Allan Tan’s Internet Marketing Resource Centre

Twitter is a way to drive free traffic to your website by getting followers and following others. You can use your web link in your profile so others can check it out. You can also post any new articles and updates to your website on Twitter in 140 characters or less. Twitter has taken the world by storm and everyone is cashing in the on the free traffic. You can join groups on Twitter and send even more traffic to your website. There is no limit to what Twitter can do for you.

Using Twitter as a marketing tool can only help increase your traffic. You can use the many free resources that Twitter offers and other applications to meet the demand in traffic that you are looking for without much work on your part. You do of course, have to participate and visit others and communicate for people to recognize you as a person of interest.

Having over three million users and growing daily, Twitter is a sure fire way to get free traffic to your website with even with less than an hour of your time a day. All you have to do is sign up and start getting followers.

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If you haven?t yet jumped on the social networking bandwagon, do so now! If you think that networking through being social and having fun isn?t beneficial to doing business–think again.

Social networking has quickly become one of the most efficient ways to get the word out about what businesses have to offer. Whether it?s through Twitter or Facebook, many are enjoying the benefits of a large audience centered in one small location–at the same time.

One of the newest trends in social networking is participation in parties that are hosted in real time on Twitter. A website?s equivalent to a ?housewarming? party, these gatherings bring thousands of social networkers together in a chat room type atmosphere. For anywhere from one to several hours, the marketing hosts talk about and spread the benefits of your website, product, and/or services.

Another new trend is the creation of ?fan pages? on Facebook. Individual companies are creating pages (the web?s equivalent to an individual website). As each user marks your page as a favorite, their entire list of contacts is notified. So essentially for each fan you gain of your website, you can receive up to thousands of free referrals to your page.

It?s not too late to use social networking to your advantage. Begin participating in these sites today and you?ll be on your way to driving free traffic to your website without much effort.

Article marketing is a big trend in internet marketing currently. Research has shown that the majority of consumers looking for products or services online are first looking for information on their planned purchases. Therefore it makes sense for those offering their products online to also provide that information–together in one location–so that consumers can go from reading to purchasing in one convenient seamless step.

One way to get this information to consumers is through the use of free article directories. Submitting articles relevant to the product or service you are offering is simple and quite effective. If you?re selling hardwood flooring, for instance, you can submit a short article about different types of hardwood. At the end of the article, simply insert links to your site with an invitation to the reader to visit.

These articles often turn up at the top of search engine rankings because of their keyword density, giving you added exposure. While you may need to pay a professional writer to churn out a few articles for you–depending on your writing ability–there is no fee to submit your articles to these directories. Consider writing one or two, and see how much traffic you can gain through the free incoming links.

More resource: Mass distribute your articles

I have hundreds of Mbytes of PLR (private label right) articles sitting on by hard drive. Finally I figure out how to use them to make money from these articles.

The idea:

1. Create a directory site

2. Group the articles of the same topic together and generate under a subfolder. Do random cross linking.

3. Upload the article folders onto the appropriate web folder.

4. Update the directory homepage.  I use eSyndicate script to manage the directory and listings.

How I made money from the article site?

1.  Adsendse Ads – placed at the prominent hot zone for maximum clickthrough rate.

2. Amazon affiliate program.  I used the Amazon snippets, which deliver the ads automatically.

4. ClickBank digital products – the links are created automatically by the scripts I used.

I get rid of the tedious work of building the site page by page by using some scirpts.

Resource :

1. eSyndicate directory script
2. AutoPilotNiches – deliver the readily built sites by nich topics.

Have a look at my InfoClickMe.com site.   I simply turn information into cash.

If you?re looking for a quick way to bring more traffic to your site than you?ve had in a long time, running contests is the way to go. You might think that you need an expensive item to give away, but people really are happy to get anything that?s free. Offer a book, a small gift basket, or a free sample of whatever product or service you sell through your website. Gift certificates work well too, and are cheap to mail to the winners.

Once you?ve decided what to give away, put up a post on your company blog with the parameters of the contest. Give yourself a few weeks before the deadline to enter if you want to maximize the number of entries. The longer the contest runs the more exposure you?ll get as readers pass the link along to others who may be interested in entering.

