17 Feb 09 Viral Traffic Generation Methods
Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.
So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?
- quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
- cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
- niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)
Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?
viral marketing
So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?
- I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
- Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
- Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
- Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
- Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
- Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
- Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
- Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
- Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)
Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.
So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.
Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site 
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I have been using all of them to an extent at it really helps but I would say that quality content is still the best one. I have one article which has almost 100k views and the reason being its reference by many bloggers / forum posters and even in Wikipedia.
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that’s fantastic to hear that.
exactly, quality content is actually the core of this viral marketing success for me as well.
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I’m also offering rss feed through feedburner. How can I urge people to subscribe my feed?
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:26 am
well, I use 2 techniques,
1. i use feedburner code in blog wdiget to subscribe. I do not force anyone at all, if they are willing, they will definitely do it.
2. i insert like “if u like my entry, you may subscribe my posts at this and that, etc etc. but not in every post, but sometimes post every once in a while.
you can lure with contests, exchanging services, follow-you/follow-me methods as well.
hope that helps.
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Thanks for tip #8. I will try to implement it on my site.
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:22 am
well, I have either tested or experienced most of the methods and they worked, hope u get plenty of traffic on your site also. First off, you will definitely have do-follow link for a starter and my site got indexed normally less than an hour, so your site will definitely get good backlinks and more traffic
cheers for the comment.
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The best to me is running contest. People always want something. So if they win, they would blog about it, and their readers would visit your site.
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
contests are awesome… it’s true that visitors want to participate in contests which actually bring alot of traffic.
great comment.
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Yes, its really one of the many ways to have a success in marketing your site. A genuine content that will set your identity from the others.
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 8:53 am
Exactly. unique content is my main priority for me as well. I might not write perfect English however, I am pretty happy with my own content and it will play a big part in the future since search engines are very intelligent nowadays.
thanks for the comment.
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What a great article indeed! Previously i have not much idea on how to pull more traffic to my blog. But today there is a lot of tips that i must follow.
Thanks for the sharing friend!
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Linn Reply:
February 21st, 2009 at 8:21 am
Thanks for the comment, I hope that your site is to get more traffic over and over again. Most of the techniques really worked like a charm. Actually, I filtered out from about 25 techniques out there.. and tested it.. hope it works out well for ya. too.
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Great post, I think I’m going to have to use Viral Marketing more often.
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Linn Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:56 am
sure thing.. even commenting on this site is basically viral marketing since I am allowing do-follow links here LOL.
every bit counts in creating good traffic in my opinion. hope that helps.
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IT may seem that contest may be easy but then again its hectic to use that . Those are quite a good number of tips ..
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Linn Reply:
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 pm
well, Viral marketing is actually very effective..
let’s say do u use email signature when you send out emails? that’s another simple viral effects too..
try to implement some of them, they are fantastic to use.
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