving visitors. The easiest way to rank highly in the search engines is to target specific keywords for your businesses target market. We other SEO packages that will meet any budget. When you have your website up and running or ready to launch then give us a call on UK 0798 802 6719 for a personalised quote and to discuss your needs.

There are many ways to market your website online that will be much more beneficial and lucrative to your business. Take action today and set up your business website or optimise your existing website for the search engines. You can learn more about online marketing by becoming a newsletter subscriber as you will also get instant access to our Website Promo Success 7 day mini-course.

The recession is the time to really take stock of trends that will grow your business, stop wasting money by purchasing advertising in the Phone Book Directories and get yourself online.

To your success,

Karl Foxley

P.s. You can gain access to a wealth of training materials that will help you grow you business over at one of my favourite resources, Online Biz. The forum is open to the public and you quickly learn a lot about marketing.

Click on the link below and register for instant access to the course, it’s packed full of information that will benefit your online business.

Website Promo Success

To your success,

Karl Foxley