Besides the traditional ?shout outs? through social networking, you can also now advertise your contest through websites such as Prizey. These contest-listing sites are usually free, and you reach thousands of people already interested in entering a contest. Of those, even if 3% of them visit your site and enter your contest, you?re doing quite well.

Remember, you?re marketing yourself just by running the contests, even if the product you are offering is unrelated to your site. It helps to offer a product or service that is relevant though, so that entrants will have a reason to return to your site–even when you aren?t having a giveaway.

Hubpages can be used by website owners such as yourself to drive free traffic to your website. Hubs are informational articles that can be linked back to your website. Another aspect of a hub is that while you are driving traffic to your website, you can also add your own Amazon and eBay affiliate links and Google AdSense. Even if someone reads your hub and decides, it is not for them, maybe you can earn a little money from affiliate marketing.

For instance, if you are selling a work at home product that you think can help everyone. You might write an article about working from home. You can then add your website URL to link back. What you have done is intrigued the readers curiosity. They are going to click your link just to see what it is you have to offer. Become an authority on your niche and make many hubs that link back to your website. Hubs are free to create and stay online forever.

Every good backlink to your website helps you get higher up on the search engines and more people will see your website before others. Use a catchy title and watch the traffic flow.

Here?s something you can count on. At least one every two weeks or so, someone will boldly announce that article marketing is a dead art. They?ll give it credit as one of the best free traffic driving strategies in history, but they?ll claim that it just doesn?t work anymore.

Their evidence? It usually involves their own little tests featuring content of questionable quality or the use of strategies that deviate from best practices. And while some will buy the naysayers? stories hook, line and sinker, many of us will just go quietly back to generating a consistent and impressive flow of traffic via the very practice everyone else is burying.

Article marketing will last. That?s because it?s not based on a hole in the system, an algorithmic shortcoming or a new fad that Google hasn?t caught up with. Article marketing is based on a solid, logical model.

Which is why thousands of people can use it every day to generate free traffic.

Even though it just died for the umpteenth time!

One of the easiest ways to facilitate the sharing of your site URL is by providing links for readers or visitors to ?share this site? with others. These links are usually in the form of little favicons or buttons–basically a recognizable image that is linked to a social network, a feed reader, or a link aggregating service. Examples of these types of sites include Stumble Upon, Delicious, or Google Reader.

If you post regularly on a company blog, it makes sense to have these buttons automatically inserted at the ending of every post. If a reader likes what you have to say, they can choose the button that is appropriate, and send a link to your blog post to other via a tweet on Twitter, a link on Delicious, a Digg, or even by email.

There are almost unlimited sites through which you can share, though you need an account on whichever ones you personally want to share through. To post the buttons on your blog post, you do not need to have an account with each site.

If you use a self-hosted WordPress site, consider adding a plug-in that will automatically add these sharing buttons to each post. Your readers can then easily share your site with the click of the mouse, and giving them this convenience helps bring in more consistent traffic, at no cost to you.

There?s an easy little way to drive free traffic to your website and, if you?re like most people, you probably aren?t doing it.

You should have the URL of your site, in the form of a clickable link, as part of the signature attached to every email you send. It takes about 5 seconds to set up and it can deliver extra traffic to your site.

You?re probably thinking that the traffic production will be limited, at best. And you?re right. An email signature isn?t going to lead to any server overloads.

Over time, however, it?s significant. Think about how many emails you?ve sent out in the last several years. What if you would have spent those five seconds fixing up your email signature back then?

How many sales did you miss? How many new clients did you accidentally avoid.

Five seconds. That?s all it takes. And in the long run, it does matter.

Put your link in your email signature right away.

If you want to snag free traffic for you site, you have a variety of options at your disposal. You can do the Twitter thing. You can get involved in the social bookmarking and networking scenes. You can find busy forums filled with people talking about your niche. You can find relevant blogs and comment on them.

All of these options have something in common. If you?re going to make them work for you, it?s essential to understand the cultures involved. We?re not talking about the national or ethnic heritages of participants in these groups, we?re talking about the way the groups themselves operate.

They?re all little semi-insular communities. They have their own mores and conventions. They have unwritten rules. There are expectations.

If you hop right on in trying like mad to sell, sell, sell, you?re probably going to find yourself an outsider, on the wrong side of the cultural divide. Do your homework. Learn the lay of the land. Find a way to exist within those communities and then (and only then) can you hope to generate free traffic via your participation.