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The Key to Getting Free Traffic
By Sean R Mize
It has been the desire of any Webmaster and online marketers to achieve the best rankings they can get through built traffic on their site. Initially, when a website is new on the net, the time it gets to be ranked and indexed is quite a long to wait. But then, when a site gets to generate the traffic in an instant, search engines see the potential of that site in the Internet and as such is given instant ranking and easily indexed. Now, how does one then get to have the traffic it needs in order to easily get indexed and ranked?
• Formulate a clear theme for your site. Any search engine is looking for a site that has a clear definition on it. The theme of your site identifies it being a site that has a clear direction in what it is to showcase and give. Search engines find it easy then to index and categorize your web site.
• Make an assessment of your keywords. Keywords are just so essential in any web site. In fact, it is not only important on a web site but rather keywords become the life-blood of a site. Search engines make it easy for your site to be “searched” when the keywords that net users look for have a match on your site’s keyword content.
• Create, design, and develop the website clearly and focused. A website carries everything in the Internet once it is launched in the web. If your website looks competitive in terms of what it can offer it can most likely be noticed by search engines and the net users. To simplify things, make your website noticeable by giving what search engines look for – keywords, and by the net users – information.
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.
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The 3 Things To Avoid When Emailing Your List
By Mary Jo Adams
When you decide to have an opt-in list, it is not just a matter of sending your subscribers your promotional newsletters or catalogs. There are many things to consider in avoiding many complications. While there are so many ways you can make people subscribe to your list, there are also some things you must do to avoid subscribers from wanting to get off from your list. Aside from that, you also want to avoid any problems with the law and your internet service provider or ISP. There are now many laws and rules that are applied to help protect the privacy of the internet users from spamming and unwanted mails. With the popularity of the electronic mail
as a medium for marketing because of the low cost, many company’s have seized the opportunity and have flooded many people’s e-mail accounts with promotional mail.
But, with an opt-in list, you avoid this annoyance because people subscribe to the list; they want to receive the newsletters and promotional materials. They have consented to being on the list by subscribing themselves, just don’t forget to put an unsubscribe feature everytime in your opt-in list so that you avoid any confusion. There may be times when an email account was provided when the real owner didn’t want to subscribe.
It is essential that you keep your list clean and manageable. Arrange it by using the many tools and technologies available for your opt-in list. Do not worry; your investment in this marketing strategy is well worth it with all the coverage you will get which will likely be converted into sales then to profit.
Keep yourself and your business out of trouble and potential run-ins with the law and the internet service providers. Keep your operation legit and clean. Your reputation as a legitimate businessman and a legitimate site depends on your being a straight and true marketing strategist. As a tip, here are three things to avoid when emailing your list.
1) Take notice of your unsuccessful sends. These are the e-mails that   bounce. Bounced emails, also known as undeliverable messages, are those messages that, for whatever reason, were not successfully received by the intended recipient.
There are bounces that happen or occur because the server was busy at that time but can still be delivered in another time. There are also bounces because the inbox of the recipient is full at that time. There are those bounce messages that are simply undeliverable ever. The reason for
this is that it may be an invalid email address, a misspelled email address, or an email address that was abandoned and erased already.
Manage your list by putting markings on those that bounce.  Erase an email account from your list so that you have an accurate statistics and records as to how many are actually receiving your mail. You may also want to check the spellings of your email addresses in your list. One common mistake is when an N instead of an M is placed in the .com  area.
2) Always provide an unsubscribe feature in your site and an unsubscribe link in your mails. When someone in your list files a request to be unsubscribed, always take that request seriously. If you don’t take them off your list and keep sending them your e-mails, you are now sending them spam mail.
When you are reported as a spammer, you and your business can get into a lot of trouble. You can be reported to the authorities and maybe blacklisted by many internet service providers. You will lose a lot of subscribers this way and many more in potential subscribers.
3) Do not provide pornographic or shocking and disturbing content in your newsletters. It is hard to decipher the age of the recipient and many complaints may stem from these.  Controversial issues also are to be avoided to not be branded by your subscribers. Stick to the nature of your site and business.
Always remember these tips in this article so that you can have a healthy relationship with your subscribers as well as be kept within the boundaries of what is allowed in sending mails to an opt-in list.
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Copyright © 2006 Mary Jo Adams
Publisher of: www.OnSwitchSolution.com Specializing in
Work at Home and Internet Publishing
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Putting the YOU in Your E-zine
By Alexandria K. Brown
I get many e-zines in my inbox every week, and they all offer useful information. But there are some I enjoy more than others.
What do the ones I love have in common?
