The Atlanta StomperNet conference and the lessons learned were absolute gold.

It’s time to share some of the traffic techniques with you…as promised.

First a little history lesson on StomperNet. In 2004 Brad Fallon (one of Stomper’s founders) released a home study course called “Stomping the Search Engines”. That course grew into a membership site and some powerful alliances – which then grew into seminars and specialized software available only to ‘Stompers’. I’d be remiss if I didn’t stop to mention Andy Jenkins, a powerful and charismatic force behind StomperNet’s doors.

I’m not telling you any of this to ‘pitch’ you or for that matter to endorse membership. As a matter of fact StomperNet has just shut down once again to the public. I AM sharing this information to lend credibility to the techniques you’re about to discover…

Many Stompers have been paying members since the early days of the program. Current monthly membership: $797. Yes, that’s per month. The people who are in the program and using the tools can afford such high subscription rates – they’re making enough money online to warrant such a large expense.

Traffic without Tools and Training

Specialized tools, training, and software aside is there anything you can do to get more traffic and make more sales on your site – almost as strong as the Stompers?

I believe you can…but I might have to break this into a few posts, so look for another later this week…

First of all I have no idea what you are or aren’t doing on a regular basis to promote your website online so if this information is redundant check back for more tips in a few days. I’ll be mixing the easy techniques for traffic with some of the more labor-intensive, but long lasting website traffic drivers in each post.

I will only be discussing the traffic side of StomperNet training because if you don’t have traffic, you don’t have an online business. (The StomperNet conference covered much, much more than traffic.)

Onto the strategies…

Top 3, under 20 minutes, traffic strategies PLUS how to combine two marketing strategies AND increase your business value with just a few hours of work…

Below you’ll discover how to combine two age-old website marketing strategies to gain a steady and consistent stream of targeted traffic with just a few hours of work AND if that’s more time than you have right now, you’ll also find the top 3, under 20 minutes, Web 2.0 traffic techniques shared by Don Crowther and myself.

Need More Traffic? Make More Websites

One technique that worked years ago and still works today is to create a network of ‘feeder’ sites. This was originally brought to the public’s attention through Michael Campbell’s ebook Revenge of the MiniNet (7 or so years ago).

StomperNet puts a new twist on the MiniNet concept by combining it with article marketing.

The short version of the technique is to:

  1. register a new domain name and place 15-20 web pages of informative content on that site – this is your feeder site. Feeder sites should be without advertising, but with links to your ‘main’ site (which we’ll call your money site) on every page.
  2. write an article and in the bio at the end, link to your new (feeder) site.
  3. submit that article to the directories that accept article submissions.
  4. hundreds of other webmasters will use your article as content on their own sites and as a result are linking to your feeder site (which, remember, links to your money site).

The search engines love it, traffic flows and Google Page Rank will pass. If you ever want to get out of your current business you will be selling a network of intertwined, well positioned, websites (worth far more than a solitary site). Registering a new domain takes 5 minutes and $8. Grabbing a new hosting account that allows multiple domains to be hosted from one account – $9/month.

Lather, rinse, repeat – first by submitting more articles and then by creating more feeder sites.

Is this technique too difficult or time consuming right now?

Here are three quick traffic drivers using Web 2.0 techniques…each taking less than 20 minutes.

Social Networking for Traffic

At StomperNet, Don Crowther spoke fast for just over an hour on social networking.

His top three traffic drivers? Squidoo, BlinkBits and StumbleUpon.

Squidoo pages are consistenly coming up in top google results for high-traffic keywords. This is still one of my top traffic sources and where most of my off-site marketing time and energy is being spent this month. 20 minutes to set up your first lens, tops. Advanced Squidoo training and traffic techniques are just $12.99 here.

BlinkBits is a site I use on occasion but can’t teach you without video (and since my dogs ate my headset last week this will have to wait for a later lesson). My top tip on BlinkBits which Don didn’t share? Get an account and add your blog’s RSS feed. Everytime you post to your blog BlinkBits automatically adds that post to their listings. It’s hands free linking my friend. 10 minutes to set up, no extra work required.

As for StumbleUpon, Don Crowther and I agree on one point – the site can be an incredible time eater. It’s fun, but if you’ve got work to do and traffic to obtain there’s little time for hours of discovering the web…

Your best use of StumbleUpon is to add their toolbar widget to your browser (this is very easy, just a few clicks really), then as you visit web pages, your own or others’, click one button in your toolbar to vote the pages up or down. 15 minutes to set up, 2 seconds a page to get more traffic and rank.

That’s all for today! Pick a technique, implement it and drop me back a note in a few weeks to let me know how it worked for you!

We’ll chat soon,

Laura Childs