You’ve spent all this time marketing your site to attract more prospects to your web site, but what’s this, ooops, the very 1st link they click on gets a great “ERROR 404 – Not Found”.

What just happened to that visitor?

* Did they hit “back” on their browser? – 56% do
* Did they try and “refresh” the page? – 8% do
* Did they move on and search again? – 36% did

Just like that, all your hard work, your new prospect is now gone and possibly forever.

How does this article tie into “Web Marketing”?
It has everything to do with it. Marketing is not only about flash and dance, it’s about creativity, testing, re-testing, and phycology. That’s it. This entire article is about getting into your mind and the mind of your visitors to attract new business.

So what happened to your visitor?
Although a very high percentage of people do “hit back” on their browser, you’re still at risk of loosing 36% that are just browsing for fun, venture and/or something to do. Many people when they browse on the web, don’t actually shop for your product or service, they just happen to bounce into your website and it triggered a sale.

Create Perfection, Nothing Less:
We are all students to perfection, even our site has “dead links” within. It happens to the best of us, the key is to consistently be putting your website through testing and development. Note: I understand that there are many websites out there that never change, if your site is already perfect, congratulations! – BUT … I dare you to start creating new content for your site daily, it won’t be long before you catch something off.

Perfection is a journey, not a task:
Enough said.

A lot of people get really anal when it comes to making mistakes on their site. “You’ll never find a mistake here” – Someone told me a while back. Within 5 minutes I pointed out to them a very important image that wasn’t showing up anymore, they had moved their image folder around. They weren’t impressed.

Let’s Go Back A Bit…

What Happens When Your Site Is Poorly Designed?
This is the #1 reason why you will either fail or succeed online. I’ll repeat that, a poor design will help you fail. Bottom line. I apologize if a few of you are speechless and don’t know what to do about it. Don’t worry, thoughts are things, think of situations that may help your goal in mind.

Is your site poorly designed? Here are some of the things people will think when looking at a poorly designed website…

* – Hmmmm, are they still in business?
* – If so, how are they doing it?
* – Wow, welcome to the mickey mouse club
* – Can I trust these guys with my personal information?
* – They must be desperate
* – Did they create this site 10 years ago?
* – Time to update, until then, I’m gone
* – They don’t seem to take pride in their work
* – They still make sites like this?
* – Must of taken them minutes to create this

You get the point. This article hasn’t been a fun one but, a needed one.

Create Your Site For Perfection In Order To Win :

Would you like to keep all your visitors? Would you like to increase your sales? Then keep putting your website under review.

* – Clean it up
* – Take out the trash
* – Increase your content
* – Create new images
* – Do something to improve your site right now.

Bottom line is no one is here to hold your hand. We can only sit back and watch to see what you feel is appropriate to present your business, your family name, and your honor. Improving your site brings greatness to your work. If not now, maybe later.

My Promise To You:
If you improve your entire site tonight, tomorrow will be a great day for your business. It will have undergone a well deserved face lift that brought life into the picture. You will feel better about yourself and where you are going.

I hope you enjoyed the article.

Martin Lemieux
Smartads – President

Affordable Web Design & Web Site Marketing
www.smartads.info & www.smartads.ca

Martins Weekly Marketing Tips: www.smartads.info/newsletter
Daily Web Marketing Tips: web-marketing.smartads.info
Entrepreneur Help Site: mindpower.smartads.info

Sharing personal experience I can say that reciprocal links are one of the great inventions of the Internet. Links save tons of job for search engines. Imagine how much information search engines would need to index! They already pay much on all their huge databases, and indexing everything on site could double, triple their expenses on storing and processing all that info.

It is much easier for search engines to index a link only. Because links have title (or anchor) and this title can be analyzed for keyword to check the relevancy. Link has structure and keywords even in the name of link; link has a description. From links search engines can learn about the topic, the popularity of your web site and help to put your site to the proper niche in the eyes of search engines.

Now you see why search engines are destined to love links, reciprocal links including, and why link exchange remains a very important factor to get higher positions and receive free, targeted traffic from search engines.

