Maximize Visitors

The more people that see your ads, the more will click and buy.
Some ways to maximize visitors are:

• Add more content and pages to your website
• Optimize your website for search engines
• Get more links to your website
• Advertise your URL in Google adwords and pay per click search engines
• Advertise your URL offline in classified ads
• Maximize Click-throughs
• Pre-sell products with reviews, articles and related information then provide links in easy to find places.

How to build traffic

Now if traffic is so crucial, how do you build it up to significant levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?

I’ve already written a lengthy article on this topic, so I’ll refer you there: How to Build a High Traffic Web Site (or Blog). If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later. That article covers my general philosophy of traffic-building, which centers on creating content that provides genuine value to your visitors. No games or gimmicks.
There is one other important traffic-building tip I’ll provide here though.

Blog Carnivals. Take full advantage of blog carnivals when you’re just starting out (click the previous link to learn what carnivals are if you don’t already know). Periodically submit your best blog posts to the appropriate carnivals for your niche. Carnivals are easy ways to get links and traffic, and best of all, they’re free. Submitting only takes minutes. Use the easy sign-up form at Conservative Cat. Do NOT spam the carnivals with irrelevant material — only submit to the carnivals that are match for your content.

In my early traffic-building days, I would do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog up to a certain level. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club — they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore. Just to increase my traffic by 1% in a month, I need 11,000 new visitors, and even the best carnivals don’t push that much traffic. But you can pick up dozens or even hundreds of new subscribers from each round of carnival submissions, so it’s a great place to start. Plus it’s very easy.

If your traffic isn’t growing month after month, does it mean you’re doing something wrong? Most likely you aren’t doing enough things right. Again, making the mistakes is not the issue. Missing opportunities is.

Google Adsense

The AdSense movement is gaining momentum every day. The driving force in the Google AdSense system is Google’s AdWords ads. The AdSense program enables website owners to monetize their site and make additional income.

Although Google has made it simple and easy to implement AdSense on your website, you have to spend your time and effort to develop a central theme and the supporting content-rich web pages for your website.

As an example, the central keyword theme of your website might be “fishing.” Each associated web page that supports the central theme would have a single unique keyword theme like fishing lures, fishing rods, fishing reels and so forth.

Google uses proprietary algorithms to determine the content theme on each page of your web site with an AdSense box. As a result, each web page, with an AdSense display box, must have interesting and informative content for your website visitor. Google will determine the keyword theme from the content and display AdWords ads in the AdSense box that are relevant to the web page keyword theme.

You are paid a portion of the fee paid by the advertiser to Google when a visitor clicks on an AdSense ad.

It is possible for a web site to make significant money with the AdSense program if they have a high-quality and focused web site with a lot of targeted traffic.

The articles in this report cover all the significant areas of the AdSense program. I believe your will find the information in this report packed with valuable insights that you can use to start making money with the AdSense program.

ClickBank.com

ClickBank is the ecommerce solution for thousands of web businesses that deliver unique products and services over the Internet itself (via web pages, files, or email).

ClickBank's payment technology lets any web business (a seller) automatically pay sales commissions to any other web business (an affiliate) that links a paying customer to the seller. Clickbank bills the customer, pays the seller, and pays the affiliate.

By acting as the trusted intermediary, ClickBank maintains complete security and quality control in every transaction. ClickBank offers significant advantages over any stand-alone solutions for billing, marketing, or affiliate management:

Affiliates can freely link to any seller and be assured that they will be paid for every sale they generate. Sellers can freely accept new affiliates without fear of fraud or misrepresentation.
For sophisticated international fraud control, ClickBank uses ccScansm to screen all purchases. For maximum card security, all orders are sent directly to the banking network for immediate authorization. We do not store card numbers.

Since sellers only pay commissions to affiliates when the customer makes a purchase, the seller's advertising expenditure is 100% effective.

