Its idea is simple: share your tidbit of knowledge with others. But Qassia takes it to another step:

• You’re allowed to add your sites.
• You’re encouraged to share your knowledge with others by writing articles (Qassia calls it intel).
• You get revenue sharing from AdSense that’s published in your intel page.
• You get Qassia credit for writing intel or rating other intels.
• You can exchange this Qassia credit to display your sites.

Will Qassia take off and be succesful like Naver in South Korea or it’s a blunder like Agloco? Time will tell.

Qassia is currently closed to public. You can only join Qassia through this link and it’s free to join.

When you join Qassia, make sure to change the AdSense ID into yours.

I’m curious, what do you think of Qassia?

Here are the last 3 of the 7 free web traffic strategies to increase web traffic:

1. Social Network

   There are many social networks that you can join such as MySpace, Friendster, and FaceBook. When you join these social networks, create your own profile and a reference to your own website. Then start adding friends. People who you add as your friends will look at your profile before they decided to accept your friend request, and this is where your website gets exposure and possible free web traffic.

   If you blog (or also called blogging), you can also join blog social network such MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. Don’t forget to list your blog in the relevant category and join groups with similar interest there!

2. Social Bookmark

   Social bookmark is a service that allows one to bookmark their favorite sites and share them with others. So it’s a great idea to social bookmark your sites at the popular social bookmark sites such as Digg, Delicious, and Stumble Upon.

   Every social bookmark site allows you to add friends and interact with other users. So make sure to add friends there.

3. Forum

   The idea here is to join and participate in active forums that are relevant to your niche market. To participate in a forum, you can answer questions, ask questions or even give recommendations.

   Be subtle. Don’t openly promote your websites, products, or services in a forum. It’s a good idea to let your forum signature to do the marketing

Now that you’ve learned the last 3 of 7 ways to increase web traffic and get free web traffic. If you miss the first 4 free web traffic strategies read the Part 1 to increase web traffic.

Hence for getting significant free web traffic, it’s very crucial for any websites to get listed in Google. Especially brand new sites. Unfortunately it’s not easy to get listed in Google. If you do it manually by submitting your website URL to Google, it may take weeks or even months before your site is listed. Imagine how many targeted targeted and potential customers that you lose during this period!

So get your brand new sites listed in Google now and get free web traffic!

And this happened because my webmaster goofed. He set the wrong launching date on my product’s site.

She’s curious about my Stumble Upon strategy.

I’m very skilled in getting web traffic through many means, but I’m trying to learn about StumbleUpon, which it sounds like you’re having great success with.

So I gave her 7 hints to explode her Stumble Upon traffic, and I may as well share here, too.

1. Never stumble your own content, whether it’s blog post or article since it’s not allowed under Stumble Upon terms of service.
2. Never stumble opt-in pages or sale pages… stumblers tend to give thumb down for those pages and it’ll end up hurt your traffic.
3. Add friends in SU, preferable the top stumblers. Your goal is to have 200 reciprocated friends (200 is the maximum friends allowed in SU). But no worry, you can always delete your friends.
4. Submit to correct topic with the correct tags (SU only uses up to 4 tags, the category will become a tag as well). You must experiment to find which topic gives you the best result.
5. Add comments/reviews when stumbling.
6. Exchange stumbles with others.
7. You can always buy SU sponsorship. Yes, just by $20 you can bribe your way in into SU. Meaning your site will shown in SU home page.
   If you’re short on spare cash, you can request other stumblers to sponsor you.

And this is just a fraction of what I’ll reveal in my new product

Web traffic is useless if your site is leaky with many exit links, doesn’t have optimized monetization channels or list building, or good quality content to make your visitors become repeat visitors.

Let’s take a look at a real life example here.

One of my friends, Bryan, used my Stumble Upon traffic strategy and got huge traffic result!

A few days ago, 1 of my blog posts (written by my dad, John) attracted over 6,800 unique visitors in 1 day. It was followed by 2,900 the following day and 2,300 yesterday. It looks like another 2000 plus day today. Most of this traffic was generated from stumbleupon, so it is not very targeted traffic. I must say that the page was also not optimized for sales or leads, but it did indirectly lead to some optins, blog feed subscribers, blog comments and external links.

