How to get bundles of traffic to your website …Written by Rob Rawson
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Solo email advertisements – Instead of advertising in an ezine, you may be ableto pay to send out a solo mailing to readers of an ezine. Online classifieds – There are a number of places where you can advertise in online classifieds, sometimes for free or sometimes you need to pay. I haven’t had any personal experience with this area, and I’m not sure that it is really that effective, but everything is worth a try! Offline advertising – Some companies have had success in advertising in offline media such as newspapers and magazines. I wouldn’t focus on this area until you have exhausted all other online possibilities. Banner advertising – If you have a product which is aimed at a general consumer market (and you have good conversion rates) then you can be quite successful with this method. However, you will generally need to spend a minimum of $5000 just to test and see if it is working (that’s if you advertise on any of major banner networks). I wouldn’t recommend banner advertising unless you have experience with Internet marketing and / or you have a really great product or offer. Pop-ups – As you probably already know, untargeted pop-ups are generally quite ineffective (unless your aim is to have your visitors pull their own hair out!). Once again it can work but it is only for those who are experienced at game. Targeted pop-ups can be a lot more effective but you need to make sure that they are really targeted – a lot of research is needed to make successful use of ‘pops’. Guaranteed traffic 10,000 hits!!! – If you ever see any promotions for guaranteed hits, for example: “10,000 hits for $360” - stay away. Generally, companies making these offers will get you hits by using overpriced pop-up traffic. Other online advertising methods – There are many other ways niche methods to advertise online and we can’t cover all in this issue of Ecourse, but they are all worth trying as long as it doesn’t cost you too much money. Free links from other sites – A highly recommended way to boost traffic is to get links from other sites for free. To get quality traffic site should have a similar subject to yours and other site needs to give your site a great recommendation from a page that people visit on their site -not just a simple link from their links page- A link from their links page may increase your popularity with Google but it is unlikely to get you any visitors. Affiliate links from other sites – An affiliate program is a great way to get visitors to your site to buy your product. This is obviously only appropriate if you have a product to sell which you can offer an affiliate commission on. If you are only selling other people’s products through their affiliate programs then you can’t really have an affiliate program of your own. Other paid links from other sites – You can pay other sites to link to your site in an arrangement where you pay per month or other negotiated period. Affiliate networks – If you have an affiliate program you can get your program onto an affiliate network which gives you instant access to a whole lot of new affiliates who can promote your program. Joint Ventures – I have left this to last because it is one of most effective methods. You can get a relationship with someone who has a site in your general topic area or an ezine in your topic area. The key to this method is to develop a relationship with that person. Then they can promote your product and get a commission from sales that ensue. Which method should I use? There is no best method for getting traffic. Generating quality traffic requires some hard work and dedication – everyone will hit and miss using methods described above. The most important thing is to test each method, look at results and overall trends in your sales and then decide which method is best for you. Profitpuppy.com
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| | It Really Is Simple RSSWritten by Tony Dean
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'News Feeds' are readable in a software called a 'News Reader', these are usually free to download and use right away to look at some of feeds that are out there. There are directories for feeds which you can visit and get some addresses of some suitable ones to read each day, some of these feeds are more like 'blogs' in that, they change contents several times a day, which gives a feed a 'fresher' feel to it, and which search engines like to see. They also would like to see web site owners re-freshing there web site contents on at least a daily basis, it does help with ranking. It has been slated that next incarnations of browser will be 'feed' compatible, they will be reading 'news feeds' as well as viewing web sites. When this does happen 'information revolution' will be really turned full on! Any one, even you, can set up a 'news feed', it really is simple, and if you don't set one up, you are going to be like only person in your street who does not have television or radio, you are going to miss out on 'information revolution', big time!
Tony Dean runs a web site selling ebooks and software and is author of the ebook:- "Really Simple RSS" which can be got together with a feed reader from:-http://www.ebook-sales.com
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