Below are only the things that produced visitors to my
site in the last 48 hours. Nothing theoretical
whatsoever.

1) Search Engines

Yesterday was my biggest day yet with this new site
platform and the performance is unlike anything I have
ever experienced before.

I had more search engine traffic from more phrases in
one 48 hour period than ever.

>From very nice short tail keywords like “video
syndication” to fat long tail phrases like “how to get
more friends on myspace.”

And everything in between.

How do I do so well in the engines?

I use the very best publishing system on Planet Earth.
Nuff said.

2) Article Syndication

LOL – right? Wrong. Article syndication is still a very
powerful traffic driver if you do it properly.

Rather than try to be on every article directory on the
web, I go for the most important article directories on
the web.

I also write the best content I can on highly relevant,
topical, hot issues in my niche.

I do not wirte and syndicate articles for links. I
write for traffic. Huge difference most people
completely ignore.

I syndicated this article over the weekend and am
getting traffic from the following article sites:

* GoArticles.com * Ezinearticles.com

I will get traffic from many others, but I am only
showing you today what happened to drive real targeted
traffic in the last 24 hours. (People don’t do this
anywhere else that I know of by the way!)

I syndicate my articles exclusively with
SubmitYourArticle.com.

3) News Readers

Because I have several feeds to choose from, and a wide
range of related topics I publish on, I have feed
subscribers on all kinds of readers.

In the last 24 hours I have gotten traffic from people
using feed readers from:

* Yahoo * Google * Bloglines * Delicious, and *
different versions of desktop readers like
MyWebTop.com.

4) Links

I’ve gotten significant traffic in the last 48 hours
from sites such as:

* BradFallon.com * CreativeBits.org *
WillieCrawford.com * MichelFortin.com

and many many others.

These are link partnerships or just people pointing to
specific posts here and commenting on their blogs.

The better your content, the more people comment and
trackback your site. So good content equals good link
traffic.

5) TrafficSwarm

I get a good amount of traffic each day from
TrafficSwarm, which is no new kid on the block.

I have tested the traffic from this service and opt-in
rates are good, meaning the traffic isn’t junk traffic,
if you were wondering.

They have a free and paid version. Don’t bother with it
on the free level. It is extremely inexpensive traffic
compared to Adwords and Co-registration, and there are
other benefits of membership aside from direct traffic
and subscribers.

6) Video Syndication

I have been doing screen capture blog marketing videos
lately and syndicating them on all the free video
sharing sites available.

Since I started (I have only done 4 so far) I can
attribute top 10 rankings in Google for terms like
“blog marketing videos” and many others to this
marketing tactic alone.

Since video sharing sites are all popular (none of the
sites I syndicate videos to are under PR5, most PR6 or
higher) the links are worth a lot and the traffic is
great each time I submit a video.

Video syndication will be one of the buzz phrases of
2007. Glad I am in the top 10 for that phrase too!

7) Tagging and Pinging

Or simply posting properly and showing up automatically
(and practically instantly) in places like Technorati
which track blogs, is a big daily traffic driver.

Right after I post this I will see traffic from
Technorati and other sites that I ping.

Kind of encourages me to post regularly knowing every
post brings me more traffic and another chance to score
in the engines for more keywords.

If you don’t know how this is all done, the best
information available on the subject is from Sean Wu.

Again, the above tactics all resulted in real, live,
free targeted traffic to the Friday Traffic Report in
the last 48 hours.

Thought you’d like to see what is working based on my
actual log files rather than more theoretical pieces
from people who don’t necessarily use the tactics they
push to drive traffic to their own sites.

—About Jack Humphrey—

Jack Humphrey is the editor of the Friday Traffic
Report.  He teaches blog marketing, social marketing,
and link building strategies.  Stop by and subscribe to
his blog at http://www.jackhumphrey.com

No traffic, no business.

So how do you get traffic?

With joint ventures and affiliates you’re relying on someone else to get you the
traffic.

Your business (and the size of your bank account) is in their hands.

With hocus pocus SEO techniques, you’ve got to stay a step ahead of the search
engines.

Good luck.

With pay-per-click, you’re p-a-y-i-n-g.

Through the nose.

Forever and ever.

Ouch.

