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Make Money With Gearbest Affiliate Program

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Learn how you can make money with Gearbest Affiliate program.

 

How to make money with Gearbest and their products.

make money with gearbest

Overview:

First off, what is Gearbest.com and what is their Affiliate/Associate program like:

Gearbest.com itself is an E-commerce website model.

 

Their Alexa Rank is 309, meaning it’s the 309’th most visited site online!

An 800%+ increase in annual sales revenue since 2014.

Over 5m registrations and 3m customers from 180+ countries and regions.

 

Products:

Over 100,000 top products supplied by 1,000+ major Chinese manufacturers.

Price ranges from 1 cent… To over $500.00

For example, the Motorola Moto X 4 G Smartphone is included $269.99 which is in the middle of that.

Take a look at the image the customer is presented with after clicking through to read about it:

Notice all the elements just SAYING: SECURE SHOPPING. Look closely and remember all the trust symbols they have inserted. And also how customer friendly it is in total. Removing questions.

Look below for more on products.

Payment:

They pay out over USD $500,000 per month, with the most successful affiliates earning up to $40,000 every month.

They offer regular, secure payments at the end of each month. No limit on what you can earn.

 

Their affiliate program is free to join.

Also, they feature Daily Deals and Weekly Deals with coupons, discounts, and sales which also improves the overall customer experience a LOT.

 

Product collection is listed briefly here:

 

  • Mobile Phones – A Big collection of smart phones, like Huawei and Hafury AllCall and more.
  • Electronics – Gaming Gear, Tv Boxes, Security gear for your home and much more.
  • Lifestyle – Water Balloons, Lamps, Training Gear, Drones and much much more.
  • Household Gear – Fans, Kettles, Irons, Toothbrushes, Robotic Vacuum Cleaner and more.
  • Fashion – Watches, T-Shirts, More Clothing, Baby Gear and also… More.

Take a look at the products yourself and see the whole product listing pages.

Verdict:

Gearbest.com is a legit way for affiliates to promote something that’s HOT and in demand.

Their rate of growth is a symbol of the quality they represent.

Their purchases come with 45-day money back guarantee and also if you get a damaged item on delivery you have three days to notify the site owners. When you do they say you can send the time to them and they will send you a new one and also reimburse the cost of the shipping you had to handle. Or you can a full refund.

So the purchase process is risk-free.

 

Notes:

This is a monster of an E-commerce site.

Amazon has long been the king after they surpassed Ebay. Alibaba showed up and claimed a seat on the council as an “E-commerce Megamarket”.

With the success of other sites like these, and in particular Amazon, you get attention.

You get attention from other Entrepreneurs like Gearbest and they must have felt the need to launch a site cuz’ that’s what they did.

 

 

For an average Joe, this is not a weekend project you can easily wrap up and get ready.

Gearbest is a great site to model IF you have a budget that digs deep and a strong desire to work with big brands without a middle man.

 

Conversions:

 

They SEEK to give the best customer experience and it shows through all levels or pages of the site.

It should be easy to get a product promotion to convert with this backend in place.

They do include Flash Sales and other sales and promotions that customers love to take advantage of

 

The Affiliate part.

(Free to join. Click Here to do so)

How To Make Money With Gearbest as an affiliate/associate.

Gearbest.com has a section of their site geared against affiliates.

They offer you the chance to work with them as a partner/affiliate/associate and promote their products and their site for pay.

They offer a quite lucrative setup and it is highly interesting from a search engine optimization standpoint when it comes to picking products with low competition to rank for.

The brands they have are BIG. Still, not the most common for US or EU for everything. So the product names themselves can be easy to rank for in Google if you go for that route.

This site is getting LARGE so the US and EU should be accustomed to it for sure in a short matter of time.

If you want to know how to make money with Gearbest you should sign up to their affiliate program here so you can get paid and then find a product or more you want to promote.

In the tech genre, they are big. So you should have no problems getting a sale after directing your traffic to their high converting site. It is made for customer easy. Internet friendly checkout process for the cart, with the money, back guarantee.

To make money with Gearbest should be easy as their funnel is high converting.

 

 

Pros:

Easy to join, and free.

Hot Merchandise to promote.

Undeniably great support with their guarantees keeping returns on the minimum.

Daily and Weekly Deals – Easy to gain fast results as an affiliate.

Con’s:

Shipping Rates and policies would be nice to have included on the front page for anyone coming new to their site. Might decrease conversion a small percentage without.

 

Final Words:

 

Gearbest and their site are making bank, no question about that.

They have a really nice E-commerce store with an affiliate program in place.

They have a TON of traffic, and by having that the volume of sales is high.

Also when the volume is so big the site owners can redesign their site as they wish at any time to test conversions really fast.

This ensures again that you are promoting a website that converts.

 

Final Verdict:

Gearbest.com is a legitimate website with an affiliate program designed to help affiliates make a good conversion when promoting them.

I highly recommend you check them out if you are into affiliate marketing with physical goods.

 

Rune

How to find the Best Hosting for WordPress sites 2016

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So how do you decide the best hosting for WordPress sites 2016?

But really, how to find THE ABSOLUTE BEST hosting for WordPress sites 2016??? This… Was the first thought before the investigation started… Then, the intense reading began.

There were some good ones out there, I know cuz’ I read A LOT of articles 🙂

Read on for the skinny.

Best hosting for wordpress

Let me be the first to tell you that there is a lot to cover…

You have everything kept it in one article though, so don’t panic. 🙂

(If you are an active reader and trust the writings on this site and want the quick fix, just scroll to the bottom and get to know the results from analysis of the speed from the different hosts.

AND to see the awesome hosting company which was picked for the job.)

 

Earlier this year we needed to find out how to find the best hosting for WordPress sites for 2016 and this is the result.

 

Content covered:

SHARED HOSTING. When you need it.

