How to Generate Unlimited Free Website Traffic
You have heard it a thousand times: "Get free traffic with our super traffic program!". You have signed up for the program and you have worked the program but the traffic was not there or if it was there, then the traffic consisted of useless hits and not targeted website visitors. What have you done wrong? Did the program owners promise too much? Did the program not work? Did you work the program the wrong way? Stop guessing and read this article to get some answers to your questions!
Free traffic is great but worthless if you just get hits and not targeted website visitors. So whenever you are busy generating free traffic keep an eye on what the people are doing at your website. In one word: Tracking!!! This is major important for any online business and quite often overlooked by "newbies". If you do not track your visitors, then you will not succeed on the net! So before you even think about generating traffic to your website, install a tracking script. You can get one for free from google, it is called "google analytics".
Like you know there are many ways to get free traffic to your website. What you might not know is, that all or most of them work. They are there because they work, otherwise nobody would use them! It is just the way how you use these free traffic programs that can either result in getting hits or getting targeted visitors. In case to get real targeted visitors you need to combine several programs in a way that you convert un-targeted hits into targeted visitors. This is most important and separates the losers from the winners. There are many ways to do this and not all can be covered in this article but if you understand the basic procedure once, then you will know how to do this with many different free programs.
An Example Of Traffic Conversion:
1.) You need your very own Lead Generating Website or how they call it today: a Squeeze Page
2.) You use manual click exchanges to drive traffic to your Squeeze Page
3.) You offer a free ebook at your Squeeze Page for people who sign up for your list or newsletter
4.) You deliver the free ebook with a welcome message
5.) You deliver more free useful stuff
==> Now you can get traffic to any website you want by sending out one email.
6.) You Sign Up for free co-registration programs
7.) You install the co-registration script on your websites and get more free leads
This is one free method to get an unlimited stream of free targeted traffic. You can maximize this stream of free traffic by implementing a viral effect:
1.) You create a free ebook about the technique explained above, including your referral links of the free traffic programs
2.) You promote the free ebook on your Squeeze Page, give it away for free.
3.) You promote your free ebook through many more free ways like free directories, search engines, giveaway events and others.
4.) You will get referrals in the free traffic programs and with this more free traffic.
As said above, this is only an example, you can do this with many different free traffic programs, not just click exchanges. If you are the owner of FFA pages, or if you use safelists you can do the same. You can also implement this with article marketing and other content driven traffic methods.
Use your imagination to build these kind of strategies, try to get the most out of every hit and every visitor. Most important is that you build Squeeze Pages and your list. You can get more information on this whole topic if you follow the link below in the author box.
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How to Drive Free Traffic
to Your Online Business Website
Online business is bigger than it ever has been, even during the booming days of the so-called "dot.com bubble". The wealth is spread more evenly than ever before as well, with thousands of people every day making a fortune from their websites with ideas and ways to do things that no one has ever thought of before (or at least never had the courage of their convictions). If you have a website, and a great idea, you may be wondering why this success has not come knocking on your door. The answer is in marketing. Website traffic doesn’t happen automatically, and it rarely happens by accident. The most profitable and successful websites got that way through a concerted effort on advertising and spreading the word. If you’re not sure how to get started, here are a few things you can do to start driving traffic to your website.
One of the most powerful tools any internet entrepreneur will put to use is search engine optimization. This is a fancy term for making your website attractive to Google and the like. This means adding fresh and relevant content on a daily basis, using specific keywords to populate your content, and using a variety of tags in order to entice the "spiders" these search engines use to crawl the World Wide Web. Reams have been written on the ins and outs of search engine optimization. Your best bet is to visit message boards and forums dedicated to the subject and learn all you can. On the other hand, if you have plenty of money, you may want to consider hiring a firm to optimize your website for you.
If you want to advertise with little out of pocket cost, your best bet might be pay-per-click advertising. Have you ever typed in a search phrase and seen those results in the sidebar that say "sponsored search results". These ads are using pay-per-click advertising, and it can be a very effective way to get targeted traffic to your website. Ranking highly in the natural search engine rankings can be a difficult and arduous process, particularly if the keywords relevant to your website are highly competitive. With pay-per-click, you simply bid on those keywords to ensure a good ranking on the first page of results. This type of advertising takes some tweaking and trail and error to find the right amount to spend per click, but once you nail down the science, it can be profitable.
Of course, nothing will improve your search engine ranking faster than a ton of backlinks from higher ranking websites. Of course, on the other hand, these links can be difficult to procure. Link exchange can work, but the jury is out on how effective this is. Links to your website without a return link are much more powerful, and an indication to the search engines that your website has merit and is an authority in whatever field your website is in.
There are more ways to drive traffic to your website than there are websites on the internet. Try a bunch of different methods, and find out which ones work best for you. If you hit on one great way, it can all you need to shoot your website into the stratosphere and you could be the next dot.com millionaire.
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Increase your Blog Traffic FREE with FeedBurner
FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won’t create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.
People ask me all the time if I suggest that they use FeedBurner’s plethora of free feed enhancement tools. I have always answered a resounding “Yes!” – But lately FeedBurner has moved itself to a whole new level.
Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your blog, by using your feed?
Increasing Your Blog Traffic FREE with FeedBurner
Blog Traffic Increaser # 1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger - with the Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.
It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed with encourage them to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite your views.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions.
This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to explain what an RSS Feed is.
First on the Optimize tab, the Browser-Friendly version turns your RSS feed into a web page, so that when new people click on your feed, without knowing what it is, they’ll know how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your default feed address. FeedBurner will even help you with this.
But before we talk about that, here’s an extra tip: under the FeedFlare option on the Optimize tab, you’ll find the Personal Flare section. If you click one of the links given, you will see one called “Get Email Updates”. Once you have the Email Subscription option enabled, you can enable that link in your feed to provide the option to subscribe to your updates via email.
FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to track your feed traffic and all kinds of other fun stuff. It won’t create a feed for you from scratch as often believed - rather it wraps itself snugly around a feed you bring in and adds its services therein. It has a few premium options for the serious feed publisher, too.
People ask me all the time if I suggest that they use FeedBurner’s plethora of free feed enhancement tools. I have always answered a resounding “Yes!” – But lately FeedBurner has moved itself to a whole new level.
Did I mention most of these tools are free, and can help increase the traffic you get to your blog, by using your feed?
Increasing Your Blog Traffic FREE with FeedBurner
Blog Traffic Increaser # 1- Give others permission - or shake the no-no finger - with the Creative Commons option, found under the Publicize tab in your FeedBurner dashboard.
It will pop in the logo if you like, and explain what permissions others have to use your feed. Being clear about what permissions others have to use your feed with encourage them to display your headlines on their site – or let them know that they must link to you to cite your views.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 2- Turn your feed into a newsletter with Feedblitz or Squeet under Publicize/Email Subscriptions.
This turns your feed into a newsletter. It even gives you a subscribe form for your site. Now you now have a(nother) ezine option to go with your blog without any extra work.
Blog Traffic Increaser # 3- Use the Browser-Friendly version, combined with FeedFlare to explain what an RSS Feed is.
First on the Optimize tab, the Browser-Friendly version turns your RSS feed into a web page, so that when new people click on your feed, without knowing what it is, they’ll know how to use it. All you do is link to the FeedBurner version of your feed, instead of your default feed address. FeedBurner will even help you with this.
But before we talk about that, here’s an extra tip: under the FeedFlare option on the Optimize tab, you’ll find the Personal Flare section. If you click one of the links given, you will see one called “Get Email Updates”. Once you have the Email Subscription option enabled, you can enable that link in your feed to provide the option to subscribe to your updates via email.
How to use Facebook to get Free Traffic
Facebook, at its most basic level, is what it sounds like. In the olden days before the Internet, when I was just a wee girl, a facebook was a book with photographs in it, meant to help people on campus get to know each other, from alumni and staff to students and teaching faculty. If you know someone on Facebook, that’s reason enough to join. Yes, like AOL was, it is a “walled garden”, meaning it’s a closed network where the general public can’t see what you’re up to - you have to be a member to get beyond faces, or to interact with the faces you see.
Here’s a quick list of how to use Facebook to get Free Traffic .
You can be yourself more, and still be professional.
There are ways to say things on Facebook that aren’t exactly risqué, but that you wouldn’t put on your blog, either, due to audience conflicts or content compatibility issues.
It’s easier and faster to get to know people you admire.
There are many people whose content I enjoy, that I’d like to get to know better, in a deeper way than commenting on their blog would allow, but is not as intrusive as random emailing or calling them on the phone out of the blue.
Facebook allows me to find and talk to those people, and soak up a whole different batch of their wisdom than the public at large gets to see.
So if you find out that someone you admire is on Facebook and they aren’t yet overwhelmed with noise, get on and Friend them before their list goes over 100 - that seems to be the point at which the noise has the potential to overwhelm the signal.
It helps you establish common ground to facilitate deeper bonds when networking.
You have a lot more leverage to introduce yourself to someone if you participated in several of the same discussions and are interested in the same things. With a blog you have a fleeting connect until someone comments repeatedly.
I mean, honestly, how many blogs do you visit every single day, of the ones that are in your reader?
Facebook has a system that reminds me to care for and feed my relationships with people in a way that a blog doesn’t. When you bump into someone enough within this remnder system, you’ll want a way to connect to each other more often.
It’s intimate.
This point can’t be overstated. Facebook feels like a bunch of small gatherings, even when there’s a conversation in a big group taking place among hundreds of people.
This makes people feel comfortable, when they’re comfortable they relax, when they relax, they’re more open. Meeting colleagues, potential clients and your favorite gurus is a completely different experience than when you meet them in a more public part of the Net - for better or for worse, you’ll often get the most accurate version of a person you can online.
Facebook friends are more likely to help spread your content.
In the past week that I’ve been more active than usual on Facebook, I’ve been included in Scoble’s linkblog, which led to getting on the first page of Sphinn.
I didn’t even know he read my content, we’re really only Facebook and Twitter friends, it’s not like I know the guy, though Facebook makes it feel like I do.
I also have had more of my other content either replied to or submitted to social news sites by people not on my team than in just about any othe community I’ve ever particpated in.
You can display your expertise instead of just talking about it.
It’s one thing to get compliments by peers, or to be published in a prestigous online publication because of somethng you wrote - in fact, it’s a great thing. A wonderful enhancement to that is when a potential client sees you edified by one of your peers. It’s extremely powerful, because it happens in real time.
Facebook brings you 30 million potential people for you to market to - Without Necessarily Actively Marketing to Them.
Facebook is not a place to spam your link and people who do are mostly ignored, and occasionally chastized. Yet, even though I have not done one single thing to market myself on Facebook, I’ve got a whole new audience stream from it.
No, really, besides doing the best three things that can get people from my Facebook profile to my web page, I have done zero marketing on Facebook - and yes, there are ways to market on Facebook besides networking, I just haven’t used any of them.
And yet I get constant traffic.
It feels like a fun waste of time but it can actually double as highly productive time spent on your online business.
I know I don’t have to explain to you why feeling like you’re goofing off, when you’re growing your business, is a good thing.
The additional stream of traffic I get to my blog from Facebook is more interactive.
With only 52 friends and one network able to see my full profile - the people who come here from there are more likely to reply to posts, and they leave deep conversationsl responses. Makes sense when you think about it - traffic from a more interactive community is more likely to… um… interact.
You’ll find all kinds of long lost friends.
There are people I haven’t heard from, literally since college, that I found again through Facebook. It made my eyes mist up to see some of them around again, and doing well. That’s the best present I could ever get from being online and it was totally free.
Facebook, at its most basic level, is what it sounds like. In the olden days before the Internet, when I was just a wee girl, a facebook was a book with photographs in it, meant to help people on campus get to know each other, from alumni and staff to students and teaching faculty. If you know someone on Facebook, that’s reason enough to join. Yes, like AOL was, it is a “walled garden”, meaning it’s a closed network where the general public can’t see what you’re up to - you have to be a member to get beyond faces, or to interact with the faces you see.
Here’s a quick list of how to use Facebook to get Free Traffic .
You can be yourself more, and still be professional.
There are ways to say things on Facebook that aren’t exactly risqué, but that you wouldn’t put on your blog, either, due to audience conflicts or content compatibility issues.
It’s easier and faster to get to know people you admire.
There are many people whose content I enjoy, that I’d like to get to know better, in a deeper way than commenting on their blog would allow, but is not as intrusive as random emailing or calling them on the phone out of the blue.
Facebook allows me to find and talk to those people, and soak up a whole different batch of their wisdom than the public at large gets to see.
So if you find out that someone you admire is on Facebook and they aren’t yet overwhelmed with noise, get on and Friend them before their list goes over 100 - that seems to be the point at which the noise has the potential to overwhelm the signal.
It helps you establish common ground to facilitate deeper bonds when networking.
You have a lot more leverage to introduce yourself to someone if you participated in several of the same discussions and are interested in the same things. With a blog you have a fleeting connect until someone comments repeatedly.
I mean, honestly, how many blogs do you visit every single day, of the ones that are in your reader?
Facebook has a system that reminds me to care for and feed my relationships with people in a way that a blog doesn’t. When you bump into someone enough within this remnder system, you’ll want a way to connect to each other more often.
It’s intimate.
This point can’t be overstated. Facebook feels like a bunch of small gatherings, even when there’s a conversation in a big group taking place among hundreds of people.
This makes people feel comfortable, when they’re comfortable they relax, when they relax, they’re more open. Meeting colleagues, potential clients and your favorite gurus is a completely different experience than when you meet them in a more public part of the Net - for better or for worse, you’ll often get the most accurate version of a person you can online.
Facebook friends are more likely to help spread your content.
In the past week that I’ve been more active than usual on Facebook, I’ve been included in Scoble’s linkblog, which led to getting on the first page of Sphinn.
I didn’t even know he read my content, we’re really only Facebook and Twitter friends, it’s not like I know the guy, though Facebook makes it feel like I do.
I also have had more of my other content either replied to or submitted to social news sites by people not on my team than in just about any othe community I’ve ever particpated in.
You can display your expertise instead of just talking about it.
It’s one thing to get compliments by peers, or to be published in a prestigous online publication because of somethng you wrote - in fact, it’s a great thing. A wonderful enhancement to that is when a potential client sees you edified by one of your peers. It’s extremely powerful, because it happens in real time.
Facebook brings you 30 million potential people for you to market to - Without Necessarily Actively Marketing to Them.
Facebook is not a place to spam your link and people who do are mostly ignored, and occasionally chastized. Yet, even though I have not done one single thing to market myself on Facebook, I’ve got a whole new audience stream from it.
No, really, besides doing the best three things that can get people from my Facebook profile to my web page, I have done zero marketing on Facebook - and yes, there are ways to market on Facebook besides networking, I just haven’t used any of them.
And yet I get constant traffic.
It feels like a fun waste of time but it can actually double as highly productive time spent on your online business.
I know I don’t have to explain to you why feeling like you’re goofing off, when you’re growing your business, is a good thing.
The additional stream of traffic I get to my blog from Facebook is more interactive.
With only 52 friends and one network able to see my full profile - the people who come here from there are more likely to reply to posts, and they leave deep conversationsl responses. Makes sense when you think about it - traffic from a more interactive community is more likely to… um… interact.
You’ll find all kinds of long lost friends.
There are people I haven’t heard from, literally since college, that I found again through Facebook. It made my eyes mist up to see some of them around again, and doing well. That’s the best present I could ever get from being online and it was totally free.
Free Internet Marketing Strategy: The 7 Standard Steps
In every single internet marketing website or blog, these seven strategic steps will always take place. These steps are must-dos for every internet marketers.
1.Obtain A Good Domain Name
A domain name is an address of your website, better known as a URL. It is unique because it distinguishes your website's name and identity from the other websites. Make your URL something easy to remember and simply typed in by people. It could be your name, the name of your product or a summarised name fit for your website's purpose. I do not normally recommend numbers in your URL because when you verbally tell other people about your website, because you have to state whether it is a number or a word. Also, do not use complex words that people find hard it to spell and type.
A fully qualified domain name includes the host name, which is world wide web or www and the domain registrar which is the part after the dot, as in .com. The .com is the most recommended one to use other than .net or .info because it is easily listed or accepted in search engines and it is good for businesses. Other domain registrars such as .org/.edu/.gov are not good for business, as they stand for orgeanizational, educational and goverment respectively.
2.Find A Webhost
A webhost is a company that allows you to host your website on their servers. A webhost is like a so-called landlord for you to go through before you can live in the house that is on his land, which is your website. Like when you're looking for a house to rent, you have to take a look at the facilities and services in the house that is provided to you. So, a webhosting account has certain features for you to look at to see which are the services that you need to have your website running as smoothly as posible.
You need a website that provides you with at least 5 Gigabytes of space for you to promote your products and at least 500mb/s of data transfer, which is the speed of which the time your website takes to download at a visitor's webpage. They might also provide you with a good website builder if you want to design the website yourself. Find out if they also allow you to input email accounts, audio, video, "shopping carts" for your products, and so on. Also, it'd be great if they have the amazing cPanel feature, which is a control panel that provides you with all the practical applications suitable for your website.
3.Website Design
Firstly, choose a website template suitable for your business. Do remember that the human eye focuses mostly on the top, right and center part of the website. So if you want to emphasize on your newsletter/mailing list subscription, product or a promotion, place it at the optimum level of the website.
For design, you can use Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver or your webhost's website builder. If you do not have any experience whatsoever, try learning or hiring a web designer. The colour of your website should not be glaring to the human eye. A professional white background is good for business.
4.The Content
The content of your website is very important. People love to get free information about a desire or a need they have to satisy. Give them more than what they expect and make them trust you with their money. Just when they're burning and yearning for more details, simply promote your product. It has to state how the product or service benefits the user, how it has improved other people's lives by using testimonials and promote the other bonuses you're adding on, etc. Visuals are important for credibility. If you're selling physical products, take a picture of them. If you're selling digital products like softwares or e-books, get an electronic cover or an e-cover for them.
5.An Autoresponder
An autoresponder is an automatic e-mail feature that allows you to keep in contact with your visitors and customers. For example. you may send an automatic e-mail to thank someone for subscribing to your list or to give out automatic newsletters at a weekly basis. Do bear in mind that you also need to provide your visitors and customers with an option to opt out of your list. This is preferably stated at the bottom of your e-mails.
There are many good and well-known autoresponder programs like Aweber and GetResponse that is mainly used by businesses worldwide.
6.Traffic Generation
The fastest way to get traffic is through pay-per-click advertising. This means that for every click your ad gets for your visitors to come to your site, you will have to pay for it. Do read up on pay-per-click strategies and how to use them properly or you might end up paying more than what you can afford. Using pay-per-click advertising, it is easier to make the target market come to your site because of the key words and phrases you use that attracts them to your product or service.
You can optimize your site for search engines like Google and Yahoo! to easily find you using the Search Engine Optimization method or SEO. Basically you have to type in specific HTML tags into your website's HTML to make the so-called search engine "robots" find you easily and list your website as one of the results generated when a visitor types in the relevant keywords related to your website. This is a tasking job. You might want to ask a web programmer to do it if you don't understand, or you may find some SEO templates lying around on the internet.
There is also the free traffic method, but I do not normally recommend that because the people that come in to your site will not be your target market, just visitors in general.
7.Your Payment Gateway
Payment gateways such as 1shoppingcart, Clickbank and Paypal are popularly used by businesses. They accept sales processing credit cards and they automate your business transactions. use a good payment gateway that benefits you with their features.
The Internet Marketing Strategy's 7 Standard Steps is crucial for you to follow. It is how you implement them that can state the golden future of your website. Read up more on these internet marketing strategies to learn and apply them properly.
In every single internet marketing website or blog, these seven strategic steps will always take place. These steps are must-dos for every internet marketers.
1.Obtain A Good Domain Name
A domain name is an address of your website, better known as a URL. It is unique because it distinguishes your website's name and identity from the other websites. Make your URL something easy to remember and simply typed in by people. It could be your name, the name of your product or a summarised name fit for your website's purpose. I do not normally recommend numbers in your URL because when you verbally tell other people about your website, because you have to state whether it is a number or a word. Also, do not use complex words that people find hard it to spell and type.
A fully qualified domain name includes the host name, which is world wide web or www and the domain registrar which is the part after the dot, as in .com. The .com is the most recommended one to use other than .net or .info because it is easily listed or accepted in search engines and it is good for businesses. Other domain registrars such as .org/.edu/.gov are not good for business, as they stand for orgeanizational, educational and goverment respectively.
2.Find A Webhost
A webhost is a company that allows you to host your website on their servers. A webhost is like a so-called landlord for you to go through before you can live in the house that is on his land, which is your website. Like when you're looking for a house to rent, you have to take a look at the facilities and services in the house that is provided to you. So, a webhosting account has certain features for you to look at to see which are the services that you need to have your website running as smoothly as posible.
You need a website that provides you with at least 5 Gigabytes of space for you to promote your products and at least 500mb/s of data transfer, which is the speed of which the time your website takes to download at a visitor's webpage. They might also provide you with a good website builder if you want to design the website yourself. Find out if they also allow you to input email accounts, audio, video, "shopping carts" for your products, and so on. Also, it'd be great if they have the amazing cPanel feature, which is a control panel that provides you with all the practical applications suitable for your website.
3.Website Design
Firstly, choose a website template suitable for your business. Do remember that the human eye focuses mostly on the top, right and center part of the website. So if you want to emphasize on your newsletter/mailing list subscription, product or a promotion, place it at the optimum level of the website.
For design, you can use Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver or your webhost's website builder. If you do not have any experience whatsoever, try learning or hiring a web designer. The colour of your website should not be glaring to the human eye. A professional white background is good for business.
4.The Content
The content of your website is very important. People love to get free information about a desire or a need they have to satisy. Give them more than what they expect and make them trust you with their money. Just when they're burning and yearning for more details, simply promote your product. It has to state how the product or service benefits the user, how it has improved other people's lives by using testimonials and promote the other bonuses you're adding on, etc. Visuals are important for credibility. If you're selling physical products, take a picture of them. If you're selling digital products like softwares or e-books, get an electronic cover or an e-cover for them.
5.An Autoresponder
An autoresponder is an automatic e-mail feature that allows you to keep in contact with your visitors and customers. For example. you may send an automatic e-mail to thank someone for subscribing to your list or to give out automatic newsletters at a weekly basis. Do bear in mind that you also need to provide your visitors and customers with an option to opt out of your list. This is preferably stated at the bottom of your e-mails.
There are many good and well-known autoresponder programs like Aweber and GetResponse that is mainly used by businesses worldwide.
6.Traffic Generation
The fastest way to get traffic is through pay-per-click advertising. This means that for every click your ad gets for your visitors to come to your site, you will have to pay for it. Do read up on pay-per-click strategies and how to use them properly or you might end up paying more than what you can afford. Using pay-per-click advertising, it is easier to make the target market come to your site because of the key words and phrases you use that attracts them to your product or service.
You can optimize your site for search engines like Google and Yahoo! to easily find you using the Search Engine Optimization method or SEO. Basically you have to type in specific HTML tags into your website's HTML to make the so-called search engine "robots" find you easily and list your website as one of the results generated when a visitor types in the relevant keywords related to your website. This is a tasking job. You might want to ask a web programmer to do it if you don't understand, or you may find some SEO templates lying around on the internet.
There is also the free traffic method, but I do not normally recommend that because the people that come in to your site will not be your target market, just visitors in general.
7.Your Payment Gateway
Payment gateways such as 1shoppingcart, Clickbank and Paypal are popularly used by businesses. They accept sales processing credit cards and they automate your business transactions. use a good payment gateway that benefits you with their features.
The Internet Marketing Strategy's 7 Standard Steps is crucial for you to follow. It is how you implement them that can state the golden future of your website. Read up more on these internet marketing strategies to learn and apply them properly.
Get Traffic To Your Website Using Only Free Methods
To get straight to the point, you need capital. To make money requires you to spend money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you can find to help optimize the potential of your website or business in generating traffic.
Most people just getting into an internet business don't have the monetary backing they need to generate the required traffic to their website. Your in luck! You don't have to spend any money to drive traffic to your website if you have some time. It will take a commitment of time and work but with perseverance you will succeed.
It's really sweet to generate more traffic to your website without spending a single cent, if you know how. We can tell you it's a sure thing that there are many websites with information that offer tips and guidelines on how to generate traffic using only free methods. But just because it is possible to generate traffic without spending a single cent, you must realize it may take time, and to say honestly, we are not going to beat around the bush with you, while your odds are higher, and much quicker by paying for your advertisements, at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods we are about to tell you.
The goal is to target people who are looking for what you have to offer. There is no better way then taking advantage of online forums and communities. These people will fit your demographics and you will be able to discuss your niche area with them. You will not have any surprises and you will be comfortable in your knowledge level when conversing with these people.
With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for yourself and your business. Show people what you are made of and "wow" them with your range of expertise about a particular subject. With that you can build the most important trait, trust, and a reputation among the people in your expertise and knowledge group.
Newsletters seem to be a huge success when it comes to generating website visitors. Have something of value to offer people to sign up for your newsletter like free gifts, reports, or anything that is of some value to the reader. Make sure you have entertaining and valuable information in your newsletter and you will see them pass this information along to those they know, which will increase your website traffic even more.
One of the best methods of generating free traffic is through link exchanging with someone who has a business similar to yours but that is not in competition with you. When people who visit your partner's site see your link they will be curious and click on your link, giving you traffic you would not have had otherwise.
We can't think of any better free traffic generating tool than the writing of articles. You can write articles related to your niche and submit them to hundreds of article directories which will will be read by hundreds of people. Not only does this create links back to your website, people who are curious about you will click on your link in the resource box and go to your website for more infornation.
It is critical that you learn how to create a resource box the right way. It's hard to imagine that such little information will be more important than the article itself. Get it right and you have a ton of visitors. Get it wrong and you will hurt your reputation.
It is important to have keywords in your website content. You must know what people are searching for in the form of keywords and then include them throughout your website. The content on your website is going to either sell the prospect or chase them away. Your heading is critical as people spend the first five seconds determining if they want to stay or leave. Search engines will also rank your page according to the match between your keywords and the content of your website. This is an area that I advise you to get more information on as it can create massive traffic if done correctly.
Our experience tells me that you will receive valuable free website traffic from the above methods. It will take time and some work but for those of you with a limited budget, or no budget, you have no choice if you are seeking a good flow of traffic to your website.
Article Source: http://www.homeinspectionspecialist.com
To get straight to the point, you need capital. To make money requires you to spend money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you can find to help optimize the potential of your website or business in generating traffic.
Most people just getting into an internet business don't have the monetary backing they need to generate the required traffic to their website. Your in luck! You don't have to spend any money to drive traffic to your website if you have some time. It will take a commitment of time and work but with perseverance you will succeed.
It's really sweet to generate more traffic to your website without spending a single cent, if you know how. We can tell you it's a sure thing that there are many websites with information that offer tips and guidelines on how to generate traffic using only free methods. But just because it is possible to generate traffic without spending a single cent, you must realize it may take time, and to say honestly, we are not going to beat around the bush with you, while your odds are higher, and much quicker by paying for your advertisements, at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods we are about to tell you.
The goal is to target people who are looking for what you have to offer. There is no better way then taking advantage of online forums and communities. These people will fit your demographics and you will be able to discuss your niche area with them. You will not have any surprises and you will be comfortable in your knowledge level when conversing with these people.
With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for yourself and your business. Show people what you are made of and "wow" them with your range of expertise about a particular subject. With that you can build the most important trait, trust, and a reputation among the people in your expertise and knowledge group.
Newsletters seem to be a huge success when it comes to generating website visitors. Have something of value to offer people to sign up for your newsletter like free gifts, reports, or anything that is of some value to the reader. Make sure you have entertaining and valuable information in your newsletter and you will see them pass this information along to those they know, which will increase your website traffic even more.
One of the best methods of generating free traffic is through link exchanging with someone who has a business similar to yours but that is not in competition with you. When people who visit your partner's site see your link they will be curious and click on your link, giving you traffic you would not have had otherwise.
We can't think of any better free traffic generating tool than the writing of articles. You can write articles related to your niche and submit them to hundreds of article directories which will will be read by hundreds of people. Not only does this create links back to your website, people who are curious about you will click on your link in the resource box and go to your website for more infornation.
It is critical that you learn how to create a resource box the right way. It's hard to imagine that such little information will be more important than the article itself. Get it right and you have a ton of visitors. Get it wrong and you will hurt your reputation.
It is important to have keywords in your website content. You must know what people are searching for in the form of keywords and then include them throughout your website. The content on your website is going to either sell the prospect or chase them away. Your heading is critical as people spend the first five seconds determining if they want to stay or leave. Search engines will also rank your page according to the match between your keywords and the content of your website. This is an area that I advise you to get more information on as it can create massive traffic if done correctly.
Our experience tells me that you will receive valuable free website traffic from the above methods. It will take time and some work but for those of you with a limited budget, or no budget, you have no choice if you are seeking a good flow of traffic to your website.
Article Source: http://www.homeinspectionspecialist.com
Saturday
3 Steps To Free Traffic From Articles
Did you know the reason most people go online is not to buy anything, but rather to get free information? It's true. So how can you use this information to your advantage? Provide that information in the form of free articles.
Why free articles?
Because writing articles gives you a dependable method of generating free traffic to your website, whenever you want to. Trust us on this, we at autosrufmonster.com do it every single day. Want more traffic? Just write more articles. It's as simple as that. And generally speaking more traffic equals more sales.
Writing articles is still one of the quickest and easiest ways of bringing free, targeted traffic to your website. Writing articles will bring you traffic from three reliable sources: Ezines - Ezine publishers are always on the lookout for fresh content. They desperately want and need free articles.
If you write articles and allow them to be freely published, your articles become viral, meaning your articles can actually spread like a virus and have the potential to be viewed by millions (yes millions) of Internet users. Also, when your article is published, it is then archived and can remain on the publishers website for years - making your article available to search engines for years as well.
Websites - More and more webmasters are building content-rich websites. They've all heard the expression, "Content is King." Believe me. Many webmasters are heeding those words. As a result, they also need your articles.
Search Engines - When your article gets published, the URL in your resource box is a link back to your website. Inbound links increase your link popularity, resulting in higher search engine rankings for your website.
Here are 3 steps for getting the optimum amount of traffic from your articles:
1. Use a compelling headline. Write your headline for your article the same as if you were writing a headline for an ad or sales letter.
The same principles apply. Answer this question in your headline "What's in it for me?" That's all your readers really care about. What's in it for them? Answer this question is your headline, and your article will get read. We should also mention, Publishers are also attracted to compelling headlines. So the more compelling your headline is, the greater chance you have of getting your article published.
2. Write about popular topics. For example, this article is about writing articles. Since this is a popular topic, this article has a better than average chance of not only getting read by many people, but getting published as well.
3. Write as many articles as you can, as quickly as you can. This is the hardest part about writing articles for most people - being disciplined enough to write a bunch of articles.
The excuse we hear most often is, "I'm too busy to write articles." Here's our answer to that ridiculous excuse - make the time! We are busy too. But we make the time to write plenty of articles because we've seen the incredible impact they've had on our business. If you put in the necessary effort required for a few months, writing articles and submitting them to the top article directories, those articles will generate plenty of free traffic for you for years to come!
Did you know the reason most people go online is not to buy anything, but rather to get free information? It's true. So how can you use this information to your advantage? Provide that information in the form of free articles.
Why free articles?
Because writing articles gives you a dependable method of generating free traffic to your website, whenever you want to. Trust us on this, we at autosrufmonster.com do it every single day. Want more traffic? Just write more articles. It's as simple as that. And generally speaking more traffic equals more sales.
Writing articles is still one of the quickest and easiest ways of bringing free, targeted traffic to your website. Writing articles will bring you traffic from three reliable sources: Ezines - Ezine publishers are always on the lookout for fresh content. They desperately want and need free articles.
If you write articles and allow them to be freely published, your articles become viral, meaning your articles can actually spread like a virus and have the potential to be viewed by millions (yes millions) of Internet users. Also, when your article is published, it is then archived and can remain on the publishers website for years - making your article available to search engines for years as well.
Websites - More and more webmasters are building content-rich websites. They've all heard the expression, "Content is King." Believe me. Many webmasters are heeding those words. As a result, they also need your articles.
Search Engines - When your article gets published, the URL in your resource box is a link back to your website. Inbound links increase your link popularity, resulting in higher search engine rankings for your website.
Here are 3 steps for getting the optimum amount of traffic from your articles:
1. Use a compelling headline. Write your headline for your article the same as if you were writing a headline for an ad or sales letter.
The same principles apply. Answer this question in your headline "What's in it for me?" That's all your readers really care about. What's in it for them? Answer this question is your headline, and your article will get read. We should also mention, Publishers are also attracted to compelling headlines. So the more compelling your headline is, the greater chance you have of getting your article published.
2. Write about popular topics. For example, this article is about writing articles. Since this is a popular topic, this article has a better than average chance of not only getting read by many people, but getting published as well.
3. Write as many articles as you can, as quickly as you can. This is the hardest part about writing articles for most people - being disciplined enough to write a bunch of articles.
The excuse we hear most often is, "I'm too busy to write articles." Here's our answer to that ridiculous excuse - make the time! We are busy too. But we make the time to write plenty of articles because we've seen the incredible impact they've had on our business. If you put in the necessary effort required for a few months, writing articles and submitting them to the top article directories, those articles will generate plenty of free traffic for you for years to come!
Wednesday
Time Proven Strategies To Get And Increase
Free Targeted Web Site Traffic
Today every web site in Internet is fighting for targeted web site traffic. But what are the results of this fight? Statistics says that out of 36,000,000 web sites that already exist in Internet, only few percent get real targeted visitors.
Where do these lucky web site owners get their traffic? The best way to answer this question is to look what famous Internet marketers do on their web sites to get and increase web site traffic.
Famous Internet marketing gurus: Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver, John Reese, Dan Kennedy, Jeff Mulligan, Terry Dean and others use a bundle of time-proven strategies and Internet marketing tools that give real effect in web site promotion and give free traffic.
Time proven strategies that increase free web site traffic include:
1. Find successful joint venture partners and affiliates in your niche to get targeted web site traffic for your online business.
Every business niche has top web sites: there owners are very successful with getting traffic and have targeted visitors and clients. You find top web sites in your niche, email their owners and give them affiliate offer or negotiate to become your joint-venture partners.
If you succeed, you will get access to their clients and subscribers. You will share part of your profits with the partners, but they will give you free targeted web site traffic and visitors. These partners and affiliates will become your free traffic system - a living organism that works to bring you real and targeted traffic.
2. Raise web site rank and get targeted traffic with link exchange.
Link exchange can grow web site rank and increase traffic for any web site from search engines. You must put a link to the web site in your niche (this web site should better have high page rank), and put the link to this web site on your site in return.
When search engines check you web site and see many links from other site on it, and also see many links of your web site on these sites, they "think" is really good. They give your web site a higher rank and when someone runs a search for your keywords, your web site gets to the top in found results.
So, link exchange works like an automatic and absolutely free traffic system that drives targeted traffic for any web site.
3. Get bigger effect from the traffic you drive to web site with professional mailing tools.
Mailing tools increase the quality of web site traffic. Quite often after visitors get to the web site, they spend up to 30 seconds on it and leave the web site forever. Professional mailing tools help to catch visitors and motivate them for staying on the web site for longer.
Mailing tools can educate visitors about the benefits of your products/services, mailing tools can encourage clients for more purchases with advertising campaigns, mailing tools can help you to qualify your subscribers and clients, how motivated they are for your products, what they need, etc.
Mailing tools are the voice of your web site in Internet, this voice should be professional and persuasive.
4. Increase effectivity from targeted web site traffic with URL tracking tools.
It is impossible to run any online business without the tools that help to track the response of your prospects, subscribers and clients to your text ads, to your new offers, to your advertising campaigns, etc. Without tracking you never know how targeted is your traffic.
The strategy is simple: track and check what gives you losses and what gives profits. Stick with the things that give profits, try new approaches, test them with URL tracking and stick with the things that work again. After good testing your web site will turn into a highly effective mechanism that will bring you more and more profits.
This URL tracking scheme shows if your free traffic system methods work fine and bring you any profits.
5. Use attention-catching technologies to get targeted traffic to your web site.
When visitors get to your web site, you give them some useful info or offer in the pop-up. You can give then educational course about the benefits of your products or service, useful updates on the topics that have close relation to your product or service - the most important is to motivate your visitor to submit name and email into subscription form in the pop-up window. When they subscribe, you get this visitor into you database.
Once you got the visitor into your database, you can follow up this client with more products and services that you have. You may have more products and services in future, and this visitor will be your potential client for all of them.
But be very careful. Do not flood your visitors with useless offers. If they feel you are pushing them too hard to buy something, they will
unsubscribe from your database.
These Are Not All Time-Proven Strategies That Give Free Targeted Web Site Traffic, But They Have One Drawback...
These strategies need many different Internet marketing tools, plus time and efforts to execute them and get targeted traffic.
The only solution to this problem is a tool that can automate all these strategies and run them with one web-based tool. This professional tools will save you time, money and efforts.
Thursday
5 Tips For Increased Website Traffic
There are lots of ways to get traffic to your website however most people are interested in getting the most traffic for the least amount of money, preferably for free.
While it's difficult to get anything for free nowadays there are still a few good ways to help build your web traffic and still pay nothing.
1. Build a second content-rich website.
Because content is king on the internet many have adopted the idea of building a content-rich site in addition to their original sales site.
If you set up your title, description and keyword tags carefully and find a good balance for your keyword saturation, you may be better able to achieve high search engine rankings with a site that contains only good content and information.Once you have built your content-rich site you can then use the content to point your viewers to your sales site.
2. Add an article page to your existing site.
By adding article pages to your web site you can once again point your readers to your sales page.
For example, let's say you have a website that sells vitamins. Set up a few article pages that reference vitamins such as a page on the benefits of vitamins, how to take vitamins, the effects of vitamins, etc. Allow each of the articles to reference links to your sales page.
This can be a very effective sales tactic because you've attracted the attention of someone interested in your topic. If they read your article and like what they've read they're more apt to check out your links and you've increased your chances of making a sale.Also, with proper meta tags and keyword usage, an article page is much more likely to make it to the top of a search engine listing than a sales page.
3. Submit your articles
Any articles that you write should be submitted to as many sites that accept articles as possible.
This is important because sites that accept and include your articles in their article banks establish links for you and you are not obligated to reciprocate.
4. Build your links through reciprocal linking
By establishing reciprocal links you are verifying to the search engines that you have credibility. If high ranking sites link to your site then the search engines will find you worthy of high ranking as well.
Find sites that rank well and request a link exchange. This can be done manually or you can purchase linking programs that will automate this for you. Either way spend a few weeks focusing on creating quality links and you will soon see your link ratings go up as well.
5. Join and participate in online forums.
The internet is full of discussion forums that cover hundreds of business and non-business topics.
Find a forum in your topic and look over the discussions. Ask questions, contribute your expertise and get to know some of the forum members. This is an excellent opportunity for you to meet others and introduct your website. It also helps build trust while helping you learn how others have found success.
There are lots of ways to get traffic to your website however most people are interested in getting the most traffic for the least amount of money, preferably for free.
While it's difficult to get anything for free nowadays there are still a few good ways to help build your web traffic and still pay nothing.
1. Build a second content-rich website.
Because content is king on the internet many have adopted the idea of building a content-rich site in addition to their original sales site.
If you set up your title, description and keyword tags carefully and find a good balance for your keyword saturation, you may be better able to achieve high search engine rankings with a site that contains only good content and information.Once you have built your content-rich site you can then use the content to point your viewers to your sales site.
2. Add an article page to your existing site.
By adding article pages to your web site you can once again point your readers to your sales page.
For example, let's say you have a website that sells vitamins. Set up a few article pages that reference vitamins such as a page on the benefits of vitamins, how to take vitamins, the effects of vitamins, etc. Allow each of the articles to reference links to your sales page.
This can be a very effective sales tactic because you've attracted the attention of someone interested in your topic. If they read your article and like what they've read they're more apt to check out your links and you've increased your chances of making a sale.Also, with proper meta tags and keyword usage, an article page is much more likely to make it to the top of a search engine listing than a sales page.
3. Submit your articles
Any articles that you write should be submitted to as many sites that accept articles as possible.
This is important because sites that accept and include your articles in their article banks establish links for you and you are not obligated to reciprocate.
4. Build your links through reciprocal linking
By establishing reciprocal links you are verifying to the search engines that you have credibility. If high ranking sites link to your site then the search engines will find you worthy of high ranking as well.
Find sites that rank well and request a link exchange. This can be done manually or you can purchase linking programs that will automate this for you. Either way spend a few weeks focusing on creating quality links and you will soon see your link ratings go up as well.
5. Join and participate in online forums.
The internet is full of discussion forums that cover hundreds of business and non-business topics.
Find a forum in your topic and look over the discussions. Ask questions, contribute your expertise and get to know some of the forum members. This is an excellent opportunity for you to meet others and introduct your website. It also helps build trust while helping you learn how others have found success.
Sunday
Increase Site Traffic 4 FREE
When it comes to traffic generation, all traffic is not created equal. While there are many ways to increase web site traffic, the reality is that increased traffic does not necessarily translate to greater business and profit. It's the quality of the traffic you receive that is a huge factor in business success. You need traffic that is 'targeted' to your business.
Unfortunately, the more effective ways to receive targeted traffic such as Pay-Per-Click advertising can also become quite expensive. While most of what passes for free traffic is worthless, there are legitimate ways to get free targeted traffic, and three that we use consistently to generate sign-ups for our business are Article Directories, Forums, and Newsgroups.
One of my favorite ways to get free targeted traffic is writing short articles for Article Directories. The benefits of submitting articles to these directories are numerous, and can increase you web site traffic in several ways. For starters, you'll receive traffic from people reading your articles and clicking on your link in your 'Resource Box'. You'll also receive lots of residual traffic as Ezine and other publishers use your articles for publication on their web site. In fact, some of the articles you write today will bring you traffic years from now, since once published, articles tend to stay published.
Another benefit of writing articles is that once you have published several informative or entertaining articles, people will start looking for your writings as they might for a columinist in a newspaper. People will start referring your writings to friends and business associates. The bottom line is, you won't find many better ways to create free long term traffic than by writing articles. Don't overlook this source of internet traffic.
Another one of our favorite ways to get lots of free targeted traffic is posting to forums and blogs. If you do a search for 'online forums' you'll get thousands of results. Forums and blogs are a place where people come together to communicate, teach, learn and network with other like minded people. What some overlook however is that forums and blogs are also a great way to advertise yourself and your business. When signing up, most forums will allow you to have a 'signature' which is simply a short three or four line advertisement about yourself and your business that appears everytime you make a post. This means that with each post you make, you have the potential of hundreds or even thousands of members seeing your ad, and clicking on your link.
Unfortunately, the more effective ways to receive targeted traffic such as Pay-Per-Click advertising can also become quite expensive. While most of what passes for free traffic is worthless, there are legitimate ways to get free targeted traffic, and three that we use consistently to generate sign-ups for our business are Article Directories, Forums, and Newsgroups.
One of my favorite ways to get free targeted traffic is writing short articles for Article Directories. The benefits of submitting articles to these directories are numerous, and can increase you web site traffic in several ways. For starters, you'll receive traffic from people reading your articles and clicking on your link in your 'Resource Box'. You'll also receive lots of residual traffic as Ezine and other publishers use your articles for publication on their web site. In fact, some of the articles you write today will bring you traffic years from now, since once published, articles tend to stay published.
Another benefit of writing articles is that once you have published several informative or entertaining articles, people will start looking for your writings as they might for a columinist in a newspaper. People will start referring your writings to friends and business associates. The bottom line is, you won't find many better ways to create free long term traffic than by writing articles. Don't overlook this source of internet traffic.
Another one of our favorite ways to get lots of free targeted traffic is posting to forums and blogs. If you do a search for 'online forums' you'll get thousands of results. Forums and blogs are a place where people come together to communicate, teach, learn and network with other like minded people. What some overlook however is that forums and blogs are also a great way to advertise yourself and your business. When signing up, most forums will allow you to have a 'signature' which is simply a short three or four line advertisement about yourself and your business that appears everytime you make a post. This means that with each post you make, you have the potential of hundreds or even thousands of members seeing your ad, and clicking on your link.
Another benefit of frequent postings in forums is that Google and other major search engines constantly index forums for listings. Having your links posted numerous times can increase your search engine ratings. Lastly, being a frequent poster adds legitimacy to you and your business. Being a member of an active forum can bring you lots of business. A couple of things to keep in mind when posting in forums; first, make certain that the forum allows you to include your signature. Although most will allow you to include it, some have rules that will prohibit you from adding your signature until you've posted a set number of times. Be sure to check out the terms before joining. Another thing is to make sure that your posts have relevance to the topic in discussion. Keep your posts on topic, and don't do the 'me too' kind of posts. They add nothing to the discussion, and quickly reveal your motives. Forums should definitely be a part of your plan to create free long term traffic. Sign up with a few, and start posting today!
A third way to get lots of free targeted traffic is posting to Newsgroups such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This simple process consists of posting ads at each of these sites by clicking on the 'Groups' link and signing up for Groups that relate to your interests. You'll find that each of these sites have a search feature that allow you to search for groups that are appropriate for your interests. Be aware that some groups are private, and allow posts only by the person that started the group. While these groups may have interesting or educational material, your goal is to advertise yourself, so be certain that a group allows other members to post before joining. You can also start your own group. This allows you to have a bit more control over the group discussion, and can permit you to steer the discussion in the direction you want to go. Setting up a group is a simple process that involves selecting a name for your group, creating the group, and posting. Since most groups have rules about posting and spam, don't post the same thing numerous times, or you could find that your group suddenly disappears!
When it comes to winning the website war, traffic is indeed 'king'. While some will have you believe that all traffic is good traffic, the truth is, you need laser targeted traffic to increase your chances of success. Using the combination of Article Directories, Forums, and Newsgroups will allow you to not only increase your internet traffic, but enable you to hone in your target audience.
A third way to get lots of free targeted traffic is posting to Newsgroups such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. This simple process consists of posting ads at each of these sites by clicking on the 'Groups' link and signing up for Groups that relate to your interests. You'll find that each of these sites have a search feature that allow you to search for groups that are appropriate for your interests. Be aware that some groups are private, and allow posts only by the person that started the group. While these groups may have interesting or educational material, your goal is to advertise yourself, so be certain that a group allows other members to post before joining. You can also start your own group. This allows you to have a bit more control over the group discussion, and can permit you to steer the discussion in the direction you want to go. Setting up a group is a simple process that involves selecting a name for your group, creating the group, and posting. Since most groups have rules about posting and spam, don't post the same thing numerous times, or you could find that your group suddenly disappears!
When it comes to winning the website war, traffic is indeed 'king'. While some will have you believe that all traffic is good traffic, the truth is, you need laser targeted traffic to increase your chances of success. Using the combination of Article Directories, Forums, and Newsgroups will allow you to not only increase your internet traffic, but enable you to hone in your target audience.
Article Marketing
How to Make It Work For You
Information based marketing is one of the oldest and most effective techniques for bringing targeted prospects to your site and converting them into buyers. This is part of the reason that software, and distribution services that make the process of article promotion easier are so popular lately.
Though the various tools you can use to make the process of distributing your articles more easily are invaluable in getting your content to the places that have the most potential to bring you exposure, that’s only half of the story. Getting article marketing to work for your site lies in two things:
• The article you’re submitting, and
• The preparation you do before you a single word of your content is written.
Since those two determining factors make at least 50% of the difference in bringing you success, let’s take a look at what the most common mistakes are in that area, and how to overcome them.
Mistake #1 - Confusing the Reason to Promote with Articles with the Reason to Write an Article
There are three reasons to promote an article - branding, lead generation and as a corollary, to promote your site. Yet there is only one reason to write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If your article is not geared towards this as its primary purpose, you will fail to see the three benefits of promotion - no one will want to read your article.
How many links you’re able to generate by submitting your article to hundreds of sites will matter little if you’re unable to get them picked up by publications, or read by people who search for information.
Sure, if you know what you’re doing all those links pointing back to your site will count for something in your search engine results - but remember that generating links to your site is only one part of optimizing your site for Google, Yahoo or MSN. And if everyone is doing it, the effect will be dulled.
To overcome this issue, you’ll need to figure out how to get people to read what is in your article, and then click through to your site from your resource box.
Mistake #2 - Starting The Article Promotion without a Plan
Not every article can fulfil all three purposes of promotion. Some will work better for branding, others can generate leads and increase sales. But if you don’t start out with a plan for what the function of your article should be, you’ll end up unhappy with the results.
To overcome this issue, before you write a single word, decide what purpose the article is supposed to serve. An article meant to brand you as an expert should display your knowledge. One for generating leads may need to be geared towards solving a very specific problem.
Mistake #3- Content That Doesn’t Help Your Reader
Maybe you’re thinking: “All I want is links back to my site - any visitors the article generate is gravy.”
Well guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with readers - and all it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience tenfold.
So if you want article marketing to work for you, write articles that publishers want in their publications.
This also means obeying the standard guidelines, running a spell check, or even hiring a writer to produce articles on your behalf.
Mistake #4 - Failing to Maximize the Promotional Opportunities of Article Marketing
You already know that articles marketing can help you generate additional links back to your site. But did you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from articles in a variety of ways?
You can mention your desired keyword in strategic places, though you should take care not to overdo this. Some people will also tell you to make use of anchor text, which can also is an effective method. However, you should know that the majority of directories and publications aren’t able to support this.
There are alternatives to this method that are just as effective, if not more so, but they require more space to explain.
Mistake #5 - Trying to Make One Article Do Too Much
An article just can’t do the same job as a short PDF report, an entire web site, your book, or DVD series. And it wasn’t meant to either. Stick within suggested word counts, and keep your resource box as simple as you can. Also, only about a third of your articles need to have the motive of enhancing your SEO efforts.
Remember, you can get penalized for over-optimization as well, particularly in the case of uniform anchor text.
It’s not always a great idea to pepper your article with links either. When all the links are to your own site, they probably won’t get hyperlinked anyway. Even if they do, the more your article appears to be purely about promoting your site, as opposed to providing information, the less likely that your links will be clicked.
If the links are to other sites that you’re reviewing as resources, this can work, but in the case of more than a handful of sites, it’s often a better idea to offer a free ebook from your site containing the full reviews.
