Review: Traffic Geyser

Traffic Geyser LogoEvery business website needs the following things before it can hope to start making a profit:

  • Ranking in the search engines
  • Traffic
  • Qualified leads–that is, people who are ready and willing to buy

The problem is with distribution, or getting your message out to enough of the people who are looking for what you have to offer.

You know you have a great message, a great offer or great product. The hard part is getting the word out.

It’s all about volume. The more video sites, social bookmarking sites, social media sites, networking sites, article directories, podcasting sites and podcasting directories you can get your message out to, the better. But, where are you going to find the time to do all of this?

The Power of Video

It’s especially difficult with video. Video can be one of the most effective ways of getting your message out to the TV and iPod generation.  No doubt you’ve seen videos showing up many times on the first page of Google’s search results.

Creating videos can also be a great way of repurposing existing content. You can simply throw a few slides together, record your narration and turn an existing article into a totally new means of traffic generation.

It’s incredibly easy to create videos thanks to tools like Apple’s iMovie and your Mac’s built-in Facetime HD camera.

The problem is with distribution. While videos can be easy to create, they can be incredibly time-consuming to upload–especially with a DSL connection, and especially if you want to upload your videos to literally dozens of video sites for extra “link juice.”

Video Uploading

This is where Traffic Geyser comes in. You can upload your videos to the service once and it will distribute them to dozens of video sharing sites with the click of the mouse. What’s more, it will do this on a timed basis so that your video doesn’t show up on all the video sharing sites at exactly the same instant.

Traffic Geyser is an all-in-one marketing tool that helps you go from having absolutely no online presence to being fully involved in the Internet marketing process. Whether your business is a small, local firm seeking to establish an online presence or a large, multi-national company wanting to expand its reach, Traffic Geyser has everything you need.

Total Marketing Toolkit

Traffic Geyser has features for creating websites, videos, podcasts and newsletters. It has an e-mail capturing and autoresponder system, including lead capture incentives for several professions, such as dentist, chiropractor, and so on—50 different business types in all (Traffic Geyser’s sister autoresponder service is Instant Customer). It has a video, article, and podcast distribution service. In short, Traffic Geyser seeks to be your all-in-one stop Internet marketing “business in a box.”

Traffic Geyser Autoresponder window

If you don’t have a full-fledged business you want to promote but simply wish to boost the traffic to your blog or website, Traffic Geyser can help with this as well. The tools it provides can be used to promote any type of blog, website or business.

There are a lot of features here, but Traffic Geyser makes it as easy as possible to learn the process. The Express Lane section of Traffic Geyser contains  step-by-step videos that guide you through the use of the service. There are additional videos in the training section.

Automated Video Distribution

Traffic Geyser also automates the entire video submission process. Here’s how it works:

  1. Upload your video to the service (you only need to do so once).
  2. Enter the keywords you wish to rank for.
  3. Traffic Geyser will syndicate your video to the popular social media sites. It will also cross promote your videos to help you dominate the search engines.

Submitting videos to the video sharing sites involves three sections of Traffic Geyser. Upload Files under File Management allows you to browse the existing videos on your hard drive to upload them to the service. Uploaded files are stored in the Traffic Geyser Media Manager. The Submit Media section allows you to name each video, set keywords for it, and choose services you wish to upload it to. Submission Status will tell you which of your videos have been accepted or rejected or are still in progress.

Traffic Geyser also guides you through the process of creating “traffic magnet” videos. These are videos that provide useful content and lead visitors to your lead capture webpage.

One type of video Traffic Geyser recommends is what it calls a video news release. This is a short video in which you describe your business and what problems it solves for customers, differentiates your business from the competition and establishes you as an authority in your field.

Traffic Geyser offers a fill in the blanks video news release template to aid you in creating your video script. The site has instructional videos on how to create video content using iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.

Autosubmitting is one of the coolest features of Traffic Geyser. It will submit your videos to 21 video sharing websites (including YouTube), 4 podcast sites, 5 blog sites (including Blogger.com and Squidoo.com), 20 social bookmarking sites (including Bibsonomy.org, Folkd.com) 15 status sites (including Bebo.com, Identi.ca) and 17 article sites (including ArticleCity.com, EzineArticles.com). This will require some initial setup on your part, since you’ll need to create an account with each site, but once you do so, the process will be much faster.

