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Posted by Jimmy Brown (Link Below) on 22 February 2010 filed in Traffic Generation
If you’re trying to build a steady stream of traffic on your own, you’re in for an uphill climb. You’ll need to spend a lot of time (such as on tasks like search engine optimization), a lot of money (such as on pay per click marketing) – or both.
Fortunately, there’s an easier way to get loads of traffic very quickly – and for free. All you have to do is leverage other people’s traffic and resources. Read on to discover ten ways to get other people to send you their traffic…
1. Be a Guest Blogger
Some bloggers solicit guest articles, in which case you can create a blog post and submit it for consideration. However, even those that don’t advertise accepting guest articles may be open to the idea if you give them a reason why they should.
For example, you can:
• Trade articles with the blogger (so that they get to post an article on your blog too).
• Use the blog owner’s affiliates links in your article, so that they make money when their readers buy a product.
• Offer something else attractive in trade, such as an endorsement in your newsletter.
2. Recruit Them to Your Affiliate Program
One quick and easy way to sell more products using other peoples’ traffic is by asking them to join your affiliate program.
If you’re selling digital products, you should offer at least a 50% commission rate to affiliates, and even higher for “super affiliates” (those who can send you a lot of traffic and sales). You may even offer additional perks, such as bonuses or discounts for their customers.
Tip: You can quickly and easily set up an affiliate program for your digital products using Clickbank.com (which is also a payment processor).
3. Trade Blog Links
Instead of trading content, you can trade blog links with other people in your niche (AKA “blogrolling”).
The first benefit is that it’s visible for a long period of time, as usually these links are permanently placed on the front page of the blog.
Secondly, you can also get a search engine optimization benefit if the blog has a high Google Page Rank (and if you use your keywords as the anchor text for your link).
4. Trade Newsletter Articles
If you like the idea of trading content, then consider trading newsletter articles with other people in your niche.
Tip: Look for those who also post their newsletter issues on their blogs, as then you’ll get the benefit of a backlink and ongoing traffic!
5. Co-Promote On Your Download Pages
If you have products or services that are closely related to another marketer’s products, then you may agree to trade product links on your thank you / download pages.
Alternatively, you can ask the marketer to use his affiliate link to point to your product sales page.
Either way, this tends to be responsive traffic, since they’re customers who just bought something (and thus they’re in the buying mood).
6. Swap Links On Your Subscription Confirmation Pages
Another place you can trade links is on your newsletter subscription confirmation pages. You may even agree to trade endorsements in the welcoming emails that you send to your new subscribers.
7. Do Joint Mailings
If you ship physical products, then seek out other marketers who’re selling physical products in your niche. Then ask these people to send out a flyer advertising your products in every shipment they send, and you’ll do the same for them.
Tip: Look on eBay® to find marketers in your niche who’re selling a high volume of physical products.
8. Ask to Interview Them
The biggest marketers in your niche might not be open to some of the other suggestions we’ve talked about so far, such as content swaps (especially if you’re relatively unknown and don’t have a busy blog yet). However, they may be open to you interviewing them, perhaps on a teleseminar. And if so, then they’ll also likely help you advertise the call, which means you get free traffic.
Tip: Be sure to mention your website link on the call, because then you’ll get traffic months or years from now if you distribute the recordings.
9. Co-Write and Promote Articles
Instead of creating a recording with another marketer, you can create an article together.
Example: You can each share five niche tips. Or one of you can share the tips and the other person can write the article.
Either way, you’ll get traffic because your partner will help you distribute the content, perhaps by posting it on his blog and telling his list about it.
10. Create Rebrandable Reports
Finally, you get others to send you traffic by creating rebrandible reports (using a tool like ViralPDF.com). This is where you allow others to change the affiliate links in a report to their affiliate links, so that anyone who distributes the report has the opportunity to make money on the backend.