Reciprocal Links – Play by The Rules of Search Engines.

Most of the problems with reciprocal links exchange emerge when site owners or webmasters start violating the rules of search engines. Let’s face it: if you want to get free, targeted traffic from search engines, you either play by their rules, or try to find traffic somewhere else.

The rules of search engines are very simple.

(1) Your web site must give value.

Don’t make a dummy site with pure directory, and Google listings, and maybe Google ads. This type of site gives no value: no useful info, no quality product or service – nothing. When the user of search engine finds such a web site on the search term, this can irritate greatly. Users report to search engine, human editor comes to the site, sees its ‘value’ and the site gets to black list.

I had a client who had some problems with IP being blocked by Google. When I came to his site – Oh my God – seems like everything that could be violated was violated. It is good that Google gets every site the chance to get back on board, if the violations are taken out.

(2) Reciprocal links exchange must be relevant.

If some years ago search engines wouldn’t go that far in indexing the relevancy of links, today the picture looks absolutely another way. It is easy to index the link and check if the description and title of link coincide with the topic and niche of web site.

Of course, as the owner of web site you have all rights to put any kind of links on your web site – it is your business. But since you want to rank top from reciprocal links exchange with search engines, forget about your ambitions. Pick only relevant web sites and do link exchange with them.

(3) Exchange reciprocal links with reputable web sites.

The hidden truth is that for Google it does not matter what Page Rank the page with your reciprocal link has. Or better say – even PR 0 links count. The more relevant links, the better for your site.

But surely having your reciprocal link on 5 pages with (for example) PR 6 helps you to get indexed very fast, without sandbox for 2+ months and other unnecessary pain.

That is why never lose a chance to do reciprocal links exchange with a page that has nice Google PR, this will add more value to your web site in the eyes of Google. And Google is still the top search engine.

A hint where you can find many web sites that are ready for link exchange and have pages with nice PR. Check the sites that have automatic reciprocal links exchange directories installed. Most of the pages in these directories have PR from 3 to 7. And it is so easy to automatically submit your reciprocal link to all of them.

Follow these guidelines and learn more from those who already succeeded. Be wise and reasonable with reciprocal links exchange, and this will give you tremendous fruits in the end.

Before we go any further, what is “link popularity”? In very simplistic terms, link popularity refers to the number and quality of the incoming links that are pointing to your site. These other sites consider your site important enough to link to. So, in the engine’s view, your site is considered important as well. What is meant by “link popularity” can get much more complex, which is discussed further in this article.

However, one of the most difficult areas of SEO is building link popularity. Why? Because the engines don’t want “artificially created” (or useless) links, so there are no easy ways to build link popularity. The days of link farms and huge link exchange programs are over. Try those strategies now and you can easily find yourself booted out of an engine.

Rather, the engines want links from authoritative sites, or links from sites that share the same focus as your site.

But besides the link popularity you gain by getting an authoritative site to link to you, you also gain additional visibility for your Web site. So, when working on building link popularity, don’t forget those two basic reasons for requesting links.

The Purpose of this Article

Because building link popularity is one of the most difficult and time consuming aspects of search engine marketing, we decided to join forces with each other and with other search engine optimizers to create a list of legitimate ways you can build link popularity for your site.

When looking through this list, you may find strategies that are subject to abuse. If you use them as recommended in this article, you will have no problems. Abuse them, and you’re treading in potentially dangerous waters.

Stephen Baker with Fast said one of the most memorable statements I’ve heard as it relates to what the engines like or don’t like to see. He said:

“Our position is pretty straight forward…it’s not the technique that we are concerned about, it’s the intention.”

So, always keep that statement in mind when you consider linking or any other strategies for your Web site. Analyze your intentions, and if you wouldn’t mind an engine knowing what you’re doing, your intentions are okay.

Now that we’ve gotten the preliminaries out of the way, let’s get down to business: learning ways to increase the link popularity of our sites. To write this article, we went to professional search engine optimizers for their ideas. After each strategy, we briefly attributed it to the SEO who sent it to us, and then we provided a list of all contributors along with their companies and URL’s at the end of the article.

Keep in mind that these strategies aren’t in any particular order. Also, keep in mind that though it isn’t always stated explicitly, we’re always referring to “related” and “important” or “authoritative” sites as our targets.

Start with the Basics:

Before you begin link seeking, you might want to read the article, “A Linking-Campaign Primer”: http://www.ericward.com/articles/primer.html (Eric Ward, President, NetPOST and URLwire) (http://www.ericward.com)

This is by far the oldest and best-known method of improving link popularity. Basically you e-mail or contact the Webmaster of a site that is complementary but generally not competitive to your own. You ask them to link to your site while outlining the benefits of doing so. You would generally offer to link back to them in exchange for this courtesy. Be sure you have developed genuine content on your Web site of interest to the trading partner. Explain the advantages to them and to their visitors by providing a link to your content. Tell them where the link on your site will be or set the link up in advance with the stipulation that you’ll be glad to leave it there if they’ll add a link to you in kind. Take the time to look over their site and then suggest where a link to you might be appropriate. Most importantly, personalize your e-mails! You must distinguish yourself from all the spam they receive daily. If the link is particularly important to you, call them personally or write them a letter or send a fax to show them you’re serious. (Brent Winters with First Place Software)(http://www.webposition.com)

(To view the rest of the article, which is over 12,000 words long, visit: http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/articles/leglinkpop.html If you’d like to download the article in an ebook format, visit: http://www.searchengineworkshops.com/131LinkPop.html The article is also available in text format as an attachment to email by writing to RobinN@acws.com.

This article was compiled by Robin Nobles, Eric Ward, and John Alexander. The following people contributed tips to the article, and we greatly thank them for their contributions and help. Their companies and URL’s are listed in the HTML, text, and ebook versions of the article.

Mike Adams, John Alexander, Michael Campbell, Chris Churchill, Terry Dean, Elbert Flores, Chris Genge, Bill Gentry, Ron Gotcher, Don Hammond, Detlev Johnson, Dixon Jones, Jon Keel, Barbara Coll, Stephen Mahaney, Nancy Nelson, Robin Nobles, David Notestine, Susan O’Neil, Debra Paynter, Terry Plank, Rocky Rawstern, Gil Sery, Chris Sherman, Judith Silver, Marshall Simmonds, Scott Smith, Danny Sullivan, Becky Thompson, Eric Ward, Carl Watney, Steve Wilson, Brent Winters, and Gary Woods.

A special thanks to Butch Pujol and Heather Colman of Digital Page Author Software and Service (http://www.digital-page-author- software.com) for creating the wonderful e-book for us.

About The Author

Robin Nobles, Director of Training, Academy of Web Specialists, has trained several thousand people in her online search engine marketing (http://www.academywebspecialists.com) training programs. Visit the Academy’s training site to learn more (http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). She also teaches 3-day hands- on search engine marketing workshops in locations across the globe with Search Engine Workshops (http://www.searchengineworkshops.com).

Copyright 2002 Robin Nobles. All rights reserved.

RobinN@acws.com

1. Killer Homepage Copy.

Your homepage is THE sole determinant in how much traffic you bring in. If your visitors can closely identify with the emotion conveyed in your copy, they’ll mentally “bond” with you and be more likely to click through to your other web pages. If your copy isn’t doing the job, bring in a professional who will.

2. Simple, Logical Navigation.

If humans can’t even follow the links from one web page to the next, the search engine crawlers probably won’t be able to, either. When I first emerged on the web scene, I had no idea that the linked words in a paragraph of web copy are needed to lure the engines to other parts of your website. But now YOU know, so make this information work for your website’s rank!

3. Articles (formerly known as Deep Content).

A well-planned website is both logical and categorical in nature. Main pages should link to category pages that contain links that lead to articles. This is what drives search engines to index your website and add you to their roster of advertised pages. If this concept seems foreign to you, study the navigation of a major “hub” website like EzineArticles.com. Try to imagine building your site starting with the deep content pages and working your way back to the categories which lead to the homepage.

