Too Many Newbies Online Doing The Same Type Of Marketing

Ok folks this my first guest post here on Technshare.com and pretty much wanted to come in with a bang. I’m not one of those marketers who is going to beat around the bush and sugar coat things. My train of thought is to tell people the truth so they don’t get false hopes about online marketing in such.

I’m not here to give you the top wordpress plugins to use or tell you how to gain more subscribers, because if you’re marketing the correct way then subscribers will automatically come your way. I get most of my subscribers by telling them to start here first. This way people understand what to do versus having to guess when they visit your site, but enough of that lets get down to business.

Straight Shooter

People need structure on this planate of ours, even back in grade school they told you to sit here, lay here, read this and many other ridiculous things. So our whole lives haven been based around the monkey see monkey do illness. Check this out? If someone buys a brand new cell phone that looks cool but no one else ever knows about it, because this person bought it from across seas or something. Guess what? many other people will be asking where you got it form and how much did it cost?

A month later the whole USA will have one because the word of mouth travels. This is what happen when newbies come online to so call market. I’m trying not to laugh because 98% of the people who try to market online no zip about how to drive massive traffic to their website and how to build a big following. Plus a lot of these people are the ones you see doing guest post, you may think they are very knowledgeable about the subject of marketing but most of the content they write about is just rewritten content.

If you don’t believe me then take a look at some guest post around the internet, they are all about the top this and the top that. You may ask yourself why is that? Its because of the monkey see monkey do illness that newbies follow. One way I can spot a newbie is to check their Alexa ranking, and yes I know it’s not 100% accurate..but its on point enough for me to analysis their site with.

If their site is higher, meaning anything above 200k when it comes to traffic. That means they are not getting that much traffic so it’s wouldn’t be smart to follow them at that moment because they are not really doing all that well online..so what can you do then?

Everybody Is Using FaceBook

Most people when looking to market online start by going to FaceBook and Twitter. Why you ask? Because a million other people went to them so they decided it will be a great place to market also. Look, there is nothing wrong with social marketing site, but they are not the place to market. Believe me these site are only built for people to network back and forth, and that’s pretty much it. Once you start to get too aggressive with sharing your site links and contacting to many people for friend request, then this is when your account risk getting shut down.

If you don’t believe me, then just stick around long enough and see if you are to aggressive on their site. People mostly follow what is working, and most of the internet tells you to go get a facebook page and start growing your page and start driving traffic to your site.

This is not smart people, because if you’re just starting out then you should be dong things that will grow your own site, not growing someone else’s site which is a fan page. Why work your butt off promoting a fan page when you only have 5 subscribers to your blog. Three of them is your friends , one of them is you spouse and the other one is a old lady who stumbled across your site and just decided to join.

What smart people Do?

What I tell people who have this facebook obsession is that you should focus on building your website traffic up by engaging with other blogs in your niche. Maybe you have heard this before but I’m looking to show you the steps I take to drive crazy traffic to my site.

First you should comment on the top 10 websites in your niche that gets the most traffic. One want to be at least the top 3 comments on their blog once they releases a new post. Use Google Reader to be notified instantly when new content is posted.

Do this for about a good two to four weeks which let the community get to know you better and at the same time the owner of the blog will start to recognize your engagement. This type of marketing can lead to not only good traffic to your site but also if you’re able to spark up a friendship, then you can be able to network with the owner and maybe get put on the map.

They maybe allow you to guest post, do a interview , tweet your content and even share your site with their thousands of members on their emailing list. This can bring you thousands of visitor and grow you reader base without too much effort. If do this consistently for about 6 months to a year then your site will be one of the major players when it comes to getting traffic.

So put all your hard work into networking which is the number one way of building traffic that you control. Just remember these socials sites is something you can’t control, but you can control how many people you contact on a daily basic to network with.

The Ball Is In Your Court Now…

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