7 Traffic Killers [Must Know]

Traffic is the lifeblood of most blogs or websites. Because of traffic, bloggers are able to successfully monetize their blogs. And because of traffic, bloggers continue to improve blogging. Having been able to establish the significance of TRAFFIC to a blog, I have decided to talk about it in today's post.

Generating traffic to one's blog or website is one of the hottest topics that bloggers usually look for using search engines. A lot has already been said about how to generate traffic or increase traffic to your blog so I came up with the idea of presenting traffic in a different paradigm. In this post I will be talking about the major TRAFFIC KILLERS; the common futile practices that bloggers usually do to attract traffic to their website or blog. I will also detail the impact of these traffic killers and provide you with some suggestions that will help improve your traffic.

An Overview of Traffic

Traffic used in this article pertains to the visits made to a certain website or blog. Traffics can be classified according to their sources.

1. Natural Traffic: Traffic from search engines or natural searches. (e.g. Google, Ask etc.)

2. Traffic From Referrals: Traffic generated from links in other websites or blogs that leads to your blog. Referrals may also include your links from your page to your other pages. (Internal Links)

3. Paid Traffic: Traffic generated by paying publishers, bloggers or webmasters to be featured on their blogs or websites. (e.g. Adword, Affiliate Programs etc.)

The 7 Traffic Killers

Traffic Killer # 1: Poor Title and Description

People use search engines to find a blog or website that can provide them the information they are looking for. For instance, I want to get more information about blogging so I opened Google and typed the word 'blogging' then hit enter. Google will return a list of blogs or websites that contain the information I am looking for. The list is made up of links to blogs and websites with their respective Titles and Descriptions. Google and other search engines are limited to the information that bloggers have provided about their blog's title and description. Hence, ineffective titles and descriptions discourage searchers to click on it.

Titles and descriptions that you use on your blog should effectively describe the nature and content of your blog or website. Don't use titles such as 'My Blog' or 'My Weblog' because people normally do not click on these links. If your blog is all about tips and guides for bloggers then use these words as your title and description. You should also take time to carefully research the most appropriate words that you should use in your title and description. It always has an impact on your blog.

The words EFFECTIVE and FREE are traffic magnets and people are usually driven to click on these links. You can read the 7 Blogging Mistakes that Bloggers do When Building Links for a more comprehensive coverage of this topic. The more technical issues on title and description using Meta tags and Title tags will be discussed in a separate article in the succeeding post.

Traffic Killer # 2: Begging for Traffic

Begging for traffic is a popular practice among bloggers especially those who are starting to blog and those who have difficulties attracting visitors. Out of desperation for traffic, they join forums and leave comments to other blogs begging for traffic. These are the words that they often use. 'Pls. Pls. Pls. visit my blog' or 'Show some love, please visit my blog'. Instead of begging people to visit your blog, tell them what they'll find on your blog and tell them what you have to offer.

What's wrong with requesting people to visit your blog? Well, requesting people to check out your latest post is not wrong as long as you don't sound begging and desperate. Otherwise, people will think that your blog sucks. Or that you've got lousy contents that's why nobody wants to visit it. As a result, they'll will not visit your blog. Give some dignity to your blog... don't beg for visitors.

Traffic Killer # 3: Eye-Sore Layout

When someone visits your blog, it's important to make your links to your other posts noticeable and attractive (internal links). This will motivate your visitors to stay longer into your blog and read more of your posts. It's not enough to attract visitors to drop by your blog. What's more important is to let them stay longer into your blog and read more about your posts. Most importantly, you should give them reasons or impetus to keep coming back and check your blog for updates.

I have come across several blogs that are difficult to navigate partly because of the absence of links to their other posts and partly because of its layout and color combination. I usually don't stay longer than 1 minute to a blog that uses red as a background and green as the text color.

Here are some suggestions to increase the time spent by your visitors on your blog.

Firstly, you should have links to your other post from the homepage of your blog. It is advisable that you have an archive on your side bar to allow easier navigation. Or you can create links to your best posts and place it on your side bar. You can also include links to your other posts at the end of each of your articles. For navigation purposes, you may want to consider having a sitemap of your blog or website. This is friendly to both the search engines and your visitors.

Secondly, work out on improving your layout, color combination and your style. I advice you to get feedbacks from your friends. Invite them to check out your blog and navigate through your pages. Afterward, ask them about their experience. Ask them whether navigating through your pages was convenient and ask them what they think of your color combination, layout etc. The feedbacks you will get from them will be very useful.

Traffic Killer # 4: Low Quality or Bad Content

How does a blog increases traffic through its content? If someone who visits a blog with unique, informative and relevant content, they will most likely talk about it on their blog or create a link to it or will refer your blog to their friends. As the links to your blog increases or the information about your blog reaches more people, expect an increase in your traffic. Always remember that a low quality content is definitely a traffic killer. It does not only deprive you of more links but it will create a negative impression from your visitors discouraging them from revisiting your blog.

