Showing posts with label social. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Social Marketing Traffic The Easy Way

By Jeff Goodwin

For a Website, or any online business to create wealth online, the most important thing to have is traffic. It really won't matter what niche you are in, or what kind of business you run, if you do not get traffic directed toward your site, you have no chance of making any sort of income online.

What is the fastest and easiest way to get traffic?

By using social networking in the ever so popular social media sites.

I am sure you have heard of the giant Social Marketing website "Myspace". This is just one of the huge social sites online today. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Propeller and others it is becoming a social phenomenon. There are several million people online using the social network sites with an increasing amount of traffic every day. You just need know how to use this for yourself.

You might wondering: What is Social Marketing anyway?

Social Marketing and Social Networking sites like Myspace are run mainly by the users and not the owners of the sites. This is what makes Social Media Sites unique from other sites on the internet.

If you write unique quality content that is useful to the community, the readers will want to share the content with the rest of their community. This doesn't only give have new eyes on your content every day but also gives you excellent quality back-links to your site.

Social Media Sites thrive on this. But don't think it can go the other way. If you put poorly written duplicate content on these sites you can get burned fast.

But on the other hand if you create unique quality content that is useful the social media site community, they will share it with others, who share it with others, and so on, and the result will be more checks and more diggs which will bump you up in the rankings inside the site. So if you do your social marketing correctly you will not only receive quality back-links from other pages on the site but you will attract hoards of social traffic to your website.

To use Social Media sites the right way you need to know the proper way to get set up with your profiles, and the proper way to use each individual Social Media Sites the way that they are supposed to be used.

How can we use these Social Networking Sites Properly?

Hmm....You can:

1) Go to all the Social Media Sites and learn to sign up properly.

2) You can try and figure out how others act and write in the communities, and copy there way.

You need to find the proper balance between submitting your content and commenting on others. And you do not want to submit your content too much.

Getting familiar with all of the social networking sites can be extremely time consuming but there is a quick shortcut you can take to cut your time down dramatically.

I found complete course called Social Traffic Explosion. It covers everything you would ever need to know in step by step videos, audios, and guides. It really gives it all step by step.

It will show you:

1) The easy way to set up your profiles with Myspace, Facebook, Twitter and more.

2) An easy way to properly get your pages set up on the on Myspace, Twitter, and facebook.

3) How to get loads of traffic coming your way.

4) The quick way to get get back-links and loads of traffic by using social bookmarking, and more.

Social Traffic Explosion will show you how to create a social marketing plan, and how to get free traffic coming to your site fast. Also I can't stress this enough, you need to know how to use the social networking sites the right way or you can get banned for good.

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Thursday, January 3, 2008

Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money.

BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.
A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange
This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.
Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter.
This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.
As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums
This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.
Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

Bonus
Join Social Networking sites because these are the places you can make contact with like minded people. You can view their interests and complete profiles and build business relationships. See, your list does not need to be made up of email addresses any longer, but more of business friends lists that you have built by personal interaction.