Nick Marks Giving Away >$500< In THIS Thread! (Give Traffic Tips, Make Money Here & Now!)

[NickMarks]

Hey Warriors,

Nick Marks here. So I wanted to sort of "give back" to those here on the warrior forum. I've come up with a little game for us to play here. YOU can make money, and provide good content for the forum at the same time.

Step 1. Post a traffic tip here in this thread. Anything good about driving traffic to your site.

Here's how you win:

If your reply is: #2, #10, #20, #30, #40, #50, #60, #70, #80, #90, + Several Surprise Posts over post #90.

You'll GET $50 FROM ME VIA PAYPAL! Just PM me what reply number you were, and I'll confirm and send you the money.

RULES: You MUST provide content about driving traffic to your site in your reply. If you don't, you get nothing. You can only win once.

-NEW RULE: You can't post a bunch of times in a row just to hit the spot you need to win. I'll pick others in here to win too, so just give your tips

As said, I'll even extend this PAST the #90 reply post mark, I'll PM those who post the best content with $50 each via Paypal.

All I ask is for is a simple "thanks Nick Marks!" after I pay you

Note: In no way is this meant to be a raffle or anything. I'm not getting anything from this, other then giving away some cash, and providing good content for the forum. Just think of it as me paying you for good ideas.

Start now!

-Nick Marks

[aceriker]

Squidoo! Works a treat every time - we sell ready made software products and our squidoo lenses have earned us a lot of money so far by posting articles about the software. We also use jonathan legers 1waylinks and 3waylinks to boost our search engine rankings - both these programs are recommended.

Blogging also works well - people find your site from long tail keywords you wouldn't have thought of in a million years - but you need to post regular daily or every other day blogs.

Peter

[Michael Lee]

Aside from posting your articles in article directories, convert them to powerpoint then submit to slideshare.net.

Convert them to videos too and submit them to the video sharing sites using tubemogul.com

You may also combine them into a viral e-book and allow people to share them. Allow affiliates to rebrand it with their affiliate links so they'll have an incentive to pass the ebook to their list.

[aceriker]

Videos submitted to youtube work really well, you can get some traffic from youtube directly and they also have good rankings in google.

If you are selling products, submit them to Google Base. If you offer a service like web design, submit your site to Google Local.

[aceriker]

Crazy! It seems no one is interested in making some free money. Nick, I don't mind, you can send the $500 directly to my account

How about this for another traffic method: Link Baiting Using Articles

You write a list, like "10 things your Mom never taught you about money" or "10 simple rules for dating my daughter" (yeah, both of these are real articles done by other people) and then submit it to social bookmark sites - and if it catches it can go viral very quick.

One of the best sites to see how this works is SmashingMagazine who are constantly doing fantastic lists like "top 50 FREE gorgeous wordpress themes you've never seen before".

I always tell my content writers: if they can't think of something to write, write a top XX list - the Web 2.0 sites love it.

[rapidscc]

Hi!

Action speaks louder than words so let me put in a picture of a search result with the top page that I dominated the 1st and 2nd result with links to my site.



the keyword is "WEBSITE FLIPPING BUY AND SELL"

in case the pic doesnt show up.

heres the link to flikr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30716090@N03/2877910887/

I wrote an article on EZA then I searched for an ad site that has a high search ranking. I posted a free ad on it pointing to my blog. My Eza article also contained a link to my blog. I gave it about three weeks and whala! my articles link is on the top 2 out of 1.8 million.

The secret is going to a FREE ADS site that has a high ranking! this is my trade secret. Hope I win, I really need the dough man.

Thanks,

~RapidScc

[GrantFreeman]

Two ways come to mind..

1. Article Marketing

I'm not talking about just writing as many articles as you can, and submitting them to directories, but taking the time to write high quality content that includes meat and minus the filler.

One site that is not part of the internet marketing niche, I wrote one article for a webpage for that site, complete with original photos and content I wrote 100% myself. About 300 words.

Then, I went back through and tweaked it for OPSEO (on-page search engine marketing). I added 2 keywords to the header, page title and the page description.

Then, I cut that same article down to about 200 words, and placed this article at Ezine articles dot com.

In the bio box, I offered more information about the topic at my site, and set the author link to lead to the page where the original article is.

The original article includes ebooks about the topic being discussed, so the whole set up is designed to presell the ebook. Nice.

That single article is responsible for 3 to 6 visitors a day, and has the potential for even more.

2. Affiliate Marketing

Seems like people here don't associate traffic with affiliate marketing, and that's a shame. I think it's one of the best, if not the best way to get traffic to your website.

If you set up a generous commission rate, with a great product that other people like, and you include bonuses with that product, people will tell other people about it.

The basic principle is word of mouth advertising. Other people that refer your product are telling others about your product. Since they are affiliates to your program, they get paid when they tell others about it, and that person buys the product.

Get enough people as affiliates, you can then lay off the SEO and other forms of getting traffic, and the whole system works much like a gold mining slew (that's a mining tool that you hook up to a stream. The water and dirt flows down, and any gold nuggets are left on the steps of the slew).

It takes a little while to set up, but once you have a decent affiliate program that provides:

• Banners
• Text Ads
• Pre-Written email templates
• Ezine Ads
• Pre-Written Articles

You can have more traffic than you expected because others are doing all the promotional work for you. Thus, more traffic!

Grant

[Peter Helps]

I am going to share 3 techniques here. First one is:

Press Release Traffic:

Write a press release about your new product, new service, event, etc. Make sure you write it in a third person format. Make sure your press release is keyword optimized. (Find great keywords using Google’s Free Keyword Tool). I would also include some good content within your press release.

Submit your press release to webwire.com for $19. This should get you in Google News.
Submit your press release using prleap.com for their basic $49 package.

Peter

[Peter Helps]

Second technique:

Video Marketing Traffic:

Create a video of yourself on a webcam or record a screen using software such as CamStudio or Camtasia. Make sure you provide great content, include a watermark at the bottom of your video directing people back to your site and mention your site at least 3 times in your video. When mentioning your site, tell your visitors to perform some kind of an action and you’ll reward them with something free.

Submit to youtube and include your website url on the first line of your video description. Make sure you write your url like this: http://www.yoursite.com This will ensure that your url is clickable.

Comment on other people’s videos to get some piggyback action.

[Peter Helps]

Third traffic tip:

Blog Posts on Steroids

When writing a blog post on your blog, implement this strategy. Important Note: Don't forget to do keyword research and implement your keyword/keyword phrase into your post).

1. Record the blog post in an audio format using free software such as audacity. (You can either read the blog post or just speak into the mic and then have the mp3 transcribed into text for your blog post.) You can also use voice recognition software (comes free with Vista) or Dragon naturally speaking to transcribe it yourself.
2. Record a video of your blog posts of either you speaking or recording a screeencast using screen recording software such a Camstudio or camtasia.
3. So, after you do the above 2 steps, you should have 3 versions of your post: audio, video, and text.

4. Now, post all of the above on your blog. Ping your blog post to all of the different ping services.
5. Submit your video using http://www.tubemogul.com. Also, submit your mp3 to different audio syndication services including Itunes. You'll have to create accounts for all of them but it is well worth it.
6. You can also social bookmark your post and your submissions on different sites.

This should get you a healthy boost in traffic and first page on Google if you target a good keyword.

Hope this helps.

Peter

[Steven Wagenheim]

Easiest way to get traffic to your site and it takes almost no time at all.

1. Create a blogger blog with a review to a product you own or affiliate
product you promote. Takes about 15 minutes. Make sure you have a sales
link at bottom of review.

2. Write a series of articles on the topic and submit them to Ezine Articles.
Make sure your resource box has a strong call to action to go to your blog
and read the review.

Done. Do this everyday (15 minutes) and you'll have tons of traffic coming
in IF you target long tail keywords.

I do this everyday and it accounts for over $67,000 of income a year.

