Lesson 5: Immediate Traffic - 10 Minutes!
by Anik Singal on April 23rd, 2008 | Blogging | 56 Comments »
So, the day you were all waiting for 
- It’s time to start talking about TRAFFIC generation strategies. In total, we are going to discuss at least 18 strategies with you on April 29th when we launch. Today, specifically, here are 2 VERY easy ones (free) that are fun to start with.
The best part here is that not only are they free - but they are IMMEDIATE.
Are they going to make you millions? No.
Are they going to generate thousands of visitors? Not right away (in due time, maybe).
Are they a great way to start? Heck yes!
Video #1 - Immediate Traffic - Digg.com
Click Here To Play Video…
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Video #2 - Immediate Traffic - OnlyWire.com
Click Here To Play Video…
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Your Assignment Today:
1. Sign-up For Digg.com and Digg one of your posts…
2. Sign-up For OnlyWire.com and all the other social bookmarking sites - Bookmark at least one of your posts.
To re-cap, here are links to the other lessons if you have not done them yet - get to work!
Lesson 1 - How to install your wordpress blog…
Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines…
Lesson 3 - Generating Traffic Through SEO (Long-Tail Keywords)…
Lesson 4 - 2 Techniques To Help Generate Content…
LEAVE A COMMENT with your thoughts - We Wanna Hear!
FIRST! I always wanted to do that. LOL.
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ONLYWIRE.COM
I’ve tried OnlyWire, I’ve found that some of the social networks don’t work that are listed.
DIGG.COM
But was for Digg.com I agree with Anik with a traffic growth. A good tip to get started if you don’t have any friends or submitted any news or content, POST QUALITY COMMENTS that relate to the someones digg.
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TIPS TO BUMP YOUR DIGG ACCOUNT:
#1: Comment on other people
#2: Digg other dugg stories or interesting content
#3: Make friends (I look forward to members area feature on the 29th)
#4: And Add the Digg Code. (Should it be placed on the top of the post or at the bottom like suggested in the video?)
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Remember its all about the conversation, be thoughtful and be yourself on digg.
Good luck.
-Anthony
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Yea your right Anthony. All though I haven’t had any issues with OnlyWire.com
I also found that blip.tv is great for posting video to multiple zones and del.icio.us was also a good site to use.
I’ve had some good traffic so far, but no conversions and nobody clicking on my Google Ads yet.
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Great tips Anik! Keep ‘em coming. Thanks.
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Hi there! I loved the conference call and would like to join tomorrow, BUT . . . I didn’t realize I was dialing internationally (not your fault, I just forgot you guys live in Canada). My cell phone carrier just informed me that the call cost me 49 cents a minute! OUCH!
For the “Yanks” on the call it would be helpful if you could provide us with a US number to dial into. Could you find out if the company you use will allow you to have 2 dial-in numbers? One for Canada and one for US? Otherwise I’ll just have to be content with the online course.
Thanks!
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Abimbola reply on April 24, 2008 4:44 am:
Hi Leslie,
Just a thought, have you tried skype (VoIP)? I live in the UK and just skype all the conference calls I decide to take part in.
Skype has voice recognition implemented and I normally have to say the access code after I’ve been connected to the main number.
Mobile (cell) phone is very expensive because the telecommunication connections for a mobile ‘phone call is more complex. There are usually more than one network operator involved in most national and international call l set-up. Each network operator charges us for the the use of their service at each stage of the connection:-)
Skype is easy to use. Expect a short learning curve. Hope you have fun using skype, it’ll definitely save you money:-)
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I didn’t get the sound either as it would be a toll call for me too. While I live in the US, the cell signal where I live is unusable. I only use cell when I’m on the road.
I would probably prefer the on-line course too. What’s this about tomorrow?
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Video #1 - Immediate Traffic - Digg.com only talks about basic using - how to use. This video is not for the old players. Do you have strategies to get hundreds of diggs instantly if you don’t have friends in the Digg?
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Hi Anik and Ros!
I have a conference room the two of you can use, so folks don’t have to disl in unless they’re on Macs. Or if they’re on Skype I could just invite them to a group Skype call, so the call will be free for them. I think we can have up to 25 people on Skype. My conference room holds unlimited amt of people.
Oh yea, did my assignment and even added the PHPbay Lite plugin today.
