How to get thousands and even millions of people to visit your website

How to get thousands and even millions of people to visit your website

There are lots of ways to generate traffic to your site. Here is an overview of some of the most powerful methods. The best strategy is to use as many of these methods as possible.

Remember the key is not just to get thousands of people to your site, but to get thousands of people who are actually looking for what you are providing on the site. People who are willing to take out their credit card and buy something, so that you actually get paid.

Getting links from other sites - This is a great way to get visitors to your site. And, in some cases you can get links that don't cost you anything. Once you have the link set up to your site, then you will have a steady stream of visitors that you don't even have to pay for. Click here for more info on getting links.

Pay Per Click search engines - This is probably the quickest way to get hits to your site. And the hits will be people that are specifically looking for your product. The only problem with this method is that it costs money for each visitor. For more information on pay per click search engines click here.

Ezine Marketing - Ezines are another great way to get qualified hits. Usually this involves putting a paid advertisement in the ezine, however it is also possible to get free publicity for your site by writing articles for Ezines. Click here more more information on ezine marketing.

Bulk Email Marketing - You should not and cannot send unsolicited emails (or spam emails) to millions of recipients. It's illegal, and it doesn't work. However you can get great hits from targeted bulk emails. Click here for more information on this.

Get to the top of the search engines - If you can get a top 10 listing with the free listings in search engines, you can get heaps of traffic this way. Click here for more info on how to get top 10 listings with the search engines.

Marketing in newsgroups and forums - this is not a great method for promoting your product ... and if you do it you must be professional in your approach. Spamming newsgroups does not work, and will get you banned. However if you have no money it might be a way to start. For more information on newsgroups click here.

Other methods I don't recommend:

Guaranteed Hits - there are a number of sites selling you 'guaranteed hits'. What this usually means is pop-ups on other people's sites. You site will come up as a pop-up or pop-under when they visit the other site. The problem with 'guaranteed hits' is that they are also usually guaranteed to be very poor quality. Most people will close your site window immediately and will not take any notice of your site at all. You can get them pretty cheap however, and pop-ups can work for some products. If you do use this method, make absolutely sure that you track very carefully to find out how many sales you actually get from these 'hits'.

Off-line advertising - large companies may be able to afford to advertise their site off-line, but for the little guy it is usually very expensive. What you can do is to make sure that you have your site listed on your business cards, letterheads ... and any promotional material related to your business.


Ideas for products to sell on the Internet

If you don't already have a concept of what you want to sell, or you want to write an ebook, but are not sure what to write about, here are a few resources to help you.

There are lots of potential products out there, which is the best one for you to choose? Well, there are three things to consider when coming up with an idea of a product to sell on the Internet:

1. Are you going to enjoy being involved with it?

2. Will people pay for it?

3. Are there already lots of products out there on the same topic? Or, is your product in some way unique.

Only you can answer question number one. Remember that if you are really enthusiastic about something then you are much more likely to be successful at it. If you are just doing something for the money, then success is still possible but can be more difficult, and not as enjoyable.

To answer question number two you may need to do some market research. Ask people who fit into your target market if they would buy the product. Don't ask them if they "like your product", because most people will say "yes", just to be nice. Ask if they would buy it, and how much they would pay.

Also you need to research what people are searching for on the Internet Are they searching for information on your product? Go to the page on keyword research for more information on this.

The last thing you need to know is if there is a lot of competition in the same area. Search on google for your product area. What sites come up in the top 10 search results? Are they all competing products to your idea? If so, can you develop a slightly different niche that will make you different from all the other products out there.

Free email course

One resource that can help you is a free email course done by Ken Evoy. His course is entitled "How to brainstorm, create, produce, and sell your very own infoproduct online". To get this free email course, go to:
http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/affiliatemarketing.html


Webmasters: Join these Affiliate networks and make more money

All of these networks are FREE to join, and by joining them you can get access to affiliate offers that other people. Affiliate networks allow you to access several affiliate programs at the same time.

Affiliate Fuel - I personally have made some good money with this one.

Adreporting - Also worth joining with a good variety of offers.

The largest four programs are: Commission Juntion , Linkshare , Permormics and Be Free

Here is a list of the other affiliate networks:

iwhiz (also recommended)
Shareasale
Directleads
Dark blue
Affiliate Shop
Azoogle Ads
ClickXchange
Clickbank
FineClicks
Fusion Quest
iCommissions
Partner2Profit
QuinStreet
Cyberbounty
Revenue Pilot
1Affiliatenetwork
Clixgalore
Affiliatebot
Affiliatenetwork.com
CPA Empire
Rextopia

Some powerful affiliate programs to join

Subliminal PC - A great product which can be marketed across multiple categories making it easy to reduce your competition. Enjoying an enormous increase in popularity in all industries such as fitness, motivation, mental health, hypnosis, career skills etc... The list goes on, the product truly does appeal to a wide variety of consumers making its marketing very easy.

AllPosters.com - Top affiliate earns over $5,000 per month. Sells posters!

VMC Sattelite - Top affiliate earned $169,300 in one month according to their web site. Sattelite TV service. Note that this IS a believable figure because each installation pays $50 which means that this affiliate would need 3,380 installations in one month. Considering that there are over 200 million people in the USA, all of whom watch TV, and may want a satellite service which has more channels than cable and saves you money, this is believable. Their number 2 affiliate earned $46,000 and the no 3 affiliate earned $29,000 in one month.