When I started looking at paid advertising I avoided Facebook all together. I was skeptical of it s ability to deliver real value for my dollar. It was great for keeping in touch with family and friends but how was it going to really help me as an online marketer? It wasn t until I dabbled in promoting some posts that I realized the potential that Facebook had in delivering real traffic for relatively little cost. Now I know that I have said in the past not to use paid advertising to promote your blog. Especially when you are first starting out. I still hold true to that belief. Facebook, however, has some features that allow you to control your costs without breaking your bank and ultimately your will. We attach so much emotion to money. The last thing I want you to do is spend money unnecessarily, have a bad result and then give up. That is why I feel that the cost of advertising on Facebook is a good deal. You can start with a budget of $5 bucks and still get some decent results. N
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Why the Cost of Advertising on Facebook is a Good Deal
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Free Traffic To My Website
How do I get Free Traffic To My Website? That is the question that I most often get. It is a good question too! A lot of people will tout the benefits of paid traffic but who wants to keep paying and paying for traffic that should be coming for free. There are a ton of strategies to get traffic. Here are a few of my favorites. Use Social Media I know what you re thinking. Michael, I am already on social media! I have a FB page and a G+ page and Twitter. Why I even have a Pinterest page! Well that is awesome and you know what I call that, A Good Start! Not the response you were expecting was it? Well social media is made up of more than just these platforms. There are some awesome sites out there that you should be taking advantage of like Stubble Upon, Delicious, Reddit, Scoop it, Digg, Tumblr and Pheed it. Just to name a few. You can also add Flickr and Instagram to that long list. What about Squidoo and WordPress.com? The list could go on. Now I don t spend every waking hour of ever
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Make Good Blog? What Do Your Analytics Say?
I am troubled by people who think they have a great blog but never bother to check the facts. There is a free tool that you can get and connect to through Google Webmasters. It is called Google Analytics. It even has free video tutorials that you can open and learn what Google Analytics is all about. The amount of information is vast and can be confusing. I have been using it for about a year now and I still don t know everything that it can do. I do know, however, that there are bloggers that are running around with blinders on that are not really understanding the full scope of what their efforts are producing. If You Make Good Blog, Every Post You Create Should Produce Traffic Some post will create more or less traffic depending on the subject matter or title. The more provocative the title, the better the traffic. If you want to make sure that your blog is trending in the right direction traffic wise, then you have to check your analytics. I like to look at my over all traffic fro
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Internal links Are Good SEO
Don t Make Newbie SEO Mistakes Ok, so you are all fired up! You have a shiny new website and a shiny new affiliate program and you re going to make a million dollars tomorrow! So the first thing you do is make your website one huge endless stream of affiliate links. Nobody is going to miss what you re selling! Got it. Have you considered, however, that maybe you are killing your hopes of anyone ever seeing your shiny new website? Search Engines Don t Like Links On Every Page If you have an affiliate site that you are promoting then consider creating a landing page on your own website. Have all your links point to your new landing page that is on your website. That way you can create a sales page that imparts your personality and style. It continues the good flavor that you have created in your blog. It also makes people more comfortable clicking on a link that leads to a page on your website. Let s face it, there are too many bad people trying to scam people by pointing them to link
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