To your success,
Kathy Pop
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Hi evreyone,
This assignment was wasn’t easy for me, but thank you
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Hi evreyone,
This assignment wasn’t easy, but I complete it very will and I am waiting the traffic
thank you again
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Loved the Webinar, (Thankfully we have vonage .lol)
Loving Digg….
do you add the Digg html to posts that are not submitted to Digg?
Onlywire….
I’m about halfway through the list and q few of these are no longer active or have changed urls ( Blue Dot is now Faves) will that still work?
and Linktopia has a stern note before signing up that this is exactly what they dont want. Is it worth the complaints to our hosting company????
thanks, Claudia
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oh yeah and … Twiiter…. anyone want to be friends??? lol
http://twitter.com/PomMommy
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Abimbola reply on April 24, 2008 4:52 am:
Hi Claudia,
Yes, I like twitter as well. It’s cheeky though don’t you think? Maybe its me and the fact that I feel strangely compelled to be truthful to the question “what I you doing now”:-)
I’ve just added twitter to my blogger blog at http://successmastermindalliances.blogspot.com
“See” you in twitter sometime:-)
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Abimbola reply on April 24, 2008 5:05 am:
Hi Claudia,
Twitter is fun and cheeky. Especially since I always feel compelled to tell the truth to the question “what I you doing now”.
I’ve just added twitter to my blogger blog. See
http://successmastermindalliances.blogspot.com for a giggle.
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Frankie reply on April 29, 2008 11:38 am:
“what I you doing now”??? huh?!?
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Thanks for the useful traffic to blogs strategies Anik.
I already Digg. I hope onlywire.com is still a viable option after reading all the above comments, re. onlywire.com
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Was the call recorded for later play back “ONLINE”?
I was on the road and only caught part of the call.
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The call last night was good - thanks.
For the call tonight - Thurs nite - I didn’t get a notice to sign up - did one go out?
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Anik Singal reply on April 24, 2008 9:56 am:
Nan, no sign-up just first come first serve here…
Dial-In: 616-883-8400
Pin: 487608912#
Anik Singal
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Everyone,
The webinar last night was recorded and will be available today and also the teleseminar tonight will be recorded.
Anik Singal
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Natalie reply on April 24, 2008 2:50 pm:
THanks very much. Will it be posted on this blog as I registered and couldn’t attend last night. Thanks!
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Hey Anik and Rosalind:
Thanks for the great info about OnlyWire.com. This is another great opportunity for increased traffic. Also, I really enjoyed the call last night and look forward to the call tonight.
- Rick
http://www.GolfSwingImprovements.com/GolfBlog
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the webinar april 23 was great, learned at lot. Rosalind mentioned she edited her word press blog with…… I missed this part and would like to know how she edits the blog. I am having a very difficult time editing my wordpress. It does not edit in frontpage. I need to see the images so I can’t use notepad. Thanks
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I totally love the digg video…and onlywire was useful too..
I registered with Overwire a long time ago and found out that some of the sites are “no followthrough”, ie overwire is great for traffic but is not necessarily the best for instant backlinks, as some bookmarking sites won’t allow it.
Some of the overwire sites don’t exist anymore so don’t keep trying if they don’t work. DIGG does provide backlinks, but popular sites like facebook, Stumbleupon don’t.
I used ping sites like pingomatic and I think pingoat is accepting new people for beta testing. I also find that there are software programs like blog and ping that will automate things if you have many sites
I hope that helps
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Oh I forgot to also ask if these videos are going to stay on the web or if they are being taken down soon as they are seriously good!!
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HELP!! I’m trying to upload the plugins following Rosalind’s video, which is very clear. However, since I’m on a Mac I have downloaded and installed Cyberduck ftp software and have met a stumblingblock. When I try to open a connection I am asked for Server, URL (which populates automatically), username and password. I have used http://ftp.mywordpressblogdomain.com and the username (admin) and password I set myself. But Cyberduck keeps telling me the connection failed. Am I using wrong settings? I have used ftp before on the PC, but always to an html site and not a blog. I’m stuck and would really appreciate help.
Thanks!
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Helen reply on April 24, 2008 3:58 pm:
Got my answer! Thanks to BlueHost’s great support centre.
