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Squidoo is a brand new site for the Internet Marketer and any internet user to advertise their website. It is a cross between a blog and an ‘About Me’ page.
When you go to the Squidoo site, they will ask you to sign up and create something called a ‘lens’. Here you can create a new site and introduce your hobby, passion or business.
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On top of that, it is a fantastic place to promote your existing website. You can then tell the other Squidoo visitors about your site. Even better, having a Squidoo lens can actually get your site higher on the results pages. This is because a Squidoo lens is the perfect place to build ‘backlinks’ to your blog or website.
Can you get by just one day without the television? Many of us cannot imagine living in a world deprive of it. Everywhere we go, we see animation; video images, from television to computers, now even to mobile phones.
Especially now, videos are so powerful and popular online that they are easily passed around from friend to friend, even stranger to stranger, thus creating a viral marketing effect. And the most popular of all videos in the internet world is of course non other than YouTube.
YouTube is viral marketing at its ultimate best. Thanks to it, online video is the trend now in a definitive way.
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Anyone can post videos on YouTube. These videos can be about everything and anything at all. To get massive website traffic through YouTube, all you need to do is make your own simple video about your niche.
Even the novice users of internet would have heard of MySpace. It is very popular, particularly among the young and restless. So why are we so obsessed with using MySpace as a marketing platform when it is infested only with youngsters? The answer is the massive traffic that is already in MySpace.
MySpace is the recent finding of the internet trendiest. In fact, for the young, they may be introduced to the internet through MySpace.
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Getting your own MySpace profile is free. You can link this profile with any website that you like or own. Your profile page must have content on your special, or niche, subject, that do not appear spammy or have too much advertising lingo (or you could risk getting kicked). Other MySpace profilers, especially in similar or related niche, may link to you. This is called link swapping, or ‘inviting friends’ in MySpace language.
With Stumble Upon, You Don’t Look for Traffic; It’ll Find You!
The Big Buzz these days in Internet Marketing is Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Stumble Upon and Technorati are the in thing nowadays when it comes to getting massive targeted traffic. Among these Social Bookmarking sites, Stumble Upon is perhaps one of the best traffic generator tool.
The way Stumble Upon works is that you recommend your sites to the internet users via this tool and it creates massive targeted traffic for you.
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First, you download their toolbar for your Internet Explorer or Firefox interface. Then you go to one of your sites. You then add this site to their cue by choosing a title, category and tags. This information will help people looking for it a little easier.
Build Targeted Traffic By Creating Freebies or Giveaways
12 Nov
Posted by Marvin McLachlan as traffic
Do you know that offering a free product can do wonders for your online business?
If done correctly, a free tool, service, report, or anything of use to anybody can be the perfect start to a great marketing plan and build up massive traffic to your website.
Everyone loves free things. Those of us who have been in internet marketing for more than ten minutes may have a large arsenal of free things we have downloaded that is waiting to explode in the right situation. Well this is the right situation.
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So give away something free but of value. If your marketing motive is to create a viral product that spreads like wildfire in the internet, then you are more likely to be successful if you give away a viral product that is useful to people. So if your free giveaway is just another useless gimmick, it is not going to spread like the wildfire that you intended it to be. At best, it is just going to be a flash in the pan. It is not going to be passed around.
Social bookmarking - The Latest Trend In Traffic Generation
09 Nov
Posted by Marvin McLachlan as traffic
The internet is forever changing and growing. New ideas are evolving and so marketing over the internet must too. Online marketers must also ride the changes in order to survive. One of the newest trend in traffic generation is social bookmarking.
What is social bookmarking?
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Social bookmarking is like adding a website link to your favorites folder. The only difference is that, instead of your favorites folder, you are adding the website link to the web where anyone can get access to it. Social bookmarking websites have become popular recently and one of the latest trend in traffic generation.
The following are steps you can take to increase your traffic quickly using social bookmarking strategy:
Nowadays, blogs is an absolute must to every online users.
A blog, or weblog, is a free website that you can easily update daily or as often as you like. The purpose for updating your blogs daily is of course to keep your customers or visitors in the know of what is going on in your business, or even you personally.
Blogging is simply a recent art that the internet world has conjured for the customer in mind. What’s good is that blogging will generate lots more traffic to your website. This is because, since Blogger was created, the Googlebots have been paying more attention to the ‘blog world’. Search engines love to spider blog contents more often compared to other forms of websites.
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Setting up a blog is very simple. You can set up your blog with free blogging services like blogger.com or blogspot. The best choice will be a blog on your website using wordpress. Wordpress is easily customizable with free plug-ins that makes your blog unique. A unique feature of free blogs like wordpress and blogger is that you can set your blog up to automatically “ping” certain search engines and social bookmarking sites to ask the spider to visit your blog every time a new content is added.
Propel Your Internet Business To A Higher Level and Get Massive Traffic Using Affiliate Marketing
06 Nov
Posted by Marvin McLachlan as affiliate marketing, traffic
Affiliate marketing is another way of raising your internet business to a higher level.
If you have a product that you sell online, then you offer your affiliates – people who refer potential customers for you, and who end up buying your products– a cut of the profit. By paying your affiliates a percentage of the price of the product – anything from 5 to 75% – they will in turn drive massive free traffic to your website.
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Besides driving massive free traffic to your website, running your own affiliate program also has other advantages.
Your affiliates are your sales agents, multiplying your effort in advertising and selling your product. On top of that, you will also be creating massive one-way, targeted links back to your website when your affiliates advertise your product in various places.
To set up your affiliate program, the following must be in place:
How To Use Forum Marketing To Escalate Your Website Traffic - Part II
02 Nov
Posted by Marvin McLachlan as forum marketing, Search Engine Optimization, traffic
There are numerous online forums out there now which deal in all sorts of niches. Many online marketers are using these forums effectively to market their products or services.
Once you have found your forum dealing in your niche, the next thing you should do is to think of ways to use this platform to market your products. Be a marketer and not a spammer, which can lead you to trouble. Most online forums do not allow blatant advertisements from their participants. So, if you do, you will get your posts deleted and maybe even banned from participating in that forum.
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So how do you market your products then if you cannot advertise? What you need to do is use a little bit of ingenuity. Use a little networking skill and start building rapport with fellow participants. Answer any questions that needed answering. Build your presence slowly but surely. Be the market expert. Do not push your products at all. Just build your answers around your product, making your product part of their solution.
How To Use Forum Marketing To Escalate Your Website Traffic
01 Nov
Posted by Marvin McLachlan as forum marketing, traffic
Forums are websites that are set up for like-minded people to come together to the same platform and have an on-going conversation. They can talk about their personal experiences, as well as give tips, help and even a ‘listening ear’ with regards to the particular niche of the forum.
To look for a forum with a niche of your choice, go to Google and Yahoo search engines and type in your main keywords to that particular niche and then add the word ‘forum to it. You use these two popular search engines so that you are looking for the highest rank – that is most popular forums online. When you have found your forum, you then join in and discuss issues with the other people in your area of niche.
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The traffic generation part comes in when you use your ‘signature’. Different forums have varying rules, so you need to read these forum rules before adding anything to your signature at all. Most forums do allow you to post links to your websites in your signature.
The following steps show you how you generate traffic to your website by marketing yourself on forums: