The Top 3 Web Savvy Facebook Traffic Generating Tips

Over the last week, we’ve explored strategies and tactics for using Facebook as a traffic generator for your business.  These strategies will get you started as quick as possible, and to make sure you get off on the right foot with Facebook, here are the links to those posts:

Your Competitors Are Using Facebook

Facebook Scheduling Tactics

Creating a Facebook Presence

Dirt Cheap Facebook Tactics

Boosting Your Business with Facebook

What to Do With Facebookers Once TheyCome To Your Site

Getting People to Leave Facebook and Come to Your Website

Today we are going to look at 3 ways to easily get people to come to your blog or website.  Up till now we’ve been mostly talking about what to do with people when they get to your site.

Now I’m going to show you what you should do on Facebook itself to motivate your crowd to move in a direction that is conducive to your business.  We’ve already talked about what you should be posting, now we’re going to look at how you should post.  (If you don’t know what to post, please look at the video I’ve posted: HERE) 

Tip #1 Post Web Address of Post or Web Page into Facebook

The primary way I use Facebook to promote my site is by posting a blurb about what I wrote on my blog for the day.  I pretty much write 500 to 1000 word articles as frequently as I can.  When I do this, I go to Facebook and on my business page, I’ll post a brief message about the subject I’m writing about as an intro.  Then, I paste the URL of the blog post into the message field. 

Automatically, a picture will appear from the blog post itself as well as the title and link to it. I also do this on Google + as well and here is what it looks like right after you paste the URL into the field:

Facebook and Google + are almost exactly alike in this nature.

 If your blog post or landing page does not have a picture on it, you can always add a picture directly from your computer.  As always, make sure that it is relevant to your post. 

Tip #2 When Posting - Use a Dynamic Headline

This is a tactic where learning how to write a little advertising copy might help.  You want to have headlines on your posts that are relevant yet DYNAMIC!   The best way to learn these is to start going to well written squeeze pages and make copies of the headlines that impress you the most. Then, keep them in a file so you can use them as a basis of a headline later. 

For Example:

“My $10 Million Dollar Discovery!”

That was a title of a book by Internet marketing specialist Yanik Silver.

You could easily create a headline for your post that read: “My $5 Thousand Dollar Discovery”, or “My Massive Cash-Flow Discovery” or even “My Amazing Facebook Marketing Discovery!”

Please bear in mind that when you are collecting these ideas to not use the exact same words, but learn from them and draw ideas from them. 

If you are going to stay in the Internet marketing arena for a while, then you’ll need to keep a swipe file and learn as much as you can about writing copy.  You may not have any desire to be a copywriter yourself, but you need to at least understand it when you hire someone to write copy for you.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you need to make sure that you are not misrepresenting the content you are directing them to.  If you do that prospects will automatically see you as a waste of time.  You can still make the lead – in exciting and on-topic at the same time.   

Here's a good video that'll give you a few pointers on writing a good headline.

Tip #3 Make Sure You Post at the Right Time

Using Facebook and other social media sites is an awful lot like fishing.  My dad was an incredible fisherman. A natural, actually. He always told me the best fishing hours were from 5:00 AM and 8:00AM and then later on in the day from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. He almost always brought a load of fish home to clean.

Facebook is almost the same way.  When people get up first thing in the morning, they are looking for something to read and when they start getting home from work they are on usually. 

So if you can get yourself on just before those peak hours, you’ll get the most eyes on your postings.

To Your Success!

Mark “Elmo” Ellis

"When it Comes to High-Response Copy - I've Got Your Back!"

www.MarkEllisCopy.com

(859) 797-9560

elmo033057@gmail.com

Get Web Savvy ̶ Get Loads of Internet Traffic With This Ordinary Keyword Tactic!

Update On Yesterday’s Rant:

Yesterday I kinda – sorta started off on a negative rant about how some folks

are always expecting a new unheard of method of traffic generation.  I even went so far as to post a picture of a disgruntled George Costanza next to my irate writings in an effort to drive my point across.

