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Traffic Exchanges – Are They Worth the Effort?

Doug Champigny — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:24:55 +0000

There are advertisements, articles and more that all state how great these traffic exchanges are. But are they really worth the time and effort they require? Will you really get a lot of traffic and if you do get traffic, is it good, purchasing traffic?

There are many traffic exchanges; TS25, Traffichits, Traffic Swarm, TrafficG, etc… If you can think of a subject there is probably a traffic exchange named after it – there's even Mafia Traffic and Dead hits. The basic idea is that you click on a website and watch it for 10-30 seconds and for every 1-3 sites you view 1 person will view your site. This can be quite tedious as to get a sizable amount of traffic you must view an awful lot of websites.

Most of these traffic exchanges have come up with an upsell from the free traffic exchange. For a set fee around $10-$30 per month you get 1,000 or so free credits and a quicker timer or a better conversion 1:2 instead of 1:3 or similar. The problem here is that most of this traffic is seen as robotic by the search engines so it will ot help much in your ranking. This traffic is also people just like you trying to get traffic. Very, very few will have any interest in your product or site and most will click right through to the next screen. So yours doesn't even fuully load – in other words they won't even see your site. Yes, there are sales made through the traffic exchanges, but it is so low of a conversion that you must really visit tens of thousands of pages for each conversion/sale.

Most traffic exchanges do have a virulence aspect built in which can help, but just like with Mary Kay and any MLM program, only the first program participants will reap much from this. You need a huge downline for it to be worth your time and this can take a long time to build. Just like Mary Kay, there are only 10 or so people per exchange getting most of the results. The rest are basically wasting their time and helping others (their sponsors) to get rich.

There are better ways to spend your time. Write articles and submit them to sites like ezinearticles for maximum readership. This will give you traffic that is virulent and long lasting. And it isn't a scam like MLM, its just you and your site links getting all the benefits. If you write interesting and helpful articles you will get great, targeted traffic. Ezinearticles even has numerous pages devoted to help you learn what to write and how to writ it to get maximum effect. You can also do press releases and word of mouth through forums and other free sites. In the long run you will do much better. Traffic exchanges are a waste of time. Don't take my word for it – try them and you'll see why I'm right.

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Traffic exchange – internet marketing – businessmarketingagency.com

Doug Champigny — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:57:13 +0000

Traffic exchange refers to internet marketing of exchanging your visitors with others and thereby building traffic for yours as well as for others. In simpler terms there are websites where your can post your URL and this URL is displayed on others website, and similarly you get to display others address in your site. This is done such that visitors can be exchanged with others. This helps in increasing traffic to your own website and bringing in more traffic.
There are several websites, which offer traffic exchange. The various advantages of these online Traffic exchangers are ensure more traffic, increase viewership, the registered member website appear in others as unobtrusive as possible, such that it doesn't cause irritation, the website giving the most referrals are remunerated when their own website is advertised more in others site; this will increase on line traffic for the site owner. The traffic exchanger also provides websites with targeted visitors, for example if a site is promoting products only for pets, then the site is advertised in other sites which are related to pets like that of vets site, pet food site etc. Hence, the particular site gets more referrals from the targeted visitors. Traffic networking has grown largely in the recent years, and is one of the effective manner of promoting online goods and many online newsletters.
When a product is sold on online auction, it needs promotion and advertisements like another products, other than advertising online; Traffic exchange is a cost effective and easier way to increase online traffic. One of the most popular Traffic exchange sites is that of the Free Traffic exchange. The members do not have to pay money to register their websites, but they have to advertise others site in theirs, it is one form of referral and advertisement. There has been a beeline to these Free Traffic exchange programs. It guarantees increased traffic and at the same time, the registration is free. When a website promotes a related website, the viewer ship for the other site also grows and the host website is rewarded when their own site is promoted in others and hence there is an increase in viewer ship and traffic. The big picture of internet business!
Thus Traffic exchange is the most remunerative and effective manner of promoting ones website and hence promoting products which are sold online. There are many instances when sales of products have increased with the help of Traffic exchange. Free Traffic exchange sites are a novel concept, which does not cost anything for registration, except that he gets an opportunity to advertise related sites on his own website. Hence, if you are some one selling products or promoting an opportunity online, then try a Traffic exchange to increase on-line traffic

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Traffic Driven Method Using ‘Tell A Friend Script’

Doug Champigny — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:09:42 +0000

More and more webmasters with sophisticate programming skills are using customize programming script to automate their work for maintaining websites content and driving traffics to websites. As clearly as you can notice, increasing numbers of improved programming scripts are in the market right now that look just like an-office-in-a-box. Talk about the magic touch with just a few clicks, these scripts are designed for non-programmers and are highly beneficial for marketers who wants make their online marketing go viral.

This method has been developed in the past few years and it has been improving throughout the years. Many success stories have spawned from this traffic driven method, which make use of the tendency of visitors to share contents that are informative, useful, entertaining or amazing.

This form of marketing strategy is typically low cost or even free to use it. Most people find it amazing because it leverages the work from visitors, never the hard work of webmaster alone. All websites would greatly benefit from viral marketing strategy.

Introducing – the lengendary 'tell a friend script'.

This is an easy viral marketing method for web marketers. It is a very simple programming script that any online marketer can install it at any websites in less than 5 minutes. Visitors can now easily send email message to their friends, sharing what great information they have found.

The basic feature of a 'tell a friend script' is wherein a visitor may insert name, email address and friends' email addresses. When friends receive the email, they wouldn't consider it a spam because the sender is a friend they know and trust. With 0% chance of blocking such email sent by friend they knew, this allows a wider spreading of this marketing method.

There are many sites that provide free 'tell a friend script', which you can download them at http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html. In fact, there are over hundreds of such scripts to be used for free. But to achieve the dynamic traffic driven effect, putting up unique and original content in the website is still the golden key for this method to work. There's no shortcut to this method, it all depends on the hard work you spend on putting up great and useful content for your dear visitors.

Surely enough, if you have great content in your website, tell a friend script will boost up the traffics to your website.

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Traffic? – Certainly sir how much do you want?

Doug Champigny — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:42:52 +0000

What Types of traffic are there?

So you have the best website money can buy you are immensely proud of your finished product but still no-one is buying. Why?

Your final profit is simple to calculate it is a factor of number of visitors * conversion rate * profit per visitor. The third factor, profit per visitor is usually where people focus their resources. It is a known quantity and easy to manipulate by simply charging the right price.

But the killer question is always how much traffic am I getting? And further are they the sort of visitors who will buy my wares?

With that simple statement in mind let's have a look at the main sources of traffic on the internet today.

Search Engine Traffic

The best because it's free. The worst because it is easily taken away. SE traffic is risky. It is easily acquired for relatively low competitive keywords with a simple knowledge of search engine optimization best practice.

Each search engine orders websites for any given term according to it's own proprietary algorithm. This algorithm usually is based upon the various factors detailed in the SEO checklist, however the weighting applied will differ for each.

There are currently 3 major search engines being:- Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google is by far the most popularly used search tool.
For more competitive terms the SEO checklist is still applicable however will require additional effort in the key areas of the same key factors. You can investigate competition via these useful tools.

Directory Listings

These are not the massive source of traffic they once were. Submission to a directory is now more use to substantiate your link popularity, a key factor in search engine positioning. The most popular free and paid directories are included within our directory listings.

