Hi and welcome to this blog post, this post was inspired, and some of the information has been taken from, Module Three of the “Digital Millionaire Boot-camp” part of Marc Milburn’s  Coaching Program, of which I am at present a student

Being an Information Marketer and Creating Your Own Product

We now live in an information age, where knowledge and information are power and one of the most valuable commodities available. Being an information marketer enables you to work from home or anywhere you want to  and potentially create thousands of dollars a year out of thin air. There is no packaging, shipping or warehousing to worry about, and you can sell the product over and over and over again.

So why create your own product?? 

• If you want to make more than a few dollars online you have to create   your own products.
• All of the highly successful people online are also product creators.
• Your better off selling your own product, rather than someone else’s because then you make money from every copy you sell.
• Having your own product can make you an authority and also increase your credibility in your chosen niche.
• As a product creator you are able to recruit lots of affiliates to drive traffic to your product and thus reducing your traffic generating efforts.
• You can create a virtually hands free business that, if done correctly will provide for you and your family for years to come.
• You have complete control over sales, income and distribution.

So what type of products can you create??

The main types of products that you can create as an information marketer are:

• E Books
• Audios
• Videos
• Software.
• Membership Sites
• Webinars
• Coaching Programs
• Multimedia Products*

*Your Multimedia Product could consist of all your other products repurposed, with other things like mind maps and transcripts added.

So what are the steps of creating your own product??

The main steps for creating your own product consist of:

Step 1: Finding a Niche or sub niche.

Step 2: Deciding on the type of product i.e. E Book, Video etc.

Step 3: Researching your Niche.

Step 4: Creating the draft product.

Step 5: Editing, formatting and proof reading.

Step 6: Publishing the product.

But what if I can’t write

That’s not a problem at all, there are some ” Shortcut Strategies  that can be implemented to help with this problem.

Strategy #1   Using a Ghost Writer:

If you feel that your command of the English language is not fantastic why not hire a ghost writer to write your E Book for you. Places like the Warrior Forum, Elance and ODesk have lots of people just willing to produce an E Book, or even videos and software for you.

Strategy #2   Private Label Rights:

Private Label Rights products or PLR as it sometimes known, can also be used to produce your own products. But the two things I will say about using PLR is

• Check your rights to edit or change the PLR
• Make sure you change the title, images and a large part of the product to make it unique.

Check out this PLR site for lots of PLR products

PLR Wholesaler

Strategy #3   Interview an Expert:

If your not sure what to produce how about contacting two or three experts in your chosen niche and interview them. This can either be done face to face or via Skype, and this could either be an audio interview or a video interview. After that both you and the experts could share the product and market it to your respective lists.

Check out these expert interviews by Dawn Kay to see how easy it is to interview an expert.

Other types of products you could consider

• Kindle E Books
• Physical Products i.e. DVD’s Books, training courses.
• Live Seminars.

So there you have it a quick and short run down of product creation and the reasons to create your own products, as I said at the begging of the post, ALL the successful marketers online have their own selection of products that they can sell over and over again.

Hope this helps

To your success

Terry

Internet marketing is a powerful business where you can make an item into a household name or get thousands of views on a single website page in a day. Whether you are promoting your own website or blog, a new company, or a long-standing offer, there is always something new to learn.

Here are 12 tips which I think will benefit your business.

1.Never stop adding content to your website. Internet marketing is not a leave it and forget it type of business. You need to keep things fresh and keep eyes coming back to your page. Pages that are stagnant tend to fall off of search results so make sure to add things on a regular basis.

2.Keep your content constant and evergreen. No one enjoys visiting a website when the information is old and the links are outdated or broken. Make sure to update your older content, as well as constantly providing new content. New visitors will often search out the older information to get a feel for your site and you don’t want them to be disappointed!

3.Use an easy to use blogging program, like WordPress or Blogger, that won’t require a lot of effort and skills to maintain. Discover plugins for your blog that can add extra value for your readers, though make sure that you don’t overdo it. Keep your blog customized to your products and your readers for greatest effectiveness in standing out from the crowd.

4.Use forums to market your website online. Go to forums that are related to your site or service, and spark up conversation in the threads. Have a link to your site in your signature. If you use this correctly you can generate a lot of traffic for your own site from there.

5.Offer incentives for customers to come back to your website on a regular basis. Offer a free E books or a discount code each week so that people feel like they have to come back on a regular basis to get the freebie or get a discount on their purchases.