4. Free Downloads for Your Visitors to Enjoy.

Surprise! Those marketers aren’t giving you free information just because they’re super-nice (although they might be… I know I am!). They do it because the more people who download files from their websites means the more page views they get. This greatly improves search engine rank!

5. Frequently Updated Content.

Give your fans and the search engines something to look forward to. Every time you put up a fresh article, new e-book download, fun quiz or special promotion, you drives hordes of new visitors to your website. This is GREAT for your page rank and ultimately great for your business. You can add pages of content to your site by featuring articles from other authors, publishing your monthly newsletter pages live in an Index, or updating your Products page regularly with new items from affiliates of yours.

There are so many smart ways to keep traffic flowing steadily in to every page of your website for better rank and a higher placement on the search engines. These are just five of them. I hope they help you create a GREAT site for your business that keeps your fans on the edge of their seats because they CAN’T WAIT to see what you’re going to do next!

Copyright 2005 Dina Giolitto. All rights reserved.

Today you will learn:

- what are the benefits of joint-venture and affiliate partnership;

- how you will be able to find the best keywords that are related to your niche and what profit potential these keywords will give you;

- how you can automate your work for searching the most successful joint-venture partners and affiliates in your niche;

- how to automate your business relations with joint-venture partners and affiliates;

AND, YOU WILL ALSO LEARN

- how all these actions will give you free targeted web site traffic.

OK. LET’S START DISCOVERING ALL THESE ISSUES.

From the 1st day of “Free Traffic Course” you already know what is a niche, what is the role of niche in any business, especially online business. Today we will speak a little about niche, but from the perspective of GETTING niche-targeted web site traffic.

If you have a web site, you need targeted traffic for it. And if you do not have much money for Google ads, you will need to do a time-proven online marketing trick – motivate those who have your niche targeted web site traffic to bring targeted visitors to your web site.

You see, this is the beauty of online: you can turn competitors turn into your loyal allies. Both you and they will profit from this cooperation. Let’s have a look at one example. Imagine you sell nice Italian shoes made under unique methodology – the shoes are one-of-the-kind. You can reach other web sites that sell Italian shoes as well – if there is any difference between your shoes in terms of style and production technique, no longer you are online competitors. You can make each other richer.

So, you have your own database of clients, your “competitor” has as well. You can say, “Hi there, shoe web site owner. What would you say about making your shoe collection bigger? Or would you like to get additional clients for the shoes you already sell? You will profit from both two variants!”

Such an offer is called a joint-venture offer. You promote the shoes of “competitor” to your clients. If they buy something, you get your affiliate commissions for it. You made no product, just advertised the product of your “competitor” and made money from it.

And your “competitor” can do the same: promote your shoes to the client base and share your profits. Well, on every shoe you will make less money as you will share commissions 50-50. But you will get highly-targeted traffic from your niche and will sell MORE.

You see, even if your product or service is about 100% the same, you still can benefit from joint-venturing with others in Internet.

Now, just a few words about affiliates. Phew, affiliates are a big help for getting real web site traffic. You set some rewards for your affiliates (usually commissions), and they do the job for you. They bring you targeted visitors, get commissions, and you uplift your sales.

So, you got the idea how others can help you to get targeted web site traffic. But now a big question emerges.

WHERE TO FIND ALL THESE JOINT-VENTURE PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES?

The safest technique is to submit the keywords from your niche to the search engine, go through the first 100 top web sites and contact their owners with your affiliate/joint-venture partnership offer.

But just imagine how much time you will lose on it! Hours!! And not all contacts will be successful.

This is when Free Traffic System starts helping you. You will need one of the modules of this system called “Spider”. Look what Free Traffic System spider will automatically do for you.

You submit just one keyword from your niche, set parameters if necessary (we’ll talk about it little later) and the spider starts searching for the most successful potential affiliates and joint-venture partners in your niche.

