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I you have never used the internet to make money an affiliate site is a great way to make fast cash for newbie. If you have just finished building your first affiliate website you are probably wondering what is the best way to generate traffic. Here are some great marketing ideas for your affiliate site.

The only real way to get high levels of new customers on your site without spending a fortune is to get a good search engine rating. To get rated at all in the right categories you must have the proper Meta tags and headings on each page of your website.

Once a person finds your site let them spread the word. Add a ‘recommend this site’ button on your site so people can easily tell friends that they think will be interested about the information and products you have to offer.

Become an expert in your field on all of the popular forums and blogs. You can find popular forums and blog with a topic that relates to your niche market then subtly advertise your site by including a link in your signature. You will get a big response from just a few posts in a popular forum.

Offer a free e-book or newsletter that will appeal to the interests of your customers. Be sure that you include written permission to redistribute it to others. This way your customers will share your information with other potential customers.

Update your site often and include on each page how often it will be updated. If you are going to add new info monthly for example include an icon that says this page updated monthly. This will keep interested customers coming back for more. Keeping your information fresh will also help your search engine rankings.

The most important tip for an affiliate website is to check your links often. You will not make any money if your links do not work properly. Broken links will also drive away the potential customers you have worked so hard to attract. If you have too many links to check regularly on your own, use a free link checker like Xenu’s Link Sleuth.

At first this may seem a overwhelming. You will find out that making money with an affiliate site is easy and fun.

One of the most critical things you can do to raise your search engine rankings and bring more traffic to your site is to convince other websites to link to yours. Running a linking campaign is free, of course, and it is not rocket science, but doing it well does take significant time and effort. I recommend a couple of ways to find websites which might be willing to link to you.

One way is to do a simple search to find websites with information about the same subject as your site, or closely related information. If you have a website about footware , for instance, you can use search terms such as “footware”, “shoes”, “loafers”, “running shoes”, and “sandals” to find sites which may be interested in linking to yours.

Or, you can simply select a popular site in your niche and identify the websites which link to it. It’s easy. Search Yahoo or alltheweb.com for “link:” (without the quotation marks) and the entire URL of the popular website. For example, link:http://www.online-degrees-and-scholarships.com (be sure to include the colon after the word “link”). At some point you will probably want to spend between $50 and $125 for a piece of software which can automate much of this process for you.

Once you have found these websites; the websites most likely to link to yours, go to them, cut and paste the email addresses of their webmasters, and request a link. An email which is polite, well written, and summarizes the content of your website will help you achieve the best results.

The description of your site must be interesting and explain why the webmaster’s visitors will find it helpful or enjoyable. The less hype the better.

You can also help your cause by offering the webmasters you contact something in return For example:

a. offer a link on your site.

b. information of value to website owners. For instance, you might offer to let them know where to find information on great no-cost website promotion tools.

You can easily contact 30 webmasters a day. Even if you convince only one out of ten to link to you, you’ll reap 90 new links a month. With link building software, which automates everything, contacting 200 website owners daily is a piece of cake.

If you follow this advice, you should experience an almost immediate, albeit modest, increase in visitors to your website. However, the biggest benefit of a good linking campaign, higher search engine rankings, will take a bit longer. There is no magic formula, and there are lots of variables, but your search engine ranking could improve in as little as a few weeks, and should continue to improve as time goes on and more sites link to you as both a direct result of your efforts and webmasters seeing your links on other sites.

Keep at it and, all things being equal, you can obtain the kind of search engine rankings which can transform your website from a hobby (as my wife originally referred to my first site) to a site which gets enough traffic to provide you with a meaningful income.

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Hold a discount sale on your web site. Use the sale to get rid of excess inventory, gain new or repeat customers, and increase your sales. Most businesses pick a theme for their sale, like a Halloween Sale. Below are six unique sales themes you could use:

Nobody’s Visiting Today Sale

Every online business has low visitor and sales day through the week. My days are Tuesdays and Thursdays.You could sell your products or services for cheaper to increase and sales on your slow days. You could have this advertised right on your web site.

Time Of The Day Sale

Periodically , pick out a time of the day like 5 to 7 pm to lower your prices. With online sales you need tell people the time zone. Announce your scheduled times ahead of time in your e-zine. This will give people enough time to plan when they will visit your web site.

