Three kinds of Website Traffic
September 19, 2008
Where does traffic come from? Now I’m not talking about that stuff we all get stuck in during rush hour. Website traffic is essential, if you have no traffic to your website you are not going to get anyone buying your products or reading your articles. Traffic is one of the key components of your website and is available in these three forms.
1. Pay For It.
You can buy traffic typically using what is known as Pay Per Click advertising. The major names in this market are Google and their AdWords program and Yahoo Network Sponsored Search. There are many smaller companies around also but they all follow the same premise.
You create your account, grab a bunch of keywords and create your adverts. You can define the amount you want to spend per click or per day, what geographical areas you want your adverts to appear in and even what time they should appear.
When someone types one of your keywords into for example Google your advert will be displayed down the right hand side of the natural search results. If the searcher then chooses to click on your advert and gets forwarded to your website you will get charged for that click.
The price you pay for each individual click depends on a variety of conditions such as how many other people are competing on that keyword. The more competition the more it costs to be higher up the ranks. The position you want to occupy. The percentage of people who click on your advert, the list goes on.
Pay Per Click advertising can be very successful but has a steep learning curve, it is essential that you do lots of research into your chosen Pay Per Click vender and in the niche you are in.
2. Borrow It.
This option is not for everyone, but in certain niches it can be effective. The first method of borrowing traffic is what is called link exchange. This is where you put links to another website on your site and they put links back to you on theirs. This can be beneficial as you can get traffic from a more successful website reasonably quickly. However this traffic is not always targeted.
The second option in the affiliate marketing world is called a joint venture or a JP. This is essentially where you would contact another marketer or company who had products that complements yours. If they are interested they may send a mailing out to their list or put an entry in their blog alerting their visitors about you and your relevant products.
The key things to remember about borrowing traffic is that you have to give something in return. This can make it tricky when targeting very successful websites.
3. Create It.
Creating your own traffic is one of the best ways to start bringing people into your website. There are literally hundreds of ways to start creating your traffic but I’m just going to tell you about two of the most popular.
Article marketing is a great way of generating traffic. You can write your articles about your chosen niche, offering advice, definitions, explanations, news, reviews just to name a few. Once you have created your articles you can put them on your website or blog as content. You can also upload them to article directories or even assemble a few of them into a white paper or ebook to give away to visitors.
Video is currently the big thing on the internet world. Everywhere you look there are videos for everything. 50% of all web traffic is video and YouTube alone receives 12.5% of all the traffic out there. YouTube has made it possible for anyone to upload their videos for the whole world to see. Just as you can create an article about anything you can do the same thing with video. The best option is to do both: Create it in print and create it in video.
Five Excellent Advice That Will Assist You Build Your Specific Mailing List
August 26, 2008
How many occasions have you stumbled upon the line “money is in the list?”
The online marketing tycoons these days know what it means from memory. One of the several matters they have in general is a great, and ever responsive, mailing list. Trust me, they get most of their profits from their respective lists.
Here are 5 terrific advice that will aid you create your specific mailing list.
1. Give free products. Whether it’s a guide produce similar to an eBook or a special data, a software program, or any other sort of programmed commodity, you can catch your prospects’ notice by providing such items for nothing. Make their subscription to your mailing list a requirement for the download of the alleged product. This is undoubtedly the most effective, therefore the most famous, way of a huge mailing list at a somewhat fast time.
2. Form organizations with other marketers who maintain receptive lists. Do you require prompt outcomes? Hunt on the same wave length entrepreneurs and make a JV with them. Mainly, you’ll just need to generate a group of merchandise from each JV colleague’s catalog. You can promote these goods to your prospect consumer free of charge, or for a small, low amount. Now, here’s the idea: before a target can download a product, he must first register to the product holder’s list. If you can create a JV consisting of 5 associates, each target can possibly register all of the 5 mailing lists concerned.
3. List exchange. Look for a marketer with a big list. Offer to advertise his list in your emails to the members of your list. Ask him to do likewise. The consequence is fabulous! You’d be able to expand each other’s list!
4. Give considerable cut rates for your upcoming items. A nice way to win your targets’ registration is by enticing them with anything valuable. The thought of getting wonderful savings for upcoming packages you will sell will be an exceptional motivation for them to hand over you with their links.
5. Employ a squeeze page. Just make a highly helpful page that will encourage your visitors’ interest. Though, only part of the figures you will display should be instantly visible. If your visitors would wish to learn more about the issue you are conferring, make them to join to your mailing list to get right to therest of the said information. This is an excellent way of building your list very, very quick.
