Posts Tagged ‘Marketing’

50 Marketing Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Site

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Thanks to my friend Leo for this great summary!

1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.
2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.
3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com
4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.
5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com.
6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.
7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.
8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.
9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.
11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.
12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.
13. Use PPC search engine advertising.
14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.
15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.
16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.
17. Hold a crazy content and make it go viral.
18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.
19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.
20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net.
21. Participate in a banner or link exchange program.
22. Create a software program and give it away for free.
23. Purchase the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors.
24. Buy a domain name related to your niche that is already receiving traffic and forward it to your site.
25. Pass out business cards with your domain on them everywhere you go.
26. Start and affiliate program and let your affiliates send you visitors.
27. Start a page on social bookmarking sites such as www.MySpace.com.
28. Submit a viral video to www.YouTube.com
29. Conduct and publish surveys to your website.
30. Find joint venture partners that will send you traffic.
31. Start your own newsletter or ezine.
32. Use an autoresponder or email campaign to keep people coming back to your site.
33. Purchase ads on other sites.
34. Send a free copy of your product to other site owners in exchange for a product review.
35. Sell or place classified ads on www.eBay.com with a link to your site.
36. Post free classified ads on any of the sites that allow them with a link to your site.
37. Exchange reciprocal links with other related websites.
38. Network with other people at seminars or other live events.
39. Purchase advertising in popular newsletters or ezines.
40. Advertise on other product’s “thank you” pages.
41. Create a free ebook and list in on the “free ebook” sites.
42. Buy and use a memorable domain name.
43. Do something controversial.
44. Create an Amazon profile and submit reviews for books and other products that you have read.
45. Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com.
46. Use a traffic exchange (low quality traffic, but can sometimes be worthwhile).
47. Get referrals form similar but non-competing sites.
48. Create and sell a product with resell or giveaway rights and include a link to your site in it o others pass it around for you.
49. Email your list. If you don’t have one, get one.
50. Buy a pair of sandals; get your website engraved on the bottom and walk on the beach, stomp in the mud or play in the snow.

Here’s a neat one I just discovered.

What method gets through the spam filters better than a URL with the same message?
Your own 800# of course!  Spam filters don’t eat those.  Mine is 1-800-809-1583 and works for me 24/7.  Try it and see.  Also, get one for your own marketing efforts at The 800# Store

For more tips contact me below at anytime.

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Fred Raley
Woodbridge, VA
(703) 730 1079 (h)
(703) 203 4648 (m)
Fred@FredRaley.com
http://www.FredRaley.com where some interesting things are going on.

100 Greatest Headlines

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Use the 100 headlines below to kick-start your swipe file.Use the format and formulas from the headlines below and insert your own product’s benefits and pain avoidance to generate your own attention grabbing headlines that arouse the curiosity and interest of your target market.

Test your headlines like the pros do.  http://www.aminstitute.com/headline/


  • They Laughed When I Sat Down at The Piano - But Then I Started to Play!
  • Thousands Now Play Who Never Thought They Could
  • Does Your Child Ever Embarrass You?
  • You Can Laugh at Money Worries - if You Follow This Simple Plan
  • How I Made a Fortune With a Fool Idea
  • Whose Fault When Children Disobey?
  • A Little Mistake That Cost a Farmer $3,000 a Year
  • Do You Make These Mistakes in English?
  • How I Improved My Memory in One Evening
  • Satisfaction Guaranteed - or Your Money Back!
  • Do You Do Any Of These Embarrassing Things?
  • Suppose This happened On Your Wedding Day!
  • Six Types of Investors - Which Group Are You In?
  • To People Who Want To Write - But Can’t Get Started
  • The Crimes We Commit Against Our Stomachs
  • How to Do Wonders with a Little Land!
  • “Here’s an Extra $50, Grace”
  • A Wonderful Two Years Trip at Full Pay - but only men with imagination can take it
  • A $10,000 Mistake!
  • The Greatest Reason in The World
  • The Man in the Hathaway Shirt
  • Dare To Be Rich!
  • But What if You Could See Her Naked?
  • A Startling Fact About Money
  • How To Discover What You Are Really Good At
  • How To Write a Business Letter?
  • Give Back What They Deserve
  • The Secrets of Making People Like You
  • Advice to Wives Whose Husbands Don’t Save Money
  • How a New Discovery Made a Plain Girl Beautiful
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
  • How to Swim with The Sharks without Being Eaten Alive
  • Free to Manufacturers. Write for Brochures You Want.
  • The Last 2 Hours are the Longest - and Those Are the 2 Hours You Save
  • Profits That Lie Hidden In Your Farm
  • Why Some Foods “Explode” in Your Stomach
  • How To Avoid Mental Hazards
  • Five Familiar Skin Troubles - Which do You Want to Overcome?
  • How I Improved My Memory in One Evening
  • Thousands Have This Priceless Gift - but Never Discover It!
  • For People Who Don’t Have Time for Unimportant Books
  • Free Book Tells You 12 Secrets of Better Lawn Care
  • The Secret to Being Wealthy
  • To Men Who Want to Quit Working Some Day
  • Imagine Holding an Audience Spellbound for 30 Minutes
  • New Shampoo Leaves Your Hair Smoother - Easier to Manage
  • Keep Your Dog safe This Summer!
  • Great New Discovery Kills Kitchen Odors Quick!
  • For The Woman Who Looks Younger than She Is
  • Check the Kind of Body You Want
  • “At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock”
  • The Instrument of the Immortals
  • Why Wall Street Journal readers Live Better
  • “Dear American Tourister: You Saved My Life”
  • Girls! Want Quick Curls?
  • You May Be Eating More Salt Than You Should
  • Get Rid of That Humidity!
  • How You can Get a Quick Loan of $1,000
  • Become a Well Paid Hotel/Motel Executive
  • How To Get More Energy From The Food You Eat
  • They Grinned When the waiter Spoke to Me in French
  • Imagine Harry and Me Advertising our Pears in Fortune!
  • My Sears Kenmore Sewing Machine has 9 Different Stitches - Imagine!
  • How To Rob Banks Legally
  • You Can Make Big Money Easily
  • Get Rid of Money Worries for Good
  • Break Out of Jail!
  • Tenants Mysteriously Disappear from the Carrboro Apartment Complex!
  • Will You Help me Free Gina?
  • Don’t Even Think About Buying New Home Without Reading This Report!
  • How To Start from Scratch and Become a PO Box Millionaire
  • The Secret of Having Good Luck
  • How To Get Rich Reading Classified Ads
  • How To Form Your Corporation Without a Lawyer for Under $50
  • Seven Steps to Financial Freedom
  • How To Write a Hit Song and Sell It
  • Who is Making a Bundle and How
  • How The Experts Buy and Sell Gold and Silver
  • Want to Be a Legal Investigator?
  • How To Write a Good Advertisement
  • 7 ways to Collect Your Unpaid Bills
  • This is Marie Antoinette - Ridding To Her Death
  • The Child Who Won the Hearts of All
  • How To Burn Off Body Fat, Hour-by-Hour
  • Is Your Home Picture Poor?
  • Need More Money!
  • “I liked this product so much - that I bought the company!”
  • Why Some People Almost Always Make Money in The Stock Market?
  • What Your Lawyer Doesn’t Want You to Know
  • Is The Life of a Child Worth $1 to You?
  • 161 New Ways to a Man’s Heart - in This fascinating Book
  • How To Give Your Children Extra Iron - 3 Delicious Ways
  • Often a Bridesmaid - Never a Bride!
  • Little Leaks That Keep Men Poor
  • Have You Ever Seen a Grown Man Cry?
  • How Much is Your Working “Tension” Costing Your Company?
  • Take This One Minute Test!
  • Here Is a Quick way to Break Up a Cold
  • “I lost my bulges - and save money too!”
  • The Truth About Getting Rich
  • Do Your Employee Work as Slowly as They read?
  • The Most Expensive Mistake of Your Life

Squidoo - Be SEEN

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

If you are not into Squidoo, well, you should be.

Squidoo is a great way to introduce yourself, your products, your business, your hobby or anything else and get it NOTICED.

I set up my first Squidoo “lens” tonite and it was super easy.  Hard to mess it up.  See me at http://www.squidoo.com/FredRaley/  Sign my guestbook and get your own Squidoo site.

Fred Raley
Woodbridge, VA
(703) 730 1079
Fred@FredRaley.com
http://www.FredRaley.com

997 Make Money Now Exceeds All Expectations

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

 

Folks continue to join http://www.997makemoneynow.com/ pages/291.htm which is a great site for LEARNING how to market successfully.
I STONGLY recommend you check it out and grab a site like that (cost is next to nothing for all you get.) http://www.997makemoneynow.com/ pages/291.htm

Fred Raley
Woodbridge, VA
(703) 730 1079
Fred@FredRaley.com
http://www.FredRaley.com

Wow, This Has Never Happened Before

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I put out an ad. Expected to get a few hits to my site like always.

Instead, I got Seven hits and Three paid for the service right away.

That’s gotta tell you there is a LOT of value here for building your business.

See what you think right now:
http://www.997makemoneynow.com/ pages/291.htm

Fred Raley
Woodbridge, VA
(703) 730 1079
Fred@FredRaley.com
http://www.FredRaley.com