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Articles PROMOTER recently achieved its 5,000-authors mark and is now looming at 6,000, while boasting article downloads of close to a million.

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1. First off in order to get indexed quickly I suggest you put in a tiny classified ad at CraigsList.com, the site is a PR 8 and having a link to your site will get the search engines crawling all over yours. Make sure to only put one ad in and not to spam them because they will close your account. Also make sure to keep an eye on it, sometimes the administration cancels it or it expires.

2. Next I read an e-book call SEO Made Easy by Brad Callen(You can get a FREE copy on my web site listed below). Brad has some wonderful ideas and methods to get to the top of the search engines. I then implemented his ideas and methods.

3. Getting one way links back to your web site is key in getting Page Ranked.

a) Article submission will get you one way links and having lots of them will get your site PRed. So how do you get a link to your site? Well in each article that is submitted you are allowed to put an “About the Author Box”, this is where you put your link to your site. Now some of you might find this very time consumming. Well so did I. What I did is got my articles ghost written from JustArticles.com and had them submitted to over 24,000+ publishers at Isnare.com, for about $70.00 US your can get 5 450-600 word ghost written articles from JustArticles.com and 5 distribution credits from Isnare.com which will distribute those 5 articles to the 24,000+ publishers. Now if you don’t want to spend the $70.00 on the articles and distribution you CAN do it for FREE. You can of course write your own articles and get article submission software from my website for FREE. But if you do have the money I suggest you do it this way because it is very time consumming. Its very important that you don’t submit more than one per week because getting too many links all at once will make the search engines unhappy. Continue to submit one per week for 3 months.

b) Submitting your web site to one way link directories is the other method I used. Again this is time consuming so I bought a piece of software that does this for me. You still have to do it by hand but all the directories are already preloaded in the software. Go here for a copy of the software I’m using: http://www.directorysubmitter.com/
It costs about $97.00 for the software but I’m sure that you will think its money well spent after you see results. If you don’t have the money to do this then I guess you’ll have to do it the hard way and find the directories and submit by hand.

c) Joining a well known forum is the last thing I did to get one way links to my site. You see most forums have what’s called a sig file. A sig file is a perminent signature to every post you make at the forum. I put in a link to my web site and that’s it. The only thing left to do is post topics or reply to ones already made. Again make sure you don’t spam the forum you join, this will only get your account closed. Make sure you have a relevant topic or reply and you will have no problems.

By implementing these steps I achieved a Page Rank of 5 in 3 months, keep in mind that the search engines are always changing and finding new ways to rank pages. One thing I think will always be important is the amount of one way links back to your web site. I hope these methods will help you achieve your goals and make you money online, I know they have helped my Internet home business immensely.

The methods you might use to increase the number of visitors to your site will depend upon the type of site you have. (Read the Your Site Purpose section)
A successful plan to drive traffic will encompass many different angles.

If you are planning to drive traffic to a business related site, remember that it will take time. Unless you have a very large budget it is impossible to drive traffic over night and even if you did this traffic would not be sustainable.

The aim is to create sustainable and increasing traffic to your web site.

Search Engines
Search engines drive a large amount of traffic on the web. If you are serious about driving traffic to your site then you will be serious about having a good ranking in the search engines.

Advertising

Advertising is a very traditional method of bringing in customers to any business. The purpose of advertising is to appeal to potential customers that do not know about your company. This could be with the intent to drive sales or it could be just to create a brand image.

Advertising your web site does not have to be all done online. In some instances, for example a local site, you would be more effective focusing on offline advertising.

Building Links

Links are what make the web work. Having a link to your site on another site that has related subject matter benefits you in several ways. You will get increased traffic from people clicking on the link and in addition search engines like Google will find the links and increase your PageRank Score

Finding Sites To Link To You

By doing a search on any search engine using the type of keywords that are related to your site, you will find a whole list of potential sites that could link to your site.

It helps if you have a site that contains useful content. It will be hard to convince another site to link to you if your site has a low value or interest to them.

Another way to find links is to find out who is linking to your competition. You can do this by using the search engines. For example entering link:www.mycompetition.com on Google will list all the sites that Google has found that links to your competition. You could then approach these sites to ask for a link.

Requesting A Link

When you have found the target sites that you would like to obtain a link from send them a courteous and polite email. State who you are, explain briefly what your site is and why it could be of interest to their site. Keep your email short and to the point. It is probably a good idea to already place a link to their site on your site. It is always worthwhile to put in your email the URL of the actual page that you would like a link on. If after 1 month they haven’t added your link then remove their link from your site.

