Generating traffic to your website is one the biggest and ongoing challenges for internet marketers today. I recently read this article by Willie Crawford, a highly trusted internet marketer, and discovered a couple new tricks and tools I didn't know about before that I'm about to try out for myself, and I hope you do too!
Copyright © 2006 Willie Crawford
Running an online business can involve so many tasks that you
should automate where appropriate. There are literally thousands
of pieces of software available that make the job of growing and
running your business much easier!
On the other hand, there are many pieces of software that can
make your job easier in the short-term but that do more harm than
good in the long-term. This is the topic that I'd like to share
two recommendations on today. These recommendations are tempered
by ten years of experience as an internet marketer.
One of the biggest challenges faced by most webmasters, that
I've talked to, is attracting enough qualified traffic. It's a
problem that has an incredibly obvious solution to me. The
solution is simply to go to where the traffic is and redirect
it.
As an example, sites such as Ebay (TM), MySpace (TM), and the
major search engines get the majority of online traffic. That
means that you should go to those places too, and get in front of
that traffic, and redirect it.
There are dozens of easily implemented ways to redirect that
traffic. Let's look at just two of the easiest methods.
The single easiest, free, long-term technique that I've used is
article marketing. That's why I've written over 500 articles on
internet marketing, and spread them throughout cyberspace.
Article marketing can be as simply as generating quality content
that the search engines (and your visitors) will love and then
feeding it to them.
Let's think outside the box for a second on this topic, and
redefine articles as pieces of information that your ideal
customers are looking for. That opens up a whole new world of
possibilities for you. For example, now I can think of my recipe
database as a database of articles. It would be more accurate to
define it as a database of content, but I'm approaching it as
many would approach articles because I want to share with you how
I use this.
I use automated software to post many of my recipes online to
attract my ideal customers... people online looking for recipes
who will also buy my cookbooks. I simply use a piece of software
that can grab hundreds of my recipes (text files on my computer
), insert them into a template, and upload them to my websites.
That means that I can generate a QUALITY, very focused, useful
website that the search engines and my visitors LOVE ... in mere
minutes.
The software that I use to generate hundreds of highly focused,
quality web pages, in mere minutes saves me HUNDREDS of hours per
month, and generates an incredible amount of traffic for me each
month.
Can you see that by using this software, as I do, you can take a
batch of articles (or content) on any topic and create a highly
focused, traffic generation website in a fraction of the time?
The "secret" tool that I use for this is at:
http://QuickQualityContent.comI mentioned earlier that places like MySpace.com can send you
major traffic. Let me briefly explain automating part of the
process there.
MySpace is a social community where much of the focus is on
building a "friends" list. You are allowed to invite any of the
MILLION of members to become your friend, and part of your
network of contacts.
A recent press release stated that there were 106 million MySpace
accounts as of September 8, 2006, and that the site attracts
230,000 new members per day.
A "web metrics report" that I recently read put MySpace.com as
the sixth most visited site on the internet. You really can't
afford to ignore such a HUGE concentration of traffic.
You want to build a list of people interested in your topic, and
then invite them to join your friends list. You can then send
them messages, or post bulletins, using MySpace's internal
system.
There are people who have built friends lists of over 100,000
targeted contacts. Can you imagine being able to compose a simple
message and then in a few seconds send that message to your list
of friends and have it magically appear in their MySpace inboxes?
Assuming your list is highly targeted... perhaps a list of
MySpace members interested in collecting comics, or any of
thousands of other niche topics, your "bulletin" would generate
a nice stream of traffic.
The key to making this a productive way to generate targeted
traffic is to use software to build, manage, and contact your
friends list. Without the software, you would spend an inordinate
amount of time just tracking down appropriate people to invite,
sending the invites, approving requests others send you asking to
be added to your friends list, etc.
The software that I've tested and recommend for automating
traffic generation through MySpace is at:
http://TrafficGeneratingMonster.com You do need to be very
careful that you don't violate the MySpace terms of service.
Also you shouldn't invite inappropriate people, or an inordinate
number of people at one time. You should not abuse the system!
Just the two pieces of software that I shared with you above
EASILY generate tens of thousands of website visitors for me
every day. Most of that traffic is generated by my articles.
There are countless other simple, automated, and semi-automated
methods of generating website traffic that do work. They work
very effectively, and can work long-term... as long as they are
not abused.
Take a look at these two tools today. Study the tutorials
available for free that explain how to use each tool. Allow the
tutorials to spark hundreds of additional ideas and angles. If I
can do it with a topic as mundane as recipes, I'm sure that you
can do it in your niche.
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Willie Crawford has been teaching highly effective internet
marketing since late-1996. His innovative methods have
helped thousands improve their online businesses. His latest
project to prove that it's possible to earn $1 million in 90
days using internet marketing tactics can be tracked at:
http://MillionDollar90Days.com/results/============================================================
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