What if you can get INSTANT targeted traffic to every single one of your sites,
courtesy of the search engines?

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The importance of generating website traffic cannot be over emphasized. We all need to generate a decent amount of traffic to our website. Without it, your online businesses will all die. The higher the traffic you are able to generate to your website, the better your site will perform all things being equal so we really need to go out there to get the traffic.

Generating website traffic can be a daunting and expensive venture if you don’t know how to go about it. But if you do, you will find it extremely rewarding. Today, I’m going to reveal to your three website traffic generation techniques anyone can begin to use starting today. I call them the website traffic generation techniques for the little guy.

Here they are.

Little Guy Traffic Generation 1: Post Comments on Blogs

Search for blogs related to your niche. Go to their comments segments and drop useful comments. Drop comments people will appreciate you for. Resist all temptations to directly advertise. Make insightful comments and leave your link behind.

Little Guy Traffic Generation 2: Forum Participation

Participating in forums is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your website. Search for forums related to your niche and begin to post your comments. Respond to people’s questions and genuinely help them. Have a very decent signature line with your link in it and people will find you.

Little Guy Traffic Generation 3: Offline Article Marketing

This method involves writing quality articles and sending to targeted and niche newspapers and magazines. In the past, I used to think that only professional writers and journalists were allowed to contribute. Not so. If you send in quality articles, many editors will use them. Editors are always looking for contents. If they see you are ready to write quality articles for them for FREE, they will take a second look.

Start using those techniques today and I guarantee you will see positive results in no time.

I wish you all the best.

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There’s no doubt, one way links work for search positioning. But, have you considered that what works today may not work in the future? One exciting aspect about search engines is that nobody really knows everything. That leaves room for webmasters who are willing to research, test, and put into practice the best search engine optimization techniques.

These five rules for one way linking can help steer you in the right direction.

Rule #1: You have to be proactive. Google considers a high quality link something you have to earn. You earn these links by partnering with sites. In order for a partnership to work, you have to develop a relationship. I think more webmasters are open to establishing vital community relationships. It takes trust and a lot of patience for these relationships to build. Focus on what you can do for someone else first.

Rule #2: Keep an open mind. High PageRank still lingers in most webmasters’ minds. But, by concentrating on high PageRank sites, we miss out on other linking opportunities. Most of us understand that PageRank doesn’t happen overnight. That’s why it’s important to seek out lower PR, high quality sites. The advantage is that these webmasters are more open to establishing partnerships.

Rule #3: Site age is a big factor. I’ve put together my owning ranking system for evaluating a site’s linking “worthiness”. One big factor is site age. Any site that has been around since the late 1990s is going to have a higher “score”. These sites have weathered search engine updates, bad economies, and bad press. All else being equal, I tend to lean towards site age as the determining factor for a potential link partner.

Rule #4: Stop worrying about what you can’t control. I get questions all the time from people wanting to know if they can re-design their sites, or link to other sites, or change hosting companies. They want to know if these activities will ruin their search engine rankings. My response is always the same: do what’s best for you and your customers. Don’t NOT do something because you’re worried it will ruin your SEO work. If you have a solid customer base, your search engine rankings won’t be as crucial. The viral aspect of the web is extremely underestimated. Search traffic is only one source of traffic.

Rule #5: Can you be trusted?. Having a solid client list, establishing relationships with other webmasters, providing great customer service. These activities are all based on trust. Can you be trusted to follow through? If you are trustworthy, your link building will be trustworthy. If you’re in it for the short term, like all spammers, then you can’t be trusted.

The web is wide open for those webmasters who are willing to develop relationships for the long run. In the future, one way links will be graded on trust. So, you need to ask yourself, am I trustworthy? It’s give and take. Are you willing to give before you can take?

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What should you expect when you buy cheap ezine ads?

Well, in the first instance I have some bad news.
If you think that investing a small amount of money, 5 to 20 dollars, will bring you in return a considerable number
of sales and you’ll be one step further on your way to become wealthier, then you’re very far from reality.

I have recently noticed some advertisers complaining about ezine advertising and claiming that it is no longer what it used
to be. Why is that? Because they purchased some cheap ads and they expected a big return on their investment.

They didn’t understand how and why should be used this vehicle called cheap ezine ads.

