How to get web traffic using Facebook

Having just passed its' 500 millionth user worldwide Facebook is one of the most important platforms you can use to generate additional web traffic to your website or page. If you target marketing and social media networking via Facebook - and it's free - you can get a significant amount of highly targeted traffic.

Within those 500+ million users, there are a significant amount of potential leads for your business, but before you plunge into marketing to everyone there are very important aspects you must take into account before you begin.

First you need to target your market, by doing your own research, and it can take quite a bit of time, but there are already many successful businesses already profiting from their Facebook marketing. Start by adding friends to your page, once added you can view their profile and gain an insight into their background, if they are associated with any groups, and if their interests connect with yours.

Bare in mind though, that Facebook is the 'social' network, when first connecting keeps your posts and updates friendly, non-sales oriented, but do offer valuable content such as tips and techniques on your relevant industry. Also add a fan (like) page and load it with quality content to warm your leads up. Once you have provided this content you can start to add links to your site and special offers to your new friends. The more relevant the content, the more likely your prospects will turn into clients.

Join various groups on Facebook - there are hundreds and hundreds, and some more than likely, will cater to your business or product. The groups can give you access to a huge amount of people who are already interested in what you have to offer. Start posting on discussion boards, post your own ideas and tips and answer other's questions, this way other members of the groups will add you as a friend.

Start off with the mindset of making friends, not clients, and eventually it will evolve into a great marketing campaign naturally.

When posting, include personal anecdotes, useful information without pitching your business - remember, very important - do NOT sell yourself immediately - but do post things that will encourage people to engage back with you. Also include a link to your blog, it's not a direct promotion but a subtle one which should include your website link - just a little way to let your friends know you do have a business too!

If you can gain respect, response and recognition on Facebook, you will soon find yourself with an ever-growing following to your fan page, home page, blog, groups, there's limitless possibilities. And go ahead and create your own group(s), encourage other group members to join yours, soon you will have a huge sphere of influence through which to grow your business and reputation.

Source: 

James Hickey
Master Business Consultant

http://www.SDCCPRO.com http://www.sd-entrepreneur.com

Best way to get traffic (free)

Quite often the best ways to get traffic to your website are the free ways. You can get some serious amounts of traffic for free or very little cost. The real power in generating your own traffic is in the fact that you are in complete control of it quite often allowing you to choose more accurately who to target therefore generating higher conversion rates. People quite often overlook these methods and there are some real gems. Below I will outline the 5 best ways to get traffic to your website for FREE:-

1. People are spending more time watching video's online than doing anything else online. Video marketing is huge it's not all about YouTube although obviously YouTube by itself is massive but there are also loads of site that you can upload your videos to including Google, Myspace, Yahoo, MSN and AOL. It is not that hard to do and you can download some screen capture software for free. Although if you wish to get serious about Video marketing then some investment in software will improve the look and feel of your videos.

2. Searh Engine Optimisation (SEO)' I know its obvious but it's probably the best way of getting more traffic for your website. The three most important things to consider are:-

2.1. Choice of keywords - Most people choose keywords that there is too much competition for and do not give themselves a chance of getting to the top of the rankings.

2.2. Content - You need to have loads of relevant content that you update frequently to make sure that the search engines see your site as a current one.

2.3. Links - Not the quantity but the quality. You need one way links that are relevant and from other sites with high rankings for similar keywords. The best way to look at SEO is to try and look at it from the search engines point of view. When somebody does a search they want the best results to be displayed (if a load of irrelevant sites with no real content ie spam sites are listed then its not a very good search engine)

3. Articles and Press Releases just like the one that you are reading here are great for generating free traffic for several reasons:-

3.1. You will get high quality one way links from the article directories that you submit to right back to your site. So they are great for SEO. Imaging if you write 2 articles per week and get them published on 10 sites you will be adding roughly 80 high quality one way links to your site per month or just under a 1,000 in a year.

3.2. If you do some keyword research then your articles will very likely get good rankings in the search engines and be found that way.

3.3. People just browsing the article directories find your article and read it.

3.4. The best thing that can happen is an Ezine or magazine can choose to publish your article including the resource box with the link back to your website in it. Some magazines and Ezines have hugh readerships and your article can go out to the whole list generating massive traffic for FREE.

4. Harnessing the power of web2.0. Write a review or a short description about a page on your website that you wish to promote and then submit the review to the social sites. There are loads of the including, Digg, Furl, Stumble Upon, Reddit and Propeller to name a few. Using this method you again generate those one way links from high ranking sites so its great for SEO and people can find the link when browsing these social sites and click through on the link to have a look for themselves. The more interesting and intriguing your review is the more people will click through on your Link.

