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August 21, 2010

Using Traffic Exchange Programs Part 2

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — mharms @ 11:58 pm

(Continued from Using Traffic Exchange Programs Part 1)

Hello again!

In this sequel, I will show you how you can surf for credits at the same time without having to cheat and gain opt-in subscribers for free.

If you have been following up until now, you will agree with me that this is an awesome concept (though not exactly new).

Download the Crazy Browser
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Download the Crazy Browser at www.crazybrowser.com/download.htm. This wicked program allows you to open several web pages at the same time in a single browser (now the suspense is over!).

In the last series, I have asked you to join as many Traffic Exchange programs as possible. If you have not then do it now! (this also proves that you have not been following me! How could you?)

Crazy Browser has a feature that allows you to save combinations of web site addresses as individual groups. Now, let’s try one out.

Assuming you have joined Traffic Swarm, type your surf-for-credit URL for Traffic Swarm in the address bar and hit the Enter key.

The Traffic Swarm surfing page opens. Cool!

Now, repeat the same process for the rest of the Traffic Exchange programs you have joined. The other pages will appear under new tabs. After you have entered all the web page addresses of the Traffic Exchange programs, click on the main menu "Groups" and then click "Save All Pages as Group". Give the group a name (e.g. "Traffic Exchange") and save.

Now every time you start the program, you just click and open the group folder. All of your Traffic Exchange programs will load on the same page.

Now isn’t that awesome?

If you have a slow connection, opening so many pages at the same time can be stressful for both you and your computer. Perhaps, surf as many as 3 to 4 pages at the same time.

You can set your own time and connection speed limit.

Setting Your URL Campaign
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The next thing to do on the list is to set your URL campaigns. Since you are now surfing for credits, those same credits will be used to drive traffic to your web page.

In the URL Manager for all the Traffic Exchange programs you have joined, set the URL to point to your web page where visitors can subscribe to your regular newsletter or get a free e-book or report for free.

Set the URL Manager to point to those pages and nothing else! Why? Here are some hard and fast rules:

[1] Visitors who use the Traffic Exchange programs like you are usually not in a mood to buy anything when they use the programs.

[2] If you have been using Traffic Exchange programs for some time, you will find that most of the pages you see are looking to reach for your wallet. While there is nothing wrong with that, these people have yet to gain your trust let alone prove their worth.

[3] You will want to separate yourself from these people by offering a free newsletter or give away at your web page in exchange for their name and e-mail address. Since people will not have to fork out their credit card just yet, they would like to have something for free. Don’t you, too?

[4] If you have a website selling products or services, it is unwise to direct users of Traffic Exchange programs to the Killer Sales Letter straight away like a charging sales man (which is why I said differentiate yourself from others!).

I hope I have convinced you enough.

The beauty of getting visitors to subscribe to your regular newsletter or get a free e-book or report from you is that you have a chance to prove your worth and build trust and rapport with them.

This beats assaulting people with a sales letter which will produce little or no sales. I have tried it before so don’t you even try it, too!

In the last article of this series, I will wrap it up with a case study on this ingenious concept.

I will see you again!

(To be concluded in Using Traffic Exchange Programs Part 3)

Copyright (c) Edmund Loh

About the Author:
Edmund Loh is the author of the E-Biz Wiz Blog and Starting An Internet Business Special Report with over 6 years of web designing experience before he engaged in an Internet Business. Visit his website for more online business ideas and reseller tips. http://www.ebizmodelsyoucancopy.com/ebizwiz

August 15, 2010

Expand your Website to Improve Traffic

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — HardworkinJudy @ 11:59 pm

One problem with websites is that they often go neglected or don’t get updated for extended periods of time. This is a surefire way to reduce your rankings on the search engines and not maximize your traffic potential.

Making a website and building a traffic stream is probably one of the hardest things you can do as a webmaster. There are however some great ways which have proven themselves to me over and over again to gain traffic and slowly improve your rankings.

Set goals for your website. This statement may sound silly, but if you are driving to get 10,000 hits a day, you have to work at it. Don’t expect to put up a small website and instantly have traffic flow towards it. One of the techniques that has proven to be the most effect way of building long term traffic growth is to set a daily or weekly quota for what I want to accomplish on my website.

Personally, I aspire to write two or three articles each day and add them to my website. It doesn’t seem like very much to do, only an hour or so of work each day. Most webmasters are tweaking and working on their website far more than that each day. You may ask yourself, why would I want to do this every day? Have you ever heard the term, “Every long journey begins with the first few steps.” The same goes for building a website. If you were to add two or three pages a day, by the end of the year you would have between 700 and 1100 pages on your website!

