Reinvesting Your Income to Build Traffic and Authority for Your Website

An easy way to expand your website’s reach and audience size is to market it extensively within your target market. Building your site reputation and getting traffic to your website can help to make your site profitable from early on.

I’ve previously written a list of paid advertising models you can use for your website and now I’ll like to expand on the topic of reinvesting whatever income you’ve earned to promote your site.

Reinvestment of resources is a useful strategy that all entrepreneurs regularly employ to deal with advances by niche competitors. While bloggers or amateur webmasters do occasionally dabble in paid advertising and hired marketing for their websites, some of them do so without a overall strategy or plan in mind.

Buying a blog review every few weeks just because you have some money is not an efficient way to reinvest your income in the long run. There’s are more processes involved and this article outlines some of them in detail.

How to Get Started on Income Reinvestment

Before you decide on how to reinvest your site income, you’ll first need to follow certain procedures which will ensure that your investment is tactical and optimized for maximum returns. After all, you don’t want to reinvest money for poor returns.

1. Set Your Goals. Determine what you want to achieve with the amount of money spent. Are you looking for greater conversion rates for a specific webpage on your site? Or do you generally want more brand exposure and buzz for a specific product? The end goals you set can be vague as long as you break them down into chunks of manageable data and mini-goals.




2. Determine Your Investment. How much money or resources will you set aside each month to promote your website? The amount of money you spend should be commensurate with your goals. If you’re looking to expand your site rapidly, you should expect to spend more money. If you’re just testing the waters with this, start with a low amount and use flexible increments.




3. Put Aside a Resource Bank. Now that you’ve set your goals and determined your investment level, its time to develop a resource bank to set aside funds for reinvestment purposes. There are various ways to develop a resource bank and here are some examples of ideas you can use:




• Set aside one income source. (e.g. revenue from paid reviews)
• Use part of one income source (e.g. revenue from one Adsense ad unit)
• Use a percentage from the overall income (20% of all monthly income)
• Use a portion of an external income source (e.g. 15% of dayjob salary)




4. Track Your Investments. Search marketing programs like Adwords allow you easily check your campaign performance and conversion rates. Ideally, you need to apply the same model to the other ads or services you purchase. Cross-compare different ad buys and hired services to determine which one gives the greatest long and short term ROI for your website.

Ways to Re-invest Your Income for Authority and Traffic

It is essential to develop positive assets that will turn into sources of long term traffic and brand exposure. While an avalanche of traffic and attention is always welcome, you should ensure that investments reap long term returns as well.

For example, brand equity should be of ultimate importance here. Your investment channels should not only send traffic/visitors but also disseminate a positive representation of your brand. This means actively involving your brand with a specific target market and not just blindly paying for random traffic.

1. Hire a Staff Blogger. Great method for growing your site quickly because the additional content created will attract more search engine traffic, particularly if your site is an authority domain that ranks well. Staff bloggers can also be tasked to create content pandering to a specific target market. This flexibility makes hired bloggers a better option then guest bloggers.




2. Paid Advertising. This includes purchasing PPC ads, paid blog reviews, banner ads and the sponsorship of contests, among other methods. Here is a collection of some paid advertising methods you can pursue for your site. I recommend reinvesting your income on at least one method of paid advertising every month.




3. Hire a Marketer or SEO. This is mostly applicable to websites with larger income revenues because outsourcing marketing and search engine optimization can be costly, depending on who you’re hiring. I’m in favor of this because I feel that bringing in an external expert opinion can do wonders for your business or website.




4. Acquire Useful Tools. This could involve software, custom scripts, online subscriptions or even physical or electronic books. Most of these items can greatly benefit your website directly or indirectly and are worthy of investment because of their long term re-use value. In order to prevent sunk costs, be sure to apply or use whatever you have purchased.




5. Vertical Integration. Control over the supply and production chain provides security for business owners because it allows them to scale effectively. Invest your income in developing complementary websites which can direct traffic and business to one another. I’ve mentioned that vertical integration is an effective way to develop an online monopoly in a specific niche or industry.

Re-investing your income is definitely a smart thing to do if you’re absolutely serious about making money from your flagship website or business. Always fuel your desire for monetary success by using your income to generate even more revenue.

This closed income-investment-income loop is highly significant when developing profitable and sustainable income from any online ventures.

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