Traffic Generation the “Friendly” Way
A few weeks back I wrote a post on a myspace forum, proposing that we all lend a helping hand in the endless plight for more traffic. I simply stated that I worked for a company with a vast network of blogs and asked if anyone would be interested in exchanging links.
Of course I expected to be flooded with emails and requests. Such was not the case! Rather I have received maybe a total of 3 requests for link exchanges and none of them made much sense.
Take the one I received this morning for example:
“Hi,I run the following website it is a financial website, I averaged last month $37 per day in adsense revenue, Looking to raise it to new levels hope you can help”
The first thing I can say to you is you have probably reached your maximum potential with Adsense. It doesn’t get much better. Remove the Adsense and start getting Real with people.
What if I visited your blog everyday and commented. What if I was a loyal viewer of your content? What if I had established myself as a solid part of your regular reader-base and identified myself as such? What if I cultivated that relationship with you, blog owner, by making chit chat and offering you key tips and pointers I’ve picked up along the way? What if I outstretched my hand in FRIENDSHIP with no apparent need for myself involved? Sounds nice doesn’t it? I would be more inclined to help a friend than ANYONE else. Would you help me if I established myself in your community in that way?
My instinct is that you would. No Doubt! We are all on here trying to figure it out. We would all like to make some money along the way. What has worked best in ALL of my experiences is to be completely transparent and REAL. To approach others as friends and nurture those friendships before asking for help. What it comes down to is there is no better advocate than a friend.
My advice Dear Adsense Revenue making man is to take down the Adsense, make more friends, generate a more natural and lasting form of traffic among those friends. Create awesome content that will be engaging and post it everyday. Then, and only then, should you begin your advertisement plastering crusade!
Please visit my newest friend Danny, the inspiration for this blog post at A College Dropouts Guide to Investing.
