Low Cost Methods to Generate Traffic

Posted on April 7th, 2008

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When you first start out in Internet Marketing, one of the biggest questions you probably have is how to generate traffic to your website.

Some things you can start with are:

Classified ads - visit Affiliate Referral Sources for a list of popular sites.
Blogging - get your own blog and write articles to generate traffic to your site. If you do not have your own blog yet, visit the Website Managers blog hosting page.
Article syndication - write unique articles and post them on places like EzineArticles.com, ArticleAlley and ArticlesFactory.com. While using programs like Instant Article Wizard can help you generate articles for your blog, the articles you write for the article directories must be unique and will be rejected if any of the content appears to be duplicated.
Comment on other blogs linking back to your site
Participate in discussion forums. You will have an option to put an small add and link in your signature that shows up whenever you post a response or ask a question.
Record a video and post it to YouTube using popular keywords for the tags. It can be any type of video. Funny and instructional videos are usually most popular. When you create the video, use a program like Camtasia Studio to display your website URL on the movie.
Join Yahoo! Answers, add links in your profile and answer questions. When you do, there is a box where you can link to your resource for the answer. This will usually be back to your site. Be careful here though, because entering an link unrelated to the question can get you in trouble.

As you can see, marketing online is not an easy task. It takes patience and focus to get the job done. Once you get it going on a schedule, the traffic will continue to grow.

Just make sure you are leading people back to a lead capture page to get their contact information.

Jim Hutchinson
Affiliate Referral Sources
A Division of Website Managers, LLC
Now in Our 10th Year of Website hosting
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Getting Affiliate Sites Listed in Search Engines

Posted on February 5th, 2008

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This is probably one of the most important tips I can give you in regards to driving traffic to your websites.

You may have heard about replicated Affiliate websites not being allowed in the search engines. That is true with an exception: Only the most popular website, i.e. the one with the most incoming links, will be listed. You have the ability to get your Affiliate websites listed in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and others.

You can start by asking your Affiliate manager to allow creating a personalized introductory paragraph on your Affiliate website. That will make the first paragraph on each page unique. That is generally enough to get that page treated as being different from any other.

From there, you can go through the Free Website Traffic document that can be downloaded here and found on the newsletter subscription confirmation page. That document is just a start though. There are many other things you can do to get listed higher in the search engines and get more traffic, with or without the search engines.

The primary methods I use to get onto the first page of search engine results are:

Get my own domain name with the keywords in the name and build the site with unique content.
Advertise that domain name instead of my Affiliate websites. A blog is an asset to have on the site, which can be used for the site itself.
Participate in social networking (MySpace, FriendsWin), discussion forums and Yahoo! Answers.
Place classified ads on high traffic sites such as Craigslist, USfreeads, etc.
Publish articles outside the blog, such as in ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, MySpace, FriendsWin, etc.

All of that can be broken down into one word: Participate

When you actively participate in various venues, you not only get traffic from those venues, but the search engines pick up your on your activity, follow the links you provide in them and drive traffic to your site. It makes you visible to the world and that is what brings people to you.

Along with the Free Website Traffic page, which has a PDF file for you to download and print, visit www.affref.com for more marketing ideas. There is a newsletter subscription option there that will allow you to get weekly tips in email.

Thanks for being with us!

Jim Hutchinson
Affiliate Referral Sources
A Division of Website Managers, LLC
Now in Our 10th Year of Website hosting!
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article providing that this copyright notice and resource links
all remain intact.