Helen
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Just wanted to say that I am really enjoying the format of this course. It is actually making me put into place the tips and techniques you are providing. I feel as if things are really starting to come together and I have great hope for the future.
BTW I have had one visitor from Digg already, yeah, I’m on my way. LOL
Keep up the good work.
Thanks also for the great conference call, great to hear that they are being recorded as I can’t afford the international rates to listen to the second one tonight.
Cheers, Rach
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Hi everyone
These classes are so good… thank you Anik and Rosalind!
Have had no problem with digg but major hassel with only wire… it wouldn’t allow me to put it on the Explorer Bar as shown in the video but it would only allow me to put it in favourites in the links. Which I did. But now I can’t get where to put the postings.grrrrrrrrrrrr!
Is there any chance of getting a link straight onto my blog? I use typepad not wordpress.
It’s great to see so many of you on twitter! http://twitter.com/itsannje
Jeanne
http://www.goalsnaspirations.com
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Now I am up and running. Thank you Ros and Anik!
The Digg Class was easy to understand. Have one more
glitch with my server, but am learning right along
with everyone else.
Check it out…and digg me of course!:)
http://www.celebritydesignerhandbags.com/myblog
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Only wire does have some problems and digg traffic doesnt click ads, same with SU. No idea why anik or Ros would use these as “traffic methods”
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Anik Singal reply on April 25, 2008 2:52 pm:
Shane,
Onlywire recently started having some issues - but for the most part it works. Also, some times it hangs, I just give it a minute…
Someone recently told me of another service that does something similar - but apparently not out yet, so I’m looking around for an alternate.
As for Digg - for my blogs, Digg has referred me the BEST people who not only RSS feed subscribe but also leave comments and get active. Sometimes it’s not ALL about getting the “ad clicks” in the beginning.
The more of those dedicated readers you get, the more exponential your traffic growth will be - the ad clicks will come, you also want to see WHERE you’ve placed your ads.
Traffic is Traffic - it’s not like Digg sends you “mystery visitors” that specifically won’t click (but yes, their visitors may be a bit more advanced and used to blogs).
Either way, good readers, good content will build that community which you need for a blog to be successful.
Anik Singal
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Hi All,
Ok, I watched the videos and it is very clear how to do what Roz/Anik said to do. However, I don’t really get why. Specifically:
So I sign up for Onlywire and I start my own bookmark list all over the web filled with bookmarks from my own site. Who cares? Who is going to look at my bookmark list? Does this mean that I have to go get friends so that we exchange bookmarks? (And if so, I would rather spend my time writing good blogs than surfing for false friends) Or do people find out about my bookmarks some other way?
Digg makes a little sense to me because for a short time, my page will remain on “upcoming” which gets it a little publicity. But the social bookmark thing, I don’t get it…
Thanks in advance for your help,
Julia
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Bill reply on April 25, 2008 8:55 pm:
Hey Julia,
I agree with you on a lot of your points.
I’m *NOT” a spacebook/facebook/ or whatever they’re
calling it today… It’s not me and I for one won’t jump in
just because it’s “THE IN THING TO DO” (TODAY!)
And tommorrow/next week it’ll be some other “MUST BE IN”
thing.
One last personal note: TWITTER IS STUPID! PERIOD!!!
Bill
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Anik Singal reply on April 25, 2008 9:23 pm:
Bill,
I SWEAR I felt the SAME way until about 3 weeks ago. I’m HOOKED and believe it or not, I’m LEARNING. I’m following top marketers and they leave little golden nuggets every now and then.
It’s very addictive - just try it once…
Coooommmeeeee oooonnnn…
Anik Singal
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Bill reply on April 25, 2008 11:37 pm:
You “KNOW” you really are a bad A** –egging on
an old man…. hehehehehehehe
I’ll say this: “I’LL THINK!” about it… but I’m
old and might forget… now what was my name again?!?!?!
OH YEAH I got it here on my name tag stapled to my
chest.
Bill
You guys rock!!!
I have been using digg and only wire for some time now and i can testify to the fact that they work
Funny thing is I had never been able to work out how the save page [fr]link worked so i have been using only wire the lonnng way
One tip from your video is going to save me so much time
Thank you Ros and Anik
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Wow! Great stuff you guys! Thanks!
Hmmm, now I just need to figure out where to put that Digg script.
Thanks again!