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August 24, 2008
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How to Choose Money Keywords & Cash In with Jon Leger’s 3WayLinks
August 23, 2008
Hi everyone,
I’m revealing my secret strategy for you to unleash the full potential of Jonathan Leger’s 3WayLinks Google ranking system.
It’s the exactly what I learn from super affiliates who use this secret tactic to rake in tens of thousand affiliate cash by promoting affiliate products.
Did you know that choosing your keywords is the MOST important part of the whole process? I can say 99% of the marketers who fail with 3WayLinks are doing this step wrong.
Many people just chase to rank those popular keywords and build sites with them. But soon they found these keywords are hard to get ranked. Even if they’re getting traffic, they get no sales in this kind of search traffic. Big fail. So they complain this system is not working.
What I advise is to aim to rank what I call “money keywords”.
When you’re building a site to promote affiliate products, the 5 keywords strings you MUST target are: the product name, product name review, buy product name, purchase product name, and product name bonus.
But why?
Because people searching on these words are interested in the product. They want to read positive reviews to convince them to buy and they are already ready to buy!
The keywords I mention are money keywords which guarantee to make sales and also easy to rank in the search engines.
You may not expect to get huge traffic but the conversions will be just fantastic.
Even though you get less traffic, you end up making more money.
You can easily leave your competitors in the dust with 3WayLinks because you get much less competition with these keywords. Because 250 links from 3WL are absolutely enough.
And good news is now Google’s External Keyword Tool reports the exact search volume (maybe the death of all major keyword tools?)
That means now it’s not hard to decide which keywords are worth to rank, since 3WL only allows you to choose 3 keywords of your choice to rank on.
You just choose to rank the product related money keywords which have healthy search volumes.
Jon also includes a free report on keyword selection in the 3WL member area, which will help you how to find low to mid-competition keywords to aim for. Read it carefully.
Conclusion: 3WayLinks is an awesome tool for getting hands-off Google rankings for mini sites, affiliate review sites and small content sites. Use it to get traffic for your mini-sites while eventually serving link juice and traffic for your authority sites.
Discover the True Purpose Behind Free For All Sites
August 17, 2008
For those of you who don’t know what an FFA site is, it’s basically a website where you can post a link/add to your website for free. Generally it is also posted to many other sites at the same time and hopefully somebody sees your link…free advertising in other words. This also creates backlinks to your website. When you post a link, you are also giving permission (whether you know it or not) to receive confirmation e-mails back from the site owner.
For people new to all this however, it can be baffling. Sometimes they are angry when they not only do not see a flood of sales coming their way from their posting, but they start receiving other people’s offers instead. It can be quite frustrating for a newbie.
Let’s back up a moment and look at the bigger picture of what an FFA site is and its TRUE purpose. The true purpose of an FFA site is for the owner of that site to promote his/her business. It’s really not just because he’s a nice guy giving people a free advertising place. (If it were such a goldmine for pulling in sales, he would be doing it himself). That is just the bait, getting people to his site to post their links, thinking they are getting free advertising, so he can respond with “confirmation” of your link, and his business ad.
The confirmation emails you receive are not considered spam, as you had agreed to receive them for the privilege of posting on their site. Who reads these ads anyways? Is posting to FFA’s a total waste of time then? Not necessarily, as you will get an occasional sale, people do go back and post repeated ads and sometimes take a quick look while trying to see where their links are.
So how do you really use them for your benefit? Get your own FFA site to promote your business. There are many excellent ones out there, shop around to find which you like best. Many offer free or paid upgrade versions and the phrase “you get what you pay for” comes to mind. I’ve used several kinds and found the paid upgrades more than paid for themselves.
Just about anything can be promoted through FFA sites, informational products, vitamins, physical products, you name it. You need traffic coming to your site for sales whatever it is your selling. Without it, no sales. These sites provide a means for visitors to find your site. Classified ad sites work basically the same and can also be another avenue to explore for traffic.
Increasing Referrals Is Easier Than You Think
August 16, 2008
Noways, people are very selfish. They do not have time to worry about the needs of other people. This is why online retailers must use innovative strategies to ensure their website generates referrals.
Here’s why your referral program may not be working…
Convincing your visitors to invite their friends is not an easy task. Most people barely have enough time to focus on their own needs, not to mention yours.
Unless you are dangling a pretty good incentive out there that pushes your customers’ instant gratification button, guess what? You’re going to find that many of your otherwise loyal buyers aren’t going to take time to contact their circle of friends and help you make a sale.