Yes, your article should be as informative as you can make it, but if you find yourself near your word limit, save the rest of the tips for next time, or continue at your own site.
Mistake #6 - Leaving Them Wanting Less
What’s the point of submitting every day if your objective is to get your article picked up by a publisher? In a way, you have to think of your potential ezine publisher as a prospect as well - a confused prospect just goes away. Shoving 20 articles under their noses gives them 20 times the amount of work to do.
The issue of confusing your prospect can also be an issue if you’re only submitting to article directories as well. Think of what happens when you see a commercial for a show you’d like to see on television too often. What happens when your favorite song gets played on the radio a bit too much?
No matter how much you may love that TV show or your favorite song, there’s a point of over-saturation that causes you either to begin to ignore it - or worse yet - actually hate the very mention of it. You don’t want this to happen to your content.
There’s also the issue of pacing yourself. Every writer eventually runs into one of two problems - a lack of ideas for new material, or a lack of time to write them up. You could derail much of your efforts of increasing exposure to your site if you aren’t able to keep up the supply of content you produce.
The most common advice is to submit an article a week. Through a distribution service, or to publications that are geared towards ezine publishers who want content, this is probably best. If you’re submitting directly to article directories, more often than that may be okay if the site’s guidelines allow it - but more than that is overkill.
If you really want to send out content on a daily basis, you’re better off syndicating yourself through a blog or RSS feed at your own site and generating your own group of subscribers.
Mistake #7 - Stopping Half Way Through the Promotional Process
This has got to be the top mistake of marketers who say “This just doesn’t work for me.†True, you may start to see links or even traffic within 24 hours of your article being submitted, however, if you don’t promote your articles deeply and widely enough, you’re probably not going to see your desired results.
First of all, particularly when you’re just establishing yourself as an expert, you need to submit to as many places as you can.
Most people only submit to ten or fifteen high traffic article banks with high Google PR, not realizing that there may be up to 100 sites that will take their articles that get most of their readers via RSS , ezine publications, or even through distribution offline. My short list of places that have brought me publicity contains over 400 sites, most of which take articles on just about any topic.
So not only should you be submitting your article to more places, doing this for two weeks and then stopping is not going to bring you any long-term effects. Your first four weeks as an article marketer should see you submitting at least one article a week.
If you don’t have it in your schedule to write and submit that often, then get a ghostwriter and hire a distribution service. (Just be aware that even a distribution service won’t be able to send your articles to every single place you want to submit to.)
You could also write many articles in advance, and get someone else to do the submissions for you.
Mistake #8 - Improper Use of Past Content
One trick that some article marketers use is to attempt to recycle an article they’ve already written. That’s not to say that this technique doesn’t have potential. But you also can’t possibly expect publishers to accept content that is simply a re-hash of what they’ve already seen before.
So don’t just change the title and re-submit. Change your content as well. You can do this by re-targeting to another audience. Maybe your business tips for work at home moms could be geared towards small business if you add, remove and change a few things.
Article marketing is one of the simplest and easiest ways to increase visitors to your site if done correctly, and has inherent search engine benefits as well.
Saturday
Top Five Free Ways To Increase Website Traffic Instantly
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on website advertising, you should consider cost effective ways to promote your site for free. Some people think that you can just submit your site to the search engines and then sit back and watch the sales come in, but this is one of many Internet marketing myths.
If you used to think that you could just submit your site to hundreds of search engines and wake up in the morning with hundreds of sales. After a couple of months of aggravation and no money coming in you will realize that there must be a more effective way to do this. we came to the conclusion that it was going to take a little bit more effort to see the results webmasters wanted.
we have since learned the tested and proven methods that have worked time and time again for Internet marketers. we are going to tell you about the top 5 ways that are 100% free to increase your website traffic, and if you spend time on them and do it religiously you will find that they work consistently
1. Article Writing
These are the two major benefits of writing an article related to your website content and submitting it to free article directories:
* The people who read your article will most likely click the link in your resource box and this will send you targeted visitors to your website. If you write a informative article, people will recognize you as an expert and will want to find out more information about you and your business
* Every person who publishes your article must also include the resource box with your website link in it. The more articles you have published, the more backlinks you will have to your website. This will help increase your search engine ranking and page rank over time.
2. Posting To Forums
There are many forums on the Internet on every topic you can think of.
Many forums will allow you to attach a signature to your post. Many times this signature can include a link back to your website or a affiliate linkYou should pick a few forums to visit regularly on topics related to your website and answer questions and make informative posts. After awhile you will build a good reputation with the other members and they will trust you, and you will get free exposure to your website. Some posts receive thousands of visitors. Posting to forums can also be indexed by the search engines.
Be sure to make a useful contribution to the forum and don't just spam.
3. Reciprocal Linking
There are two main benefits to reciprocal linking:
* The more links you exchange with other websites, the more of a chance the person will click on your link leading to your website.
* More links to your site will increase your page rank and it will be perceived as more important by the search engines. There are some things to avoid when exchanging links with other websites.
* You should link to sites that will be of interest to your visitors. And also link to sites related to your site content.
* You should not link to sites that have hundreds of links on one page or a very un-organized directory, this can hurt you in the search engines. Only link to sites that have a clearly labeled link page and not hidden where no one can see or click.
* Do not post to FFA link farms. This is a waste of time and will not get you any traffic. It also might get you banned from search engines.
* Keep track of all your link exchanges with software or a contact sheet. Also make sure that your link partners have not removed your link from there website.
4. Email Signatures
This is the oldest and simplest way to get traffic to your website
Millions of us send e-mail everyday, but most of us just sign our name or nothing at all at the end of a message
Try including your name with a URL, tag line or slogan. Keep it short and to the point and avoid shouting at someone or hype. You will be amazed at how many visitors this will bring you. People will click your link out of curiosity and send traffic to your site.
5. Traffic Exchanges
This is the last and easiest way to generate free traffic to your website. You can surf for free credits or build a downline and receive free credits for the sites that they surf. our favorite site is http://www.autosurfmonster.com
So how do you grab the attention of someone who is only looking at your website for a few seconds?
* Spend some time surfing and learn what type of market it is. You are going to want to advertise a site that is going to be of interest to the people on the exchange.
Do these five free methods regularly and you should be on your way to free targeted traffic to your website which will increase with time.
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on website advertising, you should consider cost effective ways to promote your site for free. Some people think that you can just submit your site to the search engines and then sit back and watch the sales come in, but this is one of many Internet marketing myths.
If you used to think that you could just submit your site to hundreds of search engines and wake up in the morning with hundreds of sales. After a couple of months of aggravation and no money coming in you will realize that there must be a more effective way to do this. we came to the conclusion that it was going to take a little bit more effort to see the results webmasters wanted.
we have since learned the tested and proven methods that have worked time and time again for Internet marketers. we are going to tell you about the top 5 ways that are 100% free to increase your website traffic, and if you spend time on them and do it religiously you will find that they work consistently
1. Article Writing
These are the two major benefits of writing an article related to your website content and submitting it to free article directories:
* The people who read your article will most likely click the link in your resource box and this will send you targeted visitors to your website. If you write a informative article, people will recognize you as an expert and will want to find out more information about you and your business
* Every person who publishes your article must also include the resource box with your website link in it. The more articles you have published, the more backlinks you will have to your website. This will help increase your search engine ranking and page rank over time.
2. Posting To Forums
There are many forums on the Internet on every topic you can think of.
Many forums will allow you to attach a signature to your post. Many times this signature can include a link back to your website or a affiliate linkYou should pick a few forums to visit regularly on topics related to your website and answer questions and make informative posts. After awhile you will build a good reputation with the other members and they will trust you, and you will get free exposure to your website. Some posts receive thousands of visitors. Posting to forums can also be indexed by the search engines.
Be sure to make a useful contribution to the forum and don't just spam.
3. Reciprocal Linking
There are two main benefits to reciprocal linking:
* The more links you exchange with other websites, the more of a chance the person will click on your link leading to your website.
* More links to your site will increase your page rank and it will be perceived as more important by the search engines. There are some things to avoid when exchanging links with other websites.
* You should link to sites that will be of interest to your visitors. And also link to sites related to your site content.
* You should not link to sites that have hundreds of links on one page or a very un-organized directory, this can hurt you in the search engines. Only link to sites that have a clearly labeled link page and not hidden where no one can see or click.
* Do not post to FFA link farms. This is a waste of time and will not get you any traffic. It also might get you banned from search engines.
* Keep track of all your link exchanges with software or a contact sheet. Also make sure that your link partners have not removed your link from there website.
4. Email Signatures
This is the oldest and simplest way to get traffic to your website
Millions of us send e-mail everyday, but most of us just sign our name or nothing at all at the end of a message
Try including your name with a URL, tag line or slogan. Keep it short and to the point and avoid shouting at someone or hype. You will be amazed at how many visitors this will bring you. People will click your link out of curiosity and send traffic to your site.
5. Traffic Exchanges
This is the last and easiest way to generate free traffic to your website. You can surf for free credits or build a downline and receive free credits for the sites that they surf. our favorite site is http://www.autosurfmonster.com
So how do you grab the attention of someone who is only looking at your website for a few seconds?
* Spend some time surfing and learn what type of market it is. You are going to want to advertise a site that is going to be of interest to the people on the exchange.
Do these five free methods regularly and you should be on your way to free targeted traffic to your website which will increase with time.
FREE Traffic Out of Thin Air
Got blog? No, why not? Are you afraid you can't write? Maybe you think you can't set one up. Or, is it because you think you don't have the time. That's the lamest excuse of them all!
If you expect to build a list, you need people's eyeballs on your squeeze page, and blogs will do that for you. Search engines love them because they're mainly text based. All you need to do to rank high in the search engines is to make a daily entry. Try to stick to a theme, and make sure that keywords surrounding your niche are in every single post, it won't take long for your blog to be ranked. One of mine got a PR5 in less than six months, and a PR5 is great!
When Google appoints page rank, it depends on lots of factors. I don't want to get into that now, but let's just say that a PR5 will show up better in search results than a PR0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. And for that reason it will get more traffic. The goal is to get your blog into the first three pages of results, the first page being the most desirable, with the top spot as your bullseye. That position gets the most traffic of all.
But let's address the issues that are stopping you.
You think you can't write:
Well, you can. Anyone can. If you need something to help you, get a home study course and learn it. Then, sit in front of your computer or a blank sheet of paper, and just sit there. Soon, you'll begin to form ideas. Write them down. Do this for one hour, at the same time, every day. Eventually, you'll train your brain to think, "It's writing time!"
Or, find content from other places on the web. Go to one of the free article directories, like Ezine Articles or iSnare, and find content that's pertinent to your niche. Be sure to use the whole article, if you do this. Add a paragraph of introduction at the beginning and a paragraph after the author's bio box at the end, and wrap the article in your own words. If you use other people's words any other way, be sure to use less than 10% or you're plagiarizing. If you want to use any more than that, ask the author. And always give credit where credit is due.
You're still not convinced? OK, so hire a ghostwriter. You can find them easily at Elance.com or Craigslist.com, and look to pay around $10 - 15 an article. But all rights with the article and then, you can do anything you want with it, including rewriting, repurposing, rebranding with your own byline, selling it, etc.
You don't have the know-how to set up a blog:
Not many people do! But it's not a problem. If you are hosting on a cPanel server, WordPress can be installed easily by a great installer program called Fantastico. Just go into your cPanel account, and click Fantastico. Then, a whole bunch of options will probably come up. One of them will be "install WordPress blog," or something like that. You fill in a few blanks, and voila! You have your own blog. Editing the templates are another issue, and that may be a bit tricky for you, if you're not familiar with HTML or PHP.
If you don't know HTML, no worries. You can hire a programmer at places like RentaCoder.com. Tell them what you want and what you're willing to pay and you'll find someone to do the heavy lifting for you.
You don't have time for a blog:
You don't have time NOT to have a blog. Blogs are great for many reasons. First, as mentioned above search engines love them. By placing a link to your main site on your blog, you're getting a one-way link back to your site, too. That's also great for search engine optimization because search engines look at links like votes. The more one-way votes you have, the higher your site will rank. But the best thing about a blog is the traffic you'll get. Sign up for some Web2.0 sites, like StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and Spicy Page, and book mark your posts there, too. You'll get tons of traffic!
People need to see your squeeze page to sign up for your list, right? If you don't take some action to make this happen, you won't get a very big list, so get that blog going. Join some Web 2.0 sites on blogging, too, like MyBlogLog.com, Technorati.com, or FeedBlaster.com. You'll see your traffic pick up. Maybe overnight!
Tuesday
Free Article Writing Tips to Increase Website Traffic
If you're not doing so already, you may want to consider writing articles about your website's topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great way to:
Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
Establish yourself as an expert in your field
Increase your exposure on the internet
Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help your website in the search results.
Writing articles about the topic of your website is a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.
Some Article Writing Tips
To get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep the following article writing tips in mind:
Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your readers credit - they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away. Once they think they're just reading another sales pitch they will quickly click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it's one of your affiliates.
Don't include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this is unavoidable.
Which situation would you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets picked up by 10 webmasters?
Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don't write about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a keyword targeted link back to your site. I'm talking specifically about the words between the anchor tags. For example, this is how you should structure the link back to your website: keywords go here.
When the search engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable link by just having your website address (www.website.com) as the anchor text unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that having too many "uniform" links to a site may hurt you - just something to keep in mind.
Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles on their website and in their newsletters.
It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles. Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into articles. This may lead to a "duplicate content" penalty and may end up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.
How Many Articles Should I Write?
The number of articles that you will have to write really depends on how good your competitors are. If you're competing against many highly optimized websites, then you may have your work cut out for you. On the other hand, if you notice that your competitors are not all that great at the SEO thing, your road to article writing will be much shorter. Any way you look at it, writing articles can bring too many benefits that are yours for the taking.
If you're not doing so already, you may want to consider writing articles about your website's topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great way to:
Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
Establish yourself as an expert in your field
Increase your exposure on the internet
Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help your website in the search results.
Writing articles about the topic of your website is a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.
Some Article Writing Tips
To get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep the following article writing tips in mind:
Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your readers credit - they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away. Once they think they're just reading another sales pitch they will quickly click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it's one of your affiliates.
Don't include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this is unavoidable.
Which situation would you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets picked up by 10 webmasters?
Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don't write about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a keyword targeted link back to your site. I'm talking specifically about the words between the anchor tags. For example, this is how you should structure the link back to your website: keywords go here.
When the search engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable link by just having your website address (www.website.com) as the anchor text unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that having too many "uniform" links to a site may hurt you - just something to keep in mind.
Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles on their website and in their newsletters.
It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles. Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into articles. This may lead to a "duplicate content" penalty and may end up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.
How Many Articles Should I Write?
The number of articles that you will have to write really depends on how good your competitors are. If you're competing against many highly optimized websites, then you may have your work cut out for you. On the other hand, if you notice that your competitors are not all that great at the SEO thing, your road to article writing will be much shorter. Any way you look at it, writing articles can bring too many benefits that are yours for the taking.
Free Website Traffic in 80 Minutes
Here is a website traffic strategy that takes less than 90 minutes to implement, but generates free website traffic on an ongoing basis - potentially for years.
It operates on the principle that "long tail" keywords have very low competition, so your ability to rank on the first page of the search results on Google, Yahoo and MSN is not only easy, but fast as well.
Here is how you do it:
Use a keyword research tool like Wordtracker.com to research keywords related to the topic of your website. Use their "competition search" function in order to find out the number of competing websites on Google. (For more details on how to do this, click the link at the end of this article for a free resource guide.)
Browse through the keyword results and look for keywords with a predicted 24-hour search volume greater than 10, but with a "google" competing pages count of less than 1000.
Why a competition rate of 1000? Isn't that a lot? Well surprisingly enough, the number of supposedly-competing pages is not really representative of the true number of pages actively trying to rank high for any given term.
The number simply represents how many web pages happen to contain the particular keyword phrase we're looking at. In fact, taking any given competition number, probably as few as 1% of those web pages are actively trying to rank high for that keyword. That means that if there are 1,000 web pages bearing a particular keyword, only perhaps 10 of them are actively competing for it.
Thus with fewer than 10 active competitors, the prospect of ranking on the first page (i.e. the top 10) of search results is very good.
Let's look at an example.
Suppose we do some keyword research for the keyword phrase "dog food." Wordtracker shows that there will be a predicted 1358 searches every day for that term. However, there are 1.6 million competing web pages. For sure, ranking on the first page for that term could be a "home run" in terms of traffic, but there would be an enormous amount of competition for that first page. Even 1% of 1.6 million is still 16,000 active competitors.
The chances of outranking 15,990 of them are slim to none. This is a polite way of saying that shooting for that particular term is a gigantic waste of time. The predicted search volume of 1358 searches per day is a red herring. It's distracting. It's irrelevant. It only matters to the top 10 web pages, and that isn't going to be you. So don't let it sway you into wasting time targeting that keyword.
Instead, consider some of the "long tail" keyword phrases, their predicted daily search volume, and their competing web pages:
"top ten dog foods", 88 searches/day, 1040 competing web pages
"hypoallergenic dog food", 86 searches/day, 539 competing web pages
"best dog foods ranked", 86 searches/day, 1010 competing web pages
"best dry dog food", 70 searches/day, 511 competing web pages
"dog raw food diet", 68 searches/day, 333 competing web pages
"recipes for homemade dog foods", 67 searches/day, 110 competing web pages
And the list goes on. And on.
So, just for these 6 terms alone, there are an estimated 465 searches per day. If you could rank on the first page of the search results, how much traffic do you think you'd get? Well clearly it would depend on whether you were in the first one or two spots, or lower down the page. But assuming just 10% of the searchers visited your website, that's still 46 visitors per day just by targeting 6 achievable keywords.
Think how much traffic you'd get if you targeted 60. Or 600.
But before we get too carried away, we have to talk about two more steps. Knowing what keywords to target is crucial, but actually doing the work to compete for them is what makes everything work.
First, you need to create a web page on your website that caters to the desired term. Your best results will come if you "theme" your website, so that all the web pages that talk about dog food, for example, link only to other pages that talk about dog food, and not to any other topics or websites.
Then on the specific page in question, you need to create some content. Not necessarily a huge amount - but some. You need to include the keyword phrase you are targeting in the Title tag of your web page, and again a number of times in the text on your web page. Don't over-do it, but just write naturally using your keyword whenever it makes sense to do so. Don't over-think your web content. It's important, but not critical. The really important bit comes next.
Write an article. Make it 400-600 words and write it "about" whatever keyword phrase you want to target. At the end of the article, you have a "resource box" in which you can place a link back to your website. Instead of merely linking to your domain name, link directly to the keyword-specific page you just created. And when forming the link, ensure that the keyword phrase appears in the text of the link (called the "anchor text").
Then distribute your article to article sites around the Internet. You can submit it to sites like ezinearticles.com and isnare.com for good exposure. You can also sign up for a service such as articlemarketer.com for maximum exposure.
Over the coming weeks, your article will be picked up by dozens - perhaps hundreds - of websites, all linking back to your new web page. It won't be long before your new web page rockets to the top of the search engines.
So, how much of your time does this whole operation take? It depends. Probably less than 90 minutes. Keyword research takes about 10 minutes, writing web page content about 20 minutes, and writing and distributing a short article about an hour.
Of course, it won't be long before you'll want to hire out the task of article and content writing. This way you'll get far more web pages done because you'll have other people doing the work. Elance.com or rentacoder.com are excellent venues to find writers who will create content and articles for you for between $5 and $10 per article.
This strategy is tremendously scaleable and can bring you an enormous amount of free website traffic. It has brought success to many an Internet marketer, and it will for you too if you simply follow it. There are new keywords and phrases being used every day as new products are invented and new ideas become popular. This means that the supply of achievable "long tail" keywords will never be exhausted and you can have as much free website traffic as you want.
Here is a website traffic strategy that takes less than 90 minutes to implement, but generates free website traffic on an ongoing basis - potentially for years.
It operates on the principle that "long tail" keywords have very low competition, so your ability to rank on the first page of the search results on Google, Yahoo and MSN is not only easy, but fast as well.
Here is how you do it:
Use a keyword research tool like Wordtracker.com to research keywords related to the topic of your website. Use their "competition search" function in order to find out the number of competing websites on Google. (For more details on how to do this, click the link at the end of this article for a free resource guide.)
Browse through the keyword results and look for keywords with a predicted 24-hour search volume greater than 10, but with a "google" competing pages count of less than 1000.
Why a competition rate of 1000? Isn't that a lot? Well surprisingly enough, the number of supposedly-competing pages is not really representative of the true number of pages actively trying to rank high for any given term.
The number simply represents how many web pages happen to contain the particular keyword phrase we're looking at. In fact, taking any given competition number, probably as few as 1% of those web pages are actively trying to rank high for that keyword. That means that if there are 1,000 web pages bearing a particular keyword, only perhaps 10 of them are actively competing for it.
Thus with fewer than 10 active competitors, the prospect of ranking on the first page (i.e. the top 10) of search results is very good.
Let's look at an example.
Suppose we do some keyword research for the keyword phrase "dog food." Wordtracker shows that there will be a predicted 1358 searches every day for that term. However, there are 1.6 million competing web pages. For sure, ranking on the first page for that term could be a "home run" in terms of traffic, but there would be an enormous amount of competition for that first page. Even 1% of 1.6 million is still 16,000 active competitors.
The chances of outranking 15,990 of them are slim to none. This is a polite way of saying that shooting for that particular term is a gigantic waste of time. The predicted search volume of 1358 searches per day is a red herring. It's distracting. It's irrelevant. It only matters to the top 10 web pages, and that isn't going to be you. So don't let it sway you into wasting time targeting that keyword.
Instead, consider some of the "long tail" keyword phrases, their predicted daily search volume, and their competing web pages:
"top ten dog foods", 88 searches/day, 1040 competing web pages
"hypoallergenic dog food", 86 searches/day, 539 competing web pages
"best dog foods ranked", 86 searches/day, 1010 competing web pages
"best dry dog food", 70 searches/day, 511 competing web pages
"dog raw food diet", 68 searches/day, 333 competing web pages
"recipes for homemade dog foods", 67 searches/day, 110 competing web pages
And the list goes on. And on.
So, just for these 6 terms alone, there are an estimated 465 searches per day. If you could rank on the first page of the search results, how much traffic do you think you'd get? Well clearly it would depend on whether you were in the first one or two spots, or lower down the page. But assuming just 10% of the searchers visited your website, that's still 46 visitors per day just by targeting 6 achievable keywords.
Think how much traffic you'd get if you targeted 60. Or 600.
But before we get too carried away, we have to talk about two more steps. Knowing what keywords to target is crucial, but actually doing the work to compete for them is what makes everything work.
First, you need to create a web page on your website that caters to the desired term. Your best results will come if you "theme" your website, so that all the web pages that talk about dog food, for example, link only to other pages that talk about dog food, and not to any other topics or websites.
Then on the specific page in question, you need to create some content. Not necessarily a huge amount - but some. You need to include the keyword phrase you are targeting in the Title tag of your web page, and again a number of times in the text on your web page. Don't over-do it, but just write naturally using your keyword whenever it makes sense to do so. Don't over-think your web content. It's important, but not critical. The really important bit comes next.
Write an article. Make it 400-600 words and write it "about" whatever keyword phrase you want to target. At the end of the article, you have a "resource box" in which you can place a link back to your website. Instead of merely linking to your domain name, link directly to the keyword-specific page you just created. And when forming the link, ensure that the keyword phrase appears in the text of the link (called the "anchor text").
Then distribute your article to article sites around the Internet. You can submit it to sites like ezinearticles.com and isnare.com for good exposure. You can also sign up for a service such as articlemarketer.com for maximum exposure.
Over the coming weeks, your article will be picked up by dozens - perhaps hundreds - of websites, all linking back to your new web page. It won't be long before your new web page rockets to the top of the search engines.
So, how much of your time does this whole operation take? It depends. Probably less than 90 minutes. Keyword research takes about 10 minutes, writing web page content about 20 minutes, and writing and distributing a short article about an hour.
Of course, it won't be long before you'll want to hire out the task of article and content writing. This way you'll get far more web pages done because you'll have other people doing the work. Elance.com or rentacoder.com are excellent venues to find writers who will create content and articles for you for between $5 and $10 per article.
This strategy is tremendously scaleable and can bring you an enormous amount of free website traffic. It has brought success to many an Internet marketer, and it will for you too if you simply follow it. There are new keywords and phrases being used every day as new products are invented and new ideas become popular. This means that the supply of achievable "long tail" keywords will never be exhausted and you can have as much free website traffic as you want.
Interested In Free Targeted Traffic
How to Get Free Targeted Internet Traffic to Your Website
No matter what opportunity or product you promote via the internet you do not have a business unless you have customers. One way to increase sales is to increase your customer base, this means more visitor traffic. If you are not interested in free web traffic, congratulations, you must have deep pockets or all ready have more than you can handle. For those who are interested in free web traffic, read on.
Just getting large numbers of visitors to websites is not enough. These visits have to turn into sales. A chance or uninterested visitor is little better than no visitor. Every site needs targeted visitors. Your site needs people who have seen your message and have had their interest peeked. With a targeted market approximately 3 visitors for every 100 will make purchases. Without targeted visitors this conversion rate drops significantly.
Throughout this article you will encounter numerous ways to increase your web traffic. This traffic will be well targeted free leads, all through online marketing methods.
Do you like to be sold, or pushed into a sale? Like most the answer is a definitive NO. One of my mentors has instilled in me the importance of building relationships as apposed to selling someone. Once the person gets to know, like, and trust you they will be more willing to join you in your opportunity or buy product from you. Remember, know, like, trust, buy!
Free Traffic and Message Boards
Relating this principle to free internet marketing, we suggest you visit message boards. These boards are so effective that we still receive requests and referrals from posts made over a year ago. Visit various boards post messages, meet people, ask questions, share your wisdom, and words of encouragement.
Suggested tips to keep in mind when posting to message boards. Remember you are there to build relationships, you want people to know, like and trust you.
Do not spam: - do not post the same thing over and over
- post something meaningful and relevant to the conversation
- do not advertise unless otherwise specified
- do not participate in negative postings about others (criticize or flame)
To make the most of message boards and insure highly targeted traffic to your website:
- select boards that pertain to your product or opportunity
- get your name out and popularity up, post a response to a question or simply post a question yourself
- include a signature file with your name and URL, no email. This can be placed in the profile page. It is a good idea to set-up a second email because, you will get spam
- spend one or two evenings a week posting on several different message boards
- be genuine, helpful, and try to learn a few things
- HAVE FUN and MAKE FRIENDS
Free Traffic and Traffic Generation Sites
Traffic generation sites can be good and bad. Most are not worth your time, however, there are a few good ones, so choose with care. We recommend http://www.Autosurfmonster.com . This site is better than most because people really view your site.
Free Traffic and Viral Marketing
Let others help with your marketing efforts. You can have strangers pass your site to others and span the globe with viral marketing. Create viral marketing with a free e-book or inviting email, it is powerful and free. To start a viral marketing campaign that grows exponentially and without effort send a witty or clever joke, picture, or poem to people in your address book. If enjoyed the recipient will pass it on to those in their list and so on. You may have received the Bill Gates free offer in your own box. This email has been circulated around the world for over three years and seen by countless. Be sure to include your url with a heading, either near the bottom or in a signature file. Do this once a month and watch your web traffic grow.
Pass on a free e-book with you contact details inside. Encourage others to add it to their websites and offer your branded e-book to everyone. As part of your introduction include your website and a message stating that the e-book is free and is to be passed along, so long as nothing is changed or altered. This includes your bio, contact information and links to your site. Cannot write? No problem. There are thousands of books available for you to co-brand and start your viral trail.
Free Traffic and Joint Ventures
Setting up joint ventures may be the most powerful free method available to increase targeted traffic. Joint ventures are simply colorations or partnerships between two or more people or businesses. It is not essential that the partnerships even be in related businesses, though helpful. Just about any combination will work. Obviously competing businesses are not a wise or practical option for a joint venture. That still leaves plenty of other partners. There is no limit to what can be done with this marketing technique. The venture can be as simple as trading client databases, or it can be an elaborate cross promotions with contests and giveaway. A joint venture is only limited by the creativity of the parties involved. If you have the right partner this will do wonders for your credibility and, the know, like, trust, buy formula for success.
Free Traffic and Meta Tags
Meta tags are very important. If you are not an expert on tags, we highly suggest you research Meta tags optimization techniques. To have a Google spider find you and have you listed will do wonders for your traffic. Never pay to have your site listed, there are too many ways to have it listed. Too often these pay sites will not do what is promised or what you could do with a little effort.
Free Traffic and Offline Marketing Techniques
To maximize your online presence you have to go offline and bring foot traffic to the web as targeted web traffic. Here are a few low cost offline marketing techniques that will give you added visibility and translate to a more powerful web presence. Turn your automobile into a mini billboard. Place bumper stickers and magnet signs on your vehicle. Leave a business card wherever possible. One suggestion is to leave it with your tip at a restaurant. Hang flyers on high traffic bulletin boards, be sure to leave a pull tab. Change your body into a walking billboard for your opportunity and products instead of someone else’s. How often do you promote Nike, Polo, Guess, or a professional sports team? Start promoting yourself and get your clothes embroidered. It does not have to be anything fancy, a good descriptive url will work.
Free Traffic and Your URL
One last tip. As we mentioned before, we get traffic from posts that are over a year old. Once something is on the internet it is there for good. The url you promote should be permanent. This is important because anything could happen. What if you are no longer with the same company? All previous links to that business are now useless. If you have one url and it either links or redirects to you business opportunity and products you simply have to change the link or redirect page. You will always get a hit when someone clicks on your link.
We hope you enjoyed the article and wish you all the best with you business venture. We are sure you are well on you way to becoming a successful internet marketing professional.
How to Get Free Targeted Internet Traffic to Your Website
No matter what opportunity or product you promote via the internet you do not have a business unless you have customers. One way to increase sales is to increase your customer base, this means more visitor traffic. If you are not interested in free web traffic, congratulations, you must have deep pockets or all ready have more than you can handle. For those who are interested in free web traffic, read on.
Just getting large numbers of visitors to websites is not enough. These visits have to turn into sales. A chance or uninterested visitor is little better than no visitor. Every site needs targeted visitors. Your site needs people who have seen your message and have had their interest peeked. With a targeted market approximately 3 visitors for every 100 will make purchases. Without targeted visitors this conversion rate drops significantly.
Throughout this article you will encounter numerous ways to increase your web traffic. This traffic will be well targeted free leads, all through online marketing methods.
Do you like to be sold, or pushed into a sale? Like most the answer is a definitive NO. One of my mentors has instilled in me the importance of building relationships as apposed to selling someone. Once the person gets to know, like, and trust you they will be more willing to join you in your opportunity or buy product from you. Remember, know, like, trust, buy!
Free Traffic and Message Boards
Relating this principle to free internet marketing, we suggest you visit message boards. These boards are so effective that we still receive requests and referrals from posts made over a year ago. Visit various boards post messages, meet people, ask questions, share your wisdom, and words of encouragement.
Suggested tips to keep in mind when posting to message boards. Remember you are there to build relationships, you want people to know, like and trust you.
Do not spam: - do not post the same thing over and over
- post something meaningful and relevant to the conversation
- do not advertise unless otherwise specified
- do not participate in negative postings about others (criticize or flame)
To make the most of message boards and insure highly targeted traffic to your website:
- select boards that pertain to your product or opportunity
- get your name out and popularity up, post a response to a question or simply post a question yourself
- include a signature file with your name and URL, no email. This can be placed in the profile page. It is a good idea to set-up a second email because, you will get spam
- spend one or two evenings a week posting on several different message boards
- be genuine, helpful, and try to learn a few things
- HAVE FUN and MAKE FRIENDS
Free Traffic and Traffic Generation Sites
Traffic generation sites can be good and bad. Most are not worth your time, however, there are a few good ones, so choose with care. We recommend http://www.Autosurfmonster.com . This site is better than most because people really view your site.
Free Traffic and Viral Marketing
Let others help with your marketing efforts. You can have strangers pass your site to others and span the globe with viral marketing. Create viral marketing with a free e-book or inviting email, it is powerful and free. To start a viral marketing campaign that grows exponentially and without effort send a witty or clever joke, picture, or poem to people in your address book. If enjoyed the recipient will pass it on to those in their list and so on. You may have received the Bill Gates free offer in your own box. This email has been circulated around the world for over three years and seen by countless. Be sure to include your url with a heading, either near the bottom or in a signature file. Do this once a month and watch your web traffic grow.
Pass on a free e-book with you contact details inside. Encourage others to add it to their websites and offer your branded e-book to everyone. As part of your introduction include your website and a message stating that the e-book is free and is to be passed along, so long as nothing is changed or altered. This includes your bio, contact information and links to your site. Cannot write? No problem. There are thousands of books available for you to co-brand and start your viral trail.
Free Traffic and Joint Ventures
Setting up joint ventures may be the most powerful free method available to increase targeted traffic. Joint ventures are simply colorations or partnerships between two or more people or businesses. It is not essential that the partnerships even be in related businesses, though helpful. Just about any combination will work. Obviously competing businesses are not a wise or practical option for a joint venture. That still leaves plenty of other partners. There is no limit to what can be done with this marketing technique. The venture can be as simple as trading client databases, or it can be an elaborate cross promotions with contests and giveaway. A joint venture is only limited by the creativity of the parties involved. If you have the right partner this will do wonders for your credibility and, the know, like, trust, buy formula for success.
Free Traffic and Meta Tags
Meta tags are very important. If you are not an expert on tags, we highly suggest you research Meta tags optimization techniques. To have a Google spider find you and have you listed will do wonders for your traffic. Never pay to have your site listed, there are too many ways to have it listed. Too often these pay sites will not do what is promised or what you could do with a little effort.
Free Traffic and Offline Marketing Techniques
To maximize your online presence you have to go offline and bring foot traffic to the web as targeted web traffic. Here are a few low cost offline marketing techniques that will give you added visibility and translate to a more powerful web presence. Turn your automobile into a mini billboard. Place bumper stickers and magnet signs on your vehicle. Leave a business card wherever possible. One suggestion is to leave it with your tip at a restaurant. Hang flyers on high traffic bulletin boards, be sure to leave a pull tab. Change your body into a walking billboard for your opportunity and products instead of someone else’s. How often do you promote Nike, Polo, Guess, or a professional sports team? Start promoting yourself and get your clothes embroidered. It does not have to be anything fancy, a good descriptive url will work.
Free Traffic and Your URL
One last tip. As we mentioned before, we get traffic from posts that are over a year old. Once something is on the internet it is there for good. The url you promote should be permanent. This is important because anything could happen. What if you are no longer with the same company? All previous links to that business are now useless. If you have one url and it either links or redirects to you business opportunity and products you simply have to change the link or redirect page. You will always get a hit when someone clicks on your link.
We hope you enjoyed the article and wish you all the best with you business venture. We are sure you are well on you way to becoming a successful internet marketing professional.
Sunday
Strategies To Get And
Increase Free Targeted Web Site Traffic
Today every web site in Internet is fighting for targeted web site traffic. But what are the results of this fight? Statistics says that out of 36,000,000 web sites that already exist in Internet, only few percent get real targeted visitors.
Where do these lucky web site owners get their traffic? The best way to answer this question is to look what famous Internet marketers do on their web sites to get and increase web site traffic.
Famous Internet marketing gurus: Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver, John Reese, Dan Kennedy, Jeff Mulligan, Terry Dean and others use a bundle of time-proven strategies and Internet marketing tools that give real effect in web site promotion and give free traffic.
Time proven strategies that increase free web site traffic include:
1. Find successful joint venture partners and affiliates in your niche to get targeted web site traffic for your online business.
Every business niche has top web sites: there owners are very successful with getting traffic and have targeted visitors and clients. You find top web sites in your niche, email their owners and give them affiliate offer or negotiate to become your joint-venture partners.
If you succeed, you will get access to their clients and subscribers. You will share part of your profits with the partners, but they will give you free targeted web site traffic and visitors. These partners and affiliates will become your free traffic system - a living organism that works to bring you real and targeted traffic.
2. Raise web site rank and get targeted traffic with link exchange.
Link exchange can grow web site rank and increase traffic for any web site from search engines. You must put a link to the web site in your niche (this web site should better have high page rank), and put the link to this web site on your site in return.
When search engines check you web site and see many links from other site on it, and also see many links of your web site on these sites, they "think" is really good. They give your web site a higher rank and when someone runs a search for your keywords, your web site gets to the top in found results.
So, link exchange works like an automatic and absolutely free traffic system that drives targeted traffic for any web site.
3. Get bigger effect from the traffic you drive to web site with professional mailing tools.
Mailing tools increase the quality of web site traffic. Quite often after visitors get to the web site, they spend up to 30 seconds on it and leave the web site forever. Professional mailing tools help to catch visitors and motivate them for staying on the web site for longer.
Mailing tools can educate visitors about the benefits of your products/services, mailing tools can encourage clients for more purchases with advertising campaigns, mailing tools can help you to qualify your subscribers and clients, how motivated they are for your products, what they need, etc.
Mailing tools are the voice of your web site in Internet, this voice should be professional and persuasive.
4. Increase effectivity from targeted web site traffic with URL tracking tools.
It is impossible to run any online business without the tools that help to track the response of your prospects, subscribers and clients to your text ads, to your new offers, to your advertising campaigns, etc. Without tracking you never know how targeted is your traffic.
The strategy is simple: track and check what gives you losses and what gives profits. Stick with the things that give profits, try new approaches, test them with URL tracking and stick with the things that work again. After good testing your web site will turn into a highly effective mechanism that will bring you more and more profits.
This URL tracking scheme shows if your free traffic system methods work fine and bring you any profits.
5. Use attention-catching technologies to get targeted traffic to your web site.
When visitors get to your web site, you give them some useful info or offer in the pop-up. You can give then educational course about the benefits of your products or service, useful updates on the topics that have close relation to your product or service - the most important is to motivate your visitor to submit name and email into subscription form in the pop-up window. When they subscribe, you get this visitor into you database.
Once you got the visitor into your database, you can follow up this client with more products and services that you have. You may have more products and services in future, and this visitor will be your potential client for all of them.
But be very careful. Do not flood your visitors with useless offers. If they feel you are pushing them too hard to buy something, they will
unsubscribe from your database.
These Are Not All Time-Proven Strategies That Give Free Targeted Web Site Traffic, But They Have One Drawback...
These strategies need many different Internet marketing tools, plus time and efforts to execute them and get targeted traffic.
The only solution to this problem is a tool that can automate all these strategies and run them with one web-based tool. This professional tools will save you time, money and efforts.
Increase Free Targeted Web Site Traffic
Today every web site in Internet is fighting for targeted web site traffic. But what are the results of this fight? Statistics says that out of 36,000,000 web sites that already exist in Internet, only few percent get real targeted visitors.
Where do these lucky web site owners get their traffic? The best way to answer this question is to look what famous Internet marketers do on their web sites to get and increase web site traffic.
Famous Internet marketing gurus: Joe Vitale, Yanik Silver, John Reese, Dan Kennedy, Jeff Mulligan, Terry Dean and others use a bundle of time-proven strategies and Internet marketing tools that give real effect in web site promotion and give free traffic.
Time proven strategies that increase free web site traffic include:
1. Find successful joint venture partners and affiliates in your niche to get targeted web site traffic for your online business.
Every business niche has top web sites: there owners are very successful with getting traffic and have targeted visitors and clients. You find top web sites in your niche, email their owners and give them affiliate offer or negotiate to become your joint-venture partners.
If you succeed, you will get access to their clients and subscribers. You will share part of your profits with the partners, but they will give you free targeted web site traffic and visitors. These partners and affiliates will become your free traffic system - a living organism that works to bring you real and targeted traffic.
2. Raise web site rank and get targeted traffic with link exchange.
Link exchange can grow web site rank and increase traffic for any web site from search engines. You must put a link to the web site in your niche (this web site should better have high page rank), and put the link to this web site on your site in return.
When search engines check you web site and see many links from other site on it, and also see many links of your web site on these sites, they "think" is really good. They give your web site a higher rank and when someone runs a search for your keywords, your web site gets to the top in found results.
So, link exchange works like an automatic and absolutely free traffic system that drives targeted traffic for any web site.
3. Get bigger effect from the traffic you drive to web site with professional mailing tools.
Mailing tools increase the quality of web site traffic. Quite often after visitors get to the web site, they spend up to 30 seconds on it and leave the web site forever. Professional mailing tools help to catch visitors and motivate them for staying on the web site for longer.
Mailing tools can educate visitors about the benefits of your products/services, mailing tools can encourage clients for more purchases with advertising campaigns, mailing tools can help you to qualify your subscribers and clients, how motivated they are for your products, what they need, etc.
Mailing tools are the voice of your web site in Internet, this voice should be professional and persuasive.
4. Increase effectivity from targeted web site traffic with URL tracking tools.
It is impossible to run any online business without the tools that help to track the response of your prospects, subscribers and clients to your text ads, to your new offers, to your advertising campaigns, etc. Without tracking you never know how targeted is your traffic.
The strategy is simple: track and check what gives you losses and what gives profits. Stick with the things that give profits, try new approaches, test them with URL tracking and stick with the things that work again. After good testing your web site will turn into a highly effective mechanism that will bring you more and more profits.
This URL tracking scheme shows if your free traffic system methods work fine and bring you any profits.
5. Use attention-catching technologies to get targeted traffic to your web site.
When visitors get to your web site, you give them some useful info or offer in the pop-up. You can give then educational course about the benefits of your products or service, useful updates on the topics that have close relation to your product or service - the most important is to motivate your visitor to submit name and email into subscription form in the pop-up window. When they subscribe, you get this visitor into you database.
Once you got the visitor into your database, you can follow up this client with more products and services that you have. You may have more products and services in future, and this visitor will be your potential client for all of them.
But be very careful. Do not flood your visitors with useless offers. If they feel you are pushing them too hard to buy something, they will
unsubscribe from your database.
These Are Not All Time-Proven Strategies That Give Free Targeted Web Site Traffic, But They Have One Drawback...
These strategies need many different Internet marketing tools, plus time and efforts to execute them and get targeted traffic.
The only solution to this problem is a tool that can automate all these strategies and run them with one web-based tool. This professional tools will save you time, money and efforts.
Web Site Traffic Strategy To Get Targeted Visitors And Convert Them Into Loyal Customers
Targeted web site traffic is crucial for every web site. But there are many web sites, and all they are different. Is it possible to make a universal plan of actions for getting targeted web site traffic to any type of web site? Actually such plan of actions already exists.
This universal plan to get targeted web site traffic can be split into three main stages:
(1) Getting Targeted Web Site Traffic
(2) Growing The Client Base And Getting More Sales
(3) Adjusting Web Site To Current Online Market Requirements
So, let's briefly cover all the stages. You will see how this plan of actions may fit any online business you have.
Start Up - Get Targeted Web Site Traffic
Step # 1. Find joint venture partners and affiliates in your niche.
If you do this manually, then you just have to submit your major niche keywords into search engine and find top 'competitors' in your niche. You will turn these competitors into your allies.
Step # 2. Get email addresses and names of your partners and affiliates-to-be.
You need to scroll the found web sites and get contact data: email and web site owner name. If you do not find this data on the web site, you can look in WHOIS for it. After these two steps you have gathered your own base of successful web sites in your niche. Time to make the next step.
Step # 3. Send a joint venture or affiliate offer.
This step is both easy and difficult. Easy because you already have database with web site owners' names and their email addresses: you can use any mass mailing tool to send these people your offer. If you personalize your message with name of a person whom you are writing, this will not be qualified as SPAM. Personalization is very important for your JV and affiliate finding campaign.
The offer itself should be very, very attractive. Do not try to cheat your future partners saying that your web site has huge traffic, if it does not. Better show them the potential of your web site and the potential for extra profits they can make with you. All web sites were starting from something: it is not bad if you still have not gained much, it is bad if you do not know how to make profit from what you have.
Note # 1: JV partners and affiliates will make a great job for you - they will bring targeted visitors to your web site and advertise your offers to their clients or to the targeted online audience. Make sure to offer them good conditions of cooperation: the more motivated they are to work with you, the better they will work to give you targeted web site traffic or advertise your offers.
Note # 2: First three steps may take much time to be done. But today there are many web-based tools that do this job automatically. This will save you much time and efforts, and turn hours of work into minutes.
Grow The Client Base - Getting More Sales
Step # 4. Set up link exchange directory.
It is very important that many web sites should have links to your web site. But even more important is that these web sites should be from your business niche. These web sites should be found by the keywords that you want other people to find your web site with.
If you have many relevant links in your directory, search engines will 'think' that your web site is a real magnet in the niche, and these search engines will automatically raise your web site status. The bigger is your status, the more targeted web site traffic you will get to your web site.
One more tip: the best way is to convince your link exchange partner to exchange links on home pages of your web site. It is not very easy to do, but it is possible, and it will give great results.
STEP # 5. Use autoresponders to convert prospects into clients.
Internet statistics says that usual web site visitor averagely stays on web page for about 20 seconds. If this visitor found nothing interesting on your web site during this time, the visitor may leave your web site forever. Autoresponder will help you to catch this visitor and get the visitor back to your web site any time you wish.
Autoresponders have the magic power of follow upping. With autoresponder you can educate and motivate your visitors to use your offers and grow your client base at the same time.
You put on your web site a subscription form which offers your web site visitors to get more interesting info/product discount/special offer/download materials for free. Once they have entered their name and email address to subscription form, you got them into your own database. Now they are your prospects. Make sure that you give your prospects really interesting info which has close relation to the specifics of your web site.
You can give some educational materials, or you can give articles with reprint rights about the benefits of your product/service, you can give fresh updates about important events of your niche market, etc. Give them all you can to get prospects back to your web site ready for some action on it.
The more prospects you have in your mailing list, the more targeted traffic you will get, and the more sales you will make.
STEP # 6. Convert traffic into sales.
Use mailing list, autoresponder and URL tracking tools to raise the effectivity of your offers. Check what offers give better response, use them more, improve them - work with your clients. Let them feel your personal care about their needs.
The number of strategies here is unlimited. It can only be limited with your imagination and desire to work. The core principle is simple: you have targeted traffic - what it may need. Materials, discounts, advertising copies, bonuses, free gifts, additional/supplementary products of your 'competitors' (you see, now you are very useful for JV partnership even to the most successful web sites in your niche).
If you are right about what your clients may need, they will surely buy it, subscribe for it, reserve a bonus copy of it, etc.
Adjust Your Web Site To Current Online Market Requirements
Step # 7. Check what gives money and what gives losses.
Use URL tracking tools to check what strategies, ads, web page texts, online campaigns give nice results - stick to them. If you see that something gives losses - eradicate useless efforts.
URL tracking is the tool for getting the real picture of your business. You may be absolutely sure that your ad copy #1 is better than ad copy #2, but unless you tried it - this is just a suggestion. However if your ULR tracking tool shows that ad copy #1 was clicked 70 times and ad copy #2 was clicked 500 times, this is statistic data.
Do not run your business with closed eyes. Track what brings you profits, and what gives losses. And go with the things that give you profits.
Step # 8. Make necessary changes to web site.
Once you found that any element on your web site needs changes, do the changes immediately. The best way to make changes is by using content management system. Content managements systems are easy: if you have ever worked with WordPad or any other word processor, you already know how to use content management system.
Make necessary changes to get more profits from your web site.
Step # Last. Test, test, test - this is not a new suggestion, but a very important one. Always keep your hand on the pulse of your online business.
Summary.
As you can see, this plan of actions can be applied to any web site.
The steps are not detailed, but now you know that getting free targeted web site traffic is not a myth. It is just a matter of special tips and techniques. Try this plan of actions and see how it will work for you.
Targeted web site traffic is crucial for every web site. But there are many web sites, and all they are different. Is it possible to make a universal plan of actions for getting targeted web site traffic to any type of web site? Actually such plan of actions already exists.
This universal plan to get targeted web site traffic can be split into three main stages:
(1) Getting Targeted Web Site Traffic
(2) Growing The Client Base And Getting More Sales
(3) Adjusting Web Site To Current Online Market Requirements
So, let's briefly cover all the stages. You will see how this plan of actions may fit any online business you have.
Start Up - Get Targeted Web Site Traffic
Step # 1. Find joint venture partners and affiliates in your niche.
If you do this manually, then you just have to submit your major niche keywords into search engine and find top 'competitors' in your niche. You will turn these competitors into your allies.
Step # 2. Get email addresses and names of your partners and affiliates-to-be.
You need to scroll the found web sites and get contact data: email and web site owner name. If you do not find this data on the web site, you can look in WHOIS for it. After these two steps you have gathered your own base of successful web sites in your niche. Time to make the next step.
Step # 3. Send a joint venture or affiliate offer.
This step is both easy and difficult. Easy because you already have database with web site owners' names and their email addresses: you can use any mass mailing tool to send these people your offer. If you personalize your message with name of a person whom you are writing, this will not be qualified as SPAM. Personalization is very important for your JV and affiliate finding campaign.
The offer itself should be very, very attractive. Do not try to cheat your future partners saying that your web site has huge traffic, if it does not. Better show them the potential of your web site and the potential for extra profits they can make with you. All web sites were starting from something: it is not bad if you still have not gained much, it is bad if you do not know how to make profit from what you have.
Note # 1: JV partners and affiliates will make a great job for you - they will bring targeted visitors to your web site and advertise your offers to their clients or to the targeted online audience. Make sure to offer them good conditions of cooperation: the more motivated they are to work with you, the better they will work to give you targeted web site traffic or advertise your offers.
Note # 2: First three steps may take much time to be done. But today there are many web-based tools that do this job automatically. This will save you much time and efforts, and turn hours of work into minutes.
Grow The Client Base - Getting More Sales
Step # 4. Set up link exchange directory.
It is very important that many web sites should have links to your web site. But even more important is that these web sites should be from your business niche. These web sites should be found by the keywords that you want other people to find your web site with.
If you have many relevant links in your directory, search engines will 'think' that your web site is a real magnet in the niche, and these search engines will automatically raise your web site status. The bigger is your status, the more targeted web site traffic you will get to your web site.
One more tip: the best way is to convince your link exchange partner to exchange links on home pages of your web site. It is not very easy to do, but it is possible, and it will give great results.
STEP # 5. Use autoresponders to convert prospects into clients.
