Use an RSS feed

8. Use an RSS feed 

 Another way to build returning traffic to your site is to provide an RSS feed. In its current form, RSS stand for “Really Simple Syndication”. RSS allows someone to place a link on their homepage, website, or RSS reader that sends an update every time you update the information on your site. This is especially popular with news sites and blogs. If you are posting to your blog every week day, your readers will get an update 5 times a week. That means 5 times a week they will be reminded of your name and your website. This can really work to your advantage because they are getting that reminder because they asked to be reminded, not because you are forcing yourself on them. Every day they have a chance to read your message, and have the opportunity to visit the main part of your site. The more traffic that comes to your site on a regular basis, the more sales and advertising revenue you can generate. Another way to use RSS feeds is to bring news or information about your niche that will add value to your site. By putting fresh, up to date information on your websites main page, you give visitors a reason to come back to your site on a continuing basis. If they are interested in your topic, the will return to your site to get updates. Both uses of RSS are designed to keep your customers coming back. The more often they come back and get new, useful, or entertaining material, the more likely they are of spreading the word to their friends and family, and that is the first step of going viral.

Use Social Bookmark Sites

7. Use Social Bookmark Sites 

 Something that has really flourished in recent years is the popularity of social bookmark sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.ico.us. These sites allow users to search, set bookmarks, organize, read, and rate anything on the internet. If something you have written is posted to one of these sites, other readers get a chance to vote on whether or not they like it. If someone thinks it is good, and worth sharing, they can vote for it. The more people vote for it, the higher up in the rankings it moves. The higher it goes, more people see it. The more people see it, the more opportunities there are for someone else to vote on it, which helps it to rank even higher. The good part for you is, even if a reader doesn.t vote on your article, they still might go to your site to see if there is anything else there that they might like. One important thing to note is, these social bookmark sites do not like you to vote for your own articles. In fact, if you do vote for your own, it could cause it to move lower in the rankings. You have to have something that other people find interesting enough that they feel compelled to vote for it. These sites attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every day. If you are fortunate enough to have your message ranked toward the top on one or more of these sites for even one day, the flood of traffic to your site could be tremendous.

Blog

6. Blog -

 Of all the techniques I have listed, blogging is the most work to keep up with. It is also probably the slowest growing method on the list. In order for one of your blog posts to go viral, people have to know your blog exists. With so many quality blogs already in existence, it may take some time to get your blog noticed. It requires persistence. Before you decide to begin blogging, make sure you are interested enough in the topic to write about it on an almost daily basis. For a blog to be effective, you need to post at least 3 – 5 articles a week. While the posts do not need to be long, they should at least contain the elements that any technique needs to go viral; a unique point of view on a subject, informational, entertaining, and fresh. Not only do you need to be consistent in posting new information, you also need to work at marketing your blog. There are several easy ways to start getting other people to pay attention to your blog. Start by finding other popular blogs that cover a similar subject as you cover. Leave insightful comments on their blog. When you leave a comment, you can include a link back to your own site. If some reads your comment and like what you have to say, they may head over to your site to see what else you have to offer. If the blog you leave a comment on is very popular, this could drive a fair amount of traffic to your site. Another method of getting your blog notice is to write a post on your blog commenting on something you read on someone else.s blog. You add a link in your post pointing back to the blog you mentioned. In blog language this is referred to as a “trackback”. When you put the URL of the other blog in the trackback section of your blogging program it sends a message to the blog you are linking to informing them that you mentioned them in your blog. They come and read what you said, and if they like it, they may write something on their blog about your post. Their viewers can also click the link, which will drive traffic to your blog.  It is very easy to get started blogging if that is an area you are interested in. There are several good online blog services that will allow you to set up a blog for free. Some of these services, like Blogger.com, even allow you to set up AdSense advertising on your blog, which will let you earn a little extra income with your blog. If you would rather have the blog located as part of your own website, programs like WordPress are very easy to set up and use. The best part is, it is free to use. If you write good blog posts, and can effectively market your blog, your readership will grow. The more readers you have, the greater the chances of one of your posts going viral. The key to success is quality material that is fresh, and holds the readers attention. You can not get away with recycling what you read on someone else.s blog. When visitors come to your blog, make sure you give them a compelling reason to go to the main part of your site to look around. If your blog becomes popular, this method could drive a flood of traffic to your site that will continue on an almost daily basis.