Offering cash incentives may seem like a could idea, but…
Let’s face it, everybody likes money. However, offering cash in exchange for referrals may not be your best option. Most people feel uneasy about making money from their friends.
Automatic Redirect Is The Solution
What if you could instantly reward customers who provide referrals with low-cost, high perceived-value Free Gifts?
You need to instantly reward your visitors. Your visitor tells his friends about your website, and boom, he is immediately rewarded for his efforts.
And even better, what if you could do it automatically? How would you like to set up your referral program one time and never have to touch it again?
Think about this, your visitors invites their friends to your website by importing their contacts from their favorite web mail service. This is the best strategy.
That is EXACTLY the way that web sites like MySpace? and FaceBook? work. They have their own “Friend” adding programs that have been wildly responsible for building huge membership lists in a very short time.
Will You Consider Social Bookmarking
August 7, 2008
Social bookmarking is one of the things you may need to do when you are trying to promote your sites. You can either your site to social bookmarking site yourself or to hire someone to submit for you. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of companies which will provide social bookmark submission services.
You will certainly know what a bookmark is. However, you may not know exactly what social bookmark is. In fact, they are some free sites which allow you to share your favorite sites.
You may think that you can bookmark your favorite sites using your web browser. In fact, it is really good to bookmark the site so that you can refer to it from time to time. However, it will not be possible for you to remember all your favorite sites when you are not using your own computer. Consequently you will want to be able to access your bookmarks even if you are not using your own computer.
To this end you may use the social bookmarking sites to stored your favorite sites or the sites you find useful. The advantage of using a social bookmarking system is that you can access your bookmarks anywhere and anytime.
What is even more interesting is that you can share your bookmark with the others. If you set the bookmarks to be visible to the public, other web surfers will be able to see your favorite sites.
The idea of public bookmarks will help you to promote your sites. When you submit your site to a social bookmarking site, other users of the bookmarking site can see your bookmark and also your site. People will visit your site when they feel interested.
In fact, you will get a lot of traffic from the social bookmarking sites if your site can be displayed on the home page of the social bookmarking site. You may wonder why this will happen. As a matter of fact, when your site is submitted by a lot of users to the social bookmarking site, the bookmarking site may put your site in the first page.
As a matter of fact, social bookmarks can help to improve the link popularity of your site. When you bookmark your site, there will be a link to your site. This will certainly help to boost your search engine ranking in the long run.
Traffic Secrets 2.0
August 7, 2008
In August of 2004, the internet marketing world and the internet in general would never be the same. What event caused such a change? It was when John Reese released his original Traffic Secrets course, and the art of driving targeted traffic to your websites was changed forever. Even at a costly $997, it quickly became one of the bestselling internet marketing courses of all time. And shortly after its release many success stories started pouring in from people that bought the course, applied its techniques and started getting massive amounts of targeted traffic.
Many people have already made the decision to get their copy of this course and all the details hadn’t been released yet! This speaks directly to the top-notch products that John Reese has released in the past they just plain WORK and help people succeed.
Because of all these changes, Reese has been quietly watching, testing and formulating a brand new system to take advantage of all these new opportunities, thus Traffic Secrets 2 was born. In the process he has tested hundreds of traffic strategies and tactics related to all these new changes on the internet and has discovered many, many new ways to generate targeted traffic.
The latest free video from John Reese for Traffic Secrets 2.0 is here. Click on any of the links below you will be taken to video 1, just fill in your email address and you will be taken to the latest video.
Any person that can browse the internet will be able to put this system to work for them and their business. Even advanced marketers will benefit from the wisdom and research of Traffic Secrets 2.
Market Discovery - Finding a hungry market is the key to your success online. John teaches you how to identify the markets with the most potential for giant profits.
This system will work for any niche market and any business model. If your business has a web site it will work for you - even if you’re somewhat new to Internet Marketing.
John has actually made the decision to go with a much LOWER PRICE for this new course. And this new course is even better than the original Traffic Secrets! He is going with a lower price so he can sell it to more people; many couldn’t afford the original course at $997.
Receive Unheard of Traffic To Your Website With These 5 Tips
August 5, 2008
If you are a website owner or website developer, a huge part of your online success is going to be on how you promote your website. Marketing is essential to introducing your website to as many targeted people as possible. However, you may not be familiar with some of the best ways out there for marketing your website online. By using the internet, you can take your product or service from being local, to world wide in just a few clicks of the mouse. So, if you are not familiar with the various web 2.0 tactics and techniques that can be used to promote your website, sit back and read on.
