Most free autoresponder accounts will restrict one or both of these.
Once you’re on a paid plan they’ll often restrict the number of subscribers you can have, but not the number of emails you can send.
Aweber’s latest moves restrict both on a paid plan.
If you send emails everyday the restrictions will force you to a higher subscriber plan than you might like.
Many current subscribers are unhappy about this change, but they feel that they’ve been locked into staying because they have so many landing pages that the work to change is too great.
Then there are all their links that already point to the Aweber landing pages.
Smart account holders have all their links through a third-party tool so it’s a simple change to the target URL and their links work as they should.
Dumb or lazy ones have their work cut out for them to make the changes, and it’s possibly not viable to do.
That’s a phrase that so many people use to entice you to at least look at their sales page and hopefully buy their ‘secret’.
Except, 90% of them are not secrets, and 99% of them are not new sources.
Everyone loves a good secret, especially if they are the “the gurus use these but they won’t tell you” type of secrets.
Many of the solo ad vendors buy their subscribers from other solo ad vendors.
If I buy 500 clicks from a vendor for $0.50 per click and sell them two or three times for $0.40 a click I’m in the money.
I don’t even need a list myself, I can just push them through a rotator to you.
Traffic arbitrage is alive and well, but that won’t do you much good at all.
What about the latest small reports profits being pushed by many affiliates at the moment?
I learned about this about four years ago and used it for a while.
Yes, it works and probably works better now than it did then because it’s so much easier to pump out a lot of reports quickly with AI.
I suspect the next “new” traffic source will be when some guru re-discovers article directories.
These are still going and probably still work just fine even if the directories themselves don’t rank like they used to.
Who is using Press Releases today?
Plenty of people would be, and they still work pretty well.
HARO, Help A Reporter Out, was a great service until they shut it down early this year, so that’s one “secret traffic source” that won’t be coming back.
Then there are the blatant frauds.
Get buyer traffic to your link, but when you check it out the buyers are the people who are paying to get their link in front of you.
Sure, some of those will be interested in buying from you, but they’re more interested in getting you to buy from them.
It’s the same with traffic exchanges.
Most of those people are, like you, trying to get people to check out their sales page or get on their list.
Again, some will buy from you or subscribe, but most won’t.
You’re just as well off buying cold traffic for pennies on the dollar.
Whether you use video, images, or text for these you can still use AI to help, but you will have to rewrite some or all of any text generated.
Regardless, the main secret to getting a lot of free traffic is to target a lot of low to no competition words.
When looking at the results of a keyword search you need to remember that all of the keywords that show up in the list do have people searching for them.
So a search volume of 0 is wrong, it’s just very low.
It’s easy to check some of those keywords.
Paste them into the YouTube search and have a look at the view count on the videos that come up.
I’ve never seen one with a 0 count.
Anyway, this tool: https://go.wm-tips.com/insight will pull all the search terms that people use and give you the search volumes.
Have a look at the video on that page to see how it works.
If someone convinced you that they had the numbers for the next lottery draw would you care if they were written down on the back of a used envelope in orange crayon?
So, TLBs are simple one or two page websites targeting a particular keyword and offering an attractive product.
The traffic source should mostly be free and evergreen.
That means video, pins, or Instagram posts.
X, Facebook, etc. posts are too fleeting to be useful here, except perhaps as a traffic booster at the start.
You’ll probably want to avoid Google trends or alerts for your content ideas because they’re also fleeting.
Target evergreen problems.
Health, relationships, money, entertainment, some sports, and some hobbies.
Find good solutions for whatever problem you’re targeting.
Find the questions that people are asking and write blog posts that answer those questions. Make a few short videos that deliver a summary of a portion of the posts
That’s an 8 – 9 hour drive depending on traffic, roadworks, weather, etc.
It also depends on the GPS giving concise instructions.
That seems to vary depending on the day or the time of day, I’ve never quite worked that out.
Normally, when we drive into Melbourne, we have an almost direct drive into the area we’re aiming for.
Today, though, the GPS decided we needed to take the scenic route, during rush hour.
In rush hour I have to concentrate on the trucks that surround me causing slight claustrophobia, I don’t have time to look at the scenery.
We looped around the suburb we were aiming for and got caught in slow-moving traffic.
Next trip I’ll ignore both my wife and the GPS and turn off where I think we should be going.
What could possibly go wrong?
We have a GPS to correct any mistakes I might make.
After all, the GPS does always get us where we’re going, just not always the most direct path.
We’re here for the last grandchild’s first birthday.
We are a little late, it was a couple of weeks ago, but I doubt he’ll care.