ClickBank's services are underpinned by exclusive licenses to four patents and patents pending that protect various aspects of the system including the linking of the payment transaction with the distribution of commissions.

ebay.com

eBay Australia and New Zealand welcomes the opportunity to provide submissions on the 2004 review of the Private Sector amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

eBay is the world’s online marketplace, with more than 125 million internet users registered worldwide. The benefits provided by online trading are extensive: mums and dads can trade alongside large retailers without high overheads or start up costs; persons in rural areas are able to access a wider choice of items to buy at competitive prices; great flexibility in payment and transaction options; and the opportunities to sell to or buy from a global market from the comfort of your home.

Recognizing some of the unique circumstances presented by online trading, eBay has invested and continues to invest heavily in safe trading initiatives, including development of state of the art tools and technologies, employing over 1000 people to help make trading on eBay as safe as possible, and creating and promoting the best consumer education possible. eBay has also implemented numerous policies to facilitate its goal of providing a safe, fair, and legal trading environment, and to make its user experience as easy, safe, and rewarding as possible. eBay is deeply committed to the protection of online consumers and constantly liaises with state Offices of Fair Trading and the ACCC in relation to such issues.

eBay is committed to ensuring that Australian users enjoy world-class consumer protection in the online environment and this includes protection of members’ personal information. eBay strives to maintain globally consistent privacy practices in relation to its members worldwide and conducted a review/audit of its practices when the private sector legislative amendments were first introduced.

eBay has received public praise for its privacy practices. For instance, in October 2003 eBay received the inaugural (commercial) HP Privacy Innovation Award at the 5th annual privacy con in Columbus, Ohio. The award recognizes entities for their overall integration of privacy protection and practices throughout their organization business process. Furthermore, in November 2004 eBay received the highest score in the Computer & Data Services category in the Customer Respect Group’s Fourth Quarter 2004 Online Customer Respect Study of the largest computer products and services firms in the U.S.

From its inception, eBay has known that its success is directly linked to the ability of buyers and sellers to have confidence in the safety and integrity of the eBay marketplace. Protection of privacy has been a key driver of this trust. eBay’s registered membership base of more than 125 million people world-wide shows the level of confidence that people have in eBay as a safe and reliable trading environment.

Submission Strategies

1. Research each directory and categories that will fit your domain/sites. Another reason why manual directory submissions are far much better than automatic blasters or auto submissions is that you need to think through very carefully what categories fit your sites. Disregarding this important research about your site will not save you from millions of unrelated commercial messages (spam) done on your email.


Careful research of your site's category will prompt you to write a concise, accurate description that relates to the directory's description.


2. Determine the best description for your web site in each category. Since manual directory submission is one of the core promotions that you can do for your web site, it's better to hint the webmaster or owner of the directory that you mean serious business and that your keywords and descriptions are the fruits of your careful study of your web site.If the directory doesn't have your desired specific category it's better to suggest it to the owner of the directory rather than be sorry.



3. Make sure your (USP) unique selling proposition is included in your site's description. Your description should be unique even though it resembles description style of other web sites in your targeted directory. So if you're company has specialties in 3 services, mention those 3 specific services in your description. If your site targets a specific audience, include that as well.



4. Write descriptions of varying lengths and keep it in a .txt file for cut-n-paste submissions. Directories are not similar in the number of characters it accepts so better be prepared submitting the ones they approve. Make sure there are no repeat keywords on the description and don't try to "stuff" it with too many unrelated keywords. Remember that your site is a work of "art" in the eyes of the "human" editors of these directories so appeal to them not to the software-backend of their directory.



5. Whenever budget allows, use the paid or premium listings of a directory. Most free listings are often listed very slow like in after 4 weeks and doesn't have any guarantees, remember since most of the search engines measure link popularity in the quickness your site appears in a given high - pr directory so better invest that kind of money long term on the directories rather than be sorry.



6. Verify your site manually by visiting the directory itself to see your listings. If your site is not yet listed in the given amount of time, it's healthy to resubmit it to the directory let's say an ample wait time of 4 weeks is acceptable and does not appear that you are actually "begging" the directory owner. Keep track of your dates of submissions, categories, descriptions, titles and so on. If your site is not yet listed after so much wait time on it, it's better to contact the directory owner to know and for you to act what stuff your site contains that prohibits them from listing it.



7. Always submit your domain name and not a page. This will limit the directory you can submit to, but it's better to have quality visitors rather than so many that will only consume your bandwidth.