There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your website: A steady flow of website traffic. If no one goes to your site, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income.
Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money. BUT, it doesn’t take a boat load of cash to generate website traffic for your site.
Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.
You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.
Here I present to you the Top 6 ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.
(1) Exchange Links
This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.
A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.
Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.
Below are examples of my link exchange partners. If you want to trade links with this blog, please email me
The Marlboro Man Web Directory
Internet Web Directory organized by category, offers content rich and well designed web sites. Submit URL for editor review and have your site listed within the Directory
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Make Money - free step-by-step success blueprint, work at home internet online business opportunity. Everything you need to succeed online. Dont spend anything until youve read this free report.
N2information.com - Free high quality articles
The Home Based Internet Marketing Business Success System
How to create your list
http://www.how-to-create-your-list.com
EasyHits4U.com - Your Free Traffic Exchange 1:1 Exchange Ratio, 5-Tier Referral Program. FREE Advertising!
TrafficSoldiers - Free Manual Traffic Exchange
Traffic Echoes.com Need Free Targeted Traffic? Variety of Advertising needs to choose from. It's Fun, Fast, Easy and Works!!
Web Business Tools
JoeShmo200: Your Internet Marketing Resource Center
Linking Services
http://value-exchange.sitesell.com/ This is a free services that finds similar themed sites based on keywords you provide.
Directories - Add your website to these free directories
Search Exceed Directory
Cluboo.com Web Directory and Search Engine, Web Site Directory
Goongee.com Web Directory
Webs Best Directory - Submit Your Website
(2) Traffic Exchange
This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.
Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another’s site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted. Use only manual traffic exchange because you have actual human being that will browse your website.
There are traffic exchange programs that have their own directories where you can exchange link, take advantage of it as I mentioned above. If you don't have the time to surf for credits, invest $5-$7 which will give you 500 or more hits to your websites instantly. Don't sell anything directly when using a traffic exchange, instead use a splash page or an email capture page since you only have a few second to get their attention before they visit another site. Traffic exchange programs are great for generating leads.
Example of an email capture page
Example of a splash page
(3) Write and Submit Articles
There are many e-zines, article directories, submission services and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.
Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has. I highly recommend investing in Article Submitter software which will save you so much time. If you don't have the time to write articles, you can also download Private Label Rights Articles from various sources. PLR articles gives you the right to re-edit, re-title, re-write or re-brand and put them on your websites, blogs or publish them to article directories.
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Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more. It's highly recommended that you either change the title and make changes to the body of the article because so many people are downloading the PLR articles from the same source. That's why you have to make your article different and the same thing when submitting to different directories, it's a good idea to change the title but keep the same body of the article and vice versa. Search engines don't like duplicate content for some reason or another.
Unique Content Generator.com will add a few paragraphs to your articles but it will NOT re-write the original content. If you need a program that will actually re-write the content of your original article then I highly recommend you go to Jeff Dedrick site.
(4) Newsletter or Ezine Ads
The beauty of ezine advertising is that it's the most targeted form of advertising on the internet. If for example, someone has subscribed to an ezine about fishing, then they are expressing a strong interest in fishing equipment, tips on improving their skills, fishing trips, and an endless list of other possibilities. This is why ezines are such a good choice.
As long as your ad relates closely to the theme of the ezine, the person reading your ad is already halfway toward buying what you have to offer.
There are three types of ads that you can place in your chosen ezine:
Classified ad, a sponsor ad, and/or a solo ad.
The classified ad is the smallest and least expensive. This three to five line ad is often run in a block with other classified ads, one on top of another, similar to a page of classified ads in your local newspaper. This contains just a brief description with an email or link to your web site. This costs a few dollars, generally about half the cost of a sponsor ad. A sponsor ad is placed at the top of the ezine, often under a heading like: "Please support our sponsor." This ten to fifteen line ad will draw more attention since it is the first thing the reader sees when the email is opened.
The most effective, and naturally the most expensive, is the solo ad. This is not part of the ezine, but instead goes out as an email to everyone on the mailing list or subscribers. The message is all about you and your product or service. This ad can be as long as 700 words, allowing you to go into great detail, and will cost in the neighborhood of forty to fifty dollars, about twice the cost of a sponsor ad. However, some of the larger ezines may ask for hundreds or even several thousand dollars for a solo ad depending on the number of subscribers.
You need to draft an ad copy and test it in smaller ezines with 500-1,000 subscibers which cost you between $5-10 bucks. If you get a good clickthru ratio then try it in larger ezines or find other similar size ezines and run the same ad again and again. You never test your solo ad in larger ezine first, you'll just waste your money as the ads hasn't been tested in smaller ezines. You can also test 2 draft copy of your solo ads and compare the results, the one that gets higher clickthru ratio is the one you'll use in other ezines.
The best way to find ezines to place your solo ads is to search ' ezine directories' in Google or you can go to About.com and search for a particular target market.
You can also check "2bucks an Ad", an internet marketing related ezines directory that offer low cost advertising. I usually subscribe to several ezines first before placing my ads so I can get feel of the ezine content and the publisher's writing style.
(5) Join Online Communities and Forums
This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.
Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people. If you're planning in buying some banner impressions, make sure it fits your target market and it received alot of daily traffic. There are forums where they don't allow sig files in your posts but if they do allow, make sure yours stands out.
Netmarketing Forum - traffic exchange related forum where owners and surfers mingle.
Michael Green's - How to ' Internet Marketing forum'
About.com - This massive website have so many forums covering different topics.
The Warrior Forum - This old internet marketing forum is one of the best forums online.
Self Starters Weekly Tips - Great forum for newbies and self starters.
Internet Based Moms - This is a very busy, very popular mesage boards for stay at home moms
(6) Pay Per Click Search Engine
Pay-Per-Click marketing has become an online phenomenon, with marketers only paying for traffic they receive. As Internet marketing has evolved, pay-per-click is seen by many as the middle ground between paying per impression and paying per sale. Advertisers only pay when they receive traffic instantly. Google's Adwords and Overture are the king of ppc but there are cheaper alternatives that are just as effective.
This site offers an up to date list of cost effective ppc, some even give free money to get you started.
http://payperclicksearchengines.com/
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