الاثنين، 9 أبريل 2012

Fishing for Website Traffic - Your Secret Weapon

By Brendan Carl

Hey everyone! Struggling to get traffic to your blog/site? SEO not working for you? Backlinking not bringing you any visitors? Forum posting unsuccessful? Well, "oil rig hopping" (a term from Alex Jeffreys) may be for you, and may also be the best method for bringing in HIGHLY targeted traffic AND building relationships with your fellow internet marketers (or other people in your niche), which is really important to your success online.

As Alex Jeffreys describes it, this is the metaphor. Around the world, oil rigs (real oil rigs, not blogs) have arguably the best fishing out of anywhere else you can go. Some of the biggest fish in the world love feeding and staying near these oil rigs. In the internet marketing world, this still holds true. The "oil rig" is a blog. The big fish are readers from the other blog that this other blog readily attracts. This technique essentially allows you to boat over to this oil rig and "catch" these big fish that the oil rig has been attracting (for you).

To start, this other blog, in your niche, has to have a lot of activity surrounding it. You don't want to fish somewhere where there are no fish, right?

Well, how do I know if there are fish?

All you have to do is be observant. You could go over to alexa.com, look up the site, and look at its traffic information. You could also look to see if other people are consistently commenting on the blogger's posts. Finally, make sure that this blogger consistently posts new content. If you notice these three things in another blog in your niche, you have struck gold. That site will be a perfect "oil rig" for you to fish at.

Now, go to the three most recent posts, and read them all ENTIRELY. Make sure you read all of it, as this will help you later.

After you have read them, you have to comment on them. This is the step at which MANY marketers fail miserably at. You have to make sure your comments are relevant and intelligent.

Irrelevant comments are comments that do not really connect back to what the blogger said in his/her post. I see many, many comments that just say something like, "Great post, my site is here...". This will simply not work! You have to respond to at least one thing that the blogger said. I personally try to respond to every single major point that the blogger made in his/her post. This makes my comments very relevant. And, this also goes along with the metaphor. Relevant comments are like using the right bait that is relevant to the fish you are trying to catch. Using the right bait

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