Learning how to increase website traffic is important for anyone with a website. The average business owner and the person or business making money online selling a product or service need traffic to their websites.

When driving website traffic a person must have a consistent plan of actionable steps to bring in the right type of traffic, no one needs traffic from gamers to a weight loss site. Here are three of my 13 Traffic Boosting methods GUARANTEED to get more traffic to your websites.

1. Press Releases

A press‐release can be on the front page of Google within hours, and they are super powerful. The online press release serves the same purpose as TV media & newspapers, which is communicating and announcing newsworthy information.

A good press release will display on the top search engines and greatly enhance your web presence, and provide links to your website.

Write the press release in journalistic language, this is not an advertisement. The press release is there to inform the people not advertise.

The power of the press release can help build your brand, gain credibility, and bring a lot of traffic to your website.

An online press release is one of the most popular ways to get publicity and quick bursts of traffic. Here are the top 10 press release sites online:

• PRlog.org (free)
• Free‐press‐release.com (free)
• I‐newswire.com (free)
• MediaSyndicate (free)
• PrLeap.com
• PrWeb.com
• OnlinePrNews.com
• PR.com
• BusinessWire.com
• PRNewswire.com ($195)

Paid press releases give you more options so I highly recommend the paid press release sites. I would rather spend some money in return for increased traffic &  user options. My top recommendation is PRWeb.com

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2. Document Sharing

Repurpose your articles & blog posts by submitting them to document sharing sites directories to generate traffic. Upload your content  in Word, PDF, and PowerPoint slides. The most popular document sharing sites are:

• Scribd
• Docstoc
• Slidesix.com
• Slideshare
• Issuu
• Calameo

Most often you can insert a live link into your document to build more links & drive more traffic.

Google indexes document sharing sites pretty fast, and they rank high in the search engines when you optimize your keywords.

3. Facebook Ads

Facebook is one of the most highly targeted traffic sites you can advertise on.  The images are what get your facebook ads clicked. The best images are amateur type images and not professional looking images with graphics.

Facebook ads are extremely targeted because you can choose the demographics of your audience. Use quantcast.com for your demographic research, and take that information and plug it into your facebook campaign.

On facebook you can target age, sex, location, interests, language, likes and interests.

Use CPC and not CPM for your campaigns. Choose half of the recommended bid and inch your way up until you receive impressions. DO NOT try to lower your bid-you will stop getting impressions or they will slow to a crawl. Once your bid is chosen, you should only go upwards.

A place to get some free stock images for your campaigns is stock.xchng (www.sxc.hu). Tracking facebook campaigns is critical to successful campaigns, I recommend (prosper 202, or bevomedia)

Keep your ads fresh, banner blindness occurs fast on facebook. Test plenty of images and the one that converts the best find new images that are similar to keep the campaign alive.

Direct your ads to a customized fan page with an opt in form, keeping the visitor on facebook increases conversions. Here are the 3 DO’s of facebook advertising:

1. Always TRACK- Tracking is critical in fb advertising, and it allows you to make changes to poor ads and get the most from your winners.
2. Images- Images are the bread & butter of your campaign-keep it amateur-keep it simple-TEST!
3. Know your demographics-Use sites like quantcast.com and google ad planner for your research.

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Many companies consider email communications crucial for the prosperity with their company, and there is no way to contradict this. However, the actual management associated with subscription-based mailing lists is extremely challenging if not impossible in the absence of a great mass email software. Also called bulk email software, such a tool represents a priceless help when dealing with email marketing techniques including notifications, newsletters, promotions and so on.

It’s thanks good bulk email programs that many companies have extended their market presence, the actual effectiveness of the services whilst deepening the actual associations with the clients. And there are lots of tool options to select from for really decent prices!

A mass email software that you simply purchase a license for should have no restrictions when it comes to mail merging and also the number of emails it transmits each day. Additionally, the emails you deliver in large quantities form are customized together with details imported from the mailing lists. An extremely valuable feature of a superior bulk email software consists in the ability to monitor email marketing campaigns performance simply by tracking who opens the emails or accesses website links. All this tracking process is actually enabled by the read-receipt notification that is delivered together with the message.