And MANAGED HOSTING. Which is what we recommend.

And NO, it is NOT THAT technical OR pricey!

In fact, it can be super simple.

Read on for the scoop.

 

What you should be looking for when in dire need of the best hosting for WordPress:

Regardless of size, really, you need a reliable hosting if you are serious about your business.

Smaller sites can be ok with “newbie hosting companies” but most of the time you want to be sure that your site is up and running AND for it to be fast.

This is so that Google will actually notice it instead of sayin’: “This site loads slow, drop rank…Next.”

And also so people would want to stay and read instead of getting sick of load times.

More on this below…

Background:

Time spent searching for the best hosting for WordPress 2016 AKA “The Solution”: Two months on and off. Last two weeks was intensified search.

Taking a business to the next level means checking to see if all aspects of your business model are congruent to the next level.

In plain English, if you expect a lot of traffic or intend to increase security then you must as we did check all of your factors for compliance.

One of the sites in my network had a malicious code in it.

To be more specific it was the theme on one site that had a bad line of code. The code itself was not doing much other than to leave your site wide open to get infected. (Kinda “dumb” to leave the door open, right?!)

Best hosting for wordpress

Theme Covert Store Builder was the bad one. I contacted the authors of the theme and notified them asking how they can allow such a code to be in the theme AT ALL and from what I can understand their coder thought it was ok to leave it like that. Still, my security plugin did not like it ONE BIT. Neither did I.

After reaching out to them they stated that they would remove the bad code in the next update. Still, as a customer I have sent a lot of traffic to that site and they could have gotten infected so I quickly changed the theme AFTER A TOTAL cleanup which took me quite some time just to be on the safe side.

Best hosting for wordpress

Now, hosting was the topic, and it still is…

Contacting the Hosting company for help did not do much good as all they wanted to do was to charge nickel and dime for a cleanup. Seriously stay away from Sitelock. Check out the only other really good option here.

In short, we changed hosting for a lot of sites because a lot of them were still in a shared environment, which in essence means:

That you can get infected by the other sites on the same server as you.

It gets worse. Also in a shared environment, the speed of the site is fluctuating a lot since you and god know how many other people are using the same server and you never know if the next guy is driving a lot of traffic and/or using up resources from the server with scripts or too many plugins.

Even thought the infection hazard is there, it is not great, I heard…

But still, it would be better for everyone if the site you operate is as safe as possible.

Best hosting for wordpress

A total of two months were spent on and off with intensity higher in the last two weeks while searching the web for reviews and case studies and articles covering the best solutions for WordPress sites.

From all of that hard reading, I learned a lot which you can benefit from.

 

The main takeaway is this:

Small site, like a designer with a portfolio, can be ok on shared hosting. This is because the traffic is not that high on these sites in general as compared to a blog or e-commerce solution.

Medium to bigger site risk loosing business due to fluctuating resources. So one second your site can be fast, and the next it can be slow.

 

–  For optimizing your site speed even further read this: https://runeellingsen.com/speed-up-wordpress/

 

Question:

  • Can you afford to have a slow site when most people DO NOT hang around for more than three seconds in loading before they get bored and leave your property?

The answer depends on your business and is totally on a case by case basis.

Most people that read this post are involved in the business creation and preservation so this should apply to you.

If not then why are you reading?  🙂

You can check your own site speed over at http://tools.pingdom.com

 

So the basis for our search was reliance , speed, and security.

The cost was quite irrelevant but we took note of it as it is a crucial element to know.

 

 

Shared hosting.

Companies like Hostgator and Bluehost are owned by the same bigger company and is therefore quite similar to each other.

That being said, Bluehost scored higher than Hostgator. Still, this was not the best choice for shared hosting.

After all the time digesting material from others experience we found ourselves looking at the best shared hosting in detail.

The number of positive reviews was at the greatest with these folks and also with that being said, EVERYONE has bad AND good reviews.

Trust me when I say this was a common denominator with everyone and their mother.

BUT, Siteground was the overall winner of our extensive search on the best hosting for WordPress with shared hosting.

Best hosting for wordpress shared

Reason:

Still, this is shared hosting which I do not recommend to other than low traffic sites… But there’s a carrot on Siteground, if you like carrots that is.

The carrot or main tipping point which is good with these guys as compared to others is security.

On Siteground you have shared hosting environment right, but not regular shared. Let me explain:

You can share a server, but on that server, you have your files in a SEPARATE space.

This is special and something that will not let the other peoples potential malware hurt your files as they have no way of touching your files.

Big plus right there. Support is good in case you were wondering.

Best hosting for WordPress SHARED – is Siteground. Let me repeat that I do not recommend it to most people.

 

  • This is what is recommended for medium to big sites.

Best hosting for wordpress managed

 

Managed Hosting!

 

Best hosting for WordPress as far as we can tell for the Normal Joe and serious businesses is called Managed Hosting.

This is the TYPE OF HOSTING, not the provider.

A managed hosting account means in essence that you have your own server which is all yours to use.

In other words: MUCH better speed and security right off the bat.

This was an area that we did not know all that much about when it came to the nitty gritty details.

From past experience, we have been using CDN networks like MAXCDN which also can be used in the same manner somewhat.

What we are talking about here is Amazon S3 and CloudFlare.

 

We have used and are using Amazon S3 to host files but not websites. It can be used for both.

Also, CloudFlare has been used by us to host HTML files for mobile ads. Tried it, walked away from it.

Do you like ads on your phone?

Please leave a comment on your thoughts to this below the article.

 

What did the web say?

google best hosting for wordpress

You can Google this for yourself if you want and see if you find the same as I did, but what I found was that almost everyone and their mothers, again…. Were speaking very highly of one company.

There is a HUGE number of providers for all hosting needs out there and we have taken what seem to be the most reviewed providers that have good support for consideration.

Who wants to get a new host that promises gold but vanishes after a month, right?

