I organized a mini contest in the Warrior Forum last week and started a thread to contribute $50 to the best traffic generation Strategy. The thread grew as other fellow came forth to contribute to the prize pot.

They are…
Steve Reist - $50
pjjg (Jeremy) - $40
Jake Riley - $25
TheUltimatePublishing - $20 (Plus an additional undisclosed incentive)

Unfortunately, the thread was locked and I couldn’t find the moderator who locked the thread to reopen the thread. Hence the winner would only walk away with $50. Nonetheless, before the thread was locked. There were quite a couple of good posts and I’m sure you would benefit from them.

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Its a well known fact that if you blog and provide valuable information on a consistent basic, leverage the effect with a few other marketing methods, you would be able to generate truckloads of traffic. Sounds easy enough. The problem arises when there is a lack of quality content to blog about. Every blogger faces the same problem, the problem of “Blogging for the sake of putting something up” Vs “Blogging and providing valuable content”.

Then again valuable content is subjective, for every niche, there are varying degrees of levels that your readership will comprise of - from beginner to advanced. And if you are positioning yourself as a certain authority within a certain niche, it is inevitable that sometimes the thoughts run dry.

Here I must admit, due to the heavy workload of projects that I have on hand. I haven’t been providing as much valuable content as I would have wished. Especially since this website/blog is not even meant to monetized (You don’t see affiliate links or google adsense galore do you?) as my money is made in other niches.

Hence there are moments that I envy those bloggers that just keep blogging daily non-stop. One of them I know is Charles Lau, even though he’s not a prominent blogger. He still finds the time to blog lengthly posts daily, sometimes even 2 to 3 posts a day. Without saying, his efforts are paying off and it sure seems like traffic to his blog has jumped by leaps and bounds. He was also kind enough to do a free video review of of this blog here. So if you are interested in having a video review done for your website/blog, you can engage his services for a small nominal fee.

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John Reese the Million Dollar Day Man has just released “BlogRush”, a blog syndication network.

It promises to be “The Fastest And Easiest Way To Instantly Drive a Flood Of Targeted Readers To Your Blog…Absolutely Free!”

So what is BlogRush all about exactly?

Its basically a widget that you can add to your blog. And whenever your blog page loads with this widget, the widget will refresh and display 5 clickable blog post titles which link to other blogs. This links open a new browser window to the other blog so that your visitor doesn’t really leave your blog.

The blog posts shown will be related to the category you have chosen for your blog and customized according to proprietary technology used by BlogRush. At the moment, here are the categories that you can sign up under

• Automotive
• Business Career & Jobs
• Celebrity
• Computers & Internet
• Education
• Entertainment
• Environment
• Finance & Investing
• Food & Drink
• Health & Medicine
• History
• Hobbies
• Home & Garden
• Humor
• Law & Legal
• Lifestyle
• Marketing
• Music
• News & Media
• Parenting & Family
• Personal
• Diary
• Pets
• Philosophy
• Photography
• Politics
• Real Estate
• Religion & Spirituality
• Sports
• Technology
• Travel
• Writing & Literature
• Video Games

How is it beneficial to you?

That’s after all, the more important question. Each time your blog page loads, a new set of 5 posts are loaded in the BlogRush widget. And each time the BlogRush widget loads, you earn 1 syndication credit for your blog post to be displayed once on other blogs using the BlogRush Widget (related to your category).

Hence the more pages are viewed on your blog, the more syndication credits you chalk up which in turn leads to more exposure of your blog posts displayed on other related blogs.

So far it sounds like a pretty normal traffic exchange network. But here is where it gets really nasty and viral.

After you have the widget set up, say Visitor A clicks on the “Add Your Blog Posts-Free” or BlogRush Logo displayed. Visitor A would be taken to the signup page for BlogRush, and should he/she sign up. Visitor A would be placed as your “referral”. And if he/she were to use the BlogRush widget on their blog, you would get additional syndication credits based on the number of times the BlogRush widget loads on Visitor A’s blog.

And say Visitor B visits Visitor A’s blog and signs up for BlogRush too. You would be credited the syndication credits for the number of times the BlogRush widget loads on Visitor B’s blog too.

It doesn’t stop there! Not only will you get syndication credits and exposure from your own traffic, Visitor A’s blog traffic and Visitor B’s blog traffic. But also everyone that Visitor B refers, all the way down 10 generation of referrals. It’s basically like an MLM traffic network that puts your blog traffic on steroids. Here is the complete breakdown for the syndication credits that you will get across the different levels.

