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Target Your Traffic With Good Content

Posted by seol On April - 16 - 2010

To get the right type of traffic to your website you need to concentrate on targeting your audience. Sure you can get any kind of traffic but you want targeted traffic with people that will buy your products. You don’t want the website sight-seers. There is a huge difference between obtaining traffic and getting the right types of buying traffic.

You can target your traffic when you understand the market and demographics of the regions you want to reach. This takes some research and time. It is worth the time you dedicate to the search. When you are in business to make money, time is one of the elements that will always work for you if you use it wisely.

Place your advertising on specific sites that reach the audience you seek. You are not wanting to sell to just anyone so be selective with the placement of your ads. You will see a lower amount of traffic when you change how and where you advertise for a short time yet you will see increased sales from the new methods.

Use advertising with higher quality content. What is appealing to the non-buyer user’s wont’ be appealing to the people interested in purchasing your products. Change how you word or phrase your content. Add details of the product. The people wanting to buy already know what they want to tell them in the content exactly what you have to offer them.

Place the advertisements on content based sites. Use sites with relevant content on a similar product but is not a competitor. People viewing that site will see your ad and click on it to find your product. Once again, be specific in the detail of the ad contents.

Use different forms of the keywords and phrases. Not everyone has the same vocabulary. The expansion of the terminology increases your traffic and the search engines will also see you have expanded the terms. They will increase your rankings, which then place you higher in the search results thus increases your traffic.

Step out of the box and think like the potential customer. When you start to think as a customer instead of a business owner, you increase your targeted audience with your advertising. Too many businesses make the mistake of sticking with the same terms since they feel it is safer even if they aren’t getting the volume of traffic. Take a chance to make changes with your advertising to reach a higher number of people.

Advertising is an ever changing technique. Avoid falling into a rut by using methods everyone else uses and that have become stale. Be inventive and you will see a difference with your marketing, traffic, and sales.

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Using Landing Pages to Invite Your Prospects: 2

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

The whole purpose of a landing page is to capture at least the name and email of a prospective client, so you can send them out a series of messages telling them about your products or opportunity.

The Role of the Autoresponder

Once the visitor inputs their name and email address on your landing page, the information is saved in an autoresponder, which you program with a series of email messages and a timeline for them to be sent out. So, for example, the first message might be sent out on the day of sign-up, the second 2 days later and the third 3 days after that, and so on.

Though the concept of using autoresponders does have an impersonal feel and there are times when we all groan to see an autoresponder answering us, the fact is that once your business gains momentum of any kind you just cannot do without this tool. Follow-up is absolutely vital.

Types of Autoresponder

For people who are in MLM, most of the programs have their own autoresponders built into the program’s control panel, usually with a series of pre-written emails ready to go. There are also some good generic recruiting systems which provide you with an autoresponder as part of your membership deal.

Whether or not you’re in MLM, there are good reasons to have your own stand-alone autoresponder though, and you’ll find a number being advertised. Just beware that some systems promoting autoresponders have them set up to market THEIR system, not yours!

Many of the autoresponder providers have both paid and free versions. The practical difference between the two usually lies in advertising – the free version has either the company‘s advert or paid 3rd party advertising inserted at the top of your messages – and the number of options or features available. For example, the number of campaigns available on a free autoresponder is usually only one. If you have several different businesses, you may want more options than this.

Your very first email contact with the client should be an opt-in request, to ensure that your follow-up emails cannot be regarded as spam. Most of the autoresponder providers set this email up automatically, and the visitor’s information isn’t registered until they click the confirmation link in that email.

Setting Up an Autoresponder

If you are planning on creating your own capture pages and autoresponder campaigns, you need to either use websites that create pages for you, or else you must have a little knowledge of HTML. If you don’t have the knowledge to create your own pages, then sign up for the free online service at Instant Squeeze Page Generator.

Once you have your page, you need to insert the lead capture form. Your autoresponder provider will generate the code for this form for you, already programmed to feed your leads into your account with their system. You copy and paste this code into your page, run a few tests, set up a series of emails, and you’re ready to go. Follow the steps provided for you inside the autoresponder account to set up your emails and their timing – and sign yourself up to make sure everything works!

It’s also a good idea, on your leadcapture page, to insert just below the form an assurance that the visitor’s name and email will not be sold or divulged to 3rd parties. This reassures people when signing up and helps to increase conversion rates. You can use something like this:
NOTE: We respect your Privacy. Your information will not be sold or divulged to any other person, period.

Choosing an Autoresponder

There are two autoresponders of professional quality out there – GetResponse and Aweber. GetResponse has free and paid versions and I recommend it for the following reasons:

  • If you start off with the free version and later decide you need more bells and whistles, you can simply upgrade without having to move your subscribers.
  • There is no limit on the number of subscribers you can have. But with Aweber, the cost goes up the more subscribers you bring in. Sure, having more subscribers increases your income, but I think it would be rather irksome to be watching subscriber numbers every time a price hike looms.
  • GetResponse is a sight more intuitive to operate than some of the systems I’ve tried – and I’m talking paid systems, here. I exited from one paid system because the website just was not up to my standards of customer usability. In short, it got me angry. (The trials of being a webdesigner!)

After years of trying everything out there, I strongly recommend you to get an account with GetResponse. It’s a professional system and free or paid, it’s just the best deal there is.

If you missed the first part of this articleclick on Landing Pages 1.

Patricia Howitt

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