Website Traffic Needs A Driver

First of all, let me dispel the myth that a website can gain huge success and continue to remain productive simply by using an 'auto-pilot' program.

You know what an 'auto-pilot' program is, right? You see them splashed all over the web. Basically, they're website marketing schemes designed to provide a constant flow of targeted traffic to your website simply by picking a general category, paying some money and away you go.

The problem is, more often then not, 'auto-pilot' programs are only designed to sell 'auto-pilot' programs.

This isn't to say that that some of the ideas being offered by these programs don't have any value.

Every idea, tried and true or unconventional, has a place in your marketing plan and the most important part of a marketing plan is to actually have one.

Website Traffic Needs A Driver

If you want your website to be successful, you need to take control of the marketing - you need to be the 'driver' of your website traffic marketing machine.

There are many different roads you can take with your marketing machine and each of them needs to be understood and explored. One isn't better than the other but rather they have to all work together if you want to draw some serious traffic to your website.

Simply throwing money at the problem isn't the answer. A wildly successful marketing plan doesn't have to cost much money - if any money at all.

Consider this:

Big name companies often throw thousands and thousands of unfocused dollars into their 'generic looking template' websites and get far less traffic than the little guys that have no advertising budget but have great marketing plans.

Something as simple as signing your emails with your name, a short teaser for your website and your website URL could easily bring you some traffic. Combine this with other simple but effective website promotion ideas and your 'marketing machine' will really start to roll.

How about this one:

Create an email with a joke that relates to the theme of your website but 'leave out the punch line'. Next, create a page on your website with the punch line of the joke.

Put a link in your email to the page on your website with the punch line of the joke and say something like:

"Please forward this email to your friends - it will make their day! This joke is so funny they'll be crying with laughter!
Then Click Here == (the link to the page on your website with the rest of the joke) for the rest of this hilarious joke."

Now, send this email to everyone you can think of.

Congratulations! You've just created a viral email (not spam)

Your friends will forward your email to their friends. Their friends will forward your email to their friends and so on. That simple email could bring your website a ton of traffic very quickly.

The scope of this article isn't to go into the details of the various ways to drive traffic to your website (we'll save them for other articles) but rather to get you to understand that you are the 'driver' of your marketing machine and it's up to you to steer it in the right direction.

Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to how websites are being promoted to you and soon you'll be coming up with great ideas of your own to skyrocket targeted traffic to your own website.

For more website traffic ideas visit http://www.starttheprofits.com
By Mike Jurke
Published: 1/9/2006

Ewen Chia Superaffiliate

One of the first things that pops into mind when the name Ewen Chia comes up is "overdelivery." Who is Ewen Chia? Simply put, Chia is a superaffiliate and internet marketing guru who has made millions online in the past few years. Prior to his success in affiliate marketing, Chia held a job and struggled along online trying to make money, like so many other people before and since.

There is no question that superaffiliate Ewen Chia, who has sold many thousands of products and services on the net, knows what he is doing, and that he provides some of the best information on the subject of net marketing, in a manner that is almost overkill. In fact, when you purchase one of Ewen's own products about affiliate marketing, you may want to take a deep breath before you download all the material, including many bonuses, onto your computer!

You should consider what Ewen provides as a college course on affiliate marketing and online money making that is going to take you a while to get through all the materials. Ewen has a blog where you can leave comments about his marketing products, services and advice, and there are various forums where you can discuss Chia's products and services, as well as many others pertaining to the internet marketing field.

There is a drawback to the information inundation that Ewen Chia provides for the affiliate marketer in exchange for a very modest sum: The sheer volume of it may stymie you from even attempting to use his great marketing stuff. And you might want to consider that fact the next time you are tempted by an offer that includes 101 bonuses. Are these bonuses going to be useful to you and your business, or will they simply end up taking up space on your computer, gathering pixel dust?

On the other hand, there are few people better to follow than Ewen Chia, if you are really interested in sharpening your skills at internet and affiliate marketing. It may take you longer to make your way through all the material Chia provides, but you will be well prepared afterwards, which is the best way not to lose money - and that is often the first real step in achieving success at internet marketing and online money making. In fact, Ewen is so thorough and on top of it that when I have read or thought about trying this and that other method, program or product, at times I have asked myself, "What would Ewen do?" or "WWED?" Would Ewen Chia try this technique or product? This service? This program? Would he spend his time or consider it a waste?

