What I did come up with is a twist.  I’ve been using Twitter to gain followers to funnel some of them to my web pages.  Sometimes I promoted them but most of the time I just collected quotes. <I love motivational quotes> I did all the things to get more followers except pay for anything that supposedly increased your followers list. I did the – Follow all the top people in Twellow and follow their followers.  I also used John Chow’s new twitter site to gain followers.  Both ideas worked well.  But it was all manual.  I found that it took a lot of my time. I wanted something quicker and would work by itself mostly. What I did find was I getting many more followers from one simple fact:

People love to retweet other people who have interesting or useful information or links.

So, I came up with the idea of putting the two of them together.  Twitter and StumbleUpon.

• I will promote this blog post on Twitter.
• Next, you leave a comment with your URL for me to “Stumble” your web site.  Same rules as Nick’s (no porn sites etc., etc.)  Just 1 site please as I don’t think I have as much time as Nick.  Feel free to go over to his web site at http://www.nickstraffictricks.com and he’ll Stumble 3 for you.
• Cut and paste this and post it in your update window in your Twitter account:

RT @Ryan700 Want link Juice? http://bit.ly/3CXkY

What’s going to happen is when people click on the link they’ll come to this blog and leave a comment for me to Stumble their web site.  They’ll go back to their Twitter home page and retweet the last message back to their followers and the cycle begins.  I’ve kept the message short so more than 1 person’s twitter ID can be RT’ed.  Have fun!

Spaghetti marketing is the act of marketing ones websites and products in a seemingly disconnected way in order NOT to spend any money expecting that I may make some money in order to invest in my internet marketing business.

You see, I’ve spent a bit of money downloading products in the past which didn’t give me the results that I wanted. I didn’t get results because these e-books were so long – some were over 300 pages – that I didn’t have time to finish them.  So I decided to go the free route as much as possible.

Actually, most of the things that I found were useful but they took a lot of time.  Article marketing is one of the ways to generate traffic to your web site but after writing about half a dozen articles the ideas are coming slower.   I’m sure my writing will pick up.

There are a few other ways I’ve been able to get more people to my web sites that I’ve learned from good people at the Warrior Forum. A lot of good advice and lot of them free. Like this thread by Todd Lamb and this thread by FlightGuy. These 2 techniques got my follower count at TwitterⓇ from 10 to almost 500 in three days.

I’ve commented on blogs which is another good way to get traffic but it’s random.  I still don’t know if position in the comments section makes a difference or if it is worth commenting on old postings.  I do know that writing a post mentioning someone else’s blog in it can get you back some “link love” as the link-back section is usually at the top above the comments at some blogs.

I’ve tried Free Traffic Exchanges too but that took a lot of time clicking through other peoples web sites which I wasn’t interested in to get credits so other people can click through mine.  I bet most of them weren’t interested in mine either.  I tried to market in Craigslist but they flagged me and deleted my ad for an affiliate product but they allowed me to advertise my free e-book.  I wonder if they’ll allow me to advertise an email capture opt-in page?

It’s time to get serious.