6.Make sure that you avoid gaudy or bright colours on your website. The more vibrant your website is the less professional it looks. This will take away your customer’s attention to what you can offer them. Stick with conservative colors to keep your reader’s attention to maintain your integrity and credibility.

7.Know where your visitors are coming from, and how much traffic your site attracts, this will help you to optimize your site to attract even more customers. There are many free and easy to use tools that can analyze your traffic and show you exactly who is visiting your site and why, one of the most popular is Google Analytics. Use these tools to improve your site and bring in more traffic.

8.The power of networking is absolutely indisputable! so use this power to your advantage. The most popular networking sites are Facebook and Twitter. Encourage your customers to tell five other people about your website for a promotional code to receive a percentage off their next total purchase. This can turn one sale into multiple sales, and increase your website exposure.

9.Tell everyone you know and come into contact with about your website anytime you get the chance. Word-of-mouth advertising can be very powerful because people love to talk. This includes your neighbours, the mailman, and the clerks at the grocery store. No one is off limits!!!

10.set your website to cater to different languages. This will allow foreign customers to be able to access and read your advertisements. Since the advertisement is being done through the internet, it is very likely to have an international audience.

11.Use prizes, giveaways and drawings to increase traffic. People love something for free. Use this to your advantage by offering a prize as an incentive for them to go to your website, sign up for your mailing list and be entered in a drawing. This not only gets you traffic, but also builds up a mailing list for future use.

12. Try using above techniques in your own marketing strategies, then keep track of which works for you and which don’t. It’s important to remove any marketing ideas which fail and implement those that work over and over again. Tracking your work is as important as doing the work, so keep learning, testing, and growing!

Most of all just keep getting visitors to your blog or website and eventually your efforts will pay off

Stay safe

Terry

Well what can I say, I have been online in one way or another for approximately 6 years, and in all that time guess how much I have earned? around $100………………………

“Is that all”? I hear you say, and my answer is yes!!!!! but……………. I have earned a lot more than that in knowledge, ten or even a hundred times more, a lot of which I have implemented in one way or another.

” But you’ve still only earned a measly $100″ I hear you shout, and right you are so obviously  there is something missing, one small piece of the puzzle I still haven’t found.  Well step forward Marc Milburn, my knight in shining armour, I have gone and gotten myself a Mentor  Now I have gone through coaching programs in the past, and all of them have taught me something, but………….there’s always been one little snipped of information eluded me, or is it that I haven’t been ready or taken action? I’ll let you decide

Talking about taking action I first came across Marc Milburn in 2009, we were both on Alex Jeffreys ” Marketing with Alex 2.0 coaching course” both wet behind the ears newbies  But even then you could see that Marc was going to be a force to be reckoned with, one of us took massive action and one didn’t.  I bet you can guess which one is which and that’s why I’m here today with Marc as my mentor

So I bet you want to know what this coaching course is all about, don’t ya?????

The coaching course is called ” Online Wealth Blueprint” and it is a 12 month coaching program designed to get you to a level where you are earning basically however much money that you want to earn, be it $50,000, $100,000 or even $500,000 or more a year.  But as Marc calls it, this is not a Get Rich Quick Scheme it’s a Get rich Forever Business. 

The other thing is that Marc will not do it all for you, but…………..he will hold your hand and show you the right way to do things

The one thing I liked about Marc Milburn is the fact that he promises to stay with you till you make it!!!! which I think is a very gutsy promise to make.

So what have we covered up to now in the coaching program……………

Well last week we started Module 1 of a course called ” Digital Millionaire Boot Camp” This is a six-week, intensive webinar coaching program which will teach you the fundamental principles behind a million dollar internet business.

Module 1 called “Business Big Bang” covered all the fundamentals of running an Internet Business and we looked at things like treating Internet Marketing as a real business not just a hobby, organisation, focus, outsourcing, why people spend money on the internet and different methods of earning $100,000 per year!!!!!!!!

We have just had Module 2 called ” The Profit Hub” and that covered the three main elements you need for a successful Internet business,

• Domain and hosting
• A Blog
• A Email List

Marc then went through each one and explained how to do it and why, all in all the modules are clear, concise and simple to understand, next week we are going to cover how to create our own product, an essential part of every marketers arsenal.

