Rosalind Gardner goes on a rant about how NOT to promote products on Clickbank as an affiliate marketer:

Obviously, having traffic is very important for your website if you want to successfully earn money online. You can drive traffic to your website using a wide range of tools.
Among all the different ways of driving traffic to your website, writing and submitting articles remains one of the most powerful methods, which in turn can boost sales and increase your presence across the Internet.

So how is writing and submitting articles effective in driving traffic to your website?

1. Build Trust
   Articles can help you become an expert in your niche.
   By writing high quality and informative articles in your niche, you become an expert. You also build trust and confidence in your prospects. As an expert, customers will feel more confident to buy from you and this will increase your sales, grow your list and overall profits.
2. Automation and Exposure
   Articles are an affordable and in most cases, free way of driving traffic to your website. You can write your own articles or you can hire a ghostwriter to write some articles for you, and this is not very expensive. You can then submit your articles to many directories. There are some tools that you can use to automatically submit your articles to many directories, and this increases the number of links pointing back to your website.
3. Articles Are Viral
   Articles are viral and powerful in driving traffic to your website. At the bottom of all your articles, you are given a resource box containing your website URL. Your articles will be published by many directories, websites and e-zines with your website URL. By simply writing and submitting articles, you tap into a powerful viral resource with many websites having your website’s URL on their sites.
4. Longevity
   Articles bring life long results and will continue to drive traffic to your website long after they’re published. Unlike other types of advertising that bring momentary results, articles will continue to drive traffic to your website for a long time. All your articles are archived in article directories and that means anyone can still read them and visit your website. Your articles can generate thousands of permanent one-way links to your website, which is also good for SEO.
5. Search Engines Love Them
   Articles make search engines index your website and drive traffic to your website. Writing and submitting many articles to article directories is very powerful in making your website visible on search engines. By including your keywords in your articles, when people are looking for information related to your niche and type those keywords, your articles and website show up on search engines, therefore making it easy for you to get a lot of traffic on your website from people interested in your particular topic.

Although there are many tools for driving traffic to a website, articles remain the most powerful tool that brings life long results.
For some of my recommended article directories, tips and tricks, I cover them all in my
free Affiliate Jumpstart report.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

A marketing plan that outlines key steps needed to drive traffic to your website is essential. Having a marketing plan will also help you establish your budget for advertising your website, which determines the tools that you can use in generating traffic to your website.
In most cases, more traffic equals more money!

Here are some quick tips to help you do just that:

1.      Establish your objectives and targets.
After you have built your website for your online business, you must establish your goals in terms of the money you want to earn from your online business.
This will determine the volumes of traffic you will need to make the necessary sales you want to make. Your objectives and goals will guide you in deciding the level of promotion you need to do to advertise your website and build traffic to it.
Remember, not all buyers will make a purchase the first time they see your site.
It may take seeing it at least 3-5 times until they do.

2.      Establish your advertising budget.
This is a very important step. There are many ways of driving traffic to your website; some are affordable while some are expensive. You need to decide what your budget is and therefore what tools you can use to drive traffic to your website.

3.      Invest in the necessary tools that you need in advertising your website
In order to capture leads and follow-up with your prospects, it is necessary for your website to have an automated email system or auto-responder which captures your prospects email address and automatically send those emails on a regular basis. These emails will have a link to your website and will invite your subscribers to visit your website.

4.      What are your short term and long term advertising strategies?
The quickest and easiest way to generate traffic and leads for any business is pay per click (PPC) advertising because it can bring you immediate results. PPC can also help you drive the most targeted traffic to your website.
However, you also need to have some marketing strategies that will generate traffic to your website in the long term.
Pay per click marketing is normally considered to be the short-term solution for generating targeted traffic and leads fast, but it is also considered to be one of the most expensive ways to advertise your business. Therefore, it is important for you to have other affordable ways of generating traffic to your website which will drive traffic to your site in the long term. Article marketing, blogging and forum participation are some of these less costly ways of generating traffic to your website.
I have listed some traffic generation methods here on this blog.

‘til next time,

-Ryan

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