Imagine that for every page you put on your website you got one or two hits a day. As you add more and more pages you are going to see more and more traffic flow. Sure each article may still only get one or two hits each, but when you website has several hundred pages that really doesn’t seem to matter as much!

Adding good content to your website and expanding your website daily is a truly effective way to build traffic over time. Yes, it takes work. Yes, it takes time. But when you reach your goals and attain what you want to in the end, it will all be worth the effort.

Hard work pays off.

Ken Dennis http://KenDennis-RSS.homeip.net/

August 10, 2010

How to Get Customers for Free

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — giritontro @ 11:57 pm

There’s no shortage of ways to spend money promoting your online shop – and certainly no shortage of people willing to take your money! However, search engines can be sending you qualified customers all day every day. How do you get a piece of this traffic? It’s estimated that 70% of people stop at the first 10 results in most search engines and over 90% don’t go beyond the first 30. If your shop isn’t in the top of the search results, you’re missing out. We’ll go through the five steps to getting you higher in the search engine rankings.

Choose the right keywords
You need to decide which search term(s) you want to be top for. This might not be as obvious as you think. Firstly, you need to know what people are (and aren’t) searching for. Being the number 1 result for a search term no one uses is no good. The Overture keyword selector tool can show you what people are searching for. Take some guesses as to what people are looking for, try them out and see what the tool says – you might be surprised! Do a Google search for a possible keyword. If, for example, you see 5,000,000 results returned you have to consider: can you beat 4,999,990 of them? You might be better off getting a number 1 position for a lesser keyword than a number 200 for a big one. Be careful not to be too ambitious – that keyword with the most traffic might be highly competitive in the search engines. If you are competing against a multi-million dollar online shop you’re unlikely to win.

Make sure your site is search engine friendly
The goal here is to make sure the search engines like your shopping cart site. You might need some help from your techies with this.

  • Create a sitemap pointing to all your pages, or all your key pages. This helps the search engines find all your pages.
  • Include your keywords in your HTML title tags in all your key shopping cart pages.
  • Include your keywords in a h1 tag.
  • If your shopping cart or CMS uses session IDs in the URL, turn this off, or change to a different tool. You can usually tell if you have this turned on if you URL looks like http://www.widgets.com/products/page.php?product=2329&session=29dha9198yfka8129fnv0. The big long session number is the dangerous part.
  • Make your HTML code clean & validated – most search engines prefer this.
  • Make sure your keywords are included in the copy on your site.

Some shopping carts such as Erol or osCommerce (with an add on module) provide excellent search engine optimization tools.

Get links
It’s no secret – most search engines love sites that have lots of links pointing at them. Get your customers & suppliers to link to you. This is the single most important thing you can do. There are companies that specialize in helping you get links – look them up if it’s important to you.

Watch your traffic
If your web host provides you with web statistics, then check them closely. Probably the most popular web statistics software is AWStats. This provides information on what people are searching for when they arrive at your site. This data is gold. Find out what people are looking for, and make sure that they can get it – easily!

Content, content and more content
Search engines love content – the more content the better. Detailed product descriptions, articles relevant to your product line, whatever, the search engines love it. So start writing, it’s not as hard as it looks!

Lastly, be patient. Search engines operate in their own time and results can take months to show. If this is an important area for you, consider enlisting a professional which can save you a lot of time. However, there is a lot of helpful resources and if you want to do the work yourself, roll up your sleeves, work hard and watch the customers pour in every day.

Mark Baartse is the founder of Shopping Cart Reviews, the webs most comprehensive Shopping Cart information site.

How To Get Guaranteed Traffic With Overlooked And Little Used Methods

Filed under: Business — Tags: , — chalu9999 @ 11:55 pm

Traffic. We all know that without it our sites will sit there lost in cyberspace. Gathering nothing more than the occasional spider crawling across lonely electronic cobwebs.

If you’ve been around the e-business scene, for at least a few months, you’re familiar with the typical and common methods of site promotion.

You’ve taken the right steps. Submitted your site by hand to the *oh-so-powerful* TOP 10 search engines and directories. Now, it’s a waiting game to see if you get listed or if you have to try submitting again.

You’ve learned the hard way and wasted too much time using Biggy Blasters to post gazillions of links on FFA sites. Only to see little more than a trickle or two of visitors to your site.

You’ve gotten on the right track by testing and placing ads in ezines. But it’ll take you some time to find the RIGHT ezines in your target market that produce results BEFORE you can roll out a full fledged ezine advertising campaign.

