How to Create Massive Web Traffic ?
Posted by Mert Erkal on Nov 4, 2007 in Marketing PR | 5 comments
Myspace, Web 2.0, blogs, social bookmarking, Facebook, etc. Those were the things that were supposed to bring us lots of targeted web traffic. Some people took advantage of those and a few of them made a killing.
But if you didn’t, there’s a new “thing” on the Internet, and you might do better trying this one out instead. It’s called “Squidoo” and is the brainchild of a prolific “non-guru” marketer Seth Godin.
Squidoo is a service that allows you to create your own web pages for free, and on those pages you can tie-together collection of RSS feeds, favorite sites and even promote your
own products or books.
Missed out on Myspace and other “trends” that you thought were not important? Don’t do the same with this one.
Squidoo helps you create a landing page for your website or blog. Please take a look at Squidoo page for my blog, Search For Blogging: www.squidoo.com/searchforblogging
You are free to customize your Squidoo page. You can insert your RSS feeds, update your profile, add some YouTube videos, and a lot more. It takes 10-20 minutes to create a lens (a Squidoo page is called lens)
Okay, so you made a lens. And you probably hope someone other than your hamster will see it. What to do next?
- Email it. To your friends, your mom, your boss. Don’t be shy about bragging, you deserve a little limelight!
- Blog it. Post your lens to your blog. Send a note to someone you admire who runs a blog on your topic, and ask them to check out your lens. Sincere flattery gets you everywhere.
- Link it. Link to the lens on your Facebook page, LinkedIn profile, Flickr profile, eBay auctions, email signature. Create your own little traffic network and get discovered in more places. Wouldn’t you like to get found more online?
- Group it! Find a Group that’s busy talking about your topic and request to join. Get friendly, get relevant, get feedback, get found.
- Compete. Stop by the Lens of the Day Group for inspiration from winning lenses. And if your lens is up to snuff, enter it in the contest
And subscribe to my RSS feeds, because i deserved it 
Hi,
very interesting post,
but remember:
to do all these thinhgs you must spend a lot of time, generating high traffic is’nt an easy job.
I use those social bookmarking before this but I just duno it helps or not. I will revamp my theme and will only use stumbleupon because I see many people using it
Just lazy to sign up so many stuff:)
Hi Mytagr, you are right, it is not as easy as it is written on the paper. However if you keep doing it, one day will come and you will see the positive outcome. My blog is only 4 months old, and now it is PR3, and i host 115 unique visitors in average daily. Please let me know if you need any kinds of assistance on traffic building.
Hi Mert. I see that this is already an old article of yours. Just read it now. I’m a newbie on Squidoo and want to ask you something about it.
I don’t want to sound like a greedy bastard, but if Squidoo is simply hosting an article you wrote, and then just splitting the income it gets from Adsense advertising with you, then why not put the article itself on your own blog so that you get all the profit with your own adsense and affiliate network? If traffic is what you want, would improving your blog’s SEO do the trick without resorting to Squidoo posting?
@ Jude: Hi Jude. You can use it as a landing page for your blog. Just give a short introduction of your blog post on Squidoo, and bring them to your blog by linking. This is the ideal situation.