Your Complete Online Marketing Assistant

Traffic Geyser also has a Website Builder feature. Not everyone needs this, but for those who do, it comes in very handy. The Lead Page Generator allows you to create a squeeze page that collects leads, while a Coupon Creator helps to entice customers by offering them discounts. Plus, the site that Traffic Geyser helps you build is designed to be search engine friendly.

Traffic Geyser also offers an online business directory, CompanyPlaces.com To help you build your online presence. A special added-charge feature allows you to create transcripts of videos you have already created. There is even an RSS feature to add RSS feeds to your blog.

There are 15 training mini-modules for learning what Traffic Geyser calls “Social Media Marketing Machines.” These walk you through every step  of the process.

In short, Traffic Geyser is your complete online marketing solution. It will help you to build your website, create multiple landing pages, and build a customer mailing list. Once you have these things, it will help you to promote them by putting your videos on video sites as well as podcasts and social bookmarking sites.

Even if all you want to do is promote an existing site, it is worth the money for the video distribution features alone. Yes, there is a monthly fee, but you could make this back by providing your services to others. In this way, you could have your monthly membership paid for through the services you provide to others.

Finally, Traffic Geyser is 100% Mac friendly. The brains behind Traffic Geyser are Mac users, and they actually recommend the use of Macs for video creating and for the most trouble-free experience with the site. Quite a refreshing change, eh?

Best of all, you can try Traffic Geyser for one month for only $1! Check it out here.

Online Video Websites You May Have Never Heard Of

Mention the phrase video sharing website, and what likely comes to mind?

Chances are you think of YouTube, and, although that is a great video sharing site and is the most popular, it is not your only choice. If you want to give your videos a broader reach, you have plenty of alternatives.

You can find many online video sharing sites through a simple web search. Your search will likely also bring up many discussions regarding which sites are the best and the pros and cons of each. Reading a few of these discussions can give you a handle on which sites are most worth your time.

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The Best Way To Build Email Lists

email serviceThe money is in the list.

How many times have you heard this? This aphorism has been repeated so often that it has become a cliché—and for the very good reason that it’s true!

It’s a well-established fact that most sales don’t take place until after the seventh contact, and this is generally achieved through a list.

An opt-in list is one for which you have captured contact details of your subscribers, which allows you to follow-up with them on a periodic basis. Such a list is essential in online marketing.

Even if your subscribers aren’t interested in your current offer, chances are that they will be interested in something you have to offer in the future. This is why a list is so essential to your success.
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An Introduction to Craigslist

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Craigslist has received some bad publicity lately due to transactions that went horribly wrong, but this is due more to the popularity of Craigslist then to any defect in the service. Indeed, any online community that has been around as long as Craigslist has (it was started in 1995) is bound to generate its share of both positive and negative buzz.

Craigslist is continually evolving and growing and those who don’t take advantage of this resource are missing out on what may be the most effective way to find information, gain employment, make friends, get dates, sell items or discuss the issues that matter to them. This article will explore some of the sections of Craigslist.

Community

This provides information about activities and events centered around your own geographic location. This is a great way to find out what is happening in your area.

Personals

This is where you can find either platonic or romantic partners. It is set up with a number of categories including those catering to various sexual orientations. You have to be over 18 years of age to access this section.
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Little Known Features of iPad

iPad with on display keyboardThe iPad is a revolutionary and full-featured device, and it has so much to offer that you could spend a considerable amount of time with it before realizing its full capabilities. Here’s a quick overview of some of this multifunction device’s little-known features.

Dictionary

It is not surprising that a device with such superb features for reading e-books would also be backed up by a solid built-in dictionary. No more heading to the bookshelf and hauling out a heavy printed dictionary to look up and unfamiliar word you may encounter during your e-reading — the iBooks application has a dictionary that provides quick reference to words you’re unfamiliar with. Of course, if you have a WiFi connection you can gain quick access to a number of online dictionaries through the Safari web browser.

Auto Adjusting Screen Brightness

Apple programmed the device to be able to respond and adjust its brightness to variable levels of ambient lighting to minimize eyestrain for users, particularly useful for those who use the iPad under different lighting conditions.

