How are your numbers? Are you happy with the number of visitors coming to your site each day?

There are many ways to get visitors, such as article marketing, leaving comments (not spam) at various niche-related blogs, submitting to social bookmarking and social news sites, putting up Squidoo lenses, and so on. Some people who read your articles, see your comments, or visit your Squidoo lens will follow the link to your site.

But the rules are constantly changing. Now there is Twitter, Mashable, Pownce and more that you can use to drive visitors to your site. How do you keep up with it all? Where do you hear about the latest Web 2.0 techniques?

You can join social sites such as Social Marketing Central (click the link in the sidebar). That’s a social site, similar in purpose to Facebook and MySpace, but for marketers interested in Web 2.0. At Social Marketing Central people discuss the best Web 2.0 tools.

You can also join memberships such as Social Power Linking. For less than $1 a day you get excellent training for getting links to your site. If you sign up for 3 months, 6 months, or a year, you get significant discounts.

They have one training in particular that walks you through 60 days to getting more traffic to your site. I’m going through it now, and it is top-notch.

If you don’t have a blog yet and do not know how to set one up, then Authority Site Center is the place to start. There you get a blog set up for you, in whatever niche you choose. You get the training for selecting a niche, including researching keywords and more, all for about $3 a day. That is a great bargain considering all you get for that price.

Authority Site Center has gone through some major upgrades in the last year. They have a well-organized training center that walks you through every step, from researching possible niches to optimizing your blog for search engine optimization, and everything in between.

I’ve been with them for over 2 years. Before I signed up with ASC I was wandering. I had no idea how to decide on a niche, how to choose keywords, how to set up a blog, or how to monetize it. I can’t say enough good things about ASC.

So here are three possible memberships to keep current on the latest Web 2.0 techniques:

• Social Marketing Central, which is a no-cost membership
• Social Power Linking, which is a very-low-cost membership
• Authority Site Center, which is a low-cost membership

There are memberships out there that cost hundreds of dollars a month. I don’t think it is necessary to break the bank when there are great alternatives that cost so little.

If you need complete training, including niche research, keyword research, and so on, I highly recommend Authority Site Center. If you have a blog and you know how to monetize it, then perhaps all you need is Social Power Linking for discovering the latest ways to attract more visitors. If you don’t have $1 a day to spend on learning traffic strategies, then at least sign up for Social Marketing Central by clicking on the link in the sidebar where it says “I’m a member of Social Marketing Central.” Then join some of the groups there and start learning how to use Web 2.0 techniques to get visitors.

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Today I signed up for Niche in a Box, a membership site that gives you everything you need to create a number of web sites each month based around one topic.

The topic for April: Skin care

For many months I’ve been very careful to not spend any of my money on gimmics. I’m very happy with my Authority Site Center membership and a few memberships to PLR article sites. But Niche in a Box struck me as something that is high quality that could generate revenue.

Basically, each month members get to download about 15 web sites that include 20 PLR articles (high quality, I’ve already checked them out), sales letter, blog, web site, ebook, autoresponder messages, and so on. There are 52 blog posts pre-written that you can drip to your site for one year. An autoresponder membership is provided (a $19.95 a month value). So there is no need to sign up with Aweber if you don’t already have an account.

If members are not comfortable using the auto installer (included), for $40 (as of today) they can have the sites set up for them. That’s really cheap, if your time is worth more to you than a few dollars.

Why did I sign up when I am already a member of Authority Site Center? ASC makes you one site a month (if you are a full member), but you have to fill it with your own content. It’s a great way to make an authority site, and I have several. I am very happy with ASC, have been with them for over two years, and will continue to be a member.

I saw Niche In a Box as a way to increase the number of sites I have up, linking them to my authority site to increase traffic to my main sites, and expanding my home business.

What I like:

• keyword research is done for me
• updates are provided every few months to keep my sites’ content changing
• everything is done for me so all I have to do is use the provided software to upload it to my domains
• PLR articles, autoresponder messages, and a year’s worth of blog posts are included
• all I have to do is promote the sites

I say “all I have to do is promote the sites” as if that is easy and requires little time. It requires steady effort and an hour or two a day (or more, depending on how much traffic you want) to do it right, but I think that is the easy part. The hard part is keyword research, creating the sites and all the content, making the sales page and opt-in page, and so on. All this is provided so that I can concentrate on promotion.

Check out the sales page and see what you think: Niche in a Box

I’ve been reading posts in the members forum and am impressed with the other members, as well as the membership owner, JP. JP has included a lot of training materials, too, including hours of videos, many PDFs, and more. It’s obvious from the forum posts that the members think highly of JP.

JP instructs people how to get traffic to their sites using free methods (I like that). It is the same things I have been learning at Authority Site Center, so I know that JP is on target and knows what he is talking about.

So to answer the question “is it worth the price,” I’d say yes. The monthly membership price is very low considering all that I get.

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