First, you’ll need to pick a pretty broad niche. Like health, hobbies, etc. Yes, you can even use Internet marketing. That’s actually the niche I use this tactic for.

So, once you have your niche, you need to make sure their are plenty of digital products for your niche. http://www.ClickBank.com, http://www.PayDotCom.com, and http://www.SaleFlurry.com are the three biggest affiliate sites where you can find tons of digital products you can sell as an affiliate.

Pick 1 digital products to start out with. You’re either going to have to buy it or ask the owner for a review copy because you’ll need to write a review for the product. Now this is really important. You’re not writing an ad for the product, you’re writing a review. My suggestion is to go to a place like http://www.EzineArticles.com and read articles about how to write a review before writing your first one.It’s really not that hard, so don’t let that discourage you. Once you get your first one done, all other ones you write will be super easy.

Once you have your product reviewed, and the review written for it, it’s time to create a blog, and post the review to your blog. Make sure you create links so that once the person reads your review, they can buy the product. These will be your affiliate links. I highly recommend getting your own domain name and installing a blog on it.

Okay, so you’ve got a blog with your product review. There’s only one problem. No one is coming to your blog, right? Well here’s where the secrets come in. Just kidding. The secret is there are no secrets. Just tactics you have to learn.

So the first thing I do is use an RSS submitter tool, and submit my blog rss feed to the directories. This will give you some instant traffic.

The second thing I do is pay an article writer to write an article for me on the topic of the product I have reviewed. Once you have your article, there’s one more step you have to take before we use the articles, and that’s keyword research.

You need to find easy to rank for keywords that are related to your product. An easy to rank for keyword is simply a keyword that gets good searches but doesn’t have a lot of competition. There are a lot of software programs online that will help you determine easy to rank for keywords. You’ll need 2-3 easy to rank for keywords per product.

Once you have those, make sure to take one of them and use it to link back to your site in your resource box. This will give you backlinks for that keyword because we’re going to be submitting the article to article directories. Backlinks are important and submitting articles is a great way to get them.

Take your other keywords you have, and use other ways to get backlinks for them. Either have more articles written or learn more ways to get backlinks. Believe me, there are tons of ways to get backlinks and many of them are free.

Once you’ve done this, rinse and repeat with a new product….

What does all of this accomplish?

If you keep writing reviews for your products and putting your affiliate links in the reviews, you’ll make sales on those products by driving traffic the ways I’ve told you. There are tons of ways to drive traffic, but this is the easy method. You’ll get some instant traffic, but by using the backlink tactic, you’ll also get long term traffic as your reviews start ranking for their keywords.

More website traffic is what we want and then more click thru’s. I do not have a new secrete tip. I am going to list a few tips that have been around awhile and still work. Seeing several tips in one list will benefit some marketers who are familiar with most of the tips. To get more website traffic consider the following:

1.  Publish articles to several  article directories. This will bring traffic from readers  of the published article as well as building backlinks to your site.

2. Submit your site to social bookmarking sites. This should bring quick traffic to your site as well as some backlinks.  I do not always get a backlink from a social bookmarking site.

3.  Use Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. This an excellent way to get nore website traffic.Build your friends list and announce new products, blog posts, etc. to your friends. Stay away from any hard sell ideas you may have. I use a semi social site called Qondio. I post a short article – more like a short blog  post along with my website URL and receive a backlink and a picture of my website when I click the link on the search page.

4.  Another way to get more website traffic is to post comments in forums. Find a few forums in your area of interest and post comments and questions. Be sure and read the forum rules for posting. Each forum has it’s own rules. Put your website link in your post signature. Some forms will allow more than one URL in your signature and some will not. Also, some forums have nofollow links.

5.  Submit your URL to all major search engines manually. This is more practical as some directories will not accept software submitted links.

6.  Submit your website to major directories like DMOZ.

7.  Email your list when you update your website or submit a new  post to your blog.

8.  Maintaining a blog enables you to post article frequently with a link to your web site.

9.  Produce and submit videos to the major video web sites. There are may video sites with the most popular being Youtube, Metacafe, and Google. While you are on those sites post comments on other videos you enjoy and leave your site URL with the comment. This should be a fertile place for backlinks as there are many videos in your area of interest to place comments on.

10.   Exchange ads with other webmasters and ezine publishers. This could be a banner ad.

11.   Offer to moderate a section of a forum. A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your site.

12.   Write key word rich press releases. Several of the article directory sites have sections for press releases. Some will even edit your press release – for a fee. There is press release submitting software available for a fee.

Realizing that this is generally a review list of tips to get more website traffic, integrating some of these tips in addition to what you are already doing will bring increased traffic. Use what you are comfortable with and if you find some that work well for you, keep doing it.

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Understanding and using forums in your internet marketing efforts is beneficial in several ways.

1. Exposing your website URL in your signature to the search engine for back link credit.

2. Posting your problems and receiving help from other forum users. Reading forms is an education.

3. Reading forums provides timely topics for you article writing plus in the reply posts a lot of topic research is done for you.

4. Form networking may come up with a JV partner.

Each forum seems to have its own peculiar way it operates. Peculiar here meaning their own distinct way of operating. Learn the rules before you start posting, you and your posts will be much better received. Forums have moderators that will delete or comment on your post if not done correctly. Posting comments that actually add to the discussion is the way to go. Of course asking for information in a sincere manner is also well received.

Not all forums provide back links to your site. Some of the popular forums have have a nofollow tag. Search engine spiders will not credit a back link to your site if they see a nofollow tag. Some popular forms were forced to go nofollow as some posters used very imaginative ways to link spam their posts. These forums still provide excellent information.

Using the search engines you will find forms on all topics can be found. Searching for affiliate marketing- forms will list many forums. Using that same procedure: keyword-forums might yield a form in your particular niche. One way to select a forum from a search engine list is to see how active it is. Does it have recent posts on several topics? Usually you will want more than one form to follow. You can find additional forums in the same manner or ask for recommendations on the forum you have selected. Remember posting relevant questions and answers keeps a

forum useful for everyone.

Not all information posted on forms is correct. Forum users have a wide level of experience. I am not suggesting there are those who will intentionally mislead anyone. Fortunately a lot of the forums are self policing and a more experienced commenter may post a correction.

Forums are in the category of net working or possible a social site. Networking because there many people involved that get your attention with the information they post and then pass out business cards in the form of their signature, Social because people are helping people. If you participate in a long thread of posts on the same topic you will end up with several backlinks.

As with any networking or social event it takes awhile to become known and if you will-accepted. You may even want to ease off you signature until you have made a few posts. Some forums actually require a number of forum posts before a signature link can be added. Establish yourself as an asset to the forum and you will enjoy your time spent on the forums.

Spend some time on your profile. Many forum viewers will view your profile from time to time so make it attractive. Be as personable as you can. It seem if we know a little bit about a person we become more comfortable interacting with them. Keep in mind that your web site URL is included in your profile resulting in another back link.

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