Making a short break, I would ask them the following question:

“After the first day of school did you expect your very young girl or boy to know everything on any thing?”. Sure not!

The first day of school is the first step on a long way.

The same is with the cheap ezine ads. Purchasing them is one of the first steps on the way of making a quite reasonable number of sales.

Are you confused? Have you heard about “big boys” getting a lot of money by sending some email advertisements and now I come here to tell you something else? NOPE!

Be patient and open your mind because you’re close to the explanation.

How do you think a successful advertiser knows that a certain ad works?

….

By TESTING the ad copy!

Any serious advertising campaign can deliver optimal results if SMALLER test mailings are previously done, with tests for offer, price, headline, etc. Such tests should always be refined by analyzing the results offered by an ad tracker. Without this tool the tests will be meaningless because while testing you must not look very much at the number of sales but at other performance metrics. You should also take very much care with the vocabulary you use. If it is not too much different from a spammer’s vocabulary, then the spam filters may grant you surprising results and not the ezines will be to be blamed. You don’t have to make wrong assumptions about spammer’s vocabulary and you rather test yours in order not to have some unpleasant surprises …

Returning to our topic, did the wording “smaller test malings” get your full attention? That’s the whole point!

If you test your ad copy in large ezines having a significant number of subscribers, then you may spend your whole budget even before starting the actual advertising campaign.

Here come the small ezines and the classified ad co-ops which offer you low cost advertising.

However always remember one fact: the bread is not as sweet as a cake, but this fact doesn’t mean that the bread is worse than the cake.

They only have different purposes …

Good luck with your ezine advertising campaign!

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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.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide‘

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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.
———-
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!

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!

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

Making a video is fun, but making a profitable video is
even better. Best of all, to make a profitable video, all
you need to do is create a video ‘how-to’ and provide links
to your website inside that video. As for subject matter?
That’s truly the very best part because it doesn’t matter
what your ‘how-to’ video covers.

Just be sure that as you create your new how to video that
your website url is:

* At best, displayed the whole time your video is running,
or

* At worse, displayed when the video first starts and right
before it ends.

Let’s face it, people love how-to’s… and they search for
them every day on a very large scale. As an example, a
friend of ours had this experience to share:

“Just a few days ago I was folding clothes, and on a whim I
went to google videos and typed in “how to fold a shirt”.
Sure enough there were a few videos there. I watched them
(and learned a very cool way to fold shirts), and it
impressed the kids too.”

She then told us, “So here’s the thing. I’m not a
professional shirt folder, I wasn’t checking out the
competition, I just did a search for something on a whim,
and then I watched a few videos.”

There’s the key phrase – “ON A WHIM”

Internet marketers often find themselves with tunnel
vision. They focus so intently on what they have to offer
that they miss the big wide world, and what that world is
doing while he or she is thinking exclusively about just
their own website.

Tunnel vision… if you have it (and we all get it, don’t
worry), you need to learn how to “Think Outside the Box!”

Let’s continue looking at the shirt folding scenario:

What if one of the shirt folding videos that was watched
had had a url displaying your website? Well, for openers,
you could have had a visitor (traffic) to your website.
And, ideally, you may have had a buyer and long-term
client. People are curious animals. If your video was
creative enough, it most definitely can, and most likely
will, generate a visit to your website.

The reality is that millions and millions of people are
watching tons of videos every day on every topic you could
ever possibly imagine.

That’s worth repeating, “…on every topic you could ever
possibly imagine.”

So if you’re thinking, “Shouldn’t I create a video related
to what I am selling?” the answer is…. sure, if you have
that ability, go for it. But the truth is it doesn’t matter
if you do it on topic to the product you are selling or
not…. the big thing is to make as many videos as you can
about as many things as you can and post them to all of the
top video feed sites.

The second most important thing to remember is that as you
post them, keyword them to terms related to your video.
Check sites like www.wordtracker.com and make sure the
keywords you are allowed to enter in connection with your
video are ones people are searching for! Keyword-driven,
video-related quality traffic and buyers… make that your
goal!

Also keep in mind that you aren’t creating feature length
films here. Your videos can be anywhere from 1 minute to
10-15 minutes or any length in between.

Quiet on the set… Cameras rolling… Action!

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