First of let’s look at what Viral is online, it is a way in which content or information is spread around with little or no effort much on the publisher.. To have this happen to anyone there needs to be a number of factors at play.

Below are ways in which to increase the possibility of some of your content going and increasing your traffic tenfold.. If you do not fully believe in viral possibilities as yet online for increasing traffic, many successful online do it all the time. In fact some only get traffic from viral aspects off there site alone..

1. Controversy – Everyone loves talking about controversy, whether it is a post (page) or not..

2. Emotion – Everyone is really emotional creatures.. Emotion creates discussion..

3. Communications – Ways in which to spread that powerful information..

Controversy going Viral

What i mean by controversy, is it like gossip and what happens with gossip, it gets spread.. In a way it is like your opinion on a subject  which may cause some debate. The more controversy, the more chances another blogger or website owner may write about you or your opinion and include a valuable link to your website. This in turn creates back links and then the traffic begins..

I was asked once is negative controversy good or bad..? Like in any situation negative can have a negative effect, however a negative controversy online can have positive effect. Imagine ten bloggers writing about (a post) how much they think your blog post they disagree with.. All of which linking to you.. Then you comment back saying, i see your point and the many debates are created.. That’s ten possible links and more as the debate continues.. Top marketers know this trick and use it all the time.. As an example of this many top marketers will discuss there earnings, I earn a thousand from this and this and this and look at how many i referred and look how easy it is to make this.. Then what happens… People write about it on there blogs.. Maybe they do earn that much or maybe they do not, either way each  link helps them..

This is what is referred to as controversy linking.. “This blogger earns this much, check out his monthly payment page here..”

This creates traffic (links), controversy and money when people write about your content.. Even if the blogger that writes there opinion of them not earning that much it still creates traffic for them and hey presto..

Emotion going Viral

Emotion is a powerful element. If you can touch someones heart or open someones eyes to something that pulls a heart string it can have massive effects other than just creating a more enthusiastic audience. People tend to help those that effect there heart or emotions without even thinking. In a way this is like finding the emotion you can bring forth in to any page and post and putting yourself out there to how you feel in a way..

A bit of emotion goes a long way, so use it..

Communications going Viral

Communications is the element of making a post or a page or content easy to share. It is one thing to have great content people want to share, however it is another to make sure it is easy to share. Add some social network buttons or ways in which people can easily discuss before a persons inspiration of sharing is distracted.. This is a very important element to any blog, as well as always make it very easy for people to subscribe to your blog as well.. Keep the discussion of your content moving..

So Can You Go Viral with your Content..?

No matter how we look at it viral aspects of creating content is available to everyone. It is all about fine tuning your content, making it as good as it can be, creating emotion, creating controversy, making it easy to share and then of course keeping at it.. Always look at your audience like how you would like to be read yourself..

I have even noticed many TV news stations are starting to use Google Earth for its impressive visual effects, recently seen on CNN.

Google Earth Effects in action with Video Applications –

Imagine say I had to fly to Canada for a business meeting for say, Super Affiliates and I wanted to make a basic video about what I learnt there.. Simply screen capture video the flight sequence from your home on Google earth to the conference place in Canada.. Think about, what a cool and easy effect that would be for an in video transition.. It can easily turn a average video presentation into an impressive eye catching view..

Affiliate Marketing Ideas with Google Earth

I was thinking about how to use it with Affiliate Marketing and I was imagining it could do really well with travel related affiliate programs. You could make a short video about a travel tour that looks good and include a Google earth intro for the travel sequence with some impressive images to show whats included in the package. In a way it would make an impressive online travel commercial without having to spend anything on visual effects, simply let Google do the work.. Lastly of course include the full travel review url back to website in the video to encourage a sale..

Hi Timon,
Can I ask you a favor..  I see your site gets many visitors.. And me
as well want to increase the number of my visitors.. Can you give me
some tips to do that?
Thanks..
From Macmi..

Hey Macmi,
Thanks for the email, I will write a post referring to your question within
the next day or two on http://www.buyers-web.com
Until then I recommend subscribing to the blogs RSS via email or reader to
keep updated on my blog as I post regular on how to increase traffic and
earnings online..

Kind Regards
Timon Weller
www.buyers-web.com

Effective Ways to Increase your Web Site Visitors?

In answer to Macmi’s question below are my recommended tips to help draw more visitors to my blog or website.. All of which have been used by myself many times. All of these tips are FREE methods and have there own post related to its subject on this blog for further reading..

Tip One – Natural Search Engine Visitors - This tip draws visitors by creating unique quality content (pages) or new posts on your blog. Try to think of what visitors would search on in the search engines related in your niche and focus on creating posts about these topics..

