how to get your first sustained 200 visitors per day
This exercise is done without a marketing budget, you do not
need to spend money advertising . . . save $36,500
It takes time and effort to get traffic to
a web site, this is why most sites have zero
traffic. Most people who own sites are lazy, Make the effort
to promote your site and you will rise to the top. If you were to
pay for quality Internet ad space then expect to pay 50 cents per
visitor, so one year at 200 visits per day would cost you $36,500.
The critical word is SUSTAINED. If you do something
that generates traffic, you want it to generate traffic each
and every day. Short-term traffic promotion is a waste of
time as you will never grow. Solid building blocks that
give you a constant stream of visitors is critical.
Search engines
Forget search engines. You will get traffic from these but only when you are
established. This exercise is about getting your first 200 visitors; it's
perfect for webmasters just starting out, or webmasters with less than 100 visitors
per day.
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Stats
You must have stats so you can see what you are doing is working. The PseudoTUBE
manager includes visitor tracking. This means your aim is to get the black line above
the 200 mark forever. If you complete this 3 week exercise you should make it.
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SVPD
SVPD is Sustained Visitors Per Day.
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Week 1
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The first week is all about your friends. Most of the tasks get your friends to help you promote
your site.
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| Monday |
Preparation task:
Send an email to all your friends and contact all your friends on Myspace / Facebook.
Ask them to email you all of the funny videos they have collected over the years via email.
You want to get all the MPG / AVI / WMV files you can. These will be used in week 3.
Facebook website pages - $547.50 of free marketing:
You can make a profile page for a website on Facebook, select `Ads and Pages` and `create a page`.
There is a special section for websites. You need to make an effort here so set up a page and post
some videos and pictures and start some discussion threads. When all of this is in place become a
fan of your own website. Finally email all your friends and ask them to become a fan. Everyone
who joins will now have a link to your page on their profile and then things can spread from there.
You can also post images from your fan page to your profile and friend's profiles.
You need to come back to this page now and again to add new content until it starts
to run on its own. Expect to generate 3 SVPD.
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| Tuesday |
Link swaps (people you know) - $912.50 of free marketing:
How many people you do know with a website? How many people do you know who know someone with a website?
Send an email to all your friends and ask these questions and then request a link swap.
Use the automatic link-swapping tool on your PseudoTUBE site.
Just direct your friend to your links page and they can complete the swap for you.
If you swap with 5 friends and 15 friends of friends expect to generate 5 SVPD.
Email signatures - $182.50 of free marketing:
Add your web address to your email signature. This only takes a few minutes to set up and will remind
everyone you email about your site.
Ask your friends to do the same, every time you get an email from a friend without
a signature ask them to plug your site. Expect to generate 1 SVPD.
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| Wednesday |
Preparation task:
Remind your friends to email you all of the funny videos they have collected over the years via email.
You need to make sure you have 100 videos for week 3. If it looks like you will have less then
start to collect them yourself. Remember the power of asking your friends to email their friends.
This pyramid effect is very important to free marketing.
Social bookmarks: $2,737.50 of free marketing:
Join the leading social book marking sites and add your own site. All of these systems are similar, you
add your site and write a short description. Other people will then see your review and visit your site.
Some of these systems will give you over 100 visitors within a few hours and then drop to
lower amounts. If you have friends who own sites then you should ask each other to
plug your sites. This will generate a short term spike but will add some more traffic longer term.
It is really worth teaming up with some friends who run sites, find 5 friends with sites
and everyone adds all 5 sites to the following 30 social book marking sites.
If you know any better ones or want to report
a bad one on the list please contact us. We want to keep this list
up to date at all times.
Expect to generate 15 SVPD.
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| Thursday |
Update task:
Add some more content to your Facebook website page and check that your
friends have become fans.
Web directory listings - $912.50 of free marketing:
Add your site to all of the following directories. These are different to search
engines, you add your site to a specific section so it works
similar to the yellow pages. Visit each one in turn and add your site.