He got about 11,700 unique visitors. It was just too bad that his site was not optimized to monetize and build list. It was just later on that he added related affiliate products to sell.

There are different questions but mostly have the same answers. Since there is no FAQ for these questions, I decide to post FAQs here to help people start their own blogs. I may include some of the original questions to give you some background.

1. What is blog? What is the meaning of the word?

   A blog is an online journal. It is a frequently updated website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles or other web sites.

2. For what blog is useful?

   It’s useful for many things such as:

   • Promoting your business
   • Making money from publishing advertisement or referring affiliate products
   • Sharing your opinion
   • Stress relieving
   • Sharing your photo
   • Driving free web traffic to your primary site
3. What is the free blog site?
   • livejournal.com
   • blogger.com (you can use your existing Gmail account for blogger.com)
   • wordpress.com
   • flickr.com (for photo blog)
   • xanga.com
   • typepad.com
   • vox.com
   • myspace.com
   • 360.yahoo.com
   • neigo.com (also good for photo blog)
4. My blog doesn’t have comment. Why?

   There are two possible reasons:

   1. You don’t enable comments so that people can’t comment.
   2. People may not be interested with your blog posts so they don’t comment.

   Obviously you can fix it by:

   1. Enable comment so that people can comment.
   2. Make your blog more appealing and encourage your readers to comment.
5. How can increase traffic to my blog?

   Basically there are two ways to increase traffic to your blog:

   1. Pay traffic
   2. Organic traffic

   You can learn more at traffic generation check list.

6. How do I enter a YouTube video onto my blog?

   On the right side of the video on YouTube, you see this menu below. Copy all the HTML code inside the Embed field.

   

   Then when you compose or edit your blog post or page

   1. Choose the “View HTML”.
   2. Paste the HTML code from the YouTube embed field into the text area.
   3. See the preview of your blog post (if you use Wordpress, click “Save and Continue Editing”). If the code is right, the video will show up in preview.
   4. Pulbish your blog post along with the YouTube video.

I’ll add more blog FAQs again later.

Please let me know if

• You have any blog questions that haven’t been answered yet, or
• You know any common questions that needs anwer, or
• Tere are blogs or sites that have FAQ about blog so that I can link there, too.

Hope that helps

• One-way back linking.
• Higher ranking in search engine results.
• Branding of your name, product or service.
• Free web traffic.
• And some other advantages.

The the only down side of article marketing is its manual submission to many major article directories surely takes a lot of time. Therefore I’ve been using article submission service to automatically submit my articles and save my time.

For the last couple months I’ve been using Submit Your Article (SubmitYourArticle.com) for submitting articles of my several niches.

I get these results from article marketing (directly and indirectly):

1. I have about 20,000 Google references for my name, “Aldian Prakoso”.
   
2. I have about 695 back links for my blog.
   
3. One of my blog posts has the first Google search ranking for long tail keyword, how to get traffic to brand new site, beating 9,170,000 competitors.
   

So I’m quite happy with SubmitYourArticle.com but I’m looking for better service (SubmitYourArticle.com only allows submission of up to 8 articles each month. It’s not enough for me for my several niches).

Recently I came across another article submission service, ArticleMarketer.com, that I have yet to try.

Let’s compare these two, SubmitYourArticle.com versus ArticleMarketer.com.

SubmitYourArticle.com

• Cost: $37 per month.
• Article submission quota: 8 articles per month.
• Article directories: included but not limited to ArticlesFactory.com (PR7), EzineArticles.com (PR6), ArticleAlley.com (PR5), GoArticles.com (PR5), SearchWap.com (PR5).
• Article submission time frame: within one business day for each article (if you submit more than one article in one day, your articles will be queued and submitted to article directories on the following days).
• Money back guarantee: 30 days.
• Affiliate commission: 35% ($12.95) for the first tier (you direct referral), and 14% ($5.18) for the second tier (referral from someone that you’ve previously referred), paid through PayPal.

ArticleMarketer.com

• Cost: It offer choices of
  • $79.99 per 3-month (average $26.66 per month).
  • $199.99 per year, and for a limited time your second year is free (average $8.33 per month).
  • $499.99 for life time.
• Article submission quota: unlimited.
• Article categories: one required category and two optional categories, each with optional sub-category. This dramatically increases the distribution of your each article.
• Affiliate commission: 50% for the first tier, and 5% for the second tier, paid through PayPal.
• Miscellaneous: article auto pilot. You can submit your articles up to a year in advance by setting up the distribution time (do not distribute before, and/or do not distribute after).

