Project Traffic! Generate Rivers of Traffic & Backlinks to Your Online Niche Site - Part 1

Driving Traffic to your Site should be your greatest objective after having set up your website with at least about 20 quality posts. Check out Project Traffic! for proven traffic generation ideas and start breathing life into your site.

Project Traffic! Part 1

Understand that some of the above traffic driving tools are more effective than others depending on a variety of factors such as the nature of your niche business, your site, and the purchasing behavior of your niche target segments.

Note that this may be a short post, but if you put some effort into applying of some suggested activities, you’ve got a lot on your hands.

I am spacing this series of Project Traffic! so that we could all pace the rhythm.

Stay tuned for Project Traffic Part 2. But in case you are impatience, check out my other Traffic Generation Strategies Articles Here

3 Key Considerations How to Choose the Right Online Forum Program

In Part 2 of this series, we shall discuss the 3 Key Considerations when selecting your Online Forum Coaching Program . To recap, in Part 1 of this series, we discussed the 2 Key Types of Online Forum Coaching Programs, namely the Full Pack and the D.I.Y. Pack .

Know Your Learning Style - V.A.K.
Choosing the right online forum coaching program also requires you to understand your own learning style ie. Note your V.A.K., whether you are more inclined to the visual, audio or kinesthetic style of learning.

If you are visually inclined, you would have a higher preference to watching video presentations and learn better that way. Henceforth, you will choose a forum coaching program which utilized greater amounts of video as training tools.

Alternatively, if you are audio inclined, you absorb learning materials faster listening to podcasts. Choose a forum coaching program which is rich in podcast resources within their training portfolio.

Remember that your learning curve or rather, your speed of learning will vary greatly depending on the type of online forum coaching programs selected and what platforms suits you best.


The Target Segments for Online Forum Coaching Programs.

First, ask yourself this question - What level of Internet Proficiency are you at right now? Are you a newbie, intermediate or advanced internet marketer? There is a marked difference in choosing the suitable type of Forum coaching and you must know the segment you belong to. Understanding your own level of proficiency is critical to your choice of type of Online Forum Coaching Programs.

A newbie in internet marketing would need a lot of hand holding, and the internet being a vast cyber space, therein lies manholes that could really discourage participation very quickly for the weak willed. It is also not easy to find really good mentors who really can spare the time to guide you.

The demands of an intermediate internet marketer would conversely be more focused and in depth. They would know where to find what internet information, know the true professionals who can mentor well. Their needs are also more specific, as in driving traffic, link building, doing search engine optimization, email marketing, ebook creation, and working out on JVs with peers etc.
How Smooth Do You Want Your Learning Curve To Be?
Would you rather have everything served to you on a platter, maybe not learning the full process and yet start to earn money online almost immediately? Or should you start from scratch and learn the ropes from getting a host and domain to creating your own site, to driving traffic? Do remember that this decision does have long term effects if you should intend to make money online over a long term perspective and no simply in for the short haul.

For intermediate internet marketers they probably enjoy the interaction with peers sharing and contributing their respective ideas and solutions helping each other as well as networking amongst themselves. This could serve useful too in future JV endeavors.

The above are the factors and criteria to consider when choosing your Online Forum Coaching Program . The final decision should be based on a long term perspective and your current level of internet skills.

Master Online Niche Marketing - 2 Key Types of Online Forum Coaching Programs

Online Forum Coaching Programs or Online Forum Mentoring Programs have become a fast growing trend amongst internet marketing in the recent year.

A google search for blogs which yields 873,000,000 returns simply shows the intense popularity of blogging. Such explosive activities has given rise to millions of aspiring internet marketers and bloggers joining the bandwagon, be it for branding or for making money online. And the solution to improving your skills is to join a online forum coaching program of course.