This is stable for this business even though there were a lot of different providers.

Still, when Googling Managed Hosting for WordPress I could not help but to be massively pitched the story of WP-Engine.

You have probably heard about it from before.

This was not our final choice though.

 

Keep reading to find out who the final awesome winner is.

 

WP-Engine is a company that pays out FAT commissions to their affiliates.

So if you google for the best hosting for WordPress with different angles, as in managed, dedicated, best or not and more…

You get a ton of sites promoting this in articles, videos and overall content.

You can easily see through the sales text with the glorified words and happy customers if you want.

There’s a lot of sites so take your time… We read the whole articles on god knows how many different sites, ranging from WPMU DEV and other WP oriented sites to smaller business sites, and more.

And also we read the reviews and comments to a whole.

So when I say that all have good and bad reviews this is where this originated from.

It was tough to find a credible source that was open for arguments which was transparent.

We did however dig though the mud and the final conclusion was this.

WP-Engine has got bad and good reviews. BUT they are a seemingly a good company that delivers what they say. At least that is the final conclusion.

This is even though some people have had bad experiences with them. This was not relevant as the numbers was too low and this is a big company with a lot of customers so they are bound to have some varied user experiences on their portfolio as well.

Best hosting for wordpress meh

Overall rating was good…. But not good enough for this cat.

 

Yes this may sound crazy to some but listen to this:

 

With WP-Engine you have limitations other providers don’t.

What we are referring to here is resources.

One site with a limited number of visitors will set you back 29 bucks.

ten sites add

1000 sites add

So in essence this will cost a lot more if you were one of the guys that had a huge number of sites that you intended to move.

But i’s not all bad. The service is heavily used so it might suit you… Still… I think you want to know the better solution which has been chosen for this site.

Almost there, hang on…

 

Other providers like Digital Ocean and Amazon S3 requires a more of a technical job and one should have a VA of some sort to do this, unless you are comfortable with it.

So this is seemingly the good solution but too hard or too time consuming for most to go into.

 

Most people just want to do their business and the hosting company should just be “not visible”. Out of sight, out of mind, right.

It’s an aspect of your business that you want to run smoothly in the background so you can focus on other areas of growth.

 

Moving the sites easily was also a criteria but something that you know you need to do either way so be prepared to learn some tech.

Given, if it’s the first time to migrate the whole site over to a new host.

 

We used ManageWP so moving the site would be easy enough though.

As it turned out, it was not needed 🙂

 

Conclusion

Still the FINAL VERDICT fell on this company which also made the migration easy as counting 1-2-3…

After creating an account and setting up a WordPress environment You just install a plugin on your site and it will do the job more or less for you after your details have been filled in.

 

Best hosting for WordPress 2016 in our test was… DRUMROLL…

 

Cloudways

Best hosting for wordpress 2017

What is “Cloudways” and why are they the winner?

 

Cloudways works as a middle man between you and Digital Ocean or Amazon Web services AWS, Vultr, Google Cloud Platform Live and KYUP.

Cloudways gives you the ability to get real fast dedicated servers WITHOUT the technical aspect of it.

This is not done with Cpanel so some will be put off just  by that but rest assured the control panel is smooth. See below.

best hosting for wordpress 2016

best hosting for wordpress 2016

 

Not having a Cpanel makes this even more attractive in my opinion.

Having Cpanel installed will take up resources from your server and the solution Cloudways are bringing is also” imo” really really smart and intuitive.

 

So you have a big engine, what about the cost as compared to others like WP-Engine…?

 

Well… Having used CDN before we knew this model of pay for what you use, as you go along.

 

So with one server and two sites installed the cost was a mere 12 bucks per month for the first go.

 

We need to add some more content and ramp up some traffic to see how the numbers stack up in the end but this is a really cheap solution since you can install as many sites you want on that server!

So instead of one site limited to 20.000 pageviews you have as many sites as you want with dynamic pricing and EASE of upgrade to your server should you feel the need.

 

It’s as simple as dragging a bar from one side of the screen to the other. Can you get more easy fix than this?

 

Support is INSTANT.

Yes!

INSTANT!!! SO AWESOME!

(After writing this post, wait time has been at worst 30 seconds. It’s usually 1-5 seconds.)

 

With Cloudways we had to adjust to the new control panel, which is so simple and un-confusing, but still new so therefore I had some questions and I must admit I was taken by surprise when I contacted support via chat and the response was there right off the bat.

No waiting at all.

Why look elsewhere, right?

Support could easily help out with the issues and the transition to this new control panel was “too easy” one might say. 🙂

Really pleased with how it worked as I think this will be the hosting for the future for many.

This was due to the speedy AND simple process.

All in all migrating one site took what? Minutes…?!

This depends greatly on the number of files you have on your site though. Some sites take longer than others, but moving them with the plugin provided Cloudways was a “high speed breeze”.

 

Getting acquainted with the control panel was easy as mentioned, real newbie style easy.

So for anyone on the fence wanting to ramp up to a better hosting this is one serious contender to consider.

 

Other gold nuggets:

 

  • Free Let’s Encrypt SSL.

Yup. FREE SSL. This certificate can set you back anything from free to 60 bucks or 200 bucks and more depending on your needs and provider.

But it is free.

  • FREE TRIAL

For sure! They offer that you test them out for free. Doing this allows you to check the interface and more.

  • You can also get a massive discount for Sucuri  Firewall with a new account when signing up with Cloudways. See below.

Steps to get this, just get your account first, and then go to the article for setting up antivirus, or website monitoring to get the link.

 

This area in BOLD is fetched from Cloudways website:

Antivirus + Firewall Basic – $149.99/year -25% off Sucuri price (you pay $199.99 to Sucuri, and we give you $50 as Cloudways credit)

Antivirus + Firewall Pro – $224.99/year -25% off Sucuri price (you pay $299.99 to Sucuri, and we give you $75 as Cloudways credit)

Antivirus + Firewall Business – $374.99/year  -25% off Sucuri price (you pay $499.99 to Sucuri, and we give you $125 as Cloudways credit)

Note: This promotion is valid for one site for each Cloudways customer.

