6 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Website for FREE
By Anthony D. Smith | May 13, 2009
Are you tired of paying for web site traffic or just don’t want to start, but you like the idea of getting targeted visitors to your website who are likely to buy your products, services, and affiliate promotions?
Here’s six powerful ways to promote your website for free. Use them and watch as thousands of targeted visitors flood your web site with the high probability to buy into your web based offers. Let’s start with method number one…
#01: Free Articles
Promoting your website with free articles is easy. It’s one of my top three favorite ways to promote a website for free simply because you can turn your articles into multiple forms of content and gain more exposure for your website as a result.
You can turn your articles into audio files and upload them to PodCasting directories such as iTunes or turn them into multimedia and upload as videos to social media sites like YouTube.
Using your articles for more than submitting to article directories and announcement lists can generate tons of back links for your website as well as increase your search engine rankings, thus, promoting your website for free. Remember, it’s all about getting targeted traffic you don’t have to pay for.
#02: Social Media Sites
I LOVE social media. You can make a killing using social websites like YouTube, Google Video, Vidilife, and literally dozens of others. You can upload your video to these sites pretty easy using TubeMogul.com. It let’s you upload your videos to the top video sharing sites on the net in one shot automatically and for free.
Plus, if you create a really good video, you will increase your chances of it getting passed around and going viral as people put it on their websites, on their MySpace pages and even link to it on their Twitter accounts. You can post them on your blog too.
Your blog gets updated and attracts search engine spiders and potentially thousands of people are passing your new video around the web. Can you feel marketing power?
#03: Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking isn’t at the top of the traffic food chain, however, it is quick & easy and can generate a slew of potentially targeted visitors. I highly recommend using a social bookmarking tool such as SocialPoster.com or SocialMarker.com to automate this process as much as possible making your life easier.
You’ll not only get lots of traffic to your website but you’ll be getting even more back links. 80% of your website’s SEO factors are determined by how many back links your web site has.
More links equals better search engine rankings and more search engine rankings equals much more targeted traffic.
#04: Viral Marketing
If done right viral marketing can create a steady stream of visitors to your website for years to come. Create a free viral ebook or report for the purpose of letting people pass it around.
Distribute and promote your own viral e-books and reports by listing them on free ebook directories, give them to membership sites as special gifts to offer their members, etc. Let you affiliates brand the reports and offer it to their visitors and email lists. I suggest you allow them to pass it along with free branding rights as well. This way their visitors will be compelled to spread your marketing message around further and so will theirs, and so forth.
You have no idea how powerful this method is. Use it and experience true marketing power. It will have a strong promotional effect on your Internet business.
#05: Free Press Releases
Free press releases have the power to get you in the media BIG TIME. I’m not just talking social media, rather, I’m talking off line media and high trafficked media publications in your target market on the web.
Your website may get listed in magazines, trade journals, monthly print newsletters, and in digital versions of the latter distributed through publishers’ websites and newsletters.
Simply write your press release and start submitting it everywhere you can that will take it for free. You can find lots of free press release submission services online by doing a quick search on Google. They can bring you lots of traffic, expert interviews, journal coverage, and more just by following the simple process of writing and submitting your press releases online.
#06: Blog Comments
Blog s are hot and in high demand in every market. It only makes sense to capitalize on this incredible trend and more so capitalize on other people’s high traffic blogs.
Simply start posting comments on their blogs along with a link to your website as the poster. You can use your name as anchor text for the first few posts to build somewhat of a relationship with the blog owner/publisher and their commenting community.
After a few posts start using your main keywords and key phrases as your anchor text in the blog comments you make as the poster in order to get the added benefit of back links with optimized anchor text for search engines pointing to your website. Only use blogs that have the DoFollow add-on for WordPress as well as blogs with high Alexa rankings. They offer the most link juice and capture the most targeted traffic which is what you’re after.
Now you can stop paying for targeted web traffic and begin to promote your website for free. These methods are proven to increase web traffic that is most likely to buy your products and services as well as affiliate promotions. If you use these methods you may never pay for targeted web traffic again.
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Why Build An Internet Business?
By Anthony D. Smith | May 6, 2009
I think most people have forgotten what building an Internet business is all about. It’s not about marketing strategies, ebooks, or generating a million dollars in one day. It’s about the lifestyle.
It’s about waking up at any time you want to every single day, working on your own schedule that you set. No more alarm clock, no more clocking in and punching out. You work when you feel like it. You play even more. You live your life on your terms and you love every single minute of it.
I was talking with my friend, Jim, the other day. I said, “Jim, imagine the day when you can just pick up and leave any time you feel like it. Imagine being able to just leave from Michigan on a whim to go spend the day with your Dad in Texas.”
