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Safelist Usage: Is it worth your time?
May 27th, 2010 | 
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There is much controversy about using safelists and other such types of services. Many swear that these services enabled them to build up large lists while not having one of their own yet. Others say that they are a waste of time.
I find that regardless of what marketing method you choose to use for your own business, they all may have the potential to work depending on the person who uses them as well as the type of business you are trying to market. Much like traffic exchanges. If you are trying to sell shoes and accessories, trying to get anything going for your business in traffic exchanges or safelists, would not be a wise way to spend your time. The only people/businesses who benefit from these types of services are those who are promoting list building tools/services, and those who are promoting traffic related items.
I find that some of the safe lists that are out there are pretty good. I have only maybe tried 5 or 6 out of the possible hundred or more around, but I was just testing the waters. I found some of them though just sent way to much email for you to read to be able to submit your email ads every 3 days or 5 days or even 7 and 10 days.
I am going to tell you about one such service though. It may not be one of the big ones other marketers are pushing, but you can mail to your choice of 4 different lists, all which have ranging from 4000-24000 members. Although with the free membership your email only gets sent to 500 people a day. But if you think about it, sending out to 500 every day with that much of a choice, can really add up.
It also has a pretty good affiliate program. You get paid $10 for everyone who joins and upgrades to a pro(which is worth it if you find you have gotten some response from your testing) And the best part for me is that although you do have to read 10 emails a day in order to send your own ad, you only do it from their site once you log into your account. No clogging up your email inbox(I already have enough coming in, don’t you?)
If you want to do a test run, you can find your favorite affiliate program that is offering residual income(you know the kind that you only have to make one sale and you get paid something every month), find the email ad that they offer(you may want to add a little to it to personalize it, or change it up a little for more success), create an account from the site with the link I leave below, and then read your 10 emails required, and blast your ad away.
If you do this day in and day out(takes like 20 mins if that, from your day) to test it with all 4 of the lists there, for say 3-6 months, you will be able to see what kind of results you get. If you like the results, you can try a different affiliate promotion to see if you get the same type of results.
Be sure to track your results from all campaigns you run for your business. Hits Connect is one of the best programs I find out there to do that. It is free to join, there are tons of tools to help you out, and you can even have access to other programs you can make money with. It is worth the look and is a must have tool for every business owner as far as I see it.
O.k. so, today you were given a reason to try out a safelist that does not clog up your inbox with other people’s ads, and you can send out an email to 500 people each and every day. I think this should work regardless of whatever niche you are in, it just may have better results for make money/traffic and listbuilding businesses. I am going to be trying it out with my weightloss site next so I will keep you posted to let you know which of my campaigns are doing better.
Now, the next step is up to you. Go and sign up at Trade-A-List and Hits Connect and get started setting up your campaigns. It may take you a little while today to get it all set up, but once it is running, it will only take you 15-20 mins a day to add this extra income stream possibility into your marketing strategies.
You never know if something will work for you unless you try it. And then give it a good enough go like the 3-6 months. If you still have not made a sale in that time, try another campaign or move on, it will be your choice.
Here’s to your success! Be sure to come back on here and comment if you are having success with these programs or even if they did not work for you. Others can benefit from hearing our experiences.
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Product Review: Traffic Annihilator
Traffic Annihilator is a new site that says it guarantees more CONVERTING web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test…
My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless–they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.
The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive–I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads–the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into “Traffic Annihilator” links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Traffic Annihilator Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way–links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you’ll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!
After you’ve created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Traffic Annihilator link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Traffic Annihilator link is clicked, the page loads followed by a cool slide-up ad window at the bottom. It displays an ad PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Traffic Annihilator. So if anyone clicks the Traffic Annihilator image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It’s a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.
Now every time the ad window displays (your Traffic Annihilator links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members’ links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.
And this works virally–meaning as you make referrals into Traffic Annihilator (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Traffic Annihilator image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Traffic Annihilator also.
I didn’t get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated–my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Traffic Annihilator even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.
There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all–downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Annihilator really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it’s valuable as a user, but no so often that it’s a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT’s cool.
Overall I have to say I am impressed with Traffic Annihilator. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.
See it and join here:
The Web’s Best-Kept Traffic Secret
Did you realize that thousands of website operators use a
simple technique to generate targeted visitors to their
websites without paying a dime in advertising? It’s true.
In fact, the technique works so well that many of them
don’t want you to discover how they get those thousands of
website visitors and make so many sales on virtual “auto-
pilot.”
Their method?
Creating tightly focused articles other people publish in
their ezines (online magazines and email newsletters) and
post on their websites. This method rates so powerful that
some even call it “the web’s best kept traffic secret.”
Now, you may ask, “Why would an ezine publisher or website
owner publish my articles for their subscribers?”
The answer: Content!
Over a 100,000 ezines and newsletters operate on the web
(along with millions of websites) covering everything from
pets and cooking to investments and real estate. Many of
them need tightly focused content and they simply can’t
produce all of it themselves.
Look at it this way… it’s the same reason newspapers use
the Associated Press. Individual newspapers often can’t
afford staff writers to cover every story, so they accept
articles from outside their organization.
