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1. |
Write and
submit
articles :).
It is a
classic, but
it works.
This will be
indefinite
traffic
stuck in the
search
engines for
you. Write
quality
unique
articles,
not articles
that are
rehashed or
provide no
insight to
readers,
which is a
huge problem
these days.
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2. |
Write and
submit press
releases,
think prweb
after you do
one.
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3. |
Write and
ping blog
entries.
Always make
sure to link
back to your
website with
your blog
posts. Try
making
multiple
blogs and
have them
all link
back to one
main site.
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4. |
Make sure
your website
is listed
in: DMOZ :
http://dmoz.org/
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5. |
Advertise
your website
in the
appropriate
categories
at
Craigslist.
Try posting
your ads in
the most
populated
cities in
the world.
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6. |
If a niche
related
forum that
you
frequently
visit allows
signatures,
then make
sure to add
your website
url in
there.
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7. |
Make sure to
view related
products on
Amazon.com.
You can try
and take
some
customers
from your
competitors
here by
providing
your own url
if the
product is
similar.
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8. |
Review
websites in
your niche
on Alexa to
try to take
some of
their
traffic by
including a
reference
back to your
site.
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9. |
Review some
related
products on
epinion.
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10. |
If you
purchase a
product that
you actually
like, then
feel free to
give an
individual
respect when
respect is
due and
leave a
testimonial.
You should
be able to
get some
traffic from
that website
if your
testimonial
is left with
a url.
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11. |
Whenever you
send an
email to
someone,
always add
your website
url as a
signature.
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12. |
Keep
updating
content on
your
websites/blogs…
try at least
once per
week.
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13. |
Tag blog
posts at
social
bookmarking
sites,
especially
at
http://del.icio.us/.
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14. |
Add photos
to your blog
with
appropriate
keywords.
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15. |
Tag blog
photos at
Flickr.
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16. |
Politely ask
your readers
to subscribe
to your rss
feeds.
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17. |
Try coining
your own
term. Might
want to
trademark it
if you smell
that it will
become
popular.
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18. |
Encourage
readers to
comment on
your blogs.
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19. |
Include
translation
for your
websites/blogs,
especially
in Chinese.
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20. |
Do not be
boring,
write about
something
that a wide
select of
people would
want to know
about.
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21. |
Make sure to
edit your
writing
(unlike what
im doing
:D).
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22. |
Comment on
other
related
blogs.
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23. |
Make a
custom
404-error
page for
your
website. You
can provide
a link back
to your main
website or
even try to
monetize it
by offering
a related
affiliate
program
within your
niche.
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24. |
Sponsor a
charity,
most
charities
will link
back to your
website, and
you are also
doing a good
deed :).
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25. |
Sell an item
on eBay as a
charity
auction.
Most
charities
will link
back to both
your auction
and your
main
website.
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26. |
Start a
publicity
campaign, do
something
that
individuals
in your
niche will
take note
of.
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27. |
Brand your
website with
a logo and a
slogan/catch
phrase.
Think IBM.
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28. |
Hold a crazy
contest that
people in
your niche
will talk
about. This
will equal
more links
and traffic
to your
website.
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29. |
Build a tool
that
individuals
in your
niche will
love and
enjoy. Then
give it away
for free. If
the tool is
helpful,
then you
will get
quality
one-way
links to
your
website.
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30. |
Contact
small
newsletters
sources
offline and
submit
articles to
them.
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31. |
Become
friends with
editors of
an offline
publication.
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32. |
Give
speeches
offline.
Start small
and local.
Also, do not
forget to
participate
in
toastmasters
meetings in
your area.
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33. |
Have a GREAT
product. All
of the
marketing/advertising
in the world
will do you
NO good if
your product
is sub par.
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34. |
Make
something
innovative.
If you are
selling
information,
what makes
your content
something
you cannot
get from the
local
bookstore,
Barnes and
noble or
even eBay
for that
matter?
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35. |
Is your
product
groundbreaking?
Will you
leave
individuals
with no
choice but
to talk
about your
product or
service?
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36. |
Are you
selling
something
that wide
groups of
people want
to know
about but
there is
limited/scarce
knowledge?
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37. |
Write good
content, if
your writing
is good then
people will
share it
with their
friends. In
addition,
webmasters
will use it
as content
on their
website with
a reference
back to your
article, or
at least
they should.
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38. |
Spark
emotions. If
you get
people
emotional
about
something
then they
will most
likely talk
about it.
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39. |
Get a custom
t-shirt made
with your
website url
on it, and
wear it
often.
