7 Powerful Content Marketing Tips

One way to drive traffic to your site is to create smart content. How do you create smart content and get views? We share our seven tips.

  1. Set goals for your content. What are you trying to achieve with each post, video or page? Set a goal and then create content that will help you achieve it.
  2. Invite others to take part. Ask team members and those in your network for feedback on your site and your opportunity. Then share it in a post of video.
  3. Share across many social networks. Even though Facebook may be your favorite, it’s important to share across many different types of social networks like Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare and Storify.
  4. Set a schedule and stick to it.  Select how often you want to share new content and stick to whatever that schedule may be. Visitors will come to expect it.
  5. Switch up your content types. Switch things up between video, presentations and text.
  6. Be a thought leader, not a parrot. Don’t be one of many of the same voices online. Select a unique point of view or area of expertise and share it, don’t just echo what others post.
  7. Respond to specific requests. Do you have visitors asking questions? Respond to them with a great post of video.

Keep Your WebSite Interesting to Build Return Traffic

Whether you have a SiteBuilder site, a WordPress blog or a fully personalized hosted site, traffic should be one of your goals. Traffic and return traffic mean more eyes on your site that will help you build your business, support your cause of just share your thoughts. So how do you get traffic to keep coming back? Simple, keep your site interesting! Here are a few easy tips to accomplish just that.

Use Different Types of Content

No matter the type of site you have, breaking up the forms of content you share is essential. This means sharing a video on your blog sometimes instead of just text. It’s also smart to include photos and images on your main site to break up text and draw eyes around the page.

Appeal to a Broad Audience

When creating content for your website, try to appeal to a broad set of viewers most of the time. This means your content will be relevant to a large group of people who may visit your site. An example of this is a post or page on earning extra income for anyone on a tight budget.

 Appeal to a Niche

While you should appeal to the broad audience most of the time, writing for a niche every now and then is a good idea too. Take stock of search terms that lead people to your site, or which posts are most popular. Create posts or pages specifically for these people; for example, stay at home moms looking for extra income. This targeting will help to build loyal visitors from a specific segment.

Stay on Trend

What is your website about? Your personal business? You affiliate team? Your causes? No matter you site’s topic, be sure to stay on trend and up to the minute with news related to your topic. Do this by sharing news stories about your industry or just using best practices for affiliate marketing. Set a Google Alert for any news that might be relevant to your site and share it for an easy update or post.

Two Unique GDI Offerings

It’s no secret that there are a lot of affiliate programs out there. We’ve shared a few posts about the GDI difference that you can see here and here. Now it’s time to share two more reasons that make GDI different: bonuses and our ever changing contests. Each bonus and contest is created to reward you, the affiliate, for working hard. Read on to find out what they have to offer.

Bonuses

At any given time, GDI has a bonus you can take advantage of, whether it’s our Weekly Superstars Bonus contest or our new Learning Bonus and Duplication Bonus. Our two new bonuses are the result of you requesting more bonuses; we heard your requests and unveiled them last month. If you think you know a great idea for a bonus, share it with us. To learn more about each bonus, simply log in to your Members Area and click on GDI Bonuses.

Contests

GDI’s contests give us a chance to have a little fun and you a chance to win! Each day there are winners in our Premium Lottery that rewards the premium winners with verified leads. We also have our SnapShot contest that rewards you for knowing your way around GDI. We have had over 45 winners who each won any where from $20 to $60 dollars with our SnapShot contest. We also had some big winners in our WebSite Contest that you can see on our Pinterest page. You can expect the WebSite contest to make a return and also expect a few new contests. To always be in the know about upcoming contests, be sure to be a fan on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and check back with the blog regularly.

Don’t forget to share all the fun with your new team members and best of luck with GDI Bonuses and Contests!