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?

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. 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?

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. 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).
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. 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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27 Nov 08 Create more traffic with Yahoo! Answers

There are alot of sites that are receiving several traffic from many different sources. If you have Google Analytics or Yahoo! Site Explorer or MSN Live webmaster center, you will be able to analyse how has your website been accepting traffic. One of the most important thing about analysing the website is to understand how you get traffic to your site and which sources have potential more in the future.

This is how we generate more traffic and more traffic, for example, in wordpress, I have posted one entry about how we can install google analytics on wordpress as a plugin. Ok, enough with the small talk.

Recently, I have been testing my Yahoo! Answers account which I created over 2 years ago, I used to help and answer a lot of questions in the past and I felt like it is time to test my traffic on Yahoo! Answers for a change. So, I went back and answered a few questions and put my website InfoMM.com in the resources where relevant, not very surprisingly, I have been receiving quite a lot of traffic from Yahoo! Answers. I think it is very good if you are selling some products or services, you may be able to get more traffic than you may expected. Of course, you need patience to earn respectable traffic. You won’t get 1000 unique visitors in a week, but you might get close to it depending on your luck and niche. 

So, the bottom line is, for driving good traffic, you need to know the relevancy and niche in order to succeed. For example, if you are selling iPod, I think Yahoo! Answers is pretty nice place to start with. You can probably get hundreds of visitors a week. Or if you are selling pet accesseries online, because they are very frequent and many questions have been asking every single day.

So, if you think your niche could fit in Yahoo! Answers, without spamming, LOL, then, go ahead and expand your web traffic more than ever.

Cheers for reading.

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