2 Key Types of Online Forum Coaching Programs
There are slight variations to the types of Online Forum Coaching programs which are currently in the marketplace wrt the product package offerings. I would deem them to be of 2 key types, namely the Full Pack and the D.I.Y. Pack . Let me qualify here that there is not negative connotations to the terminology of Full Pack or D.I.Y. Pack, only the type of product offerings within the forums which appeals to different type and stage of the learners.

Online Forum Coaching Programs - Full Packs
Full Packs , full service programs literarily provide full service the entire process from buying a domain, setting up a blog, pluggins, optimized settings and teaches you how to create a blog post or page, to tracking analytics and affiliate resources. Some even have simple keyword search tools packaged together for your convenience. And of course, there is an active forum corner for discussion too.

This is the type of forum coaching that holds your hand from start point to end point, which could really appeal to the impatient newbie who have a fair amount of budget to spend embarking on internet marketing. Price range could set you back from USD150 to USD300.

Online Forum Coaching Programs - D.I.Y. Packs
D.I.Y. Packs , conversely, rely very heavily on the forum platform. The forum platform is the main coaching tool and is highly trafficked by all members posting issues, questions, sharing ideas and resources that are duly answered by the forum coaches, mentors or moderators. Depending on how large the forum has grown, there will be a few moderators, usually advanced level internet marketing peers, assisting the mentor.

Such forums will thrive on the quality and value derived from the advice given by the mentors and their moderators. Useful package offerings will range from the quality of forum advice, the discounts and JV product offerings with exclusive pricing for members only, and the extensive free but quality resources of a paid online forum coaching platform.

The subscriptions are usually monthly basis, and prices could range from USD24 to USD97.

The value and quality of such a online forum coaching platform depends very heavily on the technical competency of the mentor, sometimes with the blurring of lines between the branding of the mentor and the forum he coaches.

Stay tuned for the next part of this series of Online Forum Coaching Programs which discusses what profile of aspiring internet marketers or bloggers matches up with either type of the Online Forum Coaching programs .

Dominate Online Niche Marketing – Advanced Traffic & Content Strategies

This article shares the development process of morphing the Top 10 critical Content Strategies into effective Traffic Generation Strategies for internet marketing. Hence, Part 2 of this series. Most of the strategies listed below may be adopted for posts in your website, blog, newsletter, articles or even ebook and is applicable for both broad as well as niche markets.

Some of these strategies are also effective in generating traffic, backlinks and getting buy-in for newsletter subscriptions. This Top 10 list may not be exhaustive so you may choose to add on to it. Feel free to contribute.

Repackaging And Collating Your Own Existing Expert Niche Content
Content - You might have already created past materials about your niche segments, newsletter archives, old forum and blog postings, FAQs for clients and forgotten but usable information documented and are gathering dust at the basement.
This could be a valuable resource which you could collate and repackage for interested readers.
Traffic - You could collate them into email marketing content in your niche areas and offer them as email course or transform them into e-course video training programs.

Subscribe to RSS & Newsletters - Kill Three Birds with One Stone
Content - Seek out your major competition sites, work your market intelligence strategy the smart way. Subscribe to their RSS as well as Newsletters. You could even spot the marketing tools and strategies that they adopt. This way you kill three birds with one stone.
You obtain and generate updated information of your greatest niche marketing competitors which you could improvise, you are able to monitor their marketing strategies and best of all, you are now in the position to outsmart them at their own game!

Traffic - Create a free report on your related niche. Use it as a hook for RSS subscription. Alternatively, you can also run an newsletter subscription campaign with the free product.

Invite Expert Guest Writers In Your Niche - A Win Win Proposition
Content - If you are in the In-circle with related and reputed niche experts of your online niche market segments, invite them as expert guest writers on your website on a regular, may be, weekly or fortnightly basis. Of course, you should ensure that they have really great content, is in synch with your niche theme and has the draw for traffic.

Traffic - This is a Win-Win situation for both you as well as your guest writers. You get the added traffic the expert writer is expected to pull in for you and the guest writers get his or her niche branding platform at no cost at all!

