My Top Traffic Sources for 2008-2009 - Internet Marketing
Do you ever wish that you could look at a successful online business and find out what they do to generate traffic?
Well, that is what this article is all about.
After looking through my Google Analytics I decided that I wanted to share my top traffic sources for 2008-2009 (well, March 2009).
Ready?
Traffic Source #1 - Affiliates and JV Partners
I decided to lump these together, although really the JV Partners is the larger aspect of this.
The BBO Institute has paid out over $112,000 in commissions. That is a hefty advertising cost, but one that I would love to increase (how often can you say that).
JV Partners were the glue that held my Internet Marketing business together in 2008, and will play a fundamental part in this year as well.
If you aren’t spending a good portion of your time developing relationships with potential (and actual) JV partners and affiliates, then you are losing out big time.
Traffic Source #2 - Google and Yahoo
In my non-Internet Marketing business (i.e. the one where I don’t teach Internet Marketing), the search engines bring in a LOT of traffic.
Google brings in 11 times more than Yahoo, but Yahoo is still there plugging along and helping build my business.
If you are running an info-marketing business (i.e. you sell e-books) it is a lot harder to do search engine optimization, mainly because you need a lot of content on your website for it to work.
If you run an ecommerce store (i.e. you sell physical products online) then SEO is definitely an avenue you are going to want to explore.
Traffic Source #3 - YouTube
Video marketing is awesome. It has allowed us to engage our customers, build fanatic loyalty, and sell a lot of products.
We have mainly focused on YouTube, growing our subscriber base to almost 10,000 viewers.
We are now expanding to many of the other video sharing sites, which will hopefully help us to substantially increase our traffic.
Traffic Source #4 - Word of Mouth
We get a surprising amount of word of mouth advertising. I define word of mouth advertising to be when people post about your website on forums or on their websites without you asking them to.
I have found that the more unique high quality content that I post (either as videos, articles, or pictures) the more word of mouth traffic we get.
Future Traffic Sources
In the next few months we are going to be working with other traffic methods even more, including:
-Google Adwords
-Banner Advertising
-more Affiliate Marketing (in our e-commerce business)
I’ll probably post a report later this year to let you know how these have gone (not that I haven’t done them before, just not extensively in the other business).
Matthew Glanfield
Good day, My name is Greg Bent and I am a beginner at this . I do find your content easy to understand. Thank You
Hey, Matthew,
I had no idea that word-of-mouth was so high on your list of traffic sources. Can you advise how to increase specifically WOM advertising online?
Daniel Tetreault.
Webmaster
My main traffic source is short 10-sec videos.
WOW 10,000 viewers on youtube. Would be interested hearing how one would go about getting that many viewers.
Maybe you might think about making a post talking about how to get more traffic using youtube some day
Thanks
Matthew,
Thanks for the free information! There are a lot of good suggestions that anyone can use. JV Partners sounds like a great idea!
Hello, again, Matthew!
Of course traffic is the main source of income for our online (or offline) businesses. And indirectly, you pointed that TARGETED TRAFFIC is the one that matters! You know these days, on YouTube, some get MILLIONS of views for their Channels of Videos, but if the traffic is not targeted, is not worth it so much. More about Targeted Traffic can be found in a post of my blog:
http://www.1million1year.net/blog/traffic-worths-only-if-it-is-targeted
As about Video Marketing, what other video sharing sites you use? There are many others, but I try to use Alexa.com to analyse what traffic has each of them, in volume and structure.
Have you tried TubeMogul.com? It seems an wonderful resource, only that they hate “make money online” videos, like some others sites….soon enough, “Internet Marketing” may end up being prohibited like Porn or Casino
Keep us in touch with your traffic experience, see you, Matt!
Luca The 1Million1Year Guy.
Great article, Matthew!
I am in the process of creating a report showcasing the various results of many different “guaranteed traffic” sources as well as other marketing methods. It seems that traffic generation is still a major problem for many webmasters.
In response to Luca’s comment, TubeMogul is definitely a good tool for posting video content, but if one’s budget allows, TrafficGeyser is infinitely more beneficial!
Thank you for your time. Keep up the great work, Matthew!
Cheryl
Interesting article. I find a similar thing with regard to Yahoo and Google traffic to my sites
Interesting that you don’t seem to have mentioned the networking sites aka Twitter and facebook.
Any comments?
Very interesting article.
After 5 years I still don’t have any JV partners or affiliates and have to rely on the search engines.
I also know nothing about video so YouTube is a non-starter.
I don’t know about WOM - there seems to be no way to find out if you get any or not.
I guess Google is IT. LOL
Twitter produces no traffic and I don’t use any other ’social’ sites.
Always interesting posts, thank you.
My name is John and I have been a follower of Matthew for some time now. Thank you Matthew for all your ongoing excellent Internet help and advice.
I would be intersted to know what video submission service you guys use? Is it TubeMogul?
I would rather switch points two and one. To my mind search engines are at the first place.
Thx for usefull information.
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Didn’t know Youtube would get you the traffic you ever wanted. But the list is amazingly helpful.
Nice work, i’ll try it.
I want to have a lot of trafff
Thanks! You made some good points there.
Thanks though, i’m glad some people share good stuff like this! It will greatly help me in my web activities.
Hello, Matthew,
Thanks for posting this.I am glad to read about this topic.actually i am new in this field.
I don’t understand what the first traffic source is or how to use it (Affiliates and JV Marketing) - but thank you for this post. I hadn’t really thought of making youtube videos but they could be a very good idea to promote one’s business.
Thanks for sharing this informations!
This order helps frame our marketing strategies for sure. Thanks for sharing this.
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Good info here, Larry. I get just a wee bit overwhelmed with all the social networks, so this is great to keep as a reference.