Hi All! I am George Pierce, this post is meant to give you a real advantage online, an unfair advantage, and it is FREE!
Your Unfair Advantages
1 Social Media
Use sites such as YT, FB, and Syndication Express, Twitter. Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, Quora, Blogger, Tumbler, TikTok, and so on, to drive free traffic. In my opinion, YT and FB are a must and Syndication Express is a no-brainer. Above is a snapshot of one of my blogs, it is a free blog (blogger.com). I wanted to give my Jeopardy videos a free boost...I reposted the videos on five social media sites, and about 20 FB groups...the groups are all relative to my niche.
2 Engage
Join as many social media sites that you can engage with, human engagement is priceless, but it takes time so do not overdo it.
3 Send Your Traffic To Your YouTube Channel
If you have a YT channel, send your traffic to your channel. If you have a website or blog send, your traffic to your YT channel...HUH? YT is the absolute BEST source of free traffic, based on my experience. Traffic begets traffic. YT will see the external traffic and its algorithm will tell it to also send traffic. Notice that the post above includes a link to YT, be sure to link to your video or channel.
4 Perceived Value
Build your channel around quality content relative to your niche. Prospective viewers, visitors, buyers, and customers want to see or perceive value. Most prefer video over text. When your content has value, viewers watch your videos, perhaps to the end. This tells YT that the traffic that it has sent to you likes your content and YT does exactly what you want, YT sends MORE TRAFFIC.
5 Build A List
I firmly believe in list building, but I suggest that you use quality content on your channel as an icebreaker first. Then you can use your Call To Action in your video and in your video description to send your prospects to your landing page.
6 Use SEO
SEO stands for search engine optimization which is an easy and free way to generate even more free traffic. The following is a snapshot of what is called the 'meta section' of the Jeopardy History post above. If you are brand new, please bear with me.
Things such as SEO and Meta Section and Metadata scared me when I was beginning, but now, SEO is sincerely EASY! Why? Because there are free tools that you can use that will do all the work. My favorite free tools to help with SEO are Ubersuggest and TubeBuddy. Both are free and both will weigh the 'value' of your potential keywords. They balance search volume, keyword strength, and most importantly competition to provide you with Search Difficulty for Ubersuggest (the lower the better) or Overall Score for TubeBuddy (the higher the better).
7 Keep The Number of Keywords At A Minimum
If you look at the metadata above you will see that there are only two keywords. The article is actually based on the phrase "Jeopardy History" with a keyword saturation of 0.70% (3 keyword phrases, 426 words). Saturation of 1/2 to 1% is recommended.
8 Use Tools
As you have already read, tools such as TubeBuddy and Ubersuggest can truly give a newbie, An Unfair Advantage.
Another tool that will help you is what is called an article spinner or rewriter. Above is a snapshot of the article being rewritten by Spin Rewriter which is a paid tool, however, there are dozens of free spinners that you can use, just use your search box.
For a free HTML editor which I believe is the best, try Blue Griffon http://bluegriffon.org/
For creating your metadata in seconds and with ease, try Free Meta Data Generator...REALLY! This takes a few seconds and will give you another Unfair Advantage.
For your video editing, ShotCut is free and amazing. For creating thumbnails, try Canva.com, it will help you to be an instant pro.
9 TRY Things
Not everything you try will work, no big deal. Trying things, however, will give you a fast-track online education, and that is a major Unfair Advantage.
10 Training
There is a lot of free training available. My experience is that most of the training does not work, about 11% works online such as websites, and about 5% on YT. Most training is ultimately a way to get you to spend your money. Two excellent programs for getting started, IMO, are Affiliorama and Wealthy Affiliate. Both provide awesome training, but both will offer you paid upgrades. Another option is my Internet Marketer Training Channel. The are no upgrades. it stays free, and my focus is on free until your business can afford to upgrade.
Thank you for reading.
Much success,
George Pierce
PS. Bonus:
11 Have fun.
What is brown, hairy, and wears sunglasses?
You will have an answer in a moment.
Seek a niche that you like, preferably love. That is only step one.
You will need to work at keeping your passion burning and
at making it fun and keeping it fun. The biggest secret, which is not a secret, to online success
is to grab hold and not let go. That's all it takes, so keep it fun.
Answer: A coconut on vacation.
Comments
You have covered a lot in this post George Pierce and this is priceless information that people need to see.
I am pleased to share that my FREE Jeopardy boost worked! The channel gained over 800 views and 100 watch hours. Put your unfair advantages to work today.
Amazing stats and this is why I recommend people to subscribe to your internet marketer training channel. It's free video training from a great teacher.
I struggled so much, that I made a vow that if I could find something that worked or somehow figure this stuff out, I would share it. It does work, and sometimes I also get lucky as you can see by comparing these two snapshots less than a day apart, thank you, Terri.