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40. |
Build a list
of
subscribers.
Your list is
like a
golden asset
to you if
utilized
correctly.
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41. |
Write tip
articles,
such as “Ten
easy tips to
blank-blank-blank.”
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42. |
Buy traffic
from the
search
engines by
utilizing
one of their
PPC
campaigns.
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43. |
Open up a
myspace
account and
find
targeted
friends so
that you can
promote your
services to
them. Do not
spam people,
myspace is
cracking
down on
spammers and
are starting
to sue
people.
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44. |
Solicit a
link from
your local
chamber of
commerce.
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45. |
Have an easy
to remember
domain name.
If your
domain name
is too long
or not
memorable
then people
may forget
your site.
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46. |
Add a
bookmark
option to
your
website/blogs.
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47. |
Purchase the
misspelled
versions of
your domain
name and
have it
redirect to
your main
one.
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48. |
Use keywords
in your
image alt
tags.
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49. |
Make sure to
include
appropriate
keywords in
your title
tag, search
engines show
more
prominence
or
importance
to keywords
here.
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50. |
Place
appropriate
keywords in
your anchor
text when
linking.
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51. |
If you have
a profile
anywhere
online,
always
include
appropriate
keywords and
link back to
your
website.
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52. |
Try to get
links from
websites
within your
niche with a
high pr
(pagerank).
Some
webmasters
say that
pagerank is
not
important,
but do not
listen to
them, they
have no idea
what they
are talking
about :).
The more
one-way
links
(inbound
links/backlinks)
you have to
your
website, the
higher your
pr will
become.
Pagerank is
important
because
websites
with higher
prs tend to
have a
higher
search
results in
Google. It
is a no
brainier
that if you
can get
number one
for a
competitive
keyword then
you will
have enough
traffic that
you can
handle… oh
by the way
its all free
targeted
traffic to
remind you.
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53. |
Outsource
grunt work.
Time is in
essence
money…. you
can hire
individuals
at freelance
services to
send emails,
request JV
proposals,
or to answer
questions
from
prospective
or current
customers.
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54. |
Offer
something
for FREE.
Abracadabra
is not the
magic word,
FREE is. It
is like a
worm on a
pole for a
fish in the
water…. its
bait! Offer
a free mini
course or
free ebook
to help
collect more
subscribers.
You can
always offer
a backend to
monetize on
this
opportunity,
such as an
affiliate
product for
example.
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55. |
After
someone
orders from
you offer a
one-time
offer that
compliments
your
product. For
example, if
I offered a
traffic
ebook, then
after the
individual
purchase it
would make
sense for me
to offer a
traffic
conversion
bonus for a
limited time
only.
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56. |
Become the
virus within
your niche.
Make
yourself the
bug and have
people
talking
about your
product.
When people
talk about
your product
then you can
induce the
viral
effect.
However, you
must give
people a
reason to
talk about
you, and
being like
everyone
else is not
one.
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57. |
Do your
research and
find
expensive
niches to
tap into. A
good way to
do this is
to find how
expensive
someone is
paying for a
keyword on a
PPC search
engine. If
you can sell
items that
are more
expensive
more often
then it is a
quicker way
to get rich
:D.
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58. |
Become an
active
respected
member of
niche
related
forums. You
can do this
by offering
quality
posts. Hint
Hint, it is
not the
number of
posts you
make, it is
the quality.
Remember,
quality or
quantity.
Many useless
or negative
posts will
have people
looking at
you funny.
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59. |
Test, test,
test. Your
flushing
money down
the toilet
if your not
testing to
see what
campaigns
are bringing
you in the
most money
compared to
which ones
are costing
you money.
When you
test, you
can
eliminate
the
campaigns
that are
costing you
dollars so
that you can
properly
maximize
your
marketing
efforts.
Without
proper
testing, you
are pretty
much lost
and can’t
improve. You
can only
guess to
what has or
what is
working.
With proper
testing, you
do not
guess, you
know.
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60. |
Stay up to
date on what
is going on
in the
world, you
can monetize
off hot
topic
trends.
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61. |
Network,
when you
know more
people you
can find
people that
can help you
get what you
need.
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62. |
Offer an
affiliate
program for
your product
or service.
Make sure to
let your
satisfied
customers
know that
you have
one, if they
like your
product then
they will be
even more
delighted to
know that
they will
get money
for
referring
you.
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63. |
Write and
give away a
free ebook
or report.
It does not
have to be
long as long
as its
quality
information
neatly
formatted
and put
together.
You can also
make a
brandable
ebook or
report and
allow
affiliates
the
opportunity
to brand
their
affiliate
links in
there to
pass on to
the next
individual.
