John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2.0 Reviewed

Ok, so I ment to post this the day traffic secrets arrived… but I just couldn’t wait to dig in and have basically only come up for air, food and as little sleep as possible since then.

I consider myself a pretty good seo and article marketer and I love strategy, but I am nowhere close to the level John Reese is at.

The first part of the course is a series of 12 CD’s that cover the following

1. The Foundation
   He shares 7 core principals that act as the underlying foundation of the whole course. They will allow you to drive traffic to your site faster, while building a fan base that’s anxious to buy from you. You’ll even know exactly what you should be selling them in the first place.
2. Market Discovery
   Who’s your competition and some sneaky ways to figure out what they are doing (and how you can do it even better)
3. Keyword Science
   How To Build A Killer Keyword List, use them to their fullest advantage in the SERPs and how to do most of it with free keyword tools (never thought of some of these methods)
4. SEO Dynamics
   Forget thinking of SEO as a full-time job. The 80/20 rule applies …  but you need to know where you need to be spending your 20% effort on to get those 80% (or more) results. John has brought effective SEO down to a level that even my Dad would understand and would be able to implement.
   
   
5. Content Factory
   My favorite part of the course… this along was more than worth the price of admission for me. I am finally organized about what I publish when and with his system, I’ll never run out of ideas on what to write about… more on this in a future post.
6. Video Marketing
   Who knew it could be so easy? I don’t even have to be on camera???
7. Social Strategy
   I’ve been playing with this for just a few days … just with twitter and am seeing a 30% increase in traffic to my blog - Nice!
8. AdWords Mastery
   Haven’t gotten into this too much yet, but even I am realizing what a huge short cut his strategy is. And this is coming from me, the one who spends about 2 days a year giving adwords another try and I’m usually ready to pull my hair out and give up after throwing yet another couple of hundred bucks at the big G.
9. Advertising Methods
   Tons of other ways to advertise from free to stuff that can easily cost you a couple of grant per ad. I actually used one of his ideas inadvertently a few months ago and it’s driving an extra 10,000 visitors to one of my sales pages for free. And no, this is no low converting traffic from something like facebook or digg…. These are some of my best converting ones … Highly targeted.
   
   
10. Widgets & Software
    He had my head spinning here with ideas on how to implement this. I’ll be surprised if you don’t come up with at least 10 traffic generating widgets or pieces of software after watching this.
    
    
11. Affiliate Army
    How to find them and then how to get them to do all of the above for you.
12. The Master Plan
    This is where it all comes together and you will create your overall traffic generating strategy. After teaching all the concepts and tactics above, he starts you out with a step by step plan to implement all this stuff.

While I’m still waiting for Traffic Secrets 2.0 to arrive at my doorstep (it should be here Tuesday), I thought I’d take a few moments each day to share some of my favorite traffic generating tips with you. Some of these will boost traffic to your site right away, while others focus more on long term traffic such as improving your search engine rankings. Give each of them a try and start improving traffic to your site right away.

Long Term Strategy

Your first step in optimizing your sites rankings in the big search engines should be to take a look at every page on your site. Do you know what keywords you are targeting with each page? If not, take a few moments and do a search on keyword research.

Once you know what keywords you are targeting for each page, make sure you have your keyword in your title tag, in the anchor text of the links pointing to that page, and are using it early and often on the page itself. If you are using h or alt tags on the page, include the keyword in those tags as well where appropriate. I also like make sure I use the keywords in my meta tags.

Short Term / Quick Traffic Strategy

Contact some of the big bloggers in your market and offer to write a guest blog. If you’re not a writer, come up with a good pitch of why the blogger should mention your site and how they could benefit from this. If you have a product, see if you can send them a free review copy and see if they will write a product review on their blog. A mention on the blog with a link back to your site can bring you quite a bit of traffic in the short time and may also result in a link back to your site which will help with search engine results in the long term as an added bonus.

A few years ago when John Reese first started to offer the Reese Report to the general public (it was initially only offered to current customers of his other products), I was trying to decide if I should subscribe to the Reese Report or buy the original Traffic Secrets course which by then was already a year old.

I ended up opting for the Reese Report and am glad I did. I’ve learned so much from these monthly newsletters in the past and to be honest, I still miss receiving them in my inbox each month. But I always felt like I was missing out in not knowing what’s in the original Traffic Secrets Course.

