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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:

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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.

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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

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Advertising for free seems like an impossible thing when heard. But there are several ways by which the cost of advertisement can be conserved, with the help of some imagination and creativity.

A business wanting to advertise, can write articles related to their field of expertise that can be submitted to media and publications having interest in that particular field. The advertising article can have information about the company and dealership opportunity. Due to the rise in Internet users and websites, new websites have sprung up which offer free services. Articles can be written for these websites and they can be broadcasted for free, which will be viewed by hundreds of people everyday.

Once the business has gained some recognition, within no time it will gain popularity also among the crowds. This popularity can lead to them being invited on radio and television talk shows and even to interviews. Such kind of opportunities shouldn’t be missed as they provide a chance for free promotion. If it is taking a long time to get a break, the producer can be addressed with a letter that can be followed up by a telephone call or in-person visit. During the visit, the nature of expertise can be discussed about the business, which will be of interest to the viewers of the particular channel. Once a businessperson gains the status of being public-friendly, more offers start pouring in.

Free bulletin board located in the neighborhood, like in grocery stores, libraries, and salons, are another good idea. Advertising circulars can be posted on such boards for free. Circulars for mass distribution can be handed out at the mall, shopping center, bus stops, particularly on weekends when there is a big rush. Students can be hired on part time basis for this purpose.

Promotional advertisement can be printed on the envelopes used by the business firms. Both the sender and the receiver can view this advertisement. Promotional offers can be sent to customers by postcards, which should be utilized to its full, leaving only place left for writing the address.

Some of the new mail order publications offer free first time and seasonal deductions for advertisers. Other publications offer pay per inquiry space. Inquiries can be made about stand-by space, which means that the publication holds the submission of advertisement until the space is not sold and in that case, thirty three percent saving can be achieved. Usually local newspapers provide these kinds of offers.

If the business is involved in ad sheet or catalog publishing, other publishers can be contacted for the purpose of bartering an advertising exchange. They can place advertisement in their publication, in return for placing their advertisement in the business’s publication.

Free offers can be provided to the customer. This can be done by emailing or printing newsletter about information regarding the area of interest of the targeted customers and can be made popular by using tag lines. Attach a free coupon with it, which the customers can use it for shopping, if a criterion is met like minimum purchase of $ 50. By this the response will be huge and most of them will purchase something or the other to avail the free offer. The basic ingredient for advertising for free is imagination and research. Opportunities should be searched and a strong working force should be applied to increase the sales.

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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.

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It’s Giveaway time again!!! The Giveaway events are really flooding my inbox. I spent the entire day yesterday signing up to every event I could and submitting my free gift.

If you still have not created your own information product yet, you can still join these giveaways as a contributor and build your list. All you need to do is submit a resale rights product. You can get some from many membership sites. These sites can be expensive sometimes, although there are affordable ones that aren’t skimpy.

I have a VIP memership at a site called Resell it for Profit. I am a reseller as well.For those of you looking to get involved with list building but are in need of a product to giveaway, I am going to give you a free Gold membership that is worth $67 a year and provides you with 426 products to choose from and sell as you own. Most of these products also come with their own website files you only need to upload to your own hosting server.

You can then choose to upgrade and get access to another 250 products, you will be able to sell ebooks, software, templates, videos, and more for numerous niche markets.

Click on my link below to get your free Gold membership now.
http://resellitforprofit.com/reseller_manager/rep1/kdbbiz/Gold.html

Now click on the following links and sign up for these giveaway events before they launch and you lose out. You could receive hundreds of subscribers to your list in a month the more events you sign up for.

Multiple Sclerosis Giveaway and Fundraiser

100 Percent Giveaway

There’s a huge 1000USD referral contest, so join and start promoting the event!
Friday the 13th Giveaway

The Scotsmans Birthday Giveaway Bash

Traffic Giveaway 1.0

Peter Cottontail Easter Giveaway

Even if you do not have a list of your own at all, you can upgrade and be guaranteed that you will have your gift seen and be building your list faster. I know sometimes it is not affordable to upgrade for every event but look for the cheap ones. There are a few that you can upgrade for as low as $9.97 where others the upgrade is as high as $67. Even upgrading at one event could give you a list of over 100 for you to start with for the next set of events. Once you have a list you do not need to upgrade if you don’t want(unless you want to add more than one gift to the event or want the chance to have your gift on one of the first pages seen)

Trust me, it is worth all the work and the few dollars. Getting involved with these giveaways is sooo addicting once you get started, and the feeling you get when your inbox fills up with new subscriber mentions. They say that every subscriber on your list is worth $1 so the more you have the richer you become.

p.s. just in case you do not have an aweber autoresponder account you can get one here through my link. It is the best $20 a month I invest into my business and most internet marketers will agree. You can try it out for free with these giveaways and see for yourself. Aweber will also send you an ecourse to help you setup and get your first campaign running.