 

Underneath in the image you can see REGULAR SUCURI PRICING without discounts.

best hosting for wordpress and sucuri pricing complete

 

 

I can also add that you have easy access to settings like file upload size and execution time and much more from your sever panel.

Great help if you work with images or larger projects. You can easily set this right so your site loads faster.

Cloudways server start at a measly $7.00 per month.

You can check their pricing below

best hosting for wordpress pricing

 

Check out what Forbes.com wrote:

“Cloudways is an interesting company because it is in the process of moving from a service offering, where every deployment is essentially a custom one, to a far more productized approach.”
Ben Kepes

More reviews and details on their site here.

http://cloudways.com

Plus they have more reviews from Venturebeat, 451 Research, CloudTweaks and Review Signal is in place in case you need even more trust signals to lean on.

 

  • In total:

Two months and an intensive last two weeks of searching for the best hosting provider for WordPress led us to managed Hosting from Cloudways.

And we are REALLY happy to have made the switch.

  • This company has all you need to get FAST and RELIABLE, as in, what you would expect from one of the best hosting for WordPress sites available. (No.1. In my opinion)
  • Also it comes with a FREE TRIAL period so you really can test out moving a site and see if it is for you.
  • They also do run specials from time to time with discounts – At the time of this writing, you can enter: and get 15% off the yearly:-)

Love the platform.

 

It was so quick to get a site moved and up and running so you get the feeling that you are in the right place and these guys know what they were doing.

 

For those that wonder why I have not included all the blogs and websites we read the numerous reviews from… There were simply too many to add.

And also wanting to write the post after testing the host for its use lead to lack of links for you as it was a huge number of them.

Would be uncool to write a review just from reading and not from testing when it is so important of a post for you and for me.

So the history in my browser will tell you what sites I went to but there are simply too many. 🙂

 

 

“Cloudways is now rated among one of the best providers of Managed Cloud Hosting for online applications. With over 150+ cutting edge features, 24×7 after-sales support and 99.99% uptime, we have grown big and have been able to capture a good customer base. We owe this success to our customers, the Cloudways team, uncountable cup of coffees, and donuts.”

You can possibly see why we named them the best hosting for WordPress 2016, and for 2017 also.

They are here to stay.

 

The Difference. 1.

We took a test with pingdom.com and here you can see the results.

The first image is lying “just a tad”, because we started the test with our old host and monitored it for 24 hours.

Avg median time was 3 secs. (When testing without median time the waiting time would go up to over 8 secs and sometimes more)

In this image, the median time is slightly affected by the slow host from the first day. See the image underneath this one to see a clearer view.

best hosting for wordpress speed

The Difference. 2.

Here you can see the overall change very visually:

Remember that this is for a short time period but you can see clearly that the shift of hosts did a lot.

best hosting for wordpress speed

 

Worth mentioning is when you migrate your site and look up how to change cname records… YOU NEED to add A record also.

It’s a small step. BUT, if you are having issues, let me know and I’ll do my best to help you get your site running.

This guide was based on facts and extensive research from our side and ours and others user experience.

Since we spent so much time on it we thought you might like to read this from someone instead of taking a ton of hours in front of the computer reading like we did…

 

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

 

Have any other options you think I should have covered?

 

Again, to get our choice of the best hosting for WordPress 2016 you can reach them here: Cloudways.com

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Website traffic, good and bad.

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What is Website “Traffic” really?

Website Traffic explained:

The shorts answer to that would be:

“It’s the lifeblood of any online business!”

And it’s true in every sense of the word.

Any visitor to your site counts as “traffic”. Also any bot crawling your site.

No visitors essentially means nobody is interested in reading, sharing, joining or even buying your stuff.

Goes without saying really that without it, your business is doomed to fail!

Let’s take a semi-deep look on what website traffic really is, and how the different types of traffic work.

What do you mean? All traffic work right?

– BUZZER: NO! – Aim to get targeted and engaged interested prospects.

Yeah sure, visitors are visitors right???

BUZZER: NO! – Again… TARGETED.

Below is covered some website traffic sources which you should use and also NOT use. This is depending on your project of course but for a serious site you might want to steer clear of some service providers as revealed below. First off, I share the BAD…

  • 1. Bad Website Traffic

Let me tell you a brief old story to shed some light on BAD TRAFFIC.

From 2012…

The other day (back in 2012) I ordered some traffic to my blog to see whatever result I got from it.

It was traffic from allover the world, un-targeted, and it was directed to one of the pages on this site where I give away some free stuff.

We used Adf.ly for this example.

(EDITED: This was way back,… And yeah, the traffic is horrible, bots, at least, for this project)

There you see the results from the first day.

what is website traffic

And here are the results of the second day.

website traffic

16 bucks per day provided this number. (Cheap source, but not the best)

These results are normal when you buy traffic and that is why it makes marketing efforts easier when you invest in your company.

However… These leads came from a landing page where I presented a free offer. Which can mean that the visitors are freebie-seekers.

*A race of human relatively unknown to the common Joe. They seek all free stuff but never (or rarely) use it. Kind of like “mud on your tire”. – Don’t get me wrong, I like mud too! Just not when it comes to sales.

Anyways…. My stats in Aweber confirmed the hunch of this.

Most of the visitors were there just to get the initial gift and a large number ( too big ) dropped out and unsubscribed.

If I had been more persistent back then as I am now I would have done an extra effort to convert freebie seekers into interested prospects.

You CAN use this traffic for some promos…

But I would advice against it.

  • First off, there is a lot of BOT traffic.
  • Secondly it can be downright illegal to use on certain networks, due to this.

So IF you want to test them out it is cheap but you must be warned that most networks would not allow it.

Check with your affiliate/CPA network before sending traffic to any of their offers.

This type of traffic I would advise anyone to stay away from.

Where it CAN be used is for paid to click affiliate offers.

But again, It’s not worth the risk IMHO.

So the conclusion from 2012 was:

This particular traffic is not anywhere near good enough for my project.

When you encounter a LOT of bot traffic and overall poor response numbers from your traffic source, run!

It’s as bad as it gets.

So that is a short case study on poor value traffic.

It is recognized as low engagement from your hits.

It CAN be used for some projects but as mentioned above, there are other sources needed for serious growth.

Let’s talk about the interesting, worthwhile and USEFUL kind now…

  • 2. Good Website Traffic

Targeted HOT traffic is what you want.

Cold, Warm, Hot AND Targeted is some of the words that define your traffic.

Adf.ly traffic is cold. Media buys in general is cold.

Unless you do proper targeting where you only buy ads to show to the ones most likely to be interested in your stuff.

People that have heard of your offer or your brand…

And also re-targeting, sending multiple ads to interested over and over.

Cold traffic to explain, is where you advertise to people that has never heard of you, they may like weight loss, but have never seen your ad before.

So they may click but stays on the fence in regards to the offer they are presented with as they have no idea as to if it will work or not for them. And also, if the can trust it.

If only they had known your name…

Trust and recognition is vital.

You need to show your ad 7 times before it get’s imprinted as “safe” with most people.

Or MORE. On average.

If you do a re-targeting campaign of some sort where the visitor has seen your ad or site before and clicks again… That prospect is WARMER. Willing to read more.

A HOT visitor is the one you nail with your message and targeting.

It’s the one that is truly passionate about getting your stuff.

One that already knows who you are, or know your product.

OR, has been warmed up by any indoctrination campaign from either ads.

And also, possibly from a cross promotion where someone has a list of leads and they have talked so much about it before they send the link that they are ready to join.

Trust, again… Is currency, and vital.

A hot visitor…

It can be the one that you have gotten on an email list as cold, in other words…

Then after sending him/her a number of related posts and perhaps even a survey where you ask what content does he or she prefer…

He/she gets warm.

Then you get the answer and then again, you can promote according to the answers they gave on a survey.

Another HOT visitor is someone that has bought your stuff from before and is in between upsell 1 and two.

Or in between the main product and upsell.

If someone already has spent their hard earned money with you then the chances for them spending more money is high as they already have lowered their guard and started trusting you.

A Hot visitor can also be one that has just gone ahead and gotten your products. When you email that person in a follow up sequence right after they have bought… The lead is still HOT.

Possibly ready to invest more, IF you have nailed your targeting, offer, and audience.

At least in general for a couple of weeks.

This is in general and not written in stone as said.

If you nurture your list well it may be highly responsive for a long time.

What is website traffic from… Space?

Well, yes. Earth is in space… So that is a valid sentence!

Below is a few of the tactics that is worthy of mentioning when it comes to driving targeted traffic.

  1. Media Buys. (Ads)
  2. Launches
  3. SEO
  4. Press Relases.
  5. Social Exposure
  6. Blogging/Guest Blogging

1.

Now we can start off with Media Buys.

It works like this, you pay for your ad in display on a site or a number of sites. And your ad drives traffic to your desired site.

It’s FAST, like fastest… But will set you back a little, OR A LOT of coin in the beginning.

When approaching Media Buys it is of utmost importance that you get your target audience as drilled down as possible.

Especially when you can.

Like, if you use Facebook ads, then you can “hyper target” your prospect with a huge number of options so you can be sure that ONLY the persons MOST likely to be interested in what you are selling will see it.

Other networks have similar targeting.

So the KEY here is to have a product  ready and you MUST KNOW your perfect audience.

It’s a good idea to drill that down BEFORE you invest in this kind of website traffic.

  • You should know your target audience from before but if you are unsure then go deeper and find out more.

2.

Launches?

Yup.

Creating a product and delivering it in a launch is a sure fire way to get interested prospects on to you list.

This is a big topic which I will not cover in great detail here and now.

BUT, what I will add is that this is SOME of best traffic in terms of mo-ney.

Main issues there is the amount of time and energy it takes to create one…

And you need to have a product you KNOW will sell, ot it can bomb…

People you get to open up their wallet are the people that will pay your bills, now and days, weeks and even years to come IF you play your cards right.

The first barrier has gone with these people, they already bought your product.

So there is trust. As long as your product is worth the cost. Or more.

3.

SEO

Search Engine Optimization can be complex.

What it means is that you can improve your site’s content and structure according to Googles guidelines to get as high on Google’s search results as possible.

Then it is “optimized” for the search engine.

You have on-page SEO and off-page SEO.

On-page, is in example your article, or this article for that matter, where we target a keyword like “what is website traffic”.

This is not the best example for on-page seo though. This article is intended to climb just a bit. It’s more of an overall rewrite right now) I might change it around later =)

Using Yoast SEO plugin you can follow the steps to get as good rating as you want.

But this is RATHER easy and uses logic…. The harder more time consuming part is Off-Page.

Yes, “Off-Page”.

So this is not magic either but takes more time.

It’s all about sharing your site with as many relevant pages as possible and getting your link indexed on as many other sites like that as possible. Rule here is NO bad sites that have bad links. Try to find WELL known sites that have domain authority.

BASICALLY that is it. If enough off page work is done then Google will see your site as an authority site. Of course there are MANY MANY more variables here, but the bottom line is IF you choose SEO it may take time to get visitors but IF you can make your site rank high, then the traffic can be both passive, targeted, and free.

4.

Press Releases.

Having the word spread for your business with a Press Release is highly efficient as it brings fast results you can measure.

If you are good at writing and have a good article to share then why not use what is known as Mainstream Media instead of all other tactics.

You can get exposure for any article you write. However for it to be reaching the top news channels you can expect to be paying for it.

In general a Press Release can be done Free, or paid. You can submit yourself to a ton of channels, and you can also use software both free and paid to aid the publication process.

Outsourcing this is easy also and can be done with a small investment starting from 5 bucks.

Normally you would need to spend a LOT LOT more.

Regular pricing for a good QUALITY Press Release is around $300 and UP.

You can expect to get a lot of traffic and backlinks from this.

If you have a good provider that is…

If you’re going for the top news channels, be sure to have a good server so it don’t crash due to high volume.

This article was written SO LONG AGO… So things have changed drastically since then.

There’s a number of traffic sources out there, infinite really, so this could use a better rewrite than I just did.Date now is 25th of Novemeber 2021.

And just to add this: I run a Press Release company as a digital service provider these days.

I offer HIGH QUALITY mass media attention with profesionally crafted news content pieces in the form of Press Releases. The distribution goes out to hundreds of the TOP news channels.

You can learn more about it here:

Visit Agency Deluxe for more information.

5.

SOCIAL EXPOSURE

ALSO a factor for off page SEO.

Not much though. But what matters really is people visiting your site, and how long they stay,

This is the traffic you get from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many more.

You get traffic by posting your articles, interacting with the people, joining related groups and sharing content with value and direct traffic to your site.

MEGA important to be HUMAN here and not “sell”.

Since it comes from “SOCIAL” networks, “social” being the KEYWORD.

Make dialogue in groups etc…

6.

Blogging.

Yup.

A blog like this one can help bring in customers to your business.

So a blog can get traffic from all sorts of places. But since it is “parked” where people can see it… People drop by.

This requires traffic anchors, like if you have submitted your link somewhere or your keywords rank or other.

And on your blog you can redirect even more traffic to other sites in your network.

So it’s a win win.

Guest blogging will also increase your reader count.

You can contact blog owners in your niche.

Offer to do a guest post and bring your most valuable content, or close to it in an article.

Be sure to link back to your site in it.

This gives you long term traffic which you have already warmed up with your stellar content.

Be sure to get your content on a high traffic relevant blog.

All of these tactics can give you huge amounts of website traffic

You can ALWAYS get more traffic.

There is literally unlimited with website traffic sources out there.

Just be sure to keep on adding value and drive relevant website traffic at the same time so the people who do visit might want to come back again for more.

If you are looking for massive exposure to your business I do accept clients on a a recurring basis where I drive traffic to them.

See more on AgencyDeluxe.com and get in touch there for a talk before ordering.

If you feel you could need it, you can reach out to me and I can tell you some more about it and see if it fits to your business.

It will fit most, but if you are planning some really really competetive terms then we need a grand strategy as a basis before deplying traffic from my service.

Details can be discussed and I can deliver bigger packages as well.

Yuo can reach me here:

rune@runeellingsen.com

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18 ways to increase productivity

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These 18 Ways to Increase Productivity for Internet Marketers are ultra effective and absolutely must be treated as such.

Eighteen ways to increase productivity should give you enough to get pumped.

Apply just a few and you will notice a difference if you are not used to being this disciplined with yourself.

If you want to use the ways to increase productivity then you can give these hacks you choose three weeks or more before you make a judgment on how much more you have done.

This is just because it takes three weeks to make a habit. Then you will have no choice but to become more productive as a direct result of memorizing and making the habit.

When working at home:

These tricks may aid.

1.Work 15 minutes.

Use any Timer. Your blood-flow is far from optimal when you work from home. Unless you stand and type that is. – I must admit I have some tasks where I sit and type and type as I do now and it is not in my best interest to just get up and get distracted so TEST before you choose what tasks are suitable for this exercise.

2. Rest 15 minutes

Say you manage to do 15 minutes of work then 15 minutes of whatever, then you can get something to eat, you can do the dishes, you can play some music, you can take a walk or a short run… And many other things just to get your mind off and your mind sharp.

3. Write Down What Your Next Task is.

Keep GOALS in mind at all time. The more goals you set that you CAN make and actually DO make will boost your momentum and confidence so you have the ultimate snowball effect. You want to have a few up to many reachable goals as you can during one day. Learn to measure the time it takes you to complete certain tasks.

4. Cross it off your list

The importance of doing the check marks: You want to reach as many “CHECK. DONE WITH THAT TASK, moments…” as possible, to boost your momentum and self-esteem so you are lit and seeking the next challenge. This ensures your mastering of new fears, which is the stopper of growth in many businesses.

5. Write Daily tasks/goals, weekly, monthly, yearly.

Keeping a daily task sheet is good. But when you do only that you need to make up new tasks every day, and for good goal setting standards you want to have bigger goals also that may take longer to accomplish but reap more harvest for your business. These Tasks that a business would want to have should be at least: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly. You can add quarterly and you may also want to think a bit about your direction before setting the wrong or right goals, because you now may have gotten more to chew on than first anticipated after point 3 with the DAILY task. Stick to what you are comfortable with in the beginning but make goals. Do not worry too much if you get delayed a little if a task is taking longer than anticipated. Just KEEP FOCUS. The most important thing is to finish.

6. Spend 30 minutes on exercise in the morning.

This ensures blood flows in your brain with easy. Sitting too much will make it slower. Starting the day with at least 30 minutes of light or heavy exercise is a surefire way to increase your blast off on the day.

7. Spend 30 minutes on meditation during the day.

I suggest you make a judgment call and try to feel when your body needs it. Usually, that would be when you feel stressed. If you are not in tune with our timing of the tasks or not settled with spending more time than wanted then take that deep breathing exercise and breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth. Possibly find a video on Youtube for relation meditation to aid you.