Of course, there are limitations to this ability, and the inherent nature of the backlit LCD screen means that reading in bright sunlight will be difficult, with pictures and text appearing washed out. So head on over to some shady spot if you plan on doing your reading outdoors.
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Benefits of Ezine Marketing

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It is quite possible to make an income online without selling a single thing. It is even possible to do so without a blog or website. One way to do so is through your own electronic newsletter or ezine.

An ezine is useful even if you do have a blog or website. It can remind your readers of your online presence and alert them to new updates. In addition, it can greatly increase your blogs traffic and visitor loyalty.

In essence, an ezine (also called a newsletter) is any type of communication you send out to your subscribers on a periodic basis. While most ezine publishers craft each issue by hand, it is possible to set up a system so that issues are sent out automatically, perhaps with snippets of your latest blog posts.
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Make Income With Squidoo – Tips On Squidoo Lens Building

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The web 2.0 marketing powerhouse known as Squidoo is not exactly new. Founded by Mac user, author and marketer Seth Godin, Squidoo, like many other sites, has suffered from Google’s page rank algorithm changes, but it has come back fresh as ever, and thousands of marketers are realizing it’s income generating potential.

As Squidoo’s popularity grew, a lot of people snatched up the plum keywords for their lens (page) titles, particularly single-word titles (“iPad” was probably taken minutes after the device was announced by Steve Jobs). On Squidoo, the title becomes the URL, and each one must be unique. However, there are still plenty of profitable longtail keywords that can be used in Squidoo titles.

Although Squidoo is still popular with Google, there are certain steps you must take in creating your lens if you wish to get a high ranking with the search engines.
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Quality Targeted Traffic Is What You Want

increase web site trafficOne of the biggest challenges to any webmaster or blogger is in getting more traffic to his or her site or blog. This becomes apparent when you consider that in any one day, more blogs are launched than the number of books that are published in the United States in an entire year! There are a lot of sites and blogs competing for eyeballs, so how do you get your fair share?

Unfortunately, the challenges of generating traffic can make many people vulnerable to the questionable traffic generation schemes that proliferate on the Internet. People want to believe the promises made by the hucksters.

While getting a high volume of traffic is the holy grail for many bloggers and webmasters, even high traffic volume may not be enough. Not all traffic is created equal, and high traffic doesn’t always equate to high sales volume. There are various types of traffic to your website, and they range from good to fair to downright spammy.

Into the latter category falls traffic from the so-called safelists. A safelist is a list of people who join for the explicit purpose of receiving advertisements and sending out their own. Needless to say, such mail is usually never read.

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How To Create A Content Rich Site And Monetize It

how can i monetize my web siteThere are many ways by which one can make extra money or even a full time living online: freelancing, affiliate marketing, bum marketing, Squidoo and Hubpages, eBay, product creation; the list goes on and on. But something that can either dovetail with these other strategies or can stand on its own is through blogging or website creation.

Although some people choose to create their own products, it is not necessary to do so to make an online income. Instead, you can provide information, which can generate an income through the appropriate placement of advertisements.

Although there is a lot of competition online, this competition is merely a reflection of the enormous potential and number of people making use of the Internet for research and general information gathering in the first place. So why not grab a piece of it?

Planning is the first and most critical ingredient for success. You need to choose a theme for your site or blog. While it is important to choose an in-demand product, this should not be your sole criteria for choosing a topic. Build a blog based on your interests, as you will find it much easier to create content on a topic that you are passionate about.

Next, a little brainstorming is an order. Think of the organization of your site and what you wish to cover. Create an outline. For example, if you write about the Mac, do you want a separate section on iOS devices? What is the entire range of topics you could cover?
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Facilitate Creative Thinking With Mind Map Software

Mind Map Software for Mac

The mind map process was developed in order to organize concepts and to make difficult or involved topics easier to understand. Falling into stiff, rigid patterns of doing things can hamper creative thinking. This is why the concept of mind maps came into existence.

Mind maps were originally drawn out on paper, and they sometimes still are. However, paper doesn’t allow for the easy rearranging of concepts and the trying out of new arrangements and relationships. Mind mapping can allow for a clear visualization of the challenges one faces, which can be a tremendous aid in problem solving.

The business implications of mind mapping are obvious. It can allow for a more visual way of thinking than is possible than the traditional way of problem solving.

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