How are you going about trying to win the $1,000 prize money in the Traffic Generation competition? Well looking around the sites I see some interesting ideas sprouting up. One of the best ones that caught my eye was another competition that is run by a fellow student to give away a further $200 in prize money. Now the competition is brought you by Joe Trueman and can be found here. It’s a good creative idea and deserves your support and hey you can win another $200 !!

But how can you yourself generate traffic? Well, if your scratching your head searching for some magic button that you press and hey presto it comes in floods well it’s not going to happen. Those who signed up with our mentor Alex Jeffreys did so for a reason, to find out what he does and copy it. The fast-track to success is to follow a proven model and apply it and that is exactly what you should be doing now. So how I’m I applying the knowledge that Alex has imparted to us?

Well, one thing I am doing is becoming a bit of a sleuth, a spy, a Sherlock Holmes if you like. You see if someone is having some success and you want a piece of it, do what they do – model them. But how do you find out what they are doing? Well you look for the ‘trails’ they leave across the Internet. One way to pick up and these ‘trails’ they leave, is to use Google Alerts. You can set it up within your Google account. With Google Alerts you can enter search terms and you will then be emailed a digest of what activity is found from a variety of sources on the Internet. For example, say there is a particular guru or even another Alex Jeffreys student that seems to be getting good results and you want to mimic what they do. (Of course, if it is another student you shouldn’t have to do this, as part of the rules of the Alex’s competition is that they write and reveal about what they are doing on their blog. But if they haven’t got around to posting yet, you maybe able to get a ‘heads-up’ on what they are up to). I use Google Alerts to ’spy’ on what others are up to and try and keep track of any new sites that may be of interest. One site I found that is worth checking out via the method is called Warreor Forum – The number 1 Internet Marketing Forum.  I’ve noticed one or two other students in there so it is something I am going to check out as well. It’s also packed with useful information too.

Now I haven’t done anything on the WF yet. Why not? Well, it’s on my list, but it’s all about how much time I have to do things and prioritisation. You see before doing any of these other things that may be beneficial, you have to do the things you know have an impact first. To this end, how many of you have got your RSS feeds set up properly on your blogs and submitted them to the scores of RSS directories out there to get maximum exposure? If not, why not? This is an extremely powerful and proven technique which will start to show virtually immediate results. It has done for me. So if you are still pondering about which direction to go in then why haven’t you done this? It’s all covered by JT Martin in the free current edition of “The Profit Pulling Newsletter”. It is easy to do and it is as close to the ‘magic button’ that you are going to get.

Hey, but come closer, let me tell you the secret – you’ve still got to press the button! You, yes YOU, have got to TAKE ACTION. Traffic will not just magically appear by just thinking about it and wondering what others are doing you have to do something.

So what else am I up to? Well, with the limited time I have over this Christmas period I am still commenting on as many blogs as I can and also answering as many questions as I can on my own. That way I add value to people and they come back to see the latest. Of course each release of the Newsletter will gradually build up more and more traffic, but that is more of building a solid base and will not have a great impact on the 2 week competition. Plus I will be going through all the videos we have in the PPP product we are selling. You see it is obvious from some of the questions posted around the blogs that many have not even viewed these crucial videos. Amazing !! Again if not, why not? You need to take a critical view of your own actions as the ’secrets’ have been laid out before us all, just some have not bothered to look close enough. There is no need to come up with some super-duper new technique, nor ‘reinvent the wheel’, you just have to copy the model of those already having success.

You see this message is so simple, that many will overlook it, not believe, be convinced there is some ‘hidden’ unspoken secret  elsewhere and thus pass it by wasting more valuable time in the ’searching phase’ rather than ‘doing’. I urge you to grasp what you already know and put a plan of action together immediately. To give you a kick-start in this direction, you could do worse then grab a copy of Gary Simpson’s Project X. It will be an invaluable tool to guide you through this process.

In the end there are no real mysteries to traffic generation. It is just a culmination of a number of efforts that build up into an eventual tsunami of visitors. But those visitors will only come back if you have something useful to contribute on your site.

Now I have another revelation to make to you all. As you know my blog has become one of the most visited in the Alex Jeffreys community. Certainly the most active if the number of comments is anything to go by (We have just blown through well over 1,000 comments in the last 3 weeks alone!!!). So what is my surprising revelation that I told you all yesterday I would be sharing with you and how you can directly take advantage? Well, sssshh, keep it quite …. But I am NOT actively participating in the competition after today? I could certainly do with an extra 1,000 dollars - but Christmas is family time. That is more important at this time of year. You see I just do not have the time to focus on this over the holiday season (look, this post is 24-hours later than I hoped it would be !). Christmas is a magical time, which kids love (and I’m a big kid at heart!) so I will let others who have time over this period to drive traffic to their own sites and strive towards winning that prize. In the end we all gain, as those who manage to pull in extra traffic will cause a ripple effect amongst the other student sites. Over this period, I will not be quite as active as over the past several weeks. Of course I will keep things ticking over, answer questions on my site and put up regular posts but nothing much more than that.

So good luck to all those that are active during this period. Any successes you make will be all our successes.
 
I will be putting up the final very important post tomorrow before Christmas day itself. This will be crucial to those that are really determined to maintain a prominent and active position in our student community and thus will have a direct and powerful impact on your traffic generation strategy. If you want to take advantage of this I will be offering valuable prizes to those who want to be really at the forefront of our thriving community. Come back tomorrow to find out what I have planned for everyone. You really cannot afford to miss what I have to say. It is the most important thing I will have done on the site since I started and I imagine it will cause much discussion and controversy. Really, not sure how I’m going to break the news in the best way, but I’ll let you know tomorrow.

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