Sorry about that. 

An unfortunate side-effect of socializing on the Internet is we don’t actually don’t actually see and face the people we are talking to.  Therefore, the real JERK comes out of the person, sometimes like a demon possessed Linda Blair. 

I’m not referring about my rant, or myself in this case.  The only reason I’m saying I’m sorry is because I’m a nice guy overall, I just didn’t want anyone to think I was trying to be rude.  Nope, I’m talking about people I bump into quite frequently on the Net. 

At least once a month, I get some foul mouthed idiot that thinks he’s the next Frank Kern with an attitude, throwing all sorts of nasty language on my comment section.  These people think they’re original, but they are not because their ilk is everywhere. 

My way of thinking is: if you’ve heard this all before, then why are you wasting your time on my site?  If you’re making loads of cash on the Internet, then why, oh why, are you wasting your time commenting on a blog you think is worthless?

Side Note: If you want a real quick lesson in how insane and insensitive people can be on the Internet, just head on over to YouTube.   You can watch a few videos of the way people behave in a virtual world like Second Life.   (Just type in “Fight on Second Life” into the YouTube search field.  Warning: don’t have children in the room when you watch these.)

Just to Drive My Point Across…Again!

Yesterday I watched an excellent YouTube video called “Seven Strategies for Building an Email List” which had excellent production value. The speakers were articulate, knew exactly what they were talking about and made their entire living doing Internet marketing. 

However, there wasn’t anything new or earthshattering about the information they were putting out.  It was all basic stuff that was talked about in a very intelligent manner. I don’t care how many times I’ve studied these tactics, I loved the clip and I HIGHLY recommend it.  As a matter of fact I’m embedding it here:

Focus On Creating Great Content

This is one of those traffic generating methods that most people seem to skip.  The problem with most people that write blogs is that they get burned out after a while.  On average, people that start blogging quit after only a few weeks.  Almost 70% won’t make it to 6 months and only a handful will make it to several years of blogging. 

So, if you don’t love writing and creating valuable content, then this method of traffic generation is probably not for you.

However, if you do like to write and can do it without having to see any benefit for an indefinite period of time, then this is the way you should go.  Bear in mind that nobody on the planet can tell you exactly how long it’s going to take before you get noticed or the Search Engine Gods will grant you their Page One blessings.  This is one of those things that just takes time.

Kill Two or Three Birds with One Stone to Get More Traffic Traction

If you write good, solid, sequenced content you can get more traction from your posts.  I would suggest writing sequenced material like a book.  You can plan out your blog posts like a table of contents for a book.  Then, once you have a butt-load of material, add a little more to it and turn it into an information product or an E-Book. 

You can then brand the E-Book with your Web address, contact information or place your irresistible offer in it and either start selling it or give it away.  This way you’ll have another traffic generating tool that’ll be out there in cyberspace working for you and getting your message out there.

If you write a lot of great content, quite a few people will take notice of you and begin linking and referring people to your site.

To Your Success!

Mark Elmo Ellis

www.MarkEllisCopy.com

"When it comes to high response copy, I've got your back!"

 (859) 797-9560

elmo033057@gmail.com

Portfolio Site: http://markelliscopyportfolio.blogspot.com/

How To Get The Ball Rolling In Your Business or Enterprise

Ken McCarthy is a name that has been around for quite some time.  He has been credited with coining the term "Internet Marketing".  His programs and  system seminars have been around for decades now.

He just posted this great video by the founder of Teespring, a custom T-Shirt company that is doing quite well on the Internet.  I found this video to be quite illuminating on how a company or business should acquire its first customers and then gain maximum trajectory.   

Here is the link to Ken's site where the shortened video resides:
Ken McCarthy - Internet Marketing and Beyond

  If you want to watch a longer version with other companies and entrepreneurs, you can see that here: