Where do your website's visitors come from? Is your website “attracting” the right or the wrong types of customers? Is your website equipped to provide what your content offers? If you own or manage a business or informational website, ask yourself these questions and then don your detective garb and start thinking:
When it comes to improving your website, is there a surefire way to measure your “next-step” priorities?
“Elementary My Dear Watson”
Your website priorities will usually include the tasks it takes to get qualified customers or informational respondents to your website. In order to do this, it is important to know what the right online visitors are looking for and whether or not you are making your information available to as many qualified visitors as possible. How can you do it? “Elementary my dear Watson.” Start with web analytics.
Start with Web Analytics
You can find clues to the origins and buying habits of your website's visitors if you know what to look for. Many web analytics solutions are affordable even for small-scale e-commerce sites and can provide visual maps and diagrams of your online visitors' habits. Generally, website analytics solutions are also reasonably priced and the Google Analytics solution---though perhaps not the most sophisticated quietus (what solution really is?)---is at the very least free and effective in terms of providing valuable visitor data.
A Website Analytics Disclaimer
A disclaimer for website analytics solutions is that they certainly can't take the place of you and your ability to plan well. All website reforms based on website analytics data should naturally focus on meeting the goals (whether monetary or informational) that you have for your website, and should in addition assist and prompt website visitors to take some sort of online and measurable ACTION.
Tip 1: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and Keyword Origins
You don't always have to know where your visitors are coming from if you know what they are looking for. A website analytics solution allows you to gain a glimpse of the wants and needs of your online (and very invisible) customers. How does it work? A website analytics solution provides keyword traffic source information. This information when applied to SEO (natural or organic search optimization) or PPC marketing campaigns can be like data written in gold!
Look for a web analytics solution that provides the following keyword origin data:
* Keywords and keyword phrases used (via search engines) to access your website
* The amount of visits that originated from each respective keyword phrase
* The average time that visitors spent on your site in relation to each respective keyword
* The number of pages viewed per visit
* The percentage of those visitors who bounce (leave the website after only one page view)
* The percentage of those visitors who are new visitors
Some website analytics solutions may include additional features that can be beneficial for your website but those features mentioned above may be all that you need to make some well needed changes. Theses changes might include the creation of new keyword based landing pages (or articles), or the redesign of pages or content that are specific to any given keyword.
Tip 2: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and SEO/PPC Management
A keyword campaign is like a kid. It has to be watched. If your keyword campaign, like many, is a conglomerate of both PPC and natural (organic) search marketing techniques, you can use your PPC campaign as a doorway to faster revenue, while centering what remaining revenue you can spare on the generally more reluctant natural results marketing, which in the end is actually designed to create more perpetual and more lucrative ROI. The origin markings within a website analytics solution application for organic or natural result referrals may look something like this:
* yahoo/ organic
* google/ organic
* msn/ organic
Understanding PPC origins can be a bit trickier. For instance, they may include origins that look something like this:
* pagead2.googlesyndication.com / referral
Within the Google Analytics website analytics solution for instance, they will in fact be marked as a referral (not “paid”) but you must be cautious because the term “referral” can indicate any number of online origins. Sometimes, recognizing PPC referrals simply comes with time, experience and a bit of research (i.e. “Google” (this is a verb) portions of the origins data to find out more).
Even if your website is for purely informational purposes it's important to stay abreast of website analytics information. It provides clues to the origins and habits of your online users and provides road maps (once deciphered) to website improvements that can help you achieve the goals you have for your website.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Where Are My Website Visitors Coming From? Tips For The Effective Application Of Website Analytics
Where do your website's visitors come from? Is your website “attracting” the right or the wrong types of customers? Is your website equipped to provide what your content offers? If you own or manage a business or informational website, ask yourself these questions and then don your detective garb and start thinking:
When it comes to improving your website, is there a surefire way to measure your “next-step” priorities?
“Elementary My Dear Watson”
Your website priorities will usually include the tasks it takes to get qualified customers or informational respondents to your website. In order to do this, it is important to know what the right online visitors are looking for and whether or not you are making your information available to as many qualified visitors as possible. How can you do it? “Elementary my dear Watson.” Start with web analytics.
Start with Web Analytics
You can find clues to the origins and buying habits of your website's visitors if you know what to look for. Many web analytics solutions are affordable even for small-scale e-commerce sites and can provide visual maps and diagrams of your online visitors' habits. Generally, website analytics solutions are also reasonably priced and the Google Analytics solution---though perhaps not the most sophisticated quietus (what solution really is?)---is at the very least free and effective in terms of providing valuable visitor data.
A Website Analytics Disclaimer
A disclaimer for website analytics solutions is that they certainly can't take the place of you and your ability to plan well. All website reforms based on website analytics data should naturally focus on meeting the goals (whether monetary or informational) that you have for your website, and should in addition assist and prompt website visitors to take some sort of online and measurable ACTION.
