One of the most difficult tasks of owning and operating a website is making the website known to the rest of the world. Submitting your website to search engines is not the only way to start getting visitors. Besides, after doing this, it may take months to get your website listed even in any search results! Now you will learn some of the best methods of driving quality traffic to your website. These methods require very little effort and are totally free!

Perhaps one of the best methods of driving free targeted visitors to your website is to submit to online forums. Joining an online forum takes less than 3 minutes and you can usually get started right away. The first step a person should take is to find a forum that is very popular and related to your website content. This can be easily done by performing a fast search on any major search engine. The forums on the very first page are the most popular and get the most visitors. You want the forum to be related to your website content simply because it will help eliminate your post from being considered spam. Also, this ensures that you will receive quality visitors to your website. A visitor going to a forum about dogs will not want to read your post about something other than dogs and even if they do read your post and click on your link then there is a very high chance this visitor to your website will not stay long enough for the page to get done even loading. However, if the forum is about cars and your website is also about cars then the person visiting the forum will already be interested in cars or else they would not be there in the first place. Then they go on to read your post and click the link to your website and you got yourself a targeted visitor. After finding the forum for you, the next step is to create a signature line that will contain a link to your website. This is great if you want to post replies to topics already posted by other people. You can also start your own topics but just make sure its relevant to your website content and not spammy, as was already explained. However, even if the forums for some reason do not bring you traffic, the links in your posts will be seen by the search engines and will count as a oneway backlink to your website which will help your search engine rankings.

Another great method of driving free targeted traffic to your website is to join online groups. Joining is free and takes only a couple minutes. Almost all online groups are moderated so you do not want to send to all the members of a group about investing a message about your website that is about toys. This is spam and will most likely be reported. It will not produce quality traffic anyways. Some groups have one thousand or more members who get the group messages directly emailed to them. Join a lot of relevant groups and send intelligent messages and you will immediately start seeing positive results! Before posting to online groups, it is recommended that you read the group guidelines and terms.

Another great method of getting free targeted traffic is to register for free online auctions. There are some good ones believe it or not that actually do bring a ton of visitors. They can be found by performing a search on any of the major search engines. After registering, create an “About Me” page that contains some information relevant to your website and make sure to provide a link to your website. Also, on every auction listing be sure to make a link directly to your “About Me” page. Then visitors to your auction will see a link to this page and some will click on it and out of these visitors to your “About Me” page a certain percentage will click on the link to your website. And they will be quality visitors because if they did not like what you said in your “About Me” page they would have never clicked on the link to your website. However, even if this does not produce you any traffic you can still make money selling your items for free instead of paid auctions. And the best part of all, having a link to your website from your “About Me” page will be seen by the search engines and will be counted as a oneway backlink to your website which will increase your ranking on search engines anyways.

Finally, another great method of bringing free targeted traffic to your website is to create an email signature. This signature should contain a line or two about your website that will catch the attention of the reader. It should also contain a link to your website. Email signatures are placed in your emails automatically by your email provider. If you send a lot of emails per week then it is fair to say that a good percentage will see the signature, read the attention grabber and click on the link to your website. The more emails you would send the better and the best part of all it is totally free and requires no effort on your part. Again, do not send spam emails to people in hopes it will produce you more traffic. It is against the law and will most likely result in you being reported.



By: Martin Eshleman

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Usually, for a webmaster to earn from a visitor to his website he would be hoping for the sale of one of his own downloadable products, a click on a Google Adsense ad or perhaps the sale of an affiliate product.

As many webmasters will confess though, achieving one of the above is often easier said than done and a high percentage of websites struggle to turn in a regular profit even though they get reasonable traffic figures on a regular basis.

However, a brand new technology called Pay Per Play ads now gives webmasters the ability to earn from every single visitor to their sites and easily turn struggling websites into profitable ones.

To earn from a website visitor, that visitor won’t have to buy a product, the visitor won’t have to sign up for anything, in fact that visitor won’t even have to click a link.

It works like this: You add a simple bit of code to your webpage (similar to adding Adsense code to your site), then, when a visitor arrives on your site, a 5 second audio ad plays ….and you get paid!

The company running the Pay Per Play system is called NetAudioAds and they have been operating successfully for a number of years and have been serving up over 40 million audio ads each and every month.

