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Every online business needs targeted traffic - whether it is selling a product, service, affiliate marketing site or Google Adsense site. An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing. He/ she may have the necessary drive, diligence, passion and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works. He/ she may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him/her a fortune if only the whole world could see it. However, all these would prove useless if he/she does not know how to drive traffic to his website.

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. The immensity of the internet as well as the internet business world has given birth to the fierce competition between online businesses, each of whom has his own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? Here are 9 ways to drive targeted traffic…

1. Search engines: What they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.

2. Give unrestricted rights to Ebooks and reports: Create Short ebooks and reports branded with your website link on the footer of every page. Give them away on their website or to your mailing list also give them rights to sell it on their websites and auction sites. What can be better than this for driving traffic to your website? If you give resale rights, come of them will sell it to others and in turn you get more visitors!

3. Link Exchange: Contact other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to one’s own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.

4. Join link exchange programs: This is the new way of linking. This can drive targeted traffic. There are many free link exchanges services. Paying for a link exchange program is also worth your money.

5. Write your own articles: This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.

6. Discussion forums: Participate in discussion forums of your area of expertise and respond to someone’s question. A discussion forum may user of all levels - beginners to advanced users. There are many questions that newbies ask. Make sure you respond to it. After this invite them to visit your website. Make sure your signature file has your links with a very good caption.

7. Joint venture marketing: This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.

8. Newsletter subscription: Creating a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.

9. Knowing one’s market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of one’s website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his effort is worth it. Keep contact info (atleast name and email address) of your customers is critical. Once someone is interested in your product, it is easier to promote other products including affiliate products.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one’s affiliate marketing career inch forward. It is always advantageous to plan one’s moves in any business that he might undertake. This is particularly so in affiliate marketing. If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track. Last but not the least, have some scripts/ tools to perform these actions - bookmark page, set home page, tell a friend and exchange link.

The author Guillermo Jalil owns several businesses including eBay business and other internet businesses. For tips on how to make on the internet from multiple sources of income visit www.internetandmoney.com. For ideas to boost your eBay revenue visit www.startsellingonebay.com.

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You may have heard many times, that getting the
e-mail addresses of your website visitors and following
up on them can spark up your sales and unleash a
tsunami of orders.

But this is easier said than done.

Most website visitors use fake e-mails.

Most will not give up any of their e-mails at all.

But if you’re privy to some of the 14 online
advertising strategies below, this can be as
easy as eating a piece of candy.

1. Ask visitors to subscribe to your e-zine. It’s a
good idea to also give them a freebie when they
subscribe.

2. Have them sign-up to get access to download
a free ebook. The subject of the ebook should
be related to your target audience.

3. Give your visitors a free membership inside
your member’s only web site. Have them sign-up
to receive a user name and password.

4. Hold a free contest or sweepstakes at your
web site. Ask them to give you their contact
information to enter.

5. Offer your visitors free consulting via e-mail.
Have them fill out a web form to e-mail you with
their questions.

6. Hold an interactive poll on your web site. Ask
your visitors to e-mail you their vote or opinion.

7. Ask your visitors to sign-up for a chance to
get a web site award. Have them e-mail you their
contact and web site information.

8. Have visitors fill out a survey on your web site.
Give them a free gift as an incentive to complete
the form.

9. Offer a free online service from your web site.
Have visitors fill out their contact information to
sign-up to the free service.

10. Ask visitors to sign your guest book. Tell
them they will get a free gift in return.

11. Offer a free affiliate program for your visitors.
They will have to sign-up in order to receive
marketing materials and commissions.

12. Allow visitors to submit a free classified ad
on your web site. Require them to give a valid
e-mail address in order to post an ad.

13. Give people who visit your web site a free
course sent via autoresponder. Just ask them to
fill out their contact information to receive the free
course.

14. Offer your visitors free software to download.
Have them sign-up to get an access code to unlock
the software.

May these online advertising secrets help you to make
a lot of money.

Warmly,

I-key Benney, CEO

I-key, a Millionaire CEO from New York City is the creator of “Mscsrrr: Millionaire Secret Cash System”,(online investing) program, which has helped thousands of ordinary people from all over the world to attain financial security and shining success during the past 2 yrs.