Among the many options that come with a mass email software you ought to pay attention to the way the actual mailer supports the actual mailing lists. Remember that the program you select has to be able to export documents from Microsoft Excel, Word or Access in addition to from some other popular databases. Then, the tool has to automatically filter information, add and remove programs and allow unsubscribing as the situation may require it. This other selection is part of the feature legal necessity according to which it is necessary for the software program generating mail messages to incorporate an unsubscribe or opt-out link allowing the recipient to choose to no longer receive your messages.

Hence, the mass email marketing software provides safe as well as quick message delivery that keeps businesses in contact with their clients. While some programs rely on various Internet route nodes, experts advise businesses to better use those that send the messages directly, without any intermediation. Additionally, another noteworthy function of quality bulk email software packages results from an opportunity to stop and resume the particular delivering process as you desire. Furthermore, the user has no trouble with the personalization of the messages, since this is achieved automatically by means of macro commands.

Your other choice when it comes to creating an email marketing campaign is to use an online service, as opposed to purchasing a software to do the job on your behalf. The software itself can be rather costly despite the fact that while using the online providers there is a fee every month, it’s going to be cheaper for you to get going by using one of those services.

If you want to find much more information about opt in email marketing, you ought to check out our blog site where we go over many different facets of email marketing. You can find our website at: Email Marketing.

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1. “Youtube Bounceback”
2. “Facebook Push”
3. “Twitter Blog Bounce”
4. Blogs and “Feeder Sites”
5. “Push Send, Get Traffic”
6. “Contests and Sweepstakes Traffic Magnets”
7. “Article Linking Network”
8. “Free Software List Building Machine”
9. “PPC for Broke College Students and Housewives”
10. “CPV Server Crasher”
11. “Non-Stop Affiliate Traffic”

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I have come across the most valuable  lessons for any business, its from John Reese. This email that I have provided below is the most important email that I’ve ever read. It’s easy to get sidetracked when working online, but its time to get back in the game with the right mind set. Let’s get in the game for the last 3 months of this year. The email below is from John Reese and will absolutely change the way you run your business.

Enjoy.

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In light of my upcoming 40th birthday, I want
to share 12 valuable mini-lessons that I’ve
learned so far as an entrepreneur…

These range from mistakes to avoid, to
making strategic decisions, of how to get
cash flow to come in the fastest, etc.

They are in no particular order…

1. ALWAYS DO MORE THAN IS EXPECTED OF YOU

I learned this at an early age from my Dad.
He had a very successful career as a business
executive and engineer, and this the core
principle that created his success.

You can apply this to your business in many
ways… over-delivering to your customers,
giving unexpected bonuses to your employees
or outsourced workers, and more.

Most people do just the bare minimum. Do
more than is expected of you and it will do
amazing things for your business.

2. STOP DREAMING AND START DOING

Too many entrepreneurs get caught up in the
big dreams of how they will one day be rich
and how their life will be amazing…

…but they never end up doing anything.

They buy courses, read all they can, jot
down little notes and ideas in a notebook,
but nothing ever actually gets created.

A web site doesn’t get made. Advertising
isn’t run. Markets aren’t tested. Nothing.

If you want to make a lot of money the only
way that happens is getting stuff done. Period.

3. DON’T LET LEARNING DELAY ACTIVITY

Most people that have studied Internet Marketing
much already have the basic skills that are
needed to build a million-dollar business.

That’s worth REPEATING…

Most people that have studied IM much ALREADY
HAVE the basic skills that are needed to build
a million-dollar business.

You can get stuck learning new stuff FOREVER.
There will always be new methods and techniques
that get discovered. The Internet changes on
a DAILY BASIS. This is a given.

Don’t get caught in the trap of “I’m going to start
building my business right after I go through this
next course…”

You can start building your business TODAY while
you are studying and learning new things that you
can easily apply TOMORROW.

Things will NEVER perfectly align for you and
your business. There’s no such thing. So don’t
wait. Get started NOW and take action. Get some
stuff going and go from there.

4. MULTIPLE IDEAS CAN BE THE KISS OF DEATH

It’s okay to work on multiple projects and ideas.
It’s almost impossible to stop entrepreneurs
from having tons of new ideas at the same time.

BUT…

No new money comes in the door until you get
ONE project launched and making money.

Something has to be launched FIRST.