Look how spider works. Spider searches the web sites in all search engines indicated by you (just tick the check box). Spider catches the top 100 (or 1000 or as much as you set) web sites in their meta data and description – if the web site matches your keyword – it saves the web site keywords in a specified file and goes further.

You wait for a while, and the spider give the best of the best. Web sites of toppers with their URLs, page rank, their keywords and other necessary info. You can use the keywords of your top competitors: if they are on the top, use their keywords to get to the top with search engine results as well.

But this is only the first step. You have to contact your partners and affiliates. Spider helps you here as well. You choose its option to find emails and real names of your partners, click the button and spider gets them for you. You can save web site, keyword, name and e-mail data to a special file or (which is better) to another module of Free Traffic System that manages mailing procedures.

In this mailing module you write your offer letter to partners or affiliates, or use the letter templates of Free Traffic System to create the letter and click send. This is all: Free Traffic System will make everything for you. You just get the answers and choose those offers that fit your business. Now, please make a simple calculation of what Free Traffic System has done for you almost automatically:

1. Free Traffic System Searched the web sites and found the most fitting to your keyword.

2. Free Traffic System Helped you to find more keywords that are related to this topic.

3. Free Traffic System Found the keywords that top web sites are using to get their high search engine status and gave you these keyword.

4. Free Traffic System Found the contacting data for the real people on these web sites.

5. Free Traffic System emailed all these people.

Maybe for 10 web sites this is not a hard task, but for 1000 web sites this job may take weeks. Do you see how much time and efforts Free Traffic System saved you?

And that was just one module from the system. Oh, sorry, two modules: you also used the mailing manager.

After doing all this job, you will just say “Yes” or “No” to the most niche-targeted affiliates and joint-venture partners. If they agree, you can use other modules of Free Traffic System to run business with them: track the effectivity of their work, exchange links, maintain the correspondence, etc. But these will be the topics for new days of “Free Traffic Course”.

Or wait a little and get 3rd day of “Free Traffic Course” to be at full arms with traffic issues.

Nickolay Bokhonok – CEO And Owner Of DesktopMoney LTD. Inventor of Internet marketing software and scripts. Successful Internet entrepreneur. Learn more about web site traffic building strategies, tips and tools at Free Traffic System web site.

Free Traffic System – Your Web Site Traffic Doctor.
info@FreeTrafficSystem.com

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

Article marketing is the approach of composing articles that are related or have a connection to the business that you are in and then publishing such articles to different websites of corresponding firms having a link or connection back to your website. This kind of promotion online is an effective method to encourage traffic and increase your sales.

Why article marketing?

1. Its a way that you can be regarded as an authority in your area of interest. As there are thousands of competitors online, it will be difficult to sell your products to customers and your about us corner may not be able to differentiate you from your competitors. Nonetheless, when customers are able to read your well composed, helpful and educational articles that are published on a number of websites, then you will be regarded as an authority in your area. The more articles that you publish, the more exposure that you will gain, enhancing your reputation.

2. Useful and Informative articles accumulates reliance in your capacity in providing a wonderful service or product. When selling online, your strength is to be knowledgeably and truthfully distinguished. If your article is chosen by a certain publisher and published on a reputable website or an ezine, to a certain effect, that publisher is recommending you, impressing the readers thus they will be confident and assured in making a deal with you.

3. Articles will advertise your products. Take note that what counts most is the quality and not quantity of website traffic. The best type of traffic that you can obtain is from individuals that have read and liked your articles; these readers visit your website because they are eager to know and understand more so they are the ones who has the tendency to purchase something than those who visit your site without introduction or knowledge to your opinions and ideas.

4. Articles that are issued on other websites build one-way links back to your website. While link building is an essential ingredient to creating a successful website, like with generating traffic, quality and not quantity counts the most. Every time that your articles are published on a different website, you can get a link back to your website; these are called one-way links and you are not required to exchange links to obtain them. Generally, these links are from such pages with few outbound or outgoing links compared to typical link pages wherein usually your link is enlisted when you make a reciprocal understanding.