So if you want to follow me on this journey of discovery then keep popping back to this blog to follow my progress, and you never know one day I might just find my I.M. Nirvana

Take care and speak soon

Terry  :-)

welcome to the third part of this blog post about ” Internet Marketing Business Simplified”…………………………………

In this third and final part of this post we’re going to look at ways of getting traffic to your squeeze page. Because its no good having a fantastic offer to give away and a lovely looking squeeze page, if no one knows your there. That’s a bit like having a shop and not telling anyone that your are open and ready for business

Here are twelve ways of getting traffic to your squeeze page………………..

1. Leverage the viral power of video sharing sites.YouTube, Metacafe, Break,Vimeo there’s a bunch of them out there. Create interesting and informative videos for/about your niche/market and post them on your YouTube channel on a regular basis. Make sure to include the link to your squeeze/opt-in page in your video post.Respond through video. YouTube, along with other video sharing sites and some social networking sites allow you to post video response/comments. Posting video response/comments allows you to piggy back on the popularity of the video you are responding to/commenting on. In addition, video comments have the capability to catch people’s attention more than text-based comments.
2. Make your presence known on social networking sites – If you have an account on social networking sites like Facebook,and Twitter, make sure to mention about your products/services/offers (complete with the link to your squeeze/opt-in page) in your profile. If not, you can always signup for an account with all the social networking sites out there, preferably using a username and avatar that brands your business or you as a person, whichever it is that you want to promote.
3. Create a blog on various free blogging platforms – Blogger/Blogspot, WordPress.com, LiveJournal, there’s a bunch of them out there. Fill them up regularly with new blog entries and don’t forget to include a link to your lead capture page. You can also set up an opt-in form on your blogs. Make the most out of your blogs’ RSS feed. If you publish useful/interesting content on your blog, there’s a very good chance that your readers will want to subscribe to your blog and probably even syndicate your posts on their site. And there’s no better way for them to do either of those than through your blog’s RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. Just don’t forget to include a link to your lead-generation page in your blog posts. More importantly, make your posts interesting and useful.
4. Submit your blog(s) to blog directories. This will help you in building a following, readership, and revenue. Some examples of blog directories are Best of the Web Blogs, Technorati, and Blog Catalog.
5. Comment on other people’s blog – Especially those that are in a similar or related niche to yours. You can also comment on those that are in a different niche so long as you stay relevant to the conversation. Just don’t spam. Like I said, make your comments relevant to either the running discussion or the main blog entry.
6. Do a guest post on other people’s blog – Some bloggers welcome guest bloggers. Try to look for them and offer to write an entry or two for their blog. The key here is relevance and quality content. Write an entry that will be useful and interesting to the readers of the blog you are writing for.
7. Participate in forums. Join forums that are related to your niche and start participating in the discussions. Wherever permitted, include the link to your lead capture page in your forum signature file.
8. Submit press releases to PR sites – If your site is new, you can write a press release about its launching and submit it to various PR sites. The thing about PR sites is that they will distribute your press release to various online news outlets. So, this is a really good way to get free inbound links to your site/lead-generation page. In addition, this can also help your site/page rank in the search engine results pages. Examples of PR sites are PRWeb and PRLeap.
9. Create your Squidoo Lenses and HubPages – these two Web 2.0 sites are pretty hot these days. They allow you to create mini-sites or one-page sites on their “real estate” where you can link back to your site(s) or your lead-generation page.
10. Join traffic exchange sites. A Traffic Exchange (also known as Hit Exchange) lets you receive exposure for your own web site, banner ads, and even text links by viewing the sites and ads of other people. However, since you’re after real people visiting your site, you may want to stay away from Auto Surf Traffic Exchanges. Additionally, paid exchanges generally produce better results than the free exchanges.
11. Make use of Q&A sites – Yahoo Answers, AskVille, AnswerBag… look for unanswered questions that falls under your niche/category and answer them the best way you can (i.e., helpful information). Include your link in your answer not as a signature but rather as part of your answer. If you can’t find any unanswered questions relating to your niche, create one of your own. You can answer your own question but make sure you do it on a different computer and with a different identity so as not to raise any suspicion.
12. Submit your site to Web directories –Yahoo! Directory, DMOZ there’s a bunch of them out there. In fact, there are hundreds if not thousands of them. Just look for them online. You don’t have to submit to all the directories that you can find. Just submit your site to the ones that are related to your subject matter/business (niche).

There are many many more ways to also drive traffic to your squeeze page, but, you could pick just 4-5 out of these twelve and still generate lots of traffic to your offer,

I hope that you have enjoyed this three part blog post and that it simplifies Internet Marketing and also helps you make some money.