Tip Two – Comment Visitors - One good way to Increase Visitors to your Blog is by regular good commenting, in related Blog Niches..

Tip Three – Viral Advertising Methods - Viral marketing or Viral advertising techniques can be used to create more website Visitors as well.. What I mean by viral visitors is traffic that is created and spreads similar to a Virus. Reward systems and affiliate programs are two perfect examples..

Tip Four – Using the social Networks for drawing Visitors - Use the social networks to find readers or visitors interested in your blog niche.. This is a very effective way of generating traffic. These visitors can then subscribe (RSS) or visit back often to your blog or web site to read more..

Tip Five – Run your own Affiliate Program - Running your own affiliate program can generate massive levels of visitors to your web site if you have a service or product. This traffic is generated by people linking to your product or service you provide and you paying them in return for any sales created.. A win win for both marketer and web site owner by creating visitors to a web site.. For a blog owner it could be for an ebook, dropship related products or whatever you like..

Tip Seven – Article Marketing Visitors - Article traffic is another way to draw more visitors to your blog or website. Simply put your blog link in the author section of these articles created to send more visitors your way..

Tip Eight – Mybloglog Traffic Tips - A simple technique I used to draw more visitors to a blog through using Mybloglog commenting tools. Mybloglog is a social network where blog owners and readers can work together..

Tip Nine – Use Link Bait or Lure Post Titles to draw More Visitors - Simply by using effective post titles and content you can increase the amount of web visitors to your web site and increase the chance of other Bloggers linking to your content. Many top bloggers use this technique all the time as there main way of drawing more web site visitors.

Tip Ten – Contributing unique posts on other related Blogs that except Contributors - Contributing can really increase the amount of visitors to your blog. How they work is some blog owners out there allow you to submit posts on there blog which include a link back to your blog. This will increase your traffic by visits from the blog you have submitted a post on.. A more detailed post about this topic will be coming soon.. By allowing contributors on your own blog to post unique quality related posts you will increase your content which will increase your search engine visitors.. For self hosted wordpress users you can simply select to allow contibutors in your admin..

Tip Eleven – Internal Linking to Increase Visitors Page Views – Another element to consider is Internal linking to other related posts within your content. By doing this you can increase page views of your posts and can also increase readership.. This is highly recommended to do once you have over 100 posts or more..

In a future post I will describe some ways to increase web site visitors via non free methods such as through PPC, Adwords or Bidvertiser.. Until then feel free to subscribe to this blog to receive regular updates.

The secret answer is Internal Linking.. I know you may have heard of it before but have you implemented it on your blog or web site..? If you have implemented it, then well done as that is unusual, however how do you use it..?

It’s how you use Internal Linking..  That is the Answer..

The truth is it is all about how internal linking is used that generates traffic and the best place for it is within your content.. This way your readers will have further reading to read at the end of reading a post as well as allowing a bit of your own link juice to pass to your own pages within your site helping them get indexed easier in the search engines as well as possibly rank better as well..

I try to use it here in posts on this blog whenever related, it helps me to link old posts to the new as well as also allows readers to read more related to the post. Other than these benefits of Internal Linking there is also the Benefits associated with Keeping your Visitors longer on your Blog or Web Site..

The best aspect of internal linking is it allows reasonable size sites to interlink there pages and posts making a more enjoyable experience for the reader of the post. It really can increase, if not double traffic levels simply by page views if used wisely. In some posts here you may have noticed me using one to two Internal Links within posts, as an example in this post I have added two..

“First of all if you do not know what MyBlogLog is it is the largest blog social network online.. At least 90% of all serious bloggers have an account allowing them to share there posts and create a community around your niche.. The best aspect of MyBlogLog is they are all focused on getting you more traffic and helping your blog..”

How to generate good Traffic through Post Commenting using Mybloglog –

1 ) MyBlogLog Traffic Secrets Revealed - First of all Sign Up and Add Many Contacts - Once signed up and added your blog, spend a bit of time adding contacts, especially those that are related to your niche. If they are not it is okay, MyBlogLog filters posts results related to your blog anyway.

2 ) MyBlogLog Traffic Secrets Revealed - Use Friender - Friender is an application in MyBlogLog that allows all your friends in other social networks you are part of to be found and can be mass added to your MyBlogLog account as contacts. Remember to add as many of the social networks you are part of first before using this tool though.. You will still have to manually except them, but allows you to add up to 40 contacts at a time that you know from other networks..

3 ) MyBlogLog Traffic Secrets Revealed - Lastly, the MyBloglog Secret or Tip - Sorry I had to say secret again, it is more like a tip however I have never heard of any other blogs mentioning this technique so in a way it is a secret. Okay so down to it, in your MyBlogLog profile account there is a section called My World. Select this and what you will see is all blog posts related to your MyBlogLog tags from the last few hours down to the last few minutes.

