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Every online business needs targeted traffic - whether it is selling a product, service, affiliate marketing site or Google Adsense site. An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing. He/ she may have the necessary drive, diligence, passion and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works. He/ she may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him/her a fortune if only the whole world could see it. However, all these would prove useless if he/she does not know how to drive traffic to his website.

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. The immensity of the internet as well as the internet business world has given birth to the fierce competition between online businesses, each of whom has his own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? Here are 9 ways to drive targeted traffic…

1. Search engines: What they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.

2. Give unrestricted rights to Ebooks and reports: Create Short ebooks and reports branded with your website link on the footer of every page. Give them away on their website or to your mailing list also give them rights to sell it on their websites and auction sites. What can be better than this for driving traffic to your website? If you give resale rights, come of them will sell it to others and in turn you get more visitors!

3. Link Exchange: Contact other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to one’s own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.

4. Join link exchange programs: This is the new way of linking. This can drive targeted traffic. There are many free link exchanges services. Paying for a link exchange program is also worth your money.

5. Write your own articles: This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.

6. Discussion forums: Participate in discussion forums of your area of expertise and respond to someone’s question. A discussion forum may user of all levels - beginners to advanced users. There are many questions that newbies ask. Make sure you respond to it. After this invite them to visit your website. Make sure your signature file has your links with a very good caption.

7. Joint venture marketing: This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.

8. Newsletter subscription: Creating a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.

9. Knowing one’s market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of one’s website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his effort is worth it. Keep contact info (atleast name and email address) of your customers is critical. Once someone is interested in your product, it is easier to promote other products including affiliate products.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one’s affiliate marketing career inch forward. It is always advantageous to plan one’s moves in any business that he might undertake. This is particularly so in affiliate marketing. If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track. Last but not the least, have some scripts/ tools to perform these actions - bookmark page, set home page, tell a friend and exchange link.

The author Guillermo Jalil owns several businesses including eBay business and other internet businesses. For tips on how to make on the internet from multiple sources of income visit www.internetandmoney.com. For ideas to boost your eBay revenue visit www.startsellingonebay.com.

Over 90% Visitors Leave Your Site Forever.We all know this truth and live with it daily. Even when we promote the most successful affiliate program or highly optimized Adsense website we lost over 90% visitors everyday.

Did You ever wonder how to utilize this traffic and made money from this running away source? Typically You get your traffic from search engines, users type a few keywords and check first site which appear on search result page. If this site contain what user want maybe he buy products from this site. If not user click back button and check second (and next) sites from search listing until he found what he looking for. We all do this the same way everyday.

We can change a little this scenario and add one step between return to search page. When user it’s not satisfied with what You offer on Your page and click back button he don’t return to search result but will see another page with more offers but related to keywords he enter in search window. We all know that it’s high probability he checks this offers. If he don’t find what he looking for and press back button second time he back for search result.

The good thing is that even he don’t buy products from this second page You get money every time when user leave Your page! You loose customer for Your product but anyway You earn money. This concept it’s not new (You can see this when You visit any adult related pages) but contains two new strong points: user get keyword related ads and You get paid even user don’t buy anything from second page. I implemented this feature on many of may web pages and for my surprise I now sell more products because customers see my pages more interesting and often return.

Jacek Michalak makes a good living writing online. Find a more detailed version of this article (and also starting point for all his web pages) at this link: http://www.FairFrugal.com/

In this article, I would like to share with you three methods to launch a powerful viral marketing campaign that would allow your product to propagate itself like wildfire on the internet and bring some traffic to your website.

Method 1: Give your prospects something interesting and original

This might seem obvious to you, but out of the dozens of free ebooks you have downloaded online, how many have actually delivered something of value to you? The answer is pretty obvious: not many. Most viral ebooks nowadays are just rehashed, boring or simply wrongful information. You want to differentiate yourself by offering something of tremendous value for free. Even if you are simply compiling some articles for your ebook, go the extra-mile to find some very insightful and detailed articles that can actually solve a problem for your prospects. If your product is truly useful, it will get a better chance of being passed around.

Method 2: Get an original delivery format

If you want to gain an unfair advantage over your competitors, try changing the format of your viral information and you will be shocked by the results. While everybody is currently passing ebooks around, you should experiment with creating viral audio books or videos. If you pack some valuable contents in those, Trust me: your viral campaign will go through the roof.

Method 3: Leverage your delivery system

In order for your viral product to get into as many hands as possible, you need to position yourself strategically to have it passed around. Here are four possible ways to get your product into as many hands as possible:

- Offer your viral product to product owners as a bonus package: if you have a good product, they will happily oblige and thank you for it. Do not limit yourself to online prospects; you should also look for offline product owners that your product could complement.