Create a Brand able E-Book

5. Create a Brand able E-Book 

-Have you noticed the number of sites that offer free e-books to subscribers? Give your email address, click the link and you have instant access to an eBook full of useful information. The reason so many sites use this method of advertising is because it works, and here is how you can make it work for you. Write a short eBook on a topic that relates to your business. In that book you include a little information about your business, and at a couple of key places include a link that will drive traffic from the book to your website. Now post it on your website and let anyone interested download a free copy. However, it does not stop there. Encourage anyone who likes your eBook to offer it as a free gift on their website as well. If the information is useful, and the book is well written, the number of websites that are offering your book will begin to grow, Soon 50 or 100, or even 1,000 other sites will be helping you spread the word about your business. A successful campaign with timely information could keep driving traffic to your site for months or years to come. Be careful not to overdo the information about yourself, or include too many links back to your site. The more about yourself you include, the less likely others will be willing to give your book away for you. Another advantage of having your eBook before thousands of people.s eyes is it establishes your credibility. People give more credence to a published “expert” than they do to someone who has not written a book, even if the book is very short. You begin to build name recognition, and when people see your name associated with something in the future, they will be more likely to check it out. Internet marketer David Meerman Scott used this successfully when he released an eBook titled The New Rules of PR. He posted a link to the book on his blog, and sent link by email to friends and colleagues. Within 3 days his eBook had been downloaded over 1,000 times. At that point it caught the attention of a couple of internet marketing gurus who talked about it on their own blogs. In the 3 days following those blogs Scott.s eBook had been downloaded over 15,000 times. To date, the eBook has been downloaded over 60,000 times, and it has resulted in a continuing flow of traffic, and several speaking arrangements. He is now considered an expert in the field of internet marketing, largely because of his eBook. Do a search for eBook compilers to find a program to create your eBook, or find a program that will allow you to save a document as a PDF. Whichever program you decide to use, make sure it allows you to include active, clickable links. If the person reading the eBook has to copy and paste the link into a browser, many of them will not. Make it as easy as possible for them to get to your site. Also, make sure the program you use will not let anyone change the information in your eBook. There are less than honest people who will remove references to you and the links to your site, and include their own information into your eBook. Many programs will allow you to safeguard your information, so take advantage of them. PDF Brandable is an good piece of software that allows you to create brandable eBooks.

Require A Referral

3. Require A Referral 

-An added twist to the idea of giving something away for free to your customers is to require them to refer someone to you in exchange for what you are giving away. Simply provide a space where they can enter the email address of one or more people that they have to fill out before receiving the item you are offering. This is especially effective when your free item is something the person can download instantly. This technique not only puts your message in front of the eyes of potential customers, it also helps you build your own mailing list. You can send an email the people that were referred saying “Your friend (name) saw this, and would like to share it with you. By having the ability to use the friend.s name, it helps to establish your credibility. This will decrease the possibility of person receiving the invitation tagging your message as spam. Like many of the techniques listed, this will only work if your visitor thinks what you are offering is of enough value to make it worth giving you information about a friend or family member. Friendships are built on trust, and most people will not be willing to risk that trust on a worthless gadget. Do not expect in instant flood with this method. It usually starts as more of a trickle, but that trickle increases the longer it flows. Over time, the referrals will add up. If each person that takes advantage of your free offer refers two or more friends, it will not take long to have quite a list of potential customers, all at no additional cost. I personally use a script called ViralFriendlyGenerator.com to set up this viral marketing „word of mouth. campaign. It has added 1000s of subscribers to my list within months and I.m receiving new sign-ups to this very day from something I did years ago.

