Increased Web Site Traffic - 5 Tips on Getting Continuous Traffic to Your Websites

Rather than giving you a single way to drive traffic to your websites, I'm going to give you a rundown of several of the easiest and most important tips for generating traffic – and allow you to try them all out yourself to determine what will work best with your given setup.

Traffic Generation Tip #1: Pick The Low Hanging Fruit Using SEO

Building natural search engine traffic for “low hanging fruit” is akin to building an asset. You are simply creating pages that have little competition, which upon being indexed, will immediately take the first, second, or third slot for their given keyword.

Traffic Generation Tip #2: Use Viral Promotion

At least once every two months, creating some type of viral product to generate more traffic for your site. This can be a piece of software, a PDF, an audio recording, a video, or an ebook. Whatever you select, make sure you make people want to distribute it for free – and make sure it has built in ways to bring people back to your site.

Traffic Generation Tip #3: Consider Legitimate Link Exchanges

Link exchanges only work if you do them with sites that get a lot of traffic and have high PR – and if you exchange them in places where people might actually click. Keep in mind that the traffic leaving your site probably would have left, anyway, but the traffic you gained wouldn't have arrived any other way.

Traffic Generation Tip #4: Use Joint Ventures and Affiliate Programs

A joint venture partner or super affiliate can generate a veritable avalanche of traffic faster than any pay per click campaign, natural search engine traffic, or link exchange. So spend the time to find the right partners at the right times – and engage them personally.

Traffic Generation Tip #5: Always Recycle Traffic

Recycling traffic ensures that your traffic increases each month, even if your natural search traffic remains the same – or even decreases slightly. Find ways to recycle your traffic into regular visitors and you will increase your revenue each month.

And there you have it: five simple tips you can use to generate traffic to your site without too much additional work.

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Negotiating Joint Ventures and The 3 Things a JV Partner Often Look in Your Offer

A joint venture partnership with an established Internet marketer is the quickest avenue to success for the novice Internet marketer or for an individual who has created a product or service but has never done any Internet marketing. Partnering with an established marketer gives a newbie instant credibility and access to the best market for his product, service or idea.

When approaching an established Internet marketer with a joint venture proposal, an individual should realize that there are three main things that the marketer will evaluate when determining whether to accept your joint venture proposal.

First: Product Quality will be considered and looked at very carefully and from every angle. The successful Internet marketer is not going to recommend an inferior product or service to the members of his list. He has put a great deal of time and effort into establishing himself as a reliable and dependable provider of information…an inferior product or service could undo all of his hard work. Check what you are offering to make sure it is of highest quality possible and that it delivers what is promised.

Second: Market and demand for the product or service has been well established. You must have done your research and be able to prove to him that there is a market as well as a demand for the product or service you are selling. No matter how great your new buggy whip might be, there just won’t be a market for it and no demand either. What you are selling needs to be relevant to today’s market place.

Third: How persuasive your sales letter is written will be the final determining factor. Even is you have a high quality product or service for which you have established that there is a market and a demand, if you sales letter is weak, the established Internet marketer will not bother with you.

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Collect Email Addresses Online and Offline - 7 Ways You Can Count In

Your email campaign starts with a strong list. Without a good list of people who “opt-in”
you aren’t going to be able to make email marketing work for you.
Here are 7 little-used ways to collect email addresses:

1. Pop-ups
One of the most underused and highly effective ways to capture emails is to create a
pop-up window on your web site. This can be a pop-up on entry or exit – they are
both effective. When we started using this on www.instantsalesletters.com we saw a
500% increase in opt-in subscribers.

2. Subscriber box
You should prominently provide a email subscriber box on each of your site’s web
pages. This will significantly increase your sign-ups.

3. Postcard Million Dollar Emails
If your customer list is mainly offline you can send out a postcard and offer an
incentive for them to send back their email address.

4. Contests
Contests are a great way to capture opt-in email addresses because most people will
have to give you their correct address so they can be informed when they win.

5. Advertise Your Autoresponder Address
Many people will run ads advertising their web site. A smarter way is to run ads or
promotions and use an autoresponder email address – this way you will capture all
email information from interested prospects. The autoresponder will be set-up to
automatically deliver your promotion to people that request it. (A complete source of
autoresponder information is at: www.autorespondermagic.com)

6. Capture Using Simple Forms
Most offline stores and businesses completely miss an opportunity to capture the
email addresses of their customers. A super example of someone doing this right is
the California Tortilla example in this ebook. Any time a customer or prospect phones
you, walks in or does business with you is an opportunity to capture their email
address.

7. Give Aways (free ebooks, software, etc.)
Give aways or “bribes” are highly effective means of capturing emails. You need to
provide people with an incentive to give you their email address. People are
becoming more hesitant to hand out their email addresses for fear of rampant
spamming – but if your incentive is big enough you’ll get lots of emails to build your
list.

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Part 3 – Blog Content Brainstorming

Face the fact – your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Hence, you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to do just that in this article.

We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job!

The other reason I ask you to write about something you’re passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.

Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!

However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.

1) The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!
2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an unexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.
3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.

Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic.

Don’t worry about the paragraph above about generating traffic and search engines, because we’re going to talk about that in more detail later. For now, remember to keep a consistent effort everyday and build up momentum like that of a locomotive!

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