April 23, 2008
Are You Using These 5 Great Traffic Sources…
In my new product “The Proven Internet Profit System” (due for release in the next 2 weeks) I teach all about using Google Adwords for maximum profit.
But I also reveal my five favorite other traffic methods that I will outline below:
So here’s what I use……..
1. Other pay per click programs namely Yahoo and MSN …
For Yahoo go to http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/index.php?&abr=2022403519 and for MSN go to https://adcenter.microsoft.com/
They are similar to Adwords in their basic concept but the set up can take a little learning - but both have good support and tutorials for you to learn this stuff pretty easily
They don’t get anywhere near as much traffic as Google but are the “best of the rest” in my opinion.
A quick and simple way to use them is just take your top 5 keywords and throw them into Yahoo and MSN campaigns.
Don’t worry so much about your big keyword lists as the relatively low number of clicks you will get on them means that often they are likely to be more hassle to set up than they are worth with Yahoo and MSN.
Remember you are looking for the “best bang for your buck” when looking at traffic sources - not to do all 77 perfectly; there simply isn’t time in the day!
2. Articles
Articles are a great way of establishing credibility in a niche and driving traffic for no money to your site (notice I don’t say free as articles cost you time to write and post so very clearly not FREE traffic).
You should write articles about 600-800 words long with the following 3 step formula:
- Tell them what the articles about
- Give Them The Content
- Tell Them What You Just Told Them
And don’t forget to have your web address in the resource box as that’s how you get “paid” for writing the article.
You may have heard of bum marketing which is a way of a writing articles to hopefully get on to the front page of Google for your keyword or phrase and is very clever.
Go to www.BumMarketingMethod.com to get a great free course on using this.
Some of the best sites to submit articles to are:
You can do this manually OK but there is a great tool that I highly recommend called http://www.submityourarticle.com/
This will automatically post your articles to all the top directory sites on the web – it does up to 8 per month - and if you can post that many articles per month you will be doing very well.
3. Forum Marketing
This is not a million miles from article marketing but a lot quicker -
Go to popular forums in your niche and submit helpful answers and interesting questions (but don’t spam).
Make sure the sites allow you to put your web address in the signature box when you post - otherwise it’s a wasted effort.
People who like your answers may well check your site out - giving you more no cost traffic.
But be disciplined and don’t spend 3 hours reading posts and call it work!!
4. Joint Ventures
This is a great and very lucrative way of getting traffic.
Find other webmasters in your niche who have lists of subscribers and get them to promote your product as a JV partner.
Contact them by email first - explaining the great benefits of your product to their list and also the healthy commission they will make.
If they don’t reply to email get on the phone and speak to them.
My best Joint Venture took about 2 months to set up (with emails and phone calls just to get them to send 1 little email that I pre-wrote for them!)
But when it converted to literally hundreds of sales and new subscribers I was double pleased I made the effort.
And that’s another great tip - provide JV partners with pre-written emails to save them time and make them more likely to say “yes”.
Just Google on your various keywords to find the top websites then list their details off methodically and make contact - it’s that simple!
5. Blogging
Having your own blog is a great way to drive traffic and keep your prospects interested.
You can put tips, ideas, articles (that you have already written!) on there and tell people to go take a look and add their comments.
Pretty soon you can get quite a community feel going on there which ultimately means loyalty to you (and $$’s in your pocket when it comes to selling product).
There are clever but simple things you can do like blogging and pinging, “digging” and all sorts to get your blog well-linked and all over the blog.
I learnt a lot of this recently from the excellent free eBook “Become a Wordpress Guru in 24 Hours” by Tony Shepherd which you can get at:
Happy marketing
John Hillage
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