Tip 1: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and Keyword Origins
You don't always have to know where your visitors are coming from if you know what they are looking for. A website analytics solution allows you to gain a glimpse of the wants and needs of your online (and very invisible) customers. How does it work? A website analytics solution provides keyword traffic source information. This information when applied to SEO (natural or organic search optimization) or PPC marketing campaigns can be like data written in gold!
Look for a web analytics solution that provides the following keyword origin data:
* Keywords and keyword phrases used (via search engines) to access your website
* The amount of visits that originated from each respective keyword phrase
* The average time that visitors spent on your site in relation to each respective keyword
* The number of pages viewed per visit
* The percentage of those visitors who bounce (leave the website after only one page view)
* The percentage of those visitors who are new visitors
Some website analytics solutions may include additional features that can be beneficial for your website but those features mentioned above may be all that you need to make some well needed changes. Theses changes might include the creation of new keyword based landing pages (or articles), or the redesign of pages or content that are specific to any given keyword.
Tip 2: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and SEO/PPC Management
A keyword campaign is like a kid. It has to be watched. If your keyword campaign, like many, is a conglomerate of both PPC and natural (organic) search marketing techniques, you can use your PPC campaign as a doorway to faster revenue, while centering what remaining revenue you can spare on the generally more reluctant natural results marketing, which in the end is actually designed to create more perpetual and more lucrative ROI. The origin markings within a website analytics solution application for organic or natural result referrals may look something like this:
* yahoo/ organic
* google/ organic
* msn/ organic
Understanding PPC origins can be a bit trickier. For instance, they may include origins that look something like this:
* pagead2.googlesyndication.com / referral
Within the Google Analytics website analytics solution for instance, they will in fact be marked as a referral (not “paid”) but you must be cautious because the term “referral” can indicate any number of online origins. Sometimes, recognizing PPC referrals simply comes with time, experience and a bit of research (i.e. “Google” (this is a verb) portions of the origins data to find out more).
Even if your website is for purely informational purposes it's important to stay abreast of website analytics information. It provides clues to the origins and habits of your online users and provides road maps (once deciphered) to website improvements that can help you achieve the goals you have for your website.
When it comes to improving your website, is there a surefire way to measure your “next-step” priorities?
“Elementary My Dear Watson”
Your website priorities will usually include the tasks it takes to get qualified customers or informational respondents to your website. In order to do this, it is important to know what the right online visitors are looking for and whether or not you are making your information available to as many qualified visitors as possible. How can you do it? “Elementary my dear Watson.” Start with web analytics.
Start with Web Analytics
You can find clues to the origins and buying habits of your website's visitors if you know what to look for. Many web analytics solutions are affordable even for small-scale e-commerce sites and can provide visual maps and diagrams of your online visitors' habits. Generally, website analytics solutions are also reasonably priced and the Google Analytics solution---though perhaps not the most sophisticated quietus (what solution really is?)---is at the very least free and effective in terms of providing valuable visitor data.
A Website Analytics Disclaimer
A disclaimer for website analytics solutions is that they certainly can't take the place of you and your ability to plan well. All website reforms based on website analytics data should naturally focus on meeting the goals (whether monetary or informational) that you have for your website, and should in addition assist and prompt website visitors to take some sort of online and measurable ACTION.
Tip 1: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and Keyword Origins
You don't always have to know where your visitors are coming from if you know what they are looking for. A website analytics solution allows you to gain a glimpse of the wants and needs of your online (and very invisible) customers. How does it work? A website analytics solution provides keyword traffic source information. This information when applied to SEO (natural or organic search optimization) or PPC marketing campaigns can be like data written in gold!
Look for a web analytics solution that provides the following keyword origin data:
* Keywords and keyword phrases used (via search engines) to access your website
* The amount of visits that originated from each respective keyword phrase
* The average time that visitors spent on your site in relation to each respective keyword
* The number of pages viewed per visit
* The percentage of those visitors who bounce (leave the website after only one page view)
* The percentage of those visitors who are new visitors
Some website analytics solutions may include additional features that can be beneficial for your website but those features mentioned above may be all that you need to make some well needed changes. Theses changes might include the creation of new keyword based landing pages (or articles), or the redesign of pages or content that are specific to any given keyword.
Tip 2: Marketing More Effectively with Website Analytics and SEO/PPC Management
A keyword campaign is like a kid. It has to be watched. If your keyword campaign, like many, is a conglomerate of both PPC and natural (organic) search marketing techniques, you can use your PPC campaign as a doorway to faster revenue, while centering what remaining revenue you can spare on the generally more reluctant natural results marketing, which in the end is actually designed to create more perpetual and more lucrative ROI. The origin markings within a website analytics solution application for organic or natural result referrals may look something like this:
* yahoo/ organic
* google/ organic
* msn/ organic
Understanding PPC origins can be a bit trickier. For instance, they may include origins that look something like this:
* pagead2.googlesyndication.com / referral
Within the Google Analytics website analytics solution for instance, they will in fact be marked as a referral (not “paid”) but you must be cautious because the term “referral” can indicate any number of online origins. Sometimes, recognizing PPC referrals simply comes with time, experience and a bit of research (i.e. “Google” (this is a verb) portions of the origins data to find out more).
