How To Generate Free Website Traffic FAST
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford
It goes without saying that if you don’t have website
traffic, the other components of your web business can’t
work very effectively. Without eyeballs on your sales
letter, you won’t make any sales!
There are many ways to generate fast free website traffic,
but many of them aren’t readily available to the average,
lesser-known marketer.
Joint ventures are an excellent way to get tons of others
to send you there traffic. However, joint ventures hinge
upon relationships/connections, and many of the people
with the most traffic have tons of their own products to
promote. Those who own large lists are also approached
about joint ventures so often that they may have
commitments that extend out past six months.
If you do have a large list, getting immediate traffic to
your website can be as simple as sending a compelling
email. However, it takes time to build a quality list.
It also takes time to build strong relationships and
trust with your list members.
Another one of my favorite ways to generate lots of free
traffic is by creating an inexpensive product and then
allowing others to selling it and keep 100% of the
profit. However, that does require a product on a really
hot topic, and you still have to recruit affiliates.
You are also giving away 100% of the money on the sale
(sacrificing early profits), and your goal there is not
so much traffic but to build a list. I do often do
this, using a script called Rapid Action Profits, which
deposits proceed from the sale directly into my
affiliates Paypal accounts while adding the new
subscriber to my list automatically.
However, for generating traffic that is free, fast, and
even long-term, I recommend creating lots of content
and putting it in the path of the search engines. In
fact, I often do this when I’m launching a new product,
or even promoting a new affiliate product. Here are
the down and dirty steps that I take:
1) Do your keyword research, striving to identify the
“buying keywords” that your target customers are using.
One easy way to do that is to use the “Google
External Keyword Tool” to research which keywords get
the most searches. This tool is free to use, and will
also suggest related keywords to you.
What you are looking for is evidence that people are
searching on a given phrase, and that those people are
spending money. The Google External Keyword Tool will
tell you this.
You can also enter a keyword phrase that you plan to target
into the regular Google search box, and look at how many
Google AdWords ads display on the right side of the page.
These are people paying for each click from people who
search on that term, and then click through to their sites.
Presumably, they wouldn’t pay for those clicks unless these
customers were spending money.
2) Use your target keywords to craft titles for 20 articles.
In addition to the keywords make sure that your title also
promises some benefit. The article title is what’s going
to get you the most traction in the search engines.
3) Actually write those 20 articles. They can be as short
as 400 words. If you have trouble writing, go to several
of the bigger article directories and read what others have
written on the topic. Also Google the keyword and look at
what experts have had to say on the topic. Then write
the articles.
If you are still stumped, simply plug your mike into your
computer and then talk about the topic. Most of us are
certainly good at talking. Record your thoughts then go
back and organize them and you have an article (or
several articles).
Add a resource box to the article that tells the reader
to go to your site for more information, or resources
(your product) on the topic. When linking back to your
site, use your keyword as the anchor text where
permitted.
4) Turn each article into a video. The simplest way to do
this is probably to put your main points on PowerPoint
slides. Then as you read your article, flip through the
slides, and record it using Camtasia screen capture
software. As easy as that, you have a movie.
5) Turn each article into a podcast (an MP3). Just read
the article and record it using software built right into
your computer. You can also download free recording
software for tons of places on the internet. One of my
favorites is Audacity.
7) Write several press releases using the article titles
as your topic. Here you need to get a little creative, but
as an example, for this article I would use, “Website
Traffic Expert Reveals How To Generate Free website Traffic
Fast.”
These press releases are being written for SEO purposes,
so the exact wording is not so critical. You are going
to share several point in the press release and then you
are going to link to one or two websites that you want to
call attention to. Your links will use your keywords as
the anchor text.
Submit these articles, videos, podcasts, and press
releases to article directories, video sharing sites,
podcast aggregators, and free press release sites. Since
I do this for numerous products and projects, I use an
automated submission site. Being a very prolific writer,
I have weeks when I may do 20-40 articles (while still
running my web business).
9) “Rinse and repeat!” What happens over time is that
you’ll soon have so much content in cyberspace that you’ll
achieve critical mass. At that point you’ll rank for your
most important keywords as well as lots of longtail keywords.
At that point, you’ll be amazed at the traffic.
To speed up the process you can also post your articles to
an optimized WordPress blog that’s been configured to “ping”
RSS aggregators, social networking sites, and bookmarking
sites each time that you post. If you don’t know how to
do that, it’s beyond the scope of this article, but most
webmasters familiar with WordPress can set that up quickly
for you. WordPress is very simple, yet very powerful.
There you have it, “How to generate free website traffic
fast!” Yes, there is work involved, but when you see the
results, you’ll know that it was well worth it.
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Willie Crawford has been marketing online for 13 years, and
used article marketing most of that time (writing over 1500
articles). His favorite tools for automatically distributing
his articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases is the
automated submission site: http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com
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