There is a lot of marketing tecniques out there, some may make a big impact in generating massive traffic, some may not be so good. I just want to share what i learnt. FORUM MARKETING If you're active in other forums on the web, you can take full advantage of this and use the techniques within this section. A lot of marketer literally thousands of dollars without spending a dime on advertising. Forum Marketing is one way to do achieve this.While posting, included your link in your signature. Warningon't spam the forum, it won't bring any good. While participating in forum can help you promote your product or service, you can also learn a lot from other members.Here is some list of high traffic and popular forum. http://www.abestweb.com http://www.ewealth.com http://www.warriorforum.com/forum http://www.Affiliate-talk.com http://www.A4uforum.co.uk http://www.therichjerk.com/forum http://www.howtocorp.com/forum http://www.im4newbies.com/forum http://www.clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum http://forums.digitalpoint.com http://forums.seroundtable.com http://forums.seochat.com http://www.webmaster-talk.com Article Marketing Article marketing is perhaps one of the best way to get free traffic,a lot of people are doing it. The idea is simple. Write a keyword targeted article, post it in article bank that have good PR, include your link.Thats it.Your article needs to be about 350-500 words long. Here is some link (to name a few). www.ezinearticles.com www.goarticles.com www.articlecity.com http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=304593&highlight=article (Good thread) Anyone need free article submitter? Contact me. Blogging Needless to said, blogging is one of the important part of getting traffic.Search engine favors site with frequently changing, unique content and link.Blogging gives you a lot of advantage on this. Simply RSS feed your site and it can bring you massive traffic.You can simply start with blogger.com but i personally prefer Wp. Bum Marketing Why call bum marketing? It is because it is so easy that a bum can do it. Bum marketing is more or less like article marketing. Lets sum it up like this: Locate the niche market you can explore Sign up some affiliate program or adsense. Find the low competition keyword phrase to target. Write an article and optimize it based on the target keyword phrase Submit your article to popular article websites Earn money when people click on your ad or you make sales out of it. Benefits: • Earn money online • No cost • It’s easy • Free traffic (massive) • Builds name recognition and branding • You don’t need a website, email list or even a reputation • It’s a no risk PPC Marketing PPC Advertising is the most effective and lucrative way to earn money promoting what you want. It is the fastest, and laser targeted way to get traffic. There is this myth about PPC. People who use PPC can be categorise into three group. Don't understand it and go straight into it and lose money. Think they understand it but in actual fact they don't and lose money. Understand it and made massive amount of money BT pay a very low ad cost. You can learn a lot from the internet by simply google it. But, a lot of info out there are only general,if you want to learn the real tecniques, you have go more deeply into it.Your goal is to find the cheapest way to understand PPC, no point paying tons of cash for same type of knowledge. Contact me for further advice. Opt-in Email Marketing The most important part to kickstart a great deal is to collect your customers' email address. You leave a lot of money on the table is you din't collect it.Having their email allows you to follow them up or update them about what's new in your niche industry.When a person comes to your website, offer them some freebies to collect their email, they will opt in their email and well, you made yourself a good kickstart. some good email marketing companies are aweber and getresponse. Traffic exchange Traffic exchange are sites that people visit to get visitors. Traffic exchnage may not work well and may work well (I don't participate). This i s because a lot of people participate in it to surf for credit, and they may ignore your website.Traffic are not highly targeted and there is a lot of people participating in it, it may be crowded, there may be cases where a lot of people are promoting the same website. Here are some sites: www.trafficswarm.com www.ts25.com www.trafficpods.com www.hitpulse.com www.fastfreeway.com Social Bookmarking Social bookmarking allows you to create page about yourself and build a netword of friends.Squidoo is the best for internet marketer because you need not to worry of being ban like other sites such as myspace when you promote your products.Squidoo let you create lens, you can create as many lenses as you want.You can even earn some money and help some charity foundation in squidoo. Go to squidoo.com and check it out. Other social bookmarking sites: cloudytags.com tektag.com del.icio.us digg.com... and more http://www.listible.com/list/social-bookmarking-sites Classified Ads Classified are still popular on the net, a lot of people are relying on classified sites to get some jobs. This led to the opportunity for you to list your service.Sites like craiglist are widely used and is the most popular classified site on the net. Search engine spider often crawl and most of it are being indexed. Top Ten Classified Ad Sites US Free Ads (recommended) E-Page Classifieds (recommended) Business Classifieds Yahoo Classifieds The Ad Net 1AmericaMall Best Mall Classified Ads Access Business Online Five Star Classified Ads Classifieds 2000 To your success . Cheers.
This is nice. This is like everything thats scattered around the marketing forum but condensed into one thread. I'm sure it will help some beginners!
I love forum marketing and article marketing. Great job for putting all these sites and links into one thread.
Great list!! Rep and rate added. Never heard of the therm "bum" marketing ! It was a good read Wish it could be stickied
I was searching for some Affiliate Marketing forums thanks for the List Ya even I dont know whats Bum Marketing btw Rep Added
Warning o not buy traffic unless it works well, there is a lot of fake company out there that claim that you can have a lot of traffic for just a few dollar, lets put it this way, if they can do it for dollars, why do you think PPC works better? People can just go and buy from them and ignore PPC.