My Version of a Traffic Wheel, I Use It for Traffic Control and Direction
So you want to earn an income on the World Wide Web or the Inter-Net? Well you are going to need TRAFFIC and lots of it! Do you want to see how I get mine?
The Wheel was an Early Invention, and it is Still One of the Best That is out Here Today
The wheel you say how do you use a wheel in marketing and sells? Marketeers have been using all kinds of devices since the beginning of time. How does one con or persuade someone into doing things his way? Simple, that is to Keep it Simple for them. I remember it this way K.I.S.S. Kept It Simple Stupid!
Hey I am just telling it as it is or how I see it. The simpler the better don't shoot the messenger please! The Internet, Is very, very large already and it grows every day. This is the reasoning behind Indexing Sites, Book Marketing Sites, and along with Social Networking Sites.
The job of these Sites is to map out and keep open this vast and expanding electronic Galaxy we all know as the World Wide Web and these Sites create the Communities, Cities, Countries, and then Nations etc, etc. and they do this with the electronic pathways created by the traffic.
Which was created by the viewers. Just as any Country, State, and/or Nation does it forms an infrastructure. So things can be found and gotten to as easily and as safe as possible.
Just like Lewis and Clark mapped the west, for the settlers that came after them. These sites are mapping, clearing and declaring safe and passable pathways through and around the World Wide Web.
The other Sites that are helping and aiding in the creation of this infrastructure and/ or mapping are the Ranking Sites, Search Engines and Term Definition Sites, Yellow Pages, directories, and on and on.
Wait a minute Mapping, Why? Doesn't everyone have an Address? Don't they know where they are located? Can't they be found by their Address?
Yes if you can find a particular sites' Web Address "IF", you can enter it and then you will magically Star Gate jump straight to them as if they were standing right next to you. Yes this is cool, but do you know that Address?
How could you if you have never even seen it, heard of It, and/ or know that you are looking for it and they you? You have heard of the yellow pages, the white pages and there are some indexes around. But why not the Internet Pages?
Well I believe there is just too much information to compile, sort, define, and keep straight. The Site that would contain this information would have endless listings, let alone room for descriptions of what the site is, who owns it, and what it does.
All the info is there, out there some where in Cyberspace and they can get it, when and if, it needs to be found, it can be found, but it isn't that easy without the web sites address or the page address. This is why linking is so important it allows your visitors that Star Gate jump back to you and to your sites and pages.
A Traffic Wheel What it is and What it Does
A simple Wheel is nothing more than a group of links about you and your sites it gives your reader the map to find their way back to you whenever they want to. Its your job to make them want too.
The wheel is accomplished by the use of your Profile pages, your Badges, Widgets, Sites Web Address or a link to one of these sites pages that you provide. Also Avatars and Pen name signatures, and brands will work or improve these other devices.
Gravatar.com is an excellent place to start and collect and store your personal sites and their addresses be they Social Networks, Book Markers, Indexers, and Photo Sites, etc.etc. if it has a page address you can link it.
If you link it, link it again, don't bounce them back from where they came or the site they came from. The first new link on your wheel or list should bounce them forward and onward to the next site of the Top Ten or one of your pages in or on these Top Ten the visitor must be in control or at least feel he is in control.
If you were directed to my Blogger site you would see a Triond widget, a Facebook Badge, a Hubpages Widget, and other text links in the post themselves as well as in the sidebar.
My Website contains these as well as every Index and bookmarking site that I have joined I link as many as I can on my profile pages and in my blog post, poems and writes and their links.
Once someone has found you, you want them to be able to find you again RSS feeds, addthis buttons, and other little devices you can get for free because this increases their presents on the World Wide Web as well as it does yours.
All roads lead to home, is your new Mantra! Always hint or ask the reader or visitor to Bookmark you or give them a gentle reminder too.
But not you personally rather the page they linked onto, where you are neatly located and sitting just waiting to be found by them again, and again.
Tweet your web addresses with a little message or if in a mass post just the address with the other posts.
A Little More Defining of the Traffic Wheel
The Wheel of Traffic is becoming your own personal stream. If you can hold the viewer's attentions. By knowing who the Top Ten are.
You then can now join them and build a following or a presents at them. And than by linking to them, your visitors never have to actually leave you behind, he keeps linking to one site of yours to the next site of yours or a page where you can be found.
You basically are being where he wants to go and as long as you are there, you can provide the link that will take him to where he wants to go.
Instead of several clicks or typing a web address he is making one or two clicks to the same site he was headed to, to begin with, because you provided it for him.
Once they figure this out they'll keep using these links. Linking to the next one of these Top Ten sites and letting him decide where he wants to go on from your site.
Your Links are like a trolley car or a ready and available taxi, your links are there waiting to move the visitor along to his next destination at his request. But allows you to stay in sight.
Show Me How to Create My Wheel Please!
Well websites are just like automobiles, there are many wheels to go on them, the simplest is a text link, and then you can use provided Badges, Widgets, or TOC's and banners and buttons. I try to mix them all up.
But I am in the process of creating an actual wheel with the many buttons available as soon as I can figure out how to make it all work as one piece or unit. I have over twenty-five sites that I visit daily. So this is going to require some programming skills which I don't have at the present, to make what I want to use. So for now I use Text links, Badges, buttons, TOC's and widgets for the time being.
Okay here is how it's done. Let's say you have profiles on Five of the Top Ten sites.
1, 2, 3, 4,& 5 so You will pick one of these to be the hub of your wheel or a starting platform lets use # 1 as our hub for this example and then start linking them together site one with sites 2,3,4,5 and site two with 1,3,4,5 site three with 4,5,1,2 site four with 5,1,2,3 now the more sites you have the more links you'll need to provide on your pages basically you will eliminate the site they are linking from as seen above.
You have these profiles on all five Sites now, so now place them in your sidebars, in your blogs, and in your rollers like Facebook and Myspace you have little areas dedicated for text information. You place these profiles in or on or near by these current Profiles.
By providing a linked profile page of your Facebook or Myspace as a wet or dry link working or not working, if they are dry not working all the visitor has to do is copy and paste it into their browser's title bar or web address box and click refresh or reload it into blank web page's title bar as some browsers will automatically reload the last address on the current page.
Now I do not openly tell my visitors about these links or tell them to use them. They will naturally gravitate to these links because of ease of use, it is better if they think they are in control.
But, even if it takes them awhile to start using these links that you give them, it still provides ease of movement between your sites for you. And it will take you and them where you both want to go. I can breeze through my sites in twenty-five clicks and never have to type an address or find a button off the current page that I am on.
I got this Idea from Opera's Speed Dial Application, which I love because I am very visually learned or trained because of my learning disabilities. I use this Browser to open all my sites so I can traverse freely when working.
I have two Machines currently. A Laptop and a Desk top, I keep one always open with Opera and the other with Firefox, Konqueror, or Windows.
This helps me because I now can see what's on a particular page as I am creating or correcting another or same page. This gives be a better Idea of where I think the viewer will want to go also. and what my pages will look like in other Browsers.
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