Mscsrrr Millionaire Cash System helps you to generate $1,500+/Week for life, from home or office, part time or full time. No large investment or hassles. Win $1000-$2000 free “cash”.

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You’ve got some content on your site. You are looking to get the word about your site out there. Getting a marked increase in web site traffic can be a challenging task for webmasters, especially aspiring webmasters. Internet traffic plays a huge role in determining the success of your web site.

Don’t have enough traffic? Then you won’t have enough opportunities for visitors to perform your most desired action. This action could range from getting your visitor to subscribe to your newsletter or to contact you for more information about your business.

So how do you get that increase in web site traffic you want? There are a variety of ways, both free and paid, to get more web site traffic. You could go about getting any type of traffic, but that wouldn’t help much unless it was targeted. Targeted visitors are more valuable. Targeted visitors come to your site with the right frame of mind. They are hoping that your site will provide them with the information they are looking for.

1. Search engines

Search engines can provide an enormous increase in web site traffic. Search engine spiders can find you through their daily travels on the web. However, it doesn’t hurt to manually submit your site to search engines. And if you want to increase the chances that you’ll be found in search engine rankings, read up on search engine optimization.

2. Link exchanging

When you exchange links with relevant, non-competing sites, you add value to your web site. If your visitors can’t find what they’re looking for on
your web site, your links may help them. And if you have only high-quality links, you’ll increase the chance that your visitors will come back to your web site.

3. Submit to directories

Submit to major directories like the Open Directory Project and Zeal so that your web site becomes more visible. Also submit to themed directories with topics relevant to your web site. Smaller directories may not be too beneficial in terms of web site traffic but they can give you more inbound links.

4. Pay-per-click advertising

Pay-per-click advertising can help you get more web site traffic. Pay-per-click advertising is a popular form of advertising where you pay for an ad to be included in specific search engine results pages. It’s easy to lose money with this type of advertising so get a guide. Pay-per-click advertising can deliver targeted traffic to your site as interested visitors click on your ad. Make your ad specific and bring them to a relevant page on your web site.

5. Submit articles

Write excellent articles about your web site’s topic. Articles can increase your reputation and establish you as an expert in your field. Or they can shine a negative light on you if you submit total garbage. If your articles keep readers interested, then they may want to visit your site for more information.

6. Word of mouth

Tell everyone you know about your web site. If your web site is excellent or stands out from the crowd, the word will spread as more and more people hear about it. If it works, the effect can be huge. So do whatever you can to mention your site in your daily contact. For example, add an email signature to promote your web site.

7. Traffic exchange

You have to be careful with traffic exchanges. Some programs tend to be very untargeted as they simply show pages to members. However, there are programs that can bring in more targeted visitors. Some programs let you show ads so only visitors who are interested will come to your web site.

Article by Derick Yung. Increase your web site traffic with Instant Buzz, a free traffic exchange that brings in targeted visitors. To find out how to earn a cash flow from your website’s content, get traffic, and monetize your site, visit Cash From Content

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Targeted traffic: the demographic

Assuming your business is motorcycles, my first guess at your target demographic would be 16-25 year old males and 50+ year old wealthy retired couples. Breaking it down further, if you sell Suzuki crotch rockets, you can safely discard the wealthy retired group. Narrow the demographic as best you can to target potential customers. Paying for traffic that isn’t dense with people interested in what you’re selling is a waste of your advertising dollar.

Once the demographic is well defined, you can begin identifying and sorting out perspective advertisers. Determining whether a particular advertiser or marketing group is going to work for you can be rather difficult, unless you’ve personally used them before. This is where experience and networking with other webmasters comes in very handy. Talk to other webmasters who’ve advertised with the company, find out what they were advertising, and ask them how the campaign went and if they plan to advertise on that website again. I don’t generally use an advertiser unless I’ve heard very good things from other webmasters or they have a trial ad setup, where you can commit a small amount of money to testing out the traffic before you make a real investment and buy several weeks or months of advertising with them.

An important consideration when buying ad space on a specific website is the focus of that website. If you’re considering advertising on a service oriented website, make sure your product or service compliments that website’s service. For instance, if you sell shoes, advertising on hotmail.com is going to be very inefficient and expensive. You’ll be paying to advertise to a bunch of people, the mass majority of which aren’t looking to buy shoes. However, if you’re selling a spyware removal tool, email services could be a great place to advertise. Most internet users have spyware on their computers, and most are aware of and concerned about spyware.