As you know, I ordered TS2 the day it launched and will give you my review of it shortly, but in the mean time, John was nice enough to send everyone that ordered TS2 a digital version of the original TS1 course and I’ve been busy digging in and absorbing as much as I can while I wait for TS2 to arrive. What a cool bonus and a great way to lay the foundation for what’s to come in TS2 .

As you may have guesses by the lack of posts recently, John has stopped publishing the monthly Reese Report. I sorely miss it already and loved having a big envelope delivered each month that I knew was packed full of ideas that if applied would quickly turn into cash.

At least I still have every single past issue and am in the process of reviewing each and every one of them to see what little nuggets of information I missed the first go around.

I also don’t have to tell you that he recently released his updated version of Traffic Secrets. I ordered the course and will give you a full review once it arrives.

Until then - Take Care,

Susanne

A couple of days ago I talked about Virtual Real Estate, creating a system of related informational websites and then monitizing them with Google Adsense or Yahoo Ads. You may be wondering if it really works.

Here’s a little video to answer that question:
http://www.reesereport.com/surausa/rrblog

Not bad eh?

Notice that he starts with only 98 cents. We all have to start small and built from there.
I have two of my own little VRE projects that I just started working on today. This little 25 minute video just got me excited and motivated to really start applying what I’ve learned in the Reese Report about creating VRE sites.

Both of these sites should be up and running within the next two weeks and of course I’ll be sharing the results I see.

I encourage you to get started and so something today. Add a page or two to one of your sites, finally sign up for Google Adsense or Yahoo Ads if you haven’t done so already, write an article and submit it, or just spend 30 minutes and do some keyword research on a topic that seems interesting and hopefully profitable to you.

If you set aside 30 minutes a day to work on something to built your own Virtual Real Estate, you will be creating a nice little stream of extra income in no time.

Remember, as John mentions in this video, the work you now creates passive income. You are building sites that will continue to work for you and generate income for you month after month.

If you haven’t watched the video yet, do it now. All you have to lose is 25 minutes of your time. I promise you won’t regret it.

http://www.reesereport.com/surausa/rrblog

Susanne

One of my favorite sections of the Reese Report so far are the Virtual Real Estate Suggestions.

Virtual Real Estate is a term coined by John Reese and refers to building content rich sites on a variety of topics that you then monetize them by putting Google Adsense ads on and promote other related affiliate products as well.

Virtual Real Estate - that is content websites - can be built around any topic. The key when it comes to making money from your VRE sites is to pick a topic that gets plenty of searches and has high paying Google ads.

Now back to my favorite section of the Reese Report…
Each month, John shares some great suggestion on VRE sites and what topics to use. These ideas are not only easy to implement, but you also get an idea of how he researches the topics.

If you would like to get a better understanding of what I’m talking about, get a free issue of the Reese Report, while the offer lasts at http://www.reesereport.com/surausa

Susanne Myers
www.reesereportreviewed.com

When I subscribed to the monthly Reese Report, I made deal with myself.
I will continue my subscription if, and only if…

I implement some of his suggestions each month and grow my income by at least $100 each month as a result. I’m giving myself 3 months to get things rolling.

This is turning out to be quite the motivator to get going, building sites, improving and adding to existing sites etc. I’ve always been good about coming up with new business ideas, but actually implementing them on a regular basis has been quite a challenge. The Reese Report will be my little carrot on a stick that keeps me going, keeps me motivated.

I just received the electronic version of the Reese Report so the race is on

What’s your motivator? What keeps you working on your websites, attracting new subscribers to your lists and growing your online business?

Susanne Myers

Sign Up For The Reese Report

I recently downloaded a free isssue of John Reese’s Reese Report. In this monthly printed newsletter (with a CD Rom) John shares his extensive knowledge on on internet marketing, market research, testing and tracking and more.

I was so impressed with the free issue, that I signed up for the “real” thing a few days later. I am now working on implementing some of the methods I have learned and the ideas I have gotten from the free issue, while I’m waiting for my first printed issue to arrive in my mailbox.

While I obviously can’t share any details on the content of this paid newsletter, I will share my experiences - good and bad - as well as the progress I will be making.

Susanne Myers 

P.S. Get your free issue