They feel like they come from a REAL person. These publishers put some heart-and-soul into their e-zines. They share information about themselves. And because I FEEL like I know them personally, I’m more likely to buy from them at some point.
In the traditional sales world, they call this the “know, like, and trust” factor — I abbreviate it to “KLT”.
I was amazed to find that once I began sharing a bit about ME (the real Ali) in my e-zine, my response rates increased dramatically. More readers wrote me back, more clicked on my links, and more bought my products and services.
So, how can YOU put more you in your e-zine? Very easily. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
What’s Going on With YOU?
Quick: Think of three things going on in your life right now that you could share with your readers. Have you won an award? Were you mentioned in a national newspaper? Did you pull a hamstring doing Tae Bo? Are you teary-eyed because your daughter’s wedding is right around the corner? These are all events your readers can relate to and will appreciate you sharing.
One e-zine I used to get a real chuckle out of was Dave Balch’s “Big Bucks in a Bathrobe.” (His business has changed, so unfortunately he no longer publishes it.) In each issue, Dave not only shared useful information on running a profitable business, but also hysterical stories about “life on the ranch.” Dave and his wife own many animals, including horses, dogs, and “the parrot that just won’t die.” Whenever I saw Dave’s e-zine in my mailbox, I read it right away because I knew it would brighten my mood.
Reach Out for Help
Have a question you’d like answered? Why not ask your readers for help? Example: In 2005 I bought a new VW Beetle Convertible, and in my e-zine I asked my readers who had owned convertibles to share their tips on how to care for them.
You wouldn’t believe how many people wrote me back, telling me about their own cars, how much they love them, even sending me photos, and giving me some great tips on “topless” driving! I was delighted with the response.
Readers also love quick polls that allow them to give you their opinion. For multiple choice answers, I have used www.SurveyMonkey.com. It’s free for up to 100 responses, and reasonably priced for more. For a single question and open-ended answers, use www.AskMyEzine.com.
Give Us the Picture
Photos help your visitors and your e-zine readers feel closer to you instantly — it’s as if they know you better than before.
Unless you’re ugly as a toad, a decent photo will only help your sales. (Remember you’re building the KLT factor.) If you publish an HTML e-zine, put your photo in your top banner if you have room.
Also don’t be afraid of sharing photos of your family, pets, business associates, etc. (I post mine at a personal blog which is FREE to create at www.blogger.com.) You’ll be surprised how often your readers will click-through to see them. Example: “Click here to see me in action at my first swing dancing competition!”
After taking my course, one client of mine decided to share a photo of his pet pug, and he said his readers went NUTS! They wrote him back with photos of their dogs and it opened up a new level of communication for him with his subscribers.
Don’t Be Afraid to Have Opinions
Real people have real opinions. So voice yours, and people will perk up. I’ve found that my readers often respond best when they’re provoked and encouraged to see things in a new light.
If some don’t agree with you (and some won’t), their response can lead to a brand new discussion or article topic. Remember, if someone takes the time to write you back to disagree with anything you’ve said, be happy. It means they’re actually reading your e-zine!
Where, and How Much?
A great place to put this personal information is at the beginning of your e-zine in an “editor’s note” or “welcome message.” This welcomes the reader with a warm greeting from you and is the perfect spot to share these positive, personal tidbits.
Once you get the hang of giving more YOU to your readers, you’ll come to enjoy the art of sharing and the increased reader-interaction it brings. Just make sure that it doesn’t take over your e-zine. The bulk of your content should still be your main article, list of tips, etc.
Think of your personal information as the introduction that leads up to the main event!
Online entrepreneur Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen,” publishes the award-winning ‘Straight Shooter Marketing’ weekly ezine with 21,000+ subscribers. If you’re ready to jump-start your marketing, make more money, and have more fun in your small business, get your FREE tips now at www.EzineQueen.com
Get Others to Build Your Site Traffic.
by Richard Martin
What if you didn’t have to work at getting traffic to your website? What
if other people built your traffic for you? Don’t think it’s possible?…
To tell you the truth, it’s simple to accomplish.
This might seem like totally new information.
But, this isn’t nearly as hard as it is to game the search engines today.
The reality is that only one thing matters to consumers:
THE VALUE PROPOSITION.
In fact, this is they key to 90% of all OFFLINE businesses’ success too.
The best stuff rises to the top in ALL markets. People who are impressed
by a purchase tell their friends. And they tell their friends. The chain
continues.
Let’s take a look at the automobile market to show you an almost perfect
example of this phenomenon.
Honda began shipping cars to the United States more than 30 years ago.
Honda worked hard at improving their vehicle’s quality and value
proposition to the average consumer. They made sure their products were
the best or at least perceived as the best.
Did Honda market their cars better? NO WAY!
Why did Honda sell a TON of Accords last year? Because their cars rock.
They sell for roughly the same price as their competitors. But, their
QUALITY is off the charts!
How about this:
Why would you pay $27,000 for a competitor’s product that will break in 5
years, when you could instead, buy a new shiny Honda Accord that will last
far beyond 120,000 miles. You will be happy, but, your interest in social
standing starts to take hold.
You actually TELL other people how great your shiny new Accord is.
You describe the car’s benefits, the quality. The handling, the great
value exchange.
You look better to your friends & they appreciate the information. This
has been going on since the beginning of time.
This works the same online as it does in the real world. People recommend
your website by linking to it and visitors come to your site from those
links.
You won’t be able to stop people from linking to your site and visiting it
IF it really is excellent.
The reality is that new sites come out & totally wreck the feeble
competition in categories that are supposedly too competitive. Every day!
Why? Because their site is better, serves their customers better & people
spread the news quick.
OK, but what should be YOUR plan?
Pull no punches in making your site so good that visitors are amazed by
the quality, the resources, and the experience. If your site is about
mortgages, figure out EXACTLY what they want to know, give it to them, and
help them pass it on to their friends. That’s all.
Turn your site into THE authority site about mortgages. Hire people who
know the subject inside & out to add content and tools about refinancing
and calculators.
Create a REALLY quality directory on the best mortgage resources online.
Build it & gather the information personally. Serve the customer better
than anyone else does.
Go the extra mile & get all the extra benefit as a result.
What would you rather have anyway? 1 person (YOU) building links or your
satisfied prospects building them for you?
Offer the best stuff you can get your hands on, or write it personally if
necessary.
This is what is comes down to: strive to be excellent and let the traffic
take care of itself. If you actually are the best in your market, you WILL
soon be sitting on more traffic than you can reasonably handle.
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Richard Martin contributes to Websitetuts.com. You can learn more
about Website building, Internet Marketing tactics, & Website Traffic
today by visiting: http://www.websitetuts.com/.
This article may be FREELY reproduced and we encourage you to put it on
your website!
Extreme Traffic = Extreme Profit. Here’s how to do it FREE!
By Terry Telford
Whether you have just completed your first site, or you’ve had a site for years, you need traffic. It’s no secret, Extreme Traffic = Extreme Profit. So how do you achieve Extreme Traffic? Well, it would be nice to tell you that it is simple, but lets get serious. If you operate a website for profit, it is a business, your business. Whether you are online or offline, your business requires time and/or money.
Offline, your business requires both time and money. Online, you can choose between investing time, money, or both. The goal of this article is to show you how to get Extreme Traffic to your site for FREE.
So what’s the catch? There is none. Once you have decided to get FREE traffic for your site, you have decided to invest time instead of money. This is nothing to feel ‘cheap’ about. Your time is valuable and you are investing it in your business. So lets get started.
NOTE: This system may sound complicated at first, but I have included a link to my online, step-by-step instruction manual at the end of this article. It is extremely user friendly and it’s FREE, of course.
In order to get FREE traffic, you need to build a FREE advertising machine. This will take a few hours, but your rewards far out weigh the time you will invest in building your machine. In the future, you want to spend less time maintaining, updating, and marketing your products and more time at the beach. So you need to build an advertising machine that works on the same principle as an airplane. You use 75% of your energy to take off and 25% of your energy to maintain your altitude. So your advertising machine will be built as a perpetual motion, non-stop, self-replicating advertising beast.
Here’s the nuts and bolts for the machine. First, you set up a website rotator. This is a special type of site that rotates a number of offers or opportunities so that each time it is visited, it displays a new opportunity. Let’s take a quick look at how this works. Visitor #1 comes to your rotator site and sees opportunity #1. Visitor #2 comes to your rotator site and sees opportunity #2. Visitor #1 comes back for another visit and sees opportunity #3. Get the picture? The secret to getting this system to generate leads is what you are advertising in your rotator.
Here’s what you need. In your rotator, you have a program that captures leads by the thousands. It is a self-replicating program that generates non-stop leads for you 24/7. The program is the key to the traffic explosion at your main site.
Here’s how the program works. First you sign up for hits for clicks exchange programs. These programs give you FREE hits to your site for setting up your start page to their site. This is not the home page to your website, but the start page to your web browser. If you just signed up for one, you would keep hitting the same surfers over and over, so you sign up for 10-20 and rotate them in your browser. The rotator code is located in the instruction manual link at the bottom of this page.
Next you sign up for FREE banner exchange programs. The banner exchanges run off the program you have loaded in your opportunity rotator, not on your main site. If you ran all the banners on your main site, you would end up with a banner farm and no space to sell your products.
Now you want to sign up for FREE exit exchanges. Exit exchanges trade you fresh hits for your site when you display their ad to the visitors that are leaving your site. This is totally FREE traffic. This is one of the keys to making this system self-replicating.
Then you sign up for FREE advertising sites. Individually, each site will get you a few hits per day, but if you plug them into each other, they become a nice little traffic generator that will send you hundreds and on good days, thousands of hits.
And finally you want to sign up for a FREE mailing list development program to feed you thousands of leads daily. This is not a safe-list. This is your own, private opt-in list that you can advertise any product you like. This list is worth gold and will make you hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next few months and years.
Now the secret is to plug all these systems and programs in to each other. Individually, each program works well and generates leads for you, but when they are plugged into each other and functioning together as a well oiled machine, you have a lead generator that just won’t stop.
Does this all sound complicated? Are you a bit confused as to where to start looking for all of this information? Not to worry. I’ve simplified the whole process for you. You can find everything you need to know about setting up this system in an extremely user friendly, 12 step instruction manual. You can access the manual at: http://10000hits.net/promo/introduction.asp?userid=95725 and it’s FREE, of course!
I wish you much success in all of your marketing endeavours. My virtual office door is always open so please contact me if I can be of any assistance with your marketing.
Vitals: Terry Telford is the author of the popular ebook, Website Ladder, and the founder of bpc publishing, where you can pick up your FREE and almost FREE website marketing and traffic tools. Visit http://www.bpcpublishing.com today!
Proven Fast & Easy Traffic Generation Methods
By Willie Crawford
One of the most perplexing questions faced by webmasters, especially those with new sites, is “How do I get traffic to my site?” Here are a few easy, inexpensive, and relatively fast methods I use to generate traffic.
1) Write and distribute ezine articles. This article you’re reading right now will send visitors to the site mentioned in my resource box at the end of the article.
You can do the same thing. Write articles on topics that you KNOW your target market is interested in, and then distribute them to ezine publishers and websites that publish others’ content.People will read your articles, and if the articles provides value to them, they will visit your site to learn more. It’s that simple.
The key to getting your articles published is to write something that provides genuine value to your readers. Actually teach them something. Potential publishers will see the value, and know that their readers will appreciate the articles… so they’ll publish them.
The key to getting your articles READ is writing about something people want to know more about. For example, this article is about generating more traffic. Monitor any online marketing discussion forum, or email dis-cussion list, and you’ll see that EVERY webmaster is interested in getting more traffic. So, I know that this article will be read.
Writing articles that will be published is both an art and a science. However, you can become proficient at it fairly quickly. I’ve written over 350 articles in the past 4 years, so it’s not that hard. The best system I’ve encountered recently on how to write and distribute effective articles is called Article Announcer. You’ll find it here.
2) Posting other related articles on content sites. You can create a website around a very focused niche topic, and then post other author’s articles on that site. You
can search article directories such as ArticleCity.com or IdeaMarketers.com and find thousands of articles others have written and give permission for you to use.
Usually, article writers do this in hopes of generating traffic and sales from their articles.
You can search through these sites and find articles on your topic. Then you simple copy and paste them into your website template, to create a site that will rank well in the search engines because the site is focused.
When I personally create these content sites, I use software to both locate appropriate articles, and to turn those articles into webpages. I have templates that
are in my basic site layout. The software that I use can find dozens, or even hundreds, of articles and automatic-ally insert these articles into the correct place on the page. It can even break up the articles, adding comments or AdSense ads in the middle.
An example of one such site that I’ve created is at:
http://cheapest-merchantaccounts.com. On that site’s homepage is a link to “Articles.” Following that link will take you to literally over 100 articles related to merchant accounts and ecommerce. ALL of those pages were created in less than 5 minutes. I used a piece of software called Content SiteBuilder, found at a site
called Content Desk. Basically I set up a template (inserting things such as my AdSense code, and links to affiliate products) and then I told the software where to put the articles. In a snap it output the article pages. Then I merely had to upload the pages to my server and link to them from my homepage.
“But does this generate traffic?” you ask. If you search on the term “cheapest merchant accounts” at Yahoo.com you’ll see that this site ranks number 5 out of over 1 million pages targeting that term. If you continued digging, you’d discover that the number 1 site for that term is a blog that I own, and the number 2 site also belongs to me… it needs lots of work 
All of these sites generate traffic.. people looking for the lowest priced merchant account. So yes it does work. These visitors earn me revenue by either applying for the merchant account I recommend or by clicking on AdSense ads.