Internet statistics says that usual web site visitor averagely stays on web page for about 20 seconds. If this visitor found nothing interesting on your web site during this time, the visitor may leave your web site forever. Autoresponder will help you to catch this visitor and get the visitor back to your web site any time you wish.
Autoresponders have the magic power of follow upping. With autoresponder you can educate and motivate your visitors to use your offers and grow your client base at the same time.
You put on your web site a subscription form which offers your web site visitors to get more interesting info/product discount/special offer/download materials for free. Once they have entered their name and email address to subscription form, you got them into your own database. Now they are your prospects. Make sure that you give your prospects really interesting info which has close relation to the specifics of your web site.
You can give some educational materials, or you can give articles with reprint rights about the benefits of your product/service, you can give fresh updates about important events of your niche market, etc. Give them all you can to get prospects back to your web site ready for some action on it.
The more prospects you have in your mailing list, the more targeted traffic you will get, and the more sales you will make.
STEP # 6. Convert traffic into sales.
Use mailing list, autoresponder and URL tracking tools to raise the effectivity of your offers. Check what offers give better response, use them more, improve them - work with your clients. Let them feel your personal care about their needs.
The number of strategies here is unlimited. It can only be limited with your imagination and desire to work. The core principle is simple: you have targeted traffic - what it may need. Materials, discounts, advertising copies, bonuses, free gifts, additional/supplementary products of your 'competitors' (you see, now you are very useful for JV partnership even to the most successful web sites in your niche).
If you are right about what your clients may need, they will surely buy it, subscribe for it, reserve a bonus copy of it, etc.
Adjust Your Web Site To Current Online Market Requirements
Step # 7. Check what gives money and what gives losses.
Use URL tracking tools to check what strategies, ads, web page texts, online campaigns give nice results - stick to them. If you see that something gives losses - eradicate useless efforts.
URL tracking is the tool for getting the real picture of your business. You may be absolutely sure that your ad copy #1 is better than ad copy #2, but unless you tried it - this is just a suggestion. However if your ULR tracking tool shows that ad copy #1 was clicked 70 times and ad copy #2 was clicked 500 times, this is statistic data.
Do not run your business with closed eyes. Track what brings you profits, and what gives losses. And go with the things that give you profits.
Step # 8. Make necessary changes to web site.
Once you found that any element on your web site needs changes, do the changes immediately. The best way to make changes is by using content management system. Content managements systems are easy: if you have ever worked with WordPad or any other word processor, you already know how to use content management system.
Make necessary changes to get more profits from your web site.
Step # Last. Test, test, test - this is not a new suggestion, but a very important one. Always keep your hand on the pulse of your online business.
Summary.
As you can see, this plan of actions can be applied to any web site.
The steps are not detailed, but now you know that getting free targeted web site traffic is not a myth. It is just a matter of special tips and techniques. Try this plan of actions and see how it will work for you.
Monday
Increase Website Traffic Free
Secrets To Increase Website Traffic Free
Exchanging links with other websites is a good way to increase traffic to your website, but often the results are just not what we expected. Many site owners do not know the simple techniques needed to increase website traffic free.
We are making this article available to you free, so you can begin optimizing your site today!
Higher Page Rank = Higher Search Engine Positioning = More Site Traffic
Fully Optimize Your Site For The Search Engines
Before beginning the little known secrets to increase website traffic free, spend some time tweaking your website, using basic search engine optimization techniques.
Using a Keyword Rich Title - This is a carefully researched term or key phrase people would search for in the search engines that would lead to your website. Generally, you would not use the name of your business unless it happens to be an effective keyword for your topic.
Use the Title Tag Correctly - You have seen pages scattered throughout the search engine results that have not inserted the title tags correctly. The page was picked up as, "Untitled" or "New Page."
Focus Your Content - Don't try to cram 10 different topics in on just one page! Concentrate on one topic per page, using your keyword rich content.
Use Text Links - Fancy menus look great, but usually the k.i.s.s. idea is best. (Keep it simple stupid!) If you want the search engines to find you, use text links. Add a site map to your website, along with a link to it on every page!
Include a Resource Page of Links - If you want people to link to your site, don't hide the links resource page. Make sure your "home" page is linked directly to it.
Why Do I Need to Exchange Links?
One determining factor for page rank with the major search engines, is link popularity. Google Information for Webmasters indicates that the number of sites linking to a particular website address is the single biggest factor in determining what sites are indexed by Google. Of course that makes link exchange with related sites absolutely vital to the success of all of our websites!
Even without the search engines, exchanging links makes sense because it's bound to drive traffic to your site! We are confident that these statements don't come as any big surprise to you, but this is where those special techniques begin to come into play.
5 Little Known Techniques To Stronger Link Exchange
Are All Inbound Links Created Equal?
Banner / Image Links
Plain Text Links
Text Links Using Anchor Text
Adding Title Tags To Anchor Text
Banner Or Image Link Adding Title & Alt Tag
Banner / Image Links
A picture is worth a thousand words, so banner or image links must be best, right? Actually, unless they combine it with several other techniques, this is the least favorable link exchange program. Search engine spiders are unable to "see" pictures in terms of connecting the image to some type of keyword that would lead to your site. Therefore, it’s not a very valuable link, unless someone actually clicks on it. This type of link is better than no link at all, but the traffic it actually leads to your website will be limited.
Plain Text Links
Think about this for a moment. Search engines are looking for keywords, requested by someone looking for information. The stronger the possibility that your website is the correct match to the request, the higher your site will appear in the search results for that keyword. Naturally, the more times your carefully chosen keywords lead to your site, the higher your web traffic will be.
Wow! Then plain text links to your website must be the answer, right? Well, not exactly. Consider all the times you have seen the linked text, CLICK HERE to see yada yada yada. This results in the key phrase, "click here" being associated with your site. If someone clicks on the link, you will see traffic, but it will be unpredictable and limited.
Adding Text Links Using Anchor Text
Anchor text is really just a fancy way of describing linked text. Search engines appear to give more weight to this style of a link. You will begin seeing your Google PageRank increase, as you begin building strong incoming links.
Adding Title Tags to Anchor Text
You can strengthen the weight of the anchor text link even more, by adding a title attribute tag, also known as a screen tip. Hold your cursor over the link, in the example above, many browsers show a little screen tip box displaying your selected text.
Banner Or Image Link Adding Title Attribute & Alt Tag
Alt tags provide alternative text for images to visually impaired individuals, who reach the net through audio-based browsers. They also provide alternative text for individuals who have disabled image loading in their browsers.
Search engines do appear to "see" and use alt text as content, when indexing your site. In terms of SEO techniques, keep this fact in mind, when selecting alternative text for your images. Do not use alt tags to "stuff" your pages with keywords. It is however, an opportunity to use applicable key phrases.
If you wanted the strongest possible incoming link, combine all the techniques together, adding visual appeal, as in the example below.
You don't have to spend more than a few minutes in a marketing forum, to discover that everyone seems to be looking for Strategies to Improve Writing Style that will solve their internet marketing challenges.
Lead By Example
If you want to receive high quality, keyword rich, incoming links, then you need to lead by example. When linking to other websites, take the time to find out which key words they are targeting and how they would like their link displayed. Remember, "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Final Notes
Use a consistent method of navigation on your website, implementing all of these techniques throughout your site. This will help insure that the search engine robots find and index all of your pages.
Secrets To Increase Website Traffic Free
Exchanging links with other websites is a good way to increase traffic to your website, but often the results are just not what we expected. Many site owners do not know the simple techniques needed to increase website traffic free.
We are making this article available to you free, so you can begin optimizing your site today!
Higher Page Rank = Higher Search Engine Positioning = More Site Traffic
Fully Optimize Your Site For The Search Engines
Before beginning the little known secrets to increase website traffic free, spend some time tweaking your website, using basic search engine optimization techniques.
Using a Keyword Rich Title - This is a carefully researched term or key phrase people would search for in the search engines that would lead to your website. Generally, you would not use the name of your business unless it happens to be an effective keyword for your topic.
Use the Title Tag Correctly - You have seen pages scattered throughout the search engine results that have not inserted the title tags correctly. The page was picked up as, "Untitled" or "New Page."
Focus Your Content - Don't try to cram 10 different topics in on just one page! Concentrate on one topic per page, using your keyword rich content.
Use Text Links - Fancy menus look great, but usually the k.i.s.s. idea is best. (Keep it simple stupid!) If you want the search engines to find you, use text links. Add a site map to your website, along with a link to it on every page!
Include a Resource Page of Links - If you want people to link to your site, don't hide the links resource page. Make sure your "home" page is linked directly to it.
Why Do I Need to Exchange Links?
One determining factor for page rank with the major search engines, is link popularity. Google Information for Webmasters indicates that the number of sites linking to a particular website address is the single biggest factor in determining what sites are indexed by Google. Of course that makes link exchange with related sites absolutely vital to the success of all of our websites!
Even without the search engines, exchanging links makes sense because it's bound to drive traffic to your site! We are confident that these statements don't come as any big surprise to you, but this is where those special techniques begin to come into play.
5 Little Known Techniques To Stronger Link Exchange
Are All Inbound Links Created Equal?
Banner / Image Links
Plain Text Links
Text Links Using Anchor Text
Adding Title Tags To Anchor Text
Banner Or Image Link Adding Title & Alt Tag
Banner / Image Links
A picture is worth a thousand words, so banner or image links must be best, right? Actually, unless they combine it with several other techniques, this is the least favorable link exchange program. Search engine spiders are unable to "see" pictures in terms of connecting the image to some type of keyword that would lead to your site. Therefore, it’s not a very valuable link, unless someone actually clicks on it. This type of link is better than no link at all, but the traffic it actually leads to your website will be limited.
Plain Text Links
Think about this for a moment. Search engines are looking for keywords, requested by someone looking for information. The stronger the possibility that your website is the correct match to the request, the higher your site will appear in the search results for that keyword. Naturally, the more times your carefully chosen keywords lead to your site, the higher your web traffic will be.
Wow! Then plain text links to your website must be the answer, right? Well, not exactly. Consider all the times you have seen the linked text, CLICK HERE to see yada yada yada. This results in the key phrase, "click here" being associated with your site. If someone clicks on the link, you will see traffic, but it will be unpredictable and limited.
Adding Text Links Using Anchor Text
Anchor text is really just a fancy way of describing linked text. Search engines appear to give more weight to this style of a link. You will begin seeing your Google PageRank increase, as you begin building strong incoming links.
Adding Title Tags to Anchor Text
You can strengthen the weight of the anchor text link even more, by adding a title attribute tag, also known as a screen tip. Hold your cursor over the link, in the example above, many browsers show a little screen tip box displaying your selected text.
Banner Or Image Link Adding Title Attribute & Alt Tag
Alt tags provide alternative text for images to visually impaired individuals, who reach the net through audio-based browsers. They also provide alternative text for individuals who have disabled image loading in their browsers.
Search engines do appear to "see" and use alt text as content, when indexing your site. In terms of SEO techniques, keep this fact in mind, when selecting alternative text for your images. Do not use alt tags to "stuff" your pages with keywords. It is however, an opportunity to use applicable key phrases.
If you wanted the strongest possible incoming link, combine all the techniques together, adding visual appeal, as in the example below.
You don't have to spend more than a few minutes in a marketing forum, to discover that everyone seems to be looking for Strategies to Improve Writing Style that will solve their internet marketing challenges.
Lead By Example
If you want to receive high quality, keyword rich, incoming links, then you need to lead by example. When linking to other websites, take the time to find out which key words they are targeting and how they would like their link displayed. Remember, "You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
Final Notes
Use a consistent method of navigation on your website, implementing all of these techniques throughout your site. This will help insure that the search engine robots find and index all of your pages.
Sunday
Optimize Your Site For Free Traffic
You've just created a website and registered a domain name. You have an awesome product and great content. You think man any day now I am going to get a bunch of people checking out my site. But that day doesn't come. Sure you get a few visitors each day and maybe even average 20 or 30 unique visitors. But this is never going to get your business off the ground.
Let's face it there are 2 kinds of traffic on the internet. The paid kind which comes from advertising and pay per click (PPC Google AdWords). And there's the free kind which comes from the search engines. I don't know about you but we would much rather prefer to receive sustainable free traffic then the paid kind.
SEO - What is it?
So how do we get free traffic and what's involved. Free traffic comes from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. There are others but these are the major ones. People use search engines to find products and services. In fact most successful online business' report the majority of the traffic they receive to their sites comes from the search engines. And unless your site appears on the first few pages of a search chances are you will not be noticed very often.
we don't care if your site provides services, products, or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short. Is in fact a process of optimizing pages of your website and make them search engine friendly so that they can be positioned in the top of search results for particular keywords.
How Search Engines Function
Search engines run automated programs, called "bots" or "spiders" that visit websites from all over the internet and gather information regarding web pages that are searched by the people. This is otherwise known as having your website crawled.
After crawling the WebPages on your site, the gathered content is stored in a huge searchable database of documents which make up the search engine's "index". The search engine arranges this information in various searchable fields, so that when a queried the search engine can scan billions of documents and completes this in fractions of a second.
The results which are displayed are the ones that most accurately portray the information related to the keywords that the user has searched for. A match is determined if the terms or phrase is found on the page in the manner specified by the user. Every search engine has its own algorithm (a mathematical equation commonly used for sorting) and matching criteria to provide the user with the result, so the result may vary for the same keyword in different search engines.
Ranking Results:
Results are ranked based on a number of different criteria. They start from the top of the list being the most relevant to the bottom which is the least relevant. One of the key most important factors is keyword relevance. And in order to rank highly based on keyword relevance you need to have pages related to a specific keyword phrase.
Steps to SEO
Bellow is the list of general steps to optimize the website in order to get the higher rankings in the search engines.
Keywords Analysis:
Keywords are words or phrases the potential customer may use to search any business for their needs. For example if you are a taxation service provider in USA, "Tax Refund USA", is called a keyword. The first step in Search Engine Optimization is identifying the important keywords for your business. You can determine this list by analyzing your business & your competitors, in order to determine which words should be targeted. Here is an example of a list of keywords for Free Traffic in USA,
Free traffic USA
Free hits USA
autosurf
free traffic exchange
Online traffic USA
Keyword Analysis also includes looking at how many people search for a given term to determine how popular it is and hence its importance. Based on this keyword analysis optimization of the given web site is done to get you the best possible rank on the search engines.
On page Off Page Optimization:
There are 2 types of optimization that must be performed. First is On Page. This essentially means things that will be done to the coding of your existing pages. After analyzing the keywords you must optimize the web site based on these keywords. Web site optimization includes:
Meta Tags Optimization, Keyword Enrichment and Interlinking of site pages. First optimize your sites meta tags. Change this to include keywords which you are looking to target. Then carefully add a blending of those keywords within your websites content so search engines can read them. At last the interlinking of your website's pages is established, so the search engines can easily "crawl" your web site to read and rank them based on your keywords.
Link Exchange:
Now for Off Page Optimization. This is one of the most important and powerful step in the SEO process. Search engines count Link popularity when ranking the site. So the number of incoming links to a site from related sites is very important. These back links can be achieved by exchanging links with other sites. Seek out other high ranking sites that are related to your site and ask for a reciprocal link. This will help you greatly.
Paid Traffic
Pay Per Click Campaigns:-
The search engine results pages contain not only listings of documents found to be relevant to the user's query, but other content, including paid advertisements. "Pay Per Click" - PPC is the secondary source results for search engines. Google, for example, serves up ads from its well-known AdWords Program. In short for PPC, we have to pay for the advertisement we want to display on search engine results. The nice thing about Pay Per Click is that one only needs to pay when someone clicks on his/her advertisement. But to get best result from this Pay Per Click Campaign, the website needs to be combined with good website optimization. Be careful when using this type of traffic generation. I have seen many people spend many thousands of dollars/month for this type of exposure.
So there you have it. Traffic the free kind and the paid kind. And we all agree that the free kind is the best traffic to get. Just imagine how your business would succeed with hundreds of targeted visitors each day who find your site based on a key phrase entered into a major search engine.
You've just created a website and registered a domain name. You have an awesome product and great content. You think man any day now I am going to get a bunch of people checking out my site. But that day doesn't come. Sure you get a few visitors each day and maybe even average 20 or 30 unique visitors. But this is never going to get your business off the ground.
Let's face it there are 2 kinds of traffic on the internet. The paid kind which comes from advertising and pay per click (PPC Google AdWords). And there's the free kind which comes from the search engines. I don't know about you but we would much rather prefer to receive sustainable free traffic then the paid kind.
SEO - What is it?
So how do we get free traffic and what's involved. Free traffic comes from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. There are others but these are the major ones. People use search engines to find products and services. In fact most successful online business' report the majority of the traffic they receive to their sites comes from the search engines. And unless your site appears on the first few pages of a search chances are you will not be noticed very often.
we don't care if your site provides services, products, or information, search engines are a primary method of navigation for almost all Internet users.
Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short. Is in fact a process of optimizing pages of your website and make them search engine friendly so that they can be positioned in the top of search results for particular keywords.
How Search Engines Function
Search engines run automated programs, called "bots" or "spiders" that visit websites from all over the internet and gather information regarding web pages that are searched by the people. This is otherwise known as having your website crawled.
After crawling the WebPages on your site, the gathered content is stored in a huge searchable database of documents which make up the search engine's "index". The search engine arranges this information in various searchable fields, so that when a queried the search engine can scan billions of documents and completes this in fractions of a second.
The results which are displayed are the ones that most accurately portray the information related to the keywords that the user has searched for. A match is determined if the terms or phrase is found on the page in the manner specified by the user. Every search engine has its own algorithm (a mathematical equation commonly used for sorting) and matching criteria to provide the user with the result, so the result may vary for the same keyword in different search engines.
Ranking Results:
Results are ranked based on a number of different criteria. They start from the top of the list being the most relevant to the bottom which is the least relevant. One of the key most important factors is keyword relevance. And in order to rank highly based on keyword relevance you need to have pages related to a specific keyword phrase.
Steps to SEO
Bellow is the list of general steps to optimize the website in order to get the higher rankings in the search engines.
Keywords Analysis:
Keywords are words or phrases the potential customer may use to search any business for their needs. For example if you are a taxation service provider in USA, "Tax Refund USA", is called a keyword. The first step in Search Engine Optimization is identifying the important keywords for your business. You can determine this list by analyzing your business & your competitors, in order to determine which words should be targeted. Here is an example of a list of keywords for Free Traffic in USA,
Free traffic USA
Free hits USA
autosurf
free traffic exchange
Online traffic USA
Keyword Analysis also includes looking at how many people search for a given term to determine how popular it is and hence its importance. Based on this keyword analysis optimization of the given web site is done to get you the best possible rank on the search engines.
On page Off Page Optimization:
There are 2 types of optimization that must be performed. First is On Page. This essentially means things that will be done to the coding of your existing pages. After analyzing the keywords you must optimize the web site based on these keywords. Web site optimization includes:
Meta Tags Optimization, Keyword Enrichment and Interlinking of site pages. First optimize your sites meta tags. Change this to include keywords which you are looking to target. Then carefully add a blending of those keywords within your websites content so search engines can read them. At last the interlinking of your website's pages is established, so the search engines can easily "crawl" your web site to read and rank them based on your keywords.
Link Exchange:
Now for Off Page Optimization. This is one of the most important and powerful step in the SEO process. Search engines count Link popularity when ranking the site. So the number of incoming links to a site from related sites is very important. These back links can be achieved by exchanging links with other sites. Seek out other high ranking sites that are related to your site and ask for a reciprocal link. This will help you greatly.
Paid Traffic
Pay Per Click Campaigns:-
The search engine results pages contain not only listings of documents found to be relevant to the user's query, but other content, including paid advertisements. "Pay Per Click" - PPC is the secondary source results for search engines. Google, for example, serves up ads from its well-known AdWords Program. In short for PPC, we have to pay for the advertisement we want to display on search engine results. The nice thing about Pay Per Click is that one only needs to pay when someone clicks on his/her advertisement. But to get best result from this Pay Per Click Campaign, the website needs to be combined with good website optimization. Be careful when using this type of traffic generation. I have seen many people spend many thousands of dollars/month for this type of exposure.
So there you have it. Traffic the free kind and the paid kind. And we all agree that the free kind is the best traffic to get. Just imagine how your business would succeed with hundreds of targeted visitors each day who find your site based on a key phrase entered into a major search engine.
Monday
How To Get Free Traffic To Your Website
Many website owners start a website and find they only have a limited budget, if any, to spend on advertising. This is not necessarily a problem, however, because there are several ways of promoting your site for free.
The most obvious way is to submit your site to sites offering free classified ads. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these sites on the internet. Start with some of the more popular ones and begin experimenting with different ad copies to see which ads attract the most readers, and stick with them when posting on other free classified sites.
You can also sign up to various traffic exchanges, and promote your site to other users. This is a great way of getting guaranteed hits to your site. For optimum results you should join http://www.autosurfmonster.com
Submitting your site to directories is also a good way of getting free traffic to your site. Plus not only will you get a small steady stream of traffic, but it will also benefit you in terms of search engine rankings. You want to target high pagerank (from the downloadable Google toolbar) directories, and those where your site will be listed on a high pagerank page. This will boost your own pagerank, and help you achieve higher rankings in the future, allowing you to get subsequent free traffic from the search engines.
Similarly getting links from other related sites, either one-way or more commonly reciprocal links, will also improve your pagerank, and search engine rankings. If you are able to get links from popular sites, or get prominent links, for example from a home page of a popular site, then you can get a lot of free traffic from these sites.
Safelists are a traditional form of free advertising, and although not as effective as they once were, they can still deliver reasonable results, particularly if you are building a list of subscribers. A safelist is essentially just of list of opt-in email subscribers, who are free to send and receive emails to and from each other. You should make sure you use a free email address as your inbox will be filled with hundreds of emails.
Posting on popular forums that allow sig files (external links at the bottom of each post) can be a very effective way of receiving free traffic to your site. You should create a compelling link in your sig file, and the link should use anchor text which contains your main keyword(s) for SEO purposes. You should then make helpful and useful posts to these forums, which will build your reputation and get your link seen of course. Just make sure you don't post worthless posts, just so you can promote your sig file.
A truly viral way of getting lots of free traffic to your site is by writing and creating your own free report or ebook, based on the subject of your site. This should include links to your site embedded within it. You can then contact popular related sites, free ebook sites, ezine owners or people with large lists, etc, and offer your free ebook to them, and tell them that they have permission to freely distribute it on their site or to their subscribers.
Finally, another great viral advertising method which can also result in a large increase in traffic over time is by writing articles. Simply write informative articles related to your site and submit them to as many article directories as possible. Each article should contain a resource box which tells the reader about yourself and also includes that crucial link (using keyword rich anchor text if possible) to your site. For even greater results you can track down ezine owners with large lists who accept article submissions, and submit your articles directly to them, offering you immediate access, if accepted, to potentially thousands of readers.
As you can see you don't necessarily need to pay out lots of money to promote your website successfully. There are some equally effective free methods that can deliver excellent results, particularly those last two methods that I mentioned, writing free reports and articles.
Whatever methods of advertising you choose to persue, you should make sure that you use some kind of ad tracking software to track your results. This will tell you which methods of promotion are delivering results, and are worth continuing, and which ones are simply not worth wasting your time over.
Many website owners start a website and find they only have a limited budget, if any, to spend on advertising. This is not necessarily a problem, however, because there are several ways of promoting your site for free.
The most obvious way is to submit your site to sites offering free classified ads. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of these sites on the internet. Start with some of the more popular ones and begin experimenting with different ad copies to see which ads attract the most readers, and stick with them when posting on other free classified sites.
You can also sign up to various traffic exchanges, and promote your site to other users. This is a great way of getting guaranteed hits to your site. For optimum results you should join http://www.autosurfmonster.com
Submitting your site to directories is also a good way of getting free traffic to your site. Plus not only will you get a small steady stream of traffic, but it will also benefit you in terms of search engine rankings. You want to target high pagerank (from the downloadable Google toolbar) directories, and those where your site will be listed on a high pagerank page. This will boost your own pagerank, and help you achieve higher rankings in the future, allowing you to get subsequent free traffic from the search engines.
Similarly getting links from other related sites, either one-way or more commonly reciprocal links, will also improve your pagerank, and search engine rankings. If you are able to get links from popular sites, or get prominent links, for example from a home page of a popular site, then you can get a lot of free traffic from these sites.
Safelists are a traditional form of free advertising, and although not as effective as they once were, they can still deliver reasonable results, particularly if you are building a list of subscribers. A safelist is essentially just of list of opt-in email subscribers, who are free to send and receive emails to and from each other. You should make sure you use a free email address as your inbox will be filled with hundreds of emails.
Posting on popular forums that allow sig files (external links at the bottom of each post) can be a very effective way of receiving free traffic to your site. You should create a compelling link in your sig file, and the link should use anchor text which contains your main keyword(s) for SEO purposes. You should then make helpful and useful posts to these forums, which will build your reputation and get your link seen of course. Just make sure you don't post worthless posts, just so you can promote your sig file.
A truly viral way of getting lots of free traffic to your site is by writing and creating your own free report or ebook, based on the subject of your site. This should include links to your site embedded within it. You can then contact popular related sites, free ebook sites, ezine owners or people with large lists, etc, and offer your free ebook to them, and tell them that they have permission to freely distribute it on their site or to their subscribers.
Finally, another great viral advertising method which can also result in a large increase in traffic over time is by writing articles. Simply write informative articles related to your site and submit them to as many article directories as possible. Each article should contain a resource box which tells the reader about yourself and also includes that crucial link (using keyword rich anchor text if possible) to your site. For even greater results you can track down ezine owners with large lists who accept article submissions, and submit your articles directly to them, offering you immediate access, if accepted, to potentially thousands of readers.
As you can see you don't necessarily need to pay out lots of money to promote your website successfully. There are some equally effective free methods that can deliver excellent results, particularly those last two methods that I mentioned, writing free reports and articles.
Whatever methods of advertising you choose to persue, you should make sure that you use some kind of ad tracking software to track your results. This will tell you which methods of promotion are delivering results, and are worth continuing, and which ones are simply not worth wasting your time over.
Free Publicity For Your Website.
.......................How To Get Traffic The Smart Way!
One of the many challenges of starting an online business is getting traffic to your website. Unfortunately for most beginner webmasters, quality traffic is not only hard to get, but it is also very expensive. In the following article autosurfmonster.com will discuss the technique that we used to get free advertising and free laser-targeted traffic to our website.
First of all let’s consider some of the alternatives most beginning webmasters use to generate traffic:
The first option that comes to mind is Pay Per Click advertising (PPC). PPC is a very effective way of driving traffic to a website, and if the ads are well written they usually bring in highly targeted traffic. The downside of PPC is cost. In order to start a PPC campaign, the webmaster must bid on keywords or phrases related to the content of the website being promoted. After the bidding, the ads will show all over the internet getting hundreds or thousands of impressions. When an internet user clicks on this ads, he or she is taken to the website advertised and the advertiser is charged the bid amount. PPC advertisements are great, but should only be used to promote special offers, introductory offers or high tag items; it should not be the only force driving traffic to your site.
A similar kind of advertisement is Pay Per Impression (PPI). Although they are virtually undistinguishable for the audience they target, PPI are different for the advertisers. With PPI advertisers pay for every time their ads are shown, and not only for the times the ads are clicked on. In order for this type of advertising to be effective, the website where the ads are displayed must offer products that are complementary to those you offer, or vise versa.
As you can see, the driving factor of advertising is your budget. If you can afford to pay for your traffic then you can run an ad campaign, but if you are on a tight budget then you have to create other traffic generating resources.
So what is this magnificent free laser-targeted traffic generating tool we mentioned early on? Well… you are reading it. One of the ways we use to drive the most traffic to our website is to write articles. You don’t have to be a certified writer or a literature Nobel Prize winner to write articles, just make sure you know what you are talking about and show your passion for it through your writing.
In order to get your articles to drive traffic to your website you must make sure that they get published all over the internet and that there is a link to your website at the end of each article you write. Article submission websites and article directories are great tools to get your articles published. Most website owners strive to keep their content fresh and interesting to their visitors, but because of time limitations it is often very difficult to come up with original content. This is where your articles come in! These webmasters take advantage of the free content you provide through your article, and they return the favor by displaying a live link to your website. Before you know it you will have hundreds of pages displaying your articles followed by a link straight to your website. The beauty about article writing is that the links you get from it are free and the traffic that you get from your links comes to you looking for “expert advice”. These links also help improve your page rank in search engines due to your increased link popularity.
So go now, start your word processing software, put your writer’s hat on and type away. Don’t try to sound formal or professional if that is not you. Be yourself, write only about things that you know, and enjoy it. You are certainly going to enjoy the traffic from this great opportunity!
One of the many challenges of starting an online business is getting traffic to your website. Unfortunately for most beginner webmasters, quality traffic is not only hard to get, but it is also very expensive. In the following article autosurfmonster.com will discuss the technique that we used to get free advertising and free laser-targeted traffic to our website.
First of all let’s consider some of the alternatives most beginning webmasters use to generate traffic:
The first option that comes to mind is Pay Per Click advertising (PPC). PPC is a very effective way of driving traffic to a website, and if the ads are well written they usually bring in highly targeted traffic. The downside of PPC is cost. In order to start a PPC campaign, the webmaster must bid on keywords or phrases related to the content of the website being promoted. After the bidding, the ads will show all over the internet getting hundreds or thousands of impressions. When an internet user clicks on this ads, he or she is taken to the website advertised and the advertiser is charged the bid amount. PPC advertisements are great, but should only be used to promote special offers, introductory offers or high tag items; it should not be the only force driving traffic to your site.
A similar kind of advertisement is Pay Per Impression (PPI). Although they are virtually undistinguishable for the audience they target, PPI are different for the advertisers. With PPI advertisers pay for every time their ads are shown, and not only for the times the ads are clicked on. In order for this type of advertising to be effective, the website where the ads are displayed must offer products that are complementary to those you offer, or vise versa.
As you can see, the driving factor of advertising is your budget. If you can afford to pay for your traffic then you can run an ad campaign, but if you are on a tight budget then you have to create other traffic generating resources.
So what is this magnificent free laser-targeted traffic generating tool we mentioned early on? Well… you are reading it. One of the ways we use to drive the most traffic to our website is to write articles. You don’t have to be a certified writer or a literature Nobel Prize winner to write articles, just make sure you know what you are talking about and show your passion for it through your writing.
In order to get your articles to drive traffic to your website you must make sure that they get published all over the internet and that there is a link to your website at the end of each article you write. Article submission websites and article directories are great tools to get your articles published. Most website owners strive to keep their content fresh and interesting to their visitors, but because of time limitations it is often very difficult to come up with original content. This is where your articles come in! These webmasters take advantage of the free content you provide through your article, and they return the favor by displaying a live link to your website. Before you know it you will have hundreds of pages displaying your articles followed by a link straight to your website. The beauty about article writing is that the links you get from it are free and the traffic that you get from your links comes to you looking for “expert advice”. These links also help improve your page rank in search engines due to your increased link popularity.
So go now, start your word processing software, put your writer’s hat on and type away. Don’t try to sound formal or professional if that is not you. Be yourself, write only about things that you know, and enjoy it. You are certainly going to enjoy the traffic from this great opportunity!
Saturday
How to Get Free Web Traffic
We just did a quick web search for "Free Autosurf Traffic" world wide, and Our site(s) came up at #3 on Alta Vista, #7 on Google, and #5 and #15 on Yahoo. People ask us: Why do you come up in almost every search engine? How do you get these top listings? And how do you get over 1,000 visitors a Day?
In this Blog We explain our secrets to free traffic. For those new to the web, We'll be talking about how to come up in the top ten listings (rankings) when someone searches for something like "life coaching" or "business coaching" on a search engine like AltaVista, Google, or Yahoo.
The Three Options to Free Traffic
Option 1) Pay a professional US$1,000 and more to handle it
We think this is overkill until you are sure your site is making money (say $10,000 p.a. in revenue coming from your site). Why pay for traffic if you can't be sure that traffic will turn into dollars? Keep your expenses low until you can justify the investment.
Option 2) Buy reputable software to handle it
These days software can do everything from ensuring your pages are search-engine friendly, to submitting your 20 pages to 100 engines, 12 times a year (that's 24,000 submissions!) while you sleep. With prices coming down to below $200, this option now makes Option 3) obsolete.
Option 3) Do it yourself
For over 90% of coaches, without hesitation We recommend Option 2) Buy Software.
(Note: That's unless you already have $10,000 in online revenue - then go for hiring a professional)
What Software to Buy?
It's probably most useful if we mention the key things you should have in any software you buy. Then you can surf the web and research to your heart's content.
Look for the following major features -
Great Articles and Advice:
You want a powerful knowledge base so you can learn what the search engines are looking for. Also you'll want tips and tricks for how to get listed on the major directories like Yahoo. Ideally get one that updates it's Knowledge Base regularly.
Page Creation:
Your software should help you tweak your pages so they rank highly on the search engines, including automatically create the much talked about 'Meta Tags' in your pages, so you don't have to do it. Some will even create initial pages for you!
Automatic Submission:
Make sure it will submit to all the major search engines automatically. AND - that you can schedule it to do a little submitting to the engines each day, so you don't get flagged for spamming the engines.
Reporting:
You'll want a reporting engine so you can say "Tell me my rankings for all my web pages, on say the top 50 engines, for the keywords 'life coaching' and 'life coaching Canada'. I'll be back in an hour!" This will show you where you're doing well, and where you need to do some more tweaking or submitting.
Traffic Monitoring:
If you get a good one, you'll be happy to have this included without paying extra. Let's you view how many people visited your site, say in the last week or month, what search engines they came from, the pages they visited, and ideally what key words they entered into the engine!
So search the web for some good software. If they're any good, they probably come up near the top in the listings!
We just did a quick web search for "Free Autosurf Traffic" world wide, and Our site(s) came up at #3 on Alta Vista, #7 on Google, and #5 and #15 on Yahoo. People ask us: Why do you come up in almost every search engine? How do you get these top listings? And how do you get over 1,000 visitors a Day?
In this Blog We explain our secrets to free traffic. For those new to the web, We'll be talking about how to come up in the top ten listings (rankings) when someone searches for something like "life coaching" or "business coaching" on a search engine like AltaVista, Google, or Yahoo.
The Three Options to Free Traffic
Option 1) Pay a professional US$1,000 and more to handle it
We think this is overkill until you are sure your site is making money (say $10,000 p.a. in revenue coming from your site). Why pay for traffic if you can't be sure that traffic will turn into dollars? Keep your expenses low until you can justify the investment.
Option 2) Buy reputable software to handle it
These days software can do everything from ensuring your pages are search-engine friendly, to submitting your 20 pages to 100 engines, 12 times a year (that's 24,000 submissions!) while you sleep. With prices coming down to below $200, this option now makes Option 3) obsolete.
Option 3) Do it yourself
For over 90% of coaches, without hesitation We recommend Option 2) Buy Software.
(Note: That's unless you already have $10,000 in online revenue - then go for hiring a professional)
What Software to Buy?
It's probably most useful if we mention the key things you should have in any software you buy. Then you can surf the web and research to your heart's content.
Look for the following major features -
Great Articles and Advice:
You want a powerful knowledge base so you can learn what the search engines are looking for. Also you'll want tips and tricks for how to get listed on the major directories like Yahoo. Ideally get one that updates it's Knowledge Base regularly.
Page Creation:
Your software should help you tweak your pages so they rank highly on the search engines, including automatically create the much talked about 'Meta Tags' in your pages, so you don't have to do it. Some will even create initial pages for you!
Automatic Submission:
Make sure it will submit to all the major search engines automatically. AND - that you can schedule it to do a little submitting to the engines each day, so you don't get flagged for spamming the engines.
Reporting:
You'll want a reporting engine so you can say "Tell me my rankings for all my web pages, on say the top 50 engines, for the keywords 'life coaching' and 'life coaching Canada'. I'll be back in an hour!" This will show you where you're doing well, and where you need to do some more tweaking or submitting.
Traffic Monitoring:
If you get a good one, you'll be happy to have this included without paying extra. Let's you view how many people visited your site, say in the last week or month, what search engines they came from, the pages they visited, and ideally what key words they entered into the engine!
So search the web for some good software. If they're any good, they probably come up near the top in the listings!
Tuesday
Interested In Free Targeted Traffic?
No matter what opportunity or product you promote via the internet you do not have a business unless you have customers. One way to increase sales is to increase your customer base, this means more visitor traffic. If you are not interested in free web traffic, congratulations, you must have deep pockets or all ready have more than you can handle. For those who are interested in free web traffic, read on.
Just getting large numbers of visitors to websites is not enough. These visits have to turn into sales. A chance or uninterested visitor is little better than no visitor. Every site needs targeted visitors. Your site needs people who have seen your message and have had their interest peeked. With a targeted market approximately 3 visitors for every 100 will make purchases. Without targeted visitors this conversion rate drops significantly.
Throughout this Blog you will encounter numerous ways to increase your web traffic. This traffic will be well targeted free leads, all through online marketing methods.
Do you like to be sold, or pushed into a sale? Like most the answer is a definitive NO. One of my mentors has instilled in me the importance of building relationships as apposed to selling someone. Once the person gets to know, like, and trust you they will be more willing to join you in your opportunity or buy product from you. Remember, know, like, trust, buy!
Free Traffic and Message Boards
Relating this principle to free internet marketing, I suggest you visit message boards. These boards are so effective that I still receive requests and referrals from posts made over a year ago. Visit various boards post messages, meet people, ask questions, share your wisdom, and words of encouragement.
Suggested tips to keep in mind when posting to message boards. Remember you are there to build relationships, you want people to know, like and trust you.
Do not spam: - do not post the same thing over and over
- post something meaningful and relevant to the conversation
- do not advertise unless otherwise specified
- do not participate in negative postings about others (criticize or flame)
To make the most of message boards and insure highly targeted traffic to your website:
- select boards that pertain to your product or opportunity
- get your name out and popularity up, post a response to a question or simply post a question yourself
- include a signature file with your name and URL, no email. This can be placed in the profile page. It is a good idea to set-up a second email because, you will get spam
- spend one or two evenings a week posting on several different message boards
- be genuine, helpful, and try to learn a few things
- HAVE FUN and MAKE FRIENDS
Free Traffic and Traffic Generation Sites
Traffic generation sites can be good and Great. Some are not worth your time, however, there are a few good ones, so choose with care. We recommend AutosurfMonster.com .
http://www.autosurfmonster.com
Free Traffic and Viral Marketing
Let others help with your marketing efforts. You can have strangers pass your site to others and span the globe with viral marketing. Create viral marketing with a free e-book or inviting email, it is powerful and free. To start a viral marketing campaign that grows exponentially and without effort send a witty or clever joke, picture, or poem to people in your address book. If enjoyed the recipient will pass it on to those in their list and so on. You may have received the Bill Gates free offer in your own box. This email has been circulated around the world for over three years and seen by countless. Be sure to include your url with a heading, either near the bottom or in a signature file. Do this once a month and watch your web traffic grow.
Pass on a free e-book with you contact details inside. Encourage others to add it to their websites and offer your branded e-book to everyone. As part of your introduction include your website and a message stating that the e-book is free and is to be passed along, so long as nothing is changed or altered. This includes your bio, contact information and links to your site. Cannot write? No problem. There are thousands of books available for you to co-brand and start your viral trail.
Free Traffic and Joint Ventures
Setting up joint ventures may be the most powerful free method available to increase targeted traffic. Joint ventures are simply colorations or partnerships between two or more people or businesses. It is not essential that the partnerships even be in related businesses, though helpful. Just about any combination will work. Obviously competing businesses are not a wise or practical option for a joint venture. That still leaves plenty of other partners. There is no limit to what can be done with this marketing technique. The venture can be as simple as trading client databases, or it can be an elaborate cross promotions with contests and giveaway. A joint venture is only limited by the creativity of the parties involved. If you have the right partner this will do wonders for your credibility and, the know, like, trust, buy formula for success.
Free Traffic and Meta Tags
Meta tags are very important. I am not an expert on tags so I highly suggest you research Meta tags optimization techniques. To have a Google spider find you and have you listed will do wonders for your traffic. Never pay to have your site listed, there are too many ways to have it listed. Too often these pay sites will not do what is promised or what you could do with a little effort.
Free Traffic and Offline
Marketing Techniques
To maximize your online presence you have to go offline and bring foot traffic to the web as targeted web traffic. Here are a few low cost offline marketing techniques that will give you added visibility and translate to a more powerful web presence. Turn your automobile into a mini billboard. Place bumper stickers and magnet signs on your vehicle. Leave a business card wherever possible. One suggestion is to leave it with your tip at a restaurant. Hang flyers on high traffic bulletin boards, be sure to leave a pull tab. Change your body into a walking billboard for your opportunity and products instead of someone else's. How often do you promote Nike, Polo, Guess, or a professional sports team? Start promoting yourself and get your clothes embroidered. It does not have to be anything fancy, a good descriptive url will work.
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To Find out Free Webmaster Resources visit:
http://www.freewebmasterresources.blogspot.com/
No matter what opportunity or product you promote via the internet you do not have a business unless you have customers. One way to increase sales is to increase your customer base, this means more visitor traffic. If you are not interested in free web traffic, congratulations, you must have deep pockets or all ready have more than you can handle. For those who are interested in free web traffic, read on.
Just getting large numbers of visitors to websites is not enough. These visits have to turn into sales. A chance or uninterested visitor is little better than no visitor. Every site needs targeted visitors. Your site needs people who have seen your message and have had their interest peeked. With a targeted market approximately 3 visitors for every 100 will make purchases. Without targeted visitors this conversion rate drops significantly.
Throughout this Blog you will encounter numerous ways to increase your web traffic. This traffic will be well targeted free leads, all through online marketing methods.
Do you like to be sold, or pushed into a sale? Like most the answer is a definitive NO. One of my mentors has instilled in me the importance of building relationships as apposed to selling someone. Once the person gets to know, like, and trust you they will be more willing to join you in your opportunity or buy product from you. Remember, know, like, trust, buy!
Free Traffic and Message Boards
Relating this principle to free internet marketing, I suggest you visit message boards. These boards are so effective that I still receive requests and referrals from posts made over a year ago. Visit various boards post messages, meet people, ask questions, share your wisdom, and words of encouragement.
Suggested tips to keep in mind when posting to message boards. Remember you are there to build relationships, you want people to know, like and trust you.
Do not spam: - do not post the same thing over and over
- post something meaningful and relevant to the conversation
- do not advertise unless otherwise specified
- do not participate in negative postings about others (criticize or flame)
To make the most of message boards and insure highly targeted traffic to your website:
- select boards that pertain to your product or opportunity
- get your name out and popularity up, post a response to a question or simply post a question yourself
- include a signature file with your name and URL, no email. This can be placed in the profile page. It is a good idea to set-up a second email because, you will get spam
- spend one or two evenings a week posting on several different message boards
- be genuine, helpful, and try to learn a few things
- HAVE FUN and MAKE FRIENDS
Free Traffic and Traffic Generation Sites
Traffic generation sites can be good and Great. Some are not worth your time, however, there are a few good ones, so choose with care. We recommend AutosurfMonster.com .
http://www.autosurfmonster.com
Free Traffic and Viral Marketing
Let others help with your marketing efforts. You can have strangers pass your site to others and span the globe with viral marketing. Create viral marketing with a free e-book or inviting email, it is powerful and free. To start a viral marketing campaign that grows exponentially and without effort send a witty or clever joke, picture, or poem to people in your address book. If enjoyed the recipient will pass it on to those in their list and so on. You may have received the Bill Gates free offer in your own box. This email has been circulated around the world for over three years and seen by countless. Be sure to include your url with a heading, either near the bottom or in a signature file. Do this once a month and watch your web traffic grow.
Pass on a free e-book with you contact details inside. Encourage others to add it to their websites and offer your branded e-book to everyone. As part of your introduction include your website and a message stating that the e-book is free and is to be passed along, so long as nothing is changed or altered. This includes your bio, contact information and links to your site. Cannot write? No problem. There are thousands of books available for you to co-brand and start your viral trail.
Free Traffic and Joint Ventures
Setting up joint ventures may be the most powerful free method available to increase targeted traffic. Joint ventures are simply colorations or partnerships between two or more people or businesses. It is not essential that the partnerships even be in related businesses, though helpful. Just about any combination will work. Obviously competing businesses are not a wise or practical option for a joint venture. That still leaves plenty of other partners. There is no limit to what can be done with this marketing technique. The venture can be as simple as trading client databases, or it can be an elaborate cross promotions with contests and giveaway. A joint venture is only limited by the creativity of the parties involved. If you have the right partner this will do wonders for your credibility and, the know, like, trust, buy formula for success.
Free Traffic and Meta Tags
Meta tags are very important. I am not an expert on tags so I highly suggest you research Meta tags optimization techniques. To have a Google spider find you and have you listed will do wonders for your traffic. Never pay to have your site listed, there are too many ways to have it listed. Too often these pay sites will not do what is promised or what you could do with a little effort.
Free Traffic and Offline
Marketing Techniques
To maximize your online presence you have to go offline and bring foot traffic to the web as targeted web traffic. Here are a few low cost offline marketing techniques that will give you added visibility and translate to a more powerful web presence. Turn your automobile into a mini billboard. Place bumper stickers and magnet signs on your vehicle. Leave a business card wherever possible. One suggestion is to leave it with your tip at a restaurant. Hang flyers on high traffic bulletin boards, be sure to leave a pull tab. Change your body into a walking billboard for your opportunity and products instead of someone else's. How often do you promote Nike, Polo, Guess, or a professional sports team? Start promoting yourself and get your clothes embroidered. It does not have to be anything fancy, a good descriptive url will work.
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To Find out Free Webmaster Resources visit:
http://www.freewebmasterresources.blogspot.com/
Sunday
Getting Website Traffic
"Get Web traffic now" is a common advertised term. When searching for "web traffic" (on yahoo, google, etc.) you will see advertisements for 25,000 , 50,000, 100,000 (and so on) visitors to your site for as little as $50 to several hundred dollars.
If website traffic was so easy and cheap to achieve, then pay per click keyword bidding would not be as high as $30+ per visitor (click) which it is for some valuable keywords. What you will learn, is that blasting random untargeted traffic to your website is not a waste of time and money in our opinion. In this Blog we discuss a method of getting targeted traffic to your website.The theory behind this method of getting targeted traffic through search engines encompasses both a free medium and pay per visitor.
The free method is the all important part of building a successful online marketing method.We start by looking at website traffic in the form of visitors per day per website page. For example:If your immediate goal is to get 500 visitors a day to your website, then instead of thinking your home page has to be visited 500 times to reach this goal, break it down by page of content. If you have 10 pages of content, then shoot for 50 visitors per page.Content is king when it comes to getting free clicks from search engines. The World Wide Web's primary purpose is for research and information and search engines agree. If you have something to contribute to a topic that is unique and relevant, you should have a shot at getting that visitor.Typically the more pages of unique content you have the more chances you have at getting free visitors. So if you look back at out example of 500 visitors a day goal and instead of 10 pages you have 100 pages of content, then 5 visitors a day per page is easier to achieve then 50.
Once you have the content, now you have to make sure the search engines can find it. This is called search engine optimization.
The following are some search engine optimization tips:
1. Make sure you use a title tag (example (), description tag and a keyword tag (even know search engines don't focus on this as much anymore).
2. Make sure your keywords appear in your title.
3. Make sure you focus on keyword phrases. If you are targeting visitors with an interest in a general field, you will be hard pressed to get traffic from a single keyword because of the competition. Try to focus on more specific keyword phrases.
4. Use ALT tags. This is putting alternative descriptive words to any picture displayed on your website pages.
5. Use your keyword phrases in the beginning of your body text and the end.
6. Use header tags.
7. Try to use original content.
8. Try to place your keyword phrases throughout your document. DON'T over do it! Too much can be bad.
9. Submit your website to as many free website directories as possible. The more popular the website your site is linked from, the more likely search engines will find your site.
10. Start a link exchange campaign with other relevant websites. Make sure you only link with websites that relate to your topic. By creating a link exchange with similar topic websites, search engines view each link as a vote for your website, giving you potentially a higher order in search results.
Remember SEO (search engine optimization) is not a perfect science since we don't know the search engines exact algorithms, but the above tips should help your web pages get read and noticed by them. NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT COULD BE VIEWED AS MANIPULATING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS. The consequences will be removal all together which means 0 traffic!
The Pay Method uses pay per click. If you are unfamiliar with this term, go to google or yahoo and search for "search engine optimization". You will notice a series of ads on the top of the search results and the right of them (even at the bottom in some cases). To appear in these results you must sign up for their pay per click service and bid on keywords that relate to your website. If you are the top bidder than you will be on the top of the page (you will also be paying the most for the traffic) if you are the lowest bidder, then you will be at the bottom of the page or second maybe third page of search results (which means less traffic).
The following are some tips to use and keep costs down on pay per click search engines:
1. Use keyword phrases. Use phrases that really bring the right visitors to your site. Also typically the more words, the cheaper the bidding is.
2. Make sure this form of advertising makes sense for you. If you do research and realize that per 100 visitors you earn $5 then you obviously do not want to spend more that $.50 per visitor.
3. Start with a smaller budget to gauge the quality and feasibility of keywords.
4. Use misspelled versions of your keywords. Great way to get cheaper traffic! If you where bidding on "Search Engine Optimization", you would be spending a small fortune to be at the top of the result. Keep in mind over 21% or search queries are misspelled and their is over 175 ways to misspell "Search Engine Optimization".
5. Use ads that describe your product or service accurately. Misleading ads, lead to mislead traffic, hence a waste of money.6. Market individual pages in your website not just your homepage.
Remember to stay organized with your campaigns in pay per click and stay aware of your spending and results. Also choose search engine pay per click companies wisely
Wednesday
Getting Good FREE Traffic
You’ve published a website right? You realize that it’s a meaningless endeavor unless you get some good traffic. You have absolutely no money for expensive advertising campaigns. In fact, your advertising budget is virtually non-existent. Read on to discover some simple methods to get good free traffic.
Good Seo
This cannot be emphasized enough. Good Seo is your starting point to any free advertising campaign. Before you even consider any other methods for free traffic, get your website user and search engine friendly. Put on quality content in line with the objective of your website. Make your content interesting, fresh and unique for the user and the search bots will come crawling. If word gets around that your content is great, webmasters may voluntarily link to your website. This one-way linking will increase your link popularity, search engine rankings and get you good free traffic.
