It's time for Part V of the "101 Internet Marketing Techniques to Crush the
Competition!"
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Below are 20 traffic generating techniques. You can drive hundreds or even thousands of people to
your site daily through putting only a few of these techniques into place in your business.
81. Participate in Discussion Groups.
I know of people who build their entire Internet business out of discussion groups, newsgroups,
and mailing lists. I was literally shocked when I first started participating in these groups and realized the
traffic and sales that were being produced.
82. Submit Articles to Ezines and Web Sites.
Advertising through ezine classified ads gives you the most bang for your advertising buck. To
get the most bang for your advertising time, write short articles and submit them to ezines which are sent out
to your targeted market.
83. Create Your own Electronic Book.
Currently around 1/3 of my web site traffic is being generated through free e-books which I have created and distributed
around the net. Traffic is generated from them day in and day out without any additional time or money. These e-books
can have a lasting value in your business.
84. Ask for Link Trades.
If you have produced a content rich site, then start going out and aggressively seeking for links
from other sites. The quickest technique is to look up on AltaVista and find everyone who links to your
competition and then ask them for a link to your site.
85. Submit to major Search Engines by hand.
Around 95% of search engine traffic is generated by the ten largest search engines. Submit your site to these engines
by using the submission forms which are on their site. Don't rely on your submission
software to do it for you.
86. Use software to submit to 1,500 or more others.
There are thousands of little search engines and Free-For-All Link pages out there. They really aren't
worth the time it takes to visit each one and submit by hand. So, purchase some software which costs under $100.00
to do it for you over and over again.
87. Continually redo your submissions to these pages.
Remove the major search engines from your submission list in your automatic software submission tool. Then, start
submitting your site to the small search engines and Free-For-All Links pages every few days or every week. Each
submission only builds a little traffic, but it does start adding up over time.
88. Put Your Web Site on all of your current materials.
Make sure you have your web site and UWP on all of your current business materials such as brochures, ads, etc.
Don't just limit the marketing of your site to online avenues. The best advertising often takes place offline.
89. Place your web site address on business cards and letterhead.
Make sure you list your web site address on these important business materials...along with your UWP. Just a web
site address isn't worth much if it doesn't detail the benefits you present to your
customers.
90. Press Releases are the best free advertising available.
Free publicity can drive more traffic to your site overnight than a year full of other types of free
advertising. Do whatever you can to learn how to write good press releases and then start submitting
them to magazines, newspapers, TV, and radio stations by email, fax, and postal mail.
91. Once your system is proven, start using paid advertising.
By using free ads first, you will be able to prove your system works or doesn't work without spending
a penny out of your pocket. Once it is a proven winner, then you can start rolling out with paid advertising to
generate regular automatic sales.
92. Ezine ads give the best bang for buck.
I love ezine ads. You can reach one thousand to one million people this week and only spend
$10.00 - $60.00. There is nothing else like it. Write a good classified ad and then start testing in some of the
various ezines out there.
93. Make banner ads look interactive.
Banners are quickly losing their online effectiveness. A way to pump your clickthroughs back up is to
make your banner ads look like it is interactive by adding in drop down menus, click boxes, and sliders. This gives
it a "Windows" feel and it will produce more click throughs.
94. Html banners beat regular banners.
The best method I ever used to build up my ezine list was to use an html banner where people
could subscribe to my newsletter while still on the page of the host. It produced thousands of new subscribers
a week at a very low cost.
95. Always code and test every ad.
Don't even consider running any ad without having some type of tracking mechanism built in. Consider setting up
hundreds of mirror sites (sites with the exact same content) so that you can refer people to a different site with
every single ad.
96. Goto.com is one of the best tools going.
Goto.com has a pay per click advertising method in place. You pay a certain amount such as one penny and then you
pay for everyone who clicks through to your site under that keyword. By selecting
hundreds of keywords you can build up thousands of visitors daily to your pages.
97. Pay per lead for constant results.
Other companies such as Pennyweb are doing similar techniques as Goto.com. There you turn in a banner and you pay
a certain amount such as fifteen cents per visitor for all of the traffic they generate
to you.
98. Use the same headline on your site as in your ads.
This way you can keep your prospect in the flow. Whatever they clicked on is what they are now reading about. Make
sure that you never lead your prospect into confusion.
99. Try a personal response on specific ads.
If you have a banner at Infoseek, have the headline of that page read "Special Bonus for Infoseek members."
If you are doing a Joint Venture in a newsletter, mention the name of the newsletter
on top of the page.
100. Offline advertising may yield best results.
Consider using offline forms of advertising in your business. Many of the businesses that once
advertised heavily online are again moving their ads back to TV, radio, and magazines. In some
industries, the leads produced through offline advertising will often buy much quicker than
online leads.
The old statement, "Build it and they will come," might have been a good theme for a movie, but it doesn't
work in online marketing. Once you build it, you must start advertising it. If you just sit down and rest on your
laurels, then you will not make any money through your online business.
The 20 techniques above are idea generators to get you started doing something about your online business. Advertise
it, and they will come.
Mick Moore,
The Internet Entrepreneur
http://www.QuickStartExpert.com
P.S. The last set of tips coming up next covers how to advertise your web business offline AND how you can start
designing your own hot products in only a few days time. You could have your own Unique product for online marketing
by next week!
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