Provide Quality Content, Products, Or Services

1. Provide Quality Content, Products, Or Services   

 Providing quality content, products, or service is by far the best way to build your reputation, and build repeat traffic to your site. Research has shown that on average, when someone has a positive experience they will tell two other people about that experience. On the other hand, if they have had a bad experience, they will tell seven other people. That act of telling others is how the viral traffic generation techniques start. If your customers never tell anyone else about you and your site, you are back to doing all of the marketing on your own. To build returning customers to your site, you need to establish a reputation as an expert in your field, very entertaining, or someone who has unique insights. That does not happen if all you are offering is cheap, recycled drivel that you found on someone else’s website. Make sure that what you offer is your own work, and something that is different from what can be found on every other website. As your reputation as an expert increases, other websites and bloggers will start to pay attention to your website. They will begin to talk about what you are doing, and will even give links from their website to yours. Suddenly every one of their readers becomes a potential customer. The higher the quality of material you produce, the more often your site will be linked to. Each link to your site is an avenue for new visitors to your business. If you do not think you have the ability to create something that will touch people like it needs to, you may have to spend the money and hire someone else to do it for you. Fortunately for you, there are a lot of service that will put you in touch with freelance writers, site designers, and program designers. If you have an idea about what you want, chances are there is someone available to do it for you. If you are willing to take a chance on a freelancer who has not yet established themselves, you can often find one that will work for a low wage in exchange for the experience the job will give them. Be careful though; often times you get what you pay for. Make sure the work you get is up to the standards necessary to appeal to your audience.

How Can I Make My Message Go Viral?

This is an often asked question, and there has been a lot of time and money spent to find the answer. The truth is, there is no guaranteed way to make your message go viral. There are some things you can do to increase the chances that it will take off, but you can not “make” it happen. Successful viral traffic generation is part skill, part creativity, part timing and circumstances, and part luck. You may try dozens of things with no real success, and then strike gold in a completely unexpected place. There is a quote that says “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” If you continue to market your site, and continue to lay the groundwork for success, you greatly increase the odds that you will be “lucky”. For some sites it takes a long time to become an overnight success. By presenting your message in a useful, unique or entertaining way, it encourages people to spread the word. It requires creating a message with a wide appeal, and has a high potential of getting passed along.  Once it begins, there is no telling where it will go, how far it will spread, or who it will reach. If you happen to be one of the fortunate ones who have several messages going viral, you could easily reach millions of people. It does not happen for everyone, but it could happen for you. 

How Much Does Viral Traffic Generation Cost?

The cost of viral marketing really depends on the type of marketing campaign you decide to use. With the 21 Viral Traffic Generation Techniques listed below, there are many that are free, or very low cost. Some may cost a little more to produce and get started, while others could become quite expensive. How much you spend is entirely up to you and the how you want to use the different methods. One of the greatest things about viral traffic generation is, once you get the initial message out, it really doesn.t cost you any more once it goes viral. Your customers bear all of the time and expense of spreading the word. All you have to do is be prepared to handle the traffic when it comes. Depending on your website hosting service, there may be some costs for additional bandwidth as more customers flood your site, but if your sales increase because of the traffic it is worth the additional cost. 

Why Should I Use Viral Traffic Generation?

You may be thinking that viral marketing techniques are only for the major players with big budgets, and that it can not work for small businesses with small budgets. If that is your thinking, I can assure you, you are wrong. You might not be able to afford to produce the highly polished ads like the big companies, but there are still a lot of opportunities for success. Any business or individual with a message to get out or a service or product to sell can benefit from a well crafted marketing campaign. There are several reasons that you should be using viral traffic generation techniques to build your business and attract customers to your website.

1.) It is a fast, effective way to drive traffic to your site. Like I mentioned above, once the word starts to spread, it can spread very quickly, and there is really no limit to how many people can hear your message. Because your message often comes to someone from a person they already know, it has more credibility than if the message showed up uninvited in an email from someone they do not know. Once the message starts to spread it picks up size and speed as it goes, like a snowball rolling down a hill. You may start out thinking that your efforts were not very effective, then one morning you open your email to find it full of new orders. When it works, it can work very fast.

