In the continuing quest for more traffic to your site or more low cost traffic as we all are looking for, I am going to suggest a few ideas that will help. PPC has always been a good way to drive traffic to our site, however, it is certainly not low cost. SEO methods may or may not be considered low cost. In this article we are going to look at a few traffic generation methods that makes use of other marketers efforts and resources and are low cost.
Exchange blog posts with other marketers in your niche. That is starting to become known as guest blogging. That way your name and url is exposed to a larger readership. This is usually a win-win situation that can be made more attractive by using their affiliate link in your article enabling them to make money when a purchase is made. If an added incentive is needed offer to include the blog post in your newsletter. If you interest several bloggers in doing this your should see an increase in targeted traffic to your site.
Another low cost traffic idea is to cross promote with another marketer that is closely related to your product or service and trade product links on your thank you page/download page. Another way is to have the marketer point to your product sales page using his affiliate link. This presents another buying opportunity to someone that has just made a purchase and is in the mood.
Similar to trading products links on thank you/download pages is to exchange links on your newsletter subscription page. Consider also trading endorsements in your welcoming emails sent to new subscribers.
Creating and marketing audio interviews with other marketers has been popular for sometime. Consider teaming up with other marketers on writing an article. Two marketers sharing their bit of expertise in one article will make for an unique article. Publish the article to article directories, newsletter and blogs will bring some low cost traffic.
Distributing ebooks and reports have long been used as a low cost marketing tactic. Ebooks and reports contain web site address and possibly several affiliate links through out the pages. Many marketers distribute free ebooks and reports with their affiliate links through out to get their affiliate links in front of as many people as possible. Consider also if you have your own product making the ebook or report rebrandable. Rebranding enables you to replace the links in the paper with your links. A quality rebrandable ebook or report distributed freely can be a source of targeted traffic. This is used often in an effort to make the ebook or report go viral. Going viral is when the report keeps on being distributed with no further effort by the marketer. It is a condition you want to encourage. There are places on the web that will rebrand for you. Often you see a paper being marketed with branding available for an additional fee. Rebrandable software can be downloaded from ViralPDF. It seems to be reasonably priced. Using this software the distributers name can be rebranded.
