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Welcome back to “Follow My Footsteps”, now 50 days deep into a more aggressive, more business minded promotional stage than the several months leading up to this series.

Consistent blogging, social bookmarking, forum posting, and article marketing has drastically increased the amount of visitors to my blog and website. In fact, up to this point I have had 4 back-to-back record traffic weeks resulting from this more concentrated and well documented effort.

Last week I submitted two articles to SubmitYourArticle for distribution. I made several posts in the Warrior Forum. I also made a total of 5 posts in my blogs and submitted all 5 posts to the social bookmarking sites.

There are may things that I am in the process of doing as well. Things like redoing my website, creating an info product (ebook), and writing a email series for my new opt in list. But it is the small busy work that I do every day that keeps the steady flow of increasing traffic to my website. This is what I hope to show you by documenting my steps here in this series.

By continuing to show you my ever increasing stats, I hope to prove to you that it is possible for anyone to run a successful business online regardless of how much money you have (I had none and was deep in debt), or how much experience you have (also had zero, zip, none!). After all of this, I hope to prove to you that all you need is a strong will and desire to succeed. And a computer and internet connection…duh.

Now on to the stats…

The first graph shows just how much my traffic has skyrocketed over the past twelve months. Is it going to peak soon? I don’t think so. The back links are really starting to add up and I am starting to receive a good amount of traffic from the search engines as a result and still growing.

This last week I had 2465 visitors. Just 69 shy of breaking the record again. I really thought I had it going into the weekend but for whatever reason, I only had 270 visitors on Sunday and ruined my shot of hitting 5 record traffic weeks in a row. Still though it was my 2nd highest ever and nothing to be ashamed of. Just makes me want to work harder.

Last week I had 64 total subscribers. As of today I now have 77 subscribers. Signed up 13 over the course of the week. Almost 2 a day. I remember just not too long ago where I would go a whole month without getting 2 opt-ins. Definitely showing marked improvement there. Most of my subscribers are coming from the search engines after writing only two blog posts targeting a few keywords and giving away the free squeeze page generator.

Alright, so there you have it. Traffic still on the rise and so is my opt-in list. Stay tuned…

Matt Helphrey

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