Getting Referrals to Your Traffic Programs

Getting referrals to your traffic programs can be a daunting task for many marketers. Why should you even worry about referrals?

Referrals earn you traffic credits from their activity in most programs such as click exchanges. They can earn you commissions if they upgrade. Also many programs periodically pay you for sign-ups (usually $1 or less) even for free members.

Many traffic programs have downline builders, so your referrals get exposed to many other programs that you may be signed up to. Lastly, most click exchanges allow you to e-mail your downline. Using this feature gives you a ready list of prospects for your other programs.

How do I get those referrals?

The best way to gain referrals is to mail to your list. What? You don't have a list? If you're using any type of traffic exchange program, your first priority should be to build a mailing list.

You will need an autoresponder account. I use GetResponse and have never had any problems with mail delivery or spam complaints. They are very affordable at $17.97 per month.

You will also need something to give your prospects for subscribing to your list such as an eBook or video. You can visit many giveaway events and find a suitable product for free. Try and get something with Private Label Rights so you can edit it to your own style and put your own name on it.

You will also need a web host. 000 Webhosts provides a free account with more than enough bandwith and storage for your efforts. No ads or annoying pop-ups to disturb your prospects. They will try to get you to upgrade to a paid account, but for your list building efforts the free one will do just fine.

I don't have a list yet. What can I do now?

You have many options. What do users of traffic exchanges all have in common? Thay all are looking for ways to generate more traffic to their sites!

Most exchanges provide you with splash pages. Use those splash pages to advertise on your other sites and get people to sign-up under you. If they exchange has splash pages that use your picture, use them! It not only helps to brand your image in peoples minds, but splash pages with your picture convert better than those without. People feel better about signing up for something if they can see who they are dealing with.

Use solo ads on text ad exchanges and credit-based safelists. Solo ads with well written letters convert better than splash pages. Use credit based systems so that even if they don't read your message,the people are still clicking your link and visiting your sites.

Join list builders like List Joe and List Auction. These will allow you to mail to prospects once a week as a free member (more often and to more people if you upgrade). They are both credit based and get better response than places like List Bandit (although I do get sign-ups from there too).

Join Top Tier Traffic. If you haven't looked at it, this is the most innovative click exchange to come along. The more active you are, the bigger your downline. You can earn a downline to mail to and earn you credits even if you refer no one! The more active you are the bigger your downline will be. There is a reason why nearly 9000 people signed up in the first 30 days!

Use web 2.0 sites like Youtube and blogs to generate traffic to your sign-up pages. I belong to several social networks and frequently use my blogs there to tell people about new traffic programs. You can also start user groups on sites like Myspace and Facebook to help grow your downlines.

There are numerous ways to build your downlines at traffic programs. When it all comes to a head, the best way is to build a responsive list to mail to when you have something to offer. Don't abuse the list and send tons of offers every week. Keep them happy (throwing an occassional freebie their way helps) and they will be more likely to read your messages and respond to your offers.

Build Your Targeted List with Niche Social Networks

If you are building a list in a niche market you should be a member of a social network in that same niche.

The trend in social networking is to build small niche sites instead of trying to be the next Myspace or Facebook. The idea of bringing a smaller group of people together with something in common lends itself to a more active site, as measured in percentage of regular users, than a broad interest site.

I have talked before about a targeted list is much better than a broad list. If you are marketing products related to your targeted list; your conversion rates and revenue will be much higher. Big business recognizes this, too.

With the increasing popularity of niche social networks, more and more businesses are targeting their ads to them. It just makes sense that a record company would target, and pay more, for an ad on a site like Mog, a network for music lovers, than on a place like Facebook. True there are millions of music lovers on Facebook, but submitting an ad to a targeted market will bring many more sales per impression than it would if running on Facebook.

Its like selling a product on safelists, a broad audience; compared with selling it to your niche-targeted list of names. Your sales will be much higher selling to your list than promoting it to the safelist membership. True, you may reach more people through the safelist, but most of them will not be interested in your product.

