09.03.08

Free Classified Tricks and Tips

Posted in marketing, online marketing, how to market online, free traffic at 4:19 pm

If you are an Internet marketer I’m sure at one time or another you’ve posted on free or even paid classified ad sites. Do they really work though, and if they do how would someone get the best results they can?

When I post to my free classified sites I don’t really do anything special expect for a few minor things that boost my click threw rate. You see the most important thing you need to worry about when posting on a free classified site is your headline. Some sites you post to might even put a short description about your ad, and if they do that then you will need to come up with a creative description.

However before I even post an ad I look to see which part of the site gets the most traffic. Once I find where a good majority of the traffic is flowing to I choose a topic to post in that is relevant to my website.

Now its time for the all mighty headline, this will determine how well your ad does. When I write my headline I like to use this website Headline Help. It helps rate your headline with a score from 0 – 100.

In my headlines I try to use words that make people take action like Free, Discover, Learn, Easy, and How to headlines. I find using powerful words helps give you a better click threw rate, and that’s our main goal.

After your headline some classified sites allow you to write a description for your ad, or they use the first few lines you type in your ad as the description. This is another important part.

A lot of people will read your description, and if it doesn’t fit what they are looking for they will not even bother to click on your ad.

So when writing my descriptions I try to be very specific, and tell the user what my ad is about. Why do I do this? I’m looking for a targeted audience, and the more details I can give the person clicking on my ad, the more targeted they will be.

What places do I recommend?

UsFreeAds – This is my favorite place by far, and I like them for a number of difference reasons. One I’ve confirmed a number of sales from this site, and two I love the featured classified option they offer. The amount of traffic this site gets is great which means your ads get a lot of views.

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08.28.08

EasyHits4u Traffic Exchange Review

Posted in marketing, online marketing, how to market online, free traffic at 2:47 pm

For those of you who don’t know about EasyHits4u.com it’s a free traffic exchange that I’ve been testing out for the last month, and my results are in and I’m here today to share them with you.

I joined EasyHits4u and quickly became a paid member for about $6 a month. The benefits of being a paid member are that you can surf for more credits, and you automatically are giving 500 credits each month. Is it really worth the $6 payment every month? I don’t really think it is so I wouldn’t recommend becoming a paid member.

I do however highly recommend becoming at least a free member, and here’s why.

Over the last month I’ve been able to generate over 100 free leads from the traffic they sent to just one of my lead capture pages.

My one website in my account averaged over 100 visits per day from EasyHits4u, and I had a number of different signups to my free sites I was promoting. Best of all though is that this traffic only cost me $6 since I was a paid member.

Now you might ask yourself why I do not recommend becoming a paid member if I got all this traffic and leads.

Here’s why….

I could have gotten the same exact results as a free member. Sure it might have took a little extra work since you can’t earn credits as fast, but if you don’t want to spend the money you can easily get very good results using a free account at EasyHits4u.

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07.22.08

A YouTube Account Is A Must Have

Posted in marketing, online marketing, how to market online, online videos, video for websites, traffic from videos, free traffic at 3:34 pm

With online video growing ever so more popular and away to get high amounts of targeted traffic to your website a YouTube account is a must have for any marketer. If your camera shy or don’t like to talk in your videos you should still create an account.

Whiteboard videos can be easily created without you standing in front of the camera and you don’t even have to say one word, but can still get your message across to the masses.

Now after looking at a number of different YouTube accounts, and researching what it takes to get a lot of video views I’ve come to the conclusion that you first off need to get people to subscribe to your YouTube page. Subscribers will get an email and are notified each and every time you post a new video. This will get you almost instant traffic to your video.

The second most important thing is discussion. Your video must have some comments if you wish to increase your video views. If you get a lot of comments your view might even make it to the most discussed page and be seen by even more people

This can all be done with very little work and effort on your part, and the benefits of it could be huge for you. So if you haven’t already done so sign up for a free YouTube account and start cranking out 1 or 2 videos a week.

“Update about my video”

I’m waiting for my new green screen I order to come in. It should be here today or tomorrow, and once I do get it I will record a video using the new methods I’ve learned in Web Video University and post it here for you to see.

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