[NickMarks]

Good posts everyone! This is great content for the forum

WINNER! Post#2 aceriker

WINNER! Post #10 pk80356

Want some cash? Give your traffic tips!

[Kent Tee]

Google Adwords

The most popular paid advertising in the world.

[Kent Tee]

Google Search Engine

If you don't want to pay for Google Adwords, then you must work hard to get more keywords rank in the Google pages.

You like to work hard? haha..

[Kent Tee]

Warrior Forum

The most favorite internet marketing forum in the online world!!!

Any objection for this?

[Kent Tee]

Twitter

One day one twitter, traffic will follow...

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

[Kent Tee]

Online Press Release

Just like normal offline press release, you need to have good news content or great headline to attract people.

This will build more backlinks to your site too...

[Kent Tee]

Viral Ebook

Create a short report and distribute it for free...

plus giving the free giveaway rights to your members...

[Kent Tee]

Traffic Exchange

The sites that gather all the similar marketers that exchange traffic to their sites.

You will get traffic credit each time you click on others ads, vice versa...then you use the credit to advertise your site.

You can choose to upgrade the account and get bonus credits monthly to show your ads...

[Kent Tee]

Banner Ads

Another paid advertising method.

You have to create or outsource to have an attractive graphic and click to action message...

You can buy this kind of ads by paying monthly or thousand views per cost.

[Ross Kenny]

A great way to generate traffic is to pay for ad space within Niche Forums.

Go and stand in front of the traffic I once heard a wise man say.

For Example,
If you are promoting a Clay Modeling ebook then search for all the popular forums
within that niche. eg. "Clay Modeling +Forum".

Make sure the forum is active and has plenty of members.

Check the forum for text advertising and place your ad.

You will have to pay for your ad but it will be a very small price considering all
the targetted traffic you can drive..

[CarlosGarcia]

Create a JUICY WSO for your product if it is geared towards Internet Marketers of course.

The WSO section has proved to be one of the best place to test your product
idea, get feedback, and improve your product all at the same time.

Depending on your profit margins, the $20 fee is very minimal!

[Shannon Herod]

The best way to drive traffic to a blog is proper optimization.

So many people think that just because they put up a blog people will come.

That can not be further from the truth. You need to seo optimize your blog to get great traffic.

The first and easiest thing you can do is change your permalinks. This will put you ahead of many blogs out there.

Shannon

[Ross Kenny]

Another place you can find traffic is eBay's classified section.

Be sure to target Profitable Long tail keywords and Google will index
the classified ad within the Search Engine.

Again another example of Standing in Front of Traffic

[NickMarks]

Another WINNER! post #20: Kent Tee

Who Else Wants Some Cash??

-NEW RULE: You can't post a bunch of times in a row just to hit the spot you need to win. I'll pick others in here to win too, so just give your tips

[Kent Tee]

Thanks Nick!

Another Tips: Be Aggressive

Sometimes we just need to aggressively promote ourselves and people keep on seeing you in sight...they can't refuse just to click one more time to your link..

Have fun :>

[lavidaloca]

Create a review page for a product you wish to promote as an affiliate.
Get yourself the new blogsolution and run the script.
Generate about 500 blogs and ping your site twice a day.
Once the site is indexed and you see all the traffic come in, either slap every single page with a big promotional banner or include an html or php redirect on the site.

This technique is all about getting the blogsolution blogs indexed in Google, Yahoo and MSN. The review site is just the bucket that catches all the traffic.

[Rachel Goodchild]

Create something viral that people want to use.
it might be a funny interactive quiz, a video, a email
Something people want to pass onto others with your link attached to it somewhere.

[Michael D]

This wouldn't work for people that are just starting out or that are new:

Utilize your current lists. Instead of putting un update in the email put
a link to your blog posts or new page and let them know you got some good
information for them. Make sure to use a great headline and make sure to
give them a reason to visit! This can be very powerful.

[NickMarks]

WINNER! $50 for Michael D

Congrats! Content is looking good.

