I had built more than a dozen niche sites and none of them are getting traffic (well, may be the best one gets 10 visitors a day). But I refused to give up because I know in my heart that owning a business online is what I really want. Plus the time and money I’d already spent (and wasted) on learning made it even more impossible for me to quit.
I thought I had learned enough about choosing a market (niche), analyzing, doing keyword research, building and setting up a website, writing content, and all that.
I had also learned many ways to get traffic, but I just didn’t know what went wrong.
The Change
One day I was reading an article about internet marketing, and that had changed my way of thinking completely – I finally realized that all along I was an opportunist searching for an easy way to make money online.
That opportunistic thinking kept me looking forever for the next shiny thing. I couldn’t settle down and focus on one solid plan long enough to see results.
I changed from one traffic strategy to another based on the marketers’ claims.
I would jump from one niche to another just because it’s a “hot” market.
I created one site and quickly worked on another site because the Adsense cost is $10 per click.
After reading that article, my whole mindset had changed. I decided that I would stop everything else and learn from someone who was dedicated to teaching the real, fundamental principles and steps in getting traffic.
SEO
So my wish was answered and I found Lisa Parmley, a top SEO expert, and started learning from her about driving organic search engine traffic. That action proved to be really worth it.
Once you set everything up right and do the hard work at the beginning, you will get traffic to your site even you don’t work on it regularly. But if you can bear with it, the traffic may take 3 to 6 months to get to your site.
I still use SEO as one of my traffic generation strategies because it’s free (not counting your opportunity costs, of course) and long-term. But I think it’s wise to combine SEO with something else. Something that doesn’t take months to get results. And something that doesn’t require you to spend hours to build backlinks, etc.
Bending The Web
“Using leverage to drive major traffic in far less time than traditional online marketing.”It proves that if you really wants something bad, your wish will be answered. So when I read Jack Humphrey’s new guide “Bending The Web” I was really excited.
By Jack Humphrey
It has practically changed the way I think about marketing online completely. I stop searching for traffic generation courses anymore. Because now I’m convinced that getting traffic doesn’t have to be that complicated. All you need is finding one effective strategy and going all the way with it.
Bending The Web is about one of those strategy. It’s one of the most intelligent, inspiring guides I’ve ever read. I took action right after I finished reading it.
This is the first time I recommend something on this blog because I have personally used the strategies and see my site grow within a short time.
I think if you try Jack’s strategies, you will ramp up your traffic, links and rankings also.
Here’s the link to Bending The Web (disclosure: this is an affiliate link – you don’t have to buy but I think you can learn a lot from Jack just by visiting his blog!)
What Bending The Web Can Do For Your Site
Here are some of the results you can expect to see when you apply the steps and plan outlined in the guide:
- Get engaged, targeted, buying traffic to your site.
- Stop doing all of the hard work, buying all the courses, and learning every tactics you’re currently doing to get traffic.
- Improving search engine rankings.
- Save the months of hard work and waiting.
- Build branding and see your site becoming popular with web bending.
Bending The Web is a 89-page ebook but every page is filled with pure intelligent content without any fluff. Here are some of the topics covered:
- What is Web Bending?
- The Most Important Places To Be Linked and Be Seen
- Guesting
- Guesting Case Studies
- What these and many other truly successful web benders did
- Questions about guesting that must be answered
- Building a Web-Bending Portfolio
- An alternative to building a mini authority site or having your own blog
- A Gentle Beginning to Guest Posting
- Finding Portfolio-Building Guest Post Sites
- Picking the right mid-range places to submit portfolio guest posts
- What Do Big Content Sites Want?
- Leveraged Links
- Leveraging Your Leverage
- The Snowball Effect
- Leverage Layer #2: Site Owners Are Only One Target
- Leverage Points
- What Kind of Guest Post Is The Most Popular?
- So, Why Bother With Guesting?
- Things You Will Ask To Try To Get Out Of It
- More Web-Bending Tactics
- Bending The Web With Trackbacks
- Bonus Chapter: Social Media Bending
- Web-Bending Execution Highlights