- Make your product rebrandable: it will provide a greater incentive for people to actually pass it around with their rebranded links inside. You can use Viral PDF to enable this function, if your product is a PDF file.

- Offer it on eBay for a nominal fee and offer resell and giveaway rights to it. Your goal is to get it in as many hands as possible.

- Look for popular ebook directories where you could offer it

Here is a bonus strategy for go-getters

I think you have noticed an increase in the amount of giveaways offered online. Participate in those one and offer your product as a gift, or better yet organize your own giveaway. This method will also allow you to build a list very fast.

Another important thing to remember is to make sure that your product is branded with your link in every possible location. Include your link in the header and footer. Mention it several times in your product and provide an incentive for people to actually click on it. You can do that by offering some special information or irresistible offer if they click on it.

In conclusion, I would like to remind you to get creative with the process. Experiment with every ideas and tools you can possibly think off. If you would like to get more viral marketing strategies, you can get a free report sharing some simple but powerful techniques at ==>http://www.ActionAccelerator.com

Copyright 2006 by Nadine Avocetien - www.ActionAccelerator.com

Nadine Avocetien is the editor of “Action Accelerator Newsletter” and has helped numerous entrepreneurs take massive action to achieve their goals. Pick up your free copy of her
viral marketing guide and discover powerful strategies that will send your web traffic through the roof.

If you have been marketing on the internet for any length of time you have surely heard that reciprocal linking is a great way to boost your google page rank as well as your search engine ranking. But what does reciprocal linking actually mean?

Reciprocal linking is a joint venture of sorts between you and another website owner to exchange links on each others websites. The benefits of reciprocal linking is getting targeted traffic directed to your website and vice-a-versa. Don’t be afraid to put your competitors website on your links page, especially if they have a high Google page rank. Linking to your competitors will actually help you. For example do a search on Google for your keyword(s) and find your competitor with the number 1 ranking position, now check their links page. You will more than likely find other websites that are sending them quality traffic, as well as other potential reciprocal link partners for your website.

Will any websites link do? No! Non-relevant links won’t help you with Google. Try and stay within your “niche” market.

When looking for potential reciprocal link partners there are few things you can do. Using search engines as mentioned above is a very good way to go about getting reciprocal link partners. Visit the top 10 or 20 sites ranked in Google and yahoo, and do some research on their link partners. Some other things to consider are sites with quality content, articles, reports, e-books, anything that is original. Look for websites that stay within their “niche”, you don’t want link partners that offer everything under the sun and no real substance to their website or business. These types of sites don’t usually last to long on the internet. Two other great free tools for researching reciprocal link partners is the Google and Alexa toolbars. Within the Google toolbar you have the ability to check the page rank Google has assigned to a potential link partner, the higher the page rank the more traffic and quality content that particular website offers. The Alexa toolbar shows you the traffic rank of a potential link partner. Any website within your niche that is that is ranked under a hundred thousand is a good potential link partner.

Now you know how to find link partners, what should you do? Most sites offer you a webpage on their website where you can add your links manually. You fill out a short form with your website url, description, email address and submit it to the webmaster for consideration. You in return add their particulars to your site and with in a day or two after they have had time to find their link on your site you should get an email from the webmaster that says they have added your link. It is that easy. However, with some sites you may have to send a reminder if they have not responded with a week or so. If you still get no response simply delete their link and move on. If they can not show you some common courtesy to bother to let you know that your link was approved or not then you really don’t need them as a partner.

To review, use search engines to find potential link partners with your niche. Research these sites for quality content. Use the Google and Alexa toolbars to find high traffic and high page rank sites to link to. Fill out a short form and start all over again. Remember your looking for quality not necessarily quantity with reciprocal linking. Good Luck.

Copyright 2004 Dirk Wagner

About The Author

Dirk Wagner is CEO and owner of http://team4success.biz and the free, easy to install #1 home business toolbar with automated updates.A website dedicated to helping the home-based business entrepreneur start and succeed with there very own home-based business by publishing his free online course for successful Hoem Business.

My name is Dirk Wagner. I started my internet business in the past with the helping hands of TOP Internet Marketers like Stone Evans. My goal is helping others who are just starting their business and so I have created the #1 Home Business Toolbar.

If you’re feeling a bit of confusion and frustration about how to get visitors to your website and generate more sales, I know exactly how you feel. I felt the same way until I stopped listening to every “big time” marketer that came along with the latest traffic generating trick.