Product Or Service Of The Day Sale

Each day offer different product or service at a lower price. This will draw people back to your web site everyday. This is a high traffic generating sale. If you don’t have a lot of products and services you may want to run the sale weekly or monthly.

Niche Group Sale

Hold a sale for a niche groups of people. Students, senior citizens, single people etc. This really works if your introducing a new product or service for the first time to a new target audience. Announce your sale in a targeted e-zine, e-mail discussion groups, message boards, etc.

Holiday Or Seasonal Sale

Offer lower prices on holidays and during seasonal changes. These type of sales let your visitors and customers know your no scrooge. Be creative and go as far as decorating your web site. You could upload holiday and seasonal graphics. Change the color of your text to match. Get in the spirit!

Get More For Your Money Sale

Give customers more products or services for their money. People relate these kind of sales to getting a bargain or saving money. You could offer a buy one get one for half off sale, a buy two get the third one free, two for the price of one sale, etc.

1. People will visit your web site to get the free valuable information.

2. Advertise your products or services in the e-book.

3. You will become known as an expert on the subject of the e-book.

4. Offer the e-book as a free bonus for purchasing one of your products or services.

5. Allow other people give away the e-book to increase visitors to your web site.

6. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give their contact information before they can download your e-book.

7. The word “FREE” is the most appealing word on the internet.

8. Conduct market research asking people to fill out a survey before getting the e-book.

9. Make money selling advertising space in the e-book.

10. Give away the e-book as a special gift to your current customers letting them know you appreciate their business.

11. Gain free advertising by submitting the e-book on freebie sites.

12. Make money selling the reprint rights to people who would like to sell the e-book.

13. You’ll gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your e-book.

14. Make money cross promoting the e-book as a free bonus with other people’s products or services.

15. Gain free publicity sending press releases announcing your ”Free E-book Giveaway.”

16. Increase subscribers to your e-zine by giving away the e-book as an incentive to subscribe.

17. Give away the e-book to people that join your affiliate program.

18. The biggest reason you should write an e-book and then give it away for free: you’ll feel good helping people improve their lives.

1. Email each visitor a satisfaction questionnaire after they purchase. This will allow you to improve your order system, customer service, site, etc.

2. Give a percentage of your profits to a cause your customers would like. It could be a charity, school, environmental improvements, etc.

3. Take harsh criticism the right way and improve your online business. Don’t get down in the dumps, improve the situation so it doesn’t happen again.

4. Try bartering before you buy services, supplies and equipment for your business. You can use the extra money you save on advertising your business.

5. Give away a follow-up email course on an auto- responder. Include your ad with each lesson. People will buy quicker when they see your ad repeatedly.

6. Make sure your classified ads don’t sound like an ad. Don’t ask people to buy anything or they won’t click, give something away instead.

7. Give your free bonus products extra perceived value. Don’t use the phrase “free bonuses” use the phrase “you will also get”.

8. Keep your visitors on your web site longer. The longer they stay, the greater chance they will buy. Just hold a treasure hunt contest on your web site.

9. Make sure you’re always creating new products and services or improving old ones. Most products or services won’t stand the test of time online.

10. Split the cost of online advertising and marketing by sharing a web site with a similar, non-competing business. You would both put up half the cost.

1. Ask people to find a hidden link in your ad copy. If they find the hidden link, tell them they will get a prize or freebie by clicking on it. This will increase the chance that they will buy your product or service because they will read your whole ad copy.

2. Start a members only web site. Tell visitors what’s in your members only site and what it costs to get access. Offer them a free membership, if, in exchange they link to your web site, post your banner on their home page or agree to advertise your web site in their e-zine for a set period of time. Usually they will agree to the free advertising to save money. This is a powerful way to get free advertising.

3. Want a popular discussion board? This technique is based on the number of postings made by any one person. You could give away a free product or service to any person that posts ten or more messages on your discussion in a month. It could be a free e-book, report, e-mail consulting etc. Just keep track of everyone’s postings each month. This could also work for e-mail discussion lists.

4. Give your visitors an instant article directory. Tell your visitors they can instantly add a free article directory to their web site by linking to yours. Just place your ad or banner ad on top of the article directory for your main product or service. All those links can add up to a large amount of traffic for your web site.

5. There a millions of web sites on the internet. Instead of marketing your web site as a web site. Market it as a free web book. Design your web site with a title page, table of contents, chapters, etc. Just place your ad or banner for your product or service on the top of each web page. —-