A low cost form of company promotion, free of charge article advertising has proved really efficient for lots of businesses. It originated in printed press where it was a common practice for businesses to publish components related to their company in order to attract more customers. No commission was charged for the publication, and the company gained from the free publicity as the client was referred towards the company website or local address. This practice is still in use, and it has led to the accelerated improvement of free article marketing.

Some web developers choose to invest close to nothing in article marketing, and use it for free of charge, although in limited conditions. And this is a viable company decision as long as you know what you’re doing.

The most useful situation for beginning investors is when they have the skills and also the time to author their materials. Outsourcing does indeed price money.

The publication or submission to article directories can be free of charge of charge or fee-based. A few companies like enzinearticles.com tend to be totally free.

Constantly submit quality content to such directories and you’ll profit a great deal from this form of free article marketing.

The practical advice you find online may assist you to free of charge post advertising strategies. The more you know about this domain, the higher your chances of success. Focus on self-education very first and foremost, meaning that you simply should study the new tendencies originating on the marketplace every day and follow them with flexibility.

Even should you start with free article advertising as a propeller for your business website, you ought to create a budget estimate for the future organization development. There is no organization without expenses, consequently, expenses might appear any time during business evolution. Therefore, don’t get over-excited simply because you use ‘free’ article marketing, as it requires a great deal of time, energy and competence that you have to put into your activities in order to appreciate savings.

Free article marketing will help you improve page ranking and visitors, but this means that with a superior degree, you’ll have to face new challenges. Investment will thus turn out to be inevitable and a necessary measure for sticking to positive company evolution. This is the moment to make the switch from the amateurish to the professional business state of facts. I really hope you will accomplish all your objectives!

Getting your web page to the the very top of the major search engines results pages is not an easy thing to achieve. However, by using a search engine submission service as well as a directory submission service you will be able to rank your site higher in the various search engines.

Are you constantly struggling to get more free, laser targeted and converting traffic for online business?

If you answer yes to the above question, I definitely know how you feel. It is because I had the same question back to the days when I first started my online business venture and you know what everyone will definitely say ‘yes’ to more traffic if there is a free source that guarantees you to generate more laser targeted leads or sales for your business and it is called Viral Traffic Bar.

What is Viral Traffic Bar, By the Way?

Few days ago, I have stumbled upon a new site called Viral Traffic Bar, which is managed by one of my closed business partner Guido Nussabaum and it guarantees that you can generate simple targeted and converting web traffic by simply use it or refer people using it. ，Well it is another scam or a real traffic source that you can get laser targeted leads and sales as the site advertised?

My Honest Review

I was lucky that I had a sneak preview of the site first before it is launched.
My first impression to the site is; it has a clean and professional design, which I like and secondly the sign up process was nice and smooth which they do offer free sign up plus two levels of upgrades options but are not required to enjoy the benefits.

The members area is very easy to use where you will do basically two things:

1. set your ads &
2. create your links.

The traffic Generating Ideas

The idea of generating targeted traffic is simple. There are two types of traffic you will get for your sites or business:

1. By sharing your viral links you created on the viral traffic bar site to your friends, business partners, associates and so on.
   
2. A hover ad that system will automatically generates when someone clicked on the link you created in step 1.

So what do I mean by creating viral links or hover ads?

To explain the idea better, let’s look at the screen shot above for a better picture. When you are creating your link inside the members area, you first need to choose which category that your website falls. After you choosing the category and fill all the required details, you will then share this newly created link to your friends, business partners, customers and so on. Once they click on your links, the system will then generate a hover ad at bottom of the page which includes your affiliate link stick at the bottom of the page. (as you see in the picture below). If the person interest about what they see and join by clicking your affiliate link, that person will become your downline and you will also earn advertising credits which basically you do not do anything by promoting the site.

Now, after you have earned the advertising credits, you will then create the hover ad and it will start showing on the hover ad window when OTHER viral traffic bar members links got clicked as well and it will show up to 5 levels deep! Isn’t that amazing?

Not only that, the system has a built in an email system that you can email your downlines in a fixed period of time. It’s a system that truly impresses me. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to test the system thoroughly since I just got the sneak preview few days ago but I am SURE you will starting seeing amazing and laser targeted when you sign up as a member today!

Just click the link below to see it for yourself!

==>Viral Traffic Bar

Do you want to get your article done in 5 minutes?

