3 Instant
Traffic Techniques for Mini-Sites
By Anik Singal
When building websites there are two main options: large content site
or small mini-sites. Large content sites are normally more
"information" focused. Mini-sites, however, normally have one purpose
only, to sell.
Given what search engines want, large content sites are much better
for getting search engine traffic. Most of the time (unless you're
excellent at optimizing), it's hard to get mini-sites to rank well for
competitive keywords.
This is why most do NOT rely on search engines for traffic to their
mini-sites.
In all honesty, the best strategy is to combine the two types of sites
by having a large content site to rank well with search engines that
feeds traffic to your mini-sites.
However, not all of us have the time or know-how to easily build large
sites that do well with search engines. Most of us just want to put up
a small site and start making money.
Here are the 3 traffic generating techniques I use everyday for
traffic to mini-sites.
#1: Forums/Discussion Boards
I have made more than $6,000 from one mini-site just by targeting it
to the right forum in my signature file. All I did was leave a nice
statement in my signature file; in 1 month I attracted over 5,000
targeted visitors that converted to over $6,000 for me.
The basic strategy here is that you need to find related forums and
become active in them. Get yourself known, find out what those members
talk about and find an affiliate product to fit their demand.
Then, make a nice, simple, yet captive site with a great headline
followed by a review of the product. Test it and if it pulls well, you
have a winner. If not, choose another product.
#2: Ezine Advertising
I would rate ezine advertising at the second best way to gather
traffic to your mini-sites only because this technique can cost some
money. Forum promotions have no cost (typically). However, ezine
advertising can provide much better results.
Forum marketing requires you taking the time to make sensible
responses or asking good questions. However, with ezine advertising,
you just write a good promotion and let the publisher send it out.
An advantage of ezine advertising is that you know before you promote
that you have a targeted audience that has already expressed an
interest in your topic.
Also, the subscriber and the publisher most likely have a good
relationship (considering the subscriber has not left) and so your
promotion comes with credibility and may get more attention.
One of the keys to doing well with ezine advertising (for me) has been
repeated ads in the same ezine. I have found that my results are best
in the second of third promotion. However, if I get no results on my
first mailing, I do not repeat that ezine again.
Warning: Not all ezines are the same. Some will be major winners and
others will be major flops.
#3: Directory Sites
Alright, here is the controversial technique that I use very
successfully. I know, I know, some of you will think that it is
"wrong" - but in the end, my job is to teach you how I get my traffic;
that is exactly what I am going to do.
Directory sites are sites created by software that automatically build
you a site which is 500 or more pages. These sites are just simply
uploaded to a domain name. Most (if done right) tend to do well with
search engines. That traffic is then forwarded to your mini-sites.
As you can see, we're holding fast to our policy of building a funnel
system where we use the large sites to bring in the "no cost" search
engine traffic (which is also highly targeted). However, all the
"selling" takes place on our mini-sites.
Large sites = Traffic Gathering
Mini sites = Conversion Into Sales
Obviously there are many more techniques to use to attract traffic to
your mini-sites such as banners, pay per click, link exchanging,
etc... I just wanted to discuss the top 3 that are the easiest to
implement and require the least learning curve (in my opinion).
Anik Singal is a 21 year old successful internet marketer who has
developed his own affiliate marketing system which helped him earn
over $10,466 in just 60 days using mini-sites.
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