Posted by kristinewirth on August 19
Nothing matters more than promoting your website if you’re looking to get more traffic. Especially if that site is brand new. It takes a lot of hard work and effort on your part to get a site up and operating and as soon as it is, you’ll also want to plan as to how you can get that site seen by as many people as possible without having it cost you an arm and a leg.
Thankfully, you don’t need a small fortune to start marketing your site; there are lots of free ways to get yourself started online and here’s just a handful of them to help get you started.
Pingbacks for your blog
If you run a WordPress blog on your site, did you know that if you link to another WordPress blog within a post you make on your own site, the site owner of the website you are linking to will automatically get notified that someone has linked to them?
This is known as a pingback and it’s very likely that the owner of the blog you’ve linked to will return the favor. This is a great way to get links to your site from associated blogs within your area of expertise.
Write a Free e-book & Give it Away
As a way to get more people to view your website, take some of the content you’ve already added to your website, re-write them a lttle bit and then compile it into a PDF e-book.
This not only gives people who visit your site a free gift just for visiting but will also give you the opportunity to showcase your expertise on a certain topic.
When you create your PDF e-book (and you can do so for free using Open Office), don’t forget to add links back to your website within the footers of the book.
Once you’ve done that, you can add this free e-book to your own site to entice people to sign up to your mailing list, or you can simply give that book away to free e-book sites that are already getting plenty of traffic such as:
Publish Articles
If you’ve been online for any amount of time, you’ll already know that writing articles is one tried and true approach to getting links and website traffic. This is because it works. Write articles that center around your area of expertise and submit them to well-known and popular online article directories.
When you write your short biography of yourself that’s included with all of your articles, remember to use the keywords and phrases that you want to rank well for within your anchor text. And also remember to link to other pages within your site as well, not just your home page.
It’s also important to note that not all article directories are created equal. There are a few standouts that will get you the most traffic to your site.
These are:
Answer Questions
There are lots of sites that have popped up online over the past couple of years that let anyone at all ask a question about any topic whatsoever. Since these websites are typically organized by category, it’s relatively easy to find a question within your area of expertise that you can answer. This answer can also include a link back to your website.
Some of the more popular sites that fall into this category are:
Online Classifieds
Online classifieds are yet another way to get more visitors to your site. Some of these websites are free and others require you to pay a minimal charge. In either case, they’re all usually extremely affordable for the massive amounts of exposure that you can get.
One important factor to keep in mind about online classified sites is to use the keywords and phrases that you want your site to be found for within the advertisement itself; especially the title of the ad.
Within the ad, you also want to give people who view your ad a reason to come and visit your site. Are you offering them something for free? If so, make sure that they know what it is. Make your ad as crystal clear as you possibly can so that when people do eventually visit, they’ll know what to expect once they get there.
Some classified ad sites to consider are:
Remember to read all the terms and conditions for each individual site as they will each be a little different.
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Posted by kristinewirth on June 25
OK OK, I know what you’re thinking….why in the world am I talking about something called an AffiloJetPack on a website that talks about affiliate marketing.
Well, it’s not a JetPack like something you’d strap onto your back and fly to your j.o.b. (although, weren’t we supposed to have those by now?)
The AffiloJetPack was, at first glance, hard for me to really understand what this product is all about.
UPDATE! Since this original post, Mark has added a second free e-book. Click the link below to get this resource.
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Here’s what I do know, it’s created by Mark Ling (someone I’ve LONG respected in the affiliate marketing field – and a super-affiliate to boot), the industry as a whole respects him, and his previous products like AffiloBlueprint and Affilorama Premium have been praised over and over again.
But I’ll be honest, when he told me about this new product called AffiloJetPack, I was 100% totally and completely confused.
I mean I get the “affilo” part – having to do with affiliate marketing but the JetPack part really had me raising my eyebrows. I mean I actually said “Really Mark? This doesn’t make any sense.”
On the one hand, it looked to be targeted to complete beginners to affiliate marketing.