Summary
You don’t have to invest months of work or thousands of dollars to get traffic – not when you simply leverage other people’s traffic!
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10 Reasons to Put RSS on Your Site.
RSS and Blogs are the topics of the moment. Seems like everyone is talking about it.
Granted, there is too much hype about RSS and Blogs.
But where there's hype - there's interest!
And with good reason - RSS is posed to be the breakout technology of 2005. Those who don't
take full advantage of it will be left behind.
If you need convincing - here are 10 reasons why you should put RSS on your site:
1. It's easy and fast! Not to mention Free! You can use a free service like eBlogger and publish your
Blog and RSSfeed within minutes. You can even place or publish your Blog/RSS Feed on your own site
without knowing 'html' or 'xml'. It's all done for you!
Repeat - it's simple to use and very convenient. Publishing your blog is only a few clicks away.
(If you need help -just use the link at the end of this article.)
2. Syndicate Your Content. RSS stands for 'really simple syndication' and it's just another way of passing
along your information. With the popularity of 'MyYahoo' and the 'Firefox' browser (which has a built-in
RSS feed reader) increasing -syndicating your content has gotten even simpler.
The next version of Windows is reportly scheduled to have an RSS feature. If this happens - RSS will explode.
3. Get Your Content Indexed. Using blogs to publish your content is a neat way of side stepping the regular
indexing procedure. It gets your content indexed very quickly in most of the search engines.
Search Engines are constantly on the lookout for 'fresh content' - these 'link rich' blogs are a good source of
this content. Because blogs are on specific topics - they have a concentrated source of good quality
informational material to serve out!
4. Instant Contact. Blogs give you instant contact with your readers or viewers. We live in an 'instant' society -
we want everything five minutes ago. Blogs provide this instant gratification. Readers or viewers using
MyYahoo have an instant link to your information or postings.
RSS Feeds will instantly spread your information to all interested parties - bringing in targeted traffic.
5. Building Your List. People who pick up your RSS feed or add you to their MyYahoo site - become your
subscribers.You are really building your contact list. Have a popular blog or RSS Feed and you can build
a large targeted contact list very quickly.
Might not replace your old opt-in email list - but it can be a lucrative addition to it! Take advantage of all
those targeted contacts.
6. Link Building. Blogs are link heavens! Build your links thru blogs. All these links will boost your link
popularity and increase your search engine rankings.
Plus, by giving viewers/readers a way of adding your RSS Feed creates targeted links to your site.
This reason alone is why your site should have RSS!
7. Viewer/Subscriber Feedback. Instant feedback from your subscribers or viewers is easy with blogs. Creating
trust and credibility is so much easier when there is immediate communication between the two parties.
8. Keyword Content Building. Blogs are especially good for building 'keyword targeted content' for your site. All
these links will boost your keyword rankings in the search engines. Google places a high value on 'anchor text'
and blogs are a good place to put all those links.
You can also start different blogs targeted at specific related keywords covering the major topics of your site.
Again, search engines love related keyword linking so you can boost your site's rankings by using blogs.
9. Monetize Your Content. Blogs are an excellent way of monetizing your content. Blog sites like Eblogger
(owned by Google) even encourages you to use the 'adsense code' in your blogs. If you have a popular
blog - this may bring in extra income.
Plus, publishing your ezine or newsletter in a blog can bring in revenue for months if not years to come.
All those affiliate links and product promotions get indexed by the search engines and become accessible
to a wider audience, i.e. market.
10. Because Everyone Else is Doing It! Might sound a bit 'Jonesish' but you do have to keep up with what
other web sites are doing. To remain competitive - you must put RSS on your site.
Sites without the 'AddtoMyYahoo' link or the 'xml' button will be the exception rather than the rule in
just a few years - if not months. It's simply another way of getting your information 'out there'. It's an
opportunity and advantage that you cannot afford to miss.
Proceed without RSS at your own risk!
Titus Hoskins
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