If I told you there was a free, scalable way to generate consistent targeted traffic to your site that didn’t involve SEO, would you be interested?
Working on one of the websites that FEInternational formerly owned and ran, we generated nearly 600,000 page views in a day using BuzzBundle as a promotion tool.
Due to confidentiality agreement related to the sale we can’t divulge the site in question but we have put together this BuzzBundle tutorial to show you how it is more than just a social media monitoring tool and how we use it to drive traffic.
In our case, the site was in the humour niche and we were monitoring/reacting to live news for a viral effect, but it works just as effectively in niches that are less likely to go viral and help bring in a steady stream of traffic for months and years to come. Hopefully, by the end of this tutorial, you will know how to use BuzzBundle in your day to day marketing activities.
What is BuzzBundle?
BuzzBundle is a desktop based software that can help generate more traffic to your site by engaging with your target audience directly within various social media sites, blogs and forums. Everything is organized in a central location and it scans:
- Blogs
- Forums
- Google +
- Yahoo! Answers
- YouTube
You are able to scrape any mentions and keywords that you are targeting from a vast variety of sites and reply to them instantly within the BuzzBundle software. If done regularly, you are able to build a reputation, raise awareness of your website and also receive targeted traffic. You are also able to use BuzzBundle in several languages as well as check what your competitors are up to.
Ready to get started? Download a Free Trial of BuzzBundle and follow the tutorial below on how to set it up and use it to generate traffic to your content.
How to Set Up a BuzzBundle Campaign
As an example, we will show you how we got traffic to one of our posts on the FE International Blog. First of all let’s walk you through how to set up BuzzBundle. In the presentation below you will find:
- How to set up Personas and add Profiles
- How to use keyword section and monitor your competitors
- How to speed up your ‘Buzz’
Before you get started, get your social accounts ready! If you don’t have some existing accounts – don’t worry too much, BuzzBundle will do it for you (they will only ask for your existing e-mail address and will set up any accounts needed for you in order to set up instant communication channels).
With BuzzBundle you are also able to operate as different personas and engage in various specific conversations. For example, you can manage your Facebook Marketing and Customer Service accounts as well as Twitter and YouTube at once without logging in and out. It is also useful if you have several websites or blogs and would like to promote them at the same time in different projects. BuzzBundle is based on keyword search specific to your niche. You can also monitor your own social existence as well as your competitor’s (you will have an option to put in their URL instead of yours).
Click the ‘Start Prezi’ button in the centre of the presentation below to view.
How to Use BuzzBundle to Target Your Audience and Get Traffic
BuzzBundle allows you to reply and answer any forum and Q&A posts, tweets and blogs that were found using your selection of keywords.
- Look for someone interested in your topic, looking for help or having any issues related to your existing content.
- Prepare to share your content, suggestions and help out with any other information that people might seek. That’s how you create a great network and get targeted audience to follow you. You can also reply with a photo message, retweet as well as make someone’s post your favourite.
- In order to save some time, you might want to create a couple of templates that you will use while answering enquires. Never use your template for everything. Modify it slightly for a personal approach. You’ll be much more successful that way.
- Don’t spam! It’s much more effective to write 10 thoughtful responses than 100 templated responses.
Here are a couple of real life examples and types of responses that work well:
Example #1
Help me to find best SEO tools
Answer
Hi John,
The best way to find SEO tools is to probably test a couple of free ones and decide what suits your needs and your niche. I would suggest checking out this blog post that lists 105 free SEO tools and see which one benefits you:
https://feinternational.com/blog/105-free-seo-tools-ultimate-toolkit-digital-marketers/
I hope it helps, if you have any further questions let me know!
Name
Example #2
Please suggest, what tool is the best to use to find keywords?
Answer
Hi John!