You’ve got dozens of gurus vying for your attention and every one of them has the solution to all of your problems. Right? The proliferation of messages that promise a traffic explosion using new techniques can become overwhelming.

Time out.

Take a deep breath.

Sit back in your chair.

Relax.

Now, if you will focus your energy on a very short list of traffic generation strategies that actually DO work, and commit to continually improving your skills in these few areas, you will be amazed at what you can achieve… WILL achieve.

Websites come in a wide variety of flavors, including…

- Minisites designed to sell individual products
- Portal sites designed to sell a broad selection of products
- Content sites designed to provide information

Of the above site species (minisites, portal sites and content sites), which do you think has the best chance of selling a product and putting income in your bank account?

ANSWER: Minisites.

Let’s talk about web traffic.

Imagine 5 different internet users going to Google, MSN, Yahoo or whatever their favorite search engine happened to be, and each individual enters one of the following search queries:

Search #1: hazards

Search #2: household hazards

Search #3: chemical household hazards

Search #4: chemical household hazards for infants

Search #5: protecting infants from chemical household hazards

If you had a website that sold a device that guaranteed the safety of infants by locking cabinets containing hazardous household chemicals, which of the above visitors do you think would be most likely to buy what you’re selling? I know. I hear you. “That’s pretty obvious, Ron.”

We want internet user #5 most. We may also want #3 and #4. Do we want #1 and #2? Maybe… Maybe not. The answer to that is going to depend on what it takes to get them to our site. But before we attempt to answer that question, HERE’S SOMETHING CRITICAL…

My Question to You: “If you were assured that you could get visitor #5 to your website, where would you send them?”

Let’s say that your website had a variety of home safety products available. You sell everything from fire extinguishers to first aid kits to carbon monoxide detectors to child safe locks.

Your site’s home page has just a little bit of information on each of your home safety product lines. Would you send visitor #5 to your home page?

Or…

Since visitor #5 just did a search for “protecting infants from chemical household hazards”, would you have better results by sending them directly and immediately to the web page where they can order your device that guarantees the safety of their child from chemical household hazards?

Please don’t think that I’m trying to insult your intelligence. I’m not. It’s just that I have received correspondence from other direct marketers online concerned about the low sales of their websites only to find out that whenever that person sent traffic to their site, the traffic was going to their home page rather than to a page that spoke directly to the needs and desires of the visitor.

Alrighty then? Traffic time.

There are only 3 ways to get traffic to your website:

1) Buy it.
2) Borrow it.
3) Steal it.

Since #3 is not an option we’re going to consider, that leaves us with “buy it” and “borrow it”.

Before we go any further, let’s talk about the “Holy Grail” of web traffic. What is it? FREE TRAFFIC! I want it. You want it. Every disillusioned internet marketer wants it.

Here’s the truth…

It’s a myth.

It doesn’t exist.

There is no such thing as free website traffic.

“Ya but Ron, what if I could be #1 in Google for ‘Internet Marketing’ or ‘Website Tools’?”

If you were able to get there or anywhere close, what would be required? What investment in time and resources would be required to land a prized spot such as this? Would you be able to get there for free? Furthermore, how long would you stay there?

Let’s face it, neither Google, Yahoo, Altavista nor MSN wants any individual to be able to control the results of their search engines. That’s why they spend millions upon millions of dollars every year taking steps to ensure that nobody has the knowledge to control all of the top positions.

Is search engine positioning something to aspire to? Perhaps. Given time. But it will not put any money in your pocket in the short term. That’s pretty well guaranteed.

There are only 2 ways to get traffic to your website:

1) Buy it.
2) Borrow it.

Buy it? Yes, buy it. We’re not talking about fortunes changing hands. There’s no need to take out a second or third mortgage on you home to use this strategy. Traffic can be generated to your site for literally pennies per visitor.

Where will you buy traffic to your website? PPC Search Engines. PPC (”Pay Per Click”) search engines give you the best opportunity to find the most motivated buyers and get them to visit your website. This is what you should be considering for your primary method of generating traffic to your website.

Remember above where we considered searcher #1 - searcher #5? We want searcher number five on our website, right? Right. We can and will find searcher #5 on the PPC search engines if we take the right approach. In a little bit I’ll give you a list of PPC search engines to consider using, but first let’s formulate a game plan.

Here’s the basics of PPC advertising:

1) We have a product to sell.

2) We determine what the product has to offer and why someone might want to buy our product. (hint: focus on benefits, not features)

3) We do some keyword research to see if people are out there actually looking for the solution that our product offers.

