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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 27 Year Old Indiana Farm Boy, Reveals His Secret Formula for
Generating New Automatic Streams of Internet Income For Any Business In
72 Hours Or Less...Free Report: mailto:formula@bizpromo.com
http://www.bizpromo.com
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