66,000 advertisers (including major household names such as Burger King, Taco Bell and Harley-Davidson) are already on board and are ready to pay you for every visitor you get to you your existing websites as well as websites specifically created for maximizing the potential of PPP ads.

With PPP ads you earn 25% of the ‘pay per play’ revenue spent by the advertisers that play the audio ads on your site. Advertisers bid for their placement (much like you would bid for your place with Google Adwords) so it will be the top paying audio ads that will appear on your site. You also of course get paid on 100% of your visitors!

The other way you can earn is by simply referring other website owners to run PPP ads on their websites. You earn a superb 5% of the advertisers spend on your referral’s website. And let me clarify, this means that a webmaster you introduce will earn 25% on ads played on his site and you will earn 5% …. but that’s not 5% of how much he earns….. it’s 5% of the total spend from advertisers on his site. That’s a massive difference and just think how much that could add up if you could introduce a few webmasters with good traffic. As a further incentive, you also earn a further 5% from anyone your direct referrals bring on board.

Pay Per Play ads are destined to become the preferred income method for webmasters over the coming months. The benefits to be had by early adopters who are able to share the concept with others are even greater!



By: Chris Towland

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So you have a rocking cool church website. You just recently redesigned it but what’s next?

Having a website is not enough. You need to make your church website not just another one of million others on the world wide web. Your goal is to make it an effective online ministry.

First step of course is to get your church website visible on the search engines based on the keywords that you believe your “prospects” will use in order to find you. Assuming this has been accomplished, how do you encourage your visitors to keep coming back to your website?

Here are some tips:

1. Regularly update your content.

Nothing can be more disappointing for a visitor than to go back to a church website only to find the same content from 3 or 6 months ago. Add new content even if it’s just the news and events section. If you have a flash slideshow, add 2 or 3 different photos every week. There are a lot of websites that offer free stock photos. If you have a blog, post an article once a week. If there is nothing to put on the news and events section, which is rarely a case, add quotes from men or women of God or verse of the day on the homepage.

2. Offer free resources.

There are different forms of resources that you can offer your visitors:

a. Articles

If possible, post original articles about topics that you believe will benefit both your

church members and website visitors.  It can be both scriptural and practical. You can

also post notes about your past messages, devotionals or short Bible studies.

b. Sermon Audios

Perhaps this is the most valuable resource that you could offer your site visitors.

Whether it’s a church member who might have missed a Sunday service or a site

visitor that is simply looking for some messages to minister to them, this is a great

tool to keep them coming back for more.

c. Videos

Web users love short clip videos. If your website is capable of streaming videos,

be sure to post videos of your services to give site visitors a glimpse of what your

Sunday service is like. Videos of your gatherings and other events are also great.

3. Allow interaction.

Ever wonder why social networking websites are successful? Because they allow interaction. They allow “online fellowship.”  If you have a blog, allow commenting on your blog. If your website has polls, regularly post new polls. If your budget allows, get a forum included. These venues create a venue for your visitors to interact with you and with each other.

4. Make it real.

Create a photo gallery section in your website and show photos of actual people in your church – whether it’s a worship gathering or fun activities, this is something that your site visitors will enjoy. By posting these kind of photos, you give your visitors a sense of who

you are and what you are all about and it gives them a sense that you are real.



By: Lynne Gabriel

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Overture or now known as Yahoo because of Yahoo’s takeover, was the original inventor of the use of the P4P or Pay for Performance.

Overture saw that the internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in the arena.

To get a person to go to a site than others, it needs to be very visible. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow them to have an increase in traffic as well as sales.

Yahoo provides a service that can put a site or company’s ad in their sites that can be shown when certain keywords are inputted.

Yahoo offers a chance for any company to increase their traffic by using their services. With more people being aware of your site, there would be more traffic and visitors to your site given the chance to view your pages as well as your products.

With even a small percentage of successful sales, with a high traffic volume this could still be a substantial figure for your company.

Getting a consistent substantial flow of website visitors is every company’s goal.

Many methods are devised and utilized to ensure that there would be more people to boost the sales and to be aware of the existence of such a product or service.

Website visitors are potentially the life blood of your internet based business.

Yahoo/Overture utilizes the same principle as Google’s Adwords. In fact, they are very similar to each other that they use keyword and keyword phrase searches and to determine which ads to show per search.

When a person types in a keyword or keyword phrase to search for anything, the search engines gives out the results in a page.

