5 Free Traffic Methods You Must Be Using
December 2, 2009 by Christopher Stigson
Filed under Internet marketing
A majority of marketers start their business fine at first. They get their website up and running or hire somebody to get it up, but when it comes to marketing the website they are kept totally in the dark. The #1 problem experienced today in online business is traffic.
In this article you are going to hear about five of my favorite methods for attracting massive amounts of free traffic without any investment… You will not be using PPC, Banners or buy any more links from unrelated websites!
#1 – Article Marketing – Writing and submitting articles is still one of the most effective way to boost your visitors, increase search engine rankings and build credibility.
#2 – Video Submission – Another method I use all the time is creating and submitting short videos to video sharing sites in order to attract the attention of my target market. A good short, valuable video can do wonders when you then tell them to go visit your website for more information.
#3 – Forum Marketing – Does your niche have a forum with 100,000 people in it? Well, you better be there to interact with them and share your knowledge. You are sure to see some great results from being active in the biggest forums in your niche.
#4 – SEO – The best and most common way to drive free traffic is to search engine optimize your website to get free targeted traffic from the search engines, without any middle man! That means a lot of work on backlinks and onpage optimization. With a little bit of effort, and greater effort than you competitors you’ll see your website climb in the Search Engines.
#5 – Social Marketing – A great method that many people do not understand how to use is social media marketing. You should be interesting and fun, while hanging out at the biggest websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and having a blog. Grab the attention of the people and redirect them to your website for great results.
Now you know of some of my favorite ways to drive free website traffic, but of course you will find tons of other methods when you search online. Try finding some more sites on the internet about the topic and educate yourself further.
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Ways to Build Links
May 28, 2009 by Jorjeo Iveniscovich
Filed under Internet marketing
Having an active marketing method that delivers a constant stream of high quality web traffic is definately an achievable task. In order to gain traffic you need a big web presence, and to get a substantial presence first of all you have to have a good quality website that Google can easily read, and second, a back-catalogue of good quality links pointing at your site from as many other authority sites as possible.
It’s not as difficult as it may sound to achieve this, in fact, considering the amount of systems in place willing to do it all for you, it can be reasonably easy. The first concept you’ll need to understand is that not all link are equal. A good way of judging how valuable a link from a particular site will be, is by checking its Google Page Rank. This is a system whereby Google ranks pages from zero o ten based on how much it values the quality of the content on a given page. Ten being the best, zero being the worst. Sites with no Page rank (below 0) either haven’t been found by google yet, or have been blacklisted from the Google listings and should be avoided.
In a perfect world, we’d all have lots of links from the home-pages PR-10 sites, however the fact that there are only around 10 PR-10 sites that exist somewhat hinders this approach, and those 10 or so won’t usually link to many other websites because they don’t need to, have nothing to gain from it, and would never stop receiving link requests. Even slightly lower PR sites, like PR-7/8s are very picky about who they link to. These highly ranked sites are known as “authority” sites and tend not to link to lower ranked sites (not very often anyway) because they simply have nothing to gain from it.
Your mission is to get as many sites with some PR or the potential to soon get some PR to link to you as possible. This means in effect that getting a link from a newish site that hasnt been live long, has no PR but is working on link building is a good strategy to adopt in the longer term. Google only allocated PR twice per year, so if you are unlucky you might need to wait months in order to gain some PR. The amount you are given will depend upon the link juice you squeeze from all the sites that link to you. The more, high pr sites you receive a link from, the higher your PR will ultimately be.
So what do you do to acquire as many links as you need? Well, people have been arguing over the best answer to that since the beginning of Google, but there are several options. You can scoure the web for sites that actively link. There are a lot of site for reciprocal link management, but reciprocal links are being seriously de-valued by the major search engines because they can see that there has been an agreement made, therefore the links are unnatural. They are still worth something though, as some reciprocal linking is natural, such as, supplier to cutomer etc.
Easily the quickest and most effective way to reach the top of search engine result is by getting one way links, ie, getting sites to put a link to your site on theirs without linking back. This can however be quite hard because people tend to want something in return.
If you only have one website this is a problem, if you have two websites this can still be a problem if they are hosted in the same place as they will have the same IP address and so will appear to be the same site. There are several answers to this problem, but one way link management is the easiest way to go.
Effectively, your site is entered into a triangular arrangment where your site (site A) links to site B, which then links to site C, which then links back to site A (your site) this is beneficial to each site to the value of one one-way link. The big search engines cannot trace these links and so they reward you with a big push up the results rankings.
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Web Promotion in a Recession
May 18, 2009 by Dave Holland
Filed under Internet marketing
In the middle of this economic crisis, when work and profit are dwindling, it has never been more important to invest in the future of your business. During the last decade we have seen the internet grow into a medium that did not exist the last time the country was in recession. Online, business is being conducted at an astonishing rate. The internet’s growth rate is matched only by the rate of contraction of traditional enterprises.
The internet is seen by most people as a place where they can find the solution to their problem, an answer to their question, or the cheapest of a particular item. The internet is perfect for window shopping because you can compare any number of shops in just a few clicks. This has worked in favour of many internet stores, but for others, who do not use price as their main selling point, it has worked against them.
One thing is certain though, the internet has traffic, and that traffic is a measurable commodity. We know where surfers go, what they are looking for, and from that data we can position websites in their path in order to meet the surfers needs. This has become a very efficient way of buying customers which is in essence what any business does when it advertises. If you look at the acquisition cost of customers online it is much more cost effective than equivalent high street advertising.
The businesses that put themselves in the way of this traffic now by investing in online marketing and promotion are the businesses that will make it through the recession. The economy is predicted to contract by 3.5% during this year, it is then predicted (rather optimistically) to return to growth in 2010. The purpose of this article is not to discuss whether that will happen or not, but if we do see economic growth in 2010, that will make this the least damaging, shortest economy slump on record. After all, having 7% of the population unemployed, still leaves 93% working and spending money.
The intelligent business owners in the UK will be buying market share during the downturn while their competitors struggle to survive. Some businesss are growing in spite of the slow down, being one of them is just a case of moving with the times and exploiting the online opportunities that exist.
It is said that in times of economic boom, every 10 you spend on adverts, you will return 19, in an economic dry spell however, you will return 51 for every 10 spent on advertising. This is because during a recession there are fewer businesses advertising, therefore there are more potential customers to be had with every advert.
The options available to increase website traffic include search engine optimization, which is the practice of positioning your website at or near the top of the Organic search engine rankings, primarily Google which accounts for over 80% of all search traffic. Pay Per Click Management involves positioning your website at or near the top of Googles paid listings. This is a near instant process unlike search engine optimization, but does depend upon you paying a sum each and every time your advert is clicked upon.
Both of the above methods are effective and combining them with article submission, a blog and an email newsletter to keep your clients up to date, your business can build an online presence that ensure it thrives during the current slump in the economy.
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