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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05 Feb 09 Yahoo Answers Traffic and Monetizations

Well, here it is another technique that I am very happy to share. I am big Yahoo! Answers fan. Before, I didn’t really put my website link in Yahoo! answers, but after a while, I tried to put once or twice in a while. And yes, it gives me good traffic, at least, 10-15 unique hits from one answer.

Of course, your answer should be unique, informative and helpful. That’s the most important thing, once they love your answer, they will definitely try to click your website which should be the source of the answer. When I answered about sports, I never put this website as a reference, it will be spamming to the audience and also to Yahoo! and i saw many people got banned for that.

SEO point of view, you will not gain anything as Yahoo! answers is no-follow link, but you get the traffic and mostly targeted traffic, that means, your true audience will read more about your site.

Nowadays, many people abuse and use yahoo answers as a tool and the bans are more frequent, so make sure you do the reference in proper way and relevant niche. Here is my Yahoo Answers account you can view. Remember, do not put too many of your links in your answers especially it’s not relevant to your website and the particular answer. And make sure you get good percentage of BEST Answer. So that people believe and trust in what you explain more. That will also help your traffic as well.

So, here is a good e-book how to get traffic, affiliate sales, or direct sales that depend on your business on Yahoo! Answers. But I definitely tried and got noticeable amount of traffic.

Thanks for reading

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31 Jan 09 Free listing to your trade shows

Well, I am thrilled to find out that we can do the free listing to your trade shows. It is fantastic and I saw many useful trades all over the world. I think it’s a great website for those who are involved with trade shows.

I myself have to be associated with some exhibitions and trade shows. So, I was looking for some information and found this awesome website. It is great for people who want to attend exhibitions and trade shows. Moreover,  It is also fantastic for tourists and such.

I may be giving you vague idea, but all trade shows and exhibition include everything and all type of categories. From Agriculture to Travel and Tourism.

So, if you want to attend any trade shows or exhibitions in your area or going for a trip to particular country. This is the place.

Enjoy global Business Trade Shows.

OR

If you are organizing or associated with trade shows or organizing the events. Here you can do the free listing and get the backlinks and expose to the entire world.

I am actually doing site review if a site is pretty much informative,  and I am willing to exchange site reviews. Feel free to comment and write to me if you want to exchange website review. Thanks for reading.

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31 Jan 09 Share your expertises on KNOL

Google has introduced KNOL for sometimes, now they are promoting it. I definitely think KNOL will help all the information seekers better than ever. This is probably another technique of Google’s collection of knowledge base search engine, we could presume.

What is KNOL?

It’s basically units of knowledge written about various subjects. However, as like many google applications, knol is current at a beta stage.

Why should we participate at KNOL?

Many advantages, make yourself exposed to the knowledge based world, information sharing site. You can take credit for writing, provide credentials, reviews and comments. Users can provide comments, review and related information.

What subjects we can write on KNOL?

Well, pretty much everything. LOL

What are common advantages using KNOL?

You can get good back links to your website, that’s pretty good for SEO, but it’s very important you don’t spam the links. You can get credited and for me, the best thing is collaboration mode that many people can work together on a same project/subject which is pretty awesome. I think that idea is derived from online project collaboration sites as Google has capabilities for doing it so such as Google Docs.

What do I think about this?

KNOL for me is basically a combination of blog/search engine/multimedia gateway to all the information retrievers. Being a active participant on google’s main site, you will not only create traffic for your website on your niche, but also will create exposure to your materials. All you need to do is to be original, informative and unique with your content.

So, happy KNOLing.

Have a great weekend.

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16 Jan 09 Earn while you participate with AdSense and Paypal

Today, I just joined a forum which is called BRL (Build Reciprocal Links). That site is pretty cool to participate and I think I will stick there for a while, If the payment is pretty good to learn new things and help other people, I am thinking I will stick there for very long.

First off, you can use your AdSense publish ID for revenue sharing, normally revenue sharing is not really high.  But the more you participate in the forum the more money you will earn, which is fantastic. I will summarize a bit about the site that I am now currently very active. So, I hope to see you all soon. All you need is either AdSense account or Paypal. If you have both, it’s better than EVER.

I have just found this forum and I would like to invite you to be a part of link-exchange and web-master community.

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum

This is a paid-to-post forum and have excellent resources available online.

BRL Forum is Webmaster oriented forum which allows you to earn money for posting and be active on their forum board. They have own good and advanced point rewarding system where you can easily earn money.

This forum have many users and you can easily find many interesting webmaster related stuffs and more. Their points are called BRL$. 100 BRL$ equals 1.11 USD $. Once you get 200 BRL$ you can request payment via PayPal.
List of BRL$:
Birthday Credit – BRL $25 (Your birthday.)
Positive Reputation Credit – BRL $3 (Awarded when you receive positive reputation.)
New Thread Credit – BRL $3 (May varies forum by forum)
Rate Thread Credit – BRL $1
Posting Credit BRL – $1 (May varies forum by forum)
Post Size Credit – 100 Words x BRL $0.001
Poll Create Credit – BRL $1

Additionally, if your answer is informative and chosen as best answer in Q&A knowledge section, you will get $50 BRL points as well.
….and many more with more details.

Daily BRL Forum admins and community posts many useful awarded contests and promotions where you can earn even more money. Once you get minimum required amount for payment request PM admin with your PayPal details and payment will be processed to you. Peoples who uses this forum says that payment is fast – usually in maximum 42 hours from your request! Register now and start making money the way you want it – it’s free of course!

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum
For evidence, you can check the discussion sub-forum where all the members confirmed the minimum payout at $200 BRL points, which you will get about $150 BRL points just after joining, uploading photo, entering all the required data for your public profile. Basically, you earn money within 2 days if you make about 20-50 posts depending on the points. What is the catch for them? The BRL guys will receive advertisement generations and they will also receive valuable members who will be participating everyday.

Thanks for reading and happy making money.

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