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Article
Marketing
In case of article
marketing, you pen articles on subjects that you have a
vast knowledge of. The article must be very
well-researched and proofread for spelling and
grammatical errors. This will ensure that you get a good
targeted traffic to your website.
Forum
marketing
You can start
posting in various forums to enhance your presence, as
more people will get to know you, and will trust you. For
getting traffic from the forums, you must put your
signature in your profile, which is nothing but text of
about 3-4 lines, with a link to your site or the
affiliate’s website placed
strategically.
Traffic exchanges
Here, you need to
visit other people’s website, who will reciprocate by
visiting yours. It’s not a one-to-one relationship. On an
average, you need to visit about 2 websites to get one
visit to yours.
Free classifieds
Nowadays, free
classified ads have lost their significance. Due to being
free, many people opt for this medium for placing ads,
which results in ads getting unnoticed. But trying your
luck is not a bad idea. Since it’s free, placing a
classified ad is good. Who knows, you might get a
visitor!
Press releases
Your website will
be overloaded with visitors when the website is printed
in a press release. But your press release must be
written properly, and not just like an on-the-face
advertisement. This works!
Resource box
A resource box
involves you putting a link for people to click on. But
ensure that the site you wish the readers to visit is in
relation to the article of yours. A resource box can get
good traffic to your site, and it should not be
considered an unimportant option.
Email
Emails can be used
effectively to get people visit your website. Emails are
inexpensive, and can give huge profits to online
campaigns of marketing. Emails can be used to update the
customers about your company, your product,
etc.
Google AdWords
For targeted
traffic, Google AdWords is a great option for webmasters
to use. The keywords being used with AdWords are very
important when you are targeting people to visit your
site. The keywords must also be relevant, and must be in
relation to the product that is being
sold.
Title tag
A blog must have
an attractive title in order to get a good ranking in the
search engines. The title plays a vital role, but the
actual post must be well-written and informative as well.
That will get your site good
traffic.
Submission to
directories
Though the
submission of your blog to the various online directories
is a monotonous job, it is very important since it goes a
long way in increasing the blog popularity. Every
directory that you submit the link to, results in better
rankings.
HubPage and
Squidoo
Both of these
allow you to focus on a specified topic, and write on it.
Also, both of them permit you to bring RSS
feeds.
Link Exchange
partnership
You can put your
website’s link on another good website, and allow the
webmaster of that website to place a link in yours. By
this, both the parties gain.
Joint ventures
Exchange email
promotions, and through the exchange of ads, find a
partner. In this way, you can reach the co-ventures
customer base, and vice-versa.
Affiliate programming
You can offer your
products’ affiliate program. If done through an expert,
it will increase both sales revenue and
profit.
Subscriber list
You must get your
website visitors involved by providing them value when
they join your mailing list. Regular communication with
them and asking for their inputs and opinion about the
site would be a very good idea.
Tell-a-friend
You can place a
“Tell-a-friend” script on the website, which would help
you get more traffic as visitors might recommend your
website to other people.
Paid reviews
There are many
freelancers out there, so you can surely pay someone to
review your blog. This is a great way of exposure for
those who are new to blogging.
Re-visits
You can turn the
one-time visitors to regular visitors to your website by
recycling of traffic. You can direct them to many sites
at a single instant.
Error
page
You can design a
404-error page for your site. A link can be placed in
that website, which directs the visitor to the main
website.
Promotion
If you’ve liked a
product that you’ve used, you can leave behind a
testimonial and put a link to your website at the end.
This will get adequate traffic to your
site.
Offers
You can offer the
visitors free gifts. For instance, a free e-Book would do
the trick to get greater number of
subscribers.
Yahoo!
answers
Answer
people’s queries on Yahoo! and place a link at the
bottom, to your website.
Customer
support
If you offer your
customers good support, they will refer you to others and
this will increase your popularity
manifold.
Commenting
You can comment on
blogs, and put a link to your website at the bottom. This
can build traffic very well.
Screen
saver
You can make a
good screensaver for your company, and make it
attractive. The company logo can be placed in the
screensaver for branding
purposes.
Keywords
If you have any
profile on the internet, put necessary keywords and give
back a link to your website.
eBay
Selling any item
as a charity auction on eBay will result in the charities
linking back to your eBay auction, and also to the main
website.
Blog
entries
Whenever you post
an entry in your blog, always make sure that you link it
back to your site. You can also create more than one
blogs, and have a link to the main
website.
Advertisement
Proper
advertisement at necessary classification at Craigslist
would be beneficial. Also, it will be beneficial to post
advertisements in many densely-populated cities, which
would enhance exposure.
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