Program Review: Daily Niche Idea

Dissappointed ! that's the only word I can described this brand new program launched by Cindy Battye who also owns a traffic exchange program called Trafficbunnies.com

See Daily Nice Idea for yourself !

Why?

I expected alot from this woman considering all the innovative changes she has made to her traffic exchange starting with cool personalized splash page, viral text ads scripts add on for Wordpress blogs and inspirational messages and ideas on her forum, yet DNI doesn't have any of that, well sort of.

I do like the format in the back office which is simple and easy to understand but after that, the hard work begins and that's where you lose most of the members interest.

Daily Niche Idea is basically another downline program for traffic exchange programs and affiliate programs such as Clickbank or Hitsconnect.com, MyHelpHub.com etc. You plug in all of your affiliate urls one by one and promote it. Every day you will get an email from Cindy giving you niche idea hoping to inspire you which product to promote through either blogging or on your website.

I wish DNI gave me some templates to work on my own website, which I was looking forward to, instead there is a program I had to download which will teach me how to build my own. Ouch !
The other promotional tool recommended by the program is blogging. It does show you where to get the templates but you still have to set it all up yourself. AAARGGG !!

This is supposed to be a list builder?, so where are those super cool squeeze page, I don't see them.

If you don't know anything about blogging and want to start one? just go to Blogger.com and you can start blogging in less than 20 minutes. Later on you can learn more about Wordpress blogs.

Daily Niche Idea just doesn't have that mass appeal where everybody regardless of your background, will jump in, sign up and purchase the upgrade. This is what it says on the upgrade page:

Upgrade your account, to receive the following benefits
30% Commissions . Commissions Are Paid On One Time Offers, and Residual

Monthly Upgrades. Payments are made via Paypal on the 15th of each month.
Replace 100% Of The Affiliate Links In The Downline Builder.
This means that every person your refer will be shown your
affiliate links, in all products both in-site and in the daily
niche emails. If they don't upgrade their accounts, people that
they refer will be given your referral links 70% of the time too!"

I like the fact that you can get commissions from your downline's downline BUT if your direct referrals don't start promoting the program you get squat. So that means you have to learn how to train your downline on regular basis and DNI doesn't teach you that.

Training your downlines is one of those basic skills you have to learn and DNI doesn't show you that. I want to learn that too! plus there's no squeeze page or lead generator that bring in fresh prospects.

Oh well since it is her first program there's no doubt in my mind that there will be changes or updates that will make it better, maybe in a few months or so Cindy will create a version 2.0 that will include a lead capture page or splash page with opt in form, plus more training materials.

If you are looking for an alternative program for DNI, Affiliate Funnel is a better choice in my opinion.

I would rate this program 5/10.

Dragonsurf's New Dynamic Surf Ratio - what ratio?

The owner of Dragonsurf.biz has made one of the changes he promised a few weeks ago to his traffic exchange program in which he will add a dynamic surfing ratio to Dragonsurf.

So after surfing the firsth 50 pages I noticed a whopping increase to my surf ratio of 0.02, so now since I am an upgraded member my new dynamic surf ratio is - 1.02 ( from 1.0) and after I surfed 100 pages my surf ratio increased to 1.04. The incremental increase is .02 every 50 pages.

So much for the new dynamic ratio.

Maybe next time he gets everybody excited about the 'new' changes to his traffic exchange perhaps he can poll the members how much increase they would like to see. I mean the whole idea of the dynamic ratio is to encourage members and reward them for surfing regulary and for long period of time but .02 credits?

If you can only surf like half an hour per day, the new ratio wouldn't make dent in your overall campaign.

It wouldn't surprise me if the majority of the members of Dragonsurf would fall for this new dynamic ratio with hook line and sinker.

After experiencing the dynamic ratio of other traffic exchange like Savvyclicks.com or Magnifytraffic, it's not even close folks. Savvyclicks doesn't have any of those ' Sorry, Better Luck Next Time' messages when surfing for bonus credits and Magnifytraffic just gives you bonus increase on the ratio all the time.

Unbelievable !