If you want to learn loads more traffic tactics why not check out John

Thornhill’s ” Simple Traffic Solutions” for only $4.95, it’s jam packed with lots of

awesome information about traffic generation, check it out now

Till next time, take care

Terry

Hi and welcome to the second part of this blog post about ” Internet Marketing Business Simplified”…………………………………

In the first part of the post we talked about finding an offer to give away to entice people to give you their email address.  In part two we’re going to look at building a conversion system, or a squeeze page, in simple terms.  The sole purpose of a squeeze page, sometimes called a landing page, is to get prospective subscribers to your list to give you their email address.  This we do is by offering them an ” ethical bribe” or free gift in return for their email address.

So what is a squeeze page made up of?

well it has four main parts

• A headline
• A brief or lengthy introduction,
• A call to action (or multiple calls to action).
• An opt-in form (or sales prompt),

These four main parts all have different functions:

• The Headline-Grabs the readers attention
• The Introduction- Gives the reader a more in depth description of the offer
• The Call to Action-which will compel them to take action – subscribe, buy, etc.
• The opt-in form-this is where the reader fills in their email address, and sometimes name as well, so that they can get their free gift

Once they subscribe or buy, your squeeze page should then re-route them to a thank you page, which opens up more means through which you can up-sell. One quick way to up-sell is to simply include advertisements on your thank you page for related affiliate products or for your own products.

Once you have them on your list you can then send them information and offers at will, the information, to show them that you care about them and want to help, and the offers to generate income for yourself……….

One thing you absolutely must have before you get started is an auto responder. Without an auto responder, you are tossing potential bags of money in the garbage. I personally use Aweber, but there are others like Get Response or Mail Chimp, which are as good.

Getting Your Squeeze Page to Convert

Most people have no idea how to write a squeeze page that converts. Instead, they throw together elements that they have seen used in other pages – but usually do not put them together in the same way the owner of the successful squeeze page did.  The biggest problem is usually the “copy” or how the page is written, not everyone is going to be an excellent writer – never mind a copywriter. But as someone selling a product or trying to build a list, it is important that you know your strengths and weaknesses – and that you either spend the time to overcome them or hire someone else to do it for you!!  If you fail to sprinkle in psychological triggers, such as “scientifically proven,” “guaranteed,” and “shocking,” no one will feel compelled to continue reading, as the benefits will have a low or average perceived value……………………………

it is also important to build a compelling case for a time-bound offer but, this doesn’t mean you have to invent fake deadlines and constantly revise them each week. This is a good way to guarantee your complete loss of credibility in the shortest amount of time.

There are two major ways in which you can increase your squeeze page conversion rate even more:

• The first way is by providing a photo of yourself.
• The second way is by adding your signature to the bottom of your squeeze page.

By adding your picture and signature, you can significantly increase a gain in your visitors’ trust.  So there you have it, a brief overview of creating and using a squeeze page to build a subscriber list, and to earn you money too.

If you would like a more in-depth look at creating and using a squeeze page then feel free to go to: http://www.terry-weatherill.com/squeezepageblueprint/squeeze/index.htm and download my FREE E-book on building cash sucking squeeze pages.

Next time we’er going to look at the final, and I consider the most important part of our Internet Marketing Business- TRAFFIC!!

Till next time take care

Terry

Hi all hope your well and not too cold with all this snow, the other day I was privileged to attend a webinar run by Lee McIntyre. In this webinar he talked about starting a web business in three simple steps:

• Finding an offer – finding or creating a product to give away.
• Building your conversion system – Creating a Squeeze Page System.
• Getting traffic – Driving traffic to your page.

So  I thought I’d look at these three in more detail…………………………

Finding or creating an offer to give away

This is the first part of your system, to find a product or create one to give away.  Out of the two finding a product is a lot easier than creating one but……. if you create one it will be unique and no one else will be promoting it.  So how do you find out what sort of products people are looking for? well first of all you have to think what areas people are looking in, this is also known as a niche.  The niche that you go for has to be what is known as ” Evergreen” i.e. the information will never go out of fashion……..and the three main evergreen niches are:

• Health
• Wealth
• Lifestyle

Within these main niches are what is called sub niches i.e.