5. MAKE JUST ONE DOLLAR FIRST

No one has ever made a million dollars in sales
without generating $1 first.

ALL successful businesses start with that first
sale and then grow from there.

It doesn’t matter what your income goals are.
The faster you make your first dollar, the faster
you will reach your goals. PERIOD.

6. DO THE IMMEDIATE CASH PROJECT FIRST

What should you work on next? Whatever will
bring in cash the fastest for your business — and
of course, I mean that in a moral/legal/ethical way.

If you analyze all the great ideas you are probably
sitting on, I bet you can realistically prioritize them
in the order of which ones would actually make
money come in the fastest (if it succeeds.)

THAT is the project you need to focus on.

Cash is the lifeblood of your business (and your life.)

Save some of those “big” ideas for the future. Focus
on the ones that stand the best chance of getting
new money to come in right away. Once you have
some stable ongoing cash flow in your business, then
you can take a chance on that project that may take
longer to pay off.

7. EMAIL MARKETING KICKS THE CRAP OUT OF
EVERYTHING ELSE

When it comes to growing a business online, nothing
generates long-term cash flow like an email list of
engaged subscribers & customers.

Email marketing is the best way to generate traffic.
It’s the best way to ‘recycle’ the same visitors again
and again to any of your projects. It’s also the best
way to convert prospects into buyers.

RSS, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, BLAH BLAH BLAH

Yes, those methods can generate leads. Yes, those
methods can generate some sales. But time and time
again little old email marketing kicks their butts — by
a long shot.

So make building a list, and a solid relationship with
it, a top priority in your business.

8. RUN A LEAN OVERHEAD MACHINE

I can’t stress this one enough.

When you start growing a successful business
it’s really easy for your overhead to get out of hand.
It’s easy to start hiring a bunch of people and
committing to a bunch of expenses.

Take it from me, when you have months where
your fixed expenses (doesn’t include advertising, etc.)
are well over $100,000/MONTH (and growing) it can put
you in a tough position to make healthy profits.

I used to have fixed overhead that high but never again.
I realized there were smarter ways to do things.

What you need to realize is that REVENUE doesn’t
mean jack squat. It’s your profit (income) that
matters.

So while running a $10,000,000/year business (sales)
is impressive, I know people running a $1,000,000/year
business that nets MORE than the person that owns
the $10MM/year business.

It all comes down to your expenses.

Sometimes it certainly DOES take heavy expenses
in order to make a lot of money. But that’s not my point…

My point is, your overhead can really get away
from you. If your sales experience some dips,
and it’s almost guaranteed they will at some point,
then you can LOSE YOUR BUTT very quickly.

So add to your overhead as a last resort.

9. MAKE ACCOUNTING A PRIORITY

This is a big mistake that most entrepreneurs
make — and I’ve been guilty of it as well.

Keeping the books and doing accounting work
is the LAST thing that most entrepreneurs want
to mess with. We have more fun by coming up
with new ideas and trying to make them grow –
not spending hours of our time inputting receipts
and figures into QuickBooks.

If you don’t like accounting, immediately pay
someone a few bucks to handle it for you. Just
make sure your accounting is always up to date.
It’s very important.

As an extension of this, make paying your taxes
a priority — even if you pay them in advance.

I have paid a small fortune in tax penalties because
of being lazy and filing late. And it’s too easy to
let one delay turn into another and for the problem
to get worse. So make it a priority.

Don’t “rob Peter to pay Paul.” This is a trap
most entrepreneurs fall into — again,
I’ve been guilty of it in the past myself.

It’s easy to start making a bunch of money
and think “I’ll just use this money to make
more money instead of paying my taxes
on it now and I’ll just pay the taxes later
after I’ve made even more money.”

Or the same thinking is applied towards
delaying payments to a vendor, or some other
expense that needs to get paid.

This is probably the #1 mistake entrepreneurs
make that can create problems and a lot of
wasted money in paying penalties and interest.
So make sure your accounting is taken care
of and your taxes get paid on-time for you.

10. DON’T LEASE OFFICE SPACE

(If possible.)

As tempting as this might become if your
business starts to grow, avoid it at all costs.

If you’re like me, what will happen is that you
will eventually stop going to the office and just
work from home where you always were
more comfortable anyway. And/or you will
end up realizing you really didn’t need it.

