Do you need traffic but don’t have money to spend on advertising? Are you frustrated because you’re not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your website? Are you confused about the latest website traffic tactics? Are you spending too much money on pay per click advertising? Are you not ranking high in major search engines?
Below are three basic free traffic methods that have proven to work. These methods are still working today and they will continue to work for a long time.
Here are three free website traffic tactics that won’t cost you a dime.
1. Links
Linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used methods and one of the most effective website traffic tactics that can get you the best results. And it’s free traffic.
Today, it’s important to get links from high PR websites. Also, links related to your niche are better than unrelated links.
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2. Keyword-rich AND useful content
Writing or acquiring articles that provide useful information regarding your business is one of the best ways to get free traffic. Making use of keyword suggestion tools will help you focus on keywords that will provide you the most traffic to your website. Providing information that is genuinely informative will provide you with repeat visitors who can become repeat clients.
Submitting these articles to various article directories will give you additional backlinks and visibility for your business.
3. Meta Tags (Basic SEO)
Meta tags describe your web pages to search engines and help them index your site. When using a WordPress blog, take advantages of plug-ins that will make it easier to optimize your blog. If you have several web pages or blog pages, you must optimize each page for the search engines. Each search engine optimized page can help you draw additional traffic to your site.
If implemented properly, these free traffic methods will not only get you traffic and higher conversion rates as your traffic will be highly targeted.
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Get your name out there and reach a wider audience. Contribute to the conversation. Mention what information helped you. Add information. Share your information with blog readers.
When commenting, your name (or better yet, your keyword) will be linked to your website which may improve your site ranking with Google.
Increase traffic. Because your web link is included, other readers may click through and visit your site.
It’s good karma! You just might get more comments on your blog as a result, not to mention visibility with other readers.
TIP: I have some linking packages available that are based on getting comments and backlinks from high PR blogs.
The basic concept of Yahoo Answers is that people ask questions and other people answer them. When you answer a question, you can put a link in the resource box.
Here are three benefits of Yahoo Answers.
1) You get traffic from people reading your answer.
2) Your answer will rank in the search engines and get traffic – especially if your answer is chosen as the best answer.
3) You can get a backlink from your answer which will boost your site’s rankings. Yahoo Answers is considered an authority site by other search engines, and backlinks from Yahoo Answers are high PR backlinks.
How to get the best results from Yahoo Answers.
The key to getting targeted traffic from Yahoo Answers is to find questions that you can answer that are related to your niche and then send them to your website where you provide more information on the topic. Additional benefits of checking Yahoo Questions is that it is good market research, it will tell you what your audience is looking for and it will give you many ideas for blog posts.
To get traffic from Yahoo Answers, you want to provide useful answers.
You must do an advanced search to find the best questions to answer. To get the most relevant questions, search questions opened in the last seven days with your keyword or key phrase. Then, answer the questions you can answer.
To get voted as the best answer, you need to provide quality answers. Read the question thoroughly, understand what is asked and give a targeted answer. Too many people give answers that have nothing to do with the question.
You can be banned if you abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers. As long as you follow Yahoo’s terms of service and provide quality answers you will have no trouble keeping your account.
Start your answer with a greeting, e.g. “Hi, thanks for your question”. Or better yet, mention the person’s name, e.g. Hi Terry.” This will make your answer stand out from the crowd and will start to build a relationship with the questioner.
Then provide your answer and end with something friendly such as “I hope this helps” and then sign with your name.
You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for. Putting your link in every answer can get your account banned. Your link needs to go in the resources box below your answer. Don’t worry, people will see it and click on it, particularly if your answer is voted the best answer.
Yahoo Answers provides a good method of generating targeted traffic to your website. It works well for most types of sites and some people make decent money just from Yahoo Answers. Use it well and you can benefit from it. I’ve used Yahoo Answers and it works.
Affiliates have thousands of affiliate programs they can choose from. They want to know why they should promote your product over other available affiliate products.
So, how do you motivate affiliates to promote your products?
Have a quality product
Have a compelling affiliate promotion page
An affiliate promotion page needs to provide useful information for affiliates and highlight how affiliates can benefit from promoting your product. Here are some of the benefits that affiliates look for:
High commission earned per sale.
Recurring commissions (e.g. subscription or membership products.)
Good conversion rate (ratio of visitors to a site who buy). Mention how well the sales page converts. Be honest. If you claim high conversions and are dishonest, affiliates will stop promoting your current products and won’t promote any future affiliate products you’ll have available.
