So lately I have been working closely with a News Media site which is just about to launch in 2 weeks.

I have been contracted to work with their marketing team so we can drive massive amounts of traffic to their website during the launch period and there after.

Because they are trying to build a “proper brand” it is my job to keep the marketing of the site as “white hat” as possible.

I have been doing research for the past 3 weeks on how the most successful media websites drive traffic to their stories and site.

So how do they drive their traffic?

- Type in traffic
- Google news
- RSS feeds
- Favorites
- Google type in traffic
- Twitter
- Email News letters
- Digg
- Mixx
- Reddit
- Other social bookmarking sites
- Link backs from authority blogs
- Google ad words
- Yahoo SEM
- Widgets
- Mobile

The new thing which seems to work really well is the twitter effect. If there is breaking news the media websites link their stories from their twitter account and this would drive a lot of traffic to that specific article.

The next thing which works well is the Google news. This has been around for a while and it drives up to 40% of traffic for some websites.

The other good idea is to link your top stories from Google ad words which a small budget. $100 could drive up to 2000 unique visitors to your site. In return you would hope they browse other stories and sign up as members etc.

Widgets have been gaining a lot of momentum as well in the past year. Building a widget with the RSS feeds in showing the top story definitely works. It will require the right audience for it though or you will need to market it to your audience in the right way.

Social book marking effect is another awesome way to get drive large amounts of traffic to media sites. If you have the right content which is “News” or technology related this could bring in a lot of long term traffic.

I will update this article as I learn more from my experience. I am also working design structures for the sites to see which keeps the users for longer and what kind of things they click on after reading a story.

Have you ever heard of John Reese? If you haven’t until now then you are missing out on a lot. I came to know about John Reese few years ago. He is known to be the Internet Marketing Guru of all the Guru’s. He is the guy who made 1 million dollars in 1 day by selling his Traffic Secrets 1.0 course, that’s right 1 million dollars!

Now he has come up with one of the most anticipated courses online. As you would have known from the title, he has come out with Traffic Secrets 2.0

It has already been sold to alot of people around the world and most of them are already generating massive amounts of traffic to their blogs and sites.

If you are really interested in driving alot of traffic to your site I would highly recommend you to consider buying his course. It is jam packed with new, innovate and proven ways to drive traffic to your sites!

You can watch a quick John Reese - traffic secrets 2.0 video below.

Google has just sent an email to all their publishers that they will be stop or “retiring” their Adsense referrals as of the last week of August. The Adsense referrals were still in beta.

From a publishers point of view I tried implementing the Adsense Referrals on few of my website but it was never profitable and making me enough money. Their adsense CPC was always making me money than their referrals.  Also the uptake of the referrals wasn’t great either due to the above reason.

Though they are “retiring” their adsense referrals google has started up their NEW affiliate network. This will bring alot of hype in the affiliate marketing world and alot changes will be seen.  There are rumors that this will hit small affiliate networks and causing them to shut. Time will only tell though.

In order for google to get this network going they will need to have a good payout for all their publishers. Their payouts will need to be competitive with other networks so that the big affiliate marketers will promote their products.

There are several ways on how you can do blog optimization for your blog and website. Blog optimization is essential for higher ranking and better visibility on search engines.

Today I will be showing everyone few important tools that should be used in order to optimize your blog and websites.

A must have tool for all the word press blogs is All in one SEO plug-in. This tool is essential for getting the page title and description right for your blog post. Search engines mostly bring up results with this data which is shown to you.

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In this day and age everyone is trying to make money in every way possible. There are people out there working really hard in order to make that extra cash or even make enough money to survive.

This has prompted me to write an article for the readers. It is called “Beginners guide to making money online”.

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Blog Rush is a must for all the blogs who are trying to get more traffic. Apparently it can increase your traffic by 42%. To join up click on the blog rush logo on the widget on my right hand sidebar. The best thing about blog rush is that it is free.

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I have been getting a lot of email’s from readers asking the best and fastest way to getting indexed by Google.

Well from my experience, the fastest way to get indexed by google is by putting up a single article on Digg.com and and BANG your website should be indexed within 3-7 days.

I have personally done this for over 30 of my client websites and I have charged them over $200 USD for this. ( To just get indexed on Google.)

So there you go, this could save you a lot of money and time.I have let the big secret out in the wild.

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The websites are given their rankings based on several factors, such as amount of hits per day, quality of hits, difficulty of putting up your content on the sites, alexa ranking and more.

10) Scribd - document upload website. If you upload a great document which is read by alot of people and have you hyperlink or website address on it. You could generate around 100-200 hits per day.

9) Google - Google could generate you alot of visitors if you are on their top 10 result for a high volume search result. Anywhere from 20 - 1000 per day.

8.) Top blogs - this is really hard to get but if your website makes it on the top blogs then you will be generating 1000′ of hits per day. To be on a top blog you need something new yet cool!

7) Technorati - if you get on their WTF or popular page, you will be on fire. Your website could be generating extra 500 visitors per day and even more at times.

6) Netscape - netscape could generate you 1000’s of visitors per day if you have a great news or story.

5) Myspace - if you have a interesting business or personal profile on myspace, it could generate you alot of traffic from its users. By simply hyper linking you site from your profile could get you around 50 hits per day.

4) Youtube - video sharing website. So if you could generate a real cool video and upload it on their site you could get alot of visitors. All you need to do is have your url at the end stating something like this ” check out www.murps.info for more…” You could get around 20- 500 hits per day and even more at times. ( remember the video has to be unique and cool!)

3) del.icio.us - social bookmarking website. This website could generate you alot of traffic if you get on their hot list. The website can generate around 100 hits in a day (for a good website).

2) Stumble Upon - Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. Stumbe upon can bring you around 100 hits per day - constantly. It is a great idea by its developers. Stumble upon has over 2 million register users.

1) Digg - the ultimate Free traffic generation website and probably the best yet. Submitting an article could to digg could get you anywhere from 20 - 50,000 visitors per article. Digg user over 1 million registered users and very loyal users. So if you have a great article you think you want everyone to read. Digg it.

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