So, what would Ewen Chia do if he were either starting out or trying to amp up his affiliate marketing business? He would probably find himself and follow his own example and advice! I do believe that studying Chia's work is a very good thing to do, because he's cut out all of the mistakes he could make - and there are many costly mistakes you can make in this field of net marketing. Ewen's programs and products teaching affiliate marketing and online money making are certainly some of the top of the line, and you can't go wrong paying attention to anything Chia has to offer.

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Jamie Clarkson has been online since 1995. For more information about Ewen Chia, you can go to supermarketingaffiliates.com/ewenchia.html

5 Little Known Ways To Generate Free Traffic

From Copyright 2004 Jo Han Mok
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Most people have the notion that generating traffic is a one-off event, and it involves spending huge sums of money on advertising.

Nothing can be further from the truth.

First of all, it's possible to open up streams of autopilot traffic geometrically, surely and steadily over time.

Secondly, it costs next to nothing to do it, if you know how.

Here are 5 instantly implementable methods to open up new traffic streams without needing to spend a dime.

Free Traffic Method #1: Contribute Content

Writing an ebook is a time consuming and arduous task. In comparison, writing a chapter of rock solid content is much easier and more achievable.

I've personally been invited to contribute content to many people's info-products, usually in the form of 'chapters', and this has resulted in a lots of quality traffic that is not only free, but presold.

While I understand that a person who is little known might not receive invitations to contribute, one can always solicit permission for your content to be included by publishers.

It's all a phone call and email away, and if your content is good and your approach is right, a rejection is unlikely, and even if it happens, it's not gonna kill you, so just tell yourself 'next' and move on.

Free Traffic Method #2: Give away Free viral Reports

Put your best content into reports and give it away.

Articles are great, but when you package them as Portable Document Files, there is a greater "perceived value".

Give away free reports. Allow people to give away your free report to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet.

Obviously, your reports will have to be 'viral' in order for that to happen.

The best way to make your reports viral, is to include a monetary incentive.

The links within the reports can be made brandable, and it'll be to your advantage to find some sort of multi-tier affiliate program that will increase your earnings exponentially, because you make money when the person giving away your reports makes money.

It's a win win situation, and also allows you to use these magic words "make money by giving this report away".

Free Traffic Method #3: Help Other Publishers

It may surprise you, but your own website visitors may be info publishers as well.

Help them help you by using these magic words, "Use Our Free Content On Your Site Or In Your E-zine" Allow your visitors to use your articles on their own web site or in their e-zine. Just ask them to include your resource box. This will spread your advertising like wildfire all over the internet.

Free Traffic Method #4: Offer Testimonials

If you're reading this article, chances are you're an info-junkie. If you've bought lots of info products, why not offer an unsolicited testimonial to the info-product creator?

Simply include your URL under your name when giving the testimonial, and if it's used, you'll have additional exposure, and traffic.

Obviously, you'd only give a testimonial to a product that you think has value and is good, and not endorse anything or everything under the sun.

Testimonials can bring you traffic and top of the mind awareness, so don't underestimate the use of something as simple as this.

Free Traffic Method #5: Syndicate Your Content

A word of caution: don't use JavaScript. Why not? Because search engines don't 'see' JavaScript, so JavaScript feeds are useless for SEO. To make newsfeeds visible to search engines, their text has to be embedded into your page.

FACT: If you view the source of your page and you don't see the actual text of the newsfeed, then search engines aren't going to see it either.

Intead, do try using Real Simple syndication, or RSS. It's the buzzword on the Internet. RSS is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing things like news headlines and other web page content.

You have a variety of opportunities for increasing traffic to your website. Publishing your own feed is a great way to cut through all the noise and clutter and get your message directly to your target market. On the other end of the spectrum, importing feeds from other sites or even other parts of your own site and displaying them on your webpages can increase your search engine rankings by automatically keeping your website full of fresh, relevant information

If you're a little lazy and not too motivated, you'll be glad to know that regardless of what topic or subject matter you've built your website around, there's valuable content out there... articles and information written by an "expert" in that particular field.

Because a large portion of it is available through the magic of RSS feed capability - YOU don't have to create the content yourself! Yes, you can profit from other people's content.

There you have it, 5 easy ways to start getting free traffic fast.

Now, go get it!