Then at the right side of the page, you will see selected ads that have paid for their ads to be viewed with certain keywords and keyword phrases searched.

For example, Lets say you run a car parts retail/wholesale site. You choose keywords that can prompt or trigger your ads to be shown in the page when a keyword is searched.

When a search engine user types in Honda Accord, your ad may come up if you have designated that as one of your keywords. You don’t need to fully optimize your site with Search Engine Optimization methods and techniques.

While some labor so hard to make their site one of the high ranking sites per keyword search, you get the chance to be on the top of the list or at least in the first page of a search result increasing your chance to be clicked on.

With that, you drive traffic and website visitors to your site a lot faster.

You will have to pony up some cash when using this service though. There are different ways Yahoo/Overture will charge you. It may be in the number of Keywords or Keyword phrases your ad uses or in the many times your ad is clicked on.

Others offer many other services like having your ad show up not only in the search engine pages but also with some third party sites.

Third party sites support ads that have the same theme or niche as them. With more areas your ad is shown, you increase the chances of people knowing about your site or product.

With more website visitors you increase the sales of your site which makes your investment with your ads a wise one.

With so many competitions in the internet based businesses, it is necessary to take a huge leap forward from the pack by advertising. Yahoo/Overture will be a great place to start.

Many have utilized their services and have reaped the rewards of this decision. It’s a marketing strategy that will increase your website visitors as well as increase your sales resulting to profit.

It takes money to make money, while there are some methods that are basically low cost or free, using a marketing service such as what Yahoo/Overture offers will provide results faster and on a larger scale. Many businesses have learned this the hard way, don’t be counted with them.



By: Pino Tedesco

About the Author:

Overture or now known as Yahoo because of Yahoo’s takeover, was the original inventor of the use of the P4P or Pay for Performance. Overture saw that the internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in the arena.

To get a person to go to a site than others, it needs to be very visible. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow them to have an increase in traffic as well as sales. Yahoo provides a service that can put a site or company’s ad in their sites that can be shown when certain keywords are inputted.

Yahoo offers a chance for any company to increase their traffic by using their services. With more people being aware of your site, there would be more traffic and visitors to your site given the chance to view your pages as well as your products. With even a small percentage of successful sales, with a high traffic volume this could still be a substantial figure for your company.

Getting a consistent substantial flow of website visitors is every companys goal. Many methods are devised and utilized to ensure that there would be more people to boost the sales and to be aware of the existence of such a product or service. Website visitors are potentially the life blood of your internet based business.

Yahoo/Overture utilizes the same principle as Google’s Adwords. In fact, they are very similar to each other that they use keyword and keyword phrase searches and to determine which ads to show per search. When a person types in a keyword or keyword phrase to search for anything, the search engines gives out the results in a page. Then at the right side of the page, you will see selected ads that have paid for their ads to be viewed with certain keywords and keyword phrases searched.

For example, Lets say you run a car parts retail/wholesale site. You choose keywords that can prompt or trigger your ads to be shown in the page when a keyword is searched. When a search engine user types in Honda Accord, your ad may come up if you have designated that as one of your keywords. You dont need to fully optimize your site with Search Engine Optimization methods and techniques.

While some labor so hard to make their site one of the high ranking sites per keyword search, you get the chance to be on the top of the list or at least in the first page of a search result increasing your chance to be clicked on. With that, you drive traffic and website visitors to your site a lot faster.

You will have to pony up some cash when using this service though. There are different ways Yahoo/Overture will charge you. It may be in the number of Keywords or Keyword phrases your ad uses or in the many times your ad is clicked on. Others offer many other services like having your ad show up not only in the search engine pages but also with some third party sites.

Third party sites support ads that have the same theme or niche as them. With more areas your ad is shown, you increase the chances of people knowing about your site or product. With more website visitors you increase the sales of your site which makes your investment with your ads a wise one.

With so many competitions in the internet based businesses, it is necessary to take a huge leap forward from the pack by advertising. Yahoo/Overture will be a great place to start. Many have utilized their services and have reaped the rewards of this decision. It’s a marketing strategy that will increase your website visitors as well as increase your sales resulting to profit.

It takes money to make money, while there are some methods that are basically low cost or free, using a marketing service such as what Yahoo/Overture offers will provide results faster and on a larger scale. Many businesses have learned this the hard way, don’t be counted with them.



By: Daniel Alan

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