Top 5 Most Effective Methods for Traffic Generation

Well, I revealed one of my traffic secrets right here for you. Give it a shot.

I'd like to stick with organic traffic generations strategies. I agree that PPC is great, if you know what you're doing. But, I would like to discuss methods that don't cost the new guys any money.

Articles and Blogs will give you TONS of traffic. It takes sometime but the return will be great and FREE!

I recently wrote an article about getting free traffic, check it out, its on my website. The site is new, that is one of my first articles.

I think everyone left out the best traffic source out there.
It's free. It's high quality. It's pretty darn easy to get it once you get the idea and it grows and grows the more you do it and there's really not limit to how much it can grow.
You can see hundreds of thousands of hits in a day if you do it right.

Did you guess it?

I'm talking about joint ventures.

Great! That's the idea...but that's not a method, that's a goal.

This is remarkable information for any level of marketer. Know your budget, and whether or not you can afford to have one to start off. Know your customers, make them a priority to making the sale (this will take you a long long way), and don't give up if you're not seeing immediate results!

Thanks for your great words.

I really appreciated the fact that you outlined different elements of traffic generation for product owners and affiliates.

If you're just starting out, or have been affiliate marketing for a little while, then keep in mind, product launches for your own stuff will be a very profitable endeavor eventually. AND, it's not that hard to make your own product with valuable content.

If you already have a list

Bearing in mind this is written with the newbie reader in mind (but we cant be as detailed as we'd like to as its a forum not a website per se) so:-

If you have your own product

Get your squeeze (opt in ) page set up using autorespondergenerator.com as a means of collecting your visitors details, just get something up and you can test and improve it once its up,
Dont wait until its perfect, TAKE ACTION NOW!

1) Affiliate marketing go to clickbank (start off there as its the best one for beginners and youll have good feedback as to whether you and your product are on the right track.) then try other sites too once youre sorted.
Make sure your landing page (the page the visitors are sent to) is set up to include the majority of keyword and phrases that will be searched for.
Contact and assist your affiliates, tell them what the best keywords are for your product and page, include longer tail options too, supply them with info that you know works for your market (as experience allows)

2) Giveaway JVs produce a book or report or video, something giving excellent information (how to....... is good ) that will work alongside your main product but that you can give away to build your list.
Often at giveaway JVs its more like swapping your free reports etc and getting more people onto your lists.
Now while these may not be perfect or highly targetted, remember the people on your list dont have to become your customers, they can become your affiliates instead and end up making you much much more than if they were just a customer.

3) Design a great signature file that you can use in all the forums you frequent (especially of course the ones targetting your market) that links to your squeeze page so when you give out some quality free advice, hopefully people will be so impressed theyll visit your site.
This is a numbers game but also use the sig file in your blogs replies and articles feedbacks etc keep it positive and relevent.

4) Article marketing - Ok the easiest way for beginners is to write the articles yourself from your existing knowledge or farm it out via elance or on here etc.
Or you can use some public domain materials (search on google ) relating to your target market (also use other peoples articles etc) and formulate what you read and learn into your own words.
Remember people who write books, especially factual information books, couldnt possibly know everything that theyve written, theyve all taken a lot of info from others and worded in into their own style, so you can do the same.

5) Social marketing all the social sites mentioned previously , Twitter, just chat about what youre doing , keep it relevent and on topic , dont bore people with needless drivel.
EG no one wants to know youve just had a bath, but they will want to know youre working on your next report, and when you tell them two great bits on related info youve just discovered youll gain more followers and so on and so on.
Point here, make sure you also follow them, this is important , just ask Obama!
If you follow them you get their feedback and you see their queries and get to learn what their problems are and hey presto, you can market a solution to them.


If you are an affiliate you still want your own opt in page and drive your affiliate traffic there first, collect their contact details then link them to the site your earning commission from, that way as well as potentially earning commission youre also building your own business.
Also this enables you to get better results from any PPC you do as you can set up your own page and know what the best keywords are to gain lower click thru charges. But ok this may be gettign a bit too deep for this threads purpose.
The 1-5 still relates to you really and ideally, if after collecting enough contact details you see the market is responsive enough to give a worthwhile return on your investment of time and money, you really want to develop your own product line.

But whatever, you have to focus and take action, do something , then learn and grow, do NOT try to learn everything before doing something, you'll never get moving!

Ok - now for the REALLY important question...why is almost nobody doing this effectively?

The top 5 traffic generation methods have been known for more than 5-years (with the exception of some Web2.0 stuff which has come along just recently) - it's far from a secret and yet the question comes up again and again, like there should be some MAGIC answer.

So, why ask when most people already know the answer?

Is the issue knowing HOW to do these things effectively or is it the kick-in-the-butt to actually DO them consistently?

Suppose the answer is both, but ACTION is the really big issue here, not which technique to use.

Jeff

In no certain order:

1. Obtaining organic results by building an authority site by providing original, high-quality, useful content (most people ignore this route because of the work involved but if you choose the right niche and right set of keywords you can flip the website for a high six figure profit). Once you've got a system down that works you can outsource everything.

2. Paid Adversting - PPC is only one form out of many. One of our very own Warriors buys billions of banner impressions and is laughing all the way to the bank. He started out small and then ramped it up.

3. Becoming a radio guest - Check out radiopublicity.com and see how this young man sold a pretty simple ebook and made over 1.5 million in sales. The Chicken Soup guys used radio as a way to market their books. I've only begun doing this and the amount of traffic this generates is simply staggering.

4. Joint Ventures - Enough has been written about this one and a huge component of JVs is building relationships. I got my first big JV by simply joining one of the guru's lists and emailing him with feedback, articles, and proving to him that I was a serious marketer.

5. Adding Viral Components to Everything You Do - I could write a long book on just this one thing. Here's one example: a few years ago I took one of my niches's newsletters and made one simple change. I converted each newsletter into a PDF document and offered it as a free download along with text broadcast and encouraged my readers in the PDF document to share it with their friends. It took about 5-7 issues of this bi-weekly newsletter, but my opt-ins increased by 40% by doing this one simple thing.

Since then I've added a few more twists such adding an RSS feed and submitting it to RSS directories and what not. I'm still amazined at how many websites I go to and they virutally have no viral components in their marketing.

Somtimes success is just a matter of doing that one extra thing that the competition couldn't be bothered with.

RoD "Time-For-My-Quintiple-Ice-Capiccino-Shot!" Cortez