Online Marketing Strategies

A website without traffic is like a body without a spirit… it’s dead.

So without question, one of the critical skills that must be harnessed is the ability to generate traffic.

More specifically, generating the RIGHT kind of traffic.

While the entire equation looks like this…

RT + RO = MRMI

Decoded, this means the “right traffic” to the “right offer” means “making real money on the internet.”

Now, there are two basic principles we advocate when it comes to generating traffic.

1. Get F.I.T. (Get Free Internet Traffic)
2. The P.I.T. (The Paid Internet Traffic)

There are dozens of ways to generate traffic to any offer, at anytime, anywhere.

However, there are methods of traffic generation that remain solid and fundamental to successfully making money online. Remember, with new FTC regulations, you must disclose that you are an affiliate with all advertising and promotions.

We consider those top ways to generate traffic (in no specific order) to be…

1. Facebook Marketing for Facebook Traffic
2. Article Marketing for Article Traffic
3. Banner Ad Marketing for Banner Ad Traffic
4. Blog Marketing for Blog Traffic
5. Classified Ad Marketing for Classified Ad Traffic
7. eBay Marketing for eBay Traffic
6. Joint Venture Marketing for Joint Venture Traffic
7. MySpace Marketing for MySpace Traffic
8. Podcast Marketing for Podcasting Traffic
9. Pay Per Click Marketing for Pay Per Click Traffic
10. Search Engine Marketing for Search Engine Traffic
11. Social Network Marketing for Social Networking Traffic
12. Social Shopping Traffic
13. Squidoo Marketing for Squidoo Traffic
14. YouTube Marketing for YouTube Traffic
15. eZine Marketing for eZine Traffic
16. Forum Marketing for Forum Traffic

Here are the basic, yet detailed step-by-step checklists to help you jump start your traffic generation with each of these traffic generation methods.

Click the links to read the PDF in your browser, or right-click to download it.

Article Marketing Checklist

Banner Marketing Checklist

Blog Marketing Checklist

Classified Marketing Checklist

eBay Marketing Checklist

eZine Marketing Checklist

Facebook Marketing Checklist

Forum Marketing Checklist

Joint Venture Marketing Checklist

MySpace Marketing Checklist

Podcasting Marketing Checklist

Pay-Per-Click Marketing Checklist

Search Engine Marketing Checklist

Social Shopping Marketing Checklist

Social Marketing Checklist

Squidoo Marketing Checklist

And here are some additional resources:

MySpace is NOT just for teenagers anymore!

This is one of my favorite and most effective FREE strategies if you know what you are doing!

Social Networking online is about meeting and networking with other professionals, entrepreneurs, home business owners and sharing info, tips, strategies and opportunities. By using these websites and introducing yourself to the individuals in these communities you are meeting exactly the type of people that are interested in what we do and the type of people you want to work with. This is your target market.

This can be one of the most effective FREE marketing strategies to attract high quality people to your team.

The secret to success with this strategy is promoting yourself as a leader, an expert, a value to the market place, someone who can solve people's problems. You can do this very effectively even if you are brand new to internet marketing.

The below ad sources are "List Builders" and are highly effective when used consistently. You can join them all free or you can upgrade. Join them all or just one.

If you only join one, I would recommend VIRALURL be the one you go with as it seems to get the best results from our testing. You will be able to send a SOLO AD to 3000 members every 3 days.

VIRALURL
LISTJOE

Ezine Marketing is one of the favorite methods of many top producers. The reason for this is that Ezine marketing allows you to “piggy back” off the credibility of someone else and in essence "rent" someone else's list!

Ezines are online newsletters that people subscribe to. When an ezine sends out an email with your ad in it the reader takes it more seriously because they have a “relationship” established with the ezine.

www.directoryofezines.com

Recommended Advertising Sources:

The secret to successful SOLO ADs is CONSISTANCY! Create a budget for yourself, whatever works for you, and stick to it on a consistent basis long term. Plan to send 1-5 solo ads every week or every other week. Just remain consistent

These are recommended sources that I have compiled from trusted sources. This does not guarantee in any way your results. Advertising is still about testing. TEST. TEST. TEST. Do 10, if 3 work ... great! Repeat those 3 and keep looking for 3 more!

