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HOW THE GURUS GENERATE TRAFFIC?
The real fact is that
online marketing is hard and many times,
very frustrating, especially when you
don’t know how to do it. The online
marketing gurus are also of not much
help, because if they reveal all the
secrets then you will not have to go
back to them to purchase their products.
So, how to find out their
secrets? Different people take different
amounts of time to figure out the
secrets of the gurus. There are close to
nine effective methods used by the
marketing gurus to make money on the
net. This article explains these
methods.
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Word of mouth – This age old
technique is very effective even in
today’s world. It works like this:
you build a site and then tell your
friends to check it out. If they are
impressed with your site, each one
of them will inform their friends
about your site and this chain will
go on, till you get a huge amount of
traffic to your site. This is a type
of viral marketing.
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Advertising in magazines and
newspapers – Magazines are highly
niche oriented. Therefore,
publishing an advertisement about
your web site in the magazine or the
newspaper will create a lot of
publicity for your web site, which
results in a huge amount of traffic.
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Niche Forums – Forums are the best
place to create awareness about your
site. Join niche forums and actively
participate in the discussions by
posting replies to queries or having
a post of your own. During these
activities make sure that you
include your signature which
contains the URL of your web site.
In this way you create a good
reputation for your self and your
web site, thereby attracting some
laser target traffic to your site.
People have managed to generate a
good amount of traffic in just 20
minutes of launching their web sites
by using this method.
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Membership websites – There are
several established membership
websites which have facilities for
marketers to get in to joint
ventures, which can effectively
expose your website. This method is
very effective if you know how to
use it. You have to get in to joint
ventures with other websites which
are in the same niche.
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Writing articles – This is the
oldest online marketing method. It
is as old as the internet itself,
but is very effective. You have to
write articles with informative
content and upload them on popular
article directories with links to
your site. Don’t make the mistake of
advertising any product or your web
site in articles, or else your
article will not be read by any
person.
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Press Releases – Give a press
release, so that the launch of your
web site is shown on news websites.
This will generate general traffic
very quickly.
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Submit your site to web directories
where many internet users conduct
searches. Your site will receive
some amount of targeted traffic
through this method. Hence, you
cannot ignore this method.
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