Paid Advertising

Once banner advertising reigned supreme, however today it is generally recognised that most website visitors suffer heavily from "banner blindness". Visitors have seen so many banners over the years that they are now subconsciously tuned out when looking at the website.

Much more effective in today's market place is the basic text link. Not surprisingly a link which is text only! These form the basis of advertising in many a Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign. Pay Per Click is the notion of paying only for visitors to a website that click on your link. Hence you will only pay for visitors to you website and not each time your banner or text link is displayed.

The two largest PPC engines are Google's Adwords and Yahoo's Overture services. PPC allows you to instantly drive traffic to your site without having to weight for your search engine optimization skills to be appreciated by the search engines.

Guaranteed traffic is a term used for relatively cheap traffic, usually purchased in bulk. The traffic is usually generated by a popup or popunder on another site, and in my experience has not proven very effective.

Traffic Exchanges

These tend to fall into 2 general styles. The first, ad exchanges are a reciprocal agreement, usually via a co-operative site to add a piece of code to your page(s) which displays adverts on your site. In return your site will be displayed on other members websites according to the individual co-operatives weighting factors.

The second, traffic exchanges, require you to browse websites presented on a central site. You are awarded points according to how many sites you have browsed and in turn these credits may be spent by promoting your site in the same way to other browsers.
Repeat Vistors

So often overlooked. You have done the hard work in getting a first time visitor to you site now get him to stay and later to return for more. There are various methods for making your site "sticky" these include:- including a newsletter and appropriate sign up form, supplying good content, either written by yourself or sourced from the abundance of free information on the net.

Such simple things as including contact details and appropriate use of autoresponders can make all the difference.

Viral Marketing

A rather flash title for a collection of techniques which are common sense but often forgotten. Such examples include:- writing your own articles, building communities via forums, offering free items/bonuses/competitions, producing your own e-book and issuing press releases.

If you are marketing your own product one of the most successful methods will undoubtedly be starting your own affiliate program and getting others to sell for you.

Competition

Not really a traffic category as such however careful analysis of your competition's website, traffic, links and ad placement can all be obtained if you are diligent. This market intelligence will in turn lead to further opportunities to drive visitors to your site.

After a while it all becomes just good fun!

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Traffic attraction by submitting articles actually works

Doug Champigny — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:00:43 +0000

Links are one of the key seo components and can generate good website traffic. Linking in general is one of the most double-edged tools since bad "links" might decrease your page-rank and good links will undeniably polish it and hopefully boost your hit-rate.

Unsure of what bad and good links are, many seem reluctant to submit articles in order to distribute links to their sites. Don't. Be reluctant that is. As always, all you need is to know the rules.

So, what are the worries?
Google penalizes multiple content
Bad links decimate your pagerank

The notion that Google penalizes multiple content is not based on fact. Even Google themselves point to the fact that what they penalize is multiple instances of identical content on the same site. No worries then.

They may however penalize sites that have identical content AND structures. Meaning if you have a domain that carries a content tree that is identical to any number of others, then you may feel the punishing touch.

That bad links decimate your page rank is fact. A bad link can be defined as one that has a lower page-rank than your own. Page-rank is affected by other factors too, but high page-rank links is one of the most important.

Still, the number of links is also important. – If you have few links, 5 of lower page-rank will downrate your own rank. – If you mass on reciprocal links (you get a link if they get a link on your site) you rank may be negatively affected since these have a taste of "link farms". A bad taste in a Google mouth. – If you have 4000 links to your site chances are they will be mixed quality, which is not bad. What will affect your page-rank and site status in this case is the

Total number of links
Title and text on links
Activity of links (traffic to your site)
No worries then. As long as you have thousands of links.

[NEVER pay cheap link submission services that offer to submit pure links to hundreds of sites. Those links are either trash or nonexistant. Money wasted.]

If you write a simple article of a single page about a subject that has attraction for sites that need content, you might be getting loads of traffic in no time. The formatting is important, so is the mode of including your links and what sites you submit to. Some sites are certainly better than others.

To generate a lot of traffic and get a lot of seological links you need to submit to a lot of sites (read many many many). What you need is a tool that does the job properly, quickly and has a massive amount of targeted sites it distributes your article too. There are quite a lot of submission programs and services out there. I would recommend you to steer away from the ones that offer too much, for too little. Simple organic logic

I personally use programs instead of submission sites since the latter give a limited amount of control and usually carry a higher accumulative cost.

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Top Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

Doug Champigny — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:34:18 +0000

For most good online marketers it took at least a year to get up and running to get successful. They had to budget their time and money well. Don't assume that putting a huge sum of cash into your business will bring you instant rewards. It is important to spend your time and money on several different approaches to see which ones generate the best hits. You need to remember to be persistent and spend your time and money wisely. When you fail to plan you plan to fail at your business. You want to find targeted visitors that are interested in what you have if you want to make sales.

Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don't have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don't have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it's a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don't need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I'm not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I'm about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don't have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there's a great probability that they will go to your site.

Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.
Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

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Top Ten Ways To Get Tons Of Traffic

Doug Champigny — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:51:31 +0000

Look, its obvious isn't? Without a ton of traffic to your site you aren't going to get any sales or any leads.

Over at WebmasterFX.com, the number one question I receive from my clients is "How do I get more traffic to my site?" I'm about to let you know some easy ways to get visitors flocking to your site starting today. Lets look at some obvious but often overlooked tips:

1. Get a Killer Domain Name.

People will never forgeta catchy domain name. Be sure to choose a short and easy to remember domain name that is appropriate to your business and has a nice ring to it. Remember the domain name is your online brand.

2. Upload Fresh and useful content.

These days people are banner blind. They want more than ads. Give them information they can't find anywhere else, and give it to them for free. Give them the content they want and need. If you do don't know what it is, Ask them.

3. Get yor site seen by the Search Engines.

Search engines bring more than 75% of traffic to most web sites. You can submit your site all day long but the best way to get seen is to get links on quality relevant sites. The search engines will find you within days. You can seek out both one way links from other sites and also reciprocal link exchanges with other webmasters. Just stay away from those nasty link farms!

4. Pay For Top Spots.

The quickest way to get website traffic without trying too hard is to pay for it. These advertisements would be posted on prime locations or banners of websites.

Banners are cheap and are great for branding, thogh don't expect a ton of click throughs. Popular websites like leading newspapers and search engines would provide immediate recognition and visibility to their customers. If you have the cash, spend it. Many don't or won't.

5. Form a Community.

Start a message board, email group, or even a chat forum. Actively participate in these groups by posting answers to other people's questions. Be visible and always include your signature at the end of your postings. The best thing about these types of sites is that people come back again and again. Check your hosting account to see if you have free forum software included. I bet you do.

6. Start Your Own Mailing List.

It is the best way to keep in touch with your prospects and your customers. Build a relationship with your list. Your email list can make your site a success again and again. The best customer is an existing customer.

7. Start an E-Zine for Your Website.

An E-zine is an extension of your site, but this will highlight new information and features of your site. People will be reminded of your website as they read each issue.

If they find they issue interesting or worth sharing, they can easily and instantly pass this on to the people within their network. Give them a freebie for signing up.