One of the problem that most people having for article marketing is spending too much time to write an article so what to do? Today I found an interesting product that may help you out:

Write an article under 5 minutes

I found this one hour video seminar quite interesting especially the author explains a concept of writing an article like a “sales letter”! Yeah you heard me right a sales letter and he further shows you this concept by giving you an example, and also another 6 secrets you need to know if you want to write your article fast, and achieve 30-70% click through rate! I am already implementing this concept and will see how the response when my sales letter email goes out in about 2 hours today (Nov. 16). If you would like a copy, you can simply click the link below:

=> http://www.einfonetworks.com/5-minutes-articles/

Will talk soon.

Proson

Last time we talked why you want to split test your Pay Per Click landing page, today I want to show how you can set a A/B testing step by step by using the website optimizer. Before you can set it up, you need to register a Google Adwords first. You can get one by click this link here.

How to set up the Google website optimizer?

Here are the steps:

1. First login to your adwords account at adwords.google.com
2. Then click on the website optimizer link at the menu (shown in the figure)

3. After you clicked on the website optimizer link, you will see as follow: click on the “create a new experiment link”
4. click on the A/B testing link
5. As I described in the previous post, you need to have two versions of your landing page ready and the sales or newsletter sign up conversion page ready.
6. Input the experiment name, the version A and B of landing pages in the corresponding fields
7. and finally the conversion page in the conversion page field
8. Watch the video below provided by Google to have a full step by step walk through.

You have now set up A/B testing on your landing page.

Later on in PPC advertising, I will show you how to set up a conversion as well. So stay tuned!

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We are know traffic is a the king of online marketing. Every online business person needs real people to visit their sites in order to succeed online. While there are lot of methods of getting traffic, today, we want to show you a free but yet very effective way of getting low cost or free traffic .

Tips #1 Write A Compelling Headlines

What makes you decide to read an article or not? It’s subject or headlines right? So a compelling headlines is the essential part of getting reader to your article. Headlines something like, “How to get free website traffic for life”, “100 Steps of Getting 1000 visitors per month” are sure the topics most webmasters want to read about. The technique behind this you know what you are niche audiences want the most. If you are in weight loss industry, topics like “How to Lose 10 lbs in 10 days”, “How to keep intake Calories Low while Eat Anything That You Like” definitely you draw you lots of attention from your target audience group.

Tips #2: Proof Reading

After you’ve written your articles, ensure proofreading it. Especially your English is your second language like me. Minor mistakes like typo, should be avoided.

Tips #3: Social Bookmark Your Articles
Although I don’t recommend social bookmarking as a traffic strategies long term, however it’s still effective way drawing attention in short period of time. Sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Propeller are the most favorite bookmarking sites today that you can submit your articles to.

Tips #4: Submit your articles to Articles Directories

Submitting articles to directories such as Ezinearticles, Buzzle.com, Ideamarketers.com not only you will gain traffic to your site but also you will have SEO or search engine optimization advantage as well. To reasons are you can always include one to two links in your author biography box such as the following diagram:

To get people to visit your site, ensure you give them a free PDF, software, audio, video etc away.
Sentences like: “How to make $1000 per day free online”, “6 Secrets of Getting $100,000 Per Year with My Affiliate Marketing Guide” are definitely getting people visiting your site and download your free products. But make sure you provide proofs and disclaimer about your claims.

Later in the series I will show you more free traffic method to sites, so stay tuned!

How to get permanent 750 one way backlinks to your site every month? Click here to find out how!

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We all know traffic is gold mind to any websites success. But how do you get more traffic? One way that most webmasters will immediately “dive in the water” is definitely search engine optimization or SEO. When applies correct techniques, your site will appear in the first page of any search engines results and hence it increases traffic. I think we all know that. However, SEO is actually a slow process. In general, SEO takes at least three months and start seeing an increase of visitors coming to your site. For any online businesses, we all know there is always cost involved and it is quite normal that we want to drive as much traffic as possible in a short period of time.

In this article, we are going to present to you 4 ways of free traffic source besides waiting for your site to be search engine optimized.

Articles Submission to Major Article Directories

Articles submission is a proven way of getting free instant traffic. All you have to do is writing a compelling article about your niche and submit to directories at Ezinearticles.com, Goarticles.com, Buzzle.com and IdeaMarkters.com. When you are writing articles, make sure you always include a link or two reference your site at the author biography box. For the best result, you can offer a free ebook, graphics, or software to your site link and encourage the reader signing up for your gift.

Social Marketing

Social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter are social networking sites that have most users today. You can set up a group around your niche and invites all like minded people to join you over there. Once you have some members, you can always send them your newsletter.

Email Marketing

Email is still low cost effective way of getting people to visit to your site. If you are working in Internet Marketing niche, you can always get a list of email subscribers by joining Internet Marketing Joint Venture Giveaways, doing ads swap with like minded niche webmaster or ezine owners. But before you do that, make sure you sign up for some affordable and reliable autoresponde services like this one.