5. These are excellent ways to tap into highly targeted groups of people. You can also learn so much from other people in these groups or forums. Just go out and find a group or forum and start participating in the conversations and answering questions. You will have a signature file attached to each post that you make and this is where you have your link back to your site. Again building those one-way links and if you write a good signature file that is interesting people will click on those links. With this type of marketing it is best only to give responses if you know the Answer rather than just to get your link up there. It is easy to loose credibility and be seen as a spamer if you are not careful.

The most important thing to do now you have some knowledge is to Take Action without it you will not get any Free Traffic. It's best to focus on one way of getting traffic and get good at that before moving on to the next. So good luck and above all enjoy what you are doing.

Mike Goodchild has been Making Money Online for 7 Years and is the author of a 10 Day FREE Email course [http://www.mycashmachine.co.uk/free_traffic_tips.htm] about how to generate Traffic to your Website for Free or very little cost.

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SEO Mistakes most made

Targeting the wrong Keywords

This is a mistake many people make and what is worse – even experienced SEO experts make it. People choose keywords that in their mind are descriptive of their website but the average users just may not search them. For instance, if you have a relationship site, you might discover that “relationship guide” does not work for you, even though it has the “relationship” keyword, while “dating advice” works like a charm. Choosing the right keywords can make or break your SEO campaign. Even if you are very resourceful, you can't think on your own of all the great keywords but a good keyword suggestion tool, for instance, the Website Keyword Suggestion tool will help you find keywords that are good for your site.

Ignoring the Title Tag

Leaving the <title> tag empty is also very common. This is one of the most important places to have a keyword, because not only does it help you in optimization but the text in your <title> tag shows in the search results as your page title.

Flash

Flash might be attractive but not to search engines and users. If you really insist that your site is Flash-based and you want search engines to love it, provide an html version. Here are some more tips for optimizing Flash sites. Search engines don't like Flash sites for a reason – a spider can't read Flash content and therefore can't index it.

Javascripts

Using JavaScript for navigation is not bad as long as you understand that search engines do not read JavaScript and build your web pages accordingly. So if you have JavaScript menus you can't do without, you should consider build a sitemap (or putting the links in a noscript tag) so that all your links will be crawlable.

Lack of consistency and maintenance

Our friend Rob from Blackwood Productions often encounters clients, who believe that once you optimize a site, it is done forever. If you want to be successful, you need to permanently optimize your site, keep an eye on the competition and – changes in the ranking algorithms of search engines.

To much concentration on metatags

A lot of people seem to think SEO is about getting your meta keywords and description correct! In fact, meta tags are becoming (if not already) a thing of the past. You can create your meta keywords and descriptions but don't except to rank well only because of this.

Ignoring  URL’s

Many people underestimate how important a good URL is. Dynamic page names are still very frequent and no keywords in the URL is more a rule than an exception. Yes, it is possible to rank high even without keywords in the URL but all being equal, if you have keywords in the URL (the domain itself, or file names, which are part of the URL), this gives you additional advantage over your competitors. Keywords in URLs are more important for MSN and Yahoo! but even with Google their relative weight is high, so there is no excuse for having keywordless URLs.

Not enough Keywords

Once you focus on your keywords, modify your content and put the keywords wherever it makes sense. It is even better to make them bold or highlight them.

Source: webconfs

Kontera and Chitika

So I already have adsense and clickbank. Both have pretty disappointing  results till now. Adsense does not pay a lot and Clickbank only pays out when people actually buy products. So now I started a new experiment with kontera and Chitika. Both are pay per click systems. Chitika looks a lot like Adsense and pays out by paypall. Problem is, I added it, but I can’t see ads as they should be shown. I’ll just wait a while to see what it does.

Here’s an article I found on Techknowl. It’s about Kontera.

Have you seen those double underlined text inside a blog ?? They are advertising provided by Infolinks , Kontera and other major players in In text advertising .These programs uses JavaScript to match content from a website with available advertisers in their database . Publishers are paid when user clicks on any of the advertising links generated via hover tooltip . The major advantage of in text advertising is that we don’t need any extra real estate for putting them up . They even work with Adsense or any other contextual advertising network and it’s very easy to install on blogspot . Here is my review Kontera

Review : Kontera seems to be the biggest player and current market leader in textadvertising .They provide a JavaScript that can be embedded easily into any website . Unlike the normal JavaScript placements , these tags are to be placed at the bottom portion of a template . So these placements really affects the page load time .

Good:  More number of advertisers and comparatively good targeting .
Widgets and auto installers for all major blogging platforms and CMSs.
Bad: It seems Kontera really sucks when it comes to the payments . They offer support for the user to generate higher revenues but its not that working .
Payments only after 100 $ ( Via Paypal or Check ).
Statics page is not so impressive .

Websites:

Kontera

Chitika

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