Jack’s Targeted Traffic Survival Guide
Forget “social media,” “social networking,” social this…social that.
Forget about the buzz words for just a minute. Forget there is a widely used name for people networking through newfangled websites.
I won’t even mention the name in this post. It’s been beaten to death.
Forget all that and just start looking around at places like MyBlogLog.com, StumpbleUpon.com, SpicyPage.com and others I will list below.
Sites like mine, and tens of thousands of people who are serious enough about their sites, we build communities.
We network and look for new players coming up in our niches and new sites to read and learn. .
Surviving in the Wilderness of the Web
In my former life I was into wildlife tracking and wilderness survival and conservation in a big way. Full time. Professionally.
It was common to hear about people dying in the wilderness after getting lost, hurt, or stuck.
Most of the time it’s not their fault, but many people whose lives end sadly, alone in the wilderness, die within mere yards of everything they needed to survive and make it out.
They just didn’t know anything about wilderness survival.
Most websites are like those people. They are dying because they don’t know the things that will save them are all around them.
Everyday someone whose site is about to die, a person who is just about ready to give up all hope of having a successful, high traffic site, passed right over several of the sites that could save theirs.
And they don’t even know it.
In the rush and panic to find a guru to save them, they are totally blind to the things they could do today to bring in traffic IMMEDIATELY and start making sales, advertising revenue, PPC income, and affiliate product sales.
You Could Be The Next One To Go…Or Not!
Start thinking for yourself.
Start being a student of the things people in your niche are doing to kick the tar out of you in the search engines and with traffic from all over the place.
Start “tracking success” and see what the other “animals” are doing to survive in the wilderness of the web. Not the gurus. They are artificially propped up on the web and have fading memories of what it was like starting out.
That’s why much of the time their advice falls on deaf ears and doesn’t work for startups because they have advantages that you don’t yet.
They have a place to sleep out of the cold of the wilderness of the web.
They have heat, plumbing, a bed, clothing, food, and a roof over their heads.
You are in the middle of nowhere, cold, wet, with nothing more than a dull knife and boots with holes in them.
Stop looking up the mountain for answers and start looking around you, where you are now, for firewood, water, and materials to build a temporary place to keep you warm and dry.
The Internet Marketing Guru Is Dead
We, the survivors, killed him. We stopped waiting for him to understand our plight and started thinking for ouselves.
You don’t need an internet marketing “guru” or expert’s latest ebook to successfully drive traffic and build a loyal following online anymore.
I have learned more from people like Divya about building community, readership, a following and customer lists than all the Guru expert training, teleseminars, and ebooks I have read, combined. (That’s a lot of reading folks!)
Does Divya have an ebook I can sell you? NO!
She, like so many others I have been tracking and bumping into at site after site, are showing me through their actions how they are successfully using interactive, user controlled “social” sites to drive serious traffic to their own sites.
They are the people who show up everywhere I surf!
Remember in Power Linking when I talk about “showing up everywhere your target market surfs?”
People are taking that thought to heart and actually doing it without waiting for someone to come out with an easier way or creating software to do it for them!.
Their goal is to drive traffic, build a following, and brand themselves and they keep doing it because the work never ends.
There is too much to do to sit around wondering which traffic generation tactic you are going to use.
Everything you need to drive targeted traffic and survive another day in the wilderness of the web is laying all around you, right on this site.
Here are some of the tools and materials that will keep you warm and dry another day in the wilderness:
MyWebTop
Netscape
StumbleUpon
SpiceyPage
MyBlogLog
Digg
Squidoo
Bloglines
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MarkTD
PlugIMOld Guard
Myspace
DeliciousArticles
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