8. Submit Articles.

Write your own article just like this one and submit it to e-zines, websites and magazines that accept article submissions. Be sure to include your business and contact information and website address in the resource box.

9. Exchange Ads with other Website.

Create ads that will promote your business and website. Submit this to e-zines or other websites in exchange for free ad space in your own electronic publication. Your presence on other sites is very important in getting the increased traffic that you want. This is usually facilitated with either simple links or flashy banners.

10. Always Update Your Website.

Your website should always be up and running and full of fresh content. It is to your advantage if you maintain your website with new articles and updated features. If your visitors always find what they want and need, they will definitely be coming back again. Additionally, search engine spiders love a site with changing content!

Now go back to the top and read through this list again. You may think you know this information already, but I wonder how many of you have actually taken action on it. Also don't be discouraged if you don't see amazing result straight away. I guarantee working on these strategies a little bit each day will bring some serious traffic in the weeks and months ahead.

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Top Secret Tool Builds Traffic

Doug Champigny — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:56:48 +0000

Is is possible that today's internet marketers are missing one of the best, most powerful marketing methods available to them today.

Something that is lying right under there noses and still they have overlooked it.

Something that is free, yes I said it, "free", and they have missed the opportunity to seize it and use it to it's fullest.

There are many methods of promotion available on the internet and off line too. For several years I have tried just about everything, but there is one that I have not utilized fully. Along with others, I had underestimated the value and power of a press release.

Many netrepreneurs are not using the best promotion tool available, according to one expert in the field. Angie Dixon, the Press Release Diva, advises that press releases are the best marketing tool most people aren't using.

A well-written press release, distributed by the several high-quality free press release distribution services on the Net, can bring a wave of traffic, says Dixon.

"I recently ran a press release through a free service. The release was picked up by Google Alerts. I got a subscriber every 87 minutes for 24 hours. I couldn't buy that kind of result," Dixon says.

Yet most netrepreneurs aren't using press releases at all, or aren't using them correctly. This is all about to change.

Dixon gives two reasons for this. Many people, she explains, aren't aware that press releases can be such a powerful marketing tool. Others know about press releases but do not know how to write an effective release.

Angie Dixon, the Press Release Diva, offers an interactive online course in press release writing. You will discover all of the necessary skills and tools to develop,distribute and track your press releases.

The additional traffic you will receive from the press releases will be welcome and best of all it is free.

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Top Internet Secret Revealed – How to make $ 1,000′s a DAY from Expired Traffic!

Doug Champigny — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:26:58 +0000

A few years ago, an Internet visionary named Ultsearch came along, stumbled across the most ingenious traffic and profit generation idea in the history of the Internet age, and quietly went on to make untold millions. To this very day, he has held a monopoly on the biggest underground traffic industry on the web. In fact, you've likely helped him out, and not known it. So how did he single-handedly go on to plunder the spoils of the internet? He connected two simple dots: expired domains and link popularity, and realized their sum equalled -Expired Traffic.

He hides behind his flickering computer screen, waiting patiently until the time is right. Every waking minute, he is compiling more and more valuable information about your website–he knows how popular it is, how much traffic it receives, what market segment it serves, and most importantly, when your domain will expire. And then he pounces. In an instant, your domain, your hard work, your time is his. Who is this elusive swashbuckling buccaneer of the Internet? He's Ultsearch…and he's coming to a domain name near you.

Ultsearch (he has been known to go under the alias Yun Ye) is an icon. He's a legend in his own right–yet he's also a vague apparition whom no one really knows about. His concept is simple: Pillage and plunder the net, one site at a time. And so far, it's working…to the tune of six-figures….per day.

This is what he does.

1. Locate expiring websites which are/were once developed and still receiving traffic from search engines and other sites that still link to it.

2. Grab them up when the domain name expires at the mercy of:
Absentminded website owners who neglected to renew their domain names
Webmasters who got tied up in other ventures or interests
Webmasters who discontinued operation due to time constraints
Webmasters who ran out of money to continue to operate.

3. Make money off the continual stream of traffic still being sent to the site by setting up a PPC search engine or any other targeted affiliate program and earning revenue off each successful click.*

* All you have to do is make about $0.02 a day off a name to make a profit for the year! With the average bid term being $0.30/click, you can see how this is like taking candy from a baby.

Ult's strategy is big business, without a doubt. To quote an Ex search traffic partner "Yun Ye's checks are so big, that if you saw them your eyes would pop out and bleed" And the fact is, it's true.

What is even more mind-boggling is that only a handful of individuals on the web are exposed to what Ult is doing. And even fewer are trying to mimic what he has done–although it remains quite feasible. The whole industry of expired traffic reclamation has been shrouded under a veil of secrecy for the longest of time. Those in the know would never reveal to an outsider this most mind-blowing of concepts. In the process, they have quietly gone on to make untold millions by utilizing the expired traffic of other sites for their own purposes.

One of the primary reasons, aside from sheer ignorance, why individuals across the net have yet to embrace this ground-breaking strategy for traffic generation and the creation of wealth is due in large part to a lack of appropriate tools and knowledge for locating expiring websites which may still be receiving expired traffic. Very rare is the site which puts in the hands of ordinary individuals tools which are worth unimaginable millions in their functionality in locating expired traffic.

The concept is only now beginning to hit the mainstream, and the land rush is on for one of the most ingenious new methods to make money, supplement the traffic of an existing site by redirecting expired traffic to it, or to start a new venture using a site which is already receiving traffic.

If you understood in full capacity what you have read above, you are more than likely salivating at a piece of what is genuinely the most mind-numbing method of locating, capturing and profiting from traffic. The wave is about to hit, and a new generation of Internet users are about to discover what has long since been, the craftiest way to make millions on the Internet.

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Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

Doug Champigny — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:13:06 +0000

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn't take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don't have to do this if you don't really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don't have or can't afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You'll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another's site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

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Top 5 Free Ways To Increase Your Website Traffic Instantly

Doug Champigny — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:06:04 +0000

Before you spend hundreds of dollars on website advertising, you should consider cost effective ways to promote your site for free. Some people think that you can just submit your site to the search engines and then sit back and watch the sales come in, but this is one of many Internet marketing myths.

I used to think that I could just submit my site to hundreds of search engines and wake up in the morning with hundreds of sales. After a couple of months of aggravation and no money coming in I realized that there must be a more effective way to do this. I came to the conclusion that it was going to take a little bit more effort to see the results I wanted.

I have since learned the tested and proven methods that have worked time and time again for Internet marketers. I am going to tell you about the top 5 ways that are 100% free to increase your website traffic, and if you spend time on them and do it religiously you will find that they work consistently

1. Article Writing

These are the two major benefits of writing an article related to your website content and submitting it to free article directories:

* The people who read your article will most likely click the link in your resource box and this will send you targeted visitors to your website. If you write a informative article, people will recognize you as an expert and will want to find out more information about you and your business

* Every person who publishes your article must also include the resource box with your website link in it. The more articles you have published, the more backlinks you will have to your website. This will help increase your search engine ranking and page rank over time.

2. Posting To Forums

There are many forums on the Internet on every topic you can think of.