8. Drink Liquids, water coffee smoothie.

Having some energy in your beverage and enough of it is a wise choice so you also feel your metabolism functioning properly. Water, one glass first thing in the morning. And also throughout the day. Coffee, if you like it, is a great energizer. The same can be said about Yerba Mate which is a similar effect like coffee but without the jitters. Smoothies can be super-healthy and can also contain anything from juice and bananas to algae and so called Superfoods and Nootropics which is a nutritional category based around mind enhancing supplements. You can live on smoothies alone and feel light in body AND mind. This aids the overall energy level a lot. Not essential but wanted to add it in here as it really has benefits for the head if you use the right supplements.

9. Eat healthily.

Aside from a diet based on foods that will enhance your cognition and speed, you must think blood-flow. Don’t binge so you get stuffed and work slow. Low energy food, gives lower scores, plain and simple.

10. Read Books.

The MOST important part in a lot of Entrepreneurs life is constant learning and copying what works. Read books on the topics you want to get better in. Get the best books. And benefit from somebody else’s hard work leapfrogging years in growth.  Be sure to pay for the books 🙂 ( Why books, because the PC-monitor needs a break.)

11. Listen To Mindset and Growth material.

Same principle, learning from the masters. Cannot be understated and you want to include learning from more than one medium. So reading is one thing, listening is another. I find it practicable for times when traveling or meditating/relaxing.

12. Make a Mindmap.

Use Software Like Freemind or Xmind (or similar) and create Mindmap like the rough example included below here. Get the bird’s eye view of your sites, funnels, business overall and structure your business the way you want it to. Just using the mind and remembering this is not easy, looking at the Mindmap gives you a clear vision on all the parts at once. Without you needed to thin k and try to remember everything moving part. Super “handy” stuff which gives clarity in the growth process fast.

13. Organize Your Tabs In ORDER.

From the first being the most important tab to check every morning, like your stats, email etc. – Your Browser Tabs should be of utmost importance to have IN ORDER like the serious businessman or woman you are. It might be a bad idea to put Facebook there just because you use it, unless you use it only for work. Email, Todoist. Server Access. Whatever YOU use or SHOULD be using daily, MUST be put in order ranging in the importance of tasks related to Tab up there. If you just felt an urge to re-organize then you know you’re onto something.

14. Use Todoist.

In the tabs, you can put Todoist.com, it helps you organize your tasks easily. I have looked at several of these planners and this is at the moment the one I went for as it is more or less exactly what I need for keeping track of my schedule with smaller and medium tasks.

15. Avoid all distractions.

What  I am talking about is TV, video games, and things that take you away from a good roll… Steer clear for as much as you possibly can when you have a work week for maximum results. – TV and Newspapers information stays in your head all day. Your mind subconsciously thinks about it. Say you started the day reading the news and the news sucked, you might be feeling a little depressed as opposed to not reading the news. It is one thing to stay up to date with some news, but do you need to see them every day or would you rather grow more as a person spending that precious time in the morning preparing yourself for the day?

16. Chill!

You work HARD, and deserve and NEED to chill. Relax when you feel you are working on fumes. Take a day off or two. Then get back into it when refreshed. Often 4-5 days do a lot of good if a period has been long. This depends entirely on your situation but To say it like it is, entrepreneurs without focus get burned out. When tired we can make mistakes so it is important to stay on top of that game as that is what you want, top performance, right? =) So remember to take a breather and get back stronger.

17. Write Down On Paper The Tasks.

You want to be done and your thoughts on projects. – This is just as Mindmaps and Todoist a great way to memorize and learn at the same time. When we note something down on paper we commit to the task as it is greater than punching buttons on a keyboard… It gives that tasks higher meaning and a purpose and you much more likely to accomplish a written task than any other way, without writing it down.

18. Use Whiteboards in addition to all.

They can be big and give a great view on your wall for Mindmaps, notes presentations and drawing… You name it. (Highly recommended!)

 

Other ways to increase productivity include sometimes also music. – Music will give you a good mood if you’re into that then. Also, it stimulates your brain so it get’s creative. Depending on the task ahead and need for inspiration or not.

This is an option that goes into the chill part, the energy part, and the creative part.

Other things worth mentioning may be glasses for eye constraint and exercise ball for your “mouse arm”, this is for the long term heavy user.

I would advise getting a hold of something like that at some point as I need it myself 🙂

 

  • When using mind maps you see a clearer path to your goal.
  • See here for a rough: (I did write that you need to blog a lot, but the numbers are not necessarily correct IN the image. For a blog to get the traffic it gets MORE if you post more but you can blog less than 5-6-7 days a week and still get traction with organic website traffic momentum.

ways to increase productivity

Click the image above for zooming in and out.
What I mean is that we need variation in our work so we keep inspired.

Follow these simple rules and be sure to get some work done every day.

After all this is your business and it won’t run completely on it’s own without your dedication.

Other things you should take in consideration is the use of  something called Vision Boards.

The idea is that you get several images of your goals like what you want to achieve by getting successful. Like for instance a picture of a house, car, location and money and whatever you want. Put these images inside a frame so you can look at them every day. Get an image for your computer desktop background image also. This way you keep it in mind at all times by being programmed to visualize them in more detail. Also the more detailed your images are the better.

The clearer your goals are, the better.

This works on a subconscious level and keeps us moving even faster towards our goals.

Use this a daily guide towards your prosperity.

Rune

P.S

Hope you enjoyed learning about the 18 ways to increase productivity. 🙂

How To Backlink 2

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Just a real old short update here.

Ranking a website in Google changes by the hour these days and we have some interesting facts to share.
First off We did say once that backlinks were fundemental…
And yes they still are.

BUT…
There’s a big but.

