Traffic has to the the main thing
you need in affiliate marketing and making money, you need it, you want more of it, and
you want quality traffic.
This small guide I will write a few things you might need, come across or find interesting.
Also if you find this crap, un-useful please disregard the post, as i
want to get through as much of this weeks questions as possible. So all
the newbies know where to start.
There are 6 forms of traffic that i will talk about
1. Startup page traffic.
This is normally called your browsers homepage, just like Google, MSN,
Yahoo, search usually the first page you see when you load your browser.
Now theres many ways to do this, you can set some scripts or buttons on
your page, or try to force it with many tricks to make the end-user set
your page as your homepage.
The most profitable method for this is to throw up your own search
engine with adsense ads or XML ppc companies search scripts. All are
profitable but it would only work if it was good, and you dont want to
throw just a crappy page up as you will annoy newbies who dont know how
to change it to whatever they like. So a search engine is good because
if they cant change it your going to get a lot of searches made, meaning
money for a long time.
2. Typein Traffic.
As everyone here knows typein traffic can be very great at converting,
say for example a friend of yours told you to visit "U TUBE DOT COM" if
you did not know it from the start you could take this in a numerous
amount of ways like UTUBE.com, they are really sought after domains that
only usually consist of DOTCOMS because not many people will typein a
.NET, anyways these domains if you can grab them are great earners. The
best method of grabbing one of these is looking for beta release sites,
like
http://www.inviteshare.com/
this will tell you invite only sites, that are not yet public, these
can be amazingly fast ways to grab upcoming potentially great traffic
sites. And if you snap up typos fast could make a great earner, or a
domain sale.
3. Bookmarks.
Bookmark traffic depending on what kind of site always leads the user
back to you. These are mostly community sites or blogs, well , all sites
really get bookmarks but the popular ones are usually member sites,
like blackhatworld for instance. The earning potential here is great,
and the traffic is recurring for a very long time, but i wouldnt
recommend forcing a bookmark using scripting as that will piss the users
off.
4. Linked Traffic.
This is where most of your traffic should come from, Search engines,
links from blogs, directories and whatever you can think of that has
link potential like blackhatworld here. The traffic is usually targeted
because your anchor text is usually relevent to what the user wants to
see.
5. Popups and redirects.
Popups and things can be sent from other sites, exchanges, and popups
from your other network of sites. You can easily get a lot of popup
exchanges to your site(s) but the traffic is poor, usually only good for
the likes of PAY PER IMPRESSION.
6. Software.
A lot of software can have built in browsers, or banners, the likes of
MSN messenger always usually runs an ad at the bottom of the client.
This converts into traffic by clicks, and mega targeted, you can also
throw traffic in your own browser, for example ebooks, and other things
like that, i put ebooks here under software because sometimes ebooks can
be binded into software, but its all the same, ebook traffic can be
very converting , and say you write about something and spread it
through torrents, p2p and other things on the subject you want to
convert it can get viral.
Viral traffic is another using the buzz to spread the word, for example
the likes of youtube videos, you can throw in a lot of funny videos and
watermark your urls on the video.
Another idea would be to upload the latest songs in the music charts to
youtube or other type sites and throw in a ringtone affiliate url in the
description.