• niche health-sub niche weight loss,
• niche wealth-sub niche make money,
• niche lifestyle-sub niche self improvement

After that you can then ” drill down” even further if you want to, the trouble is some of the niches are too broad so you may have to look a little deeper to find a sub niche to go into, i.e. weight loss for busy mothers, or making money ideas for students

Once you’ve decided what niche you’re going to go into the next thing to decide is what to promote, now I could start talking about Keyword research and web trends etc……. but I’ve found the easiest thing to do is go to places like Clickbank, Amazon and even Ebay and see what people are searching for and buying.

One of my favorite is Clickbank, just log on go to the Marketplace and look down the left hand side at all the categories  these are all niches and sub niches……………..

Go to Amazon and click on the drop down menu at the top, again you’ll find a list of categories, all potential niches. visit Ebay and look down the left hand side at the categories all possible niches.

Another good site for possible niches is dummies.com if you go to this site again down the left hand side is a list of categories, and, you’ve guessed it………………all possible niches.  So as you can see there a lots of sites you can go to to look for potential niches and sub niches.

Once you have found a niche you’d like to enter, how to you find a product to give away? Well there are lots and lots of sites on the internet where you can obtain E-Books, Software and video’s with ” Giveaway Rights” that you can give away.  Just go to Google and type in ” Free PLR Products” and you will get a long list of sites where you can download products to give away.

Three of my favorite product sites are, Surefire Wealth,  Resell Right Mastery and  PLR Wholesaler  all of these sites have lots and lots of products you can give away on your squeeze page.

Once you have decided on your niche and found a product to give away, the next thing is to build your conversion system or squeeze page……….and that’s what we’ll be looking at next time,

Until then, take care

Terry

www.facebook.com/terry.weatherill

Hi and welcome to my latest blog post and a Happy New Year to you all…………….well what a time I had in December doing my personal blog challenge-posting everyday throughout December. It was hard but……….it was interesting too

I also proved to myself that if……there is sufficient motivation that I can do anything I want to………I had told quite a few people on Facebook that I was going to do my challenge so that meant that I had to do it or suffer the consequences. So that’s what I did I got stuck in got my head down and off went, there where times when……..quite frankly I could have easily just given up, but, because I’d broadcast to the world, well friends on Facebook , that I was going to do it I had no option but to complete it, I actually became answerable for my actions.

As far as traffic to my site was concerned, although it wasn’t massive in the great scheme of things, it was acceptable and varied. What I did notice was a spike of traffic when I posted a comment on Facebook or on Twitter.

The sources of traffic to my blog were as follows:

1. facebook.com / referral   141 visits

2. (direct) / (none)    58 visits

3. twitterfeed / twitter   32 visits

4. m.facebook.com / referral    35 visits

5. dansumnerblog.com / referral   18 visits

6. listjoe.com / referral    16 visits

7. otogoldmine.com / referral  4 visits

8. bartnash.com / referral   3 visits

9. docthecoach.com / referral   3 visits

10. andrewstark.com / referral   1 visit

11. daveballonline.com / referral   1 visit

12. juliaharriscoaching.com / referral   1 visit

13. paulo-blog.com / referral   1 visit

14. terry-weatherill.com / referral  1 visit

Now like I said before, although I didn’t tear up any trees, as you can see my number one source of traffic all the way through was good old Facebook, followed by Twitter at number 3. I discounted direct traffic at number 2, because a lot of that was visits by me to my blog.  Interestingly enough blog commenting/visits came out quite well too.

As you can see from the above image I had spikes in my traffic and those spikes came when I posted a comment on Facebook.  I think its safe to say that if done properly, that Facebook, or any other social media site can be a very good source of traffic.

Now that I have had a rest I think my next project will be to investigate some other traffic sources and see which ones give me the best result. At the minute I’m not sure how I’m going to do it but as soon as I have decided I will write another post with the information. Hope that you have enjoyed reading this post and as always please leave a comment below.

Take care

Terry Weatherill

http://www.facebook.com/terry.weatherill

Hi all and welcome to the final day of my Personal Blog Challenge………….This is it I’ve finally done it, 31 posts in 31 days, and all of them live, none pre-written. This is going to be a short post as I am due at work at midday

I feel really proud of myself at the minute, when I first decided to do this challenge and posted it on Facebook I got a number of different comments from “go for it” to ” It’ll be difficult and challenging” and shall I tell you what………..it has been very difficult and very challenging but……..I was determined to see it through to the bitter end. There were days when I thought nah….can’t be bothered today, but something inside me said “you must go on” and I also think that because I’d actually put it on Facebook and people had seen it that I had to complete it…………………….