Many forums will allow you to attach a signature to your post. Many times this signature can include a link back to your website or a affiliate linkYou should pick a few forums to visit regularly on topics related to your website and answer questions and make informative posts. After awhile you will build a good reputation with the other members and they will trust you, and you will get free exposure to your website. Some posts receive thousands of visitors. Posting to forums can also be indexed by the search engines.

Be sure to make a useful contribution to the forum and don't just spam.

3. Reciprocal Linking

There are two main benefits to reciprocal linking:

* The more links you exchange with other websites, the more of a chance the person will click on your link leading to your website.

* More links to your site will increase your page rank and it will be perceived as more important by the search engines. There are some things to avoid when exchanging links with other websites.

* You should link to sites that will be of interest to your visitors. And also link to sites related to your site content.

* You should not link to sites that have hundreds of links on one page or a very un-organized directory, this can hurt you in the search engines. Only link to sites that have a clearly labeled link page and not hidden where no one can see or click.

* Do not post to FFA link farms. This is a waste of time and will not get you any traffic. It also might get you banned from search engines.

* Keep track of all your link exchanges with software or a contact sheet. Also make sure that your link partners have not removed your link from there website.

4. Email Signatures

This is the oldest and simplest way to get traffic to your website

Millions of us send e-mail everyday, but most of us just sign our name or nothing at all at the end of a message.

Try including your name with a URL, tag line or slogan. Keep it short and to the point and avoid shouting at someone or hype. You will be amazed at how many visitors this will bring you. People will click your link out of curiosity and send traffic to your site.

5. Traffic Exchanges

This is the last and easiest way to generate free traffic to your website. You can surf for free credits or build a downline and receive free credits for the sites that they surf.

The only bad thing about this is the visitors will not be as targeted as the other four methods. Most people surf traffic exchanges for one reason only and that is to surf as many pages as possible in the shortest amount of time to gain credits for there website.

So how do you grab the attention of someone who is only looking at your website for 30 seconds?

* Spend some time surfing and learn what type of market it is. You are going to want to advertise a site that is going to be of interest to the people on the exchange.

* Use a lead capture page instead of your sales page. If people are only looking at your site for 30 seconds they are more likely to request more info then sign up for a program on your sales page.

Do these five free methods regularly and you should be on your way to free targeted traffic to your website which will increase with time.

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Tips to create banners that make people rush to your website

Doug Champigny — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:10:39 +0000

The internet world has made banner advertising a popular and widespread form of advertising where practically all the websites have one or the other form of banner advertising on it. Though it is thought that the effectiveness of banner advertising on the web has declined, there are many tips, which if followed, prove to make people rush to your website!

People have no time to wait. So make sure the banner ad uses only a small file. This is because a large .gif or .jpg file takes a few seconds to download, wherein the visitor may have either left the page or just scrolled down the page without seeing the banner. And if people don’t see your banner, they are sure not going to click on it! So make it a point to restrict your file size to below 10K or 15K;it may be difficult, but where there is a will, there is a way! Make it a point to have a call to action on your banner. This means having the words ‘click here’ or ‘sign up now’, where you guide the user to click on the banner. The main reason this has to be included is that people are so used to off-line advertising where people just see banners, without having to do anything. They are usually not aware that they have to click on the banner to find out more! So make it a point to have a call to action on your banner ad to improve the effectiveness of the banner.

People are always more attracted by moving elements in a banner. As the whole idea of banner advertising is to grab the attention of the reader, using small animation in the banner is sure to achieve this. However, make it small because if the file for the animation is large, then its downloading time will be long. This tries on the patience of the web user and may annoy them. When annoyed, they may also just leave without clicking on the banner. The incorporation of some sort of fake element in the banner also makes the banner successful. There are many fake elements’ banner designers can use like fake scroll bars, fake text boxes and fake submits buttons. When using fake elements, the web user think that they are clicking on a link to another page when clicking on a fake scroll bar, when in reality, they are actually clicking on a banner with a picture of a button and text link.

When designing the banner, use bright colors like blue, green and yellow as they have a higher CTR than black and white banners. The color red should be used sparingly. It is quite advisable using the word “free” in the banner as you are bound to get more clicks this way. Of course, you should decide on this free offer, according to the object of the banner ad. Show the reader that clicking on the banner will prove to be beneficial to him or her. You could place questions like ‘do you want more traffic’ or ‘need help with taxes’ in the banner, wherein the answer is found on your website. People don’t have the patience to read long banners; so keep them short. When people click on a banner, they want to go directly to the web page to find the information they want. They don’t have the patience to end up on the home page to go hunting for the required information.

Another important point to be remembered about banner advertising is to place the banner on sites that target for your target audience. This means, that if you have a banner for a new golf club, it is of no use placing it on a site dedicated to software. Visitors to this site will not be interested in the banner, thus leading to no clicks on the banner, and thus a waste of your money. Emphasize the benefits of your product, and not it’s features, as this is what interests a visitor more. It is always better to test your banners by designing several banners using different styles and messages. Run each banner for a week or two, and collect data on its click through rates. Then analyze the data to determine what is common among the successful banners. You can then refine your banner ad accordingly and test them again.

Use all these tips in your next banner ad, and you are bound to find some improvements in its popularity with more people rushing to visit your site!

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Tips to boost traffic, increase website visibility, and let the world know you exist

Doug Champigny — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:15:01 +0000

Directories help locate websites within specific or definite categories. The difference between search engines and directories is that, directories feature only vetted websites, sites that have a certain standard and contain information of substance.

One of the aims of using directories is to boost traffic. To achieve this, one must choose to be featured in large, organized directories like Yahoo, DMOZ, and LookSmart. These will drive highly targeted traffic to you site (subject specific), increase significantly the link popularity, and Google PageRank.

To maximize exposure:

* Find a category that is most relevant to your website. The category and subcategories must totally fit the subject of your site and its purpose. For example, if your site is health related business the site must feature under health and not business. Only then, will surfers seeking health related websites access yours. Do a keyword search that is relevant to your site on the directory. The directory will throw up categories relevant to the key words. Choose one which is suited in all aspects.

* Coin a title and description that will boost traffic not reduce it. The title must be "dead on." It should include the most important key word and if possible begin with a letter towards the beginning of the alphabet. And, the 15-25 word description should succinctly summarize the purpose or functions of your site. While being descriptive and informative, try and weave in as many keywords pertaining to your site as possible.

* Purchase keywords from one of the pay-per-click search engines or directories.

* Make the website search engine friendly.

* Pay attention to text and image content. Heavy images reduce search engine visibility.

* Use back links on appropriate directories and trade or business listings. Check out the back links used by competitors.

* Add new content regularly. This encourages visitors and search engine spiders to return. Make sure the content is keyword rich.

* Start and maintain a web log or blog. This can become an active way to boost traffic while simultaneously disseminating information.

* Market your website by printing its address on business cards, paper bags, packaging and so on. Distribute an e-zine or updates as newsletters regularly to customers and business associates.

* Consider paying search engines for improved listings and fast appraisal of your site.

* Direct content towards search engines by adopting cloaking technology.

* Run advertisements on related web sites and mailing lists.

* Adopt a reciprocal link program.

Maximize traffic by monitoring your traffic regularly. Analyze visitor movements and frequencies. Find out what is effective and what is redundant. Use cookies efficiently. Understand technology and use it to the maximum. Keep updated on new innovations and developments. Write down a workable website marketing strategy.