Advertising on content based sites

When I need to advertise, my favorite place to go is still a content oriented site with a close relationship to my product or service. If I’m selling Gregory backpacks, I’ll look for advertising opportunities on websites related to backpacking and hiking, such as outdoors guides and wilderness survival websites.

Web traffic at some content based sites is not particularly targeted, while others have a specific topic, like a gardening tips website. Finding a website with a very specific interest may or may not be as important, depending on what product you’re selling, or what service you offer. T-shirts may sell well on lots of different content based sites, while the gardening weasel isn’t likely to do well on places not related to gardening.

An update schedule of content based websites you’re considering advertising on is rather important, depending on how you advertise. A website that updates every other day or weekly will have many visitors who come for the updates and leave. A website that updates sporadically will have more people who come just looking for something new. When there is nothing new they’re more likely to look for other related links, which is where good advertising kicks into high gear. Of the three major advertising types, I tend to believe in doing my homework and paying flat rates for given periods of time. This seems to work best, because it depends more on you to build an intriguing advertisement, and rewards you for doing so.

Buying ad space on a per click basis can be a better bet if you’re trying to build a brand name, because your ad might get 50,000 impressions before the 1,000 click-through you paid for happen.

Conversion rates are key

For most of us on the web though, our main goal is to sell the product or service. This is why I contest doing your research, finding the best websites, and purchasing ad space on a weekly or monthly basis is the best method of promotion in the long run. If you’re smart, you’ll monitor your traffic from different sources and determine the cost per sale to see which sources are providing the best conversion rates. In the case of buying click through traffic, the monitoring program should give you the traffic conversion rate.

More targeted traffic suggestions

Additional information can be found in the subscribers area of www.webmasterarchives.com, specifically information on what to look for when considering traffic trades with other websites, where to get started with traffic building, good approaches when requesting a link trade, how to jump start your traffic building efforts with very minimal cost, and methods to making your website so attractive webmasters will be knocking down your door with link trade requests.

Copyright 2004 Harley Barnett
Some Rights Reserved
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons License, which allows for non-commercial use under conditions of attribution and share-alike. For more articles like this check out the author’s website: Webmaster Archives.

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There are, as we know, dozens of different ways of getting traffic to your site(s); some of these methods yield high quality, targeted traffic whilst others deliver junk traffic and ensure that the only thing that you’ve achieved is throwing money down the pan.

With this in mind I’m going to take a look at a couple of the different methods of getting free traffic to your site(s) and then I’m going to have a look at how to get paid for getting free traffic to your site(s) - yes, you can get money for doing it.

Lets start by having a look at three traditional methods of getting some traffic:

1. Articles
2. Solo ads
3. Traffic exchange

These three methods are the preferred methods of most webmasters as they encompass a wide target audience.

Articles.

All of us at some point or another write tutorials of one form or another (this for example) or perhaps we write a review of something. Even better, when you’re at university you write lots of reports as part of your course.

These documents can all be used to bring you some much loved traffic.

This is achieved by submitting your article to a site such as iSnare.Com or GoArticles.Com.

How does this work?

Quite simply and without any effort from you.

When you enter your article into these services you also have opportunity to enter a biography section. This section tells the reader a little about you and also allows you to list a url (or two).

The article sites then provide the articles in their database to other sites - your biography always go with them.

This means that suddenly you have a LOT more sites linking to your site and it also means that you have a lot more people (who perhaps wouldn’t normally find your site) visiting via your biography. You should however ensure that the subject of the article has some relevancy to your site (if you write about dogs and your site is about tanks most people who read the article are not going to be interested in your site).

Solo Ads.

A solo ad is an advertisement that is sent out via email by a list owner. The price of this service can vary radically and so can the quality.

Anyone offering a solo ad service will never EVER promise a response rate (unless it’s a paid to read service).

