When talking about make money online, one thing that most gurus suggest is to build a list of subscribers which is relevant to your site niche. Why? The reason perhaps is most internet users don’t trust what they see on the Internet especially when comes to buying things online so why you need to get a list of subscribers first and offer them free tips to show you are a knowledgeable person of what you are trying to offer at the beginning.

I posted couple of articles in the past that how you can build or get a list of subscribers and now I am ready to host my own JV giveaway first time ever. That event I expect will be great as I am giving away $500 cash prizes in total to the top 4 persons who have the most referrals to the site, and an email to the entire giveaway list if you can get on the top.

To get the details please join my group at facebook: searchenginegifts.com facebook group where I will send you frequent updates of the event.

so see you there!

You may have heard a marketing term called “viral marketing” and it is the most powerful to get trucks loads of visitors to your site in a short period of time. A typical example will be the latest Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing 2.0 giveaway which the server was reported “crashed” at the launch date! Well why the campaign was so powerful? Because Mike is giving away not only his best selling butterfly marketing manuscript but also his $8,000 butterfly marketing software that generates thousand and thousand of dollars to a lot of people! If you have been marketing online for a while you certainly have heard marketers will give away a quality front end products and later on, they show you an upgrade which costs $27-$97. No matter the visitors buy the one time upgrade or not, the site owner immediately register them as an affiliate and they will earn 60-75% commission if they just tell other people that there is a quality free product here and they buy the one time offer.

A picture below shows the concept pretty well of what viral marketing is about. Let’s say if you only refer two people to the site. The 2 people other refer 4 people to come along, and those 4 people refer another 2 person each, you will start seeing the power. Basically it is mathematical formula of 2^x where x is the how deep your referrals goes into the organization.

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Ok, so what to do with plugins and how do you get “truck loads of traffic” out of it? There are few social Wordpress plugins that you can use where it potentially generates huge amount traffic if your post is “right”.

1. Birdfeeder.Bird feeder will post to your twitter’s profile every time you publish a blog article. With twitter being so hot lately, I am sure it will attract certain traffic to your blog if both your post and the time you publish is right to most readers.
2. Wordbook Facebook plugin. Facebook is the top 10 most visited web site these days according to Alexa and what this plugin does pretty similar to birdfeeder but instead of twitter it post to you facebook’s profile. So it saves you time by cross posting your article to popular social platforms
3. the other plugin that I found quite interesting is Comuluv.com. This little plugin shows the latest post by default on the installed host blog owner blog when you comment their articles. e.g

This alone will generate substantial traffic by commenting others people blog. I have got that installed so make sure you comment here frequently as well.

For now on, I will shift my focus toward anything contain a viral element in my campaign and I will constantly update this blog where to have work less but will generate more result in return so please stay tune to my thought here.

Las time we talk about how email marketing can help you to get some free web traffic. Today I want to focus on methods that allow you to get an email list your own. This may involves some investment but if you are serious to make money online and not treat it as a hobby, then it should invest in these methods. Don’t worry, it is not going to cost you $1000 per month. So here are the steps.

Step 1: Get yourself a decent Autoresponder

Autoresponder is a piece of software that all you to send email to your subscribers in a time and date specified. A decent ones like Aweber and GetResponse will cost you somewhere between $13 – $19 per month. It is not that expensive. Since it allows you to manage your list pretty well and the most important point is your emails won’t jump into their users spam or bulk folders. You can definitely use your hosting provided ones but your emails may labeled as spams. But for those who are just seeking traffic and don’t wish to opt in for the autoresponder you can add a Feedburner email subscription box at the top left corner on your blogs more later.

Step 2: Offer an ebook, wordpress template, etc to encourage newsletter sign up

you should offer some free giveaway to your blog readers, e.g. a free software that allows you to giveaway, a SEO friendly blogging theme, how you get one of your blog post to show in the front page of Digg etc. These kind of tips surely people will love to read and sign up for your newsletter.

Step 3: After you have your prepared your gift and autoresponder it is time for you to add these two components on your websites.

The best place to add the opt in box will be the near the top of your blog like what other successful bloggers Johnchow, Carlocab, Alvin Phang did on their sites. See Screen shots below. Making at least 4 figures US per month! Well, should do you think you should follow the styles as well. I am going to once I’ve got a decent which looks like carlocab or John Chow ones.

Step 4: Drive massive traffic to your blog

To drive traffic to your blog the most easy ways will be join some JV giveaways with your new established gift and if it is attractive enough surely people will optin your newsletter and therefore you will have lots of traffic.

To find out the latest JV giveaways that you can join, simply click here.

That’s it for today, I will see you next time.