There are simple steps to victory: be different, make sure your website is refreshing and delivers what it promises; create a network of supporters; be honest in your business ventures; deliver on time at affordable costs; be a learner all your life, constantly innovate your website to keep stride with changing times; carve out an exclusive niche and diversify in directions that are relevant to your business module.

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Three Reasons Why A Good Looking Website Will Increase Traffic

Doug Champigny — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:57:23 +0000

If you really want to increase traffic on your website, you may want to step back and take a look at the site from a visitor's point of view. A good looking website increases its traffic naturally because those who visit it will likely come back and tell their friends about it as well. The presentation of your website says a lot about your business. If you want to have a highly successful web business then it is necessary to have a nice website. With more than half of the world logging in web time each week, it is important for today's businesses to maintain interesting and effective websites that pertain to their businesses. If you are interested in learning why a good looking website is important when trying to increase traffic, take a look at these three reasons.

Professionalism

The first view of your website by a visitor says a lot about your business as a whole. If your website looks cheap and self-made, then it is likely the visitor will not think your business operates in a professional manner. When it comes to dealing with customers on the web, you certainly want to look professional on all levels. If you are an online retailer, you want customers to feel comfortable ordering from you. If they do not think your website looks professional, they may not feel comfortable doing so. It is not necessary to have your website professionally created in order to appear professional. All you need to do is play around with different approaches to see which templates work best for your business. The more you read and learn about website creation, the better your site will look. Educating yourself on the issue of website development is important when you are trying to do it on your own. If you find yourself overwhelmed, then you can always turn to a professional for the creation of your site. Therefore, to maintain a high level of professionalism, you need to have a good looking website. In turn, but creating the professional atmosphere, the consumers will likely return and bring their friends as well.

Entertaining

Not only should your website look professional, but it should also have an entertaining value. Entertainment is something that will draw visitors into your site in a deeper way. If they see an interesting link, they will likely examine your site in more detail. By offering things like contests and free giveaways, you can easily draw in more traffic. If your site is boring however, it is unlikely you will be able to keep anyone there for more than two seconds. Offering games to play on your site that may pertain to your business, you can keep the traffic flowing. You can even offer links to other exciting and informative websites, in order to act as an "in-between" for the fun. Anyone would rather visit a fun and entertaining site than a boring and plain website. If you offer enough excitement it is likely the regular visitors will advertise your site to everyone they know!

Easy On the Eyes

A good looking website will also increase traffic if it is easy on the eyes. In addition to being professional and fun, your website should be easy on the eyes. This essentially means that it should be attractive as well as easy to function within. Choose colors and an arrangement that will appeal to a wide variety of people. Using really bold colors will possibly hurt the eyes of viewers if they look at them for extended periods of time. You can always add splashes of colors in graphics and borders, but it is best to keep text in dark colors. Create an interesting layout, but not one that is so unique that it is difficult to use. If your website is easy to look at and visitors can navigate easily around it, they will want to come back.

If you focus on these three reasons to create a good looking website, your traffic will surely increase. Having a website that looks professional, entertaining, and is easy on the eyes is the key to inviting and maintaining web traffic for your website. So, if you are creating your site now, or if you want to overhaul your existing site, keep these three tips in mind to get the most traffic to your site as possible.

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The Write Way To Better Website Traffic Results

Doug Champigny — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:48:58 +0000

When you are trying to develop a successful website, you soon realize that your website content is very important. Websites with great content are more likely to have great traffic results than those with lousy articles and headings. The more interesting and diverse your content, the better traffic results you will have. When trying to get the right mixture of content, you may become frustrated. This is especially true if you are not a strong writer. Use these tips to help you find out more about website content and the decisions you can make to create the best text on the web.

Care about Content

Many times, website operators don't give content much thought. This happens more frequently than one might expect and the repercussions are immediate. If you want better website traffic results, you should always be sure that you make content a priority. Whether you write the content yourself, or hire professional writers to develop it for you, it should be quality writing. Someone who has passion for the subject should write it. The more passion the writer has, the better the writing will likely be. Usually, this is the website owner and operator, because no one will want the site to succeed as much as this individual. However, if you are not a great writer, you can always hire professionals to help you with the task.

Quality over Quantity

When it comes to website content, there are obviously guidelines. When trying to fill up a specific amount of area on a website, it may be necessary to set limits on word count. As a whole however, you should always strive for quality over quantity. Having too much content can drive viewers away because they are likely to get bored. Knowing exactly how much content you need for your site can also be a challenge. You should always view your site like a potential visitor would, which means that many of your decisions may be made by instinct. You will know when you have too much content on your site. The main goal is to have specific and direct content that is not too "wordy". When there are excessive words in the content, you will quickly lose your audience. Be direct and to the point with your writing and you will be more efficient overall.

Natural Flow

Like discussed before, much of the content decisions for your website will be done with instinct. You need to be sure the content flows naturally. Natural flowing content leads easily to other issues. One subject should flow into the other seamlessly. The same is true with the placement of other website functions. When you are writing, consider the placement of "submit" buttons or other links on the page. This can help you develop content that looks great on the page as well as sounds great to the reader. If a piece feels unnatural when it's being written, it will likely look uncomfortable to the reader and will be a disaster on your website.

Proofread

Some of the most unnecessary mistakes made with website content writing are grammatical. Websites that contain articles with spelling and grammar mistakes come can look ridiculous. If you want your site to be taken seriously, you should always be sure that your articles are proofread many times. This will help ensure you are delivering information that is intelligent and complete. It may help you to read your text out loud, in order to hear what it actually sounds like. Although it may seem unnecessary, you will find that the response will be greater when your text is without mistake.

As you can see, there are several important aspects to developing website content that will boost and maintain your website traffic. You should focus on passion, quality, and flow of your content. If you would rather not worry about these issues, hiring a professional is the way to go. However, if you are up to the challenge, try it yourself. Just relax and begin writing. Let the content come to you without effort. Try different approaches with your writing and you will quickly learn what works best for your site and its traffic. As long as it feels right to you when you read it on the site, it will likely look great to your site's visitors as well.

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The Ultimate Web Traffic Myth

Doug Champigny — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:05:25 +0000

Have you noticed the many internet marketing books using the word "secret" in their title, headline or copy?

Why do they do this?

Is their actually one or two online marketing methods or strategies that are going to bring to your site an ever growing consistent stream of willing to buy targeted clients?

The simple answer is NO.

Unfortunately many website owners think this is not the case and continue to accumulate book after book and software package after software package looking for "the ultimate web traffic method".

The fact is that there is no one single marketing method that will make your online business successful, period. Only continual application of the right methods will see your business grow and expand.

The main reasons why most people think there is one main method is because of the following four elements:

- If you wanted to be a "plumber", you would do your apprenticeship and then work for someone or then start your own business. If you wanted to own a "milk bar" you get a business loan, buy the "milk bar" and start running the business. Why do we know this and why are there no so called "secrets" regarding being a plumber or running a milk bar? Because these businesses have been around for a long time, to start them is "common knowledge".

- Therefore because the internet is new and evolving, how to start an internet business has yet to become "common knowledge" and there is still many unknown aspects regarding the subject unlike traditional business. Unfortunately, many now capitalize on this "unknown aspect" by selling so called "secret information" type products thus only increasing the myth regarding internet business.