Your Own Traffic = 1:1
1st Generation Of Referrals = 1:1
2nd Generation Of Referrals = 1:1
3rd - 6th Generation Of Referrals = 1:4
7th - 10th Generation Of Referrals = 1:8

With estimates of 50 million blogs (source: technorati) online, it makes sense to Sign Up Now with BlogRush to make sure you are the pioneer batch. It’s pretty obvious, just like how the most money are made in MLM by the guys at the top of the pyramid chain. You can get the most out of this blog syndication network by getting in early so that there are more opportunities for people signing up under you or your referrals.

Signing up is free, and all you need to do is to register, fill in your Blog Name, Blog Address and RSS feed. So what are you waiting for? BlogRush certainly looks like a powerful viral traffic tool that you can definitely use for your blog, with unlimited potential returns and no risk. It’s a no-brainer to try it actually.

I have some gripes though, it’s probably because the network was just launched today. It’s still fresh from the oven and hence the syndicated blog posts showing up in the BlogRush widget have probably been planted in advance. And it might take a few days before its working full force. The confirmation email that they say they will send you also never arrives. But don’t mind that. Just bear with the little bugs here and there in the meantime while John and team clears them all up.

Other BlogRush Reviews by A-List Bloggers:

• DoshDosh’s BlogRush Review:Using Widgets To Get Traffic To Your Blog
• Andy Beard’s BlogRush - Free Blog Traffic - Indepth Review
• ProBlogger’s Find New Readers To Your Blog - BlogRush First Impression Review
• John Chow’s Increase Your Blog Traffic With BlogRush
• Mashable’s BlogRush: 8 Reasons to Be Wary…and Optimistic
• Marketing Pilgrim’s BlogRush Offers Free Syndicated Blog Traffic

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Location is one of the most important factors when setting up a retail store. This arises because the location determines the amount and demographic type of people flow in the area. Which in turn gives you a rough estimate of the number of walk-in customers that you might be able to get on a daily basis.

Without saying, prime location rentals cost a huge bomb and not everyone is able to afford the hefty rentals. It is the same online. Having tons of web traffic is akin to operating a retail outlet in a well located mall. Hence one of the most sought after skills online is the ability to generate traffic at a whim. However traffic is not created equal and the traffic that you should be going after should satisfy these few criteria:

• Targeted

There is no point generating untargeted traffic to your websites, unless you are providing a mass product/service along the lines of Friendster or Youtube. Targeted traffic brings to your website prospects that you can then nurture and persuade into being customers. Whilst this seems very obvious, you will be amazed how many marketers sell products that teach you how to generate tremendous amounts of traffic that is simply untargeted. The numbers look good on paper, but that’s all its good for, looking good and not bringing in the money.

• Consistent

To build a sustainable long term online business, you would need a consistent flow of traffic. Sudden bursts of traffic due to special one time off marketing efforts are nice but are exactly what they are: short-lived. It’ alright to chase such efforts if the return on investment (ROI) is positive, but it stops there. Think of all the product launches that internet marketing gurus have, they generate a storm of traffic and buyers within a period of time. But after that the traffic tickles down and sales figures are simply dismal after that if they do not build other consistent web traffic sources.

• Buyer’s mentality

Sometimes targeted traffic is simply not enough. You want to generate traffic from proven buyers who have a higher probability of purchasing your products. Joint ventures with other parties to a responsive list of subscribers tend to have a bigger group of people with buyer’s mentality. Whilst this form of traffic is pure gold, it is the hardest to get.

• Repeat Traffic

Are your prospects coming back to your website? Or are they simply on a touch and go basis, never to come back again. It’s no surprise that portals, authority websites that generate good content or provide ongoing services are the most successful. They provide consistent touch points with prospects which eventually lead up to a sale sometime in the future. Let’s take Mark Joyner’s Simpleology.com for example, he provides free software and products that lead you back to his website. You need them if you want to practice the methodology that he proposes. That is stickiness built into his business model, after all the effort to lure, entice, and persuade a visitor to the website, there is no reason why you should not try means and ways to have them coming back.

Remember to keep these 4 criteria in mind whenever you employ a new web traffic generation tactic for your websites. I will be going through the various web traffic tactics in further detail in Part 2 of “Generating Web Traffic: The Lifeblood of Every Online Business” and how well they rate according to these 4 criteria.

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