Timesaver Tips: Free Traffic System

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If you’re like me, time is something that’s always on your mind. Running a blog and balancing everything else that is going on in your life can be a daunting task. You can read about my efforts in my previous post: Lifestyle of a Part Time Blogger.

I’m constantly searching for ways to manage my blogging in a more efficient manner. Today I want to share with you a tip that can help you save time while generating targeted traffic, free oneway backlinks and even original content.

Many of you may be trying to find a good time efficient way to create some free oneway backlinks and generate targeted traffic. Often you may spend a lot of time visiting other blogs and leaving comments, but this can be time consuming. As you continue your research on generating targeted traffic you’ll find that one of the very best ways is to guest post. However, if you are a new blog, you may not have made the connections around the blogosphere to book many guest posting appearances. Also, you may find that it’s hard enough to find the time necessary to create your own content without the addition of guest posting.

The Free Traffic System

The Free Traffic System is a service that I use to help me solve these problems. This is a simple service that connects bloggers together in a guest posting exchange network. This system allows me to create a guest post with free oneway backlinks back to my blog and automatically post it to blogs in the network.

It’s a simple process to create your article on their site with a selection of anchor text for your free oneway backlinks. Once your article is created, you simply finalize the process and select where you want the guest post to be published.

The blogs are all categorized so that I can easily find blogs directly in my niche and then scroll through and check off the ones that I want to publish my article.

This system allows me to essentially create a guest post and post it to a large number of networked blogs with oneway backlinks back to my site. It is a very time efficient way to create some quality free oneway backlinks to generate targeted traffic back to my blog.

In addition to simply creating articles to post on other blogs, the Free Traffic System also allows you to submit your own blog to their network free of charge.

I spend hours creating posts. If you are conscientious about ensuring that your content is high quality, you will be doing research, taking screenshots, maybe even generating short videos to make your posts high quality. However, this can take a lot of time. Sometimes it can take a day or two, depending on the depth of your content.

While I put that kind of effort into creating my content, life, work and family does keep me from being able to post content as often as I like. Many bloggers face similar time constraints. I can generate 2-3 good quality posts on my own each week. The rest of the time, I have to rely on guest posters.

This is where the Free Traffic System helps me to generate content in a time efficient manner. I can simply create a guest author account and submit my blog to The Free Traffic System. This allows my blog to become available for people to submit their articles as a guest post. These are human beings creating content for my site as opposed to other systems that employ article scrapers.

Of course, sometimes it is necessary to do some post editing to ensure that the articles that I get on my blog make sense and are on point. I will on occasion delete a new post if it doesn’t seem to fit the theme of my blog. However, overall this system has been helpful in generating posts on days when I am running short on time, but want to keep my posting frequency up.

The beauty of this system is that it allows me to also turn off the posting feature on my blog if I want to limit the amount of guest posters and turn it back on when needed. It also doesn’t affect my ability to create my own posts and submit them to other blogs, still generating backlinks for myself.

Finally, The Free Traffic System provides a very robust free service. It allows you to post to 30 blogs per article with 2 backlinks each and submission of your own blog to receive guest posting. This allows you to build 60 free oneway backlinks to your site with a single article using their free version alone.

While their pro version is certainly more robust, allowing 3 backlinks per article with submission up to 50 blogs as well as additional tag pages for each article, you can use their free version and not feel limited like you might with other trial services.

Overall, The Free Traffic System has been an incredible time saver for running my blog as well as generating traffic, meriting their selection in Timesavers Tips.

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Who Cares About Bounce Rate?

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Do you know what my bounce rate is? Not unless I tell you. The bounce rate of a website is a mystery to its visitors unless the webmaster specifically announces their statistic, yet it is one of the most important measurements of the user experience. It tells a webmaster how much his visitors are enjoying his content. So, who cares about bounce rate? You do!

What is Bounce Rate

The bounce rate of your blog is basically the rate at which people leave your site after landing on its first page. So a blog that generates a lot of hits, but their visitors leave after a few seconds of glancing at the first page will have a high bounce rate. Blogs with visitors that stick around and browse through the content will have a lower browse rate. It is a statistic which measures the user experience. And Webmasters are in a constant struggle to decipher it’s mysteries and achieve that low percentage bounce rate.