TIP: Affiliates aren’t going to line up to promote your products if it’s not selling. You’re going to need to get some traffic and make some sales yourself to be able to know your conversion rate and you may have to tweak your sale page until it’s good enough to attract quality affiliates to your offer.
Low refund rate (which indicates that you have a quality product).
Provide great support to affiliates.
Highlight how your product benefits affiliates.
Provide a short product description. Mention anything that’s unique or interesting about your product. Mention if the product is in a “hot” niche.
Provide Affiliate Tools
Make it as easy as possible for your affiliates to promote your products.
Provide attractive banner ads, ebook covers, buttons, graphics that they can put on their site with their affiliate link to your product.
It’s a good idea to provide a wide variety of graphics in different sizes and formats. Hiring a graphic designer to design images for you and creating a useful and attractive page for affiliates is an excellent investment in your product that can easily pay for itself.
Other tools can include text ads, email messages, articles, etc.
Suggest keywords that relate to your product, which affiliate can bid on in paid advertising, or try to rank in search engines to drive free traffic to your website.
Provide as much information as possible to made the affiliate’s job easier and you’ll have a great start to attract affiliates.
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One of the easiest ways to make money by blogging is by promoting affiliate programs.
It’s pretty simple. Just put affiliate links or ads on your blog and sell affiliate programs.
Affiliate products can pay 40 to 75% in commissions and higher. If you don’t have your own products to sell, you can sell other people’s products as an affiliate.
Even if you have your own products, you should offer related products or services through affiliate programs so you’ll have more resources to offer to your audience.
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Keep search engines in mind when designing your site. Include keywords and META tags in your Web pages to improve your ranking with search engines.
Include an “Opt-in” form to collect your visitors’ email addresses. An opt-in form captures the email addresses of interested prospects and gives you permission to email them. Getting your visitors’ e-mail addresses and building opt-in email lists is essential to staying in touch with your prospects and turning your visitors into buyers. Offer something valuable to get your potential buyers’ email addresses such as a free report, newsletter, consultation, discount, or special offer.
Stay in touch with your visitors. Visitors rarely purchase the first time they visit a site. They want to get to know you before they are willing to spend money. Communicate consistently with your prospects through online newsletters and email messages. Give potential buyers reasons to return. Provide valuable information in your ezine. Mention what’s new on your site. Provide special offers and discounts to your subscribers. Invite them to visit your Web site again and again. These techniques work. Try them and watch your prospects become buyers.
Design your Web site based on your Unique Selling Proposition. Why should prospects buy from you instead of your competition? What sets you apart? What makes your products and services unique, better, and more desirable? Do you provide hard-to-find expertise, the best customer service, lowest prices, highest quality, fastest service, or strongest guarantee? Back up your claims with testimonials, statistics, results of studies, and other data. Stand out from your competition. Offer more. Make your offers unique. Be original.
Put the benefits of your site and your USP right on top of your home page. Many Web visitors never scroll down past the first screen of information. Give your potential buyers the information they need as quickly as possible.
Ask for feedback. Find out what potential buyers want. Use feedback forms and email surveys to conduct market research. Ask what products and information they’re interested in. What benefits are most appealing. What price they would pay. Analyze the feedback and adapt your site as needed.
Write compelling sales copy. Effective copy works just as well on the Internet as it does in direct mail. Write to-the-point copy. Attract potential buyers with benefits. Start each Web page with a compelling, benefit-oriented headline. Tests have proven that the more you tell, the more you sell. If people aren’t interested in your products or services, they won’t read past the first paragraph. If they are interested, you can’t tell them enough.
Motivate readers to do what you want them to do with action verbs. A call to action such as “call now,” “order now,” and “click here” can dramatically increase sales. Give precise instructions. Tell them exactly what to do. For example, tell them to subscribe to your ezine and give you their email addresses. For more examples of action verbs, see our article “Increase Sales, Subscriptions, and Traffic With Action Words.”
Make purchasing easy. Take a good look at your ordering process.
Include your URL on each Web page. This will make it easier for people to go back to your Web site when printing or saving your Web pages.
Take a look at your website and see how many of these elements are missing. Implement these proven direct marketing strategies now to increase your online sales.
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Videos are very popular today for Internet marketing
Video marketing can take your business to the next level. YouTube is a mass traffic source and Google shows YouTube videos high up in its search results with a small image of the video which is likely to get more clicks.
Are you looking for good video creator software to make short videos? There are many ways to make cool videos. Here are some of the most popular methods of creating videos.