Social Bookmarking

When social bookmarking is my last recommending resource but if you do it right, it can drive enormous amount of traffic. Niches like free MP3 download, online pc games, xbox video games kind of thing, should get you lots of visitors in a short period of time. If your site is about online business focused, Digg seems like a good site to focus to. One recommendation for success in social bookmarking is do not ever just bookmark your site. But mix them up with various kind of web sites you’ve found interesting or useful in the online world.

While the sources above can drive you enormous amount of traffic when done right but they are really short term (at most 1 to 2 days) traffic except for article marketing. Therefore search engine optimization is still a more reliable free traffic source which can bring long term free traffic to your site once you have optimized for your site targeted keywords.

I met a friend from South Africa couple of months ago and he wanted to make money online because he’s got a tight budget. So do you really need a lot of money to invest in your online business? Well quite honestly you need some expenses like hosting, autoresponder, domain etc if you want to make some serious money for your online business, also you need a product. You either create one by yourself, outsource it or get a Master resale right or private label right products and sell it yourself. All these stuffs surely it involves some money. What if you have only $100 or less?

Recently I post an article and show you on you can make money online with a $100 or less but the assumption that the author made was you have a membership site that are selling something. So what about you are really have no or little budget?

Here are my good news! Throughout the year, there are lots of Internet Marketing Joint Venture giveaway events taking place. Those events, most the contributors of the giveaways will give their valuable products for free! Normally they are software, ebooks, graphics, useful tips and articles for the cost of zero! Well what’s the catch, you ask? There is none! In order for you to get the gifts, normally you need to surrender your name and primary address. But don’t worry most respectful marketers will not rent, share or sell your information to the third parties. They want to create a relationship with you so that later on you may purchase their products or recommendations.

Now as a valued reader of my blog, you can access this new giveaway website for a limited time (till September 21st) for free!

http://www.prosoncheng.com/recommends/newbie-giveaway

Have a good day!

Recently I come up with a site that gives away freely a wordpress twitter plugin that automatic update your account with you latest blog excerpt usually 140 characters long. But what is twitter? and how twitter can actually drives traffic to your site? Now let’s look at some brief introduction…

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a micro blogging service which sends updates of yourself (140 characters long) to others users who signed up and choose to receive them. The tweets (the short updates) can available in different formats such as RSS, SMS and email. It started as an internal project of a Research and Development company in San Fransico in March 2006 and official launched in October 2006. For about 2 years, as of July 2008, there are about 2 Million users registered.

There are some companies such as Cisco System, Dell, Whole Food Markets, Comcast and Zappos use Twitter and sends updates to their customers.

On the latest US Presidential Campaign, Mrs. Hillary Clinton and Mr. Barak Obama use Twitter as a publicity mechanism.

Even Churches now is using Twitter in their Sunday Service as an interactive element where congregation can ask pastors questions during sermon. So it’s really exploding if you haven’t registered an account, I encourage to do it right now and set up your twitter campaign for increasing your website traffic or to increase your customer satisfactory. It’s free and easy to sign up

link: Twitter Sign Up

How to drive more traffic

To drive more traffic to your website basically you write an excerpt about your lastest blog post, or products then send an email to your friends, colleagues, customers to join you via your twitter profile
e.g. http://twitter.com/proson

If you have a subscribers base you can just stick your twitter profile link as a signature to your emails,
you can also participate blog communities like blogcatalog and ask for twitter exchange.

There are plenty of ways that you can do it.

If you have wordpress blog, you can even get a free plugin where it sends an update to your twitter profile once there is a new post on your blog.
Download it here now:

Sends a blog post update automatically to your twitter account

When I read the posts on most affiliate marketing forums, one thing that most people concerned are
how to prevent their affiliate commission is being stolen. Before I answer to those questions, let’s look at what most affiliate or referral links look like: http://www.xyz.com/?referid=proson. or http://xyz.com/refid=?123556 etc something like that. If I looked through my archives, I actually did talk about the subject and titled Affiliate commission hijacked?! but today I want to expand the subject a bit more on why you should

hide your affiliate links and how you can do it in technical side.

3 reasons you should hide affiliate links

1. Some people out there think if they purchase with affiliate links, it will cost them more due to the commissions paid to the affiliates. So what they do is chopped off whatever the last part of the link and type directly on the browser for whatever the domain is. In the example above, it will be http://www.xyz.com/ and nothing more. So if they do purchase you will earned nothing!
2. Some affiliate programs will let affiliate to purchase from their own links and get a discount. A typical example will be those products sold on Click Bank. So what your visitors do, they simply replace your affiliate ID with their IDs. Therefore you will make NOT any commission if they purchase
3. Some affiliate links look long and unprofessional. Your visitor will have a hard time to remember or type in your links. So to make your links more memorable, a method to hide your affiliate link is important.