#1 - Use Social Networking Sites - One great way that you can market your website online is by using social networking sites. These sites can help you to generate a huge amount of traffic to your website. There are so many people who currently use these social networking sites to stay in touch with family, friends, business associates, customers, etc. With social networking sites you can establish yourself as a person that is credible and start communicating with people you add as friends to your online profile. Having profiles and blogs on sites like Facebook and MySpace can help you interact with people interested in your product or service.
#2 - Create Video Commercials Or Tutorials And Post Them On YouTube - Another great way to market online is to create a commercial and then place it on YouTube. Creating videos will benefit you greatly, because millions of users visit YouTube to watch videos. With a video, you can demonstrate how your product or service works, get testimonials of others who used your product or service, and the list goes on. Just be creative and different. Guaranteed you will attract attention.
#3 - Post on Craigslist - You can also use Craigslist to advertise your business. Posting on Craigslist can help drive more traffic to your website. There are many online users who visit Craigslist for a variety of reasons like searching for jobs, advertising services, or even looking for information. You can post your ad for your product or service in it’s proper category. Doing so will guarantee targeted traffic. Our company has online seminars showing you how to place images and url links in craiglist ads. Be sure to sign up for our free newsletter below.
#4 - Create Your Own Blog - Many people today are finding that creating a blog is an excellent way to market just about anything. When you build up a blog, you basically work to build up a readership, and over time they begin to trust you and what you have to say. While you will be able to use the blog to promote your product or service, you will also want to be sure that you provide your readers with helpful information that will keep them coming back again and again.
People love knowledge, and when you share knowledge on your blog that people are not familiar with, you will get them to become repeat visitors. Make sure that the articles are well written and interesting as well. Offer insightful articles that deal with topics specific to your target audience. No doubt this will keep people coming back to you again for good information.
#5 - Use Online Message Boards - Yet another way that you can successfully market your website online is to use online message boards and forums. This is not really a way for you to go in and start pitching your business but a way that you can help provide people with helpful information. In these forums you should work hard to become a voice that is trusted and an expert in your field.
Your objective is to make sure that you provide other users with plenty of helpful information that will benefit them. Then in your signature file you can add your website url or link for people to get more information about you and your company. Taking the time to post in online message boards and forums will help drive a lot of traffic to your website and promote your product or service. In addition, it is an excellent source to get good quality leads.
Each of these web 2.0 strategies is very important. In fact, when you use all these methods combined together, you will be able to successfully market your website online. So, if you are ready to start really marketing your business, start using these web 2.0 marketing tactics as soon as possible.
Website Traffic: Getting The Right Visitors
August 3, 2008
People talk incessantly about - gaining more website traffic - but they rarely mention that a site really needs targeted website traffic. The only way to have a successful site is to court targeted website traffic — or people who keep coming back to your site, visiting one page after another.
Your site might be pretty and interesting, but the information is useless unless the information is useful to the person reading it. For example: when you browse a book at Amazon.com, you see a list of other books people have bought in that same category. From that list, you might decide to buy again — you’ve just been targeted.
Now, targeted website traffic doesn’t mean guaranteed traffic — just a strong possibility of more website traffic. You don’t want to lure anyone and everyone to your site. Internet loiterers take up space.
Internet loiterers, while harmless, do nothing for sales. You might have a hundred people visit your site, but only ten of them actually buy anything.
The starting point for building traffic is to look at the keywords that you’re using on your site and then see what keywords visitors are using to search. Words are the starting point for any internet search. If someone wanted to find soft dice they could hang from the rear view mirro in their car then they will type related words into a search engine.
This is why you’ll often hear internet marketers talking about ‘getting inside the head of the prospect’. What would they type into a search engine in order to find fuzzy dice? Would it be “car dice”, “furry dice”, “soft hanging dice”? Or some other variation that you’ve never thought of? Picking the right keywords is about improving your chances of success.
So what else are you selling along with your fuzzy hanging rearview mirror car dice? You can’t get targeted website traffic if you don’t know who you’re targeting, so figure out just what kind of site you have. Should car dice should be sold at a car accessories site, a weird gifts site, or a kitsch site? They should be sold on a site that has other merchandise that will appeal to the fuzzy dice people-like fuzzy steering wheel covers, or even animal print clothing, if it’s a retro shop. That approach will get you more website traffic.
Targeted website traffic is like playing the stock market — you can make predictions based on careful research, but you will never know exactly whether your predictions will translate into sales. All you can do is increase the odds of driving more website traffic to your site through targeting your audience.