Fix Your Blog, Not Your Readers!

A while back, I visited a blog and I saw a post about bounce rate. The author discussed how the bounce rate was a reflection of a poor marketing strategy. He argued to great effect that it meant that you were targeting the wrong audience. He discussed how bloggers with a high bounce rate should re-think their marketing strategy and look to more targeted blogs and forums in their own niche. They should give up using ad exchanges, since those traditionally generate high bouncing visitors. It was a very convincing discussion about shifting your focus to a more targeted audience. I read through the article, I thought about it, and I moved on. The problem was, it was wrong.

Think about it, if you have a high bounce rate, by definition, people are coming to your site! Why would you want to pick up and leave the spot where you’ve figured out how to bring in the traffic and start over someplace else? Should you add on to your marketing efforts? Of course you should, but you shouldn’t give up on a strategy that is working. If you are doing something that is bringing in traffic which just isn’t sticking around to read your content, you don’t need to dump your traffic, you need to change your blog.

Anyone who is clicking a link to go to your blog, should already have some idea of what your blog is about. Your incoming links should be surrounded by your keywords. If you have a banner ad going in a traffic exchange, it should invoke a strong sense of what your site is about. Take a look at my entrecard ad for example:

There’s absolutely no reason why someone clicking on my card wouldn’t know that my blog is about making money online. Do I get a few hit and run card droppers? Of course I do, but I also get a ton of traffic from entrecard that sticks around for 10-15 minutes.

Every marketer should be doing their job correctly with their incoming links. Surround them with your keywords, make sure that anyone who clicks on your link knows why they are coming to your site.

If you are doing that, and you still have a high bounce rate, it’s time to rethink how you are presenting your content.

It’s not your reader’s fault if they clicked on a link that says Make Money Blogging and they show up and find an unattractive site with a few of short 2 paragraph articles on the front page. Or perhaps, you are creating incredible content and knocking it out of the park with every article, but your content is getting dropped quickly to your archives and isn’t easily spotted by the reader. Or they click on your link only to see the spinning beach ball for 10-15 seconds while your site loads. Marketing in a different place isn’t going to solve these problems. It’ll just bring you a different audience that’ll bounce just as quickly.

So, What can I do to Lower my Bounce Rate?

I was faced with this very question when I was first starting my site. I already knew I wasn’t entirely happy with my theme and my layout. At the time, my bounce rate was astronomical. It was around 80-90%. I felt that my content was decent enough to bring in some readers, but my audience wasn’t sticking around to read my other posts. I had to find a way to lower my bounce rate.

There’s also one thing I dislike about a typical blog structure: that is that posts get pushed down into the recesses of your archive as you generate new content. I felt that this typical leads to a high bounce rate as the audience reads one or two posts, but gets tired of scrolling down that single page and trying to go through the archive.

So, I set out to make some changes with the mindset that I would focus on fixing my blog and lower my bounce rate. It was an experiment. Could I continue marketing the same way to my 80-90% bounce rate audience and effectively lower my bounce rate just by changing my blog?

The first thing I wanted to focus on was to find a theme with a better layout. At the time, I was using one of the free themes from WordPress, constructor. It was a simple theme that allowed plenty of options, however, I wanted something a little more robust and more visually appealing. During my forays of blog surfing, I had spotted some blogs that I stood out to me as having attractive themes. Generally, you can find the name of the theme in the footer of any blog, so I was able to quickly discover which themes I really liked. I ended up choosing the Hybrid theme, which is visually attractive, as well as SEO friendly.

Selecting a new theme was really only my first step to lowering the bounce rate on my blog. A nicer theme really just makes some visual changes. My feeling was that it would only have a minor effect on my high bounce rate. What I really needed to do was to promote more of my content on my front page. I wanted to make some changes so that my front page will show off my content, not just display a list of blog posts.

I’ve seen this done in several ways. Some blogs will go with a magazine style layout with a grid of 2-4 excerpts on the front page and then a list of posts following. Some may have a featured content excerpt right at the top of their blog. Many of these methods can be effective. The key for me was to do something that will show the reader more of my content on the front page. I elected to look for a featured post slider.

