by TheMarketingProfessional
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A couple of years ago when blogs were blowing up like fireworks on the 4th of July blog traffic exchanges poped up as well. They were a great way to get no cost traffic to any blog and they would also create some loyal readers if your blog had good content.
Many blog marketers have since moved on and found different ways of driving traffic to their blogs, some have even abandoned the traditional blog for the micro blogging platforms of Twitter and FaceBook.
Being a click thru marketer I truly enjoy traffic exchanges of many types and yes I was still surfing on blog exchanges until very recently however it appears that they are going the way of the dinosour so to speak and here’s why. One of my favorite blog exchanges “Blog Soldiers” is no longer online, I had a good sized downline that was active, a sizeable credit surplus and yes I was even owed comissions however it appears that the owner just pulled the plug without notification – that was quite irresponsible and not a best business practice that I recomend for other marketing professionals.
Then two days ago I got a message from “Blog Explosion” that they denied this blog because it had to much of a marketing theme. No crap, it’s a Professional Marketing blog. I immediately canceled my account and do not recomend their service to anyone any longer.
So what’s a blog surfer to do? Here is what I recomend, come on over to www.GoneClicking.com and add all the blogs you want, especially marketing blogs! I am telling you, there is nothing like a good old fashioned traffic exchange to get some traffic and readers to your blog.
I know that social media is all the rage these days but I still like click thru marketing and traffic exchanges so:
“Long Live the Click!”
Always to your success,
Mark “The Marketing Professional” Brown
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by TheMarketingProfessional
In this world you only have two types of assets: Money and Time. The laziest way to drive traffic to your site is to buy it. But if you are an Internet marketing beginner you probably don’t have much money to invest in traffic building. In that case, you will need to invest your time.
One successful way to do just that is by using viral ebooks . By using the correct methods it can provide a flood of website visitors for years to come.
The following traffic techniques are time consuming, but they are 100% free and will get you a fair amount of targeted traffic. If your site is properly optimized for monetization, you will soon be earning enough money to invest in buying traffic, and save your precious time to build new money making websites.
So here are 11 reliable free traffic techniques:
This tip is so obvious it will not even be counted, but it is often missed: submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.
1. Write 5 to 10 articles and submit them to the free article directories. Of course you must include a link to your site in the article itself or in your bio box. The articles should be optimized for a keyword your site is targeting.
2. Locate related to your topic and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. In the same way you could go to answers.yahoo.com, and answer questions related to your site’s topic. Off course put a link to your site in each of your answers. Another thing you should consider is joining the most popular forums that deal with your site’s topic and becoming an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.
3. This one can be very impressive Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research: a press release is not written like an article.
4. If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unprejudiced testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.
5. Start a blog on blogger.com and a blog on wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.
6. Try posting ads with a link to your site on all the free classified ad sites you can find (such as craigslist.com). The best ones will allow you to post a live link. But don’t neglect the other ones. If your ad is well written, people will go out of their way and type your url in their browser. Off course you must post in the appropriate category.
7. An easy way to get extra free traffic is to add a link to your site in your email signature.
8. Start a page on myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find. In the same way, go to Squidoo.com, open a few accounts, create a few lenses and link them to your site.
9. Submit a viral video to youtube.com. You don’t really need any video producing know-how as a simple PowerPoint slideshow with some background music will do the job perfectly.
10. Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.
11. You could write an ebook or a short report (say 10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free ebook directories you can find online.
This last tip is not free, but is worth the extra buck. Check out the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors. If you find a good available domain, grab it and redirect the traffic to your site.
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Now all this looks like a full time job! These techniques work, but you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick the one you feel the best with and act now. Invest 30 minutes to an hour daily in building your free traffic. Then step to your next favorite technique and within a few weeks you should be earning enough money to afford to buy traffic and concentrate your time and efforts on building your online business.
Always to your traffic generating success,
The Marketing Professional
P.S. One of my all time favorite ways to get free traffic to any website or blog is by using click thru marketing sites like www.GoneClicking.com
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by TheMarketingProfessional
Getting a residual income is actually quite easy to create after the initial effort is made to set everything up. The bottom line is that you can keep making cash after the initial set-up and sale is made.
Typically, residual income is analyzed in terms of one month’s earnings and debt requirements; the level of one’s residual income is a factor that lenders consider when evaluating a borrower’s creditworthiness . Higher residual income indicates that the individual will be more capable of meeting required debt payments when surprising expenses arise.
It is all about building a team that works hard and turns a profit. If a persons team is not making money then they are not making money – that is the bottom line. Furthermore, with multi-tiered programs, residual income is not always available. For instance, if Joe signs up under you as an affiliate in a two tiered program, he may have residual income from a sale, but you may only get a one time commission from that sale he makes.
When a single product, either in tangible form or intangible form, keeps generating income with little or no extra work on one’s part, that is how residual income is created. What motivates people to start their own business is the promise that they can build a passive re-occurring income.
Once you start to earn top residual income it is just too hard to go back to earning regular income off of each sale you generate through affiliate marketing. There are many horror stories about affiliate programs and networks. People have heard them over and over again, that some are even wary of joining one. The Internet has produced many programs, some are legitimate money making opportunities, and many are scams or schemes.
If you are tired of the same old every day grind maybe you should look for residual income home businesses. It can be fun, interesting and profitable. Also, it will free up your time as you increase your income.
Imagine not having to get up before the sun rises, not make that long commute in rush hour traffic, not spending 60 hours a week to pay for the home you saved years to be able to buy.
Earning a residual income through your own website, blog or online affiliate business is an ideal way to make top residual income of your own for the financial freedom you really want in your future.
Working on the Internet makes it very easy to make multiple streams of residual income and you can learn how to get free traffic right now.
There are thousands and thousands of sites that offer affiliates a monthly pay out in commissions for referring others to their sites. That is a great way to enjoy life!
Here’s to Your Future Marketing Success,
The Marketing Professional
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