Having an “office” is not required to have
a successful business. We live in a
Digital World now and it’s just not important
anymore.

Even if your business grows and you need
employees, you still don’t necessarily need
an office. There are people out there running
$20MM+/year businesses with no office; the
employees all just work virtually. This is
becoming more and more common.

* There certainly are exceptions to this. My
team in the Philippines works out of an office
I leased. But they are collaborating on software
projects and NEED to work in the same location.
And, of course, it’s also very inexpensive.

Most office leases are thousands of dollars
per month and usually don’t turn out to be
a good use of cash.

11. ALMOST EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER

When creating new projects, or having some software
made for you, or having an ebook ghostwritten, or
anything else, know that things almost always
take more time than originally expected.

This is the #1 reason why you need to act TODAY
to start putting things in motion to grow your
business. The longer you wait, the more into
the future you push your potential of getting
money to come in the door.

12. THE MONEY IS IN THE MARKETING

Don’t get caught up in trying to make Web pages and learn
HTML, or studying how to create javascript, or learning to
master Linux so you can administer your own server, or
how to use Photoshop to create little logos, etc.

You can certainly do that stuff if you want, but know that
it will most likely just be a HOBBY.

It’s no surprise that some of the most successful entrepreneurs
I know are also some of the LEAST TECHNICAL people I know.
The main thing they do right is to simply pay others to do all
the “nuts & bolts” stuff that makes online business work.

It allows them to spend all their time on the marketing — which
is where the money comes from.

*** BONUS LESSON ***

* See how I’m over-delivering as mentioned in the first lesson?

SPENDING TIME ONLINE ISN’T NECESSARILY WORKING
ON YOUR BUSINESS

Just because you spend hours a day online doesn’t mean
you’re working on your business.

You can do ‘research’ forever and never make a cent.

You need to be spending most of your time on:

- Generating Traffic
- Communicating With Your Customers (i.e. blog, list, etc.)
- Creating Content

Don’t fall into the trap of reading blogs & forums, chatting
on Facebook or Twitter, checking stats, reading news,
etc. for hours upon hours.

Just know that almost all of that stuff (with rare exception)
is LOSING YOU MONEY more than making you money.

—

I hope you enjoyed these mini-lessons. Hopefully, you
can apply them to your business and be a lot more
successful!

Yours For Online Profits,

John Reese

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Social media is easily becoming the biggest promotional tool for a business. Most of the money made using social media doesn’t come from Facebook or Twitter.

The majority of money made in social media is made in the content sharing and blogging sites.

One big problem people are making with social media is abandoning their blog, or simply not having a blog. I meet people every day on Facebook and when I ask about a link to their blog, I’m sent to the replicated website for their business opportunity.

You need a blog to share lessons and value, and to inject some passion and inspiration into your message.

Your blog is your main hub, so it can’t be shallow or lifeless. Use your blog to tell your story! That way when you direct someone from Facebook to learn more about you and what you do, that person can get to know an aspect of you.

Let’s take for instance you network with someone at a coffee shop and that person would like to know more about what you do. You can’t just point and give them directions to some building location downtown and tell them to look inside, read the name and learn about that company because that’s what you do. That’s exactly the scenario when someone on Facebook wants to know a little more about you, and you send that person to your company replicated website.

Send them to your story, and let them get to know you.

There are two types of Social Media, one that makes you friends and one that makes you money!

Here’s a few things to consider when establishing a social media presence for your business.

• Create and outline a social media strategy. Without a clearly defined outline you’ll eventually become overwhelmed and get burnt out. Your strategy should be set according to the message your trying to communicate. Take time to observe your audience and learn how to connect with them on social media.

• The power of social media is obtained when you engage your audience, not just collect names. Contribute, add value, and engage your audience, this way you have the ability to learn from engagement and adapt quickly.

• Provide useful information about your industry, not just about your company, you sound less like your making a sales pitch, and you increase your influence.

• Manage Time-I’m sure everyone can relate to being sucked in the social media time warp once we login. Set a time limit beforehand for each site. Thirty minutes works, and it’s a  good idea to set a timer, that way your attention is focused on the most important things, I get distracted rather easily, an hour can often seem like 15 minutes. A timer can be the difference between wasted time, and serious production.

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