When I first started Pixel2life.com back in January 2004, I already had a large amount of friends in gaming community that I knew would visit my site to check it out, but I wanted to get a targeted audience of visitors. People that would be interested in content I had to offer them. I love my friends in gaming community (some of which I’ve known for over 6 years), but only a small portion of them really cared about design. So through trial and error, I’ve found ways to increase my traffic by targeting proper audience without having to pay for it. These methods don’t compare to buying targeted traffic, but it’s next best thing. P2L is not a profit oriented website, so I don’t exactly have tons of cash to spend on Ad campaigns.

First off, I must stress importance of a quality design and quality content. You can draw as much traffic as you want, but without a quality website that will interest your guests, you’ll never make it to their coveted Bookmarks. In case of design oriented websites for example, there are millions of personal websites that have a few wallpapers, a personal portfolio a shoutbox , and loads of spelling errors. What makes your site better than rest that would warrant someone to re-visit? Be original, provide quality content, and update often. It’s that simple. If you’re not willing to commit to those rules, don’t bother trying to be next DeadDreamer or Shiver7. I may write an article in future regarding this topic in a bit more detail, but for now, I’ll assume your site is a smoking gun and ready for eyes of world.

Before you start anything, optimize your site for search engines. You should have a title, meta keys for keywords and description, and nice full sentences in body of your site. Keyword density is important and with proper SEO techniques, hits from search engines will grow quite a bit. Make sure you customize each page as required. A page about 3D Modeling should not have same keywords as a page about your graphic portfolio. And remember to include main keyword(s) in your title. If you’re not sure what exactly to do, check out these results on Google for keyword optimization: http://www.google.ca/search?q=keyword+optimization&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=

For Pixel2life.com, our first month of operation (January 2004) yielded about 200 hits from Google. After spending a week or so correcting my lack of meta keys and keyword density, I received well over 28000 hits from Google in June. This isn’t simply because I worked keywords, but it had a large hand in it. The other part of puzzle is reciprocating links.

Now I don’t work for an SEO, nor do I pretend to be an expert in field, but in my experience, more reciprocating links to Pixel2life.com on other websites, higher my Google ranking climbs. In some of my main keywords, I wasn’t even in top 1000, but after a few months of affiliating and spreading word, I place in top 5 in many principal keyword searches. Examples include:

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cinema+4d+tutorials&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=swift+3d+tutorials&meta= http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=photopaint+tutorials&meta=

You can check your google rankings for your choice of keywords at http://www.googlerankings.com

Internet radio is just broadcast quality content being streamed over internet. That is it, nothing more.

There are 2 variations, and both are considered internet radio. One version is live content being streamed in real time based on a time schedule, but in reality that is not really necessary or cost effective for that matter. What I believe to be next wave of useful marketing tactics using audio on web, is building a niche internet radio station which will have tremendous marketing and audience building potential. It will be in broadcaster's best interest to produce killer-archived content and post that regularly to stream on demand for their listeners.

This is so easy and cost effective to do, and does not require live production techniques of traditional radio, nor high costs and server infrastructure of live feed internet audio streaming. Be aware live streaming can be done through web companies such as www.Shoutcast.com or www.Live365.com, and many other others that have data centers to multicast audio streams in real time.

Internet radio needs only to be great audio content available upon demand online, and I see it as an incredible opportunity for marketers of niche products and services to create to build audience or traffic to their online offerings.

The model of radio has been working and profitable for years. The only difference between WABC radio and YourDomain.com is they have an audience (akin to web traffic) and they are pros at producing audience attracting audio content that they broadcast 24 hours a day to a limited area geographically. With your dot com, and on demand radio streaming you can broadcast audience-attracting audio content just as good as theirs, broadcast it on demand to anywhere in world, and make profits with niches where they can't.

Example: Fly fishing radio, Pottery artist’s radio, Swing trading radio, Hair coloring tips radio, thousands of other possible niches would fail horribly in traditional radio broadcast models, but niches thrive on internet, and so does niche internet radio. Once audience is built, if yours is not already, all profitable techniques of traditional radio apply.