Google started to get ocial with us.
You may have heard this from before but I am going to reveal some interesting facts in this post that you may not have known from before. I will reveal some insides from one of my niche sites that surprised me a whole lot. But first let’s see how Google is measuring backlinks and what it takes to get on top of Google THESE days at least 😉

Ranking Factors US

As you can see from this study conducted by Searchmetrics, Google is actually basing their rank on Facebook shares OVER backlinks

This post was originally from 2012 so things have changed even more today.

Here is the link for http://www.searchmetrics.com/knowledge-base/ranking-factors/ – 2016

They include a highly detailed overview of what you need to address for the best SEO results for Google.

 

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Hot To Get Backlinks

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Can you really achieve to get good traffic if you know how to get backlinks?

If you are the owner of a website… Then you know that you would need a lot of good trustworthy and relevant backlinks in order to make it climb to the top of Google and also, in order for it to get extra relevant traffic.

Goes without saying really but you  want targeted relevant traffic. Doing this link building manually can be a tedious task though.

So we have collected a number of helpful hints and tools that will show you the way you do link building easy.

So: What links are the best and where do you get them?

.edu  And .gov backlinks are very high in value to Google.

Domain Relevancy is also key.

The more relevant site you can find to place your link, the more potential traffic comes from the link itself.

The more you have of these links pointing back to your site the more perceived value is thought to be inside of your website. At least this used to be the the Google thinking.

These days Google base their ranking factor on a number of other factors also.

Social proof etc…

Still, backlinks are vital and very much alive.

Be sure to do White-Hat tactics and that will help your site in the long run.

High PR is something which also carries a lot of weight in your backlinks. The higher Pagerank of the site you are linking to, the higher your site will be placed on Google.

Aged Domain is something you should notice also. If you link to an aged domain it carries a weight far heavier than any new site. PERIOD. You can buy domains with age from Godaddy auctions by the way. Find one with your keyword and it will be easy to rank with it compared to building a new site.

Also you may want to use http://justdropped.com to see for domains. It’s a very good site for finding aged domains.

Trustflow, the metric that is more relevant today, like backlinks were just years ago.

You can use a tool like SEMRush for Firefox or Chrome and Google anything. Then SEMRush provides data like backlinks, trustflow and more.

How to backlink?

Simply read a post on a “similar topic site” ( internet marketing – internet marketing sites) then make a comment on the post you read providing quality feedback and your URL to your internet marketing site.

That is ONE backlink. Comment backlinks has it’s place.

Depending on the site you can expect to get ranking, trust factor and traffic boost from that one comment and link.

Not a big deal necessarily, so that is why you need more of them.

A way to do this even better is to find the sites with the most traffic and then posting your comments on them.

ALWAYS think quality before quantity when your post is being read by real people.

How?

 

Go to Quantcast.com, have it open.

Open up a new tab and open Google. Search for “internet marketing blog”. Without quotes of course.

From your Google search you will find a lot of results and if you want to you can start with the one on top and work your way down.

Now you can use quantcast for demographics and interests in some way, but I use it for numbers of visitors.

First result we had was:

http://blog.hubspot.com We then inserted our URL into Quantcast and got good indication that this is a great start.

*Not all sites show their stats.

Estimated Traffic for Jan 01, 2012 – Jan 30, 2012 United States
People per Month 19,123 +47%
Visits per Month 7,315 2440%

From this brief check we know that this is an active site with active viewers.

Let’s see if we can find a place to steal some juice from…

And yes. Here is a great post on the new LinkedIn “share” button. http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/31601/default.aspx

In the end of the page we can comment and leave a link which will point back to our site.

What is it worth?

Let’s see.

Using a tool like Market Samurai as a preferred analysis tool we came up with these numbers:

Age 4 years.

Pr. 6.

And a whole lotta’ backlinks pointing to the site was revealed.

What does this tell us?

This tells us that a big number of people are using this site as part of their education.

Just by adding a simple comment you get a link from a PR 6 website pointing towards your site.

If you add a USEFUL comment you get REALLY relevant traffic from your comment also.

This is a more time consuming way of linking and the goal is to get targeted traffic rather than simply harvesting backlinks for your Google climb.

You can use backlinking to gain ranking with trust and PR. And also get traffic for years from simple helpful comments on the right places.

There are a number of ways to spread your links and commenting is only one way.

Writing articles is another. You can be very independent on this task and add your links where they can be added all over the internet via using various media channels. I.e. Free E-Books or content on your Facebook page, Twitter page, Youtube Video and Slideshows and more… Possibilities for posting your links are virtually endless.

Easier way of Link Building EFFORTLESSLY

First of all I will mention DropMyLink.com which is a simple tool for finding .edu .gov and a WIDE area of other very good links.

Here you can use DropMyLink.com instead of Google search commands.

Secondly there is Fiverr.com  for easy timesaving.  Order by using the search field and add “backlinks”,”.gov”,”.edu”,”paul and angelas”,”angelas” and more variations. I.e. “High Pagerank” or “Link-wheel”. Sort by rating and then read for testimonials. There is a lot of good link juice from Fiverr.com. Cheap also. Be sure to spend enough money on all of your sites. Start with anything from one to 5 gigs per site.

Important: The more random you order gigs AND where you order from, the more natural the links would seem to Google.

BEWARE: DO NOT BUY PBN’s unless  you know the seller is proven over TIME!

Software for links:

You can use several link services and software to send out content carrying links in the form of articles or social bookmarking and more.

Article Samurai is one very good service for this.

SENukeX or SEO LINK ROBOT are also amazingly good tools for this task.

You can find link networks to join from anything from cheap, to V.I.P prices that also will give you a big boost in authority. BUT right now I would be very careful and Google to check if that link network has been banned by Google. Right now they are in brute force war and Google has penalized a number of networks. It is key to get diversified large network with proven retention rate with Google over time if you can get one.

Links will always be valuable as they stand for social recognition for other people AND Google.

Therefore you should always look for ways to get a good deal on links.

That’s it for this post.

  • Will be adding more resources later. Be sure to check out the other posts.

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