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===================================== If you are looking for an
immediate increase in your website traffic, and you don't want
to shell out a lot of money for pay-per-click search engines,
I'll let you in on a secret that has helped me make many sales
and build large lists very quickly with zero cash up-front: it's
called "OPT" (Other People's Traffic). Other website operators
have the targeted website visitors you need right now - you just
have to convince them to funnel some of it your way. Your
mission is to find people who can refer you their traffic either
for a percentage of the sale, a flat fee, a trade for services,
or on a per-click basis. NOTE: I prefer to pay people a big
percentage of the sale - as much as 50% - because it has the
lowest risk for me as the merchant. I only pay when a sale is
made and, therefore, I make it well worth someone's while to
work with me. That's the whole idea behind a successful
affiliate program. The quickest way to find people who can refer
you traffic is to take inventory of whom you know. Who operates
a site drawing the type of visitors you need? For example, if
you have a website that sells fishing lures, then you want to
find ezines, websites, and discussion groups dealing with
fishing rods, tackle boxes, fish hooks, fishing trips, fishing
supplies, etc. Get the picture? Once you have exhausted the list
of people you know, go to the search engines and do a search for
the keywords that would bring targeted traffic to your site.
Make a list of the websites that rank well in those searches and
approach those individuals with related, but non-competing sites
about a traffic deal. To continue the above example, that means
go to the search engines and do searches for "fishing rods",
"fishing trips" and related keywords to your site to find others
who already have the traffic you need, but who don't directly
compete with you. Try to work all your agreements on a traffic
trade or per-sale basis first so you won't have to pay any cash
out of pocket until after a sale is made. If you don't have any
traffic to trade, or they don't want to get paid by the sale
only, then you should negotiate a per-click or per-signup deal.
Paying by the click or by the signup means you only pay when a
visitor comes to your site or signs up to receive your
newsletter or other information. With this structure you only
pay for performance and don't waste any money on advertising
that doesn't directly result in bringing visitors to your site.
You have 3 main choices for funneling another site's traffic to
yours: endorsed mailings, pop-up windows, and link trades. 1.
Endorsed Mailings Endorsed mailings are by far the best way to
funnel traffic from another site. A well-written endorsement
letter by a website operator who already has a relationship with
people who can buy from you is often worth its weight in gold.
An effective endorsed mailing can result in traffic, sales, and
money in your pocket within just a few hours of sending it. 2.
Pop-Up Windows Focused "pop-up" windows represent the next
fastest way to funnel traffic to your site. When used
incorrectly, pop-up windows create an annoying distraction for
web surfers. Make sure your pop-up windows are relevant to
exactly what visitors came to your site for in the first place!
My experiments have shown that a "pop-under" works best. This is
where your website pops behind the other person's page. Go to
http://www.7dayebook.com for an example. You'll see my other
ebook, "eBook Secrets Exposed," pop *under* the 7 Day eBook
site. When the visitor is finished viewing the main page and
closes it... your page is right there! TIP: For maximum sales,
make sure that your page is closely related to the page that is
referring traffic to you. 3. Link Trades The next way to funnel
traffic from other sites is using "Reciprocal Links" - which is
a fancy way of saying trading links with someone. Make sure you
negotiate a high profile spot for your link on the other
person's site. Creativity is key when negotiating with other
websites to steer some or all of their traffic your way. Show
them how sending you traffic will make them money through
affiliate commissions, how their readers will appreciate being
introduced to new and valuable products (yours), or how you can
open a new stream of income for them by paying them a few cents
for every unique visitor they refer to you. They win by making
extra money and making their customers happy. You win by
attracting traffic to your site that is focused and highly
targeted to your offers. Creating win-win scenarios like these
will cause people to jump at the chance to work with you and
send you all the "OPT" you can handle.
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About the author:
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use
fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to
your website or affiliate links...
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