Day #4
Two videos posted to You Tube using long tail key words ‘limo hire coventry’ and within a few hours both are on the fist page of Google.
Sure you have to select the video option, but the first video has had 50 hits in only 24 hours, so video is an important part of a marketing strategy.
Now I have to keep writing articles, creating backlinks and optimizing the website to get that onto the the first data page.
John
(Sorry about the poor sound quality from my flipcam …. oh,hope the follow up video isn’t too loud).
Day #2 of my case study to see if I can promote a limousine hire company to page 1 on Google for specific key words.
Today I’ve been concentrating on backlinks and have created a Squidoo site /black_hummer which reviews the history of the Hummer, from military vehicle to iconic luxury transport.
If anyone gets a moment, I’d appreciate it if they could visit and rate the site for me.
Any feedback would help.
I’ve also started article writing, with the first one, ‘Want to hire a limo in Coventry’, published on Go Articles and bookmarked using Dropjack.
Pretty time consuming, but part of my plan.
I’m pretty sure many of my fellow Alex Jeffreys students are only receiving a tricke of traffic.
We’ve learnt so many traffic generating tips over the last 6 weeks and maybe the Internet marketing niche is a hard nut to crack.
I want to prove that what we are learning works, so I am helping a local business promote their limousine business.
I’ve been set a task to get the web site for American Limousine Company onto page 1 of Google for the key words ‘Limo’, ‘Hire’ and ‘Coventry’.
My plan is to;
- Optimize their website by adding in readable text that includes the keywords
- Write articles about the limousine business
- Find forums and add comments
- Create YouTube videos to promote the business
- Write a press release
- Create a Squidoo lens
I’m also going to document my progress with a video diary and regular postings on this blog, so hopefully it’s a win win situation that I can share with everyone.
Good idea?
John
Well, it’s nearly two weeks since I came back from vacation to find my traffic had dropped to zero as a result of not blogging or commenting on other student’s blogs.
I’d set myself a task of making regular blogs and trying to comment on 10 fellow students blogs per day.
Boy, is that time consuming!
I managed the full 10 per day for about 4 days, but that has dropped down to about 5 per day at the moment.
As you can see from my Google Analytics, I have managed to generate traffic, even if it is only an average of 10 visitors a day.
So what have I learnt;-
- Commenting on other people’s blogs is time consuming, but does work.
- Only about a third of the people that I blogged, visited my site and left a comment.
I need to;-
- Comment on more blogs that are not Alex Jeffreys students, as they will already have ‘Alex’s list building book’.
- Create my own product or eBook to entice visitors to join my mailing list.
- Write articles to generate external traffic.
- Start creating YouTube videos
If anyone has any advice, feel free to shout.
Thanks
John
I’ve just got back from vacation in Thailand, where I had to find Internet café to try and keep my Internet Marketing at least moving.
I was able to listen to some of Alex Jeffreys training recordings, but have really been out of the loop. But as Alex says, “you can always turn a negative into a positive”.
The way to get traffic is by providing visitors with useful and relevent information in the blog entries and helping others by posting advice on their sites.
I can actually prove with this mini case study, that as soon as you stop writing posts and helping others, your traffic dries up.
Google Analytics actually shows this happening for the period 3rd August – 8th August.
Now I’m back home, if I start blogging again and help others by posting on their blogs, I will be able to write a second article in a few days time showing traffic coming back to the site.
I’ll keep you posted.