77 Ways to Get Traffic [ 51-60 ]

By Allan Gardyne 
CEO of AssociatePrograms.com

Volume 1

Traffic tip #51

Syndicate your material.

Syndicate your material to other sites. Create a content syndication feed 
(RSS feed) and include a link to your site. Use PHP rather than Javascript 
to ensure search engines parse your headings and links.
You can also syndicate your articles or tips by using a script available from 
a popular programmer, Will Bontrager.
You don't have to have a blog to publish your material via RSS.

Traffic tip #52

Position yourself as a personality or expert.

Positioning yourself as a personality or expert in a particular field has all 
sorts of advantages, one of the most important being that it can help you 
get links to your site without having to ask for them. It also builds trust, 
helping encourage people to buy from your site.
Positioning yourself as a personality or expert - or both – is much more 
challenging than building an anonymous mini-site, but the rewards can 
make it worth while.
It's also a way of future-proofing your business because it makes your site 
stand out from all the hundreds or thousands of other sites in your niche.
Once you start receiving a bit of publicity, people who are writing articles or 
books will want to interview you. The resulting publicity leads to more 
interviews... It has a nice snowballing effect.
Here's an article containing some tips by Matt Bacak:
Become a Recognized Authority in Your Field - in 60 Days or Less!

Traffic tip #53

Create a high profile on Amazon.com.

This tip is for authors.
Authors can join Amazon Connect and tap into Amazon's millions of 
visitors. If you do it right, you can create mentions in dozens of different 
places which lead to a page which links to your website.
Create a blog. Create a Profile. Review books. Create a "Listmania" list. 
"Tag" dozens of keywords, creating lots of breadcrumbs to your Profile, 
which has links to your websites.
Authors with at least one book for sale on Amazon.com are eligible to 
participate in AmazonConnect.
Explore the huge possibilities. It's free.
To learn more about the program and to sign up, visit
www.amazon.com/connect 
Here's an example - author Bob Baker's profile.

Traffic tip #54

Combine joint ventures AND email captures.

Ebook authors do joint ventures with website owners and newsletter 
publishers not just to sell products, but also to get a huge rush of website 
visitors and to collect email addresses.
Consider how most ebook authors do joint ventures. They write a book or 
create a product, contact a few dozen newsletter publishers giving them a 
review copy and ask them to promote the book for a generous share of the 
revenue.
Depending on the quality of the preselling and the quality of the sites 
salesletter, about 90 to 99% of the people who arrive at the site leave 
without buying anything.
What a dreadful waste of hard-earned traffic!
More cunning marketers create an email capture or NameSqueeze page. 
They give away a useful free report or mini-course. If visitors want it, the 
only way to get it is to hand over an email address.
Their free report or mini-course then promotes the ebook.
It's extra work, but this technique captures many more email addresses (for 
more repeat visits) and increases the number of sales.
John Reese uses this technique brilliantly to promote his newsletter and 
CDs. You can see it in action here.
I'm a keen subscriber because I like to keep a close eye on whatever John 
does.

Traffic tip #55

Try offline advertising.

Try experimenting with offline advertising, in newspapers and in magazines 
in your niche. Tempt people to reply by offering a free report or free mini-
course.
You're likely to have a better return on investment if you concentrate on 
collecting email addresses, rather than trying to sell directly on the first page 
of your site.

Traffic tip #56

Place a link in Yahoo! Answers "sources".

At Yahoo! Answers, the people who answer provide free answers.
Answer some questions there. In your answers, you can list "sources" 
(links) for more details.
The "asker" can vote a particular answer the "Best Answer" and that answer 
is given special prominence. Other users can vote, too.
If you click on the "Report Abuse" link and check the available categories, 
you'll see that "advertisements" are banned. However, I've spotted some 
affiliate links posted as sources.
Rather than posting an affiliate link, I think it would be more useful - and 
natural - to link to your own website, perhaps to a newsletter sign-up page 
or to a page offering a free report.

Traffic tip #57

Get links from eBay.

Set up an account at eBay and on your "About Me" page, link to your 
website.
Read eBay's links policy before you create your page:
http://pages.ebay.in/help/policies/listing-links-aboutme.html
Some affiliates also create special reports containing genuinely useful 
information - and affiliate links - and sell those reports on eBay, usually for a 
very low price, just a dollar or so. I've no experience with this. You'll need to 
do your own research.

Traffic tip #58

Get links from AdSense.

Did you know that AdSense has an AdSense Help discussion group?
You can go there, answer someone's question helpfully and provide a link 
to your site at the bottom of your post.
Some people offer genuinely helpful answers. Some offer a few words as 
an excuse to flash their site's URL.
You don't have to be Einstein to figure out which method is more effective.

Traffic tip #59

Add thoughtful comments to blogs.

Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor.com says: 
"Add thoughtful comments to their discussions. Sometimes, when 
appropriate, link back to your own articles, but other times add your 
own comments just to participate in the ongoing discussion and, yes, 
gain some visibility in your marketspace."
Selfish oafs distort this tip and add off-topic spammy junk to blogs, polluting 
the global village. Where are the tar and feathers when we need them?

Traffic tip #60

Add sticky content.

Sticky content, says Wikipedia, is website content:
 "..which has the purpose of getting a user to return to that particular 
website. Webmasters use this method to build up a community of 
returning visitors to a website".
Examples of sticky content include chat rooms, forums, web mail, Internet 
games, weather, news, horoscopes, and recipes.
This is a HUGE topic. Try a Search in Google for "sticky content".
This technique works brilliantly for many websites.
Look for opportunities where you can encourage other people to add free 
content to your site.
Also, remember that sticky content isn't just words. It can be photos, audio, 
and video.

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