Till next time.

Paul

Ebook Review: Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide

If you ask me what the word 'ultimate' means, to me it means everything. I would relate it to an ultimate burger, you know? it would have 2 meat patties, pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, three types of sauces including ketchup, onions and that little toothpick they put on top of the burger.

However, when I bought the newly released e-book called ' Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide' by Soren By Michael Cobb and Soren Jordansen, I was expecting everything you need to know about safelist, but that wasn't the case, but then when I saw the price tag, I thought to myself, hmm... what exactly can I expect for a ten dollar e-book.

After buying and reading the book, I learned all the basic knowledge that a newbie marketer should know about safelist.

It doesn't tell you how to differentiate bad safelist from good safelist. It does tell you where to look for good safelist such as the top 10 list at Traffichoopla.com and Affiliate Funnell.

There is another site such as the Netmarketing Forum where it host several safelist including my all time favorite Adtactics.com. There is also another site that ranks various safelists by othe safelist users but that's not mentioned in the book.

What can you expect from this e-book?

Lots of links to other online services and products that is somewhat related to safelist marketing. It does give you a One Time Offer to buy the resell rights to the ebook for about $50 bucks which allows you to keep 100% of the proceeds to your self but if want to sell it as an affiliate, you may do so but I think you only get 50 % commissions.

Here's the table of contents:

Part 1: Setting Things Up
● Email accounts
● Joining safelists
● Setting up your Gmail labels

Part 2: Your Is A Valuable Tool
● The Big mistake
● The Inbox Routine

Part 3: Posting ads
● Regular Safelists
● Credit Based Safelists
● SafeAdLists
● Viral List Builders
● Tracking Your Ads
● Don’t post the same ad to all the lists.
● How To Write Killer Safelist Ads That Get Results
● HTML Rocks!

Part 4: The Clever Bit
● Use Safelists To Brand Your Name And Face
● Capture Leads & Build Your OWN List
● What You Can Sell Using Safelists
● List Building Made Easy
● The Almost Too Naughty List Building Tactic

Part 5: Efficiency and persistence is the key
● The Coca-Cola Way Of Thinking
● When Is The Best Time To Post Your Safelist Ads?
● Firefox Is Your Friend
● Expanding With Upgrades & Solo Ads
● Yes, They DO Work!

Part 6: Download Link For Your Tutorial Videos

Like I said, this book will teach you basic skills and give any newbie marketer a good fresh start to safelist advertising.

I will rate this ebook 6/10.
http://www.paulpenafiel.com/recommends/ultimatesafelistguide.html

Until next time.

Paul

High Traffic Blogs

You've heard articles and suggestions from experts where they tell you that you can get more traffic to your blogs or websites by leaving comments in other high traffic blogs?

First of all, what the heck is a 'high traffic blogs' anyway, and how can you tell that it gets a ton of traffic.

Ok I'm going to take a stab at this even though I am not an expert. Take a look at this website,
http://blog.marketingtips.com/ This site has a pagerank of 4/10 which really good. The higher the pagerank the better, it means that that website is linked to hundreds of other sites.

If you take the time to check out various blogs post from that url, you will noticed that there are several responses. That basically shows alot of activity and whenever there's activity, there's traffic.

Same thing with this blog, http://www.timlinden.com/blog/
This blog's theme is about traffic exchange programs, owned my Tim Linden who also owns a traffic exchange program called www.Startxchange.com with over 35,000 members. You will notice that on some of the blog post there are several comments posted.

One of my favorite blogs is from Steve Pavlina who makes like $ thousands of dollars per month just from his blog, if you haven't been to his site, go check it out. http://www.stevepavlina.com/
Once you are there you can visit other peoples blogs by reading other people's comments. Each comment usually have a link to that person's site or blog.

I wish there were an easy way to find the top 20 highly targeted, high traffic blogs online, (sigh..) oh well I just have to keep on digging.

Cheers.

Paul

To Blog or Not To Blog

If someone told you that blogging is easy, kick em in the ass. I work full time and between my job and my recreation and my social life, there isn't that much time left for me go online and blog about something.