Ensure your site is well designed, your html is clean and compliant, your pages load quick and there are no dead links. Your users should be able to get what they want within three to four clicks. Avoid excessive use of graphics and animation unless absolutely necessary. I don’t recommend you use pop-ups as most users get irritated by them.
Articles
Writing articles is another great way to get free traffic. Webmasters are constantly looking for fresh, quality articles to put on their website. When you write an article, you are allowed to describe a little about yourself and your website in the resource or author bio box. It is in this box that you are allowed to put a link back to your site.
Submit these articles to article directory sites. If your article is relevant and exciting, webmasters will put it on their websites. In this way, you can improve link popularity by getting a one-way link back to your site and free traffic from readers who read your article.
Write articles that relate to your website. For example, if you have a website on growing roses, write an article that has something to go with growing roses. Submit your article to as many article directories and relevant websites as possible.
Forums
Every niche on the internet has a plethora of forums. Do a Google search and find relevant ones in your niche. Join these forums as member and contribute to the community by making useful and thoughtful posts. You are allowed to put your link in your signature line. This also counts towards your link popularity as search engines also index forum posts.
Fellow forum members may also click on your link to visit your site. A word of caution – every forum has a different set of rules, especially when it comes to links. Make sure you read and obey them at all times. If you just go in and put up links, you will be banned almost instantly.
Link Exchange
The great granddaddy of free traffic, link exchanges are still very relevant and effective today. Make contact with sites that are in a similar niche as your own. Offer to exchange links with these sites. A word of caution – choose the sites that you link to very carefully. Avoid linking to spammy, black-hat sites with questionable content and motives. Make sure that these sites are not banned by the major search engines.
Newsletters
You not only need to get a continuous stream of new visitors to your website, you need to make sure you keep the old ones coming back all the time. The best way to do this is by providing fresh valuable content and by way of a newsletter system.
Put in a newsletter subscription form on your site and invite visitors to subscribe to a newsletter that you can email to them either weekly or monthly. You can put some content, some special offers, ads and a link back to your site in your newsletter every time you email out. Also provide them with an incentive or reason to click on your link and visit your site. In this way, you remind your visitors about your website.
Submit to directories
There are many directories available on the web that allow ads or links free of charge. Some are general and some specialize in a particular niche. Choose relevant ones and submit your link or ad to them. Make sure you choose quality directories that are indexed by search engines. In this way you get a one-way link back to your site. You benefit by getting free traffic and improved link popularity.
Email this page
Another great, yet simple idea is to add an “Email this page” feature to your website. It’s a simple form where a visitor fills in the name and email address of another person that he/she wishes to recommend your site to. You set the form to automatically email a link to your website to that person. That person will then receive an email with a short message that says that so and so person had recommended that he/she visit your site, etc.
If you follow these simple ideas, you should start to see an increase in traffic to your site. Please note that building traffic takes time and won’t happen overnight.
You’ve published a website right? You realize that it’s a meaningless endeavor unless you get some good traffic. You have absolutely no money for expensive advertising campaigns. In fact, your advertising budget is virtually non-existent. Read on to discover some simple methods to get good free traffic.
Good Seo
This cannot be emphasized enough. Good Seo is your starting point to any free advertising campaign. Before you even consider any other methods for free traffic, get your website user and search engine friendly. Put on quality content in line with the objective of your website. Make your content interesting, fresh and unique for the user and the search bots will come crawling. If word gets around that your content is great, webmasters may voluntarily link to your website. This one-way linking will increase your link popularity, search engine rankings and get you good free traffic.
Ensure your site is well designed, your html is clean and compliant, your pages load quick and there are no dead links. Your users should be able to get what they want within three to four clicks. Avoid excessive use of graphics and animation unless absolutely necessary. I don’t recommend you use pop-ups as most users get irritated by them.
Articles
Writing articles is another great way to get free traffic. Webmasters are constantly looking for fresh, quality articles to put on their website. When you write an article, you are allowed to describe a little about yourself and your website in the resource or author bio box. It is in this box that you are allowed to put a link back to your site.
Submit these articles to article directory sites. If your article is relevant and exciting, webmasters will put it on their websites. In this way, you can improve link popularity by getting a one-way link back to your site and free traffic from readers who read your article.
Write articles that relate to your website. For example, if you have a website on growing roses, write an article that has something to go with growing roses. Submit your article to as many article directories and relevant websites as possible.
Forums
Every niche on the internet has a plethora of forums. Do a Google search and find relevant ones in your niche. Join these forums as member and contribute to the community by making useful and thoughtful posts. You are allowed to put your link in your signature line. This also counts towards your link popularity as search engines also index forum posts.
Fellow forum members may also click on your link to visit your site. A word of caution – every forum has a different set of rules, especially when it comes to links. Make sure you read and obey them at all times. If you just go in and put up links, you will be banned almost instantly.
Link Exchange
The great granddaddy of free traffic, link exchanges are still very relevant and effective today. Make contact with sites that are in a similar niche as your own. Offer to exchange links with these sites. A word of caution – choose the sites that you link to very carefully. Avoid linking to spammy, black-hat sites with questionable content and motives. Make sure that these sites are not banned by the major search engines.
Newsletters
You not only need to get a continuous stream of new visitors to your website, you need to make sure you keep the old ones coming back all the time. The best way to do this is by providing fresh valuable content and by way of a newsletter system.
Put in a newsletter subscription form on your site and invite visitors to subscribe to a newsletter that you can email to them either weekly or monthly. You can put some content, some special offers, ads and a link back to your site in your newsletter every time you email out. Also provide them with an incentive or reason to click on your link and visit your site. In this way, you remind your visitors about your website.
Submit to directories
There are many directories available on the web that allow ads or links free of charge. Some are general and some specialize in a particular niche. Choose relevant ones and submit your link or ad to them. Make sure you choose quality directories that are indexed by search engines. In this way you get a one-way link back to your site. You benefit by getting free traffic and improved link popularity.
Email this page
Another great, yet simple idea is to add an “Email this page” feature to your website. It’s a simple form where a visitor fills in the name and email address of another person that he/she wishes to recommend your site to. You set the form to automatically email a link to your website to that person. That person will then receive an email with a short message that says that so and so person had recommended that he/she visit your site, etc.
If you follow these simple ideas, you should start to see an increase in traffic to your site. Please note that building traffic takes time and won’t happen overnight.
Monday
Creating Traffic for your Website
Generate Traffic and Create Hits
This Blog is a quick overview of some methods of traffic generation and their advantages and disadvantages. It is the goal of any website of the internet to get traffic to the site, to be seen. One of the problems is the internet is now so huge that there are more pages on the internet than people on the planet. How can you get hits and a flow of traffic to your solitary page. If your generating a page for general interest or fun without traffic your goals are not met. In the case of creating traffic for a business website it is literally a case of have traffic or have your business die. It doesn't mattter if you have the best website site, with great content, fantastic pictures, audio, video and a multimedia experience better than disneyland, if no one comes it is for naught. The internet is not like field of dreams "if you build it they will come", no they won't. Google has about 8 billion pages indexed on the net and its growing everyday. If you create a new site your chance of having a visitor just stumble on your site is about the same as winning the lottery. How then do we change the game so people can at least appreciate the work put into a website, or in the case of a business or affliliate website visit to make a decision to buy? The following are some of the most common methods.
Search Engine Optimisation.
Basically this means you optimise your pages with the right keywords in the right places so that the search engines index your page as having great CONTENT in relation to key search words. The simple fact of the matter is that your chance of being on page one of the most popular search terms is next to nil. You will find thanks to the American domination of the internet that the most popular searched keywords tend to be American personalities, like Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, etc. (Wonder why there are so many gossip magazines? The internet is no different, gossip is one of the most popular topics) If you were to create a new website about one of these people thinking hey I will get some of that traffic for myself, I'll do an Oprah Winfrey site, content rich, etc your chance of getting to the top is practically nil, why, firstly because you have 1000's to millions of competitors and your chance of being optimised not only with great content but with relevant links and relevant links with the important keywords will be nil as well. All is not lost, it is possible still to create a niche website and get rated in the first page e.g. type "vegetable gardening on hard clay" into the google search engine and you will see I am rated number two and three. One a blog and the other an article, probably a boring topic for most people but for gardeners a nice niche topic. Its not a university degree on the subject but the basics on the subject and it rates high because the site's content strongly matches the search phase vegetable gardening on hard clay, type in gardening or vegetables though and the site is lost from the radar. In summary one of the first methods of traffic generation is to have a site geared to keywords and content that will draw in search engine traffic. Remember though the more competative the keywords the harder this will be. Some companies specialise in generating rich content and links from other like rich content site targetted to high rating keywords and charge big money for the privelage $50,000, etc, why because free traffic to websites from search engines means big chance for profits.
Adwords and the like.
Another method of traffic generation is to buy it. Yahoo, Google, etc sell advertising space. In the case of Google adwords you can pay to have you site on the first page but this can be an expensive proposition, $1 or more a click, to mere pennies. Why do people choose this method. Firstly it brings targetted traffic to your site. The advantage of targetted traffic is these people are looking for your exact topic and thus more likely to stay on your site and it results in higher conversion rates. The problem is although Google says its rewards content rich sites with lower click costs the truth is the better ad wins, not necessarily the better or most relevant site. To explain this further, google will lower your cost of your clicks and even raise you in the list if more people are clicking through - its says its rewarding you for having a relevant site - the truth though is its rewarding you for having a great ad that people want to click on. Advantage of this method is you are guaranteed traffic - disadvantage - its costs and takes time to tweek your ads so they work at maximum efficiency. However I know of businesses that survive on google adwords alone for advertising and make a very good turnover on their business products so it works well for them. But one again the greater demand for the keyword, the greater the number of competitors there are. There is one way to can cut this disadvantage down though, choose to limit your target audience to a particular country, region or even city. Obviously the target audience is further limited by language. Not much point in advertising your english content site in Mongolia, firstly because not many mongols speak english, but secondly because not many have internet access either. If your paying money for advertising on the internet make sure you are reaching the right audience for your ad.
Surfing Programs.
Another way to generate hits to your site is to join numerous surfing programs, like http://www.autosurfmonster.com . These will generate HITS to your site. In fact you can buy thousands of hits and get them in a very short space of time but although normally cheap e.g. $5 for 5000 hits.
Longer term methods.
I call these longer term methods because they require a greater work on your part, however they can result in great traffic results. One of these is article writing. Articles submitted to articles sites like goarticles, article fever, etc act as a magnet for search engines. Content rich and quality controlled if you get an article listed in one of these forums/ libraries you have the ability to have a constant stream of traffic through attached links. Why do you think I've written this article. To generate traffic. Yes I like helping and educating others and I do create not for profit websites and articles but most are to generate traffic. Another long term method is to contact and link to other similar sites. You can do this by requesting other webmasters to do this or create you own sites and link them to one another. Another long term method is to create an op-in e-mail list and encourage people from you list to visit your 'great' site with your 'unbelievable' offer. Creating a blog like this doesn't hurt either. In summary I don't reccommend any method over any other. Each has advantages and disadvantages. It can depend on what you are advertising. On the whole though I don't think you can go wrong if you do all the above methods as a wholistic internet campaign. If you do over time your internet presence will increase as will your total traffic.
Generate Traffic and Create Hits
This Blog is a quick overview of some methods of traffic generation and their advantages and disadvantages. It is the goal of any website of the internet to get traffic to the site, to be seen. One of the problems is the internet is now so huge that there are more pages on the internet than people on the planet. How can you get hits and a flow of traffic to your solitary page. If your generating a page for general interest or fun without traffic your goals are not met. In the case of creating traffic for a business website it is literally a case of have traffic or have your business die. It doesn't mattter if you have the best website site, with great content, fantastic pictures, audio, video and a multimedia experience better than disneyland, if no one comes it is for naught. The internet is not like field of dreams "if you build it they will come", no they won't. Google has about 8 billion pages indexed on the net and its growing everyday. If you create a new site your chance of having a visitor just stumble on your site is about the same as winning the lottery. How then do we change the game so people can at least appreciate the work put into a website, or in the case of a business or affliliate website visit to make a decision to buy? The following are some of the most common methods.
Search Engine Optimisation.
Basically this means you optimise your pages with the right keywords in the right places so that the search engines index your page as having great CONTENT in relation to key search words. The simple fact of the matter is that your chance of being on page one of the most popular search terms is next to nil. You will find thanks to the American domination of the internet that the most popular searched keywords tend to be American personalities, like Oprah Winfrey, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, etc. (Wonder why there are so many gossip magazines? The internet is no different, gossip is one of the most popular topics) If you were to create a new website about one of these people thinking hey I will get some of that traffic for myself, I'll do an Oprah Winfrey site, content rich, etc your chance of getting to the top is practically nil, why, firstly because you have 1000's to millions of competitors and your chance of being optimised not only with great content but with relevant links and relevant links with the important keywords will be nil as well. All is not lost, it is possible still to create a niche website and get rated in the first page e.g. type "vegetable gardening on hard clay" into the google search engine and you will see I am rated number two and three. One a blog and the other an article, probably a boring topic for most people but for gardeners a nice niche topic. Its not a university degree on the subject but the basics on the subject and it rates high because the site's content strongly matches the search phase vegetable gardening on hard clay, type in gardening or vegetables though and the site is lost from the radar. In summary one of the first methods of traffic generation is to have a site geared to keywords and content that will draw in search engine traffic. Remember though the more competative the keywords the harder this will be. Some companies specialise in generating rich content and links from other like rich content site targetted to high rating keywords and charge big money for the privelage $50,000, etc, why because free traffic to websites from search engines means big chance for profits.
Adwords and the like.
Another method of traffic generation is to buy it. Yahoo, Google, etc sell advertising space. In the case of Google adwords you can pay to have you site on the first page but this can be an expensive proposition, $1 or more a click, to mere pennies. Why do people choose this method. Firstly it brings targetted traffic to your site. The advantage of targetted traffic is these people are looking for your exact topic and thus more likely to stay on your site and it results in higher conversion rates. The problem is although Google says its rewards content rich sites with lower click costs the truth is the better ad wins, not necessarily the better or most relevant site. To explain this further, google will lower your cost of your clicks and even raise you in the list if more people are clicking through - its says its rewarding you for having a relevant site - the truth though is its rewarding you for having a great ad that people want to click on. Advantage of this method is you are guaranteed traffic - disadvantage - its costs and takes time to tweek your ads so they work at maximum efficiency. However I know of businesses that survive on google adwords alone for advertising and make a very good turnover on their business products so it works well for them. But one again the greater demand for the keyword, the greater the number of competitors there are. There is one way to can cut this disadvantage down though, choose to limit your target audience to a particular country, region or even city. Obviously the target audience is further limited by language. Not much point in advertising your english content site in Mongolia, firstly because not many mongols speak english, but secondly because not many have internet access either. If your paying money for advertising on the internet make sure you are reaching the right audience for your ad.
Surfing Programs.
Another way to generate hits to your site is to join numerous surfing programs, like http://www.autosurfmonster.com . These will generate HITS to your site. In fact you can buy thousands of hits and get them in a very short space of time but although normally cheap e.g. $5 for 5000 hits.
Longer term methods.
I call these longer term methods because they require a greater work on your part, however they can result in great traffic results. One of these is article writing. Articles submitted to articles sites like goarticles, article fever, etc act as a magnet for search engines. Content rich and quality controlled if you get an article listed in one of these forums/ libraries you have the ability to have a constant stream of traffic through attached links. Why do you think I've written this article. To generate traffic. Yes I like helping and educating others and I do create not for profit websites and articles but most are to generate traffic. Another long term method is to contact and link to other similar sites. You can do this by requesting other webmasters to do this or create you own sites and link them to one another. Another long term method is to create an op-in e-mail list and encourage people from you list to visit your 'great' site with your 'unbelievable' offer. Creating a blog like this doesn't hurt either. In summary I don't reccommend any method over any other. Each has advantages and disadvantages. It can depend on what you are advertising. On the whole though I don't think you can go wrong if you do all the above methods as a wholistic internet campaign. If you do over time your internet presence will increase as will your total traffic.
.................Free Traffic Tips
......................A Complete Guide to Free Website Traffic
Two million visits and more….
We don't claim to be an expert, but we know enough about traffic generation to
regard getting a million visits a year as an achievable target.
We've done it, doubled it, and more - with FREE traffic.
If you haven't reached a million visits a year, you should find this Blog article
useful.
When it comes to traffic generating, many affiliates and other website
owners tend to get stuck in a comfortable rut. We often use a small number
of favorite techniques and rarely venture beyond them.
I'm hoping this report will encourage you to look beyond the techniques
you're using and try a few new ones. By using a wider variety of techniques,
you'll attract new visitors from new places.
The wider you cast your traffic net, the more you future-proof your business.
You probably won't use EVERY method listed here. Choose the ones which
best suit your site, your skills, your interests and your temperament.
All the techniques we describe here involve work - but that's a GOOD thing.
Many of your competitors will be too lazy to do the work involved, so when
you do it, your traffic will leap ahead of theirs.
About 95% of this report describes strong, solid fundamentals -
techniques which build a solid, long-term business. About 5% deals with
gimmicks. Don't ignore the gimmicks. Sometimes they can work brilliantly.
We like to think of search engines as our private free workers, working for us 24
hours a day, 365 days a year. This report is aimed at affiliates, but you don't have to be an affiliate to find these traffic-generating tips useful.
Traffic tip #1
You MUST have high quality, unique content if you want long-term,
free search engine traffic.
This is the most important tip of all. Sadly, it's one which many website
owners ignore.Provide LOTS of information-rich, keyword-rich, useful content for the search engines and humans to find.
You know that search engines are being clogged with junk at an alarming
rate. The other day, we came across a marketer who was boasting that he
owned more than 20,000 blogs - and he's not the only one.
Consider the scary effect of this exponential increase in low quality Blogs
and websites. Old, large, well established sites will inevitably become more
and more important and trusted by the search engines. Owning a large, well established, high quality site is a very solid investment in your future. These days, even Google's webmaster guidelines advise affiliates to publish "unique and relevant" content.
If you spend time thinking of ways to provide truly USEFUL content that
people will talk about, you'll automatically end up with lots of free, one-way
links to your site as people recommend it without even being asked to do
so. We've been building information-rich websites ever since we created autosurfmonster.com . This method has worked extremely well for us and continues to work very well. If your website helps solve people's problems, they'll love you for it.
Traffic tip #2
Keep ADDING fresh, relevant, useful content.
According to Google, about half the 2.5 billion searches done a day at
Google are for unique, one-off phrases. The more pages you build full of on-topic material, the better the chances your site will be found.
When it comes to keywords, think big. You want your site to be found via
THOUSANDS of different phrases every month. Then you can lure that traffic to your best money-generating pages or to your newsletter sign-up page.
Also, search engines prefer fresh sites which keep gradually adding new
content. Don't let your site go stale.
"Our own rule of thumb is this: Add a minimum of 1 article per week, 2
preferably. Adding an article daily is euphoria and adding 1 every six
hours, well, that's the best."
Traffic tip #3
Choose a memorable domain name.
If you're launching a new site, choose a name people will remember easily.
Ask yourself: "Will people remember my domain name?"
Try to choose a name which won't be confused with similar names. You
don't want people typing your competitor's domain name when they’re trying
to find your site.
NameBoy.com has a handy tool to help you choose domain names. Also,
you can find a surprising number of good deleted (expired) domain names
at Whois.net. Both those tools are free.
Traffic tip #4
Buy the wrong domain name, too.
If you think people may confuse your domain name with a similar name, try
to buy that name, too. A good domain name registrar will make it very easy for you to redirect one domain name to another.
Traffic tip #5
Make your domain name easy to read - especially if it's a .NET
Which of the following is easier to read and understand?
www.autosurfmonster.com or www.AutoSurfMonster.com
See how using a capital letter at the start of each word makes the second
domain name easier to read - and easier to remember.
Whenever you mention your domain name anywhere, ALWAYS present it
in its most readable form. A good place to start doing this is in your email
signature file. If you're unfortunate enough to have bought the ".net" version of a domain name because someone raced you to the ".com", help people to remember your site by writing it like this...
Example.NET
Being MEMORABLE helps you get more repeat visitors.
Traffic tip #6
Use appropriate keywords in your image file names.
searching for images. We are not sure how valuable those visitors are, but we
didn't have to do anything very special to get them. Google Images - http://images.google.com - makes it easy for people to search for graphics online.
To take advantage of this, when choosing the file name of an image on your
site, use an appropriate key phrase, for example, "book-ends.jpg" if you're
promoting book ends.
Here's a tip we just discovered...
When we searched in Google Images for "book ends" we discovered that the
very first search result was for a page which did NOT contain a graphic of
book ends!
Instead, the page contained a "book ends" LINK to a book ends graphic on
a second page. It if suits the design of your site, you may want to
experiment with this technique.
We are not sure how much use traffic to images is, but if it's ADDITIONAL traffic you can get simply by choosing image file names carefully, it's worth
having.
Traffic tip #7
Do REALLY SERIOUS keyword research.
If you want to get LOTS of traffic from search engines, you need to find out
the exact phrases which people are typing into search engines.
There are free tools available for this, but they're not nearly as useful as the
more comprehensive paid tools.
For example, if you're using the Overture keyword tool for your research, be
warned, its results can't be trusted. The Overture tool shows you the SAME number of searches for all these searches:
bikini girls
girls bikini
bikini girl
girl bikini
bikinis girl
girl bikinis
This is obviously nonsense. The Overture tool is useful to give you a quick rough guide, but NOT for, serious research.
"The harder it is to discover a certain search phrase (getting traffic), the
less competition you will have in the SERPs (for that search phrase). If
a keyword research tool is free and popular, how many competitors will
you have for the phrases you discover there?"
Traffic tip #8
Try this page titles experiment.
Here's a good way to increase your traffic.
Go to Google and type any phrase into the search box. Look at the titles of
the websites in the top 10 rankings.
Which ones catch your eye and tempt you to click on the link? Some are
dreadfully stodgy, boring. Some are merely a long list of keywords. Some
are good. Some are junk. Good titles are written for search engines AND humans.
Now look at the titles on your site. Start with your most important pages.
Rewrite them to make them more eye-catching.
Now go to Google and do a search of your site like this...
site:example.com
Study the page titles. If you own a large site created over many years, you
may be horribly embarrassed at just how BAD some of your page titles are.
Do you want to find some examples of good titles? Simply go to Google and
do some more searches. Don't stick to your industry.
Type in all sorts of different phrases and study the titles that appear in the
top 10. You'll soon be brimming with ideas on ways you can improve your page
titles. Checking how enticing the information is in your meta description tag can
help, too. Some search engines display this information in their search
results. If you have a well established site, you may have written many of your page titles and meta descriptions years ago when you knew less about marketing
than you do now. If so, it's time for another look at them.
Traffic tip #9
Organic SEO - a few key points.
Search engines are getting cleverer all the time. You can try to outsmart
them but to us it makes more sense to work WITH them.
They're gradually getting better at sifting out low quality websites and
ranking them poorly. So build high quality websites containing genuinely
useful material that other people want to link to.
The basics of good search engine optimization are fairly simple. Here's a
very quick summary:
· You need to make it easy for a search engine to figure out the topic
of your page.
· Find appropriate keywords or key phrases and use them in the title,
in the page heading, in the introduction, throughout the article, in the
meta description, in alt tags, at the end of the article, in links on the
page, in bold or italics, and perhaps in a list on the page.
· Use key phrases in your file names, for example: keyword1-
keyword2.html.
· Use synonyms and word variations naturally throughout the page.
· When linking to your pages, use appropriate keywords in the anchor
text (the words people click on). Do this for links throughout your site,
and also on other people's sites which link to yours. Vary the anchor
text.
· For internal links, it's better to use text than graphical links.
· Create a logical navigation system so that humans and search
engines can easily find the content on your site.
· Get links from other sites to internal pages as well as to your main
page.
Traffic tip #10
Submit to the main directories.
The more high quality links you have to your site, the more impressed the
search engines will be.
Start with major directories such as...
Yahoo!
DMOZ.org
sbd.bcentral.com
...and move on to...
Gimpsy
Skaffe
Joeant
GoGuides
Business.com
SevenSeek
ThisIsOurYear
LookSmart (probably too expensive)
BlueFind
WowDirectory
Best of the Web
GeniusFind
Traffic tip #11
Submit to niche directories.
Search for smaller, specialist directories in your niche. For example, if your
site is on a health topic, look for health-related directories.
How to find niche directories:
· Go to Search It! (It's a very handy free research tool.)
· Scroll to the Search Category, "Specialty Hubs and Directories"
· Choose one of the 4 options in STEP 2
· Read the "Click Here for Information..." help before proceeding
· Complete STEPS 3 and 4, and then click on Search It!
· Read the tutorial. It tells you what to do with the search results
· Get your search results. You should be able to find relevant, themed
hub sites and directories which will list your site. Some charge a fee,
some are free.
Traffic tip #12
Distribute USEFUL articles to article directories.
Write articles and submit them to article directories. Make sure they're
USEFUL, interesting articles, not fluff. Other websites will pick up these
articles and use them on their site.
If you've added a link to your site in the "About the author" box at the
bottom of the article, you can get hundreds or thousands of links to your
site. You also boost your reputation.
When writing the article, you need an eye-catching heading. You also need
to give people a strong incentive to visit your site.
Here are some ways to do that:
· Give people a link where they can get a free report.
· Tell them where they can subscribe to your newsletter.
· Tell them to visit your site for Part 2 of the article.
· Tell them to visit your site for a more comprehensive version of the
article.
Distributing articles to directories is tedious and time-consuming. You can
either do it manually or you can speed up the process - and receive a very
helpful instruction manual - if you use ArticleAnnouncer. It's expensive but
good value.
Another popular way of distributing articles is to use the Article Marketer
service to do all the hard work for you. iSnare is another good one.
One annoying thing about this technique is that some unscrupulous website
owners will publish your articles without linking back to your site.
Traffic tip #13
Write articles directly for other sites.
Getting high quality links to your site is hugely important. Ideally, you want
links from "authority" sites - sites which have a lot of links to THEM.
As well as reading what search engine optimization experts say, study what
they actually DO. One common tactic they use is to write expert articles and
get them published on related websites. When they do this, the links they
get to their site are beautifully on target - those links come from a page
which is all about search engine optimization - which perfectly matches the
theme of their site.
To a search engine, such links look much more important than a boring link
which is just one of dozens on a page in a little mini-directory tacked on to a
mini-site.
Traffic tip #14
Submit articles to newsletters which are archived online.
Submitting articles to newsletters has been popular since the early days of
marketing online. In the "Internet marketing" niche, publishers tend to be
swamped with offers to publish articles. Other fields aren't so ridiculously
competitive.
Traffic tip #15
Submit brief hints to newsletters and blogs.
A brief, useful hint published in an archived newsletter can give you a link to
your site for many years - perhaps even a decade or more.
You can also submit tips to blogs.
Traffic tip #16
Include keywords in your online profiles.
Whenever you create an online profile anywhere online - on your blogs, on
a forum or on sites - always use carefully chosen key phrases.
This increases the chance that people will find you, either via search
engines or via the site's search facility.
Traffic tip #17
Get one-way links and a few reciprocal links.
Reciprocal links aren't as important as they used to be. They should not be
your major traffic-generating strategy. They ARE still very useful, especially
when you're getting a new site established in the search engines.
Traffic tip #18
Publish articles on your site and invite other sites to publish them on
their sites, with a link to you.
Some websites make it very easy for other sites to reprint their articles. At
the end of each article on their site, they publish a note giving people
permission to reprint the article providing the source box at the end is
published, too.
(Caution: Although this technique apparently works well for those who do it,
We don't use this technique. Our goal is to have almost all unique content on
Our sites. We wonder if the technique may not work quite so well some time in
the future. We could be wrong, but We speculate that as search engines become more and more clogged with junk sites, search engines will get much
tougher on duplicate content. Sites which don't publish duplicate content
will benefit.)
Traffic tip #19
Publish a lively, useful newsletter.
Let's say you have 3,000 people a week - or month - visiting your site. Most
of them are going to look at one or two pages and then disappear, perhaps
never to be seen again.
You need a way to persuade them to return.
Writing your own newsletter is an excellent way of boosting repeat traffic. A
newsletter reminds readers that your site exists.
To encourage repeat visitors, you can tell your readers about new articles
you've added to your site. You can also remind them of articles they may
have missed. You can tell them about a survey you're running on your site,
a special report, or interesting new posts on your forum.
While you're writing your newsletter, keep asking yourself, "Is this item
useful? How can I make it MORE useful?"
Newsletters enhance your reputation, add to your credibility and - best of all
- give you repeat opportunities to make a sale.
Another advantage of publishing a newsletter is that when you want to
launch a second or third website, you can give it a flying start simply by
mentioning it in your newsletter. If you haven't published a newsletter, you'll find that the technical side of it is much easier than you imagined.
A good, reliable way to publish a newsletter is to use Aweber to distribute it.
Traffic tip #20
Submit your newsletter to newsletter directories.
Search in Google for...
ezine directories
ezine directory
newsletter directory
newsletter directories
...and submit your newsletter to newsletter directories.
It's time-consuming and you probably won't get a lot of traffic from this
technique. If you have more money than time, outsource this task. You
could hire a student to do it.
Traffic tip #21
Publish a mini-course.
This technique encourages visitors to keep coming back to your site.
Publish a short (or long) informational email mini-course. Provide genuinely
useful content. Starting gradually, after you've won the trust of your readers, weave relevant affiliate links into the messages.
Also, give your readers reasons to visit your site, giving them links to related
articles on your site. These pages can contain both affiliate links and
AdSense ads.
To retain your readers' interest, at the end of each message, give them a
little teaser telling them what they'll get in the next message in the series.
Traffic tip #22
Write testimonials that are worth using.
When you read an ebook or newsletter or some product which you find
useful, write a quick note to the author. Sometimes, your quick note will be
published as a testimonial, with a link back to your site.
Traffic tip #23
Make helpful posts in forums.
Join forums in your niche and promote your site in your signature.
Be careful. Read the forum instructions first or you're likely to annoy forum
moderators and forum members who have been there for years. Lurk and
learn. Some forums allow signatures. Some don't. Some won't allow words like
"See the link in my signature". Tread carefully.
You also need to remember that many affiliate agreements specifically say
that posting an affiliate link on a forum is regarded as spamming. Ignoring
this rule can get you dumped from an affiliate program. You could lose any
Commissions you’ve earned.
Build your reputation by posting genuinely, helpful, useful comments.
If you think carefully of ways to provide truly USEFUL content that people
will talk about, you'll automatically end up with lots of free, one-way links to
your site as people recommend it without even being asked to do so.
Do a search in Google for
yourkeyword + forum
yourkeyword +"message board"
Traffic tip #24
Post free ads on forums which allow it.
We doubt if posting free ads will produce much benefit, but if you have lots of
time you could try it. Our forum has a Free Ads section.
Traffic tip #25
Make useful posts to email discussion lists.
You can subscribe to free email discussion lists and participate.
For Internet marketers, LED Digest is a good one. It has more than 40,000
subscribers. The moderator, won't accept blatant
advertising.
Traffic tip #26
Write keyword-rich press releases.
Write keyword-rich press releases and submit them to such places as
PRWeb,
URLwire,
BusinessWire,
PR Newswire
And Market Wire,
publicizing your new site, or a new section of your site. Press releases can give you a burst of immediate traffic AND provide long term links to your site.
They may even result in journalists phoning you for an interview. A few years ago, the main aim of a news release was to catch the attention of an editor or journalist. These days, you're often aiming directly at Internet users.
When writing the news release, keep the reader in mind all the time. You
must catch the reader's attention very quickly, using phrases that entice the
person to read the article AND click on a link to visit your site - either to the
main page or to a special landing page.
Write the press release as though you're writing an article for a newspaper.
This means you must have a short, snappy introduction.
Write concisely. Write the most important point in the FIRST sentence. Then write your second most important point, and so on.
Traffic tip #27
Create a lively blog or blogs.
You can create a blog easily and free, without knowing any HTML.
When you add a new page to your website, mention the new page in your
blog. Make friends with other blog publishers and get links from them.
When you post a message in your blog, your blog software should
automatically send a ping to the main blog search engines, such as
Technorati, and other sites. Learn how to do this.
Here's a nifty tip. You can get your lastest blog post listed in Google quickly
by using Google Sitemaps.
Services such as Feedburner.com allow your blog's feed to be distributed
easily to your site's users. They also allow email subscription of your feeds.
Traffic tip #28
RSS: Make it easy for people to read your blog.
Some people will visit your blog to read it. Others will use an RSS reader on
their computer or a web-based service such as MyYahoo!
You can make it easy for such people to subscribe to your blog by adding a
special little RSS, XML or MyYahoo! graphic to your blog.
Some websites add a dozen or more such special graphics to their blogs.
Traffic tip #29
RSS to email.
Some people don't like using RSS readers. They would prefer to get your
blog posts via email. You can help them do so by using RSS to email
services such as FeedBlitz, Bloglet or Rmail.
Traffic tip #30
Remove broken links.
Remove all broken links from your site. Search engines don't like them..
A good - free - way to check for broken links. If you create a
sitemap using Google SiteMaps, one of the benefits is that Google will tell
you about pages it can't crawl and links it can't follow.
You can see where problems are occurring and fix them.
Using Google SiteMaps is also a reliable way of making sure that Google
knows about every page on your site.
Traffic tip #31
Attract new audiences with your own podcasts.
A podcast is a sort of audio blog, distributed via RSS. The audio files can be
downloaded to iPods or any computer or MP3 player. People can subscribe to your broadcasts via RSS feeds and automatically
receive them. If you create your own informative, useful podcasts, you can reach a whole new audience.
You'll need to get your podcasts listed in podcast directories such as
Podcast.net. Make sure you use an eye-catching title for people scanning
the directories.
Large, popular directories of podcasts can be found at Feedburner.com and
Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Traffic tip #32
Use reliable web hosting.
Use a good reliable web host. If your site is down when Google's robot
comes visiting, your site is likely to disappear from the index. Many really
"cheap" web hosts can end up being very expensive.
If you have a bunch of sites, use several different web hosts. It's a form of
insurance in case of disaster. Web hosts sometimes go out of business
without warning.
Use backups.
Traffic tip #33
Analyze and tweak your internal linking.
Consider how your pages are linked. Changing your linking structure can
increase or decrease a page's PageRank, which can give you a little boost
in search engine rankings on your most important pages.
There's a logical, sensible reason for doing this. You WANT more links to
your important, income-generating pages and fewer links to obscure pages.
Some webmasters use rel="nofollow" tags on links to certain pages,
reducing PageRank flow to those pages. To Us, this seems risky - surely
Google would regard it as behavior aimed directly at search engines, not
humans.
Traffic tip #34
Chase new fads and hot topics.
Some affiliates monitor popular TV programs and news items. When a hot
topic catches their eye, as fast as they can, they create a new web page, a
new blog or new website discussing the new product or new fad.
These fast-moving affiliates are the ones who get to capture the early rush
of traffic.
Traffic tip #35
Chase new affiliate programs.
Monitor new affiliate programs and quickly create a new page, new blog or
new website to cover the new topic.
Traffic tip #36
Find new topics in your logs - and where your traffic is coming from.
Study your referral logs to see what phrases people are typing into search
engines. Here's another reason you MUST have a decent tool to show you your
traffic stats. You need to know where your traffic is coming from.
You need to know which of your many traffic generating experiments are
most effective. Then you'll know where to allocate your time and energy -
on the winners.
If your web host doesn't provide you with good stats, one option is to use
AWStats. It's free.
If you're comfortable with letting Google know just about everything about
your site, you can also use Google Analytics, which is also free.
Traffic tip #37
Join business associations which list members' sites online.
There may be business associations in your niche which publish members'
websites online. It's worth checking.
Try a Google search for "business associations".
Traffic tip #38
Add a forum to your site.
A forum has big advantages and big disadvantages.
A popular forum can attract a large number of repeat visitors to your site. It
can enhance your credibility as an expert.
A forum can also involve a great deal of work. Before you decide to launch
one, carefully consider who will moderate it, seven days a week, 365 days a
year.
Who will remove the spam? Will you have three moderators working in
different time zones around the planet?
If you are going to moderate the forum yourself, who will take over when
you want a few days off?
The most effective way to launch a forum is to add one to a popular site. It
takes a lot of time and energy - and usually money - to launch one from
scratch.
Traffic tip #39
Write free reports or white papers.
Write a free ebook or free report (you can use free Open Office software to
create one in PDF format), and ask website owners and newsletter
publishers to give it away.
Traffic tip #40
Write brandable reports.
Write a report and allow other affiliates to put THEIR affiliate links in it and
give it way. What you need is a nice win-win arrangement.
Traffic tip #41
Submit your free ebooks to ebook directories.
Search in Google for "ebook directory" and "ebook directories" and list your
free ebook everywhere you can.
Traffic tip #42
Offer to be a columnist.
Locate a popular site in your niche which would appreciate having you as a
regular columnist. Write tips, lively commentary, product reviews, or
whatever topics suit your niche.
Traffic tip #43
Offer to moderate a section of a forum.
A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate
a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your site.
Traffic tip #44
Do something funny.
Put zany, funny stuff on your site
If possible, try to make sure the topic of the article is related to the topic of
your niche. Remember that you want TARGETED traffic to your site.
Traffic tip #45
Be outrageous or controversial.
Traffic tip #46
Make it easy for people to make you famous - tag your blog.
Sometimes at the bottom of an article in a blog you'll see a link that says
something like this:
"Did You Like This Article? Bookmark it
OR
"Bookmark this at..."
Providing such links makes it very easy for readers to spread the work
about your article. Some blog owners provide a choice of social networking and social book marking links or graphics at the end of their articles.
To find more examples, try a search in Google for "Digg this article".
Social bookmarking sites include:
http://del.icio.us
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com
http://www.furl.net
Using a tagging service like Technorati attracts people to your blog.
You label your blog with a tag, such as "pet food". Any Technorati user who
has subscribed to that tag will be notified each time you make a post on
your blog about pet food.
Social bookmarking sites allow you to share your bookmarks publicly,
tagging them to enable others to find them.
If people who visit these sites decide your pages are worth sharing, they'll
bookmark and tag them so that other people can find them.
You can also share an RSS feed of your bookmarks. When you add a
bookmark, they learn about it automatically.
If you take the time to create genuinely USEFUL collections of bookmarks,
people will be more inclined to use them.
Traffic tip #47
Get mentioned on 440 newspaper websites.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? You make a post on your website and 440
newspapers quickly link to your blog.
Here's how it works...
Technorati has teamed up with Associated Press (AP). First, you post a
blog commenting on an AP news item. When readers visit an AP member
website that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module
featuring the "Top Five Most Blogged About" AP articles right next to the
article text, dynamically powered by Technorati.
Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will
deliver 'Who’s Blogging About' that article. Now, if you have
commentary about an AP story, you can get mentioned in that module
simply by linking to that AP news URL
Please note: The "Top Five Most Blogged About" box displays VERY
LITTLE. The most emphasis is on your blog's name (NOT the title of your
latest post). So to take full advantage of this, you need a really eye-catching
name for your blog.
Traffic tip #48
Upload your photos. Tag your photos.
Sometimes if you're doing a search in Google, links to photos uploaded to
Flickr will be displayed in the search results, because of the keywords in the
captions. There's all sorts of potential here for subtle promotion of your site.
If you explore tagging, bookmarketing and social networks, you'll find that
one links leads to another, to another, to another...
The challenge is to make the most of this opportunity without wasting an
awful lot of time.
Traffic tip #49
Use gimmicks.
If people see something odd on a website, they'll often tell other people
about it. You can also alert newsletter publishers and blog owners and
suggest they mention your gimmick in their newsletter
Traffic tip #50
Create deliberate "link bait".
Link bait is website content that other people voluntarily link to.
Do a Google search for "link bait" for more examples.
Traffic tip #51
Syndicate your material.
Syndicate your material to other sites. Create a content syndication feed
(RSS feed) and include a link to your site. Use PHP rather than Javascript
to ensure search engines parse your headings and links.
Traffic tip #52
Position yourself as a personality or expert.
Positioning yourself as a personality or expert in a particular field has all
sorts of advantages, one of the most important being that it can help you
get links to your site without having to ask for them. It also builds trust,
helping encourage people to buy from your site.
Positioning yourself as a personality or expert - or both – is much more
challenging than building an anonymous mini-site, but the rewards can
make it worth while.
......................A Complete Guide to Free Website Traffic
Two million visits and more….
We don't claim to be an expert, but we know enough about traffic generation to
regard getting a million visits a year as an achievable target.
We've done it, doubled it, and more - with FREE traffic.
If you haven't reached a million visits a year, you should find this Blog article
useful.
When it comes to traffic generating, many affiliates and other website
owners tend to get stuck in a comfortable rut. We often use a small number
of favorite techniques and rarely venture beyond them.
I'm hoping this report will encourage you to look beyond the techniques
you're using and try a few new ones. By using a wider variety of techniques,
you'll attract new visitors from new places.
The wider you cast your traffic net, the more you future-proof your business.
You probably won't use EVERY method listed here. Choose the ones which
best suit your site, your skills, your interests and your temperament.
All the techniques we describe here involve work - but that's a GOOD thing.
Many of your competitors will be too lazy to do the work involved, so when
you do it, your traffic will leap ahead of theirs.
About 95% of this report describes strong, solid fundamentals -
techniques which build a solid, long-term business. About 5% deals with
gimmicks. Don't ignore the gimmicks. Sometimes they can work brilliantly.
We like to think of search engines as our private free workers, working for us 24
hours a day, 365 days a year. This report is aimed at affiliates, but you don't have to be an affiliate to find these traffic-generating tips useful.
Traffic tip #1
You MUST have high quality, unique content if you want long-term,
free search engine traffic.
This is the most important tip of all. Sadly, it's one which many website
owners ignore.Provide LOTS of information-rich, keyword-rich, useful content for the search engines and humans to find.
You know that search engines are being clogged with junk at an alarming
rate. The other day, we came across a marketer who was boasting that he
owned more than 20,000 blogs - and he's not the only one.
Consider the scary effect of this exponential increase in low quality Blogs
and websites. Old, large, well established sites will inevitably become more
and more important and trusted by the search engines. Owning a large, well established, high quality site is a very solid investment in your future. These days, even Google's webmaster guidelines advise affiliates to publish "unique and relevant" content.
If you spend time thinking of ways to provide truly USEFUL content that
people will talk about, you'll automatically end up with lots of free, one-way
links to your site as people recommend it without even being asked to do
so. We've been building information-rich websites ever since we created autosurfmonster.com . This method has worked extremely well for us and continues to work very well. If your website helps solve people's problems, they'll love you for it.
Traffic tip #2
Keep ADDING fresh, relevant, useful content.
According to Google, about half the 2.5 billion searches done a day at
Google are for unique, one-off phrases. The more pages you build full of on-topic material, the better the chances your site will be found.
When it comes to keywords, think big. You want your site to be found via
THOUSANDS of different phrases every month. Then you can lure that traffic to your best money-generating pages or to your newsletter sign-up page.
Also, search engines prefer fresh sites which keep gradually adding new
content. Don't let your site go stale.
"Our own rule of thumb is this: Add a minimum of 1 article per week, 2
preferably. Adding an article daily is euphoria and adding 1 every six
hours, well, that's the best."
Traffic tip #3
Choose a memorable domain name.
If you're launching a new site, choose a name people will remember easily.
Ask yourself: "Will people remember my domain name?"
Try to choose a name which won't be confused with similar names. You
don't want people typing your competitor's domain name when they’re trying
to find your site.
NameBoy.com has a handy tool to help you choose domain names. Also,
you can find a surprising number of good deleted (expired) domain names
at Whois.net. Both those tools are free.
Traffic tip #4
Buy the wrong domain name, too.
If you think people may confuse your domain name with a similar name, try
to buy that name, too. A good domain name registrar will make it very easy for you to redirect one domain name to another.
Traffic tip #5
Make your domain name easy to read - especially if it's a .NET
Which of the following is easier to read and understand?
www.autosurfmonster.com or www.AutoSurfMonster.com
See how using a capital letter at the start of each word makes the second
domain name easier to read - and easier to remember.
Whenever you mention your domain name anywhere, ALWAYS present it
in its most readable form. A good place to start doing this is in your email
signature file. If you're unfortunate enough to have bought the ".net" version of a domain name because someone raced you to the ".com", help people to remember your site by writing it like this...
Example.NET
Being MEMORABLE helps you get more repeat visitors.
Traffic tip #6
Use appropriate keywords in your image file names.
searching for images. We are not sure how valuable those visitors are, but we
didn't have to do anything very special to get them. Google Images - http://images.google.com - makes it easy for people to search for graphics online.
To take advantage of this, when choosing the file name of an image on your
site, use an appropriate key phrase, for example, "book-ends.jpg" if you're
promoting book ends.
Here's a tip we just discovered...
When we searched in Google Images for "book ends" we discovered that the
very first search result was for a page which did NOT contain a graphic of
book ends!
Instead, the page contained a "book ends" LINK to a book ends graphic on
a second page. It if suits the design of your site, you may want to
experiment with this technique.
We are not sure how much use traffic to images is, but if it's ADDITIONAL traffic you can get simply by choosing image file names carefully, it's worth
having.
Traffic tip #7
Do REALLY SERIOUS keyword research.
If you want to get LOTS of traffic from search engines, you need to find out
the exact phrases which people are typing into search engines.
There are free tools available for this, but they're not nearly as useful as the
more comprehensive paid tools.
For example, if you're using the Overture keyword tool for your research, be
warned, its results can't be trusted. The Overture tool shows you the SAME number of searches for all these searches:
bikini girls
girls bikini
bikini girl
girl bikini
bikinis girl
girl bikinis
This is obviously nonsense. The Overture tool is useful to give you a quick rough guide, but NOT for, serious research.
"The harder it is to discover a certain search phrase (getting traffic), the
less competition you will have in the SERPs (for that search phrase). If
a keyword research tool is free and popular, how many competitors will
you have for the phrases you discover there?"
Traffic tip #8
Try this page titles experiment.
Here's a good way to increase your traffic.
Go to Google and type any phrase into the search box. Look at the titles of
the websites in the top 10 rankings.
Which ones catch your eye and tempt you to click on the link? Some are
dreadfully stodgy, boring. Some are merely a long list of keywords. Some
are good. Some are junk. Good titles are written for search engines AND humans.
Now look at the titles on your site. Start with your most important pages.
Rewrite them to make them more eye-catching.
Now go to Google and do a search of your site like this...
site:example.com
Study the page titles. If you own a large site created over many years, you
may be horribly embarrassed at just how BAD some of your page titles are.
Do you want to find some examples of good titles? Simply go to Google and
do some more searches. Don't stick to your industry.
Type in all sorts of different phrases and study the titles that appear in the
top 10. You'll soon be brimming with ideas on ways you can improve your page
titles. Checking how enticing the information is in your meta description tag can
help, too. Some search engines display this information in their search
results. If you have a well established site, you may have written many of your page titles and meta descriptions years ago when you knew less about marketing
than you do now. If so, it's time for another look at them.
Traffic tip #9
Organic SEO - a few key points.
Search engines are getting cleverer all the time. You can try to outsmart
them but to us it makes more sense to work WITH them.
They're gradually getting better at sifting out low quality websites and
ranking them poorly. So build high quality websites containing genuinely
useful material that other people want to link to.
The basics of good search engine optimization are fairly simple. Here's a
very quick summary:
· You need to make it easy for a search engine to figure out the topic
of your page.
· Find appropriate keywords or key phrases and use them in the title,
in the page heading, in the introduction, throughout the article, in the
meta description, in alt tags, at the end of the article, in links on the
page, in bold or italics, and perhaps in a list on the page.
· Use key phrases in your file names, for example: keyword1-
keyword2.html.
· Use synonyms and word variations naturally throughout the page.
· When linking to your pages, use appropriate keywords in the anchor
text (the words people click on). Do this for links throughout your site,
and also on other people's sites which link to yours. Vary the anchor
text.
· For internal links, it's better to use text than graphical links.
· Create a logical navigation system so that humans and search
engines can easily find the content on your site.
· Get links from other sites to internal pages as well as to your main
page.
Traffic tip #10
Submit to the main directories.
The more high quality links you have to your site, the more impressed the
search engines will be.
Start with major directories such as...
Yahoo!
DMOZ.org
sbd.bcentral.com
...and move on to...
Gimpsy
Skaffe
Joeant
GoGuides
Business.com
SevenSeek
ThisIsOurYear
LookSmart (probably too expensive)
BlueFind
WowDirectory
Best of the Web
GeniusFind
Traffic tip #11
Submit to niche directories.
Search for smaller, specialist directories in your niche. For example, if your
site is on a health topic, look for health-related directories.
How to find niche directories:
· Go to Search It! (It's a very handy free research tool.)
· Scroll to the Search Category, "Specialty Hubs and Directories"
· Choose one of the 4 options in STEP 2
· Read the "Click Here for Information..." help before proceeding
· Complete STEPS 3 and 4, and then click on Search It!
· Read the tutorial. It tells you what to do with the search results
· Get your search results. You should be able to find relevant, themed
hub sites and directories which will list your site. Some charge a fee,
some are free.
Traffic tip #12
Distribute USEFUL articles to article directories.
Write articles and submit them to article directories. Make sure they're
USEFUL, interesting articles, not fluff. Other websites will pick up these
articles and use them on their site.
If you've added a link to your site in the "About the author" box at the
bottom of the article, you can get hundreds or thousands of links to your
site. You also boost your reputation.
When writing the article, you need an eye-catching heading. You also need
to give people a strong incentive to visit your site.
Here are some ways to do that:
· Give people a link where they can get a free report.
· Tell them where they can subscribe to your newsletter.
· Tell them to visit your site for Part 2 of the article.
· Tell them to visit your site for a more comprehensive version of the
article.
Distributing articles to directories is tedious and time-consuming. You can
either do it manually or you can speed up the process - and receive a very
helpful instruction manual - if you use ArticleAnnouncer. It's expensive but
good value.
Another popular way of distributing articles is to use the Article Marketer
service to do all the hard work for you. iSnare is another good one.
One annoying thing about this technique is that some unscrupulous website
owners will publish your articles without linking back to your site.
Traffic tip #13
Write articles directly for other sites.