Interview Experts And Load It Up - Create A Following With Anticipation
Content - Whenever you conduct a niche related interview with an industry or niche expert, get permission to capture the video and load it into your website. Remember that some internet readers are more visual and yet some others are more audio. So convey your materials with more than mere words, take it beyond words.

Traffic - A trick is to roll out a long interview by breaking it into in a few segments on stipulated timing on a regular basis for broadcast. This creates excitement, anticipation and tends to create a following over time.

Transcribe Your Interviews - Enhance Newsletter Subscriptions
Traffic - An alternative to the video interviews is to create a transcription version of the interview for those who prefer to read. Segment them into regular posts. Or create anticipation by announcing distribution of the transcribed version via your weekly newsletter, thereby increasing subscription to your newsletter.

Publish your Online & Offline Surveys - Give it Away Free
Content - You have recently completed an online survey on your niche market segments and written a commentary on the future trends of your niche market segments.

Traffic - Generate attention within your niche circle, Give it away free by getting them to subscribe to your newsletter! By giving the report away free, you brand yourself as the niche expert with depth and will probably generate long term readers.

Do Extensive Content and Topical Research
Do extensive desktop research, run searches on the major search engines on your niche marketing topics online. Always conduct research with core keywords of your online niche marketing topics and propagate to related keyword clusters. Collate as much technical information as well as observe how other writers present their information via the internet.

PLRs - Get Inspired, Improvise And Generate Innovative New Ideas
Do Not reuse your PLRs lock stock and barrel outright! Remember the simple fact that as easy as you could get the PLRs, so can your niche competitors!
Rather, it’s alright to copy shamelessly - The ideas and concepts from your PLRs, improvise and generate innovative New Ideas for your niche content.

Ghost Writers - Check Originality And Do Due Diligence
If you are overwhelmed with too much pending writing to do, engage ghost writers for writing assignments. But always remember to ask for exclusive rights to the written articles and run Copyscape to avoid plagiarism. Also, run checks on the core keywords of your article in the 3 major search engines. You cannot afford oversight in ensuring article originality.

Brand You and Drive in that Traffic! Because You are The Unique Niche Content
Content - I can never stress enough that since your have chosen your very unique niche market segment, you must be a subject matter or content expert in your own rights. Dig deep into yourself, contribute and share as much as you can on your past experience. Remember that Only You can deliver that very Original and Unique Content to your readers.
Traffic - If you are anyone within your offline niche segment fraternity, you online activities will also be closely followed and vice versa, hence, the natural drive of traffic.

The Top 10 Advanced Content & Traffic Strategies laid out above abide by the Single Most Critical Principle - Credibility. Remember, as Internet Marketers , your most valuable asset online is Credibility . So treasure it and nurture it and let it grow.

Top 10 Advanced Content Strategies for Dominating Online Niche Marketing

This is the first part of Top 10 Content Strategies which shares strategies adopted by most successful internet marketer. In Part 2 of this article, I will be mapping the Content tactics with Traffic Generation strategies to maximize their strategic potential.

You are The Unique Niche Content
I can never stress enough that since your have chosen your very unique niche market segment, you must be a subject matter or content expert in your own rights. Dig deep into yourself, contribute and share as much as you can on your past experience. Remember that Only You can deliver that very Original and Unique Content to your readers.

Repackage Existing Expert Content
You might have already created past materials about your niche segments but is gathering dust at the basement. This could be a valuable resource which you could collate and repackage for interested readers.

Do Thorough Content and Topical Research
Do extensive desktop research, run keyword searches on the major search engines on your niche marketing topics online. Collate as much technical information as well as observe how other writers present their information via the internet.

Subscribe to Newsletters
Seek out your major niche competition sites and Subscribe to their Newsletters. You obtain and generate updated information of your greatest niche marketing competitors which you could then improvise

Invite Expert Guest Writers
Invite reputed niche experts as expert guest writers on your website on a regular, may be, weekly or fortnightly basis. Your niche markets will love the value add.

