How To Increase Your Website Traffic With Zero Cost
by: Nas Romli
How to increase your website traffic with zero costก. Itกs a bold statement don’t you think. But, believe me itกs true. You can increase your traffic by 1000% with no cost involved if you do it the right way. Continue reading if you want to know how.
Iกve outlined 5 ways to reach your target. But, please keep in mind that these are not the only ways that you can do to increase your traffic. There are hundreds of techniques to increase traffic. But these one are the proven one. Iกve used it personally. More importantly, these techniques can get you FREE traffic. You’re money is saved in your pocket. Letกs go to the first one.
Technique #1: Linking strategy
Linking strategy is the easiest way to get free traffic. When I say ‘the easiest wayก it does not mean that you can ask everybody to link to your site and do nothing after that. Compared to other techniques that youกll discover, this one will take less time to do.
Hereกs how to do it. First select the site in your niche market. Be selective. Choose one that has a high traffic. Usually a high traffic site is pretty stingy to put link to your site. So, the key here is to be persistent. Ask them how many visitors do they received per month and if they could link to your site. If they don’t answer your request, email them the second time.
Be persistent. If they don’t want to link to your site, ask them to trade link instead (reciprocal link). This is the last resort you want to have.
Word of warning: Don’t crowd your site with too many links. Only accept link trading if itกs really worth it.
Technique #2: Offer Free eBooks or articles
Youกll fall in love with this technique if you see what it can do to your site. This technique can create an excellentกViral marketingก effect. It can multiply the no of visitors to your site in a matter of days.
This most important thing about this technique is that to offer something that is really useful to your visitor. So useful that they can only get that information from you!
You need to the กwantsก in your need market. What problems do they encounter? Solve these problems and you have a killer articles or ebook that you can give away for free. Remember, don’t sell it. Give it away for free. If you feel really reluctant to give your article or ebook for free, you can give your visitors a partial of it. But, make sure itกs really useful. Don’t forget to put your name and your contact information in this article or ebook. Usually, if you write an article, you need to include your resource box at the very bottom of your article.
The most important task in this technique is to offer a reprint right to your visitors. What this mean is that your visitors can publish your articles or ebook to anyone in any medium; email, Ezine, website or anything. But please state your condition: Include your contact information or resource box. This will create viral effect to your visitors.
Before I forgot, there is one particular ebook compiler that is good in doing this kind of task. The name of this ebook compiler is กEbook Edit Proก. With this compiler, you can offer your visitors a customizable ebook. This is a great incentive for them to distribute your article or ebook since they can put their name and information in it. If you like to know more about the excellent compiler, please visit:
http://www.ebookedit.com/
Technique #3: Classified Ad
This is the most time consuming technique compared to all 5. While it is time consuming, it is really worth it.
Tips This technique should be used together with the above technique. Let me explain:
First, you need to write an ebook or article that you can give it away for free. Then, you need have an autoresponder. If you don’t have an autoresponder (your hosting company should provide this service for free), you can get one for free. Just type กfree autoresponderก in your search engine and youกll get hundred of sites that provided free autoresponder. If you’re searching for excellent autoresponder, Iกd like to suggest these autoresponder:
http://www.getresponse.com Most online marketers used this service. You pay monthly to them for providing service. The most important feature is that you can personalize your autoresponder with your visitor’s name. They also provide a free service. The only catch is that there will be an ad in your email.
http://www.aweber.com One of the first companies to provide autoresponder service. Try to visit their site if you want to learn more. Basically, it offers the same kind of service as getresponse.com.
http://www.autoresponseplus.com You only need to pay onetime fees for this service since the software will be installed on your server. Itกs great in you don’t want to pay high monthly fees. The only drawback for Autoresponseplus is that you need to have a little bit skill on how to install cgi (Common Gateway Interface) on your server.
Enough talking. Letกs continue.
After you have your own autoresponder, place your free article in this autoresponder. Now, you need to advertise your autoresponder address in the classified ad website. Don’t put your email address but your autoresponder address. The best part with this technique is that you can capture you visitor’s email. You can contact them again and again if you have any offer in the future.
Technique #4: Deliver informational pack Ezine/newsletter
People surf the net to look for information. Out of 100, only 3 people surf the net to buy something. But others are doing some research or try to find something informational.
With this keep in mind, you can attract people to come to your site if you can deliver them timely information. By producing timely information, you glued these visitors to your site preventing them from going elsewhere. This can be done by giving them free newsletter or Ezine.
This is not an easy task because there is abundance of free information on the net. You need to give them something different from these กfreeก stuff. Try to provide something unique in your Ezine. For example, if you’re publishing music Ezine, try to make a deal with music label so that you can give special price to your subscriber. Make sure your subscriber cannot get this of kind if deal in other place. If you can create this unique proposition, you’re already on top of the world. Your Ezine will spread like fire. More people will come to your site to subscribe your unique newsletter.
Technique #5: Offer affiliate program
This is the greatest FREE traffic generator technique out there. With this technique both parties win; you and your affiliate program participant. You get more traffic and sales, they get more money from referral commission.
This topic is really a large topic. I can write a whole ebook about how to create a successful affiliate program. But, Iกll discuss the basic thing about affiliate program in here.
Basically, to create an effective affiliate program, you need to create an interest for your visitorกs to join your affiliate program. You can do this by giving them high referral fees and marketing tools for them to use. Above all, you need to make them easy to promote your product or service. Don’t make them do all the hard work. It is your job.
The next thing you need to do is to motivate them to spread the word about you. Contact them in a timely manner. Don’t forget them after theyกve joined your program. Make them feel special. In fact, they are special since they are the one who will do the promotion and advertising.
A well designed affiliate program can increase your website traffic and sales by unimaginable amount. But again, you need to devote all you effort in this technique if you want to have a successful affiliate program. Don’t do it half way. Even if youกve to work 18 hours a day to create your own affiliate program, itกs really worth it in the future. The payoff is going to be thousand times your initial effort.
All of these techniques are free. You don’t have to spend a dime on them. Try it on your site. Iกve tried all these techniques. And they work!
About The Author
Nas Romli runs a site that help people to start their own home based business within 24 hours.Many have benefited from this service.Drop by at his site for more information about this amazing service: http://www.cashflowsecret.net
This article was posted on January 21, 2005
by Nas Romli