A key element in the success of the sites above is that I got them indexed quickly by linking to them from sites that were already indexed, and that were frequently
visited by the search engines. I also didn’t put a lot of time into building any of these site because of the Content Desk software. You can find out more about that software here.
3) PPC search engines. I like free traffic, but often when a site is first erected, you need to use pay-per-clicks to get that initial surge of traffic. Articles and the other methods I use are SO effective that I’ll only use pay-per-clicks if I’m in a hurry to refine the conversion rate. With pay-per-click traffic, since they are all responding to the same ad(s) you get more homogenous traffic. So it’s easier to separate elements in your testing and determine what’s effective. After refining the conversion process, whether or not I continue with pay-per-clicks often depends upon return -on-investment. I don’t like to put a lot of time into managing a site!
4) Create viral tools. Rebrandable PDF special reports work well, especially if you have an affiliate program.
If you don’t have an affiliate program, you can create these same reports on hot topics, and SELL or give, the reprint rights to others. In these reports you include
links to your “backend” products, or to websites you want to generate traffic to.
Key to the success of getting others to spread your viral tools is incentivizing them. Structuring your PDF document so that publishers and webmasters can profit from distributing it is the easiest way to do that. Money is a great incentive In fact, you can even structure your articles so that publisher profit from distributing them. The way to do that is simply to allow affiliates to substitute their affiliate url for yours in the articles.
If you don’t run an affiliate program, you can even write articles for programs that you are an affiliate for. Then contact the affiliate program manager and offer to allow them to provide the articles to their affiliates. Since you are allowing their affiliates to change the url for that product (to their affiliate url), you need to have
a link somewhere in each article that points back to your site too. Most affiliate won’t have a problem with this if it’s a good article. It’s a win-win situation.
5) Camtasia Videos. Just as you use PDF’s to generate viral traffic, you can do the same thing with Camtasia videos. You can create short videos demonstrating how
to do something, and then you make these available to publishers. Camtasia has a feature that allows you to automatically redirect the viewer to a specified webpage
at the end of the video. You can either send them to your website, or you can create special videos for your affiliates that take the viewer to that affiliates url.
The possibilities are endless.
To see an example of how I use Camtasia video to both educate and generate traffic, watch my video entitled “Secrets Of The Internet Marketing Titans.” In this
video I explain why top Internet marketers seem to have an “inner circle,” and then explain how to break into that inner circle as a welcomed member. Because the video does educate, many ezine publishers are happy to tell their readers about it. You can view this video here.
6) Offer 5 to 20-part email courses to your website visitors. Often your website visitors who won’t subscribe to an ezine will subscribe to a course.
That’s either because the course has a higher perceived value, or becausethe course covers a topic they’re interested in more in-depth that an ezine would. In the course, you invite your readers back to your website for additional resources, tosee how something is implemented, etc. This generates repeat visitors to your website and gives you many opportunities to convert that subscriber to a customer.
7) Publish an ezine or some type of list from your website. An ezine allows you to have repeated contact with a person who may otherwise never return to your site. As you build the relationship, you can offer them various reasons for returning to your site. As an example, I try to keep my ezine to a reasonable length. Things that I can’t fit in my ezine - I post on my blog. So I invite my subscriber to return to my site to read those extra gems available only on the blog.
Publishing a list doesn’t have to be hard work. For example, I publish a list from a cooking related site that is written entirely by my readers. It’s a recipe exchange mailing list. Readers submit recipes or requests for recipes. These reader submissions are compiled into a twice daily digest that is edited for quality control and then sent out to the list. My editor inserts two sponsor ads in each issue. Those sponsor ads not only drive traffic to my site, they drive six-figure sales of a cook-book that I wrote.
The cooking list, written by the readers, creates such loyalty that if we ever miss a day of publishing, hundreds of readers write in to ask us to confirm that they haven’t been dropped from the list. Some subscribers have been on this particular list for over 5 years. Aside from a little editing, the list is on almost total autopilot. You can check out how this list is set up by visiting my cooking site here. You’ll
notice that the number one focus of the homepage is to build the list, so that we can generate the repeat traffic. It works beautifully!
So there you have seven ways to generate website traffic relatively fast, easy, and inexpensively. I even gave you examples that you can examine and model.
Implement just a few of these ideas, and you’ll get a nice steady flow of website visitors.
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About the Author: Willie Crawford has taught PROVEN Internet marketing techniques to thousands of successful Internet entrepreneurs since late-1996. Subscribe to his free, weekly ezine, which helps you cut through the clutter and time-wasting hype. Subscribe now by visiting: http://WillieCrawford.com
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