I'm not saying that I have nothing to blog about but that there's ton of stuff I can blog about but the problem is finding the time. So much is happening right now in the traffic exchange industry that I even don't where to begin.

So many times I have thought about shutting this blog down for good but yet I continue to pay the annual domain name and the monthly hosting fees for what? a few sign ups here and there and sporadic commissions? please...

This scenario is not limited to blogging either, you can relate this pretty much to other online ventures or hobbies where it's not going anywhere yet you still have to make an effort to keep going because you just know deep inside that someone is watching this blog hoping to learn something that will help them succeed.

I have been thinking about buying that ebook called Forum Traffic Gold By Cindy Battye for months now but still procastinating. It sells for about $27 bucks which is pretty high considering that she hasn't written alot of books before, at least not that I know of. If it is overpriced, it's not the first time I have overpaid for an e-book.

I understand that you can't undersell an ebook because people might think that it is worthless so if you price it a little bit high, people might think that it must be valuable and it must be worth it.

We will see about that.

Paul

How To Get Targeted Traffic From Ezinearticles.com

If you are a regular contributor to an article database site, like http://www.ezinearticles.com/ you know that your published article will give you a tremendous leverage in attracting targeted traffic to your blogs or website but did you know that you can get more traffic from that site by using this simple technique?

What technique is that?

Have you noticed that when you search for certain topic in their database, each article have a comment link? hmmm....

This is what I'm talking about.

Go to Google.com and search for 'targeted website traffic' and you will notice that one of the search results is an article from Ezinearticles.com

You're probably asking yourself, ' Ok, So what's your point' ?

Well if you really want to know, you simply click that link ( it's been read over 8,000 times) then find the link to the comment page and add your comments. When you do add your comment, it has to be approved by the admin and if it's a good comment, they will post it. You can add a link to your website whenever you add a comment.

So how do you get targeted traffic from that you ask?

When people go to Google.com and search for certain article like ' targeted website traffic' they will click that link that pertains to their interests and read it and they will be curious to read what others have to say about that particular article.

Ezinearticles.com is one of several article database sites that allows you to add comments to an article and it's your job to keep searching Google.com and other search engines to find those sites that allows you to add comments that shows up on Google search results.

This technique is not limited to just Ezinearticles.com

Let's say you want some info on ' how to train new puppy' on Google and you found a video on Youtube.com how to train a new puppy. Now, if your website have anything to do with puppy or dogs, you want to comment on that video. Your profile on Youtube.com should have a link back to your website.

So, when you comment on the video, you need to backup the lesson or the tip you learned on the video by say like.....' I can't believe that technique actually worked on my labrador retriever puppy. Now I'm teaching my puppy how to fetch newspaper'. When people read that comment, believe me, they want to know how to train their puppy how to fetch newspaper too and that's how they will click on your name which takes them to your profile and eventually your website.

Getting targeted traffic to your blogs or websites will always be a work in progress but once you get the swing of it, it will become a routine.

Take care.

Paul

How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic

I get on average around 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors to my main site each month. Actually, when you're speaking about the Internet, that's not too much to brag about, but it's better than getting say 1000 or 2000 visitors; that was my usual rate until I aggressively went after targeted traffic for my site.

I thought I would briefly and in very simple terms explain how I increased the targeted traffic to my main site from around 1,000 to 10,000 unique visitors each month. That's a ten-fold increase -- I am aiming for a hundred-fold increase but would gladly settle for thirty or forty times the traffic.

How did I increase my site's traffic? The answer might just help you get more traffic to your own site. Most of these techniques are very simple to implement and if you're serious about building an online business, lets face it, the first thing you're going to need is targeted visitors to your site.

I hope you have noticed I have mentioned the words 'targeted visitors' several times already. I did this to bring home the fact that you're not just after traffic but targeted traffic or visitors to your site. You want visitors to your site who are already interested in your site's topic and who are more likely to benefit from your site's content or products.
It's the first ingredient for a successful web site.

Below are my 5 main sources of targeted traffic to my site. Along with a short explanation of how you can create or put the same practices to work for your own site.