You can get added to these for free but you may have to hunt around
for the free option! If you know any better ones or want to report
a bad one on the list please contact us. We want to keep this list
up to date at all times.
Expect to generate 5 SVPD.
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| Friday |
Forums - $730 of free marketing:
Search the Internet for discussion forums that are on the same topic as your site. Sign
up and add your sites address to your signature. Most forum owners are okay with
a free link in your signature. Now join in the discussion and people will see your link.
Don't spam or your account will be deleted. Post quality threads or reply with
helpful advice. You should find 5 busy forums and visit them every week.
Expect to generate 4 SVPD.
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Week 2
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This is an all week task
Link swaps (people you don't know) - $16,425 of free marketing:
This is the most important part of growing your sites traffic and also the most time consuming; this will be what separates
you from all the competition. Pick a word that you think matches your site and enter it into a search engine.
Now one by one contact the webmaster of the first 100 sites found. Most sites will
have a contact us link with either a feedback form or email address. Send a message similar to this:
Hello,
I found your site by searching for the keyword "jokes" and would like to swap links with you.
I also have a site on the topic of "jokes". My site has over 3000 page views per day so should provide you with some free traffic.
I have an automatic link swap system set up we can get the swap completed in the minimum time. Visit:
http://www.boredtube.tv/links.php
I look forward to a successful swap and wish you all the best with your site.
Regards,
David
To save time you can cut & paste your message into the feedback forms or email system.
Swapping links does two very import things, 1) it increases your traffic 2) it increase
your page rank. Your page rank is what Google uses to rank your page for searches. So if you
keep swapping links, over time your site will rise to the top of Google. This process can take up
to 2 years but when you reach the top you get a lot of traffic.
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| Monday |
Select your keyword, search and contact at least 100 webmasters. Expect to generate 18 SVPD.
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| Tuesday |
Repeat the link swap again but this time with another keyword. Contact at least 100 webmasters. Expect to generate 18 SVPD.
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| Wednesday |
Repeat the link swap again but this time with another keyword. Contact at least 100 webmasters. Expect to generate 18 SVPD.
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| Thursday |
Repeat the link swap again but this time with another keyword. Contact at least 100 webmasters. Expect to generate 18 SVPD.
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| Friday |
Repeat the link swap again but this time with another keyword. Contact at least 100 webmasters. Expect to generate 18 SVPD.
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Week 3
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This is an all week task.
Viral video uploads - $14,052.50 for free marketing:
This you can scale up as much you want but for this exercise let's set a target of 100 videos.
You should have your 100 videos from the last 2 weeks of requesting them.
Then use Microsoft Windows Movie Maker to add a title screen and end screen with your web address to each of these videos.
You should also place text through out the videos duration along the top of the video with your web address.
Now upload these videos to Youtube. Make sure you include your web address on your Youtube profile page.
If you own a video camera then film videos yourself, remember sites like Revver and Metacafe will pay you
if you have a popular video.
You can repeat this on other big video sites such as Revver and Metacafe. The key part is getting
your web address on the video and on the profile pages. If the videos you upload matches the theme of your
PseudoTUBE site then all the better. Please do not break any copyright laws.
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Edit the first 50 videos with your web address
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Edit the last 50 videos with your web address
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Upload the finished 100 videos to Youtube.com and make a Youtube profile page with your web address.
Also add your web address to the very first words of the description,
use http://youraddress.com and it will be a clickable link. Expect to generate 32 SVPD.
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| Thursday |
Upload the finished 100 videos to Metacafe.com and make a Metacafe profile page with your web address.
Also add your web address to the very first words of the description. Expect to generate 25 SVPD.
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| Friday |
Upload the finished 100 videos to Revver.com and make a Revver profile page with your web address.
Also add your web address to the very first words of the description. Expect to generate 20 SVPD.
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Summary
Promotion of your website is the hardest job of having an online business.
The people who have the top sites work hard at this. Remember your competition can
be beaten if you follow this plan and revisit it again to make
sure everything is working as well as it can.
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