Archive for Traffic Tips
Getting Traffic to Your Website From Beyond the Internet
Posted by: | CommentsOne place you may not be looking at for getting traffic to your website is outside the Internet. While it’s true that information travels faster on the World Wide Web and that you can reach far away places, the value of promoting your website “in the real world” shouldn’t be underestimated. There are many opportunities for this, and you don’t have to rely on search engines.
Put Your Web Address on Business Cards
Business cards are a great place to start “real world advertising” for your web address. They’re inexpensive, and you can take them with you wherever you go. You can often leave them on store displays and counters.
Let’s say that you’re going to a marketing convention. You will naturally want to have business cards there to get your name out among your peers. It only makes sense to have your web address included. Your phone number may be optional, but you’re missing a great chance if you don’t include your web address.
Advertise Your Web Site in the Newspaper
Many people still use the newspaper, and it’s still a valuable advertising medium for your website. There’s a good chance that you’ll have to start small if your business is new. Start with Read More→
Considering the iPad in Affiliate Marketing
Posted by: | CommentsNow that the iPad has been released, it’s selling like crazy and affiliate marketers are wondering what this means to them. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, there really isn’t that much to worry about. If you haven’t, here are some things you will want to be aware of.
The iPad is Pretty Much the iPhone
If you’ve already figured out the issues of what your page looks like on the iPhone, you’re ahead of the game. The iPad takes a departure from the Mac OS and pretty much follows the same design as the iPhone, and you can only use Apple approved products on it. Open-source and Microsoft products are dead out.
This means that not only are the users limited in what they can install and use on the iPad but also that you are limited in what you can use on your website and traffic strategies – that is, if you want to draw iPad users to your list and products. Now here’s the big question: What limitations are there?
Accommodating the Users’ Web Browsers
A major consideration in your web page design Read More→
Getting Traffic to Your Website with Urgency
Posted by: | CommentsFew ways of getting traffic to your website can beat providing a sense of urgency. If you don’t give people on and off your list a reason to visit NOW, they probably never will. Short attention spans are the norm on the Internet, so you have to grab them by the eyeballs now and get them to your site.
Making Limited Time Offers Speeds Things Along
Few things can instill a sense of urgency more quickly than providing a countdown on limited time offers. When you launch your new promotion, you should provide a cut-off date. About a month before the launch, release your first notice of the impending launch date. Every week or so after that, provide another until the last two days before launch. Then you should send out notices daily.
You don’t want to start right off by giving daily notices. This will annoy the people on your list and make them want to leave. However, they tend to stay on your list if you increase the frequency of notices within the first few days of launching. The technique should give a sense of “putting a bug in their ear” at first, leading up to a virtual sense of crisis if they don’t join by the last call.
Having Limited Spots Is Powerful Leverage
Perhaps more potent than advertising that you have a limited time to sign up is advertising that you have limited spots. You follow pretty much the same procedure Read More→
Getting Traffic to Your Website with Bonus Traffic
Posted by: | CommentsGetting traffic to your website is your priority. Getting targeted traffic is an extra bonus. Bonus traffic is an incredibly powerful way of doing this. It’s like chocolate meeting peanut butter, only you’re mixing integration marketing with listbuilding. Here’s how it can work for you.
Step One is Forming a Partnership
Basically, what you start with is forming a partnership with someone who already has a membership site or a download page. It has to be within your niche to work. In this partnership, you make an exchange where your product goes on their website as a free bonus. In return, you get to communicate with their list, and thereby import them to yours.
This accomplishes several things that both parties can enjoy. For them, they get the extra reputation points and opt-in power for giving away an amazing product or service. For you, it’s a chance to build your reputation, and it expands your list immensely. From this particular list, you can draw traffic to your site, which equals highly targeted traffic.
Granted, this doesn’t mean you’re making sales on the product that you’re giving away. However, it works Read More→
The Rules of E-mailing Your Affiliate Marketing List
Posted by: | CommentsWhen a newbie marketer gets a healthy affiliate marketing list, the idea of e-mailing them can be scary. The idea of a mass exodus of un-subscribers can be terrifying, but don’t let it get to you. Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. You have to be positive and upbeat in your mailings and YOU HAVE TO MAIL.
Entertain Your E-mail List
If a lot of people un-subscribing from your e-mail list is your concern, there are some ways to make sure that they stay on. An important way of doing this is to entertain your subscribers. By now, you have a good idea of what kind of people are on your list. Use this to your advantage.
Your niche will reflect the way you’ll entertain your readers. You can use humor, either making it niche-specific or according to the type of people on your list. Naturally, if you have a lot of white collars on your list, “You might be a marketer if” jokes probably won’t fly very well. You might be better off entertaining them by “declaring war on the search engines” or a similar sort of performance.
Doing an Occasional Product Review is a Plus
You can either mail out a product review to your list, or Read More→
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