Don’t lose heart. There ARE some overlooked and little used methods that WILL work to get you that surge of life-giving traffic your site needs.

Here’s 3 different methods you can use. Two will cost you (but won’t break the bank) and the other will only cost you the time it takes to organize and initiate.

FIRST overlooked and little used method..

===> Sponsor an online Lottery

I’ve seen the cost as low as $28 for 1200 visitors! That’s only .02 cents per visitor.

There are two basic ways online lotteries send you visitors…

  • Some lotto sites load YOUR webpage in a frame.

  • Some have you place a tiny button link on your page during the lottery run.

    TIP: You will get more of a *response* from the lottery playing visitors by offering them something for FREE. Some examples would be…. free downloads, free subscriptions to ezines and free access to member sites. Make it easy for them to get it by sending a quick email where your autoresponder will send them the download site and/or any instructions.

    Granted this isn’t exactly *targeted* traffic. But if you’re clever, you can give them a *freebie* that’s sure to bring them back again when their not playing the game.

    SECOND overlooked and little used method..

    ===> Purchase banner click-thru’s.

    Although many marketers already know about the pay-per-click search engines, very few are purchasing guaranteed banner click-thru’s that are available on hundred’s of sites.

    Look for sites that cater to your target market and look for, or ask for, their advertising rates. Slowly but surely most of the sites that sold banner impressions are starting to offer performance advertising in the form of pay-per-click.

    NOTE: For more explanation on pay-per-click search engines visit http://www.successsolutions.com/payperclick.htm

    THIRD overlooked and little used method..

    ===> Permanent Reciprocal Links

    This method won’t solve your traffic problem overnight. But it’s FREE. (Don’t you just love that word?)

    Creating a permanent reciprocal link page is the easy part. Actively searching for other sites, then asking if the webmaster would be interested in giving you a permanent reciprocal link is hard work.

    I’ve found a great piece of software called Zeus that is helping me to automate the process from finding sites I would WANT to get a reciprocal link with, to automatically sending out the email to the webmaster of the website.

    NOTE: To see a Zeus reciprocal link page, up close and personal, visit http://www.successsolutions.com/links/themeindex.html

    Building your business on the Internet requires a great deal of effort on your part. It’s important to become a student of marketing and promotion.

    As fast as the net is changing there’s bound to be new ways to market and promote, to replace methods that no longer work.

    Keep your eyes open, read marketing ezines, and apply what you learn. The traffic will come if you never give up.

    About The Author

    Evonne Llewellyn – Publisher, Webmaster and successful Home Based Business Owner. Subscribe to Success Solutions Globalzine published since 1998 and get the solutions and resources You need for Your success at http://www.successsolutions.com

    • August 6, 2010

    Buying Links for Free Traffic – Is it Worth the Price?

    Filed under: Business — Tags: , — djstoreroom @ 8:58 am

    The debate rages on forums all over the internet-should one buy text links to improve traffic?

    Here we’ll dicuss some of the aspcets of buying links.

    First, many link text brokerage sites sell links from a network of websites that may or may not have relevance to your own website. The problem here is one would be trading value for quantity. If a link is of no interest to visitors of these network of sites then the traffic from these sites will be very low.

    The only value of the link would be to boost page rank. But whether these links will boost page rank is debateable at best. Many SEO experts believe that a link that is not relevant to the page from which the link is on is penalized by Google.

    Still there are those who question this reasoning simply because Google bombing still works, as does blogspam. The topic is very debateable. Many claim that google can’t differentiate between a link that is paid for and one that is not. Logically this is correct, but Google can spider the contents of a page, and if the links on that page are of no relevance to the rest of the content the spider knows.

    Of course there is no direct evidence that Google will penalize your link if it is on a page that has no relevance to your link. It is merely speculation. But as I said, even though the spider doesn’t know if you paid for the link or not, they are made to spider content. This thought should cause you to proceed with caution when and if you choose to buy links.

    Always evaluate your intent when buying links. Is it just to boost pagerank, or will the link also be of benefit to the visitors of the page the link will be placed on. Both are important to the level of traffic the link could bring.

    So the intelligent conclusion would seem to be to buy links from individual websites related to the topic you want to rank for. The evidence seems to suggest that this is more benefical to both readers of that website and from an SEO perspective.

    Leah J. Bradshaw is the author of the Free Targeted Traffic Report; “Jumpstart Your Traffic in as Little as 10 Days”. She also authors a Moms Free Traffic Blog to help work a home moms get free traffic.

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