- Even if starting an internet business was "common knowledge", there is simply too much information to decipher. Unlike going to the local library, finding the business section and picking one or two of the five books on "starting your own business"; you are now on the internet. You have a world library, the business section is as big as a football stadium and books on "starting your own business online" are in the thousands (including many misleading ones).

- This final point is the most important one. People want to believe there is an easy way to get a lot of web traffic and make a fortune without any work; they just have to find it! This is just human nature.

So now you know that you must use more than one internet marketing method to make your online business successful.

Stick with the main tried and true methods -

SEO
Content
Linking
Articles
Sales Copy
List Building
Joint Ventures

and your traffic will continue to increase rapidly.

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The Top Five Ways You Can Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

Doug Champigny — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:01:17 +0000

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: You need a steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly has a chance of generating any income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and this results in the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn't take a whole bundle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmicks. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You can't do this if you don't have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don't have or can't afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You'll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines rank high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic to your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange
This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can write the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to write those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche content of your site. Write something about which you have some expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them back to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Create a Newsletter.
This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets passed around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums
This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche as your site.

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The Top 2 Points You Must Definitely Consider About Tag And Ping To Get Masses Of Traffic To Your Site

Doug Champigny — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:45:18 +0000

Have you heard all the buzz about Tag and Ping? Tag And Ping is the latest craze hitting the net – bringing immediate exposure and back back links to sites. A whole new way of finding information, and a whole new ballgame for webmasters to play!
Tagging is a new way to mark things on the internet. In the old days search engines would spider a page and decide what it was about; with tagging, people decide what the content is about and "tag it". This tag then serves the purpose as a short description of a webpage, or the category it fits in.

No more relying on old out-of-date search engine algorithms. Real individuals tagging real sites bringing real targeted traffic. No more squandering time searching through search engines for relevant information. Just enter your topics and see what other individuals have found interesting!

The development of tagging has brought about the term "Social Book-Marking". People are now starting to create bookmarks on central websites, instead of on their private computers. People surfing the web "tag" the sites they find fascinating and they then appear on bookmark search engines. Other individuals interested in the same topics can then come and find real pages, voted for by real humans.

This brings about a whole new system for web masters to find out what people are looking for, and then creating pages that are deserving of attention, and easy to find. Bookmarking pages are a great tool for web masters to do research. Just take a look at popular tags and then look at what pages are being bookmarked the most. Pay attention to those pages to get an idea of what you should be writing about. Put a new twist on it and you will find that your web-site will gain in popularity as well. Bookmark pages are also great for figuring out new subjects to write your own info products about. They are also good for figuring out new niches to jump into.

If you are creating a web site for a "hot" tag that everybody is searching for, you'll get massive highly targeted traffic! Not only this, but the main search engines pick up on the tags and you will get back back links from the engines with the tag listings!

After you have tagged information you ping the tag-search-engines and they quickly come and index your pages according to the tags. You then appear at the top of the listing until somebody else creates newer pages for that tag.

If you missed out on the "blog and ping" wave you will want to get in ahead of time. Tag and ping is going to be a large trend and is shifting the face of the web forever. Find out more about the technique that has all the hole-and-corner experts in a dizzy tizz: Tag And Ping Site

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The Top 10 Ways To Increase Your Traffic Today

Doug Champigny — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:11:19 +0000

Anyone developing an online business, no matter what their subject or niche, has one thing in common with every other online business developer, and that one key component is traffic. Everything you read or hear on the net about creating a successful online business will always stress the importance of generating traffic.

We all know this to be fact – without traffic, we have no business. Naturally, a good product and a sound business plan are essential for success, but assuming these to be in place, getting traffic to your site is probably the number one issue facing most online businesses. So, as everyone is in agreement about this key need, let's get down to the 'ins' and 'outs' of how to increase traffic flow.

You may be just starting out with your new site, eager to tell the world about your product, or you may be a well-established 'old-timer' trying daily to find new ways of getting your message out there. Which ever you are, the fact remains that you are faced with a very competitive marketplace. To succeed requires constant re-evaluation of your market and to find new and improved ways of getting that traffic to your site.

Whenever possible, the best place to be is one step ahead of your competition. Keep an eye on what your competitors are doing and improve on them. Don't just copy others' ideas, find a new twist, a new angle a unique way of drawing people to you. It's so often the most simple measures that carry the gold and within a very short time, your site can be receiving hits like never before.

To get things rolling and start prompting a stream of ever-increasing awareness (and therefore traffic) to your site, here are some essential tools for making that truly possible;

1. Write some good, useful, inspirational articles to direct traffic to your site

Do your research, See what information people are searching for, both through the search engines and in the forums. Submit these articles to article directories, ezines and to other sites who are in a similar market to your own.

Always, include your details and the all important URL of your site, in the resource box. Try not to make the article appear as an obvious advertisement of your product or business , but as a source of valuable information which others will find of use. This way, you will be respected for your knowledge and promote interest in both you and what you're involved with. People will want to check you out!

2. Spend a little money and start some good advertising campaigns

This is by far the fastest and most effective way of directing targeted traffic to your site. Both Goggles' Adwords and Yahoos' Overture are the indisputable leaders in this field. An ad with either of these guys will give you immediate exposure to a waiting world of budding customers. Just follow the simple rules and guidelines laid down for each and you could soon be receiving a vast return on your initial investment. Start slowly with a small daily budget and 'tweek' as your campaign unfolds.

3. Optimize your web pages

Again, do your research and make sure that you have the best keywords on your pages. Search engines look for these keywords and with them, determine your sites' ranking in their lists. The right words in the right place can shoot you to the higher listings and get you seen more easily when people search.

There' s lots of information on the web on how to achieve this if you want to do it for yourself. Alternatively, you may wish to use a paid service for even better results.

4. Trading Links with other sites

By getting your site listed on another person's site you are multiplying your exposure in an instant. Any visitor to either site is immediately presented with the other persons' URL after just one search. Each sites efforts have a double effect by generating potential traffic to either site. Apply this across a few sites and you can see how dramatic the effect can be.

5. Start Some Viral Marketing

As the name suggests, this is all about starting a virus, spreading from person to person, site to site – only, you are the source of the virus and it has your name on it! Write a report, ebook, article or whatever and give it away for free. Just ensure that your link is on or within the report, etc. so that all people who have access to it are directed back to your site. This can be one of the most effective free traffic-generating methods available to you. Be creative, send it out and wait for the results.

6. Start An Ezine or Online Newsletter

Once you begin to tell people about yourself, they soon begin to develop a relationship with you and feel that they can trust you. Keeping people informed through a newsletter will depend this relationship, create long-standing customers for you and will encourage these customers to tell others about you, bringing further traffic to your site.

7. Participating In Forums

Forums or online communities are places where people of a similar nature and interest come together to share news and exchange ideas. In these places, it is possible for you to show your expertise and skills and establish yourself as someone worth listening to. People start to trust you and look to you for some of the answers to their needs. Through this, traffic to your site will naturally occur. Again, be yourself, do not try to sell in these places simply allow others to seek you out.

8. Offline Advertising

Often overlooked by web-based businesses, this can be a highly effective way of boosting your traffic. Bumper stickers, business cards, ads in shops, fliers are but a few ways of getting your word out. Be creative and let people know you are in business.

