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10
Quick Traffic Building Tips For Any Web Site
By Terry Dean
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 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.
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.
Terry Dean, a 5
year veteran of Internet marketing, will Take You
By The Hand and Show You Exact Results of All the
Internet Marketing Techniques he tests and Uses
Every Single Month" Click here to Find Out
More: http://www.netbreakthroughs.com
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