These are the strategies I’m using successfully to make some extra money. Hopefully, you’ll be able to spawn other ideas from this list as well.

Keep in mind that StumbleUpon traffic is awesome when you manipulate it correctly. Many office workers are surfing SU while at work, Stay at home Moms/Dads, etc (in other words, more people with money to spend). It’s not anything like MySpace traffic. StumbleUpon now has over 1,000,000.00 users.

In general, I don’t recommend putting banners on your site. No one clicks on them, and they hurt your site’s credibility. However, there may be a special situation here you require a banner. Suppose you’re implementing an affiliate program.

In that case, you will need banners for associates to display on their Web sites. Yes, banners are ineffective. No, most people won’t even look at them.

Why Do I need a Banner Then ?

Do I hear you asking… “Why use them at all?” Good question! Here’s the answer: When you’re faced with a choice between an affiliate member throwing up your banner or doing nothing at all, you’re better off with the banner. Even .5% is better than nothing.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmickries. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

You’ve probably already heard of the Plug-in-Profit (to which many refer simply as PIPS) Internet Buzz. If not, let me just quote what Stone Evans, the founder of PIPs has to say about his program :

I will personally build a money making website for you
that’s 100% ready to take orders and pull in massive residual profits.

Quite tempting isn’t it ? Especially for the student full in debt I was at that time…
Well -I was tempted, and I remember that I’ve spent half an hour reading thoroughly through the sales pages, and this further raised my interest…

But as a student in debt, I was obliged to spend another hour doing several searches on the Internet about “Stone Evans”, the founder of Pips. I wanted to know who exactly was this “altruistic” person promising me quick cash and fully-loaded e-commerce websites for quite nothing.

Who Is Stone Evans ?

How to get Free Traffic ?

I decided to get instant hits for my site and to track my ads.

I can no longer wait : I need instant traffic for my site. I want traffic exchanges hits, but I’m not yet willing to work for it, so I decide to BUY it.

Get Instant Traffic

As I said before, I don’t want to invest my money and my time in an unresponsive or a dead TE. That’s why my first step was to refer to the Top 10 Traffic Exchange report of TrafficHoopla (Subscription is free), I finally decided to buy my HITs (Hits mean Internet visitors) from Traffic Syndicate 25.

The price in both sites is $10 for 1000 visitors, but those aren’t high quality or targeted visitors like those from the search engines. This means that, firstly, I would need to attract my visitors through a splash page or a lead capture pages (see this articles about attracting TE users and building your downline), and secondly, I will have to make sure that I’m really getting traffics to my page : I certainly can’t just refer to TS25 stats, I need to have my own ad tracker!
You need to internalize that, Always Track Your Ads! Or you will be like a blind man throwing around his money and time with no returns.

Track that Ad!

Tracking your ads means getting the exact stats about your links and ads. You will get the exact number of times your ad have been clicked, and from which site you got that click.

A safelist is a traffic exchange system for E-mails. When you subscribe to a safelist you agree to receive other people ads, in the other hand, people will agree to receive your ads. By opening people ads and clicking on certain links, you will get credit, and you can use those credits to mail people back.So it’s a like traffic exchange, but for mailing! And the same rules for TE apply here. Don’t mail a long sales letter, but just a splash page or a short mail that could be read in 5 seconds or less.

There are two types of safelists, credit mailing and normal mailing :

• For credit mailing, you have to click on a link inside the E-mail to gain credits for your own use. That means that the person will visit your site anyway. Try putting a nice splash page to oblige your prospect into spending more time with your offer.

• For normal mailing, your Ad will be sent to the entire list, but poeple don’t earn credits for clicking. So you have to be really imaginative concerning the headline : ), the nice thing is that when a person click on your ad to open it, it means they are really interested by the offer. You can then directly put a sales page, but always have a leader capture page within this sales page offering free stuff. At the very least, you will capture his E-mail ; )

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