1. RSS EMPOWERED One of most effective sources of traffic to my site would have to be my blogs and RSS feeds. Notice I said blogs and feeds; I have created simple blogs and feeds for the major topics of my site: on rss resources, web hosting solutions, notebook computers, etc. These blogs and feeds bring in a great number of targeted visitors to my site.
With the introduction of Google Blog Search, my blog traffic is increasing even more. Within minutes of posting to my blog - I am getting targeted traffic from Google. You are instantly indexed by Google Blog Search; it's reason enough for every webmaster to put at least one blog on their site.

Try to imagine the traffic you'll get when the next RSS empowered Windows browser arrives from Microsoft. Get your own site ready and prepared for RSS to take advantage of all this traffic. Just use Google owned blogger.com to create your blog -- it has that all important blog search bar at the top!

2. SEO EMPOWERED Seo optimization should be your goal! Still the main source of traffic to my site are the search engines. Mainly from Google, followed by MSN and Yahoo. You must optimize your site for the search engines. This includes off/site links and on/site tactics.
I have been online since '98 so I thought I knew how to optimize a website. Boy, was I ever wrong! I didn't notice a big jump in my traffic until I stumbled across a SEO expert, actually stumble is the wrong word, I actually sought out the best SEO expert I could find. His name is Brad Callen. He offers a free email course on how to optimize your sites for the search engines. His main product is SEO Elite.

Just the free course and his helpful newsletter have really fine-tuned my site, which resulted in a major increase of traffic especially from Google. You should try the same for your site or sites and see the results for yourself.

3. ARTICLE EMPOWERED This one works. Article marketing for me has been the major reason for the turn around in the amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It's one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.
Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an enormous amount of traffic to your site. As a bonus, you even get 100's of subscribers to your own ezine in one day!

The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will boost your link popularity with the search engines and increase your rankings. You must also very carefully choose the right keywords to target in your articles, matching the content on your site. One way to do this is with a site like www.nichebot.com -- it will show how to pick the right 'competitive' keywords for your site. You must target keywords that have high traffic, yet little competition from competing web sites.
My main sources of traffic from article sites include www.ezinearticles.com and www.buzzle.com.

4. EZINE EMPOWERED Building a large opt-in list or subscribers to my ezine is another method that brings in a lot of traffic to my site. You can use an ezine to offer helpful tips to your subscribers. It is a very easy way to get repeat visitors to your site and build up a relationship with your visitors.

Your ezine should relate to your site's theme and offer more information on the same. Whether you believe it not, if you operate a site on a particular subject for a couple of years, you will fast become an expert on that subject. People will regard you as such and this will also bring in visitors to your site.

5. VIRAL MARKETING EMPOWERED Another way to attract targeted visitors is to offer a free product or service. I use free brandable reports that visitors can download and use. These reports and ebooks have links back to my sites. One of my most popular ones is a timely report and guide on how to use and benefit from RSS on all your sites. It brings in a lot of traffic.
Similar to the one above, I use other free viral techniques to build targeted traffic to my site. These are products that can be branded with your links and passed around. Helpful software programs that match the theme of your site are good choices to make.

Another popular one that I have on my site is the DATEwise eCalendar and personal planner that visitors can download and place on their desktops. It has hotlinks to my site that brings in traffic. It can be customized with your site's products so you get targeted visitors or customers.
OTHER SOURCES There are other sources of traffic for my site that I find effective but they bring in lesser traffic than the methods listed above. But they are still worth mentioning, one of these is regular posting on major online forums. This brings in very good targeted traffic, so too, is posting comments in online blogs.

Another good source is a traffic exchange called 'Traffic Swarm' - most sites where members exchange traffic don't work. You get worthless hits to your site. However, Traffic Swarm is one exception that your should try. You just set your start page to this exchange, and click on sites you want to visit.

Increasing targeted traffic to your site is an ongoing struggle for every webmaster. I hope you can try some of the techniques that have worked for me. I am sure they will also work for you.
Empower your site with targeted traffic!

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