Use a flip cam and record yourself or someone else.
YouTube video. You can make movies right at YouTube.
Record Powerpoint slides. You can create a slideshow in PowerPoint and record your screen. (Use powerpoint or Keynote and then Camstudio, Camtasia or Screenflow to capture your screen)
Create screen capture videos with Camtasia. You can download a 30 day fully functional copy of Camtasia from techsmith.com. Or you can use the free alternatives Camstudio and Sony Vegas.
Windows Movie Maker (Free – included in Windows computers). It can help you make beautiful slideshow or video clips (e.g. mixing your songs with pictures/video/etc), then save it as video file such as wmv or mpg, then upload. Or just get use clips you want, save and convert them, and then mix/match with pictures and sound using Windows Movie Maker to create new masterpieces.
iMovie for Mac users.
Animoto – www.animoto.com (free). Create videos in minutes. Animoto works with any operating system as long as you have Internet. Just upload your own photos or put your own text in, select the music and layout, and Animoto will do the rest. It’s really easy.
Picasa. Similar to Animoto. (I like it – but seems to have limited transitions)
OneTruemedia – Onetruemedia.com – similar to Animoto – has lots of stock photos – easy – I like their transmissions and you can control the length of the images. Works with any operating system as long as you have Internet.
Zillatube – www.zillatube.com. This is the easiest and the fastest way to create YouTube movies. Free download (limited usage) or purchase at $20.97. It is very easy to download and convert videos. Then edit those converted MPG videos with Windows Movie Maker.
After Effects CS4 – This professional software gives you more capabilities than Powerpoint or Camtasia but is very expensive.
Adobe Premiere lets you edit your movie.
Convert your articles to videos.
This is a great way to get quick videos, traffic and links
ArticleVideoRobot is very easy to use and really fast. It has a free trial (but the trial is limited and you can’t submit or download your videos.) Article Video Robot is well worth the money. The advantage of articlevideorobot over similar software is that they automatically blast your video article to many sites gaining you loads of traffic.
Try out some of those systems and see which one best fits your needs.
Want the easiest way? Just write the script, record your voice and hire a freelancer to make the video.
Also, if you have if you have articles, you can make extra money by converting articles to video.
You should always start with keywords research when doing search engine optimization, market research, content development and product creation.
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For some people, using Wordtracker on an as-needed basis will work. But if you want to build search engine optimized web sites or keyword focused article pages, then you need to go for a paid version of WordTracker.
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I only recommend products I believe in whether they have affiliate programs or not. I have used all the products I’m recommending here either for my own web sites or clients’ web sites. Some links are affiliate links, and if you click on an affiliate link and purchase something, I might get paid a small commission.
Affiliate programs are very effective low cost internet advertising strategies. Their strategic use can significantly boost your sales results, product branding and web site traffic.
How to Find Affiliates and Promote Your Own Affiliate Program
Put an affiliate link on your website.
Identify, find, and recruit new affiliates.
If you have other affiliate programs, introduce your new program to your affiliates who are promoting your other programs.
Promote your affiliate program on affiliate directories. This will get you professional affiliates who are always looking for good programs to promote. Those affiliates will do PPC, put up ads, create blogs, write and submit articles, and use a variety of methods to promote your affiliate program.
Promote your affiliate program on miscellaneous forums, blogs and websites related to your niche.
Promote your affiliate program on social networking sites, e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin.
Promote your affiliate program on youtube, craigslist, etc.
Find mailing lists related to your topic.
Contact owners of websites in your niche, introduce your affiliate program and ask them to promote it.
(set up an autoresponder with recruitment email message + call experienced affiliates)
Promote your affiliate program on specialized affiliate forums.
Submit articles to article directories promoting the product andor affiliate program.
Articles about product.
Articles about affiliate marketing.
Set up promotions and strategies to improve your affiliate sales.
Maintain relationships with affiliates
Develop and maintain relationships with affiliates.
Assist affiliates with any creatives and advertising needs.
Send a regular newsletter to all affiliates detailing new product offerings and bonus programs.
Answer affiliate questions (email/phone).
Answer affiliate emails promptly.
Provide technical support to affiliates (email/phone).
Provide assistance/recommendations to high-performing affiliates.
Provide special incentives for high performing affiliates, e.g. higher commissions, contest with extra commission for the highest performing affiliates for a certain period of time.
Work with affiliates to identify and assess new opportunities and analyze the program to enhance results.
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