Increase Your Traffic

Here are thousands of forums on the internet. Join all that you can,your forum signature will play an vital roll in these forums. Use boardtracker to help watch the responses you’ve had so you can stay active in each one. Use the forums send by e-mail feature to receive notification of responses in your original introduction thread. Reckon in this area your “target audience”, who are they are what topics are they interested in.

Send by e-mail Signatures

If you are like me, you probably send numerous emails out daily. Make sure you are using them effectively. Now that you have your signature in your send by e-mail, you can find ways to become more shared. Browsing a site you like, send by e-mail the owner and tell them or question them a question. Use your send by e-mail at each opportunity for more exposure.

Yahoo Groups

Sign up for as many as you can keep up with. Set up a special send by e-mail account at gmail for this. You want the ones that will allow you to have a small signature file. Here are also other “groups” out here like MSN, MySpace, etc..

Guest Books

Set up a guest book on your site. Do a google search for “sign guest book” and/or other variations of that. Visit sites and make a positive comment in this area their site, leaving a link to your site and question others to sign your guest book. A small htaccess can force everyone to have to get to your guest book through your main page which means that if a name else does what you are doing, they will be redirected to your main page and have to really click a link from here to get to it. More in this area that later.

5. Blog Comments

The first thing we do is a google search for “blog software”. We can find several like wordpress. We can then do a search for “powered by wordpress” and get a nice list of sites. Start visiting and leaving comments with a link back to your site. Most use the nofollow tag so don’t guess for these links to be indexed by the search engines, what we are doing here is looking for actual blog readers to see your comment and click through to your site. To narrow down the field so we’re using our time more efficiently we could refine our search to something like “home business blog” or even “making money” + “powered by wordpress”. This doesn’t even have to be “making money” or “home biz” related, again reckon in this area what your “target audience” may be reading. Note: I’m not endorsing blog spamming! Really visiting blogs, reading the posts and making relevant comments benefit both parties. The blog owner gets free content for his site and you get a link back to your site.

Outgoing Snail Mail

Chance are, unless you’ve absolutely went into the new millennium and are paying everything online that you still write out the occasional check. Stamp or write your url in the memo section of all checks, on the pass on part of your bill and the outside of your envelopes. These instruments pass through many hands and each exposure of your url is one more you didn’t have before. I would recommend using a rubber stamp, if you are doing enough, it will be worth it and will save you from hand cramps.

Dropping Business Cards

It is your business that is online but it is you that is in business. You are not restricted to only online advertising. Do you go out to eat? Leave your business card on the table with your tip. Quick food place? Doesn’t matter, leave your card on a few tables for the next few patrons. Many irons even have a board where they allow cards to be pinned. Browsing the “making money” section of your local bookstore? Business cards make brilliant bookmarks! Have a t-shirt printed with “Make Money Online” and your url on the front and back. Wear this each time you leave the house. You will be a walking business card and can be a conversation starter. Life bashful won’t make you any money.

Hanging Flyers

I like to use flyers with the “pull off tabs” at the bottom which you just cut yourself so people don’t walk off with your total flyer. Reckon of any public place that has a bulletin board. Laundry rooms, public and apartments, convergence college, employment office, etc.. Always carry these and the business cards with you, you by no means know when the opportunity will present itself.

Add Content To Your Site

The search engines like content and each page you make adds another doorway into your site. Try to write at least one or two pages of content daily. These can be just a few paragraphs long and can be in this area anything you like, pets, children, the working at home experience, etc.. Two of these page a day is in this area 60 pages a month and 120 pages a year. Make sure you use a pattern for this with your sites navigation and google adwords framing it on the top, left column and underneath. Search for high paying keywords and write around those subjects if possible to maximize your adsense revenue.

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