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ACN REP
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# Posted: 18 Mar 2006 13:43
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I was wondering how you all go about EFFECTIVELY promoting your website/business??
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mcbsconsulting
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# Posted: 18 Mar 2006 14:53
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Hey ACN,
You are starting out well by joining the forum. You need to participate and add useful advice when you can. When people see that you know what you are writing about, they will be drawn to your site.
Another way is to leave pertinent comments on Blogs and Websites that are related in some way to your main site (they all have a place for links).
Find like minded sites and try to exchange links with them. It is good for both sites to lead readers to each other and for SEO.
Just a few (FREE) ways to promote your site effectively.
Good Luck,
Joe
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A8ch
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# Posted: 18 Mar 2006 15:05 · Edited by: A8ch
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Here is a short list of some of the promotional strategies and tools you can use:
- search engine marketing
- opt-in lists
- joint ventures
- autoresponders
- linking
- article writing
- newsletters
- e-zines
- e-courses
- e-books
- banner advertising
- web site promotion
- direct marketing via e-mail
- pay per click
- web analytics
- affiliates
- public relations
- branding
- web sites
- blogs
- classifieds
- discussion forums
- news groups
- reports
And the list continues...
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PolskaSurf
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# Posted: 24 Mar 2006 16:57
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I use a lot of PTC (Pay-To-Click) traffic. You pay around $1.50 per 1,000 unique visitors and I've found that per 1,000 we usually get 2-3 people interested so it pays off in the long run.
Other ways to get decent cheap/free traffic is with autosurf sites where you get credits to surf and then promote your own site using them. If you run like 10 autosurf sites at once you are making arond 10 unique visitors every 30 seconds, free! not bad 
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Xperior
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# Posted: 29 Mar 2006 17:07 · Edited by: Xperior
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1. Make sure you have the best meta tag info for your website. Do a free search on wordtracker.com to find popularly searched words with the lowest amount of competition.
2. Add as much useful content to your website as possible so you get indexed by the search engines.
3. Try to get popular sites to links to you.
4. Write articles and post them on popular article sites with your url pointing back to your site.
5. Pay per click- These are getting more expensive everyday so watch out.
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Magyk
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# Posted: 6 Apr 2006 15:09
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"If you run like 10 autosurf sites at once you are making arond 10 unique visitors every 30 seconds, free! not bad"
This is true, but what good is the traffic when these visitors are only coming to the site to get visitors to their sites? These seem like a huge waste of time to me...
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cathy_ysh
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# Posted: 18 Apr 2006 03:32
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To me, those autosurf sites help to increase your website hits, not so much about making sales out from it. Unless those people who manually surf on the websites... they will be able to read the content of your website.
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WhitePhoenix
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2006 22:29
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What differrence does it make how many visitors hit your site? Is it the 'mine is bigger than yours' mentality? If you want visitors to come to your site to purchase something, isn't it , like Magyk says, just a waste of time?
It should be the sales record that should recommend a product or service, not the state of your visitor counter. Or am I missing something here???
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A8ch
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2006 10:35
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Right on, Denise! You're not missing anything, you are nailing the point. The objective is quality over quantity... sales over visits. Still, in the absence of a qualified, responsive opt-in list, one has to begin somewhere.
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Gadiandi
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2006 11:18
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I assume that everyone wants to increase traffic to their sites for the purpose of getting more sales. The more traffic, the more likely to get a sale. But there is a quality issue. Some traffic is better than others. Some traffic is your target market while the rest isn't. Your time promoting your website should be focused on getting traffic from your target market.
I have found that Autosurfs aren't the greatest source of traffic unless your website has something to do with that market.
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computershy
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# Posted: 7 Sep 2006 17:54
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Check out your local chamber of commerce --- my chamber will put a link to your business on their Web site.
When a high-traffic site links to yours it both puts a lot of eyeballs on your Web address and also improves your search engine ranking.
Plus it improves your credibility with potential customers.
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pcwork
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# Posted: 8 Sep 2006 02:18
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Has anyone been able to use free classified sites like craigslist effectively?
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LifeofEgypt
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# Posted: 15 Sep 2006 18:27
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I like PPC. I use as many good keywords and keyphrases as i can think of and keep their cost cheap. This along with other marketing strategies keep targeted traffic flowing to my site.
I also do a lot of forum posting. All of the one way links help to get targeted traffic and attention from the search engines.
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inter
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# Posted: 17 Sep 2006 08:05
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Forum posting is the best way to get free traffic to a site. Daily I am getting lots of visitors to my site and also we can increase the link popularity of the site.
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netvalar
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# Posted: 17 Nov 2006 18:18
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In response to pcwork I have used craigslist for several of my online ventures. I have found that the ones where I have had the best success were the ones selling a product rather then a service. Also my ads on craigslist for bus opps have netted me no leads. Hope this helps a little.
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Razilee
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# Posted: 18 Nov 2006 14:58
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I agree netvalar. I had no response on craigslist for business opportunities. Limited with just the product, but I don't think I've worked out the kinks of nailing my ad copy yet!
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pcwork
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# Posted: 18 Nov 2006 19:31
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Netvalar thanks for the information
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WebGuru
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# Posted: 19 Nov 2006 07:30
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Quoting: netvalar In response to pcwork I have used craigslist for several of my online ventures. I have found that the ones where I have had the best success were the ones selling a product rather then a service. Also my ads on craigslist for bus opps have netted me no leads. Hope this helps a little.
