Another great webinar with Alex Jeffreys last night. I really need to move to another time zone as I never make it to end of the interactive session! I checked out around 3am UK time but I think a new record was set this week at 6 hours. I need to take another tip from Alex and stock up on the Red Bull :)

So we are on to traffic generation and I know we have all been looking forward to that. It is the most crucial element of our business at this stage and something we all want more of.

I set up this domain on the 27th November and installed Google Analytics on the 1st Dec, here are the stats so far:

  

I’m obviously really pleased with those figures. If you had told me three weeks ago I could set up a blog and receive that level of traffic, I would have been calling for the men in white coats to take you away, lol. So it’s great to know that what we are doing works.

So where has my traffic come from and what am I going to do to generate more?

The bulk of my traffic has come from being active on blogs and as Alex said last night, this is a key strategy. I have had days when my whole focus has been to get out there and be active on other students blogs. When you see your Google analytics the next day it’s amazing to see the effect this has. The reverse is true also. The days I have not been blogging, the traffic takes a nose dive! So I will continue blogging as much as possible but I now intend to also cast my net further and be active on blogs outside our community.

I set up a Squidoo lens on the 4th December and apart from a few tweaks over the following days have not touched it. The day I published the lens it’s Squidoo rank was #78476 and #5639 in it’s category. I have just looked this morning and it’s rank in Squidoo is #6105 and #247 in it’s category!! That shows the amount of traffic coming through Squidoo and the power those lenses have.  That lens is in the top 10 of traffic sources to my blog.

What if I had 2 lenses or 10? More lenses will definately be in my traffic plan and I recommend you put at least one up. You can view my lens at the link below to get a few ideas:

http://www.squidoo.com/listbuildingwithalexjeffreysreport

Another source of traffic I have created has been through Youtube. The video Alex showed on the webinar last night was mine. It’s only 50 seconds long but has had 264 views and driven traffic to my ppp. I have just uploaded the same video to Viddler and I will let you know what results I get there. The other great thing about Youtube videos is that they appear in Google very quickly. Mine showed in the Google video results within a few hours.

I opened a Twitter account but did not really ‘get it’ until Alex explained it last night. However, I have had traffic from it, both to my blog and squeeze page. That is due to the use of the ‘tweetmyblog’ plugin. If you look at the bottom of my right sidebar you will see ‘my twitter feed’ and that is the plugin. Every time I post on this blog it sends a message to my twitter account and when I post on twitter, it sends one here.

But this feature spreads outside twitter and your blog. When you publish a squidoo lens, you have the option of ‘tweeting’ it. So squidoo automatically puts a tweet on your account informing your followers you have a new squidoo lens. The tweetmyblog plugin kicks in and sends a post to my blog also. That has now placed the link to my squidoo lens in two places and it has been very effective in increasing my squidoo rank. You can get the plugin here:

Tweetmyblog

Well that is what has been working for me, what about you?

The more tips we can all share the more traffic we can all create. If anyone needs help with a squidoo lens just let me know.

Off to finalise my plan of attack now!

All the best
Mark

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