Even if your website is for purely informational purposes it's important to stay abreast of website analytics information. It provides clues to the origins and habits of your online users and provides road maps (once deciphered) to website improvements that can help you achieve the goals you have for your website.
How To Bring Tons Of Free Targeted Trafic
People spend tons of money trying to bring traffic to there website through link exchange, banner ads, traffic exchange, and one technique which is not used very effectively as it should be is...traffic through free ads. Well there are people who make a post or two for a couple of weeks and then just leaves it as such.
Traffic through free ads is one of the cheapest source of traffic and its targeted. People who visit through free ads are someone really interested in the offer, so they are highly targeted visitors.
Here is what I do
1) Create 10 user ids (dummy ids)
2) Write 30-40 different versions of text ads
3) Register in the free ads sites (use all the 10 user ids)
4) Start placing ads in regular intervals (the key here is to come up with really attractive ads and with very wild concepts - otherwise people don't even bother to open you ads)
5) Start receiving traffic
Say for instance you place 100 ads in 10 different websites using 10 different user ids. On an average the ads will send you traffic of about ~10 visitors per ad. That's a traffic of 1000 visitors. There are some sites like the craiglist which will provide you with more visitors. Once again the key is how you write your ads.
Its all basic maths, if you place 1000 ads in a month, calculate how many visitors you are going to drive
Below is the list of best free ads site:
Craiglist
Classifieds
Homework Ads
Business Classifieds
Classifieds for Free
Best Mall Classified Ads
1AmericaMall
The Ad Net
Access Business Online
Five Star Classified Ads
Classifieds 2000
Checkout this method, this would work a great deal.
Twinkle twinkle little star, EAZOUT is a super star - checkout http://www.eazout.com for really honest information about how people make money online (no fake, no joke, no scam, no spam, ...)
Traffic through free ads is one of the cheapest source of traffic and its targeted. People who visit through free ads are someone really interested in the offer, so they are highly targeted visitors.
Here is what I do
1) Create 10 user ids (dummy ids)
2) Write 30-40 different versions of text ads
3) Register in the free ads sites (use all the 10 user ids)
4) Start placing ads in regular intervals (the key here is to come up with really attractive ads and with very wild concepts - otherwise people don't even bother to open you ads)
5) Start receiving traffic
Say for instance you place 100 ads in 10 different websites using 10 different user ids. On an average the ads will send you traffic of about ~10 visitors per ad. That's a traffic of 1000 visitors. There are some sites like the craiglist which will provide you with more visitors. Once again the key is how you write your ads.
Its all basic maths, if you place 1000 ads in a month, calculate how many visitors you are going to drive
Below is the list of best free ads site:
Craiglist
Classifieds
Homework Ads
Business Classifieds
Classifieds for Free
Best Mall Classified Ads
1AmericaMall
The Ad Net
Access Business Online
Five Star Classified Ads
Classifieds 2000
Checkout this method, this would work a great deal.
Twinkle twinkle little star, EAZOUT is a super star - checkout http://www.eazout.com for really honest information about how people make money online (no fake, no joke, no scam, no spam, ...)
Generate Free Website Traffic For Years To Come
You have a web site that looks nice and it’s packed with lots of good information about your business, your products, your services.
But you realize you’re not it’s not visible on the Web--traffic to the site is minimal, and what traffic you have is not producing a real result.
Before you go out and spend a fortune on a graphics designer to update your site or an SEO firm to analize your HTML code, let’s start simple.
“DON’T MAKE ME THINK”
Its sage advice from Steve Krug’s book of the same title, especially when you are reminded the average time spent by a new visitor at a web site is typically less then 30 seconds. People like doing business with others who consistently show common sense making it easy to do business with them.
“ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT”
Let your first-time visitors know what you want. If your most-wanted results from search engine traffic is to call you--which is typical of a service-oriented site--ask them to call you. Yes, really ask for what you want rather than beating around the bush and making the visitor wander around the site aimlessly.
“BE CLEAR ABOUT HOW TO CONTACT YOU”
Give the visitor specific information as to when you are available. For example, Monday through Friday, 12 P.M. to 6 P.M. and be sure to include your time zone.
Make all your contact information visible, especially on your homepage. Find a way in your page design to put all this information towards the top of the page, not the very bottom.
“BE CREATIVE AND KEEP SELLING EVERYWHERE”
Remember to make your “Contact Us” or “About Us” page a selling opportunity. It’s very likely someone will find you in the search engines and all they get is a contact page with a phone number and address. Make sure you’ve included some kind of selling statement about your product and services--something unique that catches their attention. Draw then into your site. Yes, this holds true for all your pages.
“GIVE A GIFT---MAKE IT EASY”
Offer something of real value to your first-time visitors. Make it easy for them to get it instead of having to fill out 15 fields of red-asterisk-dotted required fields.
Offer something for free that requires nothing from the user. Then step into something of more value that requires only a name and an e-mail address.