If you do decide to go down this route there are a few things you should remember/ask:

a. What is the demographic of the list (who are they? Male, 23 - 34, IT professionals, etc)
b. How big is the list
c. How old is the list
d. How responsive is the list (best and worst cases)
e. Will the owner do a 2 for 1 deal (pay for one mailing, deliver two)
f. Is there a way of the list owner splitting the delivery (thus allowing you to test your sales copy)

If you do go this route you should remember that you are effectively only picking up the customers/subscribers once - so make sure your copy is good.

You should also remember one golden rule - do not make the sale, get a subscriber. What a stupid thing to say - I’m trying to sell something not make friends! Yep, that’s right - but - it is widely acknowledged that it takes a user 7 views of the same advert in order to act upon it (this is why some marketers will send you the same thing rehashed repeatedly for a couple of weeks). So with this in mind if you send a mailing and don’t get subscribers you’re effectively blowing your money.

You should also be aware that the size of list has no direct correlation as to its quality or responsiveness.

Traffic Exchanges.

As the title suggests you’re swapping traffic, this usually means that you surf a selection of other members sites and in return you get your site added to the rotation so that some of them see your site.

The quality of traffic is sometimes quite poor from this source as a number of people are not really interested in seeing your site - they just want you to see theirs.

So where does the making money from traffic exchanges come in?

Well, simply put, there are a new type of traffic exchange services starting who offer both a free and paid membership, the free service allows you to surf and acquire credits which you can use to buy visitors and then there’s the paid member option (normally referred to as ‘pro membership’). With both the free and pro membership levels you still need to surf the site daily but there are a couple of things different:

a. Both membership types display a slide show of other sites for you to surf
b. Both membership types require no intervention (no clicking - just watching)
c. The pro membership pays you money!

Yep, as promised there it is - you can get paid to surf a small selection of sites a day with no action required on your part.

So how does that work and are we talking about pennies here?

Most important question first, no we are not talking about pennies (unless that’s all you’ve paid for). These sites normally pay you a percentage of your membership fee as your daily surfing fee, so my favourite site pays me 12% per day over 12 days (this means I make a profit of 44% every 12 days).

So in real terms, I can choose my investment level, so here’s what it looks like:

Pro membership $120 $6 $500 $1000
Percent per day 12% 12% 12% 12%
Cash per day $14.40 $.72 $60 $120
Membership term 12 days 12 days 12 days 12 days
Total Cash back $172.80 $8.64 $720 $1440

As I said the membership level is completely at your taste. But there’s more. You not only earn your own money and surfing credits but that of affiliates - so for example if you have a couple of affiliates then potentially you’re earning 10% or everything they pay in/surf and also 2.5% of whatever their affiliates do (so a two tier affiliate system).

The affiliate commissions vary but usually they are at least two tiers. The one I recommend is 12Daily, the url is http://www.12dailypro.com/?ref=62998 - complete with my affiliate ID (quid pro quo!).

Paul Foley is a well known webmaster whos expertise lies in Adsense sites - www.Cash-Sense.com/cashsense.html Pauls other interest is getting real rich, by sometime soon so he uses www.12dailypro.com/?ref=62998 - and they are slowly making him happy (very happy) www.MortgageHelp4u.com - for mortgage info and help. www.HelpmeBuilda.Com

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Holding a contest or sweepstakes can draw a lot of traffic
to your Web site. You can announce your site to hundreds
of Web sites that list free contests and sweepstakes. Send
out a press releases about your contest or sweepstakes.
Ask entrants to your contest or sweepstakes if they would
accept offers from your business in the future by e-mail.

The prizes should be something your target audience would
need or want. Try to be as original as possible with the
prizes you are offering. Always offer more than one prize,
a grand prize and runner-up prizes. Use your products or
services to give away as prizes. Make sure your prizes have
some value, nothing cheap. Give enough information about
all the prizes, so people will be interested in entering.

Make it easy for people to enter your contest or sweeps-
takes. I feel the easiest ways online are from an entry form
on your Web site or by e-mail. Capture as much info. as
you can when they enter your contest or sweepstakes like:

Company Name

First/Last Name

Street Address

City, State, Zip

Day/Evening Phone Number

E-mail Address

Web Site Address
Purchasing History
Survey Questions

Give your contest or sweepstakes a professional look and
feel. Provide an “Official Rules” Web page for your contest
or sweepstakes. Include a time period of how long your
contest or sweepstakes will be held. Tell visitors how you
will deliver the prizes. Include pictures of the prizes on your
site. Tell visitors who will judge your contest. Check out
other contests and sweepstakes Web sites to get more
ideas.

