Category: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing refers to the online business activity which covers agreements between eCommerce entities (merchants) and those who promote and sell their products and services (affiliates) for a percentage of the price paid by end buyers. Affiliates are independent contractors and are also referred to as affiliate marketers due to the nature of their marketing activity.

Generate Targeted Website Traffic Using Inexpensive Techniques

The in-expense of driving traffic

When some Web marketers think of traffic, they think in terms of the most inexpensive techniques to generate targeted website traffic, and in many cases this translates to paying for banner ads and text link ads; but there are other ways to generate inexpensive web traffic. Let’s take a look at some of those relatively easy ways to drive free or inexpensive targeted website traffic to your website, blog or webpage.

There is one essential ingredient for generating income for any website: A steady flow of targeted website traffic! If no one goes to your site, it won’t stand a chance of generating an income. However, knowing that it does take some money to maintain an income-generating site, and believing the old adage that, “…it takes money to make money”, it could quickly become very discouraging if you have little or no advertising dollars to invest in your website in order make sales.

Have you wondered how the huge portals drive traffic to their sites? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive a continuous flow of traffic to their websites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and strategies.

BUT, unlike those huge portals, it doesn’t need to take a whole lot of cash to generate website traffic for your website, because fortunately, there are many ways to generate low-cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. The following discuss a number of highly effective techniques you can use to generate low-cost, targeted website traffic.

The link exchanging strategy

Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more exposure for their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of traffic coming in to your site from other sites when you utilize this method.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as those other sites. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links can also boost your chances of getting a high ranking on some SERPs (search engine result pages). It is common knowledge that some search engines rank high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic to your website without the high costs.

Traffic exchange participation

This method is similar to exchanging links except on a slightly higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing other people’s websites, while you earn traffic hits when someone views your website.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another person’s website or webpage. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites content in kind of a reciprocal arrangement where you use his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Article writing and submission

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias on the Web which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can write the articles yourself, but if you’re not the writing type you can let someone else write your articles. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write your articles for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

List-building the easy way

Write articles that are themed to the niche promoted on your website. Write something that you have expertise in, so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche covered on your website.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that will link your article’s readers back to your website. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide an easy-to-read, information-laden and interesting article to them, they will go to your site to learn more.

Starting your own newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but, on the contrary, this is not the case. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in your newsletter. This will provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter grows in popularity, you can profit again and again from repeat loyal visitors.

Joining online communities and forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your opinions and let them see how knowledgeable you are on the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

As you can see targeted website traffic does not need to expensive to be effective. Using the above methods steadily and consistently will have a great impact on your site’s profits over the long term.

Now you may have a better understanding of why there’s such a growing interest – among website/webpage owners and Web marketers of all stripes – in Web traffic. When people start looking for more information about traffic, you’ll be in a position to meet their needs also

 

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The Instant Web Traffic Attraction


In pursuit of instant Web traffic

The primary reason for a website succeeding or failing is a consistent flow of Web traffic or the lack of it; but you already knew that. Of major concern however, for many webmasters, is after they have created quality content, beautiful graphics, excellent sales letters, in-demand product(s) and/or service(s) and then don’t get instant Web traffic to their websites. Some website owners know all to well that good quality traffic and quality targeted traffic in a matter of days after launching, may not be achievable, but they still pursue it.

Every webmaster has the same problem in the beginning. Even I!! Solutions like Google Adsense, Adwords, Classified Ads, Banner Advertising, Blogging, Seminars, niche advertising, article advertising, press releases, opt in lists, affiliate programs and search engines – among others – can be rather costly and may not be accomplished with the kind of speed that many webmasters want to achieve.

In actuality, there is a hidden and unexplored method which many webmasters are attracted to. Link Trading!! At a Webinar I attended sometime ago, this method was discussed as one that will get Web traffic within a day. Specifically, the host indicated that you can increase traffic flow to any newly-launched website faster than any other traffic boosting technique. He said, “…imagine having your website link added to over 8000 websites which are linked to many more, you are instantaneously connected to a network of millions of websites which are already generating a huge traffic flow.”

The instant traffic utopia that isn’t

Although I was familiar with back-linking and knew a little about link exchanges, this “8000 websites” number made me a little skeptical, so I wanted to do a little more research before diving into this “traffic to my website” utopia. My first stop was Wikipedia where I learned a little more about certain linking methods to see if I could “legally” achieve the kind of Web traffic results being discussed.

Here a little of what I learned:

“A reciprocal link is a mutual link between two objects, commonly between two websites to ensure mutual traffic”;
Resource linking. “Resource links are a category of links, which can be either one-way or two-way, usually referenced as “Resources” or “Information” in navbars, but sometimes, especially in the early, less compartmentalized years of the Web, simply called “links”.
Directory Link Building. “Website directories are lists of links to websites, which are sorted into categories. Website owners can submit their sites to many of these directories. Some directories accept payment for listing in their directory, while others are free”.

Which brings us to “search engine bias”, as discussed on Wikipedia in the following manner:

Although search engines are programmed to rank websites based on their popularity and relevancy, empirical studies indicate various political, economic, and social biases in the information they provide.[14][15] These biases could be a direct result of economic and commercial processes (e.g., companies that advertise with a search engine can become also more popular in its organic search results), and political processes (e.g., the removal of search results in order to comply with local laws).[16] Google Bombing is one example of an attempt to manipulate search results for political, social or commercial reasons”.

Traffic the old-fashion way: Earned over time!

You can read more about it on this Wiki page.

You and I may have a different way of looking at search engine bias as it relates to link exchanges, automated link swapping and link directories based simply on how Google, the number one search engine on the World Wide Web, views artificially created links and backlinks to our websites; But one think is clear. The search engine (especially Google) will not reward such activity with a high rank on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

List-building the easy way

The point is this. Although traffic generators like search engines will take time to crawl your website and manual linking by trading links with webmasters may take longer than you would like, these methods are better and safer for attracting traffic to your website and not get penalized by the search engines. Accordingly, you need to create content that is relevant to the niche market you are targeting and utilize all of the “white hat” techniques you are familiar with, such as:

Google Adsense, Adwords (PPC), Classified Ads, Banner Advertising, Blogging, Seminars, Niche Advertising, Article Advertising, Press Releases, Opt-in Lists, Affiliate Programs and Search Engines, because in the final analysis, despite the cost and slow pace (lack of speed), you would be assured of one thing. Your work will not go in vain due to your website being penalized by the search engines. You and I cannot afford that kind of penalty and therefore should resist the attraction of instant web traffic.