You’ll end up with a lot more traffic, e-mail, and conversions over time, because people will come back to give back.
Ask for what you want. Tell who you are and how to get a hold of you and give a gift. You can do this every day in all your emails so as to drive traffic to your site.
Okay, you know this, but are you doing it---all the time?
Did you know that Yahoo grew into a huge world-wide business and it all got started from a sigfile at the bottom of your e-mail?
You can do the same thing.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Frank Tocco
Frank Tocco teaches people with no experiance how to market anything online and offers a FREE course that shows you step-by-step how you can make money online. http://www.shop4dreams.ws
But you realize you’re not it’s not visible on the Web--traffic to the site is minimal, and what traffic you have is not producing a real result.
Before you go out and spend a fortune on a graphics designer to update your site or an SEO firm to analize your HTML code, let’s start simple.
“DON’T MAKE ME THINK”
Its sage advice from Steve Krug’s book of the same title, especially when you are reminded the average time spent by a new visitor at a web site is typically less then 30 seconds. People like doing business with others who consistently show common sense making it easy to do business with them.
“ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT”
Let your first-time visitors know what you want. If your most-wanted results from search engine traffic is to call you--which is typical of a service-oriented site--ask them to call you. Yes, really ask for what you want rather than beating around the bush and making the visitor wander around the site aimlessly.
“BE CLEAR ABOUT HOW TO CONTACT YOU”
Give the visitor specific information as to when you are available. For example, Monday through Friday, 12 P.M. to 6 P.M. and be sure to include your time zone.
Make all your contact information visible, especially on your homepage. Find a way in your page design to put all this information towards the top of the page, not the very bottom.
“BE CREATIVE AND KEEP SELLING EVERYWHERE”
Remember to make your “Contact Us” or “About Us” page a selling opportunity. It’s very likely someone will find you in the search engines and all they get is a contact page with a phone number and address. Make sure you’ve included some kind of selling statement about your product and services--something unique that catches their attention. Draw then into your site. Yes, this holds true for all your pages.
“GIVE A GIFT---MAKE IT EASY”
Offer something of real value to your first-time visitors. Make it easy for them to get it instead of having to fill out 15 fields of red-asterisk-dotted required fields.
Offer something for free that requires nothing from the user. Then step into something of more value that requires only a name and an e-mail address.
You’ll end up with a lot more traffic, e-mail, and conversions over time, because people will come back to give back.
Ask for what you want. Tell who you are and how to get a hold of you and give a gift. You can do this every day in all your emails so as to drive traffic to your site.
Okay, you know this, but are you doing it---all the time?
Did you know that Yahoo grew into a huge world-wide business and it all got started from a sigfile at the bottom of your e-mail?
You can do the same thing.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Frank Tocco
Frank Tocco teaches people with no experiance how to market anything online and offers a FREE course that shows you step-by-step how you can make money online. http://www.shop4dreams.ws
Using Tracking Systems To Get As Much Website Traffic As Possible To Your Site
It’s your job as an internet marketer to get as much website traffic as possible to your site but more importantly to do it in the most efficient manner possible. The less time and money spent on getting the most results, the better return on your investment. With that in mind, here’s some tips in using tracking systems.
The only way to know if the advertising or traffic generating method you’re using is working is to try different things and then track the results. Then keep using the ones that work and quit using the one’s that are wasting your money and time.
It’s important to track everything you can. Think of every ad, post, email, sigfile, ezine ad, traffic exchange and any other place you put a link to your site, as a test. If you don’t know the results of your tests, how can you improve your results?
Tracking click thru rates is not enough. Make sure the system you’re using has the ability to track not only click-thru rates, but sign ups and sales as well. This way you’ll know if the traffic source is truly getting results.
You may have one ad getting 2000 clicks and 1 sale, while a second ad gets 50 clicks and 5 sales. If the first ad costs 10 dollars and the second ad costs 40 dollars, which ad is more profitable? Let’s assume that the product we’re selling is the same and makes 20 dollars profit.
AD 1 $10 cost 1 sale X $20 Profit = $20 - $10 ad cost = $10 Profit
AD 2 $40 cost 5 sales X $20 Profit = $100 - $40 ad cost = $60 profit
As you can see, the number of hits to a site does not always mean that ad is more profitable. The only way to know for sure is to track results. Once you know what works, put more of you advertising budget into the most productive methods. The same $40 spent on ad one that would produce about four sales could be spent on ad two and make about twenty sales. Twenty sales X $20 profit = $400 - $40 ad cost = $360 profit on the same $40 investment!
Can you see why it’s important to track everything? If all you tracked were the total clicks you could never be sure which ad they were coming from or where people were buying from. It would be easy to mistake the ad with the most hits as being the ad people are buying from and you could be wasting money. Money that could be redirected into more profitable and effective advertising as soon as possible will make you more in the long run.
