Listen closely, this is great stuff! Try it out and see what happens…

It’s basically this:
1. Do the double optin. The bigger your list grows the more expensive it gets, so start weeding out the ones who won’t give a good email and will not open your email from the start.

2. After they have signed up on your squeeze and are now on your download/thank you page for that free report, let them download the report. Then below the download link put a “WAIT THERE’S MORE…”, “PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL FIRST AND GET MORE…(whatever it is you’re giving away for free-make sure it’s very good quality).

3. Also make sure the ‘more’ is related to the report/product you gave away on your squeeze page. Preferably something that will help enhance or add to it in some way.

4. Don’t Sell! Recommend something to them, but don’t sell.

You have to have a way with words in order to increase the traffic on your website. Sometimes, the most intelligent people in the world can have a problem communicating with others. They can build a website that would blow your mind with great inspirations and benefits, yet they don’t know exactly how to get across their message to their target audience.

Learning to communicate with the right words to get your point across clearly and without rambling is an important skill that takes some time to acquire. You can take the time to learn communication skills or you can hire a copywriter to help you get your point across to others. Sometimes the simplest things are right in front of you.

When writing to produce more traffic, you will want to make your website easy for others to read. It is better to write in laymen’s terms than in long scientific or technical mumbo jumbo. You want people to be able to read the pages on your website without getting a headache and without having to refer to a dictionary. Visitors should not have to learn how to translate your website in order to understand what you are trying to say. A hard to read or hard to understand website will be abandoned quickly. You only have 3 – 5 seconds to capture and keep their attention.

When writing, be sure all content is relevant to your website. Only write the information that readers are looking for and that is relevant to your website and products. When you begin writing your first paragraph, try starting the paragraph with your conclusion. By getting to the point right off the bat, this could grab a reader’s attention and keeps them reading.

Keep your paragraphs and sentences short and to the point. Readers do not enjoy long, wordy web pages that take too much time to read through. Avoid writing in a passive voice. Readers want action words and a strong voice to tell them what to do. Keep your writing in a steady flow. Always read your writing aloud and listen to the flow. In addition, reading aloud can help catch those nasty little typos that will drive people away from your site. Proofread your writing before posting it to your website.

Understand that your website will be accessible to viewers all over the world. Although visitors from other countries can view your website, they may not understand the language or the content. If your website is not for worldwide viewing, then you should specifically list the regions that can best view it. You can add the intended region(s) in the page description or keywords. This way, if someone in Canada is looking for a veterinarian, he or she isn’t frustrated by looking through all the veterinarian web sites that only cater to pet owners in Paris, France.

Even some regional topics hold value to worldwide viewers. Perhaps a person in Italy will be visiting your hometown and would need to speak with a veterinarian about traveling with their pet. You may wish, on occasion, to provide general information on your website that will appeal to visitors outside your specified region.

Most of the websites on the Internet are in English, but that does not mean that English is a first language throughout the world, it just means it is easy to translate. Never use slang when writing on your website. Slang is not an internationally understood language and can be difficult when translating. If you have a very specific, very targeted niche then you can probably get away with it, but back off and explain in plainer terms often.

Also, take into consideration money and number conversions. If you are listing a price for services on your website, be sure to list the currency you will accept or will be using (USD, pounds, yen, etc.) The same goes if you are listing measurements or sizes. Always list the conversions or provide a link to a website for conversions. When in doubt, hire a professional translator.

Your goal is to increase the traffic to your website to benefit you or your business the most. By using the web, you will be able to reach an audience of millions, all to your benefit. However, reaching all of these people, in the far reaches of the world requires good communication skills. You must be able to explain who you are and what you can do for the people. Tell them how your services will solve all their pressing needs and desires above all the others. Be concise and to the point.

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Getting your traffic to convert first requires that you understand a few parameters. To have a clue regarding how you are doing, you need to understand server statistics and conversion ratios.

I am continually amazed at the number of sites that do not look at their server statistics. Your server stats are incredibly important because they tell you how many people are coming to your site, where they are coming from, how they found you, how many are turning into customers and, if not, what pages they are leaving from. Without this information, you are just guessing at how well your convert traffic. Don’t!

Once you start looking at server stats, you need to determine your conversion ratio. The conversion ratio is the number of sales you get per visitor to the site. Importantly, it is not the number of sales per hit. A visitor may generate multiple hits, so just focus on visitor statistics. Some stats programs refer to visitors as “sessions.” Regardless, conversion ratios vary by product or service. Some may be as low as 1 in 25 visitors while others will be much higher. If you convert at anything over 1 in 500, the site probably needs some serious tweaks unless you are in an extremely competitive or general market.

Making your convert is all about providing a convenient solution for your prospects. You should review your site from this perspective. Is it easy to find and buy a product or do you have to click through four or five pages? Make it as simple as possible.

Advertising links can cause poor sales. Many people make the mistake of having their advertising link to their home page. If your advertising refers to a specific service or product on your site, the advertising should click through directly to that page. Never make your prospects hunt for what they are looking for on the site. Many of them will not do it.

As strange as it may sound, the load time of your site can kill your sales. Remember, 40 percent of Internet users are still on dial-up modems. While your site might load quickly when you look at it on your cable, T1 or DSL connection, how does it do on a 56k modem? Don’t guess. Go find one and try to load your site. If you have a lot of graphics, you are going to be in for a shock!

Even if your site loads quickly, most ecommerce sites have time glitches on the order page. This glitch occurs when the customer fills out the order information and clicks the processing button. Sites can grind to a halt as they convert to the secure credit card processing system. This is such a prevalent problem that a majority of ecommerce sites will lose up to 40 percent of their sales on the order page. Make sure your site loads quickly, particularly the order page.

Improving your conversion rates is all about understanding how your site performs. If you can focus on your subject and get the site to load quickly, you should see dramatic improvement.

Half of All U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, according to Report

Chris Crum Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project has put out a new report looking at stats on social networking usage. “For the first time in our surveys, social networking use has reached 50% for all adults and 65% for adult internet users,” Senior Research Specialist Mary Madden tells WebProNews. “Among the Boomer-aged segment of internet users ages 50-64, SNS usage on a typical day grew a significant 60% (from 20% to 32%).” On a typical day, 43% of online adults use social networking sites. To be clear, Pew refers to social networking sites as those like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn. When they first started looking at this data in 2005, only 8% of Internet users or 5% of all adults said they used social networking sites. Pew Research on Social Networks “The graying of social networking sites continues, but the oldest users are still far less likely to be making regular use of these tools,” said Madden. “While seniors are testing the waters, many Baby Boomers are beginning to make a trip to the social media pool part of their daily routine.” As of May, 83% of Internet users ages 18-29 use social networking sites. For 30-49 year-olds, it’s 70%. For 50-64 year-olds, it’s 51%. For 65 and older, it’s 33%. “Social networking sites continue to cement their place as a significant part of mainstream online life,” said Kathryn Zickuhr, a Research Specialist and co-author of the report. “Even as some users find their experiences with social networking sites frustrating or overwhelming, most seem to view the services positively on the whole.” It’s hard not to envision even more people getting sucked into the social media-sphere, as Facebook continues to deeply integrated with many sites around the web and Google continues to make a bigger impact, integrating Google+ into its spectrum of products in more ways. Then there’s Twitter and its growing popularity among young people and continues to be deeply integrated into journalism. So! How’s your social networking coming along? Got thousands of fans on facebook yet? …can’t figure FB out?


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