9. Email Signatures.

Every time you send an email you are contacting a potential customer, whether they know it or not. By placing a simple one line ad with your URL at then end of every email you are projecting your existence to anyone curious to find out more. Don't miss out on this simple but powerful free tool.

Getting traffic to your site does not have to be an expensive business. With consistency and patience, using just a few of the above techniques can have traffic knocking at your door in no time at all. Structure your approach and follow a plan, learn from your efforts and reap the rewards.

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The Secret Of How To Get Noticed By Google

Doug Champigny — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:15:42 +0000

I remember when I created my first web site. I designed it, published it and then waited expectantly for Google to list it in their page rankings. Of course, I didn't expect to be up at the top of the listings but I did think I would be there somewhere.

After several days the disappointment began to set in. I had a great web site but no one was going to see it because Google wasn't including me in their listings! All that work for nothing. So I started looking around the net, trying to find out why I wasn't being listed. It was now that I discovered that it can take Google up to 8 months to include your site on their search engine. This was a devastating blow. I couldn't wait 8 months before people saw my web site!

My next plan of action was to get some traffic to my web site, maybe that would help get me noticed. I designed a banner free of charge from a site on the web, this was really easy, even as a beginner it was done in 5 minutes. I then bought some banner impressions from a seller on ebay. Typically this involved displaying your banner 1,000,000 for a fee of say $4.99. So I signed up for this and expected the traffic to come flying to my site. Well, if I got 1 person clicking on my banner from every 1000 times the banner was displayed I was lucky. And then there was the people that just view the banners in order to get paid. When I looked at where the hits were coming from it was evident that most of them were coming from China and other non-English speaking countries.

So, having discovered that paid for banner advertising does not work, I finally discovered how to get noticed by Google….

Back-links. Yes, that was the secret. What are back-links? There are other web sites that have a link to your site on them. Google determines the popularity of your site by how many other sites link to it. So how do you get back links? You can list your site in the free directories that proliferate the web, but these are low quality links.

The best way of getting links is to create your own links by writing an article like this. There are dozens of article directories on the net, you submit your article, simply ensure you include a link to your web site and hey presto, you have created a back link to your site. Google will take notice and you will move up the search rankings. The more articles you submit, the more popular Google will think your site is.

Article directories are free to use and can also be a good way of advertising your site. Write about a subject that relates to your site, people see you have some expert knowledge on the subject and follow the link through to your site.

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The Power of Articles

Doug Champigny — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:53:12 +0000

During this last year I have given a HUGE amount of thought to the subject of search engines. After a lot of thought, I have determined to distinguish a single factor that will increase my bottom line more than any other factor. Aren't we all looking for new and interesting ways to get more free traffic from search engines? I am I can tell you that.

So I had to consider all different kinds of factors. I thought about my product selection. I considered my domain names. I considered my page content, and the overall look of my sites. I thought about my selection of keywords. I thought about on-page optimization. I couldn't distinguish any of these as the single most important thing that I did this last year.

If there is one thing I did this last year that raised my rankings and increased my traffic, it was the development of one way links. Now I'm not talking about trading links with other sites. I'm talking about getting sites to link to mine WITHOUT linking to theirs. I think we've all noticed that search engines are giving a lot of credit for this, and I've noticed it 'big time'.

So I figured out this last year that there are really easy ways to make this happen. At first, I heard about an article directory from a friend that would publish articles for free. I like writing articles, and have always written the content for my sites, but give away free website content? I decided to take one of my articles and have it published. Sure enough, the article directory let me add some information in a resource box that appeared at the bottom of my article, and I placed a link back to my site using the anchor text of one of my keyword phrases.

Sure enough, I had made a nice one way link to myself. I had no idea that this was only the beginning. I then started searching for more article directories where I could publish my article, and was able to find a list of about 100. I spent a day and submitted my article to all of them, and checked a few days later to find out which ones accepted it. Almost all of them did, and so I had created about 100 one way links back to my site.

It wasn't until last week that a friend told me about articlesender.com. They are a service that will submit your article to a bunch of sites. They will even do it for free. I donated to tell about $20 and they submitted my article to around 200 article directories. Submitting my article to that many directories would have taken me about 2 days, so $20 to me is nothing.

I would pay a lot more than that to get a few hundred one way links to my site. Are you kidding me? I love it. Not to mention that I get to use whatever anchor text I want, and write whatever content I want for the page that it appears on.

My friends; harness the power of articles. Right now, one way linking is the way to the money.

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The Old But Reliable Ways of Attracting Free Online Traffics

Doug Champigny — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:13:02 +0000

Every home business owner should know that your WEBSITE TRAFFICS will determine the life span of your work at home online business. As suggested by many motivation expert, your best bet to be successful in ANYTHING you do will be to study and learn from those WHO are already successful.

What are these online experts doing to attract the necessary traffics to their work at home online business?

What online strategy are they using and what can you learn from them?

One of the most frequently used online strategy is writing and submitting free articles to ezine. Over the years, as I read over many website marketing strategy, it seems that article writing remains the TOP method that webmaster has been using for many years. The only problem is that there are so many free articles floating around these days that you need to build a solid reputation before you can GAIN any reasonable click through to your site via your free articles.

Reciprocal links is another popular method which you can used to gain traffics to your home business website. Before starting your reciprocal links strategy, make sure you determine the keywords you want to used for your main index page. During the link exchange make sure you put your KEYWORDS in your hyper text link. Search Engine will recognize them as your site keywords. Remember also to include them in your title and the first 80-120 words of the index content page. Please do not just reciprocal links, SEO experts recommend that you should add at least 60-70 pages of contents in your NEW site so that your site will not just be a LINKS only website which score a LOW RANK in the algorithm of Search Engine.

Finally, have you noticed that successful online master also make used of discussion forum wisely. Discussion forum are a great online marketing tools that you should not ignore. It can bring IMMEDIATELY an increase in your website TRAFFICS which can result in increase revenue for you. Forums allows you to create your own signature file which you can write a few lines of
your own business information including your URL. Each posting you made will automatically include your signature file. However, you have to show your expert knowledge when answering questions as people who read your postings will associate it with you. Frequent forums that get lots of online traffics so that each posting by you will get the maximum exposure.

In whatever business, the initial learning may be tough, but if you believe in yourself and persist in LEARNING and taking the necessary ACTION to apply what you learn, one day, you too will become an Online Expert and SUCCESS will follow YOU.

Wishing you success in running a Successful Work At Home Online Business.

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The Miraculous Conversion

Doug Champigny — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:41:23 +0000

The recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hordes of visitors to a web site. It was taken as an article of faith that a certain percentage of this mass will inevitably and nigh hypnotically reach for their bulging pocketbooks and purchase content, however packaged. Moreover, ad revenues (more reasonably) were assumed to be closely correlated with "eyeballs". This myth led to an obsession with counters, page hits, impressions, unique visitors, statistics and demographics.

It failed, however, to take into account the dwindling efficacy of what Seth Godin, in his brilliant essay ("Unleashing the IdeaVirus"), calls "Interruption Marketing" – ads, banners, spam and fliers. It also ignored, at its peril, the ethos of free content and open source prevalent among the Internet opinion leaders, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies while their business models were exposed as wishful thinking.