Giving Out Awards

One novel way to gain links is to give out awards. An award could be “Well Designed Site Award” or something focused around your business or web site theme. This award should be a nice graphic that links to your site.

Free For All (FFA) Pages and Link Farms

Although it seems tempting to list your site on an FFA or link farm – don’t do it. FFA page are lists of links. When you first submit a site it will be at the top and gradually move down the list until it drops off the bottom. FFA’s will bring you no traffic and will fill your email box with thousands of Junk emails. Even worse, search engines like Google may find your link on an FFA page and ban you from their search engine. Avoid these at all costs.

Guest Books and Newsgroups

It is possible to gain some links from posting on guest books and also by putting your URL in the signature of postings on newsgroups. Although this can be a valid method of gaining visibility and links, be very careful not spam. It is rude and will not be appreciated if your only reason to post is to create a link. This will damage your reputation and backfire if done irresponsibly. Newsgroups often have rules in place that are designed to keep the board useful. Follow the rules, and contribute to the newsgroups by entering discussions and helping others with their problems.

Generating Publicity

Publicity can be a very valuable way to spread the news about your online business. It is much cheaper than advertising and often holds more weight because the story is reaching the customer via a trusted 3rd party, which holds much more credibility than any message that might come directly from you.

The media, by its very nature, is always in need of good stories that will benefit their readers. If you have something that is newsworthy then you have a good shot at creating some publicity. If your business is not something innovative or totally new, then brainstorm ways to make it newsworthy. For example – are there any charities you could partner with? there are lots of ways to add an angle to any business to make the business more attractive to the media.

One of the hardest decisions you will have to make when it comes to publicity is whether to launch the publicity campaign yourself or to use professional help.

Nobody can force the media to use your story, but with the right approach and follow-up you can be certain the media will know about your business. Media editors are often very busy and swamped with news stories, so it can be important to allow for 3-6 months for any media campaign to run it’s course.

If your company has local interest then it may be easier to get some publicity. Even if your business is national or global, you may be able to generate some local publicity along the lines of “local company launches….”

To approach the media you will need to create a publicity kit, that contains your press release and also a fact sheet about your company.

In the resources section below there are some very useful links. The 1st link for a very detailed document that explains every step with a lot of detail and also has example press releases.

Affliate Programs

Affiliate programs can be a useful marketing tool to drive traffic and sales. The concept is simple, you allow people to sign up as affiliate and they promote your product from their web site. When you get a sale that came via their site then you pay a % commission. The actual % varies from as low as a few% up to as high as 50%. The amount is up to you.

Obviously at lower % commission there is less incentive for your affiliate to promote your product.

There are several 3rd parties that can manage an affiliate program for you, Commission Junction is a popular one, linkshare is another. With these you may have to pay a upfront fee to join and then pay a % on sales that pass through their system. In return they manage the affiliate program and provide an interface for affiliate to log in and check their affiliate accounts. Another benefit is that affiliate are more likely to trust a 3rd party to pay their commissions accurately.

An alternative is to set up your own affiliate system. There are many affiliate software options available. It will be cheaper to manage this yourself, but it will take more admin. time to manage,

You will find that many of your affiliate drive no sales, but a few may drive a significant amount of new sales. Paying a commission is a win-win for you and the affiliate.

Building Content

When people search the internet they are mostly looking for answers, or a solution to a problem. If you have a site with 1 or 2 pages then you will be limited in exposure vs a site with 1 – 200 pages. In addition, Search engines, especially search engines like Google love content

Every page in your site can be optimized for specific phrases or keywords. It is much easier to make a page focused on 1 narrow topic rank well in the search engines than it is to make 1 page rank highly for a broad topic or multiple search phrases. Use content to increase your exposure in the search engines. If you have valuable content then people will begin to link to your many pages. Each link will increase your overal popularity which will make all your other pages more visible. Given time you can build a lot of traffic just from building solid content in your site and doing at least a little search engine optimization with each page.

The web is primarily a communication tool that propogates information and understanding. Add to the value of the web by making your site content rich and valuable to others and no doubt you will enjoy success.

There are many writers who will let you put their work in your web pages, so long as you keep their name and resources information. Do not steal content! – this will no doubt cause you copyright problems and ruin your reputation also.

Building A Community

One of the best ways to build sustainable traffic to your site is to create a community. Newsgroups and bulletin boards can over time turn your site into a high traffic zone.

There are many shareware, freeware and commercial bulletin boards available, there is a list below in the resources of good bulletin board systems for different platforms.

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