About the author:

Rojo Sunsen is a specialized bounty hunter who prefers to work quietly/confidentially for the benefit of her clients.

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If your new to the internet marketing world, you might not understand how vitally important choosing the right keywords for your website is. Most people who put up a website (designers included) don’t realize that the right keywords on your website will improve your search engine rankability.

When a person goes to a search engine like Google or others, they type in a word or phrase that they want information on. This is what we call a keyword. For instance if the person was looking to buy a new golf club, he might type in ‘golf clubs’ or ‘golf shop’ or another variation. So if you were a golf store you would want to have those and other related keywords within your site.

So what if you understand the importance of keywords but don’t do any keyword research? Instead you simply think about your product or service and come up with keywords that you think people will search for? At first this might sound like a good idea but in reality you risk losing many potential customers.

What do you think happens if you pick a bunch of words or phrases that people aren’t actually searching for? Or you don’t think of all the hundreds of other keywords that relate to your product or service and therefore lose potential clients?

You might have the best of intentions when thinking of your own keywords, but it’s better to do a thorough keyword search before beginning any website project.

There are a few different places that you can perform these keyword searches.

1. Wordtracker is a great online tool found at www.wordtracker.com You can sign up for a free trial to test it out. This is the most thorough keyword research tool that I have found. You can easily find several thousand related keywords in one search. I created a free ebook that you can download that will help walk you through all the steps of doing an in depth keyword research with Wordtracker. You can download it at http://www.westmarketing-design.com/wordtracker.pdf

2. Overture is actually a paid per click advertising center, but they do offer a keyword search tool if you can find it.

They like to move it around a lot so it doesn’t get too abused. As of this article you can find it by going to www.overture.com then clicking on ‘advertiser center’ in the top right corner. Then under the tools table on the right click on ‘keyword selector tool’.

This tool is similar to the one at wordtracker but does not give you as in depth a search nor as many options. It is still good though to use different resources so that your making sure to get all the related keywords you possibly can.

3. Teoma is an often overlooked place to also gather keywords. It is actually a search engine of its own, but has a cool little feature that can help you choose more keywords.

When you type in a word or phrase to search it also gives you two sections on the right hand side that can help you out.

The first is ‘refine’ which shows related keywords to your search that you might also want to search on. These are extra keywords. You can keep clicking on the keywords in this section with each new page offering more related searches.

The second section is called ‘resources’ which provides websites that have gatheres links on your specific search topic. This is great to see what kind of competition you got going and check out what works and what doesn’t.

So there you go, three ways to conduct a really thorough keyword research.

Leah West
http://www.westmarketing-design.com
Providing complete search engine optimized website design and internet marketing services for your small business success.

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The more traffics you get at your website, the
more your chances of making a sale increases.

Here are 10 blazing website traffic secrets to help
you succeed:

1. Show your prospects how much enthusiasm
you have for your product and business. If you’re
convincing enough, they will be enthusiastic too.

2. End your sales letter or ad copy with a strong
closing. It could be a free bonus, a discount price,
a benefit reminder, an ordering deadline, etc.

3. Please your complaining customers. You can
refund their money, give them a discount, give
them a free gift, solve the problem quickly, etc.

4. Make your customers get excited about your
business and they will tell their friends. Give
them a free vacation certificate, a coupon, etc.

5. Give your prospects extra confidence so they
will order. Use endorsements, testimonials, a
strong guarantee or warranty, etc.

6. Build your opt-in list by allowing your visitors
to sign up for a free e-zine, ebooks, software,
contests, sweepstakes, etc.

7. Give your prospects or customers a breath of
fresh air. Don’t be afraid to design your web site
and ad copies different from everyone else.

8. Allow your customers to get part of your total
offer right after they order. If you have to ship the
item, make one of your bonuses available online.

9. Write and submit articles to e-zine publishers
or webmasters. If you want it to be published, it
should be like an article and not like an ad.

10. Show your prospects that you are an expert,
because authority can persuade people to buy.
You could publish an article, write an ebook, etc.

May these website traffic secrets help you to make
a lot of money and succeed.

