Regardless of how long you have been in business of any kind on the World Wide Web, if you have a Product to sell, something to say or just simply trying to get known you need to have Traffic to your Store, Blog or Website. If you can not get leads and clients you don't have a stream of income.
A simple formula that seems to keep popping up is a generalized: For every 1000 views to your Website, you have one interested Lead, for every 100 Leads you may have one actual Buyer. In straightforward Terms; you have to have a lot of unique hits to your “virtual Office” to get the sales or the gigs in the case of us writers.
Depending on what it is you are doing you can purchase Traffic Hits from Traffic Driving Sites. Those fall under the following Categories and can get your Website or Blog shut down in some cases, so make certain to read the fine print first.
Surf for traffic: I have worked with several of them in the past to get my Stores out and about. You will get views or traffic hits without a doubt as long as you uphold your part of the bargain and surf other viewers sites, but if you have ever used one of them you already know the downside. Each Site is set up to stay on for about 15 seconds.
Most of the allow auto-surf or minimizing. Which means that the potential client barely gets a look at your site or doesn't even get to see it if they are on auto-surf, plus they are not out looking for anything in particular, besides getting traffic for their own sites.
However, having stated the obvious, I have managed a couple of clients with these 3 Traffic Driving Sites. Beware however that you are not allowed to use them for anything that included you getting paid for views like Associated Content.
The Lords of Traffic is a decent one to work with, not great but decent, they don't permit any auto-surf or minimization, this way at least you know that the person on the other end has to look at your page.
Bionic Hits: I have been with this Program for close to two Years now, which should tell you something. I like that you can not only surf for your hits, but there every 100 surfed you have a chance to place a small advertisement in the top corner for all to read. It works out pretty good.
This company permits you purchase hits from them as well, the price is very low (Somewhere around $5.00 for 1000 hits I believe). It is a good way if you just need to get it out there for a little while.
Get Paid to Surf Programs
Almost the same and yet it has a slight twist to it. Here you get paid to actually surf other websites. So what does that mean to you? It means that those looking may not be originally in the market to buy, but you have a better chance of actually setting a deal up. If you are willing to spend a bit of money you can even set deals up for the surfers.
Submitting RSS Feeds
First of all what are RSS Feeds? RSS stands for Rich Site Summary and it is simply put all your content on one long listing. It gives the news the quick version so to speak.
Most Blogs have RSS Feeds. So what to do with them? Submit them of course to as many places as possible.
I came across this little beauty of a program and best of all it was free. No sign ups, no pay out and simple to learn and use.
Just click on the version you want to download, install and go for it. The installation took me less then a minute and I had my first RSS Feed Submitted to the Directories (that is including Yahoo, MSN etc) in less then 10 minutes. You can even set it up so it downloads several RSS Feeds right after the other.
Note: If you have an Ebay Store or are thinking of getting one, they have a feature included that allows you to have the Store set up your RSS Feed. You don't want to miss out on that.
Here is a link to a free RSS Feed Reader and just in case you need to create your own here is a link to a page with three free choices
Personally, I stick with having them created for me. I have enough other work to do. Either way, you can not afford to pass this option of advertisement and marketing up. It really is a win/win situation. You get your name and product out and the world is hopefully better of by finding out about you and your product.
