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Traffic generating ideas that endure

Overture, now known as Yahoo as a result of Yahoo’s takeover, was the entity that originally invented use of the P4P or Pay for Performance to the Internet community. Overture saw that the Internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in this marketplace.

To get an individual to a particular website rather than have him/her visit a similar or competing site, the target website needs to be very visible. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow website publishers and marketers to have an increased traffic flow, thereby increasing sales simultaneously.

Yahoo provides a service that allows website owners to place a company’s ads on their sites in a way that those ads can be shown when certain keywords are entered in the search box. Yahoo offers companies a chance to increase traffic by using these services.

With more people becoming aware of your site, there would be an additional influx of traffic and visitors who will be given the chance to view your pages as well as your products. Even if your conversion rate is among the lower percentages of successful sales, the high traffic volume would still be a substantial enough figure to support your company’s expenditures for this service.

Keywords, key phrases and the SERPs

Getting a consistently substantial flow of website visitors is every company’s goal. Many methods are devised and utilized to ensure that there would be more people to boost the sales and to be aware of the existence of such a product or service. Website visitors are potentially the life blood of your Web-based business.

Yahoo/Overture utilizes the same principle as Google’s Adwords. In fact, they are very similar to each other in the sense that they use keyword and keyword phrase searches to determine which ads to show per search. When a person types in a keyword or keyword phrase to search for anything, the search engines results page (SERP) will consist of the sites generated by that search.

Then at the right side of the page, you will see selected ads that have paid for their ads to be viewed with certain keywords and keyword phrases searched. For example, Lets say you run a car parts retail/wholesale site.

You choose keywords that can prompt or trigger your ads to be shown in the SERP when a keyword is searched. When a search engine user types in Honda Accord, your ad may come up if you have designated that as one of your keywords. You don’t need to fully optimize your site with Search Engine Optimization methods and techniques.

Compare results from SEO against PPC

While some labor so hard at optimizing their websites to get them among the highest ranking sites per keyword search, and they get the chance to be on top of the list or at least among the first page of a search results, thereby increasing their chance to be clicked on. As a result of this work they are often able drive traffic and website visitors to their a little faster.

Yes, there is a cost associated with this method of driving traffic; because you will have to pony up some cash in order to use this service. But there are different ways Yahoo/Overture will charge you based on their convenient payment methods.

It may be based on the number of Keywords or Keyword phrases your ad uses or in the number of times your ad is clicked on. Others offer many other services like having your ad show up, not only in the SERPs, but also with some third party sites.

Combine the Yahoo service with other sources

Third party sites support ads that have the same theme or niche as the primary sites. The more areas your ad is shown in, the better your chances are that more people will learn about your site or product. With more website visitors you increase the sales of your site which makes your investment in your advertising a wise one.

Let’s face it, there is a lot of competition among Internet-based (or Web-based) businesses, so it is necessary to take a huge leap forward from the pack with superior advertising methods. Yahoo/Overture will be a great place to start. Many have utilized their services and have reaped the rewards of their decision. It’s a marketing strategy that will increase your website visitors as well as increase your sales resulting which ultimately leads to more profit.

It takes money to make money, while there are some methods that are basically low cost or free, using a marketing service such as that which Yahoo/Overture offers will provide results faster and on a larger scale. Many businesses have learned the unfortunate and expensive lesson of using sub-par services offered by sub-par entities that are designed to do one thing, and that is to take your money. Don’t be counted among them.

Traffic exchange solution viability

There are many manual traffic exchanges that depend on bells and whistles to attract members, they present games to play, bonus credits for answering questions while surfing, (some of the questions are to discourage cheating, and failure to answer them correctly could result in the suspension of your account); but first you need to know your target audience.

Most people who use traffic exchanges – manual and auto – are not looking to join your program or buy your product, they are looking for the same thing you are. How to get more traffic to their website or product page. They are looking for information. Information is what sells on traffic exchanges, information on how to get more traffic to the members’ websites/pages.

Traffic exchanges can be useful

So how does this help you if you are not selling information? The answer is splash pages and squeeze pages! Use splash pages and squeeze pages to collect leads, then develop personal relationship with them and introduce them to your product or service.

Next you’ll need to find the best traffic exchanges for your purposes. Different people have success with different traffic exchanges even when they promote the same page. Why? The answer to this question will depend on a number of things… What time you surf, how often you surf, etc.

To join a few traffic exchanges for driving traffic to your website, you will need a tabbed browser such as Firefox or Chrome. Firefox is highly recommended because of the extra virus protection it provides, but some have had issues with that browser, so if Firefox won’t work for you try Google Chrome, which is also tabbed, or another tabbed browser of your choice.

Learn the TE features and procedures

Set up your traffic exchanges in groups according to their timer. Timers run anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds, and the closer the timers the smoother your surfing will be. Try to surf no more than 5-8 traffic exchanges at a time, but no more than 10, and keep a look out for the same pages as many pages have the member’s name and/or a photo on them.

If you see the same page over and over, one of two things are happening. One, the member has put his/her page in the exchange more than once – which is encouraged by some traffic exchanges – or; Two, most likely you really are seeing the same page over and over.

If this is the case you don’t want to waste your hard earned credits in that particular traffic exchange. If in doubt use the traffic exchange(s) with a built-in hit ratio. This tells you what percentage your page(s) will be viewed by unique members each day. Some owners only care about the quantity of clicks and not the quality of those clicks – but more often than not – quality will be preferred over quantity, although both are important in the traffic exchange arena.

Use traffic exchanges that deliver best results

Set a certain time to surf, twice a day if possible and the amount of time you can devote to surfing each day. Surf each exchange about an hour each day, for instance if you have three hours to surf each day divide your traffic exchanges into three groups. Whatever time you can allot to surfing, it’s a good idea to divide it up evenly.

You also have to track your pages to see which ones are working and which ones you need to change. If a page works in some exchanges and not in others, simply change the ones that are not working or remove them from the traffic exchange that it isn’t working in. Make sure to always have an extra splash page ready to try in your traffic exchanges.

And remember that the bigger the exchange the more people see your page, but that doesn’t always mean that it is the best exchange. You may get more signups from some of the smaller exchanges than the biggest ones. So if you want more bang for your click, don’t just settle for bells and whistles, do your “Due Diligence” and select the best traffic exchange that suit your traffic needs.