The second mistake was to exclusively cater to the needs of a highly idiosyncratic group of people (Silicone Valley geeks and nerds). The assumption that the USA (let alone the rest of the world) is Silicone Valley writ large proved to be calamitous to the industry.

In the 1970s and 1980s, evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins and Rupert Sheldrake developed models of cultural evolution. Dawkins' "meme" is a cultural element (like a behaviour or an idea) passed from one individual to another and from one generation to another not through biological -genetic means – but by imitation. Sheldrake added the notion of contagion – "morphic resonance" – which causes behaviour patterns to suddenly emerged in whole populations. Physicists talked about sudden "phase transitions", the emergent results of a critical mass reached. A latter day thinker, Michael Gladwell, called it the "tipping point".

Seth Godin invented the concept of an "ideavirus" and an attendant marketing terminology. In a nutshell, he says, to use his own summation:

"Marketing by interrupting people isn't cost-effective anymore. You can't afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing, in large groups and hope that some will send you money. Instead the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation and process where interested people can market to each other. Ignite consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk."

This is sound advice with a shaky conclusion. The conversion from exposure to a marketing message (even from peers within a consumer network) – to an actual sale is a convoluted, multi-layered, highly complex process. It is not a "black box", better left unattended to. It is the same deadly sin all over again – the belief in a miraculous conversion. And it is highly US-centric. People in other parts of the world interact entirely differently.

You can get them to visit and you get them to talk and you can get them to excite others. But to get them to buy – is a whole different ballgame. Dot.coms had better begin to study its rules.

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The Link is the Thing!

Doug Champigny — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 11:56:42 +0000

Natural linking, what is it and how do I get it? More importantly, do I need it? If you run an Internet web presence that you want others to find in the search engines then the answer to the latter is YES!

What is natural linking? That is an easy question to answer. Natural linking occurs when someone places a link to your site from another site. The reason that someone might link to your site is not really important, the fact that they placed the link is the only thing that matters.

Some of the reasons that someone might place a link to your site or to a page within your website are:

* Your site offers some information that supports a fact or reinforces a position contained within another site.
* Your site offers some tools or resources that would be helpful to others.
* Your site contradicts a common misconception that others want use to validate their own views on that topic.
* Your site represents a controversial viewpoint that others might want to showcase for their own purposes.
* Your site is just so very cool that others need to be made aware of it and seeing as my website links to your site, my site must be cool too!

Regardless of the reasons why someone might be linking to your site, these natural links are very important. Even if someone is linking to your site because they think it is a sad joke and they want others to see how bad your site is, it really doesn't matter.

Knowing that these types of links are important the next question is, "How do you get people to link to your site?" There are several ways you can get people to link to your site with the easiest being, make a useful site. Easier said then done you are thinking eh?

When you think about it, creating a useful site isn't that difficult, it just requires time. Time to find helpful tools to share with others, time to find sound advice regarding your site's topic of interest and time to make your site ooze the "It" factor. The amount of time it will take is solely dependent upon how much effort you want to put in to it.

OK, so you finished your site, now what? How do you let people know that your site is ready to amaze others? There are several ways to let people know about your site. If you have a budget set aside you could set up a PPC campaign that may bring in some traffic. You could join groups or forums that share your interest or even better, that are totally opposite to your site's message or theme. Perhaps one of the best ways is to write articles that others can use on their sites that are seeded with a few well placed links pointing back to your site.

One of the next big trends that is about to take off is, the "Bartered Link". Bartered links are where you offer space on your site to host an article written by other webmasters, which contain text links to their sites in exchange for a one way link back to your site. Are bartered links considered to be natural links? If they aren't then they sure do a fine job of mimicking them.

Regardless of the motivation behind someone linking to your site, even if it is because they think your site is bad or your opinion is wrong, just remember this… the fact that they did is all that truly matters as the link is the thing.

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The Importance of Web Traffic

Doug Champigny — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:07:07 +0000

If you have a website then you already know the importance of web traffic. Web traffic is to Internet marketing as location is to real estate. It's the only thing that really matters. If you cannot generate targeted visitors to your site, you will not make any sales.

Usually the owner or designer of the website is the person designated to drive web traffic to the site. The chief ingredient in generating web traffic is the search engine. Of coarse, you can use advertising, but it's going to cost you. Using the search engines to generate targeted (interested in your product) web traffic is the least expensive method known.

Unfortunately, many website owners do not understand the importance of search engine visibility, which leads to web traffic. They place more importance on producing a "pretty" website. Not that this is bad, but it is really secondary to search engine placement. Hopefully, the following list of common mistakes, made by many website owners, will help you generate more targeted web traffic to your site…after all, isn't that what you want.

1. Not using keywords effectively.
This is probably one of the most critical area of site design. Choose the right keywords and potential customers will find your site. Use the wrong ones and your site will see little, if any, web traffic.

2. Repeating the same keywords.
When you use the same keywords over and over again (called keyword stacking) the search engines may downgrade (or skip) the page or site.

3. Robbing pages from other websites.
How many times have you heard or read that "this is the Internet and it's ok" to steal icons and text from websites to use on your site. Don't do it. Its one thing to learn from others who have been there and another to outright copy their work. The search engines are very smart and usually detect page duplication. They may even prevent you from ever being listed by them.

4. Using keywords that are not related to your website.
Many unethical website owners try to gain search engine visibility by using keywords that have nothing at all to do with their website. They place unrelated keywords in a page (such as "sex", the name of a known celebrity, the hot search topic of the day, etc.) inside a meta tag for a page. The keyword doesn't have anything to do with the page topic. However, since the keyword is popular, they think this will boost their visibility. This technique is considered spam by the search engines and may cause the page (or sometimes the whole site) to be removed from the search engine listing.

5. Keyword stuffing.
Somewhat like keyword stacking listed above, this means to assign multiple keywords to the description of a graphic or layer that appears on your website by using the "alt=" HTML parameter. If the search engines find that this text does not really describe the graphic or layer it will be considered spam.

6. Relying on hidden text.
You might be inclined to think that if you cannot see it, it doesn't hurt. Wrong…. Do not try to hide your keywords or keyword phrases by making them invisible. For example, some unethical designers my set the keywords to the same color as the background of the web page; thereby, making it invisible.

7. Relying on tiny text.
This is another version of the item above (relying on hidden text). Do not try to hide your keywords or keyword phrases by making them tiny. Setting the text size of the keywords so small that it can barely be seen does this.

8. Assuming all search engines are the same.
Many people assume that each search engine plays by the same rules. This is not so. Each has their own rule base and is subject to change anytime they so desire. Make it a point to learn what each major search engine requires for high visibility.

9. Using free web hosting.
Do not use free web hosting if you are really serious about increasing site web traffic via search engine visibility. Many times the search engines will eliminate content from these free hosts.

10. Forgetting to check for missing web page elements.
Make sure to check every page in your website for completeness, like missing links, graphics, etc. There are sites on the web that will do this for free.

This is just a few of the methods and techniques that you should avoid. Do not give in to the temptation that these methods will work for you. They will do more harm than good for your website.

Not only will you spend weeks of wasted effort, you may have your site banned from the search engines forever. Invest a little time to learn the proper techniques for increasing search engine visibility and your net web traffic will increase.

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