With that said, you want to be sure that you track your results long enough to be accurate. A hundred times is not enough. For visitors to your site 3000 to 5000 visitors will give you a pretty good idea if your site is doing what it’s supposed to do. ie; ( get sign ups or make sales). Banner impressions would take around 20,000 to 50,000 impressions to get an idea if it’s working. If it gives you good results keep doing it and if not change or remove it.
Know your return on investment for each traffic source. The best and only tracker to use is one that tracks return on investment for you and will also track total clicks, total sign ups and total sales. If it takes this information and automatically reports the percentages of total clicks to total sign ups and sales and your total return on investment then you have a winner as far as tracking goes.
Once you find some effective traffic sources that give you a good ROI, pump up your budget on these sources by redirecting the money spent on ineffective sources. Then go looking for new sources. Remember to keep trying different things and after six months or so, you’ll have a collection of really good, profitable website traffic generators that you can rely on for producing predictable results.
Good luck and get tracking!
Frank Tocco teaches people with no experience how to market anything online and offers a FREE course that shows you step-by-step how you can make money online. http://www.shop4dreams.ws
The only way to know if the advertising or traffic generating method you’re using is working is to try different things and then track the results. Then keep using the ones that work and quit using the one’s that are wasting your money and time.
It’s important to track everything you can. Think of every ad, post, email, sigfile, ezine ad, traffic exchange and any other place you put a link to your site, as a test. If you don’t know the results of your tests, how can you improve your results?
Tracking click thru rates is not enough. Make sure the system you’re using has the ability to track not only click-thru rates, but sign ups and sales as well. This way you’ll know if the traffic source is truly getting results.
You may have one ad getting 2000 clicks and 1 sale, while a second ad gets 50 clicks and 5 sales. If the first ad costs 10 dollars and the second ad costs 40 dollars, which ad is more profitable? Let’s assume that the product we’re selling is the same and makes 20 dollars profit.
AD 1 $10 cost 1 sale X $20 Profit = $20 - $10 ad cost = $10 Profit
AD 2 $40 cost 5 sales X $20 Profit = $100 - $40 ad cost = $60 profit
As you can see, the number of hits to a site does not always mean that ad is more profitable. The only way to know for sure is to track results. Once you know what works, put more of you advertising budget into the most productive methods. The same $40 spent on ad one that would produce about four sales could be spent on ad two and make about twenty sales. Twenty sales X $20 profit = $400 - $40 ad cost = $360 profit on the same $40 investment!
Can you see why it’s important to track everything? If all you tracked were the total clicks you could never be sure which ad they were coming from or where people were buying from. It would be easy to mistake the ad with the most hits as being the ad people are buying from and you could be wasting money. Money that could be redirected into more profitable and effective advertising as soon as possible will make you more in the long run.
With that said, you want to be sure that you track your results long enough to be accurate. A hundred times is not enough. For visitors to your site 3000 to 5000 visitors will give you a pretty good idea if your site is doing what it’s supposed to do. ie; ( get sign ups or make sales). Banner impressions would take around 20,000 to 50,000 impressions to get an idea if it’s working. If it gives you good results keep doing it and if not change or remove it.
Know your return on investment for each traffic source. The best and only tracker to use is one that tracks return on investment for you and will also track total clicks, total sign ups and total sales. If it takes this information and automatically reports the percentages of total clicks to total sign ups and sales and your total return on investment then you have a winner as far as tracking goes.
Once you find some effective traffic sources that give you a good ROI, pump up your budget on these sources by redirecting the money spent on ineffective sources. Then go looking for new sources. Remember to keep trying different things and after six months or so, you’ll have a collection of really good, profitable website traffic generators that you can rely on for producing predictable results.
Good luck and get tracking!
Frank Tocco teaches people with no experience how to market anything online and offers a FREE course that shows you step-by-step how you can make money online. http://www.shop4dreams.ws
Using Traffic Exchanges For Maximum Results
Traffic exchanges are a fantastic resource for generating free website traffic if you know how to use them properly. Most people wrongly assume that putting their affiliate URL on a traffic exchange and surfing for credits so their site gets seen is all they have to do. Then magically hits will appear to their site and sales will start to roll in.
Actually, like most things, there’s a wrong way and a right way to use traffic exchanges for maximum results. Below are some examples on how to properly make use of the traffic exchanges.
First thing to do is to get a URL rotator. These allow you to combine multiple URL’s from your different programs into one single URL. This single URL is the one you’ll be using to promote on the exchanges. Adding your single URL to multiple exchanges makes it easier to keep track of. If you want to make changes in the programs you promote later, you can add or remove the URL’s in the rotator and not the exchange itself.
There are many free places to get a rotator on the web and some of the exchanges offer free rotators as well.
Once you have your rotator set up, you can now join the traffic exchanges and add your new URL to their sites. Joining the ones with the most active members will expose your site to more people, so look on the exchange site for stats about the site. Specifically, look for how many active members the site has. The more members the better.
Always track your results on each traffic exchange. This is most important. Make sure the system you’re using has the ability to track not only click-thru rates, but sign ups and sales as well. This way you’ll know if the traffic source is truly getting results.
