Traffic-en Your Site
Growing your website traffic is very important, especially when trying to market yourself, and, or your music. The Internet provides everyone / independents with the same opportunity to reach fans, as major labels, and artists. When marketing your website online there’s always a balance between time, and money. The more time you put into marketing your site, the more you can do, spending less money. The more money you have to spend, the less time, and hard work you have to put into marketing. It’s a simple relationship, and now its my time to tell you how you can get ahead in the online marketing game.
Straight Linking:
Its always best to link, and, or exchange buttons, and banners with other websites sharing the same subject matter as you. How do you manage your time effectively? Your first step is creating a template email, for example, "Hi, my name is bob, and I want to exchange links with you". Remember always to include your website link information in your template as it will save time. Your next step is to find a list of sites sharing the same subject matter as you. No problem, search in Yahoo for "your subject, links", or better yet, find another site and go through their links section. Most sites already linked to someone else’s site will link to yours. Now the fun part begins. Go through every single link, visit their site, find a email address, and send your "link template letter". Repeat that process to 100, or 200 sites, and your in business. Most link exchanges will only provide a small amount of traffic; however, some will provide a good exchange, and most will be long term. This isn’t considered spam, because most web owners will welcome the exchange opportunity, and your emailing them for a legitimate purpose.
Next you may want to build a section on your site regarding link exchanges to let people visiting your site know your interested. For a perfect example visit the "webmasters" section of this site. It lists various ways we reach out to website owners to exchange web traffic, and work together in cross promotional relationships.
Search Engines:
You will want to list yourself in all of the search engines. Yahoo, Google, and Altavista send us the most traffic. Yahoo is the leading search engine. You will want to make sure your keywords are statigically selected, and your description is well wrote, tailored to your site. You will also want to make sure your site looks decent, especially with the selectivity of the search engines increasing. A good way to find out what keywords work is to do a search in the search engines and see what is returned. Then view the sites keywords, and get a feel for what other sites in your category are using. Also, it’s good to use a free software tool to check your keywords, and description to judge your submission readiness. Better to submit your site right the first time; rather than, have to do it again.
GoTo.Com - Pay Advertising:
You might even consider using the services of pay advertising. Goto.Com sends us a significant amount of traffic, and you only pay cents for clicks. In reality, especially if your selling products, it’s a good deal to pay cents for a interested buyer. You can tailor your link to only appear when users type in select words, or phrases, and then you only pay when they click thru to your site.
Sign Up
If you want to sign up with GoTo.Com please click on the below link. By doing so, we do receive a one time referral credit to our account, but we’re not recommending them because we get something, we’re recommending them because you get something, and we’re using them because they work.
http://www.goto.com/d/advertisers/p/bjump/?o=RR-39354&b=10
More Goto.Com Info:
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TARGETED LEADS-
Get your site in front of users right when they are searching for your products, services and information.
COST EFFECTIVE-
Pay only when targeted leads click through to your site.
!!! $10 BONUS CREDIT !!!
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StartBlaze:
StartBlaze is a newer service that we started using, and it sends us guaranteed traffic, and its FREE to sign up. Absolutely FREE!! Basically, you sign up, and every time you open your web browser they credit your account, and show your website as someone else’s start page when they open their web browser. It’s also two tier supported, meaning if you refer people you get so many credits for every time they open their browser. If you referred 20 of your friends, and they opened their browser two times a day, that would mean a good amount of daily, guaranteed traffic.
The downside is its very generalized traffic that most likely wont be interested in your site, but its free to sign up, and all you have to do is open your browser to gain the traffic, so really, you got nothing to lose in my opinion.
Sign Up
To sign up for StartBlaze simply use the link below. We get a referral credit for directing you to use their service, but, again we’re referring you because you will get a benefit. We’d recommend this service to you even if we received no referral credit.
http://www.startblaze.com/cgi-bin/intro.cgi?17678
More Information on StartBlaze:
"OK, I'm not going to waste your time and spout off about how important traffic building is to the success of your Internet business. It only takes a few days on the net to realize that your web site is an island without traffic. Obviously, you need to do something to get people to your site. Without that, nothing else is possible.
The problem is, most people don't know how to generate traffic to their sites. There are various tools you can purchase to help you do this, but the vast majority of them are too complicated to use, take too much of your time, or simply don't work.
That's why we developed StartBlaze.com. It's very simple, ridiculously easy, lightning fast, and 100% free. The best part is, getting started takes less than a minute!"
StartBlaze
Top Sites:
Top site programs work depending on which you sign up for. Music Remedy, Elite, and MrBlunt send us the most amount of traffic out of the top site programs. When considering a top site program view how many people are participating. If you have a 100 top site program, and only 20 people are using it, you can probably find a better one out there that will benefit you more. Just remember top site programs work by you having to send a fair amount of traffic to rise in the stats, to receive a greater traffic return, or even appear on the listing. If you cannot send a top site program good traffic, then its probably a waste of time to sign up.
Doorway Pages:
A doorway page is a general page that links to your website, and features miscillaneous content, most likely, of the same subject matter of your site ( ie hip hop). Some organizations, both big and small have flooded search engines with misc. pages, all featuring their link, in hopes of driving high traffic to their site. Search Engine’s frown on this technic, and we don’t endorse its use, but it does work. For example, if you had 50 door way pages, sending you 5 unique visitors each per day, that’s 250 unique visitors a day. These numbers are extremely realistic. Chances are each doorway page will send you 20-30 unique visitors each day yielding your volume to an extra 1,500 unique visitors per day. If your going to do it, host the doorway pages on another domain name to decrease your chances of getting caught, because if you do get caught some search engines will boot you, ban you, or lower your rating. We do not use door way pages.
Your Choice:
I'm not a writer, I'm just someone who experienced some cool things in life, and wanted to share my knowledge in hopes you will benefit from having listened. It's your choice whether or not you follow up. Good Traffic-en!! May your website receive many visits.
Where to Start?
Start with us, and let's do a link exchange.
Mista BLaZe
HipHopHotSpot.Com
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