If you answered yes…

I’m going to show you exactly how to do that right here free of charge.

Let me be completely honest with you, after reading this, I guarantee you will never again have to pay any money to get high quality traffic to your website. And no, what I am about to tell you has nothing to do with emailing safe lists, wasting your time with traffic exchange programs, or any other cheap tricks.

What I am about to explain to you in the most simple straightforward manner possible is by far the most powerful way to get the best long term high quality traffic on earth. I want you to be able to fully understand the elegance of the system that I am about to describe to you so let me first give you a little background.

When I first started to market affiliate programs online I went the pay per click route. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but magically it seemed to work. Now… I can’t say that I made much money through pay per click advertising, but I did get some traffic that actually bought through my affiliate links! The problem with this method was it ended up costing me just as much as I made.

Next I tried to generate traffic the free route by taking part in traffic exchanges and mailing to safe lists. I’m not going to even go into detail about these methods because it didn’t take me long to figure out that these methods just don’t work.

Next, I started advertising in eZines. This traffic method actually does work and can work very well, but on the flip side it can also cost quite a bit of money and does put that money at quite a bit of risk. What I mean by is there were times when I was mailing to eZines that cost quite a bit of money and I didn’t even make a single sale and then there were other times when I was advertising in eZines that I spent very little on and I made some pretty good coin. It’s extremely hit or miss most of the time with eZines plus the traffic you generate is only transient. If your traffic doesn’t buy on that first pass your out of luck. That’s why I say eZine advertising is a high risk web site traffic generation method.

Next, I decided I would try to start my own eZine. It sounded like a great idea, but it really is quite a bit of work can cost quite a bit of money in the early phase. Having your own list is a powerful sales tool and I do think that it is something that everyone who is serious about their internet marketing efforts should have, but I truly don’t think it is the best way to generate long term hands free traffic.

Why?

Because you have to email your list every time you want them to visit a site. It’s not hands free.

So, let me get to the point…

What’s the best way to generate long term high quality traffic for free?

Hint: I’m doing it write now.

That’s right – Writing Articles!

Writing good quality articles about subjects that people want to read about is by far the best high quality traffic generation tool available anywhere. The great thing is this is something that will NEVER change.

Why?

• People want high quality free information. After all, that’s primarily why people search the internet anyways.

• Websites need good quality content to for there sites and eZines.

By filling in that gap you’re fulfilling a need that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved. The reader gets great information to read. The website or eZine owner gets quality content. You get to stamp yourself as an authority in the field and you get to add a link in the resource box at the end of your article (free high quality traffic).

Gaining website traffic through writing article works through the principle of reciprocity. You first give something of value and then you get something of value in return. You give your quality content to other webmasters and then they give you traffic.

What makes this tool so powerful is its viral nature. Not only do you get free traffic through your resource box at the end of your article, but you also get to establish high quality one way links back to your website. The search engines LOVE this!

Let me say that a different way, when you post your articles to the larger directories you will get a free high PR one way (non-reciprocal) link back to your site. Further, you have an almost infinite number of chances for other webmasters looking for quality content to post your articles to there web site.

I didn’t know how powerful this method truly was until about 3 weeks after I began posting my articles to the larger directories. I started to see my website traffic grow and I couldn’t really place why. At that point, I had only placed my articles in three of the top directories, but when I did a Google search for some of the titles of my articles I found them on dozens of website.

“Wow” I thought.

I got dozens of free in pointing links within a period of only a few weeks and I really didn’t have to do anything to get them. It was only when I saw this with my own eyes that I finally realized how powerful article writing could be as a traffic generation tool.

Give it a try. It’s the best hands free traffic secret that I have ever learned. Write a few articles and then post them to a few directories. You’ll be surprised with your results. Best of all it’s all free!

One last tip!

After writing your articles you need a few great places to post them to, so here are my favorites; IdeaMarketers.com, GoArticles.com , and EzineArticles.com.

That should get you off to a pretty good start. Happy Writing!

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The true winners are the people that are able to get their web site listed in the top spots on the main search engines. Submitting is a simple process but does not guarantee that Google or anyone else will list you. You can increase your chances by building what is commonly called inbound links. I am not talking about those stupid pages full of thousands of links (a.k.a. link farms). Search engines are smarter then they used to be and some will actually penalize you for being a part of a link farm.

What search engines like to see is your link on another site that contains highly relevant content. Some people are able to achieve this be paying for links and advertising, but why pay when you can build these links for free. By writing articles and submitting them to free article sites, you are creating those inbound links that become gateways for search engines to find your site and build up your page rank.

When choosing those sites to submit to there are a couple things to consider.

– Does the site have a high PR?
– Does the site have high traffic?
– Will the site accept my article?

