Generating a Buzz

I am going to break it into two very easy categories - Press Releases and Article Submissions

Press Releases - New websites seem to believe that people who need their service or product will just find them because of that need. Anyone who has started a site just to sit back and let orders or visitors roll in has been quickly reminded that despite being "web", people still need to know you are there. There are plenty of great sites that allow you to "announce" your arrival. Even if you are an established site you are still able to write a press release to announce any new products or tools you may have. Somehow in move from newspapers to internet many have lost fine art of writing an engaging (and self serving of course) press release. I will write another article sometime about that lost art with step by step instructions. In meantime, just read some of other Press Releases and adapt your own. These press releases are spidered by google so it is a great way to not only drive traffic to your site but get a link also.

Here are some sites to start with:

This article is written in question and answer fromat.

Q- Is it really possible to get traffic running into millions to a blog?

A- You know answer is yes, there are blogs getting that kind of traffic now as we speak.

Q- Can any ordinary person build up that kind of traffic?

A- Yes. The secret lies in being able to understand real power of net and then setting up your business to take full advantage of it.

Q- So what is real power of net?

A- Referral marketing. Hotmail grew from zero to millions of users in a few days by setting up a simple system where everybody who sent out mail referred others to service. It was done with a short message at end of mail inviting people to sign up.

Both Google and Yahoo are currently using referral marketing techniques to launch their new services. For example you know that you can only get a Gmail email address by invitation (referral). This service may not have been that hot had it been freely available to everybody.

Even blogs thrive on referral marketing. How do they get those huge audiences within such a short time? It’s by getting linked to as many other blogs and sites as possible. That’s referral marketing, you hear about a blog from somebody else, you visit and like it and send a close friend link.

That is real power of net, its’ amazing ability to spread a referral message efficiently and at high speed. If you see a good movie, you may forget to tell your spouse or friend about it. You may even forget th title and what theatre it is showing in. But net does not forget. A link does not forget, as long as it is there.

Q- So how do I set up my blog to take advantage of this referral power?

A-There are two methods. The first is to try and get as many links as possible leading to your blog. There are various methods of triggering off process, including using articles. This is slow method everybody is already using (with various variations of course) but with competition between blogs you’ll need a lot of luck. According to a recent article in BusinessWeek, there are 9 million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones popping up daily.

Q- And second…

A- The second is reason why we are having this interview. It is a simple technique where you combine articles (already written for you), with a special viral web site of your own. You simply register at this site and then put link to your blog there. But before you do so, you will have to view other sites and get a code from each site to enter into your registration process. As a result you will be visiting other blogs and sites. The good news is that everybody who joins has to do same. And it also means that by just getting 7 people to join who in turn get 7 people each, you will have 16,807 people on your fifth level and a total of 16,807 + 2,401 + 343 + 49 = 19,600!! Just by getting only 7 people to join.