Keep it up everyone

[NickMarks]

Note: paid $50 out to: Koolah

Those who win make sure to check your PM

[NickMarks]

Paid out $50 to Kent

[ibringjoy]

Here are a few tips:

Here's a tip that can get you a lot of visitors. It used to work only offline, but now, with so many podcasts on the Net, it also brings online traffic.

Find a radio talk show in your niche, and obtain an interview from the host. Especially if this is a daily show, they always need new guests, new relevant information, to have on the show. This can also establish you as an authority in your niche.

Do a search for podcasts in your niche, and do the same thing.

Find someone in your niche who clearly has a large list, and offer to do a teleseminar with them.

Become a guest author on a high traffic blog in your niche, and submit an article there every so often. If you can find several of these, it can bring a lot of traffic.

Another offline technique that brings targeted traffic: put one of those magnetic signs on your car, or a decal on the back windshield. This really works. I once worked with an insurance salesman who put something like "Affordable Health Insurance" along with his phone number on a large decal on his back windshield. He made sales every week to people who called him. A short, memorable domain instead of a phone number will bring you some visitors on a continuing basis. A word of warning here, though: if you use the magnetic signs, you might want to take them off when you leave your car, so that people don't take them. I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would want one, unless it is just so they don't have to remember the name themselves. You know, sort of like a big Post It note!
Anyway, when my hubby had one on his pickup truck, he stopped the pilfering by just moving the sign up to the roof whenever he left the truck. It only took a second to put it up there, and then put it back when he got back to the truck. These signs are good to use because they do not cost much - $25 to $50 - and continue to work as long as you want to use them. If you want to promote a different domain, just get a different sign. That way you don't pay the big bucks to have a permanent sign on the car, and then have to do it all over again for different domain promotions.

When using the social sites to promote your site, a shocking article or video is great link bait, and goes viral within a day. You just have to be careful about what it is you do for the shock value!

Causing a stir on a high traffic blog with your comments can bring a bunch of people. So can getting involved in the comment conversation with highly relevant and authoritative information.

Kathryn

[Michael D]

Payment received! I think that was the easiest money I ever made...

Thank you very much Nick for your generosity!

[Kent Tee]

Just received $50 from Nick without really doing much.

Thanks very much Nick!

[NickMarks]

You're welcome Michael and Kent

[Rob D]

Here's a little something I tried out.

Traffic Exchanges.

Usually they are worth precisely squat, but what about those pages that get more exposure based on the number of hits they receive. I've had a good deal of success bumping my social networking bookmarks up the category pages just by putting the link into a traffic exchange.

The trick is in finding the ones that don't pick this up immediately(I'll leave that to you - can't give you EVERYTHING).

[KimW]

Originally Posted by Rachel Goodchild

Create something viral that people want to use.
it might be a funny interactive quiz, a video, a email
Something people want to pass onto others with your link attached to it somewhere.

I donm't know if this isadding to this or not, but I think a screensaver is also a good example of this.

[Justin Michie]

Some of my favourite ways to generate traffic are to setup some kind of program or system that is mostly automatic and long term. Here are a few ideas I like.

1. Create a quick product, sell it as a WSO and encourage buyers to promote it using the $7 script. If it’s good enough and you provide the right promo material, selling 100 copies of that one little report once can bring you traffic for over a year on auto pilot (and grow your list significantly).

2. Create a WordPress theme which automatically includes a link to your site on the blogroll and another on the bottom (in the footer) giving yourself credit for the design. There are some people who have generated 1,000’s of visitors a day doing this and now have PR8/9 websites.

3. Create a killer PDF ebook or report, then sell it cheaply with master resell rights (and a link / promo for your website) and allow others to do the same, as long as they leave it intact.

4. Trade links on thank you pages or in autoresponder messages with other marketers.

5. Setup RSS feeds for your blogs etc. and submit them to popular blogging directories. It works a lot like article submission, except they’ll download and post them automatically.