High PR may help you get listed in search engines. It may also help your own PR.

High traffic obviously may help get people to your site quicker and directly from another site. Not all high PR sites have high traffic.

Even though a site is new I would not write them off. New sites often are more likely to accept your articles in an effort to build up their own site. Today’s PR0 site could become tomorrow’s PR9.

George Hubka has a masters degree in software engineering has been building and running web sites for more than a decade. Visit www.AtTheBoard.com to get started published today.

So how can you boost your web site’s traffic? According to Internet Marketing Consultant Gaston Collins at http://www.GastonCollins.com – there are a few quick ways to get traffic for a very minimal cost, but one of the first things you should do is setup a web site stats system that will allow you to track where your visitors come from. “It’s important to know what pages your visitors will be coming from to visit your site. Otherwise you won’t know what wotks and what doesn’t,” Gaston says.

So with that out of the way for now, let’s look at some ways to get traffic. First of all, you can use the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) method. Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing are the most popular PPC search engines.

Second, you can get free traffic by marketing your site through organic search engines. The major players are Google, Yahoo, and MSN – in that order.

The third way to get traffic to your site is through various methods of posting links to your site around the internet. The top methods of choice for this is contributing useful information to message boards and writing articles.

Finally we’ll discuss an often over-looked method of traffic generation, which is Ebay. You can look all day long, but you may not find a larger, more laser-targeted source of traffic at such a low price.

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Gaston Collins has consulted many small businesses and website owners on developing a successful marketing plan. Visit his site at www.GastonCollins.com

Max Cornell is a web hosting expert and has been a regular contributor to the Internet since 2001. Learn more about Web Hosting and other webmaster tools at www.GonzoWebHosting.com

1. Get your site listed in the major directories: The two most important directories at the present moment are Yahoo and the Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org). Yahoo is the old stalwart of the Internet and despite the rise of Google, the addition of a hefty $299 fee, and changes in the way they display their listings, a link to your site from Yahoo’s main directory (and it’s regional variants) can boost the standing of your website much more than a few links from an obscure website.

The other major directory, the Open Directory Project is free of charge and is edited by volunteers. It is sometimes difficult to get a listing because they scrutinize listings and do not list sites that don’t offer original content. If your site consists only of affiliate links, then the editors will reject your application. In addition the volunteer editors have been unable to keep pace with the amount of sites to be reviewed and they can take months to process your entry. Compounding the problem are technical glitches which sometimes make it difficult to even submit the form. Despite the problems inclusion here is well worth your effort, and you should persist. Inclusion in both Yahoo and the Open Directory Project can mean the difference between a “page one” or a “page five” showing for your site in search results, especially in competitive categories.

2. Get your site listed in directories relevant to your particular product or service: There are many resource directories that serve particular areas of interest. If you offer software that would be helpful to webmasters, for example, then do a search for webmaster resource directories and you will find sites where you can add your URL. Do you have a hotel? Then, find travel directories, and apply to be listed. You will have to spend time, but once again persistence will pay off, not only in improvement of your page rank but listing in specific industry or product oriented directories will bring you targeted trafficpeople particularly interested in what you have to offer.

3. Write articles for Publication on Other Web Sites: There are millions of websites on the web, and many are hungry for quality content. As you have published your own website and have something to offer, that makes you an “expert” in your particular field. Use this expertise to write simple, but useful articles in your field and send these to other webmasters. If they publish your article, they will include your “resource box” with a link back to your site. The link will once again boost your Page Rank, but just as importantly, it will establish you as an authority in your field and will help “brand” your product or service. You don’t have to write to hundreds of webmasters individually to get your article published, go to www.yahoogroups.com and do a search for “Internet Articles Publishing” and you will find many groups that will enable you to reach webmasters looking for articles.

4. Get Your Product or Service Reviewed by other Websites: Have you published an e-book or written software? Then offer a free copy to websites whose themes are similar to yours. If they write and publish a review, then you will get a link back to your site. In addition, you can publish their reviews on your own site, which will add a lot of weight to your own claims about the validity of your product or service. Look around for sites in your field and make your offer. In the process you will also build potentially important alliances.

5. Beef up the Content on Your Own Site: the original concept behind the Page Rank system was to try to highlight the websites that are really valuable, and offer something unique to the Internet. If you publish an Internet version of your company brochure, no one is going to link to you unilaterally. However, if your site is filled with interesting articles, reports, data and reference material then you will get links without even asking for them. You can add content to your site, by writing and publishing your own articles, the same ones that you will offer to other sites, as well as by publishing the articles of others. Once again, the article publishing groups at www.yahoo.com or sites such as www.articlecity.com will provide you with a wealth of material.