Seeing this comparison, ArticleMarketer.com seems much better cost wise and feature wise. Its article auto pilot surely appeals to me. So I’ll give it a try. How about you?

Here are example and template of author byline to help you make your killer author byline

Author Byline Example

Aldian Prakoso is a Law of Attraction Coach and the owner of Secret of Law of Attraction Blog. Secret of Law of Attraction Blog helps you to achieve success, wealth, growth and health by unlocking the Secret of Law of Attraction. You can instantly get FREE visualization mini ecourse, and two high demanded classical ebook ($47 value) by visiting http://AudioGettingRichScience.com.

Author Byline Template

(Your Name) is a (Your Expertise) and owner of (Your Blog, Product, Service, Video, or Audio Title). The (Your Blog, Product, Service, Video, or Audio Title) helps (Target Market) (Value Proposition) by (How You Do It). You can instantly (Download, Listen To, View, or Access) to (Value Proposition) by visiting (http://YourDomain.com)

Disclaimer Example

This article may be freely printed or distributed in its entirety in any ezine, newsletter, blog, or website. The author’s name, bio, and website links must remain intact and be included with every reproduction.

Now it’s time to submit your articles!

Go to SubmitYourArticle.com and open your article distribution account now!

Well, since he’s my mentor and I paid quite some amount of money for his coaching, I decided to believe him and gave it a try. It bombed big time! I didn’t get traffic at my first attempt and I felt frustrated. My thought was, “Damn, I paid for this and this is all I received? Do this. Do that. Do this again. Do that again.” Simply put, I was very upset.

Keep Trying

However I felt that I only wasted my money (for coaching fee) if I quited. So I kept doing these free web traffic generation strategies. But still no result.

So I changed my course of action. I researched the web, forums and blogs, and looked for information: How Internet marketers got their web traffic? I got the same piece of information: Stumbling, blog posting and commenting, forum marketing, article marketing, and so on. This convinced me that there was a missing piece of puzzle in generating free web traffic that I was not aware of.

Stumble Upon

Finally I got a fraction of that missing piece of puzzle and I made an experiment. Bang, I at least doubled my blog traffic using Stumble Upon during this experiment!

A snapshot of my Google Analytics’ traffic overview

A snapshot of my traffic sources’ proportion

But what I did was still ineffective according to Hammer, fellow blogger.

This is a very ineffective way to use StumbleUpon and if you only got 193 unique visits you need to rethink your strategy. I consistently get a couple thousand hits a day from SU and have gotten as high as 10,000 hits in one day to certain posts. Continue reading →

At least there was a start. I could finally got a decent amount of free web traffic using Stumble Upon and I keep polishing my stumbling skills.

Social Bookmarks

To be honest, I still couldn’t get significant traffic using social bookmarks: Onlywire and Digg.

However recently I learned these interesting facts about:

• Reddit (from my dear blogger friend, Jonathan C. Phillips)
  

  As for Reddit, it’s actually quite like any other social networking sites, except it’s a meritocracy, which means even if 40% of people bury your story, it may still get to the front page. even votes down will count as “getting attention” good or bad. As with Netscape or other Social Networks, the more friends you have the better your chances are to make the frontpage.

• Netvous
  One of traffic generation videos that I watched mentioned that Netvous doesn’t have no-follow attribute. This means that URL submission to Netvous is indexed by search engines. This is great news because Netvous is PR 7!

Now I keep focusing on those two social bookmark sites.

Conclusion

I learned a lot from this experience and experiment.

1. Trust your mentor (if you have one). Your mentor’s teachings may have deeper meanings that you may not grasps its meaning yet at first.
2. Keep trying and focus on getting great result. You’ll eventually attract your goals.
3. Ask successful people how they do it. You’ll be amazed that they’ll answer your questions and help you.
4. Welcome coopetition (a unique blend of cooperation and competition) by working together and helping each other.
5. Apply Paretto’s rule. In whatever you, there’s always 20% action that gives you 80% results. Focus on this 20% action only.