“Imagine driving miles just to have lunch or a cup of coffee just for fun without having to blink. Imagine vacationing three to five times a year with little mini vacations in between. All while being able to more than afford it, then coming home to see more money was automatically deposited into your PayPal account.”
That’s what this Internet business is all about. That’s what mines about. I love being able to pick and leave any time I feel like and stay up as late as I want doing the things I love (like midnight showings at the movie theater with friends and late night lunch afterwards) not worried about having to get up and go to work tomorrow.
Don’t you? What do you love. How do you want your lifestyle to be?
That’s what this Internet business is all about. It’s not about being a slave to your business. If you want that, I recommend you go out and get a real job. It’s much easier.
Build your Internet business to live your dream lifestyle. Then live your dream lifestyle and build your Internet business around that. It’s the perfect system to total freedom. Why are you building your Internet business?
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4 Advantages of Building A Double Opt In Email List
By Anthony D. Smith | May 5, 2009
Have you ever wondered about the advantages of a double opt in email list? How about if I showed you that single opt in email lists are proven to get more subscribers than double opt in email lists? If that statement of fact piqued your curiosity at all then continue reading this post.
Here’s four big advantages of building a double opt in email list versus a single opt in email list.
Advantage #1 – A More Targeted Email List
Building an email list of subscribers who are more targeted to your offers is always a good thing and a quality list can outperform a large list any day of the week. Of course, it’s even better to have a large quality list, but that’s another topic for another post.
If people have to jump through a hoop to get your free stuff then they are more likely to be interested in the subject matter of your email list. Since they jumped through that extra “hoop” to confirm their email address they are more likely to read your free information or download and use your bonus gifts for subscribing.
You want them to do this because it will condition them to use your information and tips in the future as well. Use a double opt in email system to build a more targeted list from the get-go.
Advantage #2 – Lower Your List Management Costs
It’s true! You can spend less money for a more targeted list! Generally, the more leads you have in your autoresponder system the more money you pay every month to use your autoresponder service. By only allowing quality subscribers on your email list from the beginning you only pay to send messages to quality subscribers.
Instead of cleaning your email list down the road and asking people who will never buy anything to un-subscribe (and probably ticking off some quality subscribers), building a double opt in email list is like cleaning it from the start. You just aren’t letting any junk in. That’s the way it’s gotta be unless you want a massive list, with a massive monthly bill, and a massive amount of low converting email campaigns when you send out your promotional messages.
Advantage #3 – Cut Down On Spam Complaints
Spam complaints are not just bad because they can get your account canceled with your list management service or web host. They are really bad because can get your IP address or your web host blacklisted on the IP address spam services. When that happens your email deliverability rates go way down and it can be tough sometimes to get your Ip address removed from the ever increasing amount of blacklists.
Spam complaints aren’t just in form of an actual complaint to your web host or autoresponder company. They are most often from the click of a button (and those clicking it don’t even realize it). In most email programs there is a button people can press to say that “this message is spam”. Or “I don’t want to see messages like this”. What the ISPs don’t tell you is that this isn’t just so they can cut down on spam in your inbox personally, it’s so they can block all emails from that domain name or ISP from ever reaching your inbox or anyone else’s once again.
If you get a more targeted list of prospects and email leads chances are they won’t do that. At least, not so much.
Advantage #4 – Attract Higher Quality JVs
You want joint ventures in your business to reach more customers and make more sales. If you only have a single opt in email list chances are your potential JV partners will frown upon this. Remember, a double opt in email list much more valuable than single opt in list simply because they actually showed their interest by “jumping through a hoop”.
This is what potential JV partners will look at. It doesn’t matter that you have 10,000 people on your email list. What matters is they await the arrival of your emails and read them when they show up. Oh, yeah, they spend money, too! If you ever approach me with a JV deal hoping to get more money than the normal affiliate you better have a double opt in email list that is proven to buy.
Joint venture partners also don’t like their products and services associated with lists that receive a high number of spam complaints. It makes them look bad.
Follow these tips and you will reduce your stress level. I guarantee it. You won’t have all the worries everyone with a single opt in list has of too many spam complaints, higher marketing costs, dismal sales, and no JVs to show for their efforts.
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3 Quick Tips to Build A Targeted Email List
By Anthony D. Smith | May 1, 2009
What would it be like to make money on demand? Imagine if you could send an email, see money automatically form a mambo line into your bank account, and laugh all the way from home 
If you use the simple tips I’m about to share with you on how to build a targeted email list this imaginary lifestlye can be your reality. Here are three tips to build a targeted email list that gets the clicks and turns them into profits.
