Getting even more web traffic….part II.
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
More ideas to more web traffic.
More web traffic tips continue:
Make it a habit to ask visitors how they found your site. Although you should be tracking all of your site traffic it’s also a good idea to add a field to your order form asking people how they found your site. You may be surprised by the answers! This is another way to get a detailed picture of the best places to get targeted traffic from.
Approach eBay sellers about advertising your products and services when they ship an item. Every day, thousands of eBay sellers ship packages to the winners of their auctions. Use this fact to generate traffic for your site by approaching sellers offering items that your target audience are buying. Offer them a percentage of sales if they include a note in each shipment encouraging people to check out your website. The more that this note endorses your product, the better! Since the people receiving the notes will have to type in your URL make it easy for them while still tracking sales properly by making the URL they are sent to something such as ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/ebaysellerid’ which is a redirect to the affiliate URL assigned to them by your affiliate software. To create redirects for your URLs check out the free online tool Profit Protector Affiliate Link Cloaker at http://www.measuring-up.com/html-tools/profit-protector.html.
Interview famous people that your visitors want to know more about. People can’t seem to get enough of interviews. Use this to your advantage by conducting interviews and publishing them on your site as an article or audio clip. To get started create a list of people that you would like to interview. Email each of them a nice letter explaining what you would like to do, how much of their time is involved and what you will do with the resulting content. You’ll be surprised how many say yes! To conduct the interview you can email them the questions and allow them to type their responses or phone them and record it using a telephone recorder available at stores such as Radio Shack. Make sure visitors know you’ll be adding interviews on a regular basis and have them join your mailing list to receive announcements when a new one is ready.
Avoid having to pay for multiple exposures in one newsletter by working out an arrangement with the list owner to combine your paid ad with other forms of promotion. For example, run a paid ad in one newsletter, in the next one have them run an article written by you and in the third an endorsement for an upcoming teleseminar you’re hosting. This repeated exposure will get you noticed and increase your traffic yet you only have to pay for one ad. Not all publishers will be willing to make this sort of arrangement but if you offer them a commission on all sales you may find a few who will take you up on your offer.
Join networking sites to build your personal network. Networking sites are designed to make it easy for people to meet others in their industry and to advertise their products and service. Similar to offline networking events where lots of people come together for the sole purpose of meeting people, online networking sites work the same way. A couple of great ones to look in to are Ryze.com and sunzu.com.
Write articles that showcase your expertise. Articles are an excellent way to generate more web traffic for your website. If you don’t enjoy writing don’t worry, there are alternatives that require less work but are still very effective. Instead you can do an email interview with someone your target market is interested in, create a ‘top 10′ list, write a quick series of tips, review a product, book or website, pose and answer the questions you are most often asked about your industry or conduct a survey and write a synopsis of your findings. Whatever option you choose make sure your article is free of errors, informative and of interest to your ideal customer. A good trick for encouraging list owners to publish your article is to offer a generous affiliate program and allow them to change the URL in your resource box to their affiliate URL. That way they get great content and the potential to earn some money at the same time!
Even more web traffic tips here.
Cheers,
Maroschief.