When people are starting their online businesses, they need to drive traffic to their
websites ASAP.
However, in most cases, people do not have the money to pay for advertising.

There are many ways to drive traffic to a website, depending on your budget and the time you have available to work on building your online business.

Here are just a couple low cost ways to generate traffic to your website.

1.      Offer free reports and content.
Giving away some freebies and including your website URL in those freebies is an effective and low cost way of building traffic to your website. You can write some useful short reports with your website link in them and offer those reports for free on a website where you ask visitors to leave their email address before they download the free reports or articles. This means you can give away the report with your URL and also build a list.

2.      Blog!  Blogging is a very effective way of building traffic to your website.
On your blog, you can discuss your website’s products and services and add some links to your website.
You can also answer any questions your prospects and customers may have.
By blogging regularly, you will have fresh content that may get your website indexed by search engines and rank higher on these search engines.
This increase in visibility will increase your overall website traffic.

3.      Publish your own newsletter.
Having your own newsletter where you offer free tips and content on a regular basis can help to increase traffic to your website dramatically.
Your newsletter should have links to your website, so your readers will also visit your website.

4.      Join a forum related to the products or services you sell on your website.
By answering questions and helping people in your niche on a related forum, you can drive traffic by adding your website URL in your signature in the forum posts.
Be genuine and avoid spamming just to get your link seen! Trust can go a long way, so build relationships and be helpful whenever possible.

5.      Exchange links with websites that have high popularity (PR) rank.
All you need to do is to find websites that are related to what you offer on your website and exchange links with these sites.
This is particularly effective if the websites have high page rank on search engines.
By doing this, some traffic will come your way through the websites you are linked to.

6.     Join a free Traffic Exchange.
The way they work is very simple. You add your website and view sites belonging to others in exchange for credits.
You assign these credits to your own website, where others view your site and so the same.
If you join Traffic Punk today and mention this blog post, I will give you 100 credits to get started

These are just some basic, easy ways you can start driving traffic to your website.
More traffic means more sales and profits for your online business.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

Some affiliates are very successful in earning commissions while others fail to
make money online.
Over the last 10 years I’ve been doing this, I’ve seen so many people simply give up and quit.
What separates winners from losers in earning huge affiliate commissions?

I’ve put together some simple ideas that you can try out to help you win:

1.      Build your own mini-site where you promote relevant affiliate programs for your niche. By focusing your site on one niche, you can offer several affiliate products that you can hand pick from that niche. This gives your website visitors options to buy products they are interested in, which in turn boosts sales.

2.      Publish your own e-zine and build a big list of subscribers. By doing this, you can then promote your affiliate products to your list on a regular basis.

3.      Establish a marketing budget and the tools you will use to advertise your affiliate products. It is also important for you to test and track your ads and promotions for your affiliate programs to see which ones are the most effective.

4.      Carry out product reviews of the affiliate products you promote, indicating which programs have paid you most, and outline their attractive benefits. This will inform your customers about your products, and will also help to drive traffic to your website. You can also recommend your affiliate programs on your website or in your newsletter, or on your blog.
It is very important that you make sure that your affiliate product reviews honest.

5.      Give away freebies that have your affiliate links in them. This can involve giving away short reports, e-books or an e-course with your affiliate links in them.
A rebrandable report such as Affiliate Jumpstart is ideal for this.
You can also invite your website visitors to give away your reports and e-books to their own friends or distribute to their lists.

6.      Create a directory. This directory can be for articles, e-zines, e-books or affiliate programs. You can add your affiliate links in your directories, which will in turn boost your commissions as the directory grows in size and popularity.

Try a few or all of these methods out for size and you might be surprised at the difference that is made to your bottom line.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

When it comes to your online success, we all know that getting quality traffic plays a critical role and the more eyeballs on your sites, the better!

This morning, my friend Sean Supplee launched his all new ad network that incorporates a combination of highly visible text ads, html ads, banner ads and a few more goodies valuable
to us Internet Marketers.

It’s called Links Ablaze:

=> http://www.ryanhogan.com/loves/linksablaze

Membership and Added Benefits:
Links Ablaze is free to join and also includes their ‘guaranteed traffic links’ and solo ads, which you can quickly send out to a mass of new visitors to your sites!
I have been lucky enough to have joined early for a sneak peek and am very impressed with the quality and the effectiveness of this new program.
Other features include a full-featured downline builder and a built-in viral link cloaker.

Bonus!
To celebrate his new launch, Sean is giving away 200 ad credits for every new member who joins today.
Take advantage now and set your ads ablaze:

Enjoy!
-Ryan