4) Assuming that there’s sufficient demand for our product /solution, we make a list of the keywords and keyword phrases that people are actually using to conduct their searches.

5) We write an ad for our product in such a way that it gets the attention of the searcher. This may mean changing ad copy slightly from one keyword phrase to the next. Try to put yourself in the position of the person doing the search.

6) We bid on the keywords that we’re targeting with the ad that we’ve written and…

Wa-la! Traffic.

Is this a viable option? Absolutely. Google Adwords ads can be had for as little as $0.05 per click. Overture traffic can be had for as little as $0.10 per click.

If you’re selling a product for $19.95, how many clicks can you buy and still be profitable? One sale out of 199 clicks and you’re profitable. At this rate you only made a nickel, but that was at a conversion rate of only 0.5%! What if you had a conversion rate of 3%? 3% (3 visitors out of 100 become customers) doesn’t sound like too much does it?

If you did indeed have a 3% conversion rate on a $19.95 product and were able to buy traffic for $0.10 per visitor, here’s how the math works:

100 visitors cost you $10.00

3 visitors became customers and spent a total of $59.85.

Subtract your $10.00 advertising cost from your $59.85 revenue, and you have profited $49.85 (or somewhere close after PayPal or other selling fees).

So now, how much can you afford to spend on traffic?

If you’ve been running the above advertising campaign long enough to feel confident that a 3% conversion ratio is something that you can count on, then do the math backwards.

Your net profit is $49.85 for 100 visitors. Therefore, your “per visitor” value is $0.50 (I’m rounding up very slightly). Knowing this is a huge advantage.

Can you find more visitors to your site for $0.20, $0.30 or even $0.40? Of course you can, and it will still be profitable! Obviously, the less you spend on advertising, the more you keep. But if you could find a source of automatic traffic that you knew was profitable, wouldn’t you buy as much as you could find?

This is exciting stuff! PPC traffic can work for you. Yes, there’s a little bit of a learning curve, but that’s true with anything new that you do.

Here’s a list of PPC Search Engines that you should consider starting with:

Google AdWords (http://www.adwords.google.com)
Overture (http://www.overture.com)
FindWhat (http://www.findwhat.com)
Enhance Interactive (http://www.enhance.com)
GoClick (http://www.goclick.com)
7Search (http://www.7search.com)
Kanoodle (http://www.kanoodle.com)
ePilot (http://www.ePilot.com)
Search123 (http://www.search123.com)
SearchFeed Interactive (http://www.searchfeed.com)
eSpotting (http://www.espotting.com)
Xuppa (http://www.xuppa.com)

There are only 2 ways to get traffic to your website:

1) Buy it.
2) Borrow it.

In part 2 of this series, we’ll continue our thoughts on “(1) Buy it” - traffic that is.

Copyright 2005 Ron Hutton

Ron Hutton is a 20 year sales and marketing veteran with a passion for coaching and training. Subscribe to “GoThrive Online”, for big juicy marketing tips in small, easy-to-chew, bite size servings. 17 Free Cool Tools… http://www.gothrive.com

I am sure that most people who have a website are looking into ways to help them to attract more people to read their site. There are many differing opinions on the best way to go about doing this but one thing that most people agree on is that it is essential to build up the number of backward links that point to your site. The question is how do we obtain these links?

It is always best to try to get other websites from the same industry as your own to add a link to your site on their site (on the homepage if possible). This is not as easy as it might seem as most of these people will be reluctant to do so. I have, in the past, spent hours phoning and e-mailing the webmasters from different sites which are in a similar field to my own site. Even when only one person agreed to my request after phoning up thirty people, I was happy. Hopefully this link will be permanent and over time could prove very valuable to me.

People who visit this persons site are now potential visitors to my own site as they may see my link and of course hopefully will click on it. In general the more links I am able to obtain the better, and in time I may well see an increase in my websites page rank. This in turn should move me up a few places in the search engines for my keywords, which of course should then result in more traffic.

This is the value of any backward link. If the page where my link has been added is a high traffic page or has a high page rank value then I am even more fortunate. As an example the link would be of far greater value to my site if it was placed on a page with a page rank five rather than a page with a page rank two.

How many backward links should I be aiming to obtain?

In my humble opinion you have to be careful not to build up the number of these backward links too quickly. It should be an ongoing project throughout the life of the website. If as an example you are able to obtain ten every week for five years, this would be superb. Where it can go wrong is if you obtain:

ten in week one

none in weeks two, three and four

three hundred in week five

none in weeks six, seven and eight

two hundred in week nine

This is very irregular and weeks five and nine suggests you have purchased a whole bundle of links. This could quite easily raise a red flag with the search engines.

