Web traffic or visitors is like the life force of an online business. Without targeted visitors, the business cannot survive and flourish. Finding quality traffic according to some experts, accounts for 80% of your success online. As an affiliate, there are some effective ways you can use to drive traffic which I will reveal later. Before you start to build traffic, consider using one of the powerful sales funnels covered earlier. Do not drive traffic directly to your affiliate product. Rather, drive it through your sales funnel to improve conversions.
But some vouch that Chris Carpenter’s Google Cash method still works. Maybe for very rare niches, it still works but for more competitive ones, the application is limited. Google Cash method actually talks about direct affiliate linking and driving PPC traffic directly to the affiliate website to complete the sales.
It is important to stay focused on just a few traffic building techniques. Once you find one that you are comfortable with, work at it until you become an expert. Many affiliates fail because they keep chasing after the next “In” thing on traffic generation which comes and goes. They end up wasting time with no results to show. Do not follow them.
I have not covered all the effective traffic building strategies and secrets but what I list here are proven and time-tested techniques which would last long.Article marketing is my pet topic. I work on article marketing quite a bit to drive free targeted traffic to my websites. The quality of traffic from article marketing is one of the best you can ever get other than PPC and conversion rates from the articles I have written are excellent. Sometimes, it can be as close as 5%.
If you do not know what is article marketing, read Secret Article Profits. I highly recommend this ebook if you really want to learn the secrets behind successful article marketing and start earning fat Clickbank checks.
Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free!There are several reasons why article marketing is so popular:
1. It is absolutely free. You do not need to pay a single cent. Article directories accept and publish your articles for free. All you need is to write the articles.
2. It drives FREE instant and targeted traffic to your websites. Within a short time, your article gets indexed in the search engines and rank well in Page 1 or 2 if it is optimized. Such traffic is your warm market.
3. Articles are great sales pages! If you write well enough to presell your customers, they would be ready to buy your products once they hit the sales page.4. Articles get you high Page Rank one-way links. Imagine your article on a PR7 website with a link to your website? These boost your website ranking.
How To Write To Create An Avalanche Of Traffic To Your Websites?
1. Do your research at the forums. Hear the voice of your prospects and know what they want. Find out the main theme, the underlying message of their topics. Perhaps they want to know how to write an article in the fastest way possible?
2. Target the right keywords. Read the earlier Paragraph 4.2 on “Targeting Long Tail Keywords”. This is the KEY! Most article marketers get it wrong!!3. Include the keywords in your article title. Start with the keyword, avoid placing it towards the end and avoid unnecessary words. Search engine spiders read content from left to right. Too many irrelevant words can confuse them.
4. Include the targeted keywords in your article introduction, body content and conclusion. Go for 2 to 3 % keyword density.5. Write Regularly. Try to write at least 1 or 2 articles a week on different keywords. You would realize that the traffic soon becomes consistent.
Tip: Too lazy to write? This is why we turn to Instant Article Wizard and Content Assistant to create articles on demand! Save the trouble and cost of hiring ghostwriters or buy PLR articles. There are also Secret Weapons pro-affiliates use to get Maximum Exposure for their articles Article Post Robot & JetSubmitter. Find out what it can do for your business from this article marketing blog.
Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free!Web 2.0 has become extremely popular nowadays. Basically, it is a second generation of web-based communities and services. You may have heard of social bookmarking and sites like Digg.com, Squidoo, Del.icio.us and wikis.
Why Social Bookmark?Social bookmarking started first with the idea of bookmarking favorite websites that one can access from any part of the world. The bookmarks are saved on a web server rather than your computer. You can even share your bookmarks with others in the web community. Rather than let the search engine spiders and robots decide what content is relevant to a particular keyword, we can bookmark and tag each website with the relevant tags/keywords we deem is appropriate.
A very helpful thought like this soon opened many possibilities to affiliate marketers. Rather than be at the mercy of Google’s ever changing search engine algorithm, why not we decide what is relevant and what is not? Everyday, millions of visitors get onto social bookmarking sites to search for information and there is a lot of money to be made through social bookmarking sites. Affiliates can bookmark their websites, blogs and etc for instant targeted traffic.