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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?!!!!

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I just thought some of you might be interested in hearing some real time stats for the first giveaway event I joined. I did not pay to upgrade and since I had a very small list of subscribers to promote to for sign up, I ended up being 163 out of 288 for gift spot which put me on the last half of the download pages. I was told because of that I would not get as many signups. The giveaway launched on the 15th(yesterday).

Yesterday I got 41 signups and today so far I have 16 at 2pm in the afternoon. There are still 12 days left to the giveaway I believe so I may end up with a couple hundred signups. Now that may not be much to some people but if I take each list and enter into each new giveaway I can get accepted for, then in a year or so I will have a big enough list to start making steady income from(providing I still offer promotions that will benefit my subscribers and not just random crap to try for a sale).

Now if I had upgraded or had more subscribers to promote to, I would have been on the first few pages of downloads and maybe have gotten more signups. I also believe that it has to do with what you are offering. Just because it is free doesn’t mean people are going to take it. It is only appealing if someone can benefit from it.

Since this is a giveaway event, you need to take into account that there will be a good percentage of people unsubscribing from your list after they have received their gift. The key is to try to keep the ones you can. I don’t like to hard sell or pester people, so I only email once a week with the occaissional broadcast in between when something comes up(like the giveaways). Some people, especially the hard hitting iternet marketers, send 3 or more emails a week. When I get those guys, I am soon off their list too.

I guess I will have to see how many of my signups stick around and buy something in the future though. So far, I have only had 2 of those unsubscribe. That is a good ratio wouldn’t you say?

Enough for today. I will keep you posted on more updates.

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Well I decided to do some testing for my blog and website http://mclarenbooksandmore.com I would like to share with you some of what I found out over the last few days.

First, I was wondering about Safelists, Traffic Exchanges, and free classifieds.

Safelists:

I joined only one called AdTactics. There are 7690 members. What you do is agree to recieve emails from other members. When you read the email and click on the link for thier website you will receive 50 credits per site. I spent the day receiving emails. I must have received a hundred or more over 24 hours. I spent approximately 2 or 3 hours clicking and gathering up as many credits as I could. At the end I cashed in and had 1000 credits. I emailed to 1000 members and waited to see how it would reflect on my traffic stats.
End result? Nothing! Not one single link was clicked from that site! That means that of the 1000 people I emailed, they didn’t even bother to either read my email or click through to get their 50 credits. Which means what? I am thinking that there are more than the few who are paid upgrades who do not have to read other emails to have their messages read. When you upgrade, you still get to have your messages sent to the members but can free up your time and email box. I cancelled my account. I am not wasting time with all of those emails, and not getting anything. Obviously if this marketing does work, it only works for those who pay.

Traffic Exchanges:

First off, there are tons of traffic exchanges out there! I went with Traffic Splash. I also like Traffic Swarm but found Traffic Splash to be a little more friendly and visually appealing. They have contests and surf rewards for so many clicks. So, I set about making up my text ad, banner ad, and SPLASH page to connect for the site. The SPLASH page was added to the rotation of other sites, and the text ad and banner ad waited until I rounded up enough credits to get them into rotation as well. I surfed for about 3 hours and earned about 4000 credits. I also won 1500 free banner ads, and 500 text ads. The next day I checked my stats and 94 visitors had clicked to my site and I added one new sign up to my optin list. Now this may not be a huge success, but to me, it showed me that there might be something to this I could work with. So, I am going to keep on surfing to see how it goes over more time.

Free Classifieds:

I used Kijiji and Craigslist for my city. I promoted a new course I was planning on teaching. I had a pretty good, detailed ad setup. This I checked to see how many views I received. I only received 11 views in Kijiji and 20 in Craigslist.
I received no emails to sign up. Within the 24 hours, my ad went to the bottom of the first page. Once it leaves the front page, I can expect no more views. I was not impressed with this method and once again, unless you pay for a premium listing to keep your ad on the front page, you will most likely not get much of a response.

The next venture I am going into is JV Giveaways. I have signed up as a contributor and now that I have my SPLASH page created with my optin form included, I am set to go. I have my free product ready to be downloaded in the first of my autoresponder emails, and look forward to getting many more optins and hopefully customers happening. Since I only have a small email list so far, I need to pay for the upgrade which will enable me to participate still. If I had a big enough list, I would not have to upgrade, I would just have to send a broadcast email to my list to get them all signing up for free gifts from all the other marketers who joined. I am hoping by the end of the year to have a list big enough to not have to upgrade for the next spring giveaway. There are giveaway events all year long. If you entered into enough of them all year, you could have a good list happening and get your email marketing aspect of your business off to a great start for automation.

If you would like to help me out and also land yourself a ton of free gifts, click on the banner below and get signed up for the IM Dream Team Giveaway launching on the 15th.

I am getting excited with the possibilities of it all! You should really join in these fun marketing techniques. You will be glad you did!

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