* Solo-ads $25 solo ad (order directly on site)
* Topsurfer $65 solo ad (must be a wholesale member to place solo ads $10)
* Gotsafelists $45 solo ad (signup free and then order your paid solo)
* Herculist Supra-Ad $49.95 (sign up free and then order your Supra-Ad)
* PlanetXmail $59 solo ad
* Majon $60 solo ad
* Ad Solution Line $35 solo ad
* TheMadVlad $120 solo ad (register free and then order your paid SOLO)
* Traffic9 $90 "combo solo ads"
* Adtactics $25 solo ad (sign up free then order a "solo ad")
* E-mailpaysu $70 "5,000 Targeted Email Advertisements to Our Newest Subscribers Only!"

More Great Ezines....

Xtreme Marketing Tips
http://www.ezinehits.com/ad-rates.htm

Cash From Home
http://www.cashfromhome.com

Super Promo
http://www.superpromo.com/optadorder.html

Pro Biz Tips
http://www.ProBizTips.com/advertising.html

Admistress Advertising
http://www.flashyads.com/advertise.html (Highly Recommended)

Rim Digest
http://www.rimdigest.com/ads.html

SCOOP Ezine
http://www.emailpromotions.net If interested, send an email to webmaster@emailpromotions.net

Other Great Places to Place Solo Ads:

Smart-list Solo Ads

The BizBarrel Newsletter
http://bizbarrel.netfirms.com/adrates.html

BizSiteBiz Ezine
http://www.bizsitebiz.com/bizsitead.html

Online Exchange
http://www.marketingtrendz.com/advertising.htm

Premier Opt In
http://www.premieroptin.com/

Still more...

24 Karat Marketer

AdlandPro

Best News Marketing Gazette

BizWeb E-Gazette

Christian Times Newsletter

Contact Solos

DEMC E-Magazine

Direct Profits Ezine

Dollarmines

Ecommerce Resources Ezine

Evieb Ezine

Ezine Adhelper

GetResponse Smart Ads

Guaranteed Money Ezine

HT Mail

Net Preneur News

Online Exchange

Online Marketers

OyesUcan Ezine

ProBizTips

Sendfree Advertising

Send More Info (Contact Jerome Chapman)

Smart List Ezine

Straight Talkers

STWebFx Ezine

Super Promo

The Home Workers' E-Gazette

Work At Home News

I don't usually recommend placing top sponsor ads, but this is one exception:
http://www.mbpadvertising.com/index.php?view=textad

Here are some of the bigger Free Classified sites:

* www.inetgiant.com

* www.ecki.com/links/advert.shtml

* www.usfreeads.com

* www.boconline.com

* www.craigslist.com

* www.kijiji.com

* www.backpage.com

* www.sell.com

* http://classifieds.excite.com/

* http://classifieds.yahoo.com/

On Marketing Forums:

You will be running into a lot of people who are obviously already promoting something. If you don't have your own personal lead capture page offering some generic marketing information... which pulls in more clicks and opt ins than just your regular program page... you may want to think of offering something that educates them, while branding you as a professional marketer at the same time.

ALSO - think outside the box! It doesn't have to be a "marketing" forum. Find some discussion forums on whatever your hobbies or interests are... and simply have a catchy signature file on your profile like:

"The internet is a goldmine. Are you making money on the net yet?" http://www.YourLinkHere.com

And you'll be able to attract people who have not been exposed to all this yet... nice hot market...

Your Discussion Forums Marketing Cheat Sheet:

1. DO NOT SPAM THE FORUM!!! Don't just blatantly "pitch" your deal!

2. Uplift, motivate, inspire and EDUCATE others...

3. Don't know what a topic is all about (List Building, etc...) visit www.EzineArticles.com or www.HubPages.com and use their search feature to find a couple articles on whatever topic you're looking to discuss... review and jot down some notes... You are now a TEACHER of that subject, because you've done your homework and chances are, you know more about that now than 90% of people on the forums... so now you can teach it!

