I have created this page to list some of the traffic generation tricks that most of us tend to overlook. I have given the free ones that will work and the ones that will NOT work. Of course, you can use your imagination and use as many other tricks you want.
Free method # 1 – It may sound strange to read but the top most effective free way of generating active visitors is to create email signature and forum signature with your referral link in it. Yes! Many of my top affiliates have used this trick which has worked wonders for them. So do this right now. Every email you send out may potentially build future income for you.
Free method # 2 - Address book. You may be surprised but this is really a neat trick. Just look at your contacts and address books. On an average, a normal person has anywhere from 50 to 60 contacts in their address book. Just start going down the address book and send personalized messages to your friends and family introducing my site. Don’t forget to put your referral link in your mails. It is perfectly OK to tell them that you will get paid if they visit the site. It is also perfectly fine with me if you also ask them to go and signup for the affiliate program. In fact many of my top affiliates have started chain mails and group messages where they request their friends and family members to forward the message to their contacts and so on. This can spread like wildfire!!!
Free method # 3 – If you have some time on your hands, you can surf the web for couple of hours a day and make a list of forums and online communities which are related to the program you wish to promote. Sign up and actively participate in the discussions. Once you get a good idea and feel that you can contribute to the discussion, try to find various acceptable ways of introducing your URLs to the community. Use your referral link in the discussions wherever appropriate. This may take some time but if done correctly can literally bring in hundreds of active visitors.
Free method # 4 – Blog posts and articles. If you have some writting skills and littlebit of time hand, you can always create your own articles or blog website and put your reviews about the programs that you want to promote. Once spidered by search engines, this can give you unlimited free quality leads. There are many sites and services out there that will allow you to submit articles. There are free services that will submit articles you have written to various places. Don’t forget to embed your referral URLs in your articles.
Let me end this page with what will NOT work for generating traffic:
1 – Free autosurf sites – this will not give any active visitors to you. This is waste of time. Do not even try.
2 – Robots or spamming – This may give some visitors but the moment I find out, you are OUT! Don’t even think about this. I have zero tolerance for such things.