I did a thing and it might just be the best thing!

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Good day to you my fellow WA'ers, I hope you are having a lovely week so far.

I've been thinking of different ways that might help me get more visitors to WA and so I restarted an old website of mine. Free From The Boss was my MMO website and after spending 2 years focusing on The Bearded Brit, my passion site.

This brought in very little cash, probably only about £400 in 2 years! But, it did give me the most popular blog I have ever written. In the last 28 days it received 770 clicks. My website had 1.35k visits and more than half of them are to one blog!

This got the old brain cells whirring, or rather, rolling around in the big empty loft that really needs a good dust.

I wondered if I would get more visits to WA if I put some banners in the blog.

I also put one on my home page and the evidence is in. The clicks to WA have doubled over the last 7 days!!!

I was on around 30 clicks between 17/11 - 23/11 after starting up my MMO website. After putting the banners on my other website, disguised as adverts (Not really disguised but, you get my meaning) I have hit 65 clicks in the last 7 days.

Now, it might just be a coincidence but it might not. I haven't had any referrals from it yet but it's only been a short while.

The morale of the tale is this, utilise everything you have to ensure you get the traffic where you want it. Think out of the box, experiment and don't be afraid to take risks.

Maybe this will bring me a referral, maybe it won't but, it certainly can't harm my chances!

Have a great hump day all and I'll catch you real soon

Tony

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Hey Tony,

Would you like to know a better way to do this?

Firstly, I don't wish to completely rain in your parade, so congratulations for the additional clicks. Hahaha!! Sorry mate, didn't wanna hurt your feelings!

Okay, I'm going to give you a REAL-LIFE example first, so you totally get what I mean.

I spoke with another member last week. Their issue, over 9,000 clicks, NOT a single referral.

Herein lies the difference between "warm" traffic and "cold" traffic.

The traffic/clicks had all come from a personal social media account.

Therefore, this account had been used to share funny stories, talk about their life, selfies, photos of dinner, funny memes, cute videos, you get the idea.

So, when all of a sudden this person added a link to WA banner, people clicked.

We as humans are naturally inquisitive (NOSEY!!)

So, people clicked the links and banners.

They came through to WA and suddenly thought, well this isn't a funny meme, cute video, selfie (information about BEARDS!!!!!! <==Always be wary of the excessive exclamation marks, I'm making a point, LOL), so they left.

This is COLD traffic.

People who have absolutely no idea what you're linking, and they have never shown ANY INTEREST in what you're linking to either.

Therefore, traffic will definitely increase (people being nosey), you may even get a few referrals, but these will be nothing more than lucky referrals.

Plus, the fact that they are "cold referrals" (they DIDN'T visit you website to learn about WA), it's likely that they won't hang around.

Cancellations galore!!

I get it.

If you put a completely irrelevant banner on your wesbite and it produces 4 sales over a year, that's approximately $100 more than you would've made this year than if you didn't have the banner there!

BUT

There IS a better way.

Here's how to use an IRREVANT website to promote WA and even turn that traffic into WARM traffic.

Make your own banner, say on Canva.

Let's say a nice image of you, really stretching out your beard, or making it into pretty patterns, Hahaha!!

And then on the banner you have some text, something along the lines of:

"Did you know that I started this website solely because beards and beard care is a passion of mine? However, what I didn't realise is that just from writing about what I love, sharing photos, videos, etc. I've actually been able to earn money. I owe my training and understanding of earning money online to one very specific training platform. If you too want to learn exactly how you can make money from creating a website about something you love, you can learn more about my story here."

You can then make a specific page or post on your BEARD website as a "mini-review" of Wealthy Affiliate.

It doesn't have to be long, 600-1,000 words will suffice.

Also mark the page or post as NO INDEX.

The last thing you want to do is to confuse Google by discussing a completely different (IRRELEVANT) niche topic on your website.

This confusion MAY eventually lead to lost rankings, as you are no longer being niche-specific.

That said, you have now "warmed up" your prospects.

The people who click your NEWLY MADE banner are doing so because they are interested in learning how to make money from a website.

Some will still only click because they are nosey.

However, once they read your "short story" and are then greeted by your affiliate link or WA banner, the people who THEN click to eb taken to WA are much further down the "sales line" than those who are simply clicking your WA banner on the homepage.

Well done, some of those are more likely to convert to sales now.

Would you rather have 10,000 clicks and no sales?

OR

2,000 clicks (because they now know what they are clicking towards) that converts to 20 sales?

Hope that all makes sense.

Partha

Excellent advice we all can use! Thanks Partha.

Lol I love the way you critique the members pages/posts! Thanks for the never-ending knowledge you have and please keep it coming!

Kevin and Son

Partha, where have you been all my life!!!
I was just experimenting to see what would happen and the clicks have been doubled. They might be cold, but they are clicking.

If I take your advice and pop a wee banner with more info then those clicks, as you say, could become warm traffic and that’s what we all want.

Thank you for your advice, I will definitely be using this!!

For the record, I don’t click anything unless I know what it’s about. I’m very aware of the scams that are going around and avoid clicking adverts on any website. No trust from me 😂

I might just be sending you some PM’s very soon for more advice 😉🤣

BRILLIANT PERSPECTIVE Partha!!!

How about throw out some crumbs in my way too!😁

Cheers,
Maria

Bloody genius!!

