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Thursday, October 19, 2006

5 Top Tips For Attracting Targeted Traffic

One of the most common needs of online business owners is
traffic. Without traffic, your web site barely exists, and
is unlikely to make any profit whatsoever. With traffic,
you stand a much greater chance of success - but not just
any traffic.

As the owner of a network of web sites receiving well over
a million hits a month, in this article I give you my five
top tips for increasing targeted traffic to your web site.

Newbies on the web frequently make the mistake of just
wanting traffic, and join any and every program offering
just that - "thousands of hits to your web site", with the
vast majority of them completely worthless. When their web
sites fail to make any money, many of them give up on the
web as a money-making myth.

For those that do persist, and try to learn from their
experience, they realize it's not just any traffic they
need - it's targeted traffic. That means web site visitors
who actually want to visit (rather than those who are
'forced' to visit via some traffic exchange program), and
so are actually interested in what you have to offer.

This type of traffic is far more profitable to you - your
visitors are far more likely to purchase from you, simply
because you have what they want.

But how can you attract targeted traffic?

Here are my five top tips:

1. An Affiliate Program

This works by giving those who promote your products a
commission if they make a sale. Over time you can build up
an army of people who are busy promoting your web sites for
you.

My own affiliates account for well over half of all my
sales, and to do that, by definition they have to be
pushing a lot of traffic my way.

You can begin to see what my traffic and sales levels might
look like without an affiliate program.

For beginners who are selling digital products such as
ebooks or software, the easiest and cheapest way to start
your own affiliate program is through ClickBank. That's how
I started and I still use them today.

2. Add Content

Providing quality content on your web site is an excellent
way to permanently increase traffic to your web site.

Search engines like Google appear to favor web sites with a
clear navigation structure that provide quality content
within a certain genre - that means not adding anything you
can think of to your web site, but focus on a particular
niche, and provide content broadly in line with that.

You don't even have to create it all yourself. For example,
look in article directories on the web for free reprint
articles you can use, such as http://IdeaMarketers.com.

3. Create Content

Just as you are looking for content you can quickly add to
your web site, so are thousands of other publishers. By
creating content yourself, you can not only put it up on
your own web site, but also provide it to others for their
use with a small resource box at the end of the article
with a link to your web site.

In so doing, you can have literally hundreds of web sites
all linking to yours. This provides a consistent stream of
targeted traffic from readers of the article who want to
follow through to your web site, and also from search
engines like Google, where your ranking will broadly
increase in line with the number of web sites linking to
you.

Hundreds of ezine publishers are also on the look out for
quality content that they can publish, on a wide range of
topics - if a publisher with a large mailing list chooses
to publish your article, this can lead to a surge in both
traffic and sales on your web site when their ezine is
published. Many ezines are published online too, providing
another permanent link and source of high quality traffic
to your web site.

There are various courses and ebooks available online that
can teach you how to effectively distribute your articles
and get them published - there's also a free e-course
available at http:/ akanomi.com/publish-articles.php that
tells you nearly everything you need to know.


4. Publish An Ezine

One of the most effective ways to build a loyal base of
repeat visitors for your web site is your own mailing list,
whether it's an ezine that publishes regularly, or a
mailing list who you occasionally mail to.

By publishing quality information in your emails, you
increase your credibility, build trust with your
subscribers, and encourage repeated visits to your web
site.

5. Pay Per Click Engines

When you use pay-per-click engines, you are effectively
paying to have a high ranking position for certain
keywords, on certain search engines. If you choose your
keywords carefully, the traffic is highly targeted - the
trick is to ensure you are not paying more per click than
each visitor is worth.

To do this effectively requires some careful tracking of
the visitors that arrive at your site from your keyword
placements, but done correctly, the end result is net
profit for you.

The main pay-per-click engines are Google Adwords and
Overture - with Google, your ads are displayed within
minutes; with Overture, it can take a few hours to a few
days to have your ads approved and displayed.

I personally use all of the above methods to attract
targeted traffic to my web site - of course, that's not the
end of the road in terms of web site profitability. You
then need to ensure that a proportion of this targeted
traffic converts into paying customers. Once you've
mastered this too, you are well on your way to online
success.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

10 Tips to Avoid Getting Ripped Off by Web Traffic Exper

If you are looking at ways to increase traffic to your website there are many things you can do. Here are 10 tips to avoid getting ripped off by the mounting army of web traffic experts. Most of them will just take your money and waste your time.

1 - Unless you are particularly lazy or have plenty of money to waste, do NOT pay for information that is easily available FREE of charge. A good place to find FREE web traffic information is http://www.IdeaMarketers.com. Many knowledgeable people post all sorts of valuable information at this site. Just put the word "traffic" or "hits" into the search facility and start reading. Another good site to visit is http://www.searchengines.com/optimization/

2 - Explore all avenues of FREE information and FREE search engine submission before you start spending money. If you do this you will have a "benchmark" of statistics against which you can measure the results of the techniques and information you pay for. Also, implement just one change at a time and monitor your statistics for a few days before making further changes.

3 - If you do something that increases your "hits" and the traffic coming to your site, do more of it. If you do something that decreases your hits and traffic, stop doing it. This demonstrates the advantage of keeping a journal of everything you do.