2.) It can be very inexpensive. Once the word starts to spread, there is not much additional cost. The biggest cost you will face is paying for all the additional traffic to your site. All of the cost and effort of spreading the word about what you have to offer is taken care of by the people spreading the word. More than likely, the biggest expense will be the upfront set up or production costs. Depending on which technique you decide to use. After that initial expense, the cost remaining costs are nominal.

3.) It can help shield you from negative comments One thing to remember is that a negative message can go viral, too. Unfortunately, you are not going to be able to please everyone. If you do enough business, eventually you are going to have someone who is unhappy with you and your business. It only takes one customer that is dissatisfied to put a shadow of doubt in your customer’s minds about whether they should do business with you or not. Once that doubt is there, it is hard to remove it. If people are not happy with the service they received, they are more likely to tell people about it than if they are happy customers. As unhappy customers start spreading negative messages about you, the word will start to spread, and there is not much you can do to stop it. The more it spreads, the more untrustworthy your business appears. All you can do is have enough of a buffer in place that the negative messages do not overpower the positive messages. If your message goes viral, not only will is send a flood of traffic to your site, but other sites will link to you, and your site will rank higher in the search engines. Your name will also appear on other high ranking sites. If a negative message does start to go around, it will have a much harder time getting out, because your positive message is already so highly ranked that the negative messages can not find their way to the top of the search engine listings.

4.) It can find hidden customers. Despite the time and money you spend trying to narrowly define your customers, figuring out who they are, and more importantly, where they are, there will always be people that you have missed. Once your message goes viral, there is no telling where it will end up, or who will see it. Because of the widespread coverage that can occur, people that you had not even considered to be your customers will get a chance to see your message. They will decide whether they are potential customers or not. As word continues to spread about what you are offering, you do not have to worry about finding all the possible niches your customers might be hiding. You do not have to go find them, they will find you.

Creating A Popular Blog

Creating A Popular Blog

If you want to make money through blogging, creating a popular blog is the key to success. If your blog receives very little traffic, you will not havemuch success monetizing it. No matter which method you use to makemoney from your blog, you will find the most success if you have a largereadership. Because of this, making your blog popular and growingreadership should beone of your primary concerns. There are many ways to make your blog more popular. The first thing youshould consider is who your audience is and who you are writing for. Youshould always write about something that interests you, and that willinterest others. You may think that your new kitten is the greatest thingsince sliced bread, but there are probably not very many other people whowant to read a blog about it. It is best to find a niche audience that is largeenough to support a wide readership but not to vague. One of the

great things about blogging is that you do not have to be a professional writer to have a popular blog. You do have to obey common grammatical rules and at least be able to put together coherent sentences, but you do not have to be a highly skilled writer.  Blog readers are looking for interesting, relevant topics to read, not the next work of Shakespeare. Make sure what you write is interesting, edgy, or even controversial. Popular blogs are never boring and add value to reader’s lives either through information or entertainment. Make sure your blog adds something of value to your reader’s life otherwise you will not develop a large fan base.  Making your blog popular is a lot like  driving traffic to a website. You can use many of the same techniques to drive traffic to your blog. Finding places to link back to your blog is a good way to drive traffic. Social sites such as Myspace, Facebook, and You tube provide lots of opportunities for this. You can also use social book marking sites such as Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg to promote your blog. Blogging on a popular blog site such as Wordpress and Blogger are also good ways to make your  log more popular as these blogging sites help to bring in traffic for your blog.  Whether you blog on a blogging network or you have an independently hosted blog, you need to make sure your blog is designed well. It is true that content is king and if a blog has great content is may receive lots of traffic even though it is ugly, having a well designed blog that is not ugly or annoying will help to drive repeat traffic. You want your blog to look unique, but not too unique. Keep with internet formalities such as blue links and use large font for headings.   You should break your post up into small paragraphs each with a headline if possible as internet readers tend to scan the screen looking for relevant  information rather than reading everything word for word. Make sure your colors do not contrast too harshly and that the text is easy to read. Using good design will make your blog aesthetically pleasing and make readers more likely to come back and remain on your page.   No matter where your blog is hosted, you should try to get it indexed by all the major search engines. Some forms of blog monetization require that your blog be indexed by search engines before they will allow you to participate in your program. The higher ranked your blog is, the more visitors you will receive and the more popular your blog will become.   All forms of monetization for your blog require readers to work successfully. Before you try to implement your monetization strategies, make sure your blog has enough readers to make your efforts work. If there is no one to click your ads, visit your affiliate sites, or read your reviews, you do not stand much of a chance of making money.

