driving traffic to squeeze page

I like the contest idea. I would do this for subscribers already on my list, with content marketing being the foundation of the contest.

However, I think the real question should be the most effective way to drive the highest quality traffic to a squeeze page.

Getting a lot of traffic to your squeeze page means nothing if it's a whole lot of junk traffic that's not converting into sales.

The most effective way to get the highest quality traffic to your squeeze page, when focusing just on online methods is:

(1) Guest posting (with a link back to your squeeze page at the end of your article)

(2) Forum marketing (focusing on posting high quality, high value posts in the forum)

In my opinion, these two methods bring the best quality traffic because the people that subscribe on your squeeze page are already pre-sold on you and your content and are most likely to purchase from you with less convincing. Plus, the important relationship aspect that's pivotal to effective marketing is already built into it.

They've already gotten the chance to get to know, trust and like you via the content you provide. Plus, these kind of subscribers are more interactive, engaging and will most likely become your biggest raving fans. Which is good for you, because raving fans are the ones that write reviews on you, your products and recommend you all the time, sending more referral traffic your way - without you doing any extra work.

Bottom line, any type of content driven traffic, even highly syndicated ezine or article marketing traffic is an effective way to send quality traffic to your squeeze pages. But, forum marketing is the fastest and guest posting is a close second.

Hope this helps you.

Ti

True... the threads get buried though and are doomed to repeat themselves.

But just in case here is my take:

Forum Posting: Not scalable unless you want to outsource to the Philippines in which case you're actually engaging in spam IMO. Good for building a reputation in an industry that you can link back to as a sort of "testimonial".

Twitter: I can't figure out how to monetize it. But neither can Twitter so I think I'm in good company!

PPV: great for cheap testing and setting up your offer to convert, although can be a little tricky to set up right. This is my first point of call for testing new offers. Also apparently great for CPA but I haven't done this myself.

Adwords: Used to be cheap, but now almost uniformly expensive, in my experience only use it for market research (a squeeze page that links to a survey to find out what the market wants), or when you have a tried and true offer and would like to scale.

Google Content Network: Getting more expensive as it becomes more well known, and is fantastic for when you want to scale an offer that is already converting.

Solo Ads: Fantastic, generally optins at a fantastic %, but (especially in the IM niche) converts to sales at a low %. I think a long term view where you educate over time is best for these leads, but that's just me. A lot of people recycle and sell solo ads from these lists.

FB: In my experience difficult to monetize, and not as cheap as it used to be. A lot of people at the moment are claiming to be "making bank" all over the place but I haven't seen much real proof of that.

SEO: (it's paid traffic regardless of what people tell you) Don't bother. I've spent stupid amounts of money on SEO only to have Google change the game at their whim. You're better off spending your money on paid traffic that you can count on and test with.

JV/Affiliate: Best traffic of all, as you pay only on results, but hard to get in with when you don't have a reputation to trade on.

Anyone have anything to add?

You can use Text Ad Exchanges, Safelists, Trafficexchangesand lists too

this is great information, I think you have a point there with the pre-sellling aspect.
thank you..