Beverly
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Many years ago, I had a very small informal blog where I listed free educational resources online. And, one day, I found this amazing free paint program (not the one you're thinking about) and listed it with a really nice review. It was a paint program for kids, something which was pretty rare back in the day. My child enjoyed using the program a lot and I had nothing but rave reviews about it.
After my review was posted on my blog, I moved on to list other freebies daily and didn't think anything else about it.
Then one day, the owner/creator of that software showed up and commented how grateful he was that people were getting the word out about his software. He was just deliriously happy. And, I found this to be true for most of the people that I was reviewing.
Most of these software or resources were not well known, linked to or talked about and having exposure on another person's blog must have felt like validation to them for all that hard work.
Over time, people were linking to me as a way of saying thanks and also because the posts contained so many good resources. This was before everyone really started using link bait as a way to get backlinks. I think it is still pretty effective now.
I'm not saying that I was getting tens of thousands of daily visitors from this one traffic technique but it was a good steady stream.
If you have a unique or unusual way to get blog traffic, please tell me as I'm always interested in learning more about blogging and traffic generation.
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Another great source of traffic that I like is finding advertising on websites that may not think of offering ad spots. I'll find these websites by searching popular keywords in my niche and picking websites that may not be as popular as the big guys. I'll then shoot over an email either through a contact form or use the email listed on the homepage. It will just be a short and sweet type of email like this:
"Hi there,
I was wondering if you offered any type of ad placement on your website. My website is example.com and I'm very interested in paying you for an ad spot on a monthly basis
If you do have advertising spots, can you tell me what they are and how much for each position?
Thank You,
(Your Full Name Here)"
By doing that short and sweet email I've gotten my ad on websites that didn't offer advertising and since they aren't sure about advertising you can usually get your banner on there for pretty cheap ;) In the past I've paid $20-$30 for a banner ad on a niche related website and I made $1,000 off of it
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Razzy Finding reviews about your product, website and/or service are always great. Whenever I find these positive reviews I'll always put them into my SEO campaign. I'll just use the URL, I won't focus on commenting on the page at all. I'll add the URL into my list of other pages that have positive content about my website, product or service and build links to them in order to rank them for keywords like "Mysite.com review" so that whenever someone does a search for "Mysite.com review" they will see other websites talking about how great my website is :D It's a tricky technique, but it works very well at increasing conversions. I know this because I'll see that the last website a buyer visitied was one that has positive content about us and I had built backlinks to ;) Another great source of traffic that I like is finding advertising on websites that may not think of offering ad spots. I'll find these websites by searching popular keywords in my niche and picking websites that may not be as popular as the big guys. I'll then shoot over an email either through a contact form or use the email listed on the homepage. It will just be a short and sweet type of email like this: "Hi there, I was wondering if you offered any type of ad placement on your website. My website is example.com and I'm very interested in paying you for an ad spot on a monthly basis :) If you do have advertising spots, can you tell me what they are and how much for each position? Thank You, (Your Full Name Here)" By doing that short and sweet email I've gotten my ad on websites that didn't offer advertising and since they aren't sure about advertising you can usually get your banner on there for pretty cheap ;) In the past I've paid $20-$30 for a banner ad on a niche related website and I made $1,000 off of it :D Not a bad ROI, right? That's $20-$30 a month and I made $1,000 a month off of it ;) Thanks, Razzy
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