You can do the exact same thing for various ezines and
websites catering to your niche audience!
You can get valuable publicity — exposure you often
couldn’t even pay for if you wanted to — by providing
valuable, content-rich articles in exchange for a byline
and a link to your website (called a “resource box”)!
The following represent only a few of the enormous benefits
of writing and distributing simple articles online:
** Attain “Expert” Status **
Let’s face it! In the eyes of virtually everyone who reads
your articles you rank as the “expert” on the subject.
Just look at people who write newspaper columns. You
may disagree with their viewpoints, but they still have an
elevated status in your mind compared to the “average Joe”
off the street.
** Pre-sell Website Visitors **
If your article appeals to a niche audience hungry for more
information on a very focused subject, you actually pre-
sell them better than any sales pitch. In their minds,
you’ve already delivered content they really want so when
they click over to your site you already have a
“reputation” in their minds.
** Traffic Lasts Longer **
Even though the Internet changes very quickly, webmasters
are usually very slow to remove content from their sites.
Once you get an article posted on another person’s website,
you have an excellent chance of that article staying there
for weeks, months, even years.
** Increase Links To Your Site **
In a recent search I found just a dozen of my articles
posted on over 813 different websites! Not only do those
postings bring me traffic, but they also help my search
engine positioning because of my increased “Link
Popularity.”
** Builds Your Affiliate Base **
Fact: Affiliates always take the path of least resistance.
If you provide excellent articles they can easily post on
their sites or copy and paste into their ezines, your
affiliates will promote you more often and more effectively
compared to those who don’t give them tools.
Plus, as you make more sales and publish articles, other
people will see you providing excellent tools and will want
to sign up as your affiliate so they can use them too!
** Build a Huge “Opt-In” Email List **
You can use articles to build up a huge list of subscribers
by simply compiling several articles into a series and
delivering them at preset intervals.
Often called a “mini-course,” this technique allows you not
only to prove to your subscribers that you deliver great
information, but enables you to capture their name and
email adress so you can send them articles and special
offers in the future (with their permission).
** Requires No Special Skills **
People often think they need to be a “writer” in order to
publish articles, but that’s not true!
FACT: If you have a passion for a subject and can talk and
explain things like you would to a friend over a cup of
coffee, you can write articles people will love to read.
So if you operate a website selling virtually any type of
product or service (whether your own or as an affiliate),
publishing and promoting with articles should rank high on
your list of traffic generation strategies.
No other method of generating targeted traffic to your
website provides the quality, quantity and steadiness of
traffic in such a simple, straightforward, and cost-
effective manner.
—-
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-
author of an amazing new ebook, “Turn Words Into Traffic,”
that will teach you how to use free articles to quickly
drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or
affiliate link!
Click=>Turn Words Into Traffic
Clever Plug-ins for Wordpress-SEO Booster PRO
The next step after choosing a topic and creating a Wordpress blog about it is to optimize it so that more people can see what you have to offer. This can be either done manually or with the help of software that automatically performs different SEO functions. If you have few blogs then it may be easy for you to do everything on your own, but if you are running a large number of blogs then automated software can be very useful thing to have. SEO Booster is one such software offered by CleverPlugins.com. It tracks, analyzes and utilizes the incoming searches from the search engines.
CleverPlugins develop WordPress plugins that can help you in your work or automate different function that you need to perform as a Blogger. Here are the different ways in which SEO Booster PRO can help you.
Your incoming visitors from Google are automatically tracked by SEO Booster PRO. It researches the current ranking of the keyword, and starts promoting the best suited keywords.
With the recently added v1.5 feature you can automatically boost your title-tags. It’s a very useful function for fine-tuning your WordPress Theme. The plug-in shows you the most popular incoming searches for even better onsite SEO. You can find keywords that can be targeted to further increase the number of visitors to your blog. You can save the data on a spreadsheet by exporting it.
With the SEO Booster PRO you can choose the settings that fit your requirements. The software upgrades are given to you for free. Whenever there is a new version available, you will receive it in your email. You are also given a personal license to use the software so you don’t have to buy it again for another blog.
You can ask any questions that you have about the plug-in through the website’s support page or you can send an email to admin@mywordpress.com .The price of the product is $29.95 and it comes with a 60 day money back guarantee.
Don’t waste anymore time. Don’t worry about traffic again! Go here now! SEO Booster Pro
Tracking Social Media Stats
I was doing some work for a client of mine today when I came across this cool new counter that a guy named Gary Haye’s developed. I thought it was the coolest thing. I had no idea that these were the stats happening on the social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. I just thought I would share it with you, not for any great educational reasoning, just because I thought you too would find it interesting.
We are only now beginning to understand the importance of using social media sites in our marketing efforts. Since no one likes to be outright sold to, chatting, and mentioning products that can help and have helped other people are quickly becoming the easiest and most enjoyable way to get visitors to our sites, or make affiliate commissions.
Giveaway Event Again! Need your Help!
Hey all.