Steve
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Thanks for the call and as I read responses above I was also worndering about a number for the US crowd. It looks like maybe I’ll have to try skype as well.
I’m finding that onlywire doesn’t allow me to drag to toolbar using IE-7. I had to bring it in as a favorite.
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Hey Guys/Gals,
I found some great plugins that go hand-in-hand with this
lesson.
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
The first one on the list is called “Share This”
Quote:
“This plugin will allow your visitors to share your
content via social bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing
the post to a friend.” Unquote
I got but haven’t installed it yet — (wanted to tell you
)
first!
Bill
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Bill reply on April 25, 2008 9:03 pm:
Personal CLARIFICATION here: I like this plugin for the
email feature the most, but understand that “many” of
the viewers that come by ‘might be’ into the bookmarking
stuff, so I’ll put it up.
Bill
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WP has a plugin for “Digg”
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/diggbadger/
Looks easy enough to install without a problem
For more in depth instructions try:
http://www.howtotuts.com/2008/01/27/how-to-place-a-digg-it-button-in-your-blog-posts/
It’s a long link hope it shows up correctly or you might
have to do a copy and paste to the address bar.
Bill
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Not Working reply on May 3, 2008 7:29 pm:
I only have one post on my blog currently because I just created it. So when I downloaded this plug in, the Digg icon is not showing up. Will it show up on future blogs, or do I need to do something more in Wordpress to make it work? Directions from Kenny were a bit sketchy, and I think he had a typo which confused me.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Sharon
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Well that was fun —NOT—
Just signed up for my Digg account… all is well.
Then I went to do my first submission and all hell broke
loose… 6 pages of “Fatal Except Errors”
Never did get anything posted — But I sure have a nice
topic to blog about now…(Think BIG FLAMES!)
Bill
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Videos are not working.
Will look for link in another email to see if it works that way.
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Great videos guys! I can’t believe this stuff is free and practically spoonfed.
Tweaked my site up and think it’s coming along. Any suggestions as far as ad placements?
To all,
you guys seem to be doing great as well. Keep up the good work! I love to see everybody’s varied topics.
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Hello,
I managed to add a digg link to my blog to my article on Motocross jumping technique I’ll need to look at adding it to the template so that it appears on all my posts if it is possible?
Thanks for all your help guys
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Stef reply on April 29, 2008 8:45 pm:
Hi Jason
Glad to see another Dirt Track Cowboy out there!!
Your google adds are showing horse jumping & jumping castles. You may need to put a few more motox & motorbike keywords to get the right add.
Good Luck
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Even after reading so many lists on the web for
traffic building, I found this blog interesting.
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I read somewhere online that Onlywire was resulting in some spamming activity. They were using registration info for that. This is the major reason why I never used this service. Did they clean this up?
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Hi,
I was joining the sites in onlywire when I noticed that some of the sites already closed their registration because of heavy spamming. There were also stern warnings about using their sites for internet marketing.
How can we use this method to generate traffic if some of these sites are closing the doors to spammers.
Just a thought, you think some people hit the post it button instead of the bookmark it button?
Thank you very much for sharing.
Susan
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Wow Anik!!!
Lesson five really blew me away. I’m having a great time and adding the blog to my current site, thanks to you guys.
TimWho
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Hi everyone!
I have been digging for months but not getting much traffic from there.
Now I am using “Stumble Upon” and it is bringing me more traffic than digg.
In my opinion stumble upon is much better than digg. I am saying it thru my experience.
And onlywire is also good but I have found a better website “http://www.socialmarker.com”. It offers more services than onlywire.
See it for yourself.
Thanks
Parimal
http://www.healthlifestyleforever.com
http://www.healthlifestyleforever.com/blog
http://www.healthlifestyleforever.com/salesemail
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I tried to sign up for the full course, it set up the account (partially), I gave CC info, etc. and it wouldn’t work, and kept telling me to try again. I called the bank and they didn’t show any transaction attempt.
Is the full course closed?
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I set up the only wire account, and started registering for all the social bookmarking sites, but some of them are problematic. Linkatopia says not to give your user name and password to bot sites like onlywire.com . They specifically say only wire is not welcome there. The link for excites.com doesn’t work. Neither does blogmemes.
Some of these sites are not interested in allowing onlywire users to access them. Any recent info on this?
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