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.

Tags: internet marketing, traffic, viral marketing, visitors, wordpress plugin

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