😁😁😁

I'll answer you all in the same reply, if that's okay!!

Hahahaha!!

Firstly, thank you, as those who know me, I'm always willing ti share.

Never PM me, Hahahaha!!! Most members will tell you what a disaster that is, but I am moving away from it.

As you can probably tell from my comments/responses, etc. I tend to go into detail.

And unfortunately when you're getting 30-50 PMs a week, and going into detail, it takes up a LOT of your time.

In fact, I was spending 30-40 hours a week just helpng members out.

And one thing that many people don't realise is that after 14 years in this business I have NEVER promoted the Make Money Online niche.

Therefore, I do NOT have one single WA referral, all the help I offer is completely free, and I make absolutely nothing from it (where are all these people promoting WA? and why aren't they helping their referrals in the same as I am? Oh yeah, it's the old, "Well, I've made my commission, so you're no longer my problem, I'll let someone with a kinder heart help you out"!!)

Hahahaha!!

So, I have taken a step back in "helping", but clearly I have some MONSTER blog posts here at WA (just go to my profile and start reading) and I have spent over 300 hours constructing these (remember, I get NOTHING for doing this, no referrals, no promoting of WA, etc.)

That said, I've made the decision to finally start a Make Money Online website, but as always, I will do it MY WAY!!! Hahaha!!

So, keep an eye out for it in my profile (I'll probably add it within a week), and I'll be going MUCH DEEPER into the subjects I usually discuss on the platform!!

Finally, there's some people who I'm always willing to help out, mainly due to their entusiasm, work-ethic, and willingness to see this through. I count all those in reply to my initial comment here as people I would ALWAYS wish to help.

Partha

That's an excellent idea, PP!

Man, that’s unreal!! It’s amazing all the help and advice you do give to people. I’m looking forward to your new website and I will definitely be delving into your blogs here!

I like to think that if I do get any referrals here then I would be there to help them as much as possible. Giving people support, advice and being there when they are struggling is all part of the package in my eyes!!

And don’t worry, I won’t be PM’ing you!! 😉

Thanks again my man

That is exactly the reason why your parents named you PART--HA!!! You are meant to give and give all the way.!!!We appreciate your outstanding approach to situation and things! You are a GENIUS!!! God was having a sense of humor designing us around YOU!

Please know that YOU are most REVERED!!!

🤗,
Maria

Just a quick question, should I write a new review or direct potential clicks to my WA review on my other website?

Now, you've GOT IT!!!

Hahahaha!!!

Keep the Beard site, hmmm. Beardy. for want of a better word.

So, create your own personalised banner, as I've explained above, and when they click on your banner it takes them to your WA review ON YOUR MAKE MONEY ONLINE website.

This way, everything on your Beard website is beard-related, bar the one Banner.

You can also think of adding a blurb to your About Me page - "oh btw, if you want to learn how to create your own website, here's my personal review of the place and people who helped me achieve this".

BOOM!!

Perfect!

Partha

I've got something similar to that on a dormant site, PP!

LJOB

Great advice, Partha. Something that we can all implement on our niche websites. Thanks for sharing.

I’m all over it!! Thanks for another great top tip!

Definitely gonna PM you 🤣🤣

Literally used your words, line by line!! This leads straight to my other website and a blog titled Why I started Affiliate Marketing!
Let's see if this works.

If I could "like" your answers 100000 times, I would! THANK YOU!

Hi - without also wishing to rain on your parade...

But where are you seeing this figure of 65 clicks?

Is it in your WA stats here that shows up in your feed?

If so, that not only shows clicks on your WA affiliate link but also people that have engaged with your WA blog posts.

And as you have written a few WA posts recently that have had comments and likes, then these clicks on your stats could have come through WA, not people clicking on your website.





Now I didn’t know that was a thing! I’ve never seen anything in the training that tells you clicks on your blog register on the stats.
That’s a bit crap!
Makes the whole stats section a bit of a waste of time!!

Unless you can separate what clicks are coming from WA and what’s coming from your website then there’s hardly any point in using the stats at all!!

Thanks, I’m truly soaked in depressive info now 😉

I don't promote WA, so I don't know if that is possible, but this post may help.

Thanks for the link to the training, it’s shown me what to look for with regards to the stats.
So, unique clicks are where someone has clicked your link from one of your blogs etc.
clicks (content) are clicks from your WA blogs.

The upshot is I have 64 unique clicks from my actual affiliate links and 6 clicks to my content on WA!

Thank you 😊

I do love your thought processes here, Tony! I'd likely do the same thing!

Jeff

Thanks Jeff! Already taking Partha’s advice and designing a banner as we speak! I’ll be writing my mini review of WA today and putting it all out there!!

Man, I love this place!!

That will be interesting to see, Tony! Well done!

I’ll put an update on later!!

Awesome, Tony! Looking forward to it!

Jeff

Thats awesom keep up the good work

👊🏼

That is AMAZING Tony!!!
You know what happens with increasing traffic.......😊

Cheers,
Maria

Absolutely, and now that @ParthaB has thrown some sweet advice my way, I can take it to the next level!!

Oh well, Tony,
super positive action.

Thanks, you made my day, I needed some motivation.

Greetings, good luck.

Slavka👍🖐️

Slavka, you got this my man! Use every angle you have and eventually good things will happen!! Oh, and work hard for your dreams 😉

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