4. It's a great idea (generates more opt-ins) to have an Lead Capture Page and your own follow up Autoresponder to attract and build a list from traffic coming from Discussion Forums... that way people see you as a professional.

You can use two links in your signature file:

One can be to your own lead capture page...

The other a direct link to your program

The main key is to stay consistent and become a part of the community... That will allow you to have hundreds of posts on a bunch of different topics, all with your links in your signature files... GOLDEN!

Top marketing forums to post your sig file!

Below you will find a BIG list of the best marketing forums on the web.. I highly suggest joining, contributing some very quality ideas and posts at the forum... AND including your signature file in the bottom of each of you posts. This is an incredibly powerful way to make sales and I can't recommend it enough!

Mike Dillard's Better Networker Community

Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Community

Warrior Forum

Home Based Business Forum

http://www.wahm.com/forum/

http://www.work-at-home-forum.com/

http://homebasedbusinessforums.com/

http://www.freelancemom.com/forum/

http://onlinemlm.com

http://www.1sitemanager.com/forum - Mike Filsaime's Marketing Forum

http://www.im4newbies.com/forum/index.php

http://www.howtocorphelp.com/forum/index.php

http://MoneymakerGroup.com

Anthony Blake Online

Video Marketing is HOT! It is one of the easiest and most effective strategies to drive highly qualified prospects to your site for FREE!!

Video Marketing Tools We Use:

* TubeMogul - distribute your videos to multiple sites and track your statistics all for FREE

* Traffic Geyser - advanced video distribution service. This is a monthly paid service, but it absolutely rocks for increasing your exposure, traffic and getting you on the 1st page of Google!

* TubeBlasterPro - Advanced YouTube friend stealer! Drive more traffic to your YouTube videos with this tool.

Social Marketing / Web2.0 is THE HOTTEST trend on the internet today. As marketers, we have an incredible opportunity to get in on the "ground floor" and benefit from "first mover advantage".

Social Marketing is much more than just Myspace and Facebook. It includes hundreds of websites, and several different components. This strategy is extremely low cost, and can be extremely effective if executed properly.

Strategy #1 : Content Sharing Websites

Content ? Article marketing is simply about creating quality unique content and posting it many social web 2.0 websites such as the ones listed below. This is an incredibly powerful strategy.

Squidoo.com
HubPages.com
EzineArticles.com
Gather.com
Scribd.com

Some suggestions for article posting websites are:

* www.ezinearticles.com
* www.goarticles.com
* www.articlecity.com
* www.articles3000.com
* www.articlestreet.com

Advanced 4 STEP STRATEGY

Here's a Basic Outline for a Content Sharing Strategy and adding to it Social News Sites, Social Bookmarking Sites, Blogs, and Pings.

STEP 1: Post an article (content) on several of the web 2.0 Content Sharing and Blog sites such as:

http://www.squidoo.com
http://www.hubpages.com
http://www.livejournal.com
http://www.wetpaint.com
http://www.wordpress.com
http://www.vox.com
http://www.opera.com
http://www.blogspot.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com

STEP 2: Do a snippet post on the news tpe sites like and link these to your articles (content) :

http://www.digg.com
http://www.propeller.com
http://www.bumpzee.com

STEP 3: Then point Social Bookmarkers at the snippet posts & also at the content itself:

http://del.icio.us/
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.spurl.com
http://www.reddit.com
www.simpy.com

You can use a service called http://www.onlywire.com as a bulk social bookmarker.

STEP 4: Take the RSS feed from the blog sites AND the social bookmarkers and run it through http://www.pingomatic.com

You can do all your posting of RSS feeds with this software: http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html

The FASTEST way to get traffic is Pay-per-click. PERIOD. It can also be the most intimidating.

PPC Advertising is an ADVANCED marketing strategy and involves a significant learning curve. You must be prepared to invest in your education if you expect this strategy to yield results. However, with that being said, if you are WILLING to learn this strategy can be extremely effective!