Making Effective Use of Traffic ExchangesWritten by Brian Holte
Making Effective Use of Traffic Exchanges Attention Opportunity Seekers!A look inside guts of a traffic exchange. ©-by Brian Holte •What are traffic exchanges? Traffic exchanges are used by 100,000 + people who are interested in same goals as you are, marketing your product and services. •How do traffic exchanges work? Simply put, a group of people (myself included) who agree to surf and view pages created by other people. •What benefits do traffic exchanges bring you? The first way is in Traffic Exchange Programs, brings people who are interested in what product or service you have to offer. •What is a down line? A down line is where you have opportunity to increase traffic to you site by having others sign in under you and promote your service for you without any extra work on your part. •How to build down lines? There are no magical ways to increase your down lines except by uploading your article and waiting for it to be spidered by search engines. Your best bet is to pick 2 traffic generating articles, and you also need a spider to crawl your site. It’s always better to let spiders find your pages on their own. •How many levels do you get credit for? Most Traffic Exchanges have a down line of 7 or so, needless to say possibilities are there for continued growth •What kind of traffic exchange programs works best? Well, that all depends on your personal needs. There are 2 different types of ways you could go about it, continue to use free version of program you have picked until you have a big enough down line. Once you have a half decent down line under you, you might want to upgrade Pro so you receive more benefits than guy who chooses Free version (like money and freebies).
| | Motivating Shoppers with Online Coupons (Part 1 of 2)Written by Gary Gray
Online shopping continues to grow at leaps and bounds. Depending on who you ask, numbers for increase in e-commerce have been consistently coming in at 20-30% year over year. These numbers present a great opportunity for online stores of both products and services. But despite these staggering figures, increasing competition continues to dilute marketplace. One great opportunity for sellers to increase traffic and revenue in their virtual stores is to offer online coupon codes and discounts through an affiliate program and their advertising. Coupons and discounts have always been a great way to motivate buyers in brick and mortar stores, and now that opportunity has migrated to web shopping! Coupon codes with expiration help motivate buyers into taking advantage of a one-time discount. Suggesting creative such as “10% off home and garden orders over $50,” for instance, gives not only buyers a great opportunity for a deal, but it allows sellers to push a sale or take advantage of seasonal fluctuations in marketplace. Online coupons can also be a great way to push a specific product in excess inventory or a service that is high demand. By offering a coupon like “Save 20% on Rossignol Zenith Ski’s,” or “Web hosting only $3.99 a month – hurry expires in 5 days,” sellers are able to create a real or fictitious supply or demand by offering these deep discounts to their website visitors. A great place to find examples of these online coupons for some of web’s top merchants can be found at Coupon Chief. Another great opportunity to use coupons is with free shipping discount coupons. Many smart online shoppers are beginning to realize incremental cost to purchasing online due to shipping, sometimes increasing their end price by 10 – 20%! One source of substantial motivation to these buyers can come from giving a free shipping deal. This allows those customers who can’t leave house or prefer to shop in privacy of their home to realize same (or even discounted) cost to making their purchases online.
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