And the video is going up! (ready to build traffic using social media)
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Ok guys,
as we’ve seen over the past few days, traffic is slowly (very slowly) ramping up despite no real content being on the site. Now we’re ready to drive organic traffic to the site using social bookmarking and viral videos.
The video is (finally) ready to upload — minor snag, filezilla has built up so many connections that the target site doesn’t accept any more connections from my IP address. So, now I need to figure out how to either clear that with the target site OR how to configure TOR/Vidalia to also work for FileZilla.
That should all work in a mo, so for the time being, let’s have a final look at very slowly growing traffic, once the video and social bookmarking campaign kicks in, I’m hoping (fingers) crossed, that the organic traffic will rise rapidly… btw, the video is a recording I did with Jeff Landers, if you own your own (small) business or are thinking about setting up your own, it’s actually worth listening to the recording.
Lot’s of great content (and yes, we are talking about his book, so please keep that in mind if you fall into the “I want free content but won’t tolerate anyone mentioning their book” camp;-)
All right, we’re done. Head on over to
http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/main-content/the-call-recordings-are-up/
and have a quick look at the video (which actually has good content in it…) So tomorrow, I’ll then do some social bookmarking (hey, feel free to bookmark it in one or two of your social bookmarking accounts… in case you haven’t set these up yet, you’ll have to do this anyway soon when you set up your own blog and follow the whole SEO using “drive traffic using social bookmarking” strategy)
And Google really likes the new blog … despite no content
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Very interesting,
posted an announcement for a call I’ll be doing tonight (remember, create video-content so we can finally start this social bookmarking experiment to drive organic traffic to the less work more money blog) — and within minutes I got an email from Jeff Landers saying that google alerts had picked it up and told him about it.
So, despite only 2 measly posts over there, Google seems to love us — I’d say cudos to Jeff’s SEO optimized blog-software.
What’s going to be interesting is what happens to our visitor numbers once the video goes up. Hopefully tomorrow.
PS: yes, we had another little increase in traffic, but not worth me printing another picture…
Daily update … the organic traffic is growing (albeit slowly;-)
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Just a quick update — had to spend most day actually working (bummer….)
Organic traffic is slowly growing (very slowly) as we can see from the following graph.
Not a rush of traffic yet, but then, apart from a single post there is nothing on the blog yet.
Tomorrow night I’m scheduled to do a tele-seminar and I’ll post the recording as a video (via YouTube), which is technique #1 shown in Jeff Johnson’s tutorial. Then time for some clickery-click — would appreciate if you could help with this and do some clicking over at http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/, normally of course I’d outsource it, but in this case, why not have all participants have some fun.
Plus, as you’ll have to set up those social media accounts anyway in order to increase traffic using social media on your websites, you might as well do that now.
Ah, and please leave some comments, both here and over at http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/, so we can see who’s participating in the experiment.
Btw, what’s really interesting is that someone has actually come back (not all new visitors…)
Outsourcing manual labor
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As part of this “organic traffic to your website using social bookmarking experiment”, we’ll need to do a lot of clicking — social bookmark the various posts and videos as shown in the viral traffic tutorial (see blogroll on right).
I’m right now outsourcing mechanical tasks (clickery-click on the social bookmarking logos) on mturk.com. (actually, I will in a second, AFTER posting some content on http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/, otherwise there is nothing to bookmark, right?).
The great thing about mturk.com is that you can outsource repetitive, really small tasks — like clicking on links, image-tagging, posting blog-posts, that kind of thing. You can even use their API and automate these tasks (so e.g. if you have 200 pictures which you want tagged, you can automatically point their workers to the individual images, so there is no duplication) — but that’ll take a while for me to understand.
One of the drawbacks of mturk is that you need a US address — handy having a brother who runs a triathlon community website over in L.A. (www.trinited.com)
Places like elance.com are great too, but they’re better for bigger tasks, less mechanical in nature. They also have a $50 minimum charge (as far as I can tell), so not ideal for micro-jobs.
Right then, your input: what other outsourcing places do you use, what advantages and disadvantages do they have?
Oh, btw, I’ll be posting this post over at http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/ as well, as the first post…
If that doesn’t ramp up organic traffic dramatically, I don’t know;-)
And the organic traffic is picking up … without doing anything
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Quick update,
despite not doing ANYTHING, I mean, nothing, nada, the blog just sitting over at
http://lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/
we’ve already picked up a number of visitors. Yes, I know, it’s not a torrent yet — but how on earth did ANYBODY find their way there, considering it is brand-new, has no content and isn’t advertised anywhere…?
Anyway, here the stats (I was tempted to call them daily stats, but I’m not so good with routine….)
Ah yes, and if someone could explain why anyone would spend 50 secs on average over there….
Anyway, right now I’m producing video to drive organic traffic through the search-engines, just like Jeff suggests in the viral traffic tutorial (see blogroll on right), then off to put this whole thing into social bookmarking action….
