Free Advertising and Promotion 101

Here’s what I do for traffic, free promotion is crucial for your financial state, make sure you do enough of free promotion rather then paid promotion, here we go, free promotion 101: 

Social Traffic

• Stumbleupon : Really effective and massive traffic if used on good content, relvant traffic.
• Digg : This one’s good for lists and creative sites, all you need is something unique to make it here.
• Twitter : You can get really awesome results if you have good content hand and an addictive life.
• Delicious : Bookmark your sites, if they are really good, they’ll get huge traffic.
• i89 
• AllMyFavorites
• Backflip 
• BibSonomy
• BlinkPro 
• BlogMarks 
• Bluedot
• BmAccess 
• BuddyMarks
• Chipmark 
• Complore
• Connectbeam 
• Connectedy 
• Connotea
• Diigo
• Excites 
• GetBoo
• Givealink 
• Hyperlinkomatic
• IKeepBookmarks
• Lilisto 
• Linkroll
• Ma.gnolia 
• Mister-Wong
• Netvouz 
• Nextaris 
• Shadows
• SocialBookmarking
• Unalog
• WireFan
• Xilinus
• Yahoo! My Web
• BlinkList
• Clipclip
• Clipmarks
• Fur
• Linktopia
• RawSugar
• Simpy
• Spurl
• SyncOne
• URLex
• Blog-buzz
• Netscape
• Newsvine 
• Reddit
• Shoutwire 
• Thoof 
• Using relevant forums to get some traffic your way is a good way to get traffic as well, even if it’s a signature link.
• Myspace/Facebook could be optimized to send traffic your way if you are a big mover and shaker on there, it’s all about your influence on your target audience on a given medium.
• Contests are always a good choice if you can pull together some noticable sponsors, everyone benefits from contests, the author, the applicants and the sponsors, it’s a perfect win/win situation.

5 Ways to get readers to come to you

Isn’t getting readers just a pain in the ass?

It’s so hard to have people to come to you, specially when you have recently made a site.After all the sites that I’ve made and sold over and over again for 2 years or so, I think I have some valuable tips for ya’ll here. Now before you start reading, remember that these tricks/tips are based on my own experiments, so here we go, I hope these get you as much traffic as they got me.

Lists and Fully Loaded Pages

The more content the better the more that content is relevant and useful the more profitable. Having all the information a user might need on a certain topic on just one page is just so much more better then having it distributed into parts and spread all over a blog/site. I used to think making Parts of a topic is better to get readers but if you try to make just one post with all the informations your readers/traffic could need for a while converts much better then the usual.

If you take a look at sites like Smashing Magazine and Make use of you’ll know what I’m talking about here, its all about giving the topic at hand everything you have, that’s why content is king not the sequels

Interactivity - 3rd Party Addons

This can be content or widgets or news tickers or whatever, as long as it adds that little something extra to your site which is not focused on making money but giving your readers more information it will always be profitable in the long run through other methods, but as long as you’re making content, focus on making content not passing off affiliates as unique content.

One really good example of 3rd party addons is the Crunchbase widget, you can add info of just about anybody online, any company or person it works like a charm, it helps describe more about the people/company you might be talking about in a topic.

For example, I just mentioned crunchbase which is owned by techcrunch, so the widget would be:

Media

Wallpapers, Videos, Tutorails, How-to’s , etc..

Thats how you become an authority in a particular niche, providing more mediums of content on your niche attracts even more genres of traffic within that niche. To be honest this should be the very last step but I tend to gather/create media before I start making any project.

One good example here could by blogging sites and wordpress themes such as my wordpress themes.

Products/Store

After all that, the last touch on your niche sites/blogs has to be unique niche products on a store system on your site/blog. This is the last attraction because if you’ve done the rest, then by now you must be receiving alot of traffic and must be considered a sort of an authority in your niche so the best way to make this traffic soar is a store, and of course affiliates, affiliates only make your traffic increase even faster, your visitors already have the info/articles now they can make money off of your site as well.

Why SEO Is the Ultimate Traffic Generation Method

The following article is a guest post by Salwa from Blogriffic, it explains the role of seo in traffic generation in great detail.

Search Engine Optimization is the main process wherein an internet marketer improves the quality and volume of traffic to their website. The higher your site lands in the rankings, the more visitors you’ll get to your site. Taking marketing strategies into consideration, it is the best way to increase a site’s relevance. The harsh reality is that if your site doesn’t make it in the rankings to the initial rankings page, there is a good possibility that all the effort you’ve put into your website could be for naught.

The amount of traffic generated by SEO is second to none and for that reason alone, it is the ultimate traffic generation method. To say the least, it doesn’t matter whether it is media publicity, press releases, or social networking, they cannot compete with SEO for generating traffic to a website. So what is it that makes SEO such a successful method for generating traffic? The main reason is because 90% of the people searching the internet for products and services use SEO to find what they are looking for.

When your site ranks high on a search engine results page, you are bound to get hoards of traffic to your site. Consequently, if your site is not search engine optimized, search engine spiders have no way of recognizing your website, and therefore can’t send any traffic to it. Taking the requirements of search engines into consideration will assist you in creating and developing a website that will result in great returns where massive traffic and revenues are concerned. For these reasons alone, SEO is the best marketing strategy you can use to get the best traffic possible to your site.

You have to understand how vital SEO is when you are developing your marketing plan. When you consider the millions of people who are searching the internet every day in order to purchase their needs, providing the right information, products and services is critical in order to be successful in internet marketing. In order to receive the traffic that you need in order to sustain your business, you have to land high up in the SEO rankings or you are going to have a rough go of things. Implementing and employing an effective SEO traffic generation program is crucial.

Take a comprehensive approach to generating SEO traffic for both the immediate future and down the road. SEO driven traffic is a testimony to the fact that there is strength in numbers, and the higher up in the rankings your site achieves, the greater the number of visitors you’ll get consistently and continually to your site. If you’re just starting out, it is oftentimes recommended that you hire a professional who is skilled at developing a marketing plan that contains an SEO strategy for your business. These professionals are skilled at developing a foundation for a successful traffic generation plan. Ultimately, this can result in increased revenues and profits form you internet business venture.