One on One Experts Interviews
Whenever you conduct a niche related interview with an industry or niche expert, get permission to capture the video and load it into your website. Some internet readers are more visual and yet some others are more audio, so give them variety.

Transcribe Your Interviews
An alternative to the video interviews is to create a transcribed version of the interview for those who prefer to read. Split into a few segments and run a course delivered via email marketing

Publish Your Online Surveys
You have recently completed an online survey on your niche market segments and written a commentary on the future trends of your niche market segments. Do up a Special Report complete with the commentary and give it away.

Adapt and Improvise on PLRs
Remember the simple fact that as easy as you could get the PLRs, so can your niche competitors. Improvise and generate innovative new ideas for your niche content. Do this only as a Last Resort.

Ghost Writers
Always remember to ask for exclusive rights to the written articles, run Copyscape and searches on the 3 major search engines to avoid plagiarism.

The Top 10 Traffic and Content Strategies laid out above abide by The Single Most Critical Principle - Credibility.

Credibility & Integrity form the basis of your Trustworthiness in the eyes of your readers. Remember never to jeopardize Your personal branding and reputation as well as all the hard work achieved over time within your niche market segment.

Now you are ready to check out the Content-Traffic Map that will take you to the next level at Dominating Online Niche Marketing - Advanced Traffic & Content Strategies.

YOU Are THE Unique Content – Dominating Online Niche Marketing

Starting a new online niche marketing website and wondering where is your starting point to source for content?

Assuming that you are an expert in your intended online niche market and have done extensive research on your intended online niche market, you are convinced that the subject matter will be of interest and benefit to your readers.

First stop in getting the unique information. You get the information from Within Yourself . Note the operative word Unique Content. Being the expert, You are the Conten t . Search from within yourself. You represent a Wealth of information with unique perspective and unique expertise that no others can duplicate. There is no two persons who has the same life experience that you have, you are Unique. And Only You can deliver Your Unique content to your readers .

The one thing you must do before you start collating and writing you content is Planning . I cannot stress more on the importance of planning the outline and rollout process of your website. Give it priority. Visualize how you want your information to be represented on your site. Plan the categories and the number of categories you wish to include, the importance etc. Also have a preliminary outline of the amount of adsense, affiliate marketing programs and other revenue generation tools to be included.

Throughout life you would have accumulated an extensive amount of past notes and materials on your niche topics, be it written materials, marketing collaterals, videos, audio and simply life experiences and mottos that you live by. So dig into them and collate the materials.

Start by collating and segmenting these loose materials into coherent categories that you want to be represented in your website based on your planned website format. You might be surprised that you could have more materials than you need for the website.

If you are still lacking in materials, get niche PLRs , private label rights articles on your niche topics for reference. Note that this suggestion is not to let you have the easy way out, but to have you start off by running through the niche PLRs and generate Article Ideas for your writing. As much as you have access to the niche PLRs, so do others within your niche. Then improvise with innovative new ideas leveraging from the PLRs. Do Not duplicate the content. Note too, that PLRs is the Last Resort.

I cannot stress more that your credibility as an expert niche in your own right is very important. Readership Trustworthiness is acquired, not bought. And that trust must be built over time, so do not take any short cuts and do not sell yourself short. Believe strongly that you can deliver and want to deliver the content to your readers and you will be able to complete your mission.

There are advanced content strategies and tactics you could apply for maximum effect. Check them out at Top 10 Advanced Content Strategies for Dominating Online Niche Marketing.

Article Writing – Poor Online Content that Irks You Most

Have you ever read an article on any website from start to finish, not understanding what the author is trying to convey to his or her readers?  Or better still, may be you have never read such an article simply because you would have long given such articles the miss right after reading the first paragraph?

One source of comfort to you is if you already subconsciously know how you would react to a badly written article, you are already on the road to successful article writing.

Now let us determine What Irks You Most in an Article so that you Do Not commit such atrocities.