Getting high quality links to your site is hugely important. Ideally, you want
links from "authority" sites - sites which have a lot of links to THEM.
As well as reading what search engine optimization experts say, study what
they actually DO. One common tactic they use is to write expert articles and
get them published on related websites. When they do this, the links they
get to their site are beautifully on target - those links come from a page
which is all about search engine optimization - which perfectly matches the
theme of their site.
To a search engine, such links look much more important than a boring link
which is just one of dozens on a page in a little mini-directory tacked on to a
mini-site.
Traffic tip #14
Submit articles to newsletters which are archived online.
Submitting articles to newsletters has been popular since the early days of
marketing online. In the "Internet marketing" niche, publishers tend to be
swamped with offers to publish articles. Other fields aren't so ridiculously
competitive.
Traffic tip #15
Submit brief hints to newsletters and blogs.
A brief, useful hint published in an archived newsletter can give you a link to
your site for many years - perhaps even a decade or more.
You can also submit tips to blogs.
Traffic tip #16
Include keywords in your online profiles.
Whenever you create an online profile anywhere online - on your blogs, on
a forum or on sites - always use carefully chosen key phrases.
This increases the chance that people will find you, either via search
engines or via the site's search facility.
Traffic tip #17
Get one-way links and a few reciprocal links.
Reciprocal links aren't as important as they used to be. They should not be
your major traffic-generating strategy. They ARE still very useful, especially
when you're getting a new site established in the search engines.
Traffic tip #18
Publish articles on your site and invite other sites to publish them on
their sites, with a link to you.
Some websites make it very easy for other sites to reprint their articles. At
the end of each article on their site, they publish a note giving people
permission to reprint the article providing the source box at the end is
published, too.
(Caution: Although this technique apparently works well for those who do it,
We don't use this technique. Our goal is to have almost all unique content on
Our sites. We wonder if the technique may not work quite so well some time in
the future. We could be wrong, but We speculate that as search engines become more and more clogged with junk sites, search engines will get much
tougher on duplicate content. Sites which don't publish duplicate content
will benefit.)
Traffic tip #19
Publish a lively, useful newsletter.
Let's say you have 3,000 people a week - or month - visiting your site. Most
of them are going to look at one or two pages and then disappear, perhaps
never to be seen again.
You need a way to persuade them to return.
Writing your own newsletter is an excellent way of boosting repeat traffic. A
newsletter reminds readers that your site exists.
To encourage repeat visitors, you can tell your readers about new articles
you've added to your site. You can also remind them of articles they may
have missed. You can tell them about a survey you're running on your site,
a special report, or interesting new posts on your forum.
While you're writing your newsletter, keep asking yourself, "Is this item
useful? How can I make it MORE useful?"
Newsletters enhance your reputation, add to your credibility and - best of all
- give you repeat opportunities to make a sale.
Another advantage of publishing a newsletter is that when you want to
launch a second or third website, you can give it a flying start simply by
mentioning it in your newsletter. If you haven't published a newsletter, you'll find that the technical side of it is much easier than you imagined.
A good, reliable way to publish a newsletter is to use Aweber to distribute it.
Traffic tip #20
Submit your newsletter to newsletter directories.
Search in Google for...
ezine directories
ezine directory
newsletter directory
newsletter directories
...and submit your newsletter to newsletter directories.
It's time-consuming and you probably won't get a lot of traffic from this
technique. If you have more money than time, outsource this task. You
could hire a student to do it.
Traffic tip #21
Publish a mini-course.
This technique encourages visitors to keep coming back to your site.
Publish a short (or long) informational email mini-course. Provide genuinely
useful content. Starting gradually, after you've won the trust of your readers, weave relevant affiliate links into the messages.
Also, give your readers reasons to visit your site, giving them links to related
articles on your site. These pages can contain both affiliate links and
AdSense ads.
To retain your readers' interest, at the end of each message, give them a
little teaser telling them what they'll get in the next message in the series.
Traffic tip #22
Write testimonials that are worth using.
When you read an ebook or newsletter or some product which you find
useful, write a quick note to the author. Sometimes, your quick note will be
published as a testimonial, with a link back to your site.
Traffic tip #23
Make helpful posts in forums.
Join forums in your niche and promote your site in your signature.
Be careful. Read the forum instructions first or you're likely to annoy forum
moderators and forum members who have been there for years. Lurk and
learn. Some forums allow signatures. Some don't. Some won't allow words like
"See the link in my signature". Tread carefully.
You also need to remember that many affiliate agreements specifically say
that posting an affiliate link on a forum is regarded as spamming. Ignoring
this rule can get you dumped from an affiliate program. You could lose any
Commissions you’ve earned.
Build your reputation by posting genuinely, helpful, useful comments.
If you think carefully of ways to provide truly USEFUL content that people
will talk about, you'll automatically end up with lots of free, one-way links to
your site as people recommend it without even being asked to do so.
Do a search in Google for
yourkeyword + forum
yourkeyword +"message board"
Traffic tip #24
Post free ads on forums which allow it.
We doubt if posting free ads will produce much benefit, but if you have lots of
time you could try it. Our forum has a Free Ads section.
Traffic tip #25
Make useful posts to email discussion lists.
You can subscribe to free email discussion lists and participate.
For Internet marketers, LED Digest is a good one. It has more than 40,000
subscribers. The moderator, won't accept blatant
advertising.
Traffic tip #26
Write keyword-rich press releases.
Write keyword-rich press releases and submit them to such places as
PRWeb,
URLwire,
BusinessWire,
PR Newswire
And Market Wire,
publicizing your new site, or a new section of your site. Press releases can give you a burst of immediate traffic AND provide long term links to your site.
They may even result in journalists phoning you for an interview. A few years ago, the main aim of a news release was to catch the attention of an editor or journalist. These days, you're often aiming directly at Internet users.
When writing the news release, keep the reader in mind all the time. You
must catch the reader's attention very quickly, using phrases that entice the
person to read the article AND click on a link to visit your site - either to the
main page or to a special landing page.
Write the press release as though you're writing an article for a newspaper.
This means you must have a short, snappy introduction.
Write concisely. Write the most important point in the FIRST sentence. Then write your second most important point, and so on.
Traffic tip #27
Create a lively blog or blogs.
You can create a blog easily and free, without knowing any HTML.
When you add a new page to your website, mention the new page in your
blog. Make friends with other blog publishers and get links from them.
When you post a message in your blog, your blog software should
automatically send a ping to the main blog search engines, such as
Technorati, and other sites. Learn how to do this.
Here's a nifty tip. You can get your lastest blog post listed in Google quickly
by using Google Sitemaps.
Services such as Feedburner.com allow your blog's feed to be distributed
easily to your site's users. They also allow email subscription of your feeds.
Traffic tip #28
RSS: Make it easy for people to read your blog.
Some people will visit your blog to read it. Others will use an RSS reader on
their computer or a web-based service such as MyYahoo!
You can make it easy for such people to subscribe to your blog by adding a
special little RSS, XML or MyYahoo! graphic to your blog.
Some websites add a dozen or more such special graphics to their blogs.
Traffic tip #29
RSS to email.
Some people don't like using RSS readers. They would prefer to get your
blog posts via email. You can help them do so by using RSS to email
services such as FeedBlitz, Bloglet or Rmail.
Traffic tip #30
Remove broken links.
Remove all broken links from your site. Search engines don't like them..
A good - free - way to check for broken links. If you create a
sitemap using Google SiteMaps, one of the benefits is that Google will tell
you about pages it can't crawl and links it can't follow.
You can see where problems are occurring and fix them.
Using Google SiteMaps is also a reliable way of making sure that Google
knows about every page on your site.
Traffic tip #31
Attract new audiences with your own podcasts.
A podcast is a sort of audio blog, distributed via RSS. The audio files can be
downloaded to iPods or any computer or MP3 player. People can subscribe to your broadcasts via RSS feeds and automatically
receive them. If you create your own informative, useful podcasts, you can reach a whole new audience.
You'll need to get your podcasts listed in podcast directories such as
Podcast.net. Make sure you use an eye-catching title for people scanning
the directories.
Large, popular directories of podcasts can be found at Feedburner.com and
Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Traffic tip #32
Use reliable web hosting.
Use a good reliable web host. If your site is down when Google's robot
comes visiting, your site is likely to disappear from the index. Many really
"cheap" web hosts can end up being very expensive.
If you have a bunch of sites, use several different web hosts. It's a form of
insurance in case of disaster. Web hosts sometimes go out of business
without warning.
Use backups.
Traffic tip #33
Analyze and tweak your internal linking.
Consider how your pages are linked. Changing your linking structure can
increase or decrease a page's PageRank, which can give you a little boost
in search engine rankings on your most important pages.
There's a logical, sensible reason for doing this. You WANT more links to
your important, income-generating pages and fewer links to obscure pages.
Some webmasters use rel="nofollow" tags on links to certain pages,
reducing PageRank flow to those pages. To Us, this seems risky - surely
Google would regard it as behavior aimed directly at search engines, not
humans.
Traffic tip #34
Chase new fads and hot topics.
Some affiliates monitor popular TV programs and news items. When a hot
topic catches their eye, as fast as they can, they create a new web page, a
new blog or new website discussing the new product or new fad.
These fast-moving affiliates are the ones who get to capture the early rush
of traffic.
Traffic tip #35
Chase new affiliate programs.
Monitor new affiliate programs and quickly create a new page, new blog or
new website to cover the new topic.
Traffic tip #36
Find new topics in your logs - and where your traffic is coming from.
Study your referral logs to see what phrases people are typing into search
engines. Here's another reason you MUST have a decent tool to show you your
traffic stats. You need to know where your traffic is coming from.
You need to know which of your many traffic generating experiments are
most effective. Then you'll know where to allocate your time and energy -
on the winners.
If your web host doesn't provide you with good stats, one option is to use
AWStats. It's free.
If you're comfortable with letting Google know just about everything about
your site, you can also use Google Analytics, which is also free.
Traffic tip #37
Join business associations which list members' sites online.
There may be business associations in your niche which publish members'
websites online. It's worth checking.
Try a Google search for "business associations".
Traffic tip #38
Add a forum to your site.
A forum has big advantages and big disadvantages.
A popular forum can attract a large number of repeat visitors to your site. It
can enhance your credibility as an expert.
A forum can also involve a great deal of work. Before you decide to launch
one, carefully consider who will moderate it, seven days a week, 365 days a
year.
Who will remove the spam? Will you have three moderators working in
different time zones around the planet?
If you are going to moderate the forum yourself, who will take over when
you want a few days off?
The most effective way to launch a forum is to add one to a popular site. It
takes a lot of time and energy - and usually money - to launch one from
scratch.
Traffic tip #39
Write free reports or white papers.
Write a free ebook or free report (you can use free Open Office software to
create one in PDF format), and ask website owners and newsletter
publishers to give it away.
Traffic tip #40
Write brandable reports.
Write a report and allow other affiliates to put THEIR affiliate links in it and
give it way. What you need is a nice win-win arrangement.
Traffic tip #41
Submit your free ebooks to ebook directories.
Search in Google for "ebook directory" and "ebook directories" and list your
free ebook everywhere you can.
Traffic tip #42
Offer to be a columnist.
Locate a popular site in your niche which would appreciate having you as a
regular columnist. Write tips, lively commentary, product reviews, or
whatever topics suit your niche.
Traffic tip #43
Offer to moderate a section of a forum.
A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate
a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your site.
Traffic tip #44
Do something funny.
Put zany, funny stuff on your site
If possible, try to make sure the topic of the article is related to the topic of
your niche. Remember that you want TARGETED traffic to your site.
Traffic tip #45
Be outrageous or controversial.
Traffic tip #46
Make it easy for people to make you famous - tag your blog.
Sometimes at the bottom of an article in a blog you'll see a link that says
something like this:
"Did You Like This Article? Bookmark it
OR
"Bookmark this at..."
Providing such links makes it very easy for readers to spread the work
about your article. Some blog owners provide a choice of social networking and social book marking links or graphics at the end of their articles.
To find more examples, try a search in Google for "Digg this article".
Social bookmarking sites include:
http://del.icio.us
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com
http://www.furl.net
Using a tagging service like Technorati attracts people to your blog.
You label your blog with a tag, such as "pet food". Any Technorati user who
has subscribed to that tag will be notified each time you make a post on
your blog about pet food.
Social bookmarking sites allow you to share your bookmarks publicly,
tagging them to enable others to find them.
If people who visit these sites decide your pages are worth sharing, they'll
bookmark and tag them so that other people can find them.
You can also share an RSS feed of your bookmarks. When you add a
bookmark, they learn about it automatically.
If you take the time to create genuinely USEFUL collections of bookmarks,
people will be more inclined to use them.
Traffic tip #47
Get mentioned on 440 newspaper websites.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? You make a post on your website and 440
newspapers quickly link to your blog.
Here's how it works...
Technorati has teamed up with Associated Press (AP). First, you post a
blog commenting on an AP news item. When readers visit an AP member
website that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module
featuring the "Top Five Most Blogged About" AP articles right next to the
article text, dynamically powered by Technorati.
Additionally, when readers click on an AP article, Technorati will
deliver 'Who’s Blogging About' that article. Now, if you have
commentary about an AP story, you can get mentioned in that module
simply by linking to that AP news URL
Please note: The "Top Five Most Blogged About" box displays VERY
LITTLE. The most emphasis is on your blog's name (NOT the title of your
latest post). So to take full advantage of this, you need a really eye-catching
name for your blog.
Traffic tip #48
Upload your photos. Tag your photos.
Sometimes if you're doing a search in Google, links to photos uploaded to
Flickr will be displayed in the search results, because of the keywords in the
captions. There's all sorts of potential here for subtle promotion of your site.
If you explore tagging, bookmarketing and social networks, you'll find that
one links leads to another, to another, to another...
The challenge is to make the most of this opportunity without wasting an
awful lot of time.
Traffic tip #49
Use gimmicks.
If people see something odd on a website, they'll often tell other people
about it. You can also alert newsletter publishers and blog owners and
suggest they mention your gimmick in their newsletter
Traffic tip #50
Create deliberate "link bait".
Link bait is website content that other people voluntarily link to.
Do a Google search for "link bait" for more examples.
Traffic tip #51
Syndicate your material.
Syndicate your material to other sites. Create a content syndication feed
(RSS feed) and include a link to your site. Use PHP rather than Javascript
to ensure search engines parse your headings and links.
Traffic tip #52
Position yourself as a personality or expert.
Positioning yourself as a personality or expert in a particular field has all
sorts of advantages, one of the most important being that it can help you
get links to your site without having to ask for them. It also builds trust,
helping encourage people to buy from your site.
Positioning yourself as a personality or expert - or both – is much more
challenging than building an anonymous mini-site, but the rewards can
make it worth while.
Traffic tip #53
Create a high profile on Amazon.com.
This tip is for authors.
Authors can join Amazon Connect and tap into Amazon's millions of
visitors. If you do it right, you can create mentions in dozens of different
places which lead to a page which links to your website.
Traffic tip #54
Combine joint ventures AND email captures.
Ebook authors do joint ventures with website owners and newsletter
publishers not just to sell products, but also to get a huge rush of website
visitors and to collect email addresses.
Consider how most e-book authors do joint ventures. They write a book or
create a product, contact a few dozen newsletter publishers giving them a
review copy and ask them to promote the book for a generous share of the
revenue.
Depending on the quality of the pre-selling and the quality of the sites
Sales letter, about 90 to 99% of the people who arrive at the site leave
without buying anything.
What a dreadful waste of hard-earned traffic!
More cunning marketers create an email capture. They give away a useful free report or mini-course. If visitors want it, the only way to get it is to hand over an email address. Their free report or mini-course then promotes the ebook.
It's extra work, but this technique captures many more email addresses (for
more repeat visits) and increases the number of sales.
Traffic tip #55
Try offline advertising.
Try experimenting with offline advertising, in newspapers and in magazines
in your niche. Tempt people to reply by offering a free report or free mini-course.
You're likely to have a better return on investment if you concentrate on
collecting email addresses, rather than trying to sell directly on the first page
of your site.
Traffic tip #56
Place a link in Yahoo! Answers "sources".
At Yahoo! Answers, the people who answer provide free answers.
Answer some questions there. In your answers, you can list "sources"
(links) for more details.
The "asker" can vote a particular answer the "Best Answer" and that answer
is given special prominence. Other users can vote, too.
If you click on the "Report Abuse" link and check the available categories,
you'll see that "advertisements" are banned. However, I've spotted some
affiliate links posted as sources.
Rather than posting an affiliate link, I think it would be more useful - and
natural - to link to your own website, perhaps to a newsletter sign-up page
or to a page offering a free report.
Traffic tip #57
Get links from eBay.
Set up an account at eBay and on your "About Me" page, link to your
website. Read eBay's links policy before you create your page:
http://pages.ebay.in/help/policies/listing-links-aboutme.html
Some affiliates also create special reports containing genuinely useful
information - and affiliate links - and sell those reports on eBay, usually for a
very low price, just a dollar or so. We've no experience with this. You'll need to
do your own research.
Traffic tip #58
Get links from AdSense.
Did you know that AdSense has an AdSense Help discussion group?
You can go there, answer someone's question helpfully and provide a link
to your site at the bottom of your post. Some people offer genuinely helpful answers. Some offer a few words as an excuse to flash their site's URL.
You don't have to be Einstein to figure out which method is more effective.
Traffic tip #59
Add thoughtful comments to blogs.
Traffic tip #60
Add sticky content.
Sticky content, says Wikipedia, is website content:
"..which has the purpose of getting a user to return to that particular
website. Webmasters use this method to build up a community of
returning visitors to a website".
Examples of sticky content include chat rooms, forums, web mail, Internet
games, weather, news, horoscopes, and recipes.
This is a HUGE topic. Try a Search in Google for "sticky content".
This technique works brilliantly for many websites.
Look for opportunities where you can encourage other people to add free
content to your site. Also, remember that sticky content isn't just words. It can be photos, audio, and video.
Traffic tip #61
Add a classified ads section to your site.
It won't make you rich, but you can generate a little extra revenue as well as
attract new visitors by adding a classified advertising section to your site.
Traffic tip #62
Social networking.
Some social networking sites, such as MySpace, have many millions of
users and are growing fast. MySpace gets truly massive traffic - 38.4 million
unique visitors in April, 2006, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
Because these sites have millions of users, you can guarantee that
innovative affiliates are cashing in on this traffic.
Traffic tip #63
Create your own fan club.
Here's something which may work for sites in some industries.
We were visiting a site the other day and saw a link which said "Join My Fan
Club". Curious, we clicked the link and was taken to Frappr where you can
invite people to join your "Group Map" or "Friend Map" to see where they all
live. Getting on your Friend Map will help your website visitors feel they're part of
a community and help them remember your site.
Traffic tip #64
Effective PPC advertising.
Create special landing pages for your paid traffic.
If you're using tips No.1 and No.2 - providing lots of fresh, high quality
content - there's a strong risk that your paid advertising visitors will be
distracted by your free content. Too many of them are likely to click around,
read a lot of stuff and disappear without buying anything.
When you're paying for traffic, you can't afford to let that happen. It's
essential that you have a high conversion rate.
So, for paid traffic, either create simple, uncluttered landing pages with no
distractions, or special mini-sites with no distractions.
You need to focus your visitors' attention on the link to the affiliate product
or on the sign-up form for your newsletter or mini-course.
If your conversion rate is high enough, you can buy advertising on Google's
AdWords, at Yahoo! Search Marketing, at MSN AdCenter and in pay-perclick
search engines.
Among all the options, Google's AdWords is a big favorite.
However, there are pitfalls aplenty.
If you get things right, AdWords works brilliantly. If you get things wrong,
you can lose lots of money fast.
Traffic tip #65
Buy ads in newsletters.
People reading online newsletters are often skimming, not reading carefully,
so you'll need a bold, eye-catching ad. Instead of merely advertising your website or an affiliate product, send people to a page where you offer a free report or mini-course in return for their email address.
You'll get more bang for your buck by doing this. Instead of just building the
affiliate vendor's business, you're building YOUR business.
Traffic tip #66
Buy text links - carefully!
Consider buying text link ads on other sites
Traffic tip #67
Advertise in less obvious places.
Look for other, less obvious places to advertise online. Experiment and see
what happens.
Traffic tip #68
Create free web-based software.
Create simple web-based free software, such as a mortgage calculator or a
return on investment (ROI) calculator. Tell other sites, newsletters and
forums about it and ask for a link to it.
This tactic is fairly commonly used by search engine optimization experts.
It may be easier than you think. Your job is merely to produce the IDEA.
You can hire someone from Rentacoder to create the software.
Traffic tip #69
Create downloadable software.
Create free downloadable software which contains links to your site, links to
your newsletter, or affiliate links - or all three.
Traffic tip #70
Get publicity for your downloadable software.
Submit your downloadable software to software directories, such as
Download.com.
Traffic tip #71
Create a funny video - and a keyword-rich transcript.
Create your own video and upload it to Google Video.
This may be a lot easier they you think. One easy way is to use the video
function on your digital camera, edit it using Windows Movie Maker and
save the file in wmv format, which is one of the formats accepted by
Google. You can submit videos electronically to Google Video, as long as you own the necessary rights (including copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity,
and any other relevant rights for your content).
Incorporate your domain name in the video.
Get a few friends to link to your funny video from their blogs. If it's funny
enough, other people will tell their friends, and so on...
Also, you can submit a transcript of your video to Google.
Google says:
"Users will be able to find your video more easily if you add a transcript
to each video file you've uploaded via your Video Status page. We
prefer it if the format of the transcript is time-coded and saved as a .txt
file."
You want to include appropriate keywords in your transcript – so make sure the
keywords are spoken in your video.
· Google Video FAQ
· Policy guidelines
· Video transcripts
At YouTube you can upload a video from your cellphone or PDA. You can
"tag" the video with appropriate keywords.
Traffic tip #72
A signature file IS important - honest!
This tip is VERY basic, yet I'm continually surprised how many apparently
experienced marketers don't use it ALL the time.
Add a signature file to the bottom of EVERY email you send – to anyone.
Adding a signature file to every email...
1. Reminds people of the name of your website. It helps make your site
memorable.
2. Gives people a link they can click on, makes it easy for them, and
increases your chances of getting visitors.
3. Can tempt extra visitors, especially if you give them a reason for
visiting, such as a new article or a free report.
Traffic tip #73
Think viral. Where's your backend product?
If you write an ebook or report, add a viral marketing aspect to it.
For example, make your ebook "Volume One". Send readers to a page,
forum or blog discussing Volume Two. Perhaps on that page you could
place a simple survey, asking them what they would like to see in Volume
Two. You could offer them a discount or a bonus special report if they tell a
friend about Volume One.
Traffic tip #74
Email This Page to a Friend.
Add an "Email This Page to a Friend" link on your pages. A good
programmer should be able to do this for you easily.
Traffic tip #75
Add to Favorites.
Place an "Add to Favorites" link on your pages. It may not get you much
extra traffic, but every little bit helps.
Traffic tip #76
Start an affiliate program.
Start your own affiliate program and get hundreds or thousands of affiliates
to spread the word about your product and your site.
The simplest, cheapest way is to use ClickBank.
One disadvantage of using ClickBank is that many vendors who use it don't
know who their affiliates are and have no way of getting in touch with them.
Also,
Traffic tip #77
Make it easy for reporters to write about you.
Check your "About Us" page. Does it provide all the information a reporter
needs to write about you - and up-to-date contact info so the reporter can
contact you with questions? Is your "About Us" page bland and boring? If so, dump it and create a new, lively, fascinating one. Provide a complete media kit containing some fascinating snippets of info about your business.
Bonus tip #1
Get free publicity offline.
Many affiliates totally ignore offline publicity. Perhaps you can persuade
your local newsletter to write an article about you.
Thursday
10 Quick Traffic Building Tips For Any Web Site
The question most often asked on the Internet is, "How do I get more traffic to my site?" You would think that an answer for this question would be extremely simple, but it really isn't. It isn't that it is so hard to get traffic to web sites. The problem is that there are so many different avenues of traffic generation you can choose from for any site. In this short report, we are going to cover 10 different low or no cost ways you can get traffic to any web site. This isn't even an extensive list. I could easily name off 5 - 10 more ways you could be getting traffic to your site, but I don't want to overwhelm you with too many options. The reason that most people don't get traffic is that they "Try" something, and then they give up. The key to any marketing is testing and then improving. If a method doesn't work for you on your first try, second try, or even your twelfth try, it doesn't matter. Keep going anyway. Read everything you can about that subject and keep trying different things. If you have chosen to use classified ads for your products and services, try different ezines. Use AOL classifieds. Try Yahoo's classifieds. Create new headlines for your ads. Create new sales letters to follow-up. Classified ads can work if you figure out how to work them for your product or service. The same aspects are true of many different types of Internet advertising. They work, but only if you are willing to keep on going even if you fail a dozen times trying. You keep learning and you keep testing. So, without further ado, here are your ten killer Internet Traffic Building Techniques:
1. Search Engine Submissions
Almost everyone starts right here. They know that search engines bring 84% of the traffic to most web sites, so they know they have to submit to them. To achieve the top rankings in the search engines will take some serious work. You have millions of competitors, but you have an advantage. You are willing to learn and do what it takes to get to the top. To achieve the top traffic building positions, you will need to study everything you can on search engine positioning and meta tags. Then, you will have to test. Use a tool such as Web Position to check your rankings, examine your competitors who are beating you, and then edit your pages. If you are willing to keep going through this process and learning each step along the rise of your rankings, you too could soon be generating 100s of hits daily from top search engine positions.
2. Classifieds in Ezines
The biggest bang for your marketing buck will come from ezine advertising. For $10 - $50 per classified ad, you can reach thousands of potential customers in your targeted market. With thousands of different ezines available, you can expand into hundreds of them once you find a classified ad and follow-up system that works for your product or service. By testing your little classified ads and expanding into more and more ezines every week, you could quickly start reaching millions of people weekly and earning an income to match.
3. AOL Classifieds
AOL currently has over 15 million members. If I could only place one classified ad for any web site or product, it would probably be here. For $12.50, you can have your ad placed in view of people on a service where the ads are actually read. I know several people earn a couple of hundred dollars weekly by placing little classified ads just using AOL's system. The key on AOL is to create a killer headline for your ad so it stands out above the hundreds of other ads in every category.
4. Yahoo Classifieds
There are very few free classified ad sites that actually work. Yahoo is one of the shining lights that stands out above the crowd of mediocre free ad sites. Yahoo has more traffic than any other Internet site and it definitely shows when you place your ads here. On Yahoo, you are allowed to place 10 ads at a time, so do so. A little key to creating effective ads here is to delete your ads every few days and replace them. Then, you will be able to keep your ads towards the top of the list and receive more free readers.
5. Trade Links
If you develop a strong content oriented site you can persuade thousands of other webmasters to link to you or to trade links with you. There are even a few consultants online who have developed linking campaigns and have achieved a million hits a month or more for their customers within 90 days by linking with the right sites. You can do this yourself. The key is to develop content people want to link to and then get out there and make the contacts by visiting people's sites, sending out personalized emails to webmasters you have visited, and networking in discussion groups.
6. Participate in Leveraged Banner Exchanges
Regular banner exchanges don't work that well. Although they can produce a few extra free hits a month for your site, they never seem to give you the kind of traffic building leverage you need to grow to hundreds of thousands of hits a month. A new wave of banner exchanges is growing though at unprecedented rates. What they do that separates them apart is that they will give you a 5% to 20% credit of banner impressions of anyone's site that you refer. If you refer a site which gets a million hits a month, you would get 200,000 free impressions a month extra.One of the best is Bannerz4Free at http://www.bannerz4free.cjb.net, not only they are one of the best banner exchanges but they are also giving away 1,000,000 impressions to one lucky member each month.
7. Start Your Own Mailing List
If you want to make money online, start your own mailing list. It is the best way to keep contact with your prospects and your customers. It is also the best way to build the credibility you need to make sales to your targeted market. A little less talked about advantage to having your own mailing list is that you can use it to trade ads with other ezines out there. If you trade ads with 10 other ezines out there, you could easily be saving yourself $100 - $500 in advertising expense every week!
8. Banner Ads
on Individual Sites When people think of banner ads they almost always think of the major search engines or major sites online. Well, I have been advertising lately with banners, and I can tell you something. Making money using banner ads on these high traffic high cost sites is extremely difficult and risky. These sites will charge you $20 per 1,000 impressions to general audiences and $50 per 1,000 impressions to targeted markets. By seeking out individual sites who get high traffic (50,000 hits to 1,000,000 hits a month), you can actually get rates of $1 - $10 per 1,000 impressions of your banner ads. By finding 10 - 20 of these sites, you can quickly build yourself an overwhelming river of traffic to your site for a much lower cost than the major search engines.
9. Advertise on Goto.com
Goto has come up with a great advertising plan for businesses. You can actually go to http://www.goto.com and bid on traffic for your site. You pick keywords for your site and then place a bid of whatever price you are willing to pay for traffic from that keyword...generally you would bid .01 to .10 per keyword. Then, Goto will only charge you for the actual hits you receive from them. If you bid one penny for the keyword and you receive 10 hits from it today, you only owe 10 cents for the day. This low cost traffic building method cannot be beat anywhere. The key to making it work for you is to come up with hundreds of possible keywords for your site and then bid low amounts such as a few cents on each. Then, check your stats continually and find out what kind of traffic you are getting.
10. Free Stuff
The KING of traffic is free stuff. If you want to get real traffic to your site, provide the kind of free content and services that your market is hunting desperately for. Provide free articles to other web sites. Provide free downloads. Give away free CGI programs. Provide hundreds of links to needed tools. Provide links to downloadable software. Give your visitors what they want and they will keep coming back and referring their friends.
Monday
7
Essential Steps to FREE
Web Site Promotion
Web Site promotion should be the major part of your web site marketing plan. It's not enough just to design a beautiful web site and put in on the Net. Promoting your web site has to be done constantly if you want to get a continuous stream of traffic to it. If you don't drive traffic to your web site, your online business venture will soon fail.
1. Create a web site marketing plan - if you fail to plan then you default to a plan for failure. When designing your web site, create a plan on how to market it as well. Try to put yourself in your customers shoes when doing this. It's too easy to just view your web site from your own perspective. You need to have a clear vision for your business, goals (short and long term) you wish to achieve and the strategies of how you will accomplish them.
2. Define your target market - many online marketers promote their web site aimlessly in a field which is too large i.e. they may use bulk mailing as one of their promotion strategies. Of course you may get some visitors but the chances are you will not make many sales. Why? You have not narrowed your field of customers and targeted them. If you sold Cadillacs online for instance, you are not randomly going to market to every person on the Net. Your target market may be previous owners of cadillacs, or people who routinely purchase luxury American cars.
Getting targeted customers to your web site, will increase sales, because they will have more interest in your product or service than marketing to a general audience.
3. Use several promotion strategies - don't just stick to one form of promotion because you never know which one will work the best for you. If you use many channels i.e. search engines, email marketing, forums, writing articles etc you have a greater chance of getting more traffic to your web site.
4. Promote continuously - if you want to drive constant traffic to your web site, you must promote it continuously. Web traffic is the lifeblood of your online business. For example, you could constantly optimize your web pages for the search engines, resubmit them if needed, visit discussion forums every day and write an article for online publications every two weeks.
5. Calculate your return on investment (ROI) - this means keeping track of how much money you invested in your marketing plan and what profit you received in return. This will avoid wasting large sums of money thrown aimlessly into advertising.
If you calculate it takes 100 visitors to your web site to generate one sale and with each sale you make $10, then you shouldn't spend more than 10 cents to get each targeted visitor and still make a profit.
In order to know which aspects of your marketing campaign bring the most visitors, you must be able to monitor visitor activity to your web pages.
6. Analyze your web site traffic - by analyzing your web site traffic, you can determine what marketing strategies are successful. You can then change them as necessary, to boost the sales or services from your site.
Your analysis may include what keywords your visitors are using to find your web site, which web pages are the most popular and where your visitors are coming from. These are essential statistics you should know, instead of blindly promoting your web site and hoping for the best.
7. Test, monitor and track your results - to run an effective online marketing campaign, you need to constantly test what works and what doesn't. Tracking the response to an ad may cause you to refine it until it generates a great return on the money you invested. Once your results are satisfactory, you can then roll out your ads on a larger scale and spend greater sums of money.
You should also monitor your site in the search engines, so you can optimize your web pages for higher search engine rankings. This will attract more visitors which leads to higher profits.
Web site promotion strategies will differ for everyone, and will depend a lot on your product, web site and your personality. Try everything you can, record the results, and see what works for you.
Thursday
How To Get Tons Of Traffic To Your Website - For Free!
If you have a website, you need traffic; that's obvious. But how do you get it? In the next few paragraphs we will outline a strategy that will help you to achieve tons of the best traffic - targeted search engine traffic - and all for free!
Let's first of all look at some ways in which you can approach the subject of obtaining traffic for your website.
1. You can buy visitors. There are hundreds of websites out there who will sell you visitors. You can have 20,000 visitors delivered to your site from sites likes http://www.autosurfmonster.com .
2. You can pay to have your site optimised for the search engines. This can help but it can be very expensive.
3. You can use pay-per-click advertising. This can be effective but if you are in a competitive category it can be work out very costly.
The methods above all have two things in common - their effectiveness can be doubtful and they cost money.
What if there was an alternative? A way to obtain a high search engine ranking and have hundreds, if not thousands, of other websites send you traffic by the ton, all for free?
Well, such an alternative exists.
Before we tell you what it is, let us say a few words about link popularity. It is well known that the major search engines will regard your site as being more important and your rankings will therefore increase, if you are seen to have large numbers of incoming links from websites that are themselves regarded as important.
Now, some websites have thousands of pages of keyword-rich content. They have high rankings and are favoured by the search engines. Just the sort of sites that you would want to get free traffic from and have your links on, right?
What's more, these websites will allow you to hitch a ride off their massive traffic, top search engine placements and let you advertise on hundreds of web pages, all for free!
What are these wonderful philanthropic, traffic-generating websites and how can you take advantage the opportunities that they offer?
These websites are Article Directories. There are around 100 of them containing thousands of articles in dozens of different categories. How does this help you?
It's a two step process.
Step 1. Pick a topic and write an article about it. Choose something that is relevant to your own website.
Step 2. Submit your article to all the top online article directories, announcement lists and to other ezine publishers and webmasters.
What happens next?
You will get links to your site by the article being posted by the Article Directory sites. You will get more links as other sites pick up your articles and reprint them. You will get direct traffic from the Article Directory sites. You will get indirect traffic from sites that pick up and reprint your article. The search engines will find links from your article to your website. These are contextual links and are given more importance than links from unrelated pages. The inward links should boost your site's rankings, resulting in yet more traffic.
All this from just one article! And why stop there? Write an article a week or a month or whatever you can manage, and you will soon have your links spread all over the internet, bringing in more and more traffic.
We hope you will give this strategy a try. You have nothing to lose but could gain a great deal!
If you have a website, you need traffic; that's obvious. But how do you get it? In the next few paragraphs we will outline a strategy that will help you to achieve tons of the best traffic - targeted search engine traffic - and all for free!
Let's first of all look at some ways in which you can approach the subject of obtaining traffic for your website.
1. You can buy visitors. There are hundreds of websites out there who will sell you visitors. You can have 20,000 visitors delivered to your site from sites likes http://www.autosurfmonster.com .
2. You can pay to have your site optimised for the search engines. This can help but it can be very expensive.
3. You can use pay-per-click advertising. This can be effective but if you are in a competitive category it can be work out very costly.
The methods above all have two things in common - their effectiveness can be doubtful and they cost money.
What if there was an alternative? A way to obtain a high search engine ranking and have hundreds, if not thousands, of other websites send you traffic by the ton, all for free?
Well, such an alternative exists.
Before we tell you what it is, let us say a few words about link popularity. It is well known that the major search engines will regard your site as being more important and your rankings will therefore increase, if you are seen to have large numbers of incoming links from websites that are themselves regarded as important.
Now, some websites have thousands of pages of keyword-rich content. They have high rankings and are favoured by the search engines. Just the sort of sites that you would want to get free traffic from and have your links on, right?
What's more, these websites will allow you to hitch a ride off their massive traffic, top search engine placements and let you advertise on hundreds of web pages, all for free!
What are these wonderful philanthropic, traffic-generating websites and how can you take advantage the opportunities that they offer?
These websites are Article Directories. There are around 100 of them containing thousands of articles in dozens of different categories. How does this help you?
It's a two step process.
Step 1. Pick a topic and write an article about it. Choose something that is relevant to your own website.
Step 2. Submit your article to all the top online article directories, announcement lists and to other ezine publishers and webmasters.
What happens next?
You will get links to your site by the article being posted by the Article Directory sites. You will get more links as other sites pick up your articles and reprint them. You will get direct traffic from the Article Directory sites. You will get indirect traffic from sites that pick up and reprint your article. The search engines will find links from your article to your website. These are contextual links and are given more importance than links from unrelated pages. The inward links should boost your site's rankings, resulting in yet more traffic.
All this from just one article! And why stop there? Write an article a week or a month or whatever you can manage, and you will soon have your links spread all over the internet, bringing in more and more traffic.
We hope you will give this strategy a try. You have nothing to lose but could gain a great deal!
9 Ways To Get Free Traffic To Your Website
1. Search Engines
Optimize your website to be search-engine friendly. Submit it to various search engines and directories.
In addition to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, it's worth submitting to lesser known web directories. If your website is listed in as many places as possible, it can boost your rankings in major search engines as well.
2. Affiliate Program
Set up an affiliate program where you pay people a percentage of each sale for referring customers to you.
Spread the word about your affiliate program by submitting it to affiliate program directories and contacting the owners of related websites.
3. Link Exchanges
Create a links page that will contain the links to other non-competing websites in the same industry.
Contact the owners of other websites with your proposal to exchange links. You will add their link to your links page, and they will link to your website in return.
4. Post In Forums
Visit the online discussion forums where people in your target market like to gather. Post useful responses to people's questions, and include a link to your website at the end of your post next to your name.
5. Comment On Blogs
Visit other people's blogs on the topic related to your website. Most blogs allow you to add comments about the issues being discussed.
Add insightful comments about the blog topics, and leave your website link. Your comment and your link will permanently remain on the blog website.
6. E-Mail Signatures
Create an e-mail "signature" - your name, your website address and a short tagline describing the main benefit of your site. Set your e-mail program to automatically add your signature to every e-mail that you send.
7. Traffic Exchanges
There are many times of traffic exchanges but the idea is the same - you team up with other webmasters, and they send you traffic in exchange for you sending them traffic. Search the web for "traffic exchange" to find those services or try http://www.autosurfmonster.com
8. "Pass-Around" Strategy
Create something of value that people will pass around. It can be a report with useful information that you allow people to give away. It can also be some kind of cool and unusual webpage that people will want to e-mail to all their friends.
Of course, the pass-around item will include your advertisement and your link, spreading the word about your website.
9. Writing Articles
Write articles on the topic related to your website, and include a link to your site in your author bio. Submit your articles to article directories, and allow people to publish your article in their newsletters and websites.
Your articles will spread around the web like wildfire. People will read them and visit your website.
The best part is that people who read your articles will regard you as an expert, and they will be much more likely to buy from you when they go to your website. How's that for a free publicity?
Sunday
How To Get Repeat Visitors
for FREE To Your Website
As the proud publisher of a website I'm sure you have spent a considerable amount of time and effort to attract traffic to your site. It's not difficult to realize how it is to your advantage to get repeat visitors to your website, rather than to constantly be relying on finding someone new. A visitor who has previously viewed your website offerings is much more likely to become your customer than a first time visitor. To this end, I would like you to consider the following suggestions.
Update your website pages frequently. Stagnant sites are more likely to be dropped by some search engines than a site that is dynamic. You may even think about placing a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated. The search engines will spider your site more often, and your visitors are more inclined to return on a regular basis to see what's new.
Offer additional value on your website. You can place links to affiliate and partner sites and products and request that they do the same for you. It is also effective to promote their books or videos as long as these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product. You can invite customers to opt in to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to ask customers to opt in to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
Place a Book Mark or Add This Site to Your Favorites link on your home page to encourage visitors to return. Add a link titled Recommend this site to a Friend so that the visitor can email your website link, with a pre-written title, for example, Thought you might be interested in this, just by clicking on it. In other words, make it as easy as possible for your visitors to return to your website and to invite their friends to do the same.
Brand your website so that visitors can easily see that they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans throughout the site and always include a Contact Us link on each page. Create a page titled Our Policies that clearly explains your philosophy and principles in customer relations. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site. Create a FAQ page which addresses and clarifies the most likely issues about your product or your company that are likely to be asked about. This will help to resolve most of the customers concerns in their first visit to your site.
Ensure that each page on your website has proper titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark. Never, never, NEVER! spam a visitor, who has opted in for newsletters or information, with unsolicited emails. If they later decide that they want to opt out of your newsletter or other mail, be sure you take them off the mailing list immediately. They may return if they like your products. But they will surely not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they consider junk mail or spam. Just remember to give your visitors plenty of reasons to want to revisit your website, and make it as simple as you can for them. They will be back.
Wednesday
How To Increase Targeted
Web Site Traffic To Your Site?
We have noticed in Many marketing forums How newbies give up in search of building traffic in less than 6 months. Building Long term targeted traffic takes time and dedication towards your website. You need to work towards getting Web site traffic and optimize accordingly.Before You read anything about SEO or traffic building, You need to remember it takes time to get free and targeted traffic to your website. You might have heard some X guy getting 1000's of visitors in its first month. But Do not hasten the process of organic traffic.
In this article We'll discuss long term SEO building tips that'll help you build a profitable website.Any website that wants to make money needs to get optimized, and stay that way. Running and SEO campaign once or twice isn’t enough in this market: you need to consider long-term maintenance of your SEO.For Long term planning You do not need to chase search engine algorithms on daily basis. As Search engines improves their algorithms quite often. It'd be waste of time and effort to chase them. Better You can do is understand basic SEO techniques and keep building a powerful resource in your niche.
Some tips for long term SEO.
1. Check on your pages regularly and make sure they’re still listed. Your listings are the most important part of your SEO work. Whether the page is listed or not is vastly more important than what key words you have etc. After all, if you aren’t listed at all what good is it to optimize?
2. Watch for bad links or broken links in your site. Fix it as soon as possible. Any missing pages should be checked out thoroughly. Chances are that the system has run into a problem, but if you don’t check it out you may very easily be wrong. I had one of my blogs PR dropped in matter of 24 hrs when I wasn't checking it. Somehow I recognize my mistake and worked towards building it again. Now My blog got back its PR and traffic.
3. Resubmit your sitemap if you make major changes, but not for anything smaller. It's better to have a blog giving latest details on minor changes.
4. Create monthly ranking reports on your site, to see if any changes need to be made.
5. Keep submitting your site to the big directories, as spiders use these as a starting point. This point is not stressed more often. If you need traffic from MSN and Yahoo, You need to do this. Some directories will provide you low cost listing for a year (sometimes lifetime). Normally they have High PR pages. So it'll help you a lot.Besides from Basic SEO techniques You need not to worry a lot about regular fluctuations in your rankings. Though you need to keep an eye on your rankings and try to notice which factors are giving your results.
6. While we are on building links, You need to work on getting lots of link backs regularly. Be it Link exchange or one way links through submitting articles. Do it regularly.7. Watch your competitors and the methods they use. You'll learn a lot by watching and understanding what your competitors does.8. Keep updated yourself on your niche. Issue press releases Often if possible. Press releases are not like articles. Make them "news". This will bring targeted traffic to your site.
9. Update Your articles on regular basis. Most Experts suggest Updating it at least once a week. Write a 500-750 word article and publish it on your site. Go for low traffic keywords which are searched less than 400-500 times a month.
10. You need to know how to analyze your own website. Though You'll find lots of articles on Website Optimization but before you go Let me give you a link to one of the software which I use For obtaining High Rankings for my sites. With this Software You'll be able to spy on your competitors site and If need you can copy his exact methods which helped him gain into top rankings.This might seem like a lot of work for a small website or company, but you need to do it to help your website grow. If you don’t have growth, you have nothing. No business wants to stay where it is forever, and SEO is a good way to get more business and stay in the race.
Five Ways To Give Away Free Stuff And See Website Traffic Increase
Everyone loves to get something for free. This is true of almost everyone who frequently surfs the web as well. Website operators are constantly looking not only for ways to attract new visitors, but also ways to keep them coming back. If you are looking for a way to increase website traffic, consider using a tactic such as the “Give Away”. By giving away free stuff on your site, you will likely attract many more visitors. You can also keep these visitors coming back frequently by offering new free stuff each month. If you are interested in see the results of your website traffic improve, then consider using these five ways to give away free stuff.
Donated Goods
You may be interested in trying to give away free stuff on your website, but you may not be willing to spend your own money in doing so. If this is the case, there are options for you. You can always network with other companies who will essentially give you their products to showcase and give away from your site. Local businesses are the first place to look, as they usually are very willing to help fellow town citizens. You can also go to larger corporations if you know exactly who to contact and make sure they realize that they too would be receiving free advertising from allowing you to showcase their products. Usually you won’t get enough products each month to offer to every visitor, so make sure you mention that only the first 30 (or the equivalent of products you have) visitors who sign up will receive the products.
Monthly Contests
Website visitors love contests and many of them are willing to visit the same sites each day just to enter to win something free. Therefore, by offering free stuff through a contest, you are likely to get visitors to return on a daily basis. Set the rules to state that each visitor can only enter once a day if you like. Purchase a good prize or get one donated and give it away to the random name drawn from the entries. This is a great way to get the attention of many consumers, especially if your prizes are extra interesting and worthy.
Personalized Items
One interesting tactic is to give away merchandise with your website’s name or your business’s name on them. Items such as shirts, hats, towels, cups, and key chains are perfect for this task. The idea is to keep people coming to your site for free stuff as well as to look around. The extra perk with this strategy however, is to allow them to be your advertisers as well. If they wear one of these items out in public, there are likely thousands of people who will be exposed to your business passively. This is a great idea and can be done through many methods including contests or loyal customer incentives.
Referral Prizes
If you really want to spread the word on your website and get more traffic than ever, you should consider giving referral prizes. You can set your system up to allow each visitor to send an automated email from your site asking him or her to visit. If the visitor is willing to offer up 10 or 20 valid email addresses, then you can offer them a free prize. The prize can be as small or large as you wish. This is the perfect way to get more traffic while also rewarding those that are helping you along the way.Reminder EmailsAfter you choose the method of how you plan to give your free stuff away, consider offering reminder emails to those who love to participate. You can offer initial free stuff to those that sign up, like a key chain. This is a great way to get that traffic to continue after the visitor’s initial visit. You can remind them monthly that there are new things to see at your site and they will likely visit more often. You can also use this not only to remind them of free stuff being given away but also to tell them about deals or other offers you have for them as well. They are likely to forward these emails on to friends they think might be interested as well.
Monday
Free Link Exchange Program
One of the best ways to boost your search engine ranking is to ensure that you have plenty of links pointing back to your site. In other words, you need to increase your link popularity.
Why?
Because many of the popular search engines are using a lot of off-page criteria to help decide how relevant (or popular) your site is for certain keyword searches.
Let's say you have a site about bowling and you want your site to show up in Google when people type in the search terms, "bowling balls."
Back in the day, you used to be able to achieve a high ranking by cramming your keywords in the body of your web pages, title, as well as your meta tags.
Well this quickly grew old as people learned the techniques and started using this method to spam the search engines. Webmasters were putting unrelated search terms into their meta tags and using hidden text to try and trick the engines into bringing their site more traffic.
As you may have guessed, engines like Google have gotten much smarter over the years and are now using the "backward link" technique to help rank web pages.
Google can determine the keywords other sites are using to link to a particular site and then they use that information to help decide how a page should rank for various search words.
Going back to the bowling ball example -- if you go to Google and search for "bowling balls", you'll notice that the sites that appear first aren't necessarily the ones that repeat the word "bowling balls" throughout the text. Some of them don't even have these keywords in the title of the page.
The reason these sites show up first is because of their link popularity. Other web sites are using "bowling balls" to describe their site and are using these keywords inside the actual hyperlinks when they link to them.
So hopefully you can see now that when you exchange links with other web sites, be sure that they include the keywords you want to rank high for in the search engines.
Introducing Value Exchange - A High Quality Link Exchange
Value Exchange is a free tool that helps you find related web sites that are willing to exchange links with you.
Notice the term "value" in the title. This is important because you don't want to exchange links with just any web site. With Value Exchange, you'll only find high-quality web sites with relevant information that can only help increase your link popularity.
Thursday
Get
Traffic
For
.FREE
Setting up a profitable company will require a lot of things, among the most important will be capital. As We are sure you have often heard, to make money you need to have money. But you don't always need cash! If you are low on cash, but have plenty of time, you can use time as your capital. There are many ways you could find on the Internet that could help you optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic or sales, without spending one penny.While cash allows you to access many ways to jumpstart your traffic flow, you can still attract a respectable traffic flow without cash by using your time, imagination and a lot of eagerness. If you have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research, you can generate a great deal of traffic for your site.How sweet it is to increase the traffic to your site without spending a single cent. If you search the web carefully, you will find many sites that have articles that offer tips and guidelines on how to generate traffic using only free methods. Although it is possible to generate traffic without spending a single cent, it will take time and a great deal of effort on your part. Certainly, you get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods we are going to tell you about.
On-line Forums
Take advantage of on-line forums and on-line communities. The great thing about forums and on-line communities is that you can target a specific group that fits the demographic that you want. You can discuss a lot of things about the niche that you are seeking to impress. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and therefore you can be well prepared.With on-line communities and forums you can build a great reputation for your company. Show them that you know what you are talking about. Wow them with your range of expertise on the subject. Build a reputation and trust with the people in these forums and communities and they will gladly visit your site and make purchases.
Newsletter
You can also make use of newsletters. By writing a newsletter, you keep your name in front of potential customers. Make sure that your newsletter is informative, interesting and personal. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who sign up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic. Provide people with a catalog of your products interspersed with interesting and entertaining articles.
Link Exchanges
Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don't have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every bit of traffic that goes to the other site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites are in the same or related niches.
