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There is so incredibly MUCH
you can do to successfully promote your website starting
in just a few minutes. In fact, the steps I will give you
below can be repeated DAILY for 30 days, an hour a day,
for 30 hours of hard-core, tested, proven,
traffic-nabbing, sales-producing, profit-driving,
marketers' bliss.
It's work, but by now I am
hoping you know that the successful people, including me,
have worked VERY hard to get where we are today. Online
doesn't mean automatic and there is no software that will
promote your business hands-off. Lots of tools that help,
but there's no way around having to work to succeed in any
online business.
That said, let's get to
work.
Links Man!
You could spend all 30
hours and much more this next month just getting
reciprocal and, more importantly, NON-reciprocal links to
your site.
I see so many people just
spinning their wheels wondering where to start with their
promotion. You don't have TIME to sit and wonder! I am
telling you right now that the only promotion tactic that
will never EVER change on the internet, no matter what, is
getting traffic through links.
There are tens of thousands
of places on the web to get good, traffic-driving links.
Go to forums in your niche
and get involved. In a year's time you are going to have
so many links from just being moderately involved with
people in your industry through forums that you will
wonder why you didn't sign up as a member of several
forums sooner!
You will find so many free
resources around the net just by surfing around the sites
that your BEST customers are most likely to visit. You
don't have TIME to sit and wonder! Get surfing and find
out where your customers are and GET YOUR LINK THERE!
I have said a thousand
times by now in forums, books, teleseminars, and
conferences: If you are going to outlast and outwit your
competition and really SUCCEED online, you must show up
everywhere your best customers surf. You HAVE to, and
that's it.
Given that fact, you have a
LOT you can do, really, to get in front of your audience.
Articles
I don't care if you hate
writing and have a hard time spelling your name. You have
to write informative articles (like this one) to get
yourself in front of tens of thousands of people every
week or every month, depending on your niche.
If you absolutely refuse to
write, hire a ghost writer. You can get an article
"ten pack" here: http://webfoxmedia.com
Just don't let this
treasure trove of traffic go to someone else when you
simply have NOTHING holding you back in this promotion
technique. It is one of the most important tools in the
small online business owner's arsenal - USE IT!
Get free writing tools and
article syndication tools and software here: http://equipmint.com
Blogging
Professional blog software,
like Expression Engine, comes with the ability to
"ping" the blog search engines. (Getting into
those engines is a whole new way to brand your site and
products/services and most people are totally clueless to
this fact.)
After the presidential race
got started, bloggers became very famous. If you don't
know what a blog is or how to set one up, or even why it
is beneficial to HAVE a weblog, check out this resource: http://expressionengine.com
See my blog here as example
(and for way more traffic tools and resources than I can
outline here):
http://www.webmastertraffictools.com/weblog/index.php
RSS
Want to learn how to get
Yahoo to run your website content via RSS? (RSS is a
relatively new trend picking up a huge amount of steam
among lay-marketers as a killer tool to increase traffic
through syndication of their content.)
Check out this report on
how to turn content into RSS and having Yahoo run it for
free!
http://webmastertraffictools.com/rssreport/yahoorss.pdf
Forums
Find your forum. Every
interest online has one by now, unless you are really into
something no one has ever heard about. Sign up today and
start participating. Make sure you set up your signature
file with your site link.
So many people skip the
easy stuff because they think since it's easy it can't be
effective. Don't be one of those fools. Take the time to
do this right now, today.
There are 10,000 other
reasons to get involved in your market arena than just
getting a link back to your site by participating, but
that set of reasons you will have to discover yourself.
Like today! I mean it!
Participate in Blog
Discussions
Most blogs have comment
areas with lively debates and discussions going on.
Another source of branding and "getting to know"
people who could turn out to be joint venture partners.
Joint Venture Partners
Getting joint ventures with
key people in related industries who have a large reach to
YOUR perfect audience is about the easiest traffic in the
world to get. If you know how. Here is a free guide to
joint ventures you should sign up for:
http://www.jvAlert.com/jvcourse.aspx?id=13
Key-In On What Top
Marketers Are Doing NOW
One of the best series of
teleseminars which runs weekly is the Perpetual Learning
Series by JVAlert. The people they attract to speak to
members are nothing less than the best of the best in
internet marketing. Learning from them is easy with
recorded calls or live events they have for you to choose
from with nothing but marketing tactics!
You can even find me there
for one of the teleseminars on linking!
http://www.jvAlert.com/LearningSeries.aspx?id=13
Finally...
Get yourself pumped up and
STAY pumped up for 30 days. In one month you could be
seeing a huge turnaround in your marketing and the results
of your efforts. I am pointing you in the right direction.
YOU have to take this advice and either do something with
it or not. That I cannot help you with.
But as of now, you have no
excuse to sit around feeling bad about your marketing and
lack of traffic. There are zillions of ways to get
noticed. Hopefully the above wets your appetite. Come back
to my blog for more every week!
http://www.webmastertraffictools.com/weblog/index.php
Copyright 2004 Jack
Humphrey
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About
The Author
Jack
Humphrey is the author of Power Linking
and Power Linking 2: Evolution and is
currently working on Power Linking 2005,
due for release in December. For more
information: http://power-linking-profits.com |
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