Retain your Visitors or Fight an Uphill Battle
When I first started my Internet Marketing blog I wanted a new, steady traffic source and money maker for that particular niche. So I started adding content and it didn’t take too long to establish a decent sized following. I figured all I needed was about 1,000 RSS subscribers and I would be pulling in a good chunk of change.
Well, I hit 100 readers, then 200, then 500 and it wasn’t long before I had 1,000 readers to my blog. 1,000 readers to many is outstanding. Some people might imagine bloggers with that big of a following are probably making some good money.
Well I was making some money from it, but not NEARLY what I should have been earning!
It wasn’t until I realized the importance of visitor retention that I hit the “tipping point” of my blog and started making $5,000-$10,000 a month both directly and indirectly from my blog!
I’m sure you know of many of the techniques people use to successfully drive traffic to their blog. Article Marketing, social media and SEO to name a few. Many of these techniques work in driving targeted traffic to your blog, but if you’re not retaining these visitors you’ll need to keep doing the same things over and over again to maintain that flow!
Instead of fighting an uphill battle, RETAIN those visitors you do have and start building your list today!
How did I do it?
–> Email Marketing!
I started off by writing one Free report. It was called the $5 Mini-Site Formula. It was, and still is, a “formula” for making money with niche marketing. I created a high-quality report and I simply gave it away! All the user had to do in order to download it is to insert their name and email, which built my list of prospects and “retained” my blog visitors!
I then wrote a few more free reports, each offered on their own domain, but promoted through my blog.
These reports were enough to get over 10,000 of my blog readers to give me their name and email in order to download it.
To this day I still receive 200+ fresh opt-ins every week almost entirely through my blog and because of this I don’t have to work my butt off every day to keep up my traffic numbers.
If you retain the visitors you do have, you don’t need to have alot of traffic to eventually earn you a great deal of money!
Author Bio: Josh Spaulding is an Internet Marketer from Indianapolis, Indiana who has been marketing online for over 5 years. If you would like to read more of his musings, you can visit his blog at http://ez-onlinemoney.com/blog/
For more on Email Marketing, including his exact Email Marketing Blueprint, you can grab his $7 Email Marketing Report “New Age Email Marketing” through the following link http://www.NewAgeEmailMarketing.com/
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Wow that’s inspiring me. But the problem is to manage the right topic of a website if we don’t have enough experiences on it. Thanks Max and Josh for sharing this tips
The solution is simple,
build a website in a niche that you are interested in and can see your self working in it long term.
I wasted a lot of time online building websites in niches that i had absolutely no interest in, I followed the advice of targeting these small niches in the hope of making my fortunes online, I had ghostwriters create my content, used plr and at the end of the day I could not build a relationship with my visitors because I did not want to be exposed as a fraud.
In my opinion to build a long term relationship with your sites visitors you need to be honest with them, well at least I do.
Great job in your part Josh.
I also believe in increasing the number of my blog subscribers and hope to do that in the next few months.
A lot of people are trying to get high number of followers on twitter but I believe if you have a higher optin email subscribers, you will be more successful as Josh stated.
It would be nice to make $10,000 a month off my blog. Someday.
About 90% of my readers subscribe to my blog by email. Why? Because if they subscribe by email, I offer them FREE coaching by email, a chance to list their name/company on The H.O.D. and great giveaways & discounts on products/services that’ll help them manage their growing businesses.
Josh has the right idea here–I suggest y’all try it.
Thanks Josh & Max!
Heather
wow
ok !!!!!!!!!!
Very good article, i myself used to have a big problem retaining visitors (and still do in a way)… finally had to close the blog due to personal problems and time constraints, then i hit on another program and business model that’s getting me thousands of visitors per day!
Full disclosure: I am not an internet marketer myself but i do use Max’s ninja software, you can confirm this by visiting the site.
If you guys think that you can retain visitors i have a pretty ingenious way of making any site (eg. your website) load in the background window of _my sites_ visitors… without using popups!!! So as soon as the visitor closes one window your site is open in the background.. all loaded and ready to hook the visitor… again, remember.. no popups!
This traffic is mostly techi people, global (no particular nationality) and other interests include p*rn,gambling,online free stuff,p2p,movies,photographs,latest tv serials,games.
I’m thinking of charging an introductory price of 1.5cents per visit to any url you supply.
