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A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to
account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are
easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they
return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The
credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming
back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom, or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom, or shoutbox, you are providing
your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with
their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As
conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and
your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every
day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your
site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human
beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to
the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build
up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a
real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should
definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way
for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your
website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly
relevant to the target market of your website to keep them
interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every
day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep
visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting
way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the
high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the
prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time
your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your
site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of
attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried
out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to
browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site
updated with fresh bites!

Today IM Buzz released a new piece of software called “Blog Carnival Submitter”.

 

I was fortunate enough to get an advance copy of this software last week so I could test it out before the launch.

First, let me explain what a blog carnival is. Here is the definition directly from BlogCarnival.com:

Unfortunately, the process of submitting your blog posts to carnivals can be very time consuming.  That’s where the “Blog Carnival Submitter” software comes in.  BCS allows you to submit multiple articles to any amount of blog carnivals you choose with just a few clicks of the mouse.

By all means, this sounds like an awesome system for driving traffic to your blog, but I wanted to thoroughly check it out before recommending it here. 

EASE OF USE:

Overall, BCS is very easy use from a technical standpoint.  There is nothing that I would consider to be complicated or confusing about it.  However, I feel that they could have made things more automated.  The only real issue I had with the software, was that every time I added an article, I would have to type in my Name, Email, Blog Name, and Blog URL.  This was only a minor inconvenience, but it’s still something that I feel could be improved upon.

COST:

At only $27 , I’d say that you are getting a very good deal on a piece of software like this.  I have seen many other blog traffic generators that sell for WAY more.

RESULTS:

I would definitely have to admit that it works.  I set the software up on March 6, 2009 and tested it using this blog.

Here is what I did over the last 6 days, and how long it took me:

March 6 – I downloaded and familiarized myself with BCS, and started setting it up.
Time spent – About 20 minutes.

March 7 – I added the carnivals that I wanted to submit to, and started submitting articles.
Time spent – About 10 minutes.

March 9 – I submitted all of the remaining posts on my blog to the appropriate carnivals.
Time spent – About 20 minutes.

For the first 6 days of March, I averaged 4.3 Visitors,  30.3 Pageviews, 34.2 Spiders, and 14.7 Feeds each day.

In the 6 days since then, I have averaged 11 Visitors, 52 Pageviews, 145 Spiders, and 19.5 Feeds each day.

Those are pretty impressive results.  I almost tripled my average daily visitors, and as a result, almost doubled my daily average Pageviews.  All of the backlinks that have been created are also helping my blog get spidered more by the search engines, which in turn makes my blog rank higher in search results.

Here’s the kicker – Those results were acheived in 1 hour with only 21 posts.  Imagine how much better it could work if I had more time and articles to work with.

I’m sure that by now all of you at least have an idea of what Affiliate Funnel is. Most of you are probably even members already. For anyone who doesn’t know, Affiliate Funnel is basically an all-in-one business hub that shows you how to properly promote online using the best free resources around and channel these leads into a thriving downline.

Well, Affiliate Funnel has just relaunched, and they’ve made a ton of fantastic upgrades. I will briefly list some of the new features below:

*Surfers Choice v2.0 – The masterminds behind AF have added stats to the updated Traffic Exchange Ranker. v2.0 will track and displays new member growth for the current week and the last eight weeks; Speed of Traffic delivery; Votes for the Surfers Choice will now be weighted according to age. New votes will have more value than older votes.

* The Affiliate Funnel sales page has been rewritten and is converting much better. AF is split-testing three versions and constantly tweaking for improvements so conversion will just keep on getting better and better.

* The Affiliate Toolbox has been completely revamped, and includes tons of new high converting promotional tools. Advertising tool include 5 new splash pages, subscriber emails, squeeze pages, safelist mails, signatures, thank you page html, floating action buttons, and peel away ads.

On top of all these great new features, during the realunch period, AF will be paying $1 per referral, and featuring a massive credit sale from some of the top traffic exchanges online!

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