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Performance Tracking Through Reports

Performance Tracking Through Reports

Google AdSense program provides you reports which you can use for tracking

the performance of your AdSense Ads. There are certain basic reports which are

as such available on all AdSense accounts. These reports will show you the total

number of page impressions, ad unit impressions, ad clicks, cost per thousand

impressions (effective CPM), click through rate (CTR), and your earnings of

course. You can view the reports for the date range of your choice. However, do

not expect the report to be updated every second. Typically, the data is updated

by Google AdSense program after every hour.

You can customize these reports for advanced performance tracking. Though

simple customization of basic reports is useful too, it’s the ‘channels’ that really

help in conducting a detailed performance analysis. Using channels you can get

data broken down and presented in a number of different ways e.g. you could

compare the performance of one set of pages against another; you could

compare the performance of one ad format against another etc. There are

various options available with channels and it’s just a matter of exploring them

and using them to your benefit.

Besides viewing the reports online, you can even download your reports (in CSV

format – comma separated values format). If you don’t want to login to your

AdSense account very frequently, you can set up email-able reports which

automatically get emailed to you or whoever you designate.

That brings us to the end of our study on the truly Fascinating, Google AdSense

program. Now, it’s the time to start putting this knowledge to use and start

earning money using the Google AdSense program.

Best of luck and have a lot of fun learning and earning from the Google AdSense

program.

Getting Paid Through AdSense Program

Getting Paid Through AdSense Program

Once you have setup your AdSense account, updated your website with

AdSense code, applied tips etc, you would surely be looking forward to earning

some revenue from the AdSense Ads. Though revenue will start accruing to your

AdSense account almost immediately, the actual payments to you are based on

certain rules that Google has laid out for all website owners that have an

AdSense account.

1. The first and the most important rule is that Google will make a payment to

you only when your account balance is $100 or more. Also, these

payments are made by Google within 30 days of the last day of calendar

month during which you attain an account balance of $100 or more. If your

account balance is less than $100 on the last day of the month, the

balance just rolls over to the next month and this continues till you actually

have at least $100 in your account. You can easily check your account

balance by logging-in into your AdSense account.

2. Obviously, Google will only be able to pay you only if you provide them

with the information that is required for payments. This includes the Payee

information and contact details that you specified at the time of signing-up

for an AdSense account. Though you can edit most of this information,

country and Payee name cannot be changed at this stage (i.e. after the

account has been approved by Google). If you need to get these changed,

you will have to close your AdSense account and open a new one.

3. You will also need to submit your tax information using the Tax information

link on the My Account tab. This information is required irrespective of

your location and, in any case, Google would not process your payment

without the tax information.                

4. You also need to specify the mode of payment. This can be done through

the ‘Payment Information’ link on the ‘My Account’ tab. Just check the

options available for your location and choose the one that best suits you.

5. As soon as your AdSense account balance reaches $50, Google will mail

(snail mail) a PIN number to your payment address. You will need to enter

this PIN into your account before you can become eligible for payments

from Google.

AdSense Tips That You Might Have Missed Out On

AdSense Tips That You Might Have Missed Out On

Google AdSense program is one of the best online advertising programs that are

in use today. AdSense program is beneficial to all the involved parties i.e. the

advertisers, the website owners and the website visitors. The popularity of

AdSense program seems to be the most among the second group i.e. website

owners. A number of website owners today use AdSense Ads on their websites

in order to earn good revenue on a regular basis. They use a number of tricks

and tips in order to maximize their revenues.