What Are Some Secrets To Pull In Visitors On Demand?1. Use outrageous headlines as a title for your bookmark. “How My Website Gets PR 5 Within 1 Month” would certainly attract tons of visitors. But please, no lies!
2. Check out the most popular tags at the home page of the social bookmarking site. Use these tags for your bookmark - a covert trick to get maximum traffic.
3. Ask your friends to bookmark your bookmark. The front page always shows the top bookmarks saved by the most number of people. Some even hire others to do so. This little trick can drive hundreds of visitors to your website within 1 day!
Tip: Social bookmarking can be tedious if done manually. Fortunately, there are automated tools like Social Bookmarking Demon, Web2Submitter and Lazee Linkz that social bookmarks your affiliate websites on autopilot.
Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free!PPC offers the fastest way to drive targeted traffic to your websites. You can go to Google Adwords and register an account for as low as $5. Go for Standard Edition. Forget about Starter Edition which is too rudimentary. An ad campaign does not take more than 10 minutes to set up and traffic can start streaming in as fast as within the next 15 minutes. But PPC advertising can be really expensive!
Google Adwords arguably still offers the best quality traffic. But you really need to apply some secret techniques to optimize your budget.1. Target long tail keywords. Read Chapter 4. Long tail keywords are targeted and have fewer bidders. Hence, the clicks are much cheaper. Use either NicheBot or Keyword Elite to find a whole list of such keywords quickly.
2. If you are using Google Search and Search Network only, ie disable Content Network, it works well for long tail keywords but not for competitive terms. Using search only will also boost your CTR and bring down the PPC cost.
3. If you are using Google Search and Search Network only, always bid for the 4 – 6 position for each keyword. This ensures your ad appears on upper Page 1.4. Bid 1 cent above your competitor. To find out how much you need to bid for each ad position, useGoogle’s keyword tool or Keyword Elite.
5. Content search has its place as well. Experiment with targeted long tail keywords and go for the lowest bids ie 5 cents and bid upwards. Then tweak your ads until you hit a high CTR. This is tedious but ensures that you get the most out of your advertising budget.
6. Go for cheaper but smaller PPC networks like Miva and GoClick. I have had some considerable success using GoClick.Tip: Want to stop wasting money on PPC testing and “copy” the profitable keywords and ad copies that are making sales for your competitors? Then you cannot miss GetAdSpyPro. Watch this video how this secret tool can pull out profitable keywords quickly for you!
Sign Up For My Secrets Of Affiliate Marketing Newsletter Free!List building has to be the most powerful traffic building strategy. Affiliate marketing gurus would vouch that the one main factor behind their successes is a list of subscribers that are ready to buy their product recommendations. In fact, statistically, each subscriber is worth $1 a month in terms of income. Building a list is not a short-term affair. If your goal is only to make a few hundred dollars online, then this method is not necessary. With the methods I have given you, you can easily achieve that kind of income. But if you intend to quit your day job and starting making serious income in the range of $1000s to 10,000s, then listen up! You need a LIST that keeps putting cash in your bank.
I have talked in earlier chapters about the importance of following up with your subscribers using a professional autoresponder like Aweber and GetResponse. You also need an opt-in form or name squeeze page to capture the name and email address of your prospect. See how Dual Squeeze Pages or Squeeze Page Profit System can instantly give you professional templates to work on.
Building a list allows you to keep in close contact with your subscribers. Give them useful information and build relationship with them. Recommend only the best resources that can help them and in the process make some solid income. The larger your list, the more repeated sales! Never worry about traffic anymore.
What Are Some Of The Fastest Ways To Explode Your List?1. Offer a valuable free gift. It can be a quality ebook, software or web templates. Do not give away trash!
2. Participate in giveaway events. Participating in giveaways is quick way to leverage on other marketers’ lists to build your list.
3. Sell a cheap ebook at $0.99 or $1.99 at eBay. Encourage your buyers to sign up for your newsletter for future updates and news.
4. Do a Joint Venture (JV) with other affiliates. Offer to cross promote each other’s products and newsletters to build up each other’s lists.
Tip: Offer this ebook as a bonus or gift and use it to build your list quickly. Hurry to do so since it is a new release!
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