You could try Keyword Eye (it allows 20 keyword searches per day for free) and Soovle (you can search keywords on multiple search engines and it also gives you alternatives as you type in keywords automatically). If you are just learning about SEO and keyword research take a look at these free SEO tools, you might find it quite useful: https://feinternational.com/blog/105-free-seo-tools-ultimate-toolkit-digital-marketers/
Give me a shout if you need anything else!
Name
The best practice for outreaching your audience is to keep updating your Keyword Groups. The variety of keywords will give you a vast variety of material to target. In addition, spend some time on BuzzBundle promoting new content, work out the schedule that suits you and your business model: an hour a day or 10 hours a week.
Another interesting feature in BuzzBundle is that you can create scheduled posts (including videos) in My Activities – Add Post. You can schedule future posts when you are away and speak to your audience in different time zones. Set the time and share your content on different social sites at once.
You can also use private messages for more in-depth conversations (again, everything is there for you without logging in or out, it displays Twitter, Google+, Facebook private messages in one window)
How to Get the Most out of BuzzBundle
To really see the positive effects of BuzzBundle, you need to make it part of your daily ritual. Spend an hour or two a day checking for new updates and promote your content using the above methodology. Before your designated BuzzBundle time, hit Find Buzz and leave it for 20 minutes or so to load all the data. It might speed up your process if you decide to scan only blogs today or load options one by one. Either way, you can still work with the loading data and you will definitely be able to target niche audiences.
Advanced BuzzBundle
Why Should I Use a Proxy?
Whilst pulling various amounts of data from Google, forums, Q&A sites and blogs using BuzzBundle, it is important that you don’t get your IP address banned. If you’re running a high volume of keyword searches, using multiple proxies is a must. A proxy acts as a hub that allows you to indirectly access network connections. It’s the equivalent of calling someone from your cell but another number pops up on the receiver’s phone. By using proxies, your own IP address isn’t detected and by rotating between various proxies you avoid getting banned. Try using 10 semi dedicated proxies as a starting point which are reasonably priced at BuyProxies. This is definitely worthwhile if you’re planning on really scaling up your campaigns!
How can I make BuzzBundle faster using a VPS?
Given that BuzzBundle is a desktop based software, it does require substantial computing power. When you run it on your own machine you’ll find that it runs fairly slow (depending on your connection speed), including everything else that you have running. In addition to using proxies we recommend that you use a Windows VPS.
Essentially this is a remotely located PC that you rent monthly and control. Not only will you be using the computing power of a different machine but it will also have its own internet connection and bandwidth. You can therefore run BuzzBundle it constantly without affecting your own machine, or internet, connectivity or having to wait all day for results. You can try a Windows VPS from Winity. We increased efficiency by 2 times since moving onto a VPS.
Should I Use The Free Version Of BuzzBundle Or Upgrade?
Definitely try the free version first to see how you get on with it – by following our guide you should be able to get up to speed in a few days. It is worth mentioning that the professional license includes a 6 months free subscription to their maintenance plan. The product depends on various other sites that regularly need to be adjusted to in order to provide the best results. If you order a 3 year maintenance plan up front that will cost you about $3 per month.
BuzzBundle gives you a free trial period of 15 days where you can see 70% of mentions. After this period the number drops to 30% visibility. Free and Professional versions get the same amount of keyword groups and keywords per project.
| FREE | PROFESSIONAL |
| 15 days | UNLIMITED |
| 70% of brand mentions (after 15 days it drops to 30% visibility) | UNLIMITED |
| 2 personas | UNLIMITED |
| 20 scheduled posts (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn) | UNLIMITED |
We use the professional version of BuzzBundle as we like to get maximum results. If you are just starting out and are short of cash, then the free version should help you generate enough income to afford an upgrade
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All in all, BuzzBundle is a great help promoting new content and targeting your audience directly. It helps to increase traffic to your website sustainably and will help you find more genuine leads from social media, blogs and forums for your business. A little BuzzBundle a day will help you see a steady growth trend in traffic. It might even help something go viral like we did!
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