Besides the regular tips, there are some other AdSense tips which a number of

people miss out on unless they are very careful:

1. Use multiple ad units: Google allows you to use up to 3 ad units and one

link unit per web page. Since your revenue earnings are dependent on ad

clicks and ad impressions, a higher number of ad units can potentially

increase your AdSense earnings. However, do not go with the maximum

allowed ad units if you don’t have enough content on your web page; this

might offend the website visitors.

2. Use wider Ad format: Though Ad formats yield different results for

different websites, the wider Ad formats (like rectangles) are generally

known to be more effective than their narrower counterparts (there is a

scientific explanation for this, but we can leave that out since we are more

concerned with the results).

3. Limit the filters: Filters are useful for blocking the Ads that you don’t want

displayed on your website e.g. Ads of competitors. However, too many

filters can seriously limit your revenue earning potential from AdSense

Ads. So, limit the use of filters to minimum.

AdSense Tips That You Might Have Missed Out On

AdSense Tips That You Might Have Missed Out On

Google AdSense program is one of the best online advertising programs that are

in use today. AdSense program is beneficial to all the involved parties i.e. the

advertisers, the website owners and the website visitors. The popularity of

AdSense program seems to be the most among the second group i.e. website

owners. A number of website owners today use AdSense Ads on their websites

in order to earn good revenue on a regular basis. They use a number of tricks

and tips in order to maximize their revenues.

Besides the regular tips, there are some other AdSense tips which a number of

people miss out on unless they are very careful:

1. Use multiple ad units: Google allows you to use up to 3 ad units and one

link unit per web page. Since your revenue earnings are dependent on ad

clicks and ad impressions, a higher number of ad units can potentially

increase your AdSense earnings. However, do not go with the maximum

allowed ad units if you don’t have enough content on your web page; this

might offend the website visitors.

2. Use wider Ad format: Though Ad formats yield different results for

different websites, the wider Ad formats (like rectangles) are generally

known to be more effective than their narrower counterparts (there is a

scientific explanation for this, but we can leave that out since we are more

concerned with the results).

3. Limit the filters: Filters are useful for blocking the Ads that you don’t want

displayed on your website e.g. Ads of competitors. However, too many

filters can seriously limit your revenue earning potential from AdSense

Ads. So, limit the use of filters to minimum.

Top 4 Tips For Getting The Best Results From Your AdSense Ads

Top 4 Tips For Getting The Best Results From Your AdSense

Ads

Now we come to some of the most interesting bits about AdSense program. Here

we will talk about some tips that can help you enhance your AdSense revenue.

After all, “It’s all about money”…

The revenue that you earn from Google AdSense program is totally dependent

on you and your abilities. Here are some tips that you can use to get the best

results from your AdSense Ads:       

Use channels: Channels help you in conducting a better analysis of the

performance of your AdSense Ads. You can use custom channels to

check what web pages are making more revenue and which ones are not

doing so well. In fact, custom channels can be used for conducting

analysis on multiple aspects at the same time. You can use this analysis

for making amendments to your AdSense Ads or website content in order

to get better results.

Ad customization and positioning: Shape, Size and color are the three

properties of your AdSense Ads that you can easily control and customize

in a way that the Ads don’t look out of place when served on your website.

You can either make your Ads stand-out from the rest of the content on

your webpage or you can make them blend with the overall webpage.

Moreover, you can identify the hot spots on your website and position your

Ads accordingly. Ad customization and Ad positioning are, in fact, the best

ways to attract more clicks to your AdSense Ads.

Content quality: ‘The best generally overcomes the rest’ – is a very true

saying. If you host quality content on your website and provide regular

updates to your visitors, you can expect more traffic to your website. This

will in turn lead to more ad impressions and possibly more clicks.

Use AdSense Ads on all pages: If you have multiple web pages on your

website, you should include AdSense Ads on all of them. Since the visitors

can enter your website through a number of different pages, having

AdSense Ads on all the pages will surely increase your earnings.