Hildonne Buckley asked:


Now lets discuss the first website promotion scams which is safelists. These are lists that you can join and become a member. These safelists may have thousands or millions on them, who knows?

As a member of one these safelists , you can submit your ad to the safelist of whatever you are promoting. It could be mlm , internet marketing , etc. The bad part is, that the other members on the saflist you have joined can also send their offers back to you.

Pretty soon your email box is filled with offers you do not want. Let me digress, as I said earlier is that you can send your offer you are promoting to any body that is on that safelist, being mlm , internet marketing etc.

Well alot of these programs provide the same ads for the members on the safelist of the particular program they might be promoting, mlm , internet marketing etc. What happens is they are sending the same offers to one another and no one is making any money.

Ok you join this safelist and become a member. You start receiving a bunch of emails in your inbox from the other members on the safelists. You noticed in the subject line of the email, the heading How to make a $100,000 a year in internet marketing.

Days and weeks go by and your are noticing that you see that same headline over and over again. You start getting used to seeing that headline and what do you? You delete it without giving it a second thought.

Probably the other members on the list are doing the same thing. Using safelist for your website promotion is a waste of time because it become a game of receive email , delete email. receive , delete.

Now the second website promotion scam I am going to talk about is those ad blaster software that promise to send your ads to millions of people and make you millions of dollars in the process, and also promising you that it will save you alot of time.

This is software that you can buy and download off the internet for a a low price. Here is how this website promotion scam works. You open up this software and fill out a few fills your title of the ad for your website and the description of your ad for your website and of course the website address.

You suppose to press a button and your ad for your website will be placed on thousands of websites . Are you a millionaire now right? wrong! because your ad is on top for a while and is then pushed off by the other ads and you have no control over it.

Let me digress and say just because it is automated software and it suppose to save you time does not mean it is a better website promotion tactic you should use in your internet marketing.

Article marketing is a good example of website promotion tactic that seems to be harder to start but is it more effective. There are many gurus who use and sell this type of ad blaster software and they prey on your hope , fears , dreams.

The third website promotion scam is those guaranteed hit programs that promise you that they will send 100,000 targeted hits to your website for $300. Many aspiring internet marketers fall for this website promotion scam and I know all to well.

In 2005 , I was searching on the internet like I normally do and I found one those companies that has one those guaranteed hit or traffic programs. So I called the company and I am not going to names no names.

One of their customer service reps answered the phone and he was telling me about company and how some of their clients were having success with this program. I thought to my self, if I purchase 100,000 hits and get a 1 percent conversion ratio that is a thousand orders I am rich!

Any how, the customer service rep told me all the benefits I would be receiving if I use this program , for example how it will improve my alexa traffic ranking. So I asked the customer service rep a question , Can you guarantee me that I will get sales using this program? and the customer rep said no.

I should of bailed out then , but I had dollar signs in my eyes and so i gave the customer service rep my credit card info any way. So I purchased 100,000 hits for over $300 and my traffic campaign was to start in september and end november.

So now my traffic campaign begins and I am checking my traffic stats and my sales stats. Now the first day of the month I check my traffic & sales and I see I have plenty of visitors and no sales. I am saying to myself, it is no big deal it is only the first day of the traffic campaign.

Fifteen days later I had plenty of traffic and no sales. I was starting to get a little concerned but i still had a couple of months. The end of the first month the same thing plenty of traffic and no sales.

Now we are in the first day of the second month, and the same thing happens, plenty of visitors and no sales. I am thinking to myself , Should I be making sales by now?

Fifteen days later , the same thing plenty of visitors and no sales. The end of the second month same results. Now the third month, guess what what? you guessed it plenty of visitors and no sales.

I just realized that I have been scammed and lost over $300. The feelings of sadness and anger and wanting to quit internet marketing for good. I found out some of the reasons why my particular traffic campaign did not work.

The visitors the company were sending me were not targeted visitors and they they were not even interested in the product I was selling. What I paid for was hits and not visitors , and there is a difference between visitors and hits.

Hits are just people who type in your domain name and leave and visitors are people who are actually interested in your product and stay and look at your website.

In hind sight, I could of used that $300 and set a google adwords campaign and came out way ahead and I also could of purchased a ezine solo ad and came out way ahead. All website promotion tactics are not created equal. if it too good to to be true it usually is.

Angad Singh Thandi asked:


One way of increasing traffic your website is through promotion of well written articles. Articles that promote websites, products or services are widely acceptable and in fact getting popular as a tool to drive up website traffic. Many internet users are constantly on the lookout for information to increase knowledge in their areas of interest. Hence, well written articles are in demand. An excellent way of keeping your website updated and current is through article marketing. Articles that provide the latest information about your company and its products can serve as an important way of creating inward links to your website.

Article marketing is done through the posting of keyword-focused articles on article sites that then syndicate your content. Some of these article syndication sites have a significant readership following thus making article marketing an important website promotion technique.

Most article syndication sites allow you to post your content for free. Once published, your content becomes available for all to see – and potentially reuse. When properly done, articles posted on syndicated article sites can then become "link bait" for other sites. For example, you own a home business that sells closet organizers. If you or your web content writer writes an article about organizing office, others who may want to post a blog entry about how to organize an office may link to your article. In this way, you can get increased exposure for your writing and your subject matter, especially if the article site gets a great deal more traffic than your own website, which is fairly likely.

Some article sites allow you to include HTML links in your articles. You can then link your keyword phrase to the page on your website you are trying to promote for that keyword – a highly effective search engine optimization technique. Some others do not allow you to do that, but they will have no objections with you including links in your resource box (your profile or signature information used to let people know who you are), which adds important one-way backlinks to your website.

Article syndication sites also typically allow readers to conditionally include your article on their site. Conditions typically include the requirement that whoever reuses your article must cite you as the author and must retain any links in the article. As you can imagine, this will certainly provide additional opportunities to increase your site traffic and also get the buzz out about your article. Even if you have to pay to have the article ghost written for you, it is fairly inexpensive to have a good article written by a knowledgeable ghost writer and you still get the credit! Therefore, article marketing can be a very cost effective means of website promotion for your home business.

David Nettey asked:


Many people start a website because they think that it is going to make their business grow, or get their name in front of a lot of people; and this can definitely be true. But unfortunately, without the appropriate amount of promotion nobody will know about your site; and if nobody knows about your site it is not very useful.

Website content is one of the most important aspects of promoting your site. If you have good, informative website content people will visit your site just to see what you say next. They will spread the word that your information is top notch, and word of mouth will start to increase your traffic. When searching for website content, you will want to stick to information that is easy to understand, but also informative to the people that will be reading it. Website keywords are important if you are looking to get your site ranked high on the search engines. For example, if you are writing about home based businesses you will want to make sure that you use applicable keywords such as work from home, home based, online business, and so on. This way the search engines will recognize your site.

In order to increase website traffic you will need to have a good promotion strategy in place before you even make your website live. Your website marketing campaign will be what decides if you get a lot of traffic, or if your site is just sitting stagnant. A good website marketing campaign will incorporate many different promotional tactics in order to ensure that you do not miss any important avenues.

If you already have a website, but are having a hard time increasing traffic you may want to look into updating your website. Updating websites is one of the best ways to increase traffic because you are giving it a complete makeover. This way you can have the same domain name, but advertise that you are launching a new and improved site. This should draw interest from outsiders who are interested in your industry.

To find a good website marketing strategy you may want to ask for help from other people in the industry. If you know of another successful website that is similar to yours, you may want to ask them what they do as far as website marketing is concerned. Often times they will be able to tell you exactly what works, and what you need to avoid. This way you will already be ahead of the game from the very beginning.

Overall, it is important to have a solid website promotion strategy. This way you will ensure yourself that you website will be worth the time and money that you put into it.

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