Welcome to another great prosper month for CMG when it comes to overall growth. September was a pretty good steady month for the site, and if you missed the update then check it out here.
The overall reason behind these posts is for me to track the success of the site, and allow you to get a front row seat into what I’m doing to grow the website. Nothing is here just for show; everything on the website is done in a way to educate you on the things that actually work.
Yes my website is mostly targeted to local seo marketing which I demonstrate how to dominate your local market. I’m teaching the things I would do if I wanted to just start a business in a certain area; use creative marketing tactics to move pass the local competition.
Not only that I’m doing things on this site to grow the brand nationally and worldwide. My goal is to have the #1 local seo marketing website online that will become the hub for those small businesses from around the world to come to, and learn the latest marketing strategies.
These posts allows me to document everything I do from networking, SEO, guest posting, interviews, list, events, webinars, podcasting and much more. I’m given you a front row seat into how to grow a website slow but consistently every month until I see the results I want. “Failure Is Not an Option”
What Happened in September?
To start I will like to say that this month moved faster than last month in terms of me really making moves of being active. Here outside my city in Minden there is this thing called the main to main which takes place every year. It’s nothing more than a big rummage sale of people selling their goods and services on the sides of the road.
What I did is that I got my camera and hit the streets and started taking pictures of the local vendors. Not only that I posted them to my website so the vendors could come to the page and share it. Plus I gave them one of my business cards which had all my contact information on it including my website information. Lots of them seen the services I provided and many said they might be contacting me in the future for local marketing help. So my goal was to provide a service for free in hopes of getting a business card in their hands…smart marketing huh
Getting Interviewed
One of the things I’m doing is taking my own advice in dominating my local market first before moving on to the big cities. So I contacted our local newspaper, and explained who I am and what I do. I told them that I’m looking to giveaway valuable information for the small businesses in my city which will help them build their brands with less money.
I sent this through an email which they contacted me back to setup an interview here soon so I can spill my guts about how to dominate your local market. The overall goal here is to build up buzz for free events I’m looking to put on in my city here soon so people will come and learn even more valuable ways of growing a business locally.
Add Your Business
Last month I talked about I was looking to build buzz in my city by going around and asking local businesses about been featured on my website. Then I started to rethink that because another great idea hit me more than anything. I said why not just create an online small businesses directory where they can come and promote their business.
This will be even better because now they can add a bio, photo and videos of their business. So I took some time and sat that up on my site which you can see to the right side of the page. This is 100% free of charge, and all the businesses have to do is to update their listing every 30 days to keep their content current.
But I took it a step further by creating what I call local marketing domination just for my city of Minden. So I created a video just for my city of Minden La which educated them on the importance of listing their businesses. Not only that I optimize that video to show up #1 in the search engine for Minden small business or Minden small business directory. Now when someone search
For those words the video comes up that talks about the directory and how they can add their business…smart marketing huh
Antonio’s 31 Tips
Plus this month I created something that every small business needs if they want to dominate their local market. I put together 31 of the top strategies of marketing your business locally without having to spend more money on advertising. I list everything from having a website to doing local seo which will be the core of them building their brands.
I talk about email marketing and tons of other things that people can use starting today. I’m given all of this away for free of charge to those who want it. Plus if you don’t have a local business then there is still lots of valuable information in there you still can use to grow your website worldwide. The content is not just for local marketing it’s also targeted toward you building the brand online.
I have big plans for this guide which I will talk about more in minute, but as of now know that it’s one of the best free local; marketing guides online so go take a peek.
October Stats
One good thing about this month is that 555 people came to the site via, search engine, direct or referred by another website. No matter how they got here I’m just happy they came by to check out my content. So if you take a look at the screen shot below you will see that ever single month the website traffic is growing in some form of fashion.
Now the month of August it had a big jump but that was due to the list post I did of 19 small business ideas from 19 different marketers. So that page was shared on many platforms which got a lot of traffic and exposure for my website. But after that everything to the site has been a natural steady flow as you can see from September to October.
555 people may not sound like a lot but go ask some of the small businesses in your town how many people walked through their doors this past month. Guarantee you it’s not over 555 people so to me this is a success and I just can’t wait to enhance it even more.
Overall Numbers
I’m creeping up that ladder to almost a total of 3,000 visitors to CMG bout at the end of this month. Now like I said that’s not a big number to jump over the moon for but it is a sign of growth and hard work. But I have something in place for this month that I think will really get the wheels turning when it comes to my traffic.
Links to My Site
Last month in September stats report it showed that I had 394 backlinks pointing to my website. Now that number has jumped up to a cool 499 backlinks pointing to my website. Now some of these links are coming from bookmark websites and content farm type sites. The content farm sites go out and find great content and post it on their websites with a link pointing back to you. This is normal and shows that my website is been picked up in the search engines and people are willing to link to it.
Plus I know some of the links are just from people who love my website, and just like linking to me. Even though the site is only six months old it’s on a path to really making some big moves here in the near future. The traffic is steady and the links are pouring in.
Search Quires
The search quires came back for a brief time this past month for about 4 to 5 days, and just dropped back off the radar. Now even though I’m not pushing that hard on the seo parts of this website to get traffic from certain keywords. It would be nice to see the sites quires come back up so I can start to get that traffic back.
If you can see the site was hitting around about 600 quires per day for a while until the bottom fell out on October 19. So for those who don’t know quires are just when your site shows up in the search engine when someone does a search. They didn’t click on your site it just that your listing was visible if that’s understandable.
2 Blog Post Per Week
Still for the month I’m trying to keep to doing at least two blog post per week. I’m doing this to keep fresh content for those readers of the CMG community, and to keep the search engines coming around to spider my content. There is no need to blog every day for those of you who thinks lots of content means more visitors. The best things you can do is to write good quality content that will transfer to visitors coming back and sharing of your content…this is what builds a website traffic.
· Antonio’s 31 Tips to Dominating Your Local Market
· Is it Possible to recover from a Google Penguin like 2.1?
· Google is Making a Lot of People Mad as H*ll
· Minden La Small Business Directory | Add Your Business for Free
· 7 Local SEO Strategies to Boost Your Rankings in Your City
· Simple Marketing Automation for Small Business – It’s easier than you think…
· Monthly Stats Report for September 2013
· How to Find 1,000 Long Tail Keywords in 60 Second for Your Local Marketing
October Taught Me
This past month was more about getting something into action such as putting together my niche site duel list post that will be going live soon. I learned that I needed to be more focus, and stay on task as much as I can so I am more productive. It’s so easy online to get distracted so next month I will be focusing more on one thing at a time.
Goals for November
November will be a good month for me when it comes to being more productive because of the things I have going on. First for the month I will be completing filling out all of my profile websites that links to my website here. These are free local websites that allow you to get an online presence just by setting up free local profiles.
Now I’m already member of about 50 prolife websites but I didn’t complete filing in all the information for all the sites. So this will be a big goal of mines this month of November. I will be doing a video blog post on this soon so stay tune to my website to get it once it’s live.
Next I will be connecting to a least at least 400 websites in my niche of marketing. I’m looking to put together a list post on “marketing creatively” so I will be emailing 20 websites per day which should get me about 30 to 40 response rate. I hope it’s more than that but getting this number will be great because I will be able to pick their brains of marketing creatively only and put it into a list post. Hope to get this done by December 1 to kick my site off with some targeted traffic.
Plus I will be doing my research on podcasting, and I have a website I will be using that will walk me through the whole process of setting one up and marketing it. Even though I know a lot about marketing, but when it comes to podcasts it plays by a different game so I must be educated on doing it the right way. So stay tune for that.
Lastly I’m looking to do my first free event here in my city for small businesses in my city. I’m looking to bring in some small businesses and show them some free ways of getting an online presence for their business without spending money on advertising. My whole goal for this is to educate many small businesses by January 1, and then put together an Ultimate two day event for those who want to learn exactly how to grow and market a business locally to dominate their market.
Plus stay tune to two case studies I will be doing for two local small businesses, which I will document me building an online presence for them. I will show you guys exactly how I did it and the results I got. It’s going to be awesome so subscribe to my website by getting my free 31 local marketing tips to be update when I product that content.
November will be busy month but I’m up to the challenge so if you have a second can you share this page with your friends to help me spread the word. My goal is to only educate so you can produce that thing call success.
