David Walker Webinar Module 5 – Part 4

This is the forth part of the information I have gained from David Walker’s fifth webinar in a series of 6 training webinars. It was called The Traffic Jam and covered the various Types and sources of Traffic.  These included the following:

1. Free Traffic
2. Paid Traffic
3. Content Based Traffic Generation – Blogs / Article Marketing / Forums
4. Social Bookmarking
5. Video Marketing
6. Organic Search Engine Traffic
7. Using Your Email List To Leverage More Traffic

The reason for generating all the traffic you can is to get people into your sales funnel using as many of the methods listed above as you can.

4. Social Bookmarking

Websites you can submit your content to include:

1. Stumble Upon
2. Delicious
3. Digg
4. Reddit
5. Propeller
6. Mixx
7. Sphinn (IM SEO friendly)

Sphinn is only for the IM Niche.  I have used Stumble Upon and use it every time I publish a new post here on the blog.  It does send me a varying amount of traffic depending on the time of day.  The other ones I have not used and the last three I had not heard of before this webinar but I will try them out from now on.

You should submit blog posts to bookmarking websites and create your content with those sites in mind.

• Pop culture list posts do well on Digg and Reddit
• Technology or software posts do well on Delicious
• Social Media posts do well on Sphinn

It is hit and miss as to whether your post will be successful or not, if it is you could get thousands of free visitors, if not you will get a link to your blog which search engines can follow.

Twitter

Twitter.com is a microblogging platform with an estimated 18,000,000 users.  You write messages of up to 140 characters.

It is relatively easy to build a large following.  You follow someone and they follow you back.  If you pick someone well known in your niche and follow all their followers and when their followers follow you back keep following more and more people.  But be careful not to try and follow too many people at one time as Twitter will suspend you for possibly being a spammer.  Restrict your self to say 200 per day and you should be OK.

If you have followed a group of people and they don’t follow you back after a few days, then unfollow them as this will leave you room to add more people who will follow you back.

Twitter is useful for interacting with likeminded people.  You have to use Twitter to get the most from it, interact with people don’t just broadcast to them. To follow me on Twitter click here.

Facebook

Over 300,000,000 people use Facebook and you should create your own “Fan Page” rather than use your personal profile.  Try to keep business and private matters seperate

It is more difficult to build a following than Twitter but you should get a better response as Facebook updates won’t get lost among the noise as easily as on Twitter.

It’s another place for people to find your blog posts, videos etc.

That brings me to the end of part 4 of Module 5 from David Walker’s webinar series,  I will continue with Video Marketing in part 5 shortly. Any comments will be welcome. If you wish to receive notification when a new post appears sign up to receive these notifications.