It may seem like a lot of work to track every click, sign up and sale on every individual traffic exchange, but consider this. If you’re spending an hour a day surfing for credits and get no clicks from one exchange while getting fifty from another, wouldn’t you like to know that information so you could spend more time with the better of the two? Of course you would! How would you know this information if you didn’t track it? You wouldn’t.
You would be amazed how many people still do not track everything. This one piece of information you would have discovered, if you tracked your business, could save or make you lot’s of money. So track.
Make sure you’re making full use of each benefit that each exchange offers. That does not mean you have to pay to upgrade on all of them. Just make sure you add your banners, text ads and start referring people to join in your downline.
Using a browser that allows you to open multiple pages so you can surf more than one traffic exchange at the same time is mandatory if you’re manually surfing for credits. This way, while waiting for the timer to run to earn your credits, you can open another page in your browser that you’ve pre-loaded with another start page of the next traffic exchange that you’re surfing and click to earn credits there. Continue with next one and the next one until you return to the first one you opened. By that time the timer has reached zero and it should be ready to start again. You can earn credits on multiple traffic exchanges at the same time this way and earn credits faster. Be sure to teach your downline the same thing so you’ll both earn credits faster.
The biggest mistake people make on traffic exchanges is promoting their main program without a way to capture the visitors contact information.
Imagine a traffic exchange as a meeting place online where everybody there wants something from you, like to join their program or buy their product. Now imagine that you are there in that crowd, but you are giving something away for free. Something that crowd needs and all you are asking for is a place to send it to them. Do you think you would stand out in that crowd? Yes, you would. People would line up for you. So instead of promoting your program or product to a person viewing your site, who will either take it or leave it, try giving them something they want for nothing other than a place to send it to them. For only their email address and name. Then make good on your end and give it to them, free.
I’m often asked, “How can you make money giving things away for free”? Good question. The answer is you don’t. You make money by giving something of value to those that value what you’re giving. Giving something of value first, builds trust and will build a list of people interested in what you have to offer.
Do you know how valuable that list is? Immeasurable! In time that list will join your programs, buy your product, build your downline, refer business to you and keep being your best, loyal customers for years. All because you gave them something of value to them first and consistently kept your promise to them. You can find all kinds of things to give online that cost you nothing!
In exchange for your free gift of valuable information the visitor will give you their name and email address. This contact information is the gold you are looking for. Behind that name and email address is a person. Building a relationship with that person, if done right, could be very profitable. They will come to trust you and look to you for advise and they will buy from you too, once they get to know you.
Now imagine you’ve been doing this consistently for awhile now and you’ve collected a list of two thousand names of people that have been receiving your emails over the last few months and some of them have joined your programs. Some have emailed you back and even talked with you on the phone. They have questions. They are looking for solutions to their problems. They are beginning to feel like they know you. You have a whole list of people asking you to solve a problem for them. Can you see how much more valuable that is then just getting a few sales or sign ups months ago when they just saw your site on a traffic exchange?
Can you see how much easier it is to have people looking to you to solve their problems then to try to chase after people to sell them your program? You would know exactly what to offer them because they would tell you exactly what they want.
So use the traffic exchanges wisely by always promoting a capture page and offering a free gift in exchange for their contact information. There will be time enough later to make a sale. Build trust and value first and keep a customer for life.
Frank Tocco teaches people to create free website traffic that lasts for years to come. His website offers a FREE 5 Part Mini-Course that has helped many get over 10,000 laser-targeted hits a day to their sites. Get the course here ==> http://www.shop4dreams.ws
Actually, like most things, there’s a wrong way and a right way to use traffic exchanges for maximum results. Below are some examples on how to properly make use of the traffic exchanges.
First thing to do is to get a URL rotator. These allow you to combine multiple URL’s from your different programs into one single URL. This single URL is the one you’ll be using to promote on the exchanges. Adding your single URL to multiple exchanges makes it easier to keep track of. If you want to make changes in the programs you promote later, you can add or remove the URL’s in the rotator and not the exchange itself.
There are many free places to get a rotator on the web and some of the exchanges offer free rotators as well.
Once you have your rotator set up, you can now join the traffic exchanges and add your new URL to their sites. Joining the ones with the most active members will expose your site to more people, so look on the exchange site for stats about the site. Specifically, look for how many active members the site has. The more members the better.
Always track your results on each traffic exchange. This is most important. Make sure the system you’re using has the ability to track not only click-thru rates, but sign ups and sales as well. This way you’ll know if the traffic source is truly getting results.
It may seem like a lot of work to track every click, sign up and sale on every individual traffic exchange, but consider this. If you’re spending an hour a day surfing for credits and get no clicks from one exchange while getting fifty from another, wouldn’t you like to know that information so you could spend more time with the better of the two? Of course you would! How would you know this information if you didn’t track it? You wouldn’t.
You would be amazed how many people still do not track everything. This one piece of information you would have discovered, if you tracked your business, could save or make you lot’s of money. So track.
