10 tips and tactic to bring traffic to your niche part 8
Tip
Number 61: ShareThis and AddThis
These are blog plug-ins that
allow people to share links to your Web pages on social networks with just a
few clicks. In principle, it is like
allowing users to recommend your webpage to their friends, with the convenience
of one or a couple of clicks.
Of course, sharing links could be
done by copying the URL in the address bar and pasting it into your social
network posts, but that’s inelegant and sometimes doesn’t quite work out. With these plug-ins or widgets, you will make
it easier for visitors to share and recommend your pages.
Remember – the easier you make it
for people, the more likely they are to do it.
Tip
Number 62: Write a newsletter!
Whether in meatspace or in
cyberspace, your newsletter can get casual readers interested and keep current
subscribers in the loop. Include useful
tips and information in addition to informing the reader of what’s new and
what’s trending. A bit of humor is
usually appreciated.
Tip
Number 63: Guest writing!
Now this is a cool and fun
activity that works very well to improve your own popularity. You can write an article or blog post and
post it on someone else’s blog! You’ll
be riding on the coattails of their popularity, while they in turn can gain
popularity from your work. Plus, lots of
people like crossovers.
The only visible bump on the road
is of course getting the blog owner to allow you to post an article. You will need to make friends with the blog
owner, which is not unrewarding in itself.
Tip
Number 64: Mini-jobs via Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Yeah, it sounds crazy until you
know the source of the name (just Google “the Turk” or “the Mechanical
Turk”). The premise of the service is
that you post simple job requests that pay equivalently small amounts of
money. Then, people looking to make an
extra buck will log-in, browse through the job requests, perform them, and get
paid.
The requested tasks vary. Some might ask people to pick the best
picture out of a group. Others might pay
for people to answer surveys. In your
case, you can pay people to opt into your list!
Tip
Number 65: Submit your site to directories.
We are referring specifically to
Web directories like Yahoo! Directories, not your local yellow pages. Those of a more organized and step-by-step
mindset will likely turn to these services when they are in need of something. If that something happens to be related to
your field of interest, then their searches will likely pull up your
website! Old concept, new technology, as
with so many other things.
Tip
Number 66: Give interviews.
Yet another way of getting your
presence known to the public and improving your apparent wisdom, giving
interviews is for the bold and confident.
People who share interests in your particular niche can benefit from listening
to what a more experienced practitioner can share – and that could be you!
You will need to cultivate an
image that won’t rub them the wrong way, and is also in keeping with your other
material. After all, it would be strange
to watch or listen to someone who seems boisterous and peppy, but whose written
works are somber and flat, or vice versa.
Tip
Number 67: Written tutorials and instructional articles.
Writing tutorials and submitting
them to article aggregation websites can be easy and effective, if you know
what you are talking about. Getting
specific instructions on what to do can help make many things easier, and so
people are on a constant lookout for these.
Now, if you can write tutorials
and other instructional materials and publish them for public access, you are
essentially showing people how knowledgeable you are – and thus improving your
trustworthiness. Your user profile on
these aggregation websites can include URLs to your webpages, and again you can
include the URLs in your articles if it is relevant.
Tip
Number 68: Video demonstrations and tutorials.
By extension, instructional and
demonstrative videos can achieve the same if not a better effect. It has the useful information that people
value, and gives them a better look into who you are. It’s all about showing people that you know
what you are talking about and that you want to help them in whatever way you
can. They’ll eat it up!
Tip
Number 69: Google Buzz is a simplified social networking framework owned by
Google
The idea is to get people to talk
about stuff that interests them. Connect
with people who share interests, and get in the conversation. Be interesting, not obnoxious. At opportune times, share your links, and get
those opt-ins.
Tip
Number 70: Google AdSense is an advertising service from
Google
It works because it delivers the
right ads based on the type of webpage being viewed. That means that your ads only appear on pages
that are related to your topic, so you get a better click-through and conversion
rate. Tip Number 71: Buy someone
else’s website
Yeah, it sounds like a corporate
takeover, and it might as well be. This
works because you can then change your newly-acquired website to suit your
needs. Whether you build it up as a
separate product or use it to link back to your own website is up to you.
The idea is that you are trying
to get the traffic that the purchased site was getting. At the very least, you can include the list
of contacts in the declaration of sale, so you can build your list directly.
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