Are YOU A Traffic Magnet?

Successful internet marketers will tell you that the formula for online success is:

Traffic + Conversions = Success.

For many beginning Internet Marketers who just don’t have a lot of cash to spend on advertising or traffic… Surfing on Traffic Exchanges has been how many of us started… and many still do that today.

Times are changing and today Gateway Pages are the Rage! They’re all but mandatory if you ever want to be seen on the Traffic Exchanges that have the short timers. Why? If your website or webpage has lots of graphics and audio or video content that plays automatically the timer will likely expire before your site is loaded and the surfer will “click on” before seeing your site.

So, if you don’t use Gateway Pages and surf for hours on end or BUY traffic, how in the world do you get traffic to convert to equal Success? The latest trend is to build Networks or an “audience” through the many Social Marketing sites that are available. Micro-blogging is becoming the HOT trend. The term “micro-blog” relates to the amount of text you can share per post (for example: On Twitter, your post is limited to 140 characters) so these are not long winded posts… just the facts! If you’re over 30 years of age and have children, just ask them how to network on these sites and you’re likely to get a great education. If not, stay tuned as we’re sharing some great “How-To” as we go along.

By the way, the Presidential candidates all have Facebook accounts… so why don’t you?

As with good Marketing Techniques taught by the pro’s go, Remember to always include links to what you’re doing in your email SigFile. If you’re on Facebook, include a link. If you’re on Twitter, include a link. The list of all these micro-blogs is daunting but yet manageable. Once you learn how to manage them, you can make ONE post on the lead site and copies of that post (or a brief portion of it) will be posted to a LONG LIST of these sites. Are you still interested? Where else do you know of that you can achieve such economy of action?

For instance, check the sidebar of this blog. You’ll find a little block that displays my most recent post on Twitter. Every time (not just once and a while) that I make a post on Twitter, the information in the box changes. And, the link at the bottom of the form allows you to click to “Follow Me on Twitter!” Please do so if you haven’t already done that. It’ an easy way for me to definitely SEE your page and if you have great links to YOUR website on your page… I will go look! This is so much easier and more effective that surfing for hours and looking at pages that you have NO real interest in! Well, occasionally you keep seeing one pop up and eventually you just QUIT surfing and go check it out. The ones that I do that to are few and far between… but they do show up now and again…

Oh yes, I almost forgot… when YOU sign up for Twitter and get people following YOU, every time that YOU make a post to your Twitter page (remember, just 140 characters max!) your followers ALL see what you “tweeted” to them.

There’s so much more to say about Tweeter and all the great new micro-blogs… but that’s it for tonight!

Catch you later,

David Perkins (aka: TrafficMechanic)
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