You can then
send this
ebook to
your
subscribers
or submit it
to ebook
directories.
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64. |
Add viral
components
to your blog
such as
social
bookmarking
options, and
a refer a
friend
option.
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65. |
Be funny,
people like
something
that will
make them
laugh and
they will
spread it
for you if
it is a
genius idea.
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66. |
Syndicate
your content
by using an
RSS feeds on
your
website.
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67. |
Answer
people’s
questions on
Yahoo!
answers with
a link to
your website
in the
sources
area.
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68. |
Put a link
in the
“about me”
section of
your eBay
profile.
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69. |
Make and
upload a
viral video
to you tube.
Use
appropriate
keywords in
the video
description
for your
target
audience.
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Record an
informative
podcast and
submit them
to poplar
podcast
directories.
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71. |
Provide
helpful
answers for
Google
adsense on
their help
forum with a
link back to
your
website. Go
here to
check it
out:
http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help
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72. |
Get people
to comment
and add
content to
your site.
When they do
this, they
will provide
you unique
content, no
need to pay
for
ghostwritten
articles.
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73. |
If you
cannot get
JVs, then
try to bribe
webmasters
for
sponsored
advertising
space on
their
newsletters.
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74. |
Include a
media
section on
your website
so that you
will give
the media an
easy way to
stay up to
date on what
your company
is doing.
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75. |
Try to teach
a class at
your local
community
college or
university.
The more
exposure you
get in the
public, the
more
credibility
you will
receive.
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76. |
Make a
screensaver
and make it
easy for
individuals
in your
niche to
download it.
Have eye
candy
graphics
combined
with your
company logo
to brand
yourself.
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77. |
Write
something
controversial
and spread
it freely to
your target
market. It
can be
something as
idiotic as
the Da Vinci
code, but as
long people
talk about
it, its a
successful
campaign. A
few hints,
something
controversial
is something
that goes
against
established
beliefs in
your market.
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78. |
Write and
publish a
book. Having
your own
book is a
quick way to
gain
credibility.
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79. |
Take a guru
in your
niche out to
lunch, and
pay for it.
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80. |
Start an
organization
or club
about
something.
This can be
done online
through
Yahoo! or
Google
groups.
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81. |
Volunteer.
Donate your
time to a
good
clause…you
can always
network with
people and
form
connections
at the same
time.
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82. |
Get involved
in your
community
and try to
run some
type of
outreach
program.
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83. |
Offer good
customer
service, you
may be
surprised on
how many
referrals
you get just
be having a
reliable
one.
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84. |
Consider
adding a
direct mail
marketing
campaign to
your
marketing
arsenal.
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85. |
Put an ad in
your local
yellow pages
to get some
local
customers.
Yellow pages
tend to be
more
successful
then
newspaper
ads because
individuals
are looking
for a
particular
service when
they are
browsing
through the
yellow pages
as opposed
to
newspapers.
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86. |
Post
bulletins in
your local
supermarket.
However,
since not
everyone may
carry a pen
or pencil,
place your
contact
information
and url on
strips on
the bottom
so that
individuals
can rip it
off and take
it with
them.
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87. |
Host your
own
commercial
so you can
put “as seen
on TV” on
your
products.
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88. |
Conduct
surveys and
publish
them. These
make you
appear as an
expert in
your field
of study.
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89. |
Break a
record or
shoot to be
in the
Guinness
world
records for
something.
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90. |
Make a
sitemap for
your
website.
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91. |
Use a
favicon for
your site.
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92. |
Make your
visitors
more
involved in
your
website. You
can help
accomplish
this by
adding CGI
scripts to
your site.
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93. |
Make sure
you have no
broken links
on your
site, and
make sure
that your
website
shows
clearly in
all
browsers.
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94. |
Find domain
names that
get traffic,
purchase
them, and
have them
redirect to
your
website.
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95. |
Spell
correctly
whenever
using
keywords in
writing.
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96. |
Look at
sites
related to
your niche
to try to
figure out
how they get
their
traffic.
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97. |
Properly
optimize
your website
for the
right
keywords.
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98. |
Try to avoid
java scripts
on your
website as
much as
possible.
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99. |
Do not use
frames on
your
website.
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100. |
If your
website
becomes
popular and
starts
getting lots
of traffic,
try
switching to
a dedicated
server. The
longer you
site is down
equals the
more lost
visitors you
will have.
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101. |
Write a
quality 101
article
about a
steamy topic
that people
want to know
more about
in your
niche ;). |