There is no quick fix, hard work pays off and we all need to have patience. I always look to the long term and believe in time the work I put in today will be of great benefit to me tomorrow.

Other ways of obtaining links is by:

Writing articles

Purchasing a text link ad

Out of these two options I prefer the writing articles option. It can be quite boring to write these articles in some peoples opinion and in a way I agree. As I have already stated however, hard work pays off and this is a simple way of gaining one-way backward links. I try to ensure that each article that I write is informative and offers the reader some hopefully good advice. On average I probably write seven articles per week promoting different websites.

Stephen Hill promotes different websites including:

stutter therapy

business start up advice

beer brewing tips

It’s no secret

People make money on the internet each and every day from the comfort of their own home. What is there secret you ask? Simply put, successful web site operators generate vast amounts of web traffic. You can’t expect to make much money off an internet site if you don’t have anyone visiting your site. The top sites on the internet attract thousands even millions of unique visitors every month. Now for you web marketing beginners out there, don’t get discouraged if you’re not currently generating these types of numbers. Getting large amounts of traffic to your web site takes a little patience as well as some work. However, you can certainly get ahead of the crowd if you undertake web marketing strategies that go against the grain of what everyone else and there brother is doing to promote their websites.

The strategy

One successful strategy in particular is to search out web sites that are currently receiving growing amounts of internet traffic and then see whether you can advertise or place a reciprocal link on their site. Why would someone with a high traffic site want to help me out you ask? Well there a few reasons why, firstly money it’s no secret you might have to pay to have advertising presence but in many scenarios it is well worth it. Sometimes for as little as $100 a year you can get a click through banner advertisement on a high traffic website. Another reason why an owner of a high traffic site may want to give you presence on his/her website is specific to the reciprocal link option, links. Having multiple links to a website increase traffic and more importantly help a web site’s ranking in the search engines. Google in particular gauges the importance of a website by looking at the number of quality links to it.

How to get presence

So how do I get in contact with someone operating a high traffic generating website? It’s best to try the ‘contact us’ section of a website. If there is a form, try to make your message to the attention of the webmaster. High traffic websites usually have a webmaster whose responsibility is to manage the banner displays and reciprocal links for a web page. Some high traffic websites will even have an advertising section with rate information. For those that don’t have an advertising section, try negotiating a rate that is comfortable to you. Sometimes it’s best to enter agreements that are month by month or are flexible enough to let you exit the agreement. This way you can see how much traffic your ads or links are getting which will determine the overall effectiveness of the ad.

John O’Toole is a founder http://www.cyberlotexchange.com as well as an online marketing guru.

Many people currently doing business on the Internet. Those who are more than interested in getting their feet wet on the Internet, understand the importance of driving traffic to their website. If you are in the market for an online marketing company that can help you increase traffic to your website and thereby increase your sales, there are many things to consider.

When choosing the right business, it is important to ask as many questions of the online marketing company as possible. Without traffic, you will not have any sales and all of your efforts will be in vain.

The best place to start is to ask family and friends if they know of any online marketing companies that can be recommended to you. This is especially helpful if your family and friends have developed a successful and well known presence on the web. Keep in mind, that you should only take the advice of someone you consider trustworthy and have a high opinion of. As well, the company recommended should be one they have personally done business with in an online environment.

If you are unsuccessful finding an online marketing company this way, you can start your search on the Internet. However, it is a good time to caution you. Like in the real world, there are many scams out there. This is also true online. It is best to take some time (do the research) and find reputable companies that will help you drive traffic to your web site.

A company that makes ridiculous or outrageous claims should be avoided at all costs. They may send only a trickle of traffic your way or none at all. In the end you might be held responsible for paying them for doing nothing for you. This happens more often than you might think.

However, it is best to find a company that is able to provide examples of previous sites that they have worked on in which the traffic for the sites has increased and remained steady. As well, it is a good idea to find a marketing company that presents you with a step-by-step strategy that is well thought out. In this way you will know that they are putting forth their best effort to take you to the top of the search engines.

In the end, the time you spend checking the reputation of any online company you consider working with is time well-spent. There are a number of web sites that rate others and don’t forget to check with the better business bureau where the company is located. IMPORTANT: Always, I mean always locate the name, address and telephone number of the owners of the site. Also check online forums and do search engine searches to see if the company has a history of negative dealings with past customers. With that being said, get going. You can do it. Begin now.