Warmly,

I-key Benney, CEO

I-key, a Millionaire CEO from New York City is the creator of “Mscsrrr: Millionaire Secret Cash System”, (forex) book, which has helped thousands of ordinary people from all over the world to attain financial security and shining success during the past 2 yrs.

Mscsrrr Millionaire Secret Cash System helps you to generate $1,500+/Week for life, from home or office, part time or full time. No large investment or hassles. Win $1000-$2000 free “cash”…

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If you’ve been trying to get targeted traffic to your
website but you’ve been hitting a brick wall, don’t
worry… It’s not your fault and you’re not alone.

I’m about to teach you some of the quickest and easiest
ways I know to get a ton of targeted traffic to your
site for the lowest cost possible.

Traffic Tactic 1: Posting To Forums

Posting to forums related to your sites theme will get
you a good amount of traffic fast, just remember to
set up your signature file.

Don’t slack off when creating your sig, make sure you
use good ad copy to increase the amount of people who
clickthrough to your site.

It’s easy to get an extra 50-100 visits to your site daily
if you take the time to do this tactic right. If you’d like
to learn more about posting to forums, here’s another article
I wrote with some more details:

http://www.thegurusedge.com/forumarticle.html

Traffic Tactic 2: Create an Ezine Article on your sites
theme

It’s easy to get targeted traffic by writing an article
for use on other peoples websites or ezines. You might
have heard of this one before but here is the secret
many marketing experts don’t want to tell you:

They don’t distribute their articles themselves.

They use submission services like Submit Your
Article:

http://www.submityourarticle.com

It might cost alittle bit but you get access to their
huge network of publishers and websites and more
importantly it frees up your time to do other forms
of promotion.

If you’re short on cash and want to start out free,
submit your new article here for a quick burst of
traffic:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

Traffic Tactic 3: Use the Pay Per Click Search Engines

You can get an obscene amount of targeted traffic
very cheaply with the right PPC and it’s not as
hard as you’ve heard.

I recommend anyone that’s new start out with Yahoo
Search Marketing:

http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com

It’s really inexpensive to set up an account and
get traffic going to your site within a few days
time.

Here’s one thing to remember when starting
out:

Make sure you contact them and have them set your
account to prepay only, it’s not set that way by
default and if you don’t do this step they’ll
bill you again and again.

Copyright © 2006 John Stafford

John Stafford is the author of: Laser Guided Traffic Tactics - Discover How to Instantly Get Multiple Streams of Targeted Traffic to Your Website Starting Today

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If your like me you have searched on every search engine any possible way to advertise your website. I have filled out submission forms till my fingers have cramped up. I have looked at link farms, long boring articles on SEO, I even have articles sent to my inbox everyday in hopes of finding the next “new” way to attract visitors.

So now you have designed your site and your thinking it looks great. “Who wouldn’t
want to visit my site?” You have all your affiliates set up, you have your ads (by
Yahoo, Google,…) and your ready to start making some money. You have your
exchange links set up, you listed on every toplist you can think of and you even paid
money on some Pay Per Click program in hopes of visitors. And you even have your
tracking program in place so you can tell who is hitting your site and where they are
hitting from. You even know what pages on your site are popular.

So why are you only getting first time visitors? Why do they only visit one page? Why
are they not returning?

One answer - pop ups.

If you belong to one of those exchange link programs that provides pop up, pop
unders,(pop up under the main page) or exit pops (as I call them, when you close
your site this page appears) then you could be chasing away your visitors.

I consider my self to be an above normal Internet user. I have several websites that I
have created and between them I have thousands of pages in cyber world. I know
when I click on a ad or link and all of a sudden pop ups appear out of now where I
slightly freak “like whoa!” and once I clear my screen I make a mental note not to
click that button again. Imagine how a novice surfer is going to feel. They may
never click on an ad again. That kinda defeats all of us using ads. You will get hits
added to your counter but they wont be return hits.

In no way am I bashing these programs. But like any good web designer, know what
tools are in your toolbox and know how and when to use them.

About the Author

Michael is currently growing his new venture as editor of Christian InTech. Michael
spends most of his time gathering technical articles and information for his site.
You can find his site at http://www.christianintech.com
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Christian InTech

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