So you saying netvalar the craiglist doesnt work for you. Are you targeting the right keywords. The craiglist can benefit you in certain keywords and text.
It all depends on what you are trying to promote. You also said you had better results selling products then services.
It seems like you have the right mindset and focus.
Thats great
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iceman001972
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# Posted: 25 Nov 2006 00:02
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Hi,
I see only a couple of people have mentioned article writing. This in my opinion is the best and least cost effective way to market your website. I have been doing this for about a year now and have seen great results. I do use an article submitter and have loaded about 450+ article directories onto it. I get about 30-50 visits per day from just my articles. I have the software I use on my site for free it also includes the 450+ article directories to load onto it as well. When submitting article remember to use your keywords in anchor text to your website and change them each article you write, but always use your website keywords to link to your site.
Another great thing to do is to SEO your site. I've been using Brad Callen's methods now for about 4 months and have attained a top listing for several of my keywords. If you ask me Brad definately knows his perverbial sh@#. I also happen to have a couple of his e-books on my site as well.
Directory submission is another thing I do and this works well in getting one way back links which will help in link pop.
Blog often and at least 2-3 times per week. Search engines love fresh new content.
Traffic exchanges although not that effective can be useful if you use them to gather info. By this I mean use them to build your opt-in list by offering something for signing up to your list. Trust me it works. My list has grown by about 2000 just from using TE's
Hope this helps ya a bit,
Sincerely,
Brice Mattson
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robman_thn
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# Posted: 3 Dec 2006 05:24
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My first post here  And just done my webpage.
Thanks for the tips, gone try it out. Seems to be a nice forum this.
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talis18
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# Posted: 6 Dec 2006 02:09
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I am currently trying a program from www.InstanBuzz.com to advertise for my site. I have to install a bar that shows ads, but it is at the top of my screen and is out of the way. It is free to use and advertise, but you can upgrade to different plans. You earn credits just for surfing the internet like you usually do. People aren't clicking on your ad to earn credits, but because they are interested in it. I have just started using it so I'm not sure how successful it will be yet.
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gregriv69
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# Posted: 7 Dec 2006 02:14
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I think clasififed advertising works. What do you think?
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icesar
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# Posted: 11 Dec 2006 13:59
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I think what you can immediately see from iceman's post is that hard work and perseverance pay off! (And that he's a good marketer)
Create a routine of marketing and promoting; it's not something you can do just once and foget.
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Tricia
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# Posted: 15 Jul 2007 23:48
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Just curious, do you post the same articles to all the ezines. Would that get your website banned from Google since I heard that Google ban websites with duplicate content?
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pit2palace
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2007 13:48
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Greetings Everyone,
I have been working from home off and on since 2003, I have learned and seen alot, and shelled out enough money for a two year collage course.
"Any successful marketer on the internet will tell you the gold is in your list!" If you want your business to prosper build a list - if you want your business to fail don't build a list!
The most important aspect in getting web traffic to your site, is that you learn to write attention grabbing headline and content for your ads. And track your ad campains to see what ads pull, before investing your hard earned money!
Give away free products when ever possible, to build a relationship with new potential customers. And harvest email address through a guest book so that you can contact them over and over again.
Next will be to find a system, and put it into place for submitting your ads. As well as giving yourself a pre set budget to work with for advertising and marketing.
Best regards,
Pit2palace
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JNaugle
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# Posted: 16 Jul 2007 18:42
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My two cents...
I have been in the game for only a year but have found PPC to be the only "sure-fire" approach. I tried the [i]drive as much traffic as possible to your site for as little as possible approach[i] and that succeeded at creating a lot of hits and was cheap....but that's all it did..no quality traffic that ended up in sales. The key to successful ppc is keywords and "keyword Intense ads" and reasonable bidding. You don't have to be the highest bidder to get a decent share of clicks and I have found that the serious "shoppers" will look through several sites before making a purchase so getting listed in the first 10 will still be successful. Remember Ad quality is key to get the click over the next guys/gals website. Good Luck.
John
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kpb15
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# Posted: 17 Jul 2007 09:34
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I'm a bit confused though about unique hits and normal hits?
I just want my site to be shown in search engines, It's designed mostly for local use. So does unique hits put your site higher than just hits in search engines?
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2007 16:55
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Do you mean views verses unique views? Or are you talking about a hit counter? You might have 1,000 page views in a month and only 700 unique views.
So the number of times a person views several of your pages verses a single visit.
To clarify - Unique views are counted only one time even if a person visits several pages. Page views counts every page visited within the site. So, the page views number is almost always higher.
I hope that helps!
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pcwork
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# Posted: 2 Oct 2007 22:35
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Quoting: kpb15 I'm a bit confused though about unique hits and normal hits? I just want my site to be shown in search engines, It's designed mostly for local use. So does unique hits put your site higher than just hits in search engines?
It is the other way round, the higher a website is in the search engines, the more traffic it will get.
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netvalar
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# Posted: 30 Oct 2007 02:54
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Its been eons since I have been around. I still stick with what I said bus opps on craigslist isn't worth while. However I do have to change the services thing now it just isn't as good as the product sales.
In response to article writing any articles you submit outside of your site should be different enough from what is on your site to not get hit with the duplicate content thing. It shouldn't be too hard to rewrite something into a new article.
I agree the bigger and better the list the better you will do. Be careful to not chase your list away. I like what Iceman says about traffic exchanges. I have used them for other purposes but for traffic worthless. Not sure why I didn't think about building a list though.
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