On the other hand, it looked like it was pressing some hot-buttons for the more experienced affiliate marketers.
So, after a little bit of investigation, here’s what I found:
Mark has worked with a LOT of people who are new to affiliate marketing. And from this, he’s found a number of hurdles that are standing between the BEGINNER and really making it as an affliate; and he wants to change that.
Hurdle #1: Choosing a niche. This really trips people up and I can’t disagree with that. I’ve seen affiliates spend WEEKS trying to figure out what niche to get into. So what AffiloJetpack does is gives you 10 niches right off the bat. These are literally hand-picked by Mark and PROVEN to already be winners in their industry – so that’s one hurdle out of the way.
(There might even be some more experienced affiliate who are looking for their “next” niche as well).
Hurdle #2: Making a Website. This really stumps a lot of people because it CAN be very intimidating. What Mark has done is put together his very own WordPress theme and designed it so that even the most inexperienced website designer can tweak the layout of their site. It also has some other functions built into it that only someone with experience in affiliate marketing would think about – like a squeeze page generator so that you can use Mark’s own successful squeeze page layouts in your own promotions.
And with the theme, Mark has also thrown in free web hosting. Very nice!
Hurdle #3: THE CONTENT! Writing content for a new niche site can be very frustrating. So, Mark gives you the content for the site, 20 articles of very high quality that you can just plug-n-play into the site as-is or re-word it yourself to get the full SEO benefit.
So the bottom line is, AffiloJetPack is everything you need to build a website in a limited amount of time without a long learning curve.
But “that’s not all!” as they say…actually it starts to get just a little advanced here…
Personally I think that this is really good “as is” but…and this isn’t even the “main event” as Mark puts it.
The main event is what comes next:
A 80-part autoresponder series that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.
Mark says that the thing that disappoints him the most is when affiliates don’t add an autoresponder series to their websites, because this is the thing that will earn them the most money.
And I admit… I’ve been guilty of that myself. Sometimes you just want to see a site making money before you invest even MORE money in building a follow-up series. Or sometimes you’re just so exhausted by the time you finish putting your site together that this goes on the back burner.
An autoresponder seems more like “extra credit” for an affiliate site, but Mark is adamant that it should be the main focus. To the extent that you might not even promote affiliate products on your website at all!
So this autoresponder series comes with about 65 “informational” emails, and about another 15 “hard sell” emails written by Mark himself. He also tells you WHEN you should be sending these out to get the best response from your list, since just emailing someone once a week in the first month or two isn’t really going to cut it.
I was quite surprised at the quality of these emails… they’re far beyond PLR quality.
You could even put these on your website if you wanted an extra 60+ articles!
They’re the kind of thing that’s going to get people on your list trusting your opinion… at which point you can promote products to them and watch the commissions roll in.
One other aspect that made me think that this maybe isn’t purely aimed at newcomers is Mark’s view that while SEO is low-risk, the bigger risk that newbies face is that they’re not going to see results quickly enough, and they’ll give up.
Because of that, as part of AffiloJetpack he’s also offering training on a variety of other traffic generation methods. You can still do SEO… but he’s saying that if you want to see fast results (and faster cash) you should look at these other methods.
The final verdict? AffiloJetpack is great for newbies who can’t get past the nitty gritty of building a site. It really makes the whole process laughably easy compared to the weeks or months it might take a newbie to put together a site on their own.
More experienced affiliates are probably going to see the real benefit in the huge amount of high-quality content that Mark has put together. Even to put together ONE newsletter series of this quality is going to cost you at least double the cost of this entire product.
And with AffiloJetpack you get FIVE of these niches and newsletter series’, so to my budget-conscious ears, thats ridiculously good value.
Whatever way you look at it, and whatever level of experience you have, this product is a winner. Even if you don’t want to follow Mark’s strategies… do yourself a favor and grab it just for the content.
Very highly recommended.
If you click here right now, Mark is giving away “The 5-Step Formula to Earning $10,000 a Month Online”.