Articles
Write articles that could pique the attention of people that may be interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that demonstrate your knowledge and of value or interest to other people is another way to attract the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs. Be sure to circulate your articles widely.Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. You can submit your articles by hand - after all, you are trying to do this without spending any money! Or, you can do what We do, and that is use article submission software to help speed the process.When people find your articles interesting or useful, there is a good chance that they will be interested in seeing more of what you have written. Be sure to include a link and a brief description of your company with every article to make it easy for readers to go to your site.
Content Content Content Content...
Ensure that your site contains a great deal of good content, especially original material that you have written. Search engines search for the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and rank your site based on how they are used.Hiring a professional content writer is the easiest way to get great content, but it is not a requirement. To save money, you can write your content, as long as you make sure that your content is entertaining as well as containing accurate information.
Search Engine Optimization
Generally, Internet users find what they are looking for by using search engines. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. By optimizing your site with the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs associated with ads.
Blog
Start a Blog. You can set up a blog on one of the free services such as blogspot.com. Be sure to update it frequently and use tag and ping to make the world aware of your blogging. You can use all of these free methods and many more to drive more traffic to your site. All it takes is a time and effort rather than money. Learn all you can about the methods we have mentioned, and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without spending one red cent.
** F r e e T r a f f i c **
If you're an online marketer and own a website, you know what free traffic means. You also know there's really no such thing as free. There are free traffic exchanges that allow you to get free traffic to your website or promotion, but you must spend your time surfing through other websites to earn credits. Free traffic exchanges are a great way to get lots of visitors to your site however, so spending an hour a day surfing, is not a lot to ask if you're making sales from your efforts.
Free traffic exchanges such as http://www.autosurfmonster.com are a great marketing tool for a many reasons. The best reason is that you get lots of people looking, and hopefully clicking on your website or promotional pages. But there are hidden benefits to free traffic exchanges you may not have even considered.
Search engines love free traffic exchanges because of all the incoming and outgoing links they generate. Plus the rapidly changing content is another reason the search engines love traffic exchanges. Exchanges that have more content also generate a higher page rank, and therefore more traffic, and increased memberships. The key is to find exchanges that are very active and have lots of members. The more members they have, the more potential customers you get looking at your offer and your chances for sales conversions are that much better. But bigger isn't always better.
Some free traffic exchanges may convert sales like crazy for one person, and be a complete waste of time for another. If everyone were promoting the same website or affiliate program is the same traffic exchange for example, then chances are you would not make many sales. Even if you were promoting the #1 thing on the internet, if everyone promoted the same program, your chances are much lower that someone will purchase through your website or link to make you any money. Also, when people see the same ad over and over again, they get desensitized to it. Don't fall into this trap. It's one thing to try and sell a very popular product/service/ebook etc, but it's another thing when a million other people are trying to do it too. Competition is a good thing, because it validates your market, but too much competition is tough and it's time to move on to something else.
We all know clicking on ads in a free traffic exchange can be very boring, monotonous and can take a lot of time. That's why you need to make the best of your opportunity or you will just be wasting a lot of your time and effort on something that just isn't working. If you have your own niche website, then you already differentiated yourself from the pack. If you are an affiliate marketer, then you need to find products/services that everyone else isn't promoting, especially within that particular traffic exchange.
One way to use free traffic exchanges to your advantage is to join a few at first, and see if your sales pick up. If your sales aren't doing well, then test out a few more. When you do find a few traffic exchanges that appear to be generating sales for you, then narrow those down until you find the one, or two that are working. Now concentrate your efforts on those because they're the ones you want. At least for now anyway. Things may change, so keep an eye on your campaigns and if sales seem to be falling off, then it might be time to change your offer or find another traffic exchange that could pick your profits up again.
As I mentioned, your individual promotion is everything. If you're trying to promote something everyone else is, I don't care what traffic exchange service you're using, your sales conversions are going to be very low, or nothing at all. You cannot always blame the exchange. Sometimes you have to look at yourself and think if you're doing all you can to make sales.
If you're going to use multiple free traffic exchanges, and I recommend that you do, you should get yourself a multi-tab web browser. Many of these browsers are free and run on PCs and MACs. The tabs feature allows you to have one web browser open with multiple tabs each going to a separate website. You could easily put 5 or 6 of your free exchange sites in these tabs, and earn credits for all of them at the same time. So instead of surfing for 1/2 an hour or an hour earning 200 hits for one exchange, you could earn 200 hits for 5 exchanges in the same amount of time. This is a huge time saver and multiplies your earned hits by 5X or 6X.
Getting free traffic to your website is a lot of work. If you don't have the money to spend on full blown PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns like Google AdWords, free traffic exchanges are a great way to get the traffic you need at a very good price. Free!
Author Bio
If you're an online marketer and own a website, you know what free traffic means. You also know there's really no such thing as free. There are free traffic exchanges that allow you to get free traffic to your website or promotion, but you must spend your time surfing through other websites to earn credits. Free traffic exchanges are a great way to get lots of visitors to your site however, so spending an hour a day surfing, is not a lot to ask if you're making sales from your efforts.
Free traffic exchanges such as http://www.autosurfmonster.com are a great marketing tool for a many reasons. The best reason is that you get lots of people looking, and hopefully clicking on your website or promotional pages. But there are hidden benefits to free traffic exchanges you may not have even considered.
Search engines love free traffic exchanges because of all the incoming and outgoing links they generate. Plus the rapidly changing content is another reason the search engines love traffic exchanges. Exchanges that have more content also generate a higher page rank, and therefore more traffic, and increased memberships. The key is to find exchanges that are very active and have lots of members. The more members they have, the more potential customers you get looking at your offer and your chances for sales conversions are that much better. But bigger isn't always better.
Some free traffic exchanges may convert sales like crazy for one person, and be a complete waste of time for another. If everyone were promoting the same website or affiliate program is the same traffic exchange for example, then chances are you would not make many sales. Even if you were promoting the #1 thing on the internet, if everyone promoted the same program, your chances are much lower that someone will purchase through your website or link to make you any money. Also, when people see the same ad over and over again, they get desensitized to it. Don't fall into this trap. It's one thing to try and sell a very popular product/service/ebook etc, but it's another thing when a million other people are trying to do it too. Competition is a good thing, because it validates your market, but too much competition is tough and it's time to move on to something else.
We all know clicking on ads in a free traffic exchange can be very boring, monotonous and can take a lot of time. That's why you need to make the best of your opportunity or you will just be wasting a lot of your time and effort on something that just isn't working. If you have your own niche website, then you already differentiated yourself from the pack. If you are an affiliate marketer, then you need to find products/services that everyone else isn't promoting, especially within that particular traffic exchange.
One way to use free traffic exchanges to your advantage is to join a few at first, and see if your sales pick up. If your sales aren't doing well, then test out a few more. When you do find a few traffic exchanges that appear to be generating sales for you, then narrow those down until you find the one, or two that are working. Now concentrate your efforts on those because they're the ones you want. At least for now anyway. Things may change, so keep an eye on your campaigns and if sales seem to be falling off, then it might be time to change your offer or find another traffic exchange that could pick your profits up again.
As I mentioned, your individual promotion is everything. If you're trying to promote something everyone else is, I don't care what traffic exchange service you're using, your sales conversions are going to be very low, or nothing at all. You cannot always blame the exchange. Sometimes you have to look at yourself and think if you're doing all you can to make sales.
If you're going to use multiple free traffic exchanges, and I recommend that you do, you should get yourself a multi-tab web browser. Many of these browsers are free and run on PCs and MACs. The tabs feature allows you to have one web browser open with multiple tabs each going to a separate website. You could easily put 5 or 6 of your free exchange sites in these tabs, and earn credits for all of them at the same time. So instead of surfing for 1/2 an hour or an hour earning 200 hits for one exchange, you could earn 200 hits for 5 exchanges in the same amount of time. This is a huge time saver and multiplies your earned hits by 5X or 6X.
Getting free traffic to your website is a lot of work. If you don't have the money to spend on full blown PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns like Google AdWords, free traffic exchanges are a great way to get the traffic you need at a very good price. Free!
Author Bio
Free Article Writing Tips
to Increase Website Traffic
If you're not doing so already, you may want to consider writing articles about your website's topic. Writing copyright free articles is a great way to:
Establish your credibility and build your reputation and brand
Establish yourself as an expert in your field
Increase your exposure on the internet
Gain laser targeted traffic to your website
Increase the number of one way links to your website, which should help your website in the search results. Writing articles about the topic of your website is a fantastic way to demonstrate your expertise and credibility and at the same time allows you to build your reputation and your brand. Submitting your articles to the various free article sites gives your articles the opportunity to be picked up by other webmasters for their websites and newsletters. When your articles get used on these other websites they must be used with the author bio section un-edited. This means that you can generate one way links to your website, which in turn leads to greater exposure and better rankings in the search engines. If the readers of your articles on other sites click through to your site, you gain targeted traffic.
Some Article Writing TipsTo get the greatest benefit from your article writing endeavors, try to keep the following article writing tips in mind:
Try to stay away from turning your article into a sales pitch. Give your readers credit - they will be able to distinguish a sales pitch right away. Once they think they're just reading another sales pitch they will quickly click away from your article. I can just about guarantee that no one will pick up your sales pitch and use it on their website, unless it's one of your affiliates.
Don't include too many hyperlinks within the article body and stick to only one in the author bio section. Most webmasters will not pick up an article, no matter how good it is, if there are too many outgoing links. I would recommend not having any links within the article body but sometimes this is unavoidable.
Which situation would you rather have: 1 article with 1 outgoing link to your website that gets picked up by 1,000 webmasters or 1 article with 10 outgoing links that gets picked up by 10 webmasters?
Check, re-check and then check your article again for typos and grammatical errors. Have someone else proofread it for you before submitting it. Nothing says amateur more than typos and grammatical errors.
Write articles that complement the topic of your website. Don't write about something totally unrelated to your website. Remember, you want to establish your credibility and expertise. Write about what you know.
When adding that one link back to your site, make sure to include a keyword targeted link back to your site. I'm talking specifically about the words between the anchor tags. When the search engine robots come across this link they will index the anchor text and it will help you with those keywords in the search engines. Do not waste this valuable link by just having your website address (www.website.com) as the anchor text unless you have your main keywords in the website address. Try to vary the keywords a little as well when creating this link. There is speculation that having too many "uniform" links to a site may hurt you - just something to keep in mind.
Do not place a copyright notice at the top of your article. This leads to confusion and may cause webmasters to stay away from posting your articles on their website and in their newsletters.
It may be a good idea to write completely new content for your articles. Some writers just copy and paste parts of their websites and put them into articles. This may lead to a "duplicate content" penalty and may end up hurting your search engine results. I would recommend that you should play it safe and come up with totally new content for your articles.
How Many Articles Should I Write?The number of articles that you will have to write really depends on how good your competitors are. If you're competing against many highly optimized websites, then you may have your work cut out for you. On the other hand, if you notice that your competitors are not all that great at the SEO thing, your road to article writing will be much shorter. Any way you look at it, writing articles can bring too many benefits that are yours for the taking.
Saturday
The
3 Best WebsiteTraffic
Sources
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Not a day goes by that any serious website owner doesn't wonder how to get more traffic to their site.
This intense desire to generate more clicks makes virtually any online entrepreneur easy prey to many of the traffic schemes and scams that pervade the Internet like conmen on a carnival midway.
Promises of fast traffic and big bucks often separate even the most savvy business person from their money because they want to believe the promises made by these traffic hucksters.
However, rather than thinking "complicated equals better" in the traffic game, the best website traffic sources are extremely easy to separate from the useless garbage traffic.
Fact: "Good Traffic" equals "Targeted Traffic!"
That means the visitors come as a result of desire to find out more on a specific, niche topic, not as a result of "exit" traffic or membership in a "safe" list where members simply pitch each other in an incestuous spam fest.
Good traffic comes from people clicking links on topics targeted to their interests and getting directed to a website containing information they want and expect as a result of clicking the link.
Bottom line, when you get right down to it, the best, most dependable sources of targeted traffic come from links that people click.
So, next time you're considering spending money on a traffic source, understand that unless it involves a targeted link that a targeted visitor can click to get to your website, think twice before opening up your wallet.
To my knowledge, only three ways exist to get a link to your site: buy it, "voodoo" it, or grow it.
** Buy Links**
Buying links actually rates the fastest way to get traffic to your website.
You simply sign up for Google AdWords at Google.com or you open an account with Overture.com.
You then run ads with a link on those sites and any time someone clicks the link, you pay for the click through a relatively straightforward bidding process based on the popularity of the keyword.
You can also buy links in ezines, newsletters, and on other peoples' websites either on a per-click basis, for a period of time (a week or month), or in exchange for paying them a commission if a sale gets made as a result of a click on the link.
** Linking "VoodDoo" **
Linking "voodoo" refers to attempting to manipulate the search engines into displaying links to your website.
You can find a large number of automated software programs online at any given time that will claim to help you get more search engine traffic.
Depending on the intensity of competition in a specific market and the fact that search engines change their rules frequently, pursuing search engine links this way can quickly turn into the online equivalent of Alice chasing the rabbit down the hole.
** Grow Links **
I personally prefer this method to get links to my websites: growing them.
The best type of link to get involves one person telling another person, either explicitly or implicitly, they should click the link and visit the site at the other end.
One way to do this is simply to exchange links with another site which targets the same audience as your site.
You can manage this process manually or use one of the many software packages that will mange the process for you.
A search on Google.com for "reciprocal link manager software" yields a good start.
The easiest way to grow a link is through using articles other people post on their websites which link back to your website.
The reason articles work so well for "growing" links involves the numerous ways in which articles get distributed online, each of which can create dozens, hundreds, even thousands of different links back to your website by publishing a single article.
In fact, the following represent only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the places you can grow links by publishing articles online.
~ Blogs - Your articles can not only appear on your own blog, but get posted by others on their blogs with surprising ease.
The links in these articles can point directly back to your website.
~ Article Directories - Article directories such as IdeaMarketers.com abound online.
They not only provide an easy way to display your articles to allow others to pick them up for posting on their websites, but also in and of themselves attract readers searching for content.
~ OPS (Other People's Sites) - Popular websites like WebProNews.com attract repeat visitors by offering targeted content to their readers.
Since they can't produce all the content themselves, they publish articles created by others. Links from these sites can bring a steady stream of targeted visitors by giving you targeted exposure.
~ Ezines - By getting your articles published in other people's ezines, you can get a link on the most valuable real estate online, a targeted prospect's email "inbox."
Many ezine publishers run articles written by others to their targeted readers, and your link in the resource box can bring you a veritable avalanche of targeted site visitors when hundreds, even thousands of people receive your article at the same time.
Whether you choose to buy them, "voodoo" them, or grow them, getting targeted links to your site posted on the Internet represents the absolute best way to get steady traffic to your site.
Though not as fast as buying them or as exciting as trying to manipulate the search engines, growing links with articles gives you a long-term, dependable presence online.
Sunday
How to Get
..F r e e.. W e b.. T r a f f i c
I just did a quick web search for "free autosurf traffic" world wide, and our site(s) came up at #5 on Alta Vista, #10 on Google, and #5 and #15 on Yahoo.
People ask us: Why do you come up in almost every search engine? How do you get these top listings? And how do you get over 5,000 visitors a Day?
In this article we explain our secrets to free traffic. For those new to the web, we'll be talking about how to come up in the top ten listings (rankings) when someone searches for something like "free traffic" or "traffic hits" on a search engine like AltaVista, Google, or Yahoo.
The Three Options to Free Traffic
Firstly we'll outline the three ways you can go about it, and the one we recommend.
Option 1) Pay a professional US$1,000 and more to handle it
I think this is overkill until you are sure your site is making money (say $10,000 p.a. in revenue coming from your site). Why pay for traffic if you can't be sure that traffic will turn into dollars? Keep your expenses low until you can justify the investment.
Option 2) Buy reputable software to handle itThese days software can do everything from ensuring your pages are search-engine friendly, to submitting your 20 pages to 100 engines, 12 times a year (that's 24,000 submissions!) while you sleep. With prices coming down to below $200, this option now makes Option 3) obsolete.
Option 3) Do it yourself
A couple of problems with this. Firstly, you don't know the hundreds of tricks to make your page come up in the top ten rankings on engines, and would be stabbing in the dark. Secondly, it will take you a lot of hours to submit every single page to the major engines - and that's just the first time you do it! After the third time you sit down to do this, you'll kick yourself. Also, when you want to know how visible you are on the engines, do you really want to search all 100 engines, for each combination of key word, for every page on your site (easily 10,000 combinations)? Or would you prefer to leave your computer for an hour and come back to a summary report of your top rankings, including which rankings have changed recently?
For over 90% of coaches, without hesitation we recommend Option 2) Buy Software. (Note: That's unless you already have $10,000 in online revenue - then go for hiring a professional)
What Software to Buy?
It's probably most useful if we mention the key things you should have in any software you buy. Then you can surf the web and research to your heart's content. Or if you prefer to buy the one we use and recommend, CLICK HERE!!
Look for the following major features -
Great Articles and Advice: You want a powerful knowledge base so you can learn what the search engines are looking for. Also you'll want tips and tricks for how to get listed on the major directories like Yahoo. Ideally get one that updates it's Knowledge Base regularly.
Page Creation:Your software should help you tweak your pages so they rank highly on the search engines, including automatically create the much talked about 'Meta Tags' in your pages, so you don't have to do it. Some will even create initial pages for you!Automatic
Submission:Make sure it will submit to all the major search engines automatically. AND - that you can schedule it to do a little submitting to the engines each day, so you don't get flagged for spamming the engines.
Reporting: You'll want a reporting engine so you can say "Tell me my rankings for all my web pages, on say the top 50 engines, for the keywords 'life coaching' and 'life coaching Canada'. I'll be back in an hour!" This will show you where you're doing well, and where you need to do some more tweaking or submitting.
Traffic Monitoring:If you get a good one, you'll be happy to have this included without paying extra. Let's you view how many people visited your site, say in the last week or month, what search engines they came from, the pages they visited, and ideally what key words they entered into the engine!
So search the web for some good software. If they're any good, they probably come up near the top in the listings! (After all, that's what they do). Or if you want to try the one we use - Starter Package Deal - We've so happy with Ours that we made them one of our preferred service providers.
..F r e e.. W e b.. T r a f f i c
I just did a quick web search for "free autosurf traffic" world wide, and our site(s) came up at #5 on Alta Vista, #10 on Google, and #5 and #15 on Yahoo.
People ask us: Why do you come up in almost every search engine? How do you get these top listings? And how do you get over 5,000 visitors a Day?
In this article we explain our secrets to free traffic. For those new to the web, we'll be talking about how to come up in the top ten listings (rankings) when someone searches for something like "free traffic" or "traffic hits" on a search engine like AltaVista, Google, or Yahoo.
The Three Options to Free Traffic
Firstly we'll outline the three ways you can go about it, and the one we recommend.
Option 1) Pay a professional US$1,000 and more to handle it
I think this is overkill until you are sure your site is making money (say $10,000 p.a. in revenue coming from your site). Why pay for traffic if you can't be sure that traffic will turn into dollars? Keep your expenses low until you can justify the investment.
Option 2) Buy reputable software to handle itThese days software can do everything from ensuring your pages are search-engine friendly, to submitting your 20 pages to 100 engines, 12 times a year (that's 24,000 submissions!) while you sleep. With prices coming down to below $200, this option now makes Option 3) obsolete.
Option 3) Do it yourself
A couple of problems with this. Firstly, you don't know the hundreds of tricks to make your page come up in the top ten rankings on engines, and would be stabbing in the dark. Secondly, it will take you a lot of hours to submit every single page to the major engines - and that's just the first time you do it! After the third time you sit down to do this, you'll kick yourself. Also, when you want to know how visible you are on the engines, do you really want to search all 100 engines, for each combination of key word, for every page on your site (easily 10,000 combinations)? Or would you prefer to leave your computer for an hour and come back to a summary report of your top rankings, including which rankings have changed recently?
For over 90% of coaches, without hesitation we recommend Option 2) Buy Software. (Note: That's unless you already have $10,000 in online revenue - then go for hiring a professional)
What Software to Buy?
It's probably most useful if we mention the key things you should have in any software you buy. Then you can surf the web and research to your heart's content. Or if you prefer to buy the one we use and recommend, CLICK HERE!!
Look for the following major features -
Great Articles and Advice: You want a powerful knowledge base so you can learn what the search engines are looking for. Also you'll want tips and tricks for how to get listed on the major directories like Yahoo. Ideally get one that updates it's Knowledge Base regularly.
Page Creation:Your software should help you tweak your pages so they rank highly on the search engines, including automatically create the much talked about 'Meta Tags' in your pages, so you don't have to do it. Some will even create initial pages for you!Automatic
Submission:Make sure it will submit to all the major search engines automatically. AND - that you can schedule it to do a little submitting to the engines each day, so you don't get flagged for spamming the engines.
Reporting: You'll want a reporting engine so you can say "Tell me my rankings for all my web pages, on say the top 50 engines, for the keywords 'life coaching' and 'life coaching Canada'. I'll be back in an hour!" This will show you where you're doing well, and where you need to do some more tweaking or submitting.
Traffic Monitoring:If you get a good one, you'll be happy to have this included without paying extra. Let's you view how many people visited your site, say in the last week or month, what search engines they came from, the pages they visited, and ideally what key words they entered into the engine!
So search the web for some good software. If they're any good, they probably come up near the top in the listings! (After all, that's what they do). Or if you want to try the one we use - Starter Package Deal - We've so happy with Ours that we made them one of our preferred service providers.
Tuesday
Top 10
Traffic Building Mistakes To Avoid
When people look to submit their sites to the major search engines, there are some key mistakes that should be avoided for successful promotion.
Spam
The surefire way of getting your site blacklisted from the major search engines. Many people see creating thousands of cloaked or doorway pages with hidden text as the quick route to ranking success. It isn't.
Untargeted Traffic
It's one thing to generate lots of new traffic to your site, but is it the right traffic? If you're selling DVD's for example, you want potential buyers to visit, not people who are searching for pictures of a certain movie star. Best to make it clear in your meta information exactly what your site does, then you'll get the type of clientele you're after!
Single Keywords
Unless you're in some incredible niche marketplace where a single word can only be identified with your product with few competitors, single keywords aren't going to hit the bullseye in a traffic sense. Multiple word keyword phrases are the key to traffic success. Instead of going for "books", go for "thai recipe books" or whatever your target market is. You'll have far less competition for that keyword phrase than just a single word. Believe us, we've worked on a bookseller's site.
Poor Design
There's no way around this one. You can have the best rankings in the world, but if your site looks bad, you'll lose that traffic as soon as it arrives. Good, simple, clean design always wins - sloppy design and gimmicks don't! I Don't Need
Links
Oh yes you do. Links are crucial to the traffic building game. Without links to your site from others (if they're competitors, even better), good meta information won't be enough. Most search engines will rank your webpage according to its popularity with its peers. if a lot of sites link to yours, it must be good, so Google & Co. will boost your rating (link popularity algorithms)
Messy Meta Tags
It's worth spending a bit of time getting your meta tags in order - they tell search engines what your site's about, and act as a basic marketing tool to attract visitors to your site. Check the spelling and make them relevant and you'll be off to a flyer. Read our dedicated article here.
Stickiness
Page design and marketing are inseperable. Once you've attracted your visitors, your traffic building exercise has gone well and your site looks good, what are you offering which will encourage return visits? Regular site updates are very useful since your site will appear active and worth revisiting. The most successful sites we've worked on have been regularly updated. After all the effort you've gone to in gaining traffic, it's worth considering how to hang on to it.
Messy Code
After the search engine robots have visited your site, they'll see the meta information first, then they'll scan your page for the first chunk of relevant text. A large number of sites have cluttered code (Javascript usually) after the meta tags. This will not help your search engine ranking since the relevant text will be too far down the page. Try hiving the Javascript code (or similar) into another file and refer to it from the HTML. Beware of Rogue "Experts" Before handing your hard earned money over to "Site Submission Experts", be sure to find out exactly what you're getting. They may claim to be able to submit your site to "30,000 engines", but let's be honest, there's only a handful which create almost all the search traffic on the web, so you can submit yourself. Some firms claim to guarantee you a Top 20 ranked page - yes, if your search phrase is 8 words long. It's not that easy in reality. Reputable firms can help you optimize your pages, and advise you on how best to market your site to your target audience, so best to do some homework first.
Patience
Building traffic is an ongoing activity. After your initial hard work, you should check your pages on the engines and "tweak" them if the results aren't as you expected. Traffic is the oxygen of the Internet and your site is dead without it, so regularly give your code a tune-up and resubmit if necessary. Don't oversubmit though. If you look at your server logs, you'll see the major engine robots visiting on a regular basis, they'll pick up your changes soon enough if you can afford to wait a week or so.
All the best with your traffic building efforts!
When people look to submit their sites to the major search engines, there are some key mistakes that should be avoided for successful promotion.
Spam
The surefire way of getting your site blacklisted from the major search engines. Many people see creating thousands of cloaked or doorway pages with hidden text as the quick route to ranking success. It isn't.
Untargeted Traffic
It's one thing to generate lots of new traffic to your site, but is it the right traffic? If you're selling DVD's for example, you want potential buyers to visit, not people who are searching for pictures of a certain movie star. Best to make it clear in your meta information exactly what your site does, then you'll get the type of clientele you're after!
Single Keywords
Unless you're in some incredible niche marketplace where a single word can only be identified with your product with few competitors, single keywords aren't going to hit the bullseye in a traffic sense. Multiple word keyword phrases are the key to traffic success. Instead of going for "books", go for "thai recipe books" or whatever your target market is. You'll have far less competition for that keyword phrase than just a single word. Believe us, we've worked on a bookseller's site.
Poor Design
There's no way around this one. You can have the best rankings in the world, but if your site looks bad, you'll lose that traffic as soon as it arrives. Good, simple, clean design always wins - sloppy design and gimmicks don't! I Don't Need
Links
Oh yes you do. Links are crucial to the traffic building game. Without links to your site from others (if they're competitors, even better), good meta information won't be enough. Most search engines will rank your webpage according to its popularity with its peers. if a lot of sites link to yours, it must be good, so Google & Co. will boost your rating (link popularity algorithms)
Messy Meta Tags
It's worth spending a bit of time getting your meta tags in order - they tell search engines what your site's about, and act as a basic marketing tool to attract visitors to your site. Check the spelling and make them relevant and you'll be off to a flyer. Read our dedicated article here.
Stickiness
Page design and marketing are inseperable. Once you've attracted your visitors, your traffic building exercise has gone well and your site looks good, what are you offering which will encourage return visits? Regular site updates are very useful since your site will appear active and worth revisiting. The most successful sites we've worked on have been regularly updated. After all the effort you've gone to in gaining traffic, it's worth considering how to hang on to it.
Messy Code
After the search engine robots have visited your site, they'll see the meta information first, then they'll scan your page for the first chunk of relevant text. A large number of sites have cluttered code (Javascript usually) after the meta tags. This will not help your search engine ranking since the relevant text will be too far down the page. Try hiving the Javascript code (or similar) into another file and refer to it from the HTML. Beware of Rogue "Experts" Before handing your hard earned money over to "Site Submission Experts", be sure to find out exactly what you're getting. They may claim to be able to submit your site to "30,000 engines", but let's be honest, there's only a handful which create almost all the search traffic on the web, so you can submit yourself. Some firms claim to guarantee you a Top 20 ranked page - yes, if your search phrase is 8 words long. It's not that easy in reality. Reputable firms can help you optimize your pages, and advise you on how best to market your site to your target audience, so best to do some homework first.
Patience
Building traffic is an ongoing activity. After your initial hard work, you should check your pages on the engines and "tweak" them if the results aren't as you expected. Traffic is the oxygen of the Internet and your site is dead without it, so regularly give your code a tune-up and resubmit if necessary. Don't oversubmit though. If you look at your server logs, you'll see the major engine robots visiting on a regular basis, they'll pick up your changes soon enough if you can afford to wait a week or so.
All the best with your traffic building efforts!
What Types of Traffic Are There?
So you have the best website money can buy you are immensely proud of your finished product but still no-one is buying. Why?
Your final profit is simple to calculate it is a factor of number of visitors * conversion rate * profit per visitor. The third factor, profit per visitor is usually where people focus their resources. It is a known quantity and easy to manipulate by simply charging the right price.
But the killer question is always how much traffic am I getting? And further are they the sort of visitors who will buy my wares?
With that simple statement in mind let’s have a look at the main sources of traffic on the internet today.
Search Engine Traffic
The best because it’s free. The worst because it is easily taken away. SE traffic is risky. It is easily acquired for relatively low competitive keywords with a simple knowledge of search engine optimization best practice.
Each search engine orders websites for any given term according to it’s own proprietary algorithm. This algorithm usually is based upon the various factors detailed in the SEO checklist, however the weighting applied will differ for each.
There are currently 3 major search engines being:- Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google is by far the most popularly used search tool. For more competitive terms the SEO checklist is still applicable however will require additional effort in the key areas of the same key factors. You can investigate competition via these useful tools.
Directory Listings
These are not the massive source of traffic they once were. Submission to a directory is now more use to substantiate your link popularity, a key factor in search engine positioning. The most popular free and paid directories are included within our directory listings.
Paid Advertising
Once banner advertising reigned supreme, however today it is generally recognised that most website visitors suffer heavily from “banner blindness”. Visitors have seen so many banners over the years that they are now subconsciously tuned out when looking at the website.
Much more effective in today’s market place is the basic text link. Not surprisingly a link which is text only! These form the basis of advertising in many a Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign. Pay Per Click is the notion of paying only for visitors to a website that click on your link. Hence you will only pay for visitors to you website and not each time your banner or text link is displayed.
The two largest PPC engines are Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture services. PPC allows you to instantly drive traffic to your site without having to weight for your search engine optimization skills to be appreciated by the search engines.
Guaranteed traffic is a term used for relatively cheap traffic, usually purchased in bulk. The traffic is usually generated by a popup or popunder on another site, and in my experience has not proven very effective.
Traffic Exchanges
These tend to fall into 2 general styles. The first, ad exchanges are a reciprocal agreement, usually via a co-operative site to add a piece of code to your page(s) which displays adverts on your site. In return your site will be displayed on other members websites according to the individual co-operatives weighting factors.
The second, traffic exchanges require you to browse websites presented on a central site. You are awarded points according to how many sites you have browsed and in turn these credits may be spent by promoting your site in the same way to other browsers. Repeat Vistors
So often overlooked. You have done the hard work in getting a first time visitor to you site now get him to stay and later to return for more. There are various methods for making your site “sticky” these include:- including a newsletter and appropriate sign up form, supplying good content, either written by yourself or sourced from the abundance of free information on the net.
Such simple things as including contact details and appropriate use of autoresponders can make all the difference.
Viral Marketing
A rather flash title for a collection of techniques which are common sense but often forgotten. Such examples include:- writing your own articles, building communities via forums, offering free items/bonuses/competitions, producing your own e-book and issuing press releases.
If you are marketing your own product one of the most successful methods will undoubtedly be starting your own affiliate program and getting others to sell for you.
Competition
Not really a traffic category as such however careful analysis of your competition’s website, traffic, links and ad placement can all be obtained if you are diligent. This market intelligence will in turn lead to further opportunities to drive visitors to your site.
So you have the best website money can buy you are immensely proud of your finished product but still no-one is buying. Why?
Your final profit is simple to calculate it is a factor of number of visitors * conversion rate * profit per visitor. The third factor, profit per visitor is usually where people focus their resources. It is a known quantity and easy to manipulate by simply charging the right price.
But the killer question is always how much traffic am I getting? And further are they the sort of visitors who will buy my wares?
With that simple statement in mind let’s have a look at the main sources of traffic on the internet today.
Search Engine Traffic
The best because it’s free. The worst because it is easily taken away. SE traffic is risky. It is easily acquired for relatively low competitive keywords with a simple knowledge of search engine optimization best practice.
Each search engine orders websites for any given term according to it’s own proprietary algorithm. This algorithm usually is based upon the various factors detailed in the SEO checklist, however the weighting applied will differ for each.
There are currently 3 major search engines being:- Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google is by far the most popularly used search tool. For more competitive terms the SEO checklist is still applicable however will require additional effort in the key areas of the same key factors. You can investigate competition via these useful tools.
Directory Listings
These are not the massive source of traffic they once were. Submission to a directory is now more use to substantiate your link popularity, a key factor in search engine positioning. The most popular free and paid directories are included within our directory listings.
Paid Advertising
Once banner advertising reigned supreme, however today it is generally recognised that most website visitors suffer heavily from “banner blindness”. Visitors have seen so many banners over the years that they are now subconsciously tuned out when looking at the website.
Much more effective in today’s market place is the basic text link. Not surprisingly a link which is text only! These form the basis of advertising in many a Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign. Pay Per Click is the notion of paying only for visitors to a website that click on your link. Hence you will only pay for visitors to you website and not each time your banner or text link is displayed.
The two largest PPC engines are Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture services. PPC allows you to instantly drive traffic to your site without having to weight for your search engine optimization skills to be appreciated by the search engines.
Guaranteed traffic is a term used for relatively cheap traffic, usually purchased in bulk. The traffic is usually generated by a popup or popunder on another site, and in my experience has not proven very effective.
Traffic Exchanges
These tend to fall into 2 general styles. The first, ad exchanges are a reciprocal agreement, usually via a co-operative site to add a piece of code to your page(s) which displays adverts on your site. In return your site will be displayed on other members websites according to the individual co-operatives weighting factors.
The second, traffic exchanges require you to browse websites presented on a central site. You are awarded points according to how many sites you have browsed and in turn these credits may be spent by promoting your site in the same way to other browsers. Repeat Vistors
So often overlooked. You have done the hard work in getting a first time visitor to you site now get him to stay and later to return for more. There are various methods for making your site “sticky” these include:- including a newsletter and appropriate sign up form, supplying good content, either written by yourself or sourced from the abundance of free information on the net.
Such simple things as including contact details and appropriate use of autoresponders can make all the difference.
Viral Marketing
A rather flash title for a collection of techniques which are common sense but often forgotten. Such examples include:- writing your own articles, building communities via forums, offering free items/bonuses/competitions, producing your own e-book and issuing press releases.
If you are marketing your own product one of the most successful methods will undoubtedly be starting your own affiliate program and getting others to sell for you.
Competition
Not really a traffic category as such however careful analysis of your competition’s website, traffic, links and ad placement can all be obtained if you are diligent. This market intelligence will in turn lead to further opportunities to drive visitors to your site.
How To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Website!
Everyone who has a website knows that to have sales you must have traffic, but not just any traffic it has to be targeted traffic. What is Targeted traffic? It is simply visitors to your website that are interested in what your website is about. For example, people interested in buying jewellery will find jewellery websites interesting.
How do I get targeted traffic I hear you ask? The following are tried and tested methods:
Forums: Subscribe to forums that discuss your topic. Answer questions and join in the debates there. Become an expert in the field. Then with each article reply you write have a discreet link to your website in the signature file. What can be placed in your signature is often determined by the forum moderators. Do not spam the forum or you will be stopped from posting. This is one of the most productive ways of getting free traffic as those who click your link have already read and liked your style.
Linking from/to other websites: Contact website owners that have similar but not competitive websites to yours, ask them for a reciprocal link from their website to yours. Be sure to select your link partner to match closely your customer profile. Software programs such as Arelis are very helpful in this process.
E-Zines: Contact e-zine owners that have your target readership and buy advertisements from them. Be sure to have a test run to see that the return on investment is sufficient to cover the costs involved. If you are buying an extended run of advertisements haggle with the e-zine owner over price. You may save a considerable amount.
Newsletters: When people visit your website offer them something of value for free if they sign up to your newsletter (like an e-Book). Your newsletter should be written tightly geared towards your topic. It should be published regularly at weekly intervals.
E-Books: Often used, these are usually free informational books for your clients and for others to give away free if they leave your links in the book itself. You can place links back to your website in the books you sell or give to your clients.
Joint Ventures: Contact online marketers looking for new products to sell. They often have large mailing lists with eager to buy customers. Normally they are willing to email their list for a cut of the sale price. This works particularly well with informational products. It has several advantages. It can give a very sizeable boost to both your sales and mailing list within a very short period.
Buy Traffic: This is probably the cheapest in terms of time and most expensive money wise. It gives a traffic boost normally within 30 days. What are you buying? You are buying traffic from expired domain names which the company selling the traffic has bought. They are domain names still registered on the search engines which get a considerable amount of traffic. The previous domain name owners have either lost interest in the name or simply forgot to renew the registration. This means that the traffic from the expired domain name is simply redirected to your website. This is usually high quality traffic as only websites with traffic such as you want is redirected to you. As always, a test run to see if this traffic is suitable should be undertaken. When you combine these techniques and apply them consistently over time you will find a rich source of targeted traffic coming to your website. This, combined with quality products will ensure the success of your online business.
Free traffic: Try http://www.autosurfmonster.com for unlimited trafffic hits!!
Everyone who has a website knows that to have sales you must have traffic, but not just any traffic it has to be targeted traffic. What is Targeted traffic? It is simply visitors to your website that are interested in what your website is about. For example, people interested in buying jewellery will find jewellery websites interesting.
How do I get targeted traffic I hear you ask? The following are tried and tested methods:
Forums: Subscribe to forums that discuss your topic. Answer questions and join in the debates there. Become an expert in the field. Then with each article reply you write have a discreet link to your website in the signature file. What can be placed in your signature is often determined by the forum moderators. Do not spam the forum or you will be stopped from posting. This is one of the most productive ways of getting free traffic as those who click your link have already read and liked your style.
Linking from/to other websites: Contact website owners that have similar but not competitive websites to yours, ask them for a reciprocal link from their website to yours. Be sure to select your link partner to match closely your customer profile. Software programs such as Arelis are very helpful in this process.
E-Zines: Contact e-zine owners that have your target readership and buy advertisements from them. Be sure to have a test run to see that the return on investment is sufficient to cover the costs involved. If you are buying an extended run of advertisements haggle with the e-zine owner over price. You may save a considerable amount.
Newsletters: When people visit your website offer them something of value for free if they sign up to your newsletter (like an e-Book). Your newsletter should be written tightly geared towards your topic. It should be published regularly at weekly intervals.
E-Books: Often used, these are usually free informational books for your clients and for others to give away free if they leave your links in the book itself. You can place links back to your website in the books you sell or give to your clients.
Joint Ventures: Contact online marketers looking for new products to sell. They often have large mailing lists with eager to buy customers. Normally they are willing to email their list for a cut of the sale price. This works particularly well with informational products. It has several advantages. It can give a very sizeable boost to both your sales and mailing list within a very short period.
Buy Traffic: This is probably the cheapest in terms of time and most expensive money wise. It gives a traffic boost normally within 30 days. What are you buying? You are buying traffic from expired domain names which the company selling the traffic has bought. They are domain names still registered on the search engines which get a considerable amount of traffic. The previous domain name owners have either lost interest in the name or simply forgot to renew the registration. This means that the traffic from the expired domain name is simply redirected to your website. This is usually high quality traffic as only websites with traffic such as you want is redirected to you. As always, a test run to see if this traffic is suitable should be undertaken. When you combine these techniques and apply them consistently over time you will find a rich source of targeted traffic coming to your website. This, combined with quality products will ensure the success of your online business.
Free traffic: Try http://www.autosurfmonster.com for unlimited trafffic hits!!
Monday
The Basics of Internet Marketing Promotion
Thousands of business and web enthusiasts are taking the big risk and joining the exciting world of internet marketing. While seemingly overwhelming at first, internet marketing and promotion can actually be classified into three simple categories: market research, search engines, and e-zine advertising. Those interested in the internet marketing field should first familiarize themselves with the very basics of what makes this fast growing business venture tick.Determining how much money to invest in your overall internet marketing campaign, and deciding the people and places which to target the main product, are defined as market research. This research is the most basic section of the internet marketing focus. Investing the correct sum of money to the right groups is essential in market research, and internet marketing in general. Proper research will eventually conclude the outcome of your entire business campaign.Search engines have been a popular form of advertising, both past and present, in the internet marketing community. Search engines are divided into two sections: search engines and directories, and pay per click engines. While the most favored and effective form of internet marketing promotion, this category is also the most expensive. Excellent search engine marketing and placement can quite time consuming as well, and it is best if submission is left to an experienced professional.Another extremely effective, yet inexpensive form of internet marketing promotion is e-zine advertising. Using the information gathered from your market research, you should be well aware of what your target audience desires. Find out what kinds of online publication or newsletters your internet marketing targets are interested in, and purchase advertising from these sources. Ads generally are available in three basic types: solo ads, top-line ads, and classified ads. Solo ads are the best ads because they are sent to the entire publication list. These ads are also beneficial for internetmarketing promotion because they contain only your ad. However, solo ads are the most expensive. While classified ads may be a low-cost alternative, they will not be much help in your plight for internet marketing success. These tiny ads are placed at the end of the newsletter, and are usually overlooked by the majority of readers.
Thousands of business and web enthusiasts are taking the big risk and joining the exciting world of internet marketing. While seemingly overwhelming at first, internet marketing and promotion can actually be classified into three simple categories: market research, search engines, and e-zine advertising. Those interested in the internet marketing field should first familiarize themselves with the very basics of what makes this fast growing business venture tick.Determining how much money to invest in your overall internet marketing campaign, and deciding the people and places which to target the main product, are defined as market research. This research is the most basic section of the internet marketing focus. Investing the correct sum of money to the right groups is essential in market research, and internet marketing in general. Proper research will eventually conclude the outcome of your entire business campaign.Search engines have been a popular form of advertising, both past and present, in the internet marketing community. Search engines are divided into two sections: search engines and directories, and pay per click engines. While the most favored and effective form of internet marketing promotion, this category is also the most expensive. Excellent search engine marketing and placement can quite time consuming as well, and it is best if submission is left to an experienced professional.Another extremely effective, yet inexpensive form of internet marketing promotion is e-zine advertising. Using the information gathered from your market research, you should be well aware of what your target audience desires. Find out what kinds of online publication or newsletters your internet marketing targets are interested in, and purchase advertising from these sources. Ads generally are available in three basic types: solo ads, top-line ads, and classified ads. Solo ads are the best ads because they are sent to the entire publication list. These ads are also beneficial for internetmarketing promotion because they contain only your ad. However, solo ads are the most expensive. While classified ads may be a low-cost alternative, they will not be much help in your plight for internet marketing success. These tiny ads are placed at the end of the newsletter, and are usually overlooked by the majority of readers.
Saturday
How to QUICKLY Generate
Targeted Traffic
to Your Web Site Within the Next 7 Days
There are 3 keys to success on the Internet:
* Selling a line of products people want!* Creating a client centered web site that's designed to sell!* DEVELOPING TARGETED TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEB SITE!
Why did we CAPITALIZE the last key? because it's the most important key to success on the Internet. It's easy to develop a line of products people want. It's also easy to create a client-centered web site that shows lots of benefits. The problem you're probably experiencing right now as you read this is traffic development.
For most cyber-entrepreneurs, this area is the most difficult and painful problem to overcome. There's a little Internet formula you should always keep embedded in your brain: "TRAFFIC=PROFIT" Traffic is like water…without it you die! And without targeted traffic to your web site, you're toast. I know this is pretty hard language, but that's my style. I tell it like it is.
There are a number of ways to build targeted traffic to your site very quickly. We are going to give you the technique we use to generate THOUSANDS of new visitors each month to our web site at www.autosurfmonster.com. And what we have to say has nothing to do with spamming anyone. All you have to do is…write articles for newsletters that cater to your target market!
Okay, DON'T PANIC! When most people think about writing an article, they panic. You don't have to be a world-class writer to get your articles published on the Internet. Developing web site traffic by submitting your articles to email newsletters on the Internet is fairly simple. Once a month just send a new article to a list of newsletters that target your industry. Let me give you the steps you need to take.
Make A List Of Newsletters That Cater To Your Target Market!
Make a list containing the publishers name and publication. This is not spamming because the publishers who submit their ezine information to Listz want you to contact them about submitting your articles and purchasing ad space in their ezines.
Your Article MUST Be A "How-To" Article!
This means you must write an article that solves a problem. You can't write a big advertisement for your web site and expect a publisher to run your article. It won't happen.
Think about your area of expertise. Think about the problems your customers want solved. Let's say your expertise is in Landscaping. You could write an article about how to choose a good Landscaping company. Or an article about how to do a particular Landscaping task, like establishing a garden.
At this point, you may be asking yourself how will you get traffic to your web site by writing articles. Well, this is where your "signature" file comes into play. At the end of your article you are allowed to have a 4-5 line description of your business. Here's where you can direct the readers of your article to your web site You can view your "signature" file as a FREE classified ad.
Your "How-To" Article Must Be Good Enough!
I don't want you to think that you can write some skimpy, halfhearted article - slap down a powerful signature file - and have people visiting your web site First of all, ezine publishers are looking for good content. If you send them trash, they will dump your article in the trash. Secondly, if you did manage to get your article published, people will see that you really haven't taught them anything new and therefore won't visit your web site
I'm going to give you a simple formula for writing articles with good content. There are really only three parts you need to concentrate on:
* The Problem Statement: This should be about half a page. Here you address the SPECIFIC problem you want to talk about. This portion of your article lets your reader know that you know what their problem is and that you plan on giving them steps to solve it.
* A List Of Detailed Steps: Now you discuss the steps they need to take to solve the problem they have. This should cover one page. Use Step1, Step2, Step3, etc…to get your point across. People love steps. It shows that you know what you are talking about. It makes you look like an expert.
* Your Closing Statement: In the next half page you wrap up everything you've said so far. Tell your reader what they have just learned. Give them some inspirational words if you like.
Your "Signature" File Must Be Client-Centered!
The reason why some authors don't get a large amount of traffic to their web site when they write articles is because their signature files are terrible. Sometimes damn terrible! Your signature file should NOT focus on how great you are. It must focus on how great you can make the reader. Here's an example of a good signature file:
"Want to lose weight fast AND keep it off forever? Of course you do! Get tons of valuable tips on how to accomplish this at http://www.allyourpills.com "
Now, a signature file like that will get people visiting your web site fast. Why? Because it talks only how great you can make the reader. That's basically it. All you do now is send your article to your list of publishers you made earlier.
Getting Website Traffic
"Get Web traffic now" is a common advertised term. When searching for "web traffic" (on yahoo, google, etc.) you will see advertisements for 25,000 , 50,000, 100,000 (and so on) visitors to your site for as little as $50 to several hundred dollars.If website traffic was so easy and cheap to achieve, then pay per click keyword bidding would not be as high as $30+ per visitor (click) which it is for some valuable keywords. What you will learn, is that blasting random untargeted traffic to your website is a waste of time and money in my opinion.In this article we discuss a method of getting targeted traffic to your website.The theory behind this method of getting targeted traffic through search engines encompasses both a free medium and pay per visitor.The free method is the all important part of building a successful online marketing method.We start by looking at website traffic in the form of visitors per day per website page. For example:If your immediate goal is to get 500 visitors a day to your website, then instead of thinking your home page has to be visited 500 times to reach this goal, break it down by page of content. If you have 10 pages of content, then shoot for 50 visitors per page.Content is king when it comes to getting free clicks from search engines. The World Wide Web's primary purpose is for research and information and search engines agree. If you have something to contribute to a topic that is unique and relevant, you should have a shot at getting that visitor.Typically the more pages of unique content you have the more chances you have at getting free visitors. So if you look back at out example of 500 visitors a day goal and instead of 10 pages you have 100 pages of content, then 5 visitors a day per page is easier to achieve then 50. Once you have the content, now you have to make sure the search engines can find it. This is called search engine optimization.
The following are some search engine optimization tips:
1. Make sure you use a title tag (example (), description tag and a keyword tag (even know search engines don't focus on this as much anymore).
2. Make sure your keywords appear in your title.
3. Make sure you focus on keyword phrases. If you are targeting visitors with an interest in a general field, you will be hard pressed to get traffic from a single keyword because of the competition. Try to focus on more specific keyword phrases.
4. Use ALT tags. This is putting alternative descriptive words to any picture displayed on your website pages.
5. Use your keyword phrases in the beginning of your body text and the end.
6. Use header tags.
7. Try to use original content.
8. Try to place your keyword phrases throughout your document. DON'T over do it! Too much can be bad.
9. Submit your website to as many free website directories as possible. The more popular the website your site is linked from, the more likely search engines will find your site.
10. Start a link exchange campaign with other relevant websites. Make sure you only link with websites that relate to your topic.
By creating a link exchange with similar topic websites, search engines view each link as a vote for your website, giving you potentially a higher order in search results.Remember SEO (search engine optimization) is not a perfect science since we don't know the search engines exact algorithms, but the above tips should help your web pages get read and noticed by them. NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT COULD BE VIEWED AS MANIPULATING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS. The consequences will be removal all together which means 0 traffic!The Pay Method uses pay per click. If you are unfamiliar with this term, go to google or yahoo and search for "search engine optimization". You will notice a series of ads on the top of the search results and the right of them (even at the bottom in some cases). To appear in these results you must sign up for their pay per click service and bid on keywords that relate to your website. If you are the top bidder than you will be on the top of the page (you will also be paying the most for the traffic) if you are the lowest bidder, then you will be at the bottom of the page or second maybe third page of search results (which means less traffic).
The following are some tips to use and keep costs down on pay per click search engines:
1. Use keyword phrases. Use phrases that really bring the right visitors to your site. Also typically the more words, the cheaper the bidding is.
2. Make sure this form of advertising makes sense for you. If you do research and realize that per 100 visitors you earn $5 then you obviously do not want to spend more that $.50 per visitor.
3. Start with a smaller budget to gauge the quality and feasibility of keywords.
4. Use misspelled versions of your keywords. Great way to get cheaper traffic! If you where bidding on "Search Engine Optimization", you would be spending a small fortune to be at the top of the result. Keep in mind over 21% or search queries are misspelled and their is over 175 ways to misspell "Search Engine Optimization".
5. Use ads that describe your product or service accurately. Misleading ads, lead to mislead traffic, hence a waste of money.
6. Market individual pages in your website not just your homepage.Remember to stay organized with your campaigns in pay per click and stay aware of your spending and results.
Also choose search engine pay per click companies wisely.
