Giveaway and List Building Guide

Building traffic to your Web site is all about getting the word out, and e-mail is one of the easiest and best ways to do that.People look forward to receiving interesting mail, and will still open email when the message is compelling.Below are some effective techniques to boost your Web site traffic through e-mail.

1.  Include a P.S. Message after every signature in your day-to-day emails you send to people.  This is often forgotten, but a great way to include a plug for you and your Web site with every message you send out.

Most email systems will allow you to set a signature so that it automatically appears with every email you send.   Make your message friendly and include some interesting information about a new product or service you are offering.  Make sure to give the reader a way to take advantage of the offer by including a link to your site or the specific offer page.

2.Newsletter Marketing.  Yes, newsletter emails are still essential to Web site traffic .  It’s just your job to make sure what you put into those emails is captivating enough for your readers to open them. It is very simple to add an opt-in box to your site for people to subscribe to the newsletter.

Communicating with your list on a weekly basis or more is still one of the most profitable things you can do with a Web site. There is a time and cost commitment with creating a newsletter, writing the content, and implementing the distribution of those emails, however the commitment can really pay off in high quality web site traffic.

3.Opt-In E-Mail Campaigns.  Believe it or not, not all unsolicited email is bad.Granted, you can get in some serious trouble by sending e-mail to someone just because you happen to have their address. But there are systems out there who aggregate lists of email addresses for folks who have requested to receive emails on certain topics – use one of these lists and even though you may not have communicated with these folks before you can get a really good response to your campaign.

Search Google for “email advertising” and you will find dozens of email systems where you can send announcements to millions of recipients ranging from a few cents per email to $100 per 100,000 recipients or more.

Now, realize you’re probably not going to get much response to an ad that blatantly tries to sell something. But, these systems are great for getting traffic to a giveaway like a free white paper or e-course. And, if your give-a-way is great quality information, your personal e-mail list of quality prospective customers will increase very quickly using this strategy.

E-mail is here to stay, and building traffic to your Web site using tried and true e-mail strategies continues to be one of the best ways of creating high lists of qualified prospects quickly.It is simple to implement and doesn’t cost much money. E-mail marketing is definitely a must in a successful Web site owner’s overall traffic building strategies.

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After you have created your squeeze page, you’re probably very excited to start getting opt-ins to your list. By selecting a good autoresponder company that keeps track of your e-mail open rates, you will eliminate a lot of hassels.

Start driving traffic to your squeeze page once you have the technical aspects squared away. If you do not have “eyeballs” on your opt in form, you won’t get any signups! Some marketers spend a lot of time setting up their squeeze page and expect the leads to come in on their own. This just does not happen! Driving traffic to your webpage requires a lot of time and effort before you start enjoying the rewards.

You may have already used traffic generation techniques for your website or Internet marketing and, if so, you already have a head start. You can use the same methods for driving traffic to your squeeze page and start building a list!

One option is to use pay per click marketing, such as Google Adwords. You’ll basically bid on certain key words that people in your niche are likely to search for. You should create an enticing ad so they want to visit your webpage and see what you have to offer. If your squeeze page is compelling enough, you’ll probably find that you get an opt-in rate of around 20% or more! Of course, this varies according to the niche, but you’ll probably find a number around that.

You can also use search engine optimization. This is kind of difficult to deal with using a squeeze page since there is little content and not a lot of clutter or links. Still, you can place articles on the same domain and link those articles to your squeeze page to drive even more traffic. Since Google loves content, writing articles will help your ranking!

There are many free websites you can use to help you drive traffic as well. You may create a one page website on sites like Squidoo and HubPages that will allow you to link to your opt-in form. These websites offer their own traffic and rankings in the search engines for your keywords.

Anither method that works extremely well is article marketing. Ezine Articles and Article Base are article directories where you can submit your articles with your webpage URL in the author’s resource box. Indicate that there is a free offer when they click the link, and you will likely get more click from your article.

Put these traffic generation techniques to work for you and you will begin to build your list. Be disciplined by creating a schedule and stick to it every day and you will start seeing some good traffic. Do a little bit each day and it won’t seem like such a burden — and the profits will be great!

Too many marketers out there rely on good old Google for their income. And I don’t just mean rely… they’re practically slaves to the Californian search engine company. They do everything they can to get high rankings in Google or to comply with their Adwords.

But what they don’t realise is… there’s a whole world of other traffic sources out there, once you really understand this, you’ll wonder why you even spent so much time with Lord Google in the first place.

For starters Twitter is one of the most visited sites on the net and with their newly introduced search engine function they are very likely to give Google a run for their money.

After all people spend more time Twittering than they do idling around on the Google front page. Of course some of this will be tempered by Google Chrome which lets you search right in the address bar.

Nevertheless as outlined in the Affiliate Funnel System just recently, you can also get hordes of traffic from media buying – where you get banners placed on high traffic websites. You can get swarms of visitors from Social Media sites, from MSN and Yahoo too. Don’t discount the smaller search engines, they have a ton of cheaper traffic which you can take advantage of.

Web 2.0 is here to stay and if you can harness the power of sites like Squidoo, MySpace, Facebook (and their new “pages” application), LinkedIn, Weebly and Tumblr… then you can really make a killing. In fact — it’s not uncommon to completely dominate the front page of any search engine for your keyword. That’s right, all of the slots can be yours because you’re spreading yourself over a host of powerful sites.

For anyone wondering how to make money online you need traffic and you need to convert that traffic. Conversion is a subject for another day but if you want traffic, the rise of super sites like Twitter and its other Web 2.0 friends makes it easy…