I want to tell you about another great giveaway event. If you are looking for private label content you can use for your business, or traffic secrets, or any other reports and software you could use to start or run your business online, you will want to sign up for this free giveaway.
If you are looking to be a contributor and build up your list of subscribers, you will want to get in earlier, like NOW before the door open to the public and you won’t be able to submit a gift for people to sign up for.
I am going to make this quick because I am sure I have posted previous comments about these giveaways since I love them and get involved whenever I have the time. If you are new and just starting out building a list, you may want to invest in the upgrade just because it will help you build up faster and get twice as many subscribers as a free member. But even if you don’t have the cash, we are all strapped at one time or another, entering as a free member will still land you enough to add to your list. Since it is free, you can’t really knock any that you get.
Remember you will need a nice digital item to give away that will add value to your list and make them want to sign up and stay with you. If you have any problems thinking up anything but would still like to get involved, give me a shout on here and I will get back to you to work with you until you have something.
So here are the links:
Click on the link if you want to be a contributor, and the banner pic if you want to just sign up and get free goodies.
Merry Christmas Contributor Sign up
Using Traffic Exchanges for hits and signups
There has been some discussion of whether or not traffic exchanges really work or are a waste of time. They do work, you just need to know the right type of website to promote. You need to promote a SPLASH page such as an optin form. You have 10-25 seconds to grab their attention.
More people are realizing the benefits of traffic exchanges online today. It seems like a new exchange is starting up every day. How do you know which ones to use? Does the number of members necessarily mean that you will gain more? Is your website a good fit for these exchanges? These are some of the questions you need to answer before you invest the time in signing up.
I have spent the last 6 months trying out about 50 or so exchanges. There are hundreds more that I have not tried, nor do I have the time. I chose some of the big ones that have been around for a long time and have over 50k members, as well as I have tried some of the newer ones that only have 2000 members.
Here are a few things I have learned.
These are the few exchanges I would like to recommend. I did like about 17 exchanges, but I have narrowed it down to my favorite 6. I have tried exchanges that have guaranteed cash amounts for every so many pages, as well as exchanges that just have tons of contests and prizes to be won every day.
Dolphin Surfing- Sister site of Hawaiian Hitz!I love this site! Tons of cash, banner and text credits. You can win from .03-$20. It is also Hover so you don’t even have to click, just glide! Also $5 for every 5 referrals. You can make some good monthly income while promoting your own sites.
Hawaiian Hitz!I love this site! Tons of cash, banner and text credits. You can win from .03-$20. It is also Hover so you don’t even have to click, just glide! $1 a referral.
Top Surfer- I like this site because you get 2 cents for every 35 pages, which is the best rate out there. Although the only way to make money and not just credits for referrals is by buying a $10 a month reseller/wholesaler license in which you resell for your $10 back and more. Payout is $10.
Truckload O’Hits is a new but very promising site. surf for cash-offer was a free referral and $5 but not sure if you get that still, you need to email Jason and ask him if he is still doing that. you get percentage of revenue of site per month, and contests and prizes. $25 payout. And like all the other sites, you get credits for all your refs surfing every day. If you build up enough, you may only have to surf once a week to keep your account active.
Ways to Advertise for Free
I have known for a long time about the many free advertising sites that are out there like Craigslist and Kijiji. But I never realized how many people actually go one step further with their advertising. I went browsing around on youtube today looking for some information to post on resale rights options. I didn’t find anything of use. What I did find was tons of videos on how to make money online for free.
Since most of these are known to be scams, I don’t know if I would necessarily want my face up on a video promoting crap. I do appreciate the ability to promote so well, and free. Video does say things better than a text ad or even photos within an ad. It makes me wonder where advertising is going to be in another 10 years with all of our modern technology.
My son made me a video for my business a few years ago when I had my Ebook Store. I was impressed with the fact that a 15 year old could do something in an hour that would have taken me a few hours. Kids these days are learning computers right from the age of four. Most of us growing up never knew what a computer was until we were much older. Even if we did get lucky and have a computer, the internet was something that was not as accessible as it is now, if it was around.
You can make videos for youtube using powerpoint, video cameras, and software such as Camtasia. My mother just bought a video phone called “the Flip” it is a little expensive, costing around $180 Canadian after taxes but it was rated as one of the best to use by top internet marketers. You can use it for youtube videos, creating interviews, lessons, and so many other things you may need in your business. Since it is Christmas, I am going to go looking for a store that has this on for a deal. I am sure I can find one. Evn if you like just using programs such as Powerpoint, there is still a lot of features you can use to create a compelling slide show that will entice viewers to come check out your website and products.
Go ahead, play around(do’t be afraid to ask your teenager, they probably will be able to help more than you know)and create as many videos as you can talking about your favorite things, selling your products, or just adding some insight into a topic for personal use and not professional. Creating and posting youtube videos every week, writing articles and submitting to ezines, talking in related forums, participating in Google and Yahoo groups, and utilizing free traffic exchanges(remember you only have to surf a half an hour to an hour a day to get some results)can help your business immensely without costing you a dime.
Who says marketing can’t be fun?!!!!
