Tony, here are three strategies that I use that are free and very effective to get visitors to your website that actually end up turning into paid customers. Strategy #1 = Traffic Exchanges: I personally have success with traffic exchanges. It is very important that you use them correctly to get the best out of them. Use them to collect email addresses or use them by advertising a catchy splash page that will attract the viewers attention. Never use them to advertise a generic affiliate page or a whole webpage. You want to let the viewers see a splash page first which will catch their attention and then have them go to the main page or have a splash page offering a gift in exchange for an email address. Here is a tutorial that I have in my forum about traffic exchanges. The tutorial is directed towards the members of my membership website but it applies to anyone who uses traffic exchanges: http://empireblast.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1150474901 Strategy #2 = Writing And Submitting Article To Directories: Everyone has something that they can write about. The idea is to write an article any where from 450 characters to about 900 characters. Then you can submit them to as many article directories as possible. Two of the most popular are ideamarketers.com and ezinearticles.com You can also use a submission service like articlemarketer.com which will submit your article to thousands of websites and directories. Here is how you get the traffic. At the end of the article you want to have a resource box. A resource box can simply be a 2 - 3 line sentence about yourself with a link to your website. This will bring you traffic in a number of ways. People that read the article will go on and click on to your website because they just read a good article written by you. This builds up your reputation as a professional. Another way that it will send you traffic is that since now you have thousands of websites linking to you, you will also receive search engine traffic. If you don't want to write an article you can also hire a ghost writer to write them for you. Strategy #3 = Participating in forums: Notice that I said participating in forums. Not spamming forums. By helping out other people in forums and offering valuable information people will go ahead and click on your signature. These are very targeted visitors because you just helped them out and they are curious as what you have to offer to them. Try all of the above strategies on a weekly basis and you will start to see results.
Quoting: tonybDoes anyone know about email marketing? If you want to learn a bunch on email marketing, I would recommend reading Inside The List. It has a lot of great information on email marketing, but at $97, it does come with a hefty price tag. If you don't want to purchase ITL, you can always get an Aweber subscription, which is an auto-responder which you can use to capture email adresses and send out mini courses. It costs $19.99 a month, but it is fairly user friendly, and they have great customer service. If you are going to start email marketing, one thing to keep in mind is to try and provide your subscribers with some kind of value - don't just throw out a bunch of sales pitches without providing value, because this will probably just tick people off.
Lick: The only thing about an Opt-In Page/PopUp is the fact that alot of actually qualified people bypass them by just hitting the Close Button. Some then tend to get annoyed because they know what is involved once they submit their email address. Rich The Jerk
Email marketing is very risky. Make sure that if you are going to buy into a campaign of this nature that you really check out the company providing it first. People have already been put in jail in some states for spamming. I agree that search engine are the best site magnet however they can be pricy at times due to ranked rates.
Quoting: coreyjromanEmail marketing is very risky. Yes, it is risky and even for a double optin mailing list, response rates are low for repeat mailings
Quoting: RichTheJerkThe only thing about an Opt-In Page/PopUp is the fact that alot of actually qualified people bypass them by just hitting the Close Button. Some then tend to get annoyed because they know what is involved once they submit their email address. What you can do is create a "squeze" page, which is an opt in form that is part of your webpage. That way, you don't have tp worry about someone closing a popup box. Aweber will generate the "opt in" code you can copy and paste right into your web page.
Quoting: coreyjromanMake sure that if you are going to buy into a campaign of this nature that you really check out the company providing it first. People have already been put in jail in some states for spamming. If you use Aweber, you create your own email list. People who sign up for your list are automatically tracked through Aweber, and Aweber automatically includes an "opt out" link which allows people to stop receiving emails from you if they don't want to receive them anymore. This way, you don't have to worry about people accusing you of being a spammer, because you have done your part to allow people to opt out - and you have only emailed people who have opted in.
Quoting: tonybDoes anyone know about email marketing? Hi Tonyb I would touch this if you paid me for it. Why, we have so many issues these days wit Spam, and it is only getting worse. However, if you have your own list of opt in subscribers, then you can safely market to them via email autoresponders, provided you supply them with a link to unsubscribe. All the good responder compnaies have this inbuilt anyway. Keep your hands of whitelists!
I use splash pages on the traffic exchanges to recruit prospects to my opportunities. Something short, catchy that tends to stand out. Always try to capture email adderesses when possible to keep a steady stream going through your autoresponder series.
Hallo Everybody I agree that Free classifieds is not bad , ad words you do need to know what you do ,otherwise it can drain your resources quickly. I also use banner ads ,but it is targeted traffic one is actually looking for. Traffic swarm brings traffic ,but no real conversions . The best is good content and writting good and interesting articles .
If I were you I'd get a statcounter webpage counter to count your visitors. Then use Google Adwords, but be carefull, there is alot of competition... in could be throwing your money out the windows... Email marketing is kind of touchy, unless you have a list of opted-in user, you better never mind... My opinon only...
I've read all of the opinions thus far on getting traffic and I currently use yahoo marketing but was thinking of doing some other form or paid targeted traffic. Supposing I am already employing the other strategies above...opt-in , article writing, forums, what is "your" opinion on the very BEST targeted traffic you can buy? I'm just curious to see, so perhaps we can all benefit from this. I mean if several have at least one or two the same, that sounds pretty good to me. Also, someone called me today and asked if I wanted to pay $4900 for 30000 guaranteed targeted hits, they were from Ultimate Business Solutions, so I'm guessing that's where the traffic would be coming from, anyway I'm sure you can all guess my answer.
The best traffic you can ever get is from your personal efforts - writing articles and posting in forums, being the best in quality, and then from paid search listings. Don't ever fall for guaranteed hits. Most of these hits come from autosurfing who have absolutely no interest in the site they are visiting.
I had the same problem getting traffic to my sites and im still studying adword. I started using hits2u and so far its the best free advertising i have tried.
tonyb, You have 5,000 hits on your website.. thats awesome.. how you do that? Im a google adwords junkie. last 24 hours i generated over 40 leads for less then 20 bucks. my ppc is around 20cents with a 40% opt in...plus it also helps to have a killer landpage that converts.. All the be$t TheCeoGuy.
Most free methods usually result in targeted leads due to the nature of the ad source... When it comes to fast, targeted leads instantly, rent a list for a mailing. Use a solo ad and get lots of leads generally delivered within a few days... These lists are targeted for the most part, and usually results in a few sales. To the top, Zach Andary