Make sure you’re making full use of each benefit that each exchange offers. That does not mean you have to pay to upgrade on all of them. Just make sure you add your banners, text ads and start referring people to join in your downline.
Using a browser that allows you to open multiple pages so you can surf more than one traffic exchange at the same time is mandatory if you’re manually surfing for credits. This way, while waiting for the timer to run to earn your credits, you can open another page in your browser that you’ve pre-loaded with another start page of the next traffic exchange that you’re surfing and click to earn credits there. Continue with next one and the next one until you return to the first one you opened. By that time the timer has reached zero and it should be ready to start again. You can earn credits on multiple traffic exchanges at the same time this way and earn credits faster. Be sure to teach your downline the same thing so you’ll both earn credits faster.
The biggest mistake people make on traffic exchanges is promoting their main program without a way to capture the visitors contact information.
Imagine a traffic exchange as a meeting place online where everybody there wants something from you, like to join their program or buy their product. Now imagine that you are there in that crowd, but you are giving something away for free. Something that crowd needs and all you are asking for is a place to send it to them. Do you think you would stand out in that crowd? Yes, you would. People would line up for you. So instead of promoting your program or product to a person viewing your site, who will either take it or leave it, try giving them something they want for nothing other than a place to send it to them. For only their email address and name. Then make good on your end and give it to them, free.
I’m often asked, “How can you make money giving things away for free”? Good question. The answer is you don’t. You make money by giving something of value to those that value what you’re giving. Giving something of value first, builds trust and will build a list of people interested in what you have to offer.
Do you know how valuable that list is? Immeasurable! In time that list will join your programs, buy your product, build your downline, refer business to you and keep being your best, loyal customers for years. All because you gave them something of value to them first and consistently kept your promise to them. You can find all kinds of things to give online that cost you nothing!
In exchange for your free gift of valuable information the visitor will give you their name and email address. This contact information is the gold you are looking for. Behind that name and email address is a person. Building a relationship with that person, if done right, could be very profitable. They will come to trust you and look to you for advise and they will buy from you too, once they get to know you.
Now imagine you’ve been doing this consistently for awhile now and you’ve collected a list of two thousand names of people that have been receiving your emails over the last few months and some of them have joined your programs. Some have emailed you back and even talked with you on the phone. They have questions. They are looking for solutions to their problems. They are beginning to feel like they know you. You have a whole list of people asking you to solve a problem for them. Can you see how much more valuable that is then just getting a few sales or sign ups months ago when they just saw your site on a traffic exchange?
Can you see how much easier it is to have people looking to you to solve their problems then to try to chase after people to sell them your program? You would know exactly what to offer them because they would tell you exactly what they want.
So use the traffic exchanges wisely by always promoting a capture page and offering a free gift in exchange for their contact information. There will be time enough later to make a sale. Build trust and value first and keep a customer for life.
Frank Tocco teaches people to create free website traffic that lasts for years to come. His website offers a FREE 5 Part Mini-Course that has helped many get over 10,000 laser-targeted hits a day to their sites. Get the course here ==> http://www.shop4dreams.ws
Top Ways to Get Free Internet Traffic to Your Website Today
Every day I see posts on how to get traffic to your website. Of course there are many paid ways such as Google Adwords, Yahoo, etc which offer PPC (Pay Per CLick) advertising. These companies made millions per year…even billions selling this type of advertising. I have to admit I use them. There is no easier, faster way to get immediate traffic to a website than using one of these paid services. You can get people looking at your site in minutes. But not every webmaster has the funding to pay for this. So let’s talk about some of the best ways I have found to get traffic to your website that is free except for the time invested.
1. Social Bookmarking
This is by far the best way as of now. With so many services such as del.icio.us, DIGG and others, it is important that any new website have the capability of letting USERS submit the website and content to others. A big mistake is to do this yourself. It helps…but in the long run it is a bad idea. There are so many scripts around to put social bookmarking links on your site. Think web 2.0.
2. Articles
Tedious but works so well. Write articles about your subject website. Then write more articles. And lastly write more articles. Put some on your site but reword them from any you send to article directory sites. I usually only send to one or two article directory sites unless I mix up and rewrite the article.
3. Blogging
Search engines LOVE blogs. Search engines LOVE frequently updated blogs. Can you see a trend here? You must write and write more. If you cant write find some PLR content and rewrite it. Do not just slap it up there. Blogs are awesome for traffic. I am really getting into this one and others by posting daily or almost daily. I check the stats and see the Googlebot coming every day. That means that Google is spidering my site for new content! Awesome!
4. Make Videos
This is one I do not do but I am camera shy :) Make some videos about the topics on your site and post to YouTube and other places but make sure somewhere in the video is your website name. Make a intro screen and exit screen with your URL.
5. Forum Help
I know this seems obvious but posting in forums and posting HELPFUL info is great for driving traffic. Make sure to have a good signature link to your site. You would be surprised how many people click it! But you must provide SOLID VALUED info. Do not just post one line answers. Help someone out. The more people you help, the more you will grow. I firmly believe in giving as much free info as possible and to help others out. You will be rewarded in the end.