In the beginning, I searched around for a good plugin to create a carousel of featured posts on my front page. If anyone is looking to implement this feature on their site, I found a plugin called featurific that created an excellent magazine style featured posts slider.

Eventually, I was able to find a Hybrid child theme that included a built in slider.

I also made a point of setting up my front page so I had a categorized post listing following the content. This acts like an index where my readers can see some of my other posts listed by category to assist in guiding them to the content that they are looking for.

My third step was to focus on making sure to focus on the quality of my content. I wanted to make sure that all my points were conveyed clearly to my readers. I also made an effort to be creative with my posts and have some fun with creating my content.

I implemented all these features into my blog.

You’ll notice that I did not make any changes to my actual marketing strategy. I didn’t drop entrecard, I continued visiting and commenting on the blogs in my niche. I continued advertising on craigslist. In all respects, my audience remained the same. The only thing that I changed was my blog.

So, what was the result of my experiment? How did it affect my high bounce rate? I’m not going to tell you, I’m going to show you:

By the way, the date that I implemented these changes was 9/22.

My bounce rate remains steady today under 10%. So, what do you think? Did my experiment work?

What did I Learn from my Experiment?

If you have a high bounce rate, change your blog, not your audience! In this case, I was able to lower my bounce rate dramatically without changing my audience at all. The only changes I made were internal to my blog to promote interest in the deeper articles. Showing more of my content and having a more visible directory structure really did wonders to lower my bounce rate.

Have you done anything that helped you get a lower bounce rate? If so, leave me a comment and tell us how you did it!

How Much Cash Am I Going To Generate Through Adsense?

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If you’re searching at Google’s AdSense program you’re surely wondering just how much you can make from this type of program, and also you probably think you cannot make what you are able to from traditional advertising schemes.

Google, obviously, keeps a lot of secrecy regarding just how much AdWords advertisers pay per each click forwarded to their website and also the same applies to how much AdSense banner holders make using their websites.

While there is nothing official, rumors circulate round the Internet concerning the amount of money an internet site can generate by utilizing AdSense. And several people (illegally) disclose just how much they’ve been making with AdSense. You will find stories of individuals raising over $ 1, 000 monthly using AdSense.

There’s also stories of individuals exceeding $100,000.00 monthly but it is a bit tough to believe such stories. The fact of the matter is that for those who have a little website and would like it to support itself without having to reach into your wallet because of its maintenance costs you are able to probably do that with AdSense.

AdSense can also be excellent for those who host lots of pages. Whether or not the said pages generate lots of traffic individually, every click counts and you will make up with many different sources of money as a result. Which just would go to prove that sometimes quantity matters nearly as much as quality.

There is no telling how much cash you are going to make by utilizing Google’s AdSense but you are able to estimate, prior to actually starting, if you take several things into account.

First, is the quantity of visits you receive every single day. While there is no method to estimate precisely about this, you are able to generally create a safe assumption that for those who have lots of clicks daily you will be making a nice income.

Also, this depends upon just what your internet site is about. If your internet site is about anything popular you’re bound to obtain lots of banner clicks. These possess a coefficient related to them, known as the CTR (click through ratio).

Basically, what it really means is the fact that if your large proportion of the site’s visitors click on the ads you will be making more income. And the easiest method to do that would be to possess some popular content in your website, ensuring the hyperlinks direct users towards popular items too.

Then obviously, there’s the positioning and quantity of ads in your website. While you won’t want to go crazy, having many links will certainly generate more money for you personally like a webmaster. Don’t however believe, when you simply add lots of ads within an important part of your website, visitors could always just skip them (and be confident that many just do that).

There’s something between an artform and a science to positioning your ads. People generally look in certain places and not in others, and knowing this an internet site author and/or webmaster can perform a lot of adjustments to increase his earnings with AdSense.

Overall, how much money you are making with AdSense depends upon many factors. But for those who have a website with interesting content and/or many pages, and you may notice a continuously massive amount traffic every single day, you are able to bet you will be making lots of money with AdSense.

Even though you aren’t within the above categories, AdSense continues to be worth using due to there being hardly any hassle in configuring it, and several times it can benefit financially support the website, whilst as being a nice bonus to obtain with the post at the conclusion from the month.