10 Quick Traffic Building Tips For Any
Web Site
by Terry Dean
(C)
Terry Dean.All Rights Reserved
http://www.netbreakthroughs.com
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.
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Terry Dean teaches Why Almost Everyone Is Dead Wrong
About Internet Marketing... Including How to Create An
Instant Flood Of Cash-In-Hand Traffic To Your Site
(Which You Can Have Up And Collecting Orders In Under
Two Hours From Scratch)!
Visit
http://www.netbreakthroughs.com for details.
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