Guide to article writing

1. Write about a subject matter that you are familiar with, so you can create excellent content. Do a lot of research and find information on a topic that you are not familiar with.

2. Be exact and informative. Supply pointers that can be easily understand and followed. Present your articles with bulleted or numbered steps to achieve better readability.

3. Make your article interesting. Write about a topic that your target readers are eager to know about so your article is assured to be viewed. Questions that are frequently asked or certain things that are usually misinterpreted in your field will make a good topic to talk about. Work out a problem that your readers have with the use of your article.

4. Be always on the lookout of wrong grammar and spelling as well as incorrect use of the English language.

5. Create an article that is abundant in keywords. Whereas this does not necessarily suggest that you overly fill your content with keywords, when used regularly and normally during the course of the article, your targeted readers can easily search and locate your piece of writing.

6. The authors resource box. This is the space located at the bottom part wherein you can say something about yourself and promote your website. Use brief but catchy sentences to draw a lot of attention.

7. Submit your article. In order to bring about the best results, concentrate on directory sites that are capable of reaching your targeted readers. Examine the content and substance of your article first, before you submit it. You can make use of a software or submission services to make sure that they are posted and published as opposed to submitting articles to different directories manually; it can consume a lot of your time and not as effective. Mistakes that are usually made in article writing:

Reason to endorse with articles versus reason to write

Lead generation, branding, and site promotion are three main reasons to endorse with an article and audience or reader information is one main reason and goal to write and compose an article. When your article is not set towards its main purpose, then not one will be interested to read it and you will not achieve the three advantages of article promotion.

Setting out the article promotion and not having a plan

Not all articles can achieve lead generation, branding, and site promotion. There will be others that will work best for branding, some for lead generation and increase in sales. However, if you dont have a plan to start out for your articles purpose and function then youll wind up not contented with the outcome.

Content is not beneficial to the reader

Keep in mind that not all article directories will receive your editorial automatically. In order that article marketing to achieve satisfying results, write contents that publishers want to publish and readers want to read.

Article marketing can be very powerful when you bring together understanding of keywords that readers use in order to locate your site, the links that are significant to your websites adaptation and the content that supply information to your prospect readers.

Keep in mind supplying information to your readers is the most essential to your success. Your eagerness to help with honest, factual, complete and detailed articles will not only generate huge traffic, but produce trust in your readers that will bring you lasting rewards.

Confusing isn’t it? Everyone agrees it’s the lifeblood
of your internet business but how do we solve the mystery
of actually getting it?

Here I break down 10 of the best techniques you can use
daily to create a flood of traffic to any website you
want, here we go:

1. Posting in discussion forums: Finding a discussion forum
along the topic of your site and posting often can yield you
50-100 visitors daily if you do it correctly

2. Traffic exchanges: Placing ads for your site in traffic
exchanges is a fast way to get free traffic.

3. E-mail signatures: Making a fast ad and sending it out
with every mail you send will increase your visitor counts
immediately

4. Write an article: If you write a quickie article and
submit it to article directories, you’ll get a load of
serious traffic fast. Here’s a good one I use:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

5. Submit the article you just wrote to ezines along the
same theme for an extra boost of quick traffic

6. Trade your article: You can find similiar websites to
your own and make a deal to place each others articles as
content on your sites

7. Pay per clicks: Placing a quick ad on a pay per click
search engine site will explode your traffic quickly and
cheaply. A good one that’s easy to use is:

http://www.overture.com

8. Share your traffic: Using a quick exit popup you can
share your traffic with any of your other sites and vice
versa

9. Joint Venture Popups: Here’s another good way to use
popups, find a few sites like yours and stick their URL’s
on an exit popup – if you all use it you’ll multiply your
traffic easily

10. Thank You Page Joint Venture: As a twist to the JV
pop up you can place each others links on thank you pages
for your partners products or lists

Copyright 2005 – John Stafford

John Stafford is the author of: Laser Guided Traffic Tactics – Discover How to Instantly Get Multiple Streams of Targeted Traffic to Your Website Starting Today

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