Tip #1 – Cultivate a Strong Relationship With Your List
Your relationship with your email list is where your fortune is. Relationships are what drives clicks and clicks are what drives sales.
Nurture your subscribers so they become more responsive to your messages. Send them free info in the form of reports, articles, audios and videos. Give away lots of valuable content. You can do this easily by sending your subscribers blog updates as long as you publish regularly (and you should). In the process, weave in promotional messages that speak directly to your target group of subscribers.
Connecting with your list members from the very beginning and keeping that connection is the great master key to building a targeted email list from the get-go for long term success.
Tip #2 – Follow-Up with Your List Regularly
Relationships are only built through communication. You can’t have a relationship when there is no communication. This is why you must deliver valuable free content to your list members on a regular basis.
Does your email list know your publishing schedule or are you a hit and miss kind of publisher? Making it known what your publishing schedule is and sticking to it creates a level of expectancy within your list members. This is what you want. You’ll create a much better bond with your list.
Follow-up with your list consistently and they will be kept at the edge of their seat looking forward to your next email announcement.
Tip #3 – Condition Your Email List to Get Clicks
You want your list members to click on your promotional links. This is the big purpose of your email list in the first place. The only way to condition your list members to click on the links in your promotional messages is to get them to click on the links in your non-promotional messages. The conditioning starts with your very first email.
The moment they opt-in to your email list and you send them a thank you message along with their free bonus for subscribing should be the moment they click on one of your website links. Don’t give them the download link directly. Instead, give them a link to your thank you page and they can download their free gift from there.
When you have an article for them to read post it on your website first and then give them the website link where the article can be read. Sure, it’s okay to include an excerpt of the content but don’t give the whole enchilada all at once. Make them click for it.
This is a habit you must condition your list members to develop. Soon, they’ll begin skimming their messages just to find the website links you want them to click on. That’s how you know they’re really targeted.
So, what’s the best route for you to take right now? It’s easy. Take action!
Use the tips discussed immediately. Go back and edit your email follow-up sequences if you have to. Put them to work in your email list building efforts and watch them pay off. Remember, these are the three secrets to truly building a targeted email list so use them religiously.
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3 Easy Ways To Build An Email List Ultra Fast
By Anthony D. Smith | October 16, 2008
More often than not most marketers on the Internet know that building a list is essential to their online success. Often times when we learn this fundamental principle of “online success” we think “Oh, okay! So, let’s build the list!” Then we just sit there and start surfing for the next big
secret.
The good news is there are a few FAST and EASY ways you can begin building your own opt-in email list starting right now – today – and they cost little to no money to not only get started, but keep running for the rest of your business life!
Here they are…
Method #1 – Co-Registration Leads
Co-registration is the BIG secret to truly skyrocketing your email list size and ultimately exploding your Internet profits from your own highly responsive opt-in email list starting today with virtually no work or effort on your part – guaranteed.
You simply pay to be a part of a co-registration service that will put your ad for leads and prospects to join your email list in front of targeted traffic along with other email list builders’ offers and you simply pay for the subscribers who join your email list directly. It’s really as simple as that!
What makes co-registration leads so great is as long as you have the money to spend your email list will continue to grow 100% automatically.
Method #2 – Ad Swaps
An ad swap is when you swap ads with another list owner with a subscriber base of equal or greater size. You place an ad to your email list for their free offer and they place an ad to their list for your free offer and drive people to your squeeze page.
You basically cross promote each other’s lists and share in the subscribers from each of your list building efforts.
You can build a HUGE subscriber list quickly using this method alone and do it for FREE! In fact, I read a post on a popular marketing forum of a marketer who built his list to 15,000 quickly mainly using this method. So, yes, it
works!
Method #3 – Free Giveaways
Giveaways work great! You can build a list very quickly & for FREE with absolutely NOTHING to start with at all. Simply sign-up to join a giveaway event as a contributor, offer your gift, write your ad, then promote the giveaway!
The more people you refer to the giveaway the higher your gift ranking will be, the more people will see it, the more chances you have of lots of people signing up to join your email list to download your free gift.
You can use free safe lists on the Internet to promote the free giveaway event if you don’t have a quick & effective way to promote it right away already (trust me…safe lists work great in conjunction with promoting giveaways in order to get your list building efforts off to a flying start)!
If you begin using the simple and effective methods briefly described above you can easily build a HUGE subscriber list of leads and prospects you can market, promote and SELL TO in no time at all. That’s not just my promise, that’s a guarantee
Now put these methods into practice and begin to see amazing list building results immediately!
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