Traffic Mavericks

One big problem for new webmasters is, they frustrated when their new websites fail to appear on Google’s first page despite trying the best. When checked, all things ar ejust fine. The content, title tag and even backlinks.

Ever experience this? Well, actually it is not your mistake. For several reasons, Google doesn’t give priority to your website. Based on Google’s past data, 80% of new websites are spam websites. Real webmasters will work on his sites for months. So, by introducing policy like inbound links, unique content and Google Sandbox, they can wipe out these spam and returns the best, relevant result for searchers.

So, how to get decent free traffic online without building lots of backlinks and wait for months? The answer is: you must depend on other websites. The good thing is, there are dozens of websites on the internet where you can post content like articles, documents or videos for free. All these websites have good reputation in Google’s eye. Therefore, once your content is posted, it will be ranked high and you can direct the traffic to your website. These are examples of such content-sharing sites:

Social bookmarks like Digg and Jumptags: The beauty of social bookmarks, is you can dominate millions of search results by just posting a single link. The best social bookmarking site is Digg. If you create a website, it will be impossible to get good ranking. However, if you posted your link to your website to Digg, add relevant title and description, your bookmark will appear on Google’s first page.

So, should someone looks for relevant information on Google, he will reach your document, discover your link and reach your website. In short:

Traffic from Google > Your bookmark at Digg or Jumptags > Your website > Sale.

However, there are a few things to keep in mind:

1. Be careful not to post more than one bookmark per day. Or else, you will be banned.
2. In most cases, posting to these bookmarks won’t improve your website’s search engine ranking. You can get traffic directly only from these bookmarks, but any link to your website from Jumptags or Digg won’t be counted as inbound link.

Document sharing websites like Scribd or Docstoc : I love this one. For one thing, both websites have PR 7 to 8 on Google, so once you post a pdf document on Docstoc, link to your document will be available immediately on Google’s first page. Inside the pdf files, you can insert links to your website or affiliate link. Another reason why prefer using Docstoc, is the rules isn’t as strict as Squidoo or Ezine Articles. Just create a two-pages pdf document, post and your document will be approved immediately. No hassle to wait for editor’s review.

Author stream: This is another document-sharing website, except Author Stream is about sharing Microsoft Powerpoint document. If you don’t have Powerpoint installed, you can create the same document by using Google Docs and Spreadsheet. This service is free. Again, no need to wait for approval. Any links inside your slide is clickable, which means at the end of show, you can ask the audience to visit your website by clicking the link.

By now, you should realize the power of search engine traffic. Although you can get lots of traffic without using search engines, you’ll notice that the result is not the same. Not only traffic from other sources like forum marketing, offline promotion and social media takes time, but the conversion is poor and less likely will turn into cash.

Lots of traffic. According to statistics by Alexa, search engine websites are the most trafficked sites on the internet. Even other popular search engine and social networking sites like MySpace, Alexa, Ask, AOL are officially Google search partner.  These sites also get lots of visits everyday. By getting your site rank high in Google, you’ll stand a chance to get lots of traffic from all these sites.

Cheap and even free traffic. Can you get similar result to search engine by using press release or offline promotion? Yes, you can. But that will cost lots of money. Offline advertising on newspaper or TV  isn’t that cheap. However, the case is totally different online. If you provide quality content, total cost is zero.

Targeted and highly relevant traffic. The enter the keyword then found your website. Which means those visitors already interested in your product or service. This is not offline business, where you customers walk on the street, find your shop and buy. There are billions of websites on the net and people depends heavily on search engines to show the way.

At Traffic Mavericks University, the main traffic strategies is search engine traffic. There are two to get Google traffic. You can provide relevant content on certain websites and to get free traffic or you can also pay to Google or Yahoo for their advertising programs. These are the pros and cons of free search engine traffic.


Advantages of free traffic:

1. Zero startup cost with extreme profit. Not only you don’t need to pay Google or Yahoo, but sometimes you don’t even need to have your own domain name.
2. Get the most attention and credibility. Most searchers tend to click on organic listings compared to paid listings.
3. Once you get high ranking, it would be hard for competitors to dominate. Since Google considers lots of factors, like unique content, relevancy, domain age and backlinks, your competitors also need to fulfill all these factors to dominate your link.
4. Google domination. Want to dominate Google search and get 90% traffic for that keyword? Well, create as many contents and post to your blogs, Squidoo lens, articles and Scribd. The result is tremendous since all your website will appear in first page, from one to ten.
5. All traffic cost is zero, regardless what market you are in. Very useful when you are trying to target a market with high demand and competition.

The weakness:

1. No guarantee that you will be ranked. If you are targeting competitive keywords, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible. There are lots of “mysteries” about how Google gives good ranking to one website. Even experienced marketers don’t fully understand Google’s algorithm.
2. Free marketing is about creating quality content. It would be fine if you can type and write well. But that would be a problem if you can’t master English properly or can’t write well in that topic.
3. You could be wasting time posting articles and targeting keywords that nobody search for it.
4. Takes lots of effort, if not time to dominate and appear on Google’s first page.

The conclusion
Free traffic is suitable to make money online only if you are certain that one keyword is worth targeting. For example, product name keywords and long-tail keyword terms with less competition but high search volume. Use Google keyword tool to check this.

1. Free marketing is a great source of traffic. However, avoid targeting keywords that gets zero search volume per month since you need to work for that keyword.
2. Forget about getting high ranking on one or two-word keywords like web hosting, weight loss, make money.
3. For start, get free search engine traffic by leveraging article websites or Youtube. For example, post Youtube video, publish Squidoo lens, upload a pdf file at Scribd. This one is proven to be better and faster way to get free Google traffic and save time learning complicated SEO terms.

One important concept taught in Traffic Mavericks is how to get free search engine traffic from Google. Despite what you might read or experience before, getting free search engine traffic could be easy. Whether your website will apear on Google’s first page or not, that depends heavily on the number of competition and what website you are using.

There are various ways to get free search engine traffic. My favorite is by posting contents for free at websites like Hubpages or Scribd. Register for free to become their hub publisher, better known as Hubber. This website allows you to post article, product review, press release or anything on their website. Each article or content will be published on single page, known as a hub. I found that Hubpages is really easy to use and gets high Google ranking quickly. From my experiments, some of my hub appears top ten in Google in less than 24 hours.

Another great website that you can try is Scribd. Personally, I love this one. Google seems to loves Scribd even more and gives higher ranking to this document-sharing website, compared to the rest of article directories. I don’t need to spend all day just to post one free document at Scribd. Just create a simple two-pages pdf documents for free using application like Open Office or Google Docs and spreadsheets. Again, link to my documents appear real fast in Google and stays for quite a long time.