Presently i am experimenting by sending them to friends sites and am writing scripts for people to see stats of how many people go to their url ,specify max visitors per day etc
I can provide a few hundred to 1k visits per day and encourage you to have a counter & tracking software on your site to confirm the numbers.
Note: once/if i get people wanting x visitors a day, and that 1k is over… thats it. Thats all i can spare right now.. and i’m serious not “limited time offer expiring in x minutes crap” that i see on a lot of “selling sites”.
Reason is like i said i am experimenting myself with this traffic and have not totally worked out the best model.
As you can see, this is not 100% complete, i’m still writing a few scripts to fine tune this idea… but if you guys are interested it would certainly give me an incentive to go faster!
Tell me what you think!
Cheers!
Ryan
P.S Sorry, this comment got a lot bigger than planned, am new to this
visit my site and you will see i dont sell anything.
oops, forgot to add, also feel free to tell me if the above sounds like it wouldnt work out… but just dont say “hey, thats a dumb idea” give me an explanation as to why… like I said, this whole thing is new to me and am not used to handling so many visitors.
Cheers!
Ryan
>This traffic is mostly techi people, global (no particular nationality) and other interests include p*rn,gambling,online free stuff,p2p,movies,photographs,latest tv serials,games.
>I’m thinking of charging an introductory price of 1.5cents per visit to any url you supply.
There is such a thing as good traffic and bad traffic, and what you are doing is making bad traffic. These type of things are never good at retaining visitors let alone keeping them on your page for longer than a second. Targeted traffic is what people need, and the only way that I have found to get that is by doing it right and building links so I can get ranked in the search engines. Keeping them coming back by offering services is just smart marketing.
> There is such a thing as good traffic and bad traffic,
Couldnt agree with you more..
> and what you are doing is making bad traffic.
… and couldnt disagree with you more.
If a person was searching for cars and then comes to your site which specializes in logos then thats bad traffic… but if (like on my site) the person was searching/browsing on techi articles and movies and then gets redireted to your site that deals with techi/movies etc then thats good traffic.
I dont think my traffic is bad, it just depends on whats on your site, if its something other than tech,p*rn,gambling,online free stuff,p2p,movies,photographs,latest tv serials and games – this traffic may not be the best for you.
>the only way that I have found to get that is by doing it right and building links
There are many roads to the same destination… and banking on only one road is not a good idea, sometimes the smaller lanes bring you enough people to make it worthwhile to pave the small lane.
While buying traffic may not be the all time solution, its (imho) an extra viable option.
Another example would be photoshop, plenty of tools and options… not all of them are usually used, but its good to know that its there if you ever need it.
Very interesting ariticle. I thought list building is not an easy thing to do.
great info..
Wow …. that’s inspiring me
Nice article and as clear as Josh always is. He is an awesome internet marketer!
lol, I can attest to the power of Josh’s mailing list. I’m pretty sure I own every one of his ebooks … even the ones I wasn’t sure I really needed/wanted at the time.
Todd
Hi Josh,
Good article, I am just getting my firt free report up and running at the moment. It still needs some refining and adding to, to increase the value but it is now online and downloadable.
my question is about your comment you made having free reports on seperate urls?
how do you think this strategy would work if you had a single category set up on your blog with all of your free reports, then you wouldn’t have to be sending your visitors off to another website?
this is an idea i have been thinking of over the last few days so it seems very appropriate that you publish this post at this time.
nice… i would want to try making that much.
This is a powerful message especially to those of who are struggling to retain readers on our blogs. Providing unique quality articles to your blog will drive and retain customers.
Thanks once more for the advice!
Thanks for sharing your tips and strategy to capture more reader to the blog.
I have recently turned to blogging not only to make money, but have found that i really enjoy it. Have noticed a steady increase in traffic from submitting to search engines plus more links from ping backs/track backs and people reading my rss. New and interesting articles related to content are posted daily keep the search engines happy and coming back for more. My stats are showing more visits from searches.
Blogging is a much more fun, productive, and satisfying way to spend my online time rather than joining referral programs. Great when you have referrals but quite another if they don’t work the program.
Will be glad to see the day when my blog begins to provide an income. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for sharing the tip, sometimes we don’t know how to start.
That’s right Josh! I agree with you. To retain the visitors to our blogs, the list building is the right thing to do. Congratulations.
Its great. Now I am inspired.
I will check the report..thanks for info.