"Get Web traffic now" is a common advertised term. When searching for "web traffic" (on yahoo, google, etc.) you will see advertisements for 25,000 , 50,000, 100,000 (and so on) visitors to your site for as little as $50 to several hundred dollars.If website traffic was so easy and cheap to achieve, then pay per click keyword bidding would not be as high as $30+ per visitor (click) which it is for some valuable keywords. What you will learn, is that blasting random untargeted traffic to your website is a waste of time and money in my opinion.In this article we discuss a method of getting targeted traffic to your website.The theory behind this method of getting targeted traffic through search engines encompasses both a free medium and pay per visitor.The free method is the all important part of building a successful online marketing method.We start by looking at website traffic in the form of visitors per day per website page. For example:If your immediate goal is to get 500 visitors a day to your website, then instead of thinking your home page has to be visited 500 times to reach this goal, break it down by page of content. If you have 10 pages of content, then shoot for 50 visitors per page.Content is king when it comes to getting free clicks from search engines. The World Wide Web's primary purpose is for research and information and search engines agree. If you have something to contribute to a topic that is unique and relevant, you should have a shot at getting that visitor.Typically the more pages of unique content you have the more chances you have at getting free visitors. So if you look back at out example of 500 visitors a day goal and instead of 10 pages you have 100 pages of content, then 5 visitors a day per page is easier to achieve then 50. Once you have the content, now you have to make sure the search engines can find it. This is called search engine optimization.
The following are some search engine optimization tips:
1. Make sure you use a title tag (example (), description tag and a keyword tag (even know search engines don't focus on this as much anymore).
2. Make sure your keywords appear in your title.
3. Make sure you focus on keyword phrases. If you are targeting visitors with an interest in a general field, you will be hard pressed to get traffic from a single keyword because of the competition. Try to focus on more specific keyword phrases.
4. Use ALT tags. This is putting alternative descriptive words to any picture displayed on your website pages.
5. Use your keyword phrases in the beginning of your body text and the end.
6. Use header tags.
7. Try to use original content.
8. Try to place your keyword phrases throughout your document. DON'T over do it! Too much can be bad.
9. Submit your website to as many free website directories as possible. The more popular the website your site is linked from, the more likely search engines will find your site.
10. Start a link exchange campaign with other relevant websites. Make sure you only link with websites that relate to your topic.
By creating a link exchange with similar topic websites, search engines view each link as a vote for your website, giving you potentially a higher order in search results.Remember SEO (search engine optimization) is not a perfect science since we don't know the search engines exact algorithms, but the above tips should help your web pages get read and noticed by them. NEVER DO ANYTHING THAT COULD BE VIEWED AS MANIPULATING SEARCH ENGINE RESULTS. The consequences will be removal all together which means 0 traffic!The Pay Method uses pay per click. If you are unfamiliar with this term, go to google or yahoo and search for "search engine optimization". You will notice a series of ads on the top of the search results and the right of them (even at the bottom in some cases). To appear in these results you must sign up for their pay per click service and bid on keywords that relate to your website. If you are the top bidder than you will be on the top of the page (you will also be paying the most for the traffic) if you are the lowest bidder, then you will be at the bottom of the page or second maybe third page of search results (which means less traffic).
The following are some tips to use and keep costs down on pay per click search engines:
1. Use keyword phrases. Use phrases that really bring the right visitors to your site. Also typically the more words, the cheaper the bidding is.
2. Make sure this form of advertising makes sense for you. If you do research and realize that per 100 visitors you earn $5 then you obviously do not want to spend more that $.50 per visitor.
3. Start with a smaller budget to gauge the quality and feasibility of keywords.
4. Use misspelled versions of your keywords. Great way to get cheaper traffic! If you where bidding on "Search Engine Optimization", you would be spending a small fortune to be at the top of the result. Keep in mind over 21% or search queries are misspelled and their is over 175 ways to misspell "Search Engine Optimization".
5. Use ads that describe your product or service accurately. Misleading ads, lead to mislead traffic, hence a waste of money.
6. Market individual pages in your website not just your homepage.Remember to stay organized with your campaigns in pay per click and stay aware of your spending and results.
Also choose search engine pay per click companies wisely.
Search Engine Marketing
The Full Package
After conducting extensive research I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding the subject of Search Engine Marketing. The greatest misunderstanding is in confusing the terms Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). One would think that those individuals claiming to be SEO experts should be knowledgeable about the subject and recognize the clear distinction. Apparently this is not the case; the internet is full of misguided information, from so called experts. Proving, I suppose that the industry is liberally spattered with cowboys. To start, let us first define the term “Search Engine Optimisation” (henceforth referred to as SEO). SEO SEO is the process of manipulating the structure and content of a website in such a way that it will perform better in the search engine’s organic listings. The techniques involved can be sub-structured into several areas of activity, as detailed below. 1) Page readiness – Search engines expect to crawl clean HTML code. Every page of a website should be validated to eliminate errors and sloppy coding. 2) Site readiness – Search engine web bots follow the links on your web pages and thereby find new pages to index. If a web bot meets a broken link it cannot continue spidering your site. Make sure you have no broken links. Also, provide a site map. A tool for creating site maps is available at my website, proSEO Zone. 3) Keyword selection – It is vitally important to select the right keywords for which a particular page is to be optimized. The most obvious keywords are not always the best choice, and are often mega-competitive. Choose wisely. 4) Site structure – Your website should be structured in such a way that each page can be optimized for a maximum of two keywords. Do not try to optimize for a lot of keywords on one page. Remember, you have to write for your users. Writing copy is a balancing act that keeps both users and search engines happy, and is better achieved on a well structured site. 5) Copy writing – the visible text on your web pages should be structured to include the two most important keywords for that page’s content. Get the keywords into headers. Work the keywords into paragraph text, having your keywords appear near the beginning, near the middle, and near the end. Make some keywords bold, some italic and some underlined. 6) HTML tags – The most important of these is the Title tag. Get both keywords for that page into the Title tag, without repetition. For example, if your main key phrase is “diet plans”, and your second phrase is “diet supplements”, the Title tag should read “diet plans and supplements”. Do not repeat the word diet, to search engines it may look like spamming. If your main concern is to improve your Google ranking, you may have overlooked the Meta keywords and Meta description tags, don’t, there are more search engines than Google and they can all bring traffic. Also, get the keywords into H1 tags, H2 tags, alt attributes, and very important, your link text. And after doing all that for every page in your website you may be asking: so where does SEM come in? SEM SEM includes SEO plus all the other things you can do to boost your visibility in the search engines and increase targeted visitors to your website. A condensed list may be as follows: 1) SEO (see above). 2) A link building strategy 3) Pay per click (PPC) campaigns. 4) Banner exchanges. 5) Press releases. 6) And any other activity that will get your website noticed. SEM then, is the full package. Whereas SEO techniques are a vital, but not the only, component of that package.
The Full Package
After conducting extensive research I have come to the conclusion that there is a great deal of misunderstanding surrounding the subject of Search Engine Marketing. The greatest misunderstanding is in confusing the terms Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). One would think that those individuals claiming to be SEO experts should be knowledgeable about the subject and recognize the clear distinction. Apparently this is not the case; the internet is full of misguided information, from so called experts. Proving, I suppose that the industry is liberally spattered with cowboys. To start, let us first define the term “Search Engine Optimisation” (henceforth referred to as SEO). SEO SEO is the process of manipulating the structure and content of a website in such a way that it will perform better in the search engine’s organic listings. The techniques involved can be sub-structured into several areas of activity, as detailed below. 1) Page readiness – Search engines expect to crawl clean HTML code. Every page of a website should be validated to eliminate errors and sloppy coding. 2) Site readiness – Search engine web bots follow the links on your web pages and thereby find new pages to index. If a web bot meets a broken link it cannot continue spidering your site. Make sure you have no broken links. Also, provide a site map. A tool for creating site maps is available at my website, proSEO Zone. 3) Keyword selection – It is vitally important to select the right keywords for which a particular page is to be optimized. The most obvious keywords are not always the best choice, and are often mega-competitive. Choose wisely. 4) Site structure – Your website should be structured in such a way that each page can be optimized for a maximum of two keywords. Do not try to optimize for a lot of keywords on one page. Remember, you have to write for your users. Writing copy is a balancing act that keeps both users and search engines happy, and is better achieved on a well structured site. 5) Copy writing – the visible text on your web pages should be structured to include the two most important keywords for that page’s content. Get the keywords into headers. Work the keywords into paragraph text, having your keywords appear near the beginning, near the middle, and near the end. Make some keywords bold, some italic and some underlined. 6) HTML tags – The most important of these is the Title tag. Get both keywords for that page into the Title tag, without repetition. For example, if your main key phrase is “diet plans”, and your second phrase is “diet supplements”, the Title tag should read “diet plans and supplements”. Do not repeat the word diet, to search engines it may look like spamming. If your main concern is to improve your Google ranking, you may have overlooked the Meta keywords and Meta description tags, don’t, there are more search engines than Google and they can all bring traffic. Also, get the keywords into H1 tags, H2 tags, alt attributes, and very important, your link text. And after doing all that for every page in your website you may be asking: so where does SEM come in? SEM SEM includes SEO plus all the other things you can do to boost your visibility in the search engines and increase targeted visitors to your website. A condensed list may be as follows: 1) SEO (see above). 2) A link building strategy 3) Pay per click (PPC) campaigns. 4) Banner exchanges. 5) Press releases. 6) And any other activity that will get your website noticed. SEM then, is the full package. Whereas SEO techniques are a vital, but not the only, component of that package.
Thursday
Triple Your Traffic
With Top Keyword Strategies
Although the topic of keyword strategy and selection may appear to have been beaten to death already, it remains critical to the success of your website. Choosing the best keywords is only Phase One of the process. You must also make the most of the keywords you have.Traffic to my log furniture site has doubled and nearly tripled in the past month and a half. Much of the credit for that success lies directly with better keyword selection and management. When I realized there was a problem with my keywords. I read every article I could find on the topic and made a number of changes to my website. And viola! Increased traffic (and sales) are the proof of the pudding for me.
The following is an overview of keyword-related steps that can send traffic to your site spiraling steadily upward:
Set Your Sights on Attainable KeywordsIf my log furniture site was competing for the word furniture, I would be competing with the big boys. While I hope to compete with major furniture sites someday, there is plenty of payoff to be found in niche marketing.Overture includes a keyword suggestion tool that gives a good indication of just how competitive a keyword is. Using this tool and a general rule-of-thumb, you can target keywords that are attainable.The number 5000 next to a keyword in Overtures search term suggestion tool means that 5000 visitors on Overture powered searches look for that term each month. Because the most popular terms are more difficult to achieve top ranking for, my website is targeting keywords in the 1000-10,000 range at the moment.For example, the term log bed is searched for 4673 times per month on Overture-powered sites, while the term log furniture is searched for 16,909 times. My site has been hovering between the #1 and #7 spots on Google for log bed for the past month, but log furniture has been a harder nut to crack. As of this writing I am #18 for log furniture, which is not where we want to be but a whole lot better than where we used to be.
Choose the Best Keywords for Targeted TrafficAs I mentioned in an earlier article, my site was originally (and accidentally) optimized so that more people searching for log cabin were finding the site than those who were looking for log furniture or log beds. We re-optimized the site in December for log beds, log furniture, and Amish log furniture. After an initial drop in traffic, we have double or triple the visitors we had before, not to mention a much better conversion rate.What search terms are the most likely buyers of your product using to scour the web? This is the million dollar question. A tool included in the live help service known as LivePerson has been helpful to us in figuring this out, as it allows us to see what search terms people are using to find us.You may be surprised at the terms people are using to find your site. Information is power. If you find an invaluable search term that your site should be optimized for, or one that is most likely to produce a buyer, the fees you pay for a visitor tracking service such as the one included in LivePerson will be well worth the money.
Optimize Keywords Within Your WebsiteOnce you have evaluated the best keywords for your website, your site must be optimized for those terms. We tried for a 5% keyword density on our website, bold-faced some of the keywords, and set them as links whenever we could.You'll also need to revisit your title, meta, and alt tags to make sure they highlight your keywords. Many SEO experts believe that the first few sentences of the text on a page should include your top keywords. These might seem like very simple steps to take, but the payoff can make the difference between being on the first page or second for your desired terms.
Reap Good Results With Resource BoxesThis fourth step is about links as much as keywords. Our log furniture site would not be receiving the traffic it is without a link trading and article submission campaign. We give our link partners the top terms that we want to achieve ranking for. As a result, links pointing back to our site have our top terms either right by or in the links. Take it from the voice of experience, this matters. You'll also want your top terms in the resource boxes for any articles you post on the Internet.
Rotate Your Keywords When You Reach the TopWhen you reach top status for a given keyword, go after another by changing the link or article resource text for your new set of coveted terms. That's what we plan to do for Log Cabin Rustics. Once we solidify our standing for log beds and get to the top for log furniture on Google, we plan to focus on rustic furniture, a term with 17760 Overture-powered searches per month.Only Part of the StoryWe do not mean to imply that keyword selection and management is the only thing you should do to promote your site. A solid link strategy, article publicity campaign, and overall site optimization are also important factors in any successful SEO strategy.But the importance of choosing the right terms and optimizing for them should not be underestimated. You might also want to check out Marketleaps free keyword verification tool, which reports where your website is placing on the different search engines for your keywords of choice.
With Top Keyword Strategies
Although the topic of keyword strategy and selection may appear to have been beaten to death already, it remains critical to the success of your website. Choosing the best keywords is only Phase One of the process. You must also make the most of the keywords you have.Traffic to my log furniture site has doubled and nearly tripled in the past month and a half. Much of the credit for that success lies directly with better keyword selection and management. When I realized there was a problem with my keywords. I read every article I could find on the topic and made a number of changes to my website. And viola! Increased traffic (and sales) are the proof of the pudding for me.
The following is an overview of keyword-related steps that can send traffic to your site spiraling steadily upward:
Set Your Sights on Attainable KeywordsIf my log furniture site was competing for the word furniture, I would be competing with the big boys. While I hope to compete with major furniture sites someday, there is plenty of payoff to be found in niche marketing.Overture includes a keyword suggestion tool that gives a good indication of just how competitive a keyword is. Using this tool and a general rule-of-thumb, you can target keywords that are attainable.The number 5000 next to a keyword in Overtures search term suggestion tool means that 5000 visitors on Overture powered searches look for that term each month. Because the most popular terms are more difficult to achieve top ranking for, my website is targeting keywords in the 1000-10,000 range at the moment.For example, the term log bed is searched for 4673 times per month on Overture-powered sites, while the term log furniture is searched for 16,909 times. My site has been hovering between the #1 and #7 spots on Google for log bed for the past month, but log furniture has been a harder nut to crack. As of this writing I am #18 for log furniture, which is not where we want to be but a whole lot better than where we used to be.
Choose the Best Keywords for Targeted TrafficAs I mentioned in an earlier article, my site was originally (and accidentally) optimized so that more people searching for log cabin were finding the site than those who were looking for log furniture or log beds. We re-optimized the site in December for log beds, log furniture, and Amish log furniture. After an initial drop in traffic, we have double or triple the visitors we had before, not to mention a much better conversion rate.What search terms are the most likely buyers of your product using to scour the web? This is the million dollar question. A tool included in the live help service known as LivePerson has been helpful to us in figuring this out, as it allows us to see what search terms people are using to find us.You may be surprised at the terms people are using to find your site. Information is power. If you find an invaluable search term that your site should be optimized for, or one that is most likely to produce a buyer, the fees you pay for a visitor tracking service such as the one included in LivePerson will be well worth the money.
Optimize Keywords Within Your WebsiteOnce you have evaluated the best keywords for your website, your site must be optimized for those terms. We tried for a 5% keyword density on our website, bold-faced some of the keywords, and set them as links whenever we could.You'll also need to revisit your title, meta, and alt tags to make sure they highlight your keywords. Many SEO experts believe that the first few sentences of the text on a page should include your top keywords. These might seem like very simple steps to take, but the payoff can make the difference between being on the first page or second for your desired terms.
Reap Good Results With Resource BoxesThis fourth step is about links as much as keywords. Our log furniture site would not be receiving the traffic it is without a link trading and article submission campaign. We give our link partners the top terms that we want to achieve ranking for. As a result, links pointing back to our site have our top terms either right by or in the links. Take it from the voice of experience, this matters. You'll also want your top terms in the resource boxes for any articles you post on the Internet.
Rotate Your Keywords When You Reach the TopWhen you reach top status for a given keyword, go after another by changing the link or article resource text for your new set of coveted terms. That's what we plan to do for Log Cabin Rustics. Once we solidify our standing for log beds and get to the top for log furniture on Google, we plan to focus on rustic furniture, a term with 17760 Overture-powered searches per month.Only Part of the StoryWe do not mean to imply that keyword selection and management is the only thing you should do to promote your site. A solid link strategy, article publicity campaign, and overall site optimization are also important factors in any successful SEO strategy.But the importance of choosing the right terms and optimizing for them should not be underestimated. You might also want to check out Marketleaps free keyword verification tool, which reports where your website is placing on the different search engines for your keywords of choice.
Creative Marketing Tips...
Simple Things You Can Use In Your Business To Attract More Clients
The single most important activity you can do in your small business is create a unique marketing strategy and plan. When was the last time you saw a company marketing themselves in an outrageous way? In this day and age it looks like everyone has read the same book on marketing - and sorry to say - that book doesn't work!What does work - is a little creativity, a little personality and a lot of effort to make yourself so different from your competition - that there is no real competition.
What crazy stunts could you do to get free media publicity? What type of outrageous challenge could you post to the public (ie give me 30 days and we will change your life, your business, your appearance, etc.). Alternatively, go get a Guinness Book Of Records... find something that is remotely related to your business... and design a new record you are going to create - the media will love you.
What's your stadium pitch? Imagine this... you have been given the chance to do a 60 second presentation to 50,000 people in a stadium. Just as you walk out to start the presentation... they announce that people don't have to stay if they don't want. What could you say in 15 seconds to get them to stay? What could you say in 60 seconds to convince them that your company is the only alternative and they'd be crazy not to build a relationship with you?
Think about the lifetime value of your clients. When they are first introduced to you, they are buying into a relationship with you... they are NOT buying a product. It is up to you to nurture that relationship. Are you? If you treat them right and make them feel like family... your clients will come back... buy more... and buy more often. In today's cold impersonal business world, be the one that treats them like family.
Find a way to build a recurring payment plan around your business. If you have a one-time purchase of your product... what could you offer to your clients to have them come back more often? Could you do a tune-up or clean up or re-design once a year? Rather than waiting for them to come in... offer them a reminder service and a monthly enticement to come back in. Bill them monthly, quarterly or yearly. Up to 50% (sometimes more) of your clients will take this option... what would that add to your bottom line?
Create joint ventures with other related businesses... anyone that deals with the same target market that you do. Explain to them that you will send them extra business if they give your clients an incentive to buy (coupons, discounts, bonuses etc.). Create a booklet that you will give out to your clients with all these discounts. For every discount coupon they use - that supplier is to pay you $xx dollars for the new client you brought them.
Send out a weekly (even bi-weekly) email newsletter with some tips, some humor, some specials of the week. On the days when it is going to rain - send out an urgent bulletin - rainy day special! Offer them a deal to come down, brave the rain and get a deal on lunch.
Make doing business with you more exclusive. Make it on a referral-only basis. There is a dentist I know of that locks his door. You are not allowed in unless one of his present clients has recommended you... even then you need to pass the approval process. And he has 3 times more profit (and much happier clients) than any other dentist in his city.
Test all of your crazy ideas. No matter how crazy they sound - try it out. Find out which one's work. Then optimize how effective they are. Test all variations of that idea. Find out which variation works best.
Use risk reversal in your offer. Make it so your clients come out so far ahead by dealing with you, they would be silly not to. Even if they decide that your product is not for them and they return it - they still come out of the deal with the refund and many bonuses that they never had before dealing with you. The stronger the risk reversal and the longer the guarantee... the fewer number of returns and complaints - it's a fact.Think differently, be different, make sure people notice you are different - and you will be very profitable. To your success!
Simple Things You Can Use In Your Business To Attract More Clients
The single most important activity you can do in your small business is create a unique marketing strategy and plan. When was the last time you saw a company marketing themselves in an outrageous way? In this day and age it looks like everyone has read the same book on marketing - and sorry to say - that book doesn't work!What does work - is a little creativity, a little personality and a lot of effort to make yourself so different from your competition - that there is no real competition.
What crazy stunts could you do to get free media publicity? What type of outrageous challenge could you post to the public (ie give me 30 days and we will change your life, your business, your appearance, etc.). Alternatively, go get a Guinness Book Of Records... find something that is remotely related to your business... and design a new record you are going to create - the media will love you.
What's your stadium pitch? Imagine this... you have been given the chance to do a 60 second presentation to 50,000 people in a stadium. Just as you walk out to start the presentation... they announce that people don't have to stay if they don't want. What could you say in 15 seconds to get them to stay? What could you say in 60 seconds to convince them that your company is the only alternative and they'd be crazy not to build a relationship with you?
Think about the lifetime value of your clients. When they are first introduced to you, they are buying into a relationship with you... they are NOT buying a product. It is up to you to nurture that relationship. Are you? If you treat them right and make them feel like family... your clients will come back... buy more... and buy more often. In today's cold impersonal business world, be the one that treats them like family.
Find a way to build a recurring payment plan around your business. If you have a one-time purchase of your product... what could you offer to your clients to have them come back more often? Could you do a tune-up or clean up or re-design once a year? Rather than waiting for them to come in... offer them a reminder service and a monthly enticement to come back in. Bill them monthly, quarterly or yearly. Up to 50% (sometimes more) of your clients will take this option... what would that add to your bottom line?
Create joint ventures with other related businesses... anyone that deals with the same target market that you do. Explain to them that you will send them extra business if they give your clients an incentive to buy (coupons, discounts, bonuses etc.). Create a booklet that you will give out to your clients with all these discounts. For every discount coupon they use - that supplier is to pay you $xx dollars for the new client you brought them.
Send out a weekly (even bi-weekly) email newsletter with some tips, some humor, some specials of the week. On the days when it is going to rain - send out an urgent bulletin - rainy day special! Offer them a deal to come down, brave the rain and get a deal on lunch.
Make doing business with you more exclusive. Make it on a referral-only basis. There is a dentist I know of that locks his door. You are not allowed in unless one of his present clients has recommended you... even then you need to pass the approval process. And he has 3 times more profit (and much happier clients) than any other dentist in his city.
Test all of your crazy ideas. No matter how crazy they sound - try it out. Find out which one's work. Then optimize how effective they are. Test all variations of that idea. Find out which variation works best.
Use risk reversal in your offer. Make it so your clients come out so far ahead by dealing with you, they would be silly not to. Even if they decide that your product is not for them and they return it - they still come out of the deal with the refund and many bonuses that they never had before dealing with you. The stronger the risk reversal and the longer the guarantee... the fewer number of returns and complaints - it's a fact.Think differently, be different, make sure people notice you are different - and you will be very profitable. To your success!
5 Proven Methods for
Internet Marketing
Success
There are hundreds of ways that you can promote your online business or website, some more effective than others. These five proven methods will help you to generate traffic to your site and also to generate income into your wallet.
One thing that appeals to everyone is "free". If it is free people will take it. Think of the samples of cheese given away at grocery stores. Do you really want a small piece of cheese? Of course not! But you take it simply because it is free and someone is nice enough to offer it to you.The same principle applies with information or services offered from your website. You can send out free newsletters or offer a free trial period. One popular thing that is being given away now are free credit reports or free PC scans. These freebies are what we in the marketing field like to call teasers. After running the free credit report or PC scan we alert the customer if there is something found on their credit record or PC and then offer to show them what it is or repair the problem for a price. This can be an effective way to get information to your potential customers, create sales or to generate traffic to your site.
Your website contains information about a service or product that you are very knowledgeable about. You can use this knowledge to generate traffic to your site by writing articles in your area of expertise and having them published in an ezine or an article information site.The most effective way to use these articles is to write them for free and ask in return that the publisher allow you to include a byline. A byline is a very short summary of the author, their credentials and their website. Your byline is a way that readers will come to know you as an expert on the topic and will in turn come to trust your site as a source of credible information.
Some search engines will allow a website to purchase their ranking. This is an excellent Internet marketing technique in that it is effective and inexpensive.In the pay-per-click programs, websites are only billed for those who actually visit the page, unlike banner ads which may be seen by millions but only used by a few. When using the pay-per-click program you are asked to choose keywords and when those are entered your site will appear and if the surfer chooses to view your site, you are billed for that click. Many pay-per-click programs will offer other benefits as well, such as updated lists of commonly used keywords.
You should remember that others are in the same boat as you. You can choose to network with those who have similar marketing ideas.When networking you will be able to share links and refer customers to each other. You should always be very cautious when choosing a networking partner as everything that you recommend is a reflection of yourself or your product and therefore, you should be certain that your networking partner is a reputable source of information.
Simply because your website is online, doesn't mean that all your advertising should be. Advertise in newspapers, TV, the radio or you can even send out a press release to get your information to thousands of people all over the country.
Internet Marketing
Success
There are hundreds of ways that you can promote your online business or website, some more effective than others. These five proven methods will help you to generate traffic to your site and also to generate income into your wallet.
One thing that appeals to everyone is "free". If it is free people will take it. Think of the samples of cheese given away at grocery stores. Do you really want a small piece of cheese? Of course not! But you take it simply because it is free and someone is nice enough to offer it to you.The same principle applies with information or services offered from your website. You can send out free newsletters or offer a free trial period. One popular thing that is being given away now are free credit reports or free PC scans. These freebies are what we in the marketing field like to call teasers. After running the free credit report or PC scan we alert the customer if there is something found on their credit record or PC and then offer to show them what it is or repair the problem for a price. This can be an effective way to get information to your potential customers, create sales or to generate traffic to your site.
Your website contains information about a service or product that you are very knowledgeable about. You can use this knowledge to generate traffic to your site by writing articles in your area of expertise and having them published in an ezine or an article information site.The most effective way to use these articles is to write them for free and ask in return that the publisher allow you to include a byline. A byline is a very short summary of the author, their credentials and their website. Your byline is a way that readers will come to know you as an expert on the topic and will in turn come to trust your site as a source of credible information.
Some search engines will allow a website to purchase their ranking. This is an excellent Internet marketing technique in that it is effective and inexpensive.In the pay-per-click programs, websites are only billed for those who actually visit the page, unlike banner ads which may be seen by millions but only used by a few. When using the pay-per-click program you are asked to choose keywords and when those are entered your site will appear and if the surfer chooses to view your site, you are billed for that click. Many pay-per-click programs will offer other benefits as well, such as updated lists of commonly used keywords.
You should remember that others are in the same boat as you. You can choose to network with those who have similar marketing ideas.When networking you will be able to share links and refer customers to each other. You should always be very cautious when choosing a networking partner as everything that you recommend is a reflection of yourself or your product and therefore, you should be certain that your networking partner is a reputable source of information.
Simply because your website is online, doesn't mean that all your advertising should be. Advertise in newspapers, TV, the radio or you can even send out a press release to get your information to thousands of people all over the country.
Viral Marketing
Drive Massive Website Traffic With Other People's Products!
Would you like to easily create a viral marketing campaign that will drive massive website traffic to your site and increase your sales for years to come? Wouldn't it be great if you could create such a viral marketing campaign by giving away other people's products - for free - with their permission?It's very easy. Anyone can do it in just three simple steps.Step 1: Select master resale rights products or private label products that relate to your website's niche and that can be packaged with other products and given away for free.Products are available on the Internet on almost any topic. Many are marketed with master resale rights, resale rights, or private label rights included either as a bonus or for a higher price. Choose resale rights products related to your website niche. And since rights can vary, be very sure that the products you choose can be included in packages and given away for free.Step 2: Create your own unique viral marketing product by repackaging the resale rights products selected in step 1 into a package. Promote your website in the new package, and provide an incentive for people to pass the package on to others.The easiest way to do this, is by creating a small eBook that contains download links for the products you selected in step 1 and that ties these products together around a theme related to your website. Provide links to drive the website traffic to a web page, that is only promoted within your eBook, so that you can track your results as your website traffic virus grows.There are a variety of eBook creation tools readily available on the Internet. Some create eBooks as .exe files for PC's only. Others create PDF files that can be read on computers, with any operating system, using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader that is usually already installed.To initiate your massive website traffic virus, you need to give people an incentive to pass your eBook on. Be sure that the eBook creation product you choose, includes the ability to let people rebrand links or even text within the eBook. They at least should be able to add a "Sponsored By" link that will promote their website. This rebranding capability is common in most of the better .exe eBook creation software, but less common in PDF creation software. Be sure to check that the software you use, will provide this feature.To help your website traffic virus spread even faster, create some marketing material. At the very least, create a virtual eBook cover or virtual software box for the product. Use it yourself and include it with the product download. There are many companies on the Web that provide this service at a reasonable cost. There are also a number of software products available that allow you to create an unlimited number of ecovers.You may also benefit from creating sample ads or even a mini-site sales page to promote your new viral marketing package. Use them yourself and include them with the product download, so that people can easily promote your package.Step 3: Start your viral marketing campaign by getting the product out on the web, in as many ways as possible.Here are some ideas on how to start your viral marketing website traffic virus:
Submit your eBook to directories of free eBooks.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free bonus for new and current subscribers to your newsletter.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free download to your website visitors.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free download in your signature at the bottom of forum posts, emails, etc.
Write articles related to your niche and your viral marketing eBook. Submit the articles to the many article directories around the web. Do not directly promote yourself in the article. Instead, provide valuable content like you would want to read and include a link for readers to download your free eBook in the "resource box" or "about the author" box at the end of the article.If you do a good job at step 1, you will have a viral marketing eBook that will appeal to your target market and that will drive massive website traffic to your site for years to come.If you do a good job at step 2, people will spread the website traffic virus for you.If you do a good job at step 3, the website traffic virus will begin.Keep doing all of the suggestions in step 3 until you see the hits to the unique landing page, you set up in step 1 start to grow exponentially. Then you will know that your viral marketing campaign has reached critical mass. Your website traffic virus will continue to grow and spread on its own because others are spreading it for you.Want to really take your viral marketing to the next level, and make all the massive new website traffic really profitable?Here's how:
Keep repeating these steps until you have many viral marketing packages out there, each driving massive website traffic to your site.
Set up the landing pages for the links in your packages as "squeeze pages," pages that require someone to subscribe to your newsletter to get further information. Use a sequential autoresponder to deliver your newsletter regularly, and to automatically promote your website and products.
Offer your other viral marketing packages, as free bonuses for subscribing.
On the subscription thank you page, offer a one-time special discount for some of your products.Now you really know how to use viral marketing to easily drive massive website traffic to your site - for years to come - with other people's products. And you know how to make your massive new website traffic, really profitable.
Drive Massive Website Traffic With Other People's Products!
Would you like to easily create a viral marketing campaign that will drive massive website traffic to your site and increase your sales for years to come? Wouldn't it be great if you could create such a viral marketing campaign by giving away other people's products - for free - with their permission?It's very easy. Anyone can do it in just three simple steps.Step 1: Select master resale rights products or private label products that relate to your website's niche and that can be packaged with other products and given away for free.Products are available on the Internet on almost any topic. Many are marketed with master resale rights, resale rights, or private label rights included either as a bonus or for a higher price. Choose resale rights products related to your website niche. And since rights can vary, be very sure that the products you choose can be included in packages and given away for free.Step 2: Create your own unique viral marketing product by repackaging the resale rights products selected in step 1 into a package. Promote your website in the new package, and provide an incentive for people to pass the package on to others.The easiest way to do this, is by creating a small eBook that contains download links for the products you selected in step 1 and that ties these products together around a theme related to your website. Provide links to drive the website traffic to a web page, that is only promoted within your eBook, so that you can track your results as your website traffic virus grows.There are a variety of eBook creation tools readily available on the Internet. Some create eBooks as .exe files for PC's only. Others create PDF files that can be read on computers, with any operating system, using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader that is usually already installed.To initiate your massive website traffic virus, you need to give people an incentive to pass your eBook on. Be sure that the eBook creation product you choose, includes the ability to let people rebrand links or even text within the eBook. They at least should be able to add a "Sponsored By" link that will promote their website. This rebranding capability is common in most of the better .exe eBook creation software, but less common in PDF creation software. Be sure to check that the software you use, will provide this feature.To help your website traffic virus spread even faster, create some marketing material. At the very least, create a virtual eBook cover or virtual software box for the product. Use it yourself and include it with the product download. There are many companies on the Web that provide this service at a reasonable cost. There are also a number of software products available that allow you to create an unlimited number of ecovers.You may also benefit from creating sample ads or even a mini-site sales page to promote your new viral marketing package. Use them yourself and include them with the product download, so that people can easily promote your package.Step 3: Start your viral marketing campaign by getting the product out on the web, in as many ways as possible.Here are some ideas on how to start your viral marketing website traffic virus:
Submit your eBook to directories of free eBooks.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free bonus for new and current subscribers to your newsletter.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free download to your website visitors.
Offer your viral marketing eBook as a free download in your signature at the bottom of forum posts, emails, etc.
Write articles related to your niche and your viral marketing eBook. Submit the articles to the many article directories around the web. Do not directly promote yourself in the article. Instead, provide valuable content like you would want to read and include a link for readers to download your free eBook in the "resource box" or "about the author" box at the end of the article.If you do a good job at step 1, you will have a viral marketing eBook that will appeal to your target market and that will drive massive website traffic to your site for years to come.If you do a good job at step 2, people will spread the website traffic virus for you.If you do a good job at step 3, the website traffic virus will begin.Keep doing all of the suggestions in step 3 until you see the hits to the unique landing page, you set up in step 1 start to grow exponentially. Then you will know that your viral marketing campaign has reached critical mass. Your website traffic virus will continue to grow and spread on its own because others are spreading it for you.Want to really take your viral marketing to the next level, and make all the massive new website traffic really profitable?Here's how:
Keep repeating these steps until you have many viral marketing packages out there, each driving massive website traffic to your site.
Set up the landing pages for the links in your packages as "squeeze pages," pages that require someone to subscribe to your newsletter to get further information. Use a sequential autoresponder to deliver your newsletter regularly, and to automatically promote your website and products.
Offer your other viral marketing packages, as free bonuses for subscribing.
On the subscription thank you page, offer a one-time special discount for some of your products.Now you really know how to use viral marketing to easily drive massive website traffic to your site - for years to come - with other people's products. And you know how to make your massive new website traffic, really profitable.
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TOP Highly Effective Web Techniques For
Free Traffic Generation
We all know that traffic is the most essential thing for a successful Internet business company. There are a lot of reliable ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, though most of them would cost some money. In this article I'd like to tell you about my favorite web promotion tactics, which wouldn't cost you a single cent. Moreover, some of them will save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The first tactic alone can generate you over $2,000 equivalent of free targeted traffic.Well, here are the seven surefire technics capable of skyrocketing your traffic starting from today.
1) Free Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising That Works The Adwords by Google, Yahoo's Overture and many other PPC search engines provide great sources of targeted Internet. They are very truly popular among web marketers. However, as the PPC search engine managers wish to expand their customer base so they need to convince people like you that pay per click advertising really works. Here are the good news, there are dozens of PPC search engines who will give you up to $100 in free credits to prove that pay per click advertising will work for you. To claim your credits all you need do is visit the various engines and web directories and sign-up. There are no catches and it won't cost you anything except your time. It couldn't be simpler to obtain such free PPC advertising.
LIST of Pay Per Click Search Engines Offering
Free Bidding Cash or Bonuses
NEW! 1on1search 1on1search will deposit $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free. Bids start at 1 cent.
4ask.net 4ask.net will deposit $10 into your advertising account when you sign up and bids start at 5 cents. There is an affiliate program paying 50% of the bidded amount into your advertising account.
911Search 911Search starts new advertisers off with $5 worth of free clicks. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 25% of the bidded amount.
AccuMeta AccuMeta is a metasearch engine which has been online since 1999. You get $40 in free search cash when you make an initial deposit of $20 and bids start at 5 cents. There is an affiliate program paying 25% of bidded clicks.
Anzona Anzona is a shopping pay per click search engine. You can list your shopping related site on Anzona with a minimum bid of 1 cent. Deposit $10 and get a 25% bonus, $25 and get a 50% bonus and deposit $100 for a 100% bonus.
ArabianList ArabianList is a specialty pay per click search engine targeting the Middle East, Arab, and Muslim communities all around the world. You can start an account with $10 and will receive a 100% bonus on your first deposit.
AskCandy Use this promo code DA7E86D when you sign up with AskCandy and you'll receive $5 in search cash to try it out. Affiliates earn 30% on bidded clicks.
BeaconFlash BeaconFlash will add $25 to your account when you sign up and bids start at 1 cent.
NEW! Big Clique Open an advertising account with as little as $25 and Big Clique will add 20% to your first account deposit. The minimum bid is 1 cent. Sponsored search distribution partners earn a 50%-60% revenue share and there is a referral program paying residual commission on referred advertisers' deposits. .
BrowseCrawler BrowseCrawler will deposit $25 into your advertising account when you sign up for free. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 25% of the bidded amount into your advertising account.
BrowseHosts BrowseHosts is a web hosting specialty pay per click search engine. When you sign up and deposit $20, it will give you a $15 bonus.
BxB BxB is a pay per click search engine that specializes in listing Bed and Breakfast style accommodation. You receive $25 free when you sign up.
CircleCasino CircleCasino is a gambling related pay per click search engine. When you open a free account you will receive $1 in advertising credit. It is also offering to match initial deposits 100%.
Cooking Link Central Cooking Link Central is a specialty pay per click search engine targeted at consumers who are interested in cooking and business people who offer a cooking-related website. The minimum deposit is $10 and you'll receive $5 in free advertising money when you sign up. The minimum bid is 3 cents.
CosmosQuest CosmosQuest focuses on Las Vegas related sites. Advertisers are provided with $10 in free search cash when they sign up. Bidding starts at 1 cent.
CricketSoda Search You'll receive $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free with CricketSoda Search plus a bonus of 55% on your first deposit. The minimum bid is 25 cents because, according to CricketSoda Search, they want to make sure that only serious websites buy advertising on related keywords looking for only the highest quality visitor. .
DallasExplorer DallasExplorer is a specialty search engine that lists sites for users in Dallas. You can open an account for free and receive $10 in advertising credit.
DogGroups DogGroups is a dog specialty pay per click search engine which doubles all first time deposits.
Enhance Interactive Enhance Interactive is offering a holiday special. Sign up with a $50 deposit and they'll credit your account with another $25. Bids start at 3 cents.
ezSeek Open an account for free at ezSeek and receive $5 in free bidding cash. Make an initial deposit of at least $25 and ezSeek will double it (up to $100). Affiliates earn 25% of referrals' deposits.
Find It Yes You can sign up for a free $5 advertising trial at Find It Yes. Bidding starts at 1 cent for basic listings and 35 cents for premium listings.(Premium listings are the top 3 positions on each results page). The affiliate program pays 50% on bidded clickthroughs plus 5% of referrals commissions
Findology Open an account with $25 at Findology and they'll put $50 in your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 35% of gross search revenue generated.
FitSeek FitSeek will match your initial deposit 100%. You can start your account with $10. FitSeek is a specialty search engine targeting the health and fitness industry.
Focus On Training Focus On Training is a specialty pay per click search engine and information website focusing on all areas of training. Companies and trainers can sign up for a new advertisers account and for a limited time receive a 40% (30% afterwards) bonus on their initial deposit. Initial deposit minimum is $20 and click bids start at 3 cents. There is an affiliate program which pays 30% of a new advertiser's initial deposit.
Golden-Wheel.net You'll get $20 in free bidding cash when you sign up with Golden-Wheel.net. It is also offering a 100% bonus on deposits. Affiliates earn 70% on bidded clicks, plus 25% of advertisers' deposits and 20% of referred affiliates' earnings.
GoGeter You'll receive $25 in your advertising account when you open an account with GoGeter for free. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program but there's no information on the site about the commission rate.
goWholesale goWholesale specializes in wholesale goods and services. You'll get $50 in free advertising credits when you sign up with a minimum deposit of $100. Affiliates earn $20-$22 on new advertiser referrals.
iDaub iDaub will add $10 to your advertising account when you sign up. The minimum bid is 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 50% on bidded searches plus 5 cents per referral and 30% of referral's deposits. This is a two-tier program paying 5% on the second tier.
IGotTheLookUp You can join IGotTheLookUp for free and they'll deposit $10 into your advertising account. The minimum bid is 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 1 cent per search generated and 1 cent per click on paying member' ads. .
IntercoastalGuide IntercoastalGuide is doubling deposits over $100 and adding 50% to your deposit between $25 and $99. The minimum deposit is $10 and the minimum bid is 1 cent.
JiffySeek JiffySeek will credit your advertising account with $10 when you sign up, and for a limited time is doubling first deposits. Bidding starts at 1 cents per click.Also offers email and web hosting accounts.
KwikSearch Sign up for free at KwikSearch and they'll deposit $20 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 5 cents per search into your advertising account.
LegalReferrals LegalReferrals is a specialty pay per click search engine that lists law firms and related sites. For a short time it is offering to double your first deposit.
LinkAssist Sign up for free with LinkAssist and they'll put $10 in your bidding account. Bids start at 1 cent.
MammothSearch.com MammothSearch.com offers $10 in PPC bid credits for new sign-ups, no deposit required. For a limited time MammothSearch.com are offering 100% matching funds for deposits over $20.
MooToy MooToy is a specialty pay per click search engine for advertising toys, games and dolls. MooToy offers a $15 sign-up bonus and will match initial deposits over $25. Affiliates earn 85% on bidded clickthroughs plus 10% of referrals' earnings.
Paid Results Paid Results will deposit $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free. There is an affiliate program which pays in credits into your advertising account but I could find no information on the commission rate on the site.
PromptSurf PromptSurf is an Australasian search engine for business, shopping and entertainment. PromptSurf will put $50 in your advertising account when you sign up. Bidding starts at 1 cent.
RipUsOff RipUsOff is a specialty search engine providing a cost effective means of marketing slow moving, on sale, close-out and overstock merchandise. You can sign up for free and RipUsOff will deposit $15 in your advertising account. Affiliates earn $20 for each new merchant referred plus 15% of all click fees for the lifetime of the referral. This is a two-tier program paying 2.5% on the second tier.
Search 123By listing your site with Search123, you get highly qualified, targeted search traffic at a fraction of the cost of the larger paid search providers. Improve your overall ROI, by adding Search 173 to your paid search program. Fund with $50 and Search123 will give you $20 free!
SearchFort For a limited time SearchFort is offering new advertisers a $100 credit in their account. There is an affiliate program paying 65% of bidded clicks and a referral program.
SearchnShop You can sign up with SearchnShop for only $10 and all deposits are 100% matched.
SearchWiser You can open an account for free at SearchWiser and the minimum bid is 1 cent. SearchWiser offers a 10% bonus on advertisers' first deposits over $75 and any additional deposits over $75 will receive a 5% bonus. Affiliates earn 50%-75% of revenue, plus 10% on revenue generated by direct referrals and there is a search box/portal affiliate program and a XML partner program paying up to 75
SeekHawk You'll get $25 in your advertising account when you sign up for free with SeekHawk. Bidding starts at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 25% on bidded clicks, paid into their advertising account.
Seek 7 You can open an account with Seek 7 for as little as $10 and they'll match your initial deposit up to $500. Bids start at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 1 cent per click.
NEW! SeekFusion You can open an account for free at SeekFusion and they'll deposit $25 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. Place a search box or XML feed on your site and earn 60% of the advertising revenue generated. .
Smart-Find Smart-Find will give you $10 in search cash when you sign up and bids start at 1 cent. There is a search box affiliate program paying in credits to your advertising account.
StellarSeek Open an account for free at StellarSeek and receive $25 in free bidding cash. Bids start at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 25% of the bidded amount, which is paid in credits into your advertisng account..
ViaFeed You can open an account with $25 at ViaFeed and continue making deposits as low as $5. New advertisers get a $10 bonus. ViaFeed offers premium listings, box listings and banner listings. Affiliates earn 35%-50% on bidded clicks and 10% on referred advertisers' deposits. This is a two-tier program paying 5% on the second tier.
WeddingsFirst WeddingsFirst is a specialty pay per click earch engine listing only wedding related sites. Sign up with an initial deposit of $25 and receive another $10 in your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent.
Wholesale Lister Wholesale Lister is a wholesale specific pay per click search engine. Sign up is free they'll deposit $25 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 25% on bidded clicks, deposited into your advertising account.
NEW! Wholesale Palace.com Wholesalepalace.com is a newly redesigned pay per clicksearch engine that specializes in the wholesale industry. WholesalePalace.com is owned and operated by Leo Business Group, Inc. with its corporate office located in Thorndale Pennsylvania. WholesalePalace.com offers advanced services such as free ROI conversion tracking, auto-billing, detailed click reporting, and toll-free customer service. Wholesalepalace.com does not allow affiliates to show their results. Website traffic is closely monitor and regulate our websites traffic so that advertisers get quality leads. Accounts can be opened for just $10 and bids start at 10 cents. Use promo code 'new50' when signing up and you'll receive $50 in free advertising. You can sign up conveniently on their secure website or by calling toll free at (888) 244-4815.
WorkFromHomeSearchEngine WorkFromHomeSearchEngine is a specialty pay per click search engine listing work from home websites. You can sign up for $10 and receive $10 in free credit and bid from 1 cent per click.
Yahoo! Search Marketing Sponsored Search lists your site in search results across the Web. So you connect with customers who are searching for what you sell. Sign up and get a $25 credit or $50 off of Fast Track®.* Mention Promo code USCJ11 or call 866-764-7650. Each account requires a non-refundable $5 initial deposit, which applies towards click-charges. There is a minimum bid requirement of $0.10 per click-through.
2) Use Profitable Keywords Or Keyword Niches For Your Site's Content Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword rankings to give away relevant search results. If you'd like your site to appear at the top lines of search engine results, you must use proper keywords and keyword phrases. Try to employ the most profitable (of higher demand) keywords at your site content. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you. If you're writing content on yourself you have to make it more entertaining as well as informative. In doing so, you can get high rankings in search engine results and strong incoming traffic without any costs.
3) Exchange Links With Partner Sites Another great idea is trading links with partner (or even competitor) sites. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche. Exchanging or trading links with other sites, both of them could benefit. When one site features another sites link, they will provide one another with the traffic they both generate. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it seems like both sides are working to generate doubly enhanced traffic. The more links exchanged with more sites the more traffic could be expected. And again, you don't have to spend a cent. All you have to do is to communicate to another webmaster and to reach with him an agreement.
4) Write Articles And Publish Them Across The Internet There are a lot of sites that offer free submission and posting of your articles. You'd better to s ubmit articles to sites containing the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell computers write press releases and articles about computers and computer parts. Try to provide helpful tips guides and good advice. Writing articles that contain good service and knowledge would bring the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs. When people find in your article something of interest, you have good chances of following the track by finding out where the article originated. It lasts for you just to a ttach a brief description of your site or service at the end of the article and to include a link.
5) Join Forums, Blogs And Other Online Communities You can take advantage of online forums, blogs and web communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the goodsor services that you represent or offer. With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. You must capture the market niche you represent and show your expertise and credibility. When you created a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your web business. Your customers will pass on their trust and credibility to many people all over the Internet. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.
6) Offer Newsletters Or eZines You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting useful articles. If your texts are really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be willing to visit your site. So, if you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you growing your traffic.
7) Use Advantages Of Viral Marketing Viral marketing is a promotional method that allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs. All it takes is to bring a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story; many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many web projects are advertised by using scandals and rumors to make them more popular. Also you can provide your web site visitors with content they wouldn't read anywhere else. People will stay longer at your web site to read the original content. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the website content and they will pass it on to many people. Each of the above mentioned methods can drive streams of free traffic to your website. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the techniques depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.
Free Traffic Generation
We all know that traffic is the most essential thing for a successful Internet business company. There are a lot of reliable ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, though most of them would cost some money. In this article I'd like to tell you about my favorite web promotion tactics, which wouldn't cost you a single cent. Moreover, some of them will save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. The first tactic alone can generate you over $2,000 equivalent of free targeted traffic.Well, here are the seven surefire technics capable of skyrocketing your traffic starting from today.
1) Free Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising That Works The Adwords by Google, Yahoo's Overture and many other PPC search engines provide great sources of targeted Internet. They are very truly popular among web marketers. However, as the PPC search engine managers wish to expand their customer base so they need to convince people like you that pay per click advertising really works. Here are the good news, there are dozens of PPC search engines who will give you up to $100 in free credits to prove that pay per click advertising will work for you. To claim your credits all you need do is visit the various engines and web directories and sign-up. There are no catches and it won't cost you anything except your time. It couldn't be simpler to obtain such free PPC advertising.
LIST of Pay Per Click Search Engines Offering
Free Bidding Cash or Bonuses
NEW! 1on1search 1on1search will deposit $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free. Bids start at 1 cent.
4ask.net 4ask.net will deposit $10 into your advertising account when you sign up and bids start at 5 cents. There is an affiliate program paying 50% of the bidded amount into your advertising account.
911Search 911Search starts new advertisers off with $5 worth of free clicks. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 25% of the bidded amount.
AccuMeta AccuMeta is a metasearch engine which has been online since 1999. You get $40 in free search cash when you make an initial deposit of $20 and bids start at 5 cents. There is an affiliate program paying 25% of bidded clicks.
Anzona Anzona is a shopping pay per click search engine. You can list your shopping related site on Anzona with a minimum bid of 1 cent. Deposit $10 and get a 25% bonus, $25 and get a 50% bonus and deposit $100 for a 100% bonus.
ArabianList ArabianList is a specialty pay per click search engine targeting the Middle East, Arab, and Muslim communities all around the world. You can start an account with $10 and will receive a 100% bonus on your first deposit.
AskCandy Use this promo code DA7E86D when you sign up with AskCandy and you'll receive $5 in search cash to try it out. Affiliates earn 30% on bidded clicks.
BeaconFlash BeaconFlash will add $25 to your account when you sign up and bids start at 1 cent.
NEW! Big Clique Open an advertising account with as little as $25 and Big Clique will add 20% to your first account deposit. The minimum bid is 1 cent. Sponsored search distribution partners earn a 50%-60% revenue share and there is a referral program paying residual commission on referred advertisers' deposits. .
BrowseCrawler BrowseCrawler will deposit $25 into your advertising account when you sign up for free. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 25% of the bidded amount into your advertising account.
BrowseHosts BrowseHosts is a web hosting specialty pay per click search engine. When you sign up and deposit $20, it will give you a $15 bonus.