Jo Han Mok is a frequent guest and featured speaker at Internet Marketing bootcamps and conferences on subjects such as copywriting and Joint Venture Marketing. Find out how he can help you flood your website with red hot traffic that is 'primed' to buy at http://www.InstantVisitorSurge.com

Free Ad Blogs

Free Ad Blogs are one of the best ways to generate online traffic to your website. There are some factors at work that are not apparent directly on the surface but have a very powerful cumulative effect. Online traffic is essential for the success of any website, commercial or not. Successful online traffic is generally measured by a high ranking during a Google searche, ideally the first page.

To look at a Free Ad Blog one will wonder if their ad will ever be read at all.

"To be effective you need to post frequently. Ads that are at the top will be seen, ads that are not on the screen will just stay in cyberspace as orbital debris."conqueryourniche.com

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Capture E-Mail in a Squeeze Box!

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I am getting a better visualization of what this "Autopilot Traffic Machine" would look like if it were an actual machine. It needs a device called a Squeeze Box. The Squeeze box is interesting, it is a HTML script that creates a box where the interested party volunteers their e-mail information to proceed with the sales pitch. Traffic is not only the input of the Autopilot Traffic Machine it is also the output of the machine. The Squeeze box is sort of like a filter of all the traffic or noise that the system processes. Rough traffic goes into the squeeze box and smooth targeted traffic comes out.

The squeeze box is the tool you use to build your e-mail list which without you will never really make any money with Internet marketing. You must convert rough traffic into smooth traffic and then convert them into sales. The Great Formula by Mark Joyner extends this to converting this sale into another sale, or offering them another glass of what they were thirsty for. It is much easier to sell to a customer the second or third time than it is to make that first sale.

In the visualization of the "Autopilot Traffic Machine" as an actual machine we also can see how the "feeder sites" are connected to the squeeze page. We have many "feeder sites" extending out in all directions attracting the rough traffic. This traffic is then filtered by the squeeze box into the e-mail list where the real promotion is done. Feeder sites are blogs, social networks, forum posts, and can be many other places. They automatically feed the traffic machine once they have been set up...constantly attracting new traffic to the squeeze box.

Not only does the squeeze box filter the traffic it also recycles the good traffic back through the machine. We go to the squeeze box to find the targeted prospects. Inside the squeeze box is a device called an autoresponder that keeps sending out messages to this traffic for as long as you choose or they unsubscribe.

Autoresponders put this process on autopilot. A cycle of e-mail promotions and follow-ups are preprogrammed to be sent as soon as they agree to get more information.

I tried to hook up the squeeze box html directly to the feeder site and had a big problem. The "feeder sites" that I used would not allow a script.

If you look closely the "feeder sites" are connected to the money sites, they are connected through the squeeze page. The squeeze page is the sales page that contains the squeeze box. You link the squeeze page to your feeder page. Your feeder page promotes the squeeze page. The squeeze page captures the e-mail in the squeeze box and the autoresponder clicks away and sends out messages at the predetermined frequency. This is Autopilot Traffic Machine as a machine.

A tsunami of traffic will pick up all sorts of things. When you are able to squeeze out a signal from all the chaos of coming and going of this autopilot traffic is when the connection takes place that allows commerce to happen.

The squeeze box is the only way that you can insure that someone is willing to hear from you again. It filters out the disinterested party who happened to come along with all the traffic.

Think about it. Neighbors generally don't like it when there is a lot of traffic, especially like crack-house traffic coming and going at all hours. Distasteful.

Of course this is like the "Batteries Not Included" flaw of most Internet affiliate programs. You need a Squeeze Box but where do you find one? I have been working on this since I first got started and did not have money to invest in an autoresponder for a list of less than 100 people. I understood that I would have to learn how to generate a list of several thousand leads to make any decent profit for my efforts. I also still strive for it. The larger the list the more opportunities you have to sell to them. A different 2 percent will convert from each campaign. When you have a Nitro Powered Affiliate Machine, the "quality" offers sustain the momentum for a long period. Content is King.

I have created a short video where I dismantle the very basics of the squeeze box and put it back together part by part, step by step. I have tried to show How to Make a Squeeze Box and place it on your squeeze page.

We are creating communities who are interested in your information. It is core human values that teach us that we learn more in group cooperation than reinventing the wheel on our own. The commitment of giving a stranger your e-mail is fairly large and the innate trust that we will appreciate the information that they intend to send is crucial. When you build on this trust and come through with info that helps them survive you not only going to profit, but your efforts bring the whole consciousness of humanity up a notch. Evolution has a lot to do with self-sufficiency.