Another factor that makes your content unpleasant is when you copy posts from other blogs. Once your visitors learn that you plagiarize other blog's content, they'll lack confidence to your blog and will be discouraged to pay another visit. To avoid this traffic killer, do not plagiarize. Work hard to create quality content for your blog instead.

Traffic Killer # 5: Unmet Expectations

One of the most unpleasant practices of bloggers is to describe their blogs with exaggeration. (e.g. Visit this blog… it's the best blog on earth, or XXX blog is the best blog that provides nothing but the best blogging resources) Using exaggerated words to describe your blog may attract people to visit it and may result to a spike in your traffic but will not be sustainable. The explanation to this is simple. Assuming that someone has visited your blog with high expectations because of the words you've used to describe it, but you failed to meet their expectations, your visitors will not pay another visit to your blog for sure.

In order to avoid unmet expectations which is one of the major traffic killers, never exaggerate your description. Use precise words instead.

Traffic Killer # 6: Negative or Bad Publicity

Publicity is a key element in becoming popular. Paris Hilton became popular after the publicity of the sex scandal she was involved at. Like Paris Hilton, we, bloggers should also be popular in order to drive more traffic into our blog. We can do this through good or positive publicity. Negative publicity, just like what happened to Paris Hilton will not last long. Besides, every time men think about her, they usually think about her sex scandal (well not really all men) which is not really a good thing to be remembered. Opps.. I hope I didn't hurt any Paris Hilton fans here.

Negative publicity or bad publicity may or may not kill your traffic. Most of the time however, it works as a traffic killer. I have seen a lot of bloggers who go around checking other blogs but always leave a negative comment. I have also come across bloggers in forums who are very hostile with their feedbacks and comments. These things create a negative publicity of yourself and your blog. Earning a notorious reputation from your interaction with other bloggers will not help you. Try to be more friendly with the blogging community. Attempting to be the enemy of every blogger is not rewarding. What's rewarding is when you befriend bloggers and appreciate the good things they contribute. Who knows, they might reciprocate this with a link to your blog.

Traffic Killer # 7: Too Much Adverts

I don't think this traffic killer needs a lot of explanation. To put it simple. No one likes to visit a blog full of advertisements. These advertisements discourages your visitors to navigate through your other pages. What's more, advertisements sometimes obfuscate your links to your other posts.

Advertisement is not bad only when it's not too much.

Now your turn. What else do you think are the traffic killers that have been included in this post? I'm sure you've got something to share. Use the comment to include your ideas of 'TRAFFIC KILLERS'. Thank you for your time.

Image, is it necessary in seo ?

One thing many webmaster forget about seo is image. Many of you don't think about this. Personally I recommendation to use images in every single post, Why?

1. Make it more clearer description for your visitor, because your visitors coming from different country, may be they don't know about your languages but they still catch your point.
2. To find your site by google image or another search engine.



So how to use images to make more traffic?

Name of file image
1. Use Keywords related to images and your post
2. Use underscore to make space between single words
3. Avoid too long words (max 5 words)
4. Avoid repetition in keywords
example. sexy_girls

Use atribut ALT on tag IMG
1. Use keywords as description, don't just write
2. If there are many images in one post use different values on tag alt in every image
3. If there are many images in one post, avoid to use same keywords/ repetition keyword
4. Avoid too long keyword in tag alt.

Free Secret BackLink From Top 100 Alexa Part(1)

After 10 secret traffic, Here some good news, I find some tips secret to get Free Secret BackLink From Top 100 Alexa, and it's means free big traffic to your site automatically, and if your blog is about revenue it's mean money come to your pocket.


1. Using yahoo profile as your free backlink
Login to Yahoo! and click to your Yahoo! Profile in http://profiles.yahoo.com/username (change username as your username Yahoo! ). Click Edit Profile Information in above.


2. Submit your url site in Homepage, Cool Link 1, Cool Link 2, dan Cool Link Yup, You can get 4 site urls directly, don't you?


3. Save and see the result.

4. Last but not least, get link to your Yahoo! Profile page in one of site that indexed by search engine or directory. This for your yahoo page will visit by crawler search engine, and note as backlink.

Here the sample

10 Secrets Traffic

As we know, blogs are getting popular today, but there is no value in having

a blog if no one is visiting and reading it!. Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to drive traffic to your blog if you desire to increase your readership or monetize it. To do that, here are 10 quick secret to generating more traffic to your blogs, so you can get more revenues:

Secret 1: Submit - Blog Directories
Blog directories are similar to search engines just that they cater only to searches for blogs. It is advisable to submit your blog to the major directories, some of which include feedster, technorati and blogstreet.

Similarly, there are many blog services like pingomatic which you can use to ping your blog. Pinging your blog notifies the service that you’ve updated your blog. These services will then publish your new posts and you get traffic from interested readers and search engines.

Secret 2: Reciprocal Linking is Great
This is a task which requires a little work – by sending an email request for a link exchange with a few follow ups but the results are worth it. This way is proven, to gain targeted traffic, is to exchange links with other bloggers or site owners.