By becoming a member of a social network that targets the same group of people that your niche list does, makes sense. You create your profile and add friends, just as you do on any social network. Give these new friends a gift to join your list (you may even be able to add an opt-in form to your profile page) and watch your sign-ups increase.

Spend a few minutes every day on that site requesting new friends. The more people that you request; the more that will see your profile. If you have your free gift link on your profile, you will get sign-ups. The sign-ups from these sites will be highly targeted to your niche and add dollars to your online business for months and years to come.

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Introduction to Traffic Generation

Today, I want to discuss the various things that you need to check to ensure that your site is ready to receive traffic.

Think of this: If you were expecting company at your home, there are certain things you might do in advance. You would make sure your home was clean, that there was fresh soap and clean hand towels in the bathroom, and you might prepare some snacks, or even an entire meal.

Preparing your website follows the same concept. You want to make sure that things are neat and tidy. Make sure that your navigation follows a logical sequence. Make sure that you have plenty of good content, and that everything is spelled correctly.

You also want your visitors to be able to participate in your site – to take action. Look at each page, and determine what type of action your visitors can take. Do you have a forum or blog? Do you conduct polls or surveys? Do you have a subscribe box for your opt-in list on every page of your site? Make absolutely sure that your website is ready for company! Also make sure that your pages lead your visitors to take the action that you want them to take, no matter what that action may be.

That is the first and most essential step of traffic generation. If your site isn’t pleasing and welcoming, any traffic generation activities you do from this point on are wasted! Take the time, and put forth the effort to make your site as good as possible – and learn to look at it from your visitor’s point of view!

After you do this, make sure that you are using all of the best known Search Engine Optimization techniques, such as making sure that you have clean HTML code, that you’ve used your keyword effectively, that you have keyword rich text links and alt tags, and that the title of your website, in your HTML code, has your main keyword or phrase as well. Take some time to explore SEO techniques, so that you can draw natural search traffic as well.

Once your website is ready for company, you are ready to start inviting that company. You do not need any special tools for traffic generation. What you need is your computer, an Internet connection, your mind, a willingness to do the work, and knowledge. That’s all it takes.

Keep watching. There will be more traffic generation installments coming soon. Or, if you would like my full traffic generation eCourse for free you can click here to subscribe to the Hammer Traffic Letter. If you subscribe now you will also get my report on Traffic Exchange Secrets.

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How to Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods

How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods


Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.

Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.
Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

Getting the Word Out

You have created your own product that has been proven to have great demand, you have a salesletter that has a sky-high conversion rate, but all that would be futile and you will earn nothing if you don't have a single soul passing by your website since you will have no one to sell to! You might be a total beginner and therefore do not have a massive mailing list to sell to, and your website is on the 103th page of search engine results pages. We can change all that with a few tried-and-tested traffic generation techniques.

First and foremost, let me make it clear to you that search engine optimization is not the only way to gain massive amounts of traffic! You see, search engine result pages are in a sense just web pages – similar to regular websites around the web. It is only so lucrative to have your website listed on the top of search engine results because many people use the search engine to search for information and arrive on the search engine results page. Hence, loads of people see your site's link and you attract loads of traffic.

The effect would have been exactly the same if your website is mentioned in a website with very high traffic. For example, imagine what would happen if your website was mentioned on the front page of Yahoo's website! Your website will receive so much visitors your bandwidth might go over the limit. So, the trick is to get other high-traffic websites in your niche to link to your website. To do this, you must give them very strong reasons to link to you – maybe it's this very thought-provoking article you've posted on your site, maybe it's the ingenious solution to this lifelong problem everyone has had for all their lives. In short, give people amazing reasons or value to earn a link from them.

Alternatively, you may link to a certain high-traffic website that's related to yours and ask for a link back. This technique is called reciprocal linking and is a very common technique for gaining links. However, before you even ask for the link, check your own website and ask yourself if you would be proud to recommend such a site to your readers, and whether it will provide useful information to your readers. In short, make sure your website has its own value and not just an empty shell devised to attract traffic!