In a cheesy segue, I was reminded of the similarities between a GPS and pretty much any IM method you might come across.
Every method I have shared in these emails will work if you work them
But, like the GPS, you might think there is a faster or more direct way to get where you’re going.
That may well be true, but it pays to follow the method as laid out for the first few times to get a feel for how things work, and then branch out to try your way.
Once you are comfortable with how to get to the destination it’s much easier to correct if you do go off track.
P.S. In yesterday’s email I told you about the Insight Tool which helps you find what people want to know about and will help you create content relevant to those questions.
Wednesday, 30th October is National Checklist Day.
A checklist is the one thing that everybody needs and very few use.
When you have a checklist of what you need to get done you get great satisfaction by checking the items off.
When you have a checklist that reflects your daily steps towards your weekly and monthly goals and you complete it every day, you will achieve your goals.
It’s inevitable.
It’s guaranteed.
The only question is what goals will you set?
If your goal is to write 60 blog posts in a month and you write two a day you’ll reach that goal, but that goal may not do what you’re thinking.
Perhaps the goal should be to write 60 SEO optimised blog posts a month that target your niche by answering one of the questions from a list found in the People Also Ask section of the Google search results.
It’s the same activity, but far more focussed.
OK, we’ve ticked off that part of the checklist, now how do we get visitors to see those posts?
That depends on the niche, but you could use the feature image for the blog post, use Canva to put the header of the post on the image and upload it to Instagram and Pinterest.
You could use a summary of the post as a short video on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram with a link to the full post.
These are only some of the ways you could leverage what you’ve already written to get more free visitors.
You can do all of this for free, it just takes more time than automating it.
You can even ask ChatGPT to make the checklist for you.
The prompt will be something like this:-
“I want to have a daily checklist for my personal use that will keep me ontrack to writing 60 blog posts over the next month. Please also include an action plan for getting free traffic by repurposing the blog posts”
I did test this and got a reasonable response, but you could fine tune it for your purposes.
Despite the age of the book, it’s in the public domain because it was printed in 1900, there are some great ideas in it.
Many of them will not be useful to you in their described form, but with a little thinking and adjustment to the modern way of business, you will be able to make them work.
One of the ways I thought about is to take each idea and write about it in an email or blog post.
You may see some of them show up in these emails, but not today.
Today is just to prompt you to check out this amazing project because it’s full of public domain books.
With public domain books you can sell them as is, bundle several together and sell the collection, use them for content or ideas for content, anything you can think of is fair game.
Do you know anyone who has bought a rug in the last ten years who paid full price?
Do they even sell them for full price ever?
If it’s the same where you live the rugs seem to be on sale with up to 80% discounts all year round.
If they can sell them at the steep discounts and still make a profit why do they need constant fake sales?
The problem for the rug people is that the sales are so ubiquitous that if they didn’t have big sales signs in their windows they’d go out of business.
We see the same things in the IM game where so many products are purported to be sold at a steep discount “for the launch”.
Then they add several thousand bucks in bonuses “for free” which degrades the value of the main product.
If you go back to some of those products a year later you’ll find that the sales page hasn’t changed.
Others have been removed from the market.
Many of them should have been removed from the market before the launch.
They’re taking traffic that’s worth $0 and flipping it to traffic that’s worth $more.
They do that by selling the traffic to advertisers at a price the advertisers set, based on demand, and make their $0 traffic worth $more.
You can do the same, probably not to the same extent, but you can get lots of free traffic and flip it to something that gets you paid.
All you have to do is be smart with your keyword selection, content creation, and traffic source.
I’ve seen this done by a person dragging free traffic from Facebook to his website where he had ads to monetise his visitors.
Can you do this?
Of course you can because it’s far simpler than you can imagine right now.
This is how you’d do this.
Play around with the search terms in your niche.
Find the keywords with the highest competition, these are the ones that pay the most for adwords and you’ll make a page or two targeting these keywords, but you will only link to these pages from other pages of yours.
These other pages are focussed on the keywords that have very low competition and almost no click value.
These are the pages you build backlinks to and drive traffic to because there is a lot of traffic and not much competition so it’s much easier.
You don’t need great content on either site, but you really don’t want crap content either.
To summarise: You build one site or group of pages for high-volume low-value traffic that you direct to your low-volume high-value pages.
Google rank pages, not sites, so you can do this on a single site if you want.
You could use a free blog for the high-volume pages, or both.
You could use sub-domains for one or both because Google treats sub-domains as independent sites.
OK, how do you find the keywords?
You can do this manually with Google search and a Google adwords account, but it’s easier and faster to use Google search and the Keywords Everywhere plugin.