The Tone of your article can make or break your chances with your readers. Simply choose a monotonous tone and murder your readers with boredom!

Scattered Unfocused Content where there is no single proposition outlined to offer to readers that rants on and on, flitting from one topic to another is a sure success, in Losing readers!

Noisy articles or articles which are "too busy" with too much illustrations, pop ups and videos or even extensive list of external links on websites sometimes serves to drive readers away instead of keeping them on the site.

Superfluous Content not supported by legitimate claims that do not deliver serves only to capture the unsuspecting innocent readers. Such content are created to drive away repeat customers at best and is a surefire approach to invite subsequent customer complaints.

Disconnected information indicates disconnect between your title and the promise whereby the promise does not match the title proposition, hence giving rise to the Forever Undelivered Missing Link.

Lack of Language Proficiency which portrays bad grammar and bad spelling is obviously in bad need for a native language editor.

Abused Resource Box listing out the entire history of life achievement of the author, or almost all, all his websites etc are the best ways to pull your own last straw.

Remember that you have only 7 seconds to hold the attention of your readers . So make the best use of your seconds to ensure reader stickiness. Write what your readers want to know, not what you think they want to know. Be short, laser sharp and direct in your article writing.

I am sure there are many more on your list that irks you on bad content. So, having explored what irks you most in an article, simply do the Exact Opposite of what is listed in the above atrocities and you will be on the right track.

To know more about effective article writing and marketing, visit the Article Marketing category for my website.

Key Traffic Rejuvenation Strategies for Online Niche Marketing Sites

Statistics shows 175,000 new blogs are created daily, 18 blog updates per second, meaning that 1.8 million posts are being created every day. To ensure that you do not get phased out in the very busy and noisy cyber marketplace, or that you are not leaking web traffic to your competition, you need to review and add new content to keep them current content.

The Internal, External and Customer Analysis Checklist below will help you ensure relevance in your niche site.

Your Target Segment Analysis - Know what your Customers really Need

Your Internal Analysis - Analyze with a Search of your own site

Your External Analysis - Check out the Competition

Now that you have investigated both the external as well as internal environments related to your online niche marketing site, you can proceed to revamp your own web pages

Time to Rejuvenate your Niche Site - Revamp your web pages

Enjoy your web revival mission!

Critical SEO & Traffic Generation Strategies for New Website Launches

This is a Must-do list of Critical SEO and Traffic Generation Strategies and Tactics for your new website development & launches which serves as a simple checklist for your online niche marketing activities. This list addresses the process from SEO keyword research you need to conduct all the way to effectively driving traffic to your site.

I am an advocate of doing things right at the start. Hence, I have outlined the following pointers, although not exhaustive, and so please feel free to add on to the list if you so wish to.

Setting Up Your New Niche Website

Do Thorough Keyword Research

Be Conscientious, Make it a habit to fill in all your Tags

Manage your On Page Backend Optimization

Driving Traffic to Your New Niche Website

Article Writing and Marketing

Submit Press Release to PR sites and PR your way to exposure

Leverage on Social Bookmarking and Shout Out to Everyone

Participate In Niche Forums

Link Up and Leverage on Successful Authority sites

Enough said, and now its time for you to action. Like I said, this list may not be exhaustive, and you may have lots of other great ideas to market your new site. In fact, I shall be adding on to this at a later date. But this list should surfice to start you off on the right track.

Good luck.


Drive Traffic to Online Niche Sites – Core Domain Naming Strategies

Today, we discuss naming your "new-born baby"!

The Core Domain Naming Techniques are discussed below you may wish to use:

Be Memorable but Meaningless

Be Short, Direct & Purposeful

Capitalize It

Where Your Core Keywords ARE Your Domain Name

Search Engines have Preferences too?

Design Your Website & Domain Name for Humans

One thing you will learn over time is that search machines don’t like froth. They crawl for relevant terms, so having a more meaningful and direct domain name is important.

Forget the Glam, it’s the money that counts!