If you have a website or you promote someone else’s’ website as an affiliate, you need to drive traffic to it.
Without traffic, you won’t get visitors. And without visitors, you won’t Make Money, sales, get subscribers, etc. What good is a website without any traffic? And if the site is getting traffic, what good is it if it’s not targeted traffic?
There are many ways to drive traffic to your site, both free and paid. But we are not going to talk about paid traffic right now. That is a totally different topic and could take hours to cover.
So, back to free traffic. Some ways of getting free traffic to your site is by Search Engine Optimization, surfing for traffic, or getting it passively.
SEO takes time and a lot of work. When you join sites that are surf for traffic sites, you have to look at other members’ sites in order to earn advertising credits for your site to be displayed when another member is surfing.
The only problem with this is that although the traffic is free, it is not targeted. Everyone who is a member only surfs for the credit and very rarely even looks at the site, they just minimize their window on their PC and multi-task. So, the traffic is crap and worthless.
Now, let’s talk about the best way to get free targeted traffic. It’s called Instant Buzz. Instant Buzz is a service that gives you advertising credits as you surf the web like you normally would. What you do is download the toolbar for free, it only takes a minute. Then, you set up your ads in the members area. And bam, your ads are being displayed on other members’ tool bars as they surf.
You can also put Instant Buzz ads in emails that you send to your friends. These are called mail space ads. And your ad will get displayed in other members’ emails. The last thing you can do is put a hyperspace ad on your website which will help you refer other members.
When you refer other members, you will also get a percentage of the credits they earn which will go towards your ad credits.
If someone likes your ad and is interested in what it says, then they click on it and end up on whatever site it was that you were promoting. Now that’s targeted traffic! And it was free.
So make sure you visit the link in the resource box to start driving targeted and quality traffic to your website today. It will only take you a couple of minutes to start bringing visitors to your site.
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When you start your home based business you come in with lofty ideas of what your business will become just by making a website. You will have instant sign-ups and instant wealth. A few weeks go by and nothing has happened , no sign-ups, no $7000 cheques in the mail. In fact, when you do some checking, you realize no one has even visited your web site.

The reality of your situation starts to sink in, you have to work at your business if you wish it to grow. There is no such thing as automatic wealth in any business, let alone a home based business. You now have two choices. You can either make the decision to work your business or you can quit and complain to everyone you know that it was a scam.

A smart entrepreneur is going to make the decision to build the business, and one of the first things you need to do is establish your goals. What do you wish to achieve, short term and long term.

Goal setting can be a difficult task if you have never done it before, there are a few things to consider when you are setting your goals into motion.

1. Be very clear and concise on what you want. If you want your business to have 100 hits in a day, then write it down. If you want to earn extra income, how much do you want. For example: don’t say around $1000, say instead exactly $1255 in extra monthly income. Be as descriptive as possible in your goals.

2. Set deadlines for yourself for each goal, it gives your goal a sense of urgency.Be realistic with yourself. If you want to earn $10 000 a month from your business, you don’t want your deadline to be tomorrow. That would be a difficult if not impossible task and result in you missing the deadline. Consider who you are and how much work you are going to put into your business, then set your goal reasonably. If you miss your time frame don’t feel it is an impossible goal, but re-evaluate your time line and work towards achieving it.

3. Make a to-do list for you to achieve your goals. What specific actions do you need to take for you to reach your goal within the time frames you have set. If you are unsure, put something down, remember, you can and will look at your list and adjust it as you gain knowledge.

4. Once you have your list, organise it. What actions are immediate, what next. Think of your goals list as an outline for a story. Introduction, body, and conclusion (achievement of your goal). Then make the decision to do something every day that will move you closer to having a successful home based business.

Always remember that your actions and goals are not written in stone. Look at your list regularly and adjust it as you need to. The important aspect is to have it written down and to take action each and every day to achieve the goals that you have set out for yourself.

Mark Babcock

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Joining your first Home-business forum is a fun and exciting time. You have entered a world of like minded people, who are willing to share their ideas and experiences to help you grow your new business.You look around and pick your first discussion to read, open it up, and you have no idea what these people are saying. It’s a world of abbreviations and slang. You go to the next article,and exactly the same thing. How can you have guidance, if you don’t even understand the language?

Being a “newbie”, you have to start to understand the language. I searched and searched for a list and finally found a partial one. It’s nowhere near complete, but it gave me the beginnings of understanding different posts. I’ve listed my original list here:

ppc= pay per click
ppl= pay per lead
ppa= pay per action
ctr= click through rate
seo= search engine optimization
cpc= cost per click
plr= private label rights
pr= page rank
mlm= multilevel marketing
so= special offer
tos= terms of service
RR – resale Rights
MRR – Master Resale Rights
IMO – In My Opinion
CPA – Cost Per Action
SERP – Search Engine Results Page
ROI – Return On Investment
AM – Article Marketing
LSI – Latent Semantic Indexing
MFA – Made For Adsense

I kept this list beside me at first, then as I gained more forum experience, I found I no longer needed it. Each day my knowledge of this new language grew and in fact still does. Just remember to take your time, and the best thing is if you don’t understand, ask the question in the forum, someone will definitely come to your aide.

Mark Babcock