Organic Traffic vs. Social Traffic

I’ve been rather busy of late, not writing much here because I’ve been busy with my other sites, setting up my blogging empire, or should I call them my marketing sites?

I call this site a “work in progress” because it’s exactly that. It is a work in progress, tracking my learning, my experimenting, my successes, my failures in blogging and affiliate marketing. I’ve got a lot to learn and I’m learning everyday. That must be the true essence of what living a life is all about. You learn as you go, you have successes and failures, and you just keep learning and gaining experience. Sometimes the path you take is smooth and sometimes it’s as rough as a mountain edge above the tree line.

This morning I did some “social media” stuff for this blog and only this blog. It’s a necessary thing, to participate in the blogging community, to meet other bloggers, exchange ideas, learn from the community and share the knowledge. It’s also a great way to increase your readership if you are a social blogger. This is a social blog and there’s no shame at all in having a social blog. However, on the other hand, if you have marketing sites, it’s best to avoid social media for a couple of reasons. One of those reasons is that fellow bloggers aren’t actually visiting your site to purchase stuff. The second reason for avoiding social media when you are an affiliate marketer is that with affiliate marketing, you only want organic traffic sent to you by the search engines, Google and Yahoo, etc. It’s all about organic traffic, is it not?

How do you get organic traffic? Your goal is to get onto the first page in Google for whatever subject your site is about. This way, you are getting pure organic traffic to your site and people are more likely to come to your website in search of information about a product they are considering buying. People who are looking for product information will most likely click on the ads you run on your site and purchase something. This is what it’s all about. And I’m not going to be teaching you about how you do these things here because there are already the experts or the “gurus” if one could call them that with great sites which teach you these things. I have already mentioned their names on my site – the great ones I have learned from and I would/could not ever compete with them. I am not yet an expert on how to make money online and I will not be a pretender. I’m not into faking it.

Yes, I am talking about Griz, Court and Vic and I might be adding one other guy I’ve been reading as of late at SEOZombie. Go check out these guys and learn from the greatest. I’ve already mentioned in past articles how I wasted a year of my life on JC and like a scorned woman, I keep questioning myself, what did I ever see in him? How could I have wasted so much time on him?

I’m still trying to get onto the first page with my new sites, but it’s probably going to take awhile. What am I doing as I am waiting for the miracle to come? I’m learning about search engine optimization, learning more about writing content that is rich in the keywords I am writing about. I’m learning about how to get back links that matter. I’m learning how to market my blog. Whoever said this was easy might be crazy, but some things do get easier as time goes by. And to top this whole learning process off, I am constantly writing quality content for the sites that I hope will make me some money eventually.

What else am I doing? Well, since I’ve been in the long term habit of writing, I have set up another site where I am offering my skills as a freelance writer for hire. When the site is ready to reveal to the public, I’ll probably link to that site from here, but my new baby is not ready yet. All this commerce is keeping me quite busy lately. I haven’t got time for anything and there are dust bunnies rolling about my apartment like you wouldn’t believe. I’m okay about that. I would hate to be dying of boredom and it’s okay with me to work hard at something I love. After all, a labour of love is not really labour at all.

Happy blogging and affiliate marketing! Veraz.