Justin

[nickb_23]

Hello , this is what i do with every new domain i have to get indexed quick and lots of traffic:
-Create a myspace profile named Yourdomain.com

-Submit 1 article to article directories with your keyword as the title

-Upload Videos with your url in the description to Myspace tv

-Create an Amazon AStore named Yourdomain-com

-Create a channel on Youtube using your keyword

-Post a topic on related forums with the keyword in the subject line. (try something like yourdomain.com may be for sale - anyone interested?)

-Create a Yahoo Group called Yourdomain-com

-Create a Google group called Yourdomain-com

-Create a Mybloglog account named yourdomain.com

-Use a social bookmarking program like BookMarking Demon

Upload video to AOL video with the title yourdomain.com and your url in the description

-You can also get the RSS feed from your blog or get one with Dapper then submit the rss to major aggregators like RSS feed Directory - Feedage.com (this works better with long tail keywords under 30k comp)

then repeat for every new article and domain and enjoy lots of traffic ,good luck.

[Michael Lee]

Do video marketing. Create some videos then upload simultaneouly to various video-sharing sites (including youtube, Metacafe, etc.) using tubemogul.com

If you don't like to create videos, you can always outsource.

[NickMarks]

WINNER! Congrats Justin

[ibringjoy]

Oh, here's another one:

Run a contest for the site visitors with multiple prizes, incorporating a tell-a-friend function.

Kathryn

[zephyrwriting]

Don't think this has been touched on yet, but here goes.

Magazines and Newspapers (Not Press Releases)

Undoubtedly, everyone knows that a good Press Release is a great thing. But there is one even better way to use the power of newspapers to generate traffic.

The Theory: Most newspapers and magazines, local or otherwise, operate both offline and online versions. Presumably, if they were willing to publish your articles along with a link (hyperlink in online, and just regular ol' ink on plain ol' paper offline), you'd tap into the best of both worlds.

How Hard Is It: Easier said than done, but remarkably not-time-consuming. Most newspaper and magazine editors seem to be more willing to publish a link if it does not lead directly to a sales pitch or any other very obvious sales-oriented website. If you're operating a decent website with good content, they don't seem to mind too much.

How To Go About It: Spend a few minutes emailing editors of newspapers proposing your idea of publishing a good article somewhere in their newspaper provided they link back to you. Try to tie it in to their existing format, i.e. if they have a special on 'Health' on Tuesdays and that's related to your niche then suggest an article that would suit that. If an editor agrees, just be sure that you can produce what you promised.

Advantages: Should be clear-cut. You'd get advertising offline and online in one sure stroke, and if it is a reputable paper or magazine then probably the back link won't hurt your search engine rankings either.

-Vish.

[KimW]

Or give away a high dollar prize raffle from all sign ups

[barron5]

I have always been very fond of using traffic exchanges for generating traffic to my sites. The most cost effective form of marketing that you can find. I consolidate my advertising to a splash page, get it on the sites that have the deepest lists and let the hit counter begin! When the credits expire (are used up) you can easily purchase several hundred hits for just a few dollars. This allows you to expand your marketing efforts into other TE's.

[Andyhenry]

Another thread where the starter puts their own name in the thread title? Is this a new trend?

[garyv]

This is old school - but you can post to newsgroups, if you do it properly without spamming, you can generate a lot of traffic.

[Jose Delgado]

Traffic...Hmmmmmm.

You can write an article each day and submit it to as many directories as possible. Don't stop as this can generate great FREE traffic for months to come maybe even years.

You can also make a hubpage, blogger page and wordpress blog about your site making a review and get that page on the first page of google which is easy as long as you write it appropriately.

Adwords is also a great way to get traffic.

Forum signatures, social networking sites, digg, link exchanges, video marketing, and so on...

[Rob D]

I was reading that post and thinking it had some great ideas then I saw it was by Justin so I would expect it to. Seeing as he didn't mention it I'll throw in what he did recently:

Giveaway a report and on the backend give an affiliate program offering $1 per person you get to signup. Pretty soon every affiliate on the net is promoting to their list. You build massive traffic and a massive list off very quickly(and throw in ...ahem...THREE...One-time offers.)