“Basically the beauty of this is all the posts here are new and are related to your blog or blogs..”

4 ) MyBlogLog Traffic Secrets Revealed – Lastly Submit good Comments to these Posts 5 to 10 times a day – What makes these posts important is they are all generally related to your niche, so getting first or second comment placement in these posts can help generate good extra traffic to your blog. As you can see by using this method, Mybloglog can be used like a commenting tool as well now.. After doing 5 to 10 good comments a day on related posts for a few weeks, check your stats and traffic levels. I think you will be happy.

I am constantly mentioning on my blog about the potential of related traffic, this is a another perfect example of how to get this in action..

Now let’s take a look at the Figures from using MyBlogLog

10 x 21 (three weeks) equals 210 comments on targeted related posts linking to your blog. Maybe some will not except your comment, but most will as long as they are good comments, so maybe out of that more like 160 comments on related posts. And guess what how long do these posts and comments last… Ummm forever…? Doing five to ten comments a day should not take to long as well, for me it usually takes me about 20 to 25 minutes a day.. Enjoy..!

To find out more about Mybloglog or to join my MyBlogLog Community for this Blog Click Here.

1 ) The best beginning method I believe is adding some like minded Twitters to follow first and then being social in the network. Many Twitter members will follow back however being active after following will increase the follow backs.

2 ) Connect your blog to there system. There are many wordpress plugins that do this, the one I use is called Twitter Tools. That way whenever you do a another post it will be included quickly as a fresh Tweet for all of your Twitter followers to see and maybe visit your blog.

3 ) Ask interesting questions in the Twitter System, then blog about it..

4 ) Share Tweets with others in the network, this will get your Twitter Profile and Blog more traffic and can possibly make your tweets more viral..

There are so many options for creating traffic to your Blog with Twitter these days, if you can think of any others let me know below..?

Basically how there work is they draw more views from readers and increase the amount of Diggs on a post so therefore increase your own blogs traffic.. Sometimes just seeing the Digg image allows more Diggs that people want to give.

Same goes for these ones I made if you do decide to use, feel free to use them however much would be appreciated if you wrote me a post to show your appreciation.. Enjoy!

Seriously Blogcatalog is like a Pub, Bloggers hanging out with readers, discussing topics, link baiting, forming groups, drinking traffic, you name it, it is going on at Blogcatalog.. Sometimes going there for a few rounds of discussions is all it takes to draw a few more readers to your blog..

Blogcatalog is a Forum for Social Bloggers..

Blogcatalog is a social network for readers and bloggers.. What does that mean for you, it means traffic..! I hang out there for a few rounds every now and then.. You may see me at the Buyers Web Profile there..

One aspect of starting to blog is we need to be active and draw some like minded readers and other bloggers, Blogcatalog is one of the best tools out there to help with this, there network allows linking, discussions, groups, sharing and much more.. It really is like the end of the day Pub for Bloggers.. Do you feel like a round..?

This creates YouTube traffic related to your blog or website and if the video is good many other people will embed the video on there own website as well and that is where the viral comes in..

The more people embed your video the more potential exposure back to your website, just do not forget to add a credits note at the end to allow visitors to go to your website after watching..

Here are some of the Benefits of YouTube Viral Video Marketing –

• Each video added to YouTube allows a link back to your blog or website..
• Each video allows description and keywords and is less competitive than search engines allowing top ranked keywords to be more easily achieved for your video..
  
• It is free..
• Creates massive levels of traffic..
• Sells yourself which is important in Blogging..
• Increases RSS readership if you sell yourself well and include your blog in your video..
• Can be used for affiliate marketing and increase income revenue from your website..

In this post I wanted to create a list to rehash on the recent traffic tips I have discussed lately.. This is such an important aspect to building your blog because with out traffic where are we online..?

Blog Traffic Tips –

1 )  Natural Search Engine Blog Traffic! - Traffic that is generated by keeping the natural search engine listings happy..

2 )  Commenting Blog Traffic! – The power of using commenting is truly essential in any blog, comment regular and see the reward..

3 )  Viral Advertising Blog Traffic! - Three Viral advertising tips you should note down that can boost any online presense..

4 ) Using the Social Networks Blog Traffic! – Use them and use them well, this creates readership and excitement around your posts and encourages websites that like your posts to link to you..

5 ) Running Your Own Affiliate Program Blog Traffic! – Well what can I say there is only benefits to running your own affiliate program, it creates more traffic, blog buzz and product recognition..