4 - The more you learn to do for yourself, the less you will have to rely on others to do for you - and the more difficult it will be for others to trick you! There is no more powerful weapon than education. Read books and search the internet for the information you need. A good place to start is to teach yourself HTML (hyper text mark up language). Your education and thirst for knowledge will save you money.

5 - Do NOT, under any circumstances, be gullible enough to believe any of the promises made by persons professing to know how to "drive" traffic through your site. What is promised often does not equal what is delivered. Read past the "hype" to get to the truth.

6 - Check out the credentials of all the self-appointed "experts," "gurus," "mentors" and "web professors." If they have the letters PhD after their name, understand that it probably stands for "piled high and deep." If you find somebody that you think you can trust, ask for some trade references before you buy their wares. Use them.

7 - Before entering your credit card details into that secure server, remember what you had to do to earn the money you are spending. You can spend every cent you have trying to get traffic to your site. There are thousands of schemes and plans. All of them profess to be the ultimate fix. Remember also how difficult it is to lower that credit card balance when the statement arrives.

8 - This is good general advice for anything. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and has webbed feet, chances are... it really is a DUCK! Trust your instincts. Saying no thank you when you are suspicious of something can save you time, money and grief.

9 - Ask friends to review your website and get them to give you an honest appraisal of it. Any negative comments are good because they will show you where you need to improve. Being "too close" to a project can often blind you from the obvious.

10 - A clean, uncluttered site offering quality information will attract some traffic by virtue of its own inherent value. Conversely, a useless, inaccurate, cluttered site can have thousands of dollars spent on it and it will never retain traffic. You want people to keep coming back, don't you? Quality content is KING!

For more details on all of the above read Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of "A Simple Guide to Analyzing All Those Web Traffic Ideas." You can locate all of these at the Motivation and Self Esteem for Success website at the URL below.

PS: If you think this information might help a friend from falling prey to these dubious practices you can send them a copy of this article (or any related parts) or direct them to the website URL above. Let's get the word out and put a stop to this.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Boost Site Rankings, Get Free Traffic, Get Paid Too!

Free Traffic Exchange Systems have become one of the most popular ways on the internet to generate and receive free traffic. These are also commonly known as Auto Surf and Manual Surf sites. While offering a valuable free traffic resource for your members, you will also receive a lot of extra traffic to sell, or send to your own sites!

By maintaining an exchange ratio of 4:3 or 2:1 you will receive 25% to 50% of all the free traffic being generated. The exchange ratio is how many sites a member must visit before they receive a visit to their site. A 2:1 exchange ratio would mean that for every two sites a member visits, they will receive one visit from another member.

Properly managed traffic exchange systems are well known to experience a "very high growth rate" which results in even more traffic, and additional revenue from member advertising or upgraded member accounts. These sites are automated and require a minimal amount of time each day to approve new sites and answer member questions or concerns.

Perhaps a lot of free traffic and some extra revenue sound good to you, but another advantage to owning a free traffic exchange system is that members will link to your site to receive free referral credits. The result is a lot of incoming links to your site, and a lot of traffic to your site. That means that your site's Alexa Ranking will skyrocket, and your Google Page Rank will also increase.

Just take a look at the Alexa Rankings for some of the popular traffic exchange sites and you will see what I mean. We know of traffic exchange sites that are in the 500 range. Our own sites have jumped from in the millions to one hundred thousand or less in just a few months and are still climbing as they grow. Currently showing well over a million members site a month, we are enjoying the fact 30% or more of that traffic is being sent to our own sites for absolutely free.

Owning a free traffic exchange system is a very inexpensive way to increase your site rankings, receive a lot of free traffic, and get paid for doing it. We've spent a great deal of our own time researching the different traffic exchange software available and have found the best! If you would like to start your own free traffic exchange system visit the demo we have set up for our recommended choice.

3 Steps To Increasing Your Web traffic for Free

You own a website and you want more traffic. More traffic will lead to more sales and more ad revenue. The basic costs of a website, once it is finished, are small. All you need to do is get some more visitors. Pay per Click might not be economical for you in that 100 visitors at 10 cents a click is $10. If only 2 out of 100 buy your $1 product, you are losing $8 per hundred people. Next.

So, this is what you do.

First, sign up for the Free Link Exchange Coop at Digital Point. This is the best free deal going. It is a 'weight based' system. The more weight your site brings to the Coop, the more your ad is shown on the Coop Network. Amazing way of developing backlinks and getting advertising placement at the same time. As time goes on and you get more backlinks from other sources, your weight will increase. As your site grows in popularity you get more credit in the weight system.

Second, get an account at LinkSwapper. The service is free and it helps you get and manage a reciprocal link campaign. There are identical services to this that cost $20/mo, but this is the best deal because it is free always. If you are reading this, I'm sure you already know that search engines like sites with a lot of “backlinks” (links from other sites to yours). Word to the wise, the actual text of the link shouldn't be YourSite.com. Use one of your keywords in the text. If you sell DVDs by mail, the text of your link on another site should be “Comedy DVDs” or “Action DVDs”, not StevesDvdStore.com.

Third, Use a blog and write about topics related to your site. Put a static link to your site in the left hand column. Blogger is free and owned by Google. If you provide good content and update continually, it won't be long before the search engines spider your entire site – they'll be following it from the blog. Make sure and ping the blog to different search engines to hurry them along in the process.

Good luck!