So I think that proves one thing if your going to do something tell everybody you can, then you become answerable for your acts or omissions……….If you’re planning goals, don’t just write them down for just you to see post them on Facebook or other Social Networking sites, tell family or friends, then you become accountable and it spurs you on to complete them.

In the next few days I’m going to post a review of my Blog Challenge with  a run down of what I have discovered while doing it. But I’m going to finish now because I’m at work soon for what is expected to be a very busy 12 hour shift. So I’d just like to say a very Happy and Prosperous New Year to everyone who reads this post……………and set your goals for 2013, write them down and put them out for the world to see

Hi and welcome to day 30 of my Personal Blog Challenge…………yes this is the penultimate day of my challenge! One more day and I have completed it But before I get too carried away and excited here is an article about Affiliate Marketing……………………….Enjoy

If you are looking for the best home based online business that is easy to start and requires minimal start-up capital, affiliate marketing is the most recommended approach.

As an affiliate, you will be marketing other people’s products for a commission. Depending on the product, the commission can be 30% to 75% + on every sale that you make.

Affiliate marketing is the best online business which anyone can start, regardless of what experience they have in internet marketing.

• You do not need to create your own product. As an affiliate, you will be making money online through commissions which you earn from marketing other people’s products.

• You do not have to handle or ship products. As an affiliate, all you have to do is to direct potential customers to the merchant’s website using your affiliate link. You do not need to worry about payment processing or product delivery.

• You do not need to create a website or write a sales copy, which can be quite costly. If you already have your own website, all you need to do is to add your affiliate links on your website. You can also still earn money online as an affiliate without a website by simply promoting your affiliate link. If you are writing and submitting articles as a way of advertising, all you need to do is to add your affiliate links at the end of each article. People who read your articles will then click on your affiliate link which can make you a sale.

• There is no need for domain and hosting costs. When starting an online business, most people have limited cash. In affiliate marketing, there is no need to pay for hosting and having your own domain since you do not necessarily need to have your own website. While it is helpful to have your own website where you promote your affiliate programs, you can still start to earn money just by promoting your affiliate link without a website.

• There are no requests for refunds to deal with. As an affiliate, you do not have to worry about handling any requests for refunds. You earn commission on every product you sell, and it is the product owner’s responsibility to handle any requests for refunds.

• You can pick and choose the products you want to sell. There are many products you can choose from to promote. You can therefore choose those “hot” products that are popular and in demand, and that also match your interests or website theme.

Affiliate marketing is therefore the best and easiest way to start making money online. Anyone can do it, and you can do it too!

Hi and welcome to day 29 of my Personal Blog Challenge…………..today I have found an article on ways to drive traffic to your blog, enjoy

Blogging is very effective in attracting large volumes of traffic. However, if you really want to drive huge volumes of traffic to your blog, you will need to do more than just blogging.Here are the top six secrets for driving traffic to your blog.

• Create high quality content that is rich with your keywords and phrases. This brings two main benefits. First, high quality and useful content will keep your website’s visitors interested and they will visit your blog on a regular basis and will buy the products you sell on your website. Second, fresh content with your key words will improve your search engine ranking which brings traffic to your blog and website.

• Optimizing your titles for search engines is also an effective way of driving traffic to your website. You will need to optimize your blogs titles and use all the keywords or phrases which people use while looking for information on the internet. This will make your website visible on search engines, and your website will also rank high for all your keywords, driving traffic to your website.

• Use email marketing with your blog. This is an effective way of bringing readers back to your blog as well as to create a list. Having your own list is important because you can sell your products and services to your list. By using an auto responder, you can send emails to your list about updates to your blog, hence driving traffic to your blog.

• Social book marking is yet another powerful way to drive traffic to your blog. If you rank high on some of the most popular social book marking sites, you can drive large volumes of traffic to your website.

• RSS feed for blog traffic. RSS feed is another way you can use to keep people coming back to your blog because after people subscribe to read your RSS feed, they will get updates continuously. This means that you will be bringing readers back to your blog every time you make a new blog post.

• You can use some of your blog posts and covert them into articles. All you have to do is to add more content to your blog posts if necessary, add a catchy article heading and convert it into an article. Writing and submitting articles is one of the most excellent strategies for traffic generation.

These six strategies can significantly increase the volume of traffic to your website and blog.