by TheMarketingProfessional
Congratulations, you have your website or blog set up and it’s time to start promoting what you have to offer. You know that in order for your site or blog to be successful you must generate traffic and the more visitors to your site that you have that means more sales and more money for you and your affiliates.
There are many ways to generate website traffic:
Pay per click is an example of paid traffic method.
But for a new internet marketer with limited budget often paid methods are simply not feasible. So you should think about getting free website traffic.
One of my favorite methods is to use a Click Thru Marketing Service like GoneClicking.com 
You should also submit your website to directories like: Yahoo, MSN, and Google. Make sure you submit your site in the correct section of your niche. Write articles and submit them to article directories with your site link in resource box. When more and more websites publish your articles, you will get as many back links and the visitors of that site may click on the link and come to your site.
Try getting back links from authority sites in your niche. Back links means that your market place is giving you a vote of acceptance. When authority sites accept you, you will enjoy high rankings in the search engines.
Join forums in your niches and make some valuable comments and use your website link as your signature line. Before doing this make sure you read their rules and that you are allowed to do that otherwise you will be removed from the forum. Another advantage of visiting these forums is that you will know the pulse of your target market.
Once you have visitors at your site or blog make sure you capture their name and email address using an opt in form. There are many types of forms available. Also keep in mind that a visitor may not buy from you on their first visit. Once you have his or her contact details, you can make offers that may be of interest to them. You can automate this process by using a reputable auto responder. Currently I am using Aweber.
This has been a basic tutorial to compliment the previous post on article marketing, leave me a comment on what has worked well for you or if you have another marketing related question.
Always to Your Success,
The Marketing Professional
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by TheMarketingProfessional
When it comes to Search Engine Optimization I always stress the importance of having great content. Your content should be of interest to the entire community of your chosen niche, and not just a boring article. However, no matter how mouth-watering your content is, if there is nobody to read it, it won’t make you a cent.
Traffic is the heart of your blog especially if you really want to make money with Google AdSense. In order to attract people, you must offer compelling information. However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. For example, where do people look when they need information? Of course they search using search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN, to name just a few popular ones.
So, to attract the visitors you want to your blog, it must rank high on search result pages of the search engines. When people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog! The art of getting your blog or website ranking high on search result pages is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and it’s really not an art but more of a science.
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For now, let’s determine the keywords that you want to optimize your site for. For instance, your blog says make money. Now, you’d want to check in Google whether it is a very competitive keyword. As of now, there are 227,000,000 search results. Do you think you can beat 227,000,000 sites at your first attempt? I doubt it.
Now, let’s try to narrow down our scope. Let’s look for “Make Money with Google AdSense” instead. Right now Google lists 3,440,000 results. That’s more manageable, but you’d like to search for more focused keywords. However, let’s optimize your blog to Make Money with Google AdSense just for the sake of learning.
For starters, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you’re optimizing to Make Money with Google AdSense you need to have that exact phrase in your blog title. For example, a line like “Learn How to Make Money with Google AdSense!” would work fine.
You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the WordPress blog when you’re creating it. Your page heading should also contain the term you’re optimizing for. Additionally, you should ‘sprinkle’ the words “Google AdSense” into your blog posts whenever possible.
The frequency of that phrase in your blog keys the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic. However, always keep in mind that you’re writing for real life people who read your blog to obtain information, so it is very dumb to spam your blog with keywords! In fact, if you do that, the search engines will end up thinking you’re spamming and drop your ranking further down into oblivion. Hence write for humans, not search engines!
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To Your SEO Success,
The Marketing Professional
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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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