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Driving More Traffic To Your Site

This lesson focuses on what exactly is “Google Hot Trends” and how to search for the best keywords/topics.

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Action Steps:

1. Go To www.Propeller.com
   • Setup your Propeller.com account.
   • Log-in and follow video instructions to submit your link.
2. Go To www.Delicious.com
   • Setup your Delicious.com account.
   • Log-in and follow video instructions to submit your link.
3. Go to StumbleUpon.com account.
   • Follow StumbleUpon on page instructions to setup the StumbleUpon tool bar.
   • Follow video instructions to submit page.
4. Go To www.SocialMarking.com
   • Find many more places to get social links from to get more fast traffic.
   • Setup accounts with different companies using same steps as above.
   • Submission process for these social bookmarking websites are very similar to the sites you previously submitted to.
5. Go To www.PingOMatic.com
   • Submit your blog here whenever you make a new post.
   • Follow the on screen instructions to submit.
   • Blogger already pings Weblogs.com automatically, but PingOMatic will hit a bunch of others.

Richard’s Notes:

• I personally do not like to install so many toolbars in my browser as it gets quite cluttered at the top.  Most of the social bookmarking sites also have the option of installing what’s called a “bookmarklet” into the Bookmarks toolbar of your browser.  This allows you to just click on the bookmarklet and enter your info to submit.  Just search on each site for “bookmarklet” and there should be instructions on how to install this in your browser.
• The key to most of these social bookmarking sites are “Tags”.  Tags are simply the keywords that the site will use to organize and classify the article or page you are submitting.  Therefore it is vital that you submit the keyword you are focusing on as one of the tags, but you can also add other tags that you think folks might search for on this topic.
• There are a slew of other sites you can use to speed up your social bookmarking submissions including SocialMarker, Ping.fm and Auto Social Poster (paid product).
• There are ton of other ways to drive traffic to your blogs, way to many to go into here in this short course.  We will highlight a few extra methods in the case study in Lesson 8, and will be creating other classes to highlight others over time.  Keep checking back to the Course List to find new methods.

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