Another linking method is to simply write a testimonial for a product you have purchased. If your testimonial is good, product owners will usually publish it on their sales page with your blog URL included.

If you want to skip the traditional way of exchanging links and go for the easier way, you can automate the process with various software and services found on the net. Just do a search at Google, Msn, Yahoo, and you will have a list of these.

Secret 3: Blog Commentaries
Find a blog related to your niche and post your comments, in good way and have value absolutly. At the end of your comments you can include a link back to your blog, this way people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However you should never misuse this to spam other blogs. Popular blog is better.

Secret 4: Writing Articles
By writing your own articles and submitting them to article directories, you can invite a lot of targeted visitors to your blog, this is long-term traffic.In order to generate traffic by writing articles, you need to include your resource box at the end of every article you have written. The resource box is where you promote and introduce your website or blog.

Secret 5: Writing Press Releases
Press release is a very effective way of generating instant traffic to your blog. Although press releases only pull in short-term traffic, they can work very well if you continuously write and submit press releases regularly while monetizing the traffic received.
PRWeb is one of the oldest and most trusted sources for news distribution on the web.

Secret 6: Start A Blog Mailing List
The phrase "the money is in the list” is true in all businesses. If you want to succeed online, you must start building your own list of targeted subscribers. You can send your subscribers to your blog anytime you have new posts. By the same token, you can also get your blog readers to subscribe to a‘blog update’ list which can be used to notify them when you have updated
your blog. REPEAT traffic through returning visitors is a key traffic strategy and you can control that with this method.

Secret 7: Giving Out Free Reports
Give out free viral reports to promote your blog. Providing useful information in your free reports can trigger your readers’ interest to know more about you and your websites.

Secret 8: Niche Forum - Niche Discussion Boards
Forum is good for generate traffic also, specialy in niche forum. Fine popular forum from Google that allow you take your signature there.

Secret 9: Pay For Traffic
If you have a good monetization strategy for your blog through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and a mailing list, you should consider using paidadvertising to drive traffic to your blog. Recommended options include pay-per-click advertising, ezine advertising
and huge banner exposures.

Secret 10: AutoResponder - Publishing Your Own Ezine
By publishing your own ezine, you are able to attract readership to your blog when you advertise it in your ezine.You can also provide your subscribers with useful information in several series with an autoresponder. An ezine is often called an online magazine.

In conclusion, realize that getting traffic to your blog should not be viewed as a one time effort. Commit and focus on a long-term strategy in order to succeed. It is all about gaining momentum.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you will attract more visitors to it everyday as you work on it. As time goes by, you will have an amazing amount of traffic to your blog which you never thought was possible!

Ps. image from Nytimes

Revenue Optimization - Make Money Online

Internet marketing is close to Revenue Optimization - if building website is not your hobby, then our purpose should be "make money".

If you cannot make "1 buck" from your website, basically you don't need to take care of this "optimization process". You can sell services, products and advertisements.

Here some model of making money in internet, different revenue models have different entrance levels.

1. Selling Advertisements

It's the easiest model for web publisher. Since 2003, pay-per-click advertising program like Google Adwords offered a publisher program - Google Adsense, more people can enjoy the money making process on the internet. Nowadays, there are many publisher programs available like Bidvertiser, Adbrite, Yahoo Publisher Program..etc. You can choose either one to suit your current business model.

Indeed, more programs don't mean you have better profit potential. More new publishers come from Asia and South America are competing the same size of biscuit with you. From the annual financial report from either Google and Yahoo, the growth of the revenue from their advertising program don't grow sharply. However, the no. of the web publishers grow enormously.

Many people complain it is tough to make a dime from Google. They are 50% right. Honestly if you can approach the global market properly, it's not so difficult to make good money from PPC program like Adsense.

2. Selling Products & Services

This model has higher entrance level compared to PPC program. However, we still have wide range of the models with different entrance levels.

A. Selling digital products & services
The boom of digital products and services make this industry over competitive (according to newbie's level)

For example, anyone can create a ebook (just a pdf file). Website membership is sightly a little bit difficult because it requires some more website programming knowledge. However, it is not difficult for you to create such website because too many web scripts are available in the market.

Software (e.g. VB, C++, .net) is better coz it requires more programming knowledge. The entrace level is the highest one compared to other kind of digital products.

If you currently have a brand name in the market, then it is still easy to sell these products and services. For the new comers, you need to gain some credibility before selling these kinds of products. The sales volume is quite depending on your reputation plus marketing campaign.

B. Selling physical products

Selling physical product has the highest entrance level. Compared to the digital products, this business is less competitive. Most starters do not consider this business since they are afraid of the complexity and the capital size of the model.

The ownership of this e-commerce model is transferable. This means, there is always a "value" behind it.The logistic and merchandising process can be solved by find a right partner with you. Like my model, I have several partners to manage these process for me, and I focus on site building and sales conversion.

Personally, I suggest the publisher in intermediate level to try to sell the physical products.