There are a lots of methods to hide your link, but today I will discuss some methods that I will use for your references:

1. Use a professional link cloaker – There are several free professional online affiliate link cloakers available online. The one I am using is called ViralURL.com The beauty of it is free and you can track your links which you can measure your online advertising efforts. So if you are looking for a professional cloaker, I recommend you to give it a try.
2. The other method that I will use is using some more advanced techniques like HTML frameset. I know there is someone out there is recommending a PHP redirect solution but the problem is your affiliate link still will be exposed on your visitors browser. So I will use a frameset instead:

   
   <head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
   charset=utf-8" />
   <title></title>
   </head>
   <frameset>
   <frame name="" id="" frameborder="no" marginwidth="0"
   marginheight="0" src="YOUR AFFILIATE LINK HERE>
   </frameset>
   </html>
   
   

You just replace the “You affiliate link here” in your HTML editor, save it as a HTML file, upload to your server and that’s it! The only problem with this method is you need an external tracker if you want to measure your online marketing campaign.

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Later I will talk about why link tracking and split testing is important for your online marketing success.
so stay tune!

Strategies #1: Forum and Social Media Marketing

Using of online forums and social communities sites such as Myspace.com, Facebook.com, Hi5.com and so on to get visitors to your website. The great things about forums or social networking sites are often you can find certain groups that fit in to your demographic or niche. Then you can start discussing things or answering questions about the niches, topics or markets that you represent. Also, you can research on how these group of people think or act in order to get a better sales conversion rate when you are ready to launch your product or services. Now why I suggest you answering other’s people questions? The benefits of answering other people’s questions about your niche is you are building a reputation for your company by showing them how much a ‘guru’ you are. So when those people comes to look for products or services about your niche, they will remember you and thus, you have a better chance in closing a sale.

Strategies #2: Newsletter and Email Marketing

Email is very cost effective marketing channel nowadays if you know how to use it correctly. Almost everyone who uses the Internet got an email address and it is basically cost you nothing to send an email to your potential clients. The way to increase your site traffic, is to offer some free samples, reports, tutorials, tips and tricks about your subject interested to your visitors so that they will sign up your newsletter. Once they have signed up, you can simply ask them to refer their friends so that they can have more gifts or tips and tricks from you. That way your site traffic will not only be increased by your first group of visitors, also when you ask that group to refer their friends, you have a second group of visitors. You ask your second group do the same as the first group again and let this process to continue, you should start seeing there is a potential in getting an enormous traffic to your site.

Strategies #3: Link Trading or Exchange

Another great way to increase your website traffic further is by trading or exchanging links with other similar but non competitive topic websites. For example, if your site topics is about affiliate programs then you can exchange or trade links from websties that are talking about email marketing. They have similar interest but they are not directly compete with each other. In other words, you don’t want to contact a site webmaster or webmistress to trade or exchange links with you when both of you are talking about how to make money on affiliate programs. The way to exchange links is to contact the other site webmaster (or webmistress) and reach an agreement between you and they and that is it. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sides. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and hence visit your site. This how link exchanges work.

Strategies #4: Article Marketing and Directories Submission

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your products. Try writing articles that will provide tips, tricks or useful guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good services and knowledges to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Once you finished your articles, submit them to free articles directories such as Ezinearticles.com and Goarticles.com In your article resource box, make sure you offer reprint rights to your article as long as everything in the article and your resource box remains unchanged. In other words, if users do copy your articles, you will have your website showing on their websites at the end of your articles and if your article is interesting, compiling and with great quality, surely people will follow it and hence results more traffic flows.

Strategies #5 Video marketing

Produce high quality and compelling videos and put them on YouTube, Myspace, Facebook and various video sharing sites to drive traffic to your blog, and website etc. You can offer a demonstration, preview of product or services when you product the videos and make them very entertaining before you submit them to Youtube. The idea is to make the video interesting and entertaining The more entertaining your video is, the more people you will drive, and hence increase your sales.

In conclusions, driving traffic or getting visitors to your websites are not as hard as you think if you follow the five strategies the I have outlined above.

If you would like to get more traffic tips and tricks. Visit my blog on http://www.affiliateWeapons.info/traffic Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box.

About the author:

Proson Cheng, specialize in generating traffic and sign up using social media websites such as Digg , Myspace and facebook. You can read more about him on his latest project Affiliate secrets weapons.