It started on Saturday. Myself and a few other budding marketers entered a challenge to see
how well we could do using one of web 2.0's most lucrative sites,
squidoo.com.
If you haven't heard about
squidoo.com, let me tell you about it briefly. It's f'ree to sign up for an account and you can build your own page/website on anything you like.
It's a bit of a mix between blogger and myspace but 10 times more fun. Once I start creating,
I find it hard to stop. It's really addictive!
I heard about it late last year and that it was a great place to get
f'ree traffic. I experimented
and made a few
"lenses" (a squidoo page is called a lens) and experienced some traffic but nothing to write home about....until I entered this competition!
There are approximately 67,000 lenses in total on squidoo right now and mine jumped from around 38,000 the first day I made it (Saturday), to
966 today.
"I made the top 1000 lenses in just 3 days and climbing!" As you can imagine, I was more than impressed with my efforts seeing that my highest ranking lens up until now never reached the top 10,000.
I did however put in extra effort with this one and I'm quite happy with it. I loaded it with
awesome info on my favourite topic.......
......
"Affiliate Marketing!"I know you're probably thinking "Give me the link already!", so here it is-
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http://www.squidoo.com/affiliatebucks There is a place for you to leave a comment and add your link. I also suggest you get your own
f'ree squidoo account like me and start building your lens. A great way to get f'ree exposure!
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http://www.squidoo.com/affiliatebucksPlease don't forget to vote for my lens at the top of the page by clicking on the stars.
When you've signed up and created a your own lens, send me a quick link to it and I'll be more than happy to check it out and vote for it!
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http://www.squidoo.com/affiliatebucks To your
Squidoo.com success,
Stuart StirlingLabels: affiliate marketing, increase web site traffic, squidoo, web 2.0
5 Best Ways to Increase Traffic to Any Web Site
Getting your website seen, or in other words, getting traffic, is the second most important step in the online business process. The first, of course, is getting
your website ready to pull in sa|es and/or subscribers!
It all comes from advertising. Whenever someone sees your website, it is a result of advertising. But not just any advertising will get you the results you want.
You need advertising that gets Targeted Visitors.
Here's a list of advertising methods that have worked for me and countless other successful online marketers:
1. Article Marketing - Writing submitting articles.
Top marketers swear by this method of advertising. It's f'ree but if you hate writing articles, there are ways around it. PLR articles can be used but it really
is best to write your own original ones. The search engines love original content.
2. Ezine Ads - Solo, Top Sponsor etc.
Highly responsive ezines with a subscriber base in the 40,000 - 60,000 range, almost guarant'ees results. It might seem expensive, but if your copy is good, it will be a minor |nvestment.
3. PPC - Pay Per Click Advertising.
PPC delivers almost instant results of highly targeted traffic. You choose the keywords so you can literally choose the type of visitor. Google adwords is the most
popular but expensive. Test with a cheaper PPC provider first to perfect your PPC advertising.
4. Web 2.0 or Social Bookmarking sites.
Websites like squidoo.com, digg.com, del.icio.us.com, stumbleupon.com, even the ever popular myspace.com, incorporate the latest in web 2.0 advances.
These sites have huge traffic daily flow and because you can contribute your sites/blogs to these, join groups, add infinite tags, etc. people will 'stumble
upon' your site effortlessly.
5. Traffic/Banner Exchanges
While these may not be the most effective way to bring targeted visitors, they can be manipulated to get maximum results. There are many marketers online who find great success in traffic exchanges. The secret lies in the effectiveness of your landing page.
Targeted traffic can be hard to come by if you are just starting out. A lot of 'newbies' make a lot of mistakes when advertising but that's only natural. We learn from testing and trying, and eventually, if we haven't run out of money, we find the best advetising methods to get maximum results for our niche.
Stick with it, fine tune your advertising campaigns as you apply each of the above go and you'll soon be seeing your traffic stats explode beyond all expectation.
Stuart Stirling
www.stuartastirling.com