Top Internet Marketers read the Rankwhere.com blog for new tips, updates on our extensive web testing and free marketing software we give away. Are you not reading it? Then you are being left behind. All 100% free information about Internet Marketing. You need to read this information now at Rankwhere.com
1. Social Bookmarking
This is by far the best way as of now. With so many services such as del.icio.us, DIGG and others, it is important that any new website have the capability of letting USERS submit the website and content to others. A big mistake is to do this yourself. It helps…but in the long run it is a bad idea. There are so many scripts around to put social bookmarking links on your site. Think web 2.0.
2. Articles
Tedious but works so well. Write articles about your subject website. Then write more articles. And lastly write more articles. Put some on your site but reword them from any you send to article directory sites. I usually only send to one or two article directory sites unless I mix up and rewrite the article.
3. Blogging
Search engines LOVE blogs. Search engines LOVE frequently updated blogs. Can you see a trend here? You must write and write more. If you cant write find some PLR content and rewrite it. Do not just slap it up there. Blogs are awesome for traffic. I am really getting into this one and others by posting daily or almost daily. I check the stats and see the Googlebot coming every day. That means that Google is spidering my site for new content! Awesome!
4. Make Videos
This is one I do not do but I am camera shy :) Make some videos about the topics on your site and post to YouTube and other places but make sure somewhere in the video is your website name. Make a intro screen and exit screen with your URL.
5. Forum Help
I know this seems obvious but posting in forums and posting HELPFUL info is great for driving traffic. Make sure to have a good signature link to your site. You would be surprised how many people click it! But you must provide SOLID VALUED info. Do not just post one line answers. Help someone out. The more people you help, the more you will grow. I firmly believe in giving as much free info as possible and to help others out. You will be rewarded in the end.
Top Internet Marketers read the Rankwhere.com blog for new tips, updates on our extensive web testing and free marketing software we give away. Are you not reading it? Then you are being left behind. All 100% free information about Internet Marketing. You need to read this information now at Rankwhere.com
Boost Web Site Traffic - Are You Ready To Boost Your Web Site Traffic?
If you are interested in learning how to best boost web site traffic, there are some advanced tips that you need to keep in mind when it comes to boosting your web site traffic. It is important to have a plan of action when it comes to boosting ones web site traffic.
In this article I will share with you an overview of probably some of the best traffic boosting principles.
Boost Web Site Traffic With SEO - when learning to boost web site traffic, you need to always keep in mind the importance of search engine optimized content at your website. Optimize your web site content by adding your main keywords to the page title tag, keyword Meta tag, description Meta tag, and H1, H2 and IMG tags. If you want to target a number of different keywords on your site its best to create a different content page centered on each separate keyword.
Boost Web Site Traffic With Email Marketing - use your list as a continuous source of web site traffic by sending incomplete email messages to your list while encouraging your readers to visit your web site or blog to read the entire story. If you don't have a list of your own yet, try placing an ad on a high-volume ezine that is closely related to your target market, offering the ezine subscribers an incentive to visit your site and join your mailing list.
Boost Web Site Traffic With RSS - if you run a blog on your web site (and if you are serious about boosting your web site traffic, you should be) you can easily open-up a whole new way for driving traffic to your web site, with the minimum of effort. Most blogging software's like Wordpress come with RSS capabilities built-in, allowing you the freedom of getting on with the task of building content. Each time you submit a post to your blog a link with a brief description to that post can be automatically pinged (submitted) to numerous blog directories across the World Wide Web, instantly giving you a flood of backlinks to your web site.
Want to learn more? Click here: Boost Web Site Traffic
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In this article I will share with you an overview of probably some of the best traffic boosting principles.
Boost Web Site Traffic With SEO - when learning to boost web site traffic, you need to always keep in mind the importance of search engine optimized content at your website. Optimize your web site content by adding your main keywords to the page title tag, keyword Meta tag, description Meta tag, and H1, H2 and IMG tags. If you want to target a number of different keywords on your site its best to create a different content page centered on each separate keyword.
Boost Web Site Traffic With Email Marketing - use your list as a continuous source of web site traffic by sending incomplete email messages to your list while encouraging your readers to visit your web site or blog to read the entire story. If you don't have a list of your own yet, try placing an ad on a high-volume ezine that is closely related to your target market, offering the ezine subscribers an incentive to visit your site and join your mailing list.
Boost Web Site Traffic With RSS - if you run a blog on your web site (and if you are serious about boosting your web site traffic, you should be) you can easily open-up a whole new way for driving traffic to your web site, with the minimum of effort. Most blogging software's like Wordpress come with RSS capabilities built-in, allowing you the freedom of getting on with the task of building content. Each time you submit a post to your blog a link with a brief description to that post can be automatically pinged (submitted) to numerous blog directories across the World Wide Web, instantly giving you a flood of backlinks to your web site.
Want to learn more? Click here: Boost Web Site Traffic
Learn how to double your profits fast? Click here: Double Your Profits
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