If you apply some of these methods you will not only get some high-quality non-reciprocal links but you will also boost the quality of your website in the process.

Donald Nelson is a web developer, editor and social worker. He has been working on the Internet since 1995, and is currently the director of A1-Optimization http://www.a1-optimization.com, a firm providing low cost search engine optimization, submission and web promotion services.

Sure, you download the stuff; then more often than not file it and forget it.

Different story though when you shell out hard cash; then you value your download, you savour the content, you delight in your new found discovery, you anticipate the wisdom it is about to impart.

Then nine times out of ten…

1. You discover you already know all this stuff, or
2. You realize it is total hogwash, or
3. You have to shell out again for an upsell to make it work

Now you compare it with similar free stuff you downloaded earlier and are surprised to learn there is intrinsic value attached; value you failed to spot first time around – if you even bothered to look.

Free stuff can be good if it follows these criteria…

? It emanates from a genuine source of expertise in its genre
? It does not set out to sell you something you neither need nor want
? It contains content of genuine value

Free stuff can make you money when you dispense it yourself if…

? Your offer is presented in good faith
? Your offer does not attempt to persuade the recipient to make a complementary purchase
? Your offer provides a genuine solution with no strings attached

Above all resist the temptation to infest your offer with a proliferation of thinly disguised affiliate links; they will just hack off the beneficiary.

Free stuff will build you a priceless resource if…

All you ask in return for your free stuff is an email address where you can relay a message with the download link.

Treasure your flow of freely given email addresses; compile them daily into a priceless asset; your ever-growing voluntary optin list.

Now you can think about upselling…

Jim Green is an entrepreneur and bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit. http://free-stuff-xl.com

Jim Green is an online enthusiast and bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction hard copy titles to his credit. free-stuff-xl.com

What are the big advantages of ezine advertising?

* Low cost: Buying ezine ads is much cheaper than for example banner advertising and the yield is much higher.

* Targeted Visitors: Advertise in ezines with an audience that is interested in the theme of your site and you will get a fairly good conversion rate — more of these visitors will buy from you, click on your affiliate links…

* Negotiable: Most ezine publisher will allow you to negotiate price and ad placement, especially when you are buying ezine ads on a regular basis.

* Life-Span: Old ezines are archived and remain accessible — you keep on generating traffic from ezine ads you bought weeks or even months ago.

Great sources that will help you to find the right ezines

* The Ezine Directory

* Ezine Search

* New-List

* Use the Search Engines – For example, search for: +newsletter +yourProduct

If you want to get good results with e-zine advertising, you have to do it properly. Don’t just jump in without really knowing what you are doing. Plan your campaign and do the necessary legwork.

Tips for buying ezine ads

* Get your ads in front of a highly targeted audience — that’s probably the most important point. Do your research and subscribe to ezines that seem to match your target market. Make sure that the content is of interest to your audience.

* Advertise only in high quality ezines: Verify if the ezine is providing valuable content. Check the ad / content ratio. Some ezines are stuffed with 80% of ads and a tiny little bit of content. Don’t waste your money on them.

* Who else is advertising? Are they selling similar products or services as you? If yes, then you probably found a “winning” e-zine.

* Where do they put the ads? The best place is just before the “feature article”

* Do they offer classified- or sponsored ads? Sponsored ads are a bit more expensive, but they are also more effective and well worth a few extra bucks.

* Check the price tag. Your investment has to make sense from a financial point of view. Start with cheaper ads. They probably won’t give you lots of traffic, but they are absolutely ok to get started and for testing.

Ok, you found some great ezines for your advertising campaign? Great, now it’s time to write your ads and to start contacting ezine publishers.

Some tips on writing great ezine ads

You only have a few seconds to convince the reader. So your ad has to stand out of the rest — be original and different.

Pay attention to the following points:

* Write an attractive headline. Hit the reader with your biggest gun – your most compelling benefit. But don’t cross the border. If you hype too much, you will loose your believability.

* The reader has to act immediately on your ad — i.e. clicking on the link to your website. In order to make the reader click, create some kind of urgency — mention that your offer is valid only for the next 3 days, offer a free eBook for the first 100 subscribers…

* The layout has to be appealing and simple to read.

* For easy reading, the text lines should not be longer than 65 characters.

Measure the response of your ads. Make slight changes (only one change at a time — e.g. modify the headline) to your ad and repeat your campaign. Did you get more visitors or less? Did your conversion rate go up or down?

Internet marketing is all about testing, changing, tweaking, testing, changing… — always try different things and measure the response.

Buying ezine ads is a cheap way to generate targeted traffic. Carefully choose the “right” ezines — this will make all the difference between success and failure.

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