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!

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

by Theresa Cahill
Copyright 2007 – All Rights Reserved

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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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Theresa Cahill invites you to further explore the unique
qualities of how to video marketing and for even more ideas on effective
internet marketing see what Molten Marketing
can do for your website today!

By Bob Osgoodby

Writing ads is a skill you must master if you wish your online business to prosper. There has been a lot written about writing effective ads. Sometimes what might be considered a bad ad by the pros is one that actually works. Why you might ask?
Different styles appeal to different people, and you have to realize, that while the web might provide a level playing field for entrepreneurs, the likes and dislikes of potential customers vary widely.

While “Glitz”, and exaggerated earnings claims might appeal to some, to others it is a turn off. Wild claims about earnings potential might gather some prospects, but will be an automatic “click away” for others who prefer a low key approach. You must experiment with different ad copy, and keep records of what is drawing.

There are many ways to do this, and some suggest that you have multiple web sites geared towards ads that are running. In your ads, you point your visitors to different sites and by keeping statistics, you can see which ads are working.

But here is the dilemma. Depending on any number of factors, visitors could be coming from places other than your ads, and the results might be misleading. If, for example, a search engine picks up one site and not the other, you will obviously
have more visitors to the site that has been indexed.

Bluntly, hits to your web site don’t really count – sales do.
Your first job however, is to get visitors to your site. This is done through a variety of methods, including advertising, the use of search engines and email. Once you get them there, you must then sell them on your product.

On our web sites, we have an “after sale” questionnaire and we simply ask them how they found us. Now these people have decided to do business with us, and their answers will most likely be truthful. We then log this information, which helps us determine what advertising is working.

Ads that don’t appear to be pulling, we modify until we start seeing positive results. One of the best places to test your ads is in ezine publications that are highly targeted toward your potential customers. I don’t recommend ads in publications that are not targeted to your prospects. Unless you have a very generalized product, the return you get in these will most likely be minimal. More importantly, you won’t get sufficient information to determine if the actual copy is working.

Many people have been advertising in the same ezines for years.
Remember that there is some “thrashing” that occurs, and some people drop off the subscription list for the publication, but others are added. This gives you a constant new group of people who will read your ad every time it is published.

Experienced online entrepreneurs will even keep the same copy year after year if it is pulling. It usually takes 5 to 7 exposures anyway until they receive “brand identification”. When someone is willing to “bite”, if they have the proper ad, they
will remember them.
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Did you know that subscribers to Bob Osgoodby’s Free Ezine “Tip of the Day” get a Free Ad for their Business on his Web Page?
Subscribe at: http://adv-marketing.com/business/subscribe2.htm
Great Business and Computer Tips Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Instructions to place your ad are in the Newsletter.

by Anne Marie, 2007

Here is a little trick for free and simple advertising for your website/business.

Think of all of the products you have purchased and programs you have signed up for in your online venture.

Some of them were good, others were not. For all the products that satisfied you, go to each one of the providing companies and submit a testimonial.

What is a testimonial?

According to Wikipedia, “In promotion and advertising, a testimonial or endorsement consists of a written or spoken statement, sometimes from a public figure, sometimes from a private citizen, extolling the virtue of some product.”

Just write a few sentences that are meaningful and that make the product or the service sound good (but only if it’s really good).

Then just email your testimonial to the companies that provided that service or product. Make sure you put the word “testimonial” in the subject line of your email and your name and website url at the bottom of the testimonial.

Here it’s an example of a testimonial I have recently received from one of my customers:

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“I just want to say that I appreciate how helpful you have been.
You are very responsive with a great eye for detail.
I would recommend you!”

My customer’s name
My customer’s website
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Some companies will not post your testimonial but many will do it if you write a meaningful and true one.

Pay attention! From a visitor’s view, testimonials are of three types and so it should be for the companies:

1) Testimonials signed John Doe from California and no link to a website.

You can see such fakes all over the internet, especially on money-making websites where they promise you’ll make a lot of money without doing anything. You know the type. No serious visitor will believe such a testimonial.

2) Testimonials containing an affiliate link.

That’s a step forward but not a big one. Put yourself in a visitor’s shoes … Who’s this guy who endorsed this program? Well …is just one of the hundreds of unidentified affiliates of a certain program…

3) Testimonials containing a link to YOUR website.

Well, now a visitor can see that a real person, a serious business owner endorsed that product or program.
That’s completely another story!

And by the way, you know that Google has revolutionized SEO (search engine optimization) by heavily weighting the importance of links. In short, if many sites link to your website, then your site will probably get a higher ranking.

That’s what the testimonial will provide: a one-way link to your website.

This is a very effective and FREE way of advertising.

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by Mary Jo Adams

Are you constantly banging your head in frustration on not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your web site?

Are you tormented from information overload listening to all the latest free website traffic tactics and not being able to understand any of it?

Or are you just too broke and all you have to rely on is getting some free website traffic tactics?

Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a simple technique to generate targeted visitors to their websites without paying a dime in advertising? It’s true.

In fact, the technique works so well that many of them don’t want you to discover how they get those thousands of website visitors and make so many sales.

You can do the exact same thing for any websites or programs you want!

You can get valuable publicity — exposure you often couldn’t even pay for if you wanted to by using “Traffic Exchanges”.

The following represent only a few of the enormous benefits of prooting your business using traffic exchanges:

** Dominate The Traffic Exchanges **

** Builds Your Affiliate Base **

** Build a Huge “Opt-In” Email List **

** Pre-sell Website Visitors **

** Requires No Special Skills **

You can employ website traffic tactics without spending dime. However, knowing how is the real deal. Here’s the score.

These methods, if employed properly, will not only make your web site popular but will make you achieve your most desirable result -higher conversion rate.

So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of product or service (whether your own or as an affiliate), promoting with traffic exchanges should rank high on your list of traffic generation strategies.

No other method of generating targeted traffic to your website provides the quality, quantity and steadiness of traffic in such a simple, straightforward, and cost-
effective manner.
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Mary Jo Adams – Publisher of: http://OnSwitchSolution.com
onswitchsolution@gmail.com
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Copyright © 2006 Mary Jo Adams I grant permission to publish this article, as long as the bylines are included, with a live link, and the article is not changed in any way.