BxB BxB is a pay per click search engine that specializes in listing Bed and Breakfast style accommodation. You receive $25 free when you sign up.
CircleCasino CircleCasino is a gambling related pay per click search engine. When you open a free account you will receive $1 in advertising credit. It is also offering to match initial deposits 100%.
Cooking Link Central Cooking Link Central is a specialty pay per click search engine targeted at consumers who are interested in cooking and business people who offer a cooking-related website. The minimum deposit is $10 and you'll receive $5 in free advertising money when you sign up. The minimum bid is 3 cents.
CosmosQuest CosmosQuest focuses on Las Vegas related sites. Advertisers are provided with $10 in free search cash when they sign up. Bidding starts at 1 cent.
CricketSoda Search You'll receive $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free with CricketSoda Search plus a bonus of 55% on your first deposit. The minimum bid is 25 cents because, according to CricketSoda Search, they want to make sure that only serious websites buy advertising on related keywords looking for only the highest quality visitor. .
DallasExplorer DallasExplorer is a specialty search engine that lists sites for users in Dallas. You can open an account for free and receive $10 in advertising credit.
DogGroups DogGroups is a dog specialty pay per click search engine which doubles all first time deposits.
Enhance Interactive Enhance Interactive is offering a holiday special. Sign up with a $50 deposit and they'll credit your account with another $25. Bids start at 3 cents.
ezSeek Open an account for free at ezSeek and receive $5 in free bidding cash. Make an initial deposit of at least $25 and ezSeek will double it (up to $100). Affiliates earn 25% of referrals' deposits.
Find It Yes You can sign up for a free $5 advertising trial at Find It Yes. Bidding starts at 1 cent for basic listings and 35 cents for premium listings.(Premium listings are the top 3 positions on each results page). The affiliate program pays 50% on bidded clickthroughs plus 5% of referrals commissions
Findology Open an account with $25 at Findology and they'll put $50 in your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 35% of gross search revenue generated.
FitSeek FitSeek will match your initial deposit 100%. You can start your account with $10. FitSeek is a specialty search engine targeting the health and fitness industry.
Focus On Training Focus On Training is a specialty pay per click search engine and information website focusing on all areas of training. Companies and trainers can sign up for a new advertisers account and for a limited time receive a 40% (30% afterwards) bonus on their initial deposit. Initial deposit minimum is $20 and click bids start at 3 cents. There is an affiliate program which pays 30% of a new advertiser's initial deposit.
Golden-Wheel.net You'll get $20 in free bidding cash when you sign up with Golden-Wheel.net. It is also offering a 100% bonus on deposits. Affiliates earn 70% on bidded clicks, plus 25% of advertisers' deposits and 20% of referred affiliates' earnings.
GoGeter You'll receive $25 in your advertising account when you open an account with GoGeter for free. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program but there's no information on the site about the commission rate.
goWholesale goWholesale specializes in wholesale goods and services. You'll get $50 in free advertising credits when you sign up with a minimum deposit of $100. Affiliates earn $20-$22 on new advertiser referrals.
iDaub iDaub will add $10 to your advertising account when you sign up. The minimum bid is 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 50% on bidded searches plus 5 cents per referral and 30% of referral's deposits. This is a two-tier program paying 5% on the second tier.
IGotTheLookUp You can join IGotTheLookUp for free and they'll deposit $10 into your advertising account. The minimum bid is 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 1 cent per search generated and 1 cent per click on paying member' ads. .
IntercoastalGuide IntercoastalGuide is doubling deposits over $100 and adding 50% to your deposit between $25 and $99. The minimum deposit is $10 and the minimum bid is 1 cent.
JiffySeek JiffySeek will credit your advertising account with $10 when you sign up, and for a limited time is doubling first deposits. Bidding starts at 1 cents per click.Also offers email and web hosting accounts.
KwikSearch Sign up for free at KwikSearch and they'll deposit $20 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. There is an affiliate program paying 5 cents per search into your advertising account.
LegalReferrals LegalReferrals is a specialty pay per click search engine that lists law firms and related sites. For a short time it is offering to double your first deposit.
LinkAssist Sign up for free with LinkAssist and they'll put $10 in your bidding account. Bids start at 1 cent.
MammothSearch.com MammothSearch.com offers $10 in PPC bid credits for new sign-ups, no deposit required. For a limited time MammothSearch.com are offering 100% matching funds for deposits over $20.
MooToy MooToy is a specialty pay per click search engine for advertising toys, games and dolls. MooToy offers a $15 sign-up bonus and will match initial deposits over $25. Affiliates earn 85% on bidded clickthroughs plus 10% of referrals' earnings.
Paid Results Paid Results will deposit $10 in your advertising account when you sign up for free. There is an affiliate program which pays in credits into your advertising account but I could find no information on the commission rate on the site.
PromptSurf PromptSurf is an Australasian search engine for business, shopping and entertainment. PromptSurf will put $50 in your advertising account when you sign up. Bidding starts at 1 cent.
RipUsOff RipUsOff is a specialty search engine providing a cost effective means of marketing slow moving, on sale, close-out and overstock merchandise. You can sign up for free and RipUsOff will deposit $15 in your advertising account. Affiliates earn $20 for each new merchant referred plus 15% of all click fees for the lifetime of the referral. This is a two-tier program paying 2.5% on the second tier.
Search 123By listing your site with Search123, you get highly qualified, targeted search traffic at a fraction of the cost of the larger paid search providers. Improve your overall ROI, by adding Search 173 to your paid search program. Fund with $50 and Search123 will give you $20 free!
SearchFort For a limited time SearchFort is offering new advertisers a $100 credit in their account. There is an affiliate program paying 65% of bidded clicks and a referral program.
SearchnShop You can sign up with SearchnShop for only $10 and all deposits are 100% matched.
SearchWiser You can open an account for free at SearchWiser and the minimum bid is 1 cent. SearchWiser offers a 10% bonus on advertisers' first deposits over $75 and any additional deposits over $75 will receive a 5% bonus. Affiliates earn 50%-75% of revenue, plus 10% on revenue generated by direct referrals and there is a search box/portal affiliate program and a XML partner program paying up to 75
SeekHawk You'll get $25 in your advertising account when you sign up for free with SeekHawk. Bidding starts at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 25% on bidded clicks, paid into their advertising account.
Seek 7 You can open an account with Seek 7 for as little as $10 and they'll match your initial deposit up to $500. Bids start at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 1 cent per click.
NEW! SeekFusion You can open an account for free at SeekFusion and they'll deposit $25 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. Place a search box or XML feed on your site and earn 60% of the advertising revenue generated. .
Smart-Find Smart-Find will give you $10 in search cash when you sign up and bids start at 1 cent. There is a search box affiliate program paying in credits to your advertising account.
StellarSeek Open an account for free at StellarSeek and receive $25 in free bidding cash. Bids start at 1 cent. Affiliates earn 25% of the bidded amount, which is paid in credits into your advertisng account..
ViaFeed You can open an account with $25 at ViaFeed and continue making deposits as low as $5. New advertisers get a $10 bonus. ViaFeed offers premium listings, box listings and banner listings. Affiliates earn 35%-50% on bidded clicks and 10% on referred advertisers' deposits. This is a two-tier program paying 5% on the second tier.
WeddingsFirst WeddingsFirst is a specialty pay per click earch engine listing only wedding related sites. Sign up with an initial deposit of $25 and receive another $10 in your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent.
Wholesale Lister Wholesale Lister is a wholesale specific pay per click search engine. Sign up is free they'll deposit $25 into your advertising account. Bids start at 1 cent. The affiliate program pays 25% on bidded clicks, deposited into your advertising account.
NEW! Wholesale Palace.com Wholesalepalace.com is a newly redesigned pay per clicksearch engine that specializes in the wholesale industry. WholesalePalace.com is owned and operated by Leo Business Group, Inc. with its corporate office located in Thorndale Pennsylvania. WholesalePalace.com offers advanced services such as free ROI conversion tracking, auto-billing, detailed click reporting, and toll-free customer service. Wholesalepalace.com does not allow affiliates to show their results. Website traffic is closely monitor and regulate our websites traffic so that advertisers get quality leads. Accounts can be opened for just $10 and bids start at 10 cents. Use promo code 'new50' when signing up and you'll receive $50 in free advertising. You can sign up conveniently on their secure website or by calling toll free at (888) 244-4815.
WorkFromHomeSearchEngine WorkFromHomeSearchEngine is a specialty pay per click search engine listing work from home websites. You can sign up for $10 and receive $10 in free credit and bid from 1 cent per click.
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2) Use Profitable Keywords Or Keyword Niches For Your Site's Content Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword rankings to give away relevant search results. If you'd like your site to appear at the top lines of search engine results, you must use proper keywords and keyword phrases. Try to employ the most profitable (of higher demand) keywords at your site content. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you. If you're writing content on yourself you have to make it more entertaining as well as informative. In doing so, you can get high rankings in search engine results and strong incoming traffic without any costs.
3) Exchange Links With Partner Sites Another great idea is trading links with partner (or even competitor) sites. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche. Exchanging or trading links with other sites, both of them could benefit. When one site features another sites link, they will provide one another with the traffic they both generate. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it seems like both sides are working to generate doubly enhanced traffic. The more links exchanged with more sites the more traffic could be expected. And again, you don't have to spend a cent. All you have to do is to communicate to another webmaster and to reach with him an agreement.
4) Write Articles And Publish Them Across The Internet There are a lot of sites that offer free submission and posting of your articles. You'd better to s ubmit articles to sites containing the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell computers write press releases and articles about computers and computer parts. Try to provide helpful tips guides and good advice. Writing articles that contain good service and knowledge would bring the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs. When people find in your article something of interest, you have good chances of following the track by finding out where the article originated. It lasts for you just to a ttach a brief description of your site or service at the end of the article and to include a link.
5) Join Forums, Blogs And Other Online Communities You can take advantage of online forums, blogs and web communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the goodsor services that you represent or offer. With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. You must capture the market niche you represent and show your expertise and credibility. When you created a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your web business. Your customers will pass on their trust and credibility to many people all over the Internet. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.
6) Offer Newsletters Or eZines You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting useful articles. If your texts are really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be willing to visit your site. So, if you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you growing your traffic.
7) Use Advantages Of Viral Marketing Viral marketing is a promotional method that allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs. All it takes is to bring a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story; many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many web projects are advertised by using scandals and rumors to make them more popular. Also you can provide your web site visitors with content they wouldn't read anywhere else. People will stay longer at your web site to read the original content. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the website content and they will pass it on to many people. Each of the above mentioned methods can drive streams of free traffic to your website. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the techniques depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.
How to Get All the Website Traffic You Want
with No Effort!!
In order to have a successful site you need of course a lot of website traffic. But in many cases, even if you work really hard and you create a professional web page you still do not get too many visitors and in conclusion the profit that you deserve. First, let us review the most poplar methods of directing traffic to a certain website. -link exchanging - cheap method but many say that overall it drives people away from your site instead of to it. This is because adding a large number of links to your pages makes them look unprofessional and may drive visitors away. Adding only a small number of links does not have any noticeable effect. Also making link exchanges is not always so easy because you have to convince webmasters to trade links with you. I can tell you from my experience that if you have a new site this thing could get really difficult because almost no one will want to exchange links with you. -free ezine ads - another cheap method but it rarely does anything because there are thousands of ads out there that try to attract attention and yours will just blend in with the others. -search engine submissions - this may be the most effective method but it requires a lot of work and time. To rank successfully in the major search engines takes a lot of time development and quite often money. It only works well if you get a high position in the search engines, which is very difficult to do, and you can loose that position in a few weeks. -Buying one way links to increase your link popularity and your search engine rankings could be a method but having top positions in the major search engines is not so easy. Every one knows that search engine website traffic is the best but to get it you must have thousands of good quality links which can get really expensive. A PR5 one way link can cost 30USD+ a month. The solution is easier than you may think.. you can buy traffic! For a small amount of money you can purchase all the website traffic that you need and boost you business profits. Without people visiting your pages you can not promote and sell your products, so if you want to increase your profits you have to get as much website traffic as you can. Therefore, the simplest, easiest solution is to buy traffic. It is not cheap, proven and with targeted traffic has a good conversion rate. Now, a new innovative method has been developed - the redirected visitors technology. This tehnique brings, just as its name suggests, redirected visitors to your site. It works perfectly and it is guaranteed to bring a lot of website traffic to you! People who are working with this technology purchase all the abandoned / expired domain names that had a website with good traffic on them. Those abandoned websites are listed in the search engines and they are marketed, therefore they used to be visited by a lot of people. When you enter this kind of program, your website will be scanned, and those abandoned websites will be redirected to yours. When someone searches for something in a search engine and clicks on the link that used to point to the abandoned pages, it will lead them to you instead! Unlike popups this method is not annoying for users, because what they find has the same subject as what they searched for, so they will most likely not even notice the redirection. This way you will get all the targeted website traffic you need. Instead of working really hard you can simply buy that traffic sit back and watch the sales pour in. Furthermore, this tehnique is not a spamming tehnique and it brings real traffic to you!
with No Effort!!
In order to have a successful site you need of course a lot of website traffic. But in many cases, even if you work really hard and you create a professional web page you still do not get too many visitors and in conclusion the profit that you deserve. First, let us review the most poplar methods of directing traffic to a certain website. -link exchanging - cheap method but many say that overall it drives people away from your site instead of to it. This is because adding a large number of links to your pages makes them look unprofessional and may drive visitors away. Adding only a small number of links does not have any noticeable effect. Also making link exchanges is not always so easy because you have to convince webmasters to trade links with you. I can tell you from my experience that if you have a new site this thing could get really difficult because almost no one will want to exchange links with you. -free ezine ads - another cheap method but it rarely does anything because there are thousands of ads out there that try to attract attention and yours will just blend in with the others. -search engine submissions - this may be the most effective method but it requires a lot of work and time. To rank successfully in the major search engines takes a lot of time development and quite often money. It only works well if you get a high position in the search engines, which is very difficult to do, and you can loose that position in a few weeks. -Buying one way links to increase your link popularity and your search engine rankings could be a method but having top positions in the major search engines is not so easy. Every one knows that search engine website traffic is the best but to get it you must have thousands of good quality links which can get really expensive. A PR5 one way link can cost 30USD+ a month. The solution is easier than you may think.. you can buy traffic! For a small amount of money you can purchase all the website traffic that you need and boost you business profits. Without people visiting your pages you can not promote and sell your products, so if you want to increase your profits you have to get as much website traffic as you can. Therefore, the simplest, easiest solution is to buy traffic. It is not cheap, proven and with targeted traffic has a good conversion rate. Now, a new innovative method has been developed - the redirected visitors technology. This tehnique brings, just as its name suggests, redirected visitors to your site. It works perfectly and it is guaranteed to bring a lot of website traffic to you! People who are working with this technology purchase all the abandoned / expired domain names that had a website with good traffic on them. Those abandoned websites are listed in the search engines and they are marketed, therefore they used to be visited by a lot of people. When you enter this kind of program, your website will be scanned, and those abandoned websites will be redirected to yours. When someone searches for something in a search engine and clicks on the link that used to point to the abandoned pages, it will lead them to you instead! Unlike popups this method is not annoying for users, because what they find has the same subject as what they searched for, so they will most likely not even notice the redirection. This way you will get all the targeted website traffic you need. Instead of working really hard you can simply buy that traffic sit back and watch the sales pour in. Furthermore, this tehnique is not a spamming tehnique and it brings real traffic to you!
Monday
How To Massively Increase Traffic To Your Website
This article gives advice and information on how to increase traffic to your website. There is obviously no point in having a superb looking, content rich site if only a few people can see it.One of the best ways of gaining additional traffic is to build up the number of backward links you have pointing to your website. The best form of link is a one-way link, where a website adds a link to your site but does not get one back from you. There are a number of ways of obtaining these type of links including:Writing articles. Writing articles like this one has many benefits. Other webmasters may add the article to their blog or website and this creates you a one-way link. The people reading the article are also potential visitors to your site.Purchasing a text-link advert on a quality site. If the site in question has a high page rank value, this is then passed onto your site. The advert itself just like any advert can also attract people to your site.Joining in debates in various forums. I enjoy reading and contributing to forums. Not only do I learn a great deal, I am also able to get links back to my sites when I make a comment.Submitting your site to directories. Making comments on other peoples blogs. This is my least favourite of all of these examples as it can be seen as spam. Other people however do think it can prove to beneficial. I must say that I stay away from anything that could be seen as spam.Where possible the website which includes a link to your site needs to be in the same industry as your own website. These backward links have a much higher value in the eyes of the search engines.I have to admit that it is extremely hard to obtain these type of links especially on a one-way basis.What we therefore need is a solution and here it is. I believe it is a good idea to build a network of sites on the same theme as the main website. Each of the sites in the network has a link pointing to the main site and after promoting each of the sites, you will then have a number of themed and powerful one-way backward links which will make the original site like an authority in its own field.If you are struggling to find content you could use other peoples articles to help you. It is a good idea to have each of the sites in the network on a different server. This however can be very expensive and therefore for a smaller business may not be best advice.To help fund the cost of the network you could add google adsense onto all of the new sites. This may not bring in huge amounts of money but could go some way to helping with hosting and domain renewal costs.In the future this network could be worth thousands of pounds if you have spent enough time promoting each site. At this stage you have the option of selling the network and relaxing or enjoying the benefits yourself that it will no doubt bring.I believe the writing of quality articles for re-print and the building of themed network websites is the future of the internet for people who want to be successful webmasters. Good luck.
This article gives advice and information on how to increase traffic to your website. There is obviously no point in having a superb looking, content rich site if only a few people can see it.One of the best ways of gaining additional traffic is to build up the number of backward links you have pointing to your website. The best form of link is a one-way link, where a website adds a link to your site but does not get one back from you. There are a number of ways of obtaining these type of links including:Writing articles. Writing articles like this one has many benefits. Other webmasters may add the article to their blog or website and this creates you a one-way link. The people reading the article are also potential visitors to your site.Purchasing a text-link advert on a quality site. If the site in question has a high page rank value, this is then passed onto your site. The advert itself just like any advert can also attract people to your site.Joining in debates in various forums. I enjoy reading and contributing to forums. Not only do I learn a great deal, I am also able to get links back to my sites when I make a comment.Submitting your site to directories. Making comments on other peoples blogs. This is my least favourite of all of these examples as it can be seen as spam. Other people however do think it can prove to beneficial. I must say that I stay away from anything that could be seen as spam.Where possible the website which includes a link to your site needs to be in the same industry as your own website. These backward links have a much higher value in the eyes of the search engines.I have to admit that it is extremely hard to obtain these type of links especially on a one-way basis.What we therefore need is a solution and here it is. I believe it is a good idea to build a network of sites on the same theme as the main website. Each of the sites in the network has a link pointing to the main site and after promoting each of the sites, you will then have a number of themed and powerful one-way backward links which will make the original site like an authority in its own field.If you are struggling to find content you could use other peoples articles to help you. It is a good idea to have each of the sites in the network on a different server. This however can be very expensive and therefore for a smaller business may not be best advice.To help fund the cost of the network you could add google adsense onto all of the new sites. This may not bring in huge amounts of money but could go some way to helping with hosting and domain renewal costs.In the future this network could be worth thousands of pounds if you have spent enough time promoting each site. At this stage you have the option of selling the network and relaxing or enjoying the benefits yourself that it will no doubt bring.I believe the writing of quality articles for re-print and the building of themed network websites is the future of the internet for people who want to be successful webmasters. Good luck.
Web Site Content and How to Succeed with Article Marketing
It is evident that whatever changes Google and other search engines make in future, still the game will be about quality web site content. Logically today we observe the increase of attention to web site content and everything that helps to score better with content over Internet has gained amazing demand.No one was talking about article marketing a year ago, and now this keyword is searched by thousands. Articles give you publicity, better scoring with search engines, higher ranking. Articles are the peak of content game at the moment and here are the most crucial tips to win with article marketing on your web sites:(i) Use search engine (SE) - friendly technologies.Sitemap (Google + Yahoo).Always use sitemaps on your sites. Create Google sitemap file, Yahoo sitemap file, submit them to relevant search engines - and you are sitting safe with all new content on your site getting indexed in days (5 days maximum). When others wait for Google sandbox for 2 months, you get your new content indexed within a week.RSS feeds.When you run article directory on your site, copy the content to RSS feeds. Then submit RSS feeds to MyYahoo and MyMSN. This increases indexing a lot. Plus this is extra way to make search engines see your real work on site. RSS newsblocks.As this technology is a nice content optimizer for search engines, they keep indexing good info inside the database of RSS news and give high relevancy content on your pages, helping you out with duplicate content crossroads.(ii) Use anchoring to score on your keywords.Anchored text is another content optimizing technology for search engines. It means that search engines can easily learn a lot from the keywords inside the anchored text to the link.In practise it means if you wrote a promo article and submit it to article directories, make sure they allow to use anchored links in resource box to that article. After good submission you will have hundreds of sites pointing/voting for your site. Imagine if all these sites have a text link that says 'My Keyword' and the linking goes your www.Your-Keyword-Site-Name.com Search engines will index all these pages with anchored text and you will get up the list for this keyword. You will save hundreds on advertising budgets to one way linking.(iii) Keywords in names.Whatever type of content you have on the site, stick to your keywords in naming file names, text links, pages using your keywords.Search engines will never stop in their fight for bigger scope for indexing. Who knows, maybe one of top search engines will announce shortly the deeper level of indexing. If you make sure to name the files on keyword-wise base, you will score, because filenaming has big potential in terms of content optimization technique for search engines. (iv) Never stop growing relevant content.When you got the bots of search engines dwelling on your site pages, make sure to update content on regular basis, quality content. Search engines loves gradual and quality growth - even 2 new articles per day are fine, if these articles fit and up to the point.Combine the tips above with smart SEO and your competitors will stand in line to join
It is evident that whatever changes Google and other search engines make in future, still the game will be about quality web site content. Logically today we observe the increase of attention to web site content and everything that helps to score better with content over Internet has gained amazing demand.No one was talking about article marketing a year ago, and now this keyword is searched by thousands. Articles give you publicity, better scoring with search engines, higher ranking. Articles are the peak of content game at the moment and here are the most crucial tips to win with article marketing on your web sites:(i) Use search engine (SE) - friendly technologies.Sitemap (Google + Yahoo).Always use sitemaps on your sites. Create Google sitemap file, Yahoo sitemap file, submit them to relevant search engines - and you are sitting safe with all new content on your site getting indexed in days (5 days maximum). When others wait for Google sandbox for 2 months, you get your new content indexed within a week.RSS feeds.When you run article directory on your site, copy the content to RSS feeds. Then submit RSS feeds to MyYahoo and MyMSN. This increases indexing a lot. Plus this is extra way to make search engines see your real work on site. RSS newsblocks.As this technology is a nice content optimizer for search engines, they keep indexing good info inside the database of RSS news and give high relevancy content on your pages, helping you out with duplicate content crossroads.(ii) Use anchoring to score on your keywords.Anchored text is another content optimizing technology for search engines. It means that search engines can easily learn a lot from the keywords inside the anchored text to the link.In practise it means if you wrote a promo article and submit it to article directories, make sure they allow to use anchored links in resource box to that article. After good submission you will have hundreds of sites pointing/voting for your site. Imagine if all these sites have a text link that says 'My Keyword' and the linking goes your www.Your-Keyword-Site-Name.com Search engines will index all these pages with anchored text and you will get up the list for this keyword. You will save hundreds on advertising budgets to one way linking.(iii) Keywords in names.Whatever type of content you have on the site, stick to your keywords in naming file names, text links, pages using your keywords.Search engines will never stop in their fight for bigger scope for indexing. Who knows, maybe one of top search engines will announce shortly the deeper level of indexing. If you make sure to name the files on keyword-wise base, you will score, because filenaming has big potential in terms of content optimization technique for search engines. (iv) Never stop growing relevant content.When you got the bots of search engines dwelling on your site pages, make sure to update content on regular basis, quality content. Search engines loves gradual and quality growth - even 2 new articles per day are fine, if these articles fit and up to the point.Combine the tips above with smart SEO and your competitors will stand in line to join
Are directory Links still eFfEcTiVe?
A Lot of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Professionals are voicing their opinions and saying than directories are dead. But remember, these are the people that also say that Page Rank is dead, SEO is dead, and the latest this is dead theory. So is directory link building no longer worthy? well only the Search Engines can tell you for sure.I believe the real issue with directory links is that only some of them are good and worthy, while some others are junk, being able to tell this difference is the key between loosing your time and having a fruitful link building campaign. How you can tell if a directory is good enough or that you should pass it. Here are the 3 main criteria of identifying a good directory from a bad one. 1) The director is listed in the Search Engines and most pages are being crawled.You can find the directory in the most popular search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Also the category pages of the directory are cached on the search engines, if the directory offers detail pages, these should be indeed too.2) The links are plain text, no redirects or javascript.Check the source code of the pages of the directory. Look to see if the links are plain a href's, without the rel="nofollow" attribute, and no sneaky redirects are present. By validating all these you guarantee that these links are seeing and counted by Search Engines.3) Doesn't link to bad neighborhoods.The directory doesn't link to questionable websites, specially topics like gambling, casino adult, and illegal content websites. Be very wary about directory that offers sitewide likes to these type of sites.Hopefully these guidelines will help you do more quality link building campaigns getting links from quality web directories.
A Lot of Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing Professionals are voicing their opinions and saying than directories are dead. But remember, these are the people that also say that Page Rank is dead, SEO is dead, and the latest this is dead theory. So is directory link building no longer worthy? well only the Search Engines can tell you for sure.I believe the real issue with directory links is that only some of them are good and worthy, while some others are junk, being able to tell this difference is the key between loosing your time and having a fruitful link building campaign. How you can tell if a directory is good enough or that you should pass it. Here are the 3 main criteria of identifying a good directory from a bad one. 1) The director is listed in the Search Engines and most pages are being crawled.You can find the directory in the most popular search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Also the category pages of the directory are cached on the search engines, if the directory offers detail pages, these should be indeed too.2) The links are plain text, no redirects or javascript.Check the source code of the pages of the directory. Look to see if the links are plain a href's, without the rel="nofollow" attribute, and no sneaky redirects are present. By validating all these you guarantee that these links are seeing and counted by Search Engines.3) Doesn't link to bad neighborhoods.The directory doesn't link to questionable websites, specially topics like gambling, casino adult, and illegal content websites. Be very wary about directory that offers sitewide likes to these type of sites.Hopefully these guidelines will help you do more quality link building campaigns getting links from quality web directories.
Sunday
10 Strategic Tips On How To Increase Website Sales
If you already have a website or want to get one then spending time learning what your website needs to have in order to increase online sales should be your primary step you take. In this article we are going to cover some major TOP 10 points on what your website should have to consistently drive online sales.
1. Get the attention through clear marketing messages – Your website should have a clear message about your products or business. Show your visitors the benefits they get if they choose your product or business. Make sure that you define your marketing messages clearly for all your critical audiences.
2. Make your visitors feel comfortable – Make sure that your visitors will feel comfortable on your website. Use nice and creative graphics with your content. Use your main business address on your contact page and not P.O. Boxes since it won’t make your business look very dependable. You should also have your phone number located on all of your pages on a visible spot. Your answering message should have the name of your business recorded on it. You are a professional right? Remember to always have your e-mail, phone number, or contact form easily accessible from all pages of your website so your visitors don’t have to struggle to get in touch with you. Another good idea is to provide FAQ page to give your visitors the extra confidence to buy without having to contact you.
3. Create a newsletter – Provide your visitors with a newsletter that they can easily subscribe to. This is your marketing tool that doesn’t cost you anything. It is something catchy that will grab their attention and make them want to sign up.
4. Include your specials – Make sure that you give your visitors good reasons to buy from you. When you tell your potential customer who’s just looking around that you will give them the best deal in town, and to call you back before they buy. I can guarantee that if you handled the communication good they will call you back before they make a buying decision. What you say to them will always be in the back of their mind. Now don’t think that you need to beat the price that they bring back to you. You can always include something extra special to the mix.
5. Keeping in touch with existing customers – Remember that your existing customer is more likely to buy from you again, or refer you to someone, than someone you find who in only interested in your product or business at the time. Remind your customers by phone, e-mail, or postcards about your website or business and let them know about the updates or specials that you have.
6. Create an online marketing campaign – Set some time aside every once in a while and keep looking for ways to promote your website. Establish new linking partners that will advertise your website on theirs. Write interesting and resourceful articles that can help other website owners to provide for their visitors. Establish your monthly budget and invest it in search engine marketing or good business related websites that will bring you quality visitors.
7. Improve you website graphics - Try to stay away from clip art images or something out of style because it won’t have much effect. Make your graphics unique and come up with nice and catchy advertising tag lines. If you need help, hire an agency that will help you come up with the appropriate marketing messages and design eye catching advertising pieces that will seize your visitors’ attention.
8. Perform a regular competitor and customer research – Continue doing research on your competitors and customers. Try to keep your website updated and competitive. After all, the website is your best educated and most knowledgeable salesman that works 24/7.
9. Customer is always right – Your customer is always right, even if they are not. It is important to acknowledge the comments or concerns your customers may have. This will allow you to improve your website in order to make future customers completely satisfied. After you have changes made, jump right back into selling again.
10. Choose a reliable web hosting - Don’t settle for less or judge the hosting by price. You need your website to be available to the world all day everyday. Please note that there is no such thing as “unlimited bandwidth” in web hosting. Any good network engineer or technician can explain why that is.These 10 tips will help you understand how to increase your online sales. To finalize this article I just want to add two more very important things. Please do not put your picture on the home page. Your navigation of the website should be easy to follow and fool-proof. Don’t complicate things by providing too many options for the customers that will just get them lost. Now go sell.
If you already have a website or want to get one then spending time learning what your website needs to have in order to increase online sales should be your primary step you take. In this article we are going to cover some major TOP 10 points on what your website should have to consistently drive online sales.
1. Get the attention through clear marketing messages – Your website should have a clear message about your products or business. Show your visitors the benefits they get if they choose your product or business. Make sure that you define your marketing messages clearly for all your critical audiences.
2. Make your visitors feel comfortable – Make sure that your visitors will feel comfortable on your website. Use nice and creative graphics with your content. Use your main business address on your contact page and not P.O. Boxes since it won’t make your business look very dependable. You should also have your phone number located on all of your pages on a visible spot. Your answering message should have the name of your business recorded on it. You are a professional right? Remember to always have your e-mail, phone number, or contact form easily accessible from all pages of your website so your visitors don’t have to struggle to get in touch with you. Another good idea is to provide FAQ page to give your visitors the extra confidence to buy without having to contact you.
3. Create a newsletter – Provide your visitors with a newsletter that they can easily subscribe to. This is your marketing tool that doesn’t cost you anything. It is something catchy that will grab their attention and make them want to sign up.
4. Include your specials – Make sure that you give your visitors good reasons to buy from you. When you tell your potential customer who’s just looking around that you will give them the best deal in town, and to call you back before they buy. I can guarantee that if you handled the communication good they will call you back before they make a buying decision. What you say to them will always be in the back of their mind. Now don’t think that you need to beat the price that they bring back to you. You can always include something extra special to the mix.
5. Keeping in touch with existing customers – Remember that your existing customer is more likely to buy from you again, or refer you to someone, than someone you find who in only interested in your product or business at the time. Remind your customers by phone, e-mail, or postcards about your website or business and let them know about the updates or specials that you have.
6. Create an online marketing campaign – Set some time aside every once in a while and keep looking for ways to promote your website. Establish new linking partners that will advertise your website on theirs. Write interesting and resourceful articles that can help other website owners to provide for their visitors. Establish your monthly budget and invest it in search engine marketing or good business related websites that will bring you quality visitors.
7. Improve you website graphics - Try to stay away from clip art images or something out of style because it won’t have much effect. Make your graphics unique and come up with nice and catchy advertising tag lines. If you need help, hire an agency that will help you come up with the appropriate marketing messages and design eye catching advertising pieces that will seize your visitors’ attention.
8. Perform a regular competitor and customer research – Continue doing research on your competitors and customers. Try to keep your website updated and competitive. After all, the website is your best educated and most knowledgeable salesman that works 24/7.
9. Customer is always right – Your customer is always right, even if they are not. It is important to acknowledge the comments or concerns your customers may have. This will allow you to improve your website in order to make future customers completely satisfied. After you have changes made, jump right back into selling again.
10. Choose a reliable web hosting - Don’t settle for less or judge the hosting by price. You need your website to be available to the world all day everyday. Please note that there is no such thing as “unlimited bandwidth” in web hosting. Any good network engineer or technician can explain why that is.These 10 tips will help you understand how to increase your online sales. To finalize this article I just want to add two more very important things. Please do not put your picture on the home page. Your navigation of the website should be easy to follow and fool-proof. Don’t complicate things by providing too many options for the customers that will just get them lost. Now go sell.
Tuesday
Promote Your Website
What is link popularity?
The quantity of links in different websites pointing to your sites is called link popularity of your website. The more popular is your site the more links you get from other websites and vice versa.
Why is it so important?
Links from high traffic websites furnish you with constant stream of visitors. Other website marketing efforts i.e. email marketing, might give good influx of visitors while the campaign lasts but the quantity diminishes once the campaign is over. Links are a different story! Once a link is installed, it might start bringing a steady flow of visitors all the time, depending on the website where the link was placed.
Link popularity is also crucial to search engine ranking of your website. Search engines, especially Google, claim that link popularity is one of the key factors that they consider in their search algorithm while indexing a website. What would be the rank of a website in a search result depend on its link popularity in a very big way.
So, how can you conduct an effective link popularity development campaign and build traffic for your website?
Content is the king
Prior to start a link popularity campaign, you should seriously question yourself, what would be the reason for the other sites to post a link pointing to your website? Most high traffic sites are quite picky about putting links, and won’t do it without any apparent reason.
If your site boasts quality content that the visitors of other sites might find valuable, chances are there that those sites would be interested in posting a link of your site on their relevant web pages. High quality content that gets updated regularly will definitely help you getting more links and subsequently more visitors. If even you are just a web store, you can still add much sought-after content to your site, such as, detail product information, articles related to the specific products, comparison tables, etc.
If it is really difficult to get relevant content for your website, try getting a valuable tool that might be interesting for visitors and incorporate it to your website. You must have noticed that free search engine submission forms are common on Search Engine Optimization sites. Giveaways like e-books, white papers, articles and other freebies are also good for creating interest to a website.
Submit website to various directories
When your new website is up and running, first thing you should do is to submit your site to many search directories such as, Yahoo!, DMOZ etc. available on the Internet. Not only, this will help you get quality backward links to your site, this is also the fastest method for your site to get crawled by search engines spiders and get indexed by them.
Don’t underestimate the value of the many regional and industry specific directories. Try submitting your site as many as possible relevant local directories. Examples of these directories are municipal business directory, local chamber of commerce directory etc.
If you are a seller of, for example, metal related products; get your site enlisted in as many metal industry associated directories as you can manage.
Get reciprocal links
Since backward links are so important, building link popularity by exchanging links with other websites should be a priority in your online marketing effort.
Which are the websites that you should consider to get backward links to your website? Your objective should be – not just having any backward link from any site, the sites that you are getting reciprocal link has to be relevant to the content of your website as well. First of all, if you get a link from a website which has nothing in common with your site, you, most probably, will not receive any traffic from that site. The second and most important issue is – the search engines, while calculating your website’s rank in a specific keyword search result, consider, mainly, the backward links which are relevant to your site.
Search engine Google uses a unique Page rank system to determine how relevant your website is. Your site's Page Rank depends on backward links to your site. However, if the page from where your website gets the backward link has more outbound links then incoming ones, the value of this link gets reduced. A link to your site will have the biggest impact on your Page rank:
• If the page itself has a good page rank.
• There are very few outbound links from the page.
To check out your site's Page rank, download the Google Toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com/ and install. After that, go to your website. On the tool bar, you will see the rank of your index page in a scale of 0 to 10. The rating is considered good if it is five or more.
Make sure, while exchanging links you select the websites that have page rank no less than yours.
How to find the websites that you should swap links with?
The easiest way is to check out the backward links to the website of your most prominent Internet based competitor or industry leader of your field. Other option is to run a search based on the most relevant keywords to your website and check out backward links to the first ten websites.
In the search box of Google, Altavista and AllTheWeb type link: and then the URL of the site to view all the sites that have backward links to this site. Visit these sites to find the best one to exchange links and then contact them with a nice email.
I will also suggest you to check out the number of visitors the site receives before offering a link swap. The tool that will help you figuring out the quantity of traffic a site gets, you can download from http://download.alexa.com/ by clicking on the button “Free Tool Bar”. This is also a very good tool to analyze web traffic. The tool also shows which other similar sites people tend to visit alongside with the site that you are viewing now.
If a site gets significantly less visitors than yours, what is the point of having a link form that site?
While looking for websites to swap links, don’t forget about your partners, suppliers and buyers. These sites are capable of bringing major traffic and are indeed relevant to your site’s subject matter!
Your link popularity campaign should also include the following methods. However, mind it, these techniques require tedious work from your side.
Issue Press Releases
Press releases are a good way of exposing your website to mass and increase your link popularity. Whenever you are coming up with a new product or service, overhauling your website, adding new elements to your site or conducting a seminar, etc. you should issue a press release. It is also a very cost effective method of getting publicity for your site. To broadcast your press release you can use one of the free media release sites: http://www.prweb.com
Write Articles
If you are dedicated to popularize your website, you must have substantial knowledge of the subject related to your website. Why not, write articles on your subjects of expertise and circulate them on the Internet and post on your website?
Apart from this will add good content to your website, if other websites and newsletters publish your articles, you will get free publicity and increase your link popularity.
Build an Affiliate Program
If you sell a product or service through your website, you should seriously consider developing an affiliate program for your site. An affiliate program is when a visitor from your affiliate’s site comes to your site using the link that you provided to the affiliate and buy something; the affiliate will get a commission from you. The affiliate program can expand your business substantially. Since your affiliates require posting your links on their sites, this increases your link popularity as well.
Participate in Discussion Groups and Forums
This is also a great way of increasing your link popularity. There are literally thousands of discussion groups and forums on every conceivable subject on the Internet. You should actively participate in some of them, those which are most relevant to your area of expertise. The signature along with your website address that you post there while asking a question or answering to a question also boosts your link popularity.
Link Exchange Programs
You can also participate one of the link swap programs available on the Internet. Unfortunately, most of the automated link exchange offers that you receive through them are random and irrelevant to your site. But, however, I would suggest you to give them a try, as chances are there that you still might receive some good offers. You can also actively search for sites to swap links in their directories.
Development of link popularity is an on going process. You have to work on this constantly. But, the outcome that you might achieve from your endeavor also could be significant.
What is link popularity?
The quantity of links in different websites pointing to your sites is called link popularity of your website. The more popular is your site the more links you get from other websites and vice versa.
Why is it so important?
Links from high traffic websites furnish you with constant stream of visitors. Other website marketing efforts i.e. email marketing, might give good influx of visitors while the campaign lasts but the quantity diminishes once the campaign is over. Links are a different story! Once a link is installed, it might start bringing a steady flow of visitors all the time, depending on the website where the link was placed.
Link popularity is also crucial to search engine ranking of your website. Search engines, especially Google, claim that link popularity is one of the key factors that they consider in their search algorithm while indexing a website. What would be the rank of a website in a search result depend on its link popularity in a very big way.
So, how can you conduct an effective link popularity development campaign and build traffic for your website?
Content is the king
Prior to start a link popularity campaign, you should seriously question yourself, what would be the reason for the other sites to post a link pointing to your website? Most high traffic sites are quite picky about putting links, and won’t do it without any apparent reason.
If your site boasts quality content that the visitors of other sites might find valuable, chances are there that those sites would be interested in posting a link of your site on their relevant web pages. High quality content that gets updated regularly will definitely help you getting more links and subsequently more visitors. If even you are just a web store, you can still add much sought-after content to your site, such as, detail product information, articles related to the specific products, comparison tables, etc.
If it is really difficult to get relevant content for your website, try getting a valuable tool that might be interesting for visitors and incorporate it to your website. You must have noticed that free search engine submission forms are common on Search Engine Optimization sites. Giveaways like e-books, white papers, articles and other freebies are also good for creating interest to a website.
Submit website to various directories
When your new website is up and running, first thing you should do is to submit your site to many search directories such as, Yahoo!, DMOZ etc. available on the Internet. Not only, this will help you get quality backward links to your site, this is also the fastest method for your site to get crawled by search engines spiders and get indexed by them.
Don’t underestimate the value of the many regional and industry specific directories. Try submitting your site as many as possible relevant local directories. Examples of these directories are municipal business directory, local chamber of commerce directory etc.
If you are a seller of, for example, metal related products; get your site enlisted in as many metal industry associated directories as you can manage.
Get reciprocal links
Since backward links are so important, building link popularity by exchanging links with other websites should be a priority in your online marketing effort.
Which are the websites that you should consider to get backward links to your website? Your objective should be – not just having any backward link from any site, the sites that you are getting reciprocal link has to be relevant to the content of your website as well. First of all, if you get a link from a website which has nothing in common with your site, you, most probably, will not receive any traffic from that site. The second and most important issue is – the search engines, while calculating your website’s rank in a specific keyword search result, consider, mainly, the backward links which are relevant to your site.
Search engine Google uses a unique Page rank system to determine how relevant your website is. Your site's Page Rank depends on backward links to your site. However, if the page from where your website gets the backward link has more outbound links then incoming ones, the value of this link gets reduced. A link to your site will have the biggest impact on your Page rank:
• If the page itself has a good page rank.
• There are very few outbound links from the page.
To check out your site's Page rank, download the Google Toolbar from http://toolbar.google.com/ and install. After that, go to your website. On the tool bar, you will see the rank of your index page in a scale of 0 to 10. The rating is considered good if it is five or more.
Make sure, while exchanging links you select the websites that have page rank no less than yours.
How to find the websites that you should swap links with?
The easiest way is to check out the backward links to the website of your most prominent Internet based competitor or industry leader of your field. Other option is to run a search based on the most relevant keywords to your website and check out backward links to the first ten websites.
In the search box of Google, Altavista and AllTheWeb type link: and then the URL of the site to view all the sites that have backward links to this site. Visit these sites to find the best one to exchange links and then contact them with a nice email.
I will also suggest you to check out the number of visitors the site receives before offering a link swap. The tool that will help you figuring out the quantity of traffic a site gets, you can download from http://download.alexa.com/ by clicking on the button “Free Tool Bar”. This is also a very good tool to analyze web traffic. The tool also shows which other similar sites people tend to visit alongside with the site that you are viewing now.
If a site gets significantly less visitors than yours, what is the point of having a link form that site?
While looking for websites to swap links, don’t forget about your partners, suppliers and buyers. These sites are capable of bringing major traffic and are indeed relevant to your site’s subject matter!
Your link popularity campaign should also include the following methods. However, mind it, these techniques require tedious work from your side.
Issue Press Releases
Press releases are a good way of exposing your website to mass and increase your link popularity. Whenever you are coming up with a new product or service, overhauling your website, adding new elements to your site or conducting a seminar, etc. you should issue a press release. It is also a very cost effective method of getting publicity for your site. To broadcast your press release you can use one of the free media release sites: http://www.prweb.com
Write Articles
If you are dedicated to popularize your website, you must have substantial knowledge of the subject related to your website. Why not, write articles on your subjects of expertise and circulate them on the Internet and post on your website?
Apart from this will add good content to your website, if other websites and newsletters publish your articles, you will get free publicity and increase your link popularity.
Build an Affiliate Program
If you sell a product or service through your website, you should seriously consider developing an affiliate program for your site. An affiliate program is when a visitor from your affiliate’s site comes to your site using the link that you provided to the affiliate and buy something; the affiliate will get a commission from you. The affiliate program can expand your business substantially. Since your affiliates require posting your links on their sites, this increases your link popularity as well.
Participate in Discussion Groups and Forums
This is also a great way of increasing your link popularity. There are literally thousands of discussion groups and forums on every conceivable subject on the Internet. You should actively participate in some of them, those which are most relevant to your area of expertise. The signature along with your website address that you post there while asking a question or answering to a question also boosts your link popularity.
Link Exchange Programs
You can also participate one of the link swap programs available on the Internet. Unfortunately, most of the automated link exchange offers that you receive through them are random and irrelevant to your site. But, however, I would suggest you to give them a try, as chances are there that you still might receive some good offers. You can also actively search for sites to swap links in their directories.
Development of link popularity is an on going process. You have to work on this constantly. But, the outcome that you might achieve from your endeavor also could be significant.
Monday
Triple Your Website Traffic
Proper Use Of Meta tags For A High Google Ranking
Proper Use Of Meta tags For A High Google Ranking
Google is currently the web's most popular search engine. Getting a high Google ranking is a must if you want your website to succeed! In addition to being the most used search engine in its own right, Google also provides the search results for other mega-sites, including America Online. By following a few simple guidelines, you can watch your site climb up the Google ladder and your traffic will climb right along with it. This article will show you how to make effective use of meta tags to help your website climb that ladder!
It's imperative to use "Google friendly" meta tags. Meta tags give a web browser important information about your website. Here are the most important meta tags for achieving a top ranking on Google:
1 - Title Tag - The title tag is the most important meta tag on your web page. Be sure to use a few of your primary keywords in your title tag. For example, the title tag on my homepage is:
As you can see, my title tag contains 8 very important keywords and 2 key phrases: handcrafted, Appalachian, bird houses, and bird feeders. This is what is known as "spider food". When Google's spider crawls my homepage, it finds these keywords in the title tag. It also finds these same keywords sprinkled throughout the text (content) on the page. This effectively "links" the keywords in the title meta tag to the content on the page. This "linking" provides a high level of "relevance" for my site when someone goes to Google and does a search on one of my keywords, helping my site rank high in the search results for those keywords or key phrases.
2 - Description Tag - Another important meta tag is the "description" tag. My description tag looks like this:
As you can see, my description meta tag contains several of my keywords and key phrases. This is important because it ties in with the title meta tag and the page content. When other websites link to yours (also very important for a high Google ranking), they link to you using link "anchor text". The anchor text is the "clickable" part of the link. By providing the other webmaster with very specific anchor text (which includes your keywords), that anchor text will tie in with your site's meta tags and keyword-rich content. This makes for a very well optimized web page for Google ranking purposes. Proper meta tags and effective linking strategies form the backbone of a good site optimization plan for Google.
How To Generate Web Site Traffic For Free?
Traffic is essential for every ecommerce enterpreneur and website owner. The best way of getting traffic is by achieving a top 10 or top 20 position in a famous search engine as Google. There are more than 8 billion websites indexed by Google. Only a small fraction of them get a high ranking.It is not difficult to generate a lot of internet traffic with a high advertising budget. Big companies can afford millions of Dollars for advertising. Some brands only get traffic because of their famous name.Most of the website owners have to calculate with a few Dollars. How can they succeed in generating traffic?Some tips how to generate web site traffic for free:1. Display your URL on everythingThe public has to know about your website. The first step is to spread out your websites URL everywhere: on your business cards, on your online and offline letters, on your mailbox, in the telephone directory etc.2. Submission to search engines and directoriesYou can submit your URL in most of the cases free of charge to search engines and directories. Important are directories that relate to the topic of your website. If your website deals with golf, submission to golf related directories or golf related pages in general directories might bring some traffic to your website.3. Free classified adsClassified ads are free of charge. You can place as many ads as you want. You can get a better exposure through featured ads to moderate costs. If you decide to pay for featured ads, it’s recommendabe to give priority to classified ad websites with a high Alexa traffic rank. You find out the Alexa traffic rank of a website by typing in it’s URL at the alexa.com website.4. Ads in ezinesIt is also worthwhile to place ads in ezines that are related to the topic of a website. This can be done with moderate expenses.5. Expose your website in newsgroups, forumsYou may sign up in newsgroups and forums that relate to the topic of your website. You can give your advice to the audience and show solutions by your website. A lot of people surf on this kind of websites in order to find a solution for their problems.6. Traffic ExchangeYou may sign up at the different traffic exchange websites. You earn credits by surfing on these websites. The more you surf, the more credits you earn. Your website receives traffic according to the credits that you achieve. Of course, you cannot sit surfing all the time. This programs offer you the opportunity to refer other surfers to their website. Your website can gain credit from all the surfers in your downline in this MLM-like system. Traffic to your website could explode, at least theoretically.
Traffic is essential for every ecommerce enterpreneur and website owner. The best way of getting traffic is by achieving a top 10 or top 20 position in a famous search engine as Google. There are more than 8 billion websites indexed by Google. Only a small fraction of them get a high ranking.It is not difficult to generate a lot of internet traffic with a high advertising budget. Big companies can afford millions of Dollars for advertising. Some brands only get traffic because of their famous name.Most of the website owners have to calculate with a few Dollars. How can they succeed in generating traffic?Some tips how to generate web site traffic for free:1. Display your URL on everythingThe public has to know about your website. The first step is to spread out your websites URL everywhere: on your business cards, on your online and offline letters, on your mailbox, in the telephone directory etc.2. Submission to search engines and directoriesYou can submit your URL in most of the cases free of charge to search engines and directories. Important are directories that relate to the topic of your website. If your website deals with golf, submission to golf related directories or golf related pages in general directories might bring some traffic to your website.3. Free classified adsClassified ads are free of charge. You can place as many ads as you want. You can get a better exposure through featured ads to moderate costs. If you decide to pay for featured ads, it’s recommendabe to give priority to classified ad websites with a high Alexa traffic rank. You find out the Alexa traffic rank of a website by typing in it’s URL at the alexa.com website.4. Ads in ezinesIt is also worthwhile to place ads in ezines that are related to the topic of a website. This can be done with moderate expenses.5. Expose your website in newsgroups, forumsYou may sign up in newsgroups and forums that relate to the topic of your website. You can give your advice to the audience and show solutions by your website. A lot of people surf on this kind of websites in order to find a solution for their problems.6. Traffic ExchangeYou may sign up at the different traffic exchange websites. You earn credits by surfing on these websites. The more you surf, the more credits you earn. Your website receives traffic according to the credits that you achieve. Of course, you cannot sit surfing all the time. This programs offer you the opportunity to refer other surfers to their website. Your website can gain credit from all the surfers in your downline in this MLM-like system. Traffic to your website could explode, at least theoretically.
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