Showing posts with label internet business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet business. Show all posts

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Advertise, Advertise, Advertise

Many people sign up for affiliate programs with the hopes of making some serious money. They advertise a few places and then wait for the money to start pouring in. When it doesn’t, they blame it on the program and quit.

I am convinced the only way to make money online is to have a consistent Advertising plan. A plan you are willing to work hard on and commit to for a selected period of time. When making this plan, you need to do two things. First, you should pick a few affiliate programs that are of interest to you. Second, you need to decide how long you want to work these programs. Once you decide on a time period (I recommend 6 months to a year), you must make a promise to yourself that you will not stop advertising until that time period is up. This is perhaps the most important factor in your success.

Next, you need to consider your advertising options: traffic exchanges, classified ads, e-mail campaigns, ezine articles, posting to forums or message boards, chatting with others who are interested in what you have to offer, and posting flyers around your town. Now you see the many possible advertising avenues you can choose from. I recommend doing all of them. It may sound like a lot of work, but when broken down into a plan, it is not.

One possible plan may look like this: Traffic Exchanges-1 hour per day. Post 15 classified ads per day. Make 5 posts to a message board or forum per day. Submit an article once per week to an ezine. Visit chat rooms and distribute flyers as you have extra time during the week. This all can be accomplished by spending 2-3 hours per day. You will be surprised how much you get done when you have a plan. You may also choose whether you will work 5 or 6 days per week. Make a checklist for each day of the week, and mark each task off as you finish it. That will keep you on focus, and will make you feel good that you are one step closer to reaching your goal.

Make a commitment to your new plan and don’t get involved in any other programs until your current programs are making you money consistently. Don’t give up. Sticking with this plan will significantly improve your success. Remember, Advertise, Advertise, Advertise.
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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Write Positive Testimonials For Other Websites And See Traffic Increase On Yours

Increasing traffic on your website is a smart thing to do. When trying to build a successful site, traffic increases are one thing to focus on. While there are several ways to increase traffic, it is most useful to utilize several methods to do so. Writing positive testimonials for other websites and including them on your website is a great thing to do. Not only is it a lovely way to give respect to sites you admire or utilize often, but it is also a great way to see traffic increase on yours.

When you use other website links and names in your website, you will be attracting their traffic as well. This occurs mostly due to search engine requests. When someone types in the website name used in your testimonial, to try to gain access to their site, it is likely your site will come up as well since you included their website name in your site content. You can use their name on your site as a portal of sorts. They will in turn visit your site and mostly likely look around a bit before going on to the site they intended to visit. This may seem a little tricky, but it really is a great way to get more traffic on your site. This is especially true if you utilize popular website names in your testimonials. If you include a positive testimonial for a website that gets a large amount of traffic each day, it is only logical you will receive some of that traffic due to search engine requests.

After deciding to write positive testimonials for other websites and see traffic increase on yours, you will need to choose which sites are best for the task. Think about using sites that are highly used, but perhaps not too highly advertised. It can be challenging to get the right mix. The idea is to find sites that are often requested on search engines. Sites that are highly advertised are usually easy to remember and web users will not use search engines to get to them. Sites that may contain tricky names, but are highly used may be better options because people are more likely to use search engines to get to them. Try adding different sites each month and research the sites that seem to bring more traffic to your site.

After choosing the sites, you will need to determine exactly what to say. Never write a testimonial before visiting the site yourself. You certainly don’t want to write positive testimonials about horrible sites, because they will only make your site look bad to viewers. Make sure you agree with everything that the site represents. Always keep the testimonials positive and encouraging. You can write a synopsis of the site, review its services, review its customer service, or simply outline the business as a whole. No matter what you do, be sure to mention the website address as many times as possible in the testimonial. The more you mention the complete address, the more likely your site will pop up when someone does a search for that particular site on a search engine.

After completing the testimonial, be sure that the site’s address shows up in a different color than the rest of the text. You want to draw people into your site and if they are trying to get to another site, they need to see that your site offers a link to get there. They may bookmark the page and therefore use your site as a portal each time they want to get to the other site. This is great for your traffic statistics. Even if they don’t give your site a good look over the first few times they visit, it is likely they eventually will. If you make money off of each visitor to your site, then you likely don’t care whether he or she looks around or not, because you will collect just because they visit your site to get to the other site.

Writing positive testimonials for other websites is the perfect way to draw in more visitors to your site. Your website traffic will increase because of it and it won’t cost you anything but a little time to get